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Speaker 1: And I guess first and foremost, the Bills added a

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Speaker 1: He was on San Diego for a minute, um Arizona

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Speaker 1: you know, Cleveland he was on. I think he would

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Speaker 1: have been perfect for the Raiders. Wouldn't he tell me?

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Speaker 1: Tell me he's not an al Davis guy. That might

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Speaker 1: have been too much of a good thing. He wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have lasted, He would have last had an even shorter career.

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Speaker 1: He played for the Oakland Raiders in the eighties. My goodness,

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Speaker 1: that would have been something topic today Twitter poll time,

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Speaker 1: as we wanted to. Again, we're not reviewing the offseason

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Speaker 1: here per se. We're kind of looking ahead to see

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Speaker 1: what you feel was the most important offseason decision as

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Speaker 1: it pertains to twenty twenty one, and we have, you know,

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Speaker 1: a few choices for you. You can certainly come up

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Speaker 1: with something else. As always, we leave you the other,

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Speaker 1: the famous other category in the Twitter poll. But the Bills,

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Speaker 1: even though in terms of big splash moves or giant

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Speaker 1: signings or big trades like we saw the year before

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Speaker 1: with the Stefan Diggs deal, they haven't done those land

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Speaker 1: moving type deals this offseason. They've done a lot to

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Speaker 1: keep the roster that took them to the Final four

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Speaker 1: last year intact. So what we're asking you today is

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Speaker 1: what's the biggest offseason decision the Bills have to this point.

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Speaker 1: Among the choices, adding speed on offense, pass rush editions,

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Speaker 1: preserving the roster as much as possible from twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: or something else. Let us know what you think. At

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Speaker 1: eight oh three, five fifty one, eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two, five fifty the number to get on board.

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Speaker 1: Open line for you there, and we've got open phones

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Speaker 1: up until the third hour of the show, so feel

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Speaker 1: free to join us and on the tweet sheet at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live now. Adding speed on offense. Some people

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Speaker 1: might scratch their heads a little bit and say, wait,

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Speaker 1: what are you talking about Emmanuel Sanders. No, he's not

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Speaker 1: faster than John Brown, better route runner. Matt Brida's a

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Speaker 1: speed element that's been added to the offense. Jacob Hollister

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Speaker 1: is a more athletic element added a tight end than

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Speaker 1: either Tyler Croft or Lee Smith. Some might say, well,

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Speaker 1: that's not saying much, but I think it is. And

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Speaker 1: so maybe it's not to an enormous degree, but it's

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Speaker 1: it's an element that's been added. I think there's there's

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Speaker 1: more speed there on that side of the ball at

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Speaker 1: A couple of the skilled positions, pass rush editions are obvious.

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Speaker 1: The draft and preserving the roster from twenty twenty was

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Speaker 1: what made waves early in the free agency period with

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Speaker 1: the Bill's ability to get Matt Milano, Darryl Williams, John

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Speaker 1: Feliciano back in the fold for twenty one and beyond

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Speaker 1: and yeah, and Lee vi Wallace resigned as well. They

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Speaker 1: Tenderedike Butcker. He resigned as a restricted free agent. He's

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Speaker 1: back in. You know this, it's interesting we might have

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Speaker 1: to it'd be interesting to also, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: we probably won't go down this because it's hard to

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Speaker 1: talk about guys who aren't here anymore. When Matt Milano,

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Speaker 1: what am I saying? Yeah, what's the biggest what's the

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Speaker 1: biggest got thing? What's the biggest player we're gonna miss

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Speaker 1: from this this season? Is it going to be a

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Speaker 1: guy like Lee Smith? Or is John Brown? Or is

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Speaker 1: it Matt Barkley you knows it? Or Andre Roberts. You

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Speaker 1: got some guys that aren't here from a year ago

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Speaker 1: who you can think back and remember some contributions they

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Speaker 1: made that were pretty significant. Andre Roberts in particular. Of

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Speaker 1: course John Brown. I mean that guy was money. Was

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Speaker 1: mitigated by the fact that he missed seven games, right,

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Speaker 1: but over the course, Yeah, but for the course of

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Speaker 1: his career, you got to know that how much you

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Speaker 1: could depend on him when he was out there. There

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Speaker 1: are some significant losses, although in the in the stat

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Speaker 1: sheet maybe not significant, but I think in the in

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Speaker 1: the culture, in the character department of Matt Barkley and

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Speaker 1: John Brown and Andre Roberts, those guys you're gonna miss those.

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Speaker 1: And Lee Smith that's a guy that made a difference.

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Speaker 1: Blue guy, Yeah, Glue guys, all of them Matt Barkley

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Speaker 1: was called out at the end of the season about

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Speaker 1: how much he and his family helped out all the

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Speaker 1: young guys and their significant others, you know, acclimate to

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Speaker 1: the pro game and you know, find their footing as

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Speaker 1: a family, let alone a professional athlete. So it'd be

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Speaker 1: interesting that maybe think about the differences of this roster,

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Speaker 1: which guys are not going to be here and which

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Speaker 1: one might be the most significant. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that at some point in the future,

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Speaker 1: but they did preserve largely the guys that we can

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Speaker 1: all see and know that contributed on the field. So

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Speaker 1: which do you think is the biggest offseason decision which

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Speaker 1: carried the most weight here? Is it adding the speed

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Speaker 1: on offense, the pass rush editions, preserving the roster from

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty? Maybe it's something else entirely eight oh three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty open line for you there, or you can hit

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Speaker 1: us up on the tweet sheet, you know, add one

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Speaker 1: bills live urkle Eaton just chimed in and he said

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Speaker 1: something we were looking who did. It's a Twitter handle

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Speaker 1: kirkle Eaton Jr. And He made a great point, one

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Speaker 1: that we had forgotten about when we started talking about

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Speaker 1: this pole. The one thing that they didn't lose was

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff. Neither coordinator got hired as a head coach.

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Speaker 1: That's big we thought. We we thought for sure one

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Speaker 1: of them was going to be gone, if not both.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't an offseason decision as much as it was

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Speaker 1: a fortunate circumstance as far as this team's considered. It

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Speaker 1: certainly is unfortunate for Leslie Frasier or for Brian Davill,

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Speaker 1: who I think we can we can get pretty quickly

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Speaker 1: to the fact that both of them were very deserving

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Speaker 1: of an opportunity like that. For whatever reason, it didn't

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Speaker 1: come to fruition for either of them, But the loss

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Speaker 1: of some other team that was in need of a

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Speaker 1: head coach is Buffalo's game. Questionably, Leslie Frasier has been

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Speaker 1: a tremendous defensive coordinators, his demeanor, his relationship with Sean McDermott,

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Speaker 1: the way they've handled their in game adjustments. I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: I've said it before. If you want to get a

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Speaker 1: feel for what the defense was about last year. One

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Speaker 1: of the interesting things I noticed and mentioned it in

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Speaker 1: the broadcast was when the Bills would come out and

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Speaker 1: take the field the first series of a game. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: it was that first series of the game was always

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Speaker 1: our opponent's best series of the game. After that first

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Speaker 1: series of the game, the Bills absolutely clamped down on

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Speaker 1: people from now. They you know, they gave up some

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Speaker 1: scoring drives later in games or whatever, but predominantly the

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Speaker 1: first drive of the game was the one where that

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Speaker 1: other team had the most success. After they came off

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Speaker 1: the field and got a handle on the mindset of

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Speaker 1: what the offense was thinking about their defense, they all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden started getting way out in front of

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Speaker 1: it and they really played great, really much better defense

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Speaker 1: after that first series. And I think that's a real

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Speaker 1: testament to the way they see the game, their analytics,

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Speaker 1: guys up in the up in the booth, the way

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Speaker 1: they all interact when the analytics get get thrown into

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Speaker 1: the pie, their in game series to series adjustments defensively,

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Speaker 1: I think you got a really tip your hat to

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Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser and the same thing with Brian Dable. That's

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Speaker 1: one of the things this staff has really done extremely

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Speaker 1: well that really jumps out to me that I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen other staffs here in Buffalo do for maybe it

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Speaker 1: perhaps ever? Yeah, break time for us here, Dave in Lockport,

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Speaker 1: Hang tight. You'll be first after the break, along with

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Speaker 1: others to follow at eight oh three five fifty. Still

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Speaker 1: an open line for you there if you want to

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Speaker 1: jump on board. Let us know what you think has

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Speaker 1: been the biggest offseason decision made by the Bills so far.

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Speaker 1: Choices are there for you at one Bills Live. Vote

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet or give us a call. Steve

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Speaker 1: and I back in a second here on One Bill's Line,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to one Bills Live here on a Thursday, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as we are discussing what you

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Speaker 1: feel is the biggest offseason decision made by the Bills

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Speaker 1: thus far. Choices are there for you and one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live on Twitter, open lines for you on the phones

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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty one, eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty to be part of the conversation. And that's

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Speaker 1: where we're going now as we lead off with Dave

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Speaker 1: in Lockport. Dave, welcome to the show. You're on one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live Hi, Chris High Steve. One of the busiest

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Speaker 1: offseason edition was signing Darrell Williams. But yesterday while I

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Speaker 1: was driving my truck, did Steve say that that possibly

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Speaker 1: that one of our offensive tackles that we drafted could

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Speaker 1: replace Darryl before his contracts over. Well, I mean, here's

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Speaker 1: here's what things possible. Yeah, here's what I was saying, Dave.

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Speaker 1: It's about the competition they brought in. And we've already

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Speaker 1: seen the Bills willingness to move on from guys who

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Speaker 1: have played extremely well for them in the path. They

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Speaker 1: did it with in the past. They did it with

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Speaker 1: Quentin Spain, they did it with Trent Murphy during this

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Speaker 1: past season. They elevate guys who which mourned Mitch Morris

589
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Speaker 1: the same thing, so they bench Mitch Morse for a

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Speaker 1: game after he was healthy enough to play. So they

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Speaker 1: have and I don't know if that was wasn't precautionary

592
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Speaker 1: or wasn't whether it was performance based, but any either way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form, they've proven their willingness to sit guys down.

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Speaker 1: And in our thought process yesterday, when we got into

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Speaker 1: this conversation about what the offensive line might look like,

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Speaker 1: if say, Spencer Brown or Tommy Doyle comes in and

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Speaker 1: knocks it out of the park, and the coaching stest says,

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Speaker 1: we got to get this guy in the field. Well,

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Speaker 1: then they've got this plethora of offensive lineman who have

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Speaker 1: all proven they can play in the NFL. So now

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Speaker 1: you got Forrest lamp you got Darryl Williams, you got

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Speaker 1: John Feliciano. All of a sudden, you got these other

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Speaker 1: teams out there, these you know whatever, the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers of the world, or the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 1: of the world, you name the team whatever, who've got

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Speaker 1: offensive line issues, And all of a sudden, it's like, well,

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Speaker 1: they'll call you and say, hey, listen, can we get

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Speaker 1: this Darrel Way. You got him on a three year

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Speaker 1: deal at a pretty good price for a guy who

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Speaker 1: played really good left right tackle for you. Can we

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Speaker 1: trade for him for a third round pick? And the

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Speaker 1: Bills are sitting there neck deep, and guys are going, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because we got a guy on a rookie deal, we

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Speaker 1: can plug in there and we feel real good about

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Speaker 1: That's what we were talking about, not that Daryl Waves

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Speaker 1: would be on the team and sitting on the bench

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Speaker 1: while a young guy took his place. But because they

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Speaker 1: have so many guys and all of a sudden you

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Speaker 1: find out all of them can play, then you're sitting

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Speaker 1: from a situation of strength. You're only going to be

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Speaker 1: able to keep eight, possibly nine. Yeah, so you got

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Speaker 1: and you've got eleven or twelve or even ten, and

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Speaker 1: you can't play Doyle or Brown on the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: They'll get poached, so they'll get taken immediately. So that's

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Speaker 1: what we were talking about. You keep those guys, and

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Speaker 1: one of the upper price, the taller, higher priced veteran

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Speaker 1: guys who you signed to a three year extension, like

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Speaker 1: Feliciano or Williams, all of a sudden, they're more valuable

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Speaker 1: to you as draft capital because you can trade him

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Speaker 1: for a pretty a middle to up a round pick,

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Speaker 1: maybe a first day, first two day pick. Yeah. But

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Speaker 1: to be clear, Steve was just spitballing. He wasn't indicating

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Speaker 1: that that was gonna definitively happen exactly. He was just saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, these two rookie tackles come along. You're suddenly

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Speaker 1: in a situation where you have a bounty of tackle

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Speaker 1: talent and it may not be necessary to keep it

637
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 1: all now. I will say this too, Daryl Williams plays

638
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: pretty good at guard also, so you could always kick

639
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: him inside. And that's still not a terrible salary number

640
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 1: for a guard. It's a great number for a tackle.

641
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: It's a decent number for a guard. And so yeah,

642
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: and Feliciano, same thing. He's a good number for a

643
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: guard too. So none of these guys are hitting it

644
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: out of the park financially, but by the same token,

645
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: it's a cap year there where everybody's like choking to

646
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: death on the little amount of money they are able

647
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: to spend. So the more help. If you can get

648
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: great play on the field and save yourself five ten

649
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: million bucks, you gotta do it. I think where did

650
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: you come down on the poll today? Like, which which

651
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: one did you? Yeah? I'm I'm kind of most important.

652
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: I'm torn between B and C. I'm torn between the

653
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: pass rush editions and the preserving the roster. I do

654
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: have a lot of faith in the coaching staff and

655
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: the team to replace those guys like we they've done.

656
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: I think for Slamp was a great signing. I think

657
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: the draft pick, the way they drafted was great. Certainly

658
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: the pass rush help, although the last year the pass

659
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: rush wasn't an atrocity at all. I mean, those guys

660
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: were winning quick and they played a lot of teams

661
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 1: that had to get rid of the ball quick. Yeah.

662
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: They ranked highly rush win rate. Yeah, which is an

663
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: advanced metric and it used more and it's a little

664
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: bit down the rabbit hole of analytics for me. They

665
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: won a lot, but they didn't get very many. They

666
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 1: were top ten in sacks at the end of the year.

667
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: But still, yeah, sass, you know, okay, but you're telling

668
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: me they're winning and not it doesn't show well. Yeah,

669
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: and think about this too, Steve. As you've mentioned many

670
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 1: a time on this show. Second half of the season,

671
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: they were beating the tar out of their opponents. The

672
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: other team had to throw just to try to climb

673
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: back into the games. And usually when games are that lopsided,

674
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: that's when defenses rack up sacks like crazy. Right, And

675
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: that didn't happen either. Right. The Bills did elevate their

676
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: statistical standings as the season went on, but you're right,

677
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: I think some of it had to do with the

678
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: way their offense was just knocking it out of the

679
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: park all the time. So i'm I think, i'm I'm

680
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: all about preserving the roster from last year. I think

681
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise to me was Feliciano, Darryl Williams, Matt

682
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 1: Milano resigning. That was huge. I can't I can't get

683
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: around that. Certainly, these new young guys, they're still question marks,

684
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: but at least they made the effort. We don't know

685
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: if it's gonna work or not. We know that Rousseau

686
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: and Basham can really get it done. I think you

687
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: have to say, for sure, we're glad they're at least

688
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: going to have the guys they had last year when

689
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: they won thirteen games. I was similarly conflicted, and so

690
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 1: where I came down was, I said to myself, what's

691
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: more important is getting back to your jumping off point

692
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty before you try to improve in the

693
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: areas where you feel you need to. And by resigning

694
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,479
Speaker 1: the guys that you mentioned, I thought they got back

695
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 1: to their jumping off point for twenty twenty. And then

696
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 1: what they added in the draft, along with a few

697
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: minor signings here and there, not that Sanders was minor

698
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: by any means. Sanders some might even consider to be

699
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: an upgrade due to his route running prowess. He's more versatile. Yeah,

700
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: he is more versatile. I would not debate that for

701
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: a second. And so the jumping off point was getting

702
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: all those guys back into the fold their own free agents.

703
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: That gives you the jump off point from where you

704
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: were at the start of twenty twenty. Then you add Sanders,

705
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 1: and you add this draft class, and you add Mad

706
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: Breeder for some speed out of the backfield, and now

707
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: you know you've elevated potentially, And we have to say

708
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: potentially because you don't know what you're getting from these

709
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: draft choices this year. I think in time people feel

710
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: pretty good about what a lot of those players in

711
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: the Bill's draft class can be. But this is a

712
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,479
Speaker 1: big year. So if they can give you something this

713
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: year right away, that could be gigantic. It's also for me,

714
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: it's not so much it's it's a lot about you know,

715
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 1: Boogie Basham and Greg Rousseau, but it's also about Faobata

716
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: and the fact that you know, I like him, but

717
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy's not here. You know, I think that him

718
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: not being able to get on the field for that

719
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: defense and the way it was playing was a problem

720
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: getting sat down for those games and at d activated

721
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: said like they needed some upgrade there. So I think

722
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: their efforts to do that are big. But I also

723
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: think this I'm a little bit old school, and I

724
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: certainly preserving the roster is a huge step, particularly when

725
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: we didn't think they was going to be possible given

726
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: the current cap situation. But not only that, I don't

727
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: know that that's certainly it seems comfortable, but I've also

728
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: seen this team tear it down and put it right

729
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: back together with different pieces. They do that. They are

730
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: seemed to be really willing to do that, and they're

731
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 1: good at it. So I don't know that this is

732
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: a huge step forward because this team seems more than

733
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: willing with these guys all in one year deals. This

734
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: kind of one year They've done that a ton ever

735
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: since the beginning. They signed a one year deal and

736
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: then you don't know if you're ever going to get

737
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: them back. Yeah, but they don't have a problem with that,

738
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: and they like the team they put together went ten

739
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: and six two years ago. They blew it up kind

740
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 1: of in a lot of plays. They lost some guys

741
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: they brought like Daryl Williams brand new last year, Quentin

742
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: Spain was jettisoned, so they are not afraid of that.

