1 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field, 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role 3 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even 4 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: in the strated here of normalcy. Here, all right, rocking 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,159 Speaker 1: and rolling on a Thursday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with 6 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: you as always, and we're motoring into the offseason here. 7 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: I mean we've kind of officially hit it and yeah, 8 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: you know, we're looking over free agency listings, We're checking 9 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: out draft order and I'm getting started on draft prospects. 10 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: You I'm starting to get over because there's nothing like 11 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: there's nothing left obviously in the season, so there's nothing 12 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: left like you feel like would have should have could 13 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: you can look back on and say, yeah, yeah, everything happened, 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: is all. There's nothing else now to do except look forward. Yeah, 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: you know, and I mean we all have our regrets 16 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: about how the season ended and all this, and you know, 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: all the bitterness of how it ended and all that, 18 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: but you know, now you got to kind of learned 19 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: to live with it. You kind of move on. You 20 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: got other things to think about. This is true, and 21 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: that's where we're at. That is where we're extra large 22 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: coffee speaking, Yes, that's right. Speaking of things to do 23 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: in the off season, the NFL Competition Committee meets today 24 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: to set their agenda for possible rules changes going forward, 25 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: and we'll get into a discussion with that in the 26 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 1: second hour of our show, with Kevin Seaford, NFL national 27 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: writer for ESPN dot com, going to join us put 28 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: together a fantastic offseason priorities list for the league. Will 29 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: run down that with him, in addition to some of 30 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: the things that could be afoot come the fall in 31 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: the NFL based on the thing is that the Competition 32 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: Committee ultimately recommends. So I saw Troy Vincent tweeting that 33 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: out today. We're meeting today where you know, the agenda 34 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: is getting set and these are the kinds of things 35 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: that go on this time of year. But before we 36 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: dive headlong into NFL news and notes, Steve, as you know, 37 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: I am the owner of two dogs. You have your 38 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: one dog, my older dog. She's running up a tab, Steve, Oh, no, 39 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: we've been. I've been going to the vet a couple 40 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 1: of times. Fortunately nothing life threatening. But now she's got 41 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: a skin infection, so this requires a an injection to 42 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: keep her from scratching affected areas in you know, on 43 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: the skin infection on her body. That's number one. Number 44 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: two antibiotics to kill the infection. Number three an antiseptic 45 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: shampoo which must be applied. So here you know this 46 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: time of year, Yeah, washing your dog outside in a 47 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: tub really isn't an option. Yeah, that's either got to 48 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: be a garage thing or right, I'm and I'm not 49 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,839 Speaker 1: doing that because I'm getting wet two in this exercise, 50 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: So I'm I am committed to doing an indoor shampooing. 51 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: You know, So what do you do? Well? Two to 52 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,119 Speaker 1: three days a week, two to three times a week. 53 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,679 Speaker 1: We have to shampoo her body with this antiseptic shampoo 54 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: and it's got to stay on. You lather it up 55 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: and then it's got to stay on for ten minutes, 56 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: stay on for ten minutes. And I mean, you know 57 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: how dogs are in a shower. Oh, so so we've 58 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: so basically we're reduced to the last night was my turn. 59 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: So there I am in my swim trunks that my 60 00:03:54,880 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: dogs in my stand up shower. This is awesome with 61 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: my four my soon to be fourteen year old mutt, 62 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: and she's great, like she knows the jig is up 63 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: like all right, Like she doesn't fight you. My younger dog, 64 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: she'll fight you, took. I'm not doing that. I'm not 65 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: doing you know what I mean. You got to hit 66 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: her with a tranquilizer, right, yeah, so the older dog. 67 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: So I gotta come on, here we go. So we 68 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: gotta get her into the stand up shower. And you know, 69 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: once the doors closed, she knows like, I'm I got 70 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: nowhere to go. I might as well just grin and 71 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: bear it kind of thing. The problem is like I 72 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: got her all lathered up, and now I've got to 73 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: leave that shampoo on so it can do its work 74 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: and get rid of the skin infection or at least 75 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: combat it. And I'm like I want to get out 76 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: and just leave her in there, and but she she 77 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: won't stop trying to rinse it off because she's smart 78 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: enough to try to run under the shower head. We'll 79 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: turn the water off. Well I could have done that, 80 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: but then she's cold and like whatever. So anyway, I've 81 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: I took a knee in there and hung with her 82 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: for the ten minutes and just kind of let me 83 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: just see. I've got to tell you, it is a 84 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: that's work man. I got a lot of appreciation for 85 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: the groomers at dog groomers out there, because I will, 86 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: I will see your skin infection, oh no, and raise you. 87 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: Three eye surgers, yeah, the eyeball thing, right, three eye 88 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: surgeries and a brief stint in paralysis. I remember that, 89 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: all of which you're behind us now, except he does 90 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: have eye drops you do once a day. But I think, yeah, 91 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,559 Speaker 1: the things we do for our dogs, right, yeah, well 92 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: you know it's and it says something that you know. 93 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: I I label all my dogs, right. The first one was, 94 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: you know us your first dog. The first one we 95 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: had was a big blue Great Dane, you know, huge dog. 96 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: Then we had the big dog, the great We had 97 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: a Great Dan and then we got a big dog. 98 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: So we had an old english Man. Oh he was 99 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: two twenty six at his height, oh my god. But 100 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: we like to keep him down around a buck seventy, 101 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: So we did that after he got older and stuff, 102 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: we'd cut his weight back and stuff. He was uh so. 103 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: And then we had the the mix of yellow labning, 104 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: so it was the big dog. And then we had 105 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: the best dog ever was the mutt that we rescued. 106 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: MutS are awesome. Right, and now the one the one 107 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: I love the most when I got now Verne and 108 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: So's Yeah he's a soft right, so you know I 109 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: labeled all of him. So he's the one. Yeah, the 110 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: one I loved the most was the one I thought 111 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: I was gonna have to like, you know, I was 112 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: gonna have to do him in because he wasn't gonna 113 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: be able to walk. Yeah right, So but he didn't. 114 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: He bounced back, and now we're we're hat fat and halt. 115 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: So the crazy the crazy thing is, so we finished 116 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,559 Speaker 1: the exercise. You know, I did I get to ten minutes. 117 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: I probably got to eight or nine, right, you know, 118 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, let's just get whatever. So we're 119 00:06:54,839 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: rinsing her off, and uh, her coat she's a she's 120 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: like a lab pit ter terry or mix whatever. Right, 121 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: her coat is so thick. Yeah, I'm sitting there going 122 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: you gotta be part husky because I'm trying to rinse 123 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: her off, and every time I do it, the shampoo 124 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: just lathers right up again. I feel like I've never 125 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: got her completely rinsed. So that the rinsing took just 126 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: as long as we sat around waiting for the stuff 127 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: to lather up. Sometimes those lab breeds and like the 128 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: the what have a bay something baked retriever. Their coats 129 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: are so they're like they're like beaver pets. Dense. It's dense. 130 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: And if something happens, if they get sprayed by a 131 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: skunk or something, which happened, forget it. Yeah, that was 132 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: not fun. It is weeks before you, you know, you 133 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: can experience Oh my gosh. But I am, having said 134 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: all of that, I'm still a dog guy, right, I know, 135 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: but I like, so I took her ten minutes to 136 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: rinse her off, and then drying a dog off like that, 137 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: you think she's dry, and it's like, where is all 138 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: this water coming from? Like, I can't. I had to 139 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: get a second towel. Does she shit for coming off here? 140 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: Like you could stuff a pillow with? Well, she's she's not. 141 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: She's not like a golden retriever. Shit. That's the worst, right, 142 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: So she's got a healthy she had going on. But 143 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: I needed two towels, like two beach towels, right, and 144 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: she still wasn't like completely dry. You know, you touch 145 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,239 Speaker 1: her and she's still damp. So I put the fire 146 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: on in the family room. I was like, go sit 147 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: over here. We see you got your two dog. Guy, 148 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: We see we're on the verge of starting to talk 149 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: about our crossover dog. Yeah, so when you got the 150 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: old dog teaches the young dog. That's where we never 151 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: want to be dog free, right. I don't know that 152 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: our younger dog's learning it, right, she is not currently 153 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: thinking about, you know, a new dog. Yeah, that's what 154 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: we did last April, so we yeah. So well, you 155 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: know a lot of people did that during COVID. That 156 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 1: was the thing, right, all the all the kennels were 157 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: empty because everybody wanted companion. The best part was it 158 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: was my daughter that was pushing for the second dog. 159 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: We need a second dog, blah blah blah. Then yeah, 160 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: she graduates, you know, well if she was home for 161 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: the pandemic, but then she's off to college like four 162 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: months later. It's like, now we're a two dog family. 163 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: I got one least kid to help with the dogs, right, 164 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: Like what the heck? So yeah, we got saddled with that, 165 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: um but yeah, I mean it's all good. Uh. It's 166 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: crazy though, because our other dogs pit bull full blown 167 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: pit bull rescue her coat in comparison to the other 168 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: dog it's like night and day. Yeah, it's like short 169 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: hair doesn't really shed at all. Um, just a breeze 170 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: from a caretaker perspective, but man, that those thick coats 171 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 1: are tough. But the funny thing is those two go 172 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: outside to do their business when it's cold, and my 173 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: older dog, who's got the thick coat, she'll jump around 174 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: and like she'll walk through the snow, think nothing of it, 175 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: hang out. I just kind of sniffed the air a 176 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: little bit, see what's going on. She'll eat snow like 177 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: willingly the other dogs. In five minutes, she's freezing. Yeah, 178 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: her legs are shaking. To me, that's a plus because 179 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 1: that's the way. That's the way my dog is too. 180 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: Vern will go out. Man, he's like, I'm forget it, 181 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: do my business. The hard part of him is getting 182 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: him to go in the spot where he's you know, 183 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: out out away from that, you know, to move away 184 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: from the back welcome mats. He come, I go. So 185 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: that's the hard part for that. But I'm all about 186 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: having a dog that hates the cold. Yeah, you know, 187 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: so you don't have to go out there and look 188 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: for him or stand out there and wait on him. Right. 189 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: So I I don't know, I gotta do that. How 190 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 1: long as I gotta do this, like another week or so, 191 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: So I gotta do like another three bats she catch 192 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: and she catches someone skin in fact, I mean skin 193 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: in fact. Well, I didn't really notice it until I 194 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: saw like this bear patch on her back. Oh yeah, 195 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: And so you know, now I started investigating, what do 196 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: we got? And all this skin is flaky and it's done, 197 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 1: look right, and the skin had become so infected the 198 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: fur fell out in that little area I got you. 199 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: So I took her in to get checked and they're like, 200 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,599 Speaker 1: oh yeah, we got bacteria here. We're gonna have to 201 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: put her on antibiotics or whatever. It's like, oh jeez, yeah, 202 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: but it's clearing up. So that's fine and we'll be 203 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: good and move on, speaking and moving on. NFL dot 204 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: Com Steve did a NFL rookie grading for the AFC 205 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: East Okay, and the Bills finished dead last in this category. 206 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 1: Seriously in the division anyway, well, due in part to 207 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: the fact that the other teams were relying far more 208 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: heavily on rookies than the Bills were. You know, you've 209 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: got the Dolphins finished with an A minus that was 210 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: the highest grade. Jalen Waddle obviously had a very good 211 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: season out of the slot for them, you know, started 212 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: all sixteen games. They had Jalen Phillips who came on 213 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: late in the year. Remember he was being miscast as 214 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: an outside linebacker in their defense. They move him up 215 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: on the line second half of the season. He gets 216 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: five starts at the end of the year and gets 217 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: some sacks. And then they have that safety Javon Holland, 218 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: who I liked a lot in the draft out of Oregon. 