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Speaker 1: conditioning test and then they start doing some classroom work

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Speaker 1: among some other stuff, you know, lifting and whatnot. So

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Speaker 1: with that in mind, we thought we would throw out

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Speaker 1: a rookie conversation topic for you, the Bills fans out

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Speaker 1: there in the Twitter verse and on the phone lines.

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Speaker 1: And we kind of thought of this because with where

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Speaker 1: the roster is now, the level of rookie contributions are

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Speaker 1: going to be very interesting, not only in terms of

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Speaker 1: who's on the roster, but then once on the roster,

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Speaker 1: what kind of role are they going to play if any.

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Speaker 1: So the question we're asking you today on the Twitter poll,

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Speaker 1: what level of contribution do the Bills need from their

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Speaker 1: rookie class this year choices for you a very little.

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Speaker 1: They've already got a championship roster. B they have to

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Speaker 1: be ready when called upon or see. Good rookie contributions

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Speaker 1: could be the difference in getting this team to a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Title, and look at the polling so far, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: A good rookie contribution could be the difference leading the pack.

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Speaker 1: And I think we can understand why that's out in front. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've said it. You know, I've made this point a

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Speaker 1: long time, for a long time with you on the

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Speaker 1: show about Marv Levy's philosophy about the difference between the

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Speaker 1: best team in the league and the worst team in

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Speaker 1: the league. And it's about two percent of the total.

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Speaker 1: You know, both all these teams are about ninety eight

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Speaker 1: percent alike. But that two percent is one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: of the difference. There's a lot in there. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot in there and contribution, and it's not just and

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Speaker 1: it could be you know, they drafted you know, Tommy

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Speaker 1: Doyle Spencer Brown on the offensive line. Then they drafted

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Speaker 1: Rousseau and bash him the two defensive linemen, and so

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Speaker 1: you think, wow, those you know guys are gonna do

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Speaker 1: the difference. Could be wild Goose, you know, the sixth

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Speaker 1: rounder who comes out like, wow, this guy can play,

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Speaker 1: and so that and he comes in and he plays

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Speaker 1: like in three games, gets a pick, lets him win,

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Speaker 1: makes a play in two of those games, and that's it.

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Speaker 1: But those two games are the difference between home field

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Speaker 1: and not and all of a sudden, that's put that

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Speaker 1: little you know, all that little ripple effect throughout everything

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Speaker 1: that happens throughout the season. You know, Sean wild Goose

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Speaker 1: becomes the X factor because he plays in like three gets,

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Speaker 1: like twenty five snaps on the season, and their difference makers.

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Speaker 1: My thought with the way the polling is going here

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Speaker 1: so far in the early going, is the reason a

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Speaker 1: little more than half of the respondents are saying it

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Speaker 1: could be the difference is I think they're hoping that

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Speaker 1: Greg Russo and Boogie Basham make this pass rush top level,

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Speaker 1: a top level pass rush when it's been largely somewhere

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Speaker 1: in the middle to high middle over the last few years.

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Speaker 1: And I think they're looking squarely at those two guys

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Speaker 1: as making the difference to get this team over the hump.

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Speaker 1: And you can look at recent examples. I mean, look

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Speaker 1: no further than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Last year they

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Speaker 1: draft Tristan worse Trift. Tristan Worf's in the first round.

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Speaker 1: He starts at right tackle. He is a brick wall

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Speaker 1: over there and protects Tom Brady, you know, on the

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Speaker 1: right side the entire season. Antoine Winfield Junior comes on

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Speaker 1: too a loaded defense, starts at safety and is a

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Speaker 1: difference maker. Those two guys were hugely instrumental in the

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Speaker 1: Bucks Super Bowl run last year as rookies. Now, I

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Speaker 1: don't know that we foresee that for Rousseau and Bash him,

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Speaker 1: mainly because they play very rotational scheme upfront. Anyway, they

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Speaker 1: won't play nearly the snaps that those two players played

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Speaker 1: for the Bucks last year. But I think Bill's fans

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Speaker 1: are hoping they make as big a difference in terms

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Speaker 1: of the contributions they make this year. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's why I see is leading the early voting here.

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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if if the voting percentages

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Speaker 1: change here as we move along through the course of

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Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, and I no question, I mean, everybody's

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Speaker 1: hoping that all these rookies come in and just hit

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Speaker 1: it out of the park, and Rousseau and Bash them

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Speaker 1: both have double digit sack years, you know, the pass

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Speaker 1: rush emerges. Yeah, And I think even Doyle and Brown,

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Speaker 1: the two offensive linemen they drafted up at the top,

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Speaker 1: I think they hope those guys are contributors if they

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Speaker 1: need to be right, which is where you know, which

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Speaker 1: is where a choice? Two kind of sits have to

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Speaker 1: be ready when needed. The first person that came to

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Speaker 1: mind there for me was Spencer Brown, because Brandon being

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Speaker 1: all of ten minutes after drafting him essentially annointed him

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Speaker 1: the swing tackle. Yeah you know he's he's he's the

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Speaker 1: third tackle walking in the door. He's behind Dawkins and William.

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Speaker 1: He's replacing Tyniseki from a year ago, the last two years.

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Speaker 1: So I think all of these rookies are gonna get

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to contribute in some way, obviously, and I

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Speaker 1: think most, if not all, of them will be on

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Speaker 1: the roster. How long it takes him to get on

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Speaker 1: the field, if they're going to be a starter, or

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Speaker 1: what kind of rotational work they get for in case

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Speaker 1: of Rousseau and Basham, uh Wild Gooston and the rest

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Speaker 1: of them. Um, what kind of rotational system are they

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Speaker 1: gonna be in? Is it gonna be a special teams contribution? Uh? Stevenson,

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Speaker 1: is he gonna get? Is he gonna be that? What

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Speaker 1: kind of opportunity they're gonna get, What kind of opportunity

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Speaker 1: they're gonna earn? And what's it gonna look like this.

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Speaker 1: I'll say it again. This team is not twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. This is a different group. It's gonna have

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Speaker 1: a different guys playing different roles, a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: who you're gonna remember recognize in the same role they were.

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Speaker 1: But everything else is gonna change around this team, and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna find out what they do. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think this offense will look exactly the same as it

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Speaker 1: did a year ago. It can still be prolific. They

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Speaker 1: might score and probably will score more points than they

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Speaker 1: did a year ago. They were they knocked it out

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Speaker 1: the park with five hundred points. Yeah that even so

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Speaker 1: with even with seventeen games, that may be hard to

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Speaker 1: match again. But it's gonna look different. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a different team. Every team is different, Every year is different.

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Speaker 1: And what the contribution they're gonna need from this rookie

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Speaker 1: class may be significantly different than the contribution contribution they

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Speaker 1: needed from last year's rookie class. With Epinesza and company,

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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty one eight eight fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty the number to get on board if you

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Speaker 1: want to tell us what level of contribution to the

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Speaker 1: Bills need from their rookie class this year. Get on board,

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Speaker 1: open lines for you, and we'll be taking phone calls

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Speaker 1: for a long while here on the show. We do

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Speaker 1: have John Breach from CBS Sports coming up in the

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Speaker 1: third hour of the program. He's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: interesting information on the Tom Brady in injury news that

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Speaker 1: came down last week when it was revealed that he

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Speaker 1: played the entire twenty twenty season with a torn MCL

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Speaker 1: That could spell trouble for the Bucks in terms of

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Speaker 1: league punishment for not revealing that injury, and John's kind

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Speaker 1: of on top of that too. We'll talk to him

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Speaker 1: in the third hour of the show. But between now

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Speaker 1: and then, it's you and us eight oh three five

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Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight five fifty two, five fifty What

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Speaker 1: level of contribution to the Bills need from their rookie

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Speaker 1: class or hit us up on the tweet sheet at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Steve and I back in a second

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Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live, presented by Collat of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to a Monday edition

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Speaker 1: and one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Chasker back with

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Speaker 1: you and we are talking rookie class contributions for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season for your Buffalo Bills. What level

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00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: of contribution is needed from the Bills rookie class this year.

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Speaker 1: Some of you might think, Hey, Steve's got a pretty

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Speaker 1: darning good roster already, we don't need a whole lot

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Speaker 1: from the rookie class. Some people like, hold the phone,

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Speaker 1: We'll take all the help we can get if it

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Speaker 1: means getting over the hump, pass the Chiefs and winning

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And some might be thinking, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I could see us needing some rookies, but

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Speaker 1: let's wait until there's an injury to a key player

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Speaker 1: that we got to plug somebody in for, and you know,

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Speaker 1: then we can talk turkey about what we need to

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Speaker 1: get out of a rookie. But let us know where

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Speaker 1: you're at on that eight oh three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty, or

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Speaker 1: you can hit us up on the tweet sheet at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. You know, I was thinking, Steve, during

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00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: the break through the years, the level of rookie contributions

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Speaker 1: that we've seen in the Sean McDermott era. Now obviously

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Speaker 1: the roster in twenty seventeen was a whole lot different

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Speaker 1: than the one we see now. But in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: you had Tredavious White on the field. Immediately you had

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Speaker 1: even Zay Jones was playing on a rotational basis with

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Speaker 1: the wide receiving corps. Dion Dawkins was starting, and by

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Speaker 1: the end of the season, Matt Milano had worked his

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Speaker 1: way into the starting lineup, replacing Ramone Humber, who started

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Speaker 1: probably the first six games or so. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: back and forth for a little bit, and then Milano

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00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: was pretty much the locked on starter, probably like the

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Speaker 1: last six seven games of the year. UM. Twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds started right away at middle linebacker, Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: started out of necessity after some injuries and in effectiveness,

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Speaker 1: and tarn Johnson was the nickel pretty quickly. Is rookie

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Speaker 1: year Levi Wallace, Well, he wasn't an inside guy, No,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't. He wasn't a draft guy, but he was.

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Speaker 1: Levi was undrafted, Yes he was. That was an eighteen guy, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he started right away. UM. And then

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Speaker 1: Wyatt Teller had made some starts at the guard position,

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Speaker 1: and then twenty nineteen at Oliver after about three or

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Speaker 1: four weeks, had worked his way into the starting lineup.

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00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: Cody Ford was a platoon right tackle, Devin Singletary got

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Speaker 1: on the field with Frank Gore, Dawson Knox had a role,

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00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: even Darryl Johnson, the seventh round pick, had a role

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Speaker 1: on special teams as a ritual teams player, and then

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Speaker 1: last year Epanessa kind of had a slow road into

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Speaker 1: working into the rotation. And we know what Zach Moss

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Speaker 1: did for this team last year. So there have been contributions,

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Speaker 1: some heftier than others over the years. In this Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott era as head coach. It's gonna be very interesting

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Speaker 1: to see what they will be this year on a

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Speaker 1: roster that I think most people would agree is pretty

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Speaker 1: loaded with veterans. Yeah, it's or proven players anyway, right.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the things that I've seen though,

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Speaker 1: and maybe maybe it's just perception rather than reality, I

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Speaker 1: see a lot of the guys who contributed in a

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Speaker 1: big way, maybe as starters off offensively, starters defensively. May

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Speaker 1: because I think they brought in legitimate players in free

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Speaker 1: agency in the draft who could who feel like they've

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Speaker 1: got a chance to start. Guys like on the offensive

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Speaker 1: line Forrest Lamp, Guys like that who were signed, who

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Speaker 1: were probably he was probably totally listen. We don't know

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Speaker 1: how good Corey Ford's gonna come back. You can come in,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get a chance to start. You're gonna get

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Speaker 1: a chance to compete for that job. Everybody who they

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Speaker 1: signed for. And that's one of the things about this team.

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Speaker 1: Everybody they signed to a contract, they can tell him

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Speaker 1: with a straight face, you're competing for a starting job.

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Speaker 1: They could even tell Mitch Trubisky that. You know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, because when guys get it, they earn it.

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Speaker 1: When they earn it, they get it. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating, macaboy. I don't think they told Mitch Trubisky

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Speaker 1: he was gonna come in and start. Daryl Williams last year.

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Speaker 1: Darryl Williams out of nowhere, came in last year in Bang.

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Speaker 1: He's right tackle. He never moves. You know, Feliciano did

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Speaker 1: that when he came over from the Raiders. You know,

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Speaker 1: Brian Winters and Ike Butker and Ryan Bates all came

639
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: in and played significant snaps. Emmanuel Sanders is probably gonna

640
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,879
Speaker 1: do it this year, right. I'm just I just think

641
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: that everybody on this roster's gotta feel like, if they

642
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: play well enough, they're going to find ourselves on themselves

643
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: on the field. You can't. I don't think every team

644
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: in the league has that kind of culture or that

645
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: kind of belief in the locker room that if you're

646
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 1: playing well enough, you are going to play no matter

647
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: who's in front of you. Yeah. So first, it's making

648
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: the roster. That's gonna be step one for some of

649
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: these rookies, particularly the ones you know in the back

650
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: half of the draft, and obviously the undrafted's that were signed.

651
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: But beyond that, where will the contributions lie and what

652
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: level of contribution to the Bills need from them this

653
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one class. Let's go to the phones at

654
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty open line for you

655
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: there one eight eight five fifty two five fifty leaving

656
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: us off today, Robert grand Island, Robert, what do you

657
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hi. I

658
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: think Greg Rousseau and Boogie Basham are going to be

659
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: um rotational players. I don't think they're going to be

660
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: starters this year. I don't think there's an intent to

661
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: have them as starters this year. I think their main

662
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:24,439
Speaker 1: function is going to be to rotation. Leslie Frasier likes

663
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: to have big men come in on a rotational basis

664
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: so they don't get tired. That's all. That's all well

665
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: and good, Robert, but what level of contribution do you

666
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: feel the team needs from those two guys. I think

667
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: they're going to be playing in every game. I think

668
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: they're going to come in as the starters are rasted,

669
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: and on a rotational basis, they'll probably play like every

670
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 1: third play throughout the entire season. Okay, okay, what about

671
00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman. I think the two offenses players picked

672
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 1: in the third round on the fifth round will kind

673
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: of fit in the way Bates fit in and the

674
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: way Feliciano fit in last year. Whether there's an injury,

675
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: they're gonna come in and they're gonna play, and they're

676
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: gonna play well, and they're gonna be plug in players

677
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: as the season goes home. All right, Okay, we'll take that.

678
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Robert, appreciate it. Eight O three

679
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: oh five fifty one eight fifty two five fifty I

680
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: was trying to see if Robert would give me like, oh, well,

681
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 1: you know, Russo am bash and probably have to combine

682
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: for about twelve or fourteen sacks or tips and passes

683
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: with regularity, which I think we all expect Russo to

684
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: do with his long wingspan and height. But he was

685
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: more of the playing time contribution that he was the

686
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: production contribution. I think those are two different things. It's

687
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: one thing to have the guys on the field, but

688
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: are they making a difference when they're out there one

689
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: of the things, one of the subtle differences. I would

690
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: say that I feel about that. Robert doesn't. When they

691
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: say they rotate the these guys in a lot of

692
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: people get the idea they're rotating me in because the

693
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: guy ahead of them needs a break, or it has

694
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: something to do with somebody other than that guy. You

695
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: don't get on the field unless you earn your way

696
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: on the field. If they if there's a drop off

697
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: of that nature, they don't get rotated in. Yeah, I

698
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: mean they make It won't be every third place, it'll

699
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: be every tenth play. We saw the rotation stop last year,

700
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: right when coach Frasier was looking for a more effective

701
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: combination on the pass rush. He stopped the rotation and

702
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: kept the guys that he felt were the best answers

703
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: on pass rushing situations on the field for more than

704
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: fifty five to sixty percent of the snaps, which was

705
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: usually the high end of the rotation, and there was

706
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: like two or three weeks stretch where they were on

707
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: the field for seventy to eighty percent of the snap.

708
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: They don't rotate these guys in because nobody can play

709
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: on a seven or eight play drive all the plays.

710
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: It's they rotate guys in because they're trying to find

711
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: out about them, or there's a they've got a skill set,

712
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: they've got a combination they want to see, or that

713
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: they have played well in the last time they rotated

714
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: in earlier in the game. They want to get him

715
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: back out there and see if they can continue, and

716
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: if they do, then the rotation goes in their favor.

717
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: There's they don't rotate these guys in just strictly. You're

718
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: doing it just for strictly for fresh legs. They gotta

719
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: believe that that guy's good enough that if he's fresh

720
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 1: and the other guy's not, he will be the better option.

721
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: It's not just about getting that guy off so he'll

722
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: be better next play, because they'll stay he'll they'll leave

723
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: him out there. These I mean they can play. They

724
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: can take a thirteen play drive. That's what That's what happened.

725
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: We've seen that. You know, rarely do these plays go

726
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: that long, these drives go that long, but they can.

727
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: But that they rotate d Lineman, everybody else offensive Lineman

728
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: when they do. They rotate those guys because there's a

729
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,439
Speaker 1: combination and a level of play and production. They're look four.

730
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: Not because somebody you know, just says, hey, I need

731
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 1: a break. We need to break here. But we will

732
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,399
Speaker 1: have more of your comments from the tweet sheet when

733
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: we return. And Steve, I don't know if you were

734
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: aware of this, but yesterday was National ice Cream Day

735
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: and there is a very interesting inventive flavor that is

736
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: set to hit the market here, something you really wouldn't

737
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: have associated with ice cream in any way, shape or form.

738
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: We will get to that along with your comments on

739
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet when we return here on One Bills

740
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

741
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. It's One Bills Live Monday Edition, Chris Brown,

742
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you what level of contribution to the

743
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: Bills need from their rookie class in twenty twenty one

744
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: Way in at your leisure eight oh three five fifty

745
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty open line

746
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: for you there, or hit us up on the tweet

747
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: sheet at one Bills Live, which is where we're going now.

748
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment

749
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and leading us off

750
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: today is Tim who says it's rare to see defensive

751
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: lineman pick late, first or second round have immediate impact.

752
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: If that's what you expect, get ready to be disappointed.

753
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: More likely to see aj break out this year. Well're

754
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: not looking for a breakout player necessarily in all fairness,

755
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, the question, it's not exactly they're not exactly

756
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: answering the question. Yeah, it is. If the Bills win

757
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, how much will this rookie class have

758
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: had to contribute. Yeah, in your opinion, given what they've

759
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: already got in the stable, that's the question. You're right.

760
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: It's hard for any rookie to come in and knock

761
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: it out of the park. It's rare to see it.

762
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: Once in a while. You'll see, like last year, you

763
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: see a wide receiver do it. Used to be able

764
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: to see running backs do it once in a while,

765
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: like Zeke Elliott and Dallas se Quon Barkley carries a

766
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: load in New York that guys like that. You'll see

767
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: guys come in and make a splash. Neither one of

768
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 1: those guys, well, you know, the the Cowboy wasn't Zeke's

769
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: rookie year. Along with Dak Prescot. They were twelve and four,

770
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs, didn't didn't go to the super Bowl,

771
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: but they contributed heavily and got their team into the playoffs.

772
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: If the and the Bills are not, let's face it,

773
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: nobody in the Bills side of things thinks just getting

774
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: to the playoffs gonna be enough this year. If the

775
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: Bills go to and win the Super Bowl, how much

776
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: is this rookie class gonna have to contribute? Do you

777
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: think any? Sum A little? Not really much, you know,

778
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 1: or like or like the saying on the locker room

779
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: just one eleventh, right, I mean, what's it? What's it

780
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: gonna take? And that's the question, and it's hard to

781
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: get your mind around exactly that. But if and that's

782
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: where you have to put it, though, you got to say, wait,

783
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: cape the Bills, everything happens that they've ever hoped and

784
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: dreamed that all their Bills fans have all hoped and dreamed.

