1 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: At a Steve Tester who has been all over the fields. 2 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even in 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: the stradit here of normalcy. All right, let's go here. 5 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: It's Tuesday. Come on, you sounded enthusiastic, but your eyes 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: are dead. My eyes are It's a Tuesday, and it's 7 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: the longest day of the calendar year. It is the 8 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: summer souls daylight. I'm gonna catch some golf later in 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: the day and I'm gonna a dip in the pot. 10 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: And yeah, and once again, as we we're gonna be 11 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: telling you that all this week and probably next week. 12 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: The place is completely vacant over here. One Bill's Drive. Um. 13 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: Lots going on though in the football world, and we 14 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: may as well get right into it. This is One 15 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: Bills Live. But my gosh, the Cleveland Browns are like 16 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: just I don't know what to say, just exploding all 17 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: over the NFL right now. Deshaun Watson settling a ton 18 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: of his cases today, twenty of them, to be exact. Obviously, 19 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: for those of us who've been keeping up with it, 20 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: that's not all of them, not all of us so 21 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: he's got all those settled. And also it came out 22 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: just after we got off the air yesterday. Yeah, this 23 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: on the heels of the stellar offseason the Browns have had. 24 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: They're just going to cash in on it and say, listen, 25 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: we need six hundred million dollars for our new dome 26 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: stadium here in the city. Yeah, we'll get into their 27 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: The report out of the Cleveland Playing Dealer over the 28 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: weekend front page story and Sunday's Cleveland Plane Dealer that 29 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: the Browns are interested in building a one billion dollar 30 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: publicly financed dome stadium on the Lake there, replacing replacing 31 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: a steam twenty eight or so years younger than the 32 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: one the Bills are playing in. So we'll get to 33 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: that in short order, but we begin with what Steve 34 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: mentioned already. Deshaun Watson has settled twenty of his twenty 35 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: four lawsuits, all of which allege sexual misconduct during massage sessions, 36 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: and in a statement, the attorney for the plaintiffs in 37 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: the cases against Watson, Tony Buzzby, said, today I announced 38 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: that all cases against Deshaun Watson, with the exception of four, 39 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: have settled. We're working through the paperwork related to those settlements. 40 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: Once we have done so, those particular cases will be dismissed. 41 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: The terms and amounts of those settlements are confidential. We 42 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: won't comment further on the settlements or those cases. Now. 43 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: There are still four outstanding and it looks as though 44 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: those are going to be heard in court. None of 45 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: these cases are set to begin until next March. So 46 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: it was actually asked of the attorney busby if Ashley 47 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: so Leise, who was the first plaintiff to file a 48 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 1: suit against Watson, was one of the twenty aforementioned settlements, 49 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: and he said, no, her case has not been settled. 50 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: It looks like she's taking her case into court. In fact, 51 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy had the most important statement as 52 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: it pertains to Deshaun Watson and playing in the near future, 53 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: and he said in a statement, today's development has no 54 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: impact on the collectively bargained disciplinary process, which basically means 55 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: even though these cases have all settled, they bear no 56 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: They have no bearing on what the league ultimately decides 57 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: based on their own independent investigation. So that's where we are. 58 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: For me, you got to start with the victims, if 59 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: they're satisfied okay, I'm I'm fine. I'm good with it. 60 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: I'm glad that they're sat. Certainly, it doesn't make it 61 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: go away. But if they've got some form of recompense 62 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: that they are happy with and satisfied with, I'm with him. 63 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: That's good. I'm glad. I'm also with the league. You've 64 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: got responsibilities when you work for a company, and those 65 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: larger responsibilities were absolutely dismissed by Deshaun Watson. They were 66 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: they blew up in it. He didn't care and totally 67 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: totally shirked those responsibilities by putting the given the league 68 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: a black eye as he has. He absolutely punched him 69 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: in the face for the last eighteen months, not only 70 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: with his accusations about the team he was playing for 71 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: at the time, but also with his own personal conduct 72 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 1: that dragged the name of the NFL through the mud 73 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: with him up until today and continuing on through these 74 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: other cases that are just as important as the ones 75 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: he saw. He settled the league is the league will 76 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: not bat an eye. I mean, yes, it's better, but 77 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: he's still got four with two others pending to deal 78 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: with four cases with two others that have been reported 79 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: that they're doing paperwork to get those filed on the 80 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: way you get six, that's half a dozen. He's still 81 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: got that alone two years ago would have been you know, 82 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: and who knows their surface. I mean, we saw the 83 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: New York Times report that said he had massage appointments 84 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: with sixty six different women over a seventeen month period. 85 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: There are others out there who knows if they were 86 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:46,679 Speaker 1: alleged victims as well. Yeah, so so there's still several layers. 87 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: And he's let's let's face it. I mean, this is uh, 88 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson in this case is a lot like Michael 89 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: Vick and dog fighting. It's a little like like Ben 90 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: Roethlisberger in the charge of the where level against him, 91 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: you just never you never walk away from those. It's 92 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: it's gonna dog it's gonna trail him for the remainder 93 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: of his not only football career, but from the remainder 94 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: of his life. Yeah, he will not ever shake this. Yeah, 95 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: destory what happened today. So that's where that is at 96 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: and where it goes from here is up to the league. 97 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: And all the reports were indicating that the league, which 98 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: conducted the bulk of its investigation just last month in May, 99 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: including interviewing Watson one on one. It's anticipated and has 100 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: been widely reported that the league will hand down discipline 101 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 1: before training camps open in about five weeks. So we're 102 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: nearing the point where the league will make a statement 103 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: on this and levy a punishment or discipline of some kind. 104 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: What that is we can only speculate, but most people 105 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: believe it's going to be at least a year, possibly longer. 106 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: We'll see if that is in fact the case. It's 107 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: interesting too, and I see the logic behind us. There's 108 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: some people who have been who've seen that and say, hey, 109 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: they're gonna suspend him for the year, for the twenty 110 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: twenty two season. I get that, and I also get 111 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: the fact that some people are viewing that as they're 112 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: gonna try to and they're gonna start high. And whether 113 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: the NFLPA comes in and says you can't do all 114 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: of that and fight for it or whatever, um, I think, Yeah, 115 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: I'm with you, though, Um it should be worded accordingly 116 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: at least the twenty twenty two season or the twenty 117 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: twenty two season, after which he can apply for reinstatement 118 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: kind of thing. Yeah, because they there's no reason for 119 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: them to hurry up, leave it open ended, because you 120 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: don't know what else is coming down the road. Here. 121 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: He's gonna start again. They're gonna be going through this 122 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: in March unless the rest of these cases go away. Yeah, 123 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: and more could surface. As we mentioned, there's always that 124 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: possibility to speaking of court cases, the attorney for Washington 125 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: Commander's owner Daniel Snyder, reiterated Monday after we were off 126 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: the air that Snyder would not testify before Congress tomorrow 127 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: even remotely, despite a request from the committee to reconsider 128 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: his initial refusal to testify. Karen Patton Seymour, who is 129 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: Snyder's attorney, declined the initial invitation from the House Oversight Committee, 130 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: basically claiming that Snyder had a longstanding Commander's related business 131 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: conflict and is out of the country at the end 132 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: of June. Also requested copies of documents that committee members 133 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: intend to use in their questioning. So basically, Snyder's attorney's like, well, 134 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: what are you gonna be asking them? I want to 135 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: see that. No word on whether the House Oversight Committee 136 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: obliged in that situation, assuming I'm assuming they didn't be. 137 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: Snyder is not even going to testify, So why should 138 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: you tell him what you're going to ask him? A 139 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee spokesperson told ESPN in a statement, quote, 140 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: if mister Snyder was truly committed to cooperating with the 141 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: Committee's investigation, he would have accepted the Committee's invitation to 142 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: testify about the Commander's toxic workplace culture. As the Chairwoman's 143 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 1: letter made clear, the Committee has been more than accommodating, 144 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: even allowing mister Snyder to testify remotely from France. His 145 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: refusal to testify sends an unmistakable signal that mister Snyder 146 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: has something to hide and is afraid of coming clean 147 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: to the American public and addressing major worker protection concerns 148 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: facing the NFL. The Committee will not be deterred in 149 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,719 Speaker 1: its investigation to uncover the truth of workplace misconduct at 150 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders end quote. We should mention that Commissioner 151 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 1: Roger Goodell is scheduled to testify remotely to the House 152 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: Oversight Committee tomorrow. So no Snyder, no surprise. Here's what 153 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: it looks like. Obviously, Snyder and his lawyers or himself whoever, 154 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: they think it's better, and this says a lot. They 155 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: think it's better for him to look like he's hiding 156 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: something than to have anything come out. It's better to 157 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 1: look like you're hiding a lot of bad stuff, exactly. 158 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: I'm I would rather look like I've got everything to 159 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: lose than to have you find out the truth. Yeah, 160 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: so you can let your imagination run wild and decide 161 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: what you think. And as as we have said on 162 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: this show, at the mayowners meetings, there was reportedly a 163 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: strawhole taken among the other thirty one owners to see 164 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: if they had enough votes to vote him out. Because 165 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: this is this is just another black mark in a 166 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: series of infractions and and let's just say poor optics 167 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: for the league at large based on what Snyder has 168 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: done or failed to do well. Yeah, and it comes 169 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: down also comes down to the financial handling of his 170 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: of his franchise and tickets, cooking the books, all um. 171 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: And if you know, and I know, there's a ton 172 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: of people out there who are a little bit cynical 173 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: about the NFL and the ownership and how those guys 174 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: operate up there, and they're always saying, oh, it's all 175 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 1: about the money. Well, if it's all about the money, um, 176 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: this is an excuse if he's cooking the books against 177 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: other guys who are penny pinchers and pen and you 178 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: know beam counters watch how quickly billionaires react exactly, So 179 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 1: start messing with their money if if they don't vote 180 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 1: him out or if they don't take action of some 181 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: substantive nature in the face of what looks like him 182 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: as we're calling it cooking the books, there's another reason 183 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: why he's still in his position, and it may be 184 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: important to the other owners. Yeah, it's difficult to say. Meanwhile, 185 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: he's trying to get himself a new stadium deal and 186 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: buy in land in Virginia, and that's kind of stalled 187 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: now with these proceedings taking place on Capitol Hill. And 188 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: let's not forget his franchise has already find ten million 189 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: dollars by the league. So it's a it's just another 190 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: step in a pretty embarrassing series of events. They were franchised, 191 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: they were found to have some pretty egregious violations, no 192 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: doubt about it. They removed Daniel Snyder from the day 193 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: to day operations of the Washington Commanders, and they find 194 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: him ten million dollars. I don't know that there's been 195 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: any owner treated that rough right, it's not good and 196 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 1: it's not getting better. And I think that, I mean, 197 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: even patients is wearing thin with the rest of the 198 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: NFL ownership, Robert Craft and Bill Belichick and the spy 199 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: gate and the deflate gate and the the filming of 200 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: other teams practices stealing signals. All that was like a 201 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: first round draft pick half a million dollars or a 202 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: million dollars here, ten million bucks at a four game 203 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: suspension for Brady, Yeah, that's not ten million bucks and 204 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: lose and getting out of the building. Yeah. I don't 205 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: know where it goes, but I think patience has worn 206 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: thin with the rest of the NFL ownership. With Snyder, 207 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: it's as wayward as a franchise can get. They look, 208 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: they seem rudderless at times. I know there's a lot 209 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: of good people in that front office trying to do 210 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: right by the organization, including Ron Rivera. Ron Rivere is 211 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: a Yeah, he's Jack del Rio spouting off and getting 212 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: fined a hundred grand by his head coach because you know, 213 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: he gets all political. It's just the whole thing is 214 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 1: it just looks like a a tire fire down there. 