219 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: He was around two pick, got thirteen starts last year 220 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 1: for them. And then Leam Eichenberg, who started as the 221 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: right tackle I think, ended up finishing the season as 222 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: their left tackle. So their top four picks were on 223 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: the field a lot, right, so you can understand why 224 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: they got the grade that they did. And then the 225 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: Patriots obviously benefited from Mac Jones season that he had 226 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: as a rookie, so they got an A minus and 227 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: Christian Barmore, Romandre Stevenson. These were rookies that contributed to 228 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: their efforts on defense. And because do you think do 229 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: you think the Patriots benefited from Mac Jones or did 230 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: Mac Jones benefit. It's probably a mutual thing. But and 231 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: then the Jets, you know, Zach Wilson not a lot 232 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: of success, but he played a lot. Elijah Vera Tucker 233 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: sixteen starts at guard, Elijah Moore, Michael Carter, the running back, 234 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: had a nice rookie season. So I get it their 235 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: their rookies contributed more due out of necessity to a 236 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: great degree. But they gave the Bills a c Steve A. 237 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: C Rousseau, Brown, Quis Stevenson. At the end of the season, 238 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: tomar Handling a special team's contributed. I get it, it 239 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: does it's not I don't know if i'd dropped the 240 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: Bill and I guess maybe they don't want to give 241 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: two teams the same grade. See, I guess is an 242 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: average and we call it an average grade. But they 243 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: called the Bills rookie class average. It's based on their contribution. 244 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: To Brown was probably the guy that you'd look at 245 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: and say he's the best of the Budge contributed the 246 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: most through the course of the season. Guards component because 247 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: mostly because of the way they rotate their offensive line, 248 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: I mean their defensive line because Bashman Rousseau. You know 249 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: they're out there for what less than like forty percent 250 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: of the snaps are less, yeah, defensive snaps. So okay, whatever, 251 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: I'll take the way we finished, you know, right, I 252 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: mean the ranking. You know, it's one person's opinion writer 253 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: for a discursions if you like. So, that's fine. Ranking 254 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: of all sixty two starting quarterbacks of the twenty twenty 255 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: one NFL season. Sixty two different quarterbacks started games in 256 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: the league last year. Where do you think Josh Allen 257 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: finished in this rankings list? Can I give you a range? 258 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: Top five? He was number three? Yeah, it's got to 259 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: be the only two quarterbacks that were ranked ahead of him. 260 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: Let me guess Rogers Burrow Rogers was two. Number one? 261 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: Was Brady Okay, led the league in passing if you 262 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: count his playoff games fifty nine hundred passing yards. Brady 263 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: nineteen games any fifty nine hundred passing and he called 264 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: to quits. Yeah, led the league in passing. No way 265 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: he's so full, There is there is no way he's 266 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: that dang retired. You know who was fourth on the 267 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: rankings list? Herbert? Justin Herbert through for five. I know 268 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: I told you this this morning. I didn't I didn't 269 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 1: pay attention to this. He through for five thousand yards 270 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: in the regular season five thousand and fourteen passing yards. 271 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: Let me tell you some things you can count on 272 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: in the NFL more five thousand yard passing seasons. You 273 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: can count on the Bears in Detroit being San Diego, 274 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: you're still calling him Santego, Steve. We gotta get that 275 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: La Chargers hot to get that bug out of your head. 276 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: And Cincinnati, yeah, you're big on this. Cincinnati will be 277 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: one and done. It'll be good next year, don't get 278 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: me wrong, but they're not going to be that good 279 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: like that. They're not gonna be going to Copen Championship. 280 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: I'm telling you this. And they got tons of cash 281 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: just spanning. They got a bunch of guys on rookie 282 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: contract worth most. They're gonna be fine. They're gonna be 283 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: good next year. They will not be able to put 284 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: it together like they did this year. Okay, no way. 285 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: I have seen them too many decades and you're going 286 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: off same ownership to continue to believe that. Yes, okay, yes, 287 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: all right. I just want to make sure we are right. 288 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: They're gonna fold up the sales and start coasting right now. 289 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: Fold up the sales. He says, wow, okay, yeah, and 290 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: and of course then I'll stand behind my Detroit and 291 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: Chicago rhetoric. Well I'll die on that. That that's been unchanging. 292 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: The Bengals did come out and say they know they've 293 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: got to protect Joe Burrow better and they intend to 294 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: invest in that area, probably in free agency and the draft. 295 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: I would assume whatever they say, whatever they want, it's 296 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: not gonna happen. They're not gonna They may do it. 297 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: They may get a dominant offensive line. Yeah, something else 298 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: is gonna happen. But owner Mike Brown even said he 299 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: told Bengals dot Com, we want to do some things 300 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: to help him. You know, he's accurate, he's tough as nails, 301 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: smart player, but we want to do some things to 302 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: help him. So people are inferring that that means better 303 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: protection upfront. Of course it does. That's yeah, it's painfully obvious. 304 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: You know what happened what they said last year, he 305 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: said they were going to get better protection for him, 306 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: because I think they did say that too, didn't they. 307 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: I think that was the thing because they're quickly people 308 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: forget their quarterback went down last year with a season 309 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:31,640 Speaker 1: ending injury, and they said you know what, we got 310 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: to protect him. He's too valuable. We showed too much. 311 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: This is what We're gonna protect him better. And you know, 312 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: maybe they did, but he still got sacked six million 313 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: times in a seventeen game season. His greatest accomplishment was 314 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:50,199 Speaker 1: winning a game getting sacked nine times. I mean, come on, 315 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: do you really you're really gonna listen to that. No, 316 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: they're gonna be good because Joe's gonna in a tough division. 317 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: I mean, are you got a target on their back? 318 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: Cleveland has a quarterback quandary of their own, but they're 319 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: a good team. Baltimore is expected to rebound after they 320 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 1: were riddled with injuries this past season, and if Pittsburgh 321 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: makes the right move at quarterback, they could be right 322 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: back in the mix in that division. Most certainly, they 323 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: have talent on defense, and they have a talented group 324 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: of receivers. Although Juju is a free agent, is a 325 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: free agent. Yeah, there's a lot to be there's a 326 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: lot of questions to be answer, and I know, you know, 327 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: we've got mock draft City coming up, you know, all 328 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: the way through the next I like that. Maybe we 329 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: should adopt that for all of our pre draft prep 330 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: Draft City. We're gonna be mocked draft City here, mock 331 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: draft City, and we're gonna talk about all this. But 332 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: I've never seen a single mock draft who even got 333 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: the top ten right now, let alone the top I 334 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: think the articles I love the most are the snark 335 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: write ups on various websites out there that take a 336 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: look at the so called draftnicks to see how many 337 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: they got right, and a lot of times it's ninety 338 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: percent of them are under five correct five guys period, 339 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: five correct choices to the correct team, fifty to the 340 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: correct team in round one only, right, um. And I 341 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: think it's gonna be even harder this year because there 342 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 1: are no clear cut quarterback prospects that are gonna go 343 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: early per se. So that's gonna be interesting. Let's go 344 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: to the phones at eight oh three, oh five fifty 345 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty Scott and 346 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: Jamestown's waiting for us. What do you have for a Scott? 347 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: You're on one bills live. I like, I'm out of 348 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: the bills to the chief, and I'm happy for Josh Hallen, 349 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: and I want Josh Hallen to be the MVP. Hey, Chris, Yeah, 350 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: look at my cup, guy, Well, I'd be happy to 351 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: look at it if I wasn't talking to you on 352 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: the phone, Scott, But thank you very much. I'm sure 353 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: it's wonderful. Maybe it's got Josh Allen on it for 354 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: all you know. Yes, I think Josh will be in 355 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: the conversation for MVP next year, no question about it. 356 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: He was runner up two years ago. If if this 357 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: team did not have the lull that it did through 358 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: the middle of the season, he probably would have right 359 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: there for it again this year. If yeah, if if 360 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: three plays would have been different. Let me see if 361 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 1: I can guess the plays you're talking about. Yeah, the 362 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: sneak in Tennessee. That that puts him at twelve and 363 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: five at the number one seed, right, I gotta think 364 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: of some other ones here, because that one just came 365 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: to mind immediately. Pass interference in Tampa Bay. Oh, the 366 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: non call. I was thinking of a specific Josh Allen play. 367 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: But that, well, I guess that was a play he 368 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: threw it there. That okay, So that's two. And then 369 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: a block punt on opening day. The block punt, okay, 370 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: Well that didn't involve Josh Allen, all right, So I 371 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: wouldn't have guessed that either those three plays go different. 372 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: The bills are fourteen and three. Oh all three? Okay, 373 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 1: all three right, right, fourteen and three, and everything's different, 374 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: right Them's the brakes man. So sure there's other teams 375 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: that's the same way. And that's why that's why hope 376 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: is such you know, for for so long here, hope 377 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: was such an easy commodity to get behind because you 378 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: go back and do what we just did, and that 379 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: razor's edge would have been put them right in the 380 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: in the thing, not only in the playoffs, but like 381 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: the four seed you know what I'm saying, or the 382 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: three seed or the you know, the five seed whatever. Um, 383 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: it's such an easy thing because that's the razor's edge 384 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: that people are playing with in today's NFL. You get 385 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: you go from the four seed to the one seed, 386 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,439 Speaker 1: you know, with three plays over the course of four months, 387 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 1: and it's it's fun to talk about, and it's you know, 388 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: it's just like the you know, if the coin flip 389 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: goes bad in the in the division round, you know, 390 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: everything's different because then the AFC Championship is in Buffalo 391 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: at least. So we'd like to think you know, so, um, 392 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's you can also you can make all 393 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: kinds of arguments like that, but that's that's where mine. 394 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 1: It's the razor's edge of how good or bad your 395 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: team is, and it's hard to get around the bottom 396 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: line results of you know, how things went like that. Yeah, 397 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: so you know, if you lose a game, a close 398 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: game like that, it's so easy to second guess absolutely 399 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 1: everything you did that day. But if the if that 400 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: ball bounces a different way, or if an official calls 401 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: at a different way and you go in you score 402 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: a touchdown there, and you win that game in Tampa, 403 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: the whole thing turns on its head and your team 404 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: is all of a sudden three times better than you 405 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: would have thought it was if because the way it went. 406 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 1: I heard Brandon being talked about that recently. I think 407 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: it was on Eric Woods podcast where he said, you know, 408 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: we kind of hit that lull in the middle of 409 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: the season, he said, and I found in my and 410 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: he's been in the league over twenty years, it doesn't 411 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: take much to take a team that's rolling and push 412 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: them into this, push them out of sync, so to speak. 413 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: And knowing that coach McDermott always says, you know, the 414 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: margins are so thin in this league that the slightest 415 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 1: thing to knock you off a little knock you off 416 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,360 Speaker 1: kilter a little bit is enough to kind of put 417 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: you in a rut real fast. And then you're like, wait, 418 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: what the heck happened here? We were playing good football? 419 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 1: Why can't we get that back right now? And then 420 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: you've got to find the thing that kicks you back 421 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: into rhythm again. And it's it's a little bit like 422 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: chasing your own tail, except it's like if you had 423 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: five tails, because every game, like when we were just 424 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: talking about those three plays, we talked about one special 425 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: teams play a block an opening day. Yeah, second one 426 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: is a non call on a play that should have 427 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: been called that would have given you the advantage of 428 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: first and goal at the one at the one going 429 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 1: in for a touchdown to win, to win the game, 430 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 1: and to win instead of going overtime where you lose. 431 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: And you know, the third one is when it's raining 432 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: and your quarterback slips and falls on a quarterback sneak. 433 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: Is stead of running in for a touchdown to win 434 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: the game, you lose. Yeah, all of those things are 435 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: different things. So it's not really. It's like, you know, 436 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: the the devil is in the details. The wins and 437 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: losses are in the details too, and those details change. 438 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: You know, it's not a special team's detail. This week 439 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: it's an offensive running games issue, and then next week 440 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: is a defensive issue. You know, So you chase your tail, 441 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: except that you got like fifty tails, you know, and 442 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: you gotta chase them all and you only got two legs. 443 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: Knowing that some of that officiating came under scrutiny on 444 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,719 Speaker 1: the part of Bills fans at times this season, and 445 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: knowing that the NFL's Competition Community Committee is meeting today 446 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: to set their agenda for the offseason, we thought we 447 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: would get into a little bit of what could happen 448 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: concerning the sky Judge. There was a lot of talk 449 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: about this last year. They have a replay official upstairs. 