743
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: So I don't know why I should be, you know

744
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I don't know why I should

745
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: be having faith. I don't know why I think it's

746
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: so important that they save all their guys because this

747
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 1: crew doesn't need to do that. So there's both sides

748
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: of that coin. It makes you feel comfortable they got

749
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: their guys back, but this is a team that's really

750
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: better when they shuffle the roster and keeping those guys

751
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: on their toes. Yeah. Well, and that's kind of the idea.

752
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: I mean, NFL front offices are always trying to make

753
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,240
Speaker 1: their roster a little better, even if they're just tweaking

754
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: some things, and the Bills are no different. And that's

755
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: why the roster is never the same from one year

756
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: to the next. We have to take a break here,

757
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: but when we come back, I've got some edition that

758
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: I think would qualify for the other category in the

759
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: Twitter poll in terms of what's the biggest offseason decision

760
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: and the Bills have made so far. We'll talk about

761
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: that when we return here on One Bill's Live, presented

762
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health it's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

763
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: to one of Bill's Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

764
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: you and I wanted to discuss Steve the importance of

765
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: an addition to the roster this offseason that could qualify

766
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: for the other category. I'm interested in this take, So

767
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to say that essentially, well, I don't know

768
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: if I have a completely accurate account, because the Bill's

769
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: draft choices that are not signed yet don't appear on

770
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: the roster on the team web page. I will try

771
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: to add them in accordingly here to the total. But

772
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: for other in terms of most important offseason decision, how

773
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: about the addition of size to the roster? What do

774
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: you make of that? I think it's legit, right, Yes,

775
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: I do think it's legit. And as a guy who

776
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: played the game at an undersized from an undersized position,

777
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: you can't beat it. Um, those guys are hard to

778
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: It's it's still a game that's made by one team

779
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: pushing another team out of their way against the other

780
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: teams will So the bigger guys, the bigger they are,

781
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: they that easier that is to happen, the more often

782
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: it happens. So yeah, I am big fan of size

783
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: on a football team, big fan of it. Size and

784
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: speed are the things that are the basics and it

785
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: and it goes for every position, every player, all of that.

786
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 1: If they're fast and they're big, the other team's gonna

787
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: have problems with you. So yes, I'm I'm one hundred

788
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: percent with you on that. They got three guys that

789
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: that are listed like six to eight in this draft. Yeah,

790
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: I'm I'm counting them up for sixty seven anyway, six

791
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: four or taller on this team, twenty eight players six

792
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: five or taller, eighteen players twenty eight and eighteen, Well

793
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: they're from the same pool. But six four or taller

794
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: on this roster was twenty eight players right, six five

795
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: or taller on this roster eighteen six six or taller.

796
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: One two let's see here. One two they got four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

797
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: ten eleven. I gotta make sure I counted that right.

798
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: One two, five, six, seven, eight, nine ten eleven guys

799
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: six six or taller, and then six seven or taller.

800
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: You got Rousseau, Brown and Doyle the newest editions. So

801
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,439
Speaker 1: three guys six seven or tall six six six six

802
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: is huge. But you think fa Obata six six, two

803
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: sixty five. And you got this this guy that I've

804
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: forgotten they got he's uh Darryl Williams. Where is he?

805
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: Where is he? Where is he? Um? Dev Oh? Yeah,

806
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: the veteran offensive lineman George he's six six, Yeah, it's

807
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 1: three twenty. That undrafted kid Cyrus to attel a six six. Um,

808
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna play guard. I really really sense a pattern.

809
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: Yeah right. What does that say for an offensive line perspective?

810
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: Does that say power because you're that tall, well and long?

811
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it means past protection, keep people

812
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: at length, takey way. It's a long way off the

813
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,879
Speaker 1: edge when you got guys that big, you know, even there,

814
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: even when they get down on their stance, their stances

815
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: are wider because their legs are so much longer. It's

816
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 1: an extra inch or two for each stance. And they

817
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: get around him, then you get mean, it's an extra

818
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 1: from the outside edge of the tackle, the outside edge

819
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: of the tackles another foot wider. Which it sounds like

820
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: a little thing, but it feels you can when you

821
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: line up like that a thousand times as defensive ends

822
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: out there going. Man, I'm a long way away, you know.

823
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: Plus not alone the fact that you got to run

824
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: around a thirty four inch armed guy who's got who's

825
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: a basketball player. We're longer, right, So it does make

826
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: a difference. It does make a difference. I'm just so

827
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: I would I would throw that in, you know, and

828
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: you say, well, how many additions with size they made

829
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: it was just the three draft choices? Well kind of.

830
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,919
Speaker 1: But over the last year plus, the size quotient has

831
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: been increased significantly. I mean, Daryl Williams is six six,

832
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: He's a giant human being, a three hundred and forty

833
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: five pounds A j Epinessa is a legit six six,

834
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: and as Steve mentioned, faobada legit six six with thirty

835
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: six inch arms. Darryl william Darryl Johnson is six six. Yeah,

836
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, that's the only that is the only

837
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you it's the only trait that you

838
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: cannot coach. Yeah, you cannot coach a guy to be taller.

839
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: You can coach them to be You can coach them

840
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: be stronger, faster, more flexible, heavier, lighter, everything. You can

841
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: coach them up mentally with film study and depth of knowledge.

842
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: You can coach him up with technique and all. You

843
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: can change everything about the guy except how tall he is. Yeah,

844
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,959
Speaker 1: that's the only thing you can't coach. So I would

845
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,959
Speaker 1: put that under the other category. I think it's it's

846
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: something that has clearly been I don't want to say

847
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: a prerequisite, but it is something that is high on

848
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: their list in terms of boxes they would like to check.

849
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: You can't always check it, but it's are evident to

850
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: me they liked checking it. They like checking that box.

851
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:05,919
Speaker 1: Back in the eighties, when I came into the league

852
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: in the nineties, there was still that there was still

853
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: a sense, particularly in the eighties, of the AFC kind

854
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: of NFC thing. There were still guys who had you know,

855
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: coached and come in when the merger happened. You know,

856
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: it's fifteen years after the merger or whatever, nineteen or

857
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: twenty years, twenty five years after the merger in nineteen seventy,

858
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: fifteen years, and so there was still a generation of

859
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: older coaches who were still this NFCAFC kind of mentality.

860
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: And the NFC teams always were built, like I'm pointing

861
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: to the Bill's roster right here. They were always big.

862
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: It was a big man's game. We're gonna get physical,

863
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: We're gonna run that ball, gonna pound it. And then

864
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: when the AFC came in, it was a little different.

865
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: It was like we're gonna sling it around, We're gonna

866
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: lateral it, which is what the AFL was knowing exactly.

867
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: So there was always that kind of, you know, balance

868
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: between AFC NFC, and that's why the NFC teams always

869
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know, even their coaches would always

870
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: say like, we're just gonna outphysical these guys in the AFC.

871
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: You know, We're just gonna do it because they just

872
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: don't they don't notice. We don't need to scheme it up.

873
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: We're just gonna run you over. That's right. Their guys

874
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: aren't big enough, strong enough to hold up on us.

875
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: Against us, we got the bigger Now that's you look

876
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: at this, they're still out there. Well, I'm gonna say this.

877
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: I remember when Jim Harbaugh went to become the coach

878
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: of the forty nine ers, everybody was slinging the ball

879
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 1: all over the place, even as early as two thousand

880
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 1: and nine, two ten. There were exceptions in the league

881
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: at that time, but people started throwing in a hell

882
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: of a lot more especially the teams that had franchise quarterbacks.

883
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: Harbaugh comes in and he's got Kaepernick as a young quarterback,

884
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: and he gets a monstrous offensive line after doing the

885
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: same exact thing at Stanford even though he had Andrew Luck.

886
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: And they're just rolling people over going old school power

887
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:58,399
Speaker 1: run game and they're winning doing that, going to Super Bowl. Yeah,

888
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: I went to a Super Bowl doing that. Now, obviously

889
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: it helps when you have a six six quarterback who

890
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 1: runs a four to four um. Kaepernick was. Yeah. I

891
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: remember talking to Kaepernick at the Senior Bowl. I mean

892
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: that guy, he was, you know, top one percenters for athleticism.

893
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: I mean he was up there and he could throw

894
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean he had a rocket, big whip

895
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: of an arm Yeah, big arm um. So yeah, I

896
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: find that interesting. And we know that the NFL sometimes

897
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: have has these cyclical patterns with certain things. I'm not

898
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:31,919
Speaker 1: saying we're going back to a running game. This team

899
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 1: is gonna throw at forty times a game. I think

900
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: the size and the length here, chiefly on the offensive line,

901
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: is for past protection. Their length pass protection. I think

902
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: what I see a lot is teams that are right

903
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: up with the trends of what's gonna happen. I think

904
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 1: the Bills were on top of it last year, and yes,

905
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: in some respects way out ahead of it with that

906
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: ten personnel combination they threw out throwing it on first

907
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: down on first down, using the run game only as

908
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: a way to stay on schedule. There's no question I

909
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: think that was a trend around the league last year.

910
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: And also I think too that the atmosphere during the

911
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: COVID protocols and the way the officials were officiating the

912
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: game where it was administrated, I think everybody got the

913
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 1: idea of what it was going to be like on

914
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: game day and could take advantage of it with personnel

915
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: and shifts and motions and all of that stuff. And

916
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: I think you can sense here that they feel like

917
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: there's a trend coming again, and I think they want

918
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: to be out ahead of it, and it starts with

919
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: their roster build. Break time for us here when we

920
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: come back. Your comments on the tweet sheet as far

921
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: as what you believe to be the biggest offseason decision

922
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: the Bills have made so far, We'll get to those

923
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: when we return here. On one Bill's line, presented by

924
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 1: Collid to Health, it's Buffalo Bill's radio, who has been

925
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

926
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: of a dual role. Steve a blimp. We're not even

927
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: in the strated fear of normalcy. He never normal and

928
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: most of the time entertaining. I'd like to think it's

929
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, Chris Brown. Certain commercial breaks we're entertaining

930
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: to you, mister. I don't know if all of it's

931
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: suitable for radio. Let's just say some of it is.

932
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: We go, we go away from Buffalo Bill's NFL talk.

933
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: During we do break, we do the biggest offseason decision

934
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: the Bills have made so far. Tell us what it

935
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: is at eight three five fifty one, eight eight five

936
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: fifty two, five fifty open lines for you. There choices

937
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: on the Twitter handle at one Bills Live. And we

938
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: are going to the tweet sheet now to get some

939
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: of your comments on this very subject. Tweet sheet brought

940
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,399
Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

941
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills fam. Alan says twenty twenty

942
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: ross for sure, continuity is key. For example, Alan and

943
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: Diggs year two, they can identify a certain situation and

944
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: just know now with that experience, yeah, there is value

945
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: and continuity. I don't think anybody would debate that the

946
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 1: Bills languished in mediocrity for years here during the drought

947
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: because continuity was not something they could capture at the

948
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: head coaching level, at the quarterback position, even at the

949
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: GM level for a time. And it makes life harder

950
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: in the NFL, especially to be a consistent and be good.

951
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: That's right, And it's a struggle for the players. And

952
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: certainly when you don't have you know, the guy taking snaps,

953
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: that hurts because when you don't have your franchise quarterback,

954
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: nobody's been able to play well enough to put their

955
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: grip on that position. And if you don't have a

956
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: grip on that position, your offense isn't gonna play well.

957
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,240
Speaker 1: If your offense isn't gonna play well, you change coaches.

958
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: When you change coaches, everything gets wiped out the door

959
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: and he's start again. It's who knows better than Bills

960
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: fans what that looks like. Yeah, year to year and

961
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: now I think I don't know, do you think we're

962
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: still in the in the phase where we're reacting the

963
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 1: way it was used to be in the draft? I mean,

964
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: it's been four years now. No, I think we I

965
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: want to believe that the majority of the fan base

966
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: moved past it. Yeah, because last year was just so

967
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: convincing that those days are over, wasn't it. Yeah, I

968
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,919
Speaker 1: mean a thirteen win season, all, yeah, you feel good

969
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: and forget about your legit? Yes, your year, shall we

970
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: say the Bills? And they were they were so good

971
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: last year. And I'm we always get that. We get

972
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: this a lot on the on the show, with our

973
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: feedback from the fans that well, you know, it's all

974
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: about you know, they can't beat Kansas City. They got

975
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: to do something different to beat Kansas City. They got

976
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 1: to do this to beat Kansas City. They haven't done

977
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: enough to beat Kansas City because the last game is

978
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 1: the kind of the one that sticks in your crawl

979
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: and they see, you know, all the things that Kansas

980
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: City does and did and have done them homes and

981
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: all that Tyreek Hill and Kelsey and all that. I'm

982
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: telling you right now, the Bills are good enough to

983
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: beat Kansas City five months ago. They were good enough

984
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: last season. They're gonna be good enough this season. They

985
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: will be good enough when they play there. But they

986
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: got to play well on that day. And they got

987
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 1: to play well enough so that they can take the

988
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: Chiefs out of their games. So they don't play well enough.

989
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: They are good enough. They were good enough last year

990
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: to do it, and they're gonna be good enough this

991
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,399
Speaker 1: year to do it. They can beat anybody they line

992
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 1: up against it, but they've got to play well on

993
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: that day. That's what happened in the AFC Championship. And

994
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: I've said it, I'll say it, I'll keep saying it.

995
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 1: I'll say it again. The Chiefs played their best game

996
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: in eight weeks against the Buffalo Bills. They played way

997
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: better against the Bills, and they did the week before

998
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 1: against in the brown against the Browns, and when they

999
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,919
Speaker 1: beat the Browns, they played way better against the Bills,

1000
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: and they did any of their last four games of

1001
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 1: the regular season. They played better on the night of

1002
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship than they did at any point leading

1003
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: up to that game two months for two months. So

1004
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 1: if and the Bills just did the opposite. They went

1005
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: on the road and they did not play their best

1006
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: game for that reason. That doesn't mean the Bills should

1007
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 1: scrap it and do something off the wall and go

1008
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: out and spend a gazillion dollars and trade for Julio

1009
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: Jones and go over the cat and do all this stuff.

1010
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: They gotta keep on keeping on because that's how you're

1011
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: gonna be there again this year. Don't do this wild

1012
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: off the rock, off the radar, off the map, Move

1013
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: to see if you can get over the top. You

1014
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:39,760
Speaker 1: were over the top at the beginning of this last season.

1015
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 1: You're good enough to beat anybody. All you gotta do

1016
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: is play well on that day. And if they do that,

1017
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: they're gonna beat anybody they play. And it's about It's

1018
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 1: about the Bills. It's not about the Chiefs, I guess,

1019
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. Yeah, in a nutshell, so I

1020
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: don't want You can say it if you want to,

1021
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna listen. I'm gonna get the same

1022
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: line all the way through this. They are already good

1023
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,439
Speaker 1: enough to beat the Chiefs, but they got to play

1024
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: well on the day they play them. Yeah, that's it.

1025
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: They've got the guys. They just need to keep on

1026
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:16,439
Speaker 1: this train, keep on keeping on. Trust the process. Oh

1027
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: look at that we got. You know what. I'm just

1028
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: looking to the camera and say, trust the process, Trust

1029
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: the process, and I'm gonna say this right now. It

1030
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: has proof that they have been to the playoffs three

1031
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: of four years. They beat two really really good football teams.

1032
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: Last year in the playoffs in a one and done scenario,

1033
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: they beat them both. They're don't think they're not gonna

1034
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: be good this year. They are. I want a whiteboard

1035
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: because I want a tally sheet for how many times?

1036
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: Trust the process is set on this show because at

1037
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: the end of the year, I want to hand it

1038
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: to coach McDermott and say, we are your best advocate.

1039
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: We're pushing the message forward. I'm telling you they this

1040
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:09,439
Speaker 1: this process works. I'm telling you yeah. They all hard

1041
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 1: to argue with it. The drafts, the free agent signings,

1042
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: the guys they keep, the guys they let go. The

1043
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: philosophy and it's fine. Forget there are some guys they let.

1044
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: They let go. Player development, They got the improvement of

1045
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: the very young players into really quality players, contributors. Look

1046
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: at last year. Ajponessa comes in and he's like, yeah,

1047
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: he's he He wasn't even active in the first two

1048
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. Remember, Yeah, And then at the

1049
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: end of the season, Trent Murphy was sitting down and

1050
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: a Japanessa was the guy. So it works and it's

1051
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna continue to work. Yeah, let's go to

1052
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: the phones at eight oh three, oh five fifty one

1053
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: eighty five fifty two five fifty open line for you there.

1054
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: But we're gonna lead off this segment with Judy and Buffalo. Judy,

1055
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. You're on One Bill's Live. Yeah, Hi, guys, um,

1056
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think we're all overlooking the acquisition of

1057
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: Mitscha Trubisky, which I think was a big move on

1058
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: the Bills part because we need a solid backup. Josh

1059
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: Ellen's going to be the target of every team that

1060
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: they play, and I'm just so happy that we have

1061
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: somebody I think can step in and maybe carry out

1062
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: the game plan that Dave All has. And my prediction

1063
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: is twelve five to the Bills. I think there are

1064
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: a few upsets somewhere in the agenda. Okay, twelve win team,

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00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: all right, I respect that, But good point about Trubisky there, Judy,

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00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: thanks for the call that would fit under the other category. Absolutely.

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00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you do a lot worse than Mitchell Trubisky

1068
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: as your backup quarterback? Are you kidding me? And I

1069
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: think they pitched it to him perfectly. This is a

1070
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: guy who was clearly disappointed and how things were handled

1071
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: in Chicago, go figure, and did not like how the

1072
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: quarterback position in terms of who was starting was determined

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01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: week to week there last year when he had a

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01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 1: dan good season statistically, I think he completed sixty seven

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01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: percent of his passes. He was better than two to

1076
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: one touchdowns to interceptions, and I think he had a

1077
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: passer rating in the nineties. That's your backup quarterback. Hello,

1078
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: there were eight teams in the line trying to sign

1079
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: him and you knew. And think about this, Mitch Trubiski

1080
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: absolutely positively knows one hundred percent Josh Allen is going

1081
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback for seventeen eighteen, nineteen twenty game.

