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Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields.

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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

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Speaker 1: player for you. I'm a lily, Steve a blimp. We're

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Speaker 1: not even in the straded beer of normalcy. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: a Thursday edition of One Bill's Live. A little bit

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Speaker 1: of a gray day here in Buffalo, although it's supposed

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Speaker 1: to clear up later. And man, are we supposed to

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Speaker 1: have a banner weekend? Stephen A Tasker? Did you see

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Speaker 1: the temps? No, it's pool weather. Baby is eighty eight

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Speaker 1: maybe ninety? Well, I'm out again. I'm out of the

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Speaker 1: got I've got a I've got a charity event all day.

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Speaker 1: I'm playing a hundred holes of golf tomorrow. Whoa, I

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Speaker 1: got it. That's one hundred too many for me. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'm often that and uh yeah, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a tremendous weekend. Yeah yeah, I can't wait. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: rest up. Yeah. Yeah. But it's gonna be fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a great weekend. You're walking, are

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Speaker 1: you no, No, we we ride and we go twosomes

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Speaker 1: and it's it's in it's a holiday valley down Alicantville.

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Speaker 1: So it's an up and down course. You can't walk.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean you ski down it, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean you gotta you gotta walk up it to

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Speaker 1: get down it. Right, So no, we do not walk,

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Speaker 1: giving new meaning to the term up down in golf course.

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Speaker 1: That's right, get up and rolling hills out there. Crazy,

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Speaker 1: but it'll be fun. It's gonna be a great event.

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Speaker 1: I've got you know, I put it out on my

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Speaker 1: You can. You can donate to the causes for the

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Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club over in Easter Roar there, and

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Speaker 1: that's a great They perform a great service in that

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Speaker 1: little village there, and the kids, all my kids, my

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Speaker 1: friends and friends of my kids. I think it's it's great.

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Speaker 1: So you can jump on board if you want. But

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Speaker 1: I'm doing it anyway, whether you help out or not,

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Speaker 1: I'm playing. You can tell. You can imagine too. I

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Speaker 1: gotta do what you gotta do. It's a good cause.

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Speaker 1: Everybody jumps on. It's great. They raising some good money

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Speaker 1: for the for the cause, and it's fun. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: it's a long day. So try and you know, in

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Speaker 1: your work day tomorrow think about me. That's grinding it right. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The other shoe has not dropped on the reason for

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Speaker 1: the camp space created by the Bills. Some believe it's

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Speaker 1: for a Josh Allen extension. Others believe it's to add

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Speaker 1: it's a sizeable amount this late in the game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but they got to go in with some slack they need, Like,

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Speaker 1: what's what do we say? Six million? Then only got

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Speaker 1: two guys left to sign. Yeah, Rousseau and Brown I

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Speaker 1: so Spencer Brown Russo's got a sign and that'll be

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Speaker 1: place for twenty twenty one several of last year's COVID

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Speaker 1: so everybody knows. The new CBA enacted last year and

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Speaker 1: the extra inventory for a seventeenth week, it's peanuts to

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Speaker 1: we'll give you four guys on the practice squad. That

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Speaker 1: a real tangible feel for what it's like through that

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Speaker 1: It is cheap labor, and you are signing off on it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so the coaching staff is like sweet. You know,

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Speaker 1: get to that, they will, but for now, the football

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Speaker 1: they put the state of Texas inside a horribly constructed

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Speaker 1: g It's terrible, absolutely terrible. Think about this, Like what

427
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Speaker 1: has Houston got to see? As you said, the NFL

428
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 1: was rolling, There was no stopping and they were rolling.

429
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 1: It was going good and all of that. That was,

430
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: you know, Warren Moon's first year in the league back then,

431
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Speaker 1: and that some guys coming in the league that were great.

432
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Speaker 1: But the USFL, there was a lot of really good

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Speaker 1: players in that league. Oh yeah, so you gotta think, okay,

434
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Speaker 1: if there was, there's gotta be more players. I mean,

435
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Speaker 1: the way this country, what was the NFL is only

436
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 1: twenty six teams at that time. They're thirty two now.

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00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good point too, So that that changed

438
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Speaker 1: twenty eight teams, twenty eight twenty eight teams, it's a

439
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Speaker 1: little different now you got one hundred and was three

440
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: teams for you? Yeah, two hundred more guys, Yeah, two

441
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty more guys. There's that, that's true. But

442
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: they have a TV partner, they got Fox, so be interesting.

443
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: Just to keep an eye on. Let's go to the

444
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Speaker 1: phones at eight o three five fifty because our Twitter

445
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Speaker 1: poll topic of the day today is other than the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Which team is the biggest threat to the Bills in

447
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Speaker 1: the a f C. We have some choices, Brown's, Ravens,

448
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Speaker 1: Colts or some other club. So you can let us

449
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Speaker 1: know at eight five fifty and we go to Mark

450
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,919
Speaker 1: in Jersey City, Mark, what do you have for us?

451
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: You're on one Bills live. How you doing, Chris go

452
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Speaker 1: spurs Um, I would say you can go to thirty

453
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Speaker 1: two teams. I believe there was a This league was

454
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Speaker 1: pushed by a lot of quarterbacks who played in feeder

455
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Speaker 1: leagues that were affiliated not affiliated with the NFL. Kurt Warner, Brat,

456
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: Johnson Alme, John Kittner, Um, there was a yeah that's

457
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: a Jeff Garcia. Some of those guys took their teams

458
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Speaker 1: with a Super Bowl and one UM. So I think

459
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Speaker 1: for a quarterback development, I think that would be great.

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Speaker 1: I think they're and like you said, it has to

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Speaker 1: be affiliated with the NFL. Otherwise it will not last,

462
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Speaker 1: it will have no shelf life, it'll be a blip

463
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Speaker 1: on the radar, have a little bit of success that.

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Speaker 1: I just think the NFL has to accept that some

465
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Speaker 1: of these teams will not make money. They just will

466
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Speaker 1: have to accept that otherwise that just well, He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: unless you get a television partner, right, yeah. And and

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Speaker 1: Fox it's been reported that Fox Sports has is part

469
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Speaker 1: in this USFL, So they're going to have a big

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Speaker 1: voice at the table of how this thing looks on television.

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Speaker 1: And they'll have obviously put it on and it'll be

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Speaker 1: in their interests or whoever's interest to give it some

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Speaker 1: time slots where it'll draw some eyeballs. Live sports draws viewers.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it, whatever sport it is. And

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Speaker 1: you know so, but I agree with you. If the

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Speaker 1: NFL is involved or not involved, it makes a difference,

477
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: no question about it. But it's like I said, I'm

478
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: telling Brown and I'm only I'm not only half kidding.

479
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Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it two years in

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Speaker 1: a row, you know, when they put two seasons together

481
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Speaker 1: an offseason and they get a teams that are up

482
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Speaker 1: and running and they're able to pull in revenue, then yeah,

483
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Speaker 1: I'll believe it. I'll believe it. But until then, I

484
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 1: don't know if I can. It might be just another marketing,

485
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: marketing ploy. And you've got Cleveland marks your AFC threat Cleveland,

486
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Speaker 1: reason being they have they have a one pass rusher,

487
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: which is just as rare as a franchise quarterback, and

488
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Speaker 1: a running game that can control games and salt away games.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the biggest reason why I think that they're

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Speaker 1: they're the biggest threat. And also you had a Belichick

491
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: thing about him with Brady a few weeks like last week.

492
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Speaker 1: You know what his record is without Tom Brady. It's

493
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Speaker 1: a big body of work. Sixty one and seventy two.

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Speaker 1: I'm tired of the deification of this guy. Wayne Fons

495
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: has a better record in that many games. So Wayne

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Speaker 1: Fons wanted to get that off my chest. That'll that'll

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Speaker 1: get you to sit up in your chair. Hi. Thanks, Mark,

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00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. Mark. Yeah, that's yeah. Well, what do

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Speaker 1: you mean sixty one and seventy two? Wayne Fons? Has

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Speaker 1: that made? Wow? That's that's not great? Hey. I think

501
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: Wayne Fons had an eleven or twelve win season with

502
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Speaker 1: the with the Lions coach of the century, with Eric

503
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Speaker 1: Kramer as his quarterback, with the perennially apathetic ownership group

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Speaker 1: that it seems to be in Detroit. If you can

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Speaker 1: get a team like that in the eleven or twelve

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Speaker 1: win season, the Coach of the Year. Same thing in Chicago,

507
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: and you know, and there's there are some organizations that

508
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: it is just really difficult to go in and win

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Speaker 1: San Diego, Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, there's and Cleveland has been

510
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Speaker 1: that way, although Cleveland with under Jimmy hasn't. They just

511
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: they're trying to get it right and they finally looked

512
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: like they did. But there's a lot of organizations that

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00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: have really struggled. Even even the Bills struggled and for

514
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: a long time. And you know, they made a change

515
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: in ownership and things changed around the team, not through

516
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: lack of you know, not because of Ralph Wilson wasn't

517
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: a good owner or anything. But it was hard to

518
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Speaker 1: get coaches to come in and take the head coaching

519
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Speaker 1: job in Buffalo when Ralph was you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: if Ralph was nice, he could you know, he started.

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00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: It was eighty fifteen years before he passed away. That's

522
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Speaker 1: a long stretch of years where head coaches. And I

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Speaker 1: know this because I've heard him say it, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to go to an ownership

525
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: place where it's you know, where you don't know if

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00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: the guy's going to be the owner next week or

527
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: next year. So it's a it's a tough place to

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00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: get top flight coach. Heavy Landed is to say yes.

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00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: So there's some under the owners their ownership. You look

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Speaker 1: around the league and look and you can see it's

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Speaker 1: you know, look the thing in Denver with the Bowen family,

532
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: who really runs that team. Um, it's a really difficult

533
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: thing for a lot of franchises to get around, but

534
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: you know they got, you know first. So a guy

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00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: like Wayne Fonds to have the record Detroit like we

536
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: were talking about, and did say, that's like Bill Belichick's

537
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: record without Tom Brady better than his without Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: That's m m. He's going rocketing the Hall of Fame.

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00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about that. I don't either,

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00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: but hey, numbers are numbers. You are what your record

541
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: says you are. According to Bill Parcels, Well, in any event,

542
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's record includes Tom Brady's record. That's right, And

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Speaker 1: so break time for us here. But we've got a

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Speaker 1: jam pack show for you today in addition to the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll and one Bills Live check it out there.

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Speaker 1: Let us know on the tweet sheet we have Tasker's

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Speaker 1: teammate coming up next second hour the program, we have

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Speaker 1: the personal chef to more than a dozen Bills players,

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Speaker 1: Chef Dary and Brian joins us in the second hour

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Speaker 1: of the program and in the third hour from NFL

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Speaker 1: Network Brian Balldinger jam Pack Show. Stay tuned. More coming

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Speaker 1: your way, including Tasker's teammate next. Here on One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Colota Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

554
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown's tea Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you full show today, as we have Chef Dary and

556
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: I am personal chef of upwards of a dozen Bill's players.

557
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: We talk to him about who's got really specific requests,

558
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: who avoids certain foods like the plague, who's a picky eater? Maybe,

559
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: who's got portion control? Yeah, he's like their personal policeman

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Speaker 1: for portion. But he's doing really well. Us native of

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Speaker 1: Jamaica decided to come to Buffalo and that that's another

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00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: question right there, why Buffalo um? But he's doing really well.

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Speaker 1: I had a chance to meet a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago out in Larkinville where he's got his stuff out

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00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: there every week at the filling stations. So looking forward

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Speaker 1: to that conversation, and then two o'clock we got our

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Speaker 1: friend Brian Baldinger from NFL Network coming in. He's chopping

568
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: up film even in the off season, so I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to him about a few things, including some

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00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: of the new additions to Buffalo's roster and how they

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Speaker 1: might fit heading into the twenty one season. But it

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Speaker 1: is time now for Taskers teammates swee And as you know,

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Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate is brought to you by Wegman's Meals to

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Speaker 1: Go Delicious Meals Delivered. Download the Wegman's app today. Steve,

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Speaker 1: are you ready for clue number one? Right? Go ahead?

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Speaker 1: Born in New Orleans in nineteen sixty seven, I remained

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Speaker 1: in state to play college football after a successful high

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Speaker 1: school career in Kenner, Louisiana. Wow, this is when Steve

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00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: looks like he's stumped, and then he throws out a

580
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Speaker 1: name and he's right. He kind of slow plays Kenner

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Speaker 1: Louisiana State in school Maybe LSU or Louisiana State, which

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Speaker 1: is the same school that you just state. Say, he said,

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Speaker 1: maybe LSU or Raging Cajuns. Oh, what is that Louisiana

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Speaker 1: known University of Louisiana raising occasions. Anyway, then you have

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Speaker 1: a law tech. You got got a bunch of Inusiana, Taiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, Monroe,

586
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of sprit So it's any of those.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, Clue number two. In addition to

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Speaker 1: a solid college football career, which included a Southland Conference

589
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: title in nineteen eighty eight, I was also a two

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Speaker 1: time All American sprinter on my school's track team. That

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Speaker 1: should help narrow it down for you a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Nadodoms It is not nadodoms um. This this one will

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Speaker 1: help you. Clue number three, right, Clue number three. While

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Speaker 1: I was an under the radar prospect in the nineteen

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00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: ninety NFL Draft, I was selected in the eleventh round

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Speaker 1: by the Bills. Al Edwards ding, you got it, Steve

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00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: on the third guest, it is Al Edwards just thinking

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Speaker 1: Northwestern State Division one double a Aledwards Um, sweetheart of

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Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, and you know you're an eleventh round pick.

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Speaker 1: Come into the nineteen ninety Bills My made yeah, and

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00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: he made the roster and he made the K returner

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00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: for you guys, right. He started in the Super Bowl

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00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: as a kick return. Yeah, and he had a touchdown

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00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: return in the Raiders game, do you remember, Yeah, Yeah,

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00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: we were getting it was his only touchdown for buff

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Speaker 1: We were killed out there, and it was The place

607
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: was a sandbox, the old coliseum. The place was a

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00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: Gibson at the infield dirt was absolute atrocity and he

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00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: goes ninety one for a TD when we needed it. Man,

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00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: we were And that was a game we won in overtimes,

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00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: one where Scottie missed one, missed two and then hit

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Speaker 1: the third one to win the game in overtime. Yeah,

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00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 1: we had Yeah, I remember that. That game was great.

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00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: Three seasons in the NFL, all with the Bills. Not

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Speaker 1: bad if you're going to be in the league for

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Speaker 1: a short period of time. Three super books, playing six

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Speaker 1: playoff games. Let's know what, I'm done. Good, I'm good,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. He probably got once. He probably made yeah,

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Speaker 1: and probably made an extra one hundred grand on playoff shares. Now,

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Speaker 1: he was a sprinter in college. So how fast was

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Speaker 1: he was? Pretty fast? I don't know how, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't give you a number, but yeah, he was fast.

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Speaker 1: Not a big guy, I mean only eight I would

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Speaker 1: have told you he was shorter than me. Yeah. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: In his retirement, he was honored by the south Land

626
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Speaker 1: Conference named to the All Decade team in the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 1: And uh, he, along with a couple other guys from

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Speaker 1: his college years at Northwestern State, did get drafted. The

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Speaker 1: year before he came out in nineteen eighty nine, Floyd Turner,

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00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: another receiver, got drafted, and then I think the year

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Speaker 1: after Al got drafted by the Bills, Randy Hilliard, a

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00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: defensive back, got drafted out of Northwestern State. And as

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00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: we know, there's another former Bill from Northwestern State, Terrence McGee. Uh,

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00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: fourth round pick in two thousand three drafts. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: a good yeah, he he went through that man o man.

636
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Speaker 1: What what was he like as a dude? Though not

637
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Speaker 1: as a great great dude. Yeah, he was real quiet

638
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: or he was cut up or well, well think about

639
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: he's in a room with James Lofton, Andre Andre John

640
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 1: bib Me, Brad Lamb was in that room. I think

641
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 1: Russell Copeland was in that room later maybe maybe Alan

642
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: Russell overlapped one year maybe not. Um a ton of

643
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: guys in that room. Yeah, so he was so on

644
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: like a bus rider it was hard to know. He Yeah,

645
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: he was great. He sat in the corner. It was quiet.

646
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: It's hard to be the alpha male in that room. So,

647
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: and he was a young guy coming in. So he

648
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: was from a small school, small school. He was great though. Yeah,

649
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: he was a good teammate. Um, I remember him from

650
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: the Rookie Show. Him and Marvica's pattent. We're in the

651
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: Rookie Show together after two rookies. They were two rookies together.

652
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: They but both made that team, both played in those

653
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: three Super Bowls. So did they what they have to

654
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: do for Yeah, I don't know. Oftentimes they have the

655
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 1: rookies impersonate somebody. Yeah they well that's that's their idea.

656
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: You can impersonate the coaches for sure, and players. Yeah,

657
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: it's all up for grabs. But yeah, it was. That

658
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: was I think that might have been the last Rookie

659
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: Show ever. Oh okay, they did away with it after

660
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: Marv did. Yeah, Marv get did away with it because

661
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: we were There are other teams. They're better ways to

662
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: team building. Yeah, Humiliating those guys are pretty funny though.

663
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: They're pretty good ones. Not for air, you know, not

664
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: these days. These days everybody's got a phone, you know

665
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: what I He's like, Nah, you don't want to do that. Yeah,

666
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: so yeah, al good, good stuff. Love that is your

667
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: latest Taskers team. It's amazing how many fond you know,

668
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 1: you think back has so many fond memories of those guys,

669
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: especially guys you know you played that Super Bowl. We

670
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: were playing like twenty twenty one, twenty two games a year,

671
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: four preseason games, sixteen regular season games and sometimes three

672
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: playoff games, sometimes five preseason games. I mean, it's a

673
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: long grind hal and then you you know, one of

674
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: those games is the preseason game in London or bertle In.

675
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, you're ready for a break. Yeah, that's

676
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: when that's when you're glad you don't have to show

677
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: up for work for four months. It's crazy when you

678
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: say eleventh round draft choice. Sometimes I don't know why.

679
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: It's because I guess you know, I'm I'm dating more

680
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: problem to the seventh round draft and you know, ninth round,

681
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: eleventh round, twelfth round. It's like, holy, Charlie Joorner was

682
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: a seventeenth round draft pick. That's just stupid to even

683
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: say seventeenth round because they only would they go down

684
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: about awake by the seventeenth round. Well, it's all one day, right,

685
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: it's twenty it's like two hundred and fifty guys or thereabouts.

686
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: There are a fewer teams back then, right, there's fourteen

687
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: teams or twenty teams or twenty four teams, and there's

688
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: twenty six teams, and there's twenty eight teams and thirty

689
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: now thirty two. You know. I mean, they kept going

690
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: up in the rounds kept coming down. They kept just

691
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,720
Speaker 1: going straight to like right around two hundred and fifty

692
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: plus guys they draft. So, however many rounds it took

693
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: to get there, that's what they did. I was two

694
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 1: twenty six. Al was probably two thirty two forty somewhere

695
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: in there. So he'd be a seventh round pick today. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

696
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 1: So I mean it doesn't sound as far fetched like, wow,

697
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 1: Levin rounder made the Bill's roster in nineteen ninety. Holy cow. Yeah.

698
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: The rookie free agent is the one that's always this

699
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: I think a feather in a guy's cap when you

700
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: make an NFL team as a walk for rookie free agent.

701
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: That's hard to do. That's really hard to do. It's

702
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 1: I think it's a little easier in this day and a.

