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Speaker 1: time afternoon Bills fans, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

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Speaker 1: taking you up until three o'clock today and once again

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Speaker 1: and he commented on that as well. Yeah, Brian Winters

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Speaker 1: try to press on for now, he says they're going

427
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Speaker 1: to press on. I think they're gonna try to get

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Speaker 1: in as many games as they possibly can. They know

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Speaker 1: what all means revenue. But Dan Orlovsky has proposed the idea.

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Speaker 1: He had a tweet the other day. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: read you, Steve. This was from late last week. He said,

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Speaker 1: times running out NFL bubble up. It's the only option.

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Speaker 1: You're the NFL. You can make anything happen. So be

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Speaker 1: interested to talk to Dan about that and a host

435
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Speaker 1: of other things in terms of how the NFL is

436
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Speaker 1: approaching this most unique of NFL regular seasons. So we

437
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: look forward to talking to him and that also ties

438
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Speaker 1: into our Twitter poll for today, and essentially what we're

439
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Speaker 1: dealing with here is should the COVID nineteen outbreaks in

440
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball prompt the NFL to enhance their protocols

441
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Speaker 1: and policies. And we've got some choices for you. A. Yes,

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Speaker 1: make each team have their own bubble. B Yes, set

443
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: up regional bubbles for groups of teams. See no, let's

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Speaker 1: give teams a chance to police themselves or d something else,

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Speaker 1: as we always like to give you the old other option.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna check real quick. It was pretty balanced

447
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Speaker 1: at the outset, Steve, between the first two options there,

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Speaker 1: you know, individual team bubbles and regional bubbles, and that's

449
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Speaker 1: kind of where it's holding right now. In the lead

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Speaker 1: by a slight margin a little over almost two percent.

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Speaker 1: Is setting up regional levels for groups of teams. That's

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Speaker 1: at about thirty eight and a half percent, making each

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Speaker 1: team have their own bubble thirty six percent of the vote,

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Speaker 1: and then at twenty and a half percent No, let's

455
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Speaker 1: give the teams a chance to police themselves. Four percent

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Speaker 1: for other So little balanced out of the gate, but

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Speaker 1: you know, really A and B are kind of pushing

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Speaker 1: towards the bubble approach as opposed to see so you know,

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Speaker 1: you can make the argument here, Steve, that almost three

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Speaker 1: quarters of the vote here is saying let's bubble up, man, right,

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Speaker 1: And I get it too. It seems to be working

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Speaker 1: for the NBA in the NHL. And then I think

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Speaker 1: I was just thinking as you were reading that about

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Speaker 1: the baseball teams that are struggling, where you go from

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Speaker 1: two positive tests of fourteen overnight or you know, in

466
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Speaker 1: three days. It's almost a public service to have that

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Speaker 1: happen when you've got these guys in proximity and all

468
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: of a sudden they see how many guys all fourteen

469
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Speaker 1: goes from two to fourteen overnight. Right, that's almost that's

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Speaker 1: a great illustration in a closed system like you kind

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Speaker 1: of think about these sports teams being of how fast

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Speaker 1: it spreads. And if you know, if the general public

473
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Speaker 1: would get that through their NAGA and everybody would wear

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Speaker 1: a mask and stop complaining. Yeah, And I think, and

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Speaker 1: I think I sent this over to you this morning

476
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Speaker 1: when I spotted this that the New Orleans Saints are

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Speaker 1: They're not calling it a bubble, but they're essentially creating

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Speaker 1: a mini bubble for training camp, just to try to

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Speaker 1: get to the regular season as healthy as possible. So

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Speaker 1: what they're doing, coach Peyton down there in New Orleans

481
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Speaker 1: is calling this a sequester for training camp. So in

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Speaker 1: an effort to keep team players and staff safe and

483
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Speaker 1: healthy heading into the regular season, the team has rented

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Speaker 1: out four floors of a hotel in the French Quarter

485
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Speaker 1: in New Orleans. And so they've got about one hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty Saints employees Tier one, Tier two along with

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Speaker 1: the eighty players. And of the one hundred eighty Saints employees,

488
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Speaker 1: they're saying, about one hundred and fifty you're going to

489
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Speaker 1: stay in that hotel to semi quarantine right through the

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Speaker 1: first week of September before the regular season starts. And

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Speaker 1: he said, you know, Peyton said, it's a sequester. The

492
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Speaker 1: message from the league is the show must go on

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Speaker 1: if so we've got to do everything we can to

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Speaker 1: make sure that happens. And you know, this is an

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Speaker 1: example of a team maybe taking a little extra step

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Speaker 1: to try to ensure that their players aren't exposed two

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Speaker 1: different things when they leave the facility. I think they're

498
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: they're trying to remove any variants here. You finish your work,

499
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: head straight to the hotel, right, you know, board yourself

500
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Speaker 1: up there, you know, bring your video game console, whatever

501
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: you gotta do to entertain yourself when you're not working.

502
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: But go there, keep your family safe at home, and

503
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: you stay at the hotel. I'll tell you this. It's

504
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 1: interesting because one of the things is, Hey, it's great

505
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: that the Saints are gonna do this, but if nobody

506
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 1: else is, it's not gonna mean anything. Well, not for

507
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: their personal well being as a roster. I mean you could,

508
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: I mean, Steve, we don't know what's gonna happen. We

509
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 1: got five weeks before we play football, real football. There's

510
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Speaker 1: a lot that can happen, a lot of positive tests.

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00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: One guy makes the wrong move and decides to go

512
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Speaker 1: out for the night, runs into the wrong person, he's positive,

513
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: he walks in. Now you've got fifteen positives in a

514
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Speaker 1: matter of days, just like the Saint Louis Cardinals, and

515
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: you got a big problem. What if you're playing the

516
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Speaker 1: Saints Week one and you're down fifteen players and Saints

517
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: are good to go. Sorry, Charlie, you're gonna be going

518
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: in shorthanded, right, But so what do you do? You

519
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: cancel the game. So what point is, Yeah, the Saints

520
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: are fine, you got they got to play somebody, right, Well,

521
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing a very shorthanded team, right And

522
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Speaker 1: but here's the that's my point point. It may be

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Speaker 1: the Saints may go all season without a positive test.

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00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: So who they play in you know, I mean that's

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00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: the problem. If one team gets everything right, good for them.

526
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: But they got to play. You know, they got to

527
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: play a sixteen game schedule. So either that's the point

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00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: they all got to do it, or none of them

529
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: got to do it, or because I think it's a

530
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: great idea, and I have no problems, you know, because

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Speaker 1: it's not me saying goodbye to my family for four months.

532
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 1: You know, I'll you know, go live in a hotel.

533
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: It makes sense to me, It made sense from me.

534
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: You have you should have just thirty two bubbles, and

535
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: then when those bubbles intermatt intermix on game day, who cares?

536
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: They're all virus free anyway. The problem is getting one

537
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: team from one city to another city so they could play,

538
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: and that's where it becomes a problem. But if you

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00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: get in there, you get everybody's fine. On Saturday, you

540
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: travel as a group. You play on Sunday. You have

541
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Speaker 1: all that week to sort out who's positive, who negative,

542
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: who's negative, get a couple of tests during the week.

543
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: Everybody who's negative can can go the next week, and

544
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: then you know, and then a couple of weeks in

545
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: all the guys that were positive on week one three

546
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: weeks later are back on the field playing in week

547
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Speaker 1: three or week four. You know, so you can you

548
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: can do that. But if you're not gonna keep them

549
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: sequestered finger quotes, it doesn't matter. Well one teams. You

550
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: gotta play a team either, and thus they're gonna start

551
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,719
Speaker 1: forfeiting games. I have to believe, knowing how the NFL

552
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: is a copycat league, that by the time we get

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Speaker 1: to the start of September, the Saints won't be the

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00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: only team doing this all. It's gonna you know, it's

555
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: gonna prompt everybody the first time some team has ten

556
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: or eleven guys that contracts the virus, then the other

557
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: thirty teams you'll be like, oh man, we should be

558
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: doing what the Saints are doing. Get that thing going

559
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: right now, let's get it going. Let's get it That's

560
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: all it's gonna take. And then its're gonna jump, but

561
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: it'll also that's all it will take to have those guys. Hey, listen,

562
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: you ain't going out for a beer on Thursday night.

563
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: You're not going out with your boys on Friday night.

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00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: You're staying at home in your apartment. You're gonna play.

565
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: You're gonna play Xbox or you know, PlayStation. You're gonna

566
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: do that instead. So you guys, stay inside because you

567
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: see what happened to the LA Raiders or the LA Chargers.

568
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: That can't happen to us. So watch what you're doing.

569
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: All that guy did was go to a seven eleven.

570
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: You know that's all it takes, guys, So stay inside.

571
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: So it'll it'll be a lesson that guys are gonna

572
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: look around the league and say, look what that guy did,

573
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: and look at their team now, and listen, you don't

574
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: want to be that guy. Oh no, definitely not. You

575
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: do not want to be that guy, no question about it. Um,

576
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: we will get to the tweet sheet in a moment

577
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: as you guys are filling it up with your comments,

578
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,479
Speaker 1: as we were anticipating. So we'll get to that when

579
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: we get a chance. But when we come back, we've

580
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: got a mystery guest Steven, I don't even know who

581
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: the heck this is. So I do you do? Yeah, Yeah,

582
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a couple of clues. You do

583
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: this on Tasker's teammates, So I'm gonna, I'm gonna we're

584
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Speaker 1: gonna reverse roles for just a minute. I'm gonna give

585
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: you a couple of clues and uh, and we'll get

586
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: into that right after the break too. Yeah, all right,

587
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: So this is a mystery guest number one. Apparently for me,

588
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: I was the one left in the dark who knew

589
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalidah Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio,

590
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One of Bill's Lives, Chief task along

591
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: with Chris brown The reason I'm taking this out of

592
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: break is that it is now time for me to

593
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Speaker 1: reverse roles with my good friend Brownie. Uh, Chris. So,

594
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: we had a we had a lot of people that

595
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: come on this show. We got ton dozens and dozens

596
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: and dozens of guests we have on the show. One

597
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: of them and a lot of them are friend can

598
00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: be construed that's one wanted to call and congratulate you

599
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: on your promotion to host of One Bill's Lot. I've

600
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: on a permanent basis which we're all, you know, extremely

601
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: excited about. Do we have like canned clapped like from

602
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: the studio audience here? No, we don't, Okay, So so

603
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: there we go. The guy's in the control warm are clapping. Okay.

604
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you a couple of clues. I

605
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: want you to try and guess who this secret admire

606
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him the secret admirer is. And and

607
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: it is a male. Uh so because our producer erstwhile

608
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris is a bean spiller. So all right,

609
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna give you a clue now, and I

610
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: only have a couple of clues. You're gonna get this

611
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: like like in no time, right, Oh yeah, No, Now

612
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: you're putting the pressure on me here, So now I'm

613
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: gonna feel bit if I can't, I'm gonna figure gonna

614
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: start with him. This is this is a guy who

615
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: is actually this clue Number one is he is actually

616
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: really in real life, appeared in a music video. Appeared

617
00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:02,959
Speaker 1: in a music video. Yeah, uh so this is probably

618
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: a celebrity. It's got to be a celebrity of some

619
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Speaker 1: kind if you're in a music video right. I mean,

620
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: but can it be a musician. How come you don't

621
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: ruffle your hands through your hair like I do when

622
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I don't have any hair to ruffle through.

623
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't realize. Okay, Uh, geez, I don't.

624
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: That's not part of your thought process. This is This

625
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: is a very broad clue. I mean, that could be anybody.

626
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: I'm not messing around, bro, I'm not giving it to

627
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: you in a music video. Huh. That could be anybody.

628
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no clue. That doesn't help

629
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: me at all. That didn't get okay at all. So

630
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: I should move on to clue number two. Let's just

631
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: go to clue too, because I I mean, I don't

632
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: even have a name coming into my head right now.

633
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: This may give it away. He is hot that Tony

634
00:32:54,320 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: Basselli is a semifinalist for the Hall of Fame. What what? Uh?

635
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: He's unhappy that Tony Basselli is a semifinalist for the

636
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame. It's gotta be some kind

637
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: of this is bro. Come on, these are some of

638
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: the weirdest clues. I gotta tell you. We went We

639
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: just went from a music video to a to a

640
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: strict football clue. I got two. I got two clues left,

641
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: and I think you you know so, so this person

642
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: has gotta be a pass rusher. So I, oh, is

643
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: it gotta be a pass rusher? It's probably a Bill's

644
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: pass rusher. Is it Aaron Schobel? It is not Aaron Schobel. Okay,

645
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: clue number three. You know how I feel bad already

646
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: because I haven't had an actual blocking slid put in

647
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: his home backyard. When he played in Buffalo for the

648
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, he had a blocking sled put in his

649
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: backyard and he was in a music video. Because the

650
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: only music video I'm thinking of is the Super Bowl Shuffle.

651
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: Like that's the only like I'm trying to put football

652
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: and music video together. This is embarrassing. I'm sorry. Um No,

653
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: I thought I stopped by. I'm usually on the other

654
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: end of this with Tasker's teaming. Is why I thought,

655
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: I respect you guessing the people that you guess every week.

656
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: All right, blocking sled, put a block, put a blocking sled.

657
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: If you're an offensive lineman. That's why I'm well, I

658
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: guess you could do a singular blocking sled. Oh so

659
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: maybe it's an offensive tackle who is ticked off the

660
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: Piselli's going to the Hall of Fame instead of him.

661
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this joke isn't it's John Feena. No, No,

662
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: that's a great one. Now if I would have been,

663
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 1: if I would have been on my game, it would

664
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: have been John Feena. I would because that was supposed

665
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: to a tasker's teammate last week and got blown up

666
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 1: when somebody right, here's the last This is the last

667
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: clue I've got, and it is an absolute to get

668
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: away feel terrible. I'm most embarrassed to be speaking to

669
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: this person. So he's one of these offensive linemen who

670
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: post career trimmed down and now has taken up yoga

671
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: the cats ooga. Oh, I would have gotten this three quote.

672
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: I would have gotten this in like three and in

673
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: like three seconds that from the first close. This person

674
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: is not even gonna want to talk to me now, um,

675
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: yeah he is. He asked, he wanted to come on.

676
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: He wanted to come on and congratulate you on your

677
00:35:50,840 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: promotional perpent hosts. So no, oh, Eric would just do yoga.

678
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: But he's doing now. He has lost a ton of weight.

679
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,879
Speaker 1: That was the only thing I thought of him. Yeah,

680
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 1: so have I. But I'm not right. So I failed miserably.

681
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: I'm awful at this. This has all been confirmed now

682
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,959
Speaker 1: for our listening audience. So that's fantastic. I feel great

683
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,479
Speaker 1: about myself now, thanks for lifting me up. I gotta

684
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: tell you, I was. I was. I was. I was

685
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: really worried that I was gonna give you one clue

686
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: and you're gonna nail him because you're this you know,

687
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: you're the Bills insider. You would get this guy. Well, yeah,

688
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: I've apparently ruined that reputation. So all right, let's bring

689
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: him on you. Look at you open your Skype screen

690
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: so you can you can see us bring our Oh

691
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: he's on the phone. All right, he's not on Skype.

692
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: He's on the phone. So let's say have him say hello,

693
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: go ahead, hello, hello, Rupert brown up. You'll put a

694
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: blocking flat in your backyard? Yes, I did. I did it,

695
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: and I used to have my son out there working

696
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: on it. Brownie, your reputation is totally you know, it's awesome.

697
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: I mean we even should we even share a surname?

698
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 1: And I couldn't get it. Mike. Oh, when I heard

699
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: the news, I had to call you in congratulation because

700
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: you know you wanted the good guys and I remember

701
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: you for my time, and you know it couldn't happen

702
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: to a better guy. The right guy in the right

703
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: position ain't the right Steve. You got it. You got it. Hey,

704
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: I gotta thanks so much for coming on. And let

705
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: me just say this, Ruben, not for nothing, but you're

706
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: the guy. You're the guy who called up and said,

707
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: you know what, that's a cool thing. I'm gonna call Brownie.

708
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: I'm say congratulations. So I'm glad you did that. That's awesome.

709
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: You know, you know Brownie, we've known him forever. You've

710
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: seen a thought but naked in the shower, So it's

711
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: a little personal now. So yeah, she's like, how, here's

712
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: the interesting thing. Okay, because Lubin's career with the Bill

713
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: pretty much started right before I started covering the team,

714
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: so it's almost like we kind of came in together

715
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Um. So Rube was always good with

716
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: his time with me when I, you know, needed to

717
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: ask him a few questions and sound intelligent as a

718
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: reporter at the time. So yeah, that's uh, that goes

719
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: that goes way back back to the beginning. So and

720
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: had Rube had a show on WGR when I was

721
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: working there. So yeah, cross pass on, Yeah, listen, and

722
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: not for nothing, But Ruben, you're saying, yeah, Rube is

723
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: a former player. Listen. The guy played thirteen years for

724
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. He was an All Pro at his position.

725
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: He had nine Pro Bowl appearances. If you want to

726
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: talk about somebody who is has Hall of Fame credentials,

727
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: Ruben Brown is the guy. Not only did he go

728
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl for the Buffalo Bills, he also

729
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: played for a few years for the Chicago Bears and

730
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: was also a stellar standout performer for the Bears as well.