1082
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: However many the Bills can play, Josh is the guy.

1083
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: But he's still signed here and the reason is it's

1084
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 1: a one year deal. Is a chance for him to

1085
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: re emerge next offseason in an expanded cap situation with

1086
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: a system under his belt that has been proved even successful,

1087
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: with a coaching staff that is that has developed an

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01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 1: MVP caliber quarterback from a guy who was a punchline

1089
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: into an MVP and Trubisky is going to be in

1090
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 1: the midst of all of that atmosphere and that environment,

1091
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: and it's going to be really good for him, and

1092
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 1: he knew it. I think it's a really wise decision,

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01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: not only for Mitch but his representation as well, because

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01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: he's going to be right back on the market after

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01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: this year. Yes, he will be right back out there

1096
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: and he's going to earn a really good dollar. And

1097
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: that is how the Bills pitched him and his agent

1098
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:38,919
Speaker 1: in free agency. Hey, this is a one year, take

1099
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: a breath season for you. It's an opportunity for you

1100
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 1: to hit the reset button on your career and then

1101
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: get back into the market when there's more money to

1102
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: be spent by NFL clubs. And you're going to be

1103
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 1: in a good position after getting good tutelage from the

1104
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 1: guy that just developed Josh Allen into a near MVP candid.

1105
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: And I would say this too, under certain circumstances, we've

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01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 1: got this gudge, we're not And to Judy's point, Josh

1107
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: gonna have a target. If the Bills come out and

1108
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: they're twenty four points up in the second half, Mitch,

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01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you some snaps. Yeah, and we and

1110
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 1: we probably if you get in there, it's not gonna

1111
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: beat to kneel down. We're gonna let you run the

1112
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 1: offense a little bit, get and stay sharp. We're gonna

1113
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: give you a chance to get some some snaps on film. Hey,

1114
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: what Matt Barkley did in week seventeen exactly. I'm not

1115
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:28,919
Speaker 1: saying it's gonna happen nine times, but it may happen

1116
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: a couple and he's he's not going to be languishing

1117
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:36,439
Speaker 1: over there, and he will be able to show people

1118
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 1: what he can do with some players and a good

1119
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: offense around him. And if he comes out and plays

1120
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 1: like Matt Barkley did, that's good for him, really good.

1121
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: Just to give everybody the exact statistics on his season

1122
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: last year, nine starts, record of six and three, sixteen touchdowns,

1123
01:02:56,520 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: eight picks completed, sixty seven percent of his path had

1124
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 1: a passer rating of ninety three and a half, got

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01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown as well. I think he ran about

1126
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: thirty three times for one hundred and ninety five yards, yes,

1127
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 1: and one rushing touchdown. Sixty seven percent completion percentage For

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01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: your backup quarterback, I mean man, that's as a starter.

1129
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: Bring it on, that's an upgrade. He's got a winning

1130
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: record as a starter in Chicago, in Chicago where quarterbacks

1131
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: go to die, twenty nine and twenty one career record

1132
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: with the Bears. So yeah, good point by Judy, and

1133
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 1: definitely that one goes in the other category and it's

1134
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 1: an upgrade. So as much as we are all about it,

1135
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: we were in an earlier segment of the show, we

1136
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: were going all in on Matt Barkley, would we like it?

1137
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: And most of his contributions were intangible. You know, they're

1138
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: getting Josh Ready, which is what a backup quarterback does.

1139
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: But getting Josh Ready, how upting him on the sidelines,

1140
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: being an extra voice that Josh could have a different

1141
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: kind of conversation with rather than Brian Dayble. All that

1142
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 1: stuff goes in the bag. And that's what Barkley brought

1143
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 1: to the table. But Mitch Trubisky in a year, like

1144
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 1: Judy said, when you're trying to make a run, there

1145
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: is no two ways about it. The Bills are trying

1146
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 1: to make a run deep into the playoffs, to the

1147
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: championship game, to the super Bowl. All of that is

1148
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 1: on the table. You can't take a step backwards if

1149
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: Josh tweaks an ankle for two weeks. Yeah, you've got

1150
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: to have a guy that can hold down the fort

1151
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 1: and give you a chance. Trubisky is a guy that's

1152
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: better at that, probably than Barkley is proven anyway. Yeah,

1153
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: Nick on the tweet sheet says, I think the biggest

1154
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: decision was their choice not to invest a lot of

1155
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: capital in our second cornerback position, either via free agency

1156
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 1: or an early round draft choice. Levi is decent, and

1157
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: Dane and wild Goose may develop into stars for all

1158
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: we know, but I wish we had more certainty at

1159
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 1: CB two. It's a valid concern because there's a lot

1160
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 1: of unknown There are a lot of unknowns there beyond

1161
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace. Levi Wallace is a pretty certain commodity, right, Well,

1162
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: that's why I said beyond Levi, and I think you're

1163
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,919
Speaker 1: not gonna get any more than that on any team

1164
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You got a three year starter who

1165
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 1: has held it down and got you. You've been to

1166
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: the player, you won thirteen games with him last year,

1167
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 1: and he's exactly the type of guy you want mentally,

1168
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 1: and maybe he's deficient physically doesn't tick all the boy

1169
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: not fast enough, not physical enough, whatever. But the guy

1170
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: has been impossible to replace. I mean, I can't. I

1171
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 1: keep getting back to that. They've tried everything except short

1172
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 1: of the high draft, short of draft and tradevious White. Again. Yeah,

1173
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 1: they've tried. They and by the way, they did bring

1174
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: in Kevin Johnson, who was picked every bit as high

1175
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: as tradevious White. He was a former first round draft. Yes,

1176
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 1: he couldn't get him off the field. Josh Norman couldn't

1177
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: get him off the field. Dane Jackson couldn't get him

1178
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 1: off the field. E J. Gaines couldn't get him off

1179
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: the field. And was the other guy who's the guy

1180
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: that retired at halftime, Vante Davis couldn't get him off

1181
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:22,919
Speaker 1: the field. So you can say what you want about

1182
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: the uncertainty at cornerback, too, I think you're pretty certain

1183
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 1: about what you got now. He may be not at

1184
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: a level that you wish he was. I get it,

1185
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,120
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, he's no slouch. I'll tell you this.

1186
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: There'd be a lot of teams when you bring him in.

1187
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:40,440
Speaker 1: They wouldn't even have to try hard to sell how

1188
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 1: good a signing he was. He's a three year, starter

1189
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: for a team that's been the playoffs two of those

1190
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 1: three years that this guy can go. He's been in deep,

1191
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: he's made plays in playoff games. He's a starter for

1192
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 1: a team that was in the AFC Championship for sixteen

1193
01:06:56,880 --> 01:07:00,080
Speaker 1: games that season. That's an easy sell to any and

1194
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: base except the one he's playing in. So I'm not

1195
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: saying I'm thinking Levi Wallace is gonna have a bust

1196
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 1: out season. Be all pro. I am not panicking at all. Well,

1197
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: you can't have superstars at every single position. You don't

1198
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: you have If you have serviceable, dependable players, and you

1199
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: have enough stars, you can still win a lot of games,

1200
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 1: as evidence is as a fifteen wins team last year. Yeah,

1201
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,680
Speaker 1: and I and listen, you're the continuity is there for

1202
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:36,400
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace. He knows the system. He's also a guy

1203
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: who continues to try and try and try to get

1204
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 1: better and better and better. He's got he's got a

1205
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 1: growth mindset. He's everything they want him to be, and

1206
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:51,080
Speaker 1: not for nothing. He's dirt, cheap, and he gives you

1207
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 1: that level of play and dependability, and he's dirt and

1208
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 1: he knows how to play off. All the other guys

1209
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 1: on the back end because he's played with him the

1210
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 1: last three years. Greg on the tweet, Chet says, is

1211
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: there anyone else that thinks they haven't done enough to

1212
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: improve their roster from last season? Yes, they're a good team,

1213
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: but in my humble opinion, they still aren't on the

1214
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: level of a Case or a Tampa Bay. I think

1215
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 1: Steve would respectfully disagree and essentially say they just got

1216
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 1: to play better when they play him, as he so

1217
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: eloquently stated earlier in the show today and has done

1218
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: several times over on previous editions of this program. Yeah,

1219
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:27,560
Speaker 1: don't get me started again. Go back, Yeah, listen to

1220
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 1: the podcast, rewind a half an hour you'll get my

1221
01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:33,080
Speaker 1: opinion on that half an hour ago. Eli says, I'll

1222
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:36,240
Speaker 1: say keeping the roster almost intact is the biggest decision

1223
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 1: made this offseason. Continuity is very important as players can

1224
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 1: perform better. They have been playing together for a couple

1225
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:45,719
Speaker 1: of seasons now, which shows with the performance on the field.

1226
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: They added key pieces to the roster on both sides.

1227
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:53,680
Speaker 1: But c should be the answer, which was the choice of,

1228
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 1: you know, keeping the roster. It's hard to argue with

1229
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 1: bringing back a largely intact group that won fifteen games

1230
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: the year before and could have won sixteen except for

1231
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: a hail Murray. I mean, it's a it is. They

1232
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:09,200
Speaker 1: had one swoon in the Week five and six when

1233
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 1: they didn't know who or when they were playing. They

1234
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:13,840
Speaker 1: showed up out of nowhere. And then they played the

1235
01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 1: team that was in the Super Bowl the year two years,

1236
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 1: the year before, and this year. It's been the last

1237
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:24,840
Speaker 1: three championship games. They lost by ten to that team

1238
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 1: on a rainy night on Monday Night football. This team

1239
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: is all this team is. They're loaded for bear. They've

1240
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,799
Speaker 1: got a fantastic roster, they got a great coaching staff,

1241
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 1: they've got some continuity. It is absolutely all systems go.

1242
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: There's no team in the NFL Tampa Bay, Kansas City,

1243
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Baltimore, Cleveland, no team in the NFL that

1244
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: this team will walk away from and not feel like

1245
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 1: they've got a chance of winning. Tell me how much

1246
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: of a revenge factor exists for the Week six game

1247
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: Monday Night Tennessee because of what went down last year there,

1248
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 1: with all the circumstances, will be a little bit of that. Yeah,

1249
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: no question about it. All the teams that beat you

1250
01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: last year that put a blemish on your record a little,

1251
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: but you know, they handed it to him in that

1252
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 1: game and part of the reason why, but yeah, that

1253
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 1: was their Conker. That was the entire reason why they

1254
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 1: didn't They didn't know they were gonna play the game

1255
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 1: until thirty six hours before they had to get on

1256
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 1: a no, thirty six hours before they ticked it off.

1257
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: And you know they know, and they knew twelve hours

1258
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 1: before they got on a plane. That's why they lost

1259
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 1: the game. And not Tennessee's a good team, but their

1260
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 1: defense last year, the Bills would the Bills should have

1261
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:43,560
Speaker 1: carved those guys up and they would have, on a

1262
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,639
Speaker 1: full week of getting ready know when they were gonna

1263
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 1: play him. And you can say, well, they knew it

1264
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 1: was gonna no. I mean, they had to start game

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Speaker 1: planning for Kansas City during the latter stages of their

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Speaker 1: Tennessee preparation and because they thought they were gonna play

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. Then they got a reschedule, they said, well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna play it, but we're gonna do this, and

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01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 1: they've messed with the schedule again. Then they said, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you Sunday night who you're playing, and wear

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Speaker 1: are You're sitting there on your hands not knowing what

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Speaker 1: to do. YEA. And for a player, an NFL player,

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Speaker 1: it's like a big mind game you need. It's a routine.

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Speaker 1: And by the time you get to the seventh day

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Speaker 1: of that week, when you're on game day, you have

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01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:25,600
Speaker 1: prepared yourself day by day by day by day to

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Speaker 1: know exactly what you're gonna stand up against and play

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Speaker 1: against on Sunday. Complete clarity all week, crystal clear, what

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01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: you gotta get done. You give them twenty four thirty

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Speaker 1: six hours notice. On a team like Tennessee, who's just

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01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 1: the opposite of that Tennessee, they were either playing they

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01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: were not playing. They were they were leaping and bounding

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01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: through a grass covered meadow, throwing flower pedals out. They

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01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 1: were so happy, they were so filling joy and felt

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01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 1: so freedom bad. Nope, they were not supposed to eat

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Speaker 1: and play the game, let alone win it. They had

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01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:06,040
Speaker 1: no pressure, just they they cut loose and play baby,

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01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:09,600
Speaker 1: let's go. And they're playing against a team that a

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01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 1: didn't want to be there, didn't know they were going

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01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: to be there, and wanted no part of that game.

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Speaker 1: You just put an image in my head with that

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Speaker 1: description of like Mike Vrabel and Taylor Lawan tiptoeing through

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Speaker 1: the tulips there. And I can understand too. I've seen

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Speaker 1: it those guys in Tennessee, and tip your hat to

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01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 1: him because it putting. They put together a phenomenal effort

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01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 1: without ever looking at each other in the face, all remote,

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01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:36,719
Speaker 1: no practice. They got in the building once or twice

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Speaker 1: for a walk through. Now they rallied around being public

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Speaker 1: enemy number one and claimed that they were being hated on,

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01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,639
Speaker 1: and they were yeah, you don't have to sure, cod

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Speaker 1: those guys were public enemy number one in the NFL

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01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: and they kind of overcame that. Good for them. We

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Speaker 1: have to take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: more of your comments on the tweet sheet. And we're

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Speaker 1: about a half hour away from being joined by NFL Networks.

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01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: James Palmer be joining us on the show here to

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01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:06,640
Speaker 1: talk quarterbacks, talk fifty year and then contract extensions for

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01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen quarterback class. So we look forward to

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Speaker 1: that conversation about thirty minutes from now here on One

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

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Speaker 1: I'll go back to One Bills Live Chris Brown Steve

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Speaker 1: task with you. A second half of the show underway

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Speaker 1: here on Thursday, and we're getting your comments on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet right now about what you feel was the

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Speaker 1: biggest offseason decision made by the club so far. Choices

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01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 1: are there for you at one bills Live on Twitter

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01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: and that's where we're headed now to get more of

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Speaker 1: your thoughts from Seth pass Rush editions will help this

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Speaker 1: year and for years to come. Two more guys on

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01:13:48,040 --> 01:13:50,160
Speaker 1: rookie deals while we work out how to ink major

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01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 1: deals for seventeen and forty nine down the road helps immensely.

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01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: Defensive line should be much improved with starback regardless, but

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Speaker 1: I think Greg Russo and Boogie Basham will packed quickly.

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing about Rousseau and Basham, Steve, is right now,

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, I think you might be able

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Speaker 1: to make the argument that Boogie Basham may help you

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01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: sooner because many were of the opinion in the scouting

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Speaker 1: community that Basham has the higher floor coming in the

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Speaker 1: door and that Rousseau is the more of the raw

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01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:30,080
Speaker 1: talent with the higher ceiling. And that's not to say

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Speaker 1: who's going to be a better player, but in terms

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Speaker 1: of helping right now, Basham's experience and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean we're talking what I think. Basham played over

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Speaker 1: forty games in his college career, but so played in fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he had. He had the season two years ago

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Speaker 1: before he had fifteen and a half sacks. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the guy was all over it. So he was crushing people.

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Speaker 1: And if he had had that year, And if he

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01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: would have come out last year, if he'd been old

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Speaker 1: enough to come out last year and not gone back

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Speaker 1: and opted out of all that stuff, he would have

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Speaker 1: been a top ten pick with a fifteen and a

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Speaker 1: half sack season, he would have been in nineteen and

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Speaker 1: a half tackles for loss. Don't right that he was.

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01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 1: He was all over it. So Rousseau is gonna bring

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01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: something to the table and he's gonna be productive. But

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: you're right, Basham seems to be more skilled and have

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01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 1: better technique. When guys who know that stuff watch, that's

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Speaker 1: what you hear from them. Basham's got some stuff going

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01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 1: for him. That's they're going to help him. More polished, Yeah,

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01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: more polished, and and certainly you can see two that

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01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:33,719
Speaker 1: in college at the college level, big raw athlete guys

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01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:38,679
Speaker 1: tend to excel because every so often they're going against

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01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:41,880
Speaker 1: an engineering student over there, right instead of over right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it is. They're going against a

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01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 1: guy that can't play, you know, when you're playing you know,

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01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 1: East Northwest, nowhere state so and not saying he did

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01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 1: that at university in Miami, but nevertheless, that's what you're

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Speaker 1: looking at. A guy like Rousseau could really could really

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Speaker 1: crush it in college against lesser athletes because he was

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01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: so gifted. Bash him. He looked like a pro out there,

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01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: not not that he like was making him look like

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01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:13,759
Speaker 1: college students, but he He's technique was pro. His stance

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01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 1: was pro, his get off, his pro his hand us,

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01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: his pro hand placement is pro that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: And that's so you see. But I don't know Rousseau

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01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: so gifted. He could be on the fast track, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But they're both excellent picks. And I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna talk about this at one point, but

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Speaker 1: embedded is coming out tonight at seven pm. Social media

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Speaker 1: stuff on YouTube, The conversation that Brandon Bean, Joe Shane,

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Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott have about bash him, right before they

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Speaker 1: make that pick is really interesting, and they for about

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Speaker 1: six or eight picks, they were waiting on their guy.

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,799
Speaker 1: They did not think Basham was gonna get there because

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01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 1: they thought that highly of it, and it sounded it

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01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 1: certainly sounded this way. I don't know if it's true,

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01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 1: but it sounded like he was the only guy left

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01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:12,040
Speaker 1: for them worth picking at that spot on their board.

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01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 1: He was the only name because if he wasn't there,

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01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: they're trave out. Then Joe Shane and embedded. It's on

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Speaker 1: the phone with an unnamed team saying, if our guy's

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01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: not gonna get there, so we're gonna trade back. If

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Speaker 1: he's there, we'll do it. And he says, hey, wait,

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01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:30,719
Speaker 1: our guys are on the guys. Oh, our guys there. Sorry,

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01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 1: man boop hangs up. So they were they did not

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01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 1: believe he was gonna make it, and so that all

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01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:38,920
Speaker 1: that stuff is interesting. You're gonna see it on embedded tonight.