703
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm saying this like I know, I think it's a

704
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: little easier in this day and age because teams know,

705
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: I think more in fans as well, No more so

706
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: than you can find those guys. They're out there and

707
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: they're not. The question is how do they make What

708
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: kind of opportunity they get when they get in the

709
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: room where they got three draft picks and an All

710
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: Pro former all Pro in the room. What kind of

711
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: opportunity they're gonna get? And how, you know, how do

712
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: you get You get like one shot, you get one play, Wow,

713
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: he did good on that one play. Okay, now you

714
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: get another one. And some guys will get out there,

715
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: they play one play, they stink, thanks for showing up,

716
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: and that's there all you'd laugh. That's true. You know.

717
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: The opportunity is not you never know what it is. Finite. Yeah,

718
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: it is a finite opportunity. And the further down the

719
00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: pecking order you are, the smaller that opportunity is. So

720
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: these guys make it. Nowadays, it's a little better. They're

721
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 1: a little more fair and once you're on the roster,

722
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: and I think this is one of the ways that

723
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: Marv Leeby was a little ahead of his time if

724
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: you're on the roster, and this is why he did

725
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: away with the Rookie Show as well. The reasoning he

726
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: gave to us was that listen, guys, we signed him.

727
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: Whether you like him or not, they're your teammate, so

728
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: put your arms around him. Let's go. You know they're

729
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 1: they're part of the family now. And that has stuck

730
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: with me throughout the last couple of decades. When I

731
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: learned that and when he when he proved it to us,

732
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: and I was a perfect example of that. All right.

733
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: So that is this week's edition of Tasker's Teammates. Steve

734
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,439
Speaker 1: got it on the third clue good A good job

735
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 1: on you. I try to be as cryptic as I can,

736
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: especially with guys that's set in the same dang positions

737
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: because you're just by osmosis, you're gonna know stuff about

738
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: those guys that would be that would be hard to

739
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: get with that by break time for us here when

740
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 1: we come back, some of your comments on the tweet

741
00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: sheet regarding who you think the biggest team, who do

742
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: you think is the biggest threat in the a f

743
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: C besides the Chiefs to the Bills in the AFC.

744
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 1: We'll get to those comments when we return. Don't forget

745
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: second hour of the show. Chef Darian Bryant, personal chef

746
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 1: to about a dozen Bills players, be joining us in

747
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: the second hour of the show about fifteen minutes from now.

748
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: Stay tuned here on one Bills Live, presented by Collid

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Speaker 1: to help it's Buffalo Bills Radio Chris Brown Steve Task

750
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 1: were with you here on a Thursday jam pack show,

751
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: which includes the following. Other than the Chiefs, which team

752
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: is the biggest threat to the Bills in the a

753
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 1: f C in twenty twenty one choices there are Browns, Ravens, Colts,

754
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: or some other team in the American Football Conference. Dinah.

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Speaker 1: On the tweet sheet, which is brought to you by

756
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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the

757
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, says, still kind of scared of the Patriots.

758
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: May just be years of conditioning, but they're getting opt

759
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 1: outs back, and lots of them think we will take them,

760
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: know that we can and take them. Yeah, I mean,

761
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: I understand Patriots should be improved, but the all important

762
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: problem with them is the quarterback position. On the tweet sheet,

763
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: the poll so far, Brown's way out in front, and

764
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: I would be inclined to agree with that. I just

765
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: think they have the most complete roster. And this is

766
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: the first time in Baker Mayfield's pro career that he

767
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: is operating the same offensive scheme that he did the

768
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: year before. That's a big plus for him. I will

769
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: say this, though, I think people are under selling the

770
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts and I got and I think we know why.

771
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: Though their head coach is a friend of mine and

772
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: I love the guy to death, but I got a

773
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: lot of respect for him too, and I saw them

774
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: come in here last year and really give the Bills

775
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: all they could handle. With a thirty eight year old

776
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 1: quarterback who couldn't throw, Carson Wentz is going to bounce back,

777
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 1: trust me. And I think I like Carson Wentz and

778
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: his physical tools way better than Baker. And I think

779
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: people are under selling the surrounding cast of the Indianapolis

780
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: Colts with Carson Wentz and I get listen, Cleveland's got

781
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: they got some guys, no question, but I'm putting the

782
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: Colts way up on the same level with the Cleveland

783
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: Browns as all these other guys. I think if there

784
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: is anything that the Browns have that the Colts do not.

785
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: It is elite talent on defense, Yes, because for the

786
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: Colts it's probably Darius Leonard, Defarres Buckner and guys. And

787
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: that might be where it ends in terms of elite

788
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: talent on the defensive side of the ball. For the Browns,

789
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: I mean it's Myles Garrett, It's Jadeveon Clowney. They have some,

790
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: if not easily close to elite corner talent, um, good safeties, linebackers. Okay,

791
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: I think across the board they've got more top end

792
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: talent on the defensive side of the ball than Indie does.

793
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: Their offensive lines are comparable. Both very good offensive lines,

794
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: um receiver talent. Maybe a slight edge to Cleveland, but

795
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: it's not big, not a big gap there. Um. Yeah,

796
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: ob j is gonna make a difference if he comes

797
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: back healthy. The guy can really go him. Jarvis Landry, Yeah,

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00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: given what Indian Lapps Colts brought back, Um, I would

799
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: give the edge to Cleveland as well. Even the offensive line.

800
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: I think you know they've they've Cleveland's got an All

801
00:45:55,760 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: Pro guard in Wyatt Teller, as does the Colt. The

802
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: Colts had a little problem with their left tackle. Now

803
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: they signed Eric Fisher. We'll see if he can squeeze

804
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: out another year, see if he's ready. Yeah, that's an issue,

805
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: no question the Colt. I think that the Browns have

806
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: a deeper, more proven, and more elite roster around the

807
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: around the board. But the Colts are no slouches. And

808
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: to me, the Colts coaching staff with Vander Frank's defensive coordinator, er,

809
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: that's it. They maximize those guys a lot like the

810
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills coaching staff maximizes their talent. Now, certainly Stefanski

811
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 1: has done a great job and cleand did a great

812
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: job in his first year of Cleveland's coach of the

813
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: Year all of that stuff, and congratulations to him. Um,

814
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: I don't know a quarterback. I gotta say I like

815
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: Indianapolis's guy better. Baker's a leader. He's going coming back

816
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: in the same system, while Wentz is going to be

817
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: in a new system, albeit with before. Yeah, I'll be

818
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: it with a guy who's coached him before. Uh, more

819
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: normal off season. I do think Baker's gonna play really

820
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: well this year. Um, but I think Wentz's top end

821
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: is better. We may see Wentz play his best after

822
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, Whereas I think it's so that maybe

823
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: maybe I'm talking myself out of saying Carson Wentz is better,

824
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I um, but the team's around

825
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: the the AFC, it's it's the Chiefs, the Bills, the Browns,

826
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Speaker 1: the Colts, and then I gotta be and maybe Baltimore

827
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: I can throw in there. But I'm telling you, I

828
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: think it's a there's a steep drop off after you

829
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: get past those teams. Yeah, And it's rooted in the

830
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: fact that just some of these other AFC teams that

831
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: now have franchise quarterbacks just aren't their roster has not

832
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,280
Speaker 1: reached critical mass yet, either in terms of the quarterbacks

833
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: development at this level or in terms of the rosters

834
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: development at this level. Look at the Chargers, you know, Um,

835
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: they might be the closest thing Joe reaching critical masks.

836
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: But they have a whole new coaching staff and now

837
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: it's new scheme for Herbert to you know, to to

838
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: traverse Joe Burrow in Cincinnati. Yeah, you know all that.

839
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: You know, Zach Wilson, t Lawrence, Trevor Lawrence, they got

840
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: they got these teams. You know, they got to build

841
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: a huge question marks the Houston Texans. For goodness sake,

842
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: new coaching staff. A quarterback didn't want to play there

843
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: now may be forced to. Ah. You know there's ayah.

844
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: So I think there's a real steep drop off after

845
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: you get pass those first four, maybe five teams in

846
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: the AFC. Break time for us here when we return

847
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: Chef Dary and Brian from the Plating Society Personal Chef

848
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: to upwards of a dozen Bills players. We'll get the

849
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: goods on just what best teases the palette of your

850
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: Bills players when we return with the chef. Next here

851
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, this is

852
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been

853
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: all the field, kind of unique. He was kind of

854
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

855
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: We're not even in the stratore of normalcy and we're

856
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: back for our number two of a Thursday edition of

857
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Chris Brown here, Steve Tasker. There, as

858
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: we are wrapping up week two of OTA practices, we

859
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: hear the bass thumping on the grass practice field just

860
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: about fifty yards away from us, and noise has been

861
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: a major player in the practices through these first two

862
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: weeks as coach. McDermott is making sure that his players

863
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: get reacclimated to operating in noisy conditions after going through

864
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: the whole twenty twenty season well with the exception of

865
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs without fans in the stand. It's interesting. And

866
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: before we get to shift, Darry and I got to

867
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: ask you, there was a there was a theory going

868
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,240
Speaker 1: out Josh took this huge leap last year, Josh Allen,

869
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: and where a lot of people thought. One of the

870
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: reason because we've all seen Josh Allen as a rookie

871
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: and his second year player of this sugar high Josh.

872
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: We have Kyle Brandt come on and he we make

873
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 1: fun of Josh once in a while, and you know

874
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: where he used to do the crazy stuff like lateral

875
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: sideways in that playoff game in Houston and doing all

876
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: the crazy, funky stuff taking sacks or whatever, rocketballs. A

877
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of people thought Josh made that

878
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: step in part because he didn't have the crowd get

879
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: him so hyped up that he can't even think right.

880
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: I don't think i'd buy into that. I don't either,

881
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: but it's an urban myth that he'll probably be asked

882
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: about sooner or later. So be interesting to see what

883
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: his test is going to be September. Well, yeah, that'll

884
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: be the true test. Yeah, we have to turn to

885
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: a guest joining us now here, has promised in the

886
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: second hour the show. He is the owner of the

887
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: Plating Society boutique chef services, which includes meal prep, private

888
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: dining parties and catering. You may have seen him on

889
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: CBS or ESPN where he's made some appearances. He is

890
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: a personal chef to upwards of twelve Bills players who

891
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: have hired him for specific events, and he's located right

892
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. It is one chef, Darry and Brian

893
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:37,919
Speaker 1: joining us. Chef looking good, spiffed up and ready to roll.

894
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: Here you're addressing us to a team man, how you

895
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: doing you do? I gotta keep it clean. That Jesus

896
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: police recording, I mean that's what we'll call it him

897
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:49,879
Speaker 1: to make you know. Yeah, So if do you I've

898
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: seen your website? Now you cook everything, and do you

899
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: have a speciality or something that you never that never

900
00:51:54,920 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: fails that everybody likes. Do you have a special dish?

901
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: You know? I gotta go back to my Jamaican roots

902
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 1: and say curry chicken, because that's like my backbone right here.

903
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: I love curry chicken. People love it too. Yeah, that's right.

904
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: Like a lot of times you set up the jerk

905
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: Hut over at Larkinville, and the jerk chicken, I know,

906
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: is a big favorite of people. So I'm not surprised

907
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: that that was your answer. Why don't we start just

908
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: with your personal story, chef, because you know, obviously, I mean,

909
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: people hear you speak and they recognize very quickly you're

910
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: a native of Jamaica. But maybe just spell out for

911
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: us your route to the States, and then why Buffalo

912
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: as the place where you decided you were going to

913
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: go into business and make yourself such a success. I

914
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: don't know what I was thinking coming to Buffalo. It's

915
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: cool here, man, I came here nine years ago. So

916
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: like cooking started at a young age, I said my

917
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 1: mommy the cook shop in Jamaica. We said, a small

918
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: cook shopper, do like you know, curry good curry chicken,

919
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: jerk chicken pork. I was like twelve years old, helping

920
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: her in the kitchen all the time. And I see

921
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: the way it would make people happy. I'm like, I

922
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: would love to do this as my professional career, you

923
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So my mom left Jamaica when

924
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: I was fifteen, and I take over the cook shop.

925
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, can I do this? But it's like

926
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: I remember all the stuff you know I'm gonna do,

927
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: like the seasoning and then marined and all of those stuff.

928
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't do this. So Mom like, I

929
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: started cooking for all the neighborhood folks and I'm like, man,

930
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: I would love to do this for the rest of

931
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: my life. And that's how the cooking started. And that's

932
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: twenty I started school at ECC, the Culinary Arts program. There.

933
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: I also started my home cuisine. They would just Gribbean

934
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: cuisine because when I was in school, I noticed Gribbean

935
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: cooking was lacking. So I'm like, I'm want to bring

936
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: something new to the table. Said. I started that and

937
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: I went the box, stay fastal and management, so I

938
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: pretty much get training both areas so you put them

939
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: wherever in the industry. I can work there because all

940
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: streamed by professionals, you know. Yeah, So it really stemmed

941
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: from your root in wanting to make people happy by

942
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: giving them something good to eat, and you kind of

943
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: thrive on how it make your food makes people feel

944
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: correct yet exactly because you know, as we all know,

945
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: you are what you eat. You know, I mean, so

946
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: whatever you eat, you know you performed that way? Is

947
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: that when I go for the players and make sure

948
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: I give them the best quality because I know their

949
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: bodies want me their money right, you know, I mean it,

950
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: so I gotta keep the madge and strong. So with

951
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: that in mind, how did you kind of get connected

952
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: with the bills? And then who would you say is

953
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: the most specific? Who gives you the longest list of

954
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: how the food has to be, what can be in it,

955
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: what can't be in it, how it can be prepared?

956
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: Who gives you that long list? Chef? You guys don't

957
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: get me in trouble right here. They don't listen. They

958
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 1: won't listen to they're out the practice, they're working there.

959
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 1: We're here in there off time. No, but I mean

960
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 1: the truth, the truth is, Chef, we know that professional

961
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: players are very specific because as you said, you know,

962
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,959
Speaker 1: their bodies are are their meal ticket. They need to

963
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: be in top physical conditions. So I imagine that their

964
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: requests are going to be a lot more lengthy than

965
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 1: maybe the average family that says, oh, we'd love it

966
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: to have you over for to cook us dinner. Yeah.

967
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: So um, Vante Davis was my very first guy. When

968
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: he was with the Bills. You walk in a restaurant.

969
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: I was working in Hamburg, so I was surprised to

970
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: see if that in the restaurant because he then regul

971
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 1: was a much blackballs walking around, right. So I walk

972
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: over to him. I'm like, no, welcome, and I understand us.

973
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: I didn't know what he was. I didn't follow up

974
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: football that much. I saw him the next day, I'm not, oh,

975
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 1: you're back. He's everything was amazing man who was in charge.

976
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm the executive chef here. He's like going

977
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: to be my personal chef. I'm like, who's this guy

978
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: asking me to be his personal show? He timt he

979
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,720
Speaker 1: played for the Bills and all this stuff that cook forman.

980
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: When he left, he feminant in Miami to do these

981
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: events and stuff. So I mean, all these players from there,

982
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: then they fly into River daily if their event, and

983
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: that's pretty much always started. And how the players start

984
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: seeing it, They're like, oh, who's this guy? You know?

985
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 1: He looked good. He cooked good. You know what I mean?

986
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 1: You know, get the entire back into them now. You

987
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: just now if I remember, right, didn't you just cook

988
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: for Josh's twenty fifth birthday party? Josh Allen? Yeah, but

989
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: that's surprise birthday party for him. My man running the

990
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: house because Britney told him they're gonna go up for dinner.

991
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: He came home. We're in the house, we're to get dressed.

992
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: He saw me. He's like, what's going on? It was?

993
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: It was a fun time man. Yeah, yeah, that's good.

994
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: And what what is the I mean do they guys

995
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: like that? Because we're talking to these guys, some of

996
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: them are like they're so big, they're like circus freaks.

997
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 1: So how do you have to like buy extra food

998
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: when you do an event for football players, particularly a

999
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, you know, a twenty fifth birthday party for

1000
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 1: Josh and all these guys that show up, Um, what

1001
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 1: kind of you know, what kind of menu do they like?

1002
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: And what do you know you have to do for

1003
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: a group of professional football players. I always have to that.

1004
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 1: When Dig texted me say, um, can you have dinner tonight?

1005
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: I'm okay. How many people we got you would tell

1006
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: me four, I want to X show up. It's like

1007
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: eight guys there, so always prep extra see if they

1008
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,919
Speaker 1: won pasta. I know it to cook for at least

1009
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: ten people when he tell me four. Because when he's

1010
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: saying in the group chat, chef is coming over. You

1011
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: know all these guys are gonna come over because you

1012
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: know I produce the best. You know, I mean everybody

1013
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: want a piece of it too. Yeah, but these guys

1014
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: can eat, man, especially beyond that guy can eat great school.

1015
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: Now I'm guessing chef that knowing these guys like to

1016
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: eat lean, they ask you to make mostly chicken and

1017
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: fish dishes, right, not a lot of red meat. Yeah,

1018
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: well it depends. Like some guys he's either you don't

1019
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: want to eat healthy, do you want to maintain you

1020
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: want to lose weight? Or some guys that said feed

1021
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: me and I say say no more. But some of

1022
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: these folks they're like allergic to like seafood, shellfish. When

1023
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: I'm cooking, I can't be cooking like all these different

1024
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: stuff with your food, So I gotta make sure I

1025
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: keep your stuff separate, because you know, I don't want

1026
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: any of these guys to get sick. Man, people gonna

1027
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: look at me like, chef, you cook for this guy?

1028
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: What did you do wrong? You know what I mean?

1029
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: So I gotta keep those stuff in mind when I'm cooking,

1030
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: and you also like eat of them like in one days.

1031
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: Have to be cooking that meal, put it away, that meal,

1032
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: put it away, so nothing to get cross contaminate, you know,

1033
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: isn't there also a kind of a group of guys who,

1034
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: particularly the young players, that they don't have any clue

1035
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: as what they should eat or what how they should

1036
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: be fixed or how they should be treated. You do

1037
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: they kind of put themselves in your hands and say, listen,

1038
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm trying to gain weight or

1039
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: I'm trying to lose weight? Do they just trust you?

1040
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: And because I know even when I when I played,

1041
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: some of the guys really had to watch what they

1042
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: ate and other guys didn't care at all. How do

1043
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: you balance that mix if you've got all those guys

1044
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: sitting at the same table. I'm glad he bring it

1045
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 1: up because sometimes they look to me for guidance like

1046
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: nutrition and stuff. I'm like, I'm a chef. I'm not

1047
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: that nutrition is which blows my mind that some of

1048
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: these guys, they don't at that guidance someone who to

1049
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: tell them all the heat and what the heat. And

1050
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: it's like this is what they do, you know, I

1051
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: mean you should add someone to guide you to say

1052
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: this is what you eat to keep you going. You

1053
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: eat some sea moss to keep you strong, you know,

1054
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: all these stuff. So with me and my background, I've

1055
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: had to cook it in Jamaica. And don't that of

1056
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: those stuff already? So I asked it once you're going

1057
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: to wait for the do so you want to bulk up,

1058
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:58,919
Speaker 1: you want to lose weight, wanna thain. So some guys

1059
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: at the school like straight posta and stuff like that

1060
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 1: because that's what they want. Some guys want like the

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01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: grains and the keen wand chicken breass, turkey breass nor

1062
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: red meat. So I gotta keep all the gold stuffing meal.

1063
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: And I'm cooking for these guys too. Now I wish

1064
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: most of them would have more like guidance apply what

1065
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: to eat. They turned to me for guidance, which actually

1066
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: my best to make them reach your goal is he's

1067
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: a wonderful feeding with its him like chef or reach

1068
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: my gold. I'm like, yeah, let's go, man, and then

1069
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: do some guys ask you, hey, prep like three or

1070
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,959
Speaker 1: four meals for me, so I'm covered for the week

1071
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: at home, you know, something that they can put in there.

1072
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: I know chefs are very particular about this. They only

1073
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: like to cook fresh. Do you like prep meals for

1074
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: a couple of days for some of these guys that

1075
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: they can take out of the fridge and heat up themselves.