215 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: It's at times it's pretty ugly. Um, it's pretty ugly. 216 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: But another thing that comes up. Okay, so they do 217 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: what's going to happen and Brian and they do a 218 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: straw pole to see if you know they're not gonna 219 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: have Dan Schneider. Okay, well, there's a very short list 220 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: of candidates that are up for buying a team. Yeah, 221 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: the next person, the next name on the list, or 222 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: the next couple of names on that list, maybe a 223 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: step down because they know who those people are. There's 224 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: only a short list. They have to get a even bid. 225 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: They just had a list exactly the exactly so that 226 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: would be on the minds of all these owners and saying, listen, 227 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: if we if we sell this team, now, this person 228 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: is going to get it in a top ten market. 229 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: I mean, this person's gonna get it. There's no way. 230 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: Let's keep Let's keep Schneider and roll with this and 231 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: try and make smooth this over because now at least 232 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: we don't at least he's learned some lessons that we 233 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: don't have to teach him Agazi though you know, well, 234 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: I don't know that's a good point, but at least, listen, 235 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: let somebody enter the ownership bidding pool. That will keep 236 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: this other person from getting it. Now, usually you probably 237 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't get cleared if you're an unsavory like you know, 238 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating to make a point. What if it's a 239 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: Saudi prince, you know what I mean. So I just 240 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: think that the commodity that is a professional sports team. 241 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: At a time like this, people are paying upwards of 242 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: five billion dollars. The English Premier League team that was 243 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: previously owned by a Russian oligarch Abramovich, he had to 244 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: sell because of the war torn nature of the country 245 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: and everything. He had to sell his club, which is 246 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: based in London. It just sold to an American buyer 247 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: for five point four billion dollars. Okay, we know what 248 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: The Broncos sold for four point six five billion dollars. 249 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: Why a number of reasons. They always finish in the black. 250 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: They turn a profit of anywhere from ten to fourteen percent, 251 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: and they're essentially recession proof. And what are we diving 252 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: into by this time next year? A recession. So if 253 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: there are people with billions out there, and there are 254 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: more billionaires now in the world than there were ten 255 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: years ago, they can find buyers pretty easily. Yeah, for 256 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: an NFL franchise and to find somebody that you're worried 257 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: about being worse of a human being than Daniel Snyder, 258 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: I think you'll have to be pretty hard pressed to 259 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: find them. That's a short list too. But nevertheless, we 260 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: don't I don't know the mindset or the frame of mind. 261 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: You know that the league is in or that the 262 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: owners are in, each and everyone into it. They're thirty 263 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: two of them, and they're all different. Obviously, they run 264 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: the same kind of business in the same cities in 265 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: different cities, but the same business in different cities under 266 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: the same umbrella. But every franchise is unique. So there's 267 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: no getting in their minds as to why a straw 268 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: pole would go one way or the other four or 269 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: against any owner in the room. There's probably some owners 270 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: that are despised and nobody knows, has any reason why, 271 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: you know so, But there's some who are who are 272 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: fixtures that are probably under the radar for most of us. 273 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: So how things work at the oppressional were never We're 274 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: too far away, you know, we're never gonna know, but 275 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: no question, we do get a glimpse once in a 276 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: while when things like this happen and an owner goes 277 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: under the microscope and either refuses or opens himself up 278 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: to the criticism or the scrutiny. A quick free agent note. 279 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: Former Bengals defensive tackle Larry ogun Joey had seven sacks 280 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: last season for the AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals, visiting today 281 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Steelers. According to sources, he recently visited 282 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: with the New York Jets as well. Steelers in need 283 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: of defensive line help after the surprise retirement of thirty 284 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: year old stephanto It and the fact that Tyson Alualu, 285 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 1: the starter in nose tackle last year, is thirty five 286 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: years old. Starting defensive end Cameron Heyward is going to 287 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: turn thirty four before the calendar year is out. They 288 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: need reinforcements up front. Wouldn't be surprised if the Steelers 289 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: don't let them leave the building and add them to 290 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: their roster. Now to the other thing that we mentioned 291 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: about the Browns earlier. The Cleveland Browns reportedly want a 292 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: new one billion dollars stadium that is expected to be 293 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,439 Speaker 1: publicly funded. They do want a dome, so apparently this 294 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: leaked somehow, Well, hold on a minute, that's apparently it's 295 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: on the table. But their first and foremost they did 296 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,360 Speaker 1: a feasibility studies and all that about a dome stadium, 297 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,959 Speaker 1: but they're also doing feasibility stays. They're starting with renovating 298 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: the current stadium right, and then on the table as well, 299 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: and obviously in the future they're looking at, okay, where 300 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: can we put a home stadium and if we get 301 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: how much is it going to be? So having coming 302 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:08,640 Speaker 1: out and formally asked for this, no, but certainly they're 303 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: doing some research on it, and it couldn't have leaked 304 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: at a worse time for the Browns. The results of 305 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: the feasibility studies are expected sometime in twenty twenty three, 306 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: and as Steve mentioned, they do focus primarily on renovating 307 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,719 Speaker 1: the current stadium, but they could not refute whether plans 308 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: might eventually include rebuilding from scratch or moving to a 309 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: new location. So I would imagine that some of the 310 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: feasibility studies Steve would deal with a is the current 311 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: stadium dome compatible based on how it was built? You know, 312 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,360 Speaker 1: was it was were the upper was the upper rim 313 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: of the stadium built properly to support a dome? I 314 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 1: don't know, Probably not, probably not, but that doesn't stop 315 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: them from building over the top of it if they want. 316 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: I yeah, the spot where the stadium is now is 317 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: in actually a very nice spot as compared to downtown. 318 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: The problem with the and Buffalo fans know this. You've 319 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 1: been down there with Cleveland's, you know, kind of a 320 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: sister city. I mean, we've had Cleveland brown Days in 321 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,679 Speaker 1: the stadium. Um, you've been down there. But the problem 322 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: with their stadium is this, and you'll you'll know what 323 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,159 Speaker 1: I'm talking about if those of you have been down there, Brownie, 324 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. You can't get from 325 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: downtown to the stadium and it's like three hundred yards 326 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: away because there's nineteen nineteen through ways, byways, highways between 327 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: downtown and the three hundred yards to the stadium. It's 328 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: nothing but paved high to walk. That's what I do. Oh, 329 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: absolutely so you But walking is I mean, if its 330 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: own it's its own track. Well yeah, but if you're 331 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: downtown at a hotel for the game, it's conceivably faster 332 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: to walk there than to try to take any kind 333 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: of car and find them. You can't get down man. 334 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: Here's the thing, and that and here's the harder renovations 335 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: and the refurbishments are they're going to extend, you know, 336 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: a walkway over all that pavement down to the stadium 337 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: so you can get there, because right now, you know, 338 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: you've got to kind of weave your way between all 339 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: those ways, and that's going to require more investment in infrastructure. 340 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: So right you know, you got to decide when you 341 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: want to do and where you want to spend your money. 342 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: But even if they do by doing so, there's loads 343 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: and loads I don't know. There was a number in 344 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 1: the article that we both read of acreage down there available, 345 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: like seventy acres down there available if they could, you know, 346 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 1: and do a you know, all of us want restaurants, bars, 347 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: you know, water parks, you know all that, you know, 348 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: all the fun stuff, you know, restaurants and nightlife, m boutiques, 349 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: coffee shops everything, you know, residences as well, so all 350 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: that could be down there and pull attention down to 351 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: the front of the water where you could, you know, 352 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 1: for p instance, like Baltimore's Inner Harbor Um phenomenal a 353 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: phenomenal story in urban reclamation. So the current stadium, which 354 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: was built in nineteen ninety nine, cost two hundred and 355 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: eighty three million, largely funded by city bonds that were 356 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: backed by the county's syntax on alcohol and cigarette purchases. 357 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: A portion of that tax expires in twenty thirty five. 358 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: That is used to pay for capital or emergency repairs 359 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 1: to the stadium. So that's going to dry up in 360 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: you know, twelve thirteen years. And you would think by 361 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: then plans for some kind of new stadium will already 362 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 1: be hammered out and ready to go. But here's the issue, 363 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: because when we first got winto this, Steve and I 364 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 1: look at each other and are like, now the timing 365 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: is good now for this. Now clearly it isn't. And 366 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: I think the Browns knew that, and we're happy to 367 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: sit on it and just do feasibility studies in the background, 368 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: you know, But this leaked. Somebody got a little threat 369 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: and started pulling on the thread. I gotta tell you, 370 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: it's an impressive offseason competition here between the Washington Commanders 371 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Browns as to who can do more 372 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: wrong more often. It's astounding to me. And I'll say 373 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: that a member club, that a member club of a 374 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: league like this can do so many things, so poorly, 375 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 1: not just so often, not just remember the Cleveland Browns 376 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: and the Washington Commanders who used to be the other 377 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: the other team. I mean, it's two historic franchises, one 378 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: of which has won multiple Super Bowls and think they 379 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: are and they are. You're right. It's a race to 380 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: see who can fall over themselves the worst this offseason, 381 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: and they are neck and neck coming down the stretch. 382 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: And I don't see Cleveland based on what the rest 383 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: of the article suggested, I don't see how Cleveland comes 384 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: up with the money as a city, as a municipality, 385 00:23:58,600 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: I don't see how they come up with the money 386 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: that the Browns are undoubtedly gonna be asking for. They're 387 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: talking about how they already have a billion dollar plan 388 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,959 Speaker 1: in place to renovate their entire court system, courthouses, city courts. 389 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: They're in bad need of upgrades and renovations and it's 390 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: gonna cost upwards of a billion dollars. They may even 391 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: move and rebuild some court buildings. I mean, you're gonna 392 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: put the Browns in front of that, like, I don't 393 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: think so. So I don't know they could do all 394 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: the feasibility studies they want. They may come to the 395 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 1: City of Cleveland be like, yeah, we're gonna need about 396 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,199 Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars from you guys to help us 397 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: get this thing bill. And they're gonna be like, we 398 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: don't have it. Yeah, sorry, like wet, we don't have 399 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: it a gift to you, right exactly. That's um, it's 400 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: it's a mess. Uh. And Ohio is not New York, 401 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:53,239 Speaker 1: the New York because I read an article. Um, you 402 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: can don't quote me on this. I'm because I'm I'm 403 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 1: probably got this all wrong. But over the court, and 404 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: this is also going to be paid. The build nut 405 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: is going to be paid over you know, if it's 406 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six and this six hundred or eight hundred 407 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: million that the bills are getting, it equates to like 408 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: thirty seven bucks per resident in New York State total, 409 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: and for Erie Country residents obviously it's just shy a 410 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars per resident over a couple of years, 411 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: over the next four years, that's what the total nut. 412 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: Because of all the people we have here in New York, 413 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: that's not Ohio. And if you've looked at the numbers 414 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: on the New York state budget, and I don't I 415 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: don't want to make light of it, because it's awesome 416 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: that the Bill because for you and me especially, I mean, 417 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 1: good grief, and we work here, so we're we've got 418 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,719 Speaker 1: skin in this game. To a certain extent, it's awesome 419 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: for us. But New York is a state that has 420 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: notoriously been free with that kind of thing. Syracuse University, Mets, 421 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: the Mets, the Yankees, um, they all received money like that, 422 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,679 Speaker 1: not to the tune that the Bills are, but it was, 423 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: you know, it was in the past. Was also at 424 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,360 Speaker 1: the same Islanders. Yeah. So although so it's a thing 425 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: here in New York. I mean, they don't batter nine now. 426 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: In California they don't do it at all. Ever, So, 427 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: and my point is, Ohio is not New York. It 428 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,120 Speaker 1: may want to be, or it may want to be 429 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 1: like what who else would it be like California? No, 430 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: I don't think so. Dallas, Yeah, it's it's it's it's 431 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: gonna be rough. But I'm surprised because I still feel 432 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: like Cleveland stadiums New Well in comparison to the Bill Stadium. 