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Speaker 1: Oh, a good time of us Steve Lasker's Times, Times

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Speaker 1: Do Time Monday. It is Monday, March sixteenth, and we're back.

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Speaker 1: We're here. We are live and in person at One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Welcome to One Bill's Live. John Murphy and

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Speaker 1: Seek Tasker here right next door to New Era Field.

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Speaker 1: Happy to have you with us here today to talk

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Speaker 1: about the NFL and the start of free agency and

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Speaker 1: a couple of other things as well. Stadium looks beautiful today,

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Speaker 1: nice and sunny here in op today. Good afternoon. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Murphy. This is a deep Tasker. I can't reach.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to touch. You're not supposed to We're

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Speaker 1: not supposed to touch. We're sitting further apart than we

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Speaker 1: usually do today for obvious reasons. That which is which

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Speaker 1: is a sacrifice? Were both since yeah, never nothing. The

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Speaker 1: stadium's empty, and so's the building. We're putting it with.

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Speaker 1: The show's going on. We're gonna keep doing this. We're

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Speaker 1: taking precautions here in the studio. We're glad. I hope

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Speaker 1: every day else did we hope we're giving you some

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Speaker 1: maybe some bills distraction in the midst of everybody having

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Speaker 1: to stay home from work. We are, well, we're here.

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Speaker 1: You think about it, murphew, And I've been talking about

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Speaker 1: free agency for weeks. Man, let's go, come on, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be awesome. And now it's here today it starts

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Speaker 1: like right now, twelve oh one, boom, NFL free agencies

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Speaker 1: going and it's like, all right, we'll see you know.

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Speaker 1: Everything else is going on. Yeah, the league is going on.

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Speaker 1: The league years set schedules starting on Wednesday. The open

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Speaker 1: negotiation period is just started. The Bills have made an announcement,

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Speaker 1: they've signed Quentin and Spain. We're gonna talk about all

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Speaker 1: of that. And right now the Bills can openly negotiate

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Speaker 1: with anyone they want. And so that's what we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: And Steve said, we're happy to provide a distraction if

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Speaker 1: we can to some of the other stuff going on today.

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Speaker 1: It's these are difficult days, There's no question about that.

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Speaker 1: It was a difficult weekend, right Steve. It was. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying we're what do you say, breaking rocks with

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Speaker 1: a hammer. We're not hard labor, Yeah, but it was

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Speaker 1: difficult to yeah, to sequester yourself from all your family

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Speaker 1: stay in the house all day. That wasn't easy, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it wasn't for any of our viewers and

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Speaker 1: or listeners. Still, did you do this weekend? I mean,

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Speaker 1: should be a short discussion. Yeah, think about it. I

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But we kind of you know, our place.

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Speaker 1: was a quiet weekend. I didn't even go to the

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Speaker 1: didn't go to the grocery store, didn't go to the restaurant,

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Speaker 1: didn't go out, didn't do anything, just stayed at home.

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Speaker 1: We we did what a lot of people do. You know.

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Speaker 1: He started that some program we're watching, you know, he

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Speaker 1: started watching three or four episodes of that. But in

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Speaker 1: not bad, it's just different, you know, different. It's really different.

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Speaker 1: Where it looks like spring is sprung here in western

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Speaker 1: New York. Well that's gonna be hard, right, I Mean,

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Speaker 1: you here today and this is what we do every day,

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Speaker 1: noon to three. It's a big day in the NFL

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Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons, including the fact that the

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna have a lot to talk about, and

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Speaker 1: which just came out. The Buffalo Bills have made official

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Speaker 1: the news they came out last week that they have

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Speaker 1: signed Quentin Spain to a contract. The offensive lineman started

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Speaker 1: all sixteen games last year. Quentin Spain has agreed to

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Speaker 1: terms on a contract. He is signing today, and we're

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Speaker 1: and it's a good first step Steve. Yeah, it is,

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Speaker 1: Just before the free agency deadline has become available, become apparent,

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Speaker 1: trading block. DeAndre Hopkins, Murph, You've heard me say it.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot. I mean, we're all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: it passed by the slimmest of margins, right twenty vote

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Speaker 1: Now I can see that maybe, but for five hundred guys,

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Speaker 1: So that's really what surprised me. It wasn't it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a new CBA. That's a mistake, Steve. It looks bad.

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Speaker 1: At some point today we're gonna get reports of free

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Speaker 1: And I think it's tone deaf, absolutely tone deaf. It's

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Speaker 1: absolutely tone deaf. I really think it's a big mistake.

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Speaker 1: I disagree because the numbers have been outrageous for years

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Speaker 1: the vacuum that there is out there, people are like,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's see and plus you say the league.

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Speaker 1: When we say the league year starts, it is big

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Speaker 1: don't know that when I, like, for instance, last night,

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Speaker 1: I was surprised because we had this conversation last week

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Speaker 1: defense goes, oh, gee, many crickets. I don't know, right

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Speaker 1: that'll make a bigger obviously make a bigger difference than

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Speaker 1: just some guy, particularly a draft pick. But I think

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Speaker 1: this is an offense that had a lot to offer

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Speaker 1: this last year and just couldn't quite hit on all cylinders.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a nod to Josh's continued development when

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Speaker 1: he starts throwing the ball a little better. If we

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Speaker 1: can get the exact same step forward from Josh Allen

433
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Speaker 1: coming year that we got this last year, this team

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a handful. I mean, they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: really competitive. They're gonna make a run into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But that's what I think, that's more of what it takes,

437
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Speaker 1: rather than just the third wide receiver. So I'm all

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Speaker 1: about the offensive line. I like your idea about getting

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Speaker 1: a pass rusher. The defense is gonna have to be bolstered.

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Speaker 1: If we lose Jordan Phillips, if we lose Shack Lawson.

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Speaker 1: We've already lost Lorenzo Alexander, who's going to join us

442
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Speaker 1: on the show today. All those guys are gone off

443
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Speaker 1: a really good defense. You got to find a way

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Speaker 1: to replace him with a bunch of guys or a

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Speaker 1: group of guys, or guys off the free agent market.

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Speaker 1: That they got a lot of things in the fire here,

447
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Speaker 1: but more so than anything, I think you gotta help

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Speaker 1: your young quarterback continue to do that, and I think

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Speaker 1: that starts up front. So they have begun. The Bills

450
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Speaker 1: have signed officially signed Quentin Spain. He's gonna be on

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Speaker 1: the line with the Slaven about eight and a half minutes.

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Speaker 1: We'll go to him. At one o'clock. We got Lorenzo

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Speaker 1: Alexander to talk about the passage of the CBA. Two o'clock,

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Speaker 1: dan Orlowski to talk about some of the quarterbacks. Let's

455
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Speaker 1: talk about some of the weekend events. Steve the quarterbacks.

456
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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill gets a big contract. I think I read

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Speaker 1: him now. He's the fifth highest paid quarterback in the league.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill not worth it. Half a season? Half a

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Speaker 1: season and people people on our show said, well, great Cosell,

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Speaker 1: who I am in men's respect for. He said, well,

461
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Speaker 1: you've missed out on Ryan Tannehill as a good player.

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Speaker 1: You're right. So him played twice a year against the

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Speaker 1: Bills for the early portion of his career seven years.

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Speaker 1: Never impressed, never impressed with how we played. And now

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Speaker 1: he's a fifth highest paid quarterback in the league. The

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Speaker 1: Titans go for him instead of Tom Brady. Talk about

467
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Speaker 1: Tannehill and what's your take on that. That's ridiculous. I

468
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Speaker 1: think it's one of those things. And I've used this

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Speaker 1: phrase a lot on our show. You get lightning in

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Speaker 1: a bottle. That's what the Titans did. They got hot

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Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. I think a

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Speaker 1: refreshed offense with a different guy pulling the trigger. You

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Speaker 1: get this, you get this completion better, you get this

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Speaker 1: completion better. Marcus Mariota. Ryan Tannehill probably was to step

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Speaker 1: up from Marcus Mariota. And at the point in time

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Speaker 1: where they made that change, Yeah, that's all it took

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Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans to become a little bit better

478
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Speaker 1: and a little bit better halfway through the season. Consistently,

479
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Speaker 1: a little bit better can steam roll on him, and

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Speaker 1: that's what happened. They started handing the ball to Derrick Henry,

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Speaker 1: their defense elevated its play, and they turned into a

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Speaker 1: team that got to the AFC Championship Game. But now

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Speaker 1: you come around a full lap and you got a

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Speaker 1: season on the horizon and you're going in with Ryan

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Speaker 1: Tanner and you I'm sorry, I just don't see him

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Speaker 1: completing seventy percent of his passes again. Maybe he will,

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Speaker 1: maybe he will, Maybe they'll do it, but man, oh

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Speaker 1: man handing him that kind of money, and I get it.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Once you catch lightning in a bottle,

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Speaker 1: once that season's over, that lightning's gone. Yeah, I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: and I may live to regret this, but I think

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Speaker 1: the Titans have made a huge mistake and I don't

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Speaker 1: see them as being championship contenders with Ryan Tannehill. Certainly not. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they got close this year. They had a nice good

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Speaker 1: running the playoffs. As you call it lightning in the bottle,

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Speaker 1: I call it kind of luck. I guess they had

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Speaker 1: a great running back and a really good defense. But

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Speaker 1: to duplicate that again with Ryan Tannehill seems remote to me,

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Speaker 1: a remote possibility. So God bless you Tennessee Titans and

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Speaker 1: the Bills will play down there in Nashville. Again. I'll

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Speaker 1: say this too in defense of their decision to do this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were up against it. I mean who you know,

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Speaker 1: a forty two year old Tom Brady. Okay, you don't,

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Speaker 1: you know? But then again, with the kind of window

505
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Speaker 1: they're talking about in the NFL, maybe Tom Brady get

506
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Speaker 1: you there and get you through that window and get

507
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Speaker 1: you to a Championshippy Bridgewater would have been an answer

508
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Speaker 1: for Teddy. Bridgewater would have been a long term answer.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm just I'm with you, man, I just

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Speaker 1: I cannot get on board with Ryan Tannihill because we've

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Speaker 1: seen so much from him over the years now, and

512
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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of this over too. His years

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Speaker 1: in Miami. The last few years were with Adam Gae

514
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Speaker 1: the quarterback whisper. How could he not succeed with right, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's my point. Now he's in now everybody's going. While

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's doomed now too, because as soon as Ryan

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Speaker 1: tanniel goes to the Titans, all of a sudden, he's

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Speaker 1: doing that after he gets out from under Adam gaze. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't look good for a lot of reasons.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't look real to me. So I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't think getting out from under Adam Gasee was

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Speaker 1: the thing that caused Bryan Tannehill Bloom because he came

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Speaker 1: out of college as the pick and he went in

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Speaker 1: with Now I can't remember the coach's name. Mike wasn't

525
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Speaker 1: Mike Marts. It was the head coach of the Dolphins

526
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Speaker 1: when he came out. Was his height, was his college

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. And so he got a head start as

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Speaker 1: a quarterback in the NFL, and just he never built

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Speaker 1: on it in India, in Miami, and like I said,

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Speaker 1: there's some things that clicked obviously in Tennessee. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they can continue to do that. I just

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Speaker 1: don't a couple of things. We've got to get to

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Speaker 1: a break here. We got Quentin Spain coming up in

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Speaker 1: a minute or two from Josina Anderson, she tweets this,

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Speaker 1: I'm told the Cowboys, Bills, Jets, and Raiders are among

536
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Speaker 1: teams showing interest and impending free agent cornerback Chris Harris. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: they'll just sign Josh Norman. Maybe he added another one.

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Speaker 1: And before we get to the break, Steve and I

539
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: want to do that in a second, but we shouldn't

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Speaker 1: make mention to Tom Brady. Titans say no, thank you,

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Speaker 1: We're keeping our guy. San Francisco says essentially the same thing,

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Speaker 1: even though reports are that San Francisco was Brady's preferred choice. Now,

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Speaker 1: what's he left with? The Bucks that has said, maybe

544
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Speaker 1: the Chargers, maybe somebody else, more likely New England. Right Brady,

545
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Speaker 1: forty two year old quarterback, he is a free agent,

546
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure somebody's calling him. Now there's an agent

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Speaker 1: likely to return to the New England Patriots, Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: I have to say, I'm a bit surprised after all

549
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Speaker 1: the hype and all of the noise over the last

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Speaker 1: few weeks. I well, I will say this, I call

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Speaker 1: I told you I thought that's what was going to happen.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, I had some major doubts

553
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Speaker 1: and longer it went on, and now as you get

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Speaker 1: closer to it, Ryan Tannehill signed. That's one of the

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Speaker 1: destinations they had for Tom Brady. That's off the table.

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Speaker 1: It really comes down to what Indianapolis, Tampa Bay, the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: and New England. Right, Yeah, that's it. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know it's I just think he's gonna end up back there.

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00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: And I think the closer gets and when he starts

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Speaker 1: talking to these other teams and here's different voices other

561
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Speaker 1: than Bill Belichick's voice. He's gonna start to feel strange

562
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: and it'll maybe creepy, or it could be we could

563
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Speaker 1: all been wrong. He says, I'm out of here at

564
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Speaker 1: all costs. I don't think that's the case. But man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, Tom Brady's looking more and more like the

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Speaker 1: market's drying up. All right, we gotta break here. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, we will talk a lot. We gotta

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Speaker 1: still talk about what we watched it over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: what we did over the weekend, a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit about Tom Brady. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit about a free agency,

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Speaker 1: a lot about that in our question of the day,

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Speaker 1: who should be Bill sign in free agency? Right out

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Speaker 1: of the box, which is right now, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take your phone calls on that eighth three fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, standing by when we come back, Quentin

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Speaker 1: Spain just resigned to a contract by the Bill said

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Speaker 1: to be a three year deal. He'll join us live

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Speaker 1: on the line when we return. It is one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live Live from Orchard Park, coming here from the Seneca

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Speaker 1: Studios in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back One Bills Live, John Murphy, Steve Tasker in the

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Speaker 1: Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. Happy to have you with

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Speaker 1: us here today. I hope you're doing okay. Hope everybody's

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Speaker 1: healthy and happy and trying to stay busy on the

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Speaker 1: line with us A guy who stayed busy last week

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Speaker 1: in particular, and finish it off today Bill's offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: Quentin Spain, who agreed to terms and signed his new

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Speaker 1: three year contract just today around noon, and Quentin Spain

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Speaker 1: on the line with us. Hello, Quentin, good have you

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Speaker 1: with u year today? How you been if? I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to be here too. Yeah, congratulations. How does it feel

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Speaker 1: to get a you know, you worked on a one

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Speaker 1: year deal last year and it worked out right? This

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Speaker 1: is it had to be what you were looking for

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Speaker 1: even a year ago. I would think it was approve

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Speaker 1: it day. And I'm just happy I was able to

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Speaker 1: prove it to a Buffalo Bills that they signed me

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Speaker 1: for a three year day and I'm just I'm just

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Speaker 1: ready to get back to work and it feeling what

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Speaker 1: we started. Yeah, it's interesting. Too, because after you get

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Speaker 1: all these deals done. I remember as a player and

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Speaker 1: you have this contract, you tell the club all this

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Speaker 1: stuff and how you're ready to be a free agent.

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Speaker 1: You really did want to come back to Buffalo. Explain

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Speaker 1: your feelings about what it is to be in that

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Speaker 1: locker room and on this team. The feeling is great,

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Speaker 1: Like it's like no let's like no superstars. Everybody like

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Speaker 1: a team player, like we played for the team, like

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Speaker 1: as a group. Is like the chemistry and the stuff

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Speaker 1: we was building, like it's it's awesome going to be

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Speaker 1: back in the locker room with that. After last season ending,

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Speaker 1: Quentin with the playoff lots in Houston, j Fourth, you

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Speaker 1: put out a Twitter that said something along the lines of,

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Speaker 1: I'm not happy about this. What were you feeling back then?

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Speaker 1: It's only two and a half months ago. What were

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Speaker 1: you thinking back then then? What did you think about

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Speaker 1: the way last season ended? It was like, I feel

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Speaker 1: like it was a bad haul and I feel like

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Speaker 1: we didn't feel going range and it heard us and

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Speaker 1: then I just feel like it lost. It left a taste,

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Speaker 1: like a bad taste in our mouth. And I feel

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Speaker 1: like we could have won that game, and I feel

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Speaker 1: like and we feel like we had something, something specially,

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Speaker 1: So I said, I want to come back here because

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Speaker 1: it's something specially in Buffalo and the way McDermont got

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Speaker 1: the like the team going and the coaches and like

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Speaker 1: the players they they play they played for McDermot. Have

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Speaker 1: you had conversations with other guys around the league on

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Speaker 1: different teams and and kind of told them about the

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Speaker 1: vibe that there is in Buffalo and what was their

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Speaker 1: reaction to it. I haven't talked to know about a Bob.

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Speaker 1: I just talked to my teammates and I was just

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Speaker 1: keep in contact with Dion and Josh and them and

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Speaker 1: letting them know like I really wanted to be him

637
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: and whatever y'all can do to help get it done

638
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: and just how we got the dumb deal dun. You

639
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: mentioned the bad Tasty had after the playoff loss. Are

640
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: you preferring I think in particular to the penalty call

641
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: on Cody Ford that sticks with a lot of people. Huh,

642
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: it's they was cracking down on it is. It's something

643
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: they were saying the whole year, but it was just

644
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: it won't even a big like a big hit like

645
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: it won't none serious to affect the play. Yeah, and

646
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: when and it's just knock out the field going around

647
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: and the game turned from there. Do you see last

648
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: week there's some rules proposals from a number of teams.

649
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: I forget which one said this, but somebody proposed that

650
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: they modified that rule a little bit, probably in response

651
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: to that call on Cody Ford. Hunh. Yeah, I'm just

652
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: happy that they looked at it that whatever, like whatever

653
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: they there and just see like that it won't it

654
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: won't affect him the play. He didn't even hit him hard,

655
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: He didn't knock him down. It was just a he

656
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: was just in the way. It was a tickie tach foul,

657
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: wasn't it? So? Quinn? With you getting resigned, it looks

658
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: like the Bills have a chance to bring back all

659
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: the guys that were starters and real major contributors to

660
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: the offensive line. You guys are gonna come back for

661
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: a second year and gonna get a chance to compete

662
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,959
Speaker 1: and and move forward. How important is that And how

663
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: long do you think it took during this last season

664
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: where he made the playoff run before you guys felt

665
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: like because there was all those injuries last year in

666
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: the preseason, you had all those guys nicked up. Mitch

667
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: Morris couldn't practice. Uh uh. Feliciano was hurt. All those

668
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: guys were nicked up and he had to shift guys around.

669
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: How long did it take you to come together and

670
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: what's it mean to keep keep those guys together going forward?

671
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: It didn't take us. It didn't take us that long

672
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: to come together. We was practicing the camp like rotating

673
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: guys to you know, a NSA. Never know what happened,

674
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: so we get um, we get to click like different

675
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: people and then like it's something happened in the game,

676
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: it's somebody to come in. They switched switch. We we

677
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: already got the reps together, communication and stuff like that,

678
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: so it's not that hard. And then what we did

679
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 1: had to start in five of the line out there,

680
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: it picked up. You saw how we opened holes and

681
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: protect you know that. But it picked up on the

682
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: line with Quentin Spain Bills, the offensive lineman who just

683
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: signed a three year contract for the Bills. It's kind

684
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: of a miles. It is a milestone, not kind off.

685
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: It is a milestone for you and your career, Quittin,

686
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: especially when you consider that you came into the league

687
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: as an undrafted free agent out of West Virginia. Right,

688
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: you weren't supposed to sign a big contract and stay

689
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: around the team for a while. We're you, yeah, getting drafted?

690
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: Get that getting drafted? I mean, go on drafted? All right,

691
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: that's like, that's my motivation. Like I told Moltial Report,

692
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: I got to tie it on my back. And I

693
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: just like stride and you want to be the like

694
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: the best guard, best best best offensive line who came

695
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: in that drafted others to want to be the last

696
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: one standing in front of all the linebans who went before,

697
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: like whoever we got drafted and this time of year

698
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: we were just and not only not getting drafted. You

699
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: didn't get invited to the combine. You were an afterthought

700
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: for a lot of teams. Uh, you found a home

701
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. You signed a deal and you kind

702
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: of bet on yourself. Is that like, is that the

703
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: ultimate kind of And I'm kind of laugh when I say,

704
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: but that's kind of the ultimate in your face kind

705
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: of deal. Right, you bet on yourself and now they

706
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 1: gotta they gotta, you gotta cash a check. Right, it's

707
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: not in those things. It's a great deal. Some people say,

708
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: I rode more than all that. But I just wanted

709
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: to come back to Buffalo because I know it's something

710
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: special hand I just wanted to be a part of it.