1076
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: I know that might sound sacrilegious to a chef, but

1077
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: is that something that you'll at least try to help

1078
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: him out with. Yeah, so I tried to cook every

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01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: other day. So some of these guys eat two mills

1080
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: a day. So I just cook like I drop off

1081
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:10,479
Speaker 1: on Monday and they see it back on Wednesday again,

1082
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: then Thursday and Friday. So they have meals, not too

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01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: much at a time. But Diggs, my man, don't want

1084
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: any put in the spread. Do you want it fresh? Man?

1085
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 1: Want it fresh? You don't want any music the fridge?

1086
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: Want it fresh that night? So, and some guys just

1087
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: wanted to be dropped off. So if anything, So, if

1088
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: somebody's trying to get in touch with you, I know

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01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: you've got the website and it's it's spectacular and the

1090
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 1: food looks phenomenal. Can somebody where do you work, like

1091
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: on a daily day basis, where can somebody come, if at,

1092
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: any place to eat your food? So I'm in larkin

1093
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I'm in Larking actually right right right,

1094
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,919
Speaker 1: I'm doing this jerk pop up which he is gonna

1095
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:56,959
Speaker 1: meet every Wednesday starts and then it's sixteen or seven.

1096
01:01:57,040 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: You went up those days up this month. So I

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01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 1: do jerk jerk hut, which is just a ne Jamaican

1098
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: food because people always complained I don't don't cut much

1099
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: Jamaican food. I always put these fancy stuff. So I'm like,

1100
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: you know what you guys want, mujamaking food. I'm a

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01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: stark in Jamaican foot on a jerk hut, say, guys

1102
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: income and get it. I mean Larkinville in the filling station.

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01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at right now. That's where I used

1104
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 1: to cool all of these guys meal. That's what I

1105
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: said Diggs wanted and you know its own almost every

1106
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 1: night Maney players, So those guys can eat. Yeah, right

1107
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: right now. I do have to ask your chef because

1108
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough to travel to some of the

1109
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: islands in the Caribbean, including your your island of Jamaica.

1110
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Speaker 1: And I am particularly fond of the conk fritters. Now,

1111
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: how hard is it to get good conk here in

1112
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo for you to kind of make dishes like that?

1113
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: Is it hard to get or relatively easy? You know?

1114
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem getting conk, So mummy Clarks

1115
01:02:55,840 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: from Clark's Fort and seafood always got conk. And to

1116
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: see if sometime I go to the Broadway Market, Broadway

1117
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 1: seafood always got to come too. So okay, good break

1118
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 1: it up for me. For example, I have a smaller

1119
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: party of two people, the one comforters instep by now

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01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 1: entire pipoon container. They break it up for me. It's

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01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: a year ago. Here's two pounds to make it Comforters.

1122
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 1: So what is the everyone that can ship it in? Are?

1123
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 1: I can get it from anywhere? Right? What is the movie?

1124
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 1: What's the most difficult thing for you to procure? What's

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01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: the hardest protein for you to get your hands on? Um?

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01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: Artist protein? I don't I don't think there's anything that

1127
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:43,720
Speaker 1: I really can't get. Look at that he can cover.

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01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: He covers all the places. Man. Yeah, I'm thinking, you know,

1129
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 1: I pretty much get it all man, Like if I'm

1130
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: if I want like carry mean lobster, No, I can't

1131
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: really get that. You know, carrying lobsters different from lobsters,

1132
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: you know, right, they don't have a clause. They have

1133
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 1: like two long thing going out, but they're not claus

1134
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: you all. Yeah, I think that keep looking for carving

1135
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 1: a lobster. I don't have that. Yeah, I think they

1136
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: I think they call that. Is that the right? Is

1137
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: that what they call rock lobster around here? I think? Yeah? Uh, Chef,

1138
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 1: where do you kind of see yourself maybe in a

1139
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: couple of years, I know there. I know you've had

1140
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,959
Speaker 1: some aspirations to kind of have your own home base

1141
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 1: where you can have people come in instead of you

1142
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 1: go to them, because that would make your operation a

1143
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 1: lot easier. It's hard to take your pots and pans

1144
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 1: on the road, man, It's probably a lot easier to

1145
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: do it in a home base. Right, Is that kind

1146
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: of the the end game here in a year or two? Yeah,

1147
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: let me tell you about that, bringing pots and pans

1148
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 1: up for it? It's rough, man, And that's what that was.

1149
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: A private chef like for example, YouTube book me for

1150
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 1: a party, I'll come to your ouse with everything, pot, pans, song, pepper, everything,

1151
01:04:57,360 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 1: because I learned my mistake, you know what I mean, right,

1152
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 1: I learned from my mistake. Like you go to people's

1153
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,959
Speaker 1: own man, they probably got some salt, No, no salt.

1154
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: You probably got some pepper. No, no pepper. So I

1155
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: start bringing my own stuff. But then I'm like you

1156
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 1: gets tiring, man, just bringing this stuff every night to

1157
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: people's home. That's why I add this new spot down

1158
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: the street that is gonna it's gonna be my own

1159
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 1: basically played in society. So I've been doing cooking classes there,

1160
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: cooking shows, dinner parties. I got a big long island

1161
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 1: with a stove in the middle of me cooking and

1162
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 1: entertaining because I love entertaining, I mean. And so here's

1163
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 1: really exciting about that place too, because Joshua's telling me, like, man,

1164
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,440
Speaker 1: we need that every Sunday night after the games. I'm like,

1165
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: say no more many. So You're never gonna ever been

1166
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: here with strangers. It's just you and your crew, so

1167
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: they're down for the nights. You have me all night. Yeah,

1168
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 1: So when when do you think that might be up

1169
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 1: and running? Do you have a timetable yet or is

1170
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 1: that still in the works. You know. It was supposed

1171
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: to be this month, but man got pushed back to

1172
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 1: Latin November January, know because the cost of lumber is

1173
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 1: like insane, right, yeah, so I'm kind of holding back

1174
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 1: right now. See anything get better at stanbles On, you know.

1175
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 1: So you the best, that's right, So you and not

1176
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: the players. They always like to have their a spot

1177
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: after the games. We used to do it when I played,

1178
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,919
Speaker 1: and the are you gonna do you get a chance

1179
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,800
Speaker 1: to go to these games with all these players? Are

1180
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: they playing or are you busy getting ready for an

1181
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 1: after party or both? Well? Um, they give me tickets

1182
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: all the time to go to the games, you know.

1183
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: So sometimes I will go to the game and as

1184
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: soon as I get home, they called me apply, can

1185
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: we have dinner tonight? So okay, run home and change

1186
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:48,080
Speaker 1: and go shop to meet dinner for the nights. You know,

1187
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:51,040
Speaker 1: how many people are in your crew? Do you take?

1188
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: I love it? You know, man? Yeah, how many people

1189
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: do you take? Any help with you? Do you have

1190
01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: somebody like a Sioux chef that is with you that

1191
01:06:58,240 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 1: helps you? I mean you and if depending on the

1192
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: size of the party, I guess I do have a

1193
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: sous chef help like private events, but when do a

1194
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 1: players is just me. You know, my man Dwayne and

1195
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 1: I got a server, Austin and Mike. Those guys helped

1196
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 1: me out when I do like private parties, but when

1197
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: I do players, stuff is just me. Okay, I got

1198
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 1: you last one for me, chef. You know, the pandemic

1199
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:24,680
Speaker 1: through everybody for a loop and made a challenging for

1200
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 1: just about everyone. How how did you kind of come

1201
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:30,800
Speaker 1: through that? I mean, we're on the right side of

1202
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 1: it now, so I would imagine that business is picking

1203
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 1: back up. But how tricky was it for you? You

1204
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: know and your business during that time? It was tough

1205
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 1: because COVID could have forced me to do something creative

1206
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 1: and different because I was at a Fisher Price. I

1207
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: was the executive chef and general manager there when when

1208
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:54,440
Speaker 1: he got shut down, I was old everyday board with

1209
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 1: my wife. I'm a two kids. I'm like, I gotta

1210
01:07:57,720 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: get at his house. Man, I gotta do something different

1211
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 1: because people I still want to eat good and all.

1212
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:04,439
Speaker 1: I mean, so I'm like, you know what, I gotta

1213
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: figure out the way to reach these people. So us

1214
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 1: start doing like virtual cooking, so you buy your tickets

1215
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 1: and you watch me cook or I would send you

1216
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: the ingredient list, you go shopping and cook with me.

1217
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 1: Then I'm like, they're own their board. They want food.

1218
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I gotta go to your home because

1219
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 1: you know I saw can't feel them. Okay, people are home.

1220
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:28,519
Speaker 1: This didn't want amazing food, amazing experience. I'm gonna take

1221
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 1: that applying down your restaurant to their own. And that's

1222
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: where I started doing. Yeah, just the entire experience of

1223
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: your own, like they would come in there like, oh

1224
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: my goodness, they can't believe that their own restaurant, so

1225
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: I gotta be creative. Good on you for doing. Jeff

1226
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 1: Darien has been great. Thanks for coming on with us.

1227
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 1: We really appreciate and best of luck on your new

1228
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: location and down at the Larkin building as well at

1229
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 1: the filling station. And maybe when you got your spot, well,

1230
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 1: we'll try to set up a time for us to

1231
01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:57,719
Speaker 1: come out and maybe do a do a cooking lesson

1232
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:00,040
Speaker 1: with you. I could certainly add to my resume, and

1233
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: I know a few things, but I'm not an I'm

1234
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 1: not anywhere near you, so i'd be what I'd be

1235
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: all about taking a lesson from you. Who knows, maybe

1236
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 1: we'll do it live on the show one time. I

1237
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:11,720
Speaker 1: can't pretty much teach you whatever you need to know

1238
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: is I'm a good teacher, alright, appreciate the time, Chef.

1239
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 1: Good luck, and uh go ahead when I start a

1240
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: real quick this is my wife an anniversary. Meet my

1241
01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 1: wife an anniversaries and I want show that my wife

1242
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:28,360
Speaker 1: real quick. Jessica, I love you girl, an anniversary for years.

1243
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 1: That's gold Man. Let's do this. Yeah, I know Jessica

1244
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: helps you out a lot with those photographs online for you.

1245
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 1: So you guys do a good job. The Plating Society

1246
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 1: dot com is where you want to go to catch

1247
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: chef and all of his good works and good meals

1248
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 1: for that matter. So thanks for the time, Chef. We'll

1249
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: catch up with you. Thank you so much. Thank you

1250
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 1: all right. Indeed, that's Chef Daryan Brian cooks for like

1251
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen guys, and I can relate like you gotta

1252
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 1: adjust on the fly with that stuff. When you're going

1253
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:00,360
Speaker 1: to somebody's house, you're bringing all of your stuff. You

1254
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 1: can't count on stuff being in the house. We had

1255
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: an event at the house one time and they showed

1256
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 1: up and of course this always happens, right, they show

1257
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:09,600
Speaker 1: up at the house. I got this, you know, I

1258
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: got a side by side for it's shuts down like

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01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: the like the morning, they're showing up in that afternoon,

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01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 1: like what am I gonna do? Like? And they show

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01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: up in the course the head guys here, we gotta

1262
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: we gotta his his underlings. I have no refrigerator. They're

1263
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: like looking at me like, I'm like, I have a

1264
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 1: dirt floor, you know, I mean you're you're like, you're

1265
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: killing me, bro right, they're killing what what do you well?

1266
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:33,639
Speaker 1: You don't pay your electric bill? What are you doing?

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01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:35,720
Speaker 1: You know? I'm like, I I was so bad. I

1268
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: got a cooler. But you never know what's gonna you know, Right,

1269
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 1: So they show up and you know, nothing works. Yeah,

1270
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: you know, I was like I was your public enemy

1271
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:48,559
Speaker 1: number one. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So but but that's

1272
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: what he said. He's like, you know, for that, one

1273
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: of the guys calls me and says, hey, can you

1274
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:53,680
Speaker 1: come over and cook the dinner? He says, how many

1275
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:55,639
Speaker 1: are you? He says, for he shows up, there's ten.

1276
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: It's just you gotta adjust absolutely. But it's funny because

1277
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 1: I asked him that question about you know, because some

1278
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: guys like to get their meals for the next two

1279
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: or three days, so when they come home from work,

1280
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 1: come home from the stadium, they just heat something up

1281
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: and it's top notch stuff. But chefs are very particularly,

1282
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 1: like they don't like their food sitting around, well it's

1283
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 1: made to order. They want it to be fresh. And

1284
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: it's funny that I said that to him because he's

1285
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: like Diggs doesn't like anything a day old. Yeah, he

1286
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 1: wants it fresh that day. So I'm either cooking it

1287
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 1: and bringing it right to his house or I'm cooking

1288
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:33,639
Speaker 1: it in his kitchen right And players are really particular,

1289
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 1: say and it makes perfect sense. Athletes, particularly at the

1290
01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:39,639
Speaker 1: level we're talking about with the Bills and guys across

1291
01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: the NFL, NBA and all these guys, they know and

1292
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: they're very attuned to what goes in you know, what

1293
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 1: they eat and how it affects them and when to

1294
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:51,240
Speaker 1: eat this, when to eat that, what not to eat,

1295
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: what to do. They're it's gotten that they're so much

1296
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:57,760
Speaker 1: more advanced than we were in my day, and so

1297
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:00,640
Speaker 1: it's a perfect marriage. You need some body who can

1298
01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:03,560
Speaker 1: whip that stuff up. Or who has the time or

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01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:07,120
Speaker 1: the ability or the expertise to to cook it. Yeah,

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01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 1: you know, because some of these guys don't like that,

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01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, the vegetables. They don't like the whatever the

1302
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,640
Speaker 1: other's the fiber, they don't like the yellow vegetables as

1303
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: opposed to the red you know that stuff. And to

1304
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:19,880
Speaker 1: have somebody cook it up and whip it up. It's

1305
01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 1: a perfect marriage of guys who really need good food

1306
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: right and have a diet restriction or a weight restriction,

1307
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,160
Speaker 1: and to have somebody cooking. And at the same time,

1308
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we all know players make a

1309
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:35,839
Speaker 1: good living. They will pay good money for good quality.

1310
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:39,240
Speaker 1: It's investment and good preparations. The investment they will pay

1311
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 1: for it, like if it's top notch stuff. They don't

1312
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,640
Speaker 1: mind paying a little extra to do that because when

1313
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 1: they know ultimately it serves them and their career. Well,

1314
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 1: somebody will probably tell me because I don't, you know,

1315
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 1: I didn't do it, you know, like my wife can

1316
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: really cook, so she and she was cooking for the

1317
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 1: kids too. But I would wonder if a guy like

1318
01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 1: digs or can they deduct that? Is that a business expense?

1319
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:02,439
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Oh yeah, I would think for taxes. Sure,

1320
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 1: I'd be all over that business. Get your accountant on

1321
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:07,560
Speaker 1: line one, say hey, can we use this as a

1322
01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 1: deduction because I've got to eat. I've been been told

1323
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:12,519
Speaker 1: by my employeer, I gotta you know, I gotta do this. Yeah,

1324
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:13,840
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to cook that, so I

1325
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:15,600
Speaker 1: hire this guy to cook it for me. Kind of

1326
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 1: think that's a tax deduction because it's a direct business

1327
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,720
Speaker 1: expense for your own well being. Not for sure, not

1328
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: for guys like you. But yeah, he did Josh his

1329
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 1: twenty fifth birthday party, and I you know, I I'm

1330
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 1: around h the Larkin Building from time to time. I think,

1331
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:31,600
Speaker 1: do those little farmers markets and stuff. And I just

1332
01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 1: saw him at the farmers market a couple of weeks ago.

1333
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,120
Speaker 1: He had his jerk cut outside and I had some

1334
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 1: of his jerk chickens. Out of this world. Yeah, I mean,

1335
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 1: it's just it melts in your mouth, like if you

1336
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:45,679
Speaker 1: like flavor and spice, you know you don't mind some seasoning.

1337
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's it's up your alley like you. It's

1338
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah, I mean, I know a lot of

1339
01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:53,599
Speaker 1: people make jerk chicken his stuff. I mean, the guy

1340
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: straight from the island. I mean, he knows what he's doing.

1341
01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 1: He's been doing it since he's ten, eleven, twelve years old,

1342
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 1: and his mom taught him. Feel better. You can't go wrong. Yeah,

1343
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you like I've you know people

1344
01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: we live up here. We have long winters. My wife

1345
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: and I we try to get out of the weather

1346
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: as much as we can. We've been to a couple

1347
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 1: of Caribbean islands, and I mean fresh conk. Like I'm

1348
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 1: telling you, I was on a beach one time. This

1349
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:21,719
Speaker 1: guy pulls a conk out of the ocean. He yanks,

1350
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:23,680
Speaker 1: he cuts the thing because it's got a foot that

1351
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 1: holds its anchor in the shell. He cuts the foot off.

1352
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: He yanks this thing out of the shell. And I

1353
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 1: am not joking when I tell you he's He had

1354
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 1: that thing diced up in like three minutes, Like you

1355
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: want to talk about fresh out of the ocean. You

1356
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 1: could still taste the salt water on it. But he

1357
01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:42,799
Speaker 1: basically dices up this conk uh into like tiny pieces

1358
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:47,960
Speaker 1: and then squirts some lime juice on it and and

1359
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: basically says, put your hand out. Put your hand out right,

1360
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 1: so he dumps it in your hand squirts lime juice

1361
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:57,960
Speaker 1: on he goes down the hatch. I'm like, really he goes,

1362
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 1: It's gonna be good. You're gonna like it. I mean,

1363
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: fresh conk right out of the Caribbean Sea sushi. It

1364
01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:07,120
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was like the freshest sushi you can add.

1365
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:09,720
Speaker 1: You get somebody who knows what they're doing, it's always better,

1366
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: Oh my god, always better. And plus you don't even

1367
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: sit there and with your feet up while they're doing it.

1368
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:16,479
Speaker 1: But good on him. I mean, you know, he comes,

1369
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 1: he comes here, does the ecc Culinary Institute, and I

1370
01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: think he went to buff State after that, and you

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01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:24,600
Speaker 1: know he's a chef. Yeah, good on him, man for

1372
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 1: making the true when you get these people who do it,

1373
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 1: you know, all the guys like you know Chef Darien

1374
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 1: and you know guy Fiery, all these they do it

1375
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:36,760
Speaker 1: because of what It's a little bit I hadn't make

1376
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 1: an annallege. I don't know if it holds up, but

1377
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: it's a little bit like a magician who does the

1378
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 1: trick and likes to see the reaction of the people

1379
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 1: does the trick. When you give people food that you've

1380
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:47,320
Speaker 1: prepared and they get you get that same reactions. What

1381
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 1: kind of gives you your passion for keep doing it?

1382
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: People take a bite of your food and their eyes

1383
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 1: are rolling in the back of your head, I mean,

1384
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 1: and they love it. Yeah, it's a great it's a

1385
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:57,920
Speaker 1: it's a great motivation to do it and do it well.

1386
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: And that's what you know, he alluded to making people happy.

1387
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 1: He makes food, So glad we could get chef on.

1388
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad he gave us some of his time. I

1389
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: know he's usually busy cooking something up somewhere sometimes every night.