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01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 1: Go to Bill's YouTube channel, um Facebook, Facebook, Facebook page,

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01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 1: and also the Buffalo Bills dot com and embedded tonight

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01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 1: seven pm. It's the Brownie and I have obviously seen it,

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01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: so it's it's good. It's you know. Michelle Girardi Production

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01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 1: they knock it out of the park. I mean, it's done,

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01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:03,160
Speaker 1: it's polished. It's such a good it's such a good program.

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01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 1: Uh so you're you'll enjoy it if you're a Bills fan,

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01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: and you know most of our listeners obviously are. It's

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Speaker 1: I mean, in fact, i'd like to watch it again.

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01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:12,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back and rewatch it because there's some

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Speaker 1: stuff in there. It's all a little nuggets, a ton

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Speaker 1: of stuff in the draft room on the day of

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01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:21,599
Speaker 1: live as it happened. Certainly it's edited out other things

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01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 1: of it, but there's some stuff in there that I mean,

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01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 1: I said it yesterday. As soon as who was it?

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01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: Who wasn't picked? Twenty ninth? Was it? Eric Stokes? Yeah?

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01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,679
Speaker 1: It was a corner by the packers, all right, the packers.

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01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: It was the Saints, the packers and the packers pick

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01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: Eric Stokes, Georgia Brandon Bean turns around, points, says Carl Rousseau.

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Speaker 1: As soon as he you know, I mean they like

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01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 1: a Western Yeah, give me a double he goes. Get

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01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: call roussel as soon as they say, and uh, pretty

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01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: pretty interesting stuff. It's fun and something that you don't get.

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Speaker 1: It can't to look at unless unless you watch imbedded

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Speaker 1: tonight from Dinah on the tweet sheet, Preserving last season's

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Speaker 1: roster gets my vote. The guys we kept all played

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01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: a significant part in our success, the new editions and

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01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:15,559
Speaker 1: even the final roster or tbd And did you say

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01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 1: so far? I reserve the right to change my mind

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01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:22,639
Speaker 1: as training camp starts, but guess you need to talk

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01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:29,000
Speaker 1: about it now. So yeah, keeping the roster intact has

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Speaker 1: been the popular choice today. I believe it was leading

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll. Guys, can we pull the poll up?

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01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: I'm just curious where the voting is at right now.

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01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 1: She also says what we said as well, we don't

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01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:41,720
Speaker 1: know how good Bashman Ross are going to be. Got tight.

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01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 1: Oh look at that. Preserving the roster took the lead

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01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 1: the pass rush editions of those two top draft picks.

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01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: If those I mean, if those turned out to be

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01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald and JJ Watt, you know the poll is different.

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01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 1: No pressure, right wow? So um, but yeah, we don't

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01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:00,679
Speaker 1: know about those guys yet. We know about the roster

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01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 1: from last year and man o'man was in a home run.

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01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:05,479
Speaker 1: So the more you can keep it intact, the better

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01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: off you're gonna be. So I know you're I know

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01:20:07,520 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: you're intrigued by fa Obada too, who kind of goes

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01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 1: under the radar. People don't know him, you just by

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01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 1: natural physical traits. I mean, yeah, he's one of those

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01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: six six guys yea with thirty six inch arms. I

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01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: mean that, you know, And I'll say this too, that's

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01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 1: not right. Carlos Dunlap was a guy out there as

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01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 1: a free agent who's a big, tall leading like the

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01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:32,800
Speaker 1: long these we got three of them. Yeah, Eesa Obada

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01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: and we got three of those guys. That's and you know,

1443
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're all gonna have cruers like Carlos Dunlap.

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01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:43,719
Speaker 1: He's a good player, but they're all they're all exactly

1445
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:49,920
Speaker 1: those traits. Exactly those traits. Um when you line up

1446
01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:56,320
Speaker 1: against the Bills this year, I mean you're you're gonna

1447
01:20:56,320 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 1: be like, well, you're gonna be who are these guys

1448
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 1: and where did they grow them? Gosh, it's gonna be

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01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:06,680
Speaker 1: four quarters of this. That's why I put size in

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01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 1: the other category, because I mean, very quietly, they've added

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01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 1: size to both sides of the ball. I mean, if

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01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:16,920
Speaker 1: Jake Kumero is even your fifth receiver, it's another six five.

1453
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,599
Speaker 1: Guy you're throwing out there on the field. Dawson Knox

1454
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: is six four, Gabe Davis is sixty three. Isaiah Hodgins

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01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:30,120
Speaker 1: if he has a role sixty three. I mean, speed

1456
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:32,400
Speaker 1: may not matter if you got a bunch of trees

1457
01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 1: running around out there catching footballs out of the sky.

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01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: This just in the guy taking snaps his six five

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01:21:37,479 --> 01:21:41,600
Speaker 1: two forty two as well. He's and he runs, He

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01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: can outrun most of your defensive front seven. He may

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01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 1: not have to do anything if he's got giant humans

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01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 1: in front of him blocking. My only concern is can

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01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 1: Josh c sounds so ridiculous only six five. I don't

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01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: know if he can see over those guys there? You

1465
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 1: talking about playing up a round the rim in the NBA. Yeah, there,

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01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:04,639
Speaker 1: These guys are up around the crossbar in the NFL.

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01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 1: I mean there. It's gonna be fun to see and

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01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:12,960
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting too. And you know, we always spend

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01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: stuff positive in sometimes outlandish fashion. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If if all this size comes to fruition, all this

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Speaker 1: comes to fruition, and these guys do play like that,

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01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:23,640
Speaker 1: do you how good will they have to play for

1473
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: the Bills to, like, say, Listen, we're gonna change a

1474
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 1: little bit of our philosophy because of how deep we

1475
01:22:30,080 --> 01:22:32,479
Speaker 1: are and how much talent we've got. We're gonna do

1476
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:36,599
Speaker 1: some things because Brian Dabole will do do anything. I mean,

1477
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:40,400
Speaker 1: he's one of those creative guys, send guys in mode.

1478
01:22:40,439 --> 01:22:43,080
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now, right it's written down

1479
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 1: on the whiteboard outside justin Zimmer he's your guy. He

1480
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:53,440
Speaker 1: I've got high hopes for him. He can run. GPS

1481
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:58,080
Speaker 1: clocked him at at and mph. I'm so I'm t

1482
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: he'll notice him. Not yet on film he's like, he says,

1483
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:03,800
Speaker 1: who's the sixties? Who's that sixty one guy? Sixty one

1484
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: guy chasing me down? It's a man. But that size, um,

1485
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:13,400
Speaker 1: if it comes, you know, do they not throw it

1486
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the time, just because teams just cannot

1487
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 1: hold up against them. Is they're gonna Are they gonna

1488
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 1: meet a team that is a little light? You know? Yeah?

1489
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:23,920
Speaker 1: Are they gonna meet a team that's one of these

1490
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, fast light teams like you know the Dick

1491
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:30,680
Speaker 1: Giron days in Buffalo where everybody weighed two thirty and

1492
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: could run and ended up on r as a result. Yeah,

1493
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:38,639
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, you just it's it really

1494
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 1: is a it's so noticeable it is. I mean, they're

1495
01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:44,599
Speaker 1: all all football. Like I just say, they're all football.

1496
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:46,479
Speaker 1: Teams are big, they're all big. I get it, okay,

1497
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:49,559
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, this is a big football team

1498
01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:51,799
Speaker 1: in a team in a league full of big guys.

1499
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 1: This team is like, Wow, they're really big, you know.

1500
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:59,679
Speaker 1: Three h five fifty one eight five fifty two five fifty.

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01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: Back to the phones we go, where we have Dave

1502
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: and Rochester. Dave, what do you have for us? Welcome

1503
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Hey, guys, thank you. Yeah, I

1504
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: think I'm going to go with other I think Brian

1505
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:14,280
Speaker 1: Dable was the biggest decision during the off season. And

1506
01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:16,759
Speaker 1: I don't know all the details of the contract and everything,

1507
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:19,680
Speaker 1: but I'm sure that in the details something had to

1508
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:24,320
Speaker 1: be worked out in retaining him. And the other thing

1509
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: I wanted to say was who are you going to

1510
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 1: get as an offensive coordinator to replace him and keep

1511
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,840
Speaker 1: the same offense and do as good of a job

1512
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:38,000
Speaker 1: as he did making those play costs. I think Brian

1513
01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 1: Dable was the biggest decision for this Bills team journey. Well, yeah,

1514
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this, Dave. The reason we left

1515
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,559
Speaker 1: that off, the off the table and the compuls because

1516
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:49,759
Speaker 1: that's not their decision to make. It was more good fortune,

1517
01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:51,720
Speaker 1: was more lucky than it was a decision. Of course,

1518
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:53,000
Speaker 1: they would have loved to have kept him, but what

1519
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 1: they thought he was going to get a head coaching offer.

1520
01:24:55,479 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 1: That's why he was a finalist for the Chargers job.

1521
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:02,560
Speaker 1: So that's one thing. Another thing is a replacement for

1522
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:07,240
Speaker 1: Brian Dable when he's gone. That to me is a

1523
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 1: really seriously tough question to answer, and I don't have

1524
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 1: any expertise in it, but I do know this, if

1525
01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott will have a list of candidates at his

1526
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 1: disposal to interview, if Brian Dable does indeed get promoted

1527
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 1: to a head coaching job, or just leaves because he

1528
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: wants to be a head coach somewhere and they give

1529
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:33,280
Speaker 1: him the job at USC or something, right, well, and

1530
01:25:33,360 --> 01:25:36,760
Speaker 1: the tricky thing is you can say, all right, well,

1531
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 1: let's just promote from within. We'll elevate Ken Dorsey up

1532
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:43,240
Speaker 1: to offensive coordinator and I'm sure he'd be more than qualified.

1533
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 1: But is he going to call it the way Brian

1534
01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: Dable calls it. Is he going to see the end

1535
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:51,720
Speaker 1: game adjustments that Brian Dable sees and make them accordingly

1536
01:25:52,479 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 1: everybody's different. Is he going to be a creative pre

1537
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 1: in in the preparation during the week he say to listen,

1538
01:25:57,920 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 1: you know, if we tried this and we might work,

1539
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:01,120
Speaker 1: you know, if this motion in this set and this

1540
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 1: personnel might be different than you know now. But I

1541
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 1: will say this, he's been in the system, and he's

1542
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:12,040
Speaker 1: watched brand Brian Dable, and he's been played a real

1543
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 1: important role absolutely in that in game adjustment as well.

1544
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 1: So maybe here we are back at continuity again, right,

1545
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:22,519
Speaker 1: and maybe it is a big deal, uh to for

1546
01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:26,599
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot to keep that continuity and let h Davis

1547
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:29,439
Speaker 1: Webb evolve into it, give him the shot at it

1548
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:33,559
Speaker 1: from within and instead of putting a plugging a guy

1549
01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:35,840
Speaker 1: from over here, out of left field or off you know,

1550
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: across the country, pull him out of whatever organization he's with,

1551
01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:42,759
Speaker 1: college or pro and plug him into your system. Maybe

1552
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: you let your shift your system is in place. Just

1553
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:48,840
Speaker 1: everybody moves up one notch and you start and you

1554
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:50,759
Speaker 1: throw a guy in at the bottom of that pyramid.

1555
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:53,599
Speaker 1: You bring in a quality control coach. Your quality control

1556
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:56,880
Speaker 1: coach becomes a full assistant coach or an assistant assistant coach.

1557
01:26:57,200 --> 01:27:00,160
Speaker 1: Your assistant assistant coach becomes your full assistant you know.

1558
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:02,080
Speaker 1: And this guy becomes a quarterback cup you know what

1559
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,360
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, and the and the quarterback coach moves

1560
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 1: into the offensive coordinator seat. That seems to me a

1561
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:12,519
Speaker 1: little bit more continuity base could go that way, and

1562
01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 1: we may be having that very conversation next year at

1563
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:17,560
Speaker 1: this time. Break time for us, Mike and Carthage, hang on,

1564
01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 1: we'll get to you first after the break. Here on

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01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:21,599
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Collid of Health. It's Buffalo

1566
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:27,519
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Back to the phones we go as we

1567
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:29,960
Speaker 1: head right to Mike and Carthage. Mike, what do you

1568
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on One Bills Live. Hey, high

1569
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: curs nice Steve. I really like what the last caller

1570
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 1: we're saying about, Brian Table and where that conversation went

1571
01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:44,360
Speaker 1: with you know, promoting from within and everything. I think

1572
01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:48,640
Speaker 1: that'll be something for the future to talk about, you know.

1573
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:52,960
Speaker 1: But as far as what the Bills did themselves, I

1574
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 1: agree with the previous callers and the continuity keeping as

1575
01:27:58,040 --> 01:28:02,560
Speaker 1: many of the guys last year, you know, resigning everybody

1576
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:06,519
Speaker 1: and then giving them competition. You know, I think we

1577
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 1: did a great job in the draft, and you know,

1578
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see a lot of the same guys

1579
01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:16,439
Speaker 1: from last year coming back and being on the field again.

1580
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: You know, I hope to see Levi Wallace at the

1581
01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 1: number two cornerback position. I I really like that guy.

1582
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:27,920
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure why every you know, a lot

1583
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:31,280
Speaker 1: of fans are wanting to replace him. I think he's

1584
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 1: you know, done a really good job. So all right, Yeah,

1585
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 1: I think the continuity of the keeping. You know, all

1586
01:28:38,520 --> 01:28:40,479
Speaker 1: them guys got a little chip on their shoulder from

1587
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:43,640
Speaker 1: last year. They all got you know, a little motivation

1588
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 1: and hunger, and I think it'll be exciting to see

1589
01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 1: a lot of them guys with with some additions. You know. Yeah, thanks,

1590
01:28:53,479 --> 01:28:56,400
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I agree, and listen, It's not like

1591
01:28:57,640 --> 01:28:59,679
Speaker 1: I keep going back to it. They didn't just hand

1592
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:03,320
Speaker 1: lee By Wallace that job at cornerback two. He's had

1593
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,600
Speaker 1: to compete for that job every single year, just like

1594
01:29:05,680 --> 01:29:08,080
Speaker 1: everybody else has had to compete for their job, and

1595
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:10,600
Speaker 1: he keeps winning it. So we can say what we

1596
01:29:10,640 --> 01:29:12,800
Speaker 1: want and I think one reason people are down him

1597
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 1: he got an All Pro at the other corner. Okay,

1598
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:17,680
Speaker 1: you've got two guys at safety that are phenomenal, and

1599
01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:19,799
Speaker 1: if you're looking at the four guys in the secondary,

1600
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:21,720
Speaker 1: well who else you're gonna look at? But also, and

1601
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:25,639
Speaker 1: also because of the situation in the secondary with all

1602
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 1: the other players that are there and the talent that

1603
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,840
Speaker 1: they have, Levi gets targeted a lot. So you see

1604
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:33,439
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, a lot of balls going right

1605
01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:35,880
Speaker 1: at him, and as a result, they catch some balls

1606
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:39,400
Speaker 1: on him. That doesn't mean he's not playing well. So

1607
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:42,880
Speaker 1: for all of it, it's said about it, you know,

1608
01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 1: and I get it. You know, they've they've been talking

1609
01:29:45,960 --> 01:29:47,599
Speaker 1: about it for a long time, haven't able to get

1610
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:49,080
Speaker 1: it done. As time they get it done, put some

1611
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:52,240
Speaker 1: effort into it and all that stuff. He's gonna compete

1612
01:29:52,280 --> 01:29:54,880
Speaker 1: with two other guys already this year, three other guys

1613
01:29:54,920 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 1: at this year at the cornerback two spot. We'll see

1614
01:29:57,400 --> 01:30:00,000
Speaker 1: who stands up and comes out of there. I wouldn't

1615
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 1: bet against him at this point after everything he's been

1616
01:30:03,560 --> 01:30:09,160
Speaker 1: through now, and I like Dan Jackson a lot. He

1617
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:12,040
Speaker 1: showed some stuff, but he's got his own he's got

1618
01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 1: his own particularly size and physicality, or his problem and

1619
01:30:16,040 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 1: durability a little bit because of that. But Dan Jackson

1620
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 1: played played well when he got snaps last year, So

1621
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:26,519
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see who stands up. But there's going

1622
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:28,400
Speaker 1: to be a competition out at cornerback, in the second

1623
01:30:28,439 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: cornerback spot, just like there is every place else. So

1624
01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:34,880
Speaker 1: there you have it. I'm with you. I like the continuity.

1625
01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:36,760
Speaker 1: I like the fact that they signed him back. He's

1626
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:41,000
Speaker 1: not making a ton of money, making good money, and

1627
01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:45,840
Speaker 1: he can hit the market again next year. Speaking of continuity, Steve,

1628
01:30:46,920 --> 01:30:50,720
Speaker 1: we did spot our good friend alm Armando Salguero of

1629
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:54,200
Speaker 1: the Miami Herald with a write up because apparently he

1630
01:30:54,360 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 1: has discovered that the Dolphins are installing a new playbook.

1631
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:03,680
Speaker 1: We just talked to him a little over a week

1632
01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 1: ago on this very show, and I asked him, I said,

1633
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:10,960
Speaker 1: how is the offensive coordinator situation going to work in Miami?

1634
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 1: With two co offensive coordinators and Eric Studesville, former running

1635
01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:19,519
Speaker 1: backs coach of the Bills, and George Gotzi, the tight

1636
01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:22,959
Speaker 1: ends coach. Both of them were promoted to co offensive coordinators.

1637
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:24,880
Speaker 1: They're supposed to work together come up with a game

1638
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:28,360
Speaker 1: plan for every given week, and even their quarterbacks coach

1639
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 1: Charlie Fry is going to have some say so you

1640
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:38,040
Speaker 1: know you you say okay, And Armando said, part of

1641
01:31:38,080 --> 01:31:40,839
Speaker 1: the reason for that is because they're keeping chan Gailey's playbook.