785
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: What does this rookie class have to do this year?

786
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: And I don't think there's any question that there are

787
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 1: positions in football that lends that lend themselves to greater

788
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: early impact than others. Running Back is a perfect example.

789
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is hand the guy the ball

790
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: and he can make an impact. A lot easier for

791
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: a running back to do that than say, a wide

792
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: receiver who's got to no routes, recognize coverage, make adjustments

793
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: on the fly, that kind of thing. It's a lot

794
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: harder for a receiver than master that earlier in his career,

795
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: as opposed to a running back who just has to

796
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: get the right reads and know how to work off

797
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: his blockers and off he goes. And that's why we

798
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:46,720
Speaker 1: often see running backs have success as rookies in this league.

799
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: Quarterback obviously a hard thing to master, although quarterbacks have

800
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: late have done a better job of that. You know,

801
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: starting an offensive tackle when there's two starters on the

802
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: roster or any that's gonna be a tough road to

803
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: home for Spencer Brown. It's not out of the realm

804
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: of possibility, but probably unlikely. Let me just I guess

805
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: I can right now before we go to break, I'll

806
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: articulate what I think about this poll. I think you're

807
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: gonna have to They're gonna have to make significant contributions

808
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: if the Bills are gonna go the whole distant because

809
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 1: and here's why I say that, because over the course

810
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: of a seventeen game regular season, extra game, because of

811
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:23,240
Speaker 1: the course of two playoff games, at at minimum probably

812
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 1: three if you're not gonna get the overall number one seed,

813
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: which should be great, but anyway, and three if you

814
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: go to the super Bowl anyway, even with the buy

815
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: all of those games in a season where everything is

816
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: on the line, when you look back on it, there

817
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: you'll see and we used to say in the four

818
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: AFC Championships that the teams I played on one. You

819
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: look back over the course of that season and there

820
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: are a handful of times, more than a handful of

821
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,399
Speaker 1: times where one guy made a play in a game

822
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: that was like wow, things would have been different if

823
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: that game it had gone the other way. So I think.

824
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: So my point is every guy on this roster is

825
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: going to be asked to make a contribution at some

826
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: point during the seventeen game regular season and three playoff games. Somebody,

827
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: every single guy on the roster is going to have

828
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: to do something special at some point, whether it's noticed

829
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 1: or not. So you got to be hitting on all

830
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: cylinders to win the Super Bowl. That's all there is

831
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: to it. You gotta be playing at a high level,

832
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: executing at a high level. You've got to be healthy

833
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: enough to get it done, and you've got to get

834
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: contributions from not only your star players, but others like

835
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: guys like me used to I used to be, And

836
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: we saw that last year with this team, whether it's

837
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: justin zimmer Force and a fumble and Dean Marlowe recovering

838
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: it to help you preserve a victory against the Patriots.

839
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: You know where Tarren Johnson taking one fifty one yards

840
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: back against the Steelers on Sunday night. You know, those

841
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: are not the top handful of players on the roster,

842
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: but they're making major contributions to victories. Josh Norman earlier

843
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: in the season, punched a ball out in the Raiders game,

844
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: punched it out with a penut and recovered it himself.

845
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: Then in the Miami game, of course he had to

846
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: pick six that was turned down to That game was

847
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: a laugher, but that score is what turned it into it.

848
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: I got the Bills to thirty six points or thirty

849
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: five points with that pick six, and that crushed their confidence.

850
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: And it just absolutely was the nail in the coffin

851
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: contributions like that Josh Norman, who mightn't you know. I mean,

852
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: he's and he had a great defense of it, but

853
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: he's the guy that got stiff armed in the Tennessee

854
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: game and everybody's laughing at him and he's like, hey,

855
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: you got to try and make the play, you know.

856
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: And so everybody on the roster it is going to

857
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: ride that roller coaster of being able to contribute in

858
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: a big way in some moment or being posterized in

859
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:47,240
Speaker 1: another moment. That's gonna that's what's gonna happen. Man, everybody's

860
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: gonna have to pull on the roll. It's just to

861
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: what level are you gonna need to count on some

862
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: of these rookies. We don't know, because some of them

863
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: could be injury related. God forbid, something happens to one

864
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: of your regulars, you need a rookie to step up.

865
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: If he steps in and contributes to admirer, well, you

866
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: don't miss a beat. But we're asking you to kind

867
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 1: of assess the level of contribution this team's going to

868
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: need from its rookie class to get all the way

869
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: to the Promised Land. As we mentioned yesterday, because we're

870
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: tied against the clock, will mention this quickly. Yesterday was

871
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: National ice Cream Day, Steve, and I know you've got

872
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: some artisanal ice cream makers in your family, so I

873
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: thought you'd be interested to hear this. So the Kraft

874
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: Heinz company joined forces with Brooklyn artisanal ice cream maker

875
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: Van Lewin. They released a limited edition ice cream that

876
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: tastes craft like mac and cheese, which some people immediately

877
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: might be like ooh in an ice cream format. So

878
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: apparently this is it's not as weird as you might think.

879
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm going to calm your concerns here.

880
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: There is no elbow macaroni in the actual ice cream,

881
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: because that to me just would not work at all.

882
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: There are no elbow macaronis in the ice our MSG

883
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: viewers are seeing it right now. Like the cheese part.

884
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 1: So the ice cream uses craft cheese sauce mix to

885
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: give it the flavor of mac and cheese. And they

886
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: use this thing called a nato, which is an orange

887
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: red dye obtained from the pulp of a tropical fruit

888
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: and is used for coloring foods in fabric, and it

889
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,879
Speaker 1: gives the ice cream the orange flavor typical to mac

890
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: and cheese. I will say, they nailed the color. Yeah, well,

891
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: right correct, they nailed the color on it. I gotta

892
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:39,439
Speaker 1: say they did. They did a heck of a job

893
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: on that. So this writer who tasted it had this

894
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: thing sent to him. He said, believe it or not,

895
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: the sweetness of the ice cream meshes well with the

896
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: saltiness that you experience when you eat mac and cheese.

897
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: He says, it works. So there you go. You'd be surprised.

898
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: I know, I've been surprised what they can put in

899
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: ice cream. I was shocked because that to me I

900
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: first heard that, I was like, oh, but totally with you.

901
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 1: I'm be surprised some of the stuff. Yeah, I might,

902
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 1: although of late, you can imagine, brought my horizons a

903
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: broadened seas, but being open minded and hey, it's a

904
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: good idea mac and cheese ice cream. We know a

905
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: lot of people love mac and cheese, so why not

906
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: try it? Right? So there it is mac and cheese,

907
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: your new flavor out there. Yesterday was National ice Yesterday

908
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: was National ice cream Day. And you'll be proud of me.

909
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: I had. I had a little bowl of vanilla with

910
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: some chocolates her up on top. Keep it simple, man,

911
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: keep it simple. I don't need any I need to

912
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: be jumping the shark with mac and cheese. I'd have

913
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: to taste some somebody else's before I got some of

914
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: myself were having, you know, give a little taste over

915
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: the counter or whatever, if they do that. But I'm not.

916
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: I am not wasting a trip to the ice creams.

917
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,280
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm a vanilla guy. I'm not wasting

918
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: a trip to the ice cream store by getting a

919
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: concoction that may be awesome, but if it's not, I'm screwed.

920
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: I got no ice cream. So that's why I gotta

921
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: choke it, enjoy it. That's why you get the You

922
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 1: get the fringe flavor that you're not sure about, and

923
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: then you get yourself a pint of vanilla as a backup. Okay,

924
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: that's your backup, play your big money. See, I don't

925
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: I don't go int see because here's the thing. If

926
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: I get if I get the the you know, the

927
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: gourmet flavor, and then get the the vanilla, and the

928
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: gourmet flavor is good, I gotta eat the vanilla too. Well,

929
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: that's the same night, you know. Okay, okay, you know,

930
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: I know it goes in the I know it goes

931
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: in the freezer. It'll it'll wait for me. But you know,

932
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: if you got it and you're out, it's done, and

933
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: then you're uncomfortably full, and then your knights, you know.

934
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: All right, we gotta we gotta take ice cream. Find

935
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: buy an ice cream at a store like to I'm

936
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: eating it. Yeah, apparently it's a now purchase, not a

937
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: for later purchase. With Steve when it comes I stream. Okay,

938
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: good to know. We'll make a note of that. Peter

939
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: and Niagara Falls, hang tight. We will get to you

940
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: first when we return. But we have to take a

941
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 1: break here. What level of contribution to the Bills need

942
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: from their rookie class to go all the way in

943
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Let us know what you think at

944
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty joint Peter on the lines

945
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: here who will get to when we return on One

946
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, This is Buffalo

947
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

948
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: over the fields kind of unique. He was kind of

949
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve, a blimp.

950
00:52:54,800 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated beer of normalcy. Welcome

951
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Jasker, our

952
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: number two of the show. I was talking about Steve,

953
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,320
Speaker 1: Steve needed to be reminded of what I was referring

954
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: to when I was talking about a blimp. No, I know,

955
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: the blimp. B Yeah. Then there after that he said

956
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: he was kind of a due role player for you know,

957
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: I can't that we were talking about Keith mckiller or

958
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: somebody like that, and I don't think that's right. I'm

959
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: amazed you can even come close to remembering who I

960
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 1: was referring to on that. Yeah, I knew what you

961
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: were mad about the blimp because they put the blimp

962
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:33,760
Speaker 1: in the College Football Hall of fair right and a balloon.

963
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: I mean yes, I mean basically goodyear bought a spot

964
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, and then Goodyear came after

965
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: me on social media, did they? Yeah, they said, you can't.

966
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: You can't ruin our special day of being elected to

967
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,919
Speaker 1: the Hall of fair I said, look, I elected. Yeah.

968
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: I said, look, I got nothing against you guys and

969
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: what you've meant for college football with you know, your

970
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 1: overhead views. I mean, they were drone shots before drone shots, right,

971
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: you know, a huge drone I don't deny their history

972
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: in the game whatsoever, but I have a problem with

973
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: you being inducted into a Hall of Fame that is

974
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: strictly for the athletes on the field and the coaches

975
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: that coach the game. I mean, that's where it begins

976
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: and ends for me. So yeah, I was yeah, well, yeah,

977
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 1: you got in the Hall of Yeah, I get it.

978
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: You got in the Hall of Fame because the check cleared.

979
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: I mean, right, I mean basically, yeah, the check didn't bounce.

980
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: It is that is neither here nor there with today's topic.

981
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 1: But it's been so we've got we're using the same

982
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 1: open now for a while, and we were starting to

983
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: chain it up and they they're not doing hopefully by

984
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: kickoff weekend that will happen across your fingers and toes.

985
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna be stuck with just don't hold your breath forever.

986
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty one eight eight five fifty two,

987
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: five fifty to jump on board as we are asking you,

988
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: what level of contribution do the Bills need from their

989
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,720
Speaker 1: rookie class to get all the way to the Promised

990
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: Land and a Super Bowl title? To voices are there

991
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: for you at one Bills Live on Twitter and we're

992
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 1: taking phone calls at eight three five fifty and here

993
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: patiently waiting and ready to lead us off in the

994
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: second hour of the show. Is Peter in Niagara Falls. Pee,

995
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're all one Bills Live, okay,

996
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:19,720
Speaker 1: thanks Fellis and of course any new players rookies included,

997
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: and have to play a lot. But we're screen you.

998
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: You're breaking up a little bit, Pete. Okay, let me

999
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:37,280
Speaker 1: get out. Yeah, he's gonna move to a better location.

1000
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: It's Brownie's fault. He's messing with Oh yeah, all right,

1001
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: are you there, Pete? We're having I'm here, okay, We

1002
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: got you to start again. Thank you. Steve always mentions

1003
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: the offensive line and Tampa uses an alignment with Gronk

1004
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: outside of the left tackle, and he sits in there

1005
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: and blocks and then sometimes sneaks out for touch downs.

1006
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, is this going to be a copycat?

1007
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 1: And it cuts down on the hitting of the quarterback

1008
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: that we had in the playoffs if you remember, our

1009
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: quarterback got tortured in the playoffs, hitting wise from the

1010
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 1: defense and putting that end outside of our left tackle.

1011
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: It's probably the only team that used it last year

1012
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: was Tampa. I'm gonna get off the phone and listen

1013
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: to you, guys, but I hope Bills and I'm still

1014
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: chairing full speed for you. I think, thank thanks. I

1015
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 1: think you're talking about the wide nine alignment on defense,

1016
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: and then he's saying, hey, if you put Gronk out there,

1017
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: you know, a tight end or a tight end. I

1018
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: don't know why he was mentioning gron because Gronk wouldn't

1019
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: face his own teammates who are in the wide nine

1020
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,919
Speaker 1: for Tampa. But that's neither here nor there. The Bills

1021
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: used to play a wide nine when Jim Schwartz was

1022
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: here as a defensive coordinator, and they did it very successfully.

1023
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: But they also had Mario Williams and a young Jerry Hughes, right,

1024
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: and Kyle Marcel Darius too. Yeah, so they had some guys.

1025
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, you can run that when you got the guys. Um, certainly,

1026
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: there's no there's it's not rocket science protecting your quarterback.

1027
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: You just gotta have the good players to do it.

1028
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: If a team's consistently beating you someplace, there are adjustments

1029
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: you can make to put guys over there and make

1030
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: sure it doesn't happen. So um, yeah, I mean you're

1031
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna have to. And I'll say it again. The Bills

1032
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: could beat the Chiefs, but they got to play well

1033
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: on that day. Yeah, the Chiefs did, the Bills did not,

1034
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: and you get beat by two touchdowns because of it.

1035
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: And conversely, the Bucks played better in the Super Bowl

1036
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: than the Chiefs. You can, and I get it. It's

1037
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: a circular argument. They say, well, they're not playing good

1038
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: because the other team's better. No, I don't buy that.

1039
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: The Chiefs looked pedestrian. And I'll say this, the Chiefs

1040
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: looked pedestrian because they were waiting for that AC Championship game.

1041
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: They'd been to the Super They've been to the AC

1042
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: Championship game. What for three in a row, two or

1043
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: three in a row that the Patriots, they beat the

1044
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 1: Patriots or somebody else. They beat Tennessee in the championship game,

1045
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: and then they were back in it against the Buffalo Bills.

1046
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: And so that to them is that that's the bar,

1047
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: that's the floor for them. Now we're interested, right. They

1048
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: went through the last two months of the regular season

1049
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: last year sleepwalking how they were winning games. They were

1050
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: winning games, but they're good. They their margin of error

1051
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: is way off the charts, no question about it. And

1052
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: when they got to finally got a game that peaked

1053
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: their interest, they played like it. The Bills had caught

1054
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: lightning in a bottle with Josh and the offense and

1055
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs and all that stuff that was going on

1056
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: with them last year. And then they were they were flying.

1057
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: They were playing phenomenal football all the way up through

1058
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the regular season, in the playoffs, then they

1059
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: got to the AFC Championship game. And I'll admit, our

1060
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: first AFC Championship game, you're a little bit uh. It's different.

1061
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: It's different, and I think the Bills felt that little

1062
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: subtle difference in that level of that game. For the

1063
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs they were looking forward to because they knew what

1064
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: it meant. The Bills, it was new territory, and I

1065
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 1: think they walked in there thinking, Okay, we gotta if

1066
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: we just do our thing here, and that's not That's

1067
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: not how you want to go in there. You gotta

1068
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: go in there like flying high and going, you know,

1069
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: getting after it, playing with a ton of confidence. The

1070
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,439
Speaker 1: Chiefs turned it on, no question about it. In my mind.

1071
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: They played their best game of the year against the

1072
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 1: Bills in the AFC Championship game, and the Bills did not.

1073
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: It's that simple. So all the stuff about you know,

1074
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: pass protecting and the Chiefs or whatever team in the

1075
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: playoffs that Peter was referring to coming off the left

1076
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: side and torturing our quarterback, and that's the first time

1077
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: I've heard it put like that sounded a little extreme. Yeah,

1078
00:59:57,680 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he might be was under pressure, he

1079
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: might be he's aggerating to make a point, but the

1080
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: point is still mate, it's not rocket science. Just putting

1081
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: a guy over there in adjusting your protection to the

1082
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: left side if you think you're always getting beat over there.

1083
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: And and I don't know what alignment he's talking about,

1084
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: with the tight end on the left to help the

1085
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 1: left tackle. I mean, that's that's older than me. So yeah,

1086
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 1: that's all right. But I made my point. I mean, yeah,

1087
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 1: what kind of what it means for the rookie class

1088
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 1: this year? That's what I said. I everybody's gonna have

1089
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: to contribute. You want to get to and win the

1090
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Every single guy and a bunch of guys

1091
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: on the practice squad and some guys who we don't

1092
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: know that they are who they are yet are going

1093
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: to have to contribute. Yeah. And you know, when you

1094
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: think about it too, you know the reason the poll

1095
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: has gone the way it has here through the first

1096
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:51,720
Speaker 1: hour the show, I think it is largely due to

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01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: the fact that, in the opinion of many Bills fans,

1098
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:59,959
Speaker 1: they feel that Rousseau and Bashham have to contribute something

1099
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: thing relatively significant if the defense is going to get

1100
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: back to the top five status they enjoyed in twenty

1101
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty nineteen. Because the facts are these. The

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01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 1: leading pass rusher on this team last year was a

1103
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: thirty three year old Mario Addison with five sacks, and

1104
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes had four and a half. And I know

1105
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: sacks are not the end all be all statistic, and

1106
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: that this team values quarterback hits almost as much as sacks.

1107
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: But I think they look at Rousseau and bash them

1108
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I know these guys might be future starters,

1109
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: but if they can give us six sacks each and

1110
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: combine for twelve, that's probably gonna help us, you know,

1111
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: win some games, or create some turnovers, or bat some

1112
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: passes down, whatever it is. I think a lot of

1113
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 1: these Bills fans are expecting something of a production value

1114
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 1: from both of them. The analytics sites around the NFL,

1115
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: like Pro Football Talk for Pro Football Focus. There's some

1116
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 1: others too. They'll take ball outside football outsiders. They'll tell

1117
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 1: you the Bills pass rush was it was pretty good

1118
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: last year. They had a big hot. They were like

1119
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: one or two in the league in their win rate

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01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: of guys rushing the pastors. So they were getting to

1121
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: the quarterback fast. But the simple fact of the matter

1122
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: was the teams were throwing the football, and the quarterbacks

1123
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,440
Speaker 1: that the Bills played it was I mean, it was

1124
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: a heck of a schedule that the Bills played, and

1125
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks got rid of the football on time and accurately,

1126
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: and the Bills had a nice secondary, a very good secondary,

1127
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 1: and the pass rush just didn't have a chance to

1128
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: get home very often. And whether whether that's the case

1129
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 1: this year or not remains to be seen. But when

1130
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: you're looking at how the defense looked to you and

1131
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: me and fans, secondary isn't where you look. It's the

1132
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: pass rush. You know, you just didn't see the guy

1133
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 1: on the ground enough. And you know, Leslie Frasier was

1134
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: you know, I was just watching the thing. You know,

1135
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace got a sack on Lamar Jackson the playoffs,

1136
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, you know, well, because Todavias White had a

1137
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: run around sack strip fumble against Denver. So you you're

1138
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: kind of manufacturing pressures with secondary guys or you know,

1139
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: Matt Milano instead of in coverage. He's coming, you know

1140
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: what I mean. They fool the protection into getting some

1141
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: sacks like that. And that's Leslie Frasier doing a nice job.