1390
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 1: Oh he is, No, he definitely is. He's got a

1391
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 1: full schedule for sure. And I know his wife Jessica

1392
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 1: helps him out a lot of promoting their brand on

1393
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 1: their website. She takes a lot of photos of how

1394
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,639
Speaker 1: busy is and during OTAs we all these guys back,

1395
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 1: the calories are getting burned. Calories are burning. It's got

1396
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:26,000
Speaker 1: to go shopping. They need refills. Guys are all hanging

1397
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:27,920
Speaker 1: out again. You know, it'd be great if we could

1398
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:29,559
Speaker 1: like take the show on the road once he's got

1399
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:31,640
Speaker 1: his place up and running in November. Who wouldn't have

1400
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: to bring lunch every day? Then? Yeah? Right, wait, we'd

1401
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: have to put in. We'd have to ask the Pagoulas

1402
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 1: they could set up a Viking stove out in the

1403
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 1: control room, right right, Yeah, We're gonna take a break

1404
01:16:42,479 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 1: because you know, the car food, the conk fritters are

1405
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: ready to roll, all right, we gotta take a break

1406
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:50,680
Speaker 1: when we come back. More of your comments on the

1407
01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 1: tweet sheet in terms of who you believe is the

1408
01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:58,679
Speaker 1: biggest threat to the Bills in the AFC besides the Chiefs.

1409
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 1: Give us an AFC team that you think it will

1410
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 1: be a threat in twenty twenty one. We'll have some

1411
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 1: of your answers up next here on the tweet sheet

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01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health, It's

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01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio, second half of the show on your Way.

1414
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you here on a Thursday

1415
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 1: edition of One Bill's Live. Thanks for joining us, and

1416
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: we're going to be joined by somebody else right now,

1417
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 1: as Micah Hyde is addressing the media following their latest

1418
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: OTA practice out on the field here on Thursday. So

1419
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 1: here is Micah Hyde answering questions from the media. You

1420
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:51,240
Speaker 1: were pretty open last year about how not having this

1421
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: type of in person portion of the offseason program affected

1422
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: at least how you feel it maybe affected the start

1423
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:01,080
Speaker 1: of things for you guys defensively. So looking back on

1424
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 1: it now that you guys are able to get together

1425
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 1: again in this setting, how beneficial and what specifically do

1426
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:11,040
Speaker 1: you think this is going to help you guys with? Well,

1427
01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:13,720
Speaker 1: I think it's I was just one thing being on

1428
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 1: zoom calls and being able to go over you know,

1429
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: your defense, and I guess the office is doing all

1430
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 1: that type of stuff. But to be here in person,

1431
01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 1: who are will walk through, communicate with each other, see

1432
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 1: what we see, you know, see what each other sees.

1433
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:29,760
Speaker 1: It's important and so um, you know, this is just

1434
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 1: that time that we can get together, we can go

1435
01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:34,760
Speaker 1: over some things and try to work out the kinks

1436
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 1: that we may have, and you know, hopefully we get

1437
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: the mistakes out so when the training camp we can

1438
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:42,639
Speaker 1: start building off of off of what we didnnounce us

1439
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 1: tendency is phenomenal, especially considering we understand the push the

1440
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 1: NFLPA has made to maybe encourage guys not to show

1441
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:53,680
Speaker 1: up for this voluntary portion. How would you describe the

1442
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:59,240
Speaker 1: conversations between you as leadership and you know, players, as

1443
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 1: with the coaching staff too, that maybe has encouraged guys

1444
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: to come here, when again the Players Association is saying otherwise, Well,

1445
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,720
Speaker 1: I think that the I think that the NFLPA will

1446
01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 1: always have the best interest of the players. Um, you know,

1447
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: nobody's throwing the NFLP under the bus and saying that

1448
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:19,640
Speaker 1: they're giving us wrong information. I think that ultimately the

1449
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:22,240
Speaker 1: long run, the safety of players, UM, they're always gonna

1450
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: be got for the players. And you know, for myself

1451
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: and my own opinion, UM, you know, I chose to

1452
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:30,680
Speaker 1: show up because I wanted to be here. Now, Um,

1453
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 1: you know, everyone is, everyone's in a different boat, everyone's

1454
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:36,560
Speaker 1: in a different situation. So UM, you know, we just

1455
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: kind of relayed the message to everybody that you know,

1456
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 1: whatever your situation may be, I feel like you gotta

1457
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 1: show up, show up. If not, don't worry about it. So, um,

1458
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:46,200
Speaker 1: you know, we do have good attendance and it's good

1459
01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,240
Speaker 1: to see some guys. But at the same time, you know,

1460
01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 1: I don't think that with with with guys not being

1461
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 1: here or some guys not being here, I don't think

1462
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:54,439
Speaker 1: it's it's hurting them at all. You know, It's just

1463
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 1: that everyone has their own situation. Dion has mentioned yesterday

1464
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: like a back and forth, a give and take that

1465
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 1: that was really positive between the coaching staff and maybe

1466
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:08,479
Speaker 1: them altering the schedule a little bit to acquiesced a

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01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 1: little bit to some of the things you guys are

1468
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:13,160
Speaker 1: looking for. How would you describe some of the things

1469
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:16,680
Speaker 1: that and the dialogue between the two parties with just

1470
01:20:16,840 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 1: with your team, Well, I think that when it comes

1471
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 1: down to any type of situation between the players and

1472
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 1: the coaching staff or the you know, we can talk

1473
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 1: about being or a GM or whatever you know, in

1474
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 1: the in the Buffalo Bills organization, UM, everything's handled with

1475
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: respect and trust. You know, I always trust that Sean's gonna,

1476
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:41,560
Speaker 1: you know, do whatever's best for the players. And you know,

1477
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:44,320
Speaker 1: he trust that the player is gonna whatever the message,

1478
01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, whatever message he delivers, that the players are

1479
01:20:46,439 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and handle their business. So obviously

1480
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 1: that falls suit with UM with being also, so you know,

1481
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:55,600
Speaker 1: it's just you know, the conversation is going back for

1482
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:59,040
Speaker 1: this all respect, all trust, and you know we uh

1483
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:01,640
Speaker 1: were ready to to build off what we did last year.

1484
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, man, good to see you, Oh you too, Buddy, Hey,

1485
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:10,040
Speaker 1: Mike and Mike Catalana and Rochester when we referenced the safeties.

1486
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:13,719
Speaker 1: Oh you guys, we'll say hide and poor poorer and Hyde.

1487
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:18,439
Speaker 1: Have you too ever discussed who should get top delling? No,

1488
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:21,639
Speaker 1: not at all. I don't all, um, you know, honestly

1489
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 1: at this point in both of our careers or both

1490
01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:27,559
Speaker 1: from the year nine. Um, yeah, I've been with each other.

1491
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 1: This is going on our fifth year. We've joke around

1492
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 1: and say it's our rent shirt senior year. Um, you know,

1493
01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 1: I think that at the end of the day, you know,

1494
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:38,880
Speaker 1: I'm Poyer's number one fan, like that's my boy. Um,

1495
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:41,639
Speaker 1: you know, to see him go out there and play

1496
01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:44,479
Speaker 1: the way he's played since we got here as has

1497
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:47,559
Speaker 1: been remarkable and put football to the side. I don't

1498
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:49,759
Speaker 1: even I don't even care about football now in this discussion,

1499
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:52,680
Speaker 1: just because I think Poe to see his um, you know,

1500
01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:55,400
Speaker 1: evolution as a as a man and as a father,

1501
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:58,640
Speaker 1: as a husband, and I think that's what what I

1502
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,600
Speaker 1: what I've been able to see, um that you know,

1503
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 1: people on the outside haven't been able to see. And

1504
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,479
Speaker 1: I think that that's what's that's what's awesome about him,

1505
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it's just truly remarkable to see

1506
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:12,960
Speaker 1: him grow as a person. And and then obviously you

1507
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: know the football player on top of that, UM, just

1508
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:18,000
Speaker 1: handled his business. And to this day, I always feel

1509
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 1: like he doesn't get the recognition he deserves. UM. And

1510
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. But you know,

1511
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 1: just to uh, like I said, just to go back

1512
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:28,800
Speaker 1: to the beginning, I'm I'm his number one fan. In

1513
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:31,519
Speaker 1: a quick follow up, obviously you're at your highest level,

1514
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:33,799
Speaker 1: but at any point in your playing career high school,

1515
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 1: I ow a green Bay, anywhere, have you ever had

1516
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:38,640
Speaker 1: this much trust in another player that it appears you

1517
01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:46,400
Speaker 1: to have together? Oh no, No, I've never played this long. UM.

1518
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 1: You know, as obviously as the other the other safety. UM.

1519
01:22:51,479 --> 01:22:54,679
Speaker 1: You know, I I've played corner in high school, in college,

1520
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 1: just a few years with the other corner and few

1521
01:22:57,560 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 1: years with the safeties, but never you know, one into

1522
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: five years. So this is really like a remarkable situation.

1523
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:05,680
Speaker 1: And I don't know, you know, I don't know how

1524
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 1: many teams in the league have safeties that have been

1525
01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:12,840
Speaker 1: together for more than three years. UM. And that's why

1526
01:23:13,040 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, you could come out with all the rankings

1527
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: about the top safety duos. You can come up with

1528
01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: all that bs because at the end of the day,

1529
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 1: if I'm a coach or I'm a gm um, I

1530
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:27,800
Speaker 1: want to see consistency, um and and between me and

1531
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 1: Pole that's there, you know, hardly missing any games I

1532
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:33,760
Speaker 1: would um and going out there and just you know,

1533
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: putting our trying to help you know, put our defensive

1534
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: position to win ball games or help our team win

1535
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 1: ball games. So um yeah, it's just truly remarkable how

1536
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:42,680
Speaker 1: long we're going to play with each other and the

1537
01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: trust is for sure, they're great. Thank you of course,

1538
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: thank you Martin. Hey, Michael that Brown, thanks again for

1539
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: the time as always. Man, So that Hey, to kind

1540
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:55,120
Speaker 1: of build off what John was asking, Um, you know,

1541
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 1: you guys this offseason have two not small issues between

1542
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:01,120
Speaker 1: the NFLPA and the vaccine thing going on. Because you

1543
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: guys have so much continuity and familiarity between not only

1544
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 1: player to player but player to coach when you have

1545
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:10,400
Speaker 1: those important discussions, how much easier, better and more productive

1546
01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:12,680
Speaker 1: are they because the steal Mike's word, you have that

1547
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: trust already. Yeah, it's well, I don't think those tucks

1548
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: are every easy, you know, I think that if we

1549
01:24:20,360 --> 01:24:22,120
Speaker 1: didn't know each other, then yes, it would be a

1550
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 1: little bit harder. But we do know each other, you know,

1551
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 1: we know where you know each other from, how they

1552
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 1: grew up, their each other's families, that type of stuff,

1553
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 1: So it makes it a little bit more easier. Easier

1554
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:34,880
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, but um, you know, this is the

1555
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:36,840
Speaker 1: day in life of an NFL player now, I guess

1556
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,479
Speaker 1: in the coach, you know, all these social issues coming up.

1557
01:24:39,479 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 1: You and I've always been a person that kind of, um,

1558
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: you know, stood in the back end and kind of

1559
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,080
Speaker 1: kept my opinion to myself, but without with throughout these

1560
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:52,960
Speaker 1: last couple of years obviously you know, with the kneeling,

1561
01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 1: who's gonna knee, who's gonna stand? You know, just all

1562
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 1: the type of stuff that's that's gone on the last

1563
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:00,679
Speaker 1: couple of years. You know, it's kind of making guys

1564
01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: have an opinion, have a boat, you know, speak up

1565
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:07,679
Speaker 1: and have an opinion. So, um, you know it's difficult,

1566
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:09,200
Speaker 1: but at the same time, you know, we have each

1567
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: other to fall back on, and that's that's what this

1568
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:13,720
Speaker 1: team is for. You talk about being a day in

1569
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:16,640
Speaker 1: the life thing, right now, is it a everyday thing

1570
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 1: where you're having a conversation of one of the other

1571
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 1: those two topics. There's a lot of conversation going on.

1572
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 1: There's a lot, you know, I think that it's good though.

1573
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,000
Speaker 1: It's all healthy. Um. You know, I've always said that

1574
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 1: if a locker room, if we could kind of create

1575
01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:34,680
Speaker 1: a locker room in society, then we would have the

1576
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 1: issues that we have today, just because our locker room

1577
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:40,800
Speaker 1: is still so many different guys, um, all different backgrounds,

1578
01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: so many you know, different beliefs and stuff that. Uh,

1579
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:45,880
Speaker 1: and we all jail, we all get together, we all

1580
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: love being around each other. So that's you know, if

1581
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 1: it was like that society, it would be totally different.

1582
01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:54,120
Speaker 1: So it's the conversations are always happening, um. And you know,

1583
01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: you have a ray of guys with the young guys,

1584
01:25:56,479 --> 01:25:58,640
Speaker 1: the rookies just getting here, and you have guys that

1585
01:25:58,720 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 1: have been here for you know, being twelve years. So

1586
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's just nice, healthy, healthy conversations. All right.

1587
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:09,760
Speaker 1: That's Bill Safety Micah Hide addressing the media there and

1588
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:16,639
Speaker 1: you hear and Sean McDermott put this in place from

1589
01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: the time that he got here. He set up a

1590
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 1: leadership council, which was a handful of players whom he

1591
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:28,600
Speaker 1: trusted in the locker room to provide him with the

1592
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:30,880
Speaker 1: pulse of the locker room. He's not in there. It's

1593
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:34,600
Speaker 1: really the player's domain. Coaches generally like to leave that

1594
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:38,240
Speaker 1: as the players domain. They don't want to trespass is

1595
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:40,599
Speaker 1: a strong word, but it's not a place where coaches

1596
01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:42,960
Speaker 1: feel they should be. Very often. You want to give

1597
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: the players an opportunity to interact one another with one

1598
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:49,639
Speaker 1: another organically without worrying about saying something that the coach

1599
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:53,280
Speaker 1: might not be thrilled with. It's a free space for

1600
01:26:53,439 --> 01:26:57,760
Speaker 1: players and most locker rooms are that way. But at

1601
01:26:57,800 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 1: the same time, the coach does want to have his

1602
01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:03,760
Speaker 1: on the pulse of how things operate, issues that might

1603
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 1: be percolating to the surface, and your leadership council provides that.

1604
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:11,640
Speaker 1: And now here in the year five there is an

1605
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 1: inherent trust between the players and coach McDermott and by extension,

1606
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:20,520
Speaker 1: his assistance, where there is a free flow of information

1607
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:26,719
Speaker 1: that keeps communication fluid and prevents team this team anyway,

1608
01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 1: from falling into that pitfall of well, what the heck

1609
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 1: are they talking about? I didn't know about that, but

1610
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 1: I don't like that. That is eliminated with this level

1611
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 1: of communication that they have here. And I think it

1612
01:27:38,240 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 1: says something as well that that open communication, the fact

1613
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 1: they try and you know, care about the players, you know,

1614
01:27:44,600 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 1: off the field as well as on the field, and

1615
01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 1: what's going on in the locker room. And these guys

1616
01:27:48,600 --> 01:27:50,680
Speaker 1: showed up. They didn't have to show up, right, And

1617
01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: he said, you know, the message was passed down. He

1618
01:27:54,160 --> 01:27:55,800
Speaker 1: just listen. If you're not going to show up as fine,

1619
01:27:55,840 --> 01:27:58,600
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be held against you. It's voluntary. But

1620
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:01,439
Speaker 1: kind like Mike Hi, they show up because it's fun

1621
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:03,880
Speaker 1: to be here. Yeah, you gotta hang out, you gotta talk.

1622
01:28:03,880 --> 01:28:05,479
Speaker 1: You know, you got your ship. We got a chef

1623
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:09,680
Speaker 1: Darien cooking for us everything. I mean, it's a it's

1624
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 1: a weekend where you get to play. You got to compete,

1625
01:28:12,080 --> 01:28:13,640
Speaker 1: You get to say hi to these guys, you got

1626
01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:15,600
Speaker 1: to say hi to the coaches. Touch based on what

1627
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:18,280
Speaker 1: was a great team last year, there's no reason for

1628
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:21,840
Speaker 1: these guys not to show up. And more importantly, when

1629
01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:24,480
Speaker 1: you have that level of trust and then the trickier

1630
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:30,800
Speaker 1: issues do crop up, whether it's vaccinations right, whether it's

1631
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:34,200
Speaker 1: the PA pushing guys to not come to voluntary workouts

1632
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:36,720
Speaker 1: and you want to, but maybe not do it the

1633
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 1: same way. You feel comfortable as a leadership counsel going

1634
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:42,680
Speaker 1: to the coaching staff and saying, hey, can we do

1635
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: it this way instead of that way? Can you bend

1636
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:48,280
Speaker 1: here for us in terms of what we're doing on

1637
01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:50,240
Speaker 1: the field or how much time we're spending in the

1638
01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 1: classroom And coach is amenable to that. And it goes

1639
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 1: a long way because when you ask those guys to

1640
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:01,840
Speaker 1: lay it on the line on a Sunday, they're there

1641
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 1: for you. You know you're gonna get their best because

1642
01:29:04,320 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 1: you gave them this here, there's there's a given take,

1643
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:09,599
Speaker 1: there's a give and take with the sport is physical

1644
01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:11,840
Speaker 1: as football starts with trust. Yeah, I mean they trust

1645
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:13,599
Speaker 1: you and they know that you're in it with them.

1646
01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 1: You're not just using them to you know, to prefer

1647
01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: your coaching career in there. They're you're in it together

1648
01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:22,360
Speaker 1: as much as a coach can be. Well, they care

1649
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:24,960
Speaker 1: about each other on and off the field, and they're

1650
01:29:25,040 --> 01:29:27,680
Speaker 1: in it. They're all going towards the same thing. And

1651
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,720
Speaker 1: when a coaching staff is willing to make really tough

1652
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:34,679
Speaker 1: decisions about a roster, when everybody really knows what should

1653
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 1: be done, but because of the contracts or the money

1654
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: that gets in the way, it's not going to be

1655
01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 1: done when they're making decisions against that, when they're making

1656
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 1: football decisions instead of financial decisions, when they're making letting

1657
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 1: guys who have really worked hard, have been great teammates,

1658
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 1: who have done everything they've asked them to do, and

1659
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:54,680
Speaker 1: at the current moment, are playing better than the guy

1660
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:58,760
Speaker 1: who's starting. Yeah, they get on the field. I can't

1661
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:03,040
Speaker 1: tell you how far that carries the trust of a

1662
01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:07,160
Speaker 1: of a locker room. And I'll tell you this, not

1663
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:11,479
Speaker 1: for nothing. Word gets out. Yeah, word gets out across

1664
01:30:11,520 --> 01:30:14,120
Speaker 1: the league. You're across the league. You got guys saying, yeah,

1665
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:16,640
Speaker 1: I'll go to Buffalo, and that has not always been

1666
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 1: the case. Break time for us here. When we come back,

1667
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 1: more of your comments on the tweet. Chet and Brian

1668
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:23,799
Speaker 1: Balding are coming up in about ten to twelve minutes

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01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:27,360
Speaker 1: from NFL Network. Plenty left for you on the table

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01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: here on a Thursday edition of One Bills Live. We're

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01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:44,120
Speaker 1: back in a minute. Welcome back, One Bills Live is

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01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:46,320
Speaker 1: the name of the show. Thanks for joining us. Chris

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01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:49,519
Speaker 1: Brown here, Steve Tasker there Other than the Chiefs which

1674
01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:51,759
Speaker 1: team is the biggest threat to the Bills in the AFC.

1675
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 1: As we go back to the tweet, chet Rachel says,

1676
01:30:54,360 --> 01:30:58,080
Speaker 1: I think the young qbs like Justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence,

1677
01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:00,719
Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow can threaten us, maybe out this season,

1678
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:05,600
Speaker 1: but very soon. The Browns, Colts, and Ravens are known quantities.