450 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 1: He's not a full blown sky judge, but he can 451 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: buzz down, he can overturn calls. There is a limited 452 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 1: parameter of calls that he can overturn or weigh in on. 453 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: But it prompted this question from us, how much power 454 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: should the NFL give the sky judge? And we have 455 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: choices for you on our Twitter poll. A like it 456 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: as is it speeds up the game, which to a 457 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: certain extent it did do this past year. How many 458 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: times did you see a guy go under a hood? 459 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: I mean that didn't happen. So sky Judge buzzes down instead, 460 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 1: and the thing is adjudicated that much faster. So choice 461 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 1: A like it as is it speeds up the game. 462 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 1: B give the power to overturn more plays, or see 463 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: give them the power to throw and pick up flags. 464 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: Because they already have the power to overturn plays, so 465 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: expand that power. Allow them more kinds of plays to overturn. 466 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: They can't overturn flags except on specific instance. Instancie don't 467 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: think they can. They can overturn flags. They can spot 468 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 1: the ball, they can say incomplete, or if a non 469 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: call was made, they can say, hey that should have 470 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: been called. No, they can't do you can't do that. 471 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: They can't do that. They can't. That'd be that'd be 472 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: letting them throw a flag. Yeah, so allow them to 473 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: overturn and they can't. I don't think they can make 474 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: tell them to pick up flags. Or maybe they can 475 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: if a guy if they get a look at a 476 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: flag and a guy was like a receiver went out 477 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: of bounds, came back in and the guy threw his 478 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: flag down because he thought he went out of bounds 479 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 1: and the replaced there as he didn't they could tell him, hey, 480 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: that was an inadvertent he was at he didn't do it, 481 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 1: and they'll pick it up quick. Um. That's why coaches 482 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: challenge is a kind of hesitant, because they want to 483 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: make sure the guy doesn't do it out of hand 484 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: from upstairs down inside, because if he does, there's no 485 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: need for you to throw the challenge for that's right, 486 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 1: you can waste it. So there is and it's it's 487 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 1: you know, right now, I don't have in front of 488 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: me exactly what they're able to do. But here's the thing. 489 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: If you start, it's a slippery slope because if you 490 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 1: start letting the guy throw flags and throw penalties, it's 491 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: not untrue and the old saying that, hey, you could 492 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: call a penalty on every play. You could call offensive 493 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 1: line holding every play, you could call pass interference, every 494 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: play you could you know, there's some people who have 495 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: said that off and on throughout the history of the game. Well, 496 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: if you if you got a guy up there with 497 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: replay who's looking at all that do we really want 498 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: a penalty on all of every play, you know, because 499 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: it'll be there if he wants it to be. How 500 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: much leeway and how much autonomy is he gonna have 501 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: to start calling everything? Right? The son the problem right? 502 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: And the problem resurfaced because if you remember in the 503 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: first round wildcard playoff game between the Bengals and the Raiders, 504 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: there was a non call. Right, there was a non 505 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: call I believe or ant no, there was an inadvertent 506 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 1: whistle that affected the game between the Raiders and the Bengals, 507 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: and you know, the people that didn't like how that 508 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: turned out said, hey, we got to get a sky 509 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: judge in. Here is somebody that can either a step 510 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: in and say no, that was wrong, or b say 511 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: hey nothing was called there, but something should have been 512 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: based on what I just saw, and I am doing that. 513 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: So I think we should anticipate there will be changes 514 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: in terms of the powers. But how far they go 515 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: is you know, the sixty four million dollar question. But 516 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: it looks as though there are going to be further 517 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: tweaks to the instant replay system, and the sky judge 518 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: could be part of it. I think there was a 519 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: There were multiple occasions and we started to notice it 520 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: even on We talked about a little bit on the 521 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: show during the season where something would happen, say hey, 522 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: why did they do this? And the simple answer was 523 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: that sky judge said, hey, they missed this, you gotta 524 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: do this, and they would spot the ball different or 525 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: they would all of a sudden go back and say 526 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 1: there was an incomplete pass. After further reviews, an incomplete pass. 527 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,959 Speaker 1: Or they wouldn't even announce. And that was the problem too. 528 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: They wouldn't announce when the sky judge and said, hey, 529 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: you missed this, dude, change this play, put the spot here, 530 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: put this much back on the clock. The sky judge 531 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: was fixing the game quickly and efficiently without having the 532 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: officials get together talk about it or whatever. The sky 533 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: judge said, hey, that was an incomplete pass. It's second 534 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: and ten. They would do that a lot throughout the 535 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: course of the season and people were you kind of 536 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: started to get used to it, but in the beginning 537 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: it was like WHOA, what's going on because they wouldn't 538 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: announce it. Yeah, And in a lot of ways it 539 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: was really really good, I thought, because it was more 540 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,719 Speaker 1: important to get it right than have us know what 541 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: was going on. What I'm saying, yeah, And then as 542 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: it got going, then they started it started to become 543 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: more evident as we knew what to look for. So 544 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: it was I thought it was a really good and 545 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,719 Speaker 1: it makes sense that they're gonna hone it in and 546 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,719 Speaker 1: fine tune it right inside sources at the league. Anonymous 547 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: sources are indicating that among the changes could be expansion 548 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: of the plays that can be reviewed, such as roughing 549 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: the passer calls, which currently are not reviewable. How many 550 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: times did it roughing the passer call bother you this 551 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 1: season when it was called? You know what I mean? 552 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: Like Ed Oliver had a couple of those, and it's like, 553 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: did he even did he even graze the guy's helmet here? 554 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: Like there? I mean, there were a handful of those, 555 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: probably for every team, and they might expand it where 556 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: those are reviewable. So the guy upstairs says, well, hold on, 557 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: there really wasn't helmet to helmet contact here, or the 558 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: quarterback's arm actually knocked the defensive lineman's arm into his helmet. 559 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,239 Speaker 1: He didn't willingly you hit him upside the head, right, 560 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: because you can't even in the head. You can't even 561 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: him blow the knees. So if you expand that, you know, 562 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: sure you do open yourself up to more delays because 563 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: now there are more plays that can be reviewed by 564 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: the guy upstairs, and you might slow the game down 565 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: even more. So there's a delicate balance there. You want 566 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: to get the call right, but you also don't want 567 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: to bog the game down with extensive plays being reviewed. 568 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: So you've got there's got to be a way to 569 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: limit that. But that's a delicate balance that they're going 570 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: to have to strike here going forward. We're here to 571 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: talk about it with you at eighth three five fifty one, 572 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty How much power 573 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: should the NFL give a sky judge knowing they are 574 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: going to talk about expanding the reviewable plays that can 575 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: be adjudicated upstairs? Let us know the Twitter poll is 576 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: out or hit us up at One Bills Live on 577 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. It's Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. 578 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,479 Speaker 1: We're back in a moment here on One Bill's Live, 579 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. So just 580 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: to be clear, all indications are the NFL is pleased 581 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: with the change that they enacted this past season that 582 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: allows the replay assistant in the box to consult with 583 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: the on field referee on an expanded list but still 584 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: a limited list of plays. So league officials the word is. 585 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: League officials believe that made the games move faster, prevented 586 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: unnecessary coaches challenges, and help to correct on field officiating 587 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: mistakes in an efficient manner quickly. Yeah. But the sky judge, 588 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 1: if you put one in, would have expanded powers. And 589 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: I think it's the expanded powers that gives you know, 590 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: NFL owners pause like how much is he going to 591 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 1: be overseeing? How much power do you give him? It's 592 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: and if you give him such expanded power, will that 593 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 1: ultimately slow the game down? Again? They like what the 594 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: limited scope of the replay assistant did to speed the 595 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: game up. They don't want to now take a step 596 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: backwards with an all ruling sky judge. I think what 597 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 1: the logical next step would be would be, Okay, he 598 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: can make a penalty call or over or whatever on 599 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 1: plays that happen on the ball, for instance, pass interference, 600 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: defensive paths interference, offensive pass interference, a hold in the 601 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: pocket where a sack would have occurred something or a 602 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 1: running playoff where the guys saying a non call basically, yeah, 603 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: a non call where something happened where it should have 604 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,799 Speaker 1: been called and it would have affected the play. Obviously, 605 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: had Super Bowl face mask T Higgins touch the T 606 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: Higgins touchdown would be another one. And and how about 607 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: the Wilson pass interference that wasn't pass interference? Uh on? 608 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Now you're getting down to 609 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: saying what you know, that's where you want to go 610 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 1: degrees of But I think you can see where they're 611 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: saying where it's gonna be, like, yeah, if it's right 612 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 1: on the ball and it's egregious, you gotta have the 613 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 1: guy call it. Okay, what's egregious? Now you got Now 614 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,400 Speaker 1: you got some suggestive definition, you got a new you 615 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: got a new you know, level of subjectivity, another layer 616 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: of it involved in it. But I don't think it's 617 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: any question that And I think what the smart thing 618 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,319 Speaker 1: that the league will do probably bring the guys in 619 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 1: who did it, Sky judges and replace whatever play assistant whatever, 620 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: what are the guy's title is say what do you 621 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 1: think where could you have made a difference? And you know, 622 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: and then asked the coaches. They got Frank Reig, Mike Vrabel, 623 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is on the competition, Ron Rivera, what do 624 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,400 Speaker 1: you guys think? Where were some instances where it happened 625 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,879 Speaker 1: where either four against you and in this situation even 626 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,360 Speaker 1: guys like Rivera and Frank and Rabel said, well, we 627 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,560 Speaker 1: had it happened to us, and it would have helped 628 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,920 Speaker 1: the other team had it gone the right way. And 629 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: this is an instance that happened to us, And they'll 630 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 1: give you all kinds of examples, and the guys in 631 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,799 Speaker 1: the booth who actually did it would be a huge, 632 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: huge resource of information about shyat board, what it could work, 633 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 1: what could work, and what situations they could use it in. 634 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: So I would say, first and foremost, they're gonna work 635 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 1: on this diligently because it was a really really good 636 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: idea and I think it really helped the league. And 637 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 1: if they can get it better to work and help more, 638 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,439 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do it. Yeah. Eight oh three 639 00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: oh five fifty the number to get on board one 640 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,399 Speaker 1: eight eight two five fifty open line for you. There 641 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,840 Speaker 1: we go to the phones and to Mitch in Lockport 642 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 1: leading us off. What do you have Mitch. Hey, how's 643 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 1: it going, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Um, I 644 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,280 Speaker 1: want to talk to you guys about possibly the sky judge. 