1642
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:42,799
Speaker 1: These guys have worked within the scope of the offense,

1643
01:31:43,200 --> 01:31:46,639
Speaker 1: so they'll just seamlessly keep that intact for the benefit

1644
01:31:46,760 --> 01:31:51,639
Speaker 1: of Tuah and continuity. But Miles Gaskin, the running back

1645
01:31:51,720 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins, apparently told reporters the playbook this year

1646
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 1: is completely new. Yeah, what the hell is going on

1647
01:31:59,439 --> 01:32:02,000
Speaker 1: down there? Yeah, so you've got George god seen running

1648
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,560
Speaker 1: backs coach Eric students Field putting in a brand new playbook.

1649
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:06,600
Speaker 1: And when Brian Flores said at the time when he

1650
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: hired those two guys co offensive coordinators, he said, quote,

1651
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 1: I think continuity was a big thing as far as

1652
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:16,439
Speaker 1: me making that decision. I think I wanted that for

1653
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:19,519
Speaker 1: Tua and a really and really a lot of the

1654
01:32:19,560 --> 01:32:22,560
Speaker 1: young offensive lineman, the young players we have offensively, I

1655
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:26,360
Speaker 1: felt like we had that as as well as the

1656
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: acumen and the experience with George and Eric and the

1657
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:31,800
Speaker 1: kind of taking on that role. Again, this is really

1658
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:34,640
Speaker 1: kind of what terminology are we going to keep the

1659
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:36,600
Speaker 1: same versus not keep the same, And a lot of

1660
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 1: it is tied to what we feel as best for

1661
01:32:38,360 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 1: the players and Tua specifically. End quote. Now they're saying

1662
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:47,479
Speaker 1: everything's new. Now, I get it, it's new, the plays

1663
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:49,720
Speaker 1: are new and all that, but the terminology is the same,

1664
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:51,960
Speaker 1: so you know there is some continuity. Plus, the guys

1665
01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: that you're hearing it from are the same guys and

1666
01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:55,679
Speaker 1: they can put it into context. It's the third offense

1667
01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:58,840
Speaker 1: in three years for Miami, I second in two years

1668
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:00,960
Speaker 1: for Tua. I think the fact that one of your

1669
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:05,640
Speaker 1: players gods see not God seeking said quote, it's a

1670
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:08,280
Speaker 1: whole new playbook, pay not the same as last year's.

1671
01:33:08,479 --> 01:33:10,880
Speaker 1: But it's not, like I said, it's still early. We're

1672
01:33:10,920 --> 01:33:12,920
Speaker 1: still picking it up. I think everybody's open minded and

1673
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:14,640
Speaker 1: just kind of soaking it all in right now. When

1674
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:18,599
Speaker 1: they start changing the changing the verbiage, you may as

1675
01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:22,799
Speaker 1: well start playing volleyball. It's much different than last year's

1676
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:25,479
Speaker 1: direct quote from Miles gask in the starting running back.

1677
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:28,120
Speaker 1: That's the thing. When it's one thing to run a

1678
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:30,920
Speaker 1: different philosophy, but when you use the same words for

1679
01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: the different philosophy, meaning you had words for doing some

1680
01:33:34,040 --> 01:33:36,639
Speaker 1: of the stuff you're doing. You just start to expand

1681
01:33:36,760 --> 01:33:41,000
Speaker 1: on that. That's one thing. But when you change it

1682
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:44,120
Speaker 1: and the verbiage is different and the language is different,

1683
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:45,800
Speaker 1: that's a big thing. So I imagine there is some

1684
01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:48,320
Speaker 1: continuity there with the verbiage they're using and how they

1685
01:33:48,360 --> 01:33:51,000
Speaker 1: get to where they're going. But it sounds like a

1686
01:33:51,040 --> 01:33:55,720
Speaker 1: philosophical change has taken place down there, and that's not continuity.

1687
01:33:55,880 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 1: What did I tell you after we talk to Armando?

1688
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:02,760
Speaker 1: It sounds disastrous. I told you after we talked to

1689
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:05,719
Speaker 1: Armando that I'm not as worried about the Dolphins anymore

1690
01:34:05,800 --> 01:34:09,719
Speaker 1: after talking to him. Now I'm even less worried because

1691
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:12,160
Speaker 1: how many times did we see the offensive scheme change

1692
01:34:12,240 --> 01:34:15,840
Speaker 1: here over seventeen years, and how many playoffs birds did

1693
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:21,120
Speaker 1: that generate? Zero? Have fun with that break time for

1694
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:25,439
Speaker 1: us when we come back. NFL Networks James Palmer will

1695
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:27,800
Speaker 1: be joining us. He actually filled in on Good Morning

1696
01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 1: Football this week a couple of times. We're going to

1697
01:34:30,120 --> 01:34:33,880
Speaker 1: talk to him about that, as well as multi year

1698
01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:39,240
Speaker 1: contract extensions for the twenty eighteen quarterback draft class and

1699
01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:41,840
Speaker 1: who might be first in line to get one. Will

1700
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:44,280
Speaker 1: address that when we return with James Palmer next on

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01:34:44,360 --> 01:34:46,559
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

1702
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:58,880
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

1703
01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 1: over the field. Kind of unique. He was kind of

1704
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:06,599
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you. Stout Steve a blimp.

1705
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:13,560
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strategyre of normalcy here and

1706
01:35:13,800 --> 01:35:16,479
Speaker 1: welcome to our number three on a Thursday of One

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01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:19,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and we

1708
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:23,679
Speaker 1: are happy to be joined at this time by NFL

1709
01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 1: Networks James Palmer. And if you paid attention to the

1710
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:33,240
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, you saw that James was stationed in Jacksonville

1711
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 1: as he was essentially embedded in North Florida to see

1712
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:42,400
Speaker 1: how everything was going to shake out with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

1713
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:44,080
Speaker 1: We knew what was going to happen in the first round,

1714
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:49,200
Speaker 1: but then Travis et N joining his college teammate down there. So, James,

1715
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 1: is it true that all your colleagues call you Jimmy

1716
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:55,960
Speaker 1: Palm Trees as a nickname? Is that true? Hey? Adams

1717
01:35:56,080 --> 01:36:00,479
Speaker 1: is really guys starting to try to push that JP

1718
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:03,519
Speaker 1: with everybody, But Kay has got a lot of you know,

1719
01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:06,280
Speaker 1: sway and all of a sudden, I've gotten this reputation

1720
01:36:06,360 --> 01:36:08,760
Speaker 1: as mister Palm Trees. But I'd like to say that

1721
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:12,320
Speaker 1: is mostly because I've been taking these Florida assignments. Yeah,

1722
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:15,160
Speaker 1: because I'm a giver. I mean I was down in

1723
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:19,240
Speaker 1: for all of the training camp that's thirty seven days straight,

1724
01:36:19,360 --> 01:36:23,679
Speaker 1: and Airbnb during COVID last year about by myself tested

1725
01:36:23,720 --> 01:36:26,800
Speaker 1: every day away from my family. That's extreme sacrifice. And

1726
01:36:26,880 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 1: she's going about this like I'm, you know, some sort

1727
01:36:29,200 --> 01:36:31,280
Speaker 1: of guy on a beach, and yeah, I think she

1728
01:36:31,439 --> 01:36:34,800
Speaker 1: was trying to combine your Florida assignments with your last name,

1729
01:36:35,360 --> 01:36:38,120
Speaker 1: you know, so yeah, you know, yeah that I gets.

1730
01:36:38,160 --> 01:36:41,400
Speaker 1: There's worse things to be called. I'll tell you that. Justice.

1731
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:44,720
Speaker 1: I actually don't mind it. That's the Disturbut we had

1732
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:47,360
Speaker 1: an over under Good Morning Football Hoysterday when I hosted

1733
01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:49,120
Speaker 1: for the three hours and you guys know about three

1734
01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 1: hour shows. We had an over under it like fourteen

1735
01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:55,280
Speaker 1: and we clawberd the over I mean we were just

1736
01:36:55,760 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't every two seconds time. Well, you were down

1737
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:02,120
Speaker 1: there in Jackonville and you watched the draft, everybody knew

1738
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:04,960
Speaker 1: it was gonna be Trevor Lawrence. What's the atmosphere like

1739
01:37:05,560 --> 01:37:09,720
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville? Certainly they've it's got to feel like, all right,

1740
01:37:09,840 --> 01:37:11,800
Speaker 1: you know the bottom was last year. We are on

1741
01:37:11,920 --> 01:37:14,599
Speaker 1: our way up and here's what it looks like. Now.

1742
01:37:14,720 --> 01:37:19,280
Speaker 1: What does that say? Yeah it is. It's been a remarkable,

1743
01:37:19,560 --> 01:37:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, transformation over the last couple of months. And

1744
01:37:22,080 --> 01:37:24,120
Speaker 1: I had a chance to talk to you mentioned Bett.

1745
01:37:24,320 --> 01:37:26,280
Speaker 1: I was there all week and talked to Herban Meyer

1746
01:37:26,400 --> 01:37:29,760
Speaker 1: multiple times, shod Con the owner multiple times, and you know,

1747
01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:32,640
Speaker 1: talking to Sean, you got a sense that, you know,

1748
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:36,679
Speaker 1: he really didn't undersell this at all with getting Irban Meyer,

1749
01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:38,640
Speaker 1: with where they were with a number one pick in

1750
01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, a quarterback prospect, it doesn't come around very often, right.

1751
01:37:42,280 --> 01:37:44,840
Speaker 1: The last one that most people compare him to is

1752
01:37:44,920 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck, you know, about a decade ago, and everybody

1753
01:37:48,160 --> 01:37:49,360
Speaker 1: I talked to you all, by the way, also kind

1754
01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:51,280
Speaker 1: of puts Luck just a little ahead of Trevor Lawrence

1755
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:53,679
Speaker 1: around the league in terms of coming out as a prospect.

1756
01:37:53,720 --> 01:37:56,639
Speaker 1: We'll see how Trevor plays. But Sean did not downplay

1757
01:37:56,720 --> 01:37:58,679
Speaker 1: any of this like he's like, this is an epic

1758
01:37:58,760 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 1: week for us. This is the biggest really moment outside

1759
01:38:02,439 --> 01:38:05,439
Speaker 1: of and we joked his marriage and proposing to his

1760
01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:08,080
Speaker 1: wife of his life. That's how much he really thinks

1761
01:38:08,120 --> 01:38:10,439
Speaker 1: of this transformation. And a lot of it falls on

1762
01:38:10,520 --> 01:38:13,120
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, which you know I talked to Urban at

1763
01:38:13,200 --> 01:38:16,120
Speaker 1: length about there's a lot on his shoulders, right, Josh

1764
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:18,880
Speaker 1: has a lot on his shoulders in Buffalo. This is

1765
01:38:18,960 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 1: maybe even more than that. I mean, this is an

1766
01:38:21,080 --> 01:38:24,919
Speaker 1: organization that's never one. You know, since they've become a franchise,

1767
01:38:25,040 --> 01:38:27,600
Speaker 1: they've lost more games than anybody. And his space is

1768
01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:29,559
Speaker 1: going to be on every billboard. He is the savior,

1769
01:38:29,880 --> 01:38:31,720
Speaker 1: and that was a big part Urban told me of

1770
01:38:31,800 --> 01:38:34,920
Speaker 1: their evaluation process of him if he can mentally handle

1771
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 1: all of this pressure, and they believe he can, and

1772
01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 1: then Urban's the other side of it. And I talked

1773
01:38:40,200 --> 01:38:42,040
Speaker 1: to a couple of veterans throughout the week that we're

1774
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:44,560
Speaker 1: there working out, and they're like, man, the vibe is

1775
01:38:44,600 --> 01:38:47,880
Speaker 1: just completely different. You know, it's no longer finding out

1776
01:38:47,880 --> 01:38:49,920
Speaker 1: who our quarterback is going to be on Saturday, which

1777
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: DJ Shark joked to me about, or you know, I've

1778
01:38:52,320 --> 01:38:54,560
Speaker 1: caught balls from six different quarterbacks and I'm in my

1779
01:38:54,680 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 1: third NFL season, Like this is something that shouldn't go on.

1780
01:38:58,280 --> 01:39:01,160
Speaker 1: But the mentality of winning that Urban's trying to bring

1781
01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:04,759
Speaker 1: there is really what you could see, you know, foremost

1782
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 1: over anything, right. I mean, the reputation is, you know, unquestioned.

1783
01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:11,560
Speaker 1: I'm not going to debate that for a second. I

1784
01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:13,800
Speaker 1: mean he comes in and he's well known in that

1785
01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:16,720
Speaker 1: part of the country from his Florida days, so you

1786
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:18,599
Speaker 1: know where he won a couple of national titles. Oh

1787
01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:24,040
Speaker 1: by the way, So obviously there's huge name cache built

1788
01:39:24,120 --> 01:39:27,160
Speaker 1: in respect and benefit of the doubt because of that resume.

1789
01:39:28,760 --> 01:39:31,800
Speaker 1: Do you think that Urban Meyer is entering the pro

1790
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:35,280
Speaker 1: ranks at the right time as more and more we

1791
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:38,720
Speaker 1: are seeing in the NFL game resemble the college game.

1792
01:39:38,840 --> 01:39:43,080
Speaker 1: Is the timing good here? For Urban timing is perfect,

1793
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:46,600
Speaker 1: and not just when he's coming in, it's the situation

1794
01:39:46,760 --> 01:39:48,880
Speaker 1: that he's coming into. I don't think you could come

1795
01:39:48,960 --> 01:39:51,800
Speaker 1: into a better situation. Sean Kan actually joked with me,

1796
01:39:51,960 --> 01:39:54,200
Speaker 1: is like, I didn't realize how good this job opening

1797
01:39:54,439 --> 01:39:57,240
Speaker 1: was till I started getting phone calls from people around

1798
01:39:57,240 --> 01:39:59,920
Speaker 1: the league being interested in this job. You look at

1799
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:01,840
Speaker 1: you have the number one pick with the quarterback we

1800
01:40:01,920 --> 01:40:03,600
Speaker 1: all knew they were going to take in such a

1801
01:40:03,680 --> 01:40:06,960
Speaker 1: generational talent. The cap space that they had was through

1802
01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:09,200
Speaker 1: the roof. And then the other part of it is

1803
01:40:09,560 --> 01:40:12,200
Speaker 1: they really weren't a one in fifteen roster. If you

1804
01:40:12,360 --> 01:40:14,559
Speaker 1: go back and watch their games, a lot of them

1805
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:16,439
Speaker 1: were mismanaged at the end of the end of the

1806
01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:19,200
Speaker 1: game or one score games they lost. I mean this

1807
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:22,760
Speaker 1: roster honestly like those receivers. I was talking to Jokeer, like,

1808
01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 1: we could have won like eight games. So everything kind

1809
01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:28,400
Speaker 1: of lines up to be in a very very good

1810
01:40:28,479 --> 01:40:30,559
Speaker 1: situation for urban Meyer. And I think the way he's

1811
01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:33,519
Speaker 1: put his staff together also kind of goes with what

1812
01:40:33,600 --> 01:40:35,840
Speaker 1: you're asking, right, because he's got a guy like Darryl

1813
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 1: Bello come in who's worked with Russell Wilson at the

1814
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:41,479
Speaker 1: beginning of his career. Perfect choice for an offensive coordinator

1815
01:40:41,520 --> 01:40:43,080
Speaker 1: to come in and work with Trevor Lawrence. He got

1816
01:40:43,160 --> 01:40:45,200
Speaker 1: Russ right where he needed to be so early in

1817
01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:47,400
Speaker 1: his career. But then you still have like Charlie Strong

1818
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:50,679
Speaker 1: and those ties to the college game. And you mentioned

1819
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: the perfect time think about this. This was an offseason

1820
01:40:54,080 --> 01:40:57,160
Speaker 1: where we had no combine, we had no visits, knowledge

1821
01:40:57,160 --> 01:41:00,760
Speaker 1: about college prospects. Was Thin who has more knowledge about

1822
01:41:00,760 --> 01:41:03,400
Speaker 1: college prospects than urban Meyer and probably the guys who

1823
01:41:03,479 --> 01:41:05,920
Speaker 1: had connection on his staff. I mean, Anthony Schlegel comes

1824
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:08,880
Speaker 1: in as their strength and conditioning guy. He's been with

1825
01:41:08,960 --> 01:41:10,800
Speaker 1: Ohio State for the last seven years. You don't think

1826
01:41:10,840 --> 01:41:13,719
Speaker 1: that fraternity of strength and conditioning coaches in the college

1827
01:41:13,760 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 1: game that he has the rolodex to flip through are

1828
01:41:16,439 --> 01:41:18,559
Speaker 1: going to shoot him straight about prospects in a time

1829
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:21,240
Speaker 1: when everybody's searching for information. So I think this was

1830
01:41:21,320 --> 01:41:24,200
Speaker 1: the perfect transition in a draft with so many questions

1831
01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:27,559
Speaker 1: involving prospects. Well, we here in Buffalo have been down

1832
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:30,759
Speaker 1: the road of searching for a quarterback and they've obviously

1833
01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:32,920
Speaker 1: found their guy, and Josh Alleny came out of the

1834
01:41:32,960 --> 01:41:35,439
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen draft along with four other guys. You've got

1835
01:41:35,560 --> 01:41:38,800
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson already been an MVP, Josh who was runner

1836
01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:41,479
Speaker 1: up in the MVP last year, and Sam Darnold who's

1837
01:41:41,520 --> 01:41:45,719
Speaker 1: in a new refurbished Carolina Panthers organization, and Baker Mayfield

1838
01:41:45,760 --> 01:41:48,479
Speaker 1: who got the Cleveland Browns to the playoffs. Four guys

1839
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:51,360
Speaker 1: who seemed it. With the exception of Darnold, seemed to

1840
01:41:51,360 --> 01:41:53,760
Speaker 1: have found their level where their team is right now.

1841
01:41:54,439 --> 01:41:56,840
Speaker 1: Of these four guys, I mean they all I'm you know,

1842
01:41:57,360 --> 01:42:00,759
Speaker 1: they got their options picked up. Who signs their first

1843
01:42:01,600 --> 01:42:05,760
Speaker 1: and what do you think those deals will look like? Well,

1844
01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:10,479
Speaker 1: we're not talking Josh Rosen, not today. Okay, okay, we

1845
01:42:10,560 --> 01:42:11,840
Speaker 1: can do a second on John. We can do a

1846
01:42:11,880 --> 01:42:14,519
Speaker 1: segment on Josh next time. I much. But let's go through.