1679
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:09,560
Speaker 1: They're good. But we know we can handle them, do

1680
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 1: we do? We know we can handle them? I mean,

1681
01:31:12,080 --> 01:31:14,200
Speaker 1: I know they beat the Colts and the Ravens and

1682
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:16,280
Speaker 1: back to back games in the playoffs last year, so

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01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:20,960
Speaker 1: I would be inclined to agree. The Browns are somewhat

1684
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:23,200
Speaker 1: of an unknown in terms of how they would match

1685
01:31:23,280 --> 01:31:26,200
Speaker 1: up with Buffalo because we haven't seen it, at least

1686
01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:28,760
Speaker 1: not since twenty nineteen, which was a game loss due

1687
01:31:28,760 --> 01:31:31,600
Speaker 1: to missfield goals. Well, here's every Every year's different. The

1688
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:33,080
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna be a different team. They're gonna be

1689
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:34,800
Speaker 1: a little different this year. On offense, they're gonna be

1690
01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:36,760
Speaker 1: doing some different things. They're gonna have more, you know,

1691
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 1: different weapons, different tools to work with in the toolbox.

1692
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:42,560
Speaker 1: The defense is going to be different, manned by a

1693
01:31:42,600 --> 01:31:46,400
Speaker 1: lot of young players and with a veteran secondary veteran

1694
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 1: linebacking corps. But there things are going to be different

1695
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:50,960
Speaker 1: for the Bills, and all these other teams are gonna have,

1696
01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:54,679
Speaker 1: even if not the same amount of changes, even more changes,

1697
01:31:54,680 --> 01:31:56,720
Speaker 1: so they're gonna be different. The Colts are gonna be

1698
01:31:56,760 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 1: a much better different football team with Carson Wentzon and

1699
01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:01,639
Speaker 1: they were with Philip Rivers Wentz. He's got a better arm,

1700
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:05,200
Speaker 1: bigger arm. He brings a different set of skills to

1701
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:08,160
Speaker 1: the table. It's gonna be a different football team. The

1702
01:32:08,280 --> 01:32:10,040
Speaker 1: Browns are gonna be different. They're gonna have a year

1703
01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:11,639
Speaker 1: under their belt. They're gonna be back in the same

1704
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:15,400
Speaker 1: offense for the first time in Baker Mayfield's career. There's

1705
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:17,559
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of differences for all of these teams.

1706
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:21,240
Speaker 1: They're gonna evolve just by the nature of the off

1707
01:32:21,320 --> 01:32:24,320
Speaker 1: season and what happens in players leaving and players being added.

1708
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:28,040
Speaker 1: So we don't know anything about these teams. We know

1709
01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:31,200
Speaker 1: about their coaching staffs, we know about the good players,

1710
01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:34,840
Speaker 1: but there's a ton that we don't know about. You know,

1711
01:32:34,920 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 1: we still have a whole preseason to get through. We

1712
01:32:37,120 --> 01:32:40,519
Speaker 1: got a whole offseason to get through, and we had,

1713
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:44,840
Speaker 1: let's face it how many people felt like they had

1714
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:46,720
Speaker 1: a handle on who the Buffalo Bills were last year

1715
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:50,639
Speaker 1: before the season started, and everybody was wrong. Oh nobody

1716
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 1: had everybody was wrong, every single person. So we just

1717
01:32:57,160 --> 01:33:00,840
Speaker 1: don't know. We just don't know. And certainly, given what

1718
01:33:00,920 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 1: happened last year, and given the talent that's returning the

1719
01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:05,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, you gotta feel good about your ability to

1720
01:33:05,479 --> 01:33:09,440
Speaker 1: compete with absolutely any team in the league. Chiefs, Buccaneers,

1721
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 1: start with them, and go down the list. The Bills

1722
01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:14,960
Speaker 1: are going to be in that conversation. So yeah, we

1723
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:17,519
Speaker 1: don't there's a lot we don't know. But you've got

1724
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:19,719
Speaker 1: to feel good about where your team is in Buffalo.

1725
01:33:19,920 --> 01:33:21,880
Speaker 1: But you also got to feel good. The Browns fans

1726
01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:24,880
Speaker 1: gotta feel good, Colt fans gotta feel good. Baltimore fans

1727
01:33:24,920 --> 01:33:28,519
Speaker 1: gotta feel good. You know, Miami's gonna feel like they're

1728
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:31,000
Speaker 1: gonna get better. The Patriots are getting guys back off

1729
01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:35,280
Speaker 1: their opt out list, and you know they're gonna maybe

1730
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:37,240
Speaker 1: have a guy at quarterback that's going to be better.

1731
01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:39,120
Speaker 1: Thank Cam Newton's going to be better at another year

1732
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:42,280
Speaker 1: in that offense. So all these teams have got reason

1733
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:45,000
Speaker 1: to be optimistic Bills are no different. Nick says, the

1734
01:33:45,080 --> 01:33:47,479
Speaker 1: Browns have talent, but I think Baker is just slightly

1735
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:49,800
Speaker 1: above average and I'm hoping they'll run. Last year was

1736
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:52,519
Speaker 1: just a flash in the pan. Similarly, I think the

1737
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 1: Ravens have hit their ceiling with Lamar. It's the teams

1738
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:58,720
Speaker 1: with young talented qbs like the Chargers that worry me.

1739
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:01,800
Speaker 1: So Nick other there and I get that. I mean,

1740
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:05,479
Speaker 1: Herbert throws for thirty one touchdowns as a rookie in

1741
01:34:05,640 --> 01:34:09,960
Speaker 1: fifteen games, and he's got a lot of weapons around him.

1742
01:34:10,439 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 1: They rebuilt their offensive line, their defense should have a

1743
01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:17,559
Speaker 1: healthy Joey Bosa and a healthy Derwin James. Who are

1744
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: their elite players. So yeah, they've got some guys. The

1745
01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:27,559
Speaker 1: only the only question there is new offensive scheme, coaching

1746
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:31,759
Speaker 1: staff out, new coaching staff, in new scheme for Herbert

1747
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:34,280
Speaker 1: to master in year two, and we saw what that

1748
01:34:34,360 --> 01:34:37,400
Speaker 1: did to Baker Mayfield. It stunted his growth as a

1749
01:34:37,479 --> 01:34:39,720
Speaker 1: player and a young quarterback in this league. Will it's

1750
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 1: stunt justin Herbert's growth, That is the question, And I

1751
01:34:43,240 --> 01:34:46,080
Speaker 1: think if he answers that resoundingly, well, then yeah, you

1752
01:34:46,200 --> 01:34:48,400
Speaker 1: may have to worry about the Chargers as a wildcard

1753
01:34:48,439 --> 01:34:50,800
Speaker 1: team coming out of the AFC West behind the Chiefs.

1754
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna be able to throw the football, well, you

1755
01:34:53,080 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 1: got to have an answer for that, and their defense

1756
01:34:56,040 --> 01:35:00,559
Speaker 1: should be able to rush the passer. They've got some people,

1757
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:03,280
Speaker 1: but they've got a new coaching staff and a rookie

1758
01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:07,400
Speaker 1: head coach. Yeah, and he reached switched head coaches. It's

1759
01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:09,719
Speaker 1: hard to get deep into, especially a first time NFL

1760
01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:12,920
Speaker 1: h It's a it's a debilitating factor, I think more

1761
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:15,960
Speaker 1: than an enhancement in most cases now, as the history

1762
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:18,439
Speaker 1: of the league has told us right well, in most days.

1763
01:35:18,880 --> 01:35:21,519
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott got a team that hadn't been to the

1764
01:35:21,560 --> 01:35:23,719
Speaker 1: playoffs in seventeen years. He got them to the playoffs

1765
01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:26,000
Speaker 1: with a lesser roster than the team had seen in

1766
01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:29,040
Speaker 1: years prior. But even then they were nine and seven

1767
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:31,720
Speaker 1: and needed help and needs a ton of health. So

1768
01:35:32,240 --> 01:35:35,040
Speaker 1: there's that break time for us. When we return, it's

1769
01:35:35,160 --> 01:35:38,200
Speaker 1: NFL Networks Brian Baldinger joining us, going to talk to

1770
01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:39,880
Speaker 1: him about some of the new additions to the Bill's

1771
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:42,599
Speaker 1: roster this year and what it could mean for their

1772
01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 1: fortunes this fall. Brian Baldinger next here on One Bill's Live,

1773
01:35:46,400 --> 01:35:48,439
Speaker 1: presented by a lot of health It's Buffalo Bill's Radio

1774
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 1: Ada Steve Castor, who has been all over the fields.

1775
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:10,559
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1776
01:36:10,640 --> 01:36:16,960
Speaker 1: player for you, state Steve a blimp. We're not even

1777
01:36:17,040 --> 01:36:23,559
Speaker 1: in the stratore of normalcy here. Welcome to our number

1778
01:36:23,600 --> 01:36:27,320
Speaker 1: three of one Bills Live and without any further hesitation,

1779
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:30,720
Speaker 1: joining the show as odyst the NFL Insider Brian Baldinger.

1780
01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:34,240
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1784
01:36:45,640 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 1: how are you doing guy, Thanks for joining us. We

1785
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:49,200
Speaker 1: haven't talked to you in a while now. It has

1786
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:51,400
Speaker 1: been a while, guys, but we're under the hundred day

1787
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:54,200
Speaker 1: mark until we kick this thing off, so it's probably

1788
01:36:54,200 --> 01:36:57,479
Speaker 1: about time to start, you know, ramping up these discussions. Yeah,

1789
01:36:57,479 --> 01:36:59,600
Speaker 1: and a couple of weeks out of the draft, you

1790
01:36:59,640 --> 01:37:02,559
Speaker 1: get an idea and these teams enter their OTA's Buffalo

1791
01:37:02,680 --> 01:37:05,120
Speaker 1: Bills have over the last week and now this entering

1792
01:37:05,160 --> 01:37:07,439
Speaker 1: their second week a lot of new faces. What do

1793
01:37:07,479 --> 01:37:10,639
Speaker 1: you think about the Bill's draft, Greg Rousseau, Spencer Long,

1794
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:14,280
Speaker 1: Boogie Basham and then of course Emmanuel Sanders coming in

1795
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 1: off the free agent market. A lot of new some

1796
01:37:16,320 --> 01:37:20,599
Speaker 1: pretty key new faces for this franchise. I agree. I agree.

1797
01:37:20,680 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 1: Steve I was a big Boogie Basham fan. Both my

1798
01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 1: brothers went to Wake for us. I kind of followed him.

1799
01:37:27,200 --> 01:37:30,360
Speaker 1: He stayed there, I think for five years. Pretty mature kid.

1800
01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:33,519
Speaker 1: Put up a lot of numbers. Rousseau like, I mean,

1801
01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 1: there's a big upside to him, you know, but he

1802
01:37:36,400 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 1: did it for one year, so you know, I think

1803
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:39,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot to learn there. But I think there's

1804
01:37:39,920 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 1: a lot to work with. And you know, the last

1805
01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:45,640
Speaker 1: time we saw Buffalo Steve, we you know, we saw him,

1806
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 1: you know, get bounced out of the tournament by Kansas

1807
01:37:48,200 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 1: City and they really didn't pressure Patrick Mahomes the whole day.

1808
01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:56,599
Speaker 1: And if you know, the AFC goes through Kansas City

1809
01:37:56,720 --> 01:37:59,240
Speaker 1: for you know, the next couple of years, you know

1810
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:03,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna find way to pressure you know, Mahome's the

1811
01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 1: way Tampa did in the Super Bowl. And you know

1812
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:07,800
Speaker 1: it starts with pash Russ and I think they had

1813
01:38:07,840 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: to get younger and more explosive there, and with those

1814
01:38:11,120 --> 01:38:13,280
Speaker 1: two guys, they've got a lot to work with right now,

1815
01:38:13,439 --> 01:38:17,280
Speaker 1: it would appear, Brian that Basham has the higher floor

1816
01:38:18,080 --> 01:38:21,200
Speaker 1: than Rousseau does, bigger body of work as you well know,

1817
01:38:22,880 --> 01:38:26,559
Speaker 1: you know, just more polished, not necessarily going to maybe

1818
01:38:26,600 --> 01:38:28,760
Speaker 1: be the better player in the long run in comparison

1819
01:38:28,800 --> 01:38:32,960
Speaker 1: to Rousseau, but certainly looks more poised to be an

1820
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:36,599
Speaker 1: early contributor in terms of his long body of work

1821
01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:40,640
Speaker 1: and experience. So knowing he's a guy that is not

1822
01:38:40,760 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 1: only an edge guy, but you can kick down inside,

1823
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:46,840
Speaker 1: what are your what would be your forecast for him

1824
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:50,719
Speaker 1: as a rookie on this defensive line, It's hard to project.

1825
01:38:50,840 --> 01:38:53,639
Speaker 1: It's just such a different game than what he saw

1826
01:38:53,800 --> 01:38:57,759
Speaker 1: at Wake Forest in the ACC and so it usually

1827
01:38:57,920 --> 01:39:00,640
Speaker 1: takes I mean Steve was there, was Ruce Smith. That

1828
01:39:00,760 --> 01:39:03,439
Speaker 1: usually takes a year for a lot of these guys

1829
01:39:03,479 --> 01:39:05,880
Speaker 1: to figure it out. I mean, look at the numbers

1830
01:39:05,920 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 1: of Kleil Mack and Aaron Donald. Some of these guys

1831
01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:10,599
Speaker 1: that came into the league are stars now they weren't

1832
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:13,200
Speaker 1: that first year. It's tough. It's hard to predict, like

1833
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:15,360
Speaker 1: which one of these guy mean bash him. Yes, he's

1834
01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:18,000
Speaker 1: got a lot more polish, he's played a lot more football,

1835
01:39:18,439 --> 01:39:20,599
Speaker 1: but doesn't necessarily mean he's going to figure it out

1836
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:23,439
Speaker 1: the quickest. So he's just gotta play him. You gotta

1837
01:39:23,439 --> 01:39:25,639
Speaker 1: play him, You gotta, you know, you gotta. You gotta

1838
01:39:25,680 --> 01:39:27,880
Speaker 1: get him out there in preseason a little bit, test

1839
01:39:27,960 --> 01:39:29,960
Speaker 1: them and throw them in there and see just how

1840
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:33,120
Speaker 1: they respond and you know, how they react to different

1841
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:35,760
Speaker 1: formations and just a whole lot more going on than

1842
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:37,760
Speaker 1: what they saw in college. One of the things we

1843
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:40,280
Speaker 1: noticed about the Bills overall in their draft was they

1844
01:39:40,360 --> 01:39:43,240
Speaker 1: got like three guys that are six seven or six eight.

1845
01:39:45,040 --> 01:39:47,360
Speaker 1: You're you played offensive line in the NFL. What does

1846
01:39:47,439 --> 01:39:49,840
Speaker 1: that length mean to you? Get to have guys at

1847
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,800
Speaker 1: the edges are even interior wise that are that have

1848
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:57,800
Speaker 1: that kind of length and girth. Well, I think there

1849
01:39:57,960 --> 01:40:01,760
Speaker 1: is a prototype not all the time, Steve, but a

1850
01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:04,799
Speaker 1: lot of times there's a prototype for arm length, size

1851
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 1: of you know, just certain metrics that you're looking for

1852
01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:10,760
Speaker 1: in order to find a guy that could play. Does

1853
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:13,920
Speaker 1: always mean that they work out, but you know, you

1854
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:16,960
Speaker 1: have a better chance when you could keep defensive linement

1855
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:19,640
Speaker 1: off you just buy your arm length even in the

1856
01:40:19,720 --> 01:40:21,960
Speaker 1: seventh round. I'm a big fan of Jack Anderson. I

1857
01:40:22,080 --> 01:40:25,120
Speaker 1: do big twelve games that saw at Texas Tech. He

1858
01:40:25,160 --> 01:40:28,120
Speaker 1: started as a freshman there for Cliff Kingsbury. I mean,

1859
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:30,200
Speaker 1: I think all these guys, you know, have a chance,

1860
01:40:31,360 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: you know, to kind of add some depth, you know,

1861
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:35,760
Speaker 1: along with your offensive line, along with Spencer Brown. You

1862
01:40:35,840 --> 01:40:37,920
Speaker 1: talk about Rousseau, He's got all the you know, he

1863
01:40:38,040 --> 01:40:40,599
Speaker 1: looks good in a in a uniform. He just does.

1864
01:40:40,680 --> 01:40:42,680
Speaker 1: He's long and he's lean, and it's kind of what

1865
01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:44,840
Speaker 1: you're looking for. You know. We've got to see what

1866
01:40:44,960 --> 01:40:47,240
Speaker 1: kind of power he has and you know, if he's

1867
01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:49,400
Speaker 1: got any kind of counter moves right now, which you know,

1868
01:40:49,439 --> 01:40:52,840
Speaker 1: I think he's got to learn. Emmanuel Sanders Bryan is

1869
01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:57,160
Speaker 1: obviously the the top skill position add of the offseason

1870
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:01,080
Speaker 1: for the Bills and a different time of receiver than

1871
01:41:01,240 --> 01:41:04,880
Speaker 1: John Brown, who was a salary cap casualty. How do

1872
01:41:05,000 --> 01:41:09,839
Speaker 1: you see sanders skill set maybe diversifying this team's passing

1873
01:41:09,960 --> 01:41:13,640
Speaker 1: game further. Well, he's a great route runner. You know,

1874
01:41:13,680 --> 01:41:16,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that there is anybody better than Stfind

1875
01:41:16,120 --> 01:41:19,400
Speaker 1: Diggs in his business right now, Davante Adams, you know.

1876
01:41:19,439 --> 01:41:21,080
Speaker 1: I mean you go to a couple of Marie Cooper,

1877
01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:24,040
Speaker 1: there's a Keenan Allen, There's there's a handful that are

1878
01:41:24,080 --> 01:41:26,519
Speaker 1: really at the top, but right but Emmanuel Sanders is

1879
01:41:26,600 --> 01:41:29,640
Speaker 1: right there. And you know why that becomes important is

1880
01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:33,040
Speaker 1: when you grew up against the Patriots, you know you're

1881
01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:35,720
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of man coverage and you've

1882
01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:38,280
Speaker 1: got to be able to beat to find Gilmore or

1883
01:41:38,560 --> 01:41:40,880
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones, you know, the guys that they put out there.

1884
01:41:41,280 --> 01:41:43,200
Speaker 1: And when you're a great route runner, you've got a

1885
01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:46,200
Speaker 1: better chance of separating and making a little bit easier,

1886
01:41:46,840 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 1: you know, for Josh Allen to find you. And so

1887
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:52,280
Speaker 1: John Brown had great speed, he wasn't a great route runner.

1888
01:41:52,640 --> 01:41:54,840
Speaker 1: So I think you know, you you sort of trade

1889
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:58,280
Speaker 1: in the speed that Smokey had, you know, for the

1890
01:41:58,400 --> 01:42:01,080
Speaker 1: route running that Emmanuel Sanders is the polished guy. I

1891
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: mean you look at the places he's been, whether you

1892
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:07,880
Speaker 1: know Pittsburgh or what he did in San Francisco. I

1893
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:11,439
Speaker 1: mean he he elevates your core because of his ability

1894
01:42:11,479 --> 01:42:14,360
Speaker 1: to beat man coverage. Um, you know, with a variety

1895
01:42:14,360 --> 01:42:18,920
Speaker 1: of moves and the bills this week turned all of

1896
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:23,200
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs all but the veteran minimum into a bonus

1897
01:42:23,439 --> 01:42:25,679
Speaker 1: and freed up some cap space, and people are looking

1898
01:42:25,720 --> 01:42:28,160
Speaker 1: at the tight end position. Maybe they trade for zach ERTs.

1899
01:42:28,200 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 1: Maybe they're clearing up cap space to go out and

1900
01:42:30,400 --> 01:42:34,120
Speaker 1: get a guy. What spot if it is tight end,

1901
01:42:34,160 --> 01:42:36,760
Speaker 1: what other spot would there be? Or if if so,

1902
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:39,439
Speaker 1: tell us tight end? You know, what would you see

1903
01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:42,680
Speaker 1: the Bills move? What would what personnel would they bring in?