645 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 1: I'm being able to make calls on pastor appearance when 646 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 1: it's directly related to the ball. Um. If an instant 647 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,759 Speaker 1: like the same game a couple of years ago, or 648 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay game this year with the Bills, right, 649 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: it was directly like with the ball, so it wasn't call. 650 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: It was just the rest have a lot to look at. 651 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 1: I understand that. But if it's strictly past appearance, I 652 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,879 Speaker 1: think that limits what the sky judge can actually call. 653 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 1: And I think it would keep the game the same 654 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: pace and we wouldn't have as many people called for 655 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,520 Speaker 1: you know, rep pets and wanting I'm fired or I 656 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 1: feel like it would kind of just level the play 657 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 1: a little bit. Right, So you're saying, it's got to 658 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,080 Speaker 1: be a play that involves the ball. You're not calling 659 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,320 Speaker 1: past interference on the back side of a play away 660 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: from the ball. If it's a if the receiver's targeted, 661 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 1: past interference isn't called and it was a blatant miscall, 662 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 1: here's have the guy wigh in and I see it 663 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:17,759 Speaker 1: and I get you, Mitch. And here's one of the 664 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,400 Speaker 1: problems with this. Say, for instance, on the in the 665 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,319 Speaker 1: Tampa and the T Higgins Higgins touchdown pass in the 666 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and it's perfectly fine. The Rams are sitting 667 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,400 Speaker 1: there gonna look at this guy. He pulled them down. 668 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,640 Speaker 1: You gotta call that. Well, in reality, you're looking on 669 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 1: the backside and Joe Burrow probably maybe he wasn't. For instance, 670 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,440 Speaker 1: on this an example is hypothetical. He throws it to 671 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,800 Speaker 1: T Higgins because the guy he was gonna throw it 672 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,359 Speaker 1: too was getting held away from the football. So now 673 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: here's the thing. You've got T. Higgins catching a pass 674 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,840 Speaker 1: over here, but you've got the Rams defensive back tackling 675 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,120 Speaker 1: the other receiver over here. So you've got to You 676 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: could call a penalty on both teams on the same play. 677 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,719 Speaker 1: But this is the one you're gonna call. Why isn't 678 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,840 Speaker 1: the one that saved the guy from getting a sack 679 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 1: called in the back of the thing. So you got 680 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 1: this this balance of Okay, they got a free touchdown, 681 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 1: it shouldn't have happened. Well, the Rams were also breaking 682 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,360 Speaker 1: the rules on the other on the same play away 683 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,840 Speaker 1: from the ball. I don't. I don't know if you 684 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: can go down that rabbit hole because now you're saying, 685 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 1: because now you're saying because this guy held this receiver 686 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,880 Speaker 1: over here, that Joe Burrow made the decision to go 687 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,800 Speaker 1: over there where there was another infraction that took place. 688 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,640 Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know if you can play the 689 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:37,200 Speaker 1: if then game for a quarterback's decision making. And this 690 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: is this is the limited scope that you would get 691 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,319 Speaker 1: into inevitably trying to figure this out. Are you gonna call? Yeah, 692 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,239 Speaker 1: which one is you're gonna call? And it could be 693 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,280 Speaker 1: on a running play or whatever. It could be anything, 694 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,000 Speaker 1: but there could be multiple fouls on the same play 695 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,440 Speaker 1: on both teams. Right, So this is where the ball's going. 696 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:02,719 Speaker 1: Everyone sees it. It is wrong. It should be called 697 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,560 Speaker 1: to me that you know, you were just talking the 698 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,400 Speaker 1: last segment. What's egregious? This is kind of there. And 699 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,680 Speaker 1: think about this though. On the same play from this 700 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,240 Speaker 1: end zone angle, Aaron Donald pops up through the middle 701 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,359 Speaker 1: and he gets plucked off. Joe Burrow has to run 702 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,719 Speaker 1: away from him first. So what if there's a hold 703 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: right there, Joe Burrow would have gotten sacked and the 704 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,800 Speaker 1: ball he gets a chance to throw it, like, for instance, 705 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: on the helmet catch David Tyree. What if they say, well, listen, 706 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,360 Speaker 1: that offensive lineman, I mean, the offensive lineman had a 707 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:37,399 Speaker 1: death grip on the Patriots defensive lineman. That's why, that's 708 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 1: why Eli could get away a night, you know what 709 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: I mean. And if you're gonna open it up to that, 710 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 1: the problem is everybody else on the play's got to 711 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,920 Speaker 1: be clean. Otherwise they're they're going, hey, what about our penalty? 712 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 1: So at least you get a do over, and if 713 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: you get a do over, the Bengals lose because they 714 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:59,560 Speaker 1: get about a touchdown, you know. So it's a hard 715 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: thing to get right, and even for a sky judge 716 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,080 Speaker 1: because you've got to have twenty five angles to see 717 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,360 Speaker 1: all of this stuff. Yeah, so it's it's a slippery 718 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: slope to go down and say he's going to start 719 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,839 Speaker 1: calling penalties. And that's probably why they're hesitant in terms 720 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 1: of expanding the powers. At least, I mean, they're at 721 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:18,520 Speaker 1: least going to talk about it where it ends up, 722 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,640 Speaker 1: though probably not with a full blown sky judge. They'll 723 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: probably keep a replay assistant, maybe expand his power a 724 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,840 Speaker 1: little bit. Let's go to Mark and Buffalo. Next, what 725 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,280 Speaker 1: do you have for his? Mark? Hey, good afternoon, guys. 726 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,279 Speaker 1: Interesting conversation, one that drives me crazy all the time. 727 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:38,680 Speaker 1: A couple of things when this conversation opens up. Ultimately 728 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,280 Speaker 1: and always out on the forefront is the argument about 729 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,800 Speaker 1: slowing the game down. And we all know the NFL 730 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,759 Speaker 1: is about money and image, so you know they like 731 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 1: to hide behind the cloak. We're trying to do things 732 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,439 Speaker 1: to get the calls right, but in essence, what they're 733 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:54,920 Speaker 1: trying to do is make sure we'll get it as 734 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,600 Speaker 1: right as we think we can, as long as we're 735 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,879 Speaker 1: in a three hour window. Yeah, and that's why that's 736 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,359 Speaker 1: why they're tell you what, Mark, That's why they're big 737 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,239 Speaker 1: into this guy judge thing that because it really did 738 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,920 Speaker 1: help with that. They got more things right and did 739 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,759 Speaker 1: it really fast. So they want more of that and 740 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 1: less of the other. So that's one of the reasons 741 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,239 Speaker 1: why this conversations take place. Second part of what I 742 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,759 Speaker 1: wanted to talk about, it's they do this every year. 743 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,520 Speaker 1: They treat the sent them, they don't treat the disease, 744 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,560 Speaker 1: and in my opinion, the disease is and I'm not 745 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 1: trying to paint the guys on the field in a 746 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,200 Speaker 1: bad light. But they do it themselves. They're not doing 747 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 1: anything to raise the quality of the guys on the 748 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,319 Speaker 1: field as far as how they referee the games and 749 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,280 Speaker 1: what they look for. You brought up the point about okay, 750 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,799 Speaker 1: well there's a call over here near the ball, and 751 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,480 Speaker 1: there's a call over here away from the ball. I 752 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: bet you if you brought sixteen crews in and sat 753 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,680 Speaker 1: down and said, okay, you've got two calls here. How 754 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 1: does the league want us to do this? Do they 755 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,319 Speaker 1: want you to throw the flags on both and then 756 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,360 Speaker 1: come together quickly and say, okay, the one away from 757 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,520 Speaker 1: the ball, we're gonna pick that flag up, which they 758 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,799 Speaker 1: do all the time, and we'll go with the call 759 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,279 Speaker 1: near the ball, because that's the most important thing. What 760 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,839 Speaker 1: is the priority? Okay. So my point is this, they're 761 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,520 Speaker 1: not doing anything to bring these guys in and turn 762 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 1: it into a craft that this is my job. And 763 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 1: then number two, how does the league want to set 764 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,319 Speaker 1: the parameters on how we want them to referee? And 765 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:27,880 Speaker 1: this is like you guys say all the time, and 766 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,560 Speaker 1: it's true, it's not going to be a quick fix. 767 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,400 Speaker 1: It's gonna be it's gonna have to grow organically, and 768 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: they're gonna have to put things in place and bring 769 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,960 Speaker 1: these guys in as a group in the offseason and 770 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,240 Speaker 1: have them go through seminars, have them go through learning 771 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,839 Speaker 1: their craft, how it needs to be called. And then 772 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,000 Speaker 1: more importantly, how does the league want to have you 773 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:52,320 Speaker 1: guys all conformed? Mark? Mark? They're Mark. They're way, way, way, 774 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:53,880 Speaker 1: way way ahead of you. And you say it's not 775 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:55,600 Speaker 1: going to be a quick fix. They've been working on 776 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,640 Speaker 1: it for a hundred years, and now they bring those 777 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,400 Speaker 1: guys in. They bring them through exercises, they bring them 778 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 1: to film sessions, they bring them to seminars, They do 779 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,960 Speaker 1: work during the regulars during the week to get ready 780 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,800 Speaker 1: to do it. They talk to them on the phone, 781 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,080 Speaker 1: they bring in video clips, they give them seminars, They 782 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,920 Speaker 1: let them do practices, they do give them parameters. They 783 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,600 Speaker 1: give them parameters and guys offices every instantly, so they 784 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,640 Speaker 1: do stuff with the officials constantly. They say those guys 785 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,719 Speaker 1: are not full time, or they used to. They used 786 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,600 Speaker 1: to say, these guys are not full time. Most of 787 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,600 Speaker 1: them were putting in hours and hours of work during 788 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,600 Speaker 1: the weeks. It's it's as much work as that sounds 789 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,160 Speaker 1: like it is. It's still hard to do because the 790 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,760 Speaker 1: guys out there that are on the field are moving 791 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 1: at a rate of speed. Most civilians, i'll call them, 792 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:49,279 Speaker 1: can't even comprehend. So, yes, you're right, they need to 793 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:54,080 Speaker 1: hold them accountable. But to the league's credit, they work 794 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,520 Speaker 1: these guys and they talk to them constantly, and those 795 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,960 Speaker 1: guys are they constantly talk to each other. Yeah, it's 796 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,560 Speaker 1: not like they're not trying. I effort has been put forward. Yeah, 797 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,520 Speaker 1: I get Marx. I get Mark's point that he feels 798 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:10,640 Speaker 1: they're only treating symptoms, not the main problem. I understand that. 799 00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 1: I think they're trying to get to an all encompassing 800 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,879 Speaker 1: solution to whatever the problem is. They're chipping away at it, though. 801 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,120 Speaker 1: This is like a guy with a hammer and a chisel. 802 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,480 Speaker 1: He doesn't have a wrecking ball to wholeheartedly fix it 803 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,160 Speaker 1: with one fell swoop. So there's no magic can continue 804 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,080 Speaker 1: to make incremental project. That's the thing. They're starting to 805 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,719 Speaker 1: get these guys on full time, and there's no magic elixir. 806 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,200 Speaker 1: So they're just gonna have to get it to where 807 00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,279 Speaker 1: the level of acceptance is more and more and more consistent, 808 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,120 Speaker 1: and then they'll go from there. But that's what they 809 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,239 Speaker 1: work for. Mark. You make a lot of good points, Mark, 810 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,560 Speaker 1: but don't undersell what the league has been doing for 811 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,279 Speaker 1: a long long time. You said it wasn't going to 812 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,200 Speaker 1: be a quick fix to do all this stuff. The 813 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,799 Speaker 1: way they've been doing it is testament to that, because 814 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,239 Speaker 1: they've been working very, very hard on it. Break time. 815 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,879 Speaker 1: We're back in a sec here on one Bill's Live. 816 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,520 Speaker 1: So Steve, knowing the NFL Competition Committee was meeting today 817 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,400 Speaker 1: to set up their agenda to present to the league 818 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,040 Speaker 1: at the spring meetings, I went to the NFL Football 819 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,919 Speaker 1: Operations site just to see if there was anything else 820 00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,440 Speaker 1: to see there. So I pull up the page and 821 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,799 Speaker 1: I see it says the NFL Competition Committee working to 822 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,520 Speaker 1: maintain competitive balance and consistency throughout the NFL. And what 823 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:37,120 Speaker 1: is the photo behind those words. It's a picture of 824 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:42,759 Speaker 1: Josh throwing a football against the Chiefs. I mean, I 825 00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:47,120 Speaker 1: laughed out loud. Here, working to maintain competitive balance and 826 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:52,040 Speaker 1: consistency throughout the NFL and they put Josh there throwing 827 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,759 Speaker 1: a football against the Chiefs. Now, I don't believe this 828 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,799 Speaker 1: was the divisional playoff game. Where As we famously know 829 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,640 Speaker 1: the Bills do not get a chance to possess the 830 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,319 Speaker 1: ball in overtime because of the current rules. You don't 831 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,480 Speaker 1: think that's Josh throwing a football in overtime. Again, the 832 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,640 Speaker 1: only reason I don't think it is is right at 833 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,640 Speaker 1: the bottom of the shot, there is a little peak 834 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,560 Speaker 1: of his blue pants. And they were all whites in 835 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,359 Speaker 1: the playoff game. I believe in Week five they wore 836 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,640 Speaker 1: blue pants, if I remember right. So either way, there's 837 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,840 Speaker 1: a lot of irony here. They're talking about competitive balance, 838 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,120 Speaker 1: and just a week ago, the guy in the photo 839 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:34,160 Speaker 1: they chose was poking fun at the overtime rules at 840 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,160 Speaker 1: the NFL Owners Show. Yeah. I don't know. I want 841 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:43,439 Speaker 1: to know who optics optics come on NFL optics here. 842 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,040 Speaker 1: Maybe this is an indication that they'll consider changing overtime, 843 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,400 Speaker 1: maybe for the playoffs. Maybe this little self snark. I 844 00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:56,000 Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, you know, um, I think they thought 845 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,120 Speaker 1: about it. I don't think there's no doubt. I mean, 846 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,120 Speaker 1: that's the and I think it's an I don't think 847 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:04,600 Speaker 1: there's in questions. It's an homage to the most pertinent 848 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:06,920 Speaker 1: question about rules being changed in the league. Gets the 849 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,680 Speaker 1: overtime rules, and that game that that competition between the 850 00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,400 Speaker 1: Chiefs and that game between the Chiefs and Bills is 851 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,920 Speaker 1: the one that stands out. I was you missed my 852 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:15,680 Speaker 1: thing about Do you think that's a picture of Josh 853 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,759 Speaker 1: throwing a pass in overtime against the Chiefs? I think, oh, 854 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,400 Speaker 1: wait a minute, he didn't get a chance of that 855 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:25,600 Speaker 1: can't be that, No, can't be. So that's yeah, lots 856 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,759 Speaker 1: going on though and this. Yeah, we're in full off 857 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,319 Speaker 1: seasons mode now, the competition meetings, committees meeting and you 858 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,080 Speaker 1: know they're mock drafts are coming out. I mean it's 859 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,240 Speaker 1: we're in full like, let's move it, let's shift gears 860 00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,759 Speaker 1: and go, and we'll keep our ear to the ground 861 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,080 Speaker 1: on this stuff. Because we've got some good guests already 862 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,040 Speaker 1: lined up for the NFL Combine, we will be able 863 00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,200 Speaker 1: to weigh in on some of these issues. We also 864 00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,360 Speaker 1: have a guest coming up next segment who will be 865 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,080 Speaker 1: able to weigh in on some of these issues as well. 866 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,799 Speaker 1: NFL senior writer for ESPN dot Com, Kevin Seafort, will 867 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,200 Speaker 1: be joining us as we will run down the list 868 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:06,480 Speaker 1: he provided recently on the NFL offseason priorities for twenty 869 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:11,040 Speaker 1: twenty two potential overtime rule changes are on the list. 870 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,640 Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about that and much more. Next, 871 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,960 Speaker 1: You're on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. 