1847
01:42:14,640 --> 01:42:17,320
Speaker 1: Let's go through the guys, and this is just kind

1848
01:42:17,360 --> 01:42:19,360
Speaker 1: of putting together what makes sense. Right, Let's go with

1849
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:21,320
Speaker 1: the first one, and that's the guy in Buffalo and

1850
01:42:21,400 --> 01:42:23,919
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I mean, you would say there's the fewest

1851
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:27,880
Speaker 1: amount of question marks surrounding Josh Allen in what you

1852
01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:31,280
Speaker 1: need answered if you're one paying the bill of what's

1853
01:42:31,320 --> 01:42:33,320
Speaker 1: probably going to be the next forty million dollars a

1854
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:36,519
Speaker 1: year quarterback, right, because you've seen the progression, you've seen

1855
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:39,559
Speaker 1: the patients, you've seen the growth, and it's the style

1856
01:42:39,640 --> 01:42:44,559
Speaker 1: of quarterback play with no questions on the durability. Really yes,

1857
01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:47,280
Speaker 1: the size the arm. You've seen the completion percentage go

1858
01:42:47,439 --> 01:42:50,000
Speaker 1: up every year and then catapult in year three. You're

1859
01:42:50,080 --> 01:42:52,679
Speaker 1: seeing a natural aggression of becoming one of the best

1860
01:42:52,760 --> 01:42:55,639
Speaker 1: players in all of football, fewer question marks. I would

1861
01:42:55,640 --> 01:42:58,320
Speaker 1: assume a deal has a greater chance of getting done sooner.

1862
01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:02,040
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Let's go to the probably best player out

1863
01:43:02,120 --> 01:43:05,160
Speaker 1: of that group. Well, he plays the position a little

1864
01:43:05,160 --> 01:43:07,800
Speaker 1: bit differently, and there's still the thought of can you

1865
01:43:07,920 --> 01:43:09,880
Speaker 1: be a runner and can you be a thrower? Well,

1866
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:12,080
Speaker 1: he's proven that you can be and you can complete

1867
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:13,800
Speaker 1: a lot of passes doing it, but he does it

1868
01:43:13,880 --> 01:43:16,120
Speaker 1: a little bit differently, and so I think that gives

1869
01:43:16,160 --> 01:43:18,120
Speaker 1: you a little bit more of a hesitation. I think

1870
01:43:18,120 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 1: a deal gets done for sure. I just think maybe

1871
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:23,640
Speaker 1: that's probably the one that happens next with Baker. I

1872
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:26,439
Speaker 1: just think they want to see what happens in this

1873
01:43:26,680 --> 01:43:29,160
Speaker 1: next twenty twenty one season, because really what you're banking

1874
01:43:29,240 --> 01:43:32,519
Speaker 1: on is those last eight games kind of right in

1875
01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski's system, where he threw fifteen touchdowns to two picks.

1876
01:43:36,640 --> 01:43:39,320
Speaker 1: You're seeing him get comfortable in a system that's designed

1877
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:42,080
Speaker 1: for him. I would think the Hasms would like to

1878
01:43:42,200 --> 01:43:45,600
Speaker 1: see another year of that. But from my understanding is

1879
01:43:45,640 --> 01:43:48,879
Speaker 1: they think an extensions happening in ownership believes in extensions

1880
01:43:48,920 --> 01:43:51,559
Speaker 1: happening when that happens. That's kind of up in the air.

1881
01:43:51,880 --> 01:43:53,920
Speaker 1: He has a greater chance of maybe being after this

1882
01:43:54,160 --> 01:43:57,559
Speaker 1: year as opposed to this potentially this offseason. And then

1883
01:43:57,640 --> 01:44:00,519
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold obviously has a lot to prove. If you

1884
01:44:00,640 --> 01:44:03,080
Speaker 1: go and look at what Caroline and Denver did with

1885
01:44:03,240 --> 01:44:05,240
Speaker 1: back to back picks there, they both had a shot

1886
01:44:05,240 --> 01:44:08,000
Speaker 1: at Justin Fields. Both liked him, to my understanding, a lot,

1887
01:44:08,320 --> 01:44:11,679
Speaker 1: but both of them passed. It's not because Sam Darnold's great.

1888
01:44:11,800 --> 01:44:14,760
Speaker 1: I think they're leaving their options open as well as

1889
01:44:14,800 --> 01:44:17,120
Speaker 1: there could be some quarterbacks in the next year available,

1890
01:44:17,160 --> 01:44:19,600
Speaker 1: so I think his spot is a little bit up

1891
01:44:19,640 --> 01:44:21,599
Speaker 1: in the air. And then again we'll get to Josh

1892
01:44:22,240 --> 01:44:26,320
Speaker 1: next show. So yeah, Josh Rosen Right, with respect to

1893
01:44:26,640 --> 01:44:31,400
Speaker 1: Josh Baker and Lamar James, what we have here is

1894
01:44:32,080 --> 01:44:35,320
Speaker 1: a market that we know is only going up with

1895
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:39,000
Speaker 1: each big quarterback deal that happens. Do you think that

1896
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:42,960
Speaker 1: any one of those clubs would feel compelled to be

1897
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:45,479
Speaker 1: the first to get a guy to sign on the

1898
01:44:45,560 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 1: dotted line so as not to be on the back

1899
01:44:48,479 --> 01:44:53,000
Speaker 1: end of an escalating market. And that's the cat and

1900
01:44:53,080 --> 01:44:55,599
Speaker 1: mouse game right of this, Because I mean, if you're

1901
01:44:55,640 --> 01:44:58,439
Speaker 1: the Bills, you probably have the best of the bunch,

1902
01:44:58,520 --> 01:45:00,240
Speaker 1: even though he doesn't have an MVP. I think we

1903
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:02,879
Speaker 1: all can probably agree if you look at the trajectory

1904
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:04,600
Speaker 1: of the next decade, you probably have the best of

1905
01:45:04,680 --> 01:45:08,560
Speaker 1: the group, and so probably Judge's representations going, well, we

1906
01:45:08,640 --> 01:45:10,519
Speaker 1: want the biggest out of all of this. Then, but

1907
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 1: at all three of them are looking at the Cowboys

1908
01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:17,400
Speaker 1: situation that recently went down, right and getting it pushed

1909
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:20,599
Speaker 1: down the road is something the Cowboys should have never

1910
01:45:20,720 --> 01:45:22,880
Speaker 1: done and showed the rest of the league and what

1911
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,800
Speaker 1: ended up happening with Dak Prescott. So I do think

1912
01:45:25,840 --> 01:45:29,960
Speaker 1: getting a deal done sooner is probably more advantageous for

1913
01:45:30,120 --> 01:45:33,240
Speaker 1: the clubs, and then the players are seeing what happened

1914
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:35,559
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott. Obviously nobody wants to go tag tag

1915
01:45:35,640 --> 01:45:38,840
Speaker 1: tag whatever went down, But at the same time, I

1916
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:42,160
Speaker 1: do think you have to be in a situation to

1917
01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:44,600
Speaker 1: where you go, we have the best player out of

1918
01:45:44,640 --> 01:45:47,280
Speaker 1: the group. We have a guy that is a generational

1919
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:49,400
Speaker 1: talent that's going to be there. The number does keep

1920
01:45:49,479 --> 01:45:53,439
Speaker 1: going up. The Mahomes situation as an outlier, that contract

1921
01:45:53,560 --> 01:45:55,360
Speaker 1: is something we're probably not going to see from any

1922
01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:58,040
Speaker 1: of these other ones. But yeah, getting something done sooner

1923
01:45:58,120 --> 01:46:00,160
Speaker 1: is probably better for the club, and trying to wait

1924
01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:02,680
Speaker 1: just a little bit to see if you can get

1925
01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:04,360
Speaker 1: a gauge and where things are with the other two

1926
01:46:04,760 --> 01:46:06,600
Speaker 1: is probably what the agents are doing. Taking that a

1927
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:09,559
Speaker 1: step further though, James, you know, you mentioned the Mahomes deal,

1928
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:12,760
Speaker 1: and it is unique, there is no question about that.

1929
01:46:13,960 --> 01:46:17,400
Speaker 1: Hearing gms in the league, including Brandon being here already

1930
01:46:17,439 --> 01:46:21,160
Speaker 1: talking about not having a whole lot of confidence in

1931
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:24,840
Speaker 1: the cap even getting to where it was last year

1932
01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, might that at least make the

1933
01:46:32,479 --> 01:46:35,960
Speaker 1: gms in this league maybe try to just broach the

1934
01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:39,519
Speaker 1: subject of a deal being structured that way because of

1935
01:46:39,680 --> 01:46:43,760
Speaker 1: where the cap is going to be in twenty twenty two.

1936
01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:46,559
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure everybody feels by twenty twenty three

1937
01:46:46,880 --> 01:46:49,519
Speaker 1: the new media deals kick in and the cap gets

1938
01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:51,840
Speaker 1: back to where they're used to seeing it with the

1939
01:46:51,960 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 1: increases they're used to seeing as well. But in twenty

1940
01:46:54,960 --> 01:46:56,960
Speaker 1: twenty two, it's not sounding like that's going to be

1941
01:46:57,040 --> 01:46:59,000
Speaker 1: the case. I Mean, we have GM saying we may

1942
01:46:59,080 --> 01:47:02,360
Speaker 1: not even get to two hundred, you know, for twenty

1943
01:47:02,479 --> 01:47:04,880
Speaker 1: twenty two. So how much does that open the door

1944
01:47:04,960 --> 01:47:09,639
Speaker 1: for GMS to at least propose to these quarterbacks agents, Hey,

1945
01:47:10,280 --> 01:47:14,519
Speaker 1: can we at least discuss getting unique or creative much

1946
01:47:14,600 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 1: the way the Chiefs did. Yeah, those conversations are all happening,

1947
01:47:19,320 --> 01:47:20,800
Speaker 1: but the way it goes back and forth is and

1948
01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:22,720
Speaker 1: also you know, some of those are going, well, let's

1949
01:47:22,720 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 1: go longer so we can push some of the majority

1950
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:27,560
Speaker 1: of your money and we're gonna give you guarantees we

1951
01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:29,680
Speaker 1: want you to be our quarterback to when we have

1952
01:47:29,840 --> 01:47:33,080
Speaker 1: a larger portion of a salary cap to give you.

1953
01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 1: I mean, the number is higher because you're mentioning what's

1954
01:47:35,400 --> 01:47:37,240
Speaker 1: happened in the next two years, and that's accurate. But

1955
01:47:37,320 --> 01:47:39,720
Speaker 1: at the same time, what all these players, a lot

1956
01:47:39,840 --> 01:47:43,080
Speaker 1: of them outside of Patrick Mahomes our fighting is I

1957
01:47:43,200 --> 01:47:46,479
Speaker 1: want a new opportunity for a contract around the age

1958
01:47:46,520 --> 01:47:49,519
Speaker 1: of thirty, not on the wrong side of thirty, right,

1959
01:47:49,600 --> 01:47:51,200
Speaker 1: And most of these guys, I think Josh is going

1960
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:53,360
Speaker 1: to be twenty five in May. How do I know that?

1961
01:47:53,479 --> 01:47:57,760
Speaker 1: I think that's right tomorrow? Yeah? Is it tomorrow? It's

1962
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:00,360
Speaker 1: it's right around here, it's late May. Yeah. Yeah, we're

1963
01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:05,360
Speaker 1: super sensitive to this kind of stuff here, I think, Yeah,

1964
01:48:05,360 --> 01:48:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for him to send me a text about

1965
01:48:07,080 --> 01:48:08,640
Speaker 1: the actual day of his birthday and how do you

1966
01:48:08,720 --> 01:48:10,720
Speaker 1: know this tomorrow? But like all these guys are, like

1967
01:48:11,160 --> 01:48:13,680
Speaker 1: you know that twenty five range, they're gonna want a

1968
01:48:13,760 --> 01:48:15,800
Speaker 1: chance for another pay because you know, if you look

1969
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:18,479
Speaker 1: at where they all stand, they all know the money's

1970
01:48:18,479 --> 01:48:21,920
Speaker 1: going up, they all know the new deals are kicking in. Well,

1971
01:48:22,280 --> 01:48:25,320
Speaker 1: the thought process usually at the position is I want

1972
01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:28,439
Speaker 1: another deal at thirty and not the wrong side of

1973
01:48:28,520 --> 01:48:31,759
Speaker 1: thirty so I can get another big contract as opposed

1974
01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:34,479
Speaker 1: to what Patrick Mahomes did. So that's the back and forth,

1975
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:36,600
Speaker 1: because you're right, some of these teams want to go

1976
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:38,680
Speaker 1: a little bit longer, but some of these players do

1977
01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:41,479
Speaker 1: want to go shorter so they can get paid again

1978
01:48:41,600 --> 01:48:44,559
Speaker 1: because the market might be entirely different. When you're locked

1979
01:48:44,600 --> 01:48:46,160
Speaker 1: into one of these deals long term and you start

1980
01:48:46,200 --> 01:48:48,920
Speaker 1: seeing people pass you that you know you're better than,

1981
01:48:49,400 --> 01:48:52,679
Speaker 1: that's kind of something that irritates a lot of players. Yeah,

1982
01:48:52,720 --> 01:48:55,960
Speaker 1: and the creativity behind the Chiefs deal with Pat Mahomes,

1983
01:48:56,240 --> 01:48:59,120
Speaker 1: it's unprecedented, really, but it is. It's a ten year

1984
01:48:59,240 --> 01:49:02,559
Speaker 1: deal and it does average fifty million a year with him,

1985
01:49:02,600 --> 01:49:05,120
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of incentive, a lot of guarantees

1986
01:49:05,240 --> 01:49:07,960
Speaker 1: in it, but he doesn't really receive too much money

1987
01:49:08,200 --> 01:49:10,040
Speaker 1: until the back end of the deal. At least five

1988
01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:12,160
Speaker 1: years into this deal, or six years into this deal

1989
01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:16,320
Speaker 1: he gets some sixty million dollar balloon payment in twenty

1990
01:49:16,439 --> 01:49:19,680
Speaker 1: twenty seven. That's a long way out, but he does

1991
01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:24,000
Speaker 1: get a ton of money guaranteed. How creative you know,

1992
01:49:24,160 --> 01:49:26,479
Speaker 1: do you see these teams being, particularly when they can

1993
01:49:26,520 --> 01:49:29,440
Speaker 1: go to the players and legitimately say, listen, the pandemic

1994
01:49:29,560 --> 01:49:32,920
Speaker 1: crushed us. You got to help us here and depend

1995
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:35,840
Speaker 1: I guess it depends on every guy individually how receptive

1996
01:49:35,920 --> 01:49:37,960
Speaker 1: they are to that. But I think all four of

1997
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:41,120
Speaker 1: these deals could be lucrative for all four of these quarterbacks,

1998
01:49:41,160 --> 01:49:45,479
Speaker 1: but they all could look really different. Yeah, and that's

1999
01:49:45,520 --> 01:49:49,160
Speaker 1: the thing that's changed with the Mahomes deal is the

2000
01:49:49,280 --> 01:49:50,960
Speaker 1: last question I was kind of answering in sense of

2001
01:49:51,080 --> 01:49:53,880
Speaker 1: that was the structure, right, and that's what most guys wanted,

2002
01:49:53,920 --> 01:49:56,320
Speaker 1: and that's how it usually go. And you were seeing

2003
01:49:56,400 --> 01:49:58,800
Speaker 1: deals just going like all right, like let's break this

2004
01:49:58,960 --> 01:50:02,160
Speaker 1: down in schefters and Ian Rappaports are telling all of

2005
01:50:02,240 --> 01:50:04,400
Speaker 1: us that you know, well, this has two million more

2006
01:50:04,439 --> 01:50:07,479
Speaker 1: in guarantees and you know this, It just you just

2007
01:50:07,800 --> 01:50:09,679
Speaker 1: beat each guy just by a little as the deals

2008
01:50:09,720 --> 01:50:12,400
Speaker 1: get done. But now there's another avenues to explore. If

2009
01:50:12,439 --> 01:50:15,320
Speaker 1: you remember when Russell Wilson was going through his negotiations,

2010
01:50:15,600 --> 01:50:17,880
Speaker 1: he was trying to get a percentage of the salary cap,

2011
01:50:18,080 --> 01:50:20,160
Speaker 1: which is an avenue nobody wanted to go down, but

2012
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:22,400
Speaker 1: he wanted to get a percentage of what the cap was.

2013
01:50:22,800 --> 01:50:24,639
Speaker 1: No team really wanted to do that. But the point

2014
01:50:24,840 --> 01:50:27,720
Speaker 1: is that deal and the discussions that went on there

2015
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: and him forcing the Seahawks and to the Mahomes deal,

2016
01:50:30,280 --> 01:50:34,160
Speaker 1: to everything. The thought process is more outside the box

2017
01:50:34,280 --> 01:50:36,439
Speaker 1: now than it was in the past, and I think

2018
01:50:36,560 --> 01:50:40,200
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic, everybody is getting more creative. Because

2019
01:50:40,280 --> 01:50:43,719
Speaker 1: of even those deals that happened before the pandemic, things

2020
01:50:43,800 --> 01:50:46,880
Speaker 1: are not entirely in the same structure that I described earlier.

2021
01:50:46,920 --> 01:50:49,600
Speaker 1: So you're right, they could be entirely different because they

2022
01:50:49,640 --> 01:50:53,360
Speaker 1: also are different players in different types of organizations, in

2023
01:50:53,439 --> 01:50:55,880
Speaker 1: different playing styles. So yeah, I do think they could

2024
01:50:55,920 --> 01:50:57,720
Speaker 1: be different. And that's going to be the interesting part

2025
01:50:57,920 --> 01:50:59,720
Speaker 1: if agents want to play off what they know from

2026
01:50:59,720 --> 01:51:02,240
Speaker 1: the other one, because they might be structuring something different

2027
01:51:02,400 --> 01:51:04,240
Speaker 1: than what you guys are working on and from a

2028
01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:08,799
Speaker 1: completely different part of the quarterback landscape. The Miami heralds

2029
01:51:08,880 --> 01:51:13,960
Speaker 1: Armando Sailgaro, longtime cover beat reporter columnists for the Dolphins.