1904
01:42:42,920 --> 01:42:45,280
Speaker 1: And what position? Do you see them making a move

1905
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:48,479
Speaker 1: because they just freed up this cap space? Well it

1906
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:50,640
Speaker 1: may it might be just a sign. You know, the

1907
01:42:50,760 --> 01:42:53,040
Speaker 1: number of draft picks right now, that might be part

1908
01:42:53,080 --> 01:42:57,160
Speaker 1: of it. Um. You know, they are a big four

1909
01:42:57,280 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: wide receiver personnel team. They don't play a lot of

1910
01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:05,320
Speaker 1: eleven Personnelity played the most poor wide receivers formations of

1911
01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:06,840
Speaker 1: any team in the league. They'd like to get their

1912
01:43:06,920 --> 01:43:10,519
Speaker 1: four guys out there now, can't. You know. It doesn't

1913
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:12,720
Speaker 1: mean that Tianko make a move for zach Ertz, but

1914
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:15,600
Speaker 1: I just don't see it at this point. I mean,

1915
01:43:15,680 --> 01:43:19,680
Speaker 1: I think Dawson, Knox and Sweeney and Hollister they kind

1916
01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: of serve the role that they need, you know, when

1917
01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:25,080
Speaker 1: they want to go two tight ends and they're now

1918
01:43:25,080 --> 01:43:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm to go around whatever short yardage and you want

1919
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:30,040
Speaker 1: to get some bigger bodies on the edge to be

1920
01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:31,800
Speaker 1: able to block. I mean, those guys can do that

1921
01:43:31,960 --> 01:43:34,519
Speaker 1: better I think than zach Ertz can. Zach Ertz has

1922
01:43:34,520 --> 01:43:36,880
Speaker 1: been a really good receiver in this league. But you know,

1923
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:39,160
Speaker 1: would you rather hoist to find digs in the slot

1924
01:43:39,280 --> 01:43:42,320
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Sanders? Who would you rather zach Ertz? I mean,

1925
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 1: I might take you know, the receivers and put those

1926
01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:50,240
Speaker 1: guys in the slot. So I but if there's another position,

1927
01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:54,040
Speaker 1: I don't think that you can ever get enough pass

1928
01:43:54,120 --> 01:43:57,360
Speaker 1: rushers in this business right now. And if there's somebody

1929
01:43:57,400 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 1: out there that they might be able to get because

1930
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:02,559
Speaker 1: of the June first casualty or you know, somebody's trying

1931
01:44:02,600 --> 01:44:05,280
Speaker 1: to save some money or whatever, I mean, I still

1932
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 1: look at that area right now. The position flex going

1933
01:44:09,400 --> 01:44:12,320
Speaker 1: back to the draft class here, Brian, the position flexibility

1934
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:16,640
Speaker 1: that Brandon Bean has talked about with Rousseau and with

1935
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:20,719
Speaker 1: Basham is something that it looks like the Bills covet

1936
01:44:20,840 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: not not just on the defensive line, but on the

1937
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:26,760
Speaker 1: offensive line among other places. Um. I know these guys

1938
01:44:26,800 --> 01:44:31,040
Speaker 1: are young, they're green, there's going to be a learning curve. Uh.

1939
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 1: What are the potential gains of having position flexibility with

1940
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:39,920
Speaker 1: with those two players, and what are the potential pitfalls

1941
01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:44,240
Speaker 1: of giving them maybe too much to handle as rookies

1942
01:44:44,280 --> 01:44:46,840
Speaker 1: in this league. What's the balance there? Well, I mean

1943
01:44:46,880 --> 01:44:49,360
Speaker 1: there's a good question, and there's really no right answer

1944
01:44:49,439 --> 01:44:52,400
Speaker 1: because it's it's it's person by person, and so you know,

1945
01:44:52,439 --> 01:44:54,880
Speaker 1: if they can handle it. Uh, you know, I've seen

1946
01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:58,160
Speaker 1: I've seen Russel play on the nose right, you know,

1947
01:44:58,439 --> 01:45:00,280
Speaker 1: in the three man from when he when he really

1948
01:45:00,320 --> 01:45:03,840
Speaker 1: started in twenty nineteen, the three man package, he was

1949
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:06,760
Speaker 1: on the center and running around and you're seeing bash

1950
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:10,240
Speaker 1: him inside. Outside. Is really up to the player, um

1951
01:45:10,360 --> 01:45:12,920
Speaker 1: to how much they can handle. And everybody's different. I mean,

1952
01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:15,439
Speaker 1: you want to be able to You want them if

1953
01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 1: you're going to get them on the field early, you

1954
01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:19,599
Speaker 1: want them to be able to play fast. And if

1955
01:45:19,640 --> 01:45:22,320
Speaker 1: they're thinking too much or if they're bogged down by

1956
01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:25,160
Speaker 1: you know, just you know, too many notes. You know

1957
01:45:25,200 --> 01:45:27,400
Speaker 1: that's not going to be productive. But it's it's it's

1958
01:45:27,560 --> 01:45:31,720
Speaker 1: it's player by player. Everybody can handle a little bit different, um,

1959
01:45:32,080 --> 01:45:35,120
Speaker 1: you know, and the more you. The more comfortable you get,

1960
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:37,640
Speaker 1: the more that you can probably handle. But you know,

1961
01:45:37,880 --> 01:45:40,439
Speaker 1: in this fifty three man roster that they have and

1962
01:45:40,840 --> 01:45:44,200
Speaker 1: you're dressing forty seven on Sunday, Um, it's good to

1963
01:45:44,280 --> 01:45:47,200
Speaker 1: have some flexibility when guys go down, guys get hurt.

1964
01:45:47,520 --> 01:45:50,479
Speaker 1: You're up there a seventeen game schedule right now, Um,

1965
01:45:50,720 --> 01:45:53,360
Speaker 1: you know you better have some depth. And so whether

1966
01:45:53,400 --> 01:45:56,920
Speaker 1: it's offensive line, but Jack Anderson could play. I believe

1967
01:45:56,960 --> 01:45:59,040
Speaker 1: you could play guard and tackle. You know, it's good

1968
01:45:59,080 --> 01:46:01,880
Speaker 1: to have guys like that they can do both. Have

1969
01:46:02,040 --> 01:46:04,479
Speaker 1: you noticed in your film study and the trends in

1970
01:46:04,600 --> 01:46:07,880
Speaker 1: the league that defenses are starting to try to find

1971
01:46:08,040 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 1: guys who are positionless kind of athletes because of you know,

1972
01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:15,599
Speaker 1: it's turned into offensively, it's turned into a matchup league

1973
01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:18,000
Speaker 1: where you know, you said the Bills throw four wides

1974
01:46:18,040 --> 01:46:20,400
Speaker 1: out there. They don't know that you've got four guys

1975
01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:23,400
Speaker 1: that can cover that deep man demand. So at least

1976
01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:26,120
Speaker 1: they force you to zone off and they can become predictable.

1977
01:46:26,160 --> 01:46:29,240
Speaker 1: But we've also seen guys like Ooosu Cormoa come out

1978
01:46:29,280 --> 01:46:31,599
Speaker 1: of college who are kind of a tweener that are

1979
01:46:31,600 --> 01:46:34,519
Speaker 1: pretty highly coveted because defenses want to be able to

1980
01:46:35,240 --> 01:46:37,760
Speaker 1: leave guys on the field and not get caught with

1981
01:46:37,880 --> 01:46:41,960
Speaker 1: a bad matchup. Do you see that trend happening? Absolutely? Absolutely.

1982
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:43,519
Speaker 1: I've been seeing it now for a couple of years.

1983
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:47,559
Speaker 1: I thought the quintessential player that you're describing right now,

1984
01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:50,760
Speaker 1: Steve was Derwin James and all the different roles that

1985
01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:53,320
Speaker 1: the Chargers played him in. But Jeremy Chin last year

1986
01:46:53,400 --> 01:46:56,640
Speaker 1: with Carolina led him and tackles, played safety in some

1987
01:46:56,800 --> 01:47:00,840
Speaker 1: cases played mostly a dime linebacker, you know. But now

1988
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:03,800
Speaker 1: they're talking about moving them back to safety. So yes,

1989
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a great deal more flexibility with guys that

1990
01:47:08,240 --> 01:47:12,200
Speaker 1: can be those tweeners, and I think that's the direction

1991
01:47:12,240 --> 01:47:14,280
Speaker 1: it's going. I thought, you know, we saw it with

1992
01:47:14,360 --> 01:47:17,120
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, were it was just, I mean,

1993
01:47:17,160 --> 01:47:20,960
Speaker 1: they called it positionalist basketball, and I think it's getting

1994
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:23,479
Speaker 1: to be that way in the NFL quite a bit

1995
01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:25,960
Speaker 1: right now. And you're looking for those guys that really

1996
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:28,160
Speaker 1: can line up in a variety of spots depending on

1997
01:47:28,280 --> 01:47:32,160
Speaker 1: what's needed. Brian, one of your colleagues at NFL Network,

1998
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:37,440
Speaker 1: Tom Pellisero, was reporting yesterday how there is some discussion

1999
01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:43,439
Speaker 1: about keeping some of the COVID roster rules intact, namely

2000
01:47:43,520 --> 01:47:47,799
Speaker 1: the sixteen man practice squad and the reduction of time

2001
01:47:47,960 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: to return from i R which last year, as you know,

2002
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:54,240
Speaker 1: was reduced from eight to three weeks. These seem like

2003
01:47:54,560 --> 01:47:57,760
Speaker 1: things that coaching staffs would be wildly in favor of

2004
01:47:57,920 --> 01:48:01,760
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. What do you feel are the long

2005
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:05,360
Speaker 1: term benefits, especially considering there is an extra regular season

2006
01:48:05,439 --> 01:48:07,760
Speaker 1: game to be played this year. Well, I mean, I

2007
01:48:07,840 --> 01:48:11,200
Speaker 1: think I read that article that Tom wrote yesterday was

2008
01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:14,880
Speaker 1: well done, and I agree with Tom, you know that

2009
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:19,120
Speaker 1: I think we could very well see all the COVID

2010
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:22,840
Speaker 1: things that were put in place last year because of

2011
01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:25,080
Speaker 1: the uncertainty of a lot of players all the way

2012
01:48:25,120 --> 01:48:27,640
Speaker 1: up to game time staying in place this year. I

2013
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:31,800
Speaker 1: mean it's you can really kind of develop some younger

2014
01:48:31,880 --> 01:48:34,120
Speaker 1: players that way, you can have a little bit more

2015
01:48:34,200 --> 01:48:36,920
Speaker 1: flexibility with you know, who you dress, who you don't dress.

2016
01:48:37,240 --> 01:48:39,800
Speaker 1: I think those benefits to all of that. I think

2017
01:48:39,840 --> 01:48:43,560
Speaker 1: the Union would be crazy not to be bargaining to

2018
01:48:43,640 --> 01:48:45,599
Speaker 1: get as many players on a roster in a variety

2019
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 1: of ways with his practice squad or active roster or

2020
01:48:48,880 --> 01:48:51,720
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. You know, the downside is you know,

2021
01:48:51,760 --> 01:48:55,160
Speaker 1: the owners don't want to spend that much money on salaries,

2022
01:48:55,400 --> 01:48:57,840
Speaker 1: so that'd be the downside. But if you're going to

2023
01:48:58,160 --> 01:49:01,000
Speaker 1: expand to a summon team game roster, and you could

2024
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:02,519
Speaker 1: bet in a few years they're going to try to

2025
01:49:02,560 --> 01:49:05,280
Speaker 1: get to an eighteen game roster, then you better have

2026
01:49:05,760 --> 01:49:09,280
Speaker 1: enough healthy bodies to get you through a season. And

2027
01:49:09,439 --> 01:49:11,880
Speaker 1: so I think some of these protocols we saw put

2028
01:49:11,920 --> 01:49:14,880
Speaker 1: in place last year, I have a pretty good feeling

2029
01:49:14,920 --> 01:49:17,320
Speaker 1: that they're going to stick in place this year. Well,

2030
01:49:17,320 --> 01:49:18,960
Speaker 1: we saw the draft take place in a bunch of

2031
01:49:19,080 --> 01:49:21,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks taking in the first round. Which one of those

2032
01:49:21,320 --> 01:49:26,759
Speaker 1: guys is going to succeed the earliest, Well, it depends

2033
01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:28,360
Speaker 1: on you know. I mean, I think you know a

2034
01:49:28,400 --> 01:49:30,280
Speaker 1: guy like Zach Wilson is going to get on the

2035
01:49:30,360 --> 01:49:33,360
Speaker 1: field earliest, and Trevor Lawrence, so they have the chance

2036
01:49:34,640 --> 01:49:38,760
Speaker 1: probably playing right away. They're projected to start right away.

2037
01:49:38,760 --> 01:49:40,599
Speaker 1: I don't know that Trey Lance is going to start

2038
01:49:41,120 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: right away, or Justin Fields or Kyle Trask. So I mean,

2039
01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:48,240
Speaker 1: I think you know that Trevor Lawrence is going to

2040
01:49:48,280 --> 01:49:50,360
Speaker 1: get a great opportunity along with Zach Wilson. The first

2041
01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:54,280
Speaker 1: and second players taking Steve to step on step on

2042
01:49:54,360 --> 01:49:58,200
Speaker 1: the field and help turn things around for their respective organizations.

2043
01:49:59,160 --> 01:50:02,200
Speaker 1: I was a big just And Fields fan. I think Chicago,

2044
01:50:02,840 --> 01:50:04,680
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be tough to keep him off

2045
01:50:04,720 --> 01:50:08,479
Speaker 1: the field, regardless of you know, how Andy Dalton is playing.

2046
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:11,720
Speaker 1: I mean, the fans want to see somebody new, not

2047
01:50:11,880 --> 01:50:14,160
Speaker 1: somebody that's on their third football team right now that

2048
01:50:14,240 --> 01:50:17,200
Speaker 1: hasn't won a playoff game. So I think Justin Fields,

2049
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:19,160
Speaker 1: you know, by the time you get to mid season,

2050
01:50:19,200 --> 01:50:21,839
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if he is at the starting quarterback

2051
01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:25,800
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Do you think Justin Fields stock was hurt

2052
01:50:26,360 --> 01:50:30,519
Speaker 1: because he came from a university whose former quarterbacks have

2053
01:50:30,800 --> 01:50:34,200
Speaker 1: not fared well in the NFL? Did that history hurt

2054
01:50:34,320 --> 01:50:36,080
Speaker 1: him at all? Or they have the ability to just

2055
01:50:36,160 --> 01:50:40,040
Speaker 1: take these guys as individuals. I hope not, Steve. I

2056
01:50:40,080 --> 01:50:42,920
Speaker 1: mean I've heard that, you know, and I've heard that

2057
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:46,080
Speaker 1: about other positions from other schools. But I'd taught fair

2058
01:50:46,200 --> 01:50:49,880
Speaker 1: to Justin Fields. You know, whether it's Dwayne Haskins or

2059
01:50:50,080 --> 01:50:52,960
Speaker 1: Arch Sleaster or you know, anybody over the course of

2060
01:50:53,080 --> 01:50:56,120
Speaker 1: their history, it's just not fair to Justin Fields. I mean,

2061
01:50:56,160 --> 01:50:57,960
Speaker 1: he was a two year starter played at a high

2062
01:50:58,080 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 1: level out dual Trevor Lawrenson in the semifinal game this

2063
01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:05,080
Speaker 1: year through six touchdown passes in that game. I mean,

2064
01:51:05,240 --> 01:51:08,760
Speaker 1: his body works should stand on its own. So I'm

2065
01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:12,640
Speaker 1: not sure why he's slipped and felt like he did.

2066
01:51:12,800 --> 01:51:14,559
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't really speak to that. I don't

2067
01:51:14,600 --> 01:51:17,080
Speaker 1: know what they were saying in their meetings room. But

2068
01:51:17,200 --> 01:51:20,559
Speaker 1: we have seen plenty of quarterbacks, whether it's Stan Marino

2069
01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:23,640
Speaker 1: or Aaron Rodgers, slip way down to the bottom of

2070
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:26,679
Speaker 1: the draft, and they were the best of their class

2071
01:51:26,840 --> 01:51:29,360
Speaker 1: or as good as anybody in their class. And Lamar Jackson,

2072
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, they Baltimore traded back up into the first

2073
01:51:32,240 --> 01:51:34,639
Speaker 1: round to get him, and he's been he's been a stud.

2074
01:51:34,760 --> 01:51:37,439
Speaker 1: So whether they get drafted, it doesn't really matter. It's

2075
01:51:37,479 --> 01:51:40,080
Speaker 1: what you do with your opportunity. And I think Justin

2076
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 1: Fields will get a great opportunity to prove a lot

2077
01:51:42,360 --> 01:51:45,080
Speaker 1: of people wrong. Last one I've got fourty Baldi is

2078
01:51:45,360 --> 01:51:47,360
Speaker 1: concerning the strength of schedule. I don't know how much

2079
01:51:47,400 --> 01:51:49,040
Speaker 1: stock you really put in it to begin with, but

2080
01:51:49,520 --> 01:51:51,559
Speaker 1: last year the Bills retired for fifth in the league

2081
01:51:51,640 --> 01:51:54,720
Speaker 1: for strongest strength of schedule, and it turned out to

2082
01:51:54,760 --> 01:51:58,000
Speaker 1: be somewhat easier than they anticipated, But thirteen wins is

2083
01:51:58,040 --> 01:52:00,800
Speaker 1: still pretty darn impressive. I know Sanfordsco Was beat up

2084
01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:03,320
Speaker 1: by the time they played them. New England wasn't what

2085
01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:06,160
Speaker 1: they had been obviously without Brady from the year before.

2086
01:52:06,600 --> 01:52:10,479
Speaker 1: Now they've got the ninth easiest strength of schedule. They're

2087
01:52:10,520 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: playing the NFC South in the AFC South. In terms

2088
01:52:13,400 --> 01:52:16,960
Speaker 1: of cross divisions. How much stock I guess, first of all,

2089
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:18,920
Speaker 1: do you put in that strength the schedule knowing it's

2090
01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:23,200
Speaker 1: borrowing records from the year prior? Not much? Not much.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Pittsburgh was eleven and five in a playoff team,

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Speaker 1: but they and they open up with them, of course,

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Speaker 1: but you know they don't look like an eleven and

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01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:32,800
Speaker 1: five team. You know, maybe they rebound. Mike tom has

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01:52:32,840 --> 01:52:35,040
Speaker 1: never had a losing record. I saw him put up

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01:52:35,080 --> 01:52:37,280
Speaker 1: fifty six points in Miami and the last game of

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01:52:37,320 --> 01:52:39,719
Speaker 1: the schedule. I don't think that means anything to Miami

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01:52:39,880 --> 01:52:42,200
Speaker 1: or to Buffalo, So I don't put a lot of

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01:52:42,240 --> 01:52:46,360
Speaker 1: stock in it. You know, it's really when you play

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Speaker 1: these teams more than who you play. You know, what

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Speaker 1: how strong are they, how healthy are they? Is their

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback in are they coming off you know two

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01:52:55,240 --> 01:52:57,639
Speaker 1: road games that an I mean, all those things kind

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Speaker 1: of play into it, so I don't put a lot

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Speaker 1: of stock into it. The Bills will be challenged this year.

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01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:08,160
Speaker 1: Everybody in their division, I believe has gotten better and

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01:53:08,280 --> 01:53:11,080
Speaker 1: they were you know, they were undefeating their division last year,

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Speaker 1: so uh, you know they'll get challenged this year starting

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Speaker 1: in their own division. Baldy, thanks great talking to you, man.

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Speaker 1: Let's not wait so long between visits. Give me a call.

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Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm ready to talk guys. Thanks very much,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it right time, but take care guys. All right.