872 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:37,600 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has 873 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,080 Speaker 1: spent all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was 874 00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,840 Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve 875 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,600 Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the stratosphere of normalcy. 876 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,080 Speaker 1: All right here we are our number two, Chris Brown, 877 00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,400 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you One Bills Live and please to 878 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,680 Speaker 1: be joined now by ESPN National NFL writer Kevin Seaford, 879 00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,160 Speaker 1: who has been hard at work even though the season 880 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:12,000 Speaker 1: is over, and put together a nice comprehensive list recently 881 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:18,280 Speaker 1: here NFL offseason priorities for twenty two and we know Kevin, 882 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,600 Speaker 1: first of all, thanks for jumping in and joining us here. 883 00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:26,359 Speaker 1: We know the NFL's Competition Committee is beginning to meet 884 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:31,359 Speaker 1: to put together their agenda for possible changes to the 885 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,000 Speaker 1: game going forward. As you noted in the aforementioned column 886 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,200 Speaker 1: that you put together, how the league is looking to 887 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:42,560 Speaker 1: make significant changes potentially to the punk game due to 888 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,880 Speaker 1: some unchanged injury rates on pun plays. I'm not going 889 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:48,719 Speaker 1: to get into those numbers. You spell them out in 890 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,120 Speaker 1: your column. My question to you is, what do you 891 00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:58,239 Speaker 1: believe are the realistic possible outcomes, Knowing almost a third 892 00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,960 Speaker 1: of the game's injuries are now coming on plays that 893 00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:04,719 Speaker 1: make up just seventeen percent of the snaps in a game, right, 894 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,600 Speaker 1: I mean, they have two options. One is they can 895 00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:10,600 Speaker 1: try to change the techniques and the rules on punts 896 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:15,480 Speaker 1: and punt coverage to minimize or shrink the amount of 897 00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,040 Speaker 1: full speed contact that's happening and I guess causing these injuries. 898 00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,760 Speaker 1: Or they can try to incentivize ways to not punt, 899 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,120 Speaker 1: you know, going for it on fourth down. You know, 900 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,560 Speaker 1: the XFL a couple of years ago had some rules 901 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:34,080 Speaker 1: that really discouraged teams trying like the coffin corner punt, 902 00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:35,799 Speaker 1: you know, if you if you if it went out 903 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:37,279 Speaker 1: of bounds. They were giving it to teams of the 904 00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:42,680 Speaker 1: thirty five yard line. They weren't letting players leave the 905 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,680 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, anybody, even the gunners, until after the 906 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:49,879 Speaker 1: kick was gone, and so they tried to I don't 907 00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,360 Speaker 1: know that the XFL people in twenty twenty thought that 908 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,400 Speaker 1: there was a lot of ways to make it safer 909 00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,680 Speaker 1: just organically. So they tried to encourage teams to go 910 00:50:57,719 --> 00:50:59,520 Speaker 1: for it on fourth down more often. And we've seen 911 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:04,880 Speaker 1: the NFL in kickoffs try to incentivize UM teams, you know, 912 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,440 Speaker 1: basically kicking touchbacks, and so it's not out of the 913 00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,840 Speaker 1: question that the PUNK could go in that same direction. Yeah. 914 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,839 Speaker 1: When I was I was in the meeting when they 915 00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,200 Speaker 1: had the n the kickoffs summit when they had you know, 916 00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,319 Speaker 1: there's must have been thirty five people in that room. 917 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,720 Speaker 1: They seemed at that time to be committed to keeping 918 00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:24,400 Speaker 1: kicking plays in the game. They didn't want kickoffs to 919 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,239 Speaker 1: go away. You know, there was some sentiment about just 920 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,160 Speaker 1: spotting the ball into twenty five and let's go um. 921 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,440 Speaker 1: But both kicking and punting, they really seemed at that 922 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:37,319 Speaker 1: time committed to making sure they didn't go away. Is 923 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:42,040 Speaker 1: there a chance of that changing that that commitment, not 924 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:43,759 Speaker 1: that I know of, you know, when they this is 925 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,520 Speaker 1: all has so far just come from the health and 926 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,640 Speaker 1: safety side. And even what Jeff Miller from the sort 927 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,120 Speaker 1: of the league guy in that department for the NFL 928 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,680 Speaker 1: set is, you know, the parameters that they were given 929 00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,440 Speaker 1: and still keep the foot in the game. Um. But 930 00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,840 Speaker 1: their Their role was simply to point out, you know, 931 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,359 Speaker 1: what the injury numbers are are and maybe provide some 932 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,799 Speaker 1: some strategies for reducing the injuries, and it'll be up 933 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,000 Speaker 1: to the Competition Committee to decide what's what the priorities 934 00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,440 Speaker 1: are and how to go from there. But I've sensed 935 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:16,680 Speaker 1: no um desire from anyone from the NFL to to 936 00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,840 Speaker 1: make to make rules that don't allow people to kick UM. 937 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,799 Speaker 1: The idea of incentivizing versus disincentivizing UM, I think is 938 00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,479 Speaker 1: in play. And whether you know, making it make less 939 00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,520 Speaker 1: sense to punt, or making it make less sense to 940 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,520 Speaker 1: kick off and allow a return as opposed to just 941 00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,600 Speaker 1: doing a touchback. UM. You know that, I think that's 942 00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:41,640 Speaker 1: in play, But I don't sense any appetite, even though 943 00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,480 Speaker 1: the Competition Committee has a lot of new members, so 944 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,360 Speaker 1: I guess we could be surprised, but at this point, 945 00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,760 Speaker 1: I don't sense any appetite to just eliminate the kickoff 946 00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:53,120 Speaker 1: or eliminate the punt. Speaking of, you know, injuries from 947 00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:58,279 Speaker 1: the game, it's front and center with regard to field conditions. 948 00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,880 Speaker 1: After OBJ is a non contact knee injury in the 949 00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,600 Speaker 1: Super Bowl and is out for the game, we watched 950 00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,120 Speaker 1: Tredavious White tear is ACL in a non contact play 951 00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:12,719 Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving against the Saints at the Superdome. I was 952 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,680 Speaker 1: intrigued by how in depth the turf study has already 953 00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:19,759 Speaker 1: been on the league's part, that you kind of outlined 954 00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:23,600 Speaker 1: in your right up there for non contact injuries, what 955 00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,239 Speaker 1: cleats are being worn on what surfaces, and trying to 956 00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:30,040 Speaker 1: cross reference those. Where do you think that ends up. 957 00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,480 Speaker 1: I think that ends up in just a lot of recommendations. 958 00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,920 Speaker 1: We've seen them do this with helmets. They started with helmets, obviously, 959 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,920 Speaker 1: and they created that list of helmets that are in 960 00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,239 Speaker 1: sort of the green area, yellow area, and red area 961 00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:49,120 Speaker 1: in terms of how they've performed in concussion tests. And 962 00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:53,080 Speaker 1: with the idea of getting players, you know, five ten 963 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,640 Speaker 1: years ago a Steve knows, you know, and going way back, 964 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,279 Speaker 1: players could pick their own helmets and whatever helmets they 965 00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,400 Speaker 1: wanted they could use, and in most cases that was fine, 966 00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,960 Speaker 1: but in some cases players were using outdated, you know, 967 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,640 Speaker 1: helmets that weren't protecting them as much as some of 968 00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,279 Speaker 1: the newer ones were, and so they agreed with the 969 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:15,360 Speaker 1: NFLPA to create, you know, to basically eliminate some of 970 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,720 Speaker 1: the helmets, outdated helmets that were out there and require 971 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,719 Speaker 1: them to pick from a menu of approved helmets. And 972 00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,840 Speaker 1: so that is possible where the shoe thing could go 973 00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,560 Speaker 1: as well. And basically what they're trying to do. And 974 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,400 Speaker 1: I don't know how many players have. I'm sure a 975 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,399 Speaker 1: lot of players paid ton of attention to the type 976 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,160 Speaker 1: of shoes they're wearing and how they feel in them, 977 00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,120 Speaker 1: and how they think they run and cut and all that. 978 00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,719 Speaker 1: But this will add a layer of information of here's 979 00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:43,080 Speaker 1: how these shoes basically the injury rates of these shoes 980 00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,440 Speaker 1: on different the different surfaces in the NFL. And so 981 00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,920 Speaker 1: I don't think it's something to eliminate any type of 982 00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,720 Speaker 1: shoe per se, or eliminate any type of playing surface, 983 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,480 Speaker 1: because there's some stadiums that you just can't go to 984 00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,880 Speaker 1: grass even if you wanted to, probably just based on 985 00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,520 Speaker 1: use and based on weather and based on indoors. But 986 00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:04,680 Speaker 1: if you're playing on this surface, here are the best 987 00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,440 Speaker 1: performing shoes for this surface. If you're wearing the shoe, 988 00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:11,000 Speaker 1: here are the best the best places to wear them. Um, 989 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,600 Speaker 1: And so I think that is just to give an 990 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:16,600 Speaker 1: extra layer of information to these guys as they make 991 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:20,640 Speaker 1: their decisions and keep them away from the riskiest combinations. 992 00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:22,439 Speaker 1: And this may be one of those things as well 993 00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:24,839 Speaker 1: that may take a little more time. Because it's easy 994 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,520 Speaker 1: enough to say, hey, these are the best shoes, these 995 00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,359 Speaker 1: are the best uh, you know, conditions to wear these 996 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,160 Speaker 1: shoes under. It's going to take a little time for 997 00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:36,799 Speaker 1: owners to shell out one point five million for a 998 00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:41,440 Speaker 1: new surface just because it's five percent safer. You know 999 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,399 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. There's there's a there's it's one thing 1000 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,680 Speaker 1: to for sixty five dollars set of shoes or one 1001 00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,600 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars set of shoes customize with your 1002 00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,520 Speaker 1: own paint job. It's a different thing for a one 1003 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:58,560 Speaker 1: point five million dollars field built to NFL specs. I agree, 1004 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,680 Speaker 1: And hopefully in the mean, you know, all these fields 1005 00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:04,200 Speaker 1: have to be replaced eventually just because of wear and tear. 1006 00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,160 Speaker 1: But hopefully in the meantime you can say, well, here's 1007 00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,840 Speaker 1: the shoes you can wear on this surface that will 1008 00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,680 Speaker 1: have the lowest risk of you injuring yourself. It doesn't 1009 00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,680 Speaker 1: mean you won't, um somebody will, but you'll have a 1010 00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,279 Speaker 1: lower risk at least if you wear these types. And 1011 00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,480 Speaker 1: I don't think it's even like brands or um, you know, 1012 00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:25,680 Speaker 1: particular styles. It's just the type of cleat that's underneath 1013 00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:29,480 Speaker 1: it and the different technology involved. Yeah, and the stud 1014 00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,680 Speaker 1: length too, probably right, one of the Yeah, I want 1015 00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:33,719 Speaker 1: to get back to one thing. They just crossed my 1016 00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,360 Speaker 1: mind as we're talking about this, with the with the 1017 00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,279 Speaker 1: sky Judge officials and some of the things that they've done, 1018 00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,400 Speaker 1: the complication committee, with the kickoffs and stuff, some of 1019 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,080 Speaker 1: it has been a resounding success. And I would venture 1020 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:48,760 Speaker 1: to guess they liked what they saw from the replay 1021 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,280 Speaker 1: official up top about the you know, the expedient nature 1022 00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:54,719 Speaker 1: with which he says, hey, you spotted the ball wrong here, 1023 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,839 Speaker 1: Hey this was incomplete. Hey this this guy was out 1024 00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:59,640 Speaker 1: of bounds, you know that kind of thing. And they 1025 00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,000 Speaker 1: really speeded up the game and got a lot more 1026 00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:05,360 Speaker 1: things right that used to take a couple of minutes 1027 00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,880 Speaker 1: to get right. That weren't that weren't that tough to see? 1028 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,960 Speaker 1: So is this new look at this, this you know, 1029 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,400 Speaker 1: replay assistant whatever you want to call him, is this 1030 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,080 Speaker 1: new look at that a little bit because of the 1031 00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:25,160 Speaker 1: success they've had so far. Yeah, I think, um, I 1032 00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,760 Speaker 1: think everybody loved it, not only for all the reasons 1033 00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,120 Speaker 1: you mentioned, but in addition, the coaches didn't have to 1034 00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,600 Speaker 1: challenge those plays. Sometimes in the past the coaches had 1035 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,840 Speaker 1: to challenge something so obvious and it would just be like, 1036 00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,600 Speaker 1: come on, like you really have to waste a challenge 1037 00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:41,280 Speaker 1: on that, because you most get three per game if 1038 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,600 Speaker 1: you get the first two right. Um. And so that 1039 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:45,880 Speaker 1: was another reason that your coaches liked it. Coaches don't 1040 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,480 Speaker 1: want that responsibility for the most part. They wanted to 1041 00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,720 Speaker 1: be on the in the officials hands and they want 1042 00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:52,320 Speaker 1: those guys to get it right. And so it went 1043 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:55,080 Speaker 1: so well. Um. And if you talk to some of 1044 00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,360 Speaker 1: the retired officials and some of the other people who 1045 00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,880 Speaker 1: are very knowledgeable that you know they saw it work 1046 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,840 Speaker 1: not only on sort of the limited menu of plays 1047 00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,000 Speaker 1: that it was allowed to be applied to, but it 1048 00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,400 Speaker 1: seemed as though it was being applied in some cases 1049 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:11,320 Speaker 1: to a larger menu of plays. Maybe some even some 1050 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,520 Speaker 1: penalties that normally wouldn't be reviewable