2030
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:17,200
Speaker 1: We had him on our show last week, James talking

2031
01:51:17,240 --> 01:51:20,479
Speaker 1: about how tricky the offense was going to be for

2032
01:51:20,600 --> 01:51:24,240
Speaker 1: two of this year with co offensive coordinators in George

2033
01:51:24,280 --> 01:51:27,719
Speaker 1: Godzi and Eric Studisville, and even Charlie Fry, the quarterbacks

2034
01:51:27,760 --> 01:51:29,840
Speaker 1: coach was going to have some input and that just

2035
01:51:29,920 --> 01:51:32,000
Speaker 1: seemed like a schmozzle to me, and not a good

2036
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:36,240
Speaker 1: delineation of duties for a quarterback. And then he writes

2037
01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:40,520
Speaker 1: in his column today, after talking to some players at OTA's,

2038
01:51:41,200 --> 01:51:44,240
Speaker 1: like Miles Gaskin is telling him the playbooks completely new,

2039
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:48,200
Speaker 1: when the plan was to keep the majority of the

2040
01:51:48,280 --> 01:51:52,880
Speaker 1: playbook intact from the retired again Chan Gaily to help

2041
01:51:52,960 --> 01:51:56,200
Speaker 1: Tah And now he's getting a much different message from players.

2042
01:51:57,160 --> 01:52:00,800
Speaker 1: How gobbled and garbled can this get? For two of

2043
01:52:00,920 --> 01:52:03,719
Speaker 1: going forward here? Not that anybody in Buffalo is concerned,

2044
01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:06,400
Speaker 1: but for two of sake that that doesn't sound like

2045
01:52:06,560 --> 01:52:09,920
Speaker 1: an easy row to hoe there, No, it doesn't, and

2046
01:52:10,280 --> 01:52:12,280
Speaker 1: it was easy. It wasn't easy to digest a lot

2047
01:52:12,360 --> 01:52:14,400
Speaker 1: of those words. Either. We were all over the map

2048
01:52:14,439 --> 01:52:16,160
Speaker 1: and a lot of words I didn't think I'd hear today,

2049
01:52:16,240 --> 01:52:19,600
Speaker 1: but I love it. You're right, and I actually I

2050
01:52:19,720 --> 01:52:22,760
Speaker 1: know I know George pretty well and I've spent time

2051
01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:24,760
Speaker 1: with both of them, and it was going to be

2052
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:26,800
Speaker 1: an interesting setup, right, and that was going to be

2053
01:52:27,200 --> 01:52:28,800
Speaker 1: something we were all going to keep our eye on.

2054
01:52:28,960 --> 01:52:32,360
Speaker 1: But as little change as possible for young quarterbacks is

2055
01:52:32,560 --> 01:52:35,080
Speaker 1: usually what you're shooting for, right, And it was weird

2056
01:52:35,160 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 1: talking at length on NFL Network the other day about

2057
01:52:37,960 --> 01:52:40,479
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, who liked the world on fire in his

2058
01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:42,519
Speaker 1: rookie season and now he's going to learn an entirely

2059
01:52:42,560 --> 01:52:45,040
Speaker 1: new offense with Joe Lombardi coming in in the Saint

2060
01:52:45,120 --> 01:52:47,800
Speaker 1: system this offseason, and now we're going to see what

2061
01:52:47,840 --> 01:52:49,280
Speaker 1: he can do in year two, which is something you

2062
01:52:49,320 --> 01:52:51,240
Speaker 1: probably don't want to do when a guy plays really,

2063
01:52:51,320 --> 01:52:53,479
Speaker 1: really well well, something else don't really want to do

2064
01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:55,920
Speaker 1: when you have questions about the guy either, right, I

2065
01:52:56,000 --> 01:52:59,639
Speaker 1: mean that's what you're doing. You're almost creating, in my opinion,

2066
01:53:00,360 --> 01:53:04,800
Speaker 1: more questions about what your evaluation is of Tua. When

2067
01:53:04,880 --> 01:53:08,120
Speaker 1: this goes on, then you're creating answers. The same thing

2068
01:53:08,200 --> 01:53:10,160
Speaker 1: has happened to Drew Locke in Denver where I'm seeing

2069
01:53:10,240 --> 01:53:12,360
Speaker 1: right now, the guys had a different offensive coordinator every

2070
01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:16,479
Speaker 1: year of college and the NFL except leading into this year.

2071
01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:18,040
Speaker 1: That's the first time he has been the same OC

2072
01:53:18,520 --> 01:53:21,640
Speaker 1: twice in a row. Well, it doesn't make life very

2073
01:53:21,720 --> 01:53:24,519
Speaker 1: easy on a quarterback, specifically when they're young in the NFL,

2074
01:53:24,800 --> 01:53:27,280
Speaker 1: when you keep changing things for them, sometimes you have to.

2075
01:53:27,479 --> 01:53:30,040
Speaker 1: And obviously in Miami they did, in Denver they did

2076
01:53:30,120 --> 01:53:33,760
Speaker 1: in those years. But it makes your evaluation of the

2077
01:53:33,920 --> 01:53:37,360
Speaker 1: player more complex because at the same time we're hearing

2078
01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:40,519
Speaker 1: there's reports from my buddy Albert Brier of like they

2079
01:53:40,560 --> 01:53:43,640
Speaker 1: could land to Shaun Watson and so all right, well

2080
01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:46,320
Speaker 1: then what is my aunt, what is Houston seeing out

2081
01:53:46,360 --> 01:53:49,160
Speaker 1: of Tua. It's hard for them to evaluate him as well, right,

2082
01:53:49,320 --> 01:53:51,519
Speaker 1: So I think it just it does cloudy it a

2083
01:53:51,560 --> 01:53:54,080
Speaker 1: little bit and what you have in the player when

2084
01:53:54,160 --> 01:53:57,400
Speaker 1: things keep changing on him. And I think now with

2085
01:53:57,520 --> 01:53:59,200
Speaker 1: those comments, it's going to make you go, all right,

2086
01:53:59,240 --> 01:54:00,920
Speaker 1: well let's see it too. It can do because this

2087
01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:04,439
Speaker 1: doesn't seem entirely, you know, very easy for them. Right now,

2088
01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:08,240
Speaker 1: last one for me, James is it's about the NFL.

2089
01:54:08,320 --> 01:54:10,720
Speaker 1: It evolves all the time. They change the rules. Every year,

2090
01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:13,519
Speaker 1: it evolves, it becomes better, the fans love it even more.

2091
01:54:13,600 --> 01:54:15,120
Speaker 1: They two week it to give the fans more of

2092
01:54:15,200 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 1: what they want less of what they don't want. And

2093
01:54:17,280 --> 01:54:21,040
Speaker 1: this year they're they're putting in a seventeenth game. I

2094
01:54:21,200 --> 01:54:23,240
Speaker 1: see it as a as a stepping stone. I think

2095
01:54:23,240 --> 01:54:25,640
Speaker 1: they'll go to eighteen games eventually. I think it'll be

2096
01:54:25,720 --> 01:54:29,200
Speaker 1: an eighteen game regular season, a two season, two game preseason,

2097
01:54:29,600 --> 01:54:31,439
Speaker 1: and away they'll go. What do you think the biggest

2098
01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:34,720
Speaker 1: ripple effect will be from a this is a little

2099
01:54:34,720 --> 01:54:36,959
Speaker 1: bit of a seismic shift. I mean, it's been sixteen

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Speaker 1: games for a long long time. What do you think

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01:54:40,400 --> 01:54:44,520
Speaker 1: the ripple effects will be with the extended schedule? I

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Speaker 1: think the first one that jumps out of me is

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01:54:46,320 --> 01:54:48,480
Speaker 1: it's it's actually a little bit easier to make the

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01:54:48,560 --> 01:54:52,160
Speaker 1: schedule in terms of who gets what games, and because

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Speaker 1: now you have more games that are kind of your

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01:54:54,280 --> 01:54:58,600
Speaker 1: wildcard games that you can throw to other broadcast teams. Right,

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01:54:58,760 --> 01:55:01,840
Speaker 1: and so when seventeenth game was added in this in

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01:55:01,960 --> 01:55:06,880
Speaker 1: this last last scheduling, you know reports of the League Office.

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Speaker 1: We're like, well, then say say Fox doesn't get this game,

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01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:12,360
Speaker 1: and well then we can give CBS this game, and

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01:55:12,440 --> 01:55:13,840
Speaker 1: we can move this and now you can move some

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Speaker 1: games and get some matchups right now in this season

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Speaker 1: is to me super super interesting. If there was no

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01:55:20,320 --> 01:55:24,800
Speaker 1: seventeen game schedule this year, we weren't gonna get Patrick

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01:55:24,920 --> 01:55:28,000
Speaker 1: Mahomes versus Aaron Rodgers, which we assume Aaron Rodgers will

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01:55:28,000 --> 01:55:31,120
Speaker 1: be in Green Bay, but that game is not on

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Speaker 1: the schedule. That was the added game for the chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Of the sixteen AFC teams that get an added home game,

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01:55:35,920 --> 01:55:38,360
Speaker 1: they got the Packers added, So we are getting some

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Speaker 1: matchups that we wouldn't have had as a bonus. But

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Speaker 1: then when we go to eighteen, obviously things level out

2122
01:55:44,560 --> 01:55:46,120
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But at the same time, you're

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01:55:46,160 --> 01:55:50,680
Speaker 1: gonna have more opportunities for national audiences to see the

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Speaker 1: best players in the game, and I think that is

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01:55:52,880 --> 01:55:56,000
Speaker 1: a really good bonus. James is always thanks for the time.

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01:55:56,080 --> 01:55:59,280
Speaker 1: We appreciate you weighing in on the quarterback conversation. It's

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01:55:59,320 --> 01:56:00,880
Speaker 1: gonna be something we're all going to have our eyes

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01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:03,520
Speaker 1: peeled on for sure, who's first in line, who's getting

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01:56:03,600 --> 01:56:07,120
Speaker 1: what it's It's really compelling with these twenty eighteen quarterbacks.

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01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:10,240
Speaker 1: Thanks very much, it is. And I snuck in Aaron Rodgers.

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01:56:10,360 --> 01:56:14,120
Speaker 1: Did you know we got every conversation I have asked, Well,

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01:56:14,160 --> 01:56:16,080
Speaker 1: we figured you'd be tired of that, so we've decided

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01:56:16,120 --> 01:56:19,680
Speaker 1: to go in a completely different direction. So you're still

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01:56:19,800 --> 01:56:26,440
Speaker 1: under Thanks James James Palmer from NFL Network. Always good

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Speaker 1: to catch up with him. And you know, I think

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01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:31,400
Speaker 1: is I think he spelled it out quite well with

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Speaker 1: with respect to the twenty eighteen class of quarterbacks, because

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01:56:35,760 --> 01:56:39,120
Speaker 1: those are all things that have to be considered. Yeah,

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01:56:39,440 --> 01:56:43,960
Speaker 1: number one, who's first in line, What are they getting?

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01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:46,280
Speaker 1: And how much does the number go up for the

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01:56:46,360 --> 01:56:49,720
Speaker 1: guys that come after him, not only based on the

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01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:55,040
Speaker 1: cost of doing business and whatever you want to call it, inflation, whatever,

2143
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:59,240
Speaker 1: but performance on the field is going to have an

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01:56:59,280 --> 01:57:01,640
Speaker 1: impact too. What are you paying for that you already

2145
01:57:01,680 --> 01:57:05,400
Speaker 1: know about. Here's the thing the players, the players want

2146
01:57:05,560 --> 01:57:08,160
Speaker 1: And this sounds crazy, but right now, these four young

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01:57:08,280 --> 01:57:11,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks for them and their representation, their agents saying, listen,

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01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:14,080
Speaker 1: make them wait. We can wait as long as we want.

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01:57:14,120 --> 01:57:18,280
Speaker 1: The market's going nothing but up, and make them wait.

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01:57:18,360 --> 01:57:20,440
Speaker 1: And once they do sign us, we want it to

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01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:23,200
Speaker 1: be like a three year deal. We want a two

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01:57:23,320 --> 01:57:26,280
Speaker 1: year Tips don't want it. We want it to be

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01:57:26,320 --> 01:57:30,680
Speaker 1: as short as possible. That's because once we we'll get

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01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:32,480
Speaker 1: another swing at the bat and it'll be even more

2155
01:57:33,120 --> 01:57:36,320
Speaker 1: so we'll we'll wait as long as we can and

2156
01:57:36,560 --> 01:57:38,680
Speaker 1: sign as shorter deal as we can. For the clubs,

2157
01:57:38,840 --> 01:57:41,200
Speaker 1: it's obviously just the opposite. They want to sign them

2158
01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:44,880
Speaker 1: yesterday to get it done and for a twenty five

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01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:48,800
Speaker 1: year deal that's cheap. Right by that time, I'm saying

2160
01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:52,120
Speaker 1: there the Mahomes ten year contract. I know, fifty million,

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01:57:52,280 --> 01:57:54,600
Speaker 1: you know, five hundred million bucks is an enormous number,

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01:57:54,640 --> 01:58:00,760
Speaker 1: and he's guaranteed it, Yeah, nine figures, so that sounds

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01:58:00,800 --> 01:58:03,840
Speaker 1: like a big number. But in ten years it may

2164
01:58:03,880 --> 01:58:07,120
Speaker 1: not sound like that much to all of us. It

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Speaker 1: may seem like a bargain by then. That's what the

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01:58:09,960 --> 01:58:15,000
Speaker 1: club is banking on. That's the two sides of the argument.

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01:58:15,280 --> 01:58:17,440
Speaker 1: The players want to push it off, let the market

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Speaker 1: go up, and then cash in on a short deal

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01:58:19,320 --> 01:58:21,040
Speaker 1: and bet on themselves and get another swing at the

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Speaker 1: bat in an even higher market. And the clubs want

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01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:27,560
Speaker 1: to lock in their costs now as quickly as possible.

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Speaker 1: And I thought that his take on the tah situation

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01:58:30,760 --> 01:58:34,640
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting because he not only talked about how

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01:58:34,680 --> 01:58:38,320
Speaker 1: it's going to be tough for Tua, but also tough

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01:58:38,920 --> 01:58:42,200
Speaker 1: for the organization to evaluate him by changing everything all

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01:58:42,280 --> 01:58:44,960
Speaker 1: over again and then taking it a step further. If

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Speaker 1: they're still interested into Shaun Watson when all the dust

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01:58:47,520 --> 01:58:50,879
Speaker 1: settles on his off the field stuff and Houston finally blinks,

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Speaker 1: how does Houston feel about getting ta in return when

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01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:57,920
Speaker 1: they might not be able to effectively evaluate him either. Well, yeah,

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01:58:57,960 --> 01:58:59,800
Speaker 1: but two is in a little different spot because he's

2182
01:59:00,200 --> 01:59:02,440
Speaker 1: four more years on his rookie deal. You got four

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01:59:02,520 --> 01:59:04,840
Speaker 1: more years to look at him, and if, if, if

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01:59:04,880 --> 01:59:06,760
Speaker 1: you don't see it in the first two years, you're

2185
01:59:06,800 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 1: gonna get a little concerned, right, And you got to

2186
01:59:09,200 --> 01:59:11,720
Speaker 1: you gotta find something out, and they will this year.

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01:59:12,120 --> 01:59:13,800
Speaker 1: We'll find out a little bit more about him. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, you and I, the market for two is

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Speaker 1: not gonna to me. He's not gonna go up. I

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01:59:20,680 --> 01:59:22,480
Speaker 1: don't think so either, and I don't I think this

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01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:27,360
Speaker 1: only complicates it further. It's only gonna greater ensure him

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Speaker 1: coming back down to Earth so lofty expectations that are

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Speaker 1: still out there. And for the Texans, they don't care about.

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01:59:33,640 --> 01:59:36,520
Speaker 1: They don't care about twa Tonga voler right now. They

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01:59:36,600 --> 01:59:39,440
Speaker 1: still got Deshaun Watson to worry about. So six other quarterbacks,

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01:59:39,840 --> 01:59:41,960
Speaker 1: and they got four other quarterbacks on their roster too

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Speaker 1: to sign sign Jeff Driscoll, Jeff Driscoll, Tyrod Taylor, Ryan

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Speaker 1: Finley and DeShawn Okay's and Deshaun is for some yeah so.

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Speaker 1: But the simple fact of the matter is the Texans

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01:59:57,160 --> 01:59:59,560
Speaker 1: don't care about In fact, they hope to go south

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Speaker 1: because they He's not on the table for them. If

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Speaker 1: you want Deshaun, give me another first rounder, you keep

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Speaker 1: Tah and give me another give me four ones instead

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02:00:09,240 --> 02:00:12,680
Speaker 1: of three, yeah and two or two and twah, you know,

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Speaker 1: give me give me three ones, your center and your

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Speaker 1: best wide receiver. I'm gonna trust my people to pick

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Speaker 1: the quarterback we don't want to take your guy, and

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Speaker 1: I'll bring Ryan Fitzpatrick back. Thanks, thank you. I'll take fits. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'll give me all these other guys on your team.

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Speaker 1: You know that's you know, that's what you're looking at.

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Speaker 1: So right now, Houston and believe me, Miami may be

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Speaker 1: one of the players. Houston's gonna have a team. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be lined up at the doorstep with deals to

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Speaker 1: get Deshaun Watson to despite his problems, despite his crushed reputation.