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Speaker 1: Jason lochan for on Baldy's Breakdowns, with new episodes out

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Speaker 1: every week. Just search Baldy on the Odyssey app or

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Speaker 1: wherever you find your podcasts. He notices a lot of

2121
01:53:52,439 --> 01:53:54,120
Speaker 1: the same stuff we do when we talk about this

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01:53:54,280 --> 01:53:56,519
Speaker 1: every day where you know, you can talk about the

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01:53:56,520 --> 01:53:59,200
Speaker 1: strength of schedule, we'll talk about you know where teams

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01:53:59,200 --> 01:54:01,200
Speaker 1: are when you play them at that time. Also the

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01:54:01,200 --> 01:54:03,639
Speaker 1: stuff about the trends in the NFL, where these defenses

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01:54:03,640 --> 01:54:05,680
Speaker 1: are trying to get eleven guys who can play like

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01:54:05,920 --> 01:54:10,320
Speaker 1: five positions each on the field. Defensive backs who can

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01:54:10,360 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: play safety and corner and slot and outside linebackers who

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01:54:14,479 --> 01:54:17,040
Speaker 1: can cover and also stuff the run or put their hurt,

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01:54:17,240 --> 01:54:19,439
Speaker 1: put their hand on the ground and go after the pass.

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01:54:19,560 --> 01:54:22,800
Speaker 1: Or guys who can drop into coverage from defensive line

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01:54:22,840 --> 01:54:24,960
Speaker 1: spots and be big enough to do it, so being

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Speaker 1: an arrange enough and athletic enough to do it and

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Speaker 1: do the other thing and stop the run. It's it'll

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01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:31,719
Speaker 1: be interesting to see where it goes because the league,

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01:54:31,960 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 1: you can tell, and Baltimore flirted with it two years

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01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:38,120
Speaker 1: ago where you kind of go against the trends. Instead

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01:54:38,120 --> 01:54:40,920
Speaker 1: of becoming a throwing team in a throwing league, they

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01:54:40,920 --> 01:54:43,200
Speaker 1: became a running team and a running league, and everybody

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01:54:43,280 --> 01:54:46,280
Speaker 1: was nobody was built to stop them. Yeah, and it was,

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01:54:46,400 --> 01:54:49,320
Speaker 1: and it makes for a really nice season. Struggle to

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01:54:49,520 --> 01:54:51,480
Speaker 1: duplicate it last year, but they did get the divisional

2143
01:54:51,560 --> 01:54:54,040
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs, which is nothing to be unhappy

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01:54:54,080 --> 01:54:57,680
Speaker 1: about it. And the reason I asked Baldi about the

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01:54:57,800 --> 01:55:01,480
Speaker 1: position flexibility question with respect Rousseau and bash him, you

2146
01:55:01,520 --> 01:55:03,960
Speaker 1: can make the same argument for Addison who kicks inside.

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01:55:04,040 --> 01:55:08,240
Speaker 1: Also among others. Epanessa presumably is going to kick inside

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01:55:08,320 --> 01:55:11,280
Speaker 1: on obvious passing downs and you look at that flexibility

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01:55:11,360 --> 01:55:13,640
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, that should help them. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, with young players, and I asked Brandon

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01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:20,280
Speaker 1: being that question post draft, he said, look, Rousseau is

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01:55:20,280 --> 01:55:22,520
Speaker 1: going to start and left defensive end. We'll have him

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01:55:22,600 --> 01:55:24,600
Speaker 1: learned that first and then we'll see where it goes.

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01:55:24,680 --> 01:55:28,280
Speaker 1: And it really is, as Baldi pointed out, incumbent upon

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01:55:28,520 --> 01:55:35,120
Speaker 1: that individual player and the coach to ascertain he can

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01:55:35,200 --> 01:55:38,560
Speaker 1: handle more. Let's give him more, or we'll hold up.

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01:55:38,640 --> 01:55:41,560
Speaker 1: He's swimming a little bit. Let's just leave him here

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01:55:42,040 --> 01:55:44,840
Speaker 1: and let him grow. There is this as well though

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01:55:45,840 --> 01:55:51,880
Speaker 1: Rousseau has played inside, yes, Boogie has probably taken reps inside, yes,

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Speaker 1: So they're not starting from scratch. They're not starting like

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01:55:55,240 --> 01:55:57,600
Speaker 1: they're not asking them to play inside linebacker instead of

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01:55:57,600 --> 01:55:59,560
Speaker 1: having their hand in the dirt. So they do bring

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01:55:59,680 --> 01:56:01,640
Speaker 1: something into the table in that now there'll be some

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01:56:01,760 --> 01:56:05,200
Speaker 1: idiosyncrasies and some specifics about what the call is in

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01:56:05,280 --> 01:56:07,840
Speaker 1: the verbiage and making sure that in a game, when

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01:56:07,880 --> 01:56:10,440
Speaker 1: you get that call a half a second before the snap,

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01:56:10,840 --> 01:56:14,240
Speaker 1: that's an adjustment. You got to flip that switch quick

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Speaker 1: and do it. Some guys are like, ohit, oh we

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01:56:17,080 --> 01:56:18,960
Speaker 1: switched it. What am I supposed to do in the

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01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:20,960
Speaker 1: ball snapped? And you're you're thinking about it and your

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01:56:21,320 --> 01:56:23,360
Speaker 1: hands still on the ground when the offensive lines off

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01:56:23,440 --> 01:56:29,040
Speaker 1: the ball. So that is a problem. But that to me,

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01:56:29,520 --> 01:56:32,080
Speaker 1: is not a big leap for those guys up front.

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01:56:33,800 --> 01:56:36,600
Speaker 1: There is a lot of and it looks easy. I know, guy,

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01:56:36,720 --> 01:56:38,280
Speaker 1: you know you go up and you try and beat

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01:56:38,320 --> 01:56:40,040
Speaker 1: the guy in front of you. Well, sometimes you're not

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01:56:40,080 --> 01:56:41,720
Speaker 1: supposed to beat the guy in front of you, right,

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of specifics about it that makes

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01:56:44,640 --> 01:56:47,840
Speaker 1: a nuanced position even though it's so physical. But those

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01:56:47,880 --> 01:56:51,040
Speaker 1: guys aren't starting from scratch, and there's a reason why

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01:56:51,200 --> 01:56:53,800
Speaker 1: they were picked high in the draft. They bring something

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01:56:53,880 --> 01:56:57,880
Speaker 1: to the table both skill set and for this team,

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Speaker 1: their character and who the kind of guys there book

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Speaker 1: don't know's nothing sneeze that Boogie Basham played five years

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Speaker 1: of college football team captain. Yeah. They they know what

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Speaker 1: they're up against, and they've started to prepare for that

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01:57:11,960 --> 01:57:15,200
Speaker 1: and are ready to prepare for that at an accelerated rate.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's fair on the outside looking in

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Speaker 1: to expect more early contributions from Basham than say Russeau,

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01:57:22,040 --> 01:57:24,920
Speaker 1: who not only hasn't played in about twenty months on

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01:57:25,040 --> 01:57:29,560
Speaker 1: a game field, but also only has really one year

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Speaker 1: of starting experience. So just logic and history of how

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Speaker 1: players develop in this league should say look for more

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Speaker 1: from Basham early. Yeah, but maybe not. I don't. Maybe

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01:57:42,840 --> 01:57:45,760
Speaker 1: Rousseau is a quick study and he hits the ground running.

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Speaker 1: It's a game of traits. Russeau's got off the chart

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01:57:50,840 --> 01:57:54,280
Speaker 1: traits right, and he's got a year that most of

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Speaker 1: the guys drafted above him in this draft wish they

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Speaker 1: had had two years ago. And if he had been

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01:57:59,600 --> 01:58:01,640
Speaker 1: a year older and that would have been his senior

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Speaker 1: year two years ago, or his junior year even two

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01:58:03,880 --> 01:58:07,560
Speaker 1: years ago, he would have been hot, drafted higher than

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01:58:07,600 --> 01:58:10,520
Speaker 1: any of the guy's taken ahead of him. That's how

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01:58:10,600 --> 01:58:13,360
Speaker 1: good he was. Now. Couple that with what he did

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01:58:13,440 --> 01:58:16,800
Speaker 1: this last offseason when he wasn't playing at all, and

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01:58:16,920 --> 01:58:20,200
Speaker 1: he gained twenty pounds of lean muscle and was committed

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01:58:20,360 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 1: enough to look like he does. Yeah, I think this

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01:58:25,920 --> 01:58:27,840
Speaker 1: is a guy that's going to acclimate a lot faster

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Speaker 1: than maybe the downside of what we suspect could happen.

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01:58:31,000 --> 01:58:32,440
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be on the upside of

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01:58:32,480 --> 01:58:35,280
Speaker 1: it because because here's the thing that gives me pause.

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01:58:35,360 --> 01:58:40,080
Speaker 1: You watch his tape and maybe eight sometimes nine times

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01:58:40,160 --> 01:58:44,360
Speaker 1: out of ten snaps he's winning on move one. Yeah,

2214
01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:47,280
Speaker 1: that's not going to happen in the NFL. What does

2215
01:58:47,320 --> 01:58:50,080
Speaker 1: his counter game look like? If you're winning that often

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01:58:50,160 --> 01:58:52,200
Speaker 1: on your initial move, you never have to go to

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01:58:52,280 --> 01:58:56,440
Speaker 1: the counter. And I wonder how he's going to acclimate

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01:58:56,600 --> 01:58:59,840
Speaker 1: in that way. What does his counter repertoire look like?

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01:59:00,160 --> 01:59:02,600
Speaker 1: And is he going to win on those counters as

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01:59:02,680 --> 01:59:05,360
Speaker 1: often as he won on his initial moves at the

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01:59:05,440 --> 01:59:07,720
Speaker 1: college level. Those are the questions that kind of roll

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01:59:07,800 --> 01:59:10,160
Speaker 1: around in my head when the rubber meets the road

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01:59:10,200 --> 01:59:12,200
Speaker 1: on an NFL field, Because when you're rushing off the

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01:59:12,280 --> 01:59:14,680
Speaker 1: edge in the NFL, that guy you're rushing against usually

2225
01:59:16,280 --> 01:59:18,200
Speaker 1: got as many traits as you do, if not more.

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01:59:18,760 --> 01:59:21,640
Speaker 1: They don't experienced the booting man. They they don't put

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01:59:21,920 --> 01:59:25,640
Speaker 1: just some donkey at tackle offensive tackle in the NFL.

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01:59:25,720 --> 01:59:28,120
Speaker 1: They got some guys out there, all of them, all

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01:59:28,240 --> 01:59:30,560
Speaker 1: thirty two of them, even if they're old and decrepit.

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01:59:31,360 --> 01:59:35,240
Speaker 1: They'll run circles around the general population. So if you

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01:59:35,360 --> 01:59:40,280
Speaker 1: don't have a counter move, you're gonna struggle. You're gonna struggle.

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01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:43,040
Speaker 1: But by the same token, if you get against a

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01:59:43,080 --> 01:59:45,280
Speaker 1: guy who's doesn't have a skill set, a young tackle

2234
01:59:45,400 --> 01:59:47,320
Speaker 1: or whatever, you can have one of those games where

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01:59:47,320 --> 01:59:50,920
Speaker 1: you put four sacks up. And I'm you know, and

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01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:53,120
Speaker 1: he said, usually it takes a year. You know. Bruce

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01:59:53,200 --> 01:59:56,640
Speaker 1: had thirteen and a half in his rookie season, second year.

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01:59:56,800 --> 01:59:58,880
Speaker 1: Second No, no, not in his rookie year, he had

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Speaker 1: six and a half. Let me look at that. Is

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Speaker 1: that true? Okay? I think you had six and a half.

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Speaker 1: It was my second year when I was here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the year I got here. Yes, in eighty six. He

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Speaker 1: had thirteen years and he he had it and he

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02:00:15,280 --> 02:00:19,600
Speaker 1: got it quick. I just you know, I'm just um

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Speaker 1: And that was a year. He did not get selected

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Speaker 1: of the Pro Bowl in eighty six. Um it yeah, maybe, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But I just have higher hopes for russo than I

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02:00:30,800 --> 02:00:33,320
Speaker 1: think people are people are kind of like. I want

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Speaker 1: you to be right. I want you to be right.

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Speaker 1: I think the guy's gonna make a be a big

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Speaker 1: contributor this year. Okay, I'll sign up for it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not Sam Raw. I'll say this. I don't think he's

2253
02:00:44,440 --> 02:00:47,840
Speaker 1: gonna have like ten, twelve, fifteen sacks, but he's gonna

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02:00:47,840 --> 02:00:50,520
Speaker 1: have some, and he's gonna and I think his snap

2255
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Speaker 1: count is gonna be surprisingly high in a team that

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Speaker 1: is notorious for rotating. I'm for it. I hope it happens.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll wrap up your comments on the two sweet cheat

2259
02:01:00,880 --> 02:01:06,080
Speaker 1: in terms of who you believe is the biggest threat

2260
02:01:06,240 --> 02:01:10,720
Speaker 1: in the AFC to the Bills this year besides the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get to those when we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Collid to help. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as we motor home here on

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Speaker 1: a Thursday, and we want to wrap up some of

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Speaker 1: your final thoughts on the tweet sheet. As we were

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Speaker 1: asking you who you feel is the biggest threat to

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Speaker 1: the Bills in the a f C besides the AFC

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02:01:49,560 --> 02:01:55,280
Speaker 1: champion Kansas City Chiefs, and we are up to Reddit Bills,

2270
02:01:55,320 --> 02:01:57,960
Speaker 1: who says the Browns they're already and all around good

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02:01:58,000 --> 02:01:59,800
Speaker 1: team and still have enough cap space to add a

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02:01:59,800 --> 02:02:03,640
Speaker 1: few more good players if they want. Tiffany also says

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02:02:03,720 --> 02:02:07,360
Speaker 1: the Browns have a solid roster. Miles Garrett is a

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02:02:07,480 --> 02:02:09,560
Speaker 1: once in a generation talent who can take a game

2275
02:02:09,640 --> 02:02:12,280
Speaker 1: over at any time. They have two solid running backs

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Speaker 1: with a lot of talent that help out Mayfield, who

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, is an average QB. Yeah, a lot

2278
02:02:20,520 --> 02:02:21,760
Speaker 1: to chew on there. What do you want to pick?

2279
02:02:21,920 --> 02:02:24,920
Speaker 1: A lot of? Miles Garrett is a generational talent and

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02:02:24,960 --> 02:02:27,800
Speaker 1: they've got a ton of guys around him. Now, they

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02:02:27,920 --> 02:02:32,240
Speaker 1: just signed Clowney, Isn't that right? They just Clowney. If

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02:02:32,280 --> 02:02:34,320
Speaker 1: they can get any kind of effort out of Clowney,

2283
02:02:34,360 --> 02:02:36,480
Speaker 1: which is you know, it's a question mark. But they've

2284
02:02:36,480 --> 02:02:38,360
Speaker 1: got some other defenders around them. To their front seven

2285
02:02:38,440 --> 02:02:40,720
Speaker 1: is pretty good. It's got good size, has got athleticism.

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02:02:42,040 --> 02:02:46,320
Speaker 1: Baker certainly. I remember when Baker came out, the big

2287
02:02:46,520 --> 02:02:50,800
Speaker 1: news of the combine was the Baker Mayfield, his height,

2288
02:02:50,880 --> 02:02:54,520
Speaker 1: started with a six. They were worried about that. Of course,

2289
02:02:54,600 --> 02:02:56,640
Speaker 1: then Kyler Murray came after him, and they were worried

2290
02:02:56,640 --> 02:03:02,240
Speaker 1: of his five ten or five nine. Baker doesn't check

2291
02:03:02,320 --> 02:03:06,800
Speaker 1: off the physical boxes that Josh does, but he's athletic,

2292
02:03:06,920 --> 02:03:09,920
Speaker 1: he's aware, he moves, he can run, he gets first downs,

2293
02:03:09,960 --> 02:03:12,080
Speaker 1: he'll change you know, he can run with the football,

2294
02:03:12,200 --> 02:03:14,920
Speaker 1: he extends plays. Baker has all the physical tools you need.

2295
02:03:15,840 --> 02:03:18,320
Speaker 1: His arm isn't as strong as Josh, but he's accurate

2296
02:03:18,400 --> 02:03:20,400
Speaker 1: and he can make every thrill a pro needs to make.

2297
02:03:21,240 --> 02:03:23,200
Speaker 1: You can say what you want about his you know

2298
02:03:23,320 --> 02:03:26,000
Speaker 1: his personality and all that. Baker's a pro quarterback. He's

2299
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Speaker 1: a starting pro quarterback, and he got that team to

2300
02:03:28,520 --> 02:03:31,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year, and he almost beat the Chiefs.

2301
02:03:31,720 --> 02:03:33,760
Speaker 1: In fact, they had a better game against the Chiefs,

2302
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:35,880
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns did than the Bills did when the

2303
02:03:35,920 --> 02:03:39,800
Speaker 1: Bills went in there a week later. So the Browns

2304
02:03:39,840 --> 02:03:41,800
Speaker 1: have got it going on. And I'm I'm not here.

2305
02:03:42,120 --> 02:03:44,480
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a Baker apologist in any way,

2306
02:03:44,520 --> 02:03:47,240
Speaker 1: shape or form. But just because he doesn't look like

2307
02:03:47,320 --> 02:03:49,440
Speaker 1: our guy doesn't mean he's not effective. He really is.

2308
02:03:49,640 --> 02:03:54,760
Speaker 1: And they've got some guys over there, and I'm you know,

2309
02:03:54,960 --> 02:03:58,120
Speaker 1: I kind of leaned towards the Browns a little bit

2310
02:03:58,160 --> 02:03:59,880
Speaker 1: because of the depth of the roster, but I lean

2311
02:04:00,080 --> 02:04:02,880
Speaker 1: towards the Colts because of the way they looked against

2312
02:04:02,920 --> 02:04:05,880
Speaker 1: the Bills in the playoffs last year with Philip Rivers

2313
02:04:05,920 --> 02:04:10,000
Speaker 1: at quarterback. So yeah, the Browns are in that conversation.

2314
02:04:10,160 --> 02:04:11,480
Speaker 1: I think the Colts. A lot of a lot of

2315
02:04:11,520 --> 02:04:13,400
Speaker 1: Bills fans are sleeping on the Colts because of the

2316
02:04:13,480 --> 02:04:15,680
Speaker 1: way that I don't know, because of the game last year.

2317
02:04:17,840 --> 02:04:20,000
Speaker 1: And Baltimore is up there as well, because they're always

2318
02:04:20,040 --> 02:04:21,840
Speaker 1: going to be a handful with a guide quarterback that

2319
02:04:21,920 --> 02:04:24,720
Speaker 1: can run a four three, and their defense is good

2320
02:04:24,760 --> 02:04:27,240
Speaker 1: from a coverage standpoint with the depth at cornerback that

2321
02:04:27,320 --> 02:04:30,760
Speaker 1: they still have there, So you can make a case

2322
02:04:30,800 --> 02:04:33,800
Speaker 1: they can any of these teams. But that offensive line,

2323
02:04:34,640 --> 02:04:38,440
Speaker 1: especially now with Jedrick Wills healthy for the Browns at

2324
02:04:38,520 --> 02:04:41,600
Speaker 1: left tackle, I mean this is their offensive line, Okay.

2325
02:04:42,040 --> 02:04:46,080
Speaker 1: Jedrick Will's first round pick, Joel Betonio, second round pick

2326
02:04:46,600 --> 02:04:49,600
Speaker 1: JC Tredder, who was a draft choice of Green Bay.