1142
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: You see a four man straight rush. They're not getting

1143
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: home enough. Yeah, and that's why we're talking about Boogie

1144
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: Bashman Greg Russo. And that's why Boogie Bashman gregor Rousseaux

1145
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: are actually on this team. Yeah, and that's why things

1146
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,439
Speaker 1: have to change in that area of the pass rush

1147
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: so they don't have to resort to creative measures to

1148
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 1: generate effective pass rush plays where the play ends with

1149
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: the quarterback on the ground holding the ball. So hopefully

1150
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 1: that that comes to pass with those two guys helping out,

1151
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: and even if you know they can't get the quarterback

1152
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: on the ground, Russeau's length I think will help in

1153
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 1: terms of either a changing the trajectory of a pass

1154
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: or b knocking to pass down or tipping it in

1155
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 1: the air to set off a tip drill for the

1156
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 1: guys on the back end, and hopefully that relates to

1157
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: or correlates to some more turnovers for this team as well.

1158
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 1: We wanted to draw your attention to our camp countdown

1159
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 1: presented by Connors and Ferris, which is still taking place

1160
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:26,600
Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot com and we'll continue to roll

1161
01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 1: on all the way up to report Day on July

1162
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Steve Maddie, myself and our intern Dante Lasting

1163
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 1: I've been putting together both written and video pieces asking

1164
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: some of the more pressing questions facing this twenty twenty

1165
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: one edition of the Buffalo Bills and trying to forecast

1166
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: some things as we get into training camp and then

1167
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: eventually the regular season and some of the more recent

1168
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 1: topics that you can peruse on Buffalo bills dot com.

1169
01:04:56,720 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: Can the wide receiver group be more successful than they

1170
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: were last year? That's a tough one, Steve. Now, I

1171
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: think they will be just by virtue of the fact

1172
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:10,920
Speaker 1: that they have one extra game in which to ratch up,

1173
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 1: rack up production. Right. So from a production standpoint, I

1174
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: think it's attainable. But it might come down to what

1175
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: your definition of more successful is. Is it simply better

1176
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: numbers or is it something different than them? I think, yeah, yeah,

1177
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: I think when it's hard, it's gonna be. I'm telling

1178
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: you it's gonna be hard to outproduce that group last year.

1179
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 1: Back in the day when I first started my broadcast

1180
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 1: career full time, I had Will mcdunnaugh, former Boston Globe righter,

1181
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:50,160
Speaker 1: very renowned voter for the Hall of Fame, very renowned

1182
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 1: sports right beat writer, and very respected in the industry.

1183
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: And I spoke to him and we were talking about

1184
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 1: offenses and defenses and stuff. I think it was about

1185
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:01,959
Speaker 1: the two thousand and eight Patriots, you know, with Moss

1186
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: and those guys, when they almost went undefeated, and we

1187
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: were talking about it, and he goes, I never thought

1188
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: he told me. He goes, I never thought i'd see

1189
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 1: another offense as good as the one you guys had

1190
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 1: in Buffalo at ninety one where he scored four hundred

1191
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: and ninety one points and all that, YadA YadA, YadA YadA.

1192
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:18,439
Speaker 1: And I said, well, and I didn't know he felt

1193
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 1: that way about that team that I was on. You know,

1194
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 1: I didn't play offense, but the team, the gym and

1195
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 1: Andre and Thurman, and when they turned it loose with

1196
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 1: a no huddle, he goes, I never thought i'd see

1197
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 1: a team like that. And he goes, this one, this

1198
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 1: oaight Patriots team is pretty close. And he's right, But

1199
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: that team that I was scored four hundred ninety one points.

1200
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 1: The Bills last year scored five hundred and one. Yeah.

1201
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if these wide receivers can now do that.

1202
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: And it may look great, but they may score four

1203
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy points or something, you know what I mean.

1204
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean in seventeen games and still be good good,

1205
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:52,240
Speaker 1: which is still good, and they may win more game

1206
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: I maybe wins the same number of games. They may

1207
01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:57,080
Speaker 1: go thirteen and four inste the thirteen and three. Who knows,

1208
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: but that's that's a high bar. Yeah, that's a really

1209
01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 1: high ball. I think Beasley and Digs together alone and

1210
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 1: over twenty five hundred yards receiving just the two of them. Man, Yeah,

1211
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 1: that's not going to be easy to duplicate. Not to

1212
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 1: mention the fact, as you've mentioned on this show a

1213
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 1: lot of times that what are defensive coordinators pouring over

1214
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 1: all off season game tape man game tape of the

1215
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: Bills offense and how to try to neutralize it and

1216
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 1: slow it down? And we know there's this cyclical pattern

1217
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 1: that exists in the NFL. The other thing that I'm

1218
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: going to be interested to see too, Steve, is this,

1219
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree after looking back at

1220
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:39,960
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season as a whole, not just the Bills,

1221
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: the offenses were far more prepared for the run up

1222
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: to the regular season than defenses were. I was surprised

1223
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 1: by that, because you can execute offense in a padless

1224
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 1: practice setting, I think better than you can execute defense

1225
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: in a padless practice setting. For as much as the

1226
01:07:57,040 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 1: NFL in recent decades has been criticized by old guys

1227
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: like me or not in me particular, but guys like

1228
01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:06,320
Speaker 1: me who say, yeah, it's it's a softer league. Um

1229
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 1: and and it's and it's true, there's no question about built.

1230
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: I went back and watched a game, parts of a

1231
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: game from the ninety two or three playoffs, and every

1232
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: other play, maybe two out of three plays, certainly at

1233
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 1: least half of the plays on the tackles there was

1234
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: there would have been a play a hit that would

1235
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: have been a penalty today. Yeah, and that was just

1236
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 1: you know, twenty twenty five years ago. Um and it

1237
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: would have been every single solitary instance. It would have

1238
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 1: been an easy in your thing. Wow, that's that's an

1239
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: easy call. It would have been a penalty. So, yes,

1240
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: the game has softened up that way. Which so we

1241
01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:53,560
Speaker 1: get this idea that because it's like that now, the

1242
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: defense is you know, don't need all that. You know,

1243
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna come out, they're gonna kind of pick up

1244
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: where they left up last year. Proved no, they gotta tackle,

1245
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,560
Speaker 1: they got they gotta get their mind around the physicality

1246
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,760
Speaker 1: the game that's still there. As as soft as we

1247
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 1: might have think the NFL has become. And I say soft, Yeah,

1248
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:14,640
Speaker 1: it's not probably not the words, right. I'm using it

1249
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: as just to make a point. It's still not to

1250
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: the point where they've got to be trained and prepare

1251
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:27,120
Speaker 1: and get ready for that side of the game that

1252
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: they can't do at full speed during camp and during

1253
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: practices because of the safety measures now in place. It

1254
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:37,680
Speaker 1: took the defenses in the NFL, what would you say,

1255
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 1: half the season, maybe more? Yeah, it was. It took

1256
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: a while at a long time. League scoring was the

1257
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 1: highest it had ever been. I mean, defenses were struggling.

1258
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 1: And some of it will and we'll say this, some

1259
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: of it was the fact that the league probably didn't listen.

1260
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:54,680
Speaker 1: As long as we get it right everywhere and do

1261
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,639
Speaker 1: the same thing everywhere, nobody really As long as it's

1262
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: the same everywhere, we're fine. Yeah. So the officials, let's

1263
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 1: let's not call holding quite as stringently as we have

1264
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:08,600
Speaker 1: in the past. Let's let the offensive line do a

1265
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: little something up front with their hands that we haven't,

1266
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, Let's let that go and this go, and

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Speaker 1: then all right, and another thing just you know, if

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Speaker 1: it's if it's on trying to stick to the yard markers,

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01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: don't give us this thirty three and a half yard spot.

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Speaker 1: Give us the thirty three or the thirty four, and

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01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 1: if it's on the thirty four, it's a first down.

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01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 1: If it's not, it's thirty three, it's it's third and

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01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 1: one or fourth and one, not fourth and inches unless

1274
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:35,400
Speaker 1: they do a short yardage and they get you know,

1275
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: then we'll do that. But let's just smooth this out

1276
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: and no touch points and all this stuff about covide,

1277
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: and I think that lent to itself as well to

1278
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:49,759
Speaker 1: helping the offenses to keep their rhythm. Certainly the offensive

1279
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:54,600
Speaker 1: line we're helped by that in their pass protections. Defenses

1280
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 1: struggled to catch up physically, and I think we saw

1281
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 1: a result of that all the way across the league.

1282
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 1: And you know, I'll be interested to see how they

1283
01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: do it this year. Oh yeah, because that's why when

1284
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 1: we're asking this, we're talking about this question that we

1285
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: pose in the Camp countdown series on Buffalo Wheels dot com.

1286
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:12,640
Speaker 1: Can the Bills wide receiver group be more successful? This

1287
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:14,960
Speaker 1: is what kind of comes to mind for me. Now

1288
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:19,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna have provided everything goes the way, we're anticipating

1289
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 1: a regular training camp, no run up situation with no pads.

1290
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: Three preseason games. Does the offensive production travel back closer

1291
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 1: to the mean than this astronomical production that we saw

1292
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:37,760
Speaker 1: last year, Because if that's the case, then no, they're

1293
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: probably not going to be as successful as they were

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01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: last year. They'll still be really good, but will they

1295
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: measure up to the gigantic numbers we saw not only

1296
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:47,759
Speaker 1: from the Bills but from some of the other juggernaut

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01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 1: offenses in the league last year because the defenses were

1298
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: down right. And here's the thing too, Let's not compare

1299
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 1: this year's wide receiving corps, even though three of them

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01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 1: at least, you're going to be the exact same. Don't

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01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: compare them to Don't compaired Diggs Beasley, get Davis and

1302
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: Sanders to Diggs, Beasley, Davis and Brown. Compare them to

1303
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:14,439
Speaker 1: the other guys this year in the league? Are they

1304
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 1: bet as this group significantly better than most of the

1305
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:21,560
Speaker 1: groups they face. Yeah, I think that will still be

1306
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:25,560
Speaker 1: the case, particularly with and I keep going back to,

1307
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,559
Speaker 1: I think with everybody, with Devin Singletary, Zach Moss coming back,

1308
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: Devin his third year, Zach in his second year, Dawson

1309
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: Knox and his third year, I think I think it's

1310
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,400
Speaker 1: gonna look a little different, but I think the numbers,

1311
01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen's numbers will be very similar, even

1312
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: though the ball may be distributed in a different way.

1313
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: Brian Dabel is going to do exactly what all these

1314
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 1: teams we've been saying are doing. They're looking at the

1315
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: Bills offense on film and saying, wow, okay, do this,

1316
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 1: we can get them if we do this they have

1317
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 1: they struggle when they do that, and instead of, you know,

1318
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 1: say so like this cyclical thing where people catch up

1319
01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:05,639
Speaker 1: with you, what keeps an offense good year in year

1320
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 1: out is that they don't. They don't turn back on

1321
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: themselves and go back behind what you know, if people

1322
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: catch up to him, they don't try to circle back

1323
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: behind them. They go in a new direction someplace else.

1324
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 1: The skill sets that they have on their team are

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01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:22,680
Speaker 1: what dictate the direction their offense is going to take.

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01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,040
Speaker 1: And if you've got guys that can do stuff really,

1327
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 1: really well, you got to force people to stop you

1328
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: doing what you really do well. And they're still going

1329
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 1: to do a lot of things well next year, just

1330
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 1: like they did this last year. And I think with

1331
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,720
Speaker 1: Sanders they'll be able to diversify the offense even more

1332
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 1: because he is a more versatile receiver, which puts more

1333
01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: tools in Brian Dable's toolbox. All right, we have to

1334
01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: take a break here, but when we come back, your

1335
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: comments on the tweet sheet in terms of the level

1336
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: of contribution the Bills need from their rookie class to

1337
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: get to a Super Bowl title this year. You can

1338
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: still weigh in on the tweet sheet if you want.

1339
01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: We'll take some of your responses next here on One

1340
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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Collot of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1341
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: All go back to One Bills Live, Rocket and Rolling

1342
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 1: on a Monday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and

1343
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: time for some of your responses on the tweet sheet.

1344
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 1: As we have been asking you today, what level of

1345
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 1: contribution do the Bills need from their rookie class to

1346
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 1: get to that Super Bowl in twenty twenty one. Eli says,

1347
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:40,479
Speaker 1: I picked C because it explains it by itself. If

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01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 1: we get good or great contributions, we will be the

1349
01:14:43,400 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: nightmare for a lot of teams and we might get

1350
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: over that final hurdle. And choice C was good rookie

1351
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: contribution could be the difference. So that has been the leader,

1352
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 1: although right behind it is have to be ready when needed.

1353
01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: So and there's a difference between those two. Steve as

1354
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 1: an unquestionable they never need him. But and I said

1355
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: this earlier in the show, all reiterate my stance on

1356
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:14,680
Speaker 1: this Twitter poll is that everybody's gonna have to if

1357
01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna win the super Bowl, which is what we're

1358
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: talking about in this right, I mean, yeah, we want

1359
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 1: to go further. If you're not gonna like last year

1360
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: I got beat in the AC Championship game, you want

1361
01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 1: to at least win that one and give yourself a

1362
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 1: shot at the world title. If all of that stuff happens,

1363
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 1: you're gonna need contributions from every guy on the roster.

1364
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:34,680
Speaker 1: It rookies included rookie free agents, draft picks, you know,

1365
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:38,639
Speaker 1: third year players, wiley veterans, the old guys, the young guys,

1366
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff. If you're gonna make it to

1367
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:45,639
Speaker 1: that depth in the playoffs, everybody in the whole building's

1368
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: got to be pulling the rope and get and contribute

1369
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:52,719
Speaker 1: significantly at times, not constantly like Josh'll do it constantly.

1370
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the quarterback. He's gonna be throwing all

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01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,680
Speaker 1: of that stuff but there's gonna be moments throughout the

1372
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: season where guys that play the role I used to play,

1373
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 1: or less or more are gonna show up big for

1374
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:08,479
Speaker 1: the team. They just have to because you gotta win

1375
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:10,519
Speaker 1: so many games, and they're gonna be so many critical

1376
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 1: moments that get forgotten throughout the season that it just

1377
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: you go back and look, and you can go down

1378
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:19,800
Speaker 1: the entire fifty three man roster and most of the

1379
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:21,680
Speaker 1: practice squad guys who come up and go down, and

1380
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:23,600
Speaker 1: come up and go down, everybody who got activated for

1381
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 1: a game, it's going to contribute. And just think about

1382
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:29,679
Speaker 1: last season alone. I mean, Gabe Davis ties Stefon Diggs

1383
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 1: for the team lead and receiving touchdowns with seven, Tyler

1384
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 1: Bass and Dane Jackson. Dane Jackson has an interception and

1385
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: Tyler Bass has six field goals in an eighteen to

1386
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 1: ten victory at New York. Without that pick and without

1387
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 1: those six field goals, you're probably not winning that game.

1388
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: And Bass was money last year. Bass came in and

1389
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: contributed in an enormous way. He kind of gets forgotten

1390
01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:57,479
Speaker 1: in all of this. You know, Dane Jackson, I mean,

1391
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: you know, part time player, but he was and that's

1392
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:03,960
Speaker 1: why we were and maybe that's the reason he was

1393
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 1: a part time players because he's not durable enough to

1394
01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:07,679
Speaker 1: kind of hang in there and stay on the field.

1395
01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: But all of that, but that's the example we're looking

1396
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: at with this draft class. Harder to see a guy

1397
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 1: like Tommy Doyle or even Spencer Brown for that matter,

1398
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: get on the field right away to say, no, he's

1399
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,719
Speaker 1: he's not our swing tackle anymore, he's our right tackle.

1400
01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:30,679
Speaker 1: He's you know, Daryl Williams is now the swing tackle

1401
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:32,680
Speaker 1: kind of thing or whatever that however that happens or

1402
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: what have you. You know, what we liked he came in.

1403
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:38,599
Speaker 1: We liked what he did. Tommy Doe was now gonna

1404
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 1: play guard for us because he came back played a

1405
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 1: little better than Cody Ford was able to after his injury.

1406
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna, you know, that kind of thing. It's

1407
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:51,000
Speaker 1: hard to envision that happening because they do have so

1408
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 1: many quality players up front, but that's what you're talking

1409
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 1: about as well, And even when they do, even if

1410
01:17:56,320 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 1: the guy does start, it's hard for most of us,

1411
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:02,759
Speaker 1: you and me to say, yeah, that right guard spot

1412
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:04,760
Speaker 1: is playing great, you know what I mean. It's like

1413
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: I don't know they're running the ball. Yeah okay, good,

1414
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,320
Speaker 1: So I don't really show up when you just casually

1415
01:18:11,360 --> 01:18:14,599
Speaker 1: watch the games. But when you see the team run

1416
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 1: the ball better than they did last year, that's that's

1417
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: the reason. You know, when you see the team all

1418
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're top ten team throughout the year

1419
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:26,640
Speaker 1: in sacks. Yeah, okay, that now you see it. Or

1420
01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:28,559
Speaker 1: they're a top five team in sacks and now all

1421
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden with Starlotu lelay in their number two

1422
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 1: in the league against the run. You know, that's where

1423
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 1: they were two years ago. You know that's they were

1424
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:39,720
Speaker 1: a top flight defense for those reasons. So they get

1425
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: back to that is because you know these young players

1426
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:47,640
Speaker 1: are out there and they're they're contributing. I think that

1427
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,680
Speaker 1: what you're looking at this year. You would argue that

1428
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 1: the best opportunities certainly lie in front of Rousseau and

1429
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,439
Speaker 1: bash him, just because of the rotational nature of the

1430
01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:03,240
Speaker 1: defensive line that coach Fraser generally employees on a week

1431
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 1: to week basis. They still have to earn the time

1432
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 1: obviously and be part of that rotation, but still logic

1433
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:12,640
Speaker 1: would say that affords them a pretty favorable chance at

1434
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 1: getting on the field, and by virtue of the fact

1435
01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: that they were, you know, the two top choices in

1436
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 1: the class as well. But Spencer Brown is likely going

1437
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: to be an injury away from playing, you know, Tommy

1438
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:29,000
Speaker 1: Doyle less so, and then you know, you get further

1439
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: down the list there the cornerback contingent Steve is not

1440
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:37,599
Speaker 1: flush with proven talent. I mean it's Wallace, tarn Johnson,

1441
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:44,640
Speaker 1: Tredavious White, okay. And then beyond that, there's a lot

1442
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:48,599
Speaker 1: of unproven players there. I mean Cam Lewis is even unproven.

1443
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: So rand Neil hasn't played a ton of corner He's

1444
01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 1: arguably played more snaps at safety in his Bill's career.

1445
01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:59,600
Speaker 1: And after that it's rookies and second year players. That's it.