and really weren't intended 1051 00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,440 Speaker 1: to be part of this, and it fixed the problem 1052 00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:22,040 Speaker 1: so nobody could really argue and if in those and 1053 00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:23,840 Speaker 1: it was almost as if they were sort of giving 1054 00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,200 Speaker 1: it an unofficial the larger idea of a sky judge 1055 00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,120 Speaker 1: who can change any call at any time to fix 1056 00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,400 Speaker 1: an obvious mistake, giving that sort of a dry run. 1057 00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,960 Speaker 1: And so I don't know that that's how far the 1058 00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,880 Speaker 1: NFL is going to go this offseason. But there were 1059 00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:42,240 Speaker 1: enough plays during last year that couldn't be addressed that 1060 00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,800 Speaker 1: were very easily addressed, and it couldn't be addressed because 1061 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,200 Speaker 1: it wasn't officially under those rules, the big one being 1062 00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,880 Speaker 1: the whistle in the Cincinnati Bengals playoff game that seemed 1063 00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:55,560 Speaker 1: to come before a touchdown catch that if that can 1064 00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,200 Speaker 1: be resolved pretty easily if you allow for it. And 1065 00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:00,680 Speaker 1: so I could see them sort of you've got you know, 1066 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,120 Speaker 1: replay here, and you've got sky judge here, and I 1067 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,200 Speaker 1: can see the distance start to come a little bit 1068 00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:08,880 Speaker 1: closer as they add more things to the to the 1069 00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:10,880 Speaker 1: replay menu. But I don't know they'll get to a 1070 00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:14,080 Speaker 1: full sky judge. It'll be interesting to see. It's hard, 1071 00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,040 Speaker 1: and I see the problem. It's hard to give those 1072 00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:22,400 Speaker 1: replay officials pushback when they right wrongs. So when they 1073 00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,800 Speaker 1: get it right, and whether it's whether they have the 1074 00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,280 Speaker 1: authority to do it or not, if the official on 1075 00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,400 Speaker 1: the field says, yeah, you're right. Okay, we'll pick it up, 1076 00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,120 Speaker 1: or we'll we'll wave that flag or will drop a flag. 1077 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,760 Speaker 1: You know. Uh yeah, it's hard to it's hard to 1078 00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,560 Speaker 1: complain when they do get it right, and and it 1079 00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:41,800 Speaker 1: just comes down to like if they're if they are, 1080 00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:43,760 Speaker 1: if they do kind of go a little bit beyond 1081 00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,240 Speaker 1: where it's intended and that works against you. Say you're 1082 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,080 Speaker 1: the coach of the team that that works against, you 1083 00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,520 Speaker 1: want them to push the envelope for you also, and 1084 00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:54,600 Speaker 1: so it becomes a little bit of a gray sticky 1085 00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:57,240 Speaker 1: area there. But for the most part, we want the 1086 00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,600 Speaker 1: calls to be right, and we want them the ones 1087 00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,640 Speaker 1: that are obviously right, to the old standard of fifty 1088 01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,240 Speaker 1: drunks in a bar. We want those fixed easily and 1089 01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:07,880 Speaker 1: quickly and not without a lot of controversy. And however 1090 01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,920 Speaker 1: they get around the doing that, I don't think people 1091 01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:15,160 Speaker 1: should complain too much. Yeah, the Brian Flores lawsuit obviously 1092 01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,120 Speaker 1: was front and center for about a week. You know, 1093 01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:22,160 Speaker 1: then the Super Bowl happens, people move on. But it's 1094 01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,560 Speaker 1: funny because when we were talking about it's probably not funny, 1095 01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,960 Speaker 1: but when we were discussing it on the show. It 1096 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:31,720 Speaker 1: was our opinion that the league is probably and maybe 1097 01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:37,040 Speaker 1: unfortunately so going to dive into the integrity of the 1098 01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:41,800 Speaker 1: game allegations, maybe even more stringently and more quickly and 1099 01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:46,040 Speaker 1: expediently than they will the minority hiring issues, even though 1100 01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,280 Speaker 1: Roger Goodell I thought struck a good, good balance in 1101 01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:52,440 Speaker 1: his State of the League address on that subject. But 1102 01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,560 Speaker 1: you attack the integrity of the game, you gotta get 1103 01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:59,320 Speaker 1: on that in a hurry and make sure that where 1104 01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:04,760 Speaker 1: there's smoke, there isn't fire. How do you how transparent, Kevin, 1105 01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:07,439 Speaker 1: do you think the league is going to be with 1106 01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:13,640 Speaker 1: this specific investigation? I mean, I guess I'll start with 1107 01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:16,920 Speaker 1: where I hope. I hope that they tell us exactly 1108 01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:20,000 Speaker 1: what they found and what they didn't find. Brian Flores 1109 01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:22,480 Speaker 1: has indicated that this is not just an allegation, but 1110 01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:26,600 Speaker 1: that he has some level of receipts, whether it's recording 1111 01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,760 Speaker 1: or whether it's an eyewitness or something that he says 1112 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:33,080 Speaker 1: can prove that Steve Ross, the owner of Dolphins, offered 1113 01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,960 Speaker 1: him one hundred thousand dollars bonuses if he lost games 1114 01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,840 Speaker 1: during that twenty nineteen season, and if they find that 1115 01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,720 Speaker 1: I hope that we know, not just because I'm a 1116 01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,200 Speaker 1: reporter and I want information to come out, but because 1117 01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:48,560 Speaker 1: it's such an accuse. It's such it strikes at such 1118 01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,040 Speaker 1: a deep heart of what the NFL sells, right, you know, 1119 01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,240 Speaker 1: and what it's selling its broadcast partners and what it 1120 01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:58,400 Speaker 1: sells its fans, and that's that the drama is not preordained, 1121 01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:02,080 Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not scripted. It's whatever happens 1122 01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:03,720 Speaker 1: at the end of the game as a result of 1123 01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,280 Speaker 1: the two teams playing each other for sixty minutes to 1124 01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:10,440 Speaker 1: decide who was better and not somebody tipping their their 1125 01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,280 Speaker 1: the scales in any way. And that applies to everything, 1126 01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,360 Speaker 1: but in this case in particular that uh, you know, 1127 01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,600 Speaker 1: we all know that some teams are not built to 1128 01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:22,240 Speaker 1: win in a given year. But if there's a big, big, 1129 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:26,560 Speaker 1: big gap I think between not having compiled a super 1130 01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:32,040 Speaker 1: Bowl caliber roster or coaching staff and actively incentivizing people 1131 01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:36,200 Speaker 1: to essentially to throw games, and with the advent of 1132 01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:40,200 Speaker 1: sports gambling, legalized sports gambling in so many states, like 1133 01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:43,000 Speaker 1: in the NFL, leaning into that as a profit center, 1134 01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:46,120 Speaker 1: I can't imagine that they would want anyone to have 1135 01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:48,880 Speaker 1: the idea that somehow their games are not on the 1136 01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,240 Speaker 1: up and up. So I think not only do I 1137 01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,120 Speaker 1: hope they're transparent, not only do I think they need 1138 01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:57,280 Speaker 1: to be, I think they're gonna want to be either 1139 01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,880 Speaker 1: proving full throat to lead. That didn't happen, or if 1140 01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:03,880 Speaker 1: it did, here are all the steps we're taking to 1141 01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:05,960 Speaker 1: make sure it never happens again, and you can rest 1142 01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,880 Speaker 1: safely as a fan, as a gambler, as a as 1143 01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:12,080 Speaker 1: an observer that our games are being decided on the 1144 01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:16,400 Speaker 1: up and up and are not um being tipped in 1145 01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,480 Speaker 1: any untoward way. How how where do you start with that? 1146 01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:21,880 Speaker 1: Obviously make it against the rules for an owner to 1147 01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:25,520 Speaker 1: incentifize that. For a head coach it already is, that's right, 1148 01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,480 Speaker 1: I mean, so, uh, how where do they start to 1149 01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,919 Speaker 1: u to with those rules and the enforcement of them. 1150 01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:36,600 Speaker 1: I mean they have to you know, you know, it 1151 01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:39,280 Speaker 1: always gets into a sticky situation when you ask owners 1152 01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,400 Speaker 1: to discipline other owners. But there has to be a 1153 01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,400 Speaker 1: huge level of account if it's true, if it happened, 1154 01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,280 Speaker 1: and they have document and they can document it and 1155 01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:51,680 Speaker 1: prove that it's true, they have to uh levy a 1156 01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:55,240 Speaker 1: discipline on the dolphins and on Steve Ross in particular, 1157 01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:59,200 Speaker 1: um in a way that that the urs it from 1158 01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:03,720 Speaker 1: happening at least certainly makes makes it clear what's going 1159 01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,200 Speaker 1: to happen to you if you ever try to do 1160 01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:08,200 Speaker 1: this again, or another team tries to do this. I 1161 01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,200 Speaker 1: think that's it just has to have to start with 1162 01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,080 Speaker 1: that discipline, because it's not like they found some loop. 1163 01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:16,320 Speaker 1: They potentially found a loophole in NFL rules, and this 1164 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,000 Speaker 1: somehow is legal like that you can't do it. It's 1165 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,720 Speaker 1: in the NFL constitution of by laws. And so if 1166 01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:24,360 Speaker 1: they find it to be true, they're going to have 1167 01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:28,560 Speaker 1: to come crashing down so hard on the Dolphins just 1168 01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:32,280 Speaker 1: to distancentive, but not only distancentive by anywhere else, but 1169 01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:36,080 Speaker 1: to prove to the public how how much of an 1170 01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:39,440 Speaker 1: offense they've taken to that this happened. Talk with ESPN 1171 01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:42,240 Speaker 1: National NFL writer Kevin Stevert. Last one I have for you, Kevin, 1172 01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:48,200 Speaker 1: is the minority coaching hiring issue that you know Brian 1173 01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:52,080 Speaker 1: Floor is shining a spotlight on with his class action lawsuit. 1174 01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:54,720 Speaker 1: And the numbers are the numbers, and there was no 1175 01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,360 Speaker 1: way for Roger Goodell to deny any of that. And 1176 01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:59,480 Speaker 1: like we were saying, he struck a pretty good tone 1177 01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:02,080 Speaker 1: at his annual Q and A. But what do you 1178 01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:07,320 Speaker 1: think of the idea of some kind of biannual owner 1179 01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:11,920 Speaker 1: coaching candidate forum, Like, it seems like the biggest problem 1180 01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:16,880 Speaker 1: is getting qualified minority candidates in front of in front 1181 01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:22,720 Speaker 1: of owners GM's around the league. No hot young coaching prospects. 1182 01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:25,120 Speaker 1: I mean they're familiar with them to a great degree, 1183 01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:28,200 Speaker 1: and uh, there's no problem getting in front of gms, 1184 01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,600 Speaker 1: But it seems like the ownership level is where the 1185 01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:34,240 Speaker 1: roadblock exists. Is there anything like in the works that 1186 01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:37,200 Speaker 1: could that could be formulated or put together in that 1187 01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:41,560 Speaker 1: fashion or is that something that's unrealistic. Well, I think 1188 01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:44,000 Speaker 1: the Rooney rule, you know, the Rooney rule was a 1189 01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:47,160 Speaker 1: rule that was an interview rule, not a hiring rule. 1190 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,720 Speaker 1: And I think it has succeeded in some degree in 1191 01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,520 Speaker 1: getting more people in front of at least the first 1192 01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:56,120 Speaker 1: level of the interviews, the gms and the and the 1193 01:05:56,120 --> 01:06:00,800 Speaker 1: other vice president type people and in teams. And I 1194 01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,280 Speaker 1: think in some cases at least owners got to meet 1195 01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:09,400 Speaker 1: with uh diverse candidates when they wouldn't otherwise have done so. 1196 01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:12,960 Speaker 1: But um, really like and so and so it's certainly 1197 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,000 Speaker 1: maybe to have more one on one interaction in a 1198 01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,320 Speaker 1: non pressure, non interview situation. I mean, I can't imagine 1199 01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,760 Speaker 1: that they would do anything but help. Whether that would 1200 01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:25,760 Speaker 1: change outcomes, I don't know. Um, you know what you know, 1201 01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,040 Speaker 1: one thing I've always said and continue to say is 1202 01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:32,600 Speaker 1: that I think owners will start making different decisions as 1203 01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:36,960 Speaker 1: it relates to diversity hiring when they realize or when 1204 01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:42,320 Speaker 1: it's proven elsewhere, that diverse hiring increases your chances of winning, 1205 01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:45,240 Speaker 1: you know, And that's and that's what all the owners 1206 01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,640 Speaker 1: want to do. Um, You're not trying to hire the 1207 01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,520 Speaker 1: best white candidate, or for that matter, the best black candidate. 1208 01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:54,760 Speaker 1: You're trying to hire the best job candidate, coaching candidate 1209 01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:58,120 Speaker 1: that there is out there, and you have to in 1210 01:06:58,200 --> 01:06:59,840 Speaker 1: order to do that, you have to be willing to 1211 01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:03,640 Speaker 1: that aside any kind of and it's not just you know, 1212 01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:07,800 Speaker 1: racial bias per se, or even any racial bias per se. 1213 01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,240 Speaker 1: In some cases, it's just what are you familiar with 1214 01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:12,720 Speaker 1: versus what's a little bit what are you little less 1215 01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:16,680 Speaker 1: familiar with and get past that and be able to 1216 01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:20,120 Speaker 1: make decisions on equal standing, and then I think that's 1217 01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:22,920 Speaker 1: when you'll see, there'll be there'll be an organic, genuine, 1218 01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:27,880 Speaker 1: more genuine outcomes for diverse candidates, and so that takes 1219 01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:31,320 Speaker 1: time and ideas like you said, certainly would would would 1220 01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:35,520 Speaker 1: be a stepping stone towards that eventual result. Kevin, thanks 1221 01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:38,000 Speaker 1: so much for spending some time with us. Appreciate your insights, 1222 01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:41,960 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. All right, that's Kevin Seyffert, national 1223 01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,560 Speaker 1: NFL writer for ESPN dot com. Check out his NFL 1224 01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:48,200 Speaker 1: offseason Priorities for twenty twenty two. It's a real good 1225 01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:53,800 Speaker 1: rundown that kind of is an all encompassing look as 1226 01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:57,280 Speaker 1: to the league's essential agenda for the off season. I 1227 01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,320 Speaker 1: mean everything from what are we going to do with 1228 01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:02,160 Speaker 1: the Rooney rule, Like it's not it's not helping people 1229 01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:04,520 Speaker 1: get hired, it's helping getting people in front of people. 