711
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,439
Speaker 1: Equitin What does it say that you played all sixteen games,

712
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: got all sixteen starts last year, and even going back

713
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: to your time in Tennessee, you played and started most

714
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: of the games. You don't miss games often, do you?

715
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can't miss g If you're

716
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: not out there, you're not having the team. And I

717
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: know that, I know that, I know the business. You're

718
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: not you can't do nothing for the team. You're not

719
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be here. So I try to stay

720
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 1: healthy at all time and take care of myself training,

721
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: make sure I'm doing the right thing on an off

722
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: the field. I mean, people might say region wolla, I

723
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 1: never gets dirty, must feel great every week. I imagined

724
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: there's some games when you're sore, you're a hurt, or

725
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: you got a little minor injury where you just tape

726
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: it up and go right there. Myself happing several times

727
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: in your NFL career, look well in the training room,

728
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: like I stay in the training room. Made sure I

729
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: hit the hotel cold tub, so on that stuff. You

730
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: gotta take care of your body out there, like you

731
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: never know, like the Nixon Bruce can turn in for

732
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: some service if you don't treat them. Yeah, tell us

733
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: a little bit about what you're doing this offseason. You're

734
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: calling us from West Virginia today. Do you have a

735
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: place where you work out as you as your offseason

736
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: regiment started yet? I mean, what's your schedule going forward

737
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: about your workouts and when you get back to Buffalo

738
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: now a matter of fact, I'm in Buffalo right now.

739
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: I came well up here signed SA deal making like

740
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: official because I didn't want to. I wanted to make

741
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: it feel like it's a real deal, like inside his stay,

742
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: signing the deal through the email like that, I want

743
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: to come to Buffalo out tomorrow morning. That's funny. There

744
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: was part of you wondering, I mean, you have what

745
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: are you saying to somebody? Pinch me. I'm not sure

746
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: if this is real. Let me go to Buffalo and

747
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: make sure I signed it. Yeah, yeah, I just I

748
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: just told I just wanted to come out here to

749
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: join the experiment and signed a good deal. And yeah,

750
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: like I never did it before, so I just wanted

751
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: to do well. I'll tell you if I ever signed

752
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: a five year, fifteen million dollars, three year contract five

753
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: million bucks a year, I'm going in person to sign

754
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: it too, I promise you. Congratulations Quinton. I couldn't be

755
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: happier for him. Looking forward to seeing you. Thank you,

756
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 1: Thanks Quinn. Quinn Spain builds offensive linemen. Uh Um signed

757
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: this deal. He agreed the terms last week, signed it today.

758
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: Three years, said to be fifteen million dollars. Sixteen starts

759
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: for the Bills last year, didn't miss any starts, and

760
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:06,479
Speaker 1: before that in two eighteen with tennessee fifteen games fifteen starts.

761
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,959
Speaker 1: A year before that fourteen games, all of them starts

762
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,439
Speaker 1: yere before that, fourteen games, thirteen starts. Guy doesn't miss time.

763
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be available, right, He knows that,

764
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: and not everybody in the league. Steve doesn't have that same.

765
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: It's interesting because there may be there may be, and

766
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: he's making five million bucks years. It's a lot of money,

767
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: but you know what, there's a lot of guards making

768
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: way more than that. And I think there is something

769
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: in there, Murph, where if a guy's available every week

770
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: that outpaces, you know, a better guy, you get him

771
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: for three out of five games, or two out of

772
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: five games, or or eight out of sixteen games, or

773
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: whatever percentage you want to say you want to make.

774
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: It's better to have the same guy in there. And

775
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: particularly since he's a guy like Quentin Spain didn't take

776
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: very many penalties, gotten gave up zero sacks. He really

777
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: did have a career year last year, in a year

778
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: where he bet on himself and I it really makes

779
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 1: you feel good. And to have him, you know, kind

780
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: of laughing at himself because I want to. I want

781
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: to sign the deal fat because I want, you know

782
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: what I mean, to make it real. Yeah, good for him.

783
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: He appreciates it. He's happy to be in Buffalo. He's

784
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: exactly the kind of thing Bills fans exactly the kind

785
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: of player Bills fans want to see sign here. A

786
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: guy who bet on himself and he came through and

787
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: who did it because he loves it in our city.

788
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: I think it's awesome. Yeah, I'm happy for him. I

789
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: really am happy that is. It's good to happen in

790
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: the full Bill's got a lot more work to do

791
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: and plenty of reports about free agents out there. Will

792
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: recap some of them and get to your calls and

793
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: your thoughts on what the bills, who the Bills should

794
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: sign right out of the box here in free agency,

795
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 1: got some tweets on the tweet sheet to read, and

796
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: we got open phone lines, So give us a call.

797
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: Free agency is open. Open negotiation period started forty five

798
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Who shouldn't the Bills be on the phone

799
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: with right now? Who do you think the first guy

800
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: is they should get into contract? Give us a call.

801
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: Lines are open eight fifty toll free one eight eight

802
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. One Bills Live presented by

803
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: Collida Hell from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

804
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio Free Agency underway in the NFL today.

805
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: That's why we're here. I guess it's one Bill's Live

806
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: presented by Gollida Health, John Murphy and Steve Tasker. Give

807
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: us a call eight three fifty toll free one eight

808
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty Answer this question

809
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: out of the box. Who should be the bills number

810
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: one target? Who do you think? Give us a call?

811
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: Who do you would you like the Bills to pursue.

812
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: We'll get to the tweets in a moment on that question, Steve,

813
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: I want to switch gears a little bit. I can

814
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: handle this. Um it's it's here's another thing we can

815
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: talk about too, and we'll get to this. How did

816
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: you spend the weekend? Right? No sports on TV? I

817
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: was delighted this morning to find on the TV on

818
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: the NHL Network today a replay of Game six of

819
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Finals nineteen seventy five. Savers lose to

820
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: the phil of Flyers two and not in a game

821
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: in the odd um and they lost the Cup that day.

822
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: And you were laughing at me. I know you've you've

823
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: created the image of me as a hockey haater, But

824
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, forty five years ago, I was into it.

825
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: I was into that series. I was all about you. Today.

826
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: I was into it today. I was yelling at Rob Clark,

827
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: where's your teth Clark? This, ladies and gentlemen, this is

828
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm a hockey haater. Picture this, ladies and gentlemen of

829
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: our viewing viewership. MURF sitting over there, every player and

830
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: they were just guys to me. They were long haired mustache,

831
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: all of them had the Fu Manchu nineteen seventies, big

832
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: flowing hair. Half of them. Wow, eighty percent of them

833
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 1: didn't have helmets on. Right, the goalies did wear masks.

834
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: I mean it was one of those air and the skin.

835
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: We noticed right away this It was like, wow, that's

836
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: that's not even hockey. They moved so slow and deliberated

837
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 1: very and Murf is naming by name every single guy

838
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: on the ice for both teams. He was from nineteen

839
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: year old and he still carries the scar tissue from

840
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: game six in the nineteen seventy five and listen. So

841
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: they awarded in Buffalo the and the guy brings it out.

842
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: It wasn't like this parade where the Mounties come out

843
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: and the guys have white. This guy had. It was

844
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: like Barry, he almost hadn't tucked under his arm. Right

845
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 1: he's coming out. He plumps it up on this little

846
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: round stool on the ice and that was enough by

847
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: the way back right, and Murph is just sitting there

848
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: stewing about how he and there was a it was

849
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Speaker 1: a bad call in the game. They should have got

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Speaker 1: the Flyers, should have been down two. We're on a

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Speaker 1: power plays hand passed like it was a clear view

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Speaker 1: of it, and oh my gosh. And then even then

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Speaker 1: the announcers were making excuses exactly would love to hear

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Speaker 1: the voice of Ted Darling on that. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: so it was. It was a treat today to watch

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Speaker 1: the Sabers nineteen seventy five Game six Cup Final with

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Speaker 1: mur Or fagree was just beside himself. Look, there may

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Speaker 1: be other things. What did you watch this weekend? Then?

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Speaker 1: Maybe what will you watch in lieu of any sports?

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Speaker 1: No NBA, no NHL, no March Madness, no n I

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Speaker 1: T nothing going on. What are you gonna watch? Give

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Speaker 1: us a call on that. Eighth three, five fifty and

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Speaker 1: But who should have Bill signed right out of the

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Speaker 1: boxing free agency? What do you think about that? Who

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Speaker 1: would be the first free agent you would pursue? Just

867
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Speaker 1: trying to make sure I'm keeping an eye on this

868
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Speaker 1: that there hasn't been somebody else signed already. But let's

869
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:34,919
Speaker 1: let's read some of the tweets from the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: brought you by Corgan Moving Systems, the official movers of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Go ahead, Steve, get a start, all right.

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00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: Here we go from Jack A, I want Matt Brida.

873
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: They need another running back. He's good. He would compliment

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00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: Motorwell for a nice one two punch. There's there is

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Speaker 1: a defensive end from Carolina, Mario Addison. I have a

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Speaker 1: feeling we'll look we'll be looking his way. Also, he

877
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: knows the staff and the defensive system McDermott runs. Will

878
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: probably be a nice value pickup. There's a lot going

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00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes as well. And yeah, and I

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00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: agree with that. There's I would not be surprised if

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00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,959
Speaker 1: if defensive end, edge rusher. There's a couple of guys

882
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: they signed. Now. One of the things we saw and

883
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: they did this was Quentin Spain last year. Think about this,

884
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: the guy we just had on, Quentin Spain signed a

885
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: three year, fifteen million dollar contract with the Bills or

886
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: reportedly fifteen million bucks. He was out on the free

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00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: agent market for two weeks before the Bills signed him,

888
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 1: and they gave him a one year proved deal. Yeah. Yeah,

889
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: And now the guy wants to stay here in Buffalo

890
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: and has signed up for three more years at a

891
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: great price for the team. And you know, it's life

892
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: changing money for him, So good, good for him. And

893
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: but I think we're gonna see some more of that

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00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: from the Bills. I think we're gonna you know, this

895
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: free agency, you and I are pointing towards, have been

896
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: pointing towards it for weeks now. It may be another

897
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: couple of weeks before the Bills are finished in that market,

898
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: because they'll let some guy, They'll let some guys sit,

899
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: and when that guy sitting out there on the open

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00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: market starts to realize that for him, free agency is

901
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: about being unemployed. In the fall, his price will get

902
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: to a spot where the Bills can get him, and

903
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: they'll get him. So I think some of that is

904
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Speaker 1: going to happen in this free agent period as well.

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Speaker 1: It won't be for a couple of weeks. I've been

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00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: of news on free agency. That's just in Falcons free

907
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Speaker 1: agent tightend Austin Hooper, regarded as the best available tight

908
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Speaker 1: end in this year's free agent class, is headed to

909
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. They've agreed to terms. He becomes the

910
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: new highest paid tight end, Austin Hooper. And who's the

911
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: other guy who had just taken off the Hunter, Henry

912
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: taking off the market with the franchise tech. So now

913
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 1: that leaves Eric Ebrown of Indianapolis as the highest rate

914
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Speaker 1: to tight end, Jimmy Graham at Green Bay, Delaney Walker, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: Tyler Eifert is still out there, but Austin Hooper signs

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Speaker 1: with Cleveland. You know what, they're really assembling a nice

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Speaker 1: cast of characters in Cleveland, Steve, they're assembling all kinds

918
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: of talent for baking Mayfield. I wouldn't be surprised if

919
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Speaker 1: the Browns can tend for a Super Bowl this year.

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00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: They've got some Oh wait a minute, that was last year.

921
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: You're reading the notes from last year last March. Seriously,

922
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: it's hard to I know, you know, the Browns beat

923
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: the Bills acknowledge, but it's hard to take them seriously

924
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: after their kind of failure as one of the top

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Speaker 1: rated teams in the league. And this time last year

926
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Speaker 1: it all started with some of the signings they had,

927
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: and yeah, they signed a good tight end today. Are

928
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Speaker 1: they gonna be able to put it together? Probably better

929
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Speaker 1: than they did last year. But it's just hard to

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Speaker 1: get excited about the Cleveland Browns now still first time

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Speaker 1: head coach and Kevin Stefanski down there, although probably a

932
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Speaker 1: little bit more ready than Freddie Kitchens was, to say

933
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Speaker 1: the least, you gotta think it's gonna go a little

934
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: better for them. But like you and I have always said,

935
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Speaker 1: and like Brandon being said when he took the job above,

936
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Speaker 1: we're gonna try and build a team, not just to

937
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Speaker 1: accumulate talent. And the Cleveland Browns were exactly that. They

938
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Speaker 1: were accumulation of talent last year. Certainly, they were good

939
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: enough to beat a team like Buffalo, and they did

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Speaker 1: win some games. But I think they there's no doubt

941
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Speaker 1: that the Cleveland Browns had to be really really disappointed

942
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: with the way their season went. I mean they had

943
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Speaker 1: the sky high. Yes, I'm gonna take a call out.

944
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Speaker 1: There's one reason why we're taking this call this close

945
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Speaker 1: to the top of the hour. You know why, because

946
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Speaker 1: this guy agrees with me. Bernie on Grand Island, Hello,

947
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Speaker 1: Bernie are on the air. Good afternoon to you. Bernie.

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Speaker 1: Are you there? Yes? I am Hi. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: What about fregency? Who's the who should the bill sign?

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00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: Right out of the box? What do you think? I

951
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: like Robert Quinn to be the guy for us? Tell

952
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: me why? Yeah, tell me why? Just that he's got

953
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Speaker 1: a lot of ferociousness and he's I don't think he's

954
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Speaker 1: going to be really expensive. No, I agree, and he's

955
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Speaker 1: a little bit older, but I think he would fill

956
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: a need for the Bills, and he's been around some

957
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: pretty good teams. I think you'd have a lot to

958
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Speaker 1: offer the Bills, right. Thanks for calling, Bernie, he says

959
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn. That would be my choice. Is the guy

960
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: they should sign right out of the box? Who do

961
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: you think the Bill should sign right out of the box.

962
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: That's our topic of the day. And what are you

963
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,399
Speaker 1: doing to fill the void left by no sports on TV?

964
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that too. We'll talk about all of

965
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: that when we return for the second hour of the show.

966
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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Lexander is going to join as farmer. Bills linebacker

967
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: joins us. He is now executive vice president of the

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00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: NFL Players Association. We'll talk to him about that. We'll

969
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: talk to him about passage of the CBA over the weekend,

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00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Avantander. When we return One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalata Health from the Seneca Studio in Archer Park. This

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00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radios Radio Network Sports Update. The update

973
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Live. The Sports Update. NFL free agency

974
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: is underway. Where you're In the open negotiation period, players

975
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: can agree to terms with the others teams, but they're

976
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,720
Speaker 1: not allowed to sign until Wednesday at four pm. Reports

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00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: out there that the Dolphins have a strong interest in

978
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo's pass rusher shack lawsuit. On the first day of

979
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: free agency, Austin Hooper, tight end, considered the best tight

980
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,439
Speaker 1: end in the free agent class, as agreed to turns

981
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Browns. The Bills not making any moves yet,

982
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: but there are reports that they will interested, supposedly in

983
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: a cornerback for one, but we'll wait until those reports

984
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: become more concrete. Bills didn't agree to terms and signed

985
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: offensive line in Quentin, Spain. They got that piece of

986
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 1: business titting care of today Spain and the two sides

987
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: able to agree on terms on a three year contract.

988
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: They'll keep him in Buffalo for twenty twenty and beyond,

989
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: said to be three years fifteen million dollars total. NFL

990
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: has decided that the draft will proceed April twenty third,

991
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: but there will be no public events in Las Vegas.

992
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: The club selection of players will proceed on April twenty third.

993
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: NFL says they're looking at innovative options on how the

994
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 1: process will be conducted. They'll provide that information and as

995
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: it becomes available. The Browns talk to linebacker Christian Curtsey

996
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: right last week when the Bills did and Kurtsey or

997
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: the Browns had Former Browns linebacker Christian Kurtzy talked to

998
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: the Bills last week. He's reached an agreement with the

999
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Browns tried to renegotiate his contract, released

1000
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: him last week after the two sides could not come

1001
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: to terms. Franchise tags being put on a number of

1002
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: players today, including Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott, Cincinnati wide receiver

1003
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: AJ Green, Tennessee Titans running back Derek Henry, Kansas City's

1004
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, Tampa Bay shack Barrett Giants Leonard Williams, Jacksonville's

1005
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: Janik and Goaquay, and others, all of them franchise tag today.

1006
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and the Minnesota Vikings agreed on a two

1007
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: year contract extension the value sixty six million dollars, and

1008
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons releasing two time Pro Bowl running back

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00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman with three years left on his contract. Oh,

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00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: it's a busy day coming out later this week Wednesday,

1011
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: we anticipate, Steve, We're gonna get our man, Mike Genetion,

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00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: who does the website spot Track, follows all the numbers

1013
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: and free agent deals, and we have a long discussion

1014
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: with our producer Jay Harris about what's the best day

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00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: to put them on. We decided today probably not, maybe

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00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: not tomorrow. I mean, deals are just getting negotiated now.

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00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: Numbers will start to leak out over the next couple

1018
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: of days, and that's when you want Mike Genetion. That's

1019
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: when Mike Gannetian compare this contract of this contract, and

1020
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 1: I think that's coming up on Wednesday this week, so

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00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: we look forward to that. Yeah, maybe Friday or something

1022
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: like that. It would be, you know, Friday would be

1023
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: a good day to have him on. How'd you feel

1024
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: about Wednesday. I'm okay with Wednesday, that's fine. But you

1025
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: know Wednesday, what noon, he the free agency period starts

1026
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: four pm? Four pm? He can have any numbers by Wednesday. Well,

1027
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: we'll have more rumors that'll be like today more. Oh

1028
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 1: he'll he'll he'll get numbers. I think, Jinny, you know, seriously,

1029
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: not to wait another day just to make sure. Maybe

1030
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: it would officially open if he wants an hour after

1031
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: we're off. Whatever you want, but I'm just saying, who

1032
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: should be the Bill's first free agent they signed out

1033
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 1: of the box? Free agency is opened the last hour,

1034
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: who should be the first guy they go after? Eight

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Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Send it a tweet. We got

1037
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: plenty of room on the tweet sheet as well. Phone

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Speaker 1: lines open. Take a call from Kevin and Hamburg. Hello, Kevin,

1039
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: you're on the air. How are you doing great? Thank you?

1040
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Speaker 1: Thank particularly call Sure, I'm watching the NFL network, you know,

1041
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: flipping them back and forth and all that between when

1042
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: you're on break. Yeah, please don't please don't turn off

1043
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: from us taking CD LAMB, which means they might not

1044
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: keep Amari Cooper, or maybe they don't think they can

1045
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: keep Amari Cooper and they hasn't taken one of those

1046
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: lowsome receivers in the high is the one guy taking

1047
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy and them taking CD LAMB. Being that about

1048
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: the Bills, because the Bills did better than need you

1049
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,879
Speaker 1: last year, maybe they might be thinking they can't keep

1050
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: Alari Cooper. Maybe we can grab them because they wouldn't

1051
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: have them picking a guy like Cdee Lamb, but they've

1052
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: gotten gonna keep a Marie Cooper. Yeah, my feeling, Thanks

1053
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: for calling Kevin. My thought is, if they're they franchised

1054
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 1: Dek Prescott, do they have enough money now to keep

1055
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper? I think he's gonna require a ton of money.

1056
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: Do the Bills want to step up to the plate

1057
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Speaker 1: and spend that kind of money out Amari Cooper? As

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Speaker 1: we said, now it's become a cliche. The Bills aren't

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Speaker 1: looking to start a new wide receiver room. They're looking

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00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: to finish what they have. They're looking for a wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: I have no doubt about that, and there are plenty

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00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: of good wide receiver was in this draft. I think

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00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: that might be the best way for the Bills to

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Speaker 1: proceed with the wide receiver. But maybe I don't think

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00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: you can rule anything, and none of us can get

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00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: inside the meeting rooms of the Dallas Cowboys. But here's

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00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: the thing. If they do find a way to sign

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00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: a Marie Cooper, they can take a wide receiver in

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00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: the draft, and all of a sudden, they've got a

1070
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Speaker 1: wide receiving corps that's really stacked for Dak Prescott you know,

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00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:23,919
Speaker 1: on the franchise tag, draft in one of these guys

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00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: doesn't cost him any money. They're all on rookie deals,

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00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 1: so they'll be able to afford both if they can

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00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: get Amari Cooper signed under the cap, and then they

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00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: can still be free to draft Jerry Judy or Cede

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00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: Lamb or T Higgins or whoever you want them to draft,

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00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: and they'll have plenty of and they won't cost him anything.