731
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: And uh so, this is a guy who is not

732
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: just one more alumni. He's a He's a Bill's legend

733
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: and should be considered for the Hall of Fame and

734
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: all of the whole, the whole nine yards. He had

735
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 1: a stellar career. He's a phenomenal football player, and he

736
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: was a great, great teammate as well. So Ruben is

737
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: a guy who kind of flies under the radar because

738
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: he came in just after those Super Bowl years, but

739
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: he was as big a part of the success of

740
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: that team in the mid to late nineties as any

741
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: player on the team, he was a truly great player.

742
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: It's great to have you on Rube. Oh thank you.

743
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean coming from Steve. I don't need any any

744
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: other accolades than the ones that I get from my

745
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: teammates who are pretty much my family now, like yourself

746
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: and Thurnman and Bruce and Jim. So you know, I

747
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: love when people bring up all of those, you know,

748
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: accolades and say, hey, you should be, you should be.

749
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: I tell everyone I already am. I can cut on

750
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: the phone. I can call Steve Tasker if I want to.

751
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: I can get on the phone and call Bruce Smith

752
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: or Jim Kelly and they all respond to me like

753
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 1: I'm family. So um, you know, everything else is just

754
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: icing on the cake. I'm already eating my cake. I

755
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: already got it. Teammates with Steve Tasker, there will be

756
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: like the premier Special Teams Hall of Famer ever and

757
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: we all know that Buffalo. We know we don't have

758
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: to go intoquent, but I will say, I'm segue over

759
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: to our boy Brownie. We couldn't have a better group

760
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 1: of Beat reporters and people to report on the Buffalo bills.

761
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: And I love the fact that Brownie has made the

762
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: rise all the way to now now people get to

763
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: see a smug on TV a little bit more, and

764
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be great for us all around.

765
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: And I'm proud of you, Brownie. I'm happy for you,

766
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: and you're working the stile pask Come on, hey, are

767
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: you on? Are you on Long Island? Still? Yes? I

768
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: still live about in side car but um, but right now,

769
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: I took a little trip down to Bahamas to quarantine myself.

770
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: Now I'm a healthy, everything's good. But but I was

771
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 1: getting a little stir crazy. So I got on a plane.

772
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: I came down here. I've been here for a couple

773
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: of weeks. Oh did you weather? So yeah, the weather?

774
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: That storm actually what cool? The cool thing about where

775
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: I was located, the storm part of Bahamas, I'm on

776
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 1: it literally passed right by us. It was just a

777
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: lot of rain, and a lot of the Bohemians were

778
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 1: laughing like, oh, you your first hurricane is just a baby,

779
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 1: a baby hurricane. They you referred to them in those terms. Okay,

780
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: I'm glad I made it this baby and not the mama. Yeah,

781
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: so I'm glad you down there because that was that

782
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: was it. That was for two is timing that you had.

783
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm from uh, I'm originally I mean, I

784
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: grew up all on Island. I think you knew that,

785
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: but yeah, but yeah, So it's nice to know you're

786
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,479
Speaker 1: down there soaking up the rays in the summertime, because

787
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: that's probably the only time. This is the only time

788
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: of year where I missed Long Island just a little bit.

789
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: I love Buffalo, but I missed Long Land a little bit,

790
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: just with the beach and everything. I know you, I

791
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: know you're down there on the beach, out the beach. Yeah,

792
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: you're down there on the beach and you're and you're

793
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 1: kind of hanging out now that the hurricane is probably

794
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: north of you. Do you keep are you keeping track

795
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: of what's going on in pro sports in the States,

796
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: What do you think about the chances that the NFL

797
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: will actually get a season and what do you think? Oh? Man,

798
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: I think like a lot of stuff here in the States,

799
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: we kind of are behind, and I think it's gonna

800
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: be very tough to get out and play a season

801
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: of football, just really is. And the reason why I

802
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: say that is something like with the Saint Louis Cardinals.

803
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: You see how they just had a darge number, a plan,

804
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: you know, and coaches that tested positives. What if that

805
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: happens on a football team. There's only fifty something players.

806
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: I don't know how many players will be on the

807
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: roster this year. But if something like that arises, you

808
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: decimated your team, So can you Will you be able

809
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: to play all games? If you start playing them, that

810
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: could come up that you won't. You could lose six

811
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: guys and that's the team, you know. So I think

812
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: it's I'm playing everything very cautious, and if I was

813
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: in the business right now, I would lean towards being

814
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: safe safer than sorry later, you know. Just take more

815
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: precautions and do all you can because this thing is

816
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: just so unknown and we don't know where it's going.

817
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: Hell yeah for sure, Yeah we're here. I just want

818
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: to thank you one more time, Roupe. That was really

819
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: nice to you to call and take the time to

820
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: do that, especially when you're kind of on a little

821
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: mini getaways. I really appreciate you doing that. That that

822
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: means a lot to me. So thank you. Oh always, man,

823
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: when I get in town, I'll come by and say

824
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: how do you guys? And you know, we'll do what

825
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: we always do. But you know you're you're a family member,

826
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, and so when the family get a promotion,

827
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: we are should be the celebrator, you know. Like you said,

828
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: I saw you coming up. I know you were. You

829
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 1: didn't even have an office up there at one time.

830
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: I think you were in a janitor the closet or

831
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: something like that. And when you when you flew on

832
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: the plane, I think you doubled up on a seat

833
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: or something. So you've become a long way man. And

834
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you, and I'm Buffalo's my place, and

835
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: and it makes me feel good to see the guys

836
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: that you know, really were a card getting ahead in

837
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: the game. And people are now going to be coming

838
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: and looking to you as our gurgle for inside information,

839
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: even though we kind of messed with that today, but

840
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: you're our guy turned it on. It's ear Ruby, Ruby

841
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: are the best man. Thanks for coming on. It's great

842
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: talking to you, bro. Anytime, guys, I'll talk to you

843
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: games all right, Thanks, rude man, he's great. Um, we

844
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: gotta take a break because we went way over as

845
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: we usually do with people like Ruben Brown. So we'll

846
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 1: take a quick pit stop here and be back on

847
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Speaker 1: the other side. Hit up the tweet sheet as we

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Speaker 1: are talking NFL and if it's time to bubble up,

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Speaker 1: that's coming up on the other side. This is One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right Back Hell, One Bills Live First Round. Steve

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Speaker 1: casting with you for a short segment here before we

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Speaker 1: get to the top of the hour and talk to

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Dan Orlovski about the NFL and whether or not

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Speaker 1: they should bubble up. It's an opinion that he's got,

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Speaker 1: so we'll talk to him about that. And that's part

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Speaker 1: of our Twitter poll too, which is should the COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen outbreaks in Major League Baseball the Marlins, the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: prop the NFL to enhance their protocols and policies. Yes,

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Speaker 1: make each team have their own bubble, set up regional

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Speaker 1: bubbles for groups of teams, or no, Let's give teams

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Speaker 1: a chance to police themselves. And right now, the regional

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Speaker 1: bubbles is the most popular, and on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: from Jeremy G Steve, he says, I voted no at first,

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Speaker 1: but the more I think about it, I think regional

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Speaker 1: bubbles for teams is the best. Yes, they have families,

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Speaker 1: and yes, four to five months is a long time

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Speaker 1: to be away. But if myself and many others can

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Speaker 1: spend a year in a bubble on deployment with the military,

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Speaker 1: these guys can sure do the same. What do you

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Speaker 1: think of that? I agree? Uh, I mean, and the

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Speaker 1: military guys aren't making seven figures or even a tenth

873
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: of that, you know. Yeah, so absolutely sacrifices now right, Well, yeah,

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00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: some more than others, but exactly some more than others,

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Speaker 1: at least on the surface. So yeah, exactly. I think

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Speaker 1: it should have been on the table in the beginning.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't because the union's powerful enough to say, listen,

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00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: we don't have to stay goodbye to our families for

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00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 1: four months. We're gonna we're gonna do it the way

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Speaker 1: we want to do it, and we're gonna force the

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00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: League to do that. I think the League should have

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00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: come to the table and said, listen, we want to

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Speaker 1: do this, and here's the opt out. You can opt out,

884
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Speaker 1: and here's your opt out money if you want it,

885
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Speaker 1: and should have done it very early and got it

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Speaker 1: on the and started thirty two. Bubbles were the only

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Speaker 1: cross pollination between those bubbles is on game day with

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Speaker 1: limited game day staff, limited game day activities, very strict

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Speaker 1: travel protocols, and then back to your home city, back

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Speaker 1: in quarantine. And you know, and part of the part

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Speaker 1: of the uniqueness of each city would be how many

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Speaker 1: amenities their team could give them in their little quarantine bubble.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the bills would there's no question the bills

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Speaker 1: would be down in that West end downtown, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the high rise six floor, the lobby, six floors

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Speaker 1: above the street level. They could go, you know, have

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Speaker 1: all that room, all the conference rooms, all that stuff

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Speaker 1: they could move around in. And they could even close

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Speaker 1: down seven one six and make it a bubble. Guys

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Speaker 1: could have a club to go into. Of course it'd

901
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: be speaten, it'd be guys only, but you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: they could just you know, there's just so much they

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Speaker 1: could have done if they wanted to do it with

904
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Speaker 1: a thirty two team bubble, But they would have had

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Speaker 1: to start much earlyer than they have already, and I

906
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: don't think they can get it done now. So that's

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Speaker 1: what's on the table for you to chime in on,

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Speaker 1: So feel free to do that on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment

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Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. But we have to

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Speaker 1: step aside because coming up next is ESPN's Dan Orlovski,

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Speaker 1: who is a fan of bubbling up the NFL. He

913
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Speaker 1: thinks it's the only option, so we'll talk to him

914
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Speaker 1: on the other side and see how he thinks it

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Speaker 1: should be configured. That's coming your way here next on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health and this

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Down Down down, that's not at

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Speaker 1: all Welcome back to One Bills Live Chris Brown with

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00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,479
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, our number two of the show, and we'll

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Speaker 1: be having an update here soon. As you heard in

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Speaker 1: the update at the top of the hour, the Bills

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Speaker 1: have officially released guard Spencer Long. We'll have an update

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Speaker 1: direct from Brandon Bean about where things stand with free

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Speaker 1: agent guard Brian Winters, who was released by the Jets.

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Speaker 1: There have been has been reported interest in him by

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Speaker 1: the Bills, and Brandon Bean will provide us with an

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Speaker 1: update as he was on w GR this morning with

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Speaker 1: Howard Simon and Jeremy White. But joining us now is

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Speaker 1: the man who is now part of the relaunch of

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Speaker 1: ESPN's NFL Live. It is their NFL analyst, the one,

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Speaker 1: the only, Dan Orlovsky. Dan, thanks for joining us. How

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Speaker 1: you doing manu um for fingers cross thing season? And

933
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Speaker 1: like Steve always has us, ask our guests, how are

934
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Speaker 1: how are you and the family doing you guys kind

935
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Speaker 1: of navigating your way through this COVID thing. Okay, Yeah,

936
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Speaker 1: we're doing well. You know. We we try to keep

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Speaker 1: it in perspective and every day trying to find some

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Speaker 1: bump stuff to do. Thankfully live in Connecticut and in

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Speaker 1: Connecticut for the past from month to six weeks is

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Speaker 1: help somewhat normal with it. So we've we've been able

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Speaker 1: to have at least try to find out some fun

942
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Speaker 1: in this. So we're doing well. We're doing well. Thank you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: still go ahead, Steve. Yeah, Dan, Chris and I have

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Speaker 1: been talking about that, your your assertion that the NFL

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Speaker 1: should be in you know, in bubbles at least either

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Speaker 1: uh regional bubbles or thirty two different bubbles or one

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Speaker 1: big bubble just sequester their players away from the general

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Speaker 1: public for the deeration of the season. When do you

949
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Speaker 1: think it's gonna And I get it, it's been working

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Speaker 1: for the NBA and the NHL and Major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: didn't bubble up, and they are paying the price. When

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Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna get to the point where

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Speaker 1: it's too late to bubble up. Well, we're probably in

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Speaker 1: that window now. To be honest with you, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, obviously, the people you get

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Speaker 1: into the season, the more challenging it gets. I just listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm very very aware of the challenges that it would present. Right,

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Speaker 1: you can't do one bubble. That's impossible because you know,

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Speaker 1: each team requires probably two hundred people, you know, and

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Speaker 1: so if you're looking at thirty two teams times two

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Speaker 1: hundred people, you're you know, there's nowhere that has the

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Speaker 1: space for that. But I think that, like my thought

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Speaker 1: process is, we need to change the way we're thinking

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Speaker 1: as an NFL community. We need to change the way

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Speaker 1: the schedule is set up. Just for this year. Let's

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Speaker 1: do two bubbles in the Northeast and two bubbles in

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Speaker 1: the southeast. And there's facilities that can manage this stuff.

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Speaker 1: You can use local facilities to practice, but your hotel

969
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Speaker 1: is your bubble, and then those teams only play those

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Speaker 1: teams throughout the season. The teams in the Northeast the

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Speaker 1: only bust and play those teams, And we're not getting

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Speaker 1: on air force, We're not getting on planes. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: go bust and play those teams. You're gonna live in

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Speaker 1: the hotel for the same for the whole season. Two

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Speaker 1: bubbles in the Southeast, is a bubble in the South,

976
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Speaker 1: bubble in the Midwest, to bubble in the West. And

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Speaker 1: so yeah, let's not make the Atlanta Falcons go play

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, Like, we don't have to do that

979
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Speaker 1: this season. And so my thought process is, like, what

980
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Speaker 1: is the number one goal this year in the NFL?

981
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Speaker 1: That is obviously for everyone to stay as healthy as

982
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: possible and two to pull it off. And so I start,

983
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Speaker 1: I start backwards, how does that happen? And I go,

984
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. Wait, we think that we're we're

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Speaker 1: gonna just like we're just gonna get through this, like

986
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be immune to it, like people are gonna

987
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Speaker 1: be okay, like and yeah, there's challenges to it, and

988
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 1: being away from your family would absolutely stink, and there'll

989
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: be a moment that are very difficult, But does it

990
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: give you the safety, Yes, And does it give you

991
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: the best chance to earn your paychecks here? Yes, and

992
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: so I think we'd see less opt outs, we'd see

993
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Speaker 1: guys feeling safer um, and I think it's the best

994
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Speaker 1: opportunity to have this season. We're talking to dan Orlowski

995
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Speaker 1: from ESPN, who is raised the idea that it's time

996
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Speaker 1: for the NFL to bubble up, even though time is

997
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: probably running out on that. Dan, I was just you know,

998
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Speaker 1: sometimes you see things on a text, or you see

999
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 1: things on social media, and they come across in a

1000
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Speaker 1: certain way, so you can tell me if I'm wrong.

1001
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Speaker 1: But I looked at your tweet from last week when

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Speaker 1: you when you tweeted, don't tell me you can't l

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Speaker 1: learn and be proactive, create ten small bubbles, and then

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Speaker 1: you outlined what you just outlined to us find ways

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Speaker 1: to make that happen. Cost will be under fifteen million

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Speaker 1: perteen You're two hundred and fifty million dollar revenue may

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Speaker 1: count on it. I sensed a sense of I think

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Speaker 1: disdain is too strong a word, but it sounded like

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Speaker 1: like it sounded like you were saying it like this,

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Speaker 1: don't tell me you can't NFL? Was am I right

1011
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: with the tone with which you struck when you were

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00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,800
Speaker 1: typing that tweet out, Oh yeah, you're accurate. That's accurate

1013
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 1: because and that's also because you hear so many people say, well,

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Speaker 1: you can't, dude, you're the NFL, You're one of the

1015
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Speaker 1: biggest businesses in America. But don't tell me you can't

1016
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Speaker 1: figure out that. There's not enough smart people to figure

1017
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Speaker 1: out how to logistically pull this off. And that's why

1018
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Speaker 1: I referenced to like, we got to change the way

1019
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: we're thinking in the schedule. Don't tell me you can't

1020
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Speaker 1: pull this off. Don't tell me you can't do bubbles.

1021
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: Don't tell me you can't figure out the cost analysis

1022
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Speaker 1: and going again, match two hundred people per team. That's

1023
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Speaker 1: including doctors in front office people and players and medical staff,

1024
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, equipment staff. Two hundred people per team,

1025
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Speaker 1: you're looking at fifteen to twenty million dollars cost for

1026
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Speaker 1: the season. Your two hundred and fifty million dollars revenue

1027
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Speaker 1: is not going to happen unless you are proactive rather

1028
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Speaker 1: than reactive. The NFL can basically move mountains if they

1029
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: can do whatever they want. They have the power to

1030
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Speaker 1: do that one because they have powerful people too because

1031
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: they have the financial means and three because they have

1032
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Speaker 1: a massive following. So that's my point of like, don't

1033
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Speaker 1: tell me you can't create these bubbles. Don't tell me

1034
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Speaker 1: that we can't figure out a way to point to

1035
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Speaker 1: the NBA and to PGA toured and to MLS and

1036
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Speaker 1: to hockey and go what they're doing is working. And yes,

1037
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Speaker 1: our numbers are different than them, but what they're doing

1038
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Speaker 1: is working when it comes to the people that they're

1039
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Speaker 1: they're working with and point to MLB and going, you

1040
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Speaker 1: guys aren't like and go, Okay, we want to be

1041
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: more like the former. We want to be more like

1042
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Speaker 1: the people who are working. How do we do that? Listen, guys,

1043
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Speaker 1: it's going to cost you twenty million dollars, but your

1044
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: revenue is gonna stay stagnant from what is last year.