1446
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:04,640
Speaker 1: So does Wild Goose have a monster training camp and

1447
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:08,000
Speaker 1: somehow find a way into some sub packages possibly, you

1448
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:12,759
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe tomorrow Hamlin beats out you know, Jaquan

1449
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:17,680
Speaker 1: Johnson and Josh Thomas for a reserve safety spot. I mean,

1450
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: these are all things that are up in the air

1451
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:22,840
Speaker 1: where there could be some contributions from rookies. They're like, WHOA,

1452
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:25,920
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting that one. I'll say this too. We've

1453
01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:28,760
Speaker 1: we've talked this into the ground like we do. I mean,

1454
01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: we chew this stuff up all the time, and from

1455
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: every angle, there's no doubt this roster, it's gonna be

1456
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: hard to make. If the guys we've seen play well

1457
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:44,960
Speaker 1: like last year, all those guys who were here last

1458
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,000
Speaker 1: year and all those guys and they all played well.

1459
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:52,519
Speaker 1: If they play well again this year, and we have

1460
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 1: no reason to think they won't, but if they do,

1461
01:20:56,640 --> 01:20:58,320
Speaker 1: these rookies are gonna be hard pressed to make a

1462
01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 1: contribution because they're gonna have a hard time. I'm getting

1463
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: on the field now, Rousseau and bash him. As it

1464
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:05,679
Speaker 1: stands now from our little perch on the fence before

1465
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: training camp, it looks like those guys are gonna get

1466
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:10,800
Speaker 1: rotated in anyway. Because of the numbers and because of

1467
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,280
Speaker 1: their abilities, those guys are in the mix to get

1468
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:17,800
Speaker 1: on the field. At least. Everybody else is like, maybe

1469
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 1: if they rotate him in, or maybe if they get

1470
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 1: a you know, if somebody gets injured. Other than that,

1471
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 1: it's Rousseau and bash Him the only ones that we

1472
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:27,440
Speaker 1: can really count on right now saying yeah, they're absolutely

1473
01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:30,599
Speaker 1: gonna see snaps everybody else is like, well they may yeah,

1474
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 1: and I mean just think about a j Epenessa and

1475
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:36,880
Speaker 1: his role. I mean, he was he was sparingly, he

1476
01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:40,080
Speaker 1: was active through the first six weeks. He was inactive

1477
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: first coup two weeks, and there were some circumstances with

1478
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:44,479
Speaker 1: his body cop position that we're working against him. He

1479
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: was too light. But he didn't really get any regular

1480
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: playing time barely at all until the latter stages of

1481
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 1: the season. Rick on the tweet sheet says, base core

1482
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 1: of players is solid, so I don't see any of

1483
01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: the rookies starting. But injuries occur, as we all know,

1484
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:04,559
Speaker 1: and that's when they'll need to prove their worth, which

1485
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 1: is ground we kind of covered already. Jack says, you've

1486
01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 1: got to get a contribution, especially from the top two picks.

1487
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: The defensive ends will be needed to help add teeth

1488
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 1: to a pass rush that struggle to get sacks last

1489
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:19,200
Speaker 1: year while the rest of the class is mostly depth.

1490
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:21,680
Speaker 1: It'll be good if they can push vets ahead of them,

1491
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:25,719
Speaker 1: but hopefully defensive ends can impact right away. You know, Steve,

1492
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 1: that's something we haven't covered. You might have rookies on

1493
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:33,679
Speaker 1: this roster, practice squad or active that don't set foot

1494
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 1: on the field on Sunday, but through the course of

1495
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:38,800
Speaker 1: training camp in the preseason, if they're pushing those veteran

1496
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: players for a starting role or an important role on

1497
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 1: the team to play on Sundays, that's gonna make those

1498
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:47,840
Speaker 1: veteran players better for you when they do step on

1499
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: It's almost cliche that, you know, we're guys who practice,

1500
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 1: who practice against make you better. That may be the

1501
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: role in the contribution that some of these guys make

1502
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: during the regular season with the practice squad players and

1503
01:23:00,439 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 1: the backup players take the field on Wednesday and Thursday,

1504
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:08,040
Speaker 1: imitating the other team, how hard they play and how

1505
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 1: well they execute gives your you know, prepares the number

1506
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:16,240
Speaker 1: one guys to play better, And that's a contribution. It

1507
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: doesn't show up on you. You'll never see it on

1508
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 1: Sunday except in the play of the number one players

1509
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 1: that they're play that they're making better. But there's a

1510
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:25,599
Speaker 1: lot of people in everybody in the organization will understand

1511
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:29,680
Speaker 1: it and appreciate it. So those contributions are important. But

1512
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:32,560
Speaker 1: I don't know how you you know, we're you know,

1513
01:23:33,120 --> 01:23:36,040
Speaker 1: we'll never see it or never hard to qualify exactly

1514
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 1: hard to quantify and hard to call for. But if

1515
01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: those guys are good enough to stick around on the

1516
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:45,559
Speaker 1: practice squad or as a backup in the fifty three

1517
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:49,640
Speaker 1: and inactive every week, all out Trent Murphy last year.

1518
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 1: If you have a rookie play in that role and

1519
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 1: he's inactive every week, he's still contributing on the practice field,

1520
01:23:57,200 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: He's still contributing in other ways, and certainly he could

1521
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: place actual teams as well. So we're not like, like

1522
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: we've said, the contributions are going to be from everybody

1523
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be significant. The problem is we only

1524
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 1: get to watch him play football. We don't get to

1525
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:15,479
Speaker 1: watching practice, We don't get to watch him in meetings.

1526
01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 1: We don't get to watch how Matt Barkley helped Josh

1527
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: last year, and Trubisky may help him this year. And

1528
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:26,840
Speaker 1: Trubisky may help the defense because Trubisky can sling. It

1529
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:30,360
Speaker 1: is starting caliber, right, So Trubisky's got some physical traits

1530
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 1: that he can mimic what some of these other quarterbacks

1531
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 1: were able to do if he's given the chance. So

1532
01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff will be contributions that we'll never

1533
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 1: see and they'll be significant. And that's part of what

1534
01:24:41,920 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 1: I was talking about. When if you're talking about all

1535
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:48,520
Speaker 1: your hopes and dreams coming true, it means everybody's contributing

1536
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:51,760
Speaker 1: because they you've got to hit on all Like what

1537
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:54,679
Speaker 1: is it, what's a practice squad? Now? Fourteen players, thirteen players,

1538
01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:57,719
Speaker 1: fifty three and thirty it's like sixteen, it's like sixty

1539
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 1: five seventy guys. All of them have to contribut even

1540
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 1: if they're not playing on Sunday. We've got to take

1541
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 1: a break here, but John Breach, CBS sportswriter will be

1542
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 1: coming up after the top of the hour. It's got

1543
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:14,000
Speaker 1: some info on the possible fines or heck, even suspensions

1544
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:19,519
Speaker 1: the Bucks could be facing after essentially hiding Tom Brady's

1545
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:24,040
Speaker 1: mcl knee injury all of last season. We've also got

1546
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 1: some more comments on the tweet sheet coming your way,

1547
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: and Rick and Nashville, Brady and Vermont hang tight. We

1548
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:31,760
Speaker 1: will get to you when we return here on One

1549
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,519
Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Colloid of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1550
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:50,280
Speaker 1: Welcome back One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

1551
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:52,240
Speaker 1: going right to the phone to see what do you

1552
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:54,599
Speaker 1: think about the level of contribution the Bills need from

1553
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: their rookie class this season to get to the super Bowl,

1554
01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:01,280
Speaker 1: and leading us off is Rick and Nashville. Rick, what

1555
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 1: do you have for is you're on one Bill's Live

1556
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,599
Speaker 1: well mind question doesn't concerned rookies, but you're talking about

1557
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 1: everybody chipping in. And when I think about the defense,

1558
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,200
Speaker 1: there's two guys who come to mind, and I kind

1559
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: of wanted to see what you think the role may be.

1560
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: A J. Klein, you know, in the linebacker true linebacker

1561
01:26:18,520 --> 01:26:20,760
Speaker 1: role kind of kind of struggled as we saw, but

1562
01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 1: once they kind of turned him into a pass rush guy,

1563
01:26:24,240 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: he actually did a lot of good things and had

1564
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:31,080
Speaker 1: some game ceiling plays as the season went on, I

1565
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 1: mean big plays that really since the victory. Curious where

1566
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:38,799
Speaker 1: you think his role will be with the new players

1567
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:42,040
Speaker 1: coming in and kind of his strengths and weaknesses, and

1568
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: then the second player who kind of chips in this way,

1569
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 1: maybe the rookies can kind of with his team. Marlowe,

1570
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:49,800
Speaker 1: the guy didn't play much, but when he got in there,

1571
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,720
Speaker 1: he made plays. And I know he's going on to

1572
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 1: Detroit now, but just guys like that that kind of

1573
01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 1: aren't big names, but man, they made some plays that

1574
01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: really helped. Yeah, we had we had these conversations about

1575
01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:04,760
Speaker 1: aj Klein early in the year. Aj Klein was a

1576
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:07,719
Speaker 1: backup linebacker who was brought in to play some special

1577
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: teams to help out in certain roles. When he got

1578
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:13,280
Speaker 1: on the field a lot, it was because Milana was hurt.

1579
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:17,400
Speaker 1: And when when Milana was out because of I don't know,

1580
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:20,000
Speaker 1: I can't remember what was it a pulled muscle or something.

1581
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 1: I got a hamstring to hamstring right, So he was out.

1582
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:27,480
Speaker 1: So aj Klein ended up having to play a significant

1583
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: number of games as the top linebacker. And when he

1584
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:35,880
Speaker 1: first got on the field, because it was in place

1585
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 1: of Milano, they just asked aj Klein to do what

1586
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:42,320
Speaker 1: Milano did. He wasn't able to do that. That's not

1587
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:45,200
Speaker 1: his thing. And when they finally got to the point

1588
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:48,720
Speaker 1: where they said, you know what, let's have a J

1589
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:54,599
Speaker 1: play for aj not for Milano, he started playing significantly better.

1590
01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 1: They started asking aj Klein to play like AJ Klein

1591
01:27:57,320 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 1: to sit of Matt Milano. U they were asking. I

1592
01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:03,879
Speaker 1: thought they he was miscast as a replacement for Milano,

1593
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:06,280
Speaker 1: but he was okay as a J Klein in that defense.

1594
01:28:06,920 --> 01:28:12,479
Speaker 1: So he played better and that's what I thought about A. J. Klein,

1595
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 1: and I think he'll be you know, I think he's

1596
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: gonna be ward. He did what they thought he was

1597
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:19,880
Speaker 1: gonna be last year. They thought he was gonna be,

1598
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,720
Speaker 1: you know, a backup to Milano doing other stuff and

1599
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:28,680
Speaker 1: you know, not play as many snaps as he did. Um.

1600
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:31,320
Speaker 1: On the other hand, you're right that Dean Marlowe guys

1601
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 1: like that. There's gonna be a number of guys who

1602
01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:36,160
Speaker 1: emerged this year and this is gonna be there kind

1603
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 1: of break a finger quotes, breakout year, whatever you want

1604
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 1: to call it. Either he gets on the field and

1605
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 1: plays a ton and he's never done that before, a

1606
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:49,560
Speaker 1: guy like Um, like Jaquan Johnson or anybody else. It

1607
01:28:49,640 --> 01:28:52,000
Speaker 1: could be uh, you know Cam Lewis, you know all

1608
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:54,559
Speaker 1: these guys. Nick mcleck could be Elijah Griffin for all

1609
01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:57,840
Speaker 1: I know, or Rashad Wild Goose, Sir Rand Neil. Any

1610
01:28:57,880 --> 01:28:59,880
Speaker 1: of these guys could all of a sudden beyond the

1611
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:04,479
Speaker 1: field and it could be their breakout season because they

1612
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:06,680
Speaker 1: get an opportunity and because now they're a spot in

1613
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:11,519
Speaker 1: a pro where they're ready for it. But yeah, that's

1614
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:13,559
Speaker 1: my thought. Those are my thoughts. On A. J. Klein

1615
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:16,400
Speaker 1: and what his season looked like last year. He did

1616
01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 1: not look good in the first week or two or

1617
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:21,800
Speaker 1: three weeks as a linebacker replacing Milano because he was

1618
01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 1: trying to play Milano's spot, and credit the coaching staff

1619
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:26,960
Speaker 1: for designing a role that he was better suited for

1620
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 1: with his skill set. Right. They eventually made that change

1621
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:32,840
Speaker 1: and he made he was a difference Baker in that

1622
01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:36,719
Speaker 1: defensive front. Back to the phones into Brady in Vermont, Brady,

1623
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:40,479
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys,

1624
01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:42,200
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about our tight end room.

1625
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:44,599
Speaker 1: I feel like currently we just don't have a great

1626
01:29:45,160 --> 01:29:47,599
Speaker 1: blocking tight end on the roster and I just want

1627
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 1: to see if if you guys thought it would be

1628
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:52,120
Speaker 1: at all possible we see Tommy Doyle or Spencer Brown

1629
01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:56,679
Speaker 1: rotating in where Lee Smith might have had snaps last year. Yeah,

1630
01:29:56,880 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 1: you could, you could, no question. I think Spencer Brown

1631
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:03,360
Speaker 1: and I don't know about Tommy Dueb. But Spencer Brown's

1632
01:30:03,400 --> 01:30:05,680
Speaker 1: got the athleticism to do it. He played tight end

1633
01:30:05,720 --> 01:30:07,599
Speaker 1: in eight man football in high school, right, so he's

1634
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 1: got the athleticism. He's a hoops player. He's got probably

1635
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:12,920
Speaker 1: has some pretty soft hands. I would think most of

1636
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:15,519
Speaker 1: the guys when they get to this level, have they

1637
01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: started at a different position or they're playing you know,

1638
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:22,680
Speaker 1: they they've got that in their background and they you know,

1639
01:30:22,760 --> 01:30:25,599
Speaker 1: and everybody you know throws the football around, plays catching stuff.

1640
01:30:25,640 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: So uh and with a skill set like he's probably

1641
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,840
Speaker 1: acquired since he moved to offensive line, yeah, he should

1642
01:30:30,880 --> 01:30:33,760
Speaker 1: be a pretty good blocking wide receiver, were blocking tight end.

1643
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:36,599
Speaker 1: We've seen them go heavy before with you know, lineman,

1644
01:30:36,680 --> 01:30:39,599
Speaker 1: whether it Ryan Bates was used as a sixth lineman,

1645
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, in the tight end position, right, you know,

1646
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:47,040
Speaker 1: but they've done it before. Dawkins and Dion Dawkins caught

1647
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:49,880
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass. I mean, they m you and I've

1648
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:53,439
Speaker 1: said it to I think Justin Zimmer's a candidate for

1649
01:30:53,520 --> 01:30:56,280
Speaker 1: that because of his speed. He's a big three hundred

1650
01:30:56,280 --> 01:30:59,080
Speaker 1: pounder who can run. Steve wants to see him in fullback,

1651
01:30:59,160 --> 01:31:01,439
Speaker 1: so maybe not maybe not yeah, maybe not a fullback,

1652
01:31:01,479 --> 01:31:04,160
Speaker 1: maybe not a tight end, but you know, as a

1653
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:06,559
Speaker 1: lead blocker or maybe in line an in line block.

1654
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:09,519
Speaker 1: He's a big dude. So but he's a defensive player,

1655
01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:10,640
Speaker 1: So I don't know if he's got it in his

1656
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:13,120
Speaker 1: background that he could, you know, push people around instead

1657
01:31:13,120 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 1: of trying not to get pushed around. Yeah, I like it.

1658
01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to it. They've got athletes that can

1659
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 1: do it, Yes, absolutely, and Brian Dabo will have the

1660
01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 1: creativity and probably license to do that. It's he is

1661
01:31:26,560 --> 01:31:29,880
Speaker 1: right though, like the true like quote unquote blocking tight end,

1662
01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 1: you don't really see it on this roster. You have

1663
01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 1: guys that are capable of doing it, but it's not

1664
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:40,479
Speaker 1: necessarily their calling card, like their number one strength in

1665
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:43,560
Speaker 1: their skill set as a tight end. You got a

1666
01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:45,960
Speaker 1: guy like that, and you become predictable, and then you

1667
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:49,360
Speaker 1: can take advantage of the predictability by you know, Lee

1668
01:31:49,439 --> 01:31:52,240
Speaker 1: Smith making a nice catch laid in a game against

1669
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:55,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots. You know Lee Smith catching it a touchdown

1670
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:59,640
Speaker 1: against the Rams or you know, or Miami or one

1671
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:04,680
Speaker 1: of those teams. And you know, when you become predictable

1672
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 1: and you can use that to your advantage if the

1673
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:09,040
Speaker 1: other team knows what thinks, they know what you're gonna do,

1674
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:11,760
Speaker 1: and you throw a wrinkling where that blocking tight end

1675
01:32:11,800 --> 01:32:17,400
Speaker 1: becomes the one number one option. Um, yeah, I going

1676
01:32:17,560 --> 01:32:20,320
Speaker 1: heavy and if you need a blocking tiny and It's

1677
01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 1: easy enough to plug an offensive lineman in there, no

1678
01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:25,400
Speaker 1: question about, especially well with the athleticism of Brown as

1679
01:32:25,439 --> 01:32:28,920
Speaker 1: you mentioned. So it's an option. If if I was

1680
01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:30,799
Speaker 1: in the locker room and I was one of the guys,

1681
01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:34,799
Speaker 1: I'd be and Lee Smith was still there, you're busting

1682
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:36,640
Speaker 1: his chops about, Hey, we got an offensive lineman to

1683
01:32:36,720 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 1: get that blocking tight end spot. Now we got an

1684
01:32:38,439 --> 01:32:41,639
Speaker 1: athlete over there right for Lee. Right, you're busting Lee chips.

1685
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 1: Smith's chopped for, you know, for not being a good

1686
01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:46,360
Speaker 1: as good an athlete as one of maybe the rookie

1687
01:32:46,439 --> 01:32:50,000
Speaker 1: right tackle draft picks. So yeah, you've got enough guys,

1688
01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:53,400
Speaker 1: no question. Break time for us here. But when we

1689
01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:57,280
Speaker 1: come back, it's CBS Sports NFL writer John Breach. You

1690
01:32:57,360 --> 01:33:00,160
Speaker 1: may have heard over the weekend that Tom Brady he

1691
01:33:00,280 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 1: played the entire twenty twenty season with a torn MCL

1692
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 1: and his knee. The Bucks never reported that on their

1693
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:13,360
Speaker 1: injury report the entire season. John's talking about and put

1694
01:33:13,400 --> 01:33:15,920
Speaker 1: a piece together about why Tom Brady's big injury from

1695
01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:19,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty could lead to a major punishment from the

1696
01:33:19,280 --> 01:33:22,240
Speaker 1: NFL for the Bucks. We'll talk to him about that

1697
01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 1: next here on one Bill's Live, presented by Collida Health.

1698
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:46,120
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

1699
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:48,479
Speaker 1: been all all her fields. Kind of unique. He was

1700
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:54,360
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for Dave, Steve a blimp.