1230 01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,600 Speaker 1: Kind of forget all these stories that because it's such 1231 01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:10,880 Speaker 1: a what's happened, we didn't current current current, such a 1232 01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,120 Speaker 1: current league. It's like we're all talking about the super Bowl, 1233 01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:16,200 Speaker 1: but it's it's the John Gruden lawsuit, It's the it's 1234 01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:21,240 Speaker 1: the Flores lawsuit. It's the Competition Committee changing the rules 1235 01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,840 Speaker 1: with the punt team, it's the combine coming up it. 1236 01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,439 Speaker 1: You know, there's we didn't even get to him about 1237 01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:28,760 Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with Deshaun Watson. In a couple of weeks, 1238 01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:32,360 Speaker 1: He's supposed to be giving depositions in his lawsuits, So 1239 01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:35,760 Speaker 1: what's going on there? Um, we didn't talking about the 1240 01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:38,439 Speaker 1: quarterback Harosel. That doesn't really impact Buffalo, but it could 1241 01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:41,160 Speaker 1: impact you know, the division, but we don't know. I mean, 1242 01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,479 Speaker 1: there's stuff like the taunting emphasis that they had, and 1243 01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,680 Speaker 1: you know, and the COVID protocols. What's gonna happen with 1244 01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:49,600 Speaker 1: the protoc COVID protocols going forward? Are they gonna have 1245 01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:51,400 Speaker 1: to have are they gonna have like the old days 1246 01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:53,880 Speaker 1: in person media sessions where the guy stands up on 1247 01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,719 Speaker 1: a podium and everybody just kind of asks questionss Today 1248 01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,479 Speaker 1: we have this one locker room acces. The locker rooms 1249 01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:02,800 Speaker 1: have been closed for two years. Yeah, Are they going 1250 01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,160 Speaker 1: to change the overtime rules? And they're gonna you know, 1251 01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:07,400 Speaker 1: and the sky Judge stuff that we did talk about. 1252 01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:11,200 Speaker 1: Let alone the fact that you've got one of the 1253 01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:15,000 Speaker 1: great quarterbacks of his generation who has been raising a 1254 01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:18,200 Speaker 1: stink for what now, fourteen months about maybe wanting to 1255 01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,479 Speaker 1: play somepolace else and Aaron Rodgers and if he is 1256 01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:25,160 Speaker 1: going to do that, the ripple effects of that and 1257 01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,120 Speaker 1: all the new coaches that are out there. So, yeah, 1258 01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:31,640 Speaker 1: there's a menu that's unbelievably long and complex facing the 1259 01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:35,720 Speaker 1: NFL this offseason, and you know we're one day at 1260 01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:37,479 Speaker 1: a time, they're gonna start plowing through and we'll get 1261 01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:41,000 Speaker 1: news about how they're handling it. Yeah, we want to 1262 01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,519 Speaker 1: get back to the phones as we're discussing one of 1263 01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:47,719 Speaker 1: those things that could be altered to at least some degree, 1264 01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:52,759 Speaker 1: how much power should the NFL give to the replay 1265 01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:55,479 Speaker 1: assistant that was up in the booth this year and 1266 01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:59,759 Speaker 1: in many cases aided the on field official in getting 1267 01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:04,439 Speaker 1: falls right with a limited scope of what he could 1268 01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:06,680 Speaker 1: weigh in on. He or she could weigh in on 1269 01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:12,120 Speaker 1: I should say, should they expand those powers for the 1270 01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,960 Speaker 1: person upstairs? And we have some choices for you on 1271 01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:17,320 Speaker 1: the twitter poll add one bills live, let us know 1272 01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:19,040 Speaker 1: what you think, open line through you at eight oh three, 1273 01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:21,800 Speaker 1: five fifty or on the tweet sheet, which we'll be 1274 01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:24,000 Speaker 1: getting too shortly. But we go to the phones first, 1275 01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:27,800 Speaker 1: and we go to Chris in Bergen. Chris, what do 1276 01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,960 Speaker 1: you have for us? You're on one Bills live? Hi? 1277 01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,759 Speaker 1: How are you guys doing this? After good? I actually 1278 01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:38,639 Speaker 1: have a question about the draft, Okay. I was wondering 1279 01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:43,439 Speaker 1: if Jordan Davis is available at twenty five, if you 1280 01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:45,840 Speaker 1: think the Bills would take him? And also, do you 1281 01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,760 Speaker 1: think the Bills would draft a running back? In which 1282 01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:52,400 Speaker 1: running backs? Do you like? Thank you? Okay? Maybe I 1283 01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:54,559 Speaker 1: don't think they'll take a running back until the second day, 1284 01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:56,559 Speaker 1: maybe even you know, the third day of the draft 1285 01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:58,960 Speaker 1: they may take I think they'll take one, I do, 1286 01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,839 Speaker 1: but not if they don't get one in free agency, 1287 01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,120 Speaker 1: right not in the first, second or third rounds. Maybe 1288 01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:06,360 Speaker 1: the third round. I kind of doubt that. Maybe um 1289 01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:13,479 Speaker 1: and Jordan Davis twenty fifth, Probably not. I think there'll 1290 01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:16,080 Speaker 1: be a better player than Jordan Davis available. As as 1291 01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:18,559 Speaker 1: weird as that sounds, he's and for people who don't 1292 01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:21,200 Speaker 1: know who Jordan Davis is, he's six feet six inches 1293 01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:25,519 Speaker 1: tall and weighs three hundred and fifty fifty plus pounds. 1294 01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:29,200 Speaker 1: He plays defensive tackle for the Alabama Crimson Georgia huh, 1295 01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,240 Speaker 1: he's from Georgia. I'm sorry, Georgie. He plays for the 1296 01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,839 Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldogs for him. Mean, that's probably an egregious mistake 1297 01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,680 Speaker 1: for some people. He plays for the Georgia Bulldogs, and 1298 01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:40,920 Speaker 1: I'll say this, there's a couple of guys next to 1299 01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:45,080 Speaker 1: him that are every bit the player he is. Davante 1300 01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:49,280 Speaker 1: Wyatt is a sou Yeah, Jordan Davis is a guy 1301 01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,400 Speaker 1: out there. The reason he is such an intriguing prospect 1302 01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:56,559 Speaker 1: is because he is so massive massive. He's a giant human. 1303 01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:00,400 Speaker 1: He's an absolutely, he's ted Washing, he's space alien big. 1304 01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:03,400 Speaker 1: So that's why people are like, oh, you know, I 1305 01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:05,640 Speaker 1: gotta make a difference now. A problem with him is 1306 01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:07,120 Speaker 1: and some of those things is he's a one or 1307 01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:10,320 Speaker 1: two down player first and second half, but he can't 1308 01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:12,880 Speaker 1: rush the passer at all. Not at this level. You 1309 01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:15,120 Speaker 1: would think, yeah, he's got some work to do to 1310 01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:18,800 Speaker 1: do that. And he didn't play a lot of he 1311 01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,840 Speaker 1: didn't play enough snaps at Georgia to think he was 1312 01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:23,800 Speaker 1: going to be a dominant player at the next level 1313 01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:27,080 Speaker 1: because Georgia was taking him off the field in situations. 1314 01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:31,000 Speaker 1: And a guy six six, three fifty who's a pretty 1315 01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,479 Speaker 1: good athlete who comes off the field because he's not 1316 01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:36,840 Speaker 1: good enough in the Power five Conference, even if it's 1317 01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,960 Speaker 1: a Cantalabama and LSU and all the SEC schools, it's 1318 01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:41,880 Speaker 1: just not gonna cut it at the next level. So 1319 01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:46,439 Speaker 1: he's not the elite talent that is commensurate with what 1320 01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:48,840 Speaker 1: he looks like when he's standing there on the football field. 1321 01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:53,040 Speaker 1: But some of his teammates are. Yeah, and just because 1322 01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:57,040 Speaker 1: he's not maybe necessarily the best Georgia the fantasy of 1323 01:12:57,040 --> 01:12:59,240 Speaker 1: lineman doesn't mean he couldn't have a successful career in 1324 01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:01,799 Speaker 1: the NFL. I just don't know that he's picked twenty 1325 01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:04,040 Speaker 1: five for the Bills, I guess is what we're saying. 1326 01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:06,799 Speaker 1: That's right, not saying he can't have a successful NFL career. 1327 01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,400 Speaker 1: He may be dominant. We don't know. Yeah, but he 1328 01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:12,000 Speaker 1: may not come off the board until round two. You 1329 01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:14,240 Speaker 1: know what you know about him right now, and right 1330 01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:16,400 Speaker 1: now there are other guys who you know more about 1331 01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:19,400 Speaker 1: that you like better. I like DeVante Wyatt, his teammate, 1332 01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:21,679 Speaker 1: a whole lot better because that kid goes three hundred 1333 01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:23,639 Speaker 1: and fifteen pounds and I watched him run twenty five 1334 01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,320 Speaker 1: yards down field and tackle Bryce Young, the Heisman Trophy winner, 1335 01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:31,599 Speaker 1: twenty five yards down the field and he's three fifteen pounds. 1336 01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:35,720 Speaker 1: They're dropping this three hundred fifteen pound kid, dropping him 1337 01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:38,800 Speaker 1: into coverage as a spy, dropping him off as a spy. 1338 01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:41,519 Speaker 1: He's three fifteen sixty three, three fifteen. Give me that 1339 01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:44,160 Speaker 1: guy because that guy will play every down. Four. That's 1340 01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:47,960 Speaker 1: pretty athletic. So all of that stuff in the mix. 1341 01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:52,880 Speaker 1: M Yeah, I think Jordan Davis will be there at 1342 01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:56,439 Speaker 1: twenty five. Yes, I'm just not convinced they'll take him 1343 01:13:56,479 --> 01:13:58,280 Speaker 1: because of some of the things that you mentioned. But 1344 01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:01,800 Speaker 1: I know this too. Stranger things have happened. They like 1345 01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:05,560 Speaker 1: elite traits, they do, and he's got them. Yeah, the 1346 01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:08,839 Speaker 1: number one trade being size. You can't can you imagine 1347 01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:10,479 Speaker 1: what his helmet size is. It's gonna be like a 1348 01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:13,040 Speaker 1: coach tall. You can't coach tall. You can coach heavy, 1349 01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:15,320 Speaker 1: you can coach strong, you can coach coach fast, but 1350 01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,720 Speaker 1: you can't coach tall. That's why you get guys like 1351 01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:21,439 Speaker 1: Rousseau and Epaneza and these guys. Their differences difference makers. 1352 01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:23,880 Speaker 1: But everything else you can kind of start to fix 1353 01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:26,360 Speaker 1: if the guy's committed enough to do it. Now. Some 1354 01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:30,599 Speaker 1: of it takes a lot of time, but size isn't 1355 01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:33,840 Speaker 1: always will be a trump card in pro athletics. Yeah, 1356 01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,080 Speaker 1: and then just quickly as far as running back, since 1357 01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:39,800 Speaker 1: he also asked about that. We saw last offseason that 1358 01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:43,400 Speaker 1: the Bills signed Matt Breeder. They felt they needed to 1359 01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:47,560 Speaker 1: add a speed element to their running back contingent. Unfortunately 1360 01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:49,800 Speaker 1: fell out of favor due to some ball security issues 1361 01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:51,439 Speaker 1: and couldn't get on the field at the end of 1362 01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:55,559 Speaker 1: the season. He's a free agent, so do they feel 1363 01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:59,880 Speaker 1: they need to reinstitute that speed element in some other way, 1364 01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:03,120 Speaker 1: shape or form to their offensive backfield. And then the 1365 01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:05,960 Speaker 1: second question is does that come via free agency with 1366 01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:08,920 Speaker 1: somebody like a Jerick McKinnon who suddenly was on the 1367 01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:12,200 Speaker 1: field and a starter in Kansas City over Clyde Edwards Hilaire. 1368 01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:15,599 Speaker 1: Why because he brought a speed element to that offense 1369 01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:17,600 Speaker 1: and Andy Reid didn't take him off the field in 1370 01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:19,800 Speaker 1: the playoffs. There's some guy, that guy's a free agent. 1371 01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:21,960 Speaker 1: Maybe you try to bring him in. There's some intriguing 1372 01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,479 Speaker 1: guys on the on the free agent list at running back. 1373 01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:28,719 Speaker 1: The guy for me, most notably as Leonard Fournette. I've 1374 01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,600 Speaker 1: watched you want a hammer, I've watched and he's not 1375 01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:35,680 Speaker 1: just a He'll outrun guys and he is. When he 1376 01:15:35,760 --> 01:15:41,519 Speaker 1: came into the league as a rookie with Jacksonville, he 1377 01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:44,599 Speaker 1: was he was a grown man then his I mean 1378 01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:48,320 Speaker 1: when he first stepped onto the field, he was. He's 1379 01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,760 Speaker 1: an NFL player right away. And you've seen what he 1380 01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,639 Speaker 1: can do with Tampa Bay the last couple of years, 1381 01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:55,599 Speaker 1: as well as wherever else he has been in the league. Um, 1382 01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:57,360 Speaker 1: now he has beat Now, this would be as at 1383 01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:01,240 Speaker 1: least his third team that he'd been to here if 1384 01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:02,760 Speaker 1: he came here to Buffalo, the next one is going 1385 01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:04,439 Speaker 1: to be his third. Or was he was someplace between 1386 01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:07,400 Speaker 1: Jacksonville and Tampa Bay. I think he was. I can't 1387 01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:11,120 Speaker 1: remember where it was. But guys like that are up there. 1388 01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:14,880 Speaker 1: James Connor, Melvin Gordon, Chase Edmonds, Quardurell Patterson, James White, 1389 01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:18,400 Speaker 1: Sony Michelle, all these guys. There's gonna be some guys 1390 01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:23,160 Speaker 1: with a pretty good resumes out there. You know, pick 1391 01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,120 Speaker 1: the skill set you want and go. Yeah, we have 1392 01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:27,960 Speaker 1: to take a break here, but when we come back. 1393 01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:30,880 Speaker 1: More of your thoughts, including those on the tweet sheet, 1394 01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:35,080 Speaker 1: about that replay assistant should his powers be expanded by 1395 01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,840 Speaker 1: the league heading into next year to help get the 1396 01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:40,800 Speaker 1: calls on the field correct, especially in the wake of 1397 01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:44,519 Speaker 1: two very controversial calls in the final quarter of the 1398 01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:47,280 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We're back with more here on One Bill's Live, 1399 01:16:47,320 --> 01:17:03,160 Speaker 1: presented by Collida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio Chris Brown's 1400 01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:06,839 Speaker 1: Seve task here on One Bills Live and discussing how 1401 01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:10,120 Speaker 1: much power should the NFL give that replay assistude who 1402 01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:15,280 Speaker 1: worked upstairs and would buzz the official downstairs to help 1403 01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:19,080 Speaker 1: him out with certain calls that were made or failed 1404 01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:23,200 Speaker 1: to be made, that kind of stuff. How much expanded 1405 01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,040 Speaker 1: power should he get. That's what we're asking you today. 1406 01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,320 Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the tweet sheet for some of 1407 01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:29,879 Speaker 1: your comments, which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, 1408 01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:33,400 Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. And 1409 01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:37,719 Speaker 1: this first Twitter handle is a little unfortunate from NFL 1410 01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:41,840 Speaker 1: reps are trashed. This is what these people with these 1411 01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:45,200 Speaker 1: online titles. I tell you gotta love social media, he says, 1412 01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:47,720 Speaker 1: he or she says, I think the adoption of a 1413 01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:51,760 Speaker 1: sky judge would be monumental in that human error and 1414 01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:55,240 Speaker 1: the clear lack of consistency has shown the NFL officiating 1415 01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:57,760 Speaker 1: to be unreliable time and time again. Which side of 1416 01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:00,280 Speaker 1: defense is this person on. If we're going to have 1417 01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:02,640 Speaker 1: a deep rule book, then we have little to no 1418 01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:07,559 Speaker 1: room for erroneous, botched calls. That's I don't disagree with that. 1419 01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:12,400 Speaker 1: Don't sugarcoat it. Tell us how you feel it. Well, 1420 01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:15,720 Speaker 1: I think I think we deduced pretty capably how this 1421 01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:19,920 Speaker 1: person feels when their Twitter handle is NFL refs are trash. Yeah, 1422 01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:23,320 Speaker 1: it's it's frustrating to everybody when they don't get it 1423 01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:28,559 Speaker 1: right and getting it. Here's the thing. I'll say it again, 1424 01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:30,400 Speaker 1: it's not so much they get it right or wrong. 