1045
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 1: It's also going to help your cap next year. What

1046
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 1: do we gotta do? What do we gotta do? Because

1047
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: that's like you're the NFL, I just don't buy the whole. Well,

1048
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: we can't sing dan what knowing what we know about

1049
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Speaker 1: how the negotiations went between the union and the owners,

1050
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Speaker 1: how do you think that would have played out had

1051
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: they gotten an early start. Had that been their plan

1052
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Speaker 1: from the get go, how difficult would it have been?

1053
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Speaker 1: And you know we've gotten now like like less than

1054
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: three opt outs per team. How would that have changed

1055
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Speaker 1: in your scenario? Think if if the union said, listen,

1056
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Speaker 1: you're all going to be sequestered, say goodbye to your

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Speaker 1: wife and kids for four months or five months, and

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00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 1: for the playoffs six months, you know, say goodbye to them.

1059
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this bubble thing. Here's how it's gonna work.

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00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: What would the players you can have said? And how

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00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: would those negotiations have been different than what they have been. Well,

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00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: obviously there was there would have been details tied to it,

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00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: like okay, is there are you going to allow my

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00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: family to come into the bubble? And if they come

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00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: into the bubble, are you going to provide housing for them?

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00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: Where are my children? Like what's the school? And I

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00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: know there's details that would have to be figured out,

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00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: but I just like I look at it from a

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00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: very black and white, fundamentally foundational aspect. Hey, guys, and

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00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the people who are making four hundred

1071
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: grands the league minium rookies, and I'm talking about the

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00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: guys who are making three to four million dollars that

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00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: there's this very short window for you to make your money.

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00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: Because the NFL does have some multi millionaires some, but

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00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: the majority of the NFL seventy percent of the NFL

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00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: is league minimum salary guys. The average career is three

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00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: and a half years, so the guys that are in

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00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: that window, that's seventy percent league minimum in three and

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00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: a half years. The number one way that you can

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00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: get your money this season, this money that you've worked

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00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: really hard for for like ten to twelve years, is

1082
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: if we put you in a bubble, away from your

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00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: family and away from your everyday life for five months.

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00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: I would imagine that ninety nine point nine percent of

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00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: the players would sign up for that. I did that now,

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00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: not because COVID, but in two thousand, the two thousand

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00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: and eleventh season, my wife was pregnant with triplets. I

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00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: was playing for the Colts. She's a she was a

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00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: high risk pregnancy, so she lived in Philadelphia, stayed in

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00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: Philadelphia because she had to be at U Penned and

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00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 1: we were away for the whole season all of her pregnancy.

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00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: It stunk. I'm not gonna lie. It was hard because

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00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 1: that was our only option. That was my only option

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00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: to make my money, and so I just I can't

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00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 1: sit I can't imagine guys sitting back and going, you

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00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: know what, I can't be away from my wife and

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00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: kids for a hundred and fifty days because it's just

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00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: too much to ask of me. And I don't want

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00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: that three million dollars if the military does it all

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00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: the time for way less money, and I understand it's different,

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00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: but like, what are we saying here, guys that like

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00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: you can't you can't make that sacrifice for your family,

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00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: Like I struggled to believe that that would be the case.

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00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: That actually was an exact comment from one of our

1105
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: listeners who tweeted that comment and saying the military does

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00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: that all the time for a lot less money, and

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00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent right, Dan. What I wanted to

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00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 1: ask you was the common refrain that we hear out

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00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: there about the NFL being different than some of these

1110
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: other leagues and why they why people think they can

1111
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: get away with the protocols and policies is currently constituted

1112
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 1: is because they think that because the NFL only plays

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00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 1: once a week, there's less exposure risk. Do you think

1114
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: there is a fall sense of security created in the

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01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: fact that football only happens once a week and that

1116
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: they won't have as great an exposure with Yeah, but okay,

1117
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: football only happens once a week, so like what like

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01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 1: COVID has proven that that does not matter, Like it

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01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: only you only need one interaction, you know, you only

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01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: need one case, you only need one bypassing of something

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01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: from somebody and one becomes two and two becomes four,

1122
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: and like we've learned that, so the whole you only

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Speaker 1: play one a week, that doesn't that has absolutely no

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01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: because here's the thing. You play on Sunday, but then

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Speaker 1: you go to work on Monday, with that, with that,

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01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: with your group, with your team, you're still So if

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01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: you have that interaction with someone on Someday Sunday, whether

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01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 1: it's be a travel or your game or or somebody

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01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: else and your other team, like you're then going back

1130
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: into work on Monday, so it's not like you're not

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01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 1: working all week and just playing a game on Sunday.

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01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: And so that's why there's like this there's this there's

1133
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 1: this thought process that just because there's one game, it's

1134
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: going to minimize, you know, the opportunity or the potential

1135
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: you won't need one. We don't. There's there's nothing like

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01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: it's it's all about close interaction and large gatherings. You

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01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: only need one. And so that's why there's I think

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01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: there's this salved sense of security time to that, so

1139
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 1: to speak, and so um yeah, yeah, I'm just I

1140
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: don't buy that. We're talking with Dan Orlovsky uh and

1141
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: Dan I And when you come into the season like this,

1142
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: so many there's such a ripple effect. It's it's even

1143
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: affecting how players feel about their last year of college.

1144
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 1: I mean, college football right now is an absolute mess.

1145
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: How is that going to translating? What are the ripple

1146
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: effects going down the road for the draft, for free agency?

1147
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 1: For young players who end like rookie free agents this year,

1148
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: if they're a high risk, they could opt out and

1149
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: never play it down in the National Football League and

1150
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: make three hundred and fifty grand this year. The ripple

1151
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: effects of this are far reaching. What do you think

1152
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: the most significant one might be? Yeah, the most significant

1153
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 1: one will be I mean players, there's gonna be some

1154
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: players whose careers are cut a year or two shorts.

1155
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some players who careers are extended a

1156
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: year or two short, we're gonna see it. I mean,

1157
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: think about it like this, guys, let's start with high

1158
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: school football. That the high school athletes that you know,

1159
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: maybe didn't get to play or show off in their

1160
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: spring showcase for football, or may not get this season,

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01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna get overlooked when it comes to recruiting. So

1162
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: then we're gonna have some really big time star players

1163
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: go to some smaller school because they never had that

1164
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 1: that year of opportunity to really kind of catapult themselves

1165
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 1: into the recruiting trail. So then what is the ripple

1166
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: effect from that? Three years down the road, are we

1167
01:02:56,560 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 1: gonna get some incredible small school prospects because to that?

1168
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: And then going into the draft, you know, we're getting

1169
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: more college kids opt out, you know. And so I'm

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01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: fascinated to see how the NFL handled the handle those kids,

1171
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: because the last time we saw guys go from the

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01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: NFL or college football skip a year for whatever reason,

1173
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 1: miss a year of college football and go to the

1174
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: drafts where Mike Williams and Maurice Clarette and both of

1175
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 1: those were failures. And now maybe there's variables tied to

1176
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: that failure but they were failures, and I would I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be fascinated to see if the NFL kind of

1178
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: shows any correlation or just crosses over their references when

1179
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: it comes to that, how did they miss or what

1180
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 1: did they miss when it comes to that, and is

1181
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 1: there any similarities? And then you know, obviously, when you

1182
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: go into the NFL is a rookie, your first year

1183
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: is a wash. More often than not, it's just a

1184
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 1: wash because so much change. Is this going to, you know,

1185
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 1: change the way an organization looks at a quarterback from

1186
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: three year from now because they're gonna go, wait, his

1187
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: rookie year was COVID and then its second year was

1188
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: actually the first time he had an off season. So

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01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: are they going to be a little bit more patient

1190
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: with their younger players like that? I think will be

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01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 1: the most likely scenario is the patience organizations will show

1192
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: with quarterbacks and coaches and young players in general because

1193
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Speaker 1: of this season. Talking with ESPN's Dan Orlovski is going

1194
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: to be part of the new relaunch of ESPN's NFL Live. Dan,

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01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 1: we'd be remiss if we didn't at least get a

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01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen question in for you, So we did get

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to talk to him via zoom call yesterday

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01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: as he met with members in the media, and just

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Speaker 1: with respect to what is now year three for him,

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01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,880
Speaker 1: it was interesting to hear him kind of run down

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01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 1: the list of where he wants to be better. And

1202
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: I know you've kind of analyzed his game time and

1203
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: time again, but I want you to kind of react

1204
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: to what he said. He said, I learned that playoff

1205
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: game and from a lot of my film from last year,

1206
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: that there are times where I just need to take

1207
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: the check down or hit the back. I do want

1208
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: to improve on my deep ball accuracy, but I also

1209
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 1: want to keep us out of third and long. How

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01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 1: hard is it, do you think, in your opinion, for

1211
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 1: guys as physically gifted as Josh Allen is to kind

1212
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: of just take the check down and take what a

1213
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,439
Speaker 1: defense gives him in those kind of situations, especially maybe

1214
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 1: when you're down on the scoreboard in a close game.

1215
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: How hard is it for players that gifted to fight

1216
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:38,919
Speaker 1: that natural tendency to just make the hero play. Yeah,

1217
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:41,440
Speaker 1: I'm super glad you asked that question, And once you

1218
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: started asking it, in my mind immediately said to my

1219
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: mind thought consistency within structure, right, And so you know,

1220
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: Josh is one of those players. And I started realizing

1221
01:05:54,880 --> 01:06:01,439
Speaker 1: this about Matthew Stafford many years ago because watching Matthew play,

1222
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: he had such physical talent. I'm not saying they're the

1223
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 1: same player, he had such physical talent that he didn't

1224
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 1: do things within consistent structure well because he never had to.

1225
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: He just never had to. I am so much better

1226
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: than everybody on the field. I can do whatever the

1227
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: heck I want with the football, and that's kind of

1228
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 1: been the type of athlete and talent Josh has been.

1229
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 1: Is better than everybody, and so he's gotten away with

1230
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: a certain style of play for a long I don't

1231
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: want to getten away. He's had success with a certain

1232
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: style of play for a long time. Now, when you

1233
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: fast forward it to the mindset and how you do

1234
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: it in the NFL, it's such a fine line of

1235
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 1: I want to continue to be a instinctual and reactionary

1236
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 1: aggressive player, because that's who he is. He's a reactionary player,

1237
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 1: He's an instincts player, and he's an aggressive player. You

1238
01:06:56,520 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: want to continue to be that ninety eight percent of

1239
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:03,440
Speaker 1: the time and then two percent of the time you

1240
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: got the quarterback. And that's not meant as a digg

1241
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: it all at all. But playing quarterback is about, oftentimes

1242
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:16,240
Speaker 1: management and execution and boring in simplicity. I've been for

1243
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 1: a long time. Look at the last fifteen years of

1244
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL Breeze, Brady Manning. These guys are boring.

1245
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 1: They're boring football players. They're great when greatness presents itself,

1246
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 1: but they're boring. Get the ball out, take the check down.

1247
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: It's not sexy, coach. I can make this throw. I

1248
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: can make this throw, and I'll never forget Matthew. We

1249
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: were having a conversation when time watch the tape and

1250
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: you know, I'm in a coach mode. I'm going, dude,

1251
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: Matthew's just it's first down. This guy's wide open. It's

1252
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:49,040
Speaker 1: three yards at worst, it's going to be a three

1253
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,960
Speaker 1: or four yard completion. And he looked at him, he goes, yeah,

1254
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:55,400
Speaker 1: but I don't think that. He looked at me and said,

1255
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: but I want to go wait and make that wild throw.

1256
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: And I want to make sure that everyone knows I

1257
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 1: can make that wild brow. And that's part of a

1258
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 1: maturation for a young player. It's hard you know, there's

1259
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 1: so many young quarterbacks in the End's bell that right

1260
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 1: now are having success because of the recess style of play,

1261
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 1: because of the freelance style of playoff. I think Josh

1262
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: is one of them. Eventually, that scale is going to

1263
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 1: even out, and all the young talented quarterbacks right now

1264
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: are gonna have to find a way to still play

1265
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:30,600
Speaker 1: really good football when it comes to consistency within the

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01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:32,600
Speaker 1: structure of play one, two, three, for five, it's not

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Speaker 1: their ball out instead of trying to make a play

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01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 1: all the time and so, but you want them to

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01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:39,719
Speaker 1: keep that stinger. And so it's just part of Josh's

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01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: maturation process. Guy, you gotta be themselves, you gotta be

1271
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: who you are, but always refining your game. And that's

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01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 1: kind of where he is. Last question I've got for you,

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01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 1: Dan's kind of a it's a long one and I

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01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: don't want to get to go down this rabbit hole

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01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 1: too far. But we're going into year three for that

1276
01:08:56,240 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 1: two eighteen rookie quarterback class. Lamar Jackson is the MVP

1277
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 1: last year, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnald, I'll lead Josh Rosen

1278
01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: off the table and let's just go with Baker Mayfield.

1279
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,560
Speaker 1: Sam Darnald, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, give me, give me

1280
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: a top and bottom for those guys, about where do

1281
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: you think they're at this point year three? You can

1282
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:16,920
Speaker 1: kind of get a really good handle or a better

1283
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: handle where they are, although none of them are finished product. Yeah,

1284
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: I'd say you actually have to throw out Sam Donald

1285
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 1: to the conversation because I mean, he's just complete and

1286
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:32,080
Speaker 1: utter failure around him, both on the field and off

1287
01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:35,600
Speaker 1: the field. So it's like it's impossible to gauge what

1288
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 1: Sam Donald is now and what he's going to be

1289
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: other than he's you probably see him very similar to

1290
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 1: what you saw him coming out of college because he

1291
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: hasn't been given a fair chance. Lamar Jackson is the

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01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 1: one that's been put in the healthiest environment the Baltimore Ravens,

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01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:53,680
Speaker 1: have a decade plus worth of good drafting and good

1294
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 1: people around him and really good coaching and Super Bowl

1295
01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and so Lamar is the guy

1296
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 1: that has proved a lot of people to be incorrect.

1297
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:05,680
Speaker 1: He's made people think outside the box. He's going to

1298
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 1: be an absolute superstar for the next foreseeable future. Yes,

1299
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:11,680
Speaker 1: he takes too many hits. One of the things that

1300
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: we have seen to prove indisputable when it comes to

1301
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:18,519
Speaker 1: that position is to hit that up for players and

1302
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: hits had up for quarterbacks. And so that's my only concern.

1303
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to say concern, but like my hope

1304
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:26,519
Speaker 1: is that he breaks that trend a little bit, but

1305
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 1: he's not going to fall off when it comes to

1306
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: his performance. Baker Mayfield the guy that you can put

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01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: him in. Listen, They've been bad around him when it

1308
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: comes to organizationally and head coaching wise, Like at least

1309
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,719
Speaker 1: there was a disaster, but there's a lot of talent

1310
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: around him. He needs to value the football war. Do

1311
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:52,719
Speaker 1: I think Baker Mayfield can be a top handful quarterback

1312
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Yes? Why because the number one physical

1313
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: attribute to quarterback needs to have his Paul placement exaccurate

1314
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: scene and he had that in big time, big time spades.

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01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:06,719
Speaker 1: So you know, with better coaching, I think Baker Makefields

1316
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 1: can have a very very good season in bright future.

1317
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:12,639
Speaker 1: And then for Josh, the thing that I'm most excited

1318
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: about Josh is outside of like everyone raised about his

1319
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 1: leadership and his intangibles and work ethic, is that that

1320
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: gives you such a good starting point. He continues to

1321
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 1: get better, he continues to grow and develop and get better.

1322
01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 1: And so you know, if if Josh had the twenty

1323
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: nineteen season in twenty eighteen and then the twenty eighteen

1324
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 1: season in twenty nineteen, I'd be a little bit more

1325
01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: like what. But he's getting better and better and better,

1326
01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:38,679
Speaker 1: And it seems like David has got a good pulse

1327
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: on what he is as a player, and so could

1328
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:47,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen become you know our generations, you know our generations,

1329
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 1: Big Ben. I don't. I don't know if he's gonna

1330
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: be that good, but I can see because of the organization,

1331
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:58,720
Speaker 1: I could see Josh Allen becoming eight top three to

1332
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: four AFC quarter back for the next ten years if

1333
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 1: he continues to develop. Yes, Okay, I think you just

1334
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:07,559
Speaker 1: made the day of every Bill's fan with that last

1335
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:09,760
Speaker 1: comment right at the end. You save the best for last, Dan,

1336
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:13,240
Speaker 1: So listen link. We enjoy watching on ESPN. We're excited

1337
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,599
Speaker 1: to see you on the relaunch at ESPN's NFL Live.