1701
01:33:55,160 --> 01:34:01,679
Speaker 1: We're not even in the stratosphere of normalcy. We're number

1702
01:34:01,760 --> 01:34:04,240
Speaker 1: three here on a Monday one Bill's Live. Chris Brown,

1703
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:08,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you and joining us as promised on

1704
01:34:08,080 --> 01:34:11,040
Speaker 1: the line right now, CBA Sports, NFL writer and host

1705
01:34:11,120 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 1: of the Pick six podcast, it is John Breach joining us. John,

1706
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 1: thanks for getting us some time. How are you doing

1707
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 1: here on this Monday doing fantastic? Thanks for having me guys. Yeah,

1708
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:24,160
Speaker 1: so we wanted to jump right into this because anytime

1709
01:34:24,560 --> 01:34:27,479
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is a headline, it's of interest to the

1710
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:29,599
Speaker 1: people that maybe hate him more than anybody else here

1711
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:34,160
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. But we learn, you know, late last week

1712
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:37,479
Speaker 1: over the weekend, he basically went through the entire season

1713
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:40,600
Speaker 1: last year with a torn MCL in his knee, and

1714
01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 1: curiously he was barely, if at all, on the injury

1715
01:34:46,120 --> 01:34:48,880
Speaker 1: report last year in any way, shape or form. And

1716
01:34:49,000 --> 01:34:51,360
Speaker 1: I know you kind of covered this in your column

1717
01:34:51,400 --> 01:34:56,080
Speaker 1: on CBA sports dot Com. There could be some heavy

1718
01:34:56,160 --> 01:35:01,559
Speaker 1: repercussions coming down from this at the league's hand right, Yeah,

1719
01:35:01,640 --> 01:35:04,600
Speaker 1: this is a situation. It's really interesting here. The Buccaneers

1720
01:35:04,640 --> 01:35:07,439
Speaker 1: could end up being in some hot water because you

1721
01:35:07,600 --> 01:35:11,160
Speaker 1: look at Tom Brady. If he played the entire season

1722
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:14,480
Speaker 1: with a torn MCL and he wasn't on the Buccaneers

1723
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:18,080
Speaker 1: injury report, that's against league rules. I mean, the NFL

1724
01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:22,160
Speaker 1: is pretty clear about this in there in the league handbook,

1725
01:35:22,200 --> 01:35:24,840
Speaker 1: the League Manual, it says, hey, look, if a player

1726
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:27,360
Speaker 1: is injured, he has to be on the injury report.

1727
01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:29,880
Speaker 1: And this means even if he takes every snap in

1728
01:35:29,960 --> 01:35:33,680
Speaker 1: practice and is expected to play in the game, you know,

1729
01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:36,439
Speaker 1: he still needs to be at least listed. And obviously

1730
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers didn't do that, and so I think, really

1731
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:42,679
Speaker 1: I won't be surprised at all if the NFL looks

1732
01:35:42,680 --> 01:35:44,280
Speaker 1: into this. I would think they'd have to. I mean,

1733
01:35:44,360 --> 01:35:46,840
Speaker 1: we saw this a couple of years ago with Ben Roethlisberger.

1734
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:49,759
Speaker 1: The Steelwders got fined one hundred and twenty five thousand

1735
01:35:49,840 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 1: dollars for kind of fudging a Roethlisberger injury report. It

1736
01:35:53,240 --> 01:35:56,360
Speaker 1: was Week two back in twenty nineteen. We saw the

1737
01:35:56,439 --> 01:35:59,760
Speaker 1: Bills get investigated following the twenty nineteen season when Jerry

1738
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:03,639
Speaker 1: Who said his risks her following the season and people

1739
01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: were wondering why maybe that wasn't on the injury report,

1740
01:36:06,080 --> 01:36:09,479
Speaker 1: and you know, Buffalo got cleared. But the NFL will

1741
01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:11,640
Speaker 1: look into these things. And because Tom Brady set a

1742
01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: high profile player, you know, it's possible that we could

1743
01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:17,799
Speaker 1: see a punishment like a big fine come down sometime

1744
01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:19,680
Speaker 1: in the future and a big buy. But this has

1745
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:23,360
Speaker 1: happened before. The Steelers got fined. Mike Tomlin got fined.

1746
01:36:23,880 --> 01:36:25,800
Speaker 1: But it's like, you know, it's like you're talking like

1747
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:28,000
Speaker 1: six figures, like one hundred and fifty grand or two

1748
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:31,040
Speaker 1: hundred grand for part of it for the club, part

1749
01:36:31,080 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 1: of it for the coach. Those that's what we're talking about,

1750
01:36:34,200 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 1: right Nobody. I'd have a hard time seeing this is

1751
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:41,879
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody getting suspended for this, right Yeah, unless

1752
01:36:42,240 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: the NFL found something egregious where the Buccaneers were trying

1753
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:49,000
Speaker 1: to hide this because for all we know, you know,

1754
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:51,519
Speaker 1: Tom Brady showed up, signed with the team in March

1755
01:36:51,600 --> 01:36:54,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, took his physical, maybe didn't have a completely

1756
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:58,120
Speaker 1: torn MCL yet, maybe he tore it in training camp

1757
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:00,320
Speaker 1: or in week one, because we don't know when it

1758
01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: actually happened and then just didn't tell the Buccaneers about it.

1759
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:06,439
Speaker 1: You know, that's unlikely. But if I'm Tom Brady, that's

1760
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:08,799
Speaker 1: my story, and then the team can't get in any trouble.

1761
01:37:09,360 --> 01:37:11,280
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of ways this can go. And

1762
01:37:11,439 --> 01:37:13,720
Speaker 1: as long as you know, it doesn't look like the

1763
01:37:13,760 --> 01:37:16,960
Speaker 1: Buccaneers were absolutely trying to hide this. Yeah, I think

1764
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:19,800
Speaker 1: a fine would be the worst punishment we would see. Yeah,

1765
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:23,000
Speaker 1: because I mean, and the whole reason this is probably

1766
01:37:23,080 --> 01:37:25,519
Speaker 1: going to get even more attention than it might normally get.

1767
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 1: Not only is it because of the high profile nature

1768
01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:32,559
Speaker 1: of Brady, but there is a prior, let's just say,

1769
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:35,640
Speaker 1: run in between him and Roger Goodell as we know

1770
01:37:35,840 --> 01:37:39,760
Speaker 1: so with deflakate and everything, so that only ramps up

1771
01:37:40,400 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 1: the level of attention and interest in something like this.

1772
01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:45,120
Speaker 1: So it's certainly going to be interesting to see where

1773
01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:47,240
Speaker 1: it goes. I fully expect something to happen at like

1774
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:51,840
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon at five pm, you know, like the day

1775
01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 1: before the Hall of Fame game or something, so it

1776
01:37:54,640 --> 01:37:57,599
Speaker 1: gets buried under the carpet, as is usually the case.

1777
01:37:58,479 --> 01:38:02,000
Speaker 1: I saw that you just put out. It was kind

1778
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:04,760
Speaker 1: of a mail bad column of yours, John, But you

1779
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 1: did list in their nine NFL trade candidates who could

1780
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:12,719
Speaker 1: get unexpectedly dealt. And you know we've been talking because

1781
01:38:12,760 --> 01:38:16,080
Speaker 1: it's division related, the whole Gilmour situation up in New

1782
01:38:16,120 --> 01:38:19,400
Speaker 1: England and how there is no progress in terms of

1783
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:22,760
Speaker 1: reworking his contract. He obviously feels he's underpaid and he

1784
01:38:22,880 --> 01:38:26,760
Speaker 1: probably is for what he's done for them, and they

1785
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:30,479
Speaker 1: usually end up if there is an impasse moving the player.

1786
01:38:30,640 --> 01:38:32,840
Speaker 1: There's a long history there of them doing that with

1787
01:38:33,240 --> 01:38:37,360
Speaker 1: proven veteran players. How realistic if you could put percentages

1788
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:39,840
Speaker 1: on and how realistic do you think it comes to

1789
01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:43,439
Speaker 1: that as a resolution? I would say, if I'm putting

1790
01:38:43,439 --> 01:38:45,840
Speaker 1: a percentage on it, I would say about seventy five

1791
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:48,720
Speaker 1: percent sure of the Patriots do not trade him. I

1792
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:51,599
Speaker 1: just feel like, if you're Bell Belichick, you know you're

1793
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:54,640
Speaker 1: almost seventy years old. You don't have a lot of

1794
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:56,800
Speaker 1: seasons yet. I mean, of course maybe he could coach

1795
01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:59,519
Speaker 1: Toy's eighteen. I could be completely wrong. And so if

1796
01:38:59,560 --> 01:39:02,479
Speaker 1: he is really good about this team this year and

1797
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:04,799
Speaker 1: does in fact feel like this is a playoff contender.

1798
01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:07,879
Speaker 1: You know, they completely revamped the roster, made all these additions.

1799
01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:10,680
Speaker 1: You don't want to lose your star cornerback, and I

1800
01:39:10,760 --> 01:39:13,320
Speaker 1: feel like you're gonna do almost anything to keep them.

1801
01:39:13,479 --> 01:39:15,800
Speaker 1: But as you said, the Patriots don't have long history

1802
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:18,839
Speaker 1: of playcating their veterans. They don't cave into these demands.

1803
01:39:19,080 --> 01:39:21,320
Speaker 1: They'll just ship you off and say, Okay, thanks for

1804
01:39:21,400 --> 01:39:23,439
Speaker 1: playing with us. You know we paid you what we're

1805
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:24,960
Speaker 1: gonna pay you. We're not going to give you a raise.

1806
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:27,879
Speaker 1: But I do think that Stefan Gilmour is so talented

1807
01:39:28,479 --> 01:39:32,679
Speaker 1: play such a key position that the Patriots might cave

1808
01:39:32,800 --> 01:39:35,200
Speaker 1: into this by maybe adding a little bit more guaranteed

1809
01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:37,360
Speaker 1: money to his contract. But I don't think any of

1810
01:39:37,439 --> 01:39:40,720
Speaker 1: us would be surprised if he gets traded, because you

1811
01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:43,519
Speaker 1: know they can't get out of this impass. Give us

1812
01:39:43,520 --> 01:39:47,120
Speaker 1: a little idea that getting out of this impasse. There's

1813
01:39:47,160 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: so much of this going around. You have a new

1814
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:52,760
Speaker 1: column that veterans like Steph Gilmour, and there are guys

1815
01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:55,640
Speaker 1: around the league who just might surprise some people and

1816
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden be on their way to a

1817
01:39:57,080 --> 01:39:59,439
Speaker 1: new team. This just came down off your page that

1818
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:01,519
Speaker 1: where you've had an idea about eight or nine guys

1819
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:05,000
Speaker 1: around the league that may be on the trading block

1820
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:08,320
Speaker 1: and nobody knows about it yet. Yeah, this is more

1821
01:40:08,400 --> 01:40:10,400
Speaker 1: of a you know, we've spent all offseason talking about

1822
01:40:10,439 --> 01:40:12,680
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and what the Packers are going to do

1823
01:40:12,800 --> 01:40:15,559
Speaker 1: with him, and there are a few situations where things

1824
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:20,360
Speaker 1: could get interesting around the NFL. Obviously Stefan Gilmour's a

1825
01:40:20,439 --> 01:40:23,200
Speaker 1: situation to watch, but you know, the Broncos are on

1826
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:26,040
Speaker 1: the list. You look at Melvin Gordon and then they

1827
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:28,320
Speaker 1: just drafted a running back, so all of a sudden,

1828
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:31,840
Speaker 1: maybe you don't need Melvin Gordon. Maybe a team is

1829
01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:34,519
Speaker 1: dealing with a running back who gets injured in training camp.

1830
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:36,760
Speaker 1: You call up Denver and you say, hey, look, you

1831
01:40:36,800 --> 01:40:39,519
Speaker 1: guys have a stable running backs there. We could use

1832
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:41,720
Speaker 1: one right now, and so all of a sudden, the

1833
01:40:41,760 --> 01:40:43,639
Speaker 1: trade goes down. So a walk can happened in training

1834
01:40:43,680 --> 01:40:47,640
Speaker 1: camp because injuries happen, and teams are always looking to

1835
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:50,120
Speaker 1: put their best foot board get the most talent they

1836
01:40:50,160 --> 01:40:52,360
Speaker 1: can't on the field. So this is basically just a

1837
01:40:52,439 --> 01:40:57,360
Speaker 1: list of players who maybe aren't happy in their current situation.

1838
01:40:57,720 --> 01:40:59,960
Speaker 1: And obviously, you know Melvin Gordon's the one I mentioned.

1839
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:02,479
Speaker 1: He's probably not thrilled that the Broncos spent a high

1840
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:05,719
Speaker 1: pick on a running back this year. Yeah. And another

1841
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:08,439
Speaker 1: guy who I think we're pretty comfortable saying isn't happy

1842
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:12,559
Speaker 1: is also in the Bill's division in Jet safety Marcus May,

1843
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:14,880
Speaker 1: who is a safety that I think is a more

1844
01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:17,639
Speaker 1: versatile talent than even Jamal Adams, who they shipped off

1845
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:19,680
Speaker 1: their number four pick in the draft just a few

1846
01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:22,599
Speaker 1: years ago. You know, they franchise him, they can't come

1847
01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:24,800
Speaker 1: to a long term agreement as if yet doesn't sound

1848
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:28,479
Speaker 1: like anything's getting done, and now it can't because it's

1849
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:32,479
Speaker 1: past the deadline. So what happens here? Like, what is

1850
01:41:32,520 --> 01:41:35,240
Speaker 1: the best resolution? Because it's not like the Jets are

1851
01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:39,479
Speaker 1: flush with secondary talent here. Poor Robert sala is going

1852
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:42,320
Speaker 1: to be inheriting a bunch of unproven players. May is

1853
01:41:42,360 --> 01:41:45,200
Speaker 1: one of the few proven guys he's got for that

1854
01:41:45,360 --> 01:41:48,800
Speaker 1: secondary is he? I can't imagine he wants to part

1855
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:52,439
Speaker 1: with him. Yeah, I don't know what the Jets are doing.

1856
01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:55,360
Speaker 1: It's almost like they don't appreciate safety talent. They already

1857
01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:57,920
Speaker 1: shipped off Jamal Adams, as you mentioned. You know, we

1858
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:01,519
Speaker 1: saw reports that before the tag deadline, before we got

1859
01:42:01,560 --> 01:42:04,479
Speaker 1: there on July fifteenth, that they basically low balled Marcus

1860
01:42:04,640 --> 01:42:09,599
Speaker 1: May and didn't offer him even a franchise tag amount

1861
01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:11,760
Speaker 1: of money. And so that's surprising because you're talking about

1862
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:13,920
Speaker 1: a guy who could be the cornerstone of your secondary

1863
01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:18,840
Speaker 1: for years to come, and you're kind of insulting him

1864
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:22,960
Speaker 1: by not giving him an above market offer that he

1865
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:26,280
Speaker 1: probably deserves. And especially you've got a new coach in

1866
01:42:26,360 --> 01:42:29,400
Speaker 1: there trying to build a new system, and you know,

1867
01:42:29,439 --> 01:42:32,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure Robert Salo is a defensive minded coach. He

1868
01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:34,320
Speaker 1: would love to build around a guy like Marcus May.

1869
01:42:34,400 --> 01:42:36,479
Speaker 1: And you have to think Marcus May is unhappy right now.

1870
01:42:36,680 --> 01:42:38,439
Speaker 1: And if he doesn't get traded, you know, in the

1871
01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:40,840
Speaker 1: next month, which it probably won't happen, but he's on

1872
01:42:40,880 --> 01:42:42,880
Speaker 1: the list because he's probably not someone who's gonna last

1873
01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:45,400
Speaker 1: in New York much longer. It wouldn't be surprising if

1874
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:48,040
Speaker 1: he ends up walking in free agency after the twenty

1875
01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:50,720
Speaker 1: twenty one season. Which of the head coaches around the

1876
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 1: NFL are on the hottest seat? I mean, who's got

1877
01:42:54,720 --> 01:42:58,920
Speaker 1: who has to win this season or it's over? I

1878
01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:01,640
Speaker 1: would Let's go with one team that's been bad, and

1879
01:43:01,720 --> 01:43:05,560
Speaker 1: I'll go with Zach Taylor with the Bengals. They have

1880
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:09,400
Speaker 1: been He's had an atrocious record. He's been a failure

1881
01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:12,320
Speaker 1: as a head coach. And I think if your Cincinnati,

1882
01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:14,680
Speaker 1: this is his chance to turn around. You're gonna get

1883
01:43:14,720 --> 01:43:18,400
Speaker 1: Joe burrowback, You're gonna have him completely healthy. And if

1884
01:43:18,640 --> 01:43:21,320
Speaker 1: the Bengals can't get to six or seven wins, I

1885
01:43:21,479 --> 01:43:25,200
Speaker 1: think you have to at least consider firing Zach Taylor

1886
01:43:25,479 --> 01:43:27,880
Speaker 1: and bringing someone new in there. You know. But if

1887
01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:29,960
Speaker 1: he gets to eight nine wins, then you say, all right,

1888
01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:31,840
Speaker 1: you turn the franchise around. You've proven that you can

1889
01:43:31,920 --> 01:43:34,479
Speaker 1: make things work. Let's give you another year. And then

1890
01:43:34,479 --> 01:43:37,519
Speaker 1: if we're talking about coaches from a good team, I

1891
01:43:37,560 --> 01:43:40,599
Speaker 1: would say Matt Naggie in Chicago. You know he had

1892
01:43:40,640 --> 01:43:42,840
Speaker 1: he took him to the playoffs last year. He's been

1893
01:43:42,920 --> 01:43:45,960
Speaker 1: shredding water his whole career there. He hasn't been bad,

1894
01:43:46,240 --> 01:43:50,920
Speaker 1: he hasn't been good. He's just been average. It's kind

1895
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:53,960
Speaker 1: of like the Three Bears. There's the it's kind of crazy.

1896
01:43:54,040 --> 01:43:56,759
Speaker 1: So I think if Matt nage in the Bear struggle

1897
01:43:56,840 --> 01:43:59,840
Speaker 1: this year and they go again, six or seven wins.