433 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: It is. It's twenty four years old, twenty three years old. 434 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 1: So yeah, the Bills the Bill Stadium is older now 435 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: than it was than the rock Pile was when they 436 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: moved out and Washington the Commander Stadium was built in 437 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: two thousand. Now he built it on the cheap, so 438 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: because I mean, if you've ever been in that building, 439 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: it's nothing to write home about. For a stadium built 440 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: in this century leaves a lot to be desired. But 441 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: now he's campaigning for a new stadium to be built 442 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: in Virginia somewhere he has been for a while, Yeah, 443 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: a long while, but apparently he's got some Virginia politician 444 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: in his pocket and things are moving moving forward. I 445 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: think at a snails pace now within light of this 446 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: stuff on Capitol Hill with him. But my god, it's 447 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: just those two franchises, man. The only team that comes 448 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,439 Speaker 1: close to top of them of the Dolphins. Stephen Ross, Baby, 449 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: what else you got in your pocket? Well, we had 450 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,360 Speaker 1: Armando Sellgaro on yesterday and he or he absolutely said 451 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 1: one hundred percent they were offering Tom Brady part ownership 452 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 1: and through a check book at Sean Payton. Yeah, and 453 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: Brady to be the quarterback and for Brady to come in. 454 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 1: Not only is part owner bist to you And we 455 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: didn't bring this up with Armando yesterday. How does Peyton 456 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: sign up for that? Like your quarterback is the part owner? Hey, 457 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: we're throwing the post corner here, No we're not. I 458 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: don't think I'm the part owner and I'm going to 459 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: call the shots here amazing not amazingly, but predictably for 460 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: a smart guy like Sean Payton, he didn't sign up 461 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: for that exactly. Well, yeah, the Brian Flores lawsuit was 462 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: basically the TNT that blew all that up, which included 463 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: allegations of Stephen Ross incentivizing losing on purpose to get 464 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: to hire draft choice. So whatever Twitter topic today, this 465 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: is a good one because I think there's different ways 466 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: to plot your path through the AFC and truly assess 467 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,719 Speaker 1: where the Bills are at. But does do the Bills 468 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: having a premium paid quarterback and wide receiver put the 469 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: Bills ahead of their AFC counterparts, the Chiefs through their 470 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: number one receiver overboard? We know that the Packers did 471 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: the same thing in the NFC. So are the Bills 472 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: a leg up on the rest of their AFC counterparts 473 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: because they have a premium paid QB and a premium 474 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: paid number one wide receiver? Let us know eight oh 475 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: three oh five fifty one eight eight five fifty two, 476 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: five fifty the number to get on board or hit 477 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: us up on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live. 478 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but we'll be 479 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: back with your phone calls and your tweets along with 480 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: a lot more on the NFL docket here on one 481 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Klatta Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. 482 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, 483 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you if you want to remind you 484 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: that coming up in the second hour of the show 485 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: will be one Brand Spielberger who's a Pro Football Focus 486 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: salary cap analyst. He'll be joining us as we kind 487 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: of take a look not only and how the Bills 488 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: are looking for this year, but the construction of the 489 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: roster as it pertains to salary cap as well over 490 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: the last few years. So that'll be a good conversation 491 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: in our number two. Want to get to the tweet sheet. 492 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: As we discussed with you, does having a premium paid 493 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: quarterback and wide receiver put the Bills ahead of their 494 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: AFC counterparts? And we lead off with Jeremy who says 495 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: it does for the fact that these two are two 496 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: of the best at their positions and compliment each other. Well, 497 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: Tyreek is great, but don't think he will have the 498 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: success Diggs will have in Buffalo. So he's kind of 499 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: looking at where Tyreek landed and doesn't see the Dolphins 500 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: making Hay there so a leg up on the Dolphins 501 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: even with the addition of Tyreek Hill and I would 502 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: tend to agree. But the real interesting part of this 503 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: whole discussion, Steve, is the Bills decided, even when they 504 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,959 Speaker 1: have had to level up Stefan Diggs contract to be 505 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: more in line with the current market. After Tyreek Hill 506 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: and the Dolphins blew it up with the trade with 507 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: the Chiefs, they said, hey, just because we've got our 508 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: quarterback on his second deal and is making forty three 509 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: million a year, we're still going to hang on to 510 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: Diggs and pay him his due money as well. There 511 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: are other teams in the league that decided not to 512 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: do that. The Green Bay Packers were one who said, 513 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 1: we're gonna pay Rodgers, but we're getting rid of Adams. 514 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: And they got the Chiefs who said, we're not paying 515 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill thirty million a year when we got a 516 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: quarterback on a half a billion dollar contract, and so 517 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: they parted ways with their number one wide receiver. The 518 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: Bills chose to keep theirs. How much does it help him? 519 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: I think it does help him, no question. Good players 520 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: make you better, and these are two players that have 521 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: proven that it's not about the money for them. They 522 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: want to keep playing and playing at a high level, 523 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: and they're doing what it takes to stay there at 524 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,479 Speaker 1: the elite level. That's what you want your players to do, 525 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: and you want other players on your team to strive 526 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: for that. One of the things that the Bills have 527 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 1: done to keep a guy like Steph Diggs happy. They 528 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: got him and everybody was Nobody took me seriously when 529 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 1: I said, when they traded for Diggs, he was making 530 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: eleven million a year, and everybody said, everybody said, well, 531 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 1: he'll never be. He was happy with that because the 532 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 1: Bills started guaranteeing it for him. They started giving it 533 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: to him ahead of the contract. They started paying him 534 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: a little bit more as it went along to keep 535 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: him happy in his contract. It's not about giving him 536 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: a new contract, it's about giving him the money now 537 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: when they're playing well. The Bills have handled this great 538 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: and Steph Diggs was kept happy by the club's willingness 539 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: to pay him money now and so, and the money 540 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: they got him for in that trade was dirt cheap. 541 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: Even then, he had just signed a four year, five 542 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: year deal for eleven or twelve million dollars a year 543 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: that escalated as it went along as like a five 544 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 1: year deal and he was like in year two. That 545 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: was a perfect deal. And the stuff they gave up 546 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: for him, who cares? They got a cheap, a cheap 547 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: elite wide receiver. Yeah, the Bills got a leg up, 548 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: particularly the way they've handled it since they got him right, 549 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: but they did after them make the decision this year 550 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: this offseason, after the Tyreek Hill trade happened and he 551 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: got thirty million a year, they had to They had 552 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: to make a decision, are we going to bring Stefan 553 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: Dick's contract up to closer to market level or are 554 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: we just going to sit on it at the risk 555 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: of him being disgruntled and maybe we have to move 556 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: on from They said, no, we're gonna pay him, and 557 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: that included a twenty one and a half million dollars 558 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: signing bonus fifty million and fully guaranteed money on a 559 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: new deal a total about ninety five million dollars. So 560 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: they stepped up and paid him when a couple other 561 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: teams chose not to. Now, I think you could argue 562 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: that the Raiders have a quote unquote franchise quarterback although 563 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: most people would not consider him top tier at all, 564 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: in Derek Carr, and they chose to train and pay 565 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: a number one wide receiver in DeVante Adams, his college 566 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: teammate um. And you know, you look around the league. 567 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson traded for him, Denver did, but they don't 568 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: have any of their top receivers on their second contract yet, right. 569 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: What happens when that comes to fruition? And then you 570 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: can look at the Chargers. Yeah, they just paid Mike 571 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 1: Williams twenty million a year on an extension, and they 572 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,800 Speaker 1: still have Keenan Allen, who they're paying top dollar as well. 573 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: But they still got Justin Herbert on a rookie contract. 574 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: What happens when his second contract comes up, they you 575 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 1: still have two of those guys. Probably not that you 576 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: look at around, there's there's not that many teams who 577 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 1: are sitting here in the situation. The bills are at 578 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and Michael Pittman. Michael Pittman's on a rookie contract, 579 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: tah and Tyreek. That's two is on a rookie contract. 580 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and A J. Brown the elite receiver. Jalen 581 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 1: Hurts on a rookie contract. Alan Robinson and Matt Stafford. 582 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: There's to you know, a veteran and a veteran, but 583 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: they're brand new together. Um. But as as you could 584 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 1: see from the philosophy, that's right. This offseason, that's right. 585 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 1: So they the you could you could see that coming 586 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 1: a mile away. The Rams don't shy away from paying anybody. 587 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: And what it comes down to is that when you 588 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 1: the Bills have been able to pick really good players 589 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: in drafts, a lot of them anyway, Right, they don't 590 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,439 Speaker 1: bat a thousand, but nobody does. And they found guys 591 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: who have actually developed as well developed and become really 592 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: good players. Matt Milano types who are a fifth rounder 593 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: who all of a sudden has been a four year 594 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,359 Speaker 1: starter and he hasn't he does, never leaves the field, right, 595 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 1: they paid him. Uh, that's what it comes down to. 596 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: You gotta have an owner that's willing saying all right, 597 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 1: all if the guy came in and did everything we 598 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: asked him to and played at the level we hoped 599 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:56,759 Speaker 1: he could play and didn't know he could play that 600 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 1: we hoped he could play at and he's done it, 601 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: and then, um, we're obligated to pay that guy and 602 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: keep him around. Let's go to the phones at eight 603 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,359 Speaker 1: o three five fifty one fifty two five fifty. Gonna 604 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 1: need some help back in the control room as our 605 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,879 Speaker 1: assist pro is down here in the studio. But Mark 606 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: and West Seneca, let's bring him up if we could. Mark, 607 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: you're on one bills live. What do you have for us? Hey, guys, 608 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 1: how are you good? All right? Good? That's good the 609 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 1: dog days of summer before the real bullets start to fly. 610 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 1: I hate him. Hey, uh, I just wanted to chime 611 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: in about Tyreek in about Tuam. I really think that, 612 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: you know, when you look at it on face value, 613 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: you say, oh my goodness, we're gonna have a tougher 614 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: time than we have in a long time in Miami. 615 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,719 Speaker 1: But I think two is going to show early on 616 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: in the season that he can't get the ball deep 617 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,480 Speaker 1: to Tyreek. He just can't. He's the whole throw it 618 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,279 Speaker 1: out there. But ball's going to hang up. And when 619 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: you I mean, I know tyreeks fast. Let's say hers. 620 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 1: I don't know the numbers exactly, but say he runs 621 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,800 Speaker 1: a four to three. Everybody in the in the NFL 622 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,879 Speaker 1: is fast. So he's going up against a guy that's 623 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: running on a four three five or four three six, 624 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,720 Speaker 1: and he uses that four three to get a step 625 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,799 Speaker 1: on a guy. The guy that's running floored in him. 626 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,800 Speaker 1: He's not that far away. And if that ball hangs 627 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,800 Speaker 1: that's gonna take a lot of that deep passing game away. 628 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,920 Speaker 1: And if Tyree gets that taken away from him and 629 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 1: defenses start sitting on him with the short routes and 630 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 1: the intermediate routes, he's gonna have a real tough time. 631 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: I think he's gonna and it's not gonna be anywhere 632 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,919 Speaker 1: near as scary as it was when he was in KC, 633 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: where he had at a quarterback who could throw the 634 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 1: ball to him out of the pocket, off platform and 635 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 1: get it anywhere on the field. That's what made him 636 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 1: so scary. That speed is scary, But when you got 637 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 1: a guy who can get it to him anywhere on 638 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 1: the field at any split second, that's not too Ah 639 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: that's not too ah. So you know, we could be 640 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: afraid of them a little bit, but I'm not scared 641 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,799 Speaker 1: of him. I just wanted to bring that up. Yeah, 642 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,319 Speaker 1: I think your last point is probably your most important one, 643 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:11,520 Speaker 1: which was that Patrick Mahomes could not only get it 644 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: to him anywhere on the field, he could extend to 645 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: play to a point where covering Tyreek Hill becomes impossible. 