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00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 1: So that's their cap numbers in consequential. So all of

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Speaker 1: that said, that's the crucial element. I'm sure they want

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Speaker 1: to keep Amari Cooper. But and if they can afford

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Speaker 1: to do that and get his deal done, which may

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00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: this year, may give them the chance to do it

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00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: to a long term deal if they can structure it right.

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00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: Because Dak Prescott's thirty one point seven comes off the

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00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: books next year, they're gonna do his deal next year.

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00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: That deal can be for next year after the cap,

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00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 1: after the franchise tag is done. Nevertheless, if they can

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00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: get Amari under the cap, they can draft any one

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00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,720
Speaker 1: of those wide receivers they want, which would leave whoever

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00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: else is there for the Buffalo Bills and be that

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Speaker 1: as it may. Kevin, and I appreciate your thoughts. And

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00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 1: there's still gonna be a good wide receiver for the

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00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills to take at twenty two and at fifty four.

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00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: So there's just too many of them in this draft.

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00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: And we've seen so many times over the years, over

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00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: the past decade, the great receiver, and I mean great receivers,

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00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: you can get them really in the mid rounds of

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00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: this draft. Of the draft, I mean like the like

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Speaker 1: the fourth, fifth, and sixth, or the third, fourth and fifth.

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Speaker 1: At least you can get good receivers in the draft

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Speaker 1: later on. And that's in years that arn't is loaded

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Speaker 1: with talent as this one. So there's that. So I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Bills need to worry about breaking the

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Speaker 1: bank for Amari Cooper. I don't know that our Mari

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00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: COOPI will be available. I think that Dallas Cowboys will

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00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: figure out a way. By the same token, don't get

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00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: too wrapped up in the fact that there's you know,

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00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: the receiver out there that you think that you want

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00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: in the draft. I mean, because there's gonna be some

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Speaker 1: really good ones available no matter where you pick. Report

1111
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: from Miami. Actually the report is from Adam Schefter that

1112
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have agreed to terms with offensive lineman Eric Flowers.

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00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: He was a free agent from Watchington. He said he's

1114
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: an interior offensive lineman. He's a guard. Said to get

1115
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 1: thirty million over three years, nineteen point ninety five, fully guaranteed.

1116
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,280
Speaker 1: Drew rosenhounced his agent. That's a lot of money for regard.

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00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: Ten million a year for reguard nineteen point ninety five,

1118
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed. Eric Flowers reportedly going to the Miami Dolphins.

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00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 1: One of the better guards, not necessarily the best guard available.

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Speaker 1: Some people think there are others who may ye ahead

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00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: of them, but done. That's a lot of money for

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00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: a guard, isn't it. Yeah. I mean, so there's a guy,

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Speaker 1: Eric Flowers who gets ten million a year nineteen point

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00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: nine five guarantee. The Bills signed a guard who started

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Speaker 1: every game for them last year at five million a year.

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Speaker 1: Right now, there's the guards. If you don't if you're

1127
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: not familiar with guards, like a lot of us, aren't.

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Speaker 1: Guys like Graham Glasgow from Detroit, Michael Scofield from the Chargers,

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00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: Mike Lupatti from Seattle, Ron Leary from Denver, Greg Van

1130
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: wrote and from Carolina and then Eric Flowers is on

1131
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: that list, Darryl Williams from Carolina, West Switzer from Atlanta.

1132
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: The list goes on and there's a lot of guys

1133
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: out there, and it goes all the you know, Max

1134
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:41,439
Speaker 1: Garcia from Arizona, Eric Cush from Cleveland, there's a ton

1135
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: Xavier Sua Filo from Dallas. There's a ton of guys

1136
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: out there that are free agents. There's a long list

1137
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: of them, and so it's not like the well is

1138
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 1: gonna run dry for guys who have got some NFL experience.

1139
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,919
Speaker 1: I think the interesting thing is in our Twitter poll

1140
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: today reflects at which where do you think the Bill's

1141
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: got to go right away? Look for them to go

1142
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 1: at a place like what Murch's talking about, going defensive line.

1143
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 1: What's the name of your boy, Robert Quinn, Robert Quinn,

1144
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: Because because that is a shallow group of talent in

1145
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: this draft. That is all a shallow talent pool in

1146
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,919
Speaker 1: this draft. At defensive end, pass rusher, there's some good ones,

1147
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: but there's not a bunch of them like there is

1148
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: wide receiver. So look in the free agent market for

1149
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: teams to snap those guys up, because when they get

1150
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: to the draft and they need one of those guys.

1151
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: There may not be one that can play. Interesting thing

1152
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: about Eric Flowers. Ten million a year for a guy

1153
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: who's been okay, he's working on his fourth team now.

1154
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: He was a ninth overall pick in twenty fifteen. Somebody

1155
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: points out on Twitter on the Internet that the fact

1156
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: that he was a ninth overall pick, first round pick

1157
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen by the New York Giants, is why

1158
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: he gets so much money. That there's still that regard

1159
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 1: help for his draft status. He played fifteen, sixteen, seventeen

1160
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 1: years with the Giants, went to Jacksonville for a year,

1161
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,760
Speaker 1: one year contract there. Started left tackle for Jacksonville, started

1162
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 1: and played one year with the Washington Redskins. Transferred to

1163
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: left guard last year, so he's moved inside from tackle

1164
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: to guard. He was a former ninth pick overall, played

1165
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: three years and the Giants, moved inside toy to play

1166
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: guard for the Washington Redskins and gets ten million dollars

1167
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 1: a year on his fourth team in how many years? Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,

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00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: six years, fourth team, Eric Flowers, He's got some measurables. Yeah,

1169
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: that's it, and that's really it. It's size, speed, athleticism,

1170
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: and obviously down in Miami they think they can crack

1171
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: the code and get through to him and make him

1172
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: a better player. You don't leave, you don't bounce around

1173
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: like that without some baggage. And that would give Bills

1174
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: fans if you're wondering why they don't sign a guy

1175
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: like Eric Flowers, that would be a signal as to

1176
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: what they see. That's a guy that probably wouldn't fit

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00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: the DNA with the culture. And it goes to and look,

1178
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: Bills aren't going to make every great move this free

1179
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: agent period. We know that. But what I think most

1180
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: Bills fans field this way. Wouldn't you rather have a

1181
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 1: resign a guy, give him five million a year a

1182
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: contract you can stomach a guy that you've seen play

1183
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: for your team for a whole year and seen him

1184
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: play sixteen games, then take a chance on Eric Flowers.

1185
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: If you're the Dolphins, if you're a Dolphins fan today,

1186
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: you're thinking, oh, Eric Flowers. I remember he was the

1187
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: ninth overall pick. Yeah, that was three teams ago, that

1188
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: was three contracts ago. That was a disappointment in the

1189
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: Giants and with Jacksonville ago. That's now he's in a

1190
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: new position. You're gonna overpaying free agency. I get that.

1191
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 1: You could argue the Bills have overpaid people like Star

1192
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: Latulala or Mitch Morse, But I just don't know if

1193
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: you're better off overpaying and making big splash signings like

1194
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers is a lot of money. Ten million a year,

1195
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. Is that for four years?

1196
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: It was three years? Three years? Yeah, I mean they're

1197
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: tied up to him, and it's interesting too, and he

1198
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: got acknowledge it may be a great signing for Miami.

1199
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 1: As much as we have admired and been and praised

1200
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott for staying within themselves financially,

1201
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: not going crazy over some bright shiny object on the

1202
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: free agent shelf where they can pull him off, pay

1203
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: him a ton of money and then he never lives

1204
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: up to it or maybe does whatever. They never never

1205
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: went out and gambled like that. They have really stayed discipline,

1206
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: and we've praised them for all the moves that they've made,

1207
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: and they made some really good ones. But they're not

1208
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: the only ones. There's some other teams out there and

1209
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: this free agent market that are gonna make some really smart,

1210
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: savvy moves, and you know, we want to give them

1211
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: some credit to I don't know how this this signing

1212
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 1: is gonna go for Miami, but I, you know, Murph

1213
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: and I think both agree I'd shy away from it.

1214
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: Well that's a I think it's a risk. I think

1215
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: it's a risk. That's all we can say. It's it

1216
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: seems like a risk for a guy in his fourth team, yep,

1217
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: fourth team ten million a year. Here's another bit of news,

1218
00:59:58,040 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get to your phone calls and your tweet.

1219
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: By the way, phone lines remain open eight o three

1220
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight by fifty two

1221
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: five fifty. I have a rhetorical question before we get

1222
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: to the new See how busy is Adam Schefter and

1223
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaports phones cell phones today? First of all, they

1224
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: each have more than one, you know that. Secondly, how

1225
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: do they keep them charged? Because they're the only guys

1226
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: breaking news? Adam Schefter and Ian Rappaport, they both break

1227
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: this news, the Cardinals and Texans agreeing to a trade

1228
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: that will send running back David Johnson to Houston. The

1229
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: Houston Texans get running back David Johnson. The Cardinals and

1230
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: Texans agree to terms on that interesting David Johnsons is

1231
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: a good player, and the Houston Texans, who don't have

1232
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: a ton of cap room, Houston Texans find a way

1233
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 1: to work in David Johnson's there's a that's an interesting

1234
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: pickup the team, the Texans who are ready to let

1235
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide and maybe Kenyan Drake go and David Johnson.

1236
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: I guess they are ready to let Carlos Hide go

1237
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: upgrade for the Texans, David Johnson over Carlos I guess marginally. Yeah,

1238
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: it's a he's a good player. He's a pretty good player. Yeah,

1239
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 1: he's It's a trade. It's not free agent, Yeah, exactly,

1240
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: it's a trade. And I think it's interesting that they

1241
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: see something in another team's running back that they didn't

1242
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: see in either of the two guys they had. Maybe

1243
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 1: it was a financial deal. I don't know. Maybe it

1244
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: gives Maybe it gives them a guy. Maybe they want

1245
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,920
Speaker 1: one guy. It's to the two guys. I don't know,

1246
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: but I'm but there you have it, and I did

1247
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 1: you have the terms of it? What they traded back

1248
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 1: and forth? No, No, that'll tell us all you need

1249
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: to know, and that that information is not out there.

1250
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: Maybe it hasn't even been completely ironed out yet, but

1251
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 1: I don't know, or maybe it hasn't been submitted to

1252
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: the league. But it's a trade, so it's not a

1253
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: free agent signing, so it should be It should be fine.

1254
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like they can't do it. A

1255
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: couple of tweets to get to on the tweet sheet

1256
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 1: brought to you by Cargan Moving Systems, the official moves

1257
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. It's a good question from Tim

1258
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: Anderson about the new collective bargaining Green. Does expanded playoff

1259
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: begin this year? Yes, it does. By the way, I

1260
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: don't think that was part and I could be wrong

1261
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: about this, but I don't think that was part of

1262
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: the new CBA. We'll ask Lorenzo about it when we

1263
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: get him on the air. I think the league always

1264
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: had the right to expand the playoffs outside of a CBA.

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Speaker 1: But yes, it does begin this year. The expanded regular

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01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: season not going to begin this year. It might begin

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. A question, Steve, you can help

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Speaker 1: them out, GERMANI or tease on the tweet sheet if

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01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: a free agent agrees to terms with the team, is

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01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 1: it possible for another team to pursue them? Or is

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01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: it a done deal? Yeah, the deal's not signed, so yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and no question about it until you signed the deal. Now,

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01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: if they've signed the deal, yeah it's a done deal.

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Speaker 1: If it's not, it's not. That's that simple. If the

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Speaker 1: signature is on the contract, it is a done deal.

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Speaker 1: But they can't sign it until Wednesday at four. So

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Speaker 1: until then, it's not to be kind of a jerk

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01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 1: to agree to terms and then say, oh, you know what,

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01:02:57,080 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: I like their offer better, wouldn't you? Well it have yeah,

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01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure it probably and or it has to be

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01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: like a deal where somebody says we'll oup for you

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01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: twice that and guarantee more than that, significantly more than

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01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 1: that to have you come there. Then that changes things,

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01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,439
Speaker 1: you know, for guys, And every guy's different, and every

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01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: agent's different. Um, and let's face it, the agent and

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01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: for as much as we all, how do you ever

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01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 1: do business with that agent? Right? That's exactly right. As

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01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 1: much as we sleeze ball, the agents agents have. The

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01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 1: good agents will say, listen, we gave our word, we

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01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 1: ain't gonna do it if you're gonna do it, I'm

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01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: out because he'll never sign a player because yet that

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01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: team will never that team will never trust him again.

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01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: And they've got a reputation within the league. They want

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01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: to they want to uh protect um. But if it's

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01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 1: a good agent and they're on seven, they've seen like

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01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 1: this before, they'll say, listen, we're agreeing to this, but

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Speaker 1: we're not agreeing to it until we sign the deal.

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01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: Because I've got three more days and I got my

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01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: phone's bringing off the hook. So if the worst comes

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01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: to worse, I'll call you first, but I'm gonna get

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01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: my guy to stick with it. You know, you gotta

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01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: you gotta give yourself an out. If I'm the team,

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01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: I say, well the deals forget it. The deal's off

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01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: the table, we're walking off. That's okay, fine. You know

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01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,440
Speaker 1: you gotta be a willing to do that because teams

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01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: need some certainty too. I can't need to say, all right,

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01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 1: we signed our linebacker. Now let's move on to this

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01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: position or that. But yeah, but just because that happens

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01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's off the table either. The guy they

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01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: understand too. The team knows. The team knows that there

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01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: are other people people involved, but by the same token

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01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: the other people are. You know, you're talking to them

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01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: too on the same day. And if they're saying, now,

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01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: that's it, that's all we can do, all right, then well, yeah,

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01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 1: we'll take your deal. The other team's off the table out,

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01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: so you're in. That's it. Now, if somebody comes from

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01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: left field, what are their reasons for coming from left field?

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01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: What's going on with that? That? That's something you can't anticipate,

1319
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,560
Speaker 1: but you know you'd be aware of that. That's something

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01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: that's that wouldn't happen because that other team would be

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01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: already involved. They wouldn't come from out of the left field,

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01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. So it's it's unlikely. But until

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01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 1: your name is on the on the contract, it ain't

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01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:58,439
Speaker 1: a done deal. Um. One more from the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: from Brian Rossig. Now, let me find this I had

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01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 1: it here. It is answered our question who should have

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01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 1: Bill signed in free agency? Right out of the box.

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01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: Bryan says, there's no right answer. Hold onto your assets. Play,

1329
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 1: let's make a deal, but don't make the first move.

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01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 1: That's a strategy. Are the Bills doing that? I don't know.

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01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 1: They might not be in the market for big splash signings.

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01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm trying to think how the last

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01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 1: couple of free agents have gone under this regime. They

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01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 1: make signings on this first day or agreed to terms

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01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 1: on this first day. But I don't know, maybe they

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01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: want to wait. We'll see eight three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Wanted to read more from the tweet, Chi, here we go.

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Speaker 1: This from Seth. He says, bring back ninety seven Jordan Phillips.

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01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 1: Simple shore up the front for years to come and

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01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: keep the defensive dominance rolling. Then sign some mid level

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01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 1: edge guy like an off and an offensive Tackle'll call

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01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 1: it a day, keep building through the draft, and sign

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01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 1: your own. Yeah, you're right. They can sign their own.

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01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: And one of the problems was signing your own. Not

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01:05:57,920 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 1: that it's a problem, but it's a different wrinkle than

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01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: most teams don't have. Bill's got a ton of guys

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01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,280
Speaker 1: on one year, prove it deals a ton of them.

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01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 1: You can sign your own, but you get to pick

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01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: which ones you do sign. But if you want him

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01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: to sign back, kind of hard to get him to

1352
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: come back for another sign it. Prove it one year

1353
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: deal unless it's for good money. And so I'm with

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01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: you on Jordan Phillips. I'd love to see him sign

1355
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: him again. I think he's probably priced out of the

1356
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:25,680
Speaker 1: Bill's budget plans for that position. Same maybe with Shack Lawson.

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01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 1: Shack was a much better three down player than he

1358
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 1: was a pass rusher. But he was on the field

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01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 1: in a lot of pass rushing situations. But Shack was

1360
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 1: really good against the run. He would run side to side.

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01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: He did some good stuff on the first and second

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01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 1: down too, not just third. So while his sack numbers

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01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: aren't there, Shack is still a guy that works hard

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01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: on all three downs, and that's a plus for him.

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01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: I think there'll be some teams that are interested. So

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01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:52,479
Speaker 1: I'm all about signing these our guys, our own guys.

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01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: But more importantly, you got to think of this as

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01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: passionately as a GM. It's too much money for some

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01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: of them. Fun though, maybe that's getting fun. The Texans

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01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 1: back in the news. You're ready for this one, Adam cheffins,

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01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:07,439
Speaker 1: listening this. I gotta get on this Twitter. The world

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01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: runs on Twitter, right. Adam Schefter reports the Texans are

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01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 1: trading DeAndre Hopkins to Arizona. Wow, I knew we'd get that.

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01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: Darn it. You wanted them here. I wanted that guy.

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01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: How about Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins the Cards my

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01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: second favorite teams. That's a good move for them. I'd

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01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: rather have Kyler Murray. I mean, I'd rather have DeAndre

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01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: Hopkins than Kyler Murray. That's great, And it's not the

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01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: David Johnson deal. I read a couple of reports that

1380
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 1: said David Johnson, the Texans are assuming some of that catch.

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01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 1: Texans are assuming some of his salary, and there may

1382
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: be terms going back the other way. They may be

1383
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 1: considerations going back the other day. But apparently the David

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01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 1: Johnson deal is not part of DeAndre Hopkins deal. He's

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01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: an Arizona Cardinal. He's really good. Really, he's so good.

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01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 1: He is so good. Didn't did he hurt the Bills

1387
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 1: in the playoffs? I am so glad he's no. No,

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01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: we held him down a little bit. He caught some balls.

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01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: I think he caught a ball or too late, maybe

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01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 1: in overtime even but he was Oh man, Houston is

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01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:11,479
Speaker 1: gonna miss that guy. They have no money. Wow, they're

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01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 1: coach slash GM. That's what happens. Yeah, when you know,

1393
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:19,479
Speaker 1: that's what happens when you when you get outside the line,

1394
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 1: that's what happened. You got to say goodbye to that.

1395
01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 1: That guy's a franchise Wide Opkins might have been the

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01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 1: greatest player in Houston Texans history, right JJ Wide and

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01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: he might be the contenders of that title. I mean

1398
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,679
Speaker 1: it's a short history, but still, he is so good.

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01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:35,599
Speaker 1: He is so good. He is now a Arizona Cardinal.

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Speaker 1: Watch out for the Cards. All right, we're gonna come

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01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 1: back and talk a little bit. We're gonna keep keep

1402
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:41,680
Speaker 1: you up to data on the free agent moves. You

1403
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,599
Speaker 1: can phone us up eight three fifty toll free from

1404
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 1: outside Buffalo one eight fifty two five fifty. There it is. Yeah,

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01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins and a fourth round pick go to the

1406
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 1: go to the Arizona Cardinals for David Johnson and the

1407
01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 1: second round pick this year and a fourth round pick

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01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: next year. So they get David Johnson, a second and

1409
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: a fourth for DeAndre Hopkins. Ah, no money, Lorenzo Alexander.

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Speaker 1: When we return, we'll talk about the new collective bargaining

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01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 1: agreement with Lorenzo. Come on back with us. One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collida Health from the Seneca Studio in

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01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:31,920
Speaker 1: Archerd Park. And this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome Back.

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01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 1: One goes live from Collida Health camera Feasteeve Aasker in

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01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,519
Speaker 1: our Seneca studio in Archerd Park. We're on the line

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Speaker 1: now with the longtime buddy of ours. Longtime contributed to

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Speaker 1: the show. Former Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander joined us. Hello, Lorenzo,

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01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: good to be with you today. How are you doing?

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01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 1: How you hanging in there? Hi? My wife scheduled together

1420
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:54,160
Speaker 1: since the kids are at home and we were just

1421
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 1: doing outside like recess, so it's practicing little basketball. Yeah.

1422
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if I I would want you as

1423
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: a as a home school guy. I think you might be.

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01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 1: You might feel a little too intense for your kids. Yeah,

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01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 1: I am. I think I think I just got on

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01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: my daughter's nerve, you know, And so I don't really

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01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: care about athlegability, but I do care about effort, and

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01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 1: so she was kind of lazy and that's like my

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01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: pet pee, I got you, Oh my gosh, did right? Uh?

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01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 1: You're all over the TV network. Yesterday when the Collective

1431
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:26,720
Speaker 1: Bargaining Agreement passed was approved, but they referred you as

1432
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: what a vice president of the NFLPA. Now did you

1433
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:32,599
Speaker 1: get a bump up and rank? No, I've been executive

1434
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 1: Committee for the last six years, and so that's the

1435
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: technical term. I'm a vice president. We have ten vice

1436
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: presidents or nine vice presidents, once treasurer and then one president.