1898
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 1: If he can't top that number, I wouldn't be surprised

1899
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:04,840
Speaker 1: if the Bears dump him. Yeah, especially if Rogers isn't

1900
01:44:04,840 --> 01:44:07,120
Speaker 1: even playing in that division this year. I mean the

1901
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 1: pressure would be ratcheted up even more. You can't win

1902
01:44:09,439 --> 01:44:11,960
Speaker 1: this division with Aaron Rodgers not in it anymore. That

1903
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:15,200
Speaker 1: would be really bad. But talking to John Breach, CBS,

1904
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:19,240
Speaker 1: NFL sportswriter, and John, I saw one of your recent lists,

1905
01:44:19,640 --> 01:44:25,479
Speaker 1: you had Tredavious White third among your top corners. Obviously,

1906
01:44:25,600 --> 01:44:28,040
Speaker 1: we think very highly of Tredavious and what he's done

1907
01:44:28,080 --> 01:44:33,080
Speaker 1: in his Bill's career. Give us the national perspective on him, though,

1908
01:44:33,160 --> 01:44:35,920
Speaker 1: because you know we suffer from Bill's myopia here. So

1909
01:44:36,479 --> 01:44:41,280
Speaker 1: what's the national perspective on Tredevious as a corner? Yeah,

1910
01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:44,360
Speaker 1: you think Bills fans in Buffalo are are not blinded

1911
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 1: by their fandom here. He's just as good as advertised. Look,

1912
01:44:48,320 --> 01:44:51,040
Speaker 1: if you get a shut down corner on your defense,

1913
01:44:51,160 --> 01:44:54,920
Speaker 1: that absolutely turns things around. And so I think we've

1914
01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:57,439
Speaker 1: seen with the emergence of Tredavious White, we've seen the

1915
01:44:57,439 --> 01:45:01,080
Speaker 1: Bills defense get better every year. He's been such a

1916
01:45:01,320 --> 01:45:04,320
Speaker 1: huge reason because of that, you know, you're literally shutting

1917
01:45:04,360 --> 01:45:07,080
Speaker 1: down half the field when he's out there, and so

1918
01:45:07,200 --> 01:45:10,519
Speaker 1: that makes things a lot easier for the rest of

1919
01:45:10,600 --> 01:45:12,880
Speaker 1: the defense. And then you look at you know what

1920
01:45:13,040 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 1: we're doing in the NFL right now. When you're playing

1921
01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:17,760
Speaker 1: a team like the Chiefs, it helps to have a

1922
01:45:17,840 --> 01:45:20,799
Speaker 1: guy like Tradevious White out there covering someone like Tyree

1923
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:24,840
Speaker 1: Hill or one of their other weapons. So you know,

1924
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:28,439
Speaker 1: he's just been such the Bill's defense is basically turned

1925
01:45:28,479 --> 01:45:32,519
Speaker 1: around since they added him. Last year. Before the season,

1926
01:45:32,680 --> 01:45:35,120
Speaker 1: the bill schedule looked like it was it's going to

1927
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:37,680
Speaker 1: be a gauntlet, I mean, a really difficult schedule, and

1928
01:45:37,720 --> 01:45:40,760
Speaker 1: they end up going thirteen and three against it. This year,

1929
01:45:41,479 --> 01:45:44,000
Speaker 1: they don't have to play the NFC West, they're not

1930
01:45:44,080 --> 01:45:47,280
Speaker 1: playing the AFC West, uh, you know, so it looks

1931
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:49,439
Speaker 1: like they're getting a little bit more of a breather

1932
01:45:49,920 --> 01:45:52,840
Speaker 1: playing the AFC South. And you pick the Bills to

1933
01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:56,120
Speaker 1: go fourteen and three into this seventeen game schedule, and

1934
01:45:56,280 --> 01:45:59,320
Speaker 1: I would have gred. I would say it's between that

1935
01:45:59,560 --> 01:46:03,160
Speaker 1: twelve fourteen wins is not out of the realm of possibility,

1936
01:46:04,640 --> 01:46:06,760
Speaker 1: And give us an idea of what your thoughts are

1937
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:10,439
Speaker 1: about about the Bills schedule and how they'll do in it. Yeah,

1938
01:46:10,520 --> 01:46:12,080
Speaker 1: I love the Bills this year. I have on the

1939
01:46:12,120 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 1: Bills bandwagon. I might need to get a Bill's helmet

1940
01:46:14,360 --> 01:46:18,160
Speaker 1: here behind me because I feel really strongly. And you

1941
01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:21,000
Speaker 1: know the schedule when you go up and down the schedule, Look,

1942
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:24,040
Speaker 1: they play the NFC South this year, and so you

1943
01:46:24,120 --> 01:46:27,000
Speaker 1: look at that division, besides the Buccaneers, it feels like

1944
01:46:27,680 --> 01:46:30,439
Speaker 1: you have three teams that are probably average. Obviously, the Saints,

1945
01:46:30,479 --> 01:46:33,519
Speaker 1: Los Drew Brees, the Falcons and Panthers are both three buildings.

1946
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:35,920
Speaker 1: So the Bills are hands down better than three of

1947
01:46:36,000 --> 01:46:38,799
Speaker 1: those four teams. And you know, obviously you can compete

1948
01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:41,200
Speaker 1: with the Buccaneers because they're on that level and have

1949
01:46:41,320 --> 01:46:43,519
Speaker 1: that much talent. And then, like you said, they're playing

1950
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:46,479
Speaker 1: the AFC South. You know, when you're a if you're

1951
01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:48,919
Speaker 1: on the Bills coaching staff and you look at the schedule,

1952
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:52,120
Speaker 1: you know that's probably one you consider a W. There

1953
01:46:52,200 --> 01:46:54,640
Speaker 1: are no WS in the NFL any given Sunday, but

1954
01:46:54,680 --> 01:46:56,320
Speaker 1: you'd like to think you can beat a team like

1955
01:46:56,439 --> 01:46:59,080
Speaker 1: Jacksonville or Houston. So it just feels like there's a

1956
01:46:59,160 --> 01:47:03,200
Speaker 1: lot of winnable games on Buffalo schedule, and you know,

1957
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:06,760
Speaker 1: after watching them what they did last season and kind

1958
01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:09,439
Speaker 1: of coasting to an AFC East title, I think they're

1959
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:13,400
Speaker 1: gonna win it comfortably this year by three, maybe four games.

1960
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:16,879
Speaker 1: So who do you see is the next closest pursuer

1961
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:19,000
Speaker 1: in the division. Is it Miami for you? Do you

1962
01:47:19,479 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 1: believe in Tua or do you think that the Patriots

1963
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:25,320
Speaker 1: have some little bit of resurgence should they figure out

1964
01:47:25,360 --> 01:47:28,760
Speaker 1: their quarterback situation. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with

1965
01:47:28,840 --> 01:47:31,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I'm just not sold on Twa yet. I

1966
01:47:31,040 --> 01:47:33,960
Speaker 1: just need to see a full season of him play

1967
01:47:34,160 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 1: solid football before I can jump on the Dolphins bandwagon.

1968
01:47:37,479 --> 01:47:39,680
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think Miami's gonna go crater after

1969
01:47:39,760 --> 01:47:42,040
Speaker 1: their ten win season last year. I could see him

1970
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:45,120
Speaker 1: getting eight or nine wins. I think the Patriots feel

1971
01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:47,400
Speaker 1: like the second place team in that division. You know,

1972
01:47:47,800 --> 01:47:50,320
Speaker 1: we looked at what they had last season. They had

1973
01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 1: all these opt out players. They had Cam Newton come

1974
01:47:52,840 --> 01:47:55,200
Speaker 1: in as their starting quarterback. He didn't have an offseason

1975
01:47:55,840 --> 01:47:58,799
Speaker 1: to warn the offense. He had covid during the season,

1976
01:47:59,040 --> 01:48:01,439
Speaker 1: and somehow Belle Check still willed that team to a

1977
01:48:01,520 --> 01:48:03,360
Speaker 1: seven and nine records. So when you look at all

1978
01:48:03,400 --> 01:48:05,720
Speaker 1: the talent they've added this year, I feel like the

1979
01:48:05,760 --> 01:48:08,240
Speaker 1: Patriots are probably a ten or eleven win team, but

1980
01:48:08,400 --> 01:48:11,559
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll have the firepower to play with Buffalo.

1981
01:48:11,760 --> 01:48:15,360
Speaker 1: So we've you've said, you know, with glowing reports about

1982
01:48:15,360 --> 01:48:17,040
Speaker 1: what you think the Bills are gonna do this season,

1983
01:48:17,080 --> 01:48:18,760
Speaker 1: and I don't want to say that. You know, there's

1984
01:48:18,760 --> 01:48:20,880
Speaker 1: a lot of people probably think the bills fourteen wins

1985
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,439
Speaker 1: might be a little bit overrated. What about teams around

1986
01:48:23,479 --> 01:48:28,200
Speaker 1: the league that are truly overrated? I mean, who is

1987
01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:30,400
Speaker 1: everybody looking forward to make a splash or take the

1988
01:48:30,439 --> 01:48:32,679
Speaker 1: next big step that you do not believe they're gonna

1989
01:48:32,720 --> 01:48:36,760
Speaker 1: do that. I guess Miami might be one of them. Yeah, absolutely,

1990
01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:39,280
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are on the list. You know, even though

1991
01:48:39,320 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 1: we're adding a seventeenth game, I don't know that they're

1992
01:48:41,200 --> 01:48:43,479
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get back to ten wins. The

1993
01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:45,920
Speaker 1: defense is still great, but again, it's all gonna hinge

1994
01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:48,720
Speaker 1: on how well to a plays, and I'm just not

1995
01:48:48,920 --> 01:48:52,840
Speaker 1: sold on him just yet. I think another team to

1996
01:48:52,960 --> 01:48:55,160
Speaker 1: watch could be the Browns. We don't know how they're

1997
01:48:55,160 --> 01:48:59,120
Speaker 1: going to handle actually having expectations on paper, that team

1998
01:48:59,160 --> 01:49:01,560
Speaker 1: should be good, but you know it's the Browns. The

1999
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:04,439
Speaker 1: fans there, that team has been bad for so long.

2000
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:07,360
Speaker 1: We'll find out how they I think they will be good,

2001
01:49:07,640 --> 01:49:09,800
Speaker 1: but maybe they take a step back. And then you

2002
01:49:09,880 --> 01:49:12,400
Speaker 1: have your classic teams where everybody always talks them on

2003
01:49:12,439 --> 01:49:15,679
Speaker 1: the offseason. I think the Cowboys are one. Everybody's expecting

2004
01:49:15,680 --> 01:49:19,840
Speaker 1: a bounce back season because Dak Prescott is coming back healthy.

2005
01:49:20,400 --> 01:49:22,679
Speaker 1: But you know what, before Dak got injured last season,

2006
01:49:22,800 --> 01:49:24,720
Speaker 1: they were one in three. So it's not like this

2007
01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:27,800
Speaker 1: was a great team. But they're a popular pick to

2008
01:49:28,040 --> 01:49:30,120
Speaker 1: win the NFC East. I think they're actually the odds

2009
01:49:30,200 --> 01:49:33,680
Speaker 1: on favorite in Las Vegas, So you know, I think

2010
01:49:33,760 --> 01:49:37,160
Speaker 1: that team might be a little bit overrated. And if

2011
01:49:37,200 --> 01:49:38,720
Speaker 1: you look at another team, I think if we go

2012
01:49:38,800 --> 01:49:41,800
Speaker 1: to the NFC West, we talk about how strong all

2013
01:49:41,840 --> 01:49:43,960
Speaker 1: of those teams are, and I think a lot of

2014
01:49:44,040 --> 01:49:46,880
Speaker 1: people are back on the forty nine ers bandwagon. You know,

2015
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:48,840
Speaker 1: this team was just in the Super Bowl two years ago,

2016
01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:51,880
Speaker 1: but I think that division is so tough that I

2017
01:49:51,960 --> 01:49:53,799
Speaker 1: feel like they're the third best team in that division,

2018
01:49:53,960 --> 01:49:57,040
Speaker 1: even if everyone's healthy. So He's got the Bills at

2019
01:49:57,080 --> 01:49:59,680
Speaker 1: fourteen and three prediction. He's down on the Dolphins and

2020
01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:02,200
Speaker 1: he's I completely sold on the Browns. John Breach is

2021
01:50:02,240 --> 01:50:05,880
Speaker 1: making friends with Bills Mafia today and E's Big Big

2022
01:50:05,960 --> 01:50:09,920
Speaker 1: Way CBS Sports NFL writer John Breach, thanks very much

2023
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:12,000
Speaker 1: for the time. We'll catch up with you down the line.

2024
01:50:12,080 --> 01:50:14,559
Speaker 1: Enjoy the season, Thanks John, Thanks for having me. Guys.

2025
01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:17,559
Speaker 1: All right, that's John Breech joining us there. And yeah,

2026
01:50:17,640 --> 01:50:21,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta tell you, like the trade eligible

2027
01:50:21,840 --> 01:50:25,680
Speaker 1: players that he listed, He's got Melvin Gordon on there

2028
01:50:25,880 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: as a possible trade candidate. As he mentioned, Stefan Gilmore

2029
01:50:30,320 --> 01:50:34,519
Speaker 1: is on there, Marcus May, I mean, Steve. If the

2030
01:50:34,640 --> 01:50:39,000
Speaker 1: Patriots trade Stefan Gilmore and the Jets trade Marcus May,

2031
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:43,560
Speaker 1: how in good conscience can those teams do that in

2032
01:50:43,680 --> 01:50:46,519
Speaker 1: a division where they have to play the Bills twice

2033
01:50:46,520 --> 01:50:49,920
Speaker 1: a year with that passing game? How do you do that? Yeah?

2034
01:50:50,200 --> 01:50:53,160
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can. Yeah, that's depending on

2035
01:50:53,240 --> 01:50:55,000
Speaker 1: what you get back for him, and depending on what

2036
01:50:55,160 --> 01:50:57,120
Speaker 1: you you may feel like you've got some guys in

2037
01:50:57,200 --> 01:51:01,560
Speaker 1: your roster that are gonna be okay. Certainly nobody on

2038
01:51:01,640 --> 01:51:08,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots roster is gonna play with Steph Dick Steph Gilmour. Um,

2039
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 1: I mean J J. J. Jackson is a good player.

2040
01:51:10,960 --> 01:51:12,880
Speaker 1: I like him, and we saw him last year playing

2041
01:51:12,920 --> 01:51:15,439
Speaker 1: play very well. He got turned inside out by Diggs

2042
01:51:15,439 --> 01:51:18,560
Speaker 1: though after he started yapping at him. Yeah, and you

2043
01:51:19,840 --> 01:51:23,360
Speaker 1: that's to me, that's a position. You can't have enough good,

2044
01:51:23,560 --> 01:51:30,000
Speaker 1: good good ones, right, Um, Yeah, I think that's they better.

2045
01:51:30,840 --> 01:51:32,960
Speaker 1: They better get the sign off on the ownership and

2046
01:51:33,280 --> 01:51:37,240
Speaker 1: the repercussions of that trade. Better not cost me my

2047
01:51:37,360 --> 01:51:40,799
Speaker 1: job if it doesn't go well, Because that's you're right, brownie.

2048
01:51:40,840 --> 01:51:44,640
Speaker 1: It's like you know, carrying around wish, carrying around a

2049
01:51:44,680 --> 01:51:48,000
Speaker 1: full gas full cup of gasoline, walking through a house fire.

2050
01:51:48,920 --> 01:51:51,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you. You can't make a you know,

2051
01:51:51,120 --> 01:51:53,240
Speaker 1: your margin of error is zero when you don't have

2052
01:51:53,320 --> 01:51:56,000
Speaker 1: good corners in this division with this quarterback and these

2053
01:51:56,040 --> 01:52:00,040
Speaker 1: guys in Buffalo and and and everybody else too, and

2054
01:52:00,160 --> 01:52:04,719
Speaker 1: the rest of your schedule. You know, you don't trade

2055
01:52:04,760 --> 01:52:06,760
Speaker 1: good corners unless you get a Google back. Yeah, not

2056
01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:11,160
Speaker 1: something to think about. Twenty seventeen, Sean McDermott trades um

2057
01:52:13,320 --> 01:52:17,360
Speaker 1: Darby and we get EJ. Gaines back. So and EJ.

2058
01:52:17,479 --> 01:52:20,280
Speaker 1: Gaines had a better skill set for this style of defense.

2059
01:52:20,320 --> 01:52:21,800
Speaker 1: They were gonna run here in Buffalo, and they were

2060
01:52:21,840 --> 01:52:24,479
Speaker 1: eight and three with EJ. Gaines on the field right

2061
01:52:24,520 --> 01:52:27,559
Speaker 1: before he got hurt. So that okay, all right, fine,

2062
01:52:30,160 --> 01:52:31,880
Speaker 1: I don't know who you're gonna trade for, Steph Diggs,

2063
01:52:31,880 --> 01:52:33,680
Speaker 1: who's got a better skill set or whatever? You in

2064
01:52:33,720 --> 01:52:37,559
Speaker 1: Gilmore Thore even at age thirty one, Steph Gilmore, I mean, yeah,

2065
01:52:38,439 --> 01:52:41,240
Speaker 1: so you're right, Um, I don't think those guys are

2066
01:52:41,280 --> 01:52:44,080
Speaker 1: going anywhere. I don't know how you can't, Like you

2067
01:52:44,240 --> 01:52:47,000
Speaker 1: gotta figure it out, not figure out the money and

2068
01:52:47,200 --> 01:52:51,920
Speaker 1: do it. But man, like I look, I understand if

2069
01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:57,599
Speaker 1: as an organizational philosophy, you don't want to overpay your

2070
01:52:57,640 --> 01:53:01,080
Speaker 1: safety like Marcus May. The Bills did that with Jared's

2071
01:53:01,120 --> 01:53:03,599
Speaker 1: bird ten years ago. They didn't want to pay him

2072
01:53:03,640 --> 01:53:06,840
Speaker 1: giant money. He signs giant money in New Orleans and

2073
01:53:06,920 --> 01:53:08,720
Speaker 1: then gets hurt. He's out of the league two years

2074
01:53:08,800 --> 01:53:11,400
Speaker 1: later after a giant fifty six million dollar deal. So

2075
01:53:11,479 --> 01:53:12,960
Speaker 1: you look at the Bills, you say that was the

2076
01:53:13,080 --> 01:53:16,760
Speaker 1: right call. But for where the Jets are right now,

2077
01:53:17,680 --> 01:53:21,720
Speaker 1: trying to start anew with Robert Sillah, Joe Douglas is

2078
01:53:21,920 --> 01:53:24,760
Speaker 1: now trying to build a roster you got a young,

2079
01:53:25,800 --> 01:53:29,080
Speaker 1: really good player in Marcus May, and all right, maybe

2080
01:53:29,120 --> 01:53:33,960
Speaker 1: you don't want to pay him franchise level money. Well,

2081
01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:36,160
Speaker 1: then you shouldn't have tagged him in the first place,

2082
01:53:36,320 --> 01:53:39,520
Speaker 1: because as soon as you do, those are the expectations

2083
01:53:39,680 --> 01:53:42,639
Speaker 1: from May and his agents, right, so what are you doing.

2084
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:46,720
Speaker 1: You should have signed him to a competitive deal long

2085
01:53:46,920 --> 01:53:51,880
Speaker 1: term before you had to tag him. I agree. Here's

2086
01:53:51,920 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 1: the thing as well. You could see the Patriots doing

2087
01:53:56,439 --> 01:53:59,679
Speaker 1: something that the Patriots have always done stuff, and they're like, wow,

2088
01:54:00,200 --> 01:54:03,040
Speaker 1: last year and even this year, they went in they signed,

2089
01:54:03,080 --> 01:54:05,840
Speaker 1: They waited and waited and waited, and you're gonna seriously go,

2090
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:07,719
Speaker 1: who are you gonna play at quarterback? And they signed

2091
01:54:07,800 --> 01:54:11,600
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. Yeah, everybody's like okay, well all right, and

2092
01:54:11,720 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 1: then they resigned him. So you could see them like

2093
01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:23,759
Speaker 1: trading Steph Gilmour because then you can see the Patriots

2094
01:54:23,800 --> 01:54:29,000
Speaker 1: doing something like signed Richard Sherman even after what happened.

2095
01:54:29,200 --> 01:54:33,120
Speaker 1: Really they interviewed him. He's got and Richard Sherman's despite

2096
01:54:33,160 --> 01:54:36,400
Speaker 1: whatever issues or demons he's dealing with right now, is

2097
01:54:36,440 --> 01:54:39,640
Speaker 1: a highly respected name and player and person around the NFL.