1338
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 1: Even love your video breakdowns on your Twitter handle. So

1339
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: thanks very much for the time. We appreciate it as always,

1340
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:23,559
Speaker 1: and good luck to you and your family, steering clear

1341
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:26,719
Speaker 1: of this crazy stuff we got going on. I appreciate

1342
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 1: it you guys too, Thanks always, all right, Thanklovsky ESPN

1343
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: NFL analyst. The thing I like most about him, Steve

1344
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: is he kind of breaks it down for the layman,

1345
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: you know. I know John Mann used to get a

1346
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 1: ton of credit for doing that as a broadcaster, and Dan,

1347
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 1: even though he is a former NFL quarterback and was

1348
01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 1: for twelve years largely in the backup capacity, he just

1349
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,640
Speaker 1: finds a way to kind of clear out all the

1350
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:57,800
Speaker 1: esoteric stuff and idiosyncratic stuff and just break it down

1351
01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:02,560
Speaker 1: so even the casual fan can see, Oh, okay, I

1352
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 1: see what he's talking about here. That's what a quarterback

1353
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: has to look for on this I got it. You know,

1354
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: he really kind of he teaches it in a way

1355
01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: that people can easily consume. And I think that's what

1356
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 1: NFL fans appreciate about him so much. Yeah. I always

1357
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 1: thought that's what an analyst should do most make it

1358
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: accessible for more people while not alienating the people who

1359
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 1: are a little bit above that level. And he does

1360
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 1: a really nice job of that. He's got great experience

1361
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:30,719
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. He played for a ton of different

1362
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 1: coaches and different players, different teams. He played for Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis,

1363
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay twelve seasons. He played with a lot of

1364
01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 1: really good players, played for a lot of really good coaches,

1365
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 1: and Hans has a way of articulating it that makes

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01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 1: it accessible. I think. I think he's a huge It's

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01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 1: nice that he's a friend of the show. Yeah, we

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01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 1: love having him on. So we have to take a

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01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 1: break here, but when we come back, we will cover

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01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 1: what could be percolating on the offensive line front for

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01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: the Bills. We'll hear from Brandon Bean as he out

1372
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 1: lines where things stand with Brian Winters, the Jets free agent.

1373
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 1: We know it's official now they've released Spencer Long, so

1374
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: there is an opening there on the roster that can

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01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: be addressed if they want to pursue things with Winters further.

1376
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: And we'll hear from Josh Allen as he had some

1377
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 1: comments on year three as we spoke about with Dan.

1378
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,879
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Josh directly after his zoom call yesterday

1379
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 1: with the Western New York Media. All of that coming

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01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 1: up next here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalaida Health.

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01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Halfway through the show here

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01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:39,720
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

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01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 1: And as we mentioned before we went to break, we

1384
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:48,080
Speaker 1: wanted to provide the update straight from the GM's office

1385
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: as to where things stand with the reports about the

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01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:57,799
Speaker 1: Bill's interest in former Jets guard now free agent Brian Winters.

1387
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 1: It was reported that the Bill had expressed some interest

1388
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: and GM Brandon Bean was on the WGR Morning Show

1389
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: with Howard Simon and Jeremy White and was asked about

1390
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 1: their interest in Winters. And here's what Brandon Being had

1391
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 1: to say about their interest in the free agent guard.

1392
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 1: We're definitely inquired about him and working on scheduling a

1393
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:24,080
Speaker 1: visit for him. But you know, people jump to conclusions

1394
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:26,160
Speaker 1: on things. You do have to a guy like that,

1395
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: You do have to kind of talk parameters of what

1396
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:30,920
Speaker 1: a deal would look like generally with the agent before

1397
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:32,840
Speaker 1: you're going to get them up here. So you know,

1398
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: we'll see still, you know, with this whole you know,

1399
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 1: I was explaining my press comment sho other day, it's

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01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: such a long process. Right now, You've got to before

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01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 1: we can even physical him, he's got to come up here,

1402
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 1: get at least one negative test. On the COVID test

1403
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:52,400
Speaker 1: physically and in another facility not in our place, and

1404
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: then you know, test them again. So again it's it

1405
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 1: takes time to do any of these transactions. So you know,

1406
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 1: we're optimistic, but until guys get through all that process,

1407
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 1: it'd be premature to say he's a Bill, So, Steve.

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01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 1: The other part that he didn't even mention, which he

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01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: mentioned over the weekend in his Sunday media availability, was

1410
01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 1: when you're trying to bring a new player in as

1411
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: a potential add to your roster, now under these new rules,

1412
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:25,000
Speaker 1: you have to create a roster opening for said player. Well,

1413
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:28,080
Speaker 1: it looks like the Bills have done that with the

1414
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:32,560
Speaker 1: release of Spencer Long, so you would think, while this

1415
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 1: is certainly not good news for Spencer Long, Steve, it

1416
01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:39,679
Speaker 1: does somewhat pave the way for the process to continue

1417
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:45,680
Speaker 1: if they're looking to sign officially Brian Winters. Right. And

1418
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 1: the reason this is all so different is because for

1419
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 1: those of you who aren't familiar how these NFL teams

1420
01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 1: work in during training camp, during the regular season all

1421
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:58,839
Speaker 1: the way through the calendar year, they bring in Brownie.

1422
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:03,640
Speaker 1: What doesn't of guys constantly every Tuesday is like a

1423
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:07,719
Speaker 1: workout session. They'll bring guys in constantly throughout the calendar

1424
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 1: year and look at them. They'll get a physical, they'll

1425
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 1: work them out, they'll keep their files up. Yet sometimes

1426
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 1: and and so and that, and that doesn't affect their

1427
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: roster at all. They don't care. They're not just they're

1428
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,519
Speaker 1: not signing these guys. They're just looking at them. Well, now,

1429
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: they can't do that window shopping at all. They can't go,

1430
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, they can't look at the guy. They can't physical,

1431
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 1: and they can't bring him in. They can't even bring

1432
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 1: him to town unless they got a hole in their roster. Right,

1433
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: So and even and even better, Steve and Brandon being

1434
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 1: explaining this, like, let's say you do have an opening,

1435
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: you have an injured player, you need to plug somebody in,

1436
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:46,760
Speaker 1: and you like three guys on your waiting list. You

1437
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 1: can't bring in three guys and decide who you like

1438
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:52,760
Speaker 1: the best. You can only bring in one now and

1439
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:57,439
Speaker 1: that and so think about this. You're an agent, Brownie,

1440
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 1: and you specialize in and let's just say, for the

1441
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 1: sake of argument, offensive lineman, like you have two clients.

1442
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: One is Brian Winters, the other is Spencer Long. And

1443
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:16,680
Speaker 1: now let's say Brian Winters and let's say player B.

1444
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:21,720
Speaker 1: Now the Bills have a hole in their roster, and

1445
01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:24,120
Speaker 1: you own you have the rights to player B and

1446
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: to Brian Winters. Which guy are you gonna recommend that

1447
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 1: the team take? You know, which guy are you gonna have? Say? Listen, well,

1448
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:35,600
Speaker 1: you know I got both these guys. You bring the

1449
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 1: right no, I think unfortunately, Well, if you're the agent,

1450
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 1: you leave it up to the team who do you want?

1451
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: And then it's not on you, it's on them. Say hey,

1452
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: I got two guys. I think they're equal in playing ability,

1453
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:53,120
Speaker 1: but you tell me who best fits you guys, and

1454
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: that's that's the line you give to the guy that's

1455
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,639
Speaker 1: left out of the mix. Um, And I do think

1456
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 1: Brian Winters would be a very good fit for the Bills.

1457
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: You know, Dabele had two guards in Feliciano and Spain

1458
01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:10,599
Speaker 1: who were more of the road, greater variety. Winters gives

1459
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 1: you a little bit more mobility at the guard position

1460
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 1: to get out and pull and do some different things.

1461
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 1: So I think he would increase your versatility with what

1462
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: you could do with your guys up front. We know

1463
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 1: Morrise can pull Feliciano did it at times. But I'm

1464
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:27,920
Speaker 1: of the opinion that Winters is a little bit more

1465
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:32,599
Speaker 1: agile than Feliciano, who's kind of a masher. He's more

1466
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:36,040
Speaker 1: of a masher. He's more mobile than Feliciano and Spain

1467
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: probably as well. Yes, yeah, now fit right now by

1468
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:44,560
Speaker 1: all indications. But yeah, so it would be interesting to

1469
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 1: see where that would go in terms of play calling

1470
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: and tendencies, knowing he could do a little bit more

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01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:51,880
Speaker 1: in that area. And I gotta say, Steve, and I

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01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: know you mentioned this, that he's just a tough, hard

1473
01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: nosed type player and would be a good fit here. Also,

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Speaker 1: the thing with him you talked to about him playing

1475
01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:01,760
Speaker 1: her This guy played eight games two years ago with

1476
01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: an abdominal tear. Can you imagine an alignment playing with

1477
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: an abdominal tear with all the pushing and pulling that you,

1478
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:15,639
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, just getting into your stance away, man,

1479
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:18,680
Speaker 1: that is that's a tough dude, man. Yeah. And I

1480
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 1: think one of the things about you talk about these

1481
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:24,640
Speaker 1: guys being athletic, and obviously we're talking pretty specifics here,

1482
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:27,040
Speaker 1: but you get athletic guards, and I think one of

1483
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 1: the things that when you know last year during the season,

1484
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 1: we took a lot of calls after games. And I

1485
01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 1: get it too, whenever you lose a game. Everybody's an

1486
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and Brian Dable doesn't know what he's do

1487
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: any day. I doesn't watch film, he has no idea,

1488
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 1: you know, all that stuff. But one one thought that

1489
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 1: was bandied about a lot during last season when the

1490
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:50,639
Speaker 1: team struggled offensively was the fact that they didn't run

1491
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 1: very many screen passes. They didn't run them very much,

1492
01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: and they didn't run them extremely well when they did

1493
01:20:56,040 --> 01:21:01,000
Speaker 1: run them, and from us and not for an It

1494
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 1: seems like to do those kind of plays you need

1495
01:21:04,520 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: guards and interior offensive lineman who can get out and run.

1496
01:21:08,040 --> 01:21:10,360
Speaker 1: That does not describe that is not the forte of

1497
01:21:10,439 --> 01:21:14,840
Speaker 1: John Feliciano and Quentin spain Um. Now maybe Brian Winter

1498
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:19,439
Speaker 1: or maybe even more expensive long when huh Morris can

1499
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:21,479
Speaker 1: do Yeah, right, Mitch Morris can, but you need guy.

1500
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:23,640
Speaker 1: You need more guys because they can keep you from

1501
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 1: doing that just by covering Mitch Morse up. He can't

1502
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:27,679
Speaker 1: get out if you if you run the right front

1503
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:29,680
Speaker 1: against that, So he's not going to be the guy

1504
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: that pulls so you need more guys who can do it,

1505
01:21:32,840 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 1: because if you get a certain front, it's not the

1506
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:36,639
Speaker 1: center who pulls and gets out in front of the screen,

1507
01:21:36,720 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 1: it's the guard and vice versa. And it could be

1508
01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 1: the other guard and the center. So maybe they are

1509
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 1: they see that hole in their personnel, and you know

1510
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:50,280
Speaker 1: if as long as they're gonna make some changes offensive line,

1511
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:51,760
Speaker 1: they want some guys who maybe can get out in

1512
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:53,960
Speaker 1: front of screens so they don't you know, so Mitch

1513
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 1: Morris isn't the guy that's stuck doing it all the time,

1514
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,200
Speaker 1: or they're they're prevented from doing it because Mitch Morris

1515
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 1: is covered up. And it wouldn't surprise me if they

1516
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:04,960
Speaker 1: do want to do more of that, more of a

1517
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:08,680
Speaker 1: screen game, because I think what we saw in the

1518
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: second half of the season from Devin Singletary when they

1519
01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: did utilize him in that way, there were a lot

1520
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 1: of productive plays, even swing passes. There were a lot

1521
01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 1: of productive plays with him just because you put him

1522
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:23,640
Speaker 1: out in space. I mean people are grasping at air.

1523
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 1: Ye now you put a convoy in front of him

1524
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:31,480
Speaker 1: on top of it. Oh man, he's there. He's phenomenally

1525
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:35,080
Speaker 1: gifted at making guys miss and he's great, very elusive.

1526
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:37,439
Speaker 1: Now he doesn't have the home run hitting ability. He's

1527
01:22:37,439 --> 01:22:39,680
Speaker 1: not gonna out he's not gonna snap one off for

1528
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: eighty five yards. They're gonna catch him from behind. The

1529
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: dbs are just too athletic in this league. But he

1530
01:22:47,240 --> 01:22:50,479
Speaker 1: will leave the dbs behind when they're trying, when they're

1531
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:52,640
Speaker 1: faced up on him, trying to tackle him. He did

1532
01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: it in that the highlight you see from the Houston game,

1533
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: the playoff game where he had two guys standing there

1534
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 1: him and him in one on either side and he

1535
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 1: walks out of it. You know, it's just that's what

1536
01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:05,040
Speaker 1: you need on the outside when you get to the

1537
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: screen game. That is what makes those things turn from

1538
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:11,519
Speaker 1: you know, six or seven yard games when they're good

1539
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:15,439
Speaker 1: into twenty five yard gains when they're really good. And

1540
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: that's why you want to see if you can get

1541
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 1: guys out there on the field who can help him

1542
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:21,560
Speaker 1: do that. So we'll see where it goes in the

1543
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: coming days with Brian Winters. But knowing that GM Brandon

1544
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 1: being said player acquisition now for it to be finalized

1545
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:32,479
Speaker 1: takes upwards to five days between need negative COVID tests,

1546
01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:35,280
Speaker 1: creating an opening on your roster and getting the guy

1547
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 1: to take a physical off site in town. Those are

1548
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:40,680
Speaker 1: all the hurdles that have to be cleared with the

1549
01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 1: free agent guard Brian Winters and the Bills. We'll see

1550
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:45,240
Speaker 1: if they get to the finish line with that and

1551
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:46,920
Speaker 1: can add him to the roster by the end of

1552
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:49,559
Speaker 1: the week. When we come back, we'll hear from Josh

1553
01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: Allen on why he's playing this season and chose to

1554
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:57,719
Speaker 1: opt in, why he's confident in the player accountability off

1555
01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 1: the field amidst this COVID pandemic, and if he thinks

1556
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:07,400
Speaker 1: he's got all the extra tools now, particularly in his home,

1557
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:10,639
Speaker 1: to help him make up for those lost reps physically

1558
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:13,200
Speaker 1: on the field. All of that coming your way when

1559
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 1: we returned, Steve Tasker, Chris Brown, One Bill's Live, presented

1560
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back here

1561
01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:28,640
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasper with you

1562
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:31,920
Speaker 1: as we are careening towards the final hour of the program.

1563
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 1: But before we break here at the top of the hour,

1564
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: we wanted to play some of the Josh Allen commentary

1565
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:41,759
Speaker 1: from his zoom call with the Western New York Media yesterday.

1566
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: It only went about fifteen minutes because they kind of

1567
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 1: got him in between meetings player meetings and such, so

1568
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:52,519
Speaker 1: he squeezed in some time with the media and it

1569
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:55,360
Speaker 1: was interesting to hear his take on you know, we

1570
01:24:55,479 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 1: hear all these players that are opting out, and nobody's

1571
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:01,080
Speaker 1: really asked the players that are on site, hey, why

1572
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 1: did you choose to say, you know what? I am

1573
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:06,759
Speaker 1: playing this season? So Josh was asked that very question.

1574
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 1: Here was his answer on why he's opting in one

1575
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:13,639
Speaker 1: I love this game too. I think it's a great

1576
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:17,040
Speaker 1: opportunity to give this nation hope and allow them to

1577
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: see us go out there and do what we do

1578
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: because we know that Sunday is a very special day

1579
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:23,000
Speaker 1: in the lives of a lot of people around the world,

1580
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 1: a lot of fans around the world. So you know,

1581
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,120
Speaker 1: one of it's our jobs too. It's it's my passion

1582
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:31,439
Speaker 1: to play this game. And there is obviously some things

1583
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:36,080
Speaker 1: that we're sacrificing and risking our health and what not

1584
01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: to do this. But at the same time, you know,

1585
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:43,559
Speaker 1: we want to play football. We're built and why are

1586
01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:45,720
Speaker 1: as football players and we want to play so we're

1587
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: gonna do everything necessary that we can't off the field

1588
01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:50,720
Speaker 1: to ensure that we do have a season. And you know,

1589
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna continue to find ways to adjust, and we

1590
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 1: know that the season is not going be perfect by

1591
01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 1: any means. And I think all thirty two teams are

1592
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:00,320
Speaker 1: thinking the same thing that in an instance it could change.

1593
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:02,479
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, we got to have that mentality

1594
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 1: of the next guy up and control what you can control,

1595
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:07,280
Speaker 1: and you know, put the team first. And it's really

1596
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:11,120
Speaker 1: the embodiment of putting the team first this season. So Steve,

1597
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:14,160
Speaker 1: I know you've talked about this a lot. Just players

1598
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: are wired a certain way and the alarm clock's going

1599
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 1: off in a lot of their heads it's time for football.

1600
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:23,040
Speaker 1: We've had this long layoff, you know. Now is the

1601
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 1: part of the calendar where we get ready for football,

1602
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:26,720
Speaker 1: no matter what's going on. And I think some of

1603
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:29,519
Speaker 1: them are thinking that way, and I think the layoffs

1604
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,960
Speaker 1: has only give them given them an even greater itch

1605
01:26:33,479 --> 01:26:37,280
Speaker 1: to get back to work. Certainly, every player is different.

1606
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 1: They're all unique in their own way, but they are

1607
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:45,320
Speaker 1: what a demographic young for the most part, they're single.