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01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:44,640
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, this is just housekeeping, but

1438
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:47,599
Speaker 1: I saw last week that you were your term has

1439
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: been extended. Even as a retired player, you are welcome

1440
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: and gage to serve. No, No, that's not actually our

1441
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:59,680
Speaker 1: Our constitution allows any player that finishes a season and

1442
01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:04,919
Speaker 1: the year of a of an election still as eligible

1443
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:08,600
Speaker 1: to to run for any season. So I could be

1444
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:12,240
Speaker 1: a REP. I could be a EC member. But let's

1445
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:17,240
Speaker 1: say I like we had um uh Mark Hursley, Um,

1446
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: not Mark hurle Um. One of our guys didn't play

1447
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: last season, so he didn't have an opportunity to come

1448
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: back on um. It's just how it happens. I luckily

1449
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:30,000
Speaker 1: I got I retired in the year that we had

1450
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 1: an election, so I still was elgible. So so it

1451
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 1: passed by a narrow margin. What were the thoughts about

1452
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:36,920
Speaker 1: the Executive Committee? I mean, I know you guys kind

1453
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 1: of kind of tried to steer down the middle. All

1454
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: of you had your opinions. But about the vote, how

1455
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: did it go? Um, It was a reflection of what

1456
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:47,400
Speaker 1: I thought would happen based on all the conversations I

1457
01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: had with players, Uh, you know, repum this throughout the league,

1458
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: even the EC was a tight um vote as far

1459
01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 1: as how we felt about the deal and so um,

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01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,680
Speaker 1: it was just a reflection of membership and and it's

1461
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:02,479
Speaker 1: really be because of the diversity of our membership that

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01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 1: you have such a tight vote, because the deal impacts

1463
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 1: players much differently depending on if you're a first rounder,

1464
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: if you're undrafted, or if you're a minimum guy high

1465
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 1: paid guy. And then amongst other things that kind of

1466
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 1: going too as far as the seventeenth game and did

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01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 1: we get enough across the board because we are playing

1468
01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: the seventeenth game, So all those things were factors and

1469
01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: people's voting, and that's why it was so tight. Let

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Speaker 1: me ask you if this was a factor of Enzona

1471
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: may be a question that is not answerable. Did the

1472
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: uproar and the fallout from coronavirus do you think that

1473
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 1: impacted some of the late voting people said, oh, the

1474
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 1: economy's you know, taking the time for the worst year.

1475
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:44,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to vote for this. I gotta protect my

1476
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: stake here. I'm sure did apply for guys who decided

1477
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:53,760
Speaker 1: to hold off, like myself until the last opportunity you

1478
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 1: had to vote as far as looking at the economy,

1479
01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: but that was always part of the factors because we

1480
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 1: really didn't know what was going to have the future

1481
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 1: hold especially with people talking about a possible recession after

1482
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:07,639
Speaker 1: having such a great economy over the last several months,

1483
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: and so that's been a factor. Obviously, that was an

1484
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 1: additional factor adding and I'm pretty sure it's swayed people

1485
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 1: to change their minds. I wonder without that and such

1486
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 1: a close vote, sixty vote margin, I wonder if it

1487
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:25,040
Speaker 1: would have been voted down. Maybe maybe, I don't I

1488
01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 1: really don't know how much of an impact it played.

1489
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 1: We did have a significant amount of membership vote early

1490
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 1: as well, so guys, I think we had over you know,

1491
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:39,560
Speaker 1: maybe twelve thirteen votes before it was a significant to

1492
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: talk as far as quarantining and then the stock market crashing,

1493
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: and so some guys couldn't change the vote even if

1494
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: they maybe wanted to. What about what about the uncertainty.

1495
01:13:52,400 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 1: I think most guys voted because there was so much

1496
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 1: uncertainty about, you know, what would happen in the next

1497
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 1: eighteen months before the deal ran out. Right, Um, certainly

1498
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: nobody was you know, banging their head against the wall

1499
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 1: because the last deal was so bad. But by the

1500
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: same token, uh, you turn this deal down, and that

1501
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: opens up uncertainty about what's gonna happen in the next

1502
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: day months. Are they gonna pull the deal off, or

1503
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to go on strike? Are they gonna

1504
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 1: lock it out? I think the fear of uncertainty if

1505
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 1: they didn't pass this kind of had a sway for

1506
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:26,240
Speaker 1: some of these guys too, right, Yeah, yeah, And I

1507
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: think that always does. I think, I mean that's just

1508
01:14:28,439 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 1: everyday life, especially when you talk about contracts, you know,

1509
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:34,719
Speaker 1: locking certain things in. You always are trying to mitigate

1510
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: versus the worst case UM scenario, and so you take

1511
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 1: on all those factors you just talked about, Um, look

1512
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:45,519
Speaker 1: at where we're at, what we're getting, and then you

1513
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 1: try to make the best vote or you know, best

1514
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 1: suggested based on on your own personal situation. I think

1515
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 1: guys took all those things in the consideration when they

1516
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 1: made the vote. We're live on the line with farmer

1517
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:03,480
Speaker 1: bills back, Lorenzo Alexander, Executive Committee member of the NFLPA.

1518
01:15:04,240 --> 01:15:05,559
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you this. You may not want

1519
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:09,680
Speaker 1: to answer, Lorenzo, how did you vote? UM? You know,

1520
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: actually I was a guy that was a yes earlier

1521
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 1: on the process. But as as I was saying, even

1522
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:15,800
Speaker 1: when I came on this show, I wanted to make

1523
01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 1: sure that guys didn't pay attention to what I said,

1524
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 1: but continue to inform themselves and I and I, you know,

1525
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:23,760
Speaker 1: I kind of take heed to my own advice. And

1526
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: so as we were down in Miami and kind of

1527
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 1: going through the process of we're getting this, we're giving

1528
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:32,000
Speaker 1: this and this, and we got two benefits just the

1529
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: way all that kind of rolled out, and kind of

1530
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: my own personal experience, I actually got swayed to a

1531
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 1: no vote really based on a couple of things as

1532
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:46,479
Speaker 1: far as how guys an inactive ATNP will now have

1533
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:53,679
Speaker 1: to have a offset in their every a budget because

1534
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 1: of they received Social Security UM, and I didn't think

1535
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 1: that was a great way to pretty much just turn

1536
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 1: our backs in the lack of a better terms on

1537
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: men that are a most vulnerable group post NFL, and

1538
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,519
Speaker 1: obviously I'm I'm a guy that's transitioning too that part

1539
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 1: of the deal, and so from my perspective, I didn't

1540
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:16,720
Speaker 1: like the way the benefits are dealt some of the

1541
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,960
Speaker 1: things I talked about the hospital initiative that's a part

1542
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 1: of the deal. I think it's a very it's a

1543
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 1: shell of what it should be and I know we're

1544
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 1: going to have to fight vigorously, but I didn't like

1545
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: where the starting point was on that, as well as

1546
01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 1: the seventeenth games from our perspective. And so when I

1547
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: took a vote as a member, I really looked at

1548
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 1: where I was at, what I would think would be

1549
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 1: best for guys in my shoes, and um, I actually

1550
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,640
Speaker 1: voted known even though there are some great games and

1551
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 1: some significant benefits to younger guys in this deal, and

1552
01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 1: that can really earn some money. So again, everybody had

1553
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 1: to kind of pick where they were at and vote accordingly. Yeah,

1554
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 1: one of the things about this, and it was early on,

1555
01:16:56,439 --> 01:16:58,560
Speaker 1: just before you know the vote, it was put that

1556
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:01,439
Speaker 1: you know, mostly young guys that are on their rookie deal,

1557
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:04,680
Speaker 1: we're getting a significant bump and if you if you

1558
01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 1: project out a seventeen game contract or a seventeen game

1559
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:12,880
Speaker 1: season for three or four years. Those three or four

1560
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:16,120
Speaker 1: extra games will be more than paid for by the

1561
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 1: extra base salary ups that you get from this new CBA.

1562
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:22,920
Speaker 1: So the young guys who are going to be on

1563
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: their rookie deal really, for them, it was a no

1564
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:28,679
Speaker 1: brainer the seventeen game and the bump in base pay

1565
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 1: because you're asking for another for how many years it

1566
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:34,799
Speaker 1: is three four years, that's three or four extra games,

1567
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 1: but you get, as you know, a twenty percent bump

1568
01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 1: in your pet, right, Yeah, I mean, like guys will

1569
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 1: benefit immediately obviously in the minimum salaries as well as

1570
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:48,280
Speaker 1: there will be kind of like an uptick over the

1571
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: next three or four years as far as benefits as well,

1572
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 1: and how fast you can maximize some of the benefits,

1573
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: and so it makes sense. And so if you look

1574
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: up and you fortunate to maybe even get past that

1575
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: average of three years, and maybe you get to five, six, seven,

1576
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:05,280
Speaker 1: you may feel like you don't have to play eight, nine, ten,

1577
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:07,640
Speaker 1: because you obviously made a lot more money earlier in

1578
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:10,080
Speaker 1: your career and hopefully you invested it well. And then

1579
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,679
Speaker 1: also on a bit in society, and man, I'm pretty

1580
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 1: set up and so unlike myself where I felt like

1581
01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:17,680
Speaker 1: I was right there at the cusp at the end

1582
01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:20,760
Speaker 1: of my career trying to find financial freedom, and so

1583
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 1: I decided to play my last three seasons. Maybe if

1584
01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 1: my minimums were significantly hired early in my career, I

1585
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:28,200
Speaker 1: decided not to play those last three years. And that's

1586
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 1: you know, you look at an additional in my case,

1587
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: thirty six or thirty two more games that I could

1588
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 1: essentially save myself if I had economic freedom earlier on

1589
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:42,720
Speaker 1: based on a higher minimum. Do you think that's a

1590
01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: load of things that people look at Hopefully, I mean

1591
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: I analyzed it like that. Hopefully guys really dug deep

1592
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 1: into it and really thought it out, to really think

1593
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:53,639
Speaker 1: it through and not just put a yes vote because

1594
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 1: you get an additional one hundred thousand next year, but

1595
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:59,200
Speaker 1: really understanding the long game of it, because that's how

1596
01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:00,680
Speaker 1: the owners think is so you have to put your

1597
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 1: mindset in that and those shoes, and so hopefully they

1598
01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: had counsel around them. I know I talked to guys

1599
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: in that manner, and but yes, something goes just photo

1600
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 1: of one hundred thousand um abump. Yes, yeah. And the

1601
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 1: thing is, do you think because of this CBA in

1602
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 1: the future, we're gonna see a lot of guys retiring

1603
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:21,479
Speaker 1: like Andrew Luck Like like some of these guys are

1604
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 1: just saying, listen, you know what I'm good. Will that

1605
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 1: will that change the game fundamentally? Um, I don't know

1606
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:30,840
Speaker 1: if you'll change the game fundamentally. I think guys are

1607
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 1: just more aware of their health and safety and they

1608
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: realize that they've achieved financial freedom, they've lived out their

1609
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: dream and there's really no more reason for me to

1610
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:43,839
Speaker 1: incur additional risks that's gonna take away from my future

1611
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 1: just living everyday life away from our family. And that's

1612
01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:49,600
Speaker 1: what we have to continue to educate our players. So

1613
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: even with this increasing money, I think guys will still

1614
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: understand the long game. And you you you we were

1615
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 1: gonna have this. Um, I think I want I don't

1616
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 1: want to call an exitus, but shortening of career is

1617
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:04,760
Speaker 1: especially superstars, because now they're starting to weigh in what

1618
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:09,600
Speaker 1: is that extra season worth when we're talking about my

1619
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: mental health, my physical health in the league where I

1620
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 1: have already secured financial freedom and also and lived out

1621
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 1: my dream. And so I think guys have to have

1622
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:23,720
Speaker 1: a real talk with themselves as well, regardless if they

1623
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:25,639
Speaker 1: had in the seventeen game or not. As far as Okay,

1624
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 1: we're making a lot more money than what they used

1625
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 1: to make back in the day. Guys just have to

1626
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:31,680
Speaker 1: do two jobs, and so they were almost in a

1627
01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:33,800
Speaker 1: mind settlement. I got to maximize this as long as

1628
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 1: I can versus now I'm making a substantial amount of

1629
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:39,360
Speaker 1: money to where i can retire after seven to eight years,

1630
01:20:39,439 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: versus having to play fifteen around the line with Lorenzo

1631
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: at letender just a couple of minutes left with Lorenzo Lorenzo.

1632
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:48,679
Speaker 1: Did you feel or do you feel that the players

1633
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:52,760
Speaker 1: were sort of rushed into voting on this deal? Right

1634
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 1: we're still a year and a half away from the

1635
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: expiration of Yeah, I mean, if you look at it

1636
01:20:57,040 --> 01:21:00,599
Speaker 1: from that standpoint as far as where expiration is, are

1637
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:05,120
Speaker 1: we rushed? I mean maybe because we're signed an early deal,

1638
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: but that's really the maximiz for TV dollars in the

1639
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 1: in the leverage that we felt like the league had

1640
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: working with some of the networks that we had labor

1641
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: piece earlier on. People can have their own opinions about that.

1642
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 1: Um obviously, I'm not an expert in that field. I'm

1643
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:21,800
Speaker 1: just going off with what our staff is telling us

1644
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 1: that just the economics and understand that this coronavirus is

1645
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 1: just hitting. So maybe they can't negotiate the same TV

1646
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 1: deals as they would have before and at all and

1647
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: it matters, right, and so that would have impacted it.

1648
01:21:34,479 --> 01:21:36,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, that's just kind of where I'm

1649
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:37,800
Speaker 1: at with it. All. Right, now, let's I want to

1650
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: play devil's advocate. What is your gut feeling about what

1651
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:44,759
Speaker 1: the owners really really would have done had this not passed?

1652
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 1: What would have been the strategy in the timeline? You know,

1653
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:52,320
Speaker 1: you're out eighteen two seasons. Yeah, I mean, well, I

1654
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: mean you only can take them at their at their word, right, Um,

1655
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 1: when it comes to when they voted to ratify the deal,

1656
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: they also voted not to talk to us until after

1657
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:06,639
Speaker 1: expiration of the current deal. They also did the similar

1658
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: thing in the two thousand and eleven deal where they

1659
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,400
Speaker 1: voted to opt out and lock us out, and they

1660
01:22:13,479 --> 01:22:14,960
Speaker 1: did it. And so you have to kind of use

1661
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:18,240
Speaker 1: historical context and whether or not you think they're going

1662
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:20,559
Speaker 1: to do what they say they're going to do. There

1663
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 1: are some guys that thought that we possibly could maybe

1664
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:25,840
Speaker 1: bring them back to the table earlier. But again that's

1665
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:27,880
Speaker 1: amount of perspective, and you have to kind of use

1666
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: your experience and what you think based on But I

1667
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: think that the owner's mindset would have drastically shifted and

1668
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:37,599
Speaker 1: they and we would have waited to expiration in order

1669
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: to do a deal. And the ramification of that would

1670
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:44,719
Speaker 1: have started immediately with possibly having a lockout or a strike.

1671
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:48,120
Speaker 1: And then so there's no benefits as far as as

1672
01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: far as healthcare, which I had to endure doing the

1673
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 1: lockout in twenty eleven, former players benefits would be cut

1674
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:57,680
Speaker 1: and so there was a lot of ramifications around that.

1675
01:22:57,800 --> 01:22:59,600
Speaker 1: If you want to try to test their hand and

1676
01:22:59,680 --> 01:23:03,400
Speaker 1: push and they could and so guys understood that, and

1677
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 1: so I think that was another reason why, as John

1678
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,360
Speaker 1: Mitchell earlier, guys possibly decided to say a yes vote

1679
01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:13,000
Speaker 1: to this last thing I had for you, Lorenzo, because

1680
01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: the vote was so close and because you know there

1681
01:23:15,320 --> 01:23:18,480
Speaker 1: are good arguments on both sides. Is there any indication

1682
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Speaker 1: that there will be some of a split maybe between

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01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:25,639
Speaker 1: the halves and the have nots within the NFLPA UM, Well,

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01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: we're constantly trying to work too. Obviously bring our unit together.

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01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 1: There's always different opinions the same thing in the locker room.

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01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:33,120
Speaker 1: You know, how we're gonna attack this team this week?

1687
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:35,479
Speaker 1: What call should we be making. But at the end

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01:23:35,520 --> 01:23:37,680
Speaker 1: of the day, when our men had spoken, it's our

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01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 1: job as leaders to push this new deal and try

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01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:45,599
Speaker 1: to maximize the best as we can and then also

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01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 1: continue to work because the CBA is a leaving, a living,

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01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 1: breathing document that can have some amendments to it. So

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01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 1: there are some areas that hopefully we'll be able to

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01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 1: improve along the way. But as far as leadership, we're

1695
01:23:57,880 --> 01:23:59,760
Speaker 1: all going to come together and this We're still gonna

1696
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: have differences opinion. Uh, but this this is not going

1697
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,680
Speaker 1: to fracture us as far as a leadership. Does it

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01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 1: give you any pause or hesitation that the deal is

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01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:15,800
Speaker 1: so long? Uh? Well, again, I'm not economists. So there's

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01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:18,960
Speaker 1: there's there's things on both sides. You know, some guys

1701
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:22,360
Speaker 1: like being locked in because then you're able to whether

1702
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 1: some of the storms of the economy up and down. Um,

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01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:27,720
Speaker 1: you know, with the Corona and the way it is

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01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:29,800
Speaker 1: having an impact on the economy, I'm not quite sure

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01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:32,639
Speaker 1: what that means maybe the recession happens earlier in the deal,

1706
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:34,439
Speaker 1: so then you would maybe like to get out of

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01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:36,720
Speaker 1: it earlier. But you know, I don't really have a

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01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:42,120
Speaker 1: strong enough um um. I guess wisdom base or fact

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01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: based really dictate whether or not that's going to have

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01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: an impact. But for me, I'm alway always like security,

1711
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:50,240
Speaker 1: and some guys don't, um, but I like. I like

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01:24:50,360 --> 01:24:52,960
Speaker 1: the way it's been structured. The resident it's great talking

1713
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 1: to you. It's good, and it's unfortunate circumstances, but it's

1714
01:24:55,800 --> 01:24:57,599
Speaker 1: good to be home this week, right with your kids,

1715
01:24:57,640 --> 01:24:59,639
Speaker 1: with your family, taking care of business. I think it's

1716
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 1: it's fortuitives. Yeah, especially especially here in Phoenix with the weather.

1717
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 1: It's warm and we can actually go outside and play.

1718
01:25:06,120 --> 01:25:07,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys are having snow or not,

1719
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 1: but we can cabinet. No. No, it is a blessing.

1720
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:14,600
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to make light of it, but

1721
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:16,320
Speaker 1: it is. I know that's some things that we just

1722
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 1: were thankful for a warm climate. Absolutely, and it's not

1723
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: that way for everybody. Some people are really struggling with

1724
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,600
Speaker 1: this with their childcare, trying to some people have to

1725
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 1: go to work and some people are trying to work

1726
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 1: from home and and it's a it's a hardship. So

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01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:30,560
Speaker 1: we're we're glad it's working out for you, and we

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01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 1: hope it does for most of our viewers and listeners.

1729
01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:36,080
Speaker 1: Thanks Lorenzo the checks in the mail. Yeah, I appreciate that.

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01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander joining us on his time on his dime

1731
01:25:41,400 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 1: from his home in Scotch, Arizona. He's the best. He's

1732
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: the best. He got a text from my son listening.

1733
01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: He goes, Zoe is the man. He is the man.

1734
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:51,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he voted against it. He told us why,

1735
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 1: But there he is talking about it. He's not bitter,

1736
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:57,080
Speaker 1: He's and him to work for this company forever. And

1737
01:25:57,120 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: the reasons he voted against it, we're pretty specific about

1738
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:03,519
Speaker 1: how the money was allotted towards um the old guys,

1739
01:26:03,560 --> 01:26:06,679
Speaker 1: and they had to resonate with you. Well bet yeah,

1740
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 1: And it is and it is an issue that is

1741
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 1: never going to go away when you're dealing with any

1742
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:17,519
Speaker 1: kind of union. You've gotten in this case, nineteen hundred

1743
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:20,599
Speaker 1: guys who are in it, and there's nineteen hundred different opinions,

1744
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: and there's maybe a half a dozen different priorities for

1745
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:30,640
Speaker 1: different guys, right, So it's always going to be that

1746
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:33,360
Speaker 1: and each group, each guy with a different priority is

1747
01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 1: going to vote that way. Ye. So um oh, here's

1748
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:39,840
Speaker 1: a tweet I wanted to read from Scott Letts ten

1749
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:43,080
Speaker 1: minutes ago. One B's Live. DeAndre Hopkins gets traded for

1750
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:46,760
Speaker 1: nothing and you don't even mention it and immediately cut

1751
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 1: to a re air of the Quentin Spain interview. Jesus.