2098
01:54:41,120 --> 01:54:44,360
Speaker 1: They the Patriots could get away with that. Yeah, I

2099
01:54:44,440 --> 01:54:46,520
Speaker 1: think he's you know what, imagine he's probably facing a

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Speaker 1: six game suspension as soon as he signs with somebody.

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Speaker 1: But depending on what happens, and you know, interviewing the

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01:54:52,040 --> 01:54:55,800
Speaker 1: parties involved, and maybe he doesn't misdemeanors and all of

2103
01:54:55,840 --> 01:55:00,040
Speaker 1: that plus his stand his standing with the league. No,

2104
01:55:00,760 --> 01:55:02,400
Speaker 1: I don't know. All I'm saying is I can see

2105
01:55:02,400 --> 01:55:06,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots doing that and so and there's guys out

2106
01:55:06,120 --> 01:55:13,879
Speaker 1: there who you know, would Okay, he's not Steph Gilmore,

2107
01:55:13,960 --> 01:55:16,560
Speaker 1: but yeah he's all right, you know, and J. C.

2108
01:55:16,760 --> 01:55:21,080
Speaker 1: Jackson becomes their Steph Gilmore. Okay, you know what I'm saying. Okay,

2109
01:55:23,200 --> 01:55:26,680
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. John Breach also broke brought up when

2110
01:55:26,720 --> 01:55:28,640
Speaker 1: he was talking about the Patriots, who he thinks are

2111
01:55:28,680 --> 01:55:32,440
Speaker 1: like a ten or eleven win team this year, about

2112
01:55:32,480 --> 01:55:34,480
Speaker 1: all the guys that are getting back from the opt outs.

2113
01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:37,840
Speaker 1: And I know we discussed this. The only name that

2114
01:55:37,960 --> 01:55:40,240
Speaker 1: you're getting back from the opt outs of any ILK

2115
01:55:40,680 --> 01:55:44,960
Speaker 1: whatsoever is High Tower. That's it. Yeah. The other guys

2116
01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:47,920
Speaker 1: are a bunch of guys, and some of them retired,

2117
01:55:48,080 --> 01:55:51,480
Speaker 1: the other ones retired, Chung and Chung retired, and there

2118
01:55:51,560 --> 01:55:54,440
Speaker 1: was one other guy that retired. So it's like, I

2119
01:55:54,520 --> 01:55:56,920
Speaker 1: don't know, it's got the cavalry now they were back.

2120
01:55:57,000 --> 01:55:59,600
Speaker 1: They're getting van Noy back. He played well, yeah, for

2121
01:55:59,680 --> 01:56:04,240
Speaker 1: different under different circumstances. Yes, Um, they're getting Ted Carriss

2122
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:06,600
Speaker 1: back on the offensive line. So they don't even know

2123
01:56:06,600 --> 01:56:09,960
Speaker 1: if he's starting right. Well if if he's not, they're better,

2124
01:56:10,360 --> 01:56:11,840
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They've got a better guy.

2125
01:56:12,600 --> 01:56:16,400
Speaker 1: He's star. David Andrews's back. So yeah, the pat I

2126
01:56:16,560 --> 01:56:18,760
Speaker 1: think I believe the Patriots are going to be significantly

2127
01:56:18,800 --> 01:56:21,280
Speaker 1: better this year. They know what they've got in Cam

2128
01:56:22,480 --> 01:56:29,320
Speaker 1: and what they don't have, and I just feel, yeah,

2129
01:56:29,440 --> 01:56:33,400
Speaker 1: with they signed Cam for a reason, and maybe they

2130
01:56:33,480 --> 01:56:36,000
Speaker 1: like him as a locker room guy, which surprises a

2131
01:56:36,040 --> 01:56:38,600
Speaker 1: lot of people, but it doesn't surprise me from the

2132
01:56:38,920 --> 01:56:41,440
Speaker 1: word I've heard through the grape vine and the people

2133
01:56:41,440 --> 01:56:43,680
Speaker 1: who've talked to me over the years. Cam's great in

2134
01:56:43,720 --> 01:56:47,280
Speaker 1: the locker room. Great in the locker room. And he

2135
01:56:47,440 --> 01:56:49,960
Speaker 1: showed that in his media a presence last year as

2136
01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 1: the starting quarter face of the franchise after Tom Brady left,

2137
01:56:52,640 --> 01:56:54,600
Speaker 1: that you get humbled pretty fast when you show you

2138
01:56:54,680 --> 01:56:57,120
Speaker 1: can't really play very effectively either. Any yeah, and hit

2139
01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:03,600
Speaker 1: his arm. He that's what I want to see. Everything else? Fine, fine, fine,

2140
01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:07,360
Speaker 1: can he throw it because he couldn't last year. He

2141
01:57:07,480 --> 01:57:09,840
Speaker 1: could not throw it last year. He could do routes

2142
01:57:09,880 --> 01:57:12,440
Speaker 1: on air in minicamp two months ago, a month ago,

2143
01:57:13,280 --> 01:57:17,520
Speaker 1: routes on air, and I know they said the last

2144
01:57:17,560 --> 01:57:21,200
Speaker 1: mini camp practice he had was significantly better. He looked

2145
01:57:21,240 --> 01:57:25,839
Speaker 1: more like Cam blah blah blah blah blah. I remember

2146
01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:29,600
Speaker 1: bounce passes on twelve yard outs last year, bounce passes.

2147
01:57:29,880 --> 01:57:32,440
Speaker 1: He looked like an NBA point guard more than he

2148
01:57:32,520 --> 01:57:35,640
Speaker 1: looked like an NFL quarterback. I mean, honest to Pete,

2149
01:57:35,720 --> 01:57:38,360
Speaker 1: I was surprised. I just sat there watching it, saying,

2150
01:57:38,680 --> 01:57:41,000
Speaker 1: this guy can't play any because think about it, Brownie.

2151
01:57:41,080 --> 01:57:44,400
Speaker 1: We saw it on games and where he'd dropped back

2152
01:57:44,680 --> 01:57:46,720
Speaker 1: and he'd I go, oh gosh, he's got the guy

2153
01:57:47,080 --> 01:57:50,920
Speaker 1: and he'd skip it in there. Do you think he's

2154
01:57:51,000 --> 01:57:54,680
Speaker 1: making those throws in practice. I don't know. Maybe, I

2155
01:57:54,760 --> 01:57:56,600
Speaker 1: don't know. You know, right, I mean they're giving him

2156
01:57:56,640 --> 01:57:58,960
Speaker 1: the ball and ask him to execute, to play. They're

2157
01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:02,040
Speaker 1: gonna give him a play. He can't make the throw. Yeah,

2158
01:58:02,720 --> 01:58:06,560
Speaker 1: it's I was shocked at times, just like you were,

2159
01:58:07,440 --> 01:58:12,520
Speaker 1: you know, just uh you know. And now he's still

2160
01:58:12,520 --> 01:58:15,560
Speaker 1: an athlete and the guys still imposing, but even as

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01:58:15,640 --> 01:58:19,520
Speaker 1: big and strong and as a big enough he's that's

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01:58:19,640 --> 01:58:24,760
Speaker 1: that throw that he's it's unbelievable. I mean, he was

2163
01:58:24,880 --> 01:58:28,560
Speaker 1: only a sixty percent passer in a single season I

2164
01:58:28,640 --> 01:58:33,400
Speaker 1: think twice in his entire career. He's never been highly

2165
01:58:33,560 --> 01:58:37,600
Speaker 1: accurate as a passer. It was his uncommon athleticism and

2166
01:58:37,720 --> 01:58:40,640
Speaker 1: being built like an Adonis that made him an MVP

2167
01:58:40,760 --> 01:58:44,440
Speaker 1: in this league, rushing for touchdowns, being a dual threat guy.

2168
01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:46,360
Speaker 1: He may be one of the all time great running

2169
01:58:46,440 --> 01:58:49,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of all time. But yeah, I mean he's right

2170
01:58:49,720 --> 01:58:51,880
Speaker 1: up there with Cunningham and Vic and those guys. I

2171
01:58:51,920 --> 01:58:54,120
Speaker 1: mean he is. He was MVP and took his team,

2172
01:58:54,240 --> 01:58:56,480
Speaker 1: took a team that the Super Bowl had no business

2173
01:58:56,560 --> 01:59:00,720
Speaker 1: getting there to the super Bowl. But he's not that anymore.

2174
01:59:01,480 --> 01:59:04,360
Speaker 1: And it's a it's amazing too. And as we had

2175
01:59:04,400 --> 01:59:07,160
Speaker 1: this conversation over in the show, yes, the league is

2176
01:59:07,240 --> 01:59:09,640
Speaker 1: not as physically brutal as it was back in the

2177
01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:12,760
Speaker 1: sixty seven. He's even the nineties. But man, oh man,

2178
01:59:12,800 --> 01:59:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what over long haul it takes a

2179
01:59:16,880 --> 01:59:19,760
Speaker 1: big physical toll on these ben roths, especially when you're

2180
01:59:19,760 --> 01:59:22,480
Speaker 1: in the style of quarterback that he was. Cam all

2181
01:59:22,520 --> 01:59:26,400
Speaker 1: these it hurts short short yardage. He was their short

2182
01:59:26,480 --> 01:59:28,360
Speaker 1: yardage back. He was the best one ever eight years.

2183
01:59:28,560 --> 01:59:34,040
Speaker 1: He was the best one ever. And he's yeah, you know.

2184
01:59:34,240 --> 01:59:37,000
Speaker 1: And and they always say, in this league you don't

2185
01:59:37,040 --> 01:59:40,360
Speaker 1: have to lose much. It's not half a step. It's

2186
01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:42,560
Speaker 1: like a quarter of a step. And you look slow

2187
01:59:42,920 --> 01:59:46,480
Speaker 1: in this league, Well you don't. And well you lose

2188
01:59:46,560 --> 01:59:48,480
Speaker 1: that quarter step and you're thinking you still got it,

2189
01:59:48,880 --> 01:59:51,280
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And you're from a guy

2190
01:59:51,320 --> 01:59:54,160
Speaker 1: who lost you you done lost it. I mean, there's

2191
01:59:54,200 --> 01:59:56,520
Speaker 1: things that I wanted I was thinking I was gonna do,

2192
01:59:56,680 --> 01:59:57,880
Speaker 1: and I was of a sudden as I was like,

2193
01:59:58,200 --> 02:00:02,080
Speaker 1: why can I get there anymore? Um So that there's

2194
02:00:02,160 --> 02:00:05,960
Speaker 1: that going on as well, and I'm and I'm not

2195
02:00:06,040 --> 02:00:08,560
Speaker 1: I'm not And I know we've been talking about this

2196
02:00:08,640 --> 02:00:11,000
Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes now about Cam Newton. I'm

2197
02:00:11,080 --> 02:00:14,040
Speaker 1: not bashing him. I'm just haven't seen it because I've

2198
02:00:14,080 --> 02:00:16,200
Speaker 1: seen it before, but I haven't seen it from him.

2199
02:00:16,200 --> 02:00:18,320
Speaker 1: He didn't see it last year. And there has been

2200
02:00:18,360 --> 02:00:21,240
Speaker 1: word coming out as as you heard with any quarterback. Yeah,

2201
02:00:21,240 --> 02:00:23,120
Speaker 1: another year in the system, they're gonna you know, now,

2202
02:00:23,680 --> 02:00:25,760
Speaker 1: you know, Josh McDaniels kind of knows what he's got

2203
02:00:25,840 --> 02:00:28,120
Speaker 1: with Cam a little better than he did before they

2204
02:00:28,240 --> 02:00:33,640
Speaker 1: signed him back, and he's got something they want. Um,

2205
02:00:34,160 --> 02:00:36,560
Speaker 1: I hope they could tell us what They are probably

2206
02:00:37,040 --> 02:00:39,040
Speaker 1: gonna have an offense that looks a little bit more

2207
02:00:39,120 --> 02:00:44,520
Speaker 1: like the Baltimore Ravens rather than the Tom Brady Buccaneers

2208
02:00:44,600 --> 02:00:47,000
Speaker 1: or the Tom Brady New England Patriots. It's gonna be

2209
02:00:47,040 --> 02:00:48,960
Speaker 1: a little bit more like the Baltimore Ravens with a

2210
02:00:49,160 --> 02:00:53,400
Speaker 1: with a misdirection power run game and just you know,

2211
02:00:53,480 --> 02:00:56,560
Speaker 1: ball control, clock control. I don't know how they I

2212
02:00:56,560 --> 02:00:58,360
Speaker 1: don't even know if he's gonna start the season. I

2213
02:00:58,440 --> 02:01:05,040
Speaker 1: think if mac Jones shows any capability and competence, I

2214
02:01:05,120 --> 02:01:08,040
Speaker 1: think he fits what McDaniels would prefer to do better

2215
02:01:08,120 --> 02:01:11,160
Speaker 1: than Cam. And he's all respect to Cam, but man,

2216
02:01:11,200 --> 02:01:13,640
Speaker 1: if he's better, just play that. You couldn't find two

2217
02:01:13,720 --> 02:01:20,640
Speaker 1: different quarterbacks though. Yeah, yeah, it's mac Jones. He can't

2218
02:01:20,680 --> 02:01:24,920
Speaker 1: run us, can't run a step. Yeah. I mean, he's

2219
02:01:24,960 --> 02:01:28,920
Speaker 1: like he makes Ben Roethlisberger look like you know, thoroughbred.

2220
02:01:29,120 --> 02:01:32,960
Speaker 1: Yeah right, he looks like make Ben Roethlisberger look like

2221
02:01:33,120 --> 02:01:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, Devin Singletary out there right sidestepping people. Yeah,

2222
02:01:38,120 --> 02:01:42,080
Speaker 1: Mac Jones is stiff. I can move it a little bit,

2223
02:01:42,160 --> 02:01:45,080
Speaker 1: but not much. Uh. All right, we are up against

2224
02:01:45,120 --> 02:01:47,160
Speaker 1: the break, so we will step aside here when we

2225
02:01:47,280 --> 02:01:49,720
Speaker 1: come back. Your final thoughts on the tweet sheet and

2226
02:01:49,960 --> 02:01:52,400
Speaker 1: a little NFL true false. That's next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Collot of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

2228
02:02:07,160 --> 02:02:10,320
Speaker 1: Welcome back One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

2229
02:02:10,400 --> 02:02:13,520
Speaker 1: you on a Monday, and we gotta wrap up your

2230
02:02:13,560 --> 02:02:15,880
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet here. What level of contribution

2231
02:02:15,960 --> 02:02:18,560
Speaker 1: to the Bills need from their rookie class. They get

2232
02:02:18,640 --> 02:02:22,960
Speaker 1: to that souper ball and Seth says it's answer Cee

2233
02:02:23,120 --> 02:02:26,240
Speaker 1: without a doubt, Greg and Boogey need to step up.

2234
02:02:26,280 --> 02:02:28,440
Speaker 1: With the aging Hughes and Addison not being able to

2235
02:02:28,480 --> 02:02:30,400
Speaker 1: make the plays they once could. Those two might be

2236
02:02:30,480 --> 02:02:33,720
Speaker 1: the difference in getting the d back to top five form.

2237
02:02:34,080 --> 02:02:36,840
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be surprised if Brown beats out for it for

2238
02:02:36,880 --> 02:02:39,640
Speaker 1: a starting guard spot either. I think Brown's a little

2239
02:02:39,680 --> 02:02:43,000
Speaker 1: too tall to play guard. It not if your quarterbacks

2240
02:02:43,040 --> 02:02:46,839
Speaker 1: six five plus. So yeah, I just think the bending

2241
02:02:47,000 --> 02:02:50,920
Speaker 1: and you gotta get yeah, you got You've got to

2242
02:02:50,960 --> 02:02:52,880
Speaker 1: be big enough to move people out of the way.

2243
02:02:53,640 --> 02:02:56,720
Speaker 1: And yeah, sometimes guys that are six eight have a

2244
02:02:56,760 --> 02:03:01,640
Speaker 1: hard time getting low enough down inside to Nathans tackle. Yeah.

2245
02:03:01,640 --> 02:03:04,600
Speaker 1: I think a more likely scenario if Ford is out

2246
02:03:04,920 --> 02:03:07,000
Speaker 1: is Daryl Williams could go into guard and then you

2247
02:03:07,080 --> 02:03:09,960
Speaker 1: could put Brown at tackle. Yeah. Darryl Williams is a

2248
02:03:10,000 --> 02:03:12,640
Speaker 1: good guard as well, has played very well at guard

2249
02:03:12,680 --> 02:03:15,480
Speaker 1: at Caroline and early in his career, and you know

2250
02:03:15,560 --> 02:03:17,800
Speaker 1: he obviously played very well at right tackle last year.

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02:03:17,920 --> 02:03:20,240
Speaker 1: I would pick that as a more likely scenario, or

2252
02:03:20,320 --> 02:03:22,760
Speaker 1: even Ike Bucker, who started in place of Ford last

2253
02:03:22,840 --> 02:03:26,400
Speaker 1: year and played pretty well. So there are options now

2254
02:03:26,480 --> 02:03:30,480
Speaker 1: Forrest lamp Is, Stevens lamp Yeah. I think the competition

2255
02:03:30,520 --> 02:03:33,800
Speaker 1: at offensive line is being a little bit under played

2256
02:03:33,880 --> 02:03:36,440
Speaker 1: by Bills fans because they think because they resigned these guys,

2257
02:03:36,480 --> 02:03:38,520
Speaker 1: they're going to be plugged right back in. I don't

2258
02:03:38,560 --> 02:03:43,520
Speaker 1: think no gimmis here. I don't think there's any gimmis. Yeah.

2259
02:03:43,560 --> 02:03:47,000
Speaker 1: I think all those guys up on the offensive line,

2260
02:03:47,000 --> 02:03:48,880
Speaker 1: the guys that were here last year and played very well.

2261
02:03:48,960 --> 02:03:51,080
Speaker 1: And the new guys, I think they're all they've all

2262
02:03:51,120 --> 02:03:54,360
Speaker 1: got a fire lid under them because there's some real

2263
02:03:54,400 --> 02:03:57,920
Speaker 1: competition to get on the field for this club. Nick says,

2264
02:03:58,360 --> 02:04:02,440
Speaker 1: I have to agree with mister Tasker. Mister Tasker, I

2265
02:04:02,480 --> 02:04:05,240
Speaker 1: look at that it's gonna take everyone on the team

2266
02:04:05,280 --> 02:04:07,320
Speaker 1: to get to the super Bowl. But if our two

2267
02:04:07,680 --> 02:04:10,880
Speaker 1: top draft picks play well, it could be the difference

2268
02:04:10,920 --> 02:04:14,760
Speaker 1: between just getting to the super Bowl and winning the

2269
02:04:14,840 --> 02:04:18,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Now. I think Nick's comment is somewhat influenced

2270
02:04:18,400 --> 02:04:20,360
Speaker 1: by what he witnessed in this past year's Super Bowl,

2271
02:04:20,440 --> 02:04:24,560
Speaker 1: which was a relentless pass rush from the Bucks, granted

2272
02:04:24,600 --> 02:04:28,640
Speaker 1: against two backup offensive tackles. Yeah, but he's not wrong. Yeah,

2273
02:04:29,720 --> 02:04:32,760
Speaker 1: I think about it. Whenever you have a really good

2274
02:04:32,840 --> 02:04:35,600
Speaker 1: team and your defense is playing well, pass rush is

2275
02:04:35,680 --> 02:04:37,520
Speaker 1: the thing that you look at, and says, particularly in

2276
02:04:37,560 --> 02:04:39,840
Speaker 1: the league that throws it all the time. Think about

2277
02:04:39,840 --> 02:04:42,480
Speaker 1: the Bills game against the Seattle Seahawks that last year.