1608
01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: They have worked extremely hard to get to an elite

1609
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 1: level in a sport that they love and to set

1610
01:26:55,400 --> 01:26:59,800
Speaker 1: that aside for most of them. We all do this

1611
01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:03,600
Speaker 1: when we're young, anyway, most I couldn't a portion of

1612
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 1: us do this when we're young. We always say you're

1613
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:08,120
Speaker 1: not yeah, and I'm I'm not gonna get it, or

1614
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:11,200
Speaker 1: I'm you know, you're you put yourself outside the risk.

1615
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:13,519
Speaker 1: You know you're not one of the risk. You know

1616
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:15,960
Speaker 1: you're you're willing to take through. Right, You're in the

1617
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:20,479
Speaker 1: bulletproof category. You think like you're you're invincible. Youth brings

1618
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:25,560
Speaker 1: that on you. Plus and I said this, we had this.

1619
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,960
Speaker 1: I went around and around about this. You're asking these

1620
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 1: guys to consider this virus more dangerous than the game

1621
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:37,679
Speaker 1: they actually play. And that's a stretch. That's a stretch

1622
01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:42,599
Speaker 1: for me. Certainly. There is a percentage out there, however

1623
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 1: big or little. It is in reality, the death told

1624
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:49,400
Speaker 1: that this virus has taken and it's real. It is extreme,

1625
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:54,400
Speaker 1: it is real. It is. But for you know, most

1626
01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:58,760
Speaker 1: of these guys, the risk they take in playing the

1627
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 1: game they've loved since they were kids is real as well,

1628
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:07,680
Speaker 1: and they throw them into the same hopper basically, you

1629
01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:09,439
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And they're just saying listen, I'm

1630
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 1: gonna play. I'm a play and I'm getting paid a

1631
01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:15,040
Speaker 1: ton of cash to do it. It's worth it, Let's go,

1632
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:19,240
Speaker 1: and let's be honest. NFL career is, to a large degree,

1633
01:28:19,320 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 1: are short. Carving a year out of somebody's career, knowing

1634
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:27,360
Speaker 1: the averages three and a half years, that's a gigantic

1635
01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:32,120
Speaker 1: chunk of earning power that you're tossing aside or hoping

1636
01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:34,679
Speaker 1: you can make up for in the future. And that's

1637
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:37,880
Speaker 1: that's a different situation for everybody too. I don't want

1638
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: to get go down, but here's the thing, Brownie, And

1639
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:42,200
Speaker 1: I'm not for nothing, but I think that is a

1640
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:45,720
Speaker 1: certainly I'm I've done that on this program, saying listen,

1641
01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:49,800
Speaker 1: their careers are short. It's it doesn't make any sense

1642
01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:52,719
Speaker 1: to lay out a year. But I don't think players

1643
01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 1: think long term like that. I don't. They're thinking about,

1644
01:28:55,960 --> 01:28:58,400
Speaker 1: all right, what's it mean right now for me to

1645
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 1: sit out. Am I going to get a three fifty

1646
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:02,719
Speaker 1: grand salary? Or am I just gonna get one hundred

1647
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:06,920
Speaker 1: and fifty grand to make this happen? Or and what

1648
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 1: are my chances if I do go back that I

1649
01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:13,640
Speaker 1: might get cut anyway, So do I take a guaranteed

1650
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:17,160
Speaker 1: one fifty or go back and play it's not about me, Well,

1651
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:19,639
Speaker 1: this is a year of my career. If you're gonna play,

1652
01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:21,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna play. You get the year. If it's that

1653
01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 1: important to you, go play. If but it's it's about

1654
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:29,240
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting right in this moment. You don't You

1655
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:32,040
Speaker 1: can't take the back end of your career, say I

1656
01:29:32,160 --> 01:29:33,760
Speaker 1: took a lot of year off of it at the

1657
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 1: back end, because nobody knows what that's gonna be. This

1658
01:29:36,520 --> 01:29:40,560
Speaker 1: may be your last training camp anyway. But if it's so,

1659
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:43,720
Speaker 1: they're what they're thinking is what's the best move for

1660
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 1: me today right where I'm then sitting with no guarantees

1661
01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 1: about tomorrow. And I think also for Josh Allen and

1662
01:29:50,280 --> 01:29:52,120
Speaker 1: probably a lot of people on this roster that have

1663
01:29:52,280 --> 01:29:54,760
Speaker 1: opped it in, they're saying, hey, we got a chance

1664
01:29:54,800 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 1: to really make a run at this thing. And that

1665
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:01,599
Speaker 1: also carries waiting with the players because and I'll say too,

1666
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:04,080
Speaker 1: ultimately they're all playing to get that ring. So if

1667
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:06,560
Speaker 1: they think they've got a shot at it, you know

1668
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 1: they're not opting out if because they know the window

1669
01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 1: opens and closes just as fast in this league and

1670
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:17,679
Speaker 1: that culture that they built here, it does mean something

1671
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:20,120
Speaker 1: for guys. They I want to go out and play

1672
01:30:20,160 --> 01:30:22,439
Speaker 1: with these guys. I love these guys. You know. At

1673
01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 1: the end of my career, it was hard to walk away.

1674
01:30:25,479 --> 01:30:27,759
Speaker 1: It was a little easier because Kent Hall had retired,

1675
01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly had retired, you know, Will Wolford had moved on,

1676
01:30:31,479 --> 01:30:33,920
Speaker 1: Other players had you know, House Ballard had was Gonna

1677
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 1: has moved on. Uh, you know, Darl Daryl was well,

1678
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:40,800
Speaker 1: Darrel was still there, Bruce was still there, Thermo was

1679
01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:43,320
Speaker 1: still there, Andrea was still there. There were some really

1680
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:45,200
Speaker 1: close friends of mine that were there, but you know,

1681
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:48,080
Speaker 1: Pete Metzlurs and Don Beebe and Frank Reich had all

1682
01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:51,439
Speaker 1: moved on. Uh, my friend John Kidd had moved on

1683
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 1: early in my career, so I, you know, I had

1684
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 1: seen guys leave. So it wasn't like all the guys

1685
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 1: that I had ever played with and all my even

1686
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:02,639
Speaker 1: lifelong own buddies were still there. But there were guys

1687
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 1: in that locker room I had a lot of affection for,

1688
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:06,960
Speaker 1: and it was hard to say goodbye to that. And

1689
01:31:07,479 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 1: so I putting it in that context, the culture they've

1690
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:13,680
Speaker 1: created here in Buffalo does have a say because I'll

1691
01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 1: tell you this too, Brown not for nothing if it

1692
01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 1: had happened in nineteen eighty nine. I mean, like you know,

1693
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:20,840
Speaker 1: I don't know whether I play with these guys or not.

1694
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:23,080
Speaker 1: I can kind of take it or leave it. It was.

1695
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:25,640
Speaker 1: It was not a happy go lucky locker room at

1696
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:27,960
Speaker 1: that present. It got there, but you know what I mean.

1697
01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:31,000
Speaker 1: So there is that for the Buffalo Bills players in

1698
01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:33,200
Speaker 1: a large degree, not every guy, but ever to a

1699
01:31:33,280 --> 01:31:36,000
Speaker 1: large degree. It's not that way for other players in

1700
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:41,679
Speaker 1: other places to the same extent. So every team's different,

1701
01:31:41,720 --> 01:31:44,840
Speaker 1: every team's the same, but every guy's got to make

1702
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:47,240
Speaker 1: that and I think there is a a for a

1703
01:31:47,280 --> 01:31:50,200
Speaker 1: team like Buffalo. They do have that in their back pocket.

1704
01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:52,880
Speaker 1: This is for organization I'm talking about. They got a

1705
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:56,160
Speaker 1: cohesive unit, a lot of stability, a lot of guys

1706
01:31:56,200 --> 01:31:59,360
Speaker 1: who really love each other and have built something worth it,

1707
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:02,920
Speaker 1: both in the coaching staff, the front office and the players.

1708
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:05,240
Speaker 1: They built something here and they've all done it kind

1709
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:09,519
Speaker 1: of together. So there is something invested over the last

1710
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:11,920
Speaker 1: couple of years that it is present here in Buffalo

1711
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:14,640
Speaker 1: that may not be there for other teams. Yeah, and

1712
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 1: that's why Josh Allen believes there will be player accountability

1713
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:21,160
Speaker 1: off the field that needs to happen this year to

1714
01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:24,560
Speaker 1: protect themselves against COVID. We'll hear from him about that

1715
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 1: when we come back on the other side. We're at

1716
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:28,799
Speaker 1: a time here for this second hour of the program.

1717
01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:31,960
Speaker 1: Third hour coming up, where we'll talk about more coming

1718
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:34,800
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen and we'll check in with Brandon Bean

1719
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:38,160
Speaker 1: and more of what he had to say about the team,

1720
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:42,160
Speaker 1: about how to shape the roster, about the COVID restrictions.

1721
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:44,840
Speaker 1: All of that will be covered in our number three

1722
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:47,720
Speaker 1: Stay tuned Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here on

1723
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo

1724
01:32:51,040 --> 01:33:19,000
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Oh Down, Down, Down Time AH or number

1725
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:21,720
Speaker 1: three of the program. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1726
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:25,160
Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Live. As we are talking Bill's

1727
01:33:25,160 --> 01:33:27,920
Speaker 1: Football with you eight oh three oh five fifty. If

1728
01:33:27,960 --> 01:33:30,719
Speaker 1: you want to join us one fifty two five fifty,

1729
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:33,120
Speaker 1: we are wide open for this half hour segment here

1730
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 1: and we've got a lot to get to, so we

1731
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:38,000
Speaker 1: will jump right in. We began at the end of

1732
01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 1: the last hour with some of Josh Allen's comments about

1733
01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:46,439
Speaker 1: the upcoming season made available to the media yesterday, and

1734
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:49,000
Speaker 1: we were kind of sifting our way through some of

1735
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:52,320
Speaker 1: his more notable comments that we thought you would like

1736
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:55,160
Speaker 1: to hear. And we covered already why he chose to

1737
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:57,840
Speaker 1: opt in big season for him, like to give the

1738
01:33:57,960 --> 01:34:00,879
Speaker 1: nation some hopes and sentence of normalcy and some football

1739
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 1: on Sundays. And the other thing is he just believes

1740
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:08,080
Speaker 1: in the tight knit nature of this team and he

1741
01:34:08,240 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 1: thinks that is the thing that will keep players accountable

1742
01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: to one another, where they're doing the right things off

1743
01:34:17,120 --> 01:34:20,479
Speaker 1: the field to reduce their exposure risk to COVID. Let's

1744
01:34:20,520 --> 01:34:23,080
Speaker 1: hear what you have to say about that. Brandon and

1745
01:34:23,360 --> 01:34:25,680
Speaker 1: coach McDermott brought have brought in the right guys and

1746
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:27,920
Speaker 1: the guys that have the right mindset. Like I said,

1747
01:34:27,960 --> 01:34:31,720
Speaker 1: that embodies the team first mentality. So we know our

1748
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:33,799
Speaker 1: guys are going to do the right things off the field,

1749
01:34:33,840 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 1: and you know, if I can count on a bunch

1750
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:39,800
Speaker 1: of dudes in this locker room to make sure that

1751
01:34:40,200 --> 01:34:42,880
Speaker 1: they're holding each other accountable, so that's that's not really

1752
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:45,760
Speaker 1: the issue with us, and um, you know, like I said,

1753
01:34:46,360 --> 01:34:49,800
Speaker 1: from ownership down. Um, they've done a great job in

1754
01:34:49,800 --> 01:34:52,439
Speaker 1: the facility. The people that are setting up you know,

1755
01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 1: our tables and make sure that they're all distanced correctly,

1756
01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:59,360
Speaker 1: and we have sanitization stations around um, you know the facilities,

1757
01:34:59,400 --> 01:35:01,320
Speaker 1: and every time we work out, as soon as we're

1758
01:35:01,360 --> 01:35:05,080
Speaker 1: done using that equipment, it's getting wiped down and cleaned off.

1759
01:35:05,160 --> 01:35:08,599
Speaker 1: So UM, it's been obviously it's been thoroughly thought out,

1760
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:11,479
Speaker 1: you know, throughout everybody in the in the building and

1761
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: they've set up a nice lounge for us where we

1762
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:17,880
Speaker 1: can against social distance and it'll still be around each

1763
01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:20,680
Speaker 1: other and be able to talk and build that camaraderie

1764
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:24,360
Speaker 1: that we might have um missed out on in training camp.

1765
01:35:24,479 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: So again, we're just gonna continue to adjust and find

1766
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:29,519
Speaker 1: ways that we can get better and um trying to

1767
01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: do things the right way. I would think Steve that

1768
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:36,599
Speaker 1: the main people in that locker room that they got

1769
01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:39,840
Speaker 1: to get on the right track, or the rookies you

1770
01:35:39,920 --> 01:35:42,360
Speaker 1: know that are new to all this, and then you

1771
01:35:42,840 --> 01:35:47,160
Speaker 1: you lump the COVID responsibilities on top. You those are

1772
01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,160
Speaker 1: the guys you gotta set straight here. It seems like

1773
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 1: the vets and the guys that have been here, no

1774
01:35:51,640 --> 01:35:54,760
Speaker 1: know what the deal is right, and it's and plus

1775
01:35:54,800 --> 01:35:57,120
Speaker 1: there's also some new players guys come, you know, like

1776
01:35:57,200 --> 01:36:00,680
Speaker 1: guys coming from Carolina, guys coming from Seattle, and other

1777
01:36:00,800 --> 01:36:04,640
Speaker 1: free agents that they've signed from other teams also have

1778
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:08,400
Speaker 1: to get up to speed on it. But nevertheless, veterans

1779
01:36:08,439 --> 01:36:10,680
Speaker 1: will have a real sense of how, you know, how

1780
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:13,160
Speaker 1: this is all looking and why it's different, why it's unique.

1781
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:14,680
Speaker 1: They're going to be able to jump on board with

1782
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:18,280
Speaker 1: it really quickly. But you're right, Brownie, that the young

1783
01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:25,320
Speaker 1: guys who are coming from a college ranks not for nothing.

1784
01:36:26,040 --> 01:36:31,719
Speaker 1: Just to generalize, most college guys don't have responsibilities once

1785
01:36:31,840 --> 01:36:35,200
Speaker 1: they're once they're even standing on the sideline, you know

1786
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:37,720
Speaker 1: what I mean, they're just if they're not actually in

1787
01:36:37,840 --> 01:36:41,000
Speaker 1: the on the field playing football, they don't have any

1788
01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:44,439
Speaker 1: responsibilities to the team. Everything they do is taken care of.

1789
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:47,599
Speaker 1: Colleges for the most part, kind of grab these guys

1790
01:36:47,640 --> 01:36:49,720
Speaker 1: by the hand and get them to class. They get

1791
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:52,679
Speaker 1: them tutors, They show them where they live, they show

1792
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:55,479
Speaker 1: them where their dining hall isis, are prepared, the meals

1793
01:36:55,520 --> 01:36:57,599
Speaker 1: are ready for him. It's buffet style all the time.

1794
01:36:57,640 --> 01:36:59,400
Speaker 1: You go. You know, you just make sure that you

1795
01:36:59,479 --> 01:37:03,080
Speaker 1: show up year on time for practice, and most kids don't,

1796
01:37:03,080 --> 01:37:04,439
Speaker 1: you know, don't even have to tell them that they're

1797
01:37:04,439 --> 01:37:08,120
Speaker 1: gonna be there early. Right in the pros, it's different.

1798
01:37:09,400 --> 01:37:12,479
Speaker 1: You've got a level of responsibility that goes far beyond

1799
01:37:12,680 --> 01:37:18,240
Speaker 1: what happens what happens on inside the sidelines. You've got

1800
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:21,680
Speaker 1: studying you've got to do. You've got preparation, you've got

1801
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:25,000
Speaker 1: to do, film to watch, You've got players and teammates

1802
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:28,240
Speaker 1: you've got to get to know. You've got to take

1803
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:31,200
Speaker 1: care of your own living expenses, your own living situation.

1804
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:34,719
Speaker 1: You're away from the field, away from the facility life

1805
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:37,760
Speaker 1: that you're gonna put together whatever support system you've got

1806
01:37:37,840 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 1: in place, and most of these times sentitive maintenance with

1807
01:37:41,160 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 1: a body like you've never done before. Right you come

1808
01:37:43,840 --> 01:37:45,880
Speaker 1: off the field, you get in the ice bucket instead

1809
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:48,200
Speaker 1: of just going off and going right to lunch or whatever.

1810
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:51,280
Speaker 1: So and a lot of that has to be taught, obviously,

1811
01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:53,160
Speaker 1: because there's nobody in the college ranks doing it and

1812
01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:54,880
Speaker 1: teaching these kids how to do it, and they get

1813
01:37:54,920 --> 01:37:59,640
Speaker 1: it from players from veterans. So it's a hard ad

1814
01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:02,160
Speaker 1: judge for young players to come in and all of

1815
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:08,160
Speaker 1: a sudden act like a professional and being of the

1816
01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 1: mindset that you're trying to get and do your job

1817
01:38:10,920 --> 01:38:14,280
Speaker 1: better every day without anybody telling you how that's done.