1752
01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 1: He says, who's producing your show? Jay Harris is our producer,

1753
01:26:56,040 --> 01:27:03,000
Speaker 1: Jay Harris Dot Harris at PS Entertainment Com. But here's

1754
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:06,920
Speaker 1: the thing that is so bad. We were in talking

1755
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:09,400
Speaker 1: about that, right, What are you talking? Isn't that a reair?

1756
01:27:09,479 --> 01:27:11,920
Speaker 1: Quentin Spain was live? It was live. We they just

1757
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:14,200
Speaker 1: officially signed him today. We got him on officially today.

1758
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 1: But thanks for your call or your tweet, Scott. That's

1759
01:27:16,680 --> 01:27:19,080
Speaker 1: why I love Twitter. Stuff like that. We're coming back

1760
01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 1: with more One Bills Live. Is it? It's ten minutes

1761
01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:26,839
Speaker 1: to two already almost shows flying. One Bill's Live, presented

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01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: by Kalida Hell from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park.

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01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live.

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01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker, Yep, we're here One Bill's Drive

1765
01:27:47,560 --> 01:27:50,320
Speaker 1: doing our show, trying to keep our distance, which ye

1766
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:52,840
Speaker 1: be honest, isn't really that hard. I had texted my

1767
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:54,640
Speaker 1: wife and she goes, why are you guys? Why is

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01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 1: it a split screen today? And they don't have you on.

1769
01:27:56,720 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: We're sitting so far. Steve sits on my lap. When

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01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:03,080
Speaker 1: we do right, I'm your I'm your live. Van Van

1771
01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 1: Trilick was dummy. Um, but we're so far apart, so

1772
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:08,160
Speaker 1: they split the screen so they can put us on both.

1773
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 1: The name, um, your wide angle lens anyway, but can

1774
01:28:12,600 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 1: I Scott Lets, whom he responded, this is funny, It goes,

1775
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:19,559
Speaker 1: Scott Let's One Bill's Live. Another tweet, much deserved call out.

1776
01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:22,439
Speaker 1: But hey, I made the show. I'll own it, honestly.

1777
01:28:22,479 --> 01:28:24,640
Speaker 1: Don't know why my app zonked out like that. It

1778
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:26,800
Speaker 1: cut back to Spain and then went to commercial again.

1779
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 1: My apologies. Love you gentlemen. We love you too, Scott.

1780
01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:31,639
Speaker 1: We're all good, we're all friends here. Um, I will

1781
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 1: tell you if you want to avoid your app zonking

1782
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 1: out like that, try the Buffalo Bills app. That's where

1783
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: our show. You can listen live on our Buffalo Bills app.

1784
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:40,960
Speaker 1: The Bills app is on there. You can get on it.

1785
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:44,200
Speaker 1: This is later on you can It'll be on iTunes, Spotify,

1786
01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:47,800
Speaker 1: it's on Google Play, um and the video portion you

1787
01:28:47,840 --> 01:28:50,800
Speaker 1: can watch on you know, Buffalo Bills dot com and YouTube,

1788
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: but stream live on the Bills App. I don't know

1789
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:55,840
Speaker 1: that that will happen the issue that you describe. But

1790
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:58,000
Speaker 1: we're all good. We're all friends here, Scott Lets, We're

1791
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 1: all good. Yeah and yeah. It is the Twitter verse

1792
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 1: we live in, so trying to keep an eye in

1793
01:29:04,479 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: free agency. Want to get your thoughts on who the

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01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: Bill should sign right out of the box. And we're

1795
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:09,680
Speaker 1: only we're less than two hours into it, so we

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01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 1: can still be out of the box. Dan Orlovski from

1797
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:14,320
Speaker 1: ESPN is going to join us next hour. Back to

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01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 1: the tweets though the tweet sheet brought to you by

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01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:19,160
Speaker 1: Cargan Moving Systems, the official moves of the Buffalo Bills

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01:29:19,240 --> 01:29:21,559
Speaker 1: Thomas tweets and who the Bills should sign right out

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01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 1: of the box. He goes Kyle van Noy, Patriots linebacker,

1802
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:26,880
Speaker 1: would fill an immediate need and coming from New England,

1803
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:30,599
Speaker 1: he has the work ethic stay away from the wide

1804
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:32,960
Speaker 1: receiver on day one, you will overpay pus draft is

1805
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:35,120
Speaker 1: filled with wide receiver talent. I agree with that. Why

1806
01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 1: am My Thomas having like a gam good move? I

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01:29:37,439 --> 01:29:39,120
Speaker 1: like to you automatically have a work ethic if you

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01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:43,160
Speaker 1: play it in New England. I'm not willing to acknowledge that.

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01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:46,040
Speaker 1: I only I wouldn't automatically say if you played for

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01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:47,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots, you're a good work at No, I don't

1811
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 1: think so. But whatever I know, it does connotate something.

1812
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:52,680
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it's real or not. I

1813
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:56,120
Speaker 1: do like about the I like Kyle van Noy's a

1814
01:29:56,120 --> 01:30:00,760
Speaker 1: good player, so it'll be interesting what happens to him,

1815
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: whether he does go to another place. I'm from Nick

1816
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:05,479
Speaker 1: on the from the exact sign on the same question,

1817
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 1: who should the Bills find signing free agency? Right out

1818
01:30:08,200 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 1: of the box, and Nick says running back Jordan Howard,

1819
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:14,760
Speaker 1: Jack Conklin, which is who I said, Brashad Perriman would

1820
01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:17,280
Speaker 1: be great pickups. Running back, wide receiver, a big need,

1821
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 1: and an O L luxury offensive line luxury. That's three moves.

1822
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:24,679
Speaker 1: I don't know which one, which one you're gonna sign first,

1823
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:26,760
Speaker 1: but if you can get all three of those guys. Yeah,

1824
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 1: that's a that's a big haul for the Buffalo Bills.

1825
01:30:29,200 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 1: I like Jack Conklin, that had a really nice offensive

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01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:35,920
Speaker 1: line in Tennessee. It would help that would it plugs

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01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 1: a guy in at the top two or three spots

1828
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: in your offensive line, you shuffle everybody below him. And

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01:30:40,320 --> 01:30:42,360
Speaker 1: I know somebody's gonna have to come off the field

1830
01:30:42,400 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 1: because and if Jack Conklin is plugged in as a

1831
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 1: starter right away, somebody has to sit down. Don't know

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01:30:47,960 --> 01:30:49,880
Speaker 1: who it would be. I don't know how much you

1833
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:53,120
Speaker 1: can count on Tye and Secky coming back healthy and

1834
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:55,559
Speaker 1: being able to play sixteen games or if you want

1835
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:57,479
Speaker 1: him to. I don't know how set they are on

1836
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:01,879
Speaker 1: Cody Ford being a tackle. Art gets somebody, get somebody

1837
01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:04,360
Speaker 1: and upgrade those guys, and I don't think you'd ever

1838
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:06,960
Speaker 1: regret that. Big news of the day the Cardinals Arizona

1839
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:11,320
Speaker 1: Cardinals have required have acquired wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. Cardinals

1840
01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:13,400
Speaker 1: acquired him and to deal with the Houston Texans for

1841
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 1: running back David Johnson. Cardinals are gonna get DeAndre Hopkins

1842
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 1: and a fourth round pick and in addition to Johnson

1843
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:22,920
Speaker 1: goes to the Texans. Along with the second round pick

1844
01:31:23,160 --> 01:31:26,840
Speaker 1: this year and a fourth round pick next year. People

1845
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:29,160
Speaker 1: are wondering whether the Texans got enough. I don't think

1846
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: they did. You may or well, I think they didn't

1847
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:33,680
Speaker 1: Texans from what we heard, I don't know. This is

1848
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:36,200
Speaker 1: this what you said? If Jay Harris said this that

1849
01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:40,960
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are taking picking up Johnson's salary, Yeah, which

1850
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:43,200
Speaker 1: is big size. Well, I think it was just last year. Right,

1851
01:31:43,840 --> 01:31:47,839
Speaker 1: So what they're really doing is paying Johnson, paying DeAndre

1852
01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:53,920
Speaker 1: Hopkins his money and DeAndre Hopkins money to get Hopkins

1853
01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:55,439
Speaker 1: on their squad and then the rest of this draft

1854
01:31:55,520 --> 01:31:58,840
Speaker 1: picks later on. Right, yep. So they're paying a big

1855
01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:03,479
Speaker 1: number and draft picks to get DeAndre Hopkins plus accepting them,

1856
01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:06,840
Speaker 1: so that means they get So the Texans get this

1857
01:32:07,160 --> 01:32:10,880
Speaker 1: Johnson running back and the draft picks, and it reduces

1858
01:32:10,920 --> 01:32:14,320
Speaker 1: their cap number by DeAndre Hopkins number, and they don't

1859
01:32:14,320 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: get any net return for the Johnson. They get Johnson

1860
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:22,760
Speaker 1: for free basically financially, and they give up the number

1861
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:25,080
Speaker 1: of the Hopkins. There they're up against the cap. That's

1862
01:32:25,120 --> 01:32:27,720
Speaker 1: their problem. Part of this deal. The Cardinals put a

1863
01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:31,360
Speaker 1: transition tag on running back Kenyan Drake. They traded David Johnson.

1864
01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 1: They let Carlos Hide go. He's pretty good running back, right,

1865
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:36,800
Speaker 1: thousand yard running back. Maybe he fits here, I don't know.

1866
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:40,080
Speaker 1: And report on Pro Football Talk the Bears are talking

1867
01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:43,479
Speaker 1: to Teddy Bridgewater about a deal. He's a free agent

1868
01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:46,519
Speaker 1: now and would most likely make Bridgewater the starter over

1869
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:52,479
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky. Very interesting, they would. Yeah, Trubisky can't play, okay.

1870
01:32:53,439 --> 01:32:59,760
Speaker 1: I mean he was just okay and he got worse. So, yeah,

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01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:05,000
Speaker 1: I told you about Chicago. I told me. I told

1872
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:07,719
Speaker 1: you they had that nice ten or twelve wins season

1873
01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: two years ago. I think I should have with smoke

1874
01:33:10,120 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 1: and mirrors. I'm telling you. Teddy Bridgewater is a good

1875
01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:16,599
Speaker 1: move for them, a really good move them talking to him.

1876
01:33:16,600 --> 01:33:19,759
Speaker 1: I I that is a guy that can play. I've

1877
01:33:19,760 --> 01:33:21,760
Speaker 1: always liked Teddy Bridgewater. I didn't know too much about

1878
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:24,120
Speaker 1: him coming out, but the more I've seen of him,

1879
01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 1: And of course they went five and oh with him

1880
01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:29,240
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, which I don't know that you might

1881
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:33,240
Speaker 1: not have gone five and oh with you know, fifty

1882
01:33:33,280 --> 01:33:35,439
Speaker 1: thousand other guys playing quarterback in New Orleans. I mean

1883
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:38,760
Speaker 1: they're good, but nevertheless, they did it with Teddy Bridgewater.

1884
01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:43,560
Speaker 1: I love this move for the Bears. I would be

1885
01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 1: highly impressed in surprise if they made a move that

1886
01:33:46,520 --> 01:33:48,559
Speaker 1: that good in Chicago. What are the Bills done today

1887
01:33:48,680 --> 01:33:52,880
Speaker 1: so far? Officially, they official officially firmed up their deal

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Speaker 1: with Quentin Spain, announcing that signing officially and signing new

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Speaker 1: into a contract right here in Orchard Park. We talked

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Speaker 1: with Quentin Spain a few minutes ago, so they have

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Speaker 1: much other than that. But we'll talk about the league

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Speaker 1: and what's going on the league with Dan Orlovski, who

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Speaker 1: covers the NFL for ESPN. That's coming up when we return.

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Speaker 1: It's One Goes Live presented by Colada Health from the

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Speaker 1: Seneca Studio in Archard Park, Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing

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Speaker 1: comes close date the update from the Seneca Studio in

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Speaker 1: Archard Park. Big NFL news today, the first day of

1898
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Speaker 1: free agency, and it's a trade that's got everybody talking.

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Speaker 1: A surprising move. The Arizona Cardinals acquire wide receiver DeAndre

1900
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Speaker 1: Hopkins get him in the deal with the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Deal that includes running back David Johnson. So the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: get Hopkins in a fourth round pick and in addition

1903
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Speaker 1: to David Johnson, who goes to the Texans. Houston also

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Speaker 1: receives a second round pick this year and a fourth

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Speaker 1: rounder next year. A big move. DeAndre Hopkins headed to

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals a trade instead of free agency today.

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01:34:59,240 --> 01:35:01,640
Speaker 1: The Bills news to so far is that they have

1908
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Speaker 1: officially signed Quentin Spain to a contract. Quintin Spain, the

1909
01:35:05,720 --> 01:35:08,599
Speaker 1: starting left guard, agreed to terms last week. Two sides

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Speaker 1: able to agree to terms on a three year contracts

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Speaker 1: said to be worth fifteen million dollars. Spain did not

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Speaker 1: miss a stark last year for the Bills. NFL announced

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Speaker 1: it will proceed with the draft April twenty third through

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth without public events. Lee says it's exploring

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Speaker 1: innovative options for how the process will be conducted. They'll

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Speaker 1: provide information as it becomes available. The draft is still

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Speaker 1: more than five weeks away. No public events in Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas this year for the NFL draft. Teams getting busy

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Speaker 1: with free agency today and getting bady with getting busy

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Speaker 1: with franchise tags. A number of tags applied over the

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Speaker 1: last twenty four to forty eight hours, including Dallas tagging

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Speaker 1: Deck Prescott their quarterbacks. Cincinnati puts a franchise tag on

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Speaker 1: aj Green Tennessee, puts a tag on Derrick Henry, Kansas

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Speaker 1: City tags defensive end Chris Jones, Tampa Bay tag Shack Barrett.

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Speaker 1: Elsewhere in the football world, news about a signing. Christian

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Speaker 1: Kirkchi reached the deal with the Green Bay Packers them

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Speaker 1: or Denver or the former Cleveland Browns linebacker. The Browns

1928
01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:06,599
Speaker 1: trying to renegotiate his salary, but he agreed to instead

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Speaker 1: take a deal with the Green Bay Packers. He was

1930
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Speaker 1: a five year starter for Cleveland. Kirksey visited with the

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Speaker 1: Bills just last week. Steelers said franchise tag linebacker, but

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Speaker 1: dupri the team announced earlier today. And that's the update

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Speaker 1: from One Bills Live. John Murphy and Steve Tasker and

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Speaker 1: our one Buffalo studio on the line with us right

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Speaker 1: now to talk about everything going on in the NFL

1936
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Speaker 1: on a very busy Monday. ESPN Football analyst. Former NFL

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Speaker 1: quarterback with Detroit, Houston, Indian Tampa Bay, played twelve years

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. App at have Dan Orlovsky on the

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Speaker 1: line with us. Hello, Dan, John Murphy and Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: upper in Buffalo. Thanks coming in. We see you. We're

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Speaker 1: trying to hear you. Dan. Are you there? You are? Hi, Dan,

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Speaker 1: You're in your vehicle? Yep, I'm here. How are you guys?

1943
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Speaker 1: We're good. Thank you. Be careful while you're driving and talking.

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Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm Mark. Okay, Hey, quick question for you

1945
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Speaker 1: before we get into some of the nitty gritty today.

1946
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Speaker 1: Your thoughts on the NFL starting this league year, starting

1947
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Speaker 1: it's open negotiation period with free today? Is this the

1948
01:37:01,840 --> 01:37:03,479
Speaker 1: right way to do business? Do you think in the NFL?

1949
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Speaker 1: You don't like that question? I can tell by the

1950
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Speaker 1: look in your face. Yeah, kind of. No matter how

1951
01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:10,880
Speaker 1: you answer it, it's the wrong answer. This is my

1952
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Speaker 1: viewpoint on it. I think everybody is aware of what

1953
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Speaker 1: our world is underneath right now or what we're dealing with,

1954
01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:23,240
Speaker 1: and it's obviously in our country when it comes to

1955
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Speaker 1: the NFL. I'm a big fan of sports, and when

1956
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:31,720
Speaker 1: we deal with such difficult news to handle all the time,

1957
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Speaker 1: especially in the last week or so, sometimes sports is

1958
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Speaker 1: might getaway to just bring me some kind of excitement,

1959
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Speaker 1: some kind of joy. We're kind of heading into the

1960
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Speaker 1: time of the year where so many fan bases start

1961
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Speaker 1: to get that spring hope of their football team. So

1962
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Speaker 1: I can understand where the NFL is coming from and

1963
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:54,519
Speaker 1: wanting to conduct their business. Now, Do I think that

1964
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:57,120
Speaker 1: there's a way that we can do free agency and

1965
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Speaker 1: as far as calendar wise, the same, but also make

1966
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Speaker 1: some alterations so we keep what's most important most important.

1967
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:08,760
Speaker 1: So maybe we have some addendums to contracts when it

1968
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Speaker 1: comes to physicals, maybe we do not allow for transportation

1969
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Speaker 1: or any kind of travel. Maybe we use technology. It's

1970
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, right, So my question is to the NFL

1971
01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:21,680
Speaker 1: into the teams, is there a way that we can

1972
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:24,960
Speaker 1: still do free agency right now, but change the way

1973
01:38:25,040 --> 01:38:26,760
Speaker 1: that we've done it in the past to make sure

1974
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:31,080
Speaker 1: that the most important thing and social distancing and the

1975
01:38:31,240 --> 01:38:33,519
Speaker 1: stop of this virus and the spread of it is

1976
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Speaker 1: kept as the most important thing. Yeah, I agree with you.

1977
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways you can mitigate the risks

1978
01:38:38,479 --> 01:38:42,920
Speaker 1: that of exposure during this process, no question, But I

1979
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: agree with you as well. We've gotten I've seen maybe

1980
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:49,040
Speaker 1: there is more than I'm looking at, but I've seen

1981
01:38:49,160 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: very little pushback from the average Joe who says, how

1982
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Speaker 1: can you guys be thinking about this stuff while while

1983
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:56,479
Speaker 1: we're going through this? But I've been surprised at how

1984
01:38:56,560 --> 01:39:00,160
Speaker 1: little pushback the league I've seen on Twitter and their

1985
01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: social media about the league going on with it. So

1986
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Speaker 1: I think I'm with you. Most people are like, I'm fine,

1987
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Speaker 1: I'm thankful for the distraction. I know what I'm really

1988
01:39:06,720 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 1: supposed to be doing, and this is something else to

1989
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Speaker 1: think about. UM. And one of the things that was

1990
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Speaker 1: on the calendar that got taken care of this last

1991
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Speaker 1: week and was a CBA. UM, how do you what

1992
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Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that, how it went down and

1993
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Speaker 1: what we can look forward to that. Yeah, I think

1994
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Speaker 1: that we saw on the vote, UM, a lot of

1995
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Speaker 1: different different guys on different viewpoints. Right, there's people who

1996
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Speaker 1: are voting, there's players who are voting on that CBA

1997
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Speaker 1: that are in the beginning parts of their career and

1998
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Speaker 1: they say they have a unique vantage point, and then

1999
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:35,400
Speaker 1: there's guys in the middle who see it differently, and

2000
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Speaker 1: then there's guys at the end who have a totally

2001
01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:42,040
Speaker 1: different vantage point. What do they want? And so everybody

2002
01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: needs to understand that as players and Steve you know this,

2003
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:48,080
Speaker 1: like once you get to the NFL, it becomes all right,

2004
01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:50,640
Speaker 1: what's most of what's the most important thing? To me

2005
01:39:50,760 --> 01:39:53,960
Speaker 1: what's best for my career and for me moving forward.

2006
01:39:54,000 --> 01:39:56,280
Speaker 1: And so you look at it through that lens, and

2007
01:39:56,439 --> 01:39:58,479
Speaker 1: every player when you get to this point, needs to

2008
01:39:58,560 --> 01:40:02,080
Speaker 1: take a step back and go, Okay, what's best for

2009
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Speaker 1: me isn't what's best for the guys that are going

2010
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Speaker 1: to come through the NFL in six years. So how

2011
01:40:06,760 --> 01:40:08,760
Speaker 1: how do you find that balance? How do you find

2012
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Speaker 1: that rhythm in a kind of a quote unquote fairness

2013
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Speaker 1: within it? So there's a challenge to it. We've only

2014
01:40:14,960 --> 01:40:17,760
Speaker 1: heard this, Like one of the things that we've heard is, Man,

2015
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Speaker 1: the NFL added a seventeenth game, how could they do that? Well, yes,

2016
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Speaker 1: they added a seventeenth game, which is about sixty or

2017
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Speaker 1: seventy snaps, and I'm not comparing the snaps in equality,

2018
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Speaker 1: but they also took away twelve padded practices in training camp.