646 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: Once you gets passed three and a half seconds, most 647 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 1: people have already lost Tyreek Hill because of his elite speed. 648 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 1: And then if you have the arm strength to get 649 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,719 Speaker 1: it to wherever he is on the field, Yeah, that's 650 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:32,200 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes to Watano. Violoa does not extend place he 651 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,720 Speaker 1: is dropped back, stick his foot in the ground, fire 652 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,560 Speaker 1: the ball out. I mean maybe he shuffles a little 653 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 1: bit in the pocket, but he's not rolling out a 654 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,799 Speaker 1: whole lot. I'm not saying he's not mobile, but extending 655 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,200 Speaker 1: the play and making plays off script is not his 656 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 1: m O. And so if you're gonna if you're the 657 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 1: Dolphins and you're gonna maximize what Tyreek Hill can be 658 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,879 Speaker 1: in your offense, you better get the ball to him 659 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 1: off three step drops and let him do the work. 660 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: After the cat. That's how you're gonna make him an 661 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: effective player. It's not going to be throwing him. You know, 662 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,239 Speaker 1: nine routes all day with two as your quarterback. You 663 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,439 Speaker 1: gotta get the ball in his hands fast and hope 664 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,399 Speaker 1: he can do the rest with his elite speed. After 665 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,240 Speaker 1: the catch, You're gonna see some things that in Miami 666 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,839 Speaker 1: would we anticipate And we're with you, Mark, I mean 667 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:23,719 Speaker 1: I anticipate things that I didn't see Tyreek Hi'll do 668 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,719 Speaker 1: in Kansas City, for instance, fifty fifty balls. You know, 669 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 1: him going up and battling it. He was catching the 670 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: ball in his stomach down the field wide open because 671 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 1: the ball was getting there and the play was extended 672 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,040 Speaker 1: and guys lose him didn't know where he was. He 673 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:47,759 Speaker 1: just lets and Mahomes just turns it loose. You know, 674 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: Tyreekin's up standing in the middle of the space all 675 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,399 Speaker 1: by himself. You never see or have seen Tyreek Hill 676 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,759 Speaker 1: have to go up in battle for a catch. You know, 677 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:03,720 Speaker 1: he's just that open. That may change with a quarterback 678 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,759 Speaker 1: who takes a little extra to get it there, or 679 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,200 Speaker 1: a ball that takes a little extra time to get there. Because, 680 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,040 Speaker 1: as Mark pointed out, you know you're not, you don't. 681 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,040 Speaker 1: The Chiefs won't, and then Miami Dolphins won't be playing 682 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:16,320 Speaker 1: in a vacuum. They're gonna be out there with some 683 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,919 Speaker 1: pretty good players week in week out who can cover 684 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,919 Speaker 1: some ground. And if it ball takes an extra half 685 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,480 Speaker 1: second to get there, that's a lot of ground when 686 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:28,080 Speaker 1: an NFL players running full speed. So that's something that 687 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,799 Speaker 1: I'm going to keep an eye on as well. How 688 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,040 Speaker 1: many fifty fifty balls and what kind of ball skills 689 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:37,640 Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill displays, because I'm thinking it's going to be 690 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,560 Speaker 1: much more difficult for him to have the kind of 691 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,880 Speaker 1: open catches that he enjoyed as a Chief with Mahomes 692 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: extending plays and throwing it to him after he has 693 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,120 Speaker 1: broken off the route. So the bottom line for me 694 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,440 Speaker 1: is this, the Chiefs have been the stumbling block for 695 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,600 Speaker 1: the Bills each of the last two years. In the postseason. 696 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 1: They kept their number one wide out despite having a 697 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 1: high priced franchise quarterback, the Chiefs chose not to. I 698 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,520 Speaker 1: think it gives the Bills a leg up on the Chiefs. 699 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,920 Speaker 1: I know they reloaded with Marquez Valdis, Scandling and Juju 700 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,439 Speaker 1: Smith Schuster, and you know they drafted sky More. That's 701 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,240 Speaker 1: all well and good, but none of them are Tyreek 702 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,759 Speaker 1: in terms of the dimension that he brings to a 703 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,160 Speaker 1: football field. And so I think it does give the 704 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: Bills a leg up that they have their They still 705 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,400 Speaker 1: have their number one guy in their franchise signal caller. 706 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,759 Speaker 1: We will take a break here, but when we come 707 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 1: back Morerior comments on the tweet sheet. Does having a 708 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,760 Speaker 1: premium paid QB and wide receiver one put the Bills 709 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 1: ahead of their AFC counterparts like the Chiefs who threw 710 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,520 Speaker 1: theirs overboard or even the Packers in the NFC they 711 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,560 Speaker 1: got rid of Davantae Adams kept Aaron Rodgers but not both. 712 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,560 Speaker 1: How much does that put Bills in prime position to 713 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,920 Speaker 1: make a long deep run this postseason? Back in a 714 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,239 Speaker 1: moment here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, 715 00:41:54,239 --> 00:42:10,880 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live 716 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,560 Speaker 1: as we close out Ala number one, and we are 717 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 1: going back to the tweet sheet, which I should mention 718 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,280 Speaker 1: is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official 719 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:24,120 Speaker 1: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. JT. When asked, 720 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,799 Speaker 1: is having a premium paid quarterback and a premium paid 721 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,560 Speaker 1: wide receiver put the Bills ahead of their AFC counterparts. 722 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,680 Speaker 1: JT says seventeen and fourteen have one of the best 723 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,080 Speaker 1: chemistry on field chemistry in the NFL. Alan can just 724 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,759 Speaker 1: fling it up there. He knows Digs will go up 725 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,640 Speaker 1: and contend for the ball. The Finns got hill in Tuah. 726 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,480 Speaker 1: I call him Tuna Ha and Tuah is not Josh. 727 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,880 Speaker 1: The Pats don't have a true number one wide receiver 728 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,520 Speaker 1: in the Jets. Of the Jets, what can we say? 729 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,200 Speaker 1: So JT looked at it from a division perspective, I 730 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,279 Speaker 1: don't even think that's a question. Although if you want 731 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,480 Speaker 1: to argue that Miami's closed the gap some I could 732 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,480 Speaker 1: go along question. I could go along with that. Ereek 733 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,280 Speaker 1: is a really good player. I mean, but I'm looking 734 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,520 Speaker 1: at I'm looking at the AFC here. Now, if there's 735 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,960 Speaker 1: one receiving corps that I think is still superior to 736 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 1: that of the Bills in the AFC, it is the Bengals. 737 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,359 Speaker 1: I mean, Jamar Chase Tyler board one of the best 738 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:22,759 Speaker 1: slot guys, and U. T. T. Higgins, So they're probably 739 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,640 Speaker 1: better one two three than the Bills and a lot 740 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,920 Speaker 1: of other teams. They're more proven, certainly because you can 741 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,520 Speaker 1: make it because of Gabe Davis being elevated and then 742 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,480 Speaker 1: Jamison crowd Are coming over from the Jets. Although he's 743 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,080 Speaker 1: got some chops. Yeah, and so do the other guys 744 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,239 Speaker 1: behind him. I mean we talked about yesterday. The Bills 745 00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:47,520 Speaker 1: have got some pretty good slot receivers waiting to get 746 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,600 Speaker 1: on the field, but on the outside maybe not so many. 747 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:57,000 Speaker 1: Just Gabe Davis and Steph Diggs and behind them, I 748 00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:03,440 Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, the Chargers, I think one two have 749 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,880 Speaker 1: a more proven top tandem than the Bills because you 750 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:11,120 Speaker 1: got Mike Williams and Keenan Allen versus Diggs and Davis. 751 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,319 Speaker 1: Davis I think showed he can be that guy, but 752 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,160 Speaker 1: he doesn't have a season's worth of production to prove 753 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,879 Speaker 1: that because he hasn't been in the starting lineup enough. 754 00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,799 Speaker 1: That will change this year, we all anticipate, So maybe 755 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: you put them ahead of what the Bills have. But 756 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,279 Speaker 1: I just find it interesting that the Bills found a 757 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,719 Speaker 1: way to make it work when other teams like the 758 00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:35,640 Speaker 1: Packers and the Chiefs just said, yeah, you know what, 759 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,120 Speaker 1: We're going to throw our top receiver overboard. Here and 760 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,479 Speaker 1: hope we can just kind of get back to where 761 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,560 Speaker 1: we want to be. And I think because the Bills 762 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,640 Speaker 1: still have the Allen Diggs combination, they got a leg 763 00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,200 Speaker 1: up on some of these other clubs. I genuinely believe that. 764 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,440 Speaker 1: I think so too on some of the other clubs, 765 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,200 Speaker 1: No questions some of the other clubs. Though. You look 766 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:59,360 Speaker 1: at Derek Carr getting Davante Adams, they got better to 767 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:04,840 Speaker 1: have got better with Tyreek Hill, uh, the the Colts 768 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,239 Speaker 1: got better with Matt Ryan coming into the fold. The 769 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,799 Speaker 1: Denver Broncos got markedly better with Russ Wilson coming in. 770 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,280 Speaker 1: So even though some of these teams don't have those 771 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:19,200 Speaker 1: two guys getting paid all the same time like the 772 00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:23,919 Speaker 1: Bills do, it's interesting to look around. I wonder that's 773 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:28,440 Speaker 1: and that's really the crux of the question today. Is 774 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,239 Speaker 1: that really what makes the difference having the paying the 775 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,200 Speaker 1: right guys at the right positions? Does it? The Rams 776 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,279 Speaker 1: would say, yes, is it the right guys or is 777 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,080 Speaker 1: it the right positions? You know what I mean? Well, 778 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,400 Speaker 1: I think we can all agree there are premium positions 779 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,399 Speaker 1: in this league, positions that mean more certainly than other 780 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,680 Speaker 1: position means. Certainly, the quarterback is on that list. Quarterback, 781 00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:56,160 Speaker 1: pass rusher, and then after that pickier. Yeah, and it 782 00:45:56,239 --> 00:46:02,520 Speaker 1: might it's quarterback, wide receiver, corner, pass rusher, and made 783 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,799 Speaker 1: then left tackle. And I mean those are the five 784 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:13,120 Speaker 1: premium positions right now. Yeah, not surprisingly the Rams pay 785 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:17,239 Speaker 1: those guys, with one exception, Aaron Donald. They pay and 786 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,719 Speaker 1: Donald like a defensive end even though he plays inside. 787 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,760 Speaker 1: I mean he'll line up outside occasionally he's pass rusher. 788 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,719 Speaker 1: But corner they pay that guy, Jalen Ramsey. Quarterback, they 789 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,319 Speaker 1: pay that guy, Matthew Stafford. Wide receiver, they pay that 790 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:36,480 Speaker 1: guy Cooper Cup. So they pay top dollar at the 791 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:40,239 Speaker 1: five most premium positions. Now they just lost Whitworth to retirement, 792 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,399 Speaker 1: so left tackle is a bit of a thing for them. 793 00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,120 Speaker 1: But the other four premium positions they have a premium 794 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,120 Speaker 1: guy that they pay premium money. You can always give 795 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,840 Speaker 1: a left tackle help when you get into a situation 796 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,719 Speaker 1: where he can't hold up. But even we've had this 797 00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,799 Speaker 1: conversation a lot too. You know your offensive lineman, you 798 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,319 Speaker 1: can help whichever one is the weak link to a 799 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:05,600 Speaker 1: certain point, and the Rams will do that. They'll chip 800 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,319 Speaker 1: with a running back to give the guy an edge 801 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,279 Speaker 1: they'll put a tight end over there to hit the 802 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,520 Speaker 1: guy before he goes out all of the things you 803 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:18,360 Speaker 1: can do to help him. So that's of the five. 804 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,120 Speaker 1: That's probably the one that I've got at the bottom 805 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,840 Speaker 1: of the five. But man, oh man, the Rams have 806 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,319 Speaker 1: made no bones about it. They pay veteran players a 807 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,279 Speaker 1: premium to come in and play for them. And the 808 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,360 Speaker 1: Bills just took a page out of that book because 809 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,840 Speaker 1: they not only have paid Stefan Diggs and Josh Allen, 810 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,279 Speaker 1: they paid Von Miller this offseason Tradevious White is a 811 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,839 Speaker 1: year and a half removed from a big contract for him. 812 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,560 Speaker 1: And they did the same with Dion Dawkins. So there 813 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:50,480 Speaker 1: it is. Left tackle, corner, wide receiver, pass rusher, quarterback. 