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Speaker 1: There'll be a line. There will be a line. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you right now. The world we live in break

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Speaker 1: for us when we come back. I think it's time

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Speaker 1: for a little NFL true false. We will dive into

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Speaker 1: that when we return. Here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Now for

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? We haven't done this in

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Speaker 1: a little while. We gotta get back to doing more

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Speaker 1: of this. You know what I mean? What are we

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Speaker 1: doing the NFL? True false? Okay, you ask me that

2227
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Speaker 1: question way too much. I know because I talk to

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Speaker 1: Jay during the preak you'd get distracted. H NFL true

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Speaker 1: false Number one, Steve tim Tebow as a tight end

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Speaker 1: can actually help the Jaguars false false. Was that too quick? Well,

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Speaker 1: you were trumping up his um thumping up his leadership

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Speaker 1: qualities as a tight end. Yeah, listen, I love to him.

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Speaker 1: He can't play. Yeah, it's gonna be tough, especially at

2234
02:02:05,400 --> 02:02:11,040
Speaker 1: three new position, highest level of the game. I admire

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Speaker 1: his I admire his tenacity, I admire his leadership, I

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02:02:14,920 --> 02:02:17,680
Speaker 1: admire him as a human being. But he cannot play.

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02:02:18,640 --> 02:02:23,280
Speaker 1: And the most interesting thing that I have seen on

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Speaker 1: this subject, I saw it today someone said, could Tim

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Speaker 1: Tebow take on a Taysom Hill type role for the Jaguars?

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Speaker 1: And I said, is someone legitimately asking that? Is someone

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Speaker 1: legitimately asking now? Because the fact that you would put

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Speaker 1: that out there almost certifies that you can't tell the

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02:02:47,600 --> 02:02:54,960
Speaker 1: difference athletically between Tim Tebow and Taysom Hill. Like if

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Speaker 1: you were in an elementary school playground schoolyard and two

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02:03:00,240 --> 02:03:05,400
Speaker 1: kids raced, forget about throwing ability, all of that stuff,

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02:03:05,920 --> 02:03:12,440
Speaker 1: just raced. Taysom Hill would blow Tim Tebow's doors off.

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02:03:12,480 --> 02:03:16,120
Speaker 1: He runs a four four four, he could run two forties.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he's let alone throwing the ball. Yeah

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Speaker 1: he's he's yeah, you're right, And the answers, no, Tim

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Speaker 1: Tebow's not gonna do a Taysom Hill kind of thing

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Speaker 1: because the moment you put the ball in Tim Tebow's

2252
02:03:32,080 --> 02:03:34,800
Speaker 1: hands like that, you're taking it out of Trevor Lawrence's

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Speaker 1: hands and you ain't doing that. Yeah. So I mean

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Speaker 1: him Tebow's gonna play tight end or he's not gonna play.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna cover kicks, or he's not gonna play. That's it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that ship has sailed. I mean he ran a

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Speaker 1: four seven one at the Combine eleven years ago. You

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02:03:52,520 --> 02:03:54,800
Speaker 1: think baseball made him faster? You think he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. Yeah, no way, no way. It's you are

2260
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Speaker 1: grossly under selling Taysom Hill to compare Tim Tebow to

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Speaker 1: him athletically number one, and to think he could play

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Speaker 1: a similar role. Number two, I am false with you.

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Speaker 1: By the way on this we can move up. Ye.

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02:04:11,520 --> 02:04:13,720
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer is trying to help out a guy he

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Speaker 1: loves and respects, giving him a chance, and that's it.

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Speaker 1: NFL true false. Number two. Steve Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: is the one QB who got the most help from

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one NFL Draft. Well, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: go down the list of Jamar Chase. We know is

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Speaker 1: the first round pick in Cincinnati. Um No, I will say,

2271
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Speaker 1: and I don't. I don't know the rest of their roster,

2272
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Speaker 1: but I would say I would say Matt Ryan. Matt

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02:04:51,320 --> 02:04:54,120
Speaker 1: Ryan got the most help because of Kyle Pittser saying yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they I think they got some other guys. Hold on,

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Speaker 1: let me get Atlanta Falcon's draft. So here's the Bengals

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Speaker 1: for you, Jamar Chase. We know with the top pick

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Speaker 1: right then they got Jackson Carman, who was a tackle

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02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:12,879
Speaker 1: at Clemson but projects to guard. I wasn't overly impressed

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Speaker 1: with him. I didn't even think it was the second

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02:05:14,320 --> 02:05:18,839
Speaker 1: round talent quite frankly. Yeah, and then they went defense

2281
02:05:18,960 --> 02:05:22,480
Speaker 1: after that with their next three picks before they took

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Speaker 1: a tackle out of East Carolina, Deonte Smith in round five,

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Speaker 1: I believe, no. Round four, and then they took a kicker,

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02:05:32,360 --> 02:05:37,320
Speaker 1: took a center, you know, in round six, running back.

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Speaker 1: I would argue that the Chargers did more for their quarterback. Yeah.

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02:05:43,000 --> 02:05:45,400
Speaker 1: I like the reason, I said, and I knew i'd

2287
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Speaker 1: read this before. I like Kyle Pitts. They got a

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Speaker 1: sixth round wide receiver, Frank Derby. They got an offensive

2289
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Speaker 1: lineman Jalen Mayfield. Another offensive lineman Drew Dalman. All those

2290
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Speaker 1: guys were in the fourth round or before the fourth round,

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Speaker 1: so I think they helped him. They got him an

2292
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Speaker 1: offensive line, they got him Kyle Pitts. The problem is,

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Speaker 1: I think that the Falcons looked like they're gonna trade

2294
02:06:07,600 --> 02:06:11,240
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and then you're yeah, now you're back because

2295
02:06:11,280 --> 02:06:15,240
Speaker 1: the cap problem. Right, he's making fifteen point three so um.

2296
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Speaker 1: But for the draft, I think you can make a

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02:06:18,760 --> 02:06:20,520
Speaker 1: case of Matt Ryan might have a run in him

2298
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Speaker 1: in that division, even even with Tampa Bay in that division.

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Speaker 1: I think New Orleans is gonna take a step back.

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees was a difference maker for them, even though

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Speaker 1: they started to spot play him at times last year.

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Speaker 1: I think the I think the Saints you're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a step back. I think the Falcons can take a

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Speaker 1: step forward. Obviously, it's a big step to get to

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Speaker 1: where Tampa Bay is and Carolina is kind of a

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Speaker 1: big question mark. See I'm gonna say false as well,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going with the Chargers. I think with Rashaan Slater,

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02:06:48,640 --> 02:06:52,800
Speaker 1: a left tackle and Josh Palmer, a receiver that they

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Speaker 1: took in the third round, big target, another young player

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02:06:57,160 --> 02:06:59,760
Speaker 1: to kind of grow with Herbert, I would say Herbert

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02:06:59,800 --> 02:07:02,720
Speaker 1: got more help than Burrow did. There's probably other examples,

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02:07:02,760 --> 02:07:04,440
Speaker 1: but that's one that sticks out for me, So I

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Speaker 1: will say false on that last. NFL true false. Steve

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02:07:09,720 --> 02:07:12,280
Speaker 1: Hold on my computer, slow again, Dad got it? You

2315
02:07:12,400 --> 02:07:13,840
Speaker 1: try to look something up and then you got to

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02:07:13,880 --> 02:07:17,400
Speaker 1: pay for it. NFL true false. Number three Seahawks and

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02:07:17,520 --> 02:07:23,839
Speaker 1: Packers should swap disgruntled quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson

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02:07:23,920 --> 02:07:28,560
Speaker 1: have both expressed some disappointment in their respective organizations. And

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Speaker 1: what do you think about a swap here? It's an

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02:07:32,480 --> 02:07:37,240
Speaker 1: interesting question. I don't know financially if either team could

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Speaker 1: really pull it off, I think it pretty pret even.

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02:07:40,000 --> 02:07:43,280
Speaker 1: I think there's maybe it's less than ten million dollars difference.

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02:07:44,080 --> 02:07:47,240
Speaker 1: I just think the cap hit though for the Packers,

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02:07:47,520 --> 02:07:49,640
Speaker 1: even after if you and first, would be steep, and

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Speaker 1: I think for the Seahawks it might be even. I

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02:07:51,840 --> 02:07:53,680
Speaker 1: think there's a I think there's a hit if it

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02:07:53,800 --> 02:07:57,400
Speaker 1: was equal for fun, if it was equal financially and

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Speaker 1: they're not stopped by the contracts. It's a really interesting question.

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Speaker 1: But I would still say I don't know. I could

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Speaker 1: they do it? Should they do it, I'd say no.

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02:08:09,840 --> 02:08:12,080
Speaker 1: I'd say no. I mean, I think the pack would

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02:08:12,080 --> 02:08:15,000
Speaker 1: be a better off because Russ Wilson, while he's young,

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02:08:15,120 --> 02:08:19,240
Speaker 1: he's little younger one. He's thirty one. Rogers is thirty six.

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02:08:20,120 --> 02:08:22,360
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be thirty seven before the seasons. Guys,

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02:08:23,360 --> 02:08:26,880
Speaker 1: both those guys are have still got a ton of

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02:08:26,960 --> 02:08:31,600
Speaker 1: good football in him. No, I think the Seahawks are

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02:08:31,640 --> 02:08:37,360
Speaker 1: built to win. Fat well. I'd do it if I

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Speaker 1: was the Seahawks because I think Aaron Rodgers makes you better.

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02:08:40,800 --> 02:08:43,920
Speaker 1: It makes you better for Russ Wilson, I think it

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02:08:44,120 --> 02:08:45,920
Speaker 1: for him, I don't think he'd like that. I don't

2341
02:08:45,920 --> 02:08:48,720
Speaker 1: think green Bay's rosters. I think Aaron Rodgers carries a

2342
02:08:48,760 --> 02:08:52,480
Speaker 1: lot of covers a lot of problems in green Bay.

2343
02:08:53,200 --> 02:08:55,400
Speaker 1: They're a different kind of organization. I get that They've

2344
02:08:55,440 --> 02:08:58,880
Speaker 1: got a way of doing things. So I would say

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02:08:58,960 --> 02:09:00,760
Speaker 1: if I was the Packers would not do that. If

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02:09:00,760 --> 02:09:03,920
Speaker 1: I was a Seahawks, I think I would. Yeah, I'm

2347
02:09:04,240 --> 02:09:07,400
Speaker 1: I'm just because well, it would be interesting knowing that

2348
02:09:08,640 --> 02:09:11,560
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson was a graduate transfer who finished his college

2349
02:09:11,640 --> 02:09:14,320
Speaker 1: career at Wisconsin and went to the Rose Bowl with

2350
02:09:14,360 --> 02:09:17,800
Speaker 1: the Badgers, he would I mean, there's name recognition there,

2351
02:09:17,920 --> 02:09:19,440
Speaker 1: not that you really need it with it, you know,

2352
02:09:19,920 --> 02:09:23,440
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback, But well he was he played at Wisconsin,

2353
02:09:23,560 --> 02:09:25,200
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. So I think it would be

2354
02:09:25,320 --> 02:09:27,800
Speaker 1: a stranger. He'd be a draw, he'd be a big draw.

2355
02:09:27,920 --> 02:09:29,680
Speaker 1: But I don't. But yeah, you can't say you should

2356
02:09:29,680 --> 02:09:31,640
Speaker 1: they should have should One team probably should, one team

2357
02:09:31,640 --> 02:09:34,440
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't. Because somebody's gonna win that trade. I'm gonna

2358
02:09:34,480 --> 02:09:37,880
Speaker 1: say false. The Packers are better off keeping Aaron Rodgers

2359
02:09:38,080 --> 02:09:40,760
Speaker 1: because that's how they've gotten to the NFC title game

2360
02:09:40,840 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 1: the last two years. Now here's the thing, Russell Wilson.

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02:09:44,280 --> 02:09:46,200
Speaker 1: There's a ton of ways to win. There's a ton

2362
02:09:46,200 --> 02:09:48,720
Speaker 1: of ways to look at this. Seattle knows Russell gonna

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02:09:48,880 --> 02:09:50,320
Speaker 1: line up and play for him. They're gonna try and

2364
02:09:50,360 --> 02:09:52,720
Speaker 1: do everything they can to win. What if Roger decides

2365
02:09:52,720 --> 02:09:55,120
Speaker 1: I ain't playing for the Packers, then what's the best

2366
02:09:55,200 --> 02:09:58,560
Speaker 1: thing for the Packers? You gotta move them. Yeah, and

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02:09:58,680 --> 02:10:01,080
Speaker 1: I think they might get there sooner than so I'm

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02:10:01,120 --> 02:10:03,520
Speaker 1: thinking if Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to play for them,

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02:10:03,560 --> 02:10:06,680
Speaker 1: and he really does want out, I say, yeah, both

2370
02:10:06,760 --> 02:10:08,839
Speaker 1: teams should make that trade of that. You just flipped

2371
02:10:09,000 --> 02:10:10,720
Speaker 1: flipped it right on. It's here. Well, we don't know.

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02:10:10,880 --> 02:10:12,680
Speaker 1: If that, we don't know if that conditions come on,

2373
02:10:12,920 --> 02:10:15,560
Speaker 1: well we're led to believe that is the case. If

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02:10:15,640 --> 02:10:20,040
Speaker 1: that's the case, then yes, okay. If Aaron Rodgers will

2375
02:10:20,160 --> 02:10:23,720
Speaker 1: not suit up for the Packers, I make that trade

2376
02:10:23,760 --> 02:10:26,800
Speaker 1: if I'm either team. Okay, you heard it here first.

2377
02:10:27,000 --> 02:10:29,880
Speaker 1: That is NFL true false, brought to you by Anti's Fancy.

2378
02:10:30,240 --> 02:10:32,480
Speaker 1: We will step aside, but come back to close things

2379
02:10:32,600 --> 02:10:35,080
Speaker 1: up with what have we learned here? On One Bill's

2380
02:10:35,080 --> 02:10:40,440
Speaker 1: Life presented by Kalata Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Probably

2381
02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:42,880
Speaker 1: the most interesting thing we learned came from our good

2382
02:10:42,920 --> 02:10:46,800
Speaker 1: friend Armando Salguero in the Miami Herald today talking about

2383
02:10:47,800 --> 02:10:54,440
Speaker 1: the potential changes which could be significant with Miami's offense again,

2384
02:10:55,520 --> 02:11:00,240
Speaker 1: which does not spell path to success for two as

2385
02:11:00,280 --> 02:11:03,160
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, because it's another learning curve he's

2386
02:11:03,160 --> 02:11:06,360
Speaker 1: got to travel now, and we've seen how that's worked

2387
02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:09,600
Speaker 1: here with all the coordinators this team went through during

2388
02:11:09,640 --> 02:11:12,920
Speaker 1: the drought. New Offenses junior year. I don't know if

2389
02:11:12,960 --> 02:11:14,520
Speaker 1: he came out as a junior I can't remember, but

2390
02:11:14,760 --> 02:11:19,120
Speaker 1: New offenses year before he came out in Alabama. A

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02:11:19,240 --> 02:11:22,080
Speaker 1: new offense is last year at Alabama, A new offense

2392
02:11:22,200 --> 02:11:24,320
Speaker 1: is a rookie in the NFL, and another new offense

2393
02:11:24,360 --> 02:11:26,400
Speaker 1: he's learned in his second year in the NFL. There

2394
02:11:26,440 --> 02:11:29,200
Speaker 1: seems to be a difference of opinion as to how

2395
02:11:29,320 --> 02:11:32,000
Speaker 1: much the offense has changed in Miami between the coaches

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02:11:32,560 --> 02:11:35,800
Speaker 1: and the players. As a person from a reporter's background,

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02:11:35,800 --> 02:11:38,480
Speaker 1: I would tend to trust the players who have less

2398
02:11:38,600 --> 02:11:42,240
Speaker 1: invested in how things are being run. They just have

2399
02:11:42,360 --> 02:11:47,040
Speaker 1: to run them, so there's no reason for them to

2400
02:11:47,360 --> 02:11:51,880
Speaker 1: couch how something might be. Where coaches have to be

2401
02:11:51,960 --> 02:11:54,160
Speaker 1: on guard all the time, and how they describe and

2402
02:11:54,320 --> 02:12:00,200
Speaker 1: present things. And when Myles Gaskin says it's a whole

2403
02:12:00,240 --> 02:12:03,560
Speaker 1: new playbook, you believe him. I believe it because it

2404
02:12:03,600 --> 02:12:05,240
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it is or not. If he sounds

2405
02:12:05,280 --> 02:12:07,480
Speaker 1: like it to him and he's re learning stuff, it

2406
02:12:07,680 --> 02:12:09,360
Speaker 1: is what it is, what it is. I mean that

2407
02:12:09,640 --> 02:12:12,000
Speaker 1: whether it's new or not, it's they're acting like it's new,

2408
02:12:12,040 --> 02:12:16,400
Speaker 1: and they feel like it's new. Um, and yeah, that's

2409
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Speaker 1: Miami's getting fourth in Division fourth. Who's gonna beat him?

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02:12:22,240 --> 02:12:25,600
Speaker 1: Who's who? They? Who they're gonna beat With that, they

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02:12:25,720 --> 02:12:29,440
Speaker 1: might still be able to beat the Jets. What if

2412
02:12:29,480 --> 02:12:32,040
Speaker 1: they split with the Jets? I mean, we can't forget

2413
02:12:32,080 --> 02:12:33,920
Speaker 1: that they were a ten win team last year. With

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Speaker 1: a new offense with fits, yeah, and a whole host

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02:12:38,720 --> 02:12:44,360
Speaker 1: of defensive change. They a race to the bottom on

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02:12:44,800 --> 02:12:47,840
Speaker 1: the AFC. East Man, you won ten games last year.

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02:12:47,920 --> 02:12:49,400
Speaker 1: I get it. We've just been talking about how the

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02:12:49,440 --> 02:12:51,560
Speaker 1: Bills are. Okay, they're tearing it down and building. Good

2419
02:12:51,600 --> 02:12:54,280
Speaker 1: for the Bills. If Brian and I like Brian Floores,

2420
02:12:54,440 --> 02:12:58,240
Speaker 1: he you can't doubt it. He won ten games last year. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see our colleague Maddie glab On with us

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Speaker 1: tomorrow along with a new Tasker's teammate. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: at noon.