1425 01:18:30,439 --> 01:18:32,120 Speaker 1: If they get it right or wrong the same all 1426 01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:36,040 Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, be consistent in how you just be consistent. 1427 01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:38,599 Speaker 1: That's all we really need. If you're gonna call it tight, 1428 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:41,320 Speaker 1: call it tight for seventeen weeks, right. If you're gonna, 1429 01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:43,719 Speaker 1: you know, only be a four flag a game team 1430 01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:47,400 Speaker 1: or a crew, be a four flag a game crew 1431 01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:50,760 Speaker 1: for the most part, four penalties, come up with a 1432 01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:54,800 Speaker 1: sixteen penalty game call, one penalty on each team per quarter. 1433 01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:57,599 Speaker 1: Let's go home. You know that kind of thing. And 1434 01:18:57,640 --> 01:18:59,160 Speaker 1: I'm not saying put a quote on it, you know 1435 01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:02,519 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Um, it's not that absolute but and 1436 01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:04,719 Speaker 1: I get it too, because as soon as you start 1437 01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:08,040 Speaker 1: calling it, you know, you start calling fewer and fewer penalties, 1438 01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,680 Speaker 1: guys will start to grab and hold and pull and 1439 01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:14,200 Speaker 1: tug and grab and cheap shot and all that stuff. 1440 01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:16,439 Speaker 1: It'll all get out of you know, pretty soon, it'll 1441 01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:21,080 Speaker 1: deteriorate the game. So you have to hold a standard. 1442 01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:26,640 Speaker 1: But man on man, week to week basis, game to 1443 01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:29,120 Speaker 1: game basis, it's got to be more consistent. Try to 1444 01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:31,360 Speaker 1: call it the same way you've called it every single 1445 01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:33,439 Speaker 1: That's what we're talking to Rick goslind about yesterday. And 1446 01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:37,320 Speaker 1: that's the biggest problems. It's not just this first quarter 1447 01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:39,360 Speaker 1: of this game, in the fourth quarter of this game. 1448 01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:42,200 Speaker 1: It's that game this weekend over here in this game 1449 01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,920 Speaker 1: this weekend. You know, it's that game and this game 1450 01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:47,080 Speaker 1: and that get next game and their game that way 1451 01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:50,280 Speaker 1: in that day. And you know, you got seven games 1452 01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:52,519 Speaker 1: going on in the league and any given time or 1453 01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:56,400 Speaker 1: in a weekend, and they're all different. And that's that's 1454 01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:59,880 Speaker 1: the problem. John on the tweet sheet says they need 1455 01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,599 Speaker 1: this guy judge for instances of blatant calls that were 1456 01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:08,000 Speaker 1: either made or not to get it correct. Don't need 1457 01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:12,160 Speaker 1: games decided by obvious mistakes. That's the real issue that 1458 01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:15,000 Speaker 1: I think fans have more than anything else, the obvious 1459 01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:19,800 Speaker 1: stuff that isn't called, like the Tee Higgins face mask 1460 01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:23,679 Speaker 1: on Jalen Ramsey. Right, I understand why it wasn't called 1461 01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:27,120 Speaker 1: because the sideline official that's on the back side of 1462 01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:30,720 Speaker 1: the play for him, he can't see that. I don't 1463 01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:32,960 Speaker 1: know where the back judge is on that. You'd like 1464 01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:34,920 Speaker 1: to think he had an angle on that. He probably 1465 01:20:34,920 --> 01:20:37,240 Speaker 1: catching the action coming down the middle of the field, 1466 01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:39,320 Speaker 1: the tight end going down the middle of the field. 1467 01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:42,200 Speaker 1: But once this ball's in the air, your eyes go there, right, 1468 01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:45,160 Speaker 1: Maybe they went there too late. I don't know that 1469 01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:48,880 Speaker 1: the official that was trailing that play was in the 1470 01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:51,520 Speaker 1: wrong spot to see it. The one on that sideline, 1471 01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:54,280 Speaker 1: he was behind it, so he had to look through 1472 01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:57,040 Speaker 1: the receiver and the defensive back to see the receiver's 1473 01:20:57,080 --> 01:20:59,040 Speaker 1: hand go around the front and pull it from behind 1474 01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:03,759 Speaker 1: from you there, he's he's down. The official is behind 1475 01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:07,320 Speaker 1: those guys down the sideline, and you know, I mean 1476 01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:10,920 Speaker 1: that's and it looks like it looked like Jalen Ramsey 1477 01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:14,240 Speaker 1: just stumbled and fell. But that's where a sky judge 1478 01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:17,919 Speaker 1: or a replay assistant says if they have expanded powers 1479 01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:22,320 Speaker 1: and say, hey, man, he literally dragged that dB out 1480 01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,040 Speaker 1: of the way, so we can make a play on 1481 01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:28,600 Speaker 1: the ball. We've got a face mask there. Yeah, you know, 1482 01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:32,599 Speaker 1: I mean it's yeah, it's pretty. It was egregious, Yeah 1483 01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:35,040 Speaker 1: but it but let's face it too. And this is 1484 01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,879 Speaker 1: the thing. We're watching it slow emotional list. It happened 1485 01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:41,840 Speaker 1: in the blink of an eye or less. And if 1486 01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:43,760 Speaker 1: you'd not look in and you miss it, you don't 1487 01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:46,840 Speaker 1: see it, and you can't call it if you don't 1488 01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:50,120 Speaker 1: see it. M So we can sit here and look 1489 01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:52,880 Speaker 1: at it twenty different angles and slow motion and replace 1490 01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:55,720 Speaker 1: and all that frame by frame doesn't matter because the 1491 01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:57,120 Speaker 1: guy who's got to call it's got to see it 1492 01:21:57,240 --> 01:21:58,680 Speaker 1: right then. Now, if you're gonna give a guy, and 1493 01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:00,479 Speaker 1: here's the problem, I'll say it again, here's the guy. 1494 01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:02,439 Speaker 1: If you're gonna give a guy a sky judge or 1495 01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:05,519 Speaker 1: a replay umpire the ability to say, hey, that was 1496 01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:08,360 Speaker 1: an egregious non call. You need to do something about it. 1497 01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:12,040 Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm all about it. Fine, because we agree 1498 01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:16,479 Speaker 1: that was a penalty. Well, the next logical step is 1499 01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:22,360 Speaker 1: what if it's not that egregious, or what if like 1500 01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:25,759 Speaker 1: before this plat if it before this play happened. Jalen 1501 01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,880 Speaker 1: Ramsey even to get to that point, grabs the guy's 1502 01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:31,960 Speaker 1: shirt tail and pulls himself close enough to get in position. 1503 01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:35,960 Speaker 1: So he made a penalty before the ball even got there. 1504 01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:38,760 Speaker 1: And then the guy facemasks him to catch the ball. Well, 1505 01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:41,519 Speaker 1: now it's a penalty on both teams. Can the guy? 1506 01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:44,400 Speaker 1: Can the umpire go back and call the other one too? 1507 01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:49,480 Speaker 1: Because we're talking about we're talking about it, we're acknowledging 1508 01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,479 Speaker 1: that it's a really tough job, and the guys make mistakes. 1509 01:22:52,560 --> 01:22:56,160 Speaker 1: So in those mistakes, sometimes there's egregious mistakes and sometimes 1510 01:22:56,160 --> 01:22:59,760 Speaker 1: there's like yeah, okay, that was a mistake. Which one 1511 01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:04,400 Speaker 1: do you call them accountable for? So you know, certainly 1512 01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:07,080 Speaker 1: it makes a difference when the it's a play like 1513 01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:10,320 Speaker 1: that in a Super Bowl boom long touchdown, Yeah you 1514 01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:14,320 Speaker 1: want that fixed. And the non call in the Saints 1515 01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:17,640 Speaker 1: Rams game from four years the Rams would never have 1516 01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:19,880 Speaker 1: gotten to or probably would never have gotten to their 1517 01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:23,240 Speaker 1: first Super Bowl four years ago, if the officials don't 1518 01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:28,080 Speaker 1: miss an egregious pass interference call. So I what are 1519 01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:32,400 Speaker 1: you gonna do. It's a slippery slope, and it's and 1520 01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:37,280 Speaker 1: it's subjective. That's the real problem. Now, Jack on the 1521 01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:40,160 Speaker 1: tweet sheet says, I'd prefer them not be allowed to 1522 01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:43,440 Speaker 1: throw flags and should only have the power to overturn 1523 01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:48,400 Speaker 1: flags if they feel a foul did not occur. That said, 1524 01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:52,520 Speaker 1: I didn't hate allowing coaches to challenge an obvious pass interference, 1525 01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:55,479 Speaker 1: and when doing so, the decision on the challenge should 1526 01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:57,400 Speaker 1: be given to the sky judge. What do you think 1527 01:23:57,439 --> 01:24:01,439 Speaker 1: about that, I'm challenging pass interference and the one and 1528 01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:03,519 Speaker 1: the ref on the field that called it is not 1529 01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:07,080 Speaker 1: gonna judge my challenge. The guy upstairs will judge the challenge. 1530 01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:09,160 Speaker 1: I kind of like that. Well, it's almost like you 1531 01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:13,320 Speaker 1: have a third party New York's a third party. Well, yeah, 1532 01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:15,679 Speaker 1: because the guy the sky like the guy at the game, 1533 01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:18,759 Speaker 1: being the third party. Though the guy at the game 1534 01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:20,880 Speaker 1: is on the same cruise the guys on the field. Yeah, 1535 01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:23,519 Speaker 1: why would you you think he's gonna cross his crewmate. 1536 01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,040 Speaker 1: That's another problem. May Yeah, that's a good point. So 1537 01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:32,400 Speaker 1: it's the same it's the same group of guys. Um, 1538 01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:35,680 Speaker 1: that's it's a problem. You gotta get around. You know, 1539 01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:37,559 Speaker 1: you gotta get your mind around who's gonna make that 1540 01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:44,680 Speaker 1: call and how much subjectivity you're gonna have. Yeah, it's 1541 01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:48,040 Speaker 1: you see, you see it's hard. It's hard to navigate, 1542 01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:51,000 Speaker 1: no question about it. Yeah. The next one on the 1543 01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:54,679 Speaker 1: tweet chie comes from Brian, and he wants the sky 1544 01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:58,040 Speaker 1: judge to have the ability to throw and pick up flags, 1545 01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:03,160 Speaker 1: but only certain flag and so boy, only fifteen yarders 1546 01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:06,759 Speaker 1: and ones that result in automatic first downs, past interference, 1547 01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:11,600 Speaker 1: defensive holding, unnecessary roughness, intentional grounding, not offensive holding, not 1548 01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:16,439 Speaker 1: off sides, not false starts, etc. So he's he's taking 1549 01:25:16,479 --> 01:25:20,800 Speaker 1: our egregious debate, Steve, and he's applying it only to 1550 01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:24,519 Speaker 1: fifteen yard penalties and others that result in first downs. 1551 01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:31,320 Speaker 1: That might be a way to establish a parameter. Yeah, 1552 01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:34,439 Speaker 1: you're you're unimpressed. Yeah, that's fine if you want to 1553 01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:37,160 Speaker 1: limit him like that, But you know, there's nothing that 1554 01:25:37,280 --> 01:25:39,599 Speaker 1: solely use it for the most stringent of the most 1555 01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:44,640 Speaker 1: you know, stringers. But we're here's the thing. We just 1556 01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:50,679 Speaker 1: spent four months and a conversation after conversation, and people 1557 01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:53,639 Speaker 1: around Buffalo been talking about conversations about the razors thin 1558 01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:57,000 Speaker 1: margin between going to the Super Bowl and going home early. 1559 01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:02,680 Speaker 1: It's a razor thin margin. And to hope or assume 1560 01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:06,240 Speaker 1: that only a fifteen yard or automatic first down is 1561 01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:07,719 Speaker 1: going to be the difference in one of these games 1562 01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:14,720 Speaker 1: is pipe dream. The Kansas City Chiefs lost out on 1563 01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:17,600 Speaker 1: a super trip to the super Bowl because one of 1564 01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:21,280 Speaker 1: their players lined up off sides, and on the subsequent 1565 01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:23,599 Speaker 1: play that happened after that, when they threw the flag, 1566 01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:27,000 Speaker 1: he lined up off sides. The Chiefs intercepted the ball 1567 01:26:27,439 --> 01:26:29,680 Speaker 1: and had to give the ball right back to the 1568 01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:32,320 Speaker 1: Patriots because their guy lined up off sides. So those 1569 01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:34,840 Speaker 1: five yard penalties, all that stuff comes back and all 1570 01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:36,439 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're not going to the super Bowl 1571 01:26:36,479 --> 01:26:39,120 Speaker 1: because of it, and the you know what if they 1572 01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:41,479 Speaker 1: call that and they got a camera angle this, he's 1573 01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:45,920 Speaker 1: not off sides, or it's you know, a false start 1574 01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:49,680 Speaker 1: or a neutral zone infraction or encroachment, and one of 1575 01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:51,559 Speaker 1: those goes either the other way and you don't get 1576 01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:53,920 Speaker 1: to go and the other guy does and they missed it. Yeah, 1577 01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:57,040 Speaker 1: it's tough because your sky judge can't get it right. 1578 01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:00,640 Speaker 1: Bill's pro may have summed it up. He wants one 1579 01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:03,920 Speaker 1: hundred percent a sky judge to have the power to 1580 01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:06,439 Speaker 1: throw pick up flags and speed up decisions. The teams 1581 01:27:06,439 --> 01:27:08,920 Speaker 1: are too close in talent, and we don't need bad 1582 01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:13,559 Speaker 1: officiating deciding games. While that statement is true, it's easier 1583 01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:17,000 Speaker 1: said than implemented. And that's why we are right back 1584 01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:20,200 Speaker 1: where we are, trying to improve a system that is 1585 01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:24,479 Speaker 1: inherently flawed because it involves humans and it involves calls 1586 01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:27,479 Speaker 1: that are very much subjective in many cases. We have 1587 01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:29,160 Speaker 1: to take a break here, Steve and I to close 1588 01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:31,280 Speaker 1: it up next on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid 1589 01:27:31,320 --> 01:27:46,800 Speaker 1: to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right back here 1590 01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:50,680 Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, Steve, I hope that you or 1591 01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:56,200 Speaker 1: any of your friends don't have a Porsche on order. 1592 01:27:56,680 --> 01:28:00,240 Speaker 1: Did you see the cargo ship in the midded Nich 1593 01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:04,080 Speaker 1: that caught on fire? So there was a cargo ship 1594 01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:08,280 Speaker 1: that had left a port in Germany and it got 1595 01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:10,519 Speaker 1: as far as the az Or Islands, which are off 1596 01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:13,439 Speaker 1: the coast of Portugal, and then there was a fire 1597 01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:17,639 Speaker 1: in the cargo hold. The crew abandoned ship. Fortunately they 1598 01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:24,520 Speaker 1: have been rescued by responding ships. But aboard the ship Porsches, 1599 01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:32,040 Speaker 1: volkswagons and a handful of Bentley's ooch, and I don't 1600 01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:33,679 Speaker 1: know if they're gonna be able to save the ship 1601 01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:39,200 Speaker 1: or the cargo. So the supply chain is affected yet again. 1602 01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:42,120 Speaker 1: So if you've got a port, the ship was destined 1603 01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:44,759 Speaker 1: for Rhode Island. Now here's the most interesting part, Steve. 1604 01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:49,800 Speaker 1: According to maritime law, if you can salvage it to yours, right, 1605 01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:53,479 Speaker 1: they want the crew abandons the ship, it's free for 1606 01:28:53,560 --> 01:29:00,400 Speaker 1: anyone that wants to claim it. Let go. Hey, we 1607 01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:02,720 Speaker 1: got two hundred Porsches on there. We got a bent 1608 01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:08,240 Speaker 1: smoked Bentley. It smoked all right. It's a pretty serious 1609 01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:13,639 Speaker 1: fire six ship. Nice. So if you've got a if 1610 01:29:13,640 --> 01:29:15,519 Speaker 1: you've got a Porsche on order and it was coming 1611 01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:17,760 Speaker 1: into Rhode Island this week, you got a boat, your 1612 01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:22,280 Speaker 1: goal might be waiting a little bit. Steve is on tomorrow. 1613 01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,800 Speaker 1: I will catch up with you folks next week. I 1614 01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:26,760 Speaker 1: am off tomorrow, but Steve will be back here at one. 1615 01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:27,599 Speaker 1: He'll see you then