2278
02:04:43,120 --> 02:04:45,600
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson was harried, he was sacked a bunch, and

2279
02:04:45,680 --> 02:04:48,520
Speaker 1: he threw three picks because he was running around a

2280
02:04:48,520 --> 02:04:52,200
Speaker 1: little bit. The Bill's pass rush looked awesome. Part of that.

2281
02:04:52,360 --> 02:04:55,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's how you play on that day

2282
02:04:58,120 --> 02:05:00,400
Speaker 1: that you know says how you're the games gonna go,

2283
02:05:00,800 --> 02:05:04,160
Speaker 1: and sometimes you match up better. But I don't think

2284
02:05:04,440 --> 02:05:08,720
Speaker 1: you know that's I'm not saying the Bills have to

2285
02:05:08,840 --> 02:05:12,320
Speaker 1: revamp their entire you know, pass rush or all of

2286
02:05:12,360 --> 02:05:14,000
Speaker 1: a sudden, if you're if you're gonna win the Super Bowl,

2287
02:05:14,080 --> 02:05:16,000
Speaker 1: you have to rush the pass or like the Bucks

2288
02:05:16,080 --> 02:05:18,960
Speaker 1: did last year. I don't know if you do or not.

2289
02:05:19,080 --> 02:05:20,720
Speaker 1: You have to have a good game, no question about it.

2290
02:05:20,720 --> 02:05:23,040
Speaker 1: And like I said, if you're gonna getting against these

2291
02:05:23,080 --> 02:05:24,960
Speaker 1: teams like in the Nancy Championship in the Super Bowl,

2292
02:05:25,080 --> 02:05:28,240
Speaker 1: you gotta play well on that day. If you get there,

2293
02:05:28,360 --> 02:05:31,040
Speaker 1: you're good enough to play well on that day and win.

2294
02:05:32,280 --> 02:05:34,720
Speaker 1: If you don't, the other team's gonna beat you because

2295
02:05:34,760 --> 02:05:39,880
Speaker 1: they're good to this. Just in time, Steve for a

2296
02:05:39,920 --> 02:05:43,879
Speaker 1: little NFL True Falls. It's been a while, I am interested,

2297
02:05:44,000 --> 02:05:46,320
Speaker 1: so let's do this. NFL True Falls brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Yancy's Fancy New York's artists in Cheese. Number one

2299
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Speaker 1: on the list for NFL True Falls. The Colts will

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02:05:54,600 --> 02:05:59,720
Speaker 1: win the AFC South in twenty twenty one We just

2301
02:06:00,240 --> 02:06:02,960
Speaker 1: John Breach say he's down on the AFC South this year,

2302
02:06:03,440 --> 02:06:06,920
Speaker 1: and we understand why. With Houston, although I think Jacksonville

2303
02:06:06,960 --> 02:06:11,480
Speaker 1: can win six or seven games, maybe even eight, who knows, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yeah, I think I thought the Colts

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Speaker 1: were one of the toughest teams the Bills played last year.

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02:06:16,840 --> 02:06:19,200
Speaker 1: They got into the playoffs, they played extremely well when

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02:06:19,200 --> 02:06:21,720
Speaker 1: they got there. I think their quarterback situation is a

2308
02:06:21,800 --> 02:06:23,760
Speaker 1: little bit of a question mark, but I think it'll

2309
02:06:23,800 --> 02:06:26,640
Speaker 1: be a more seamless transition than maybe we've seen another

2310
02:06:26,720 --> 02:06:29,960
Speaker 1: guy's making other teams. I think Carson Wentz is gonna

2311
02:06:30,240 --> 02:06:33,280
Speaker 1: get back to his early career, the form he had

2312
02:06:33,280 --> 02:06:36,200
Speaker 1: in his early career in Philly, where he's playing at

2313
02:06:36,200 --> 02:06:41,400
Speaker 1: an MVP level. And if he does and the Colts

2314
02:06:41,480 --> 02:06:46,280
Speaker 1: do go deep, you know, you could you could make

2315
02:06:46,360 --> 02:06:48,800
Speaker 1: a case for Frank Reich being coach of the year.

2316
02:06:49,760 --> 02:06:53,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if that's a successful reclamation project, no question

2317
02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:58,640
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, Brian Dable was assistant Coach of

2318
02:06:58,680 --> 02:07:01,520
Speaker 1: the Year right for so you saw what he did

2319
02:07:01,560 --> 02:07:05,360
Speaker 1: with Alan, so he has similar production or success with Wentz. Yeah,

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02:07:06,040 --> 02:07:08,480
Speaker 1: I will say true as well, because I am even

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02:07:08,520 --> 02:07:10,920
Speaker 1: though they had Julio Jones as a major acquisition. I

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02:07:11,040 --> 02:07:14,520
Speaker 1: am down on the Titans because of what they lost

2323
02:07:14,600 --> 02:07:17,120
Speaker 1: and had to retool on the defensive side of the ball.

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02:07:17,400 --> 02:07:19,400
Speaker 1: I don't think their defense is going to be as stingy,

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02:07:19,720 --> 02:07:21,160
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to be in a position

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02:07:21,560 --> 02:07:23,760
Speaker 1: where they're going to find themselves behind in some games

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02:07:23,800 --> 02:07:26,280
Speaker 1: and not be able to rely on Derrick Henry as

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02:07:26,360 --> 02:07:28,600
Speaker 1: much as they've had in the past when they've often

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02:07:28,640 --> 02:07:31,080
Speaker 1: played from ahead, and I think that's going to hurt

2330
02:07:31,120 --> 02:07:32,920
Speaker 1: them in the standings and the win lost column a

2331
02:07:32,960 --> 02:07:34,880
Speaker 1: little bit, not tremendously. I think they're probably still a

2332
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:37,320
Speaker 1: ten eleven win team. Well, I think they might be

2333
02:07:37,400 --> 02:07:39,440
Speaker 1: in some games where they have to change their spots

2334
02:07:39,480 --> 02:07:43,760
Speaker 1: a little bit offensively because their defense is not good enough.

2335
02:07:43,960 --> 02:07:46,680
Speaker 1: You can see the scenario easily with Tennessee, the way

2336
02:07:46,680 --> 02:07:49,080
Speaker 1: they're built and constructed, and you know, we always project

2337
02:07:49,200 --> 02:07:50,800
Speaker 1: last year on it this year and it's probably not

2338
02:07:50,920 --> 02:07:53,400
Speaker 1: as it's it's not accurate, just like it's not for

2339
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:56,920
Speaker 1: the Bills this year. But having said that, even so,

2340
02:07:58,400 --> 02:08:02,080
Speaker 1: you see the philosophy Tennessee is gonna will have struggle

2341
02:08:02,680 --> 02:08:04,920
Speaker 1: unless everything goes even when it goes well for them.

2342
02:08:06,400 --> 02:08:10,440
Speaker 1: They're not gonna win games thirty to seventeen. They're gonna

2343
02:08:10,440 --> 02:08:14,240
Speaker 1: win games seventeen to fourteen. They're never gonna be a

2344
02:08:14,320 --> 02:08:19,560
Speaker 1: team that, you know, because of their defense, is going

2345
02:08:19,640 --> 02:08:21,560
Speaker 1: to be able to outscore people, because they're not gonna

2346
02:08:21,560 --> 02:08:24,360
Speaker 1: score fast enough. And every time you score, you give

2347
02:08:24,400 --> 02:08:25,840
Speaker 1: the ball back to your opponent and they go to

2348
02:08:26,000 --> 02:08:28,440
Speaker 1: bing bing bing touchdown. Here you go, now the balls

2349
02:08:28,440 --> 02:08:30,880
Speaker 1: back in your court. You know, you can see the

2350
02:08:30,960 --> 02:08:33,400
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titians aren't gonna run off and leave people on

2351
02:08:33,520 --> 02:08:36,920
Speaker 1: the scoreboard. So anytime you get into a ton of

2352
02:08:37,040 --> 02:08:41,240
Speaker 1: games where it's one score games, it's hard to consistently

2353
02:08:41,440 --> 02:08:44,000
Speaker 1: always come out on top. Now, Derrick Henry's an advantage,

2354
02:08:44,040 --> 02:08:48,160
Speaker 1: no question, But when your defense stinks and that other

2355
02:08:48,240 --> 02:08:51,600
Speaker 1: team still moves the ball every time and every series,

2356
02:08:51,640 --> 02:08:54,280
Speaker 1: they're getting a field goal at least, if not a touchdown.

2357
02:08:56,200 --> 02:08:59,120
Speaker 1: That philosophy with Derrick Henry, and you know he slips

2358
02:08:59,160 --> 02:09:01,040
Speaker 1: and falls one time. I'm on a third down. Now

2359
02:09:01,080 --> 02:09:02,560
Speaker 1: you've got to pun it back and now you're down

2360
02:09:02,600 --> 02:09:07,160
Speaker 1: to score. You're down a possession. So you can see

2361
02:09:07,320 --> 02:09:09,840
Speaker 1: a case a scenario where the Titans are going to

2362
02:09:09,920 --> 02:09:14,120
Speaker 1: spend seventeen games during the regular season leading or trailing

2363
02:09:14,160 --> 02:09:17,920
Speaker 1: by three. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you, though, I think

2364
02:09:18,160 --> 02:09:20,360
Speaker 1: the Colts will win the AFC South. I think they

2365
02:09:20,520 --> 02:09:23,400
Speaker 1: have one of the most complete topped bottom rosters and

2366
02:09:23,480 --> 02:09:25,960
Speaker 1: it does hinge On Wentz coming through, But I think

2367
02:09:26,000 --> 02:09:28,280
Speaker 1: Frank will get him fixed this year, and I felt

2368
02:09:28,280 --> 02:09:33,160
Speaker 1: true false number two. The Detroit Lions are being overlooked.

2369
02:09:33,280 --> 02:09:36,120
Speaker 1: He wow, I almost can't even say with a straight face.

2370
02:09:36,160 --> 02:09:39,839
Speaker 1: Are being overlooked heading into the twenty twenty one season.

2371
02:09:40,320 --> 02:09:44,840
Speaker 1: I say true, and there's good reason for that. Yeah,

2372
02:09:45,920 --> 02:09:50,320
Speaker 1: I am giving them a second thought this offseason and

2373
02:09:50,520 --> 02:09:55,320
Speaker 1: I will stand by that. As we know their new

2374
02:09:55,360 --> 02:09:58,240
Speaker 1: head coaches, Dan Campbell. They have Jared Goff at quarterback

2375
02:09:58,360 --> 02:10:01,880
Speaker 1: now after the Stafford trade. Dan Campbell is. Dan Campbell

2376
02:10:01,920 --> 02:10:07,080
Speaker 1: is the kneecap guy. Correct. His offensive coordinator is Anthony Lynn,

2377
02:10:08,160 --> 02:10:12,560
Speaker 1: and his defensive coordinator is Aaron Glenn. Former corner in

2378
02:10:12,640 --> 02:10:15,960
Speaker 1: this league. I played against Aaron Glynn. Yeah, former first

2379
02:10:16,040 --> 02:10:22,240
Speaker 1: round pick of the Jets. So I can't none of

2380
02:10:22,360 --> 02:10:24,280
Speaker 1: us can predict what it's going to look like up there.

2381
02:10:25,000 --> 02:10:28,920
Speaker 1: Because this is Dan Campbell's first full time job as

2382
02:10:28,920 --> 02:10:34,640
Speaker 1: a head coach the intrum in Miami, correct, So where

2383
02:10:34,680 --> 02:10:36,560
Speaker 1: does it go from here? I don't know, but there's

2384
02:10:36,560 --> 02:10:38,480
Speaker 1: a lot of fixing that has to happen there. It

2385
02:10:38,720 --> 02:10:40,200
Speaker 1: sounds I don't know, if you're gonna pull it all

2386
02:10:40,200 --> 02:10:42,920
Speaker 1: together in year one. Yeah, it sounds a little crazy,

2387
02:10:44,920 --> 02:10:48,320
Speaker 1: But some franchises have a hard time getting quality candidates

2388
02:10:48,360 --> 02:10:53,080
Speaker 1: to say yes. Right, if you want to have a

2389
02:10:53,200 --> 02:10:55,040
Speaker 1: long tenure as a head coach, you want to go

2390
02:10:55,160 --> 02:10:59,520
Speaker 1: someplace where you the atmosphere, the ownership, the building, the philosophy,

2391
02:11:00,400 --> 02:11:02,800
Speaker 1: the way they want you to run your side of

2392
02:11:02,840 --> 02:11:04,200
Speaker 1: the business and the way you would like them to

2393
02:11:04,320 --> 02:11:08,040
Speaker 1: run their side of the business just preclude success. You

2394
02:11:08,160 --> 02:11:12,120
Speaker 1: just can't do it. You just there's just an atmosphere

2395
02:11:12,240 --> 02:11:18,040
Speaker 1: that is not conducive to winning. Detroit seems to be

2396
02:11:18,120 --> 02:11:21,120
Speaker 1: one of those places. Chicago seems to be one of

2397
02:11:21,200 --> 02:11:24,160
Speaker 1: those places. Cincinnati seems to be one of those places.

2398
02:11:24,760 --> 02:11:27,320
Speaker 1: San Diego seems to be one of those places. They

2399
02:11:27,480 --> 02:11:32,640
Speaker 1: just forever there's a tension between the football side of

2400
02:11:32,680 --> 02:11:35,400
Speaker 1: things and the business side of things, or the financial

2401
02:11:35,480 --> 02:11:37,560
Speaker 1: side of things and the football side of things, or

2402
02:11:37,720 --> 02:11:42,760
Speaker 1: whatever whatever, between the coaching staff and the management, the

2403
02:11:42,880 --> 02:11:45,920
Speaker 1: GM or whatever what you pick your topic. There never

2404
02:11:46,080 --> 02:11:50,680
Speaker 1: seems to be from the top of the organization to

2405
02:11:50,960 --> 02:11:55,000
Speaker 1: the guys who mow the grass. Not everybody's pulling the

2406
02:11:55,040 --> 02:11:58,520
Speaker 1: same direction. Lack of synergy, if you will, exactly. Yeah,

2407
02:11:58,600 --> 02:12:00,720
Speaker 1: I kind of looked at this question fly the Lions

2408
02:12:00,760 --> 02:12:03,200
Speaker 1: are being overlooked. I kind of thought of that saying, Oh,

2409
02:12:03,240 --> 02:12:05,400
Speaker 1: they're being overlooked because people expect them to be better.

2410
02:12:05,440 --> 02:12:08,880
Speaker 1: And I was going to say unequivocally false, but I

2411
02:12:09,040 --> 02:12:10,920
Speaker 1: kind of I see it your way now, so I

2412
02:12:10,960 --> 02:12:14,640
Speaker 1: will say true, they are being overlooked and deservedly. So yeah,

2413
02:12:15,360 --> 02:12:17,520
Speaker 1: break time for us, Steve and I back to wrap

2414
02:12:17,560 --> 02:12:19,240
Speaker 1: it up in a second. Here on One Bill's Live

2415
02:12:19,320 --> 02:12:37,960
Speaker 1: presented by Collat of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. What

2416
02:12:38,160 --> 02:12:41,160
Speaker 1: have we learned from today's show brought to you by Skywords,

2417
02:12:41,200 --> 02:12:44,200
Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills.

2418
02:12:45,160 --> 02:12:47,520
Speaker 1: And we learned a few things today. I think fans

2419
02:12:47,560 --> 02:12:52,200
Speaker 1: are heavily depending on Boogie Basham and Greg Rousseau to

2420
02:12:52,480 --> 02:12:56,320
Speaker 1: make contributions as rookies this season to help this team

2421
02:12:56,600 --> 02:13:01,280
Speaker 1: depend over the hump, depending on counting on hoping for more,

2422
02:13:01,360 --> 02:13:04,240
Speaker 1: Like I don't know. Yeah, but yeah, they those are

2423
02:13:04,280 --> 02:13:07,320
Speaker 1: the guys I think from this, you know, we're still

2424
02:13:09,440 --> 02:13:11,160
Speaker 1: sounds like we're close, like a month and a half,

2425
02:13:11,200 --> 02:13:13,880
Speaker 1: two months away from opening day or whatever. It's it's

2426
02:13:14,080 --> 02:13:17,160
Speaker 1: six weeks, is it's eight weeks? Is it ye, thirteenth, Yeah,

2427
02:13:17,160 --> 02:13:20,800
Speaker 1: it's about two months. Those are the two guys you

2428
02:13:20,920 --> 02:13:23,480
Speaker 1: can see immediately getting rotated in. They're gonna be on

2429
02:13:23,560 --> 02:13:26,600
Speaker 1: if we feel like from this light years away from

2430
02:13:26,600 --> 02:13:28,560
Speaker 1: the season, like those two guys are gonna be on

2431
02:13:28,640 --> 02:13:30,720
Speaker 1: the field. If they're on the field, they're the ones

2432
02:13:30,720 --> 02:13:32,680
Speaker 1: that're gonna make the contribution. And I see that, no

2433
02:13:32,800 --> 02:13:34,360
Speaker 1: question about it. But there's a lot of things that

2434
02:13:34,440 --> 02:13:36,800
Speaker 1: happened before now, between now and opening day, and we

2435
02:13:36,840 --> 02:13:38,640
Speaker 1: don't know what this roster is going to look like.

2436
02:13:38,760 --> 02:13:42,040
Speaker 1: Who's gonna come in and impress? But if you need

2437
02:13:42,120 --> 02:13:44,240
Speaker 1: and the question we had was, you know, what kind

2438
02:13:44,280 --> 02:13:46,640
Speaker 1: of contribution do they have to make? And I made

2439
02:13:46,680 --> 02:13:48,760
Speaker 1: the point that every if you're gonna win the Super Bowl,

2440
02:13:48,800 --> 02:13:50,480
Speaker 1: which is what we're talking about here in Buffalo, now

2441
02:13:50,560 --> 02:13:54,680
Speaker 1: this you know, the blinders are off, everybody's got to contribute.

2442
02:13:54,800 --> 02:13:58,640
Speaker 1: And that means the new guys as well, Big show tomorrow.

2443
02:13:58,880 --> 02:14:01,720
Speaker 1: It includes who will be on the roster in twenty

2444
02:14:01,800 --> 02:14:05,120
Speaker 1: twenty one one. Gabriel Davis will be joining us on

2445
02:14:05,240 --> 02:14:07,320
Speaker 1: the show on Tuesday, so you want to tune in

2446
02:14:07,440 --> 02:14:10,360
Speaker 1: for that. Steve will be there, I will be here,

2447
02:14:10,440 --> 02:14:12,440
Speaker 1: and we will be joining you from noon to three.

2448
02:14:13,200 --> 02:14:16,240
Speaker 1: This has been One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health.

2449
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