1818
01:38:14,520 --> 01:38:16,479
Speaker 1: And now throw COVID on top of it and say

1819
01:38:16,560 --> 01:38:18,439
Speaker 1: when even when you leave the building and you're not

1820
01:38:18,600 --> 01:38:22,240
Speaker 1: quote unquote at work, you still have a responsibility to

1821
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:25,280
Speaker 1: the people you're working with when you're out on your own,

1822
01:38:25,840 --> 01:38:27,960
Speaker 1: whether it's in you the confines of your own home

1823
01:38:28,120 --> 01:38:30,680
Speaker 1: or you're driving to the gas station to fill up

1824
01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:34,000
Speaker 1: your gas tank. Pro sports, being a pro professional athlete

1825
01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:37,040
Speaker 1: is not at it. It's a lifestyle. It's not a career.

1826
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 1: And most of these guys eat right, live right, and

1827
01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:42,800
Speaker 1: work right, and a lot of young players have to

1828
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:46,360
Speaker 1: learn to do that and learn that mindset. So when

1829
01:38:46,400 --> 01:38:49,680
Speaker 1: you're not at work, you're still at work because your

1830
01:38:49,720 --> 01:38:52,840
Speaker 1: body is your workspace and they have to learn that

1831
01:38:52,960 --> 01:38:56,439
Speaker 1: bodies your livelihood. Yeah, right, right, So it's it's a

1832
01:38:56,479 --> 01:38:58,559
Speaker 1: big lesson for a lot of young players. And you're right, Brown,

1833
01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 1: I think that is the and it always is. But

1834
01:39:03,320 --> 01:39:05,479
Speaker 1: I don't think it's any that much different this year

1835
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: than it has been in the past, except that COVID

1836
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:12,479
Speaker 1: makes the consequences dire. It's not just you that goes down,

1837
01:39:12,840 --> 01:39:16,520
Speaker 1: it's the whole ship that goes down. So the consequences

1838
01:39:16,600 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 1: for the rookies not getting it this year are through

1839
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:24,360
Speaker 1: the roof. Yeah, no question about it. And Josh also

1840
01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 1: addressed the time lost on the field. There's no way

1841
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 1: to make up for it, and every team's in the

1842
01:39:30,479 --> 01:39:32,439
Speaker 1: same boat. So he say, Okay, we're all kind of

1843
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:35,720
Speaker 1: at an even playing field because no one had OTAs,

1844
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:38,760
Speaker 1: no one had Mini camp, and to this point, no

1845
01:39:38,840 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 1: one's had real training camp practice, and we're not going

1846
01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:43,960
Speaker 1: to have a preseason. So in an effort to try

1847
01:39:44,040 --> 01:39:47,720
Speaker 1: to make up for those lost physical reps in some way,

1848
01:39:48,960 --> 01:39:52,799
Speaker 1: Josh decided to take it upon himself to find somewhere

1849
01:39:54,000 --> 01:39:56,879
Speaker 1: that he can gain an edge. Maybe some other quarterback

1850
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:59,840
Speaker 1: in the league is not doing this, So Josh kind

1851
01:39:59,880 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 1: of shed some light on what he did in an

1852
01:40:02,240 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 1: effort to try to make up for some of the

1853
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 1: lost physical reps over the course of the spring and summer.

1854
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 1: The only thing that really hurts is, you know you're

1855
01:40:09,920 --> 01:40:13,160
Speaker 1: gonna get a limited amount of reps, live reps that

1856
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:17,720
Speaker 1: you would typically get in a preseason, in a full

1857
01:40:17,800 --> 01:40:20,439
Speaker 1: training camp, on the OTAs and all that stuff. So,

1858
01:40:21,200 --> 01:40:24,120
Speaker 1: but I've set up something in my house and I've

1859
01:40:24,160 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 1: got my complete film room there and I got everything

1860
01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:28,439
Speaker 1: I need to watch as much film as I can.

1861
01:40:28,520 --> 01:40:30,000
Speaker 1: So i'most spent a lot of time in that room

1862
01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:32,439
Speaker 1: be able to make sure that I'm getting, you know,

1863
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:35,920
Speaker 1: all the mental reps that I can. Guys set up

1864
01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:38,679
Speaker 1: a film room in his own house. I'm surprised, Steve

1865
01:40:39,400 --> 01:40:41,840
Speaker 1: that more players don't do this. Maybe there's less of

1866
01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:44,719
Speaker 1: a need for it now because guys can walk around

1867
01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:46,840
Speaker 1: with those iPads twenty four to seven and bring them

1868
01:40:46,840 --> 01:40:49,960
Speaker 1: wherever they are, So maybe maybe that's reduced the need

1869
01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:52,840
Speaker 1: for that. And I'm sure there are quarterbacks even from

1870
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:56,280
Speaker 1: years past that undertook that kind of a thing where

1871
01:40:56,320 --> 01:40:58,920
Speaker 1: they either built a home theater or set up their

1872
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:01,120
Speaker 1: own film room with the click so they could do

1873
01:41:01,160 --> 01:41:04,200
Speaker 1: it at home too. Most quarterbacks do that. Yeah, so

1874
01:41:04,400 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 1: Josh has gone and done that, and he's gonna review

1875
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:11,880
Speaker 1: stuff at nauseam, probably from practice tape to game tape

1876
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:15,960
Speaker 1: to future opponents. He's just gonna pound film when he's

1877
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:19,479
Speaker 1: at home. Yeah, Jim Kelly did that back in the day.

1878
01:41:19,560 --> 01:41:22,040
Speaker 1: He had to set up at his house. I know,

1879
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:25,240
Speaker 1: you know, guys like Peyton Manning, all those guys have

1880
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:27,080
Speaker 1: a set up at their house so they can work

1881
01:41:27,280 --> 01:41:30,160
Speaker 1: at home and get some production, get some film watching in.

1882
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:33,840
Speaker 1: And also that means an open line to the coach too,

1883
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:36,920
Speaker 1: or when they call, you know, you're when Jim Kelly

1884
01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 1: called ted Marcher Brod or whatever, you know, Teddy picked

1885
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:44,800
Speaker 1: up the phone. And also you know, Frank Reich's over

1886
01:41:44,880 --> 01:41:47,160
Speaker 1: there watching it with him, and they're both and Frank's

1887
01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:49,200
Speaker 1: telling him what he thinks about plays and stuff and

1888
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:51,600
Speaker 1: aspects of the play, and they do it over and

1889
01:41:51,720 --> 01:41:53,320
Speaker 1: over and over, so it gets to be a routine.

1890
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:56,759
Speaker 1: I'll give you another thing, Philip Rivers. When the Chargers

1891
01:41:56,800 --> 01:41:59,280
Speaker 1: two years ago moved to La out of San Diego,

1892
01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:04,559
Speaker 1: he didn't move his family. He he commuted for two hours,

1893
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,280
Speaker 1: two plus hours every morning to get to the facility

1894
01:42:07,320 --> 01:42:10,680
Speaker 1: in La where they were practicing. In response to that,

1895
01:42:11,439 --> 01:42:14,880
Speaker 1: he hops out a van, you know, he you know,

1896
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:18,200
Speaker 1: he hops out a van with it's a it's not

1897
01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:20,519
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't just like a van. I mean

1898
01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:22,559
Speaker 1: it's a it's a van. I mean he's back there

1899
01:42:22,600 --> 01:42:26,040
Speaker 1: in a recliner with a big video screen. He'd he's

1900
01:42:26,040 --> 01:42:29,120
Speaker 1: got a driver. He's sitting back there doing work for

1901
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:31,600
Speaker 1: two hours, watching film before he gets to this to

1902
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:34,760
Speaker 1: the facility. He's making phone calls before he gets to

1903
01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:37,240
Speaker 1: the facility. He's doing all this stuff, uh, and doing

1904
01:42:37,320 --> 01:42:38,640
Speaker 1: the work he would do if he had gotten to

1905
01:42:38,680 --> 01:42:41,360
Speaker 1: the facility two hours before. And he gets that done

1906
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:44,800
Speaker 1: on the commute. So because of that, uh, you know,

1907
01:42:45,040 --> 01:42:47,880
Speaker 1: there's that's why you know, guys like Josh Allen succeed.

1908
01:42:48,040 --> 01:42:50,200
Speaker 1: They work hard at it and they go the extra

1909
01:42:50,280 --> 01:42:52,840
Speaker 1: mile to make sure they can work at a convenient

1910
01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 1: place and for that reason, they're more productive because of it.

1911
01:42:57,479 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 1: So Josh did that. It's a good that he did that.

1912
01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:03,000
Speaker 1: But that's the way it should work in the National

1913
01:43:03,040 --> 01:43:06,800
Speaker 1: Football League. And he's up, he's up to snuff with that. Yeah,

1914
01:43:06,960 --> 01:43:09,679
Speaker 1: so good on him. And to take it a step further,

1915
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:13,679
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean was on the WGR Morning Show this morning

1916
01:43:13,800 --> 01:43:17,519
Speaker 1: with Howard and Jeremy and they asked him about Josh

1917
01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:22,120
Speaker 1: and his approach here in year three and suffice to say,

1918
01:43:22,200 --> 01:43:26,280
Speaker 1: Steve Brandon Bean and probably Sean mcdermot's in this boat too,

1919
01:43:26,439 --> 01:43:28,760
Speaker 1: but the two of them could not be happier with

1920
01:43:29,120 --> 01:43:31,719
Speaker 1: the strides that Josh is making, not only as a leader,

1921
01:43:31,800 --> 01:43:34,720
Speaker 1: but with his efforts to make his personal game better.

1922
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:37,760
Speaker 1: You know, I always judge people and see how much

1923
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:40,519
Speaker 1: pressure they put on themselves. Nobody's going to put more

1924
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:43,240
Speaker 1: pressure on themselves than Josh. Josh is not a guy

1925
01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:47,599
Speaker 1: that needs, you know, the coaches or myself, or the fans,

1926
01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:50,479
Speaker 1: or ownership or anybody to put pressure on him. He's

1927
01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:52,599
Speaker 1: his own worst critic. I promise you. You see him

1928
01:43:52,600 --> 01:43:55,560
Speaker 1: at practice and I walk through the other day. It

1929
01:43:55,680 --> 01:43:57,519
Speaker 1: might have been yesterday or dayfore, I don't remember, but

1930
01:43:57,640 --> 01:43:59,720
Speaker 1: I'm out there and it's just a walkthrough play and

1931
01:43:59,840 --> 01:44:02,519
Speaker 1: he missed the throw. Um. It wasn't a terrible throw,

1932
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:04,880
Speaker 1: but it wasn't in the right spot, and he's you know,

1933
01:44:05,000 --> 01:44:07,960
Speaker 1: he's yelling at you know, coached able, Hey, let's let's

1934
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 1: do it again. Let's do it again. I just I

1935
01:44:09,439 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 1: want to hit that throw. So, you know, he's got

1936
01:44:12,080 --> 01:44:15,120
Speaker 1: that perfectionist in him, and I think at the end

1937
01:44:15,160 --> 01:44:17,560
Speaker 1: of the day, he knows what he has to do.

1938
01:44:18,080 --> 01:44:20,080
Speaker 1: He's tried to address those things. I know he had

1939
01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:21,519
Speaker 1: a checklist that he was going to go out with

1940
01:44:21,640 --> 01:44:25,080
Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer and work on and and you know, we're

1941
01:44:25,120 --> 01:44:27,360
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing what that looks like, you know,

1942
01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:30,320
Speaker 1: as we move closer out of walkthroughs and then too,

1943
01:44:30,560 --> 01:44:35,759
Speaker 1: you know, full speed practice. So that's just a glimpse

1944
01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:39,519
Speaker 1: as to how fine Josh is cutting it with his

1945
01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:44,479
Speaker 1: own personal game. They're in a walkthrough and he doesn't

1946
01:44:44,520 --> 01:44:47,240
Speaker 1: put the ball in the proper location for that play,

1947
01:44:47,720 --> 01:44:50,559
Speaker 1: and he's yelling at Dable to run it again. Usually

1948
01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:53,120
Speaker 1: it's the other way around at a practice. Usually the coach,

1949
01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:56,120
Speaker 1: if he's not happy with the execution level, he'll say,

1950
01:44:56,560 --> 01:44:58,840
Speaker 1: let's go run it again, run it again. I want

1951
01:44:58,880 --> 01:45:01,400
Speaker 1: to see it right. And the shoes on the other foot.

1952
01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:07,519
Speaker 1: Now with Josh, yeah, he's and that's there's a lot

1953
01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:10,240
Speaker 1: of every guy, everybody who plays quarterback in the NFL

1954
01:45:10,320 --> 01:45:13,520
Speaker 1: plays it a little differently and uh, but there are similarities.

1955
01:45:13,560 --> 01:45:18,639
Speaker 1: And when you get guys, particularly quarterbacks, and I'll give

1956
01:45:18,640 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 1: you an example way back in the day, and I

1957
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,320
Speaker 1: guess i'll make this quick, but way back in the day,

1958
01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:27,679
Speaker 1: when I was working for CBS, we were traveling around

1959
01:45:27,680 --> 01:45:29,960
Speaker 1: and I was working the sidelines for Jim Nance and

1960
01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 1: Phil Simms when they were the number one Crewe. CBS

1961
01:45:32,240 --> 01:45:34,719
Speaker 1: it was a playoff game and it was the Friday

1962
01:45:35,479 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 1: of the championship game. And I think I can't remember

1963
01:45:39,680 --> 01:45:41,639
Speaker 1: whether it was the championship game, one of the championship

1964
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:43,880
Speaker 1: games against the Jets, or whether it's one of the

1965
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:49,120
Speaker 1: championship games against the Patriots, but the Indianapolis Colts are

1966
01:45:49,240 --> 01:45:50,760
Speaker 1: in the championship game. I think it was one of

1967
01:45:50,800 --> 01:45:54,800
Speaker 1: the Jets games against uh, you know, Rex Ryan and

1968
01:45:55,240 --> 01:45:58,519
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez, right, So it's one of those guys Rights

1969
01:45:58,520 --> 01:46:00,920
Speaker 1: and Peyton Manning. Maybe that's little early for them to

1970
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:04,679
Speaker 1: be in the championship game, but whatever, it's a Friday

1971
01:46:04,800 --> 01:46:10,560
Speaker 1: practice and of the championship game. So this is you know,

1972
01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:14,240
Speaker 1: they're well oiled machine now. I mean this is deep

1973
01:46:14,320 --> 01:46:18,160
Speaker 1: into the season. Peyton Manning is in his fullness, you know,

1974
01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:20,200
Speaker 1: he's in It's like it must be the Super Bowl

1975
01:46:20,240 --> 01:46:23,639
Speaker 1: forty two when they beat the Bears, maybe that championship game.

1976
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:26,840
Speaker 1: So we go in a Friday and they're practicing, and

1977
01:46:27,400 --> 01:46:28,760
Speaker 1: you know, they do all these periods. You know, you've

1978
01:46:28,800 --> 01:46:32,400
Speaker 1: seen it, Brownie. It's it's individual period, it's stretch, it's

1979
01:46:32,920 --> 01:46:35,559
Speaker 1: seven on sevens team and all that. So then they

1980
01:46:35,640 --> 01:46:39,840
Speaker 1: get into the offensive period and everything goes silent, and

1981
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:43,719
Speaker 1: the only voice in the entire building is Peyton Manning.

1982
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:49,400
Speaker 1: Not only not only is he calling every play at

1983
01:46:49,439 --> 01:46:53,600
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. After between plays, he'll point to

1984
01:46:53,680 --> 01:46:56,160
Speaker 1: the all these other guy the defenders, you know that

1985
01:46:56,760 --> 01:46:58,920
Speaker 1: they're all standing around Wait, you know not I'm talking

1986
01:46:58,960 --> 01:47:02,200
Speaker 1: about the guys off watch practice. You know the you know,

1987
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:04,800
Speaker 1: he points, he goes you you're in there for him,

1988
01:47:04,840 --> 01:47:09,720
Speaker 1: and he Peyton Manning is making substitutions on the defensive

1989
01:47:09,880 --> 01:47:14,479
Speaker 1: look team to get the look that he wants in

1990
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:21,160
Speaker 1: this practice right and nobody else is saying a word.

1991
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:26,200
Speaker 1: It's silent. Tony Dungee's standing there. Ever, they're all just

1992
01:47:26,320 --> 01:47:28,400
Speaker 1: standing there and they're letting him run. He runs the

1993
01:47:28,600 --> 01:47:35,840
Speaker 1: entire im. That's how you know, that's that's that's Peyton

1994
01:47:35,920 --> 01:47:39,639
Speaker 1: Manning football, right, um. And there are other stories I've

1995
01:47:39,680 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 1: seen about other and heard about other great quarterbacks, and

1996
01:47:42,360 --> 01:47:47,880
Speaker 1: they did a little differently. But the desire and the

1997
01:47:48,040 --> 01:47:52,160
Speaker 1: willingness and the commitment they had to getting the play

1998
01:47:52,439 --> 01:47:56,840
Speaker 1: right in practice is unchanging. And josh Is is like that.

1999
01:47:57,000 --> 01:47:58,880
Speaker 1: Now you know, he's out there going no, no, no, wait,

2000
01:47:59,360 --> 01:48:01,439
Speaker 1: let's run now again. I want to do and I

2001
01:48:02,040 --> 01:48:04,400
Speaker 1: Charlie Joyner said Dan Fouts was the same way they'd

2002
01:48:04,479 --> 01:48:06,760
Speaker 1: run it. They'd run that play again. He says no,

2003
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:08,880
Speaker 1: because I gotta do it. We gotta do it this way,

2004
01:48:09,080 --> 01:48:11,160
Speaker 1: and he would, you know, And that's just the way

2005
01:48:11,200 --> 01:48:13,200
Speaker 1: it is, and that's the way it should be, because

2006
01:48:14,640 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 1: everything hinges on the quarterback once that ball is snapped,

2007
01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:22,000
Speaker 1: and he's got to feel it right and he's got

2008
01:48:22,080 --> 01:48:23,800
Speaker 1: to know what he's doing and he's got to do

2009
01:48:23,880 --> 01:48:25,720
Speaker 1: it the right way. And that's where you have to

2010
01:48:25,760 --> 01:48:29,160
Speaker 1: get and it's and Josh is obviously on his way

2011
01:48:29,200 --> 01:48:32,320
Speaker 1: to be in that guy well on his way. Yeah,

2012
01:48:32,640 --> 01:48:35,479
Speaker 1: hopefully he is morphing into that with each step of

2013
01:48:35,520 --> 01:48:38,800
Speaker 1: the way. But the last one from Brandon being that

2014
01:48:38,880 --> 01:48:41,080
Speaker 1: we wanted to get to and Steve I envisioned this

2015
01:48:41,840 --> 01:48:44,479
Speaker 1: as a topic for a future show here coming up

2016
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 1: in the off season if we get there, you know,

2017
01:48:48,160 --> 01:48:50,599
Speaker 1: and navigate our way through to the twenty twenty campaign.

2018
01:48:51,439 --> 01:48:56,400
Speaker 1: But working your way through what is going to be

2019
01:48:56,680 --> 01:49:02,280
Speaker 1: a very unusual off season of player acquisition by virtue

2020
01:49:02,280 --> 01:49:05,760
Speaker 1: of the fact that your salary cap is one seventy five,

2021
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:10,840
Speaker 1: not an anticipated two ten. So you're talking to thirty

2022
01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:13,560
Speaker 1: five million dollars shortfall on what you were budgeting for,

2023
01:49:14,439 --> 01:49:17,200
Speaker 1: and the Bills have important players that they have to

2024
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:22,240
Speaker 1: take care of, keystone cornerstone type foundational pieces for this

2025
01:49:22,439 --> 01:49:26,719
Speaker 1: team on both sides of the ball, Tredavious White, Matt Milano,

2026
01:49:27,280 --> 01:49:30,320
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins, and then not too far in the future,

2027
01:49:30,439 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Tremaine Edmonds. So Brandon Bean was posed

2028
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:39,400
Speaker 1: the question today on the WGR Morning Show. Hey, you're

2029
01:49:39,439 --> 01:49:43,080
Speaker 1: looking at this. I know it's far off, but what

2030
01:49:43,200 --> 01:49:45,400
Speaker 1: are your initial thoughts about what this is going to

2031
01:49:45,479 --> 01:49:47,360
Speaker 1: look like when you get to the offseason. Here's what

2032
01:49:47,439 --> 01:49:49,840
Speaker 1: he said. There's still a lot of unknowns. I mean,

2033
01:49:50,200 --> 01:49:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, we do have to operate right now though

2034
01:49:52,520 --> 01:49:54,479
Speaker 1: you know, the cap would go from one night this

2035
01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:58,639
Speaker 1: year to one seventy five, which is that's not ideal.

2036
01:49:58,920 --> 01:50:02,320
Speaker 1: And so the reality of that is, Um, you do

2037
01:50:02,479 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 1: have to make selections and choices of you know, you're

2038
01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:08,639
Speaker 1: probably not gonna be able to resign as many guys

2039
01:50:08,720 --> 01:50:13,439
Speaker 1: as maybe we earmarked before COVID hit, and so that's, uh,

2040
01:50:13,520 --> 01:50:15,479
Speaker 1: it is what it is, um, But we're going to

2041
01:50:15,560 --> 01:50:17,560
Speaker 1: do our best to keep as many guys. That's that

2042
01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:20,920
Speaker 1: is our our motto here to you know, draft, develop,

2043
01:50:21,280 --> 01:50:24,000
Speaker 1: and resign those guys. So we're going to do our best.

2044
01:50:24,080 --> 01:50:26,760
Speaker 1: We'll try and be creative and see how many we

2045
01:50:26,880 --> 01:50:29,880
Speaker 1: can retain. Um. But these guys, again, any of them

2046
01:50:29,960 --> 01:50:32,439
Speaker 1: that we can't um, they'll have earn the right to

2047
01:50:32,840 --> 01:50:34,479
Speaker 1: see what, you know, what their value is on the

2048
01:50:34,520 --> 01:50:36,880
Speaker 1: open market. And there's so many you know, what is

2049
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:38,920
Speaker 1: the open market going to be like next year? You know,

2050
01:50:39,040 --> 01:50:40,320
Speaker 1: And a lot of that is gonna be on the

2051
01:50:40,360 --> 01:50:42,880
Speaker 1: cap because you're gonna have some teams that have to

2052
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 1: just shed salaries just to get to the one seventy five.

2053
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:49,439
Speaker 1: But then you're gonna have some teams that in where

2054
01:50:49,479 --> 01:50:52,000
Speaker 1: they are in their build that they do have money,

2055
01:50:52,080 --> 01:50:53,720
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of guys. Maybe they're not

2056
01:50:53,800 --> 01:50:57,400
Speaker 1: paying a premium quarterback or you know, left tackle or whatever.

2057
01:50:57,560 --> 01:51:00,680
Speaker 1: So um, there will still be some halves and havens

2058
01:51:01,760 --> 01:51:04,120
Speaker 1: you know, when next year rolls around. But again, we're

2059
01:51:04,400 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 1: going to do our best to keep as many. It

2060
01:51:07,280 --> 01:51:09,120
Speaker 1: does throw a little bit of a wrench in our plans,

2061
01:51:09,280 --> 01:51:12,040
Speaker 1: but it's happening in to all thirty two teams, so

2062
01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, we'll make the most of it. So I

2063
01:51:16,240 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 1: thought the most interesting part of that entire comment. Steve

2064
01:51:20,040 --> 01:51:23,519
Speaker 1: was commenting on the rest of the NFL landscape as

2065
01:51:23,560 --> 01:51:27,200
Speaker 1: it pertains to, you know, staying cap strong. I mean,

2066
01:51:27,280 --> 01:51:29,639
Speaker 1: that's what Brandon Being talks about all the time, Staying

2067
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:32,280
Speaker 1: caps strong so you can make the kind of moves

2068
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:35,080
Speaker 1: that you need when the opportunities present themselves. Well, now,

2069
01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:40,600
Speaker 1: even though the Bills are in relatively good shape in

2070
01:51:40,720 --> 01:51:42,760
Speaker 1: comparison to a lot of other teams with where this

2071
01:51:42,920 --> 01:51:45,240
Speaker 1: cap is headed, where we know it's headed, at least

2072
01:51:45,280 --> 01:51:50,920
Speaker 1: for now, the interesting thing that he had was, Hey,

2073
01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:53,519
Speaker 1: look he was real about it. We may not be

2074
01:51:53,600 --> 01:51:58,040
Speaker 1: able to get everybody back with those constraints, but don't

2075
01:51:58,120 --> 01:51:59,680
Speaker 1: think that all the other teams in the league are

2076
01:51:59,680 --> 01:52:01,880
Speaker 1: just gonna gobbling up all our players because they're in

2077
01:52:01,920 --> 01:52:05,880
Speaker 1: the same vote. A lot of them are worse. Worse, Yeah,

2078
01:52:06,040 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 1: way worse, and they've got they've got some real and

2079
01:52:08,920 --> 01:52:11,400
Speaker 1: we've seen the Bills do this throughout Brandon Bean's tenure

2080
01:52:11,439 --> 01:52:13,760
Speaker 1: here and Sean mcdermot's tenure here. They bring guys in

2081
01:52:14,040 --> 01:52:16,519
Speaker 1: from other teams and then it's like, wow, yeah that's

2082
01:52:16,560 --> 01:52:18,760
Speaker 1: a great pick. You know, that's you know, so they

2083
01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:22,040
Speaker 1: are and when they're cap strong, and the way they

2084
01:52:22,120 --> 01:52:25,000
Speaker 1: structure these deals, they've done a ton of short term deals,

2085
01:52:25,080 --> 01:52:27,599
Speaker 1: one and two year deals. Brownie, it's been. It's been

2086
01:52:27,680 --> 01:52:32,200
Speaker 1: a really great technique that Brandon Bean has used. They've

2087
01:52:32,240 --> 01:52:35,320
Speaker 1: paid a premium for some guys, but nothing, you know,

2088
01:52:35,439 --> 01:52:38,200
Speaker 1: only on the short term, and they've gotten some great

2089
01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 1: production out of him because all these guys come to

2090
01:52:40,360 --> 01:52:43,280
Speaker 1: those contracts knowing they can hit a home run on

2091
01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:46,280
Speaker 1: their next contract if they play well here in Buffalo.

2092
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:50,240
Speaker 1: So they get highly motivated players on a deal that

2093
01:52:50,439 --> 01:52:52,280
Speaker 1: is not going to hurt them long term at all.

2094
01:52:52,840 --> 01:52:54,960
Speaker 1: And you've got a player that's trying everything he can

2095
01:52:55,200 --> 01:52:57,280
Speaker 1: not only to earn the money you're paying him, but

2096
01:52:57,439 --> 01:52:59,160
Speaker 1: earn the money that the next team is going to

2097
01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:02,599
Speaker 1: pay him. So it has worked brilliantly for the Buffalo Bills.

2098
01:53:02,680 --> 01:53:06,320
Speaker 1: And in the landscape coming, the Bills will be sitting

2099
01:53:06,360 --> 01:53:09,200
Speaker 1: there where they might yeah, okay, we might we might

2100
01:53:09,280 --> 01:53:11,519
Speaker 1: miss this guy, but you know what, we got somebody better.

2101
01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:13,720
Speaker 1: Because there's gonna be a ton of guys on the

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Speaker 1: market who are going to be looking for just a

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01:53:16,200 --> 01:53:20,920
Speaker 1: quick short term fix. We're I'll play for a year

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Speaker 1: at a very high level for you, no one that

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01:53:24,439 --> 01:53:26,719
Speaker 1: I can hit a home run on the next contract.

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Speaker 1: So the Bills are going to be able to get

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Speaker 1: some quality players even if the cap is you know,

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Speaker 1: the cap does bottom out to one seventy five. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and suddenly that fifth year option that they used on

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01:53:38,400 --> 01:53:41,320
Speaker 1: Trudavious White certainly looks like an astute move because it's

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01:53:41,360 --> 01:53:44,880
Speaker 1: bought them time in case they can't agree on some

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Speaker 1: kind of long term deal this coming offseason. With a

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Speaker 1: dramatically reduced salary cap, you know, they can get him

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01:53:52,880 --> 01:53:54,840
Speaker 1: to play on the fifty year option and work on

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Speaker 1: it all next year, maybe when things are a bit

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Speaker 1: more back to normal. Still being was asked about it

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Speaker 1: this morning, and with respect to Trey White, I'm just

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Speaker 1: going to use a quote here, he said. Quote. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big fan of Trey White off the field, on

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Speaker 1: the field, what he brings to our team. He was

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01:54:09,280 --> 01:54:11,080
Speaker 1: a guy I was referring to when I say, you

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01:54:11,160 --> 01:54:13,400
Speaker 1: don't want him walking out of here. You want to

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01:54:13,520 --> 01:54:16,080
Speaker 1: keep him long term. It's got to be right for

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01:54:16,240 --> 01:54:18,400
Speaker 1: him and right for us, and hopefully at the right

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01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:22,120
Speaker 1: time we're able to make it happen. So nothing out

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01:54:22,160 --> 01:54:24,840
Speaker 1: of the ordinary there it's clear that they covered him

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01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:27,920
Speaker 1: as a player, so I would anticipate that things would

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01:54:27,920 --> 01:54:30,439
Speaker 1: get done on that front in due course. But whether

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01:54:30,520 --> 01:54:34,320
Speaker 1: it happens this offseason or later, I would bet on later,

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01:54:34,520 --> 01:54:36,720
Speaker 1: especially with how COVID has kind of gummed up the

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01:54:36,760 --> 01:54:39,760
Speaker 1: works here by reducing the cap and the revenue and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I have to take a quick break here.

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Speaker 1: We will be back and we'll hit the tweet sheet,

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Speaker 1: see where you guys are weighing in on whether the

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01:54:47,520 --> 01:54:51,000
Speaker 1: NFL needs to bubble up, and we'll get into maybe

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Speaker 1: a little bit of NFL true false if Steve and

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Speaker 1: I have some time. All of that coming your way

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Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid of Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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01:55:06,440 --> 01:55:08,680
Speaker 1: Final half hour of the program. But we've got more

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01:55:08,720 --> 01:55:11,920
Speaker 1: to get to here, and we do want to revisit

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, which is brought to you by Corrigan

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01:55:15,120 --> 01:55:19,680
Speaker 1: Moving Systems, as they are the official equipment moving company

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills, to see where you guys stand

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01:55:23,440 --> 01:55:27,560
Speaker 1: on bubble and up the NFL. We've seen the success

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Speaker 1: that the NHL and the NBA and Major League Soccer

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01:55:31,120 --> 01:55:35,959
Speaker 1: for that matter, have all had with a bubble type scenario.

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01:55:37,520 --> 01:55:39,640
Speaker 1: And we've seen the struggles that Major League Baseball has

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Speaker 1: had without one, with a couple of outbreaks with two

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Speaker 1: different teams, the Cardinals in the Marlins. And we had

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Speaker 1: Dan Orlovsky on last hour, who is a proponent of

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01:55:50,360 --> 01:55:53,680
Speaker 1: creating a bubble scenario of some kind for the NFL

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01:55:53,760 --> 01:55:56,840
Speaker 1: and believes it is one hundred percent doable. But we

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01:55:56,960 --> 01:55:59,920
Speaker 1: want to know what you think the likelihood of an

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01:56:00,080 --> 01:56:03,000
Speaker 1: NFL bubble is and if it is in fact a

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01:56:03,120 --> 01:56:04,920
Speaker 1: good idea, And I do want to check in and

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Speaker 1: see where the numbers stand at this point. I'm gonna

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01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 1: check back in. It's it's a nice it's a good

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll, I gotta say in mind's very balanced. Yeah,

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01:56:12,920 --> 01:56:16,280
Speaker 1: it's A and B something they everybody's from putting them

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Speaker 1: in bubbles. Each team have their own bubble or regional bubble.

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Speaker 1: For a group of teams, you know, the first options

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01:56:23,040 --> 01:56:25,200
Speaker 1: got thirty five and a half percent, the second options

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01:56:25,280 --> 01:56:28,480
Speaker 1: got thirty five point eight percent. So it's either regional

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Speaker 1: bubbles or each team has a bubble. I think it

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Speaker 1: would be easier and more feasible if each team had

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Speaker 1: a bubble, put them in a local hotel, make them

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Speaker 1: stay sequestered, practice to and front, because then if you've

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Speaker 1: got an airtight bubble in your city, you got to

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Speaker 1: trust that the other team. At some point you gotta

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Speaker 1: trust the other team as well and say, listen, they're

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01:56:45,200 --> 01:56:47,240
Speaker 1: gonna have their bubble, okay, so when we get together,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay when we when we bump into

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Speaker 1: each other on game day, right. So I think that

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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Jack on the tweet sheet

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01:56:56,600 --> 01:56:58,840
Speaker 1: is in the bubble majority, he says, set up the

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Speaker 1: regional bubbles. It's work in the NHL, NBA, and the

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is having issues. I get players won't

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Speaker 1: like it, but they can opt out. I would also

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Speaker 1: adjust the schedule to fourteen games, set up eight hubs

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01:57:11,200 --> 01:57:14,840
Speaker 1: with two divisions in each city, AFC East with AFC West,

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Speaker 1: and so on, play all the teams in the hub twice,

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Speaker 1: just for this year. I do think Steve that Jack

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01:57:20,440 --> 01:57:22,800
Speaker 1: is on the right track there with respect to the schedule.

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Speaker 1: My concern is the league as a whole is so

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Speaker 1: married to what their schedule has been, you know, over

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01:57:29,920 --> 01:57:32,600
Speaker 1: the last umpteen years or since seventy eight when they

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Speaker 1: went to sixteen games, that they are reluctant to deviate

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Speaker 1: from that. And if there's anything that these other leagues

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Speaker 1: have taught you is that you're probably going to have

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Speaker 1: to adjust that too. Yeah. I think so too. I

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Speaker 1: think it will be the biggest miracle in professional sports

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Speaker 1: this year, and there have been many. I think it'll

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Speaker 1: be the biggest miracle in pro sports if the NFL

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01:57:54,080 --> 01:57:58,480
Speaker 1: pulls this sixteen game season off without having to adjust

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Speaker 1: the schedule. What do you think about regionalizing the games?

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Speaker 1: I mean dan Orlovsky brought that up to you know,

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Speaker 1: have a Northeast pod, have a Southeast pod, of a

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Speaker 1: Midwest pod, of a West pod. This is because of

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Speaker 1: the travel basically, yes, basically, so every team night teams

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Speaker 1: would travel. Yeah, like dan Orlovsky said, keep Atlanta from

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Speaker 1: having to travel to Denver to play them. You know

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Speaker 1: that could get it? Ah, I don't know. I I

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01:58:25,960 --> 01:58:28,600
Speaker 1: they charter all their plight planes they've got. They'll just

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Speaker 1: take go in there with a spray gun full of

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Speaker 1: full of lysol, hit the entire interior the plane and listen,

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01:58:35,800 --> 01:58:38,720
Speaker 1: now you can laugh. That's what they'll do. I'm just

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01:58:38,840 --> 01:58:40,640
Speaker 1: picturing a guy in a has don't go in there

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Speaker 1: with a hazmat suit, a big air hose with a

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Speaker 1: nozzle on it, and it's just like you know, it's

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01:58:45,600 --> 01:58:48,600
Speaker 1: like turtle wax man. Just throw the wax on, wax off.