2019
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Speaker 1: Now practice is about fifty snaps. That's five hundred plus

2020
01:40:36,720 --> 01:40:40,400
Speaker 1: snaps of padded practice that are taken away from guys

2021
01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:43,439
Speaker 1: in training camp. And I've had for conversations and some

2022
01:40:43,600 --> 01:40:45,760
Speaker 1: guys disagree with me, and some guys agree with me. Man.

2023
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Speaker 1: Some guys are like, I'm so happy to get rid

2024
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:49,960
Speaker 1: of those camp practices. Those are. So it's such a

2025
01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:52,519
Speaker 1: beating on the body, and it's a trade for the game.

2026
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Speaker 1: There's also five hundred less potential hits on the head,

2027
01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:57,920
Speaker 1: and that's the most important thing for the NFL. So

2028
01:40:58,400 --> 01:41:02,880
Speaker 1: more revenue, more bodies, more playoff potential checks. So I

2029
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:04,920
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of good that comes from the CBA.

2030
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Speaker 1: Here Live with Dan Orlosky ESPN Football Anasts. Let me

2031
01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:09,920
Speaker 1: ask you about some of the deals that have gone

2032
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Speaker 1: on today, the first day of open negotiation free agency.

2033
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Speaker 1: Talking about a trade the Arizona Cardinals get DeAndre Hopkins

2034
01:41:16,560 --> 01:41:19,479
Speaker 1: and E's change for David Johnson, draft picks going each way.

2035
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Speaker 1: It seems like a trade in favor of the Cardinals.

2036
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Speaker 1: But what's your early take on that day? Yeah, huge

2037
01:41:25,160 --> 01:41:26,920
Speaker 1: in favor of the Cardinals. Let's look at it from

2038
01:41:26,960 --> 01:41:29,640
Speaker 1: the Cardinals perspective. The Cardinals are coming. I mean that

2039
01:41:29,760 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 1: offense is going to be a problem next year with

2040
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:35,200
Speaker 1: a Christian Kirk. Obviously, Larry Fitzgerald can still play. Drake

2041
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:37,960
Speaker 1: is really good. Now you've added DeAndre Hopkins. Well, what

2042
01:41:38,080 --> 01:41:40,120
Speaker 1: happens if they take a guy like a Seed Lamb

2043
01:41:40,280 --> 01:41:42,599
Speaker 1: in the eighth pick of the draft. That now their

2044
01:41:42,640 --> 01:41:45,760
Speaker 1: offense is just absolutely explosive. Now their offensive line they

2045
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: need to find some pieces. Maybe they take an offensive

2046
01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:50,559
Speaker 1: lineman early. You can get a second round wide receiver

2047
01:41:50,640 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 1: because it is a deep wide receiver class. So now

2048
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:55,640
Speaker 1: that that wide receiver is not going to be the

2049
01:41:55,760 --> 01:41:58,040
Speaker 1: Seed Lamb type of player, but is a deep class.

2050
01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:01,560
Speaker 1: So the Cardinals it's a great trade. I cannot, for

2051
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 1: the life of me believe that Bill O'Brien did this

2052
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:07,360
Speaker 1: to Deshaun Watson. Like, if I'm Deshaun Watson, I'm going

2053
01:42:07,400 --> 01:42:09,639
Speaker 1: in there and I'm kind of fed up. You've beaten

2054
01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:11,679
Speaker 1: me up over the first couple of years of my career.

2055
01:42:11,880 --> 01:42:14,519
Speaker 1: I can't stay up right, we don't protect me. And

2056
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:17,000
Speaker 1: now you've taken away This isn't one of the best

2057
01:42:17,080 --> 01:42:20,000
Speaker 1: receivers in the division. This isn't a really good starter.

2058
01:42:20,160 --> 01:42:22,639
Speaker 1: This guy's one of the elite wide receivers in the NFL,

2059
01:42:23,120 --> 01:42:25,040
Speaker 1: and you gave them up for a running back that

2060
01:42:25,160 --> 01:42:29,120
Speaker 1: has injury issues, and everyone's then gonna go, well, maybe

2061
01:42:29,160 --> 01:42:31,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna make a runner to Marii Cooper they're not

2062
01:42:31,680 --> 01:42:33,760
Speaker 1: in the same class, or maybe they're gonna get a

2063
01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:36,479
Speaker 1: draft pick at wide receiver because it is that deep class,

2064
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:38,880
Speaker 1: but that wide receiver is not gonna be DeAndre Hopkins,

2065
01:42:38,920 --> 01:42:42,800
Speaker 1: certainly not right away. So I just I feel for

2066
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:45,800
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson over this trade. Right now. I agree with you.

2067
01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:49,000
Speaker 1: I mean, there's DeAndre Hopkins is as good as it gets,

2068
01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:51,760
Speaker 1: and to trade him off your team, I don't know

2069
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Speaker 1: how you feel like you're gonna get better doing that.

2070
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Speaker 1: No matter who else you add on, You're not getting better.

2071
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Speaker 1: To the Houston Texans are not better today than they

2072
01:43:00,080 --> 01:43:03,080
Speaker 1: or yesterday because of this trade. But if you're gonna

2073
01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 1: pay them, if you're gonna roll the dice and get

2074
01:43:05,360 --> 01:43:07,479
Speaker 1: all these guys in sooner or later, you have to

2075
01:43:07,520 --> 01:43:09,320
Speaker 1: pay the piper. And this is their way of doing it.

2076
01:43:09,360 --> 01:43:11,960
Speaker 1: I think it's a huge loss. I get this just

2077
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:14,800
Speaker 1: a mind. What are you thinking about Philip Rivers. I'm

2078
01:43:15,560 --> 01:43:20,640
Speaker 1: another guy. Dan Celio is reporting that Frank Reich is

2079
01:43:20,680 --> 01:43:23,519
Speaker 1: gonna get Philip Rivers in Indianapolis for two years at

2080
01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:27,360
Speaker 1: twenty three million dollars per year. Philip Rivers to Indianapolis.

2081
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 1: What do you think it's the perfect fit for Philip Rivers.

2082
01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:36,200
Speaker 1: I still believe that if you protect Philip Rivers, he

2083
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:39,200
Speaker 1: can still play everyone's gonna look back at last year

2084
01:43:39,240 --> 01:43:41,639
Speaker 1: and go man twenty turnovers, and that's fair, that's valid.

2085
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:45,280
Speaker 1: But Philip was overly aggressive and it didn't work out

2086
01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:47,120
Speaker 1: in his favor. But if you look at seventeen and

2087
01:43:47,200 --> 01:43:50,439
Speaker 1: eighteen when they protected him, he played really darn good football.

2088
01:43:50,760 --> 01:43:53,839
Speaker 1: So I'm not I don't think Philip Rivers needs dynamic weapons.

2089
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 1: I think he needs good players because that offensive scheme

2090
01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:58,880
Speaker 1: wise is about bald distribution, get it out of your hands.

2091
01:43:59,240 --> 01:44:02,360
Speaker 1: But they can heck the quarterback and that is big time.

2092
01:44:02,400 --> 01:44:04,760
Speaker 1: So if you get Philip Rivers and they've got some

2093
01:44:04,920 --> 01:44:06,800
Speaker 1: good pieces and you're gonna be able to protect him,

2094
01:44:06,840 --> 01:44:09,719
Speaker 1: which they can in Indy, that's a really good marriage

2095
01:44:09,760 --> 01:44:13,400
Speaker 1: for both player and team. Dan Orlasky on the line

2096
01:44:13,400 --> 01:44:16,680
Speaker 1: with us, Hey, Dan, a deal made earlier today that

2097
01:44:16,760 --> 01:44:20,719
Speaker 1: you tweeted about Austin Hooper, The tight end goes to Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: and you tweeted out it's gonna be a monster year

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Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield. You may be right, but I feel

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Speaker 1: like there were people tweeting that out last year around

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Speaker 1: this time and it didn't happen. What do you think

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Speaker 1: of the Austin Hooper deal? I was one of those

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Speaker 1: guys last year that tweeted about Baker and I thought

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01:44:33,760 --> 01:44:37,200
Speaker 1: he played really well. But then a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: One I was throughout maybe the second or third week

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Speaker 1: of the season, I was adamant that they were not

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Speaker 1: utilizing Baker Mayfield the right way. First of all, Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield is a play action passing quarterback. That is what

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Speaker 1: he did really good at college. That's what he did

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Speaker 1: really good in his first year in the NFL. Number two,

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Speaker 1: the reason why I thought Baker was gonna have a

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Speaker 1: monster year weeks ago. Find me a quarterback that play

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Speaker 1: He's in this Mike Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay offense

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01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:06,880
Speaker 1: that doesn't play well. They all play well. It's just

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Speaker 1: the way the scheme is now. Sometimes these guys go

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Speaker 1: off and become MVP candidates like Matt Ryan take their

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Speaker 1: teams with a super Bowl, like Jared Goff, but they

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Speaker 1: all play well. Kirk Cousins in the MVP race last year,

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Speaker 1: got himself a ton of money coming from Kyle's offense.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers good year last year playing under Matt Lafloor.

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01:45:24,640 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 1: Jared Goff again took his team to a Super Bowl.

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01:45:27,040 --> 01:45:29,360
Speaker 1: Matt schab was one of the better quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 1: NFL for a couple of years under Kyle Shannon Gary Kubiak.

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Speaker 1: So scheme wise, I think Baker's gonna take a step forward.

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Speaker 1: But now you're gonna have two tight ends and Hooper

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Speaker 1: and David and Joeku. That is gonna fit what Baker

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01:45:40,520 --> 01:45:43,120
Speaker 1: Mayfield does really well. The receivers Landry and Odell are

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01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:45,880
Speaker 1: really good, and Baker Mayfield is going to be put

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Speaker 1: in a position where he's gonna do be asked to

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01:45:48,160 --> 01:45:51,040
Speaker 1: do what he does best, play fake and their play

2131
01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:54,760
Speaker 1: action fake and throw the football all across the lot.

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01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:56,720
Speaker 1: And so it's just a really good fit for him.

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01:45:56,960 --> 01:45:59,639
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper is going to be their version of Kyle Rudolph.

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01:46:00,080 --> 01:46:01,960
Speaker 1: One of the guys that really seemed to find his

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01:46:02,080 --> 01:46:04,760
Speaker 1: place and be the perfect fit was Ryan Tannehill. In

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01:46:04,800 --> 01:46:08,080
Speaker 1: the last half of last season in Tennessee. They came back.

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Speaker 1: They signed him to a deal, a big deal. And

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Speaker 1: Murph and I are seniors are we watched the guy

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Speaker 1: play for seven years in Miami. Last year and we

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01:46:16,200 --> 01:46:19,400
Speaker 1: never saw this from Ryan Tannehill. It was this a mirage?

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01:46:19,439 --> 01:46:22,000
Speaker 1: Was it smoking mirrors. We think he saved his worst

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01:46:22,040 --> 01:46:25,240
Speaker 1: performances for the Bills. Yes, well, talk to us about

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01:46:25,280 --> 01:46:27,840
Speaker 1: what you think the future holds for Ryan Tannehill and

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01:46:27,920 --> 01:46:30,880
Speaker 1: what happened in the last half of last year. Yeah, guys,

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01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:34,360
Speaker 1: it's super interesting, right because I would actually I kind

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01:46:34,400 --> 01:46:36,760
Speaker 1: of stand on the fence of if you look at

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01:46:36,840 --> 01:46:39,639
Speaker 1: Tannehill in Miami and you take away that rookie year

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01:46:39,640 --> 01:46:42,960
Speaker 1: because it's his first year and transition and coaching changing

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01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:45,400
Speaker 1: all that stuff. He's got one hundred and thirty eight

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01:46:45,479 --> 01:46:49,080
Speaker 1: touchdowns and sixty five interceptions in his career. That's pretty

2151
01:46:49,200 --> 01:46:51,880
Speaker 1: darn good, right, And in the midst of really bad

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01:46:52,040 --> 01:46:55,200
Speaker 1: stuff around him in Miami, last year was a great

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01:46:55,280 --> 01:46:57,960
Speaker 1: run for him. And I think Tannehill is a good player.

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01:46:58,600 --> 01:47:01,120
Speaker 1: We saw Derrick Henry go from seventy yards a game

2155
01:47:01,200 --> 01:47:04,280
Speaker 1: and three point five yards per carry with Marcus Mariota

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01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:06,320
Speaker 1: to like one hundred and thirty yards a game and

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01:47:06,520 --> 01:47:10,479
Speaker 1: five point eight yards per carry with Ryan Tannehill. So

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01:47:10,680 --> 01:47:14,000
Speaker 1: Tannehill made Derrick Henry better. Now the Texans are banking

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Speaker 1: or the excuse me, the Titans are banking on that

2160
01:47:16,360 --> 01:47:20,439
Speaker 1: they will not have the Blake Portals playoff run regret

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01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:24,679
Speaker 1: or the you know the case Keenum playoff run regret

2162
01:47:24,800 --> 01:47:26,439
Speaker 1: that some of the teams that have signed those guys

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01:47:26,479 --> 01:47:29,080
Speaker 1: to big deals after it. I think it's a really

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01:47:29,160 --> 01:47:32,360
Speaker 1: good fit for the Titans. It's not overly expensive. It's

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Speaker 1: like kind of a one year deal and see if

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01:47:33,960 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 1: they want to make it a three year deal. So

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01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:38,880
Speaker 1: it was the right fit for them. So, Dan, that

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Speaker 1: takes us right to the guy that you probably talked

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Speaker 1: about for months now, Tom Brady. What you know, the

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Speaker 1: Niners say they're not interested, The Titans are moving on

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Speaker 1: without him. What becomes of Tom Brady? What do you think?

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Speaker 1: I just don't see him going back to New England.

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01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:54,599
Speaker 1: And I've said that from really the end of the season.

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Speaker 1: New England was oh and four last year against the Titans,

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01:47:58,280 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: the Texans, the Chief and the Ravens. New England. I

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01:48:02,439 --> 01:48:05,040
Speaker 1: said this in January. What could they do between that

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Speaker 1: point in the middle of March, which where we stand

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01:48:07,479 --> 01:48:10,040
Speaker 1: now to make sure that Tom Brady was not going

2179
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Speaker 1: to experience twenty twenty like the way he did twenty nineteen.

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01:48:13,840 --> 01:48:16,240
Speaker 1: They're no better of a football team and the free

2181
01:48:16,280 --> 01:48:19,240
Speaker 1: agency market is not deep that wide receiver or at

2182
01:48:19,320 --> 01:48:21,760
Speaker 1: tight end with Austin Hooper now out Hunter Henry's been

2183
01:48:21,800 --> 01:48:25,120
Speaker 1: franchise tagged AJ Green's franchise tag. So, if you're just

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Speaker 1: being honest about the situation, New England's got some issues,

2185
01:48:29,479 --> 01:48:32,160
Speaker 1: and I don't think that they have any I just

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01:48:32,280 --> 01:48:34,160
Speaker 1: don't know what the answer would be to have proved

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Speaker 1: to Tom Brady, we've got some players that are going

2188
01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:39,240
Speaker 1: to help you, because again, those teams that I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: and throw the Bills in there, those teams that I

2190
01:48:41,439 --> 01:48:43,679
Speaker 1: mentioned are going to be the leaders in the AFC

2191
01:48:43,880 --> 01:48:47,840
Speaker 1: of teams to beat. They struggled with those guys last year.

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01:48:47,960 --> 01:48:49,880
Speaker 1: They're owing for against those other teams, and they beat

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01:48:49,920 --> 01:48:52,479
Speaker 1: the Bills twice. But I don't know ten points or something,

2194
01:48:52,520 --> 01:48:54,439
Speaker 1: fourteen points. I don't know the exact score. So it's like,

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Speaker 1: I just don't see him going back to New England.

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Speaker 1: I think the Chargers are a good fit. I think

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01:48:59,520 --> 01:49:01,840
Speaker 1: the Bucks you're a good fit. I'm sure there's gonna

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01:49:01,840 --> 01:49:03,880
Speaker 1: come a random team out of the woodwork that is

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Speaker 1: going to become a good fit for Tom Brady. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he wants to be back, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Bill Belichick wants him back. Well,

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01:49:10,400 --> 01:49:13,720
Speaker 1: that's interesting because I mean you'd think too that when

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01:49:13,800 --> 01:49:15,760
Speaker 1: push comes up and you remember that, maybe you don't

2204
01:49:15,840 --> 01:49:17,720
Speaker 1: remember being like this, But I saw other guys in

2205
01:49:17,800 --> 01:49:19,639
Speaker 1: the in the league when you push comes to shove,

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01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:21,560
Speaker 1: how badly do you want to uproot and just go

2207
01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:25,160
Speaker 1: to a new place. Sometimes the grass always seems greener

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01:49:25,680 --> 01:49:29,519
Speaker 1: in someplace else, but usually the grass is greener in

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Speaker 1: New England, you know. And I've maintained. I've maintained too

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01:49:34,520 --> 01:49:37,919
Speaker 1: that I think he's gonna stay in New England, particularly

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01:49:37,960 --> 01:49:40,160
Speaker 1: given the fact that Niners are moving on, the Titans

2212
01:49:40,200 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 1: are moving on. There are all it takes is one

2213
01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:44,920
Speaker 1: other team, no question. But I think it it comes

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01:49:44,960 --> 01:49:47,960
Speaker 1: down to, and you know this too, Dan, what does

2215
01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:50,760
Speaker 1: Tom Brady want? And it may have nothing to do

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01:49:50,840 --> 01:49:52,760
Speaker 1: with money, and it may have nothing to do with

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01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:56,760
Speaker 1: anything that we're talking about. Well, I go off this, Steve,

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01:49:57,080 --> 01:49:59,360
Speaker 1: and and some people have said, man, he wants to

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01:49:59,479 --> 01:50:01,760
Speaker 1: brand TV. I don't know. I have not heard Tom

2220
01:50:01,840 --> 01:50:03,960
Speaker 1: Brady say that. I've heard Tom Brady say one thing

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01:50:04,600 --> 01:50:07,120
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl. He said, I will not be

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01:50:07,240 --> 01:50:10,120
Speaker 1: wearing a blazer at next year's Super Bowl. So I'm

2223
01:50:10,160 --> 01:50:12,160
Speaker 1: taking it as okay, Tom Brady's going back to the

2224
01:50:12,200 --> 01:50:14,800
Speaker 1: super Bowl. He's he's going to find the team that

2225
01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:17,160
Speaker 1: he believes gives him the best chance to go to

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01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:20,200
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And I mean, if you're just looking,

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01:50:20,240 --> 01:50:22,160
Speaker 1: I mean the forty nine ers are the best chance

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01:50:22,200 --> 01:50:23,639
Speaker 1: to go back to the super Bowl. But if we're

2229
01:50:23,760 --> 01:50:26,840
Speaker 1: just looking at teams that we've been at least gotten

2230
01:50:26,920 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: reported to us that it's the best fit or that

2231
01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:33,599
Speaker 1: they want Brady, and Brady's got interest in them, it's

2232
01:50:33,680 --> 01:50:38,000
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. You're looking at Carolina right, they're rebuilding. You're

2233
01:50:38,040 --> 01:50:40,559
Speaker 1: looking at the Falcons, who have now lost Austin Hooper

2234
01:50:40,600 --> 01:50:44,000
Speaker 1: and DeVante Freeman. So I don't want to say rebuilding mode,

2235
01:50:44,080 --> 01:50:47,479
Speaker 1: but you know they've got some questions. The Saints are

2236
01:50:47,600 --> 01:50:50,320
Speaker 1: gonna have to move forward with Breeze at his age

2237
01:50:50,400 --> 01:50:54,160
Speaker 1: and still playing very good football. But when you're looking

2238
01:50:54,200 --> 01:50:59,640
Speaker 1: at a division that doesn't look kind of unconquerable now

2239
01:50:59,720 --> 01:51:04,320
Speaker 1: a new CBA meaning that one seed is enormous, I'm

2240
01:51:04,360 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 1: looking at the Bucks and going two really good receivers

2241
01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:09,519
Speaker 1: in Godwyn and Evans, a coach that knows how to

2242
01:51:09,600 --> 01:51:12,840
Speaker 1: call plays, u two tight ends in oj Howard and

2243
01:51:12,920 --> 01:51:15,000
Speaker 1: Cameron break that are really good a defense that at

2244
01:51:15,040 --> 01:51:17,479
Speaker 1: the last six games of the year. Last year, in

2245
01:51:17,640 --> 01:51:21,200
Speaker 1: defensive efficiency ranking, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were the best

2246
01:51:21,320 --> 01:51:24,920
Speaker 1: defense in football fourth most cap space. And I know

2247
01:51:25,080 --> 01:51:27,880
Speaker 1: the Bucks sound crazy, but if we're just looking at

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01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:30,040
Speaker 1: what team gives them the best chance, doesn't have to

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01:51:30,080 --> 01:51:32,800
Speaker 1: play Mahomes to the super Bowl, it would be Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: All right, Does that make Tampa Bay? Or is there

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01:51:35,240 --> 01:51:37,479
Speaker 1: your most interesting team to watch this free agent? What

2252
01:51:37,640 --> 01:51:39,880
Speaker 1: is your most interesting team? What do your team has

2253
01:51:39,960 --> 01:51:42,760
Speaker 1: some room and maybe it has potential to hit a

2254
01:51:42,840 --> 01:51:46,400
Speaker 1: home run? Is that too broad a question? Is this

2255
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Speaker 1: for the season or this during free agency? This is

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01:51:49,360 --> 01:51:54,519
Speaker 1: for today at two? Yeah, Tampa Bay is at the

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01:51:54,560 --> 01:51:56,880
Speaker 1: top of the list. The Los Angeles Charges are at

2258
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:58,720
Speaker 1: the top of the list. I mean, this is one

2259
01:51:58,720 --> 01:52:01,280
Speaker 1: of the biggest free agent signings ever. What up there

2260
01:52:01,320 --> 01:52:03,240
Speaker 1: with Peyton Manning and Reggie White? So where does Tom

2261
01:52:03,320 --> 01:52:06,759
Speaker 1: Brady go? I mean, here's the crazy thing. What happens

2262
01:52:06,760 --> 01:52:09,200
Speaker 1: If Tampa Bay goes Amari Cooper come with us? We're

2263
01:52:09,240 --> 01:52:11,960
Speaker 1: getting Tom Brady? Then it's like, wait, what you know?