2327
02:04:49,920 --> 02:04:52,200
Speaker 1: I think he was afive free agent fifth rounders signed

2328
02:04:52,200 --> 02:04:54,880
Speaker 1: as a free agent Wyatteller, fifth rounder but an All

2329
02:04:54,960 --> 02:04:58,000
Speaker 1: Pro Pro, and right tackle Jack Cochlind the free agent

2330
02:04:58,080 --> 02:05:00,600
Speaker 1: they signed away from Tennessee, former se A round pick.

2331
02:05:01,200 --> 02:05:03,720
Speaker 1: They are loaded up front. I mean, that is a

2332
02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:06,800
Speaker 1: lights out offense and they've got some running backs that

2333
02:05:06,880 --> 02:05:09,880
Speaker 1: can carry it. Yeah, so the ubin Hunt, you're gonna

2334
02:05:09,920 --> 02:05:15,440
Speaker 1: have to bear up against the ball the Browns because

2335
02:05:15,480 --> 02:05:17,240
Speaker 1: they can depend on a running game a little bit

2336
02:05:17,280 --> 02:05:21,000
Speaker 1: more than most teams can or would, if you know,

2337
02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:23,160
Speaker 1: a little bit of this depends on how Obj looks

2338
02:05:23,240 --> 02:05:30,080
Speaker 1: coming back, you know. So they they've got talent. They're

2339
02:05:30,120 --> 02:05:33,200
Speaker 1: a talented, playoff ready roster and they're going to be

2340
02:05:33,240 --> 02:05:35,440
Speaker 1: a force to be reckoned with. And their second area

2341
02:05:35,520 --> 02:05:38,280
Speaker 1: is strong too, although they haven't played a lot together.

2342
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:42,600
Speaker 1: You still have Denzel Ward, the starting corner on the

2343
02:05:42,720 --> 02:05:45,800
Speaker 1: left side, former first round pick in twenty eighteen. Then

2344
02:05:45,880 --> 02:05:48,120
Speaker 1: you have their second round pick from last year coming

2345
02:05:48,200 --> 02:05:50,800
Speaker 1: back from injury miss the whole season last year. Grant Delpit,

2346
02:05:50,920 --> 02:05:54,200
Speaker 1: the safety from LSU. They just have their first round

2347
02:05:54,240 --> 02:05:56,520
Speaker 1: pick from this year's starting or lined up to start

2348
02:05:56,560 --> 02:05:58,880
Speaker 1: at the other corner in Newsom, you know, the kid

2349
02:05:58,960 --> 02:06:01,720
Speaker 1: from Northwestern. And then they picked up John Johnson, the

2350
02:06:01,800 --> 02:06:05,240
Speaker 1: talented safety from the Rams in free agency. That is

2351
02:06:05,280 --> 02:06:07,920
Speaker 1: a secondary they've gotta be. If you look at their

2352
02:06:08,000 --> 02:06:13,120
Speaker 1: division with Cleveland the way it looks, Baltimore and Pittsburgh

2353
02:06:13,600 --> 02:06:16,360
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati getting better. We'll see if their offensive line

2354
02:06:16,400 --> 02:06:18,640
Speaker 1: can actually protect Joe Burrow this year, because that was

2355
02:06:19,160 --> 02:06:22,120
Speaker 1: the issue for them last year. But that's gonna be

2356
02:06:22,200 --> 02:06:24,320
Speaker 1: a division. It's gonna be hard to emerge from. Pittsburgh

2357
02:06:24,440 --> 02:06:25,760
Speaker 1: is gonna give you something at least in the first

2358
02:06:25,800 --> 02:06:27,880
Speaker 1: half of the season until Ben runs out of gas

2359
02:06:28,080 --> 02:06:31,120
Speaker 1: or if their offensive line gets exposed. I see them

2360
02:06:31,240 --> 02:06:34,120
Speaker 1: taking a step back. I do too. It's they want

2361
02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:36,240
Speaker 1: eleven games in a row last year to start the season.

2362
02:06:36,320 --> 02:06:39,000
Speaker 1: I doubt they'll get off to that fastest start and

2363
02:06:39,080 --> 02:06:41,000
Speaker 1: then you know, it all came apart. It's Cleveland in

2364
02:06:41,040 --> 02:06:44,680
Speaker 1: Baltimore's I kind of agree, But I think I think

2365
02:06:44,720 --> 02:06:46,400
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is gonna be able to if they, you know,

2366
02:06:46,480 --> 02:06:50,000
Speaker 1: play those early division games, they'll be able to kick

2367
02:06:50,040 --> 02:06:52,160
Speaker 1: some people in the teeth early on in the season.

2368
02:06:53,120 --> 02:06:54,720
Speaker 1: But you know, can they can they make it last

2369
02:06:54,760 --> 02:06:57,880
Speaker 1: through seventeen weeks? That's the question. Eighteen weeks that's the question.

2370
02:06:57,960 --> 02:07:00,920
Speaker 1: But I that's a tough division. Baltimore is gonna I

2371
02:07:01,000 --> 02:07:03,920
Speaker 1: think Baltimore's gotta feel like they're gonna get better. Here

2372
02:07:04,080 --> 02:07:07,280
Speaker 1: is some support for your guy, Frank Reich. Arlene says

2373
02:07:07,400 --> 02:07:11,520
Speaker 1: the Cults by far, and Jose says, it's not the Browns,

2374
02:07:11,640 --> 02:07:15,680
Speaker 1: it's the cults. People are under understating the reich Wentz connection.

2375
02:07:16,240 --> 02:07:20,320
Speaker 1: Browns are and when will continue to be the Browns. Wow,

2376
02:07:20,840 --> 02:07:23,240
Speaker 1: that's a little rough on the Browns there. And then

2377
02:07:23,400 --> 02:07:27,400
Speaker 1: JT is even more confident and he says none. The

2378
02:07:27,560 --> 02:07:29,960
Speaker 1: Chiefs were the only team to give us trouble last season.

2379
02:07:30,080 --> 02:07:32,520
Speaker 1: They didn't play the Browns. In all fairness, I think

2380
02:07:32,560 --> 02:07:34,720
Speaker 1: we got their number this year with our additions on

2381
02:07:34,760 --> 02:07:37,000
Speaker 1: the d line, putting the homes in check and forcing

2382
02:07:37,080 --> 02:07:41,600
Speaker 1: turnovers and sacks. Like Tasker says, quote, we just gotta

2383
02:07:41,720 --> 02:07:44,560
Speaker 1: leave it all out on the field that day and

2384
02:07:44,800 --> 02:07:47,800
Speaker 1: play our best end quote. They're quoting you now, Steve True,

2385
02:07:48,400 --> 02:07:51,080
Speaker 1: you gotta play. You can beat the Chiefs. They can

2386
02:07:51,120 --> 02:07:53,200
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs. I speak the truth. You can beat

2387
02:07:53,240 --> 02:07:55,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs now, but you gotta play your best to

2388
02:07:55,120 --> 02:07:56,960
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, the Bills did not. The Chiefs did.

2389
02:07:57,040 --> 02:07:58,840
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are better when the Chiefs play their best.

2390
02:07:58,960 --> 02:08:01,320
Speaker 1: Not too many teams that can beat him. But we

2391
02:08:01,680 --> 02:08:03,520
Speaker 1: if the Bills would have played their best, that would

2392
02:08:03,560 --> 02:08:05,880
Speaker 1: have been a much different game. Maybe the Bills might

2393
02:08:05,920 --> 02:08:07,920
Speaker 1: not have won it, but they wouldn't have gotten beat

2394
02:08:07,960 --> 02:08:11,480
Speaker 1: by two touchdowns. That's a team that Bills have got

2395
02:08:11,600 --> 02:08:13,760
Speaker 1: to think. You know what, that's got to be us,

2396
02:08:14,720 --> 02:08:18,000
Speaker 1: And that's what this whole thing is about. It's not

2397
02:08:18,080 --> 02:08:20,280
Speaker 1: like you got to reinvent the wheel to beat the

2398
02:08:20,360 --> 02:08:22,360
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, but you got to play better than

2399
02:08:22,440 --> 02:08:24,880
Speaker 1: you did that day that in the AFC Championship. And

2400
02:08:24,920 --> 02:08:27,160
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate because they put so many games together that

2401
02:08:27,240 --> 02:08:29,560
Speaker 1: were great and they did not play their best on

2402
02:08:29,600 --> 02:08:31,560
Speaker 1: the game on the day they needed it most. Here

2403
02:08:31,600 --> 02:08:34,480
Speaker 1: are some other suggestions. Mark says, I honestly think the

2404
02:08:34,600 --> 02:08:36,640
Speaker 1: Finns have a chance to spoil our party in the

2405
02:08:36,680 --> 02:08:39,520
Speaker 1: AFC East, and the Titans could become hot on offense

2406
02:08:39,560 --> 02:08:43,200
Speaker 1: if they land Julio Jones. Tannehill is a quality quarterback.

2407
02:08:43,320 --> 02:08:45,640
Speaker 1: I don't think the Titans have the cap room to

2408
02:08:45,760 --> 02:08:49,200
Speaker 1: bring on Julio Jones, and Tannehill to me, is above

2409
02:08:49,280 --> 02:08:54,400
Speaker 1: average quarterback. He's not He's been refurbished in Tennessee. There's

2410
02:08:54,480 --> 02:08:56,840
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. He has resurrected a career that

2411
02:08:56,960 --> 02:08:59,040
Speaker 1: wasn't there was not a bad career, but it was

2412
02:08:59,200 --> 02:09:02,720
Speaker 1: you know, it was Medio. It was an average career

2413
02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:06,440
Speaker 1: down in Miami for a franchise that struggled around him,

2414
02:09:06,480 --> 02:09:08,960
Speaker 1: to be quite frank, and changed head coaches a couple

2415
02:09:09,040 --> 02:09:13,520
Speaker 1: of times. So Tannehill going to a franchise like Tennessee

2416
02:09:13,560 --> 02:09:18,680
Speaker 1: at the time they did with Vabel at head coach

2417
02:09:18,760 --> 02:09:21,800
Speaker 1: and the organization going through a transition of ownership, he

2418
02:09:21,960 --> 02:09:24,840
Speaker 1: hit it right. They supported him well, they let him

2419
02:09:24,880 --> 02:09:27,240
Speaker 1: do what he did best. They built the offense around him.

2420
02:09:27,280 --> 02:09:29,600
Speaker 1: And let's face it, how good would Ryan Tannehill be

2421
02:09:30,480 --> 02:09:33,040
Speaker 1: if Charlie Bag of Donuts wasn't running back instead of

2422
02:09:33,080 --> 02:09:38,280
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Yeah, he would struggle. He would struggle, any

2423
02:09:38,360 --> 02:09:40,760
Speaker 1: question about it. I'm not saying Derrick Henry is not

2424
02:09:40,960 --> 02:09:42,440
Speaker 1: going to be as good as he has been, but

2425
02:09:43,440 --> 02:09:45,560
Speaker 1: sooner or later, you'd think that guy would start to

2426
02:09:45,600 --> 02:09:48,600
Speaker 1: get some dings in his chassis. John on the tweet

2427
02:09:48,640 --> 02:09:50,320
Speaker 1: Sheet says the biggest threat to the Bills in the

2428
02:09:50,400 --> 02:09:53,840
Speaker 1: AFC is definitely the Dolphins. Josh Allen might be their daddy,

2429
02:09:53,880 --> 02:09:55,840
Speaker 1: but that roster is stacked. They had the number one

2430
02:09:55,920 --> 02:09:58,560
Speaker 1: scoring defense, and the offensive side of the ball is

2431
02:09:58,560 --> 02:10:00,800
Speaker 1: significantly better from last year. And to top it off,

2432
02:10:00,840 --> 02:10:04,680
Speaker 1: we play them twice the number six scoring defensively, it

2433
02:10:04,800 --> 02:10:06,440
Speaker 1: was number five at the end of the year after

2434
02:10:06,640 --> 02:10:09,880
Speaker 1: the Bills hung fifty six on him. And here's the

2435
02:10:09,960 --> 02:10:11,960
Speaker 1: other game they had to win to get to the playoffs.

2436
02:10:12,040 --> 02:10:16,839
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. There are very few NFL teams

2437
02:10:17,600 --> 02:10:21,240
Speaker 1: who make the level of changes that the Dolphins did

2438
02:10:21,320 --> 02:10:27,000
Speaker 1: to their roster and have it all humming in the

2439
02:10:27,080 --> 02:10:29,840
Speaker 1: first half of the season. And let's not forget this,

2440
02:10:30,640 --> 02:10:34,120
Speaker 1: the first five games on the Dolphins schedule. Take a

2441
02:10:34,200 --> 02:10:38,960
Speaker 1: look at it. It's tough. They have a really tough

2442
02:10:39,040 --> 02:10:41,440
Speaker 1: schedule out of the gate. And I'm not going to

2443
02:10:41,560 --> 02:10:43,640
Speaker 1: dismiss this. And Steve and I have talked about this.

2444
02:10:44,720 --> 02:10:48,560
Speaker 1: All six of their captains from last year's roster off

2445
02:10:49,000 --> 02:10:53,800
Speaker 1: the Dolphins roster for whatever reason, money, salary, cap, casualty,

2446
02:10:54,200 --> 02:10:57,720
Speaker 1: not a fit, whatever the case might be, you jettison

2447
02:10:57,800 --> 02:11:00,000
Speaker 1: the six captains off your roster from the year before

2448
02:11:00,080 --> 02:11:02,960
Speaker 1: four there's some players in that locker room scratching their

2449
02:11:03,000 --> 02:11:05,640
Speaker 1: head and you've got an offense that's going to be

2450
02:11:05,760 --> 02:11:11,000
Speaker 1: run by not one, not two, not two, but three coordinators.

2451
02:11:11,200 --> 02:11:14,320
Speaker 1: Two co offensive coordinators in the quarterbacks, coach are all

2452
02:11:14,480 --> 02:11:17,480
Speaker 1: gonna have their hands in the pot. That is a

2453
02:11:17,560 --> 02:11:20,040
Speaker 1: recipe for disaster, for two us of disaster. So I

2454
02:11:20,120 --> 02:11:22,560
Speaker 1: am not worried about the Dolphins at all. They'll be competitive,

2455
02:11:22,760 --> 02:11:25,400
Speaker 1: they'll play hard, they play hard for Brian Flores. But

2456
02:11:25,520 --> 02:11:28,040
Speaker 1: I think there's too much, too many moving parts going

2457
02:11:28,080 --> 02:11:29,760
Speaker 1: on there from last year to this year. I'll say

2458
02:11:29,800 --> 02:11:31,840
Speaker 1: this about Brian Flores as well. If there are tough

2459
02:11:31,880 --> 02:11:33,720
Speaker 1: decisions to be made and he sees that it's not

2460
02:11:33,760 --> 02:11:37,200
Speaker 1: working way, he will make the move today. Now. He

2461
02:11:37,320 --> 02:11:39,520
Speaker 1: will not wait, he won't let it fester. If there

2462
02:11:39,640 --> 02:11:41,600
Speaker 1: needs to be changed on that staff, he'll make him quick.

2463
02:11:42,040 --> 02:11:44,880
Speaker 1: And I predict within that first four or five games

2464
02:11:45,040 --> 02:11:48,400
Speaker 1: he will look at that Patriots, Bills, Raiders, Colts, Bucks,

2465
02:11:48,880 --> 02:11:51,480
Speaker 1: have fun with that. They might come out of that

2466
02:11:51,560 --> 02:11:55,760
Speaker 1: one and four, They might come out of one five.

2467
02:11:56,240 --> 02:12:00,200
Speaker 1: I mean, good luck with that. The Raiders might be

2468
02:12:00,240 --> 02:12:02,240
Speaker 1: your only win, and that's on the road. And tell

2469
02:12:02,280 --> 02:12:04,000
Speaker 1: me they're not going to be ticked off from last

2470
02:12:04,080 --> 02:12:06,360
Speaker 1: year's game when they got knocked out of the playoff

2471
02:12:06,400 --> 02:12:08,800
Speaker 1: contention with the Fitz rescue of the game at the

2472
02:12:08,880 --> 02:12:10,720
Speaker 1: end of the year last year, They're gonna be coming

2473
02:12:10,760 --> 02:12:14,040
Speaker 1: in loaded for baron Week three. Have fun with that, Miami.

2474
02:12:14,120 --> 02:12:16,080
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about them at all. We gotta take

2475
02:12:16,080 --> 02:12:17,760
Speaker 1: a break, Steve and I will wrap it up next

2476
02:12:17,840 --> 02:12:33,640
Speaker 1: year on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned. What have we

2477
02:12:33,880 --> 02:12:37,200
Speaker 1: learned from today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks, the

2478
02:12:37,280 --> 02:12:41,360
Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Seems

2479
02:12:41,360 --> 02:12:43,880
Speaker 1: like most people are concerned with the Browns, and we

2480
02:12:44,000 --> 02:12:46,920
Speaker 1: understand why, but there are some other teams in the

2481
02:12:47,000 --> 02:12:49,200
Speaker 1: mix that are on the radar of Bills fans in

2482
02:12:49,360 --> 02:12:52,040
Speaker 1: terms of threats to the Bills in the AFC in

2483
02:12:52,080 --> 02:12:54,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, besides the Chiefs. Of course. Yeah, we've

2484
02:12:54,800 --> 02:12:57,560
Speaker 1: we've heard from the Colts. We've heard about even Miami

2485
02:12:58,320 --> 02:13:00,600
Speaker 1: taking a big step forward. But you know, the Browns

2486
02:13:00,640 --> 02:13:02,160
Speaker 1: are the team that you can look at and say, well,

2487
02:13:02,160 --> 02:13:04,320
Speaker 1: they were in the playoffs last year. They've got to

2488
02:13:04,360 --> 02:13:06,240
Speaker 1: feel like they and they got beat by the eventual

2489
02:13:06,320 --> 02:13:08,800
Speaker 1: AFC champions super Bowl team, and they gave him everything

2490
02:13:08,920 --> 02:13:12,000
Speaker 1: they wanted. In their building, in the Chiefs building, So

2491
02:13:12,440 --> 02:13:14,040
Speaker 1: they've got a feel really good. In fact, that was

2492
02:13:14,080 --> 02:13:15,840
Speaker 1: a better game than the one that the Bills were

2493
02:13:15,840 --> 02:13:18,080
Speaker 1: able to put up against him in the AFC Championship game.

2494
02:13:18,120 --> 02:13:20,840
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to like about the Cleveland Browns

2495
02:13:20,880 --> 02:13:24,840
Speaker 1: and their prospects going forward. Plus we've talked about a

2496
02:13:24,920 --> 02:13:26,920
Speaker 1: lot the fact that Baker Mayfield is going to be

2497
02:13:26,960 --> 02:13:28,760
Speaker 1: in the same offense for two straight years. I think

2498
02:13:28,800 --> 02:13:30,600
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a difference. We've seen it with Josh

2499
02:13:30,640 --> 02:13:34,840
Speaker 1: and it really helped in his development. And you can

2500
02:13:35,240 --> 02:13:38,000
Speaker 1: bet that Baker feels a lot more comfortable this offseason

2501
02:13:38,040 --> 02:13:40,400
Speaker 1: than he has in what three years, with given the

2502
02:13:40,480 --> 02:13:45,760
Speaker 1: COVID offseason last year, at least two full years. So yeah,

2503
02:13:45,840 --> 02:13:48,000
Speaker 1: there's every reason to be really high on what the

2504
02:13:48,080 --> 02:13:49,920
Speaker 1: Browns are doing. On the flip side of that, you

2505
02:13:50,040 --> 02:13:52,360
Speaker 1: got a Chargers team with a new offense for Justin

2506
02:13:52,440 --> 02:13:54,440
Speaker 1: Herbert in his second year. Does he have a second

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Speaker 1: they can really threaten in the a f C West. Steve,

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Speaker 1: the first hour of the show, I'll see you tomorrow.

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