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01:58:48,640 --> 01:58:50,720
Speaker 1: You put that stuff in spray. The guys will be

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Speaker 1: sitting down and the place will still be wet with lysol.

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Speaker 1: But that's but that'll happen. I mean, and then all

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Speaker 1: they have to practice, and Brownie, I'm telling you, teams

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Speaker 1: are gonna travel game day of They're gonna travel the

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Speaker 1: day of the game. And that's gonna that's gonna happen,

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Speaker 1: I think. And isn't that made easier if you're doing

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Speaker 1: regional hubs. Nobody'd travel. If regional hubs, they'd stayed, they'd

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Speaker 1: all played all their games at the same stadium, at

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Speaker 1: the same place, and they played double headers every weekend.

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I was thinking the other way. You could

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Speaker 1: do a regional hub. As you say, okay, for teams one, two, three, four, five,

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01:59:30,960 --> 01:59:40,760
Speaker 1: and six. You know your hub is Nashville, so Tennessee, UM, Washington, Charlotte,

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01:59:40,840 --> 01:59:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, Panthers, Falcons, Tampa Bay. You guys are all

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Speaker 1: playing in the Nashville Hub. You can have your own

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01:59:50,040 --> 01:59:52,120
Speaker 1: bubble in your own hometown, so you have all your

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01:59:52,160 --> 01:59:55,560
Speaker 1: facilities at they're ready for you. And where you have

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01:59:55,720 --> 01:59:58,400
Speaker 1: to travel is Nashville every week to play your games.

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01:59:58,800 --> 02:00:01,280
Speaker 1: So you could could evably for some of those teams

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Speaker 1: just get on a bus. You don't even have to

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Speaker 1: get on a play. Yeah, yeah, I get that. In

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Speaker 1: Chicago could do it easy too. You could go Chicago

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02:00:07,400 --> 02:00:12,320
Speaker 1: to Detroit, Green Bay, Indianapolis. Uh, you know, forget all

2235
02:00:12,360 --> 02:00:14,800
Speaker 1: the you know, the divisions and all that, and then

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02:00:14,840 --> 02:00:20,520
Speaker 1: you could go Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincinnati, Cincinnati or

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02:00:20,960 --> 02:00:26,840
Speaker 1: Indianapolis or whatever, you know. Pick your team Philly, you know,

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02:00:26,960 --> 02:00:29,800
Speaker 1: it could be New York, it could be the Jets, Giants,

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02:00:30,280 --> 02:00:33,760
Speaker 1: New England, Baltimore, Baltimore or Baltimore, or it could be

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Speaker 1: Philly and then put Baltimore in with Yeah. Yeah, we

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02:00:36,080 --> 02:00:38,560
Speaker 1: could go on and on with this. But here's the

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02:00:38,640 --> 02:00:45,600
Speaker 1: problem and the way I don't think it stuff. Yeah

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, I just I just don't think

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02:00:47,960 --> 02:00:50,120
Speaker 1: that that gets it. You still got to travel, and

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Speaker 1: I think you just say regional bubbles. Everybody in the

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Speaker 1: same place for those six or eight teams. That's what

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Speaker 1: a regional bubble's got to be. And there are no

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Speaker 1: facilities that can handle that, not at not enough, not enough. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's why I was certain certainly the league is not

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Speaker 1: gonna send everybody into Florida, Texas, and California where those

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Speaker 1: facilities exist. Yeah, you're right about that. And I was thinking, Oh,

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Speaker 1: you can maybe do a neighboring state for Texas, but Oklahoma,

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02:01:16,560 --> 02:01:21,840
Speaker 1: I guess is pretty bad. What are you? Oh you yeah,

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02:01:21,880 --> 02:01:24,040
Speaker 1: I know. That's why I was thinking, like, you have

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Speaker 1: a regional hub for your games as a neutral site

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02:01:27,800 --> 02:01:29,920
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and then you put each team in

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Speaker 1: their respective city in the bubble. But brownie, if if

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02:01:32,680 --> 02:01:36,360
Speaker 1: if teams travel game day of game, day of the game,

2259
02:01:37,560 --> 02:01:41,040
Speaker 1: think about how vacant it's gonna be at one Bill's Drive.

2260
02:01:42,480 --> 02:01:45,240
Speaker 1: Those guys are gonna drive down the tunnel walking. Nobody's

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02:01:45,280 --> 02:01:48,480
Speaker 1: gonna be around. Is gonna be empty, There's not gonna

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02:01:48,480 --> 02:01:51,760
Speaker 1: be many people there, everything's gonna be sprayed down. Just

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02:01:52,000 --> 02:01:55,600
Speaker 1: walk in, get changed, maybe take a little nap in

2264
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Speaker 1: front of your locker. Everybody's gonna be in your bubble,

2265
02:01:58,160 --> 02:01:59,880
Speaker 1: so you don't have to distance from any of those

2266
02:02:00,120 --> 02:02:04,160
Speaker 1: guys because everybody's gonna test negative. You take a little

2267
02:02:04,240 --> 02:02:07,200
Speaker 1: nap in front of your your cubicle, go out and

2268
02:02:07,400 --> 02:02:10,760
Speaker 1: play the game, get on the bus, go right back

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02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:14,480
Speaker 1: and go home. That's it's that traveled to me. You're

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02:02:14,880 --> 02:02:16,920
Speaker 1: people are getting caught up in like standing in line

2271
02:02:16,920 --> 02:02:19,720
Speaker 1: at the airport waiting for security, and dude, that's not

2272
02:02:19,800 --> 02:02:22,640
Speaker 1: gonna happen for these NFL teams. They're gonna bust out

2273
02:02:22,680 --> 02:02:25,400
Speaker 1: onto the tarmac, walk up the steps to the plane,

2274
02:02:25,800 --> 02:02:27,760
Speaker 1: walk off the steps from the plane to a bus,

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02:02:28,240 --> 02:02:31,280
Speaker 1: go to the stadium, play and go home. Same way.

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Speaker 1: That's what I think is gonna happen, all right. I

2277
02:02:34,800 --> 02:02:39,560
Speaker 1: think that because I'll tell you, Sara McDermott, I think

2278
02:02:39,600 --> 02:02:42,120
Speaker 1: that's a better way to do it than putting the

2279
02:02:42,200 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 1: team up at you know, at the the Grant, Yeah,

2280
02:02:46,320 --> 02:02:48,680
Speaker 1: the Grand. Don't care if it's the Grand, Hihatt, Regency

2281
02:02:48,880 --> 02:02:54,120
Speaker 1: or a Motel six. You're you know, it's a it's

2282
02:02:54,160 --> 02:02:56,480
Speaker 1: a danger. You don't want to do it. Yeah, So

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02:02:56,680 --> 02:02:59,280
Speaker 1: I I think just travel game day and it's a

2284
02:02:59,320 --> 02:03:01,960
Speaker 1: home fielded. That's your home field advantage. You don't get fans.

2285
02:03:02,240 --> 02:03:04,360
Speaker 1: But the team just took a two hour or forty

2286
02:03:04,400 --> 02:03:06,880
Speaker 1: minute if for the Jets would be a forty minute

2287
02:03:06,920 --> 02:03:12,240
Speaker 1: flight to get there. I mean, I've done that day,

2288
02:03:12,440 --> 02:03:14,960
Speaker 1: come home at night. So what about the West Coast

2289
02:03:15,000 --> 02:03:16,560
Speaker 1: teams if they're on your schedule like they are for

2290
02:03:16,600 --> 02:03:19,400
Speaker 1: the Bills, are we scrapping those games? That's that's a problem.

2291
02:03:19,880 --> 02:03:22,200
Speaker 1: That's a problem, no question about it. And you might

2292
02:03:22,280 --> 02:03:26,080
Speaker 1: have to you might have to have a hotel that

2293
02:03:26,280 --> 02:03:30,560
Speaker 1: is strictly an NFL hotel needs see Yeah, it's vacant

2294
02:03:30,680 --> 02:03:34,000
Speaker 1: all week until that team gets there for four months.

2295
02:03:34,040 --> 02:03:36,160
Speaker 1: You don't know what hotels signing up on that unless

2296
02:03:36,160 --> 02:03:38,840
Speaker 1: you're compensating them for the losses. Well, yeah, but they

2297
02:03:38,840 --> 02:03:41,240
Speaker 1: ain't making any money into COVID. Nobody's staying at those

2298
02:03:41,320 --> 02:03:46,560
Speaker 1: hotels now, Yeah, perhaps perhaps, Oh it's it's probably a plus.

2299
02:03:47,280 --> 02:03:49,200
Speaker 1: All right. Let's turn to Nick here, who says, I

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02:03:49,320 --> 02:03:52,200
Speaker 1: think the NFL should enhance their protocols. But they are

2301
02:03:52,280 --> 02:03:54,520
Speaker 1: in a better position in Major League Baseball because they

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02:03:54,600 --> 02:03:56,400
Speaker 1: play once a week, so they'll have more time to

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02:03:56,480 --> 02:04:00,360
Speaker 1: react to COVID circumstances between games. The MLB play nearly

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02:04:00,440 --> 02:04:02,480
Speaker 1: every day. They were foolish not to use some sort

2305
02:04:02,520 --> 02:04:05,120
Speaker 1: of bubble. Now, I thought Dan Orlovsky had a good

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02:04:05,200 --> 02:04:07,760
Speaker 1: counterpoint to that argument of playing only once a week

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02:04:08,280 --> 02:04:10,760
Speaker 1: and how that's created maybe a false sense of security.

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Speaker 1: The fact remains that you're still practicing four days a

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Speaker 1: week and you're near all those guys. So you know,

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Speaker 1: if you discover on Monday that you guys were exposed

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Speaker 1: in the game you played on Sunday, and you start

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Speaker 1: testing on Monday, but nobody's positive. Is everybody getting isolated?

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Speaker 1: And then you get to Tuesday and you still have negatives.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we saw it with the Marlins and the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: They had negative testing and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you know, a day later, look we got two positives

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Speaker 1: and two turned into fourteen and canceling a series. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know if playing once a week removes the

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Speaker 1: risk because you're still around the same guys the entire week,

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Speaker 1: and I line it up next to them. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how their protocols are. I haven't talked to

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Speaker 1: them or seeing what the major league protocols are. I

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Speaker 1: doubt they're as extensive as the NFL's. Maybe they are,

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Speaker 1: but the simple fact the matter is that's what you're

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Speaker 1: looking at for the NFL post game. So after the game,

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Speaker 1: when they test and stuff and you get a couple

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Speaker 1: of guys, it's from either the travel or from those

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Speaker 1: guys being hammer heads and going out for a beer

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Speaker 1: or a pizza off site. Yeah, so that's what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about now. If it's the travel, maybe that's how

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02:05:32,160 --> 02:05:35,760
Speaker 1: it goes from two positives to fourteen positives so quick,

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Speaker 1: you know. But nevertheless, it's still still a problem that

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Speaker 1: you got to address. We do have a differing viewpoint

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Speaker 1: from Tiffany. She says, with the size and scope of

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Speaker 1: a team's day to day operation, they have to police

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Speaker 1: themselves making smart, sensible decisions as scenarios play out this season,

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02:05:50,160 --> 02:05:53,000
Speaker 1: it would be impossible to put an NFL franchise in

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Speaker 1: a bubble. The Bills are in great shape with their

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Speaker 1: protocols moving forward. And while I respect Tiffany's opinion, and

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Speaker 1: while that may be all well, and that the Bills

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02:06:00,760 --> 02:06:03,720
Speaker 1: are in great shape with their protocols moving forward, those

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02:06:03,760 --> 02:06:06,960
Speaker 1: protocols go out the window when you play another team,

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02:06:07,320 --> 02:06:09,880
Speaker 1: because now you're not only relying on your guys on

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02:06:10,000 --> 02:06:12,800
Speaker 1: your roster to do the right thing every single day

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02:06:12,920 --> 02:06:16,520
Speaker 1: away from the facility that suddenly falls upon the shoulders

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02:06:16,560 --> 02:06:19,880
Speaker 1: of all the players you are playing against. Now you're

2347
02:06:19,960 --> 02:06:22,920
Speaker 1: just hoping that those guys are all doing the right

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02:06:22,960 --> 02:06:26,240
Speaker 1: things so you're not unnecessarily exposed because you got some

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02:06:26,440 --> 02:06:30,680
Speaker 1: jackwagon on the Baltimore Ravens well or more likely on

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02:06:30,800 --> 02:06:34,520
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins because at state stot they're in a

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02:06:34,560 --> 02:06:38,040
Speaker 1: hot state, or that you know, the Houston Texans, or

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Speaker 1: the r Right or the or the Cardinals for that matter.

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02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:47,040
Speaker 1: So there's tons all of the scenarios schedule right, all

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Speaker 1: of them. The Vegas you know, so those that's the

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02:06:51,800 --> 02:06:53,880
Speaker 1: problem with not being a when you can put your

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Speaker 1: team in a bubble. And that's why I say, you know,

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Speaker 1: the NFL should put protocols in place, put all these

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Speaker 1: guys in their own local bubbles so that when those

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02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:03,720
Speaker 1: bubbles do cross pollinate on game day, you've got a

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02:07:03,840 --> 02:07:08,280
Speaker 1: much better chance of not having somebody who has you know,

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02:07:09,360 --> 02:07:13,040
Speaker 1: been been contracted the disease without with the virus, without

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02:07:13,160 --> 02:07:16,200
Speaker 1: knowing the risk of exposure. Yeah, the problem is this, brownie.

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Speaker 1: You're right. The travels a problem because they can be fine, fine, fine, fine,

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02:07:20,040 --> 02:07:22,000
Speaker 1: then they go and they catch it on the trip

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Speaker 1: to the stadium. Right, play the game you got some

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02:07:27,320 --> 02:07:35,320
Speaker 1: flights over the next morning, right, sof so all that

2367
02:07:35,400 --> 02:07:37,520
Speaker 1: stuff's on the table, so it's it's weird. We gotta

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Speaker 1: we gotta. All right, We'll take a quick break. Be

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Speaker 1: back with What If We Learned? Steve Task or Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio Time for What If We Learned? Brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. ESPNNFL analyst Dan Orlovsky on the show, raising

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Speaker 1: the idea for the NFL to take the bubble approach

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02:08:06,760 --> 02:08:10,960
Speaker 1: to ensure safety for their players. What is the number

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02:08:11,080 --> 02:08:13,760
Speaker 1: one goal this year in the NFL? That is for

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Speaker 1: everyone to say as healthy as possible and too to

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02:08:16,640 --> 02:08:19,520
Speaker 1: pull it off. I start backwards, how does that happen?

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Speaker 1: And I go, I'm looking at it. Wait. We think

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Speaker 1: that we're we're gonna just gonna get through this, like

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be immar to it, like people are gonna

2382
02:08:26,280 --> 02:08:28,640
Speaker 1: be okay like and yeah, there's challenges to it, and

2383
02:08:28,720 --> 02:08:31,480
Speaker 1: being away from your family would absolutely stink, and there

2384
02:08:31,520 --> 02:08:34,520
Speaker 1: will be a moment that are very difficult. But does

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Speaker 1: it give you the safety yes, and does it give

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02:08:36,680 --> 02:08:39,120
Speaker 1: you the best chance to earn your paychecks here? Yes,

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02:08:39,200 --> 02:08:41,440
Speaker 1: and just think we'd see less opt out, we'd see

2388
02:08:41,520 --> 02:08:44,600
Speaker 1: guys feeling safer, and I think it's the best opportunity

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02:08:44,600 --> 02:08:49,040
Speaker 1: to have this season. So that is dan Orlovsky Steve,

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Speaker 1: which we've gone round and round about. We also learned

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Speaker 1: today from Brandon Bean, who appeared on the morning show

2392
02:08:54,520 --> 02:08:58,520
Speaker 1: on WGR that it sounds like their pursuit of free

2393
02:08:58,560 --> 02:09:02,800
Speaker 1: agent guard Ryan Winters is real and it seems like

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02:09:02,920 --> 02:09:06,360
Speaker 1: that was confirmed with the release of Spencer a Long today. Yeah,

2395
02:09:06,440 --> 02:09:08,920
Speaker 1: it looks like they're making some moves to get better

2396
02:09:09,000 --> 02:09:10,960
Speaker 1: all the time. And I think the fact that they

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Speaker 1: realize and I think a lot of people for Bills

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02:09:12,960 --> 02:09:15,240
Speaker 1: fans who don't know who Brian Winters is. He was

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Speaker 1: released by the Jets and in what purports to be

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02:09:18,080 --> 02:09:21,040
Speaker 1: just a strictly fiscal move, it's all about his money.

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Speaker 1: So we'll let yep, we will let all of that

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Speaker 1: play out and see where it goes when we rejoin

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow here on this program for Steve Tasker, I'm

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. This has been one Bills Live presented by

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