2264
01:52:12,439 --> 01:52:15,680
Speaker 1: There's so many different pieces that can happen. This is

2265
01:52:15,760 --> 01:52:18,479
Speaker 1: why I go back to the initial question. You know,

2266
01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:22,080
Speaker 1: sometimes this is good in the midst of terrible situations.

2267
01:52:22,240 --> 01:52:25,519
Speaker 1: It's good for us sports people to have this, to

2268
01:52:25,680 --> 01:52:31,120
Speaker 1: bring some joy and conversation and kind of community to us. Right.

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01:52:31,240 --> 01:52:35,760
Speaker 1: I like that. Hey, Dan, thanks for this. Be well, guys.

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01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:37,880
Speaker 1: Good to see you guys too. Be welcome. Dan Lasky,

2271
01:52:38,120 --> 01:52:41,040
Speaker 1: ESPN football analysts played twelve years at quarterback in the

2272
01:52:41,160 --> 01:52:44,800
Speaker 1: NFL with Detroit, Houston, Indian Tampa Bay. Um. That's a

2273
01:52:44,800 --> 01:52:46,040
Speaker 1: good point. It's a great way to end. I was

2274
01:52:46,080 --> 01:52:47,439
Speaker 1: gonna ask on one more question. It was such a

2275
01:52:47,479 --> 01:52:51,120
Speaker 1: good answer at the end. Um, Look, stop's happening today?

2276
01:52:51,280 --> 01:52:52,720
Speaker 1: Is it right that it's happening? I don't know. We've

2277
01:52:52,720 --> 01:52:54,320
Speaker 1: addressed it at the start of the show. We addressed

2278
01:52:54,320 --> 01:52:56,680
Speaker 1: it at the start of Dan Orlovsky. It's happening, and

2279
01:52:56,760 --> 01:52:58,880
Speaker 1: we're talking about it, and it feels pretty good. It's

2280
01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:00,880
Speaker 1: kind of therapeutic. It is a little bit. I mean,

2281
01:53:01,040 --> 01:53:03,640
Speaker 1: because when I was over the weekend, when I told you,

2282
01:53:03,720 --> 01:53:08,080
Speaker 1: I mean I was, I mean, I not for nothing.

2283
01:53:08,120 --> 01:53:10,120
Speaker 1: I don't I don't make light of it. But if

2284
01:53:10,160 --> 01:53:12,479
Speaker 1: there's something that I think Americans can get right, it's

2285
01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:15,960
Speaker 1: sitting at home on their couch, right, so my specialty. Right,

2286
01:53:16,800 --> 01:53:18,400
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you what. You sit on your couch

2287
01:53:18,439 --> 01:53:20,880
Speaker 1: today and you turn the TV on, you can't escape

2288
01:53:21,040 --> 01:53:24,439
Speaker 1: the conversation about you know, the core self quarantining and

2289
01:53:24,800 --> 01:53:28,040
Speaker 1: how it's going, and the lockdowns and the closings and

2290
01:53:28,600 --> 01:53:31,040
Speaker 1: working at home and all of that stuff. You cannot

2291
01:53:31,160 --> 01:53:35,120
Speaker 1: escape it. So maybe this is one way that gives

2292
01:53:35,200 --> 01:53:39,080
Speaker 1: some people an inkling that you know, there's light at

2293
01:53:39,120 --> 01:53:40,639
Speaker 1: the end of this tunnel, even though it's a long

2294
01:53:40,760 --> 01:53:44,080
Speaker 1: dark one. Yep. What about the bills. They haven't signed

2295
01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:47,599
Speaker 1: anybody yet. What are they doing? We're two hours twenty

2296
01:53:47,640 --> 01:53:49,880
Speaker 1: four minutes into it. Let us know if you were

2297
01:53:49,920 --> 01:53:51,760
Speaker 1: the bills, what would be your first move? Maybe it's

2298
01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:53,920
Speaker 1: already preempted by some of the signings. Let us know

2299
01:53:54,240 --> 01:53:57,679
Speaker 1: phone lines open eighth three five fifty outside Buffalo toll

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01:53:57,760 --> 01:54:01,360
Speaker 1: three and one eight eight eight five fifty fifty, sending

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01:54:01,400 --> 01:54:04,120
Speaker 1: a tweet in our tweets on our tweet sheet. Yeah,

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01:54:04,200 --> 01:54:06,439
Speaker 1: we can still talk about it as if. Um, you

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01:54:06,520 --> 01:54:08,800
Speaker 1: know the Bills have a big moves of a because

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01:54:08,800 --> 01:54:12,040
Speaker 1: they do. Um, look at the Rundown Dolphins expected this.

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Speaker 1: This is from Ian Rappaport I mentioned this early in

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Speaker 1: the show that they were talking to him. But Ian

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Speaker 1: Rappaport says, the Dolphins are expected to sign Pass Rusher

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Speaker 1: Shack Lawsuit six and f sacks last year. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that when we come back with you. If you'd like,

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Speaker 1: give us a call eight O three five fifty outside

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Speaker 1: the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills three.

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Speaker 1: What tell them? What tell them? What happened? Shack for

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Speaker 1: the break thirty million bucks for three years? Good for him.

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Speaker 1: You know, we do this all the time. We did

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Speaker 1: this a lot of the last few weeks. Talk about

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Speaker 1: it'd be great if you could sign Kyle van Noy,

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01:55:06,600 --> 01:55:09,080
Speaker 1: takeaway one of the Patriots players, signed him on your team,

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Speaker 1: And the Dolphins will say the same thing. Today. They

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Speaker 1: just took one of buffaloes, or they're about to, and

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Speaker 1: it's not official yet, it's reported, still right. I want

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Speaker 1: to check on that, not that Ian Rappaport or Adam

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Speaker 1: Schefter would ever be guilty of not that I can.

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Speaker 1: But they report that Shack loss into signing with the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins three years, thirty million dollars. Here's one thing

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Speaker 1: to look at it from a Bill standpoint. Do the

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Speaker 1: Bills want to be paying check loss in ten million

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Speaker 1: dollars a year? I think it's right at the edge

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Speaker 1: of what you might. I don't think they can do that,

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Speaker 1: you know, not for three years. Ian Rapp report the

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Speaker 1: Bills are giving Shack loss on a three year deal

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Speaker 1: worth thirty million. Nice pay day. Yeah, sure. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if it's any of it or all of it or

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Speaker 1: none of it is guaranteed, or what bonus he got

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Speaker 1: these details. This is why mister a spot track Mike

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Speaker 1: Janet is coming up later this week because we don't

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Speaker 1: know these answers. The danswers will come out right, but

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Speaker 1: there you go and listen if and here's the questions

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Speaker 1: begs to be asked now that Shack Lawson signed that deal,

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Speaker 1: what's Jordan Phillips gonna sign? Because he had nine and

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Speaker 1: a half sacks last year, not six and interior he

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01:56:13,920 --> 01:56:17,680
Speaker 1: plays defensive tackle and he's a big, big body and

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01:56:17,840 --> 01:56:20,640
Speaker 1: he and you know he kind of mushroomed here in Buffalo.

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01:56:20,880 --> 01:56:24,200
Speaker 1: He really expanded spread his wings. So you might think, Okay,

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01:56:24,680 --> 01:56:27,120
Speaker 1: there's a guy that got out of Miami because he

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01:56:27,160 --> 01:56:29,440
Speaker 1: didn't like the culture, didn't like all of that other stuff,

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Speaker 1: and he got into a place that he can really play.

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01:56:31,600 --> 01:56:33,760
Speaker 1: This is the kind of player you're gonna get. And

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01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:39,680
Speaker 1: maybe they're right. Maybe they're right. But if Shack got

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01:56:39,720 --> 01:56:41,800
Speaker 1: that much, how much is Jordan Phillips is gonna get

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01:56:42,080 --> 01:56:45,400
Speaker 1: for getting more sacks from a more difficult place a

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01:56:45,480 --> 01:56:48,000
Speaker 1: position to get sacks from. So I think Jordan Phillips

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01:56:48,040 --> 01:56:50,960
Speaker 1: is gonna get more than that. Probably well, Jordan is

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Speaker 1: an interior defensive lineman as opposed to the Shack on

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01:56:53,640 --> 01:56:55,760
Speaker 1: the outside, right, right, And I'm gonna look at I

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Speaker 1: know I probably paid too much attention to how many

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Speaker 1: plays they play, but Jordan Phillips played half half of

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Speaker 1: the Bill's defensive snaps last year, right, I'm gonna double

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Speaker 1: check here. Snap counts. Jordan Phillips had fifty two percent

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Speaker 1: of the bill Snapshack Losson had forty six percent. So

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Speaker 1: they're comparable. I guess Shack loss in the three years

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Speaker 1: ten million a year, thirty million dollars deal to go

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Speaker 1: to a division rival. It's it's not the end of

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Speaker 1: the world. But it's it's worth noting, right, it kind

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Speaker 1: of stinks for Buffalo because you know you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: even if it goes belly up in Miami. You know,

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Speaker 1: Shack's gonna give an enormous effort against the Bills every

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Speaker 1: time I play. So you got that to look forward to.

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Speaker 1: And and good for Shock man. He was he was

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Speaker 1: a guy that got better every year here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, he's hit the free agent market and now

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Speaker 1: he's hit the payday. Good for him. One of the

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Speaker 1: things that Mike Jeannetti does on his and this time

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Speaker 1: of year spotrek dot com is invaluable. He is for

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Speaker 1: free agents like Shack a calculated market value. Shack's calculated

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Speaker 1: market value average salary was seven point six million. And

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Speaker 1: this is all comparable. So he compared Shack to some

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Speaker 1: other people at his position, what do they make? What

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Speaker 1: would he make? Mike Jannetti on spotrac said the check

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Speaker 1: lass and would get guess that he would get a

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Speaker 1: four year, thirty million dollar deal. He said, he gets

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Speaker 1: a three million, three year, thirty million dollars deal. He

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Speaker 1: is well above what the calculated market value was, which

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Speaker 1: would indicate that you know, the Dolphins, as you always do,

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Speaker 1: are overpaying check Lass and you always overpay the free agents,

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Speaker 1: regardless of what Mike Gannetti says. But from the Bill standpoint,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're saying, we don't want to pay him

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Speaker 1: that much and they're overpaying him by thirty percent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but that's just you know, guessing calculator market value. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's looking around at statistics, basically only statistics about

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Speaker 1: and what other guys are making, and that doesn't And

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Speaker 1: then also here's the thing too, Murph, because there are

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Speaker 1: other guys around the league who are overperforming their contracts.

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01:58:50,320 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 1: They're getting less, so that's factored in there as well.

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01:58:52,360 --> 01:58:55,800
Speaker 1: So it's tough to get an accurate figure. But you know,

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Speaker 1: there you have it. Three years for thirty million bucks.

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Speaker 1: Built a great deal. I'm about to lose Shack Lawson

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Speaker 1: to the Miami Dolphins. That's over reported today. Former first

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Speaker 1: round pick. Look, I'm not gonna say anything bad about

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Speaker 1: Shack because I like him. I think he's a good guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's worth that money, but that's regardless,

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Speaker 1: that's beside the point. A guy. And here's the best

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Speaker 1: thing I can say about Check Lawson. And this means

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Speaker 1: a lot to me, Steve. That guy got better every

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Speaker 1: year he was here. I agree, And he grew up,

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01:59:20,480 --> 01:59:23,080
Speaker 1: he got more mature every year he was here. Came

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01:59:23,120 --> 01:59:25,400
Speaker 1: in in the Rex Ryan regime. He said it just

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01:59:25,520 --> 01:59:27,000
Speaker 1: the other day we were talking about what he said.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of the wild West here when he

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Speaker 1: first showed up. As his discipline and guy's paying attention

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Speaker 1: to detail. A different story last year for Shack Lawson,

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01:59:34,600 --> 01:59:37,760
Speaker 1: he got better every year, and I salute him for that.

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Speaker 1: I really think it's good. I agree with you. There's

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01:59:40,520 --> 01:59:42,760
Speaker 1: he worked, he has worked hard at it, and he

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01:59:42,880 --> 01:59:45,560
Speaker 1: thrived in this locker room, in this culture. He got

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01:59:45,640 --> 01:59:49,920
Speaker 1: better and he was motivated by it. And good for him.

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01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:52,600
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's hard to have hard feelings over a

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Speaker 1: guy that signs for that, that deal with somebody else,

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01:59:56,440 --> 01:59:58,000
Speaker 1: but you you know, you kind of got to wish

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Speaker 1: him well and move on. You got to move on.

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Speaker 1: They've got now they do. If this does indeed happen,

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Speaker 1: as it probably will, Bills have a hole they've got

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Speaker 1: to fill. There's no no going back now. So you

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02:00:08,080 --> 02:00:10,120
Speaker 1: can bet the Bills are making phone calls and talking

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Speaker 1: to people, talking to players and trying to get somebody

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Speaker 1: to come in and take Shack Lawson's place. They need

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Speaker 1: a pass rushing they gotta have a guy. And we

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Speaker 1: get Brownie on tomorrow about some of these moves, if

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Speaker 1: they'll come on. But I think it was Brownie last

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Speaker 1: week who said, maybe somebody else is valuable. The guy

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Speaker 1: Shack Lawson was a defensive end and he wasn't, you know,

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Speaker 1: ultimately valuable. It's okay. He was never really a pass rusher,

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Speaker 1: and what the Bills really could use is a pass rusher.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I go right back to where we started

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Speaker 1: the show. I'm still looking at Robert Quinn of the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys as a good signing for the Bills. What

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Speaker 1: do you think of that? I agree with you. There's

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Speaker 1: there's some guys out there I'd love to see in

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Speaker 1: this building. You know, there's a ton of really good

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Speaker 1: football players out there. The Bills are gonna have to

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Speaker 1: get some of them, and they will. Um. We'll find

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Speaker 1: out for sure who that's gonna be on Wednesday at

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Speaker 1: four pm, and we'll talk more about it on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: of course, but that's when it starts. Its gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: Usually it this happens too, Murphy, I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to overstep my bounds because I'm way down the pascale.

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02:01:14,560 --> 02:01:16,880
Speaker 1: But usually when we sign in years pass, this is different.

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02:01:16,960 --> 02:01:19,480
Speaker 1: It's a different year. Usually we get got the new guys,

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02:01:19,520 --> 02:01:21,960
Speaker 1: we get them on the show. But now with this

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02:01:22,200 --> 02:01:23,960
Speaker 1: the way the state we're all in, we may have

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02:01:24,080 --> 02:01:25,560
Speaker 1: to do it over the phone with all these add

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02:01:25,600 --> 02:01:27,200
Speaker 1: but hopefully we'll get a chance to talk with him.

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Speaker 1: Phone works. Yeah, yeah, hey, um a couple of trades today.

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Speaker 1: The big one, DeAndre Hopkins goes from the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: to the Arizona Cardinals and exchange for running back David

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Speaker 1: Johnson some draft picks, um me and exchange there and

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons and Baltimore Ravens have made the trade.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Baltimore trades tight end Hayden Hurst and their fourth

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Speaker 1: round pick this year to Atlanta and exchange. The Falcons

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Speaker 1: get a second round pick. No, the Ravens get the

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Speaker 1: Falcons second round pick this year and a fifth round

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Speaker 1: pick this year, two draft picks in exchange for a

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Speaker 1: draft picked the tight end Hayden Hurst. That trade made today, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I cannot. I'll tell you what the biggest deal of

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Speaker 1: the day is that DeAndre Hopkins. I cannot believe that guy.

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Speaker 1: That'll let you know when these teams get into this

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Speaker 1: thing and they try and make a run at the

2469
02:02:16,880 --> 02:02:19,960
Speaker 1: playoffs and something, and every team has been guilty of

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Speaker 1: it at certain times, and maybe a handful that haven't been.

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Speaker 1: And the Bill certainly went through this cycle where you

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02:02:26,440 --> 02:02:28,320
Speaker 1: think you kind of pushed your chips into the table

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02:02:28,880 --> 02:02:32,000
Speaker 1: and a year or two later, you gotta do stuff

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Speaker 1: like this. And this is the Houston Texans. They had

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Speaker 1: a trade DeAndre Hopkins and for nothing for a running back.

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Speaker 1: He's a good running back. He's a good running back.

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Speaker 1: That Yeah, there's like nine billion of those guys. There's

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Speaker 1: good running backs everywhere. MERV. We've seen that David Johnson

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Speaker 1: is one of the top ten backs in the league.

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Speaker 1: I think I think they had to cut two guys

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Speaker 1: to make room for him. There were thousand yard rushers.

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Speaker 1: Where do you get an extra what three hundred yards

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Speaker 1: out of them? Heamory this year? Wild why? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you get that cycle of trying to I and I

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02:03:11,640 --> 02:03:14,600
Speaker 1: get the analogy where these teams have this window of

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Speaker 1: opportunity to win the Super Bowl. I don't buy that.

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Speaker 1: I don't buy that. I told you this last year

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Speaker 1: the Bills there, Yeah, maybe they were more than one

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02:03:22,360 --> 02:03:24,400
Speaker 1: guy away from winning it. But man, let me tell

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02:03:24,400 --> 02:03:26,840
Speaker 1: you something. Teams like the Tennessee Titans, they're more than

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Speaker 1: one guy away and they almost got there. And I

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Speaker 1: just you know, you get good at the right time,

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02:03:34,400 --> 02:03:36,680
Speaker 1: you can make a run and you don't have to

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02:03:36,800 --> 02:03:39,280
Speaker 1: push all your chips to the table and go home

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02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:43,360
Speaker 1: for two years if it doesn't work out. And I'm

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02:03:43,400 --> 02:03:45,960
Speaker 1: telling you what, the Houston Texans are starting to slide

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Speaker 1: down a slippery slope. Today. You gotta push all your

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02:03:48,320 --> 02:03:50,640
Speaker 1: chips into the table. Well, today you gotta pick, make

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Speaker 1: the right moved. But you don't have to pay. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm making fun of the way we evaluate. And in

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02:03:55,480 --> 02:03:57,560
Speaker 1: five weeks of the draft, you gotta be all in.

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02:03:57,640 --> 02:03:59,520
Speaker 1: Then you gotta win the draft. You gotta win free agency.