814 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,759 Speaker 1: They did it with Matt Milano. They did pay Matt Milano, Yes, 815 00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,919 Speaker 1: but I would argue that that's not a premium because 816 00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,880 Speaker 1: they have no it's not. They've also paid Poyer and 817 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,759 Speaker 1: Hide and now Poyer, you know, because he had such 818 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,040 Speaker 1: a breakout year as kind of freaking he's underpaid. But 819 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,120 Speaker 1: here's the thing. They didn't pay Milano top of the 820 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,200 Speaker 1: market money. They did not pay Poyer or Hide top 821 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,520 Speaker 1: of the market money. They did pay top of the 822 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,520 Speaker 1: market money for White, They paid top of the market 823 00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,240 Speaker 1: money for Miller, they paid top of the market money 824 00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:24,120 Speaker 1: for Josh Allen, Dion Dawkins, they paid top ten money 825 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:29,280 Speaker 1: for Yeah. They paid yeah, good money even at his position, 826 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,200 Speaker 1: not top of the top of the market money. So yeah, 827 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,799 Speaker 1: you pick those spots. And there's no question that these 828 00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,399 Speaker 1: day that coaching staffs around the league, front offices around 829 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,520 Speaker 1: the league have these conversations, just like we're having it 830 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,080 Speaker 1: right now. Who do we gotta have? The problem is 831 00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,640 Speaker 1: this when you got a guy who you gotta have 832 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:53,359 Speaker 1: and he's Darryl Tallely, you know what I mean, Like 833 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,960 Speaker 1: he's a Matt Milano, a guy who's just he's in 834 00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,480 Speaker 1: the line yet two linebackers. There's enough linebacker on this 835 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,640 Speaker 1: planet to populate ten nfls, but there's just no room 836 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,239 Speaker 1: for him in the league that you know, it's not 837 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,759 Speaker 1: a premium position, but you got to have that guy. 838 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,279 Speaker 1: That's the problem when you start having to pay guys 839 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,520 Speaker 1: that like Matt Milana, who you wouldn't dream of taking 840 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,120 Speaker 1: the field without. But he's playing it, you know, I mean, 841 00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,160 Speaker 1: who's he in it? Well? They pay him, But again 842 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,240 Speaker 1: I think when the deal came out, people are like, oh, 843 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:25,759 Speaker 1: that's a pretty good deal for the What are you 844 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,560 Speaker 1: gonna do When you get a guy who and it's 845 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:33,880 Speaker 1: you know, like a Taiwan Jones, you know, and it's like, 846 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:35,759 Speaker 1: you got to get the guy to play for as 847 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,040 Speaker 1: little as you can get him to play for. It's 848 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,560 Speaker 1: hard to do. That's when you start to when the 849 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,160 Speaker 1: rubber meets the road and guys start getting squeezed out. 850 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,759 Speaker 1: The guy. Bottom line is it's an interesting and here's 851 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,040 Speaker 1: why it's an interesting conversation. The bottom line is this, 852 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,279 Speaker 1: you either pay the guys that produce, or pay the 853 00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,320 Speaker 1: guy and also find a way to pay the guys 854 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,800 Speaker 1: that make the atmosphere on that team, that team capable 855 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,279 Speaker 1: of letting those guys produce well, you know what I mean, 856 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,759 Speaker 1: making those guys their best. The Chiefs chose to not 857 00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,879 Speaker 1: pay one guy thirty million in the hopes that they 858 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:19,200 Speaker 1: could pay two or three guys the same amount of 859 00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,600 Speaker 1: money collectively and get just as much, if not more. 860 00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,120 Speaker 1: That's a decision that the Chiefs ultimately make. They said, 861 00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,719 Speaker 1: we're not gonna pay Tyreek thirty million a year, but 862 00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,920 Speaker 1: we are going to sign Juju Smith Schuster and we 863 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,719 Speaker 1: are going to sign Mark Quez, Valdis Scantling, and we 864 00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,560 Speaker 1: are going to draft sky More and we hide those 865 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,640 Speaker 1: three guys can give us every bit of production, if 866 00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,920 Speaker 1: not more than the guy that led our team and 867 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:48,840 Speaker 1: targets receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns. Right, But there's also 868 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:50,200 Speaker 1: and that's one way to do it. And I know 869 00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,440 Speaker 1: the chief The Chiefs don't care about defense. I mean 870 00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:57,360 Speaker 1: they do not care. They gotta They brought in Schwartz, 871 00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:02,000 Speaker 1: not Schwartz. They brought in who's defensive, Yeah, Steve Spagner. 872 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,719 Speaker 1: They brought in Spags. Spags comes at great defensive coordinator, 873 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:07,799 Speaker 1: but he's trying to make chicken salad out of chicken 874 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,440 Speaker 1: poop because their defensive roster was not good overall, and 875 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:15,799 Speaker 1: they jettisoned their defensive secondary was a joke and they 876 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,040 Speaker 1: jettisoned those guys. So by my thought would be, if 877 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna get better, don't pay thirty million to Tyreek. 878 00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,319 Speaker 1: Sign a couple of those guys you just mentioned, and 879 00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,759 Speaker 1: get some dbs at some other and strengthen your team 880 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,360 Speaker 1: and others parts of your roster and not have to 881 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:35,040 Speaker 1: have a margin of error that's so narrow on the 882 00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,000 Speaker 1: offensive side, you know, where you can't afford to even 883 00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,319 Speaker 1: miss one drive in a game that you don't come 884 00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,000 Speaker 1: away with points or you lose. You got to come 885 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,759 Speaker 1: away with three points or a touchdown every single drive 886 00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,279 Speaker 1: of the game, or you lose the game. That's where 887 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,279 Speaker 1: the Chiefs were sitting last year. They had to take 888 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,840 Speaker 1: the Bills to overtime and get a breakout touchdown to 889 00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:59,760 Speaker 1: beat him, and they had to do it with thirteen 890 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,919 Speaker 1: You talk about a narrow margin of error, and she's 891 00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,440 Speaker 1: cleared it. Tip your hat to him. Thirteen seconds you 892 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,960 Speaker 1: gotta get You gotta get a field gold from your 893 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:13,640 Speaker 1: twenty five, you know, and they did. That's a margin 894 00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,960 Speaker 1: of error to me. Spend some money where you don't 895 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,319 Speaker 1: have to. You don't end up like that. You know. 896 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,279 Speaker 1: That's a that's a clear cut case of it. But 897 00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,279 Speaker 1: it makes the point, you know, I get it. I 898 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,960 Speaker 1: just think they chose to go budget arry and replace 899 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:32,600 Speaker 1: with numbers rather than paying him a gigantic number. We 900 00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,279 Speaker 1: take a break here. When we come back, Brad Spielberger, 901 00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,960 Speaker 1: salary cap expert from PFF, expands our discussion to see 902 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,200 Speaker 1: just what the Bills did to keep their number one 903 00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,960 Speaker 1: wide out and their number one quarterback both on the 904 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,280 Speaker 1: same roster instead of throwing one overboard like the Chiefs 905 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,320 Speaker 1: did with Tyreek and the Pack did with Davante Adams 906 00:52:51,480 --> 00:53:09,719 Speaker 1: back at the moment here on one, Bill's lives at 907 00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:13,200 Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field. 908 00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:14,920 Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role 909 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:21,359 Speaker 1: player for you state, Steve a blimp. We're not even 910 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:27,200 Speaker 1: in the strategyere of normalcy here all right? Anyway, are 911 00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:29,880 Speaker 1: our number two on a Tuesday Chris Brown, Steve Tasker 912 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,120 Speaker 1: with you on Bills Live and pleased to be joined 913 00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,839 Speaker 1: now by Pro Football Focus Salary cap analyst Brad Spielberger 914 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,080 Speaker 1: joining the show. Is recently put together a right up 915 00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:47,640 Speaker 1: on basically a three year look at teams cap management 916 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,400 Speaker 1: with respect to their rosters, and then put a rankings 917 00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,759 Speaker 1: list together. Bill's ranked middle of the pack. Brad, thanks 918 00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,640 Speaker 1: for joining us. First of all, um, we saw the 919 00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,839 Speaker 1: Bills ranked fifteenth in this category. But as you pointed out, 920 00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,400 Speaker 1: and as we have been discussing on the show, the 921 00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,479 Speaker 1: Bills were able to keep their number one wide out 922 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:12,200 Speaker 1: along with their franchise quarterback on a second contract, unlike 923 00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:16,040 Speaker 1: the Chiefs and unlike the Packers. How much of a 924 00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:20,080 Speaker 1: leg up do you think that gives them? Yeah, it's massive, 925 00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,319 Speaker 1: and it's because of these smart work they've done. And 926 00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,640 Speaker 1: I would say them ranking fifteenth. If you look at 927 00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,480 Speaker 1: the other top teams in the NFL in terms of 928 00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,600 Speaker 1: just the quality of the roster, Fuckaneers, Packers, Chiefs and 929 00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,320 Speaker 1: those teams you mentioned, most of them are below the bills. 930 00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,560 Speaker 1: So them being smart, being proactive and getting deals done 931 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:39,520 Speaker 1: early is why they have Stefon Diggs, von Miller and 932 00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,880 Speaker 1: Josh Allen all on this roster. How much of a difference. 933 00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,480 Speaker 1: And the question is obviously, certainly you can have stars 934 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:50,040 Speaker 1: across star studded roster, but then all of a sudden 935 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,200 Speaker 1: every place else on your roster, you're gonna have some 936 00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,520 Speaker 1: drop off. Financially, you're gonna have How hard is it 937 00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,000 Speaker 1: to support the guys at those premier positions with guys 938 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,239 Speaker 1: who aren't that where you've got such a disparity in talent. 939 00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,359 Speaker 1: You've got some elite players and everybody else just got 940 00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:09,520 Speaker 1: off the bus from Fresno. No, it's tough and death, 941 00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:11,719 Speaker 1: as you guys know very well, as super important the 942 00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,040 Speaker 1: NFL injuries are an inevitability, and you also just want 943 00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,720 Speaker 1: to be able to rotate bodies and get good players 944 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,759 Speaker 1: in there, so that leads you to no potentially leaning 945 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,399 Speaker 1: out of rookies and younger players. I thank kyre Ella 946 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,680 Speaker 1: Metta Florida is a very good player, But you look 947 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:27,799 Speaker 1: at that cornerback room and he's probably the number two 948 00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,840 Speaker 1: corner from date one, which is always a risky proposition 949 00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,399 Speaker 1: with a rookie, even a first rounder. But they still 950 00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,280 Speaker 1: have done a good job I think on the offensive 951 00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,319 Speaker 1: line and the defensive line in particular, and making sure 952 00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,839 Speaker 1: they have some of that depth beyond just those top 953 00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,640 Speaker 1: ending guys. What do you make you know, you're looking 954 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,799 Speaker 1: at Talary he had management knowing it's what you do 955 00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,759 Speaker 1: most of the time. In terms of analyzing it, What 956 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,680 Speaker 1: do you make of the Chiefs approach? I mean, I 957 00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,239 Speaker 1: think a lot of people could understand even someone of 958 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:58,080 Speaker 1: Tyree Hill's ability, demanding thirty million a year is something 959 00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:01,799 Speaker 1: people might ball at, and the Chiefs clearly did. But 960 00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,160 Speaker 1: what do you make of their plan B, which was 961 00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:10,440 Speaker 1: basically try to replace Tyreek in numbers with Juju Smith, Schuster, 962 00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:14,719 Speaker 1: Mark his Valdez, Scandling and sky Moore. You know, I 963 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,880 Speaker 1: think part of the conversation is you could argue the 964 00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:21,000 Speaker 1: point of having a quarterback as good as Patrick Mahomes 965 00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,840 Speaker 1: is that you can maybe save money on that receiving group, 966 00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,520 Speaker 1: kind of like we used to talk about with Tom 967 00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:29,600 Speaker 1: Brady before Randy Moss. It was Dion Branch and Wes 968 00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,680 Speaker 1: Welker and and not guys that were ever really viewed 969 00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,080 Speaker 1: as number one wide receivers or his top options obviously 970 00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,480 Speaker 1: outside of the tight end position. So I think that 971 00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,960 Speaker 1: is a fair argument and a reasonable argument to make. 972 00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,080 Speaker 1: It's going to be a huge loss, you know, with 973 00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:45,799 Speaker 1: Tyree Hill no longer there. At the same time, you 974 00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,480 Speaker 1: know the Bill's approach as well. Stefan Dix is a special, 975 00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,000 Speaker 1: special player. You went out and traded a first round 976 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,960 Speaker 1: pick to get him. There's nothing against keeping him around, 977 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,239 Speaker 1: but it does, you know, it makes things tough. And 978 00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:00,319 Speaker 1: obviously Emmanuel Sanders Cole Beasley no longer there, it makes 979 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,759 Speaker 1: some of the other decisions or across your roster a 980 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,960 Speaker 1: bit more difficult. Have you noticed, and I get it 981 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,520 Speaker 1: if because your layout here on your on your spreadsheet 982 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,960 Speaker 1: is not done this way. Have you noticed a trend 983 00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:16,760 Speaker 1: in offensive and defensive payrolls. When you when you break 984 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,000 Speaker 1: this down, where you got offensive player, you got a 985 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,400 Speaker 1: ton of money being spent on offense, not so much 986 00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:23,480 Speaker 1: on defense. We were taught having a conversation about the 987 00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:27,720 Speaker 1: Chiefs where you know, they got a lot of assets 988 00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:31,480 Speaker 1: on office and their defense absolutely stunt. Last year of 989 00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:35,560 Speaker 1: their secondary was not good and they just won it 990 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,400 Speaker 1: with offense. Um do you see trends like that in 991 00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:43,600 Speaker 1: salary cap analysis? And I think that is part of 992 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:45,680 Speaker 1: the issue of why they just felt they could not 993 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:49,000 Speaker 1: go ahead and also pay tyreek Hill. You know, Frank 994 00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,760 Speaker 1: Clark has kind of been a bust for them. They 995 00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,800 Speaker 1: traded a first round pick to get him, give him 996 00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,080 Speaker 1: a twenty million per year deal. He's since taking a 997 00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,920 Speaker 1: pay cut and really hasn't been great for them. They 998 00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,160 Speaker 1: need to put more resource on that side of the ball. 999 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,760 Speaker 1: But there definitely is a trend. The Bills were part 1000 00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,040 Speaker 1: of this in the early Josh Allen days. For example. 1001 00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,960 Speaker 1: Right now the Pittsburgh Steelers have the cheapest offense in 1002 00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:11,200 Speaker 1: the NFL and the second most expensive defense in the NFL. 1003 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,800 Speaker 1: So you do see kind of these ebbs and flows, 1004 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:15,880 Speaker 1: and I think you want to be as balanced as 1005 00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,480 Speaker 1: you can be, but sometimes you know, solidifying and fortifying 1006 00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,080 Speaker 1: one unit and then letting young players excel on the 1007 00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,680 Speaker 1: other can be a good approach. And then what about 1008 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,240 Speaker 1: the Rams, because having won the Super Bowl you have 1009 00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:33,320 Speaker 1: the copycat effect that always seems to exist right after that, 1010 00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:37,320 Speaker 1: and as Steve and I were talking about, they're just 1011 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:41,760 Speaker 1: gonna pay the premium positions, primarily Aaron Donald I supposed 1012 00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,560 Speaker 1: an exception because he's technically a defensive tackle, but cornerback 1013 00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:49,040 Speaker 1: premium position. They pay Rams, a quarterback, they pay Stafford, 1014 00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,720 Speaker 1: wide receiver, they pay Cup maybe even Robinson too. Really 1015 00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,240 Speaker 1: if you look at it, and then you know, left 1016 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,200 Speaker 1: tackle is probably the only one where they're not paying 1017 00:58:57,240 --> 00:59:00,920 Speaker 1: a super high premium right now after the retire Andrew Whitworth. 1018 00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:05,160 Speaker 1: So are more teams gonna follow that path where you say, 1019 00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,440 Speaker 1: let's just throw a bowload of money at the premium 1020 00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,720 Speaker 1: positions and then just try to backfill the rest of it. 1021 00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:12,960 Speaker 1: Like you said, it is a copycat league, and I 1022 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,200 Speaker 1: do think we will see that. We've obviously seen some 1023 00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:18,760 Speaker 1: of those moves already this offseason, with quarterbacks like Russell Wilson, 1024 00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,960 Speaker 1: wide receivers like a J. Brown on the move and 1025 00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:24,520 Speaker 1: teams willing to give up major draft capital and top 1026 00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:26,640 Speaker 1: of market extensions as soon as they can bring these 1027 00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:28,720 Speaker 1: guys in, so we will see them. I think the 1028 00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:32,400 Speaker 1: interesting thing is that I think people don't underestimate the 1029 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,880 Speaker 1: Rams and their full comprehensive strategy is they still make 1030 00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,840 Speaker 1: a ton of draft picks. They've made eight picks every 1031 00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:42,000 Speaker 1: year since twenty seventeen at least, because they just don't 1032 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,360 Speaker 1: make first rounders, so we kind of forget that they 1033 00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,840 Speaker 1: actually make a ton of second through fourth round picks, 1034 00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:48,640 Speaker 1: which is how you get your Cooper Cups in some 1035 00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,840 Speaker 1: of those players. So I do think we'll see the 1036 00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,520 Speaker 1: copycat there. But if teams are gonna both trade away 1037 00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,080 Speaker 1: picks and they're not gonna trade down and do other 1038 00:59:56,120 --> 01:00:00,200 Speaker 1: things to stockpile young surplus value contracts, they can run 1039 01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:02,600 Speaker 1: in some trouble. One of the things that has happened 1040 01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:04,760 Speaker 1: here in Buffalo since the Bills have now gained some 1041 01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,440 Speaker 1: notoriety and been and become a team that is now 1042 01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,800 Speaker 1: the favorite to win the Super Bowl and everybody's looking 1043 01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,640 Speaker 1: at them with high expectations. One of the things that 1044 01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,520 Speaker 1: people have done start to look at, hey, how they 1045 01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,840 Speaker 1: do it? One of the things we've noticed that is 1046 01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:20,320 Speaker 1: different here in Buffalo than we've seen other past regimes. 1047 01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:24,120 Speaker 1: Do they give a ton of guy They turned their 1048 01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:28,960 Speaker 1: roster higher into the starters, the starting twenty two than 1049 01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,360 Speaker 1: other teams have done in the past. They give one 1050 01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:34,560 Speaker 1: year contracts to a lot of guys They bring in 1051 01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:38,000 Speaker 1: with the expectation that they're gonna start for that one year. 1052 01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:43,040 Speaker 1: Guys like in the past, like John Feliciano, guys of 1053 01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:47,760 Speaker 1: that ILK, Darryl Williams, guys on the offensive line, and 1054 01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:52,800 Speaker 1: they even brought back Jordan Phillips. They kept shock Shack 1055 01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:56,200 Speaker 1: Lawson around. A lot of guys on one year deals. 1056 01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,960 Speaker 1: Even Josh Norman, the cornerback, they brought him in on 1057 01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,720 Speaker 1: a one year deal. Tons of guys who got significant 1058 01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:05,960 Speaker 1: playing time, and then after the one year either gave 1059 01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:09,440 Speaker 1: him a chance at a three year deal for logical 1060 01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:13,960 Speaker 1: money or they let him become free agents. What's your 1061 01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:15,840 Speaker 1: take on that and how does that help or hurt 1062 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:22,400 Speaker 1: your stat the the sal recap structure. Yeah, no, it's 1063 01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,520 Speaker 1: been fascinating. I think another piece of it is that 1064 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,200 Speaker 1: they've built a strong culture and a player that play 1065 01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,680 Speaker 1: a place that players want to be and in essence, 1066 01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:32,160 Speaker 1: it's enabled them to negotiate a lot of pay cuts, 1067 01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:34,760 Speaker 1: even for good players. A guy like Mitch Morris takes 1068 01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:36,800 Speaker 1: a pickup then get some other deal after the fact. 1069 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,360 Speaker 1: You mentioned Darryl Williams, some of those players. Now you 1070 01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:41,600 Speaker 1: have Roger Saffold coming in to Kwan Jones on a 1071 01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,880 Speaker 1: one year deal, Tim Settle on a one year deal. 1072 01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:45,960 Speaker 1: You know, I think you do want to keep some 1073 01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:48,480 Speaker 1: players around. But as you mentioned, if you're gonna go 1074 01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,040 Speaker 1: with that kind of stars and scrubs approach. Not to 1075 01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,080 Speaker 1: call these guys scrubs, but if you're going to go 1076 01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:56,640 Speaker 1: that route, you have to be comfortable churning the bottom 1077 01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,000 Speaker 1: parts of your roster and turning over some of that depth. 1078 01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:00,680 Speaker 1: I think they've done a good job. I think it 1079 01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:03,320 Speaker 1: has helped them. You know. Overall, there's, of course some 1080 01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:05,600 Speaker 1: hits and misses, but that's kind of the game you 1081 01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:08,400 Speaker 1: have to play if you're gonna have some really expensive 1082 01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:12,760 Speaker 1: players on the team. And then with respect to you know, 1083 01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:16,200 Speaker 1: you already mentioned the Rams and how they draft well 1084 01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,000 Speaker 1: with their mid round picks, and that's how they fill 1085 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:23,040 Speaker 1: out their roster on cheap rookie deals. Looking at the bills, 1086 01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,120 Speaker 1: how much will the Bills need to kind of follow 1087 01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:30,200 Speaker 1: that same path and rely on rookie contract players. You 1088 01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:32,680 Speaker 1: got some here in the pipeline now who are going 1089 01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:36,040 Speaker 1: to presumably take on larger roles. Gabe Davis is probably 1090 01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:37,720 Speaker 1: going to be a starter this year in the year 1091 01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:40,280 Speaker 1: three of his rookie deal. James Cook could have a 1092 01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,480 Speaker 1: prominent role as a rookie right now. Same with Kaye 1093 01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:45,800 Speaker 1: Elam on the defensive side of the ball. How much 1094 01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,200 Speaker 1: more are they going to need to rely on those 1095 01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:49,680 Speaker 1: guys paying some of their top people the premiums that 1096 01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:52,600 Speaker 1: they are. Yeah, it's a huge part of it. And 1097 01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:54,240 Speaker 1: I would say, and I'm not just saying this because 1098 01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:55,960 Speaker 1: I'm on this show. I think Brandon Bean is one 1099 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:57,919 Speaker 1: of the best gyms in football. But the one knock 1100 01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,640 Speaker 1: up probably would have against him early in his tenure 1101 01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:03,040 Speaker 1: is he traded up a lot, which gives up a 1102 01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,439 Speaker 1: lot of draft picks. And it was, look, Josh Allen 1103 01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,480 Speaker 1: trade up kind of nullifies all this, But you know, 1104 01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:09,400 Speaker 1: the Cody Ford trade up was, you know, kind of 1105 01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,960 Speaker 1: a waste of draft picks. The Treman Emmonds trade up. 1106 01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,040 Speaker 1: You know, he's a solid starter, but maybe not the 1107 01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,360 Speaker 1: best use of resources and so on and so forth, 1108 01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,600 Speaker 1: so you kind of can't get away with that anymore. 1109 01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:21,200 Speaker 1: You have to add a decent amount of players that 1110 01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,000 Speaker 1: can fill a void, that are at least starting caliber 1111 01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:26,440 Speaker 1: players in the NFL. You look at those RAMS teams 1112 01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,000 Speaker 1: the secondary, and some of their receivers are you know, 1113 01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:31,840 Speaker 1: mid round draft picks that at least are good enough 1114 01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:34,120 Speaker 1: to fill a hole. So I think they have to 1115 01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,280 Speaker 1: be smart and calculated with how they go about that 1116 01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:39,120 Speaker 1: ensure they're making a decent amount of picks take those 1117 01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,880 Speaker 1: dark throws. So you get a couple contributors each year, 1118 01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:43,880 Speaker 1: and I think the last two classes, I think have 1119 01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:45,680 Speaker 1: they done a better job of that than in the 1120 01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:47,520 Speaker 1: beginning of his tenure. One of the things that the 1121 01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,000 Speaker 1: Bills have been able to do is developed players who 1122 01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:52,760 Speaker 1: probably weren't ready to be pros or at least starters 1123 01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:56,000 Speaker 1: in the pros, into really good players. Dane Jackson, who 1124 01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,960 Speaker 1: took over for Tradavious White, you know, Levi Wallace moves 1125 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:00,880 Speaker 1: to the number one. Dane Action came in and they 1126 01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,400 Speaker 1: maintained a number one defensive ranking with those two guys 1127 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:06,600 Speaker 1: at corner. One was a seventh rounder and the other 1128 01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:11,960 Speaker 1: was undrafted and they held up. Also, in Tern Johnson, 1129 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,960 Speaker 1: the slot corner for the Buffalo Bills, a guy who 1130 01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:16,240 Speaker 1: nobody knew about, was not highly talent and he is 1131 01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:20,000 Speaker 1: a solid starter, got his second contract. So is there 1132 01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:24,040 Speaker 1: a way to quantify or statistically look at which teams 1133 01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,960 Speaker 1: develop guys and how that affects their not just their 1134 01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:31,000 Speaker 1: draft capital or the draft record, but also there there 1135 01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:35,000 Speaker 1: there salary cap going forward because they're able to develop 1136 01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,680 Speaker 1: guys signing a little earlier. These guys didn't expect to 1137 01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,760 Speaker 1: really get a second contract, will take a lesser deal 1138 01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,080 Speaker 1: or a more a deal, more in line Nick. Maybe 1139 01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,440 Speaker 1: not with an elite corner. But Terren Johnson got a 1140 01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:48,600 Speaker 1: nice deal, life changing deal, but he's not making twenty 1141 01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,760 Speaker 1: five million dollars a year. He's making like eight. So 1142 01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:56,400 Speaker 1: you know deals like that, Yeah, no, I sort to 1143 01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:58,640 Speaker 1: cut you off. No, it's it's huge. And those early 1144 01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,760 Speaker 1: extensions from both that up in guys like a Tredavious White, 1145 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,360 Speaker 1: like a Matt Milano, but also like a Terren Johnson 1146 01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:05,919 Speaker 1: in the slot, and all these guys when you get 1147 01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:08,160 Speaker 1: them to sign the early deal, like you said, still 1148 01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:10,919 Speaker 1: life changing money, but not a top of market deal. 1149 01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,960 Speaker 1: That completely destroys your salary cap. It's massive. It get 1150 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,760 Speaker 1: you some surplus value on that contract you can then 1151 01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,560 Speaker 1: spend elsewhere. Like I said before, you know with von Miller, 1152 01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:23,360 Speaker 1: Vondlers on this roster because they were proactive with you know, 1153 01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,760 Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins and Tredivious White, all those players. So adds 1154 01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:29,600 Speaker 1: to the specific The player development piece not something I've 1155 01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:31,640 Speaker 1: tried to quantify, but it is. I mean, there's a 1156 01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,240 Speaker 1: reason teams like Green Bay and all these franchises that 1157 01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:39,000 Speaker 1: are always good. It's just they build a foundation and 1158 01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:41,680 Speaker 1: they develop the talent they have in their building. They 1159 01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:44,800 Speaker 1: never spend in free agency because they just trust their 1160 01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,680 Speaker 1: own process and that's how you sustain success for a 1161 01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:51,080 Speaker 1: long period of time. NFL Shalary cap a three year 1162 01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:54,040 Speaker 1: analysis for all thirty two NFL teams. Brad, it was 1163 01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,120 Speaker 1: a good read. We encourage you folks to go check 1164 01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,440 Speaker 1: it out if you get a chance. Brad Spielberger from PFF, 1165 01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,320 Speaker 1: thanks very much for the time. We'll catch up with you. Assume, 1166 01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,360 Speaker 1: enjoy your summer, appreciate your time and thanks. All right, 1167 01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:06,920 Speaker 1: that's Brad Spielberger joining us here. And yeah, it is 1168 01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,400 Speaker 1: a comprehensive look, I mean at all thirty two teams 1169 01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:13,919 Speaker 1: on a number of different criteria, So take a look 1170 01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:15,480 Speaker 1: at it. I mean, they look good. You go from 1171 01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:20,240 Speaker 1: rookie contract players to projected effective cap space over the 1172 01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:24,400 Speaker 1: next three years, to total pro rated money including money 1173 01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:27,000 Speaker 1: that will be voided, and then the top fifty one 1174 01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:30,960 Speaker 1: veteran player valuation. It really is a comprehensive look if 1175 01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:33,360 Speaker 1: you want to get deep in the weeds of who 1176 01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:35,760 Speaker 1: has positioned themselves well not only for this year, but 1177 01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:40,919 Speaker 1: the next two years after that. Right, Yeah, it's it's 1178 01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,800 Speaker 1: it's cool stuff to look at because it gives you 1179 01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:45,920 Speaker 1: an idea and you can kind of some of the 1180 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:47,640 Speaker 1: some of the teams. You look at the rankings and 1181 01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:52,840 Speaker 1: you know and healthy rank, health rank, it's called the 1182 01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:54,720 Speaker 1: cap health rank. The Bills are right in the middle 1183 01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,720 Speaker 1: of the pack, are just above the middle, ranked about fifteen. 1184 01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:05,320 Speaker 1: Number one team is cincinnat which doesn't surprise me. The 1185 01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,280 Speaker 1: fact that they got to the Super Bowl last year 1186 01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:11,560 Speaker 1: surprises me more than anything. Washington is right there, New 1187 01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:16,080 Speaker 1: England is right there. Indianapolis and Los Angeles Chargers are 1188 01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:19,760 Speaker 1: the top five in health healthy caps. The bottom are 1189 01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:24,880 Speaker 1: who you might expect, Green Bay Las Vegas, Houston, Surprisingly Philly, 1190 01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,280 Speaker 1: and New Orleans, and New Orleans has been in cap 1191 01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:31,160 Speaker 1: jail and will continue to be for our lifetime. But 1192 01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:35,560 Speaker 1: it's really interesting because you can get a feel for 1193 01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:38,400 Speaker 1: the overall what you know about the franchises from a 1194 01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:43,000 Speaker 1: financial standpoint, and it was interesting. I thought it was 1195 01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:45,640 Speaker 1: really interesting and you can tell how much thought he's 1196 01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:49,760 Speaker 1: put into it because where it's like anything, you want 1197 01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:52,600 Speaker 1: to find out how a business is doing, and that 1198 01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:56,840 Speaker 1: includes a single or an individual NFL franchise find out 1199 01:07:56,840 --> 01:08:01,040 Speaker 1: where they spend their money. Yeah, you have some breaking 1200 01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:04,000 Speaker 1: news as it appears that there is a report out 1201 01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:09,600 Speaker 1: that Rob Grunkowski has informed Jordan Schultz, NFL reporter, that 1202 01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:13,600 Speaker 1: he is rich hiring. The future first ballot Hall of 1203 01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:17,160 Speaker 1: Famer who won four Super Bowls, three with the Patriots 1204 01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:20,680 Speaker 1: one with the Bucks, is officially going to hang it 1205 01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:24,240 Speaker 1: up and is not going back to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 1206 01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:28,040 Speaker 1: We'll see if some other outlets follow up and report 1207 01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:31,439 Speaker 1: the same, but that report is out there now that 1208 01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:34,720 Speaker 1: Rob Grunkowski is not coming back. He is going to 1209 01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:41,439 Speaker 1: retire at age thirty three. So does ground show up 1210 01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:47,200 Speaker 1: with fits on Amazon Prime? I might I don't know. 1211 01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,559 Speaker 1: I think it's a lock. I don't think it's a 1212 01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:52,360 Speaker 1: I don't know what the vibe is gonna be on 1213 01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:54,479 Speaker 1: Amazon Pride, but you know what a guy like fits, 1214 01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:58,640 Speaker 1: and certainly Gronk, it's going to be irreverent and that 1215 01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:01,760 Speaker 1: you know that made you know, everybody's got their own 1216 01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:07,040 Speaker 1: personality on the air, and they don't ask you to 1217 01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:10,160 Speaker 1: be somebody else, So Gron's gonna be himself. Yeah, So 1218 01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:13,720 Speaker 1: if that's what they're looking for him, Hey, there you go. 1219 01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,760 Speaker 1: We told you last week that Dawson Knox and Oj 1220 01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:22,320 Speaker 1: Howard were part of the tight End University effort to 1221 01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:26,200 Speaker 1: raise money for the Boys and Girls clubs across the country, 1222 01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:31,160 Speaker 1: and Dawson Knox put out a single tweet to Bill's 1223 01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:36,759 Speaker 1: Mafia asking for their support, and in typical Bills Mafia fashion, 1224 01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,599 Speaker 1: they not only supported him, they supported his teammate OJ 1225 01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:45,599 Speaker 1: Howard with donations, and when the contest was over, Dawson 1226 01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:50,560 Speaker 1: Knox won by a wide margin by more than sixteen 1227 01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:54,759 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. He raised more money than the next finisher, 1228 01:09:55,160 --> 01:09:58,120 Speaker 1: which was Chiga con Quo from the Titans. The other 1229 01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:02,519 Speaker 1: tight End Dawson Knox ray almost fifty seven thousand dollars 1230 01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:05,479 Speaker 1: in donations, and by being the winner of the contest, 1231 01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:09,200 Speaker 1: he gets a bonus fifty thousand dollars and that goes 1232 01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:12,400 Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Boys and Girls Clubs. So good job 1233 01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:15,800 Speaker 1: on you, Bill's Mafia for once again supporting your community 1234 01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:19,600 Speaker 1: in this way. Dawson Knox was blown away by the 1235 01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:23,160 Speaker 1: support he got just from one single tweet, and they 1236 01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:25,439 Speaker 1: not only supported him. Oj Howard finished third in the 1237 01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:29,519 Speaker 1: competition seventy five us. So good on you, Bills Mafia 1238 01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:33,200 Speaker 1: yet again, because it does that turned into money coming 1239 01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:36,200 Speaker 1: back to our Buffalo community and most importantly to the 1240 01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:39,040 Speaker 1: youth here. So good job on you, guys. Just wanted 1241 01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:42,920 Speaker 1: to tip our hat to you once again, nicely done 1242 01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:51,880 Speaker 1: as another charitable effort sees Bill's Mafia on top as usual. 1243 01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:56,479 Speaker 1: I mean, are we surprised, not in the least. The 1244 01:10:56,520 --> 01:11:00,680 Speaker 1: other thing I wanted to bring to Steve's attention was this. 1245 01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,559 Speaker 1: You may call this blasphemy, Steve, I know you've been 1246 01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:11,320 Speaker 1: open minded, but the head people at FIFA, which is 1247 01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:18,519 Speaker 1: the nonprofit World Organization for Football meaning European football. Is 1248 01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:22,160 Speaker 1: that an acronym stand for I think it's the International 1249 01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:31,160 Speaker 1: Federation Football association. So that's what's the first FN. It's 1250 01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:36,640 Speaker 1: international federation, but they say Federation Internazionale the football association, 1251 01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,160 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's basically the translation 1252 01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:43,760 Speaker 1: as International Federation Football Association. I don't know if it's 1253 01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:47,439 Speaker 1: Italian or a Spanish or something. Anyway, the point is 1254 01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:51,080 Speaker 1: with the US, along with some help from Canada in 1255 01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:56,120 Speaker 1: Mexico hosting the twenty twenty six World Cup coming up. 1256 01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:00,240 Speaker 1: It is the belief of the FIFA president. This is 1257 01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:05,240 Speaker 1: a direct quote. By twenty twenty six, soccer will be 1258 01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:08,639 Speaker 1: the number one sport in this part of the world. 1259 01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:13,000 Speaker 1: This is said by FIFA President Gianni Infantino at their 1260 01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:16,320 Speaker 1: North American host cities announcement. Now I will say this, 1261 01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,400 Speaker 1: he probably has no concept of the popularity of American football, 1262 01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,640 Speaker 1: which is still far and away number one. He may not, 1263 01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:30,800 Speaker 1: but right now, in a recent US survey, football first 1264 01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:36,719 Speaker 1: at seventy percent, basketball second at sixty one, baseball third 1265 01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:40,519 Speaker 1: at fifty seven, which surprised me. Soccer is now fourth 1266 01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:47,000 Speaker 1: at forty nine percent. Where's hockey? It's an afterthought. When 1267 01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:50,320 Speaker 1: I was when I'm good, probably about twenty years ago, 1268 01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:53,320 Speaker 1: I saw a survey like this and soccer was in 1269 01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:57,920 Speaker 1: the single digits, like twelve percent. The World Cup that 1270 01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:02,120 Speaker 1: came to the US in nineteen ninety four is the 1271 01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:05,880 Speaker 1: main reason why Major League Soccer, which was only a 1272 01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:09,919 Speaker 1: two year old league at the time, survived. It created 1273 01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:15,040 Speaker 1: such a ground swell of interest in the game that 1274 01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:20,280 Speaker 1: people started going out to support their local professional MLS team. 1275 01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:22,560 Speaker 1: And now you have a league that's got upwards of 1276 01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:25,280 Speaker 1: I think it's twenty six twenty eight teams now and 1277 01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:28,439 Speaker 1: they're self sustaining. As we mentioned, they just signed that 1278 01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:31,639 Speaker 1: Apple TV deal for two and a half billion dollars 1279 01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:34,920 Speaker 1: on a ten year deal. I don't think it's going 1280 01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,760 Speaker 1: to be the number one sport in this country by 1281 01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,400 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, but I could see it leap frog 1282 01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:44,920 Speaker 1: and baseball. It's fifty seven percent to forty nine percent 1283 01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:48,240 Speaker 1: right now, right it could be in the top three 1284 01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:51,920 Speaker 1: after that World Cup. I can't. If you have ever 1285 01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:56,439 Speaker 1: experienced the World Cup and the impact it has, you 1286 01:13:56,560 --> 01:14:01,479 Speaker 1: will in twenty twenty six. Yeah, it's it's unbelievably. It 1287 01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:03,920 Speaker 1: is a world event. And I'll say this too. Our 1288 01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:06,800 Speaker 1: country is different now than it was then. Yes it was, um, 1289 01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:12,960 Speaker 1: there's much more diverse now much more. Uh, there's much 1290 01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:19,120 Speaker 1: more overt divert diversion, you know what I mean. Um, 1291 01:14:19,439 --> 01:14:22,560 Speaker 1: you see it more. You see more nationalities, more neighborhoods, 1292 01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:28,400 Speaker 1: more um groups of people who band together and watched 1293 01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:32,320 Speaker 1: their national team play and all that stuff. And certainly 1294 01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:35,200 Speaker 1: when you get a World Cup game in well, I remember, 1295 01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:37,800 Speaker 1: I mean I was old when it came back, and 1296 01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:42,400 Speaker 1: you know then it was it was out of control, 1297 01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,320 Speaker 1: it was it was really wild, and it was it 1298 01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:47,800 Speaker 1: was exciting. And I'm telling you you I didn't I 1299 01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,240 Speaker 1: couldn't miss the US men's national team game. Yep. It 1300 01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:54,800 Speaker 1: was something. So you know, four years from now, that's 1301 01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:57,479 Speaker 1: going to be happening right at this time. As a 1302 01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:00,519 Speaker 1: matter of fact, because the World Cup typically takes place 1303 01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:03,000 Speaker 1: in the month of June and it usually wraps up 1304 01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,400 Speaker 1: around the fourth of July, they had to move it 1305 01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:08,280 Speaker 1: this year because it's too hot and cutter. Why they 1306 01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:10,800 Speaker 1: put it there in the first place boggles of mine. 1307 01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:13,240 Speaker 1: But it's not that. No, it doesn't boggle the mind. 1308 01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:17,080 Speaker 1: Money boggles the checkbook, That's what it is. But I 1309 01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,000 Speaker 1: think I think soccer could overtake baseball in four years. 1310 01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:22,040 Speaker 1: And I say this too there's a whole generation of 1311 01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:25,360 Speaker 1: kids who were captured by the nineteen ninety four World 1312 01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:29,200 Speaker 1: Cup and became players soccer players because of it. Parents 1313 01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:31,479 Speaker 1: love it. I mean how many. I mean all my kids, 1314 01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:34,280 Speaker 1: I never played soccer. Not a day did I play 1315 01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:38,439 Speaker 1: soccer unless it was at a picnic. And now all 1316 01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:40,439 Speaker 1: you know, all four of my kids, all five of 1317 01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:46,439 Speaker 1: my children, all five of our children, right, you get 1318 01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:50,960 Speaker 1: where I'm coming from, played organized soccer at higher levels. 1319 01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:57,479 Speaker 1: So yeah, it was. It's grown exponentially just since in 1320 01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:00,800 Speaker 1: the last twenty five years. Yeah, so cool, cool stuff 1321 01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,720 Speaker 1: to just see that. I didn't know if I would 1322 01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:05,360 Speaker 1: see it in my lifetime, but I think it's coming. 1323 01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:07,439 Speaker 1: And I think the world cuppying here in twenty twenty 1324 01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:10,680 Speaker 1: six will only help in that effort. Break time for us. 1325 01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:13,000 Speaker 1: But we've got to get more of your comments from 1326 01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:16,000 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. The Chiefs through their number one wide 1327 01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:18,439 Speaker 1: out overboard, So did the Packers. Does ZEP get the 1328 01:16:18,479 --> 01:16:20,680 Speaker 1: Bills a leg up because they kept Stefan Diggs in 1329 01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:24,160 Speaker 1: the fold even after they gave Josh Allen the giant money. 1330 01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:26,640 Speaker 1: You let us know at eighth three five fifty one 1331 01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:29,840 Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty. We're back in 1332 01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:43,880 Speaker 1: a flash here on One Bill's Live. All right, welcome back, 1333 01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:47,200 Speaker 1: discussing if the Bills have a leg up on the 1334 01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:50,479 Speaker 1: rest of their AFC counterparts, because, unlike some others, they 1335 01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:54,800 Speaker 1: kept their top receiver and their franchise quarterback. Packers did 1336 01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:56,880 Speaker 1: not do that over in the NFC. Chiefs did not 1337 01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:59,160 Speaker 1: do that in the AFC, and some of the other 1338 01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:04,800 Speaker 1: teams did do similar. I mean, the Raiders essentially kept 1339 01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:08,920 Speaker 1: Derek Carr and added Davante Adams. You can argue you 1340 01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:11,840 Speaker 1: got a franchise guy and a number one wide receiver 1341 01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:16,120 Speaker 1: out there in Oakland, Oakland. I just said, Oaklands, Vegas. 1342 01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:19,320 Speaker 1: That's a dollar. It's a dollar in the jar um, 1343 01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:21,559 Speaker 1: But we want to know if you think it has 1344 01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:23,280 Speaker 1: a leg up. We go back to the tweet sheet 1345 01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:27,160 Speaker 1: where Josh says, I think continuity and playmaking ability put 1346 01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,920 Speaker 1: Alan digs ahead of their AFC counterparts more so than 1347 01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:33,040 Speaker 1: how much they're paid. They were premium before they were paid, 1348 01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,200 Speaker 1: which is why they were showing the money. Yeah, I'm 1349 01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:37,600 Speaker 1: not saying they don't deserve the money. They do, but 1350 01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:41,360 Speaker 1: some teams aren't willing to thread that needle. In terms 1351 01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:46,800 Speaker 1: of paying up quite literally. And sometimes I think it's 1352 01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:49,639 Speaker 1: it's got to you gotta see it as a philosophical decision. 1353 01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:53,360 Speaker 1: You can say, well, it's an individual. These guys are different. Yeah, 1354 01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:55,559 Speaker 1: but it comes down to this, does your GM want 1355 01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:57,240 Speaker 1: the guy or does your head coach say, listen, we 1356 01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:00,519 Speaker 1: gotta have him. Um, well, if you have this, if 1357 01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:06,519 Speaker 1: you if you sign Davante Adams, you gotta cut Tarren Johnson. 1358 01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:09,400 Speaker 1: That kind of decision, right, you gotta cut you know? 1359 01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:14,840 Speaker 1: If this then that if you if you sign Tyreek Hill, 1360 01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:18,960 Speaker 1: you gotta cut Tarren Johnson and Matt Milano, you know. 1361 01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:22,040 Speaker 1: And football guys are going, nah, you know what, We'll 1362 01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:24,560 Speaker 1: We'll be okay without him. We'll just we'll make do 1363 01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:28,479 Speaker 1: with another guy, a different guy. Um, that's what you're 1364 01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:30,439 Speaker 1: talking about for some of these, uh, for the coaches 1365 01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:33,719 Speaker 1: and the football side of it. Financially, as we've seen, 1366 01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:37,440 Speaker 1: if you've got the money, you can do the gymnastics 1367 01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:40,920 Speaker 1: to fit fit in the contract, and the Bills have 1368 01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:44,040 Speaker 1: been able to do that. Um, that's right. While, as 1369 01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:50,560 Speaker 1: you've pointed out, giving fair, if not competitive contracts to 1370 01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:55,439 Speaker 1: players that might not necessarily be at premium positions like 1371 01:18:55,640 --> 01:19:00,160 Speaker 1: Mitch Morris or like Matt Milano. So they've not only 1372 01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:03,400 Speaker 1: been able to keep the premium guys, they've been able 1373 01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:07,560 Speaker 1: to keep important role players happy as well. Jim on 1374 01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:11,439 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, leg up or leg down. Maybe 1375 01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:14,160 Speaker 1: the other teams see the going trend and got out 1376 01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:17,040 Speaker 1: before it costs them players like it will the Bills 1377 01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:20,000 Speaker 1: having a high price quarterback and wide receiver, you can't 1378 01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:23,320 Speaker 1: pay others. Fear we will find that out next year. 1379 01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:27,040 Speaker 1: In the cases of Knox and Poyer, the rubber is 1380 01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:30,519 Speaker 1: going to meet the road on Dawson Knox, Tremaine Edmonds, 1381 01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:35,120 Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer, and not far off from that, you're only 1382 01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:40,479 Speaker 1: a year removed from Gabriel Davis and Ed Oliver. So yeah, 1383 01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:43,839 Speaker 1: there are decisions to be made here. And the decision 1384 01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:47,720 Speaker 1: is do you pay one guy at the expense of 1385 01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:52,160 Speaker 1: lopping off three others to accommodate a giant contract? The 1386 01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:55,559 Speaker 1: Rams more often than not say yes to that. Who 1387 01:19:55,680 --> 01:20:00,120 Speaker 1: else will do the same, Right, It comes down to, 1388 01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:02,800 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a little of this happening some of 1389 01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:05,240 Speaker 1: these situations. These guys they're gonna take care of themselves. 1390 01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,880 Speaker 1: They're gonna play their way off the roster, or they're 1391 01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:11,680 Speaker 1: gonna play their way into an extension, or they will 1392 01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:15,040 Speaker 1: be a guy that says, like Mat Milano, I could 1393 01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:19,360 Speaker 1: probably make fifteen percent more in my contract if I leave, 1394 01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:21,679 Speaker 1: but I'll take this deal because I want to stay 1395 01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:24,160 Speaker 1: because I know here I'm gonna have the best career 1396 01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:26,120 Speaker 1: I can possibly have and gonna be the best guy 1397 01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:29,080 Speaker 1: I can be on the field, And that extra fifteen 1398 01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:32,080 Speaker 1: maybe even twenty twenty five percent of the contract from 1399 01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:35,720 Speaker 1: eight million to ten million maybe is not worth it 1400 01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:38,719 Speaker 1: to me not to be happy in the last five, six, seven, 1401 01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:41,000 Speaker 1: ten years of my career, So I'm gonna stay here. 1402 01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:43,200 Speaker 1: They'll get a couple of those guys like they already have. 1403 01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:47,200 Speaker 1: They'll get guys who will say, I want to see 1404 01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:49,840 Speaker 1: what I'm worth. I gotta know. I gotta know, and 1405 01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,679 Speaker 1: he won't sign any deal they give him. He wants 1406 01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:56,120 Speaker 1: to go. So some of this will take care of 1407 01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,479 Speaker 1: itself because the players do have a say in it. 1408 01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:01,560 Speaker 1: But all those decisions are going to have to be 1409 01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,559 Speaker 1: made because they're fast approaching, and you write, all those 1410 01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:10,080 Speaker 1: guys are near and dear to us, but it's a 1411 01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:16,280 Speaker 1: finite universe. We mentioned earlier that Rob Gronkowski reportedly was 1412 01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:19,160 Speaker 1: going to announce his retirement that in fact has happened. 1413 01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:23,560 Speaker 1: He just released his statement via his Twitter handle, and 1414 01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:27,280 Speaker 1: here is his statement. In college, I was asked to 1415 01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:29,439 Speaker 1: write about a dream job opportunity that I wanted to 1416 01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:31,479 Speaker 1: pursue and where the location would be. Every time I 1417 01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:33,160 Speaker 1: had to write about my future, no matter what, I 1418 01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:36,280 Speaker 1: picked being a professional football player. For that assignment, though, 1419 01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:38,479 Speaker 1: we had to pick the location, so I wrote that 1420 01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:40,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to play in Tampa for the Bucks for 1421 01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:43,559 Speaker 1: many reasons, the sunny weather being number one. Completely forgot 1422 01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:45,560 Speaker 1: about writing this report until two years ago when I 1423 01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:48,160 Speaker 1: had the opportunity to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And 1424 01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:50,479 Speaker 1: let me tell you, the journey in Tampa over the 1425 01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:53,080 Speaker 1: last two years is blown away what I originally wrote 1426 01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,360 Speaker 1: about in college big time. And for this, I want 1427 01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,720 Speaker 1: to thank the whole entire first Class Bucks organization for 1428 01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:00,240 Speaker 1: an amazing ride trusting me to come back to play 1429 01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:02,640 Speaker 1: and help build a championship team. I will now be 1430 01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:06,120 Speaker 1: going back into my retirement home, walking away from football 1431 01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:08,519 Speaker 1: again with my head held high, knowing I gave it 1432 01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:11,240 Speaker 1: everything I had, good or bad, every time I stepped 1433 01:22:11,240 --> 01:22:14,080 Speaker 1: out on the field. The friendships and relationships I have 1434 01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:16,240 Speaker 1: made will last forever, and I appreciate every single one 1435 01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:18,240 Speaker 1: of my teammates and coaches for giving everything they had 1436 01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:21,040 Speaker 1: as well, from retirement back to football and winning another 1437 01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:23,680 Speaker 1: championship and now back to chilling out. Thank you to 1438 01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,280 Speaker 1: all Bucks fans, the crew. Without you, guys, none of 1439 01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,960 Speaker 1: this is possible. All of you brought it every game, 1440 01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:32,000 Speaker 1: and thanks for all you do. Cheers to what next? 1441 01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:37,080 Speaker 1: Maybe sailing the seas argue like he's a pirate or something. 1442 01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:42,200 Speaker 1: No mention of the Patriots is what I thought. That 1443 01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:45,320 Speaker 1: is conspicuous by the fact that he's like he never 1444 01:22:45,439 --> 01:22:48,639 Speaker 1: played for them, so delicious. He won four Super Bowls 1445 01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:50,760 Speaker 1: with the Patriots and not so much as a hey, 1446 01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:53,120 Speaker 1: thanks guys, well three with them, one with the Bucks, 1447 01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:56,600 Speaker 1: three with A three, three World's championships with the Patriots, 1448 01:22:57,120 --> 01:22:58,880 Speaker 1: and not so much as a hey, you know what. 1449 01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:00,760 Speaker 1: I enjoyed my time in New England, but it was 1450 01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:04,920 Speaker 1: great into Haampa Bay as well. None of that. Yeah. First, 1451 01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:06,559 Speaker 1: I don't want to read too much in it because 1452 01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,519 Speaker 1: the guy, you know, the guy's it's he's retiring. Nope, 1453 01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:12,280 Speaker 1: you know who cares, He's just writing it. Getting it, 1454 01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:15,479 Speaker 1: so he has to say something. But Robert Craft is 1455 01:23:15,479 --> 01:23:19,360 Speaker 1: prickly about it. Though you don't think you don't think 1456 01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:23,360 Speaker 1: he's not How could he not be he? I mean, look, 1457 01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:25,840 Speaker 1: you can say what you want about Robert Kraft. The 1458 01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:27,960 Speaker 1: guy more often than not takes care of his players. 1459 01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:31,920 Speaker 1: Oh he loves his players. Ye, yes, absolutely, And he 1460 01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:36,960 Speaker 1: and I have had nothing but positive, positive interchanges with 1461 01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:40,280 Speaker 1: the guy. And there's a number of people who around 1462 01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:44,200 Speaker 1: the league. He's well respected and well liked. He's a 1463 01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:52,439 Speaker 1: likable person, personal and all that. But not even get 1464 01:23:52,479 --> 01:24:00,760 Speaker 1: a mention in Gronks retirement address. Yeah, first ballot, Hall 1465 01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:07,559 Speaker 1: of Famer, Yeah, probably right. Yeah, four titles, dynamic weapon, 1466 01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:11,000 Speaker 1: difference he's a difference maker. Yeah, he's a difference maker, 1467 01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:15,400 Speaker 1: no question. Prime Video has officially announced former NFL quarterback 1468 01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:18,439 Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick officially will join its NFL pregame, halftime and 1469 01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:23,800 Speaker 1: postgame coverage this coming season for Thursday Night Football Getty Up, 1470 01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:27,400 Speaker 1: there you go, Fits is in. He will be teamed 1471 01:24:27,439 --> 01:24:30,680 Speaker 1: with Tony Gonzalez and Richard Sherman for each Thursday Night 1472 01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:37,280 Speaker 1: football game as a studio analyst and on Twitter, Amazon 1473 01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:41,120 Speaker 1: tweeted an icon or a logo for their Thursday Night 1474 01:24:41,200 --> 01:24:44,080 Speaker 1: Football and it includes an outline or a silhouette if 1475 01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:48,639 Speaker 1: you will, of fits his beard. It's gonna be front 1476 01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:52,479 Speaker 1: and center. Man, he should be. He's yeah, he's got 1477 01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:56,720 Speaker 1: the presence and the chops to pull that off. Yeah 1478 01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:59,240 Speaker 1: for sure. I just in this pat before we say 1479 01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:02,719 Speaker 1: goodbye to it. The most career receiving touchdowns in NFL history, 1480 01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:05,840 Speaker 1: in playoff history, NFL playoff history. Who's got the most 1481 01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:09,760 Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns? You'll know it's easy. It's Jerry Rice. It's 1482 01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:14,759 Speaker 1: got twenty two second place, Rob Gronkowski. Our MSG viewers 1483 01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:18,479 Speaker 1: are looking at the Thursday Night Football logo slash icon 1484 01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:20,639 Speaker 1: that was very nice put out on their Twitter handle. 1485 01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:23,280 Speaker 1: It's got fits his beard there, which is kind of neat, 1486 01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:25,479 Speaker 1: and it's got that's kind of a silhouette of his 1487 01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:27,719 Speaker 1: like when his when he has his hair like pulled 1488 01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:33,880 Speaker 1: back like a lion's mane. Yeah, yeah, fits do. I 1489 01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:36,960 Speaker 1: here's the next I get it. I think I have it, 1490 01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:40,360 Speaker 1: but I gotta get a Prime Video subscription now right Well, 1491 01:25:40,400 --> 01:25:43,839 Speaker 1: if you have Amazon Prime Delivery service, you should already 1492 01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:46,720 Speaker 1: have access to it. Just need to download the app 1493 01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:48,519 Speaker 1: on your television do I have to pay for that 1494 01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:52,439 Speaker 1: though or not original it would pay Attitionally, is if 1495 01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:56,560 Speaker 1: you had some movie on you know, selected release, you 1496 01:25:56,640 --> 01:26:01,880 Speaker 1: might have to pay yeah, ninety nine or something something 1497 01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:03,600 Speaker 1: like that. But no, it should not be extra. It 1498 01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:06,840 Speaker 1: should be part of your Amazon Prime. Thank pack. Thank 1499 01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:08,599 Speaker 1: you so much, mister Brown. I appreciate you to help 1500 01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:13,000 Speaker 1: appreciate your customer service. Thanks very much. Yeah, I'm not 1501 01:26:13,120 --> 01:26:17,680 Speaker 1: getting any residuals from that, that's for sure. But as 1502 01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:19,320 Speaker 1: we have to take a break here, but when we 1503 01:26:19,439 --> 01:26:25,360 Speaker 1: come back, we are going to examine this question. Will 1504 01:26:25,479 --> 01:26:30,200 Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick be a bigger success as a football TV 1505 01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:35,400 Speaker 1: studio analyst then he was as a player. We'll explore 1506 01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:37,679 Speaker 1: that when we return here on One Bill's Live, presented 1507 01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:52,519 Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. One last 1508 01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:54,960 Speaker 1: Bronc note. In the wake of his announcement that he's retiring, 1509 01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:59,160 Speaker 1: his agent, Drew Rosenhau's texted the following to national reporters quote, 1510 01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:01,320 Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if Tom Brady calls him during 1511 01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:03,280 Speaker 1: the season to come back and Rob answers the call. 1512 01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:05,599 Speaker 1: This is just my opinion, but I wouldn't be surprised 1513 01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:09,599 Speaker 1: if Rob comes back during the season or next season. Oh, 1514 01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:14,519 Speaker 1: Drew Rosenhouse, Yeah, come on with that. I don't need 1515 01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:16,920 Speaker 1: to be yo Yoda around by. We already got yo 1516 01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:20,000 Speaker 1: yoed by Brady. If you think you said this as 1517 01:27:20,040 --> 01:27:21,840 Speaker 1: soon as you heard it, that he'd be teamed up 1518 01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:25,040 Speaker 1: with Fits on Amazon, yeah, they already have the booth, 1519 01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:28,519 Speaker 1: but they already got Tony Gonzalez and Richard Sherman are 1520 01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:30,280 Speaker 1: going to be in that booth too. Those are two 1521 01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,760 Speaker 1: pretty good players. I know. Richard Sherman will have some 1522 01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:36,280 Speaker 1: stuff to say. He's really are so much. You wonder 1523 01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:40,040 Speaker 1: if the other two will have anything or I'm sure, Yeah, 1524 01:27:40,080 --> 01:27:42,160 Speaker 1: I'm sure they will. I mean they're they're both all 1525 01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:46,439 Speaker 1: three of those guys. I mean, all three of those 1526 01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:49,360 Speaker 1: guys have a lot of intelligence and some opinions, and 1527 01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:51,680 Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to hold their own under those circumstances. 1528 01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:53,439 Speaker 1: It'll be interested to see how they're produced and what 1529 01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:55,640 Speaker 1: they're directed to do. Is Fits have a more successful 1530 01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:58,000 Speaker 1: career as an analyst than he did as a player? 1531 01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:02,000 Speaker 1: Long career as a player, never a playoff appearance. Is 1532 01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:05,720 Speaker 1: he more successful as a broadcaster by what measure of 1533 01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:08,560 Speaker 1: a broadcaster? You mean? Call a super Bowl. I don't know, 1534 01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:11,680 Speaker 1: maybe eventually getting into a chair and calling games and 1535 01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:14,799 Speaker 1: doing Super Bowls. That's a step down from the studio 1536 01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:16,920 Speaker 1: host of the network broadcast. At least you get to 1537 01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:24,519 Speaker 1: the playoffs. Wow. Wow, Oh, I'm just josh. I'm no, 1538 01:28:24,720 --> 01:28:27,280 Speaker 1: he's gonna be great. He's gonna be i'll tell you one, 1539 01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:29,240 Speaker 1: better in the booth than he was on the field. 1540 01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:31,759 Speaker 1: He will be at least as good of an analyst 1541 01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:33,960 Speaker 1: as he is a as a he was as a player. 1542 01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:37,960 Speaker 1: Maybe he may be a Madden like figure as well, 1543 01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:41,040 Speaker 1: one of those guys should be. He has a chance 1544 01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:45,519 Speaker 1: in that, in that realm to be a home run 1545 01:28:45,640 --> 01:28:49,120 Speaker 1: for Amazon, no question about it. Should be interesting. And 1546 01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:52,760 Speaker 1: the Bills have a Thursday night game on their schedule, right, 1547 01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:55,280 Speaker 1: don't they have an Amazon? So first game of the 1548 01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:59,800 Speaker 1: season is a Thursday night game and then then they 1549 01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:02,400 Speaker 1: have Thanksgiving. Now we're out of time. We'll have to 1550 01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:05,360 Speaker 1: figure that out and look it out tomorrow. So Brian Baldinger, 1551 01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:08,000 Speaker 1: NFL Network on the show tomorrow, as well as ESPN 1552 01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:11,960 Speaker 1: Jets reporter Rich Samini, as we talk a little af 1553 01:29:12,080 --> 01:29:14,920 Speaker 1: East with AFC East with him tomorrow. We'll see at 1554 01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:15,120 Speaker 1: one