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02:03:59,720 --> 02:04:01,840
Speaker 1: You do what the Cleveland Browns did last year, win

2504
02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:04,040
Speaker 1: the offseason, be projected to go to the super Bowl,

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02:04:04,480 --> 02:04:06,320
Speaker 1: and then line up with a seven win season. That's

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02:04:06,360 --> 02:04:09,920
Speaker 1: why it works in the offices. Beat your head against

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02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:12,840
Speaker 1: the wall. I mean, you gotta be good, get good,

2508
02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:18,400
Speaker 1: stay good, have a plan, in every situation that doesn't

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Speaker 1: take you down that road where you can't get back

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Speaker 1: unless you tear it all apart and start over. You

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02:04:23,600 --> 02:04:26,840
Speaker 1: can't get like that. You gotta have guys. You gotta

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02:04:27,240 --> 02:04:30,560
Speaker 1: keep some core guys, build around them, Sign some guys

2513
02:04:30,600 --> 02:04:32,240
Speaker 1: to a one year proof of deal. Get some highly

2514
02:04:32,320 --> 02:04:34,480
Speaker 1: motivated guys to come in and fill in the gaps

2515
02:04:34,760 --> 02:04:37,680
Speaker 1: who want to hit a home run, like Quinton Spain,

2516
02:04:38,400 --> 02:04:41,760
Speaker 1: like these guys. You got guys like Shack Lawson whose

2517
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:46,200
Speaker 1: option didn't get picked up. You know, you pick up

2518
02:04:46,240 --> 02:04:48,040
Speaker 1: a guy like Jordan Phillips who comes down. You got

2519
02:04:48,160 --> 02:04:50,440
Speaker 1: him to the end of his deal, and hey, he

2520
02:04:50,640 --> 02:04:54,640
Speaker 1: helped this team last year big time. But now these

2521
02:04:54,680 --> 02:04:56,960
Speaker 1: other teams are gonna pay more than that was worth

2522
02:04:57,480 --> 02:04:59,480
Speaker 1: to get him in. You can't go down that road.

2523
02:04:59,520 --> 02:05:02,440
Speaker 1: There's gonna be guys out there that are good and

2524
02:05:02,480 --> 02:05:04,560
Speaker 1: you gotta get them for the right price. And then

2525
02:05:04,640 --> 02:05:06,840
Speaker 1: next year when this rolls around, you make a run

2526
02:05:06,960 --> 02:05:11,000
Speaker 1: or whatever happens this next year, you still have seventy

2527
02:05:11,040 --> 02:05:13,760
Speaker 1: plus seventy eight million plus to do it again. I

2528
02:05:13,880 --> 02:05:16,400
Speaker 1: know I agree with what you're saying, but keep in mind,

2529
02:05:16,440 --> 02:05:19,120
Speaker 1: Steve and you may ormain an acknowlogists. Two years ago,

2530
02:05:19,520 --> 02:05:23,640
Speaker 1: don't you think in Carolina they were kind of pacifying

2531
02:05:23,680 --> 02:05:27,320
Speaker 1: themselves by saying, well, they paid Starlutulaly too much? Right?

2532
02:05:27,440 --> 02:05:29,320
Speaker 1: Last year, don't you think in Kansas City they were

2533
02:05:29,320 --> 02:05:31,720
Speaker 1: saying how much for Mitch Morris? Right? So it goes

2534
02:05:31,800 --> 02:05:33,600
Speaker 1: on all the time. You know, the Bills will overpay

2535
02:05:33,680 --> 02:05:36,080
Speaker 1: to get their free agents when they signed it free agent,

2536
02:05:36,160 --> 02:05:38,160
Speaker 1: and I think they will. I mean, we're two hours,

2537
02:05:38,240 --> 02:05:42,080
Speaker 1: two hours and forty minutes into it, no signing jet announced,

2538
02:05:42,400 --> 02:05:46,080
Speaker 1: and this is the first day of the open negotiation period.

2539
02:05:46,160 --> 02:05:48,200
Speaker 1: So maybe they're kind of being quiet about. For as

2540
02:05:48,280 --> 02:05:50,600
Speaker 1: big a gap as the Bills had in their offensive

2541
02:05:50,640 --> 02:05:55,080
Speaker 1: line in twenty eighteen, getting a guy who was snapping

2542
02:05:55,120 --> 02:05:58,520
Speaker 1: to the MVP and making him the highest paid guy

2543
02:05:58,600 --> 02:06:01,440
Speaker 1: doesn't seem out a lot. But I'm just saying, I

2544
02:06:01,520 --> 02:06:03,680
Speaker 1: get in Kansas City they're saying, Wow, they paid Mitch

2545
02:06:03,720 --> 02:06:06,080
Speaker 1: Moore that much. We don't think he's worth that just

2546
02:06:06,160 --> 02:06:08,760
Speaker 1: like we're saying, wow, they played check loss in that much. Boy,

2547
02:06:08,800 --> 02:06:11,800
Speaker 1: I don't think he's worth that much. Yeah, And I

2548
02:06:11,840 --> 02:06:13,920
Speaker 1: mean we always knew it's a hard and for most

2549
02:06:13,960 --> 02:06:18,240
Speaker 1: of us center nose guard guard, defensive tackle. It's a

2550
02:06:18,360 --> 02:06:23,040
Speaker 1: hard position to evaluate objectively. When you take first and

2551
02:06:23,120 --> 02:06:25,920
Speaker 1: second down into consideration, you know, how are they doing,

2552
02:06:26,000 --> 02:06:27,360
Speaker 1: what are they being asked to do, and what the

2553
02:06:27,520 --> 02:06:29,760
Speaker 1: what's their job on any given moment, because you know,

2554
02:06:30,080 --> 02:06:34,560
Speaker 1: quite frankly, it's pretty complex and the statistics don't always

2555
02:06:34,560 --> 02:06:36,640
Speaker 1: show what you're getting. So I get it. But I'm

2556
02:06:36,720 --> 02:06:39,160
Speaker 1: sure I sure like the fact that the guys they've

2557
02:06:39,320 --> 02:06:42,240
Speaker 1: spent for have been close to the ball. Yeah, a

2558
02:06:42,360 --> 02:06:47,400
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, centers guards. I like that, um, because the

2559
02:06:47,480 --> 02:06:51,160
Speaker 1: further out you get, the harder it is to play

2560
02:06:51,600 --> 02:06:54,440
Speaker 1: at a level. That justifies that because a lot of

2561
02:06:54,520 --> 02:06:56,800
Speaker 1: times the balls never near. You take a call here

2562
02:06:56,880 --> 02:06:59,680
Speaker 1: from Zach in Rochester. Hello, Zach, you're on the air,

2563
02:07:02,320 --> 02:07:08,280
Speaker 1: Zack in Rochester. Do you hear me? Yeah? There, all right, gentlemen. UM,

2564
02:07:08,600 --> 02:07:10,360
Speaker 1: I was just looking at how y'all put the same

2565
02:07:10,360 --> 02:07:12,920
Speaker 1: at home away for the bill schedule, and they got

2566
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:16,040
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and Raiders away. I got two points to say,

2567
02:07:16,120 --> 02:07:18,840
Speaker 1: if they could put back to back, that would be

2568
02:07:19,000 --> 02:07:24,400
Speaker 1: a great vetation to go to Visa. It didn't go

2569
02:07:24,520 --> 02:07:27,200
Speaker 1: down to Arizona. If they're playing in Arizona the next week,

2570
02:07:27,280 --> 02:07:32,240
Speaker 1: for travel restrictions in yeah, this world and um in

2571
02:07:32,400 --> 02:07:35,880
Speaker 1: December too. You wanted late in the season, right, Yeah,

2572
02:07:36,120 --> 02:07:37,880
Speaker 1: I don't care what it is. It's just a great

2573
02:07:38,000 --> 02:07:41,000
Speaker 1: right road trip. Go down it then, tis agent. I'm

2574
02:07:41,040 --> 02:07:44,760
Speaker 1: telling you, you're right. You're right the way you're thinking that, Zach,

2575
02:07:44,840 --> 02:07:47,720
Speaker 1: You're right, And this is a great road trip week

2576
02:07:47,880 --> 02:07:50,840
Speaker 1: year for the Bills. Go ahead, they need to get

2577
02:07:51,920 --> 02:07:54,840
Speaker 1: a tackle, a defensive tackle to help at Oliver because

2578
02:07:55,600 --> 02:07:57,680
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna do it, you gotta go young.

2579
02:07:58,640 --> 02:08:02,160
Speaker 1: So hope we are to work out and let's go Buffalo. Okay,

2580
02:08:02,280 --> 02:08:04,480
Speaker 1: Zack Zas that's good. Yeah, you think about we've had that,

2581
02:08:04,880 --> 02:08:07,000
Speaker 1: we've had these schedules up and we've talked about it.

2582
02:08:07,040 --> 02:08:10,400
Speaker 1: But the Bills go to Nashville, they go to Arizona,

2583
02:08:10,520 --> 02:08:12,880
Speaker 1: they go to Vegas, and they go to San Francisco

2584
02:08:14,320 --> 02:08:17,160
Speaker 1: and Denver and by the way, FROs you don't know,

2585
02:08:17,280 --> 02:08:19,960
Speaker 1: Denver's a sneaky great town for us here in Buffalo.

2586
02:08:20,040 --> 02:08:22,720
Speaker 1: It is a great town. A lot of great road

2587
02:08:22,760 --> 02:08:26,480
Speaker 1: trips for Bills fans this year, although unfortunately they also

2588
02:08:26,480 --> 02:08:28,440
Speaker 1: have really good football teams in those times they get

2589
02:08:28,440 --> 02:08:30,200
Speaker 1: a place. So man, it is day one of the

2590
02:08:30,280 --> 02:08:33,520
Speaker 1: open negotiation period, where our question of the day, who's

2591
02:08:33,520 --> 02:08:35,520
Speaker 1: you're out of the box free agent? The Bills should

2592
02:08:35,520 --> 02:08:37,800
Speaker 1: sign right out of the box, no questions asked. A

2593
02:08:37,840 --> 02:08:39,760
Speaker 1: couple of tweets from the tweet sheet brought you by

2594
02:08:40,080 --> 02:08:42,800
Speaker 1: Corgan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills.

2595
02:08:43,040 --> 02:08:46,400
Speaker 1: Brian says, edge rusher Everson Griffin, we need more rotational

2596
02:08:46,480 --> 02:08:48,600
Speaker 1: downing at defensive end. I know he's all, but he

2597
02:08:48,640 --> 02:08:51,120
Speaker 1: can split time with an agean Jerry Hughes and look

2598
02:08:51,200 --> 02:08:54,680
Speaker 1: Brian with Chack Lawson reportedly going to Miami Dolphins. The

2599
02:08:54,880 --> 02:08:57,480
Speaker 1: need for an edge rusher, As you point out correctly,

2600
02:08:57,840 --> 02:09:00,720
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit more serious now, Steve right. Yeah,

2601
02:09:00,840 --> 02:09:03,160
Speaker 1: you gotta have guys, and you gotta have enough guy

2602
02:09:03,200 --> 02:09:05,920
Speaker 1: in the defensive line. What you really like is eight

2603
02:09:06,080 --> 02:09:11,240
Speaker 1: quality guys going rolling through. It has been this. Your

2604
02:09:11,800 --> 02:09:17,080
Speaker 1: defense becomes special, and like deep playoff run special when

2605
02:09:17,160 --> 02:09:21,040
Speaker 1: your pass rush can get home with four guys and

2606
02:09:21,360 --> 02:09:25,400
Speaker 1: occasionally get home quick with just four guys rushing. That's

2607
02:09:26,120 --> 02:09:28,240
Speaker 1: that's the numbers that it comes down to. If you've

2608
02:09:28,240 --> 02:09:30,440
Speaker 1: got four guys that can win up front, the ball

2609
02:09:30,480 --> 02:09:32,840
Speaker 1: has to come out fast, and the quarterback doesn't have

2610
02:09:32,920 --> 02:09:35,800
Speaker 1: time to jump around and move around and make plays.

2611
02:09:35,800 --> 02:09:37,720
Speaker 1: If you can can keep him contained with those four

2612
02:09:37,840 --> 02:09:40,800
Speaker 1: guys and get home, you're gonna win. That's all the

2613
02:09:40,880 --> 02:09:43,880
Speaker 1: risk to it. So that's to me, that's crucial, and

2614
02:09:43,960 --> 02:09:49,160
Speaker 1: I would agree with you. The greatest defensive team I

2615
02:09:49,280 --> 02:09:53,120
Speaker 1: ever saw in a Super Bowl, the greatest defensive performance,

2616
02:09:53,480 --> 02:09:56,360
Speaker 1: Maybe not the greatest defense overall, or the defense who

2617
02:09:56,400 --> 02:09:59,480
Speaker 1: had the greatest year, but the greatest defensive performance I

2618
02:09:59,600 --> 02:10:02,160
Speaker 1: ever saw the Super Bowl was the Seattle Seahawks against

2619
02:10:02,200 --> 02:10:05,360
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. The Denver because all those other defenses

2620
02:10:05,360 --> 02:10:08,680
Speaker 1: you can name, the eighty five Bears and and all

2621
02:10:08,720 --> 02:10:10,880
Speaker 1: those other great defenses you've seen in the Super Bowl,

2622
02:10:11,160 --> 02:10:14,240
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Steel Curtain, all of that, they

2623
02:10:14,320 --> 02:10:17,000
Speaker 1: played against middle of the road offenses. They played against

2624
02:10:17,080 --> 02:10:19,720
Speaker 1: offenses that during the regular season we're ranked fifteen, sixteenth,

2625
02:10:19,800 --> 02:10:23,440
Speaker 1: maybe a top maybe a top ten offense once in

2626
02:10:23,480 --> 02:10:26,240
Speaker 1: a while in the Super Bowl against those defenses the

2627
02:10:26,360 --> 02:10:30,880
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks faced made a juggernaut on offense. The Denver

2628
02:10:31,000 --> 02:10:32,880
Speaker 1: Broncos the year they went to the Super Bowl and

2629
02:10:32,920 --> 02:10:36,400
Speaker 1: played the Seahawks were a phenomenal offense. They said all

2630
02:10:36,480 --> 02:10:39,680
Speaker 1: kinds of records, they were impossible to stop. The Seahawks

2631
02:10:39,760 --> 02:10:42,120
Speaker 1: did it, and the key to doing it was they

2632
02:10:42,200 --> 02:10:46,040
Speaker 1: got pressure fast with four guys. That was the difference.

2633
02:10:46,120 --> 02:10:49,320
Speaker 1: And to me, that's the key to having a great

2634
02:10:49,400 --> 02:10:52,240
Speaker 1: defense again. So I'm with you, get as much defensive

2635
02:10:52,320 --> 02:10:54,760
Speaker 1: line quality rotation as you can get. I want to

2636
02:10:54,800 --> 02:10:56,760
Speaker 1: read one more tweet from the tweet sheet. Good way

2637
02:10:56,800 --> 02:11:00,160
Speaker 1: to finish. Drew tweets this and hey, guys, I think

2638
02:11:00,200 --> 02:11:02,800
Speaker 1: this is a great distraction from everything else that's going on.

2639
02:11:02,920 --> 02:11:05,520
Speaker 1: And I'm one of those people that's directly affected as

2640
02:11:05,560 --> 02:11:08,000
Speaker 1: far as loss of work. I'm looking forward to today

2641
02:11:08,040 --> 02:11:10,680
Speaker 1: for weeks and if it had been postponed, I would

2642
02:11:10,760 --> 02:11:13,040
Speaker 1: really be bummed out. Well, thank you, Drew. Believe me,

2643
02:11:13,160 --> 02:11:17,080
Speaker 1: we're here, We had the conversation. The conversations aren't over

2644
02:11:17,160 --> 02:11:19,080
Speaker 1: whether it's a good idea, but that's a good way

2645
02:11:19,120 --> 02:11:21,840
Speaker 1: to end it. And we were rooting for you for

2646
02:11:22,080 --> 02:11:24,280
Speaker 1: your loss of work directly affected. We're rooting for you.

2647
02:11:24,320 --> 02:11:26,280
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people like that. People we both know,

2648
02:11:26,480 --> 02:11:29,440
Speaker 1: people in our families who are in trouble professionally now

2649
02:11:29,480 --> 02:11:31,600
Speaker 1: because of what's going on. But I'm glad we're able

2650
02:11:31,600 --> 02:11:33,000
Speaker 1: to do this today. All right, we got a break,

2651
02:11:33,040 --> 02:11:35,160
Speaker 1: we're back. It's one of Bill's Live presented by a

2652
02:11:35,200 --> 02:11:37,960
Speaker 1: lot of health from the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo

2653
02:11:38,040 --> 02:11:50,960
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. So the question what have we learned from

2654
02:11:51,000 --> 02:11:54,160
Speaker 1: today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

2655
02:11:54,200 --> 02:11:56,320
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We started the

2656
02:11:56,360 --> 02:11:59,640
Speaker 1: show early on with Quentin Spain, who finalized his contract

2657
02:11:59,680 --> 02:12:01,320
Speaker 1: with a said to be a three year deal worth

2658
02:12:01,360 --> 02:12:04,200
Speaker 1: fifteen million total. It was announced last week, it was

2659
02:12:04,320 --> 02:12:08,400
Speaker 1: completed today. Quentin Spain signed a one year deal last

2660
02:12:08,480 --> 02:12:10,720
Speaker 1: year after coming over from the Tennessee Tuttons. He was

2661
02:12:10,720 --> 02:12:13,520
Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie free agent back in twenty fifteen, and

2662
02:12:13,600 --> 02:12:18,160
Speaker 1: he says that still motivates him to this day. Yeah,

2663
02:12:18,360 --> 02:12:22,120
Speaker 1: getting drafted, not getting drafted. Men, come on, drafted, all right,

2664
02:12:22,200 --> 02:12:26,360
Speaker 1: that's that's my motivation. I got told moltip report, I

2665
02:12:26,440 --> 02:12:29,600
Speaker 1: got a tile on my back, and I just like

2666
02:12:29,800 --> 02:12:31,960
Speaker 1: Stride and he wanted to be like the best guard,

2667
02:12:32,480 --> 02:12:34,880
Speaker 1: best best best. Often of the lineman came in that

2668
02:12:34,960 --> 02:12:37,200
Speaker 1: drafted that others who want to be the last one

2669
02:12:37,280 --> 02:12:40,040
Speaker 1: standing in front of the all the linemans who went

2670
02:12:40,080 --> 02:12:44,640
Speaker 1: before right, whoever got drafted, I mean, I'm going undrafted.

2671
02:12:44,640 --> 02:12:47,600
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander joined us. He's a former Bills linebacker who

2672
02:12:47,640 --> 02:12:51,240
Speaker 1: remains with the Executive Committee of the nfl PA, and

2673
02:12:51,360 --> 02:12:54,080
Speaker 1: he talked about the close approval vote of the new

2674
02:12:54,160 --> 02:12:59,280
Speaker 1: CBA yesterday. It was a reflection of what I thought

2675
02:12:59,280 --> 02:13:02,480
Speaker 1: would happen, so all the conversations I had with players, uh,

2676
02:13:02,640 --> 02:13:05,840
Speaker 1: you know, rep this throughout the league. Even the EC

2677
02:13:06,120 --> 02:13:08,720
Speaker 1: was a tight vote as far as how we felt

2678
02:13:08,720 --> 02:13:11,720
Speaker 1: about the deal and so um, it was just a

2679
02:13:11,800 --> 02:13:13,840
Speaker 1: reflection of membership and it's and it's really because of

2680
02:13:13,920 --> 02:13:17,040
Speaker 1: the diversity of our membership that you have such a

2681
02:13:17,120 --> 02:13:22,040
Speaker 1: tight vote because the deal impacts players um much differently

2682
02:13:22,240 --> 02:13:25,920
Speaker 1: depending on if you're a first rounder, if you're undrafted,

2683
02:13:26,040 --> 02:13:29,560
Speaker 1: if your minimum guy high pay guy UM. And then

2684
02:13:29,600 --> 02:13:31,480
Speaker 1: amongst other things that kind of go into as far

2685
02:13:31,520 --> 02:13:35,040
Speaker 1: as the seventeenth game and did we get enough across

2686
02:13:35,200 --> 02:13:37,520
Speaker 1: the board because we are playing the seventeenth game. So

2687
02:13:37,600 --> 02:13:40,480
Speaker 1: all those things were factors and people's voting, and that's

2688
02:13:40,480 --> 02:13:42,520
Speaker 1: why it was so tight. There you go, the wrench

2689
02:13:42,520 --> 02:13:44,360
Speaker 1: away Sander. The news of the day for Bills fans.

2690
02:13:44,440 --> 02:13:48,680
Speaker 1: It looks like um Shack Lawson and signing with the Dolphins, right, Yeah,

2691
02:13:48,840 --> 02:13:53,120
Speaker 1: and good for him. Yeah, it's a big deal. It's

2692
02:13:53,120 --> 02:13:54,920
Speaker 1: a big pay day. I'm gonna interested to see what

2693
02:13:55,080 --> 02:13:57,720
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips gets. We've got got a long ways to go,

2694
02:13:57,880 --> 02:13:59,680
Speaker 1: got a lot of more coverage tomorrow. Make sure you

2695
02:13:59,800 --> 02:14:02,080
Speaker 1: joy this. Tomorrow at twelve noon, One goes Live, presented

2696
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Speaker 1: by Kalina Hell from the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio.