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Speaker 1: Oh a great time, my step Lasker's Down Down, Down Time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Wednesday's edition of One Bill's Live Steep Tasker.

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Speaker 1: Maddie glab with you until three o'clock. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us here again today. A lot going on in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League, some good, some bad, some a little

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Speaker 1: bit informative. There's a lot of cool stuff that's coming

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Speaker 1: out around the league now. Teams are starting to show

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Speaker 1: kind of what's going on inside the building or what's

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Speaker 1: The Bronchos put out this nice video about what a

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Speaker 1: player is gonna go through. And I'll tell you, Maddie,

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Speaker 1: after seeing what some of the teams are doing to make,

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Speaker 1: you know, give social distancing and testing and all of

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Speaker 1: the stuff that needs to be done to try and

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Speaker 1: keep these players healthy, I kind of get. I'm a

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Speaker 1: little optimistic that it might work, given the fact they're

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Speaker 1: I mean, the safest place for these players is going

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Speaker 1: the way that they are in meeting rooms the way

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Speaker 1: that they line up in the cafeteria to get food,

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Speaker 1: the way that food is delivered to them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is thought out and so precise on every corner

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Speaker 1: you can't monitor these guys when they go home or

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Speaker 1: because there's no bubble scenario. So it's really up to

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Speaker 1: some hope because here's the thing I get when you

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Speaker 1: and they've got they walk them through traffic patterns and

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Speaker 1: you know, they're kind of on edge about social distancing.

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Speaker 1: Their lockers are separated apart, the showers are separated apart,

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Speaker 1: They've got every other locker cordoned off. Even the meeting

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Speaker 1: to the people that they live with their support networking home,

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Speaker 1: their wives, their their families, their kids, their moms, their dads, brothers, sisters,

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Speaker 1: whoever's living in the home with them during the season

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Speaker 1: safe outside of the safest environment, which is the practice facility.

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Speaker 1: So I am very confident in the type of players

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Speaker 1: There's a certain type of DNA and a certain type

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Speaker 1: smart way to make sure you're keeping hold of all

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Speaker 1: There's also a ton of technology that's pretty interesting to

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Speaker 1: Pretty interesting stuff they are getting. They're monitoring these guys

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Speaker 1: heard the NFLPA has told its memberships it's still pushing

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Speaker 1: It's crazy to bring these guys in. But by the

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Speaker 1: on it, they might do it. They might do it.

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Speaker 1: That'll be amazing to me. That will be an unbelievable accomplishment,

432
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Speaker 1: I think for a sports league. And I know that

433
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: MLB is doing it, NHL is doing it, NBA's doing it,

434
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: but man for an army like the football is like football,

435
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: it's two thousand players you know, five hundred coaches, hundreds

436
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: of staff employees, the media, and the fans, empty stadiums. Unbelievable, unbelievable.

437
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: It's almost you and you wrap your mind around, Maddie,

438
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: all the things they've had to, all the hoops they've

439
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: had to jump through in negotiations to get things changed

440
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: and done, It's unbelievable. I don't know if it's amazing

441
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: that that those all these problems, the litany of problems

442
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: got solved or at least agreed upon so that they

443
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,919
Speaker 1: can move forward. It's pretty amazing when you look at

444
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: it in the big picture, and it all lies on

445
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: this plan will be successful if they continue to follow

446
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: the rules outside of the practice facility. Coaches, players, staff,

447
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: who comes into contact with these athletes. This is what

448
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 1: it all lies on. Can you act the way that

449
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: you act within the practice facility at home? Can you

450
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: be responsible enough to make decisions to where you're not

451
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: putting yourself at risk to get this to then hopefully

452
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 1: not spread it to the rest of the team. That

453
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: will be the big question mark, you know, as we

454
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Speaker 1: go throughout the season until there's a vaccine of how

455
00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:01,479
Speaker 1: well everybody can follow these protocols and suggestions that are

456
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: put in place for the health and safety of everybody

457
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: in the organization. And yeah, it'll I've it's hard to

458
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: think that we can go through an entire season without

459
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Speaker 1: a stoppage or anything like that. I mean, people are

460
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: predicting that this virus is going to ramp back up

461
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 1: during the fall and during the winter, right, yeah, it's

462
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 1: and it may it. Listen, the experts are usually right.

463
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: You can we can argue up and down about how

464
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: right they are, but they they're using finger quote science

465
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: that I don't understand. And if they and they have

466
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: said it since the beginning, it'll probably go away for

467
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: a minute and then come back as we start to

468
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 1: ease up. We've seen that on a short term level basis,

469
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: and all the states that have opened up real quickly,

470
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 1: they've they've spiked right back up. So um, there's good

471
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Speaker 1: reason to believe the experts are probably right. Steve Tasker,

472
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Speaker 1: Maddi glab here till three o'clock coming up. After the break,

473
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go down to camp countdown. And Maddie, you

474
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: wrote a great article on the Duffalo Buffalo Bills dot Com.

475
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: Three reasons why the Bills could make up for lost

476
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Speaker 1: time and coming up in training camp. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that right after the break. This is One Bills Live,

478
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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Hellth from Buffalo Bills Radio One Life,

479
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: Steve Task for Maddie glab here till three o'clock. Right now.

480
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about some of the reasons. And

481
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Speaker 1: you wrote an article why the Bills should be able

482
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Speaker 1: to make up for lost time in the spring. It's

483
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: three reasons and we've talked about in not in some

484
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Speaker 1: of them directly during the offseason, but some of them

485
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: not so directly. And the first one he said was

486
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: just the opportunity they have to make up for lost time.

487
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: And they took that opportunity when it was pretty widely

488
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: known that they got together in the off season and

489
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: started having practices and the links they went to with

490
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: the technology that they used, that Josh Allen, Brian Dable

491
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: being there virtually that kind of stuff pretty impressive. The

492
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: effort they put into getting together and work out on

493
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Speaker 1: their own. Yeah, for Steph Digs and the guys in

494
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Speaker 1: Florida who train in Florida every year because they're from

495
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: that area or that's where their training facility or trainer

496
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 1: is in the off season. They've been there pretty much

497
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Speaker 1: the entire off season, and they're the ones who knew

498
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: about this Pete Bamrito facility that would be open to

499
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Speaker 1: them to where they could train their safely. And Josh

500
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Speaker 1: Allen got word of that and organized basically every single

501
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: offensive skill player to come in for three days and

502
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: have a training session. Daily they did different things, and

503
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: then at night or during the day, they did activities together,

504
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: which is where they could build their chemistry and bond.

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Speaker 1: I know some of them in golfing. They're at different

506
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Speaker 1: restaurants every night. And then they had those training sessions

507
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: on the field where they worked out together, they ran

508
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: through routes. So all this to say, yes, three days

509
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: isn't going to change or make Josh Allen and Steph

510
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: Digg's connection perfect, but three days is definitely better than nothing.

511
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: Being able to get in some of those reps together,

512
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: for the rookies, to be able to test what they

513
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: knew from the playbook in front of the veterans, to

514
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: receive coaching from the veterans, from guys like Matt Barkley

515
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: to other offensive players like John Brown, Cole Beasley, to

516
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: learn from them and have the interaction with them instead

517
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: of just being in a virtual setting. I think speaks volumes,

518
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to show once they hit

519
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: the field for the first time together that they're at

520
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: their further than they would have been if there was

521
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: no three day organized activity by the leader Josh Allen. Yeah.

522
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: And when you get together out of it is about

523
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,719
Speaker 1: just becoming friends so you can work together better when

524
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: things do start in earnest in training camp, where you

525
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: get to know each other, it's team building, you know.

526
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 1: You say they played golf together. They did a lot

527
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: of stuff away from the football field. And I think

528
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Speaker 1: also that the players tend to be able. They sort

529
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: through the verbiage of the playbook a little better when

530
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: they talk amongst themselves. The veteran players, guys like Cole

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Speaker 1: Beasley and John Brown, even Devin Singletary can give some

532
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: insight as to how to categorize the words that they

533
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: use in the playbook to give best give the players

534
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: a chance to catch hole of them mentally. Those early

535
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: vocabulary lessons that you get when you're going through this

536
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Speaker 1: with players really are invaluable because they set in stone

537
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: some things you're gonna need later, and the players kind

538
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: of prioritize after they've been in it for a year,

539
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: and of course it's in Josh Allen's case this is

540
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: his third year. They can really prioritize what they have

541
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: come to know is important about the playbook. You know,

542
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: the coaches put it in kind of methodically, this this,

543
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: this and this, and they do it pretty good. I mean,

544
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,719
Speaker 1: they start with the basics and that kind of thing,

545
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: but the players distill a little further than the coaches

546
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: due down to its nuts and bolts and say, listen,

547
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: this is what you really need to know. This is

548
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: what you need to know. This is what you need

549
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: to know. Is all this other stuff that change is

550
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: week to week depending on the game plan, but these

551
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: nuts and bolts kind of stay right where they're at.

552
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: And that's getting that grasp of it for the young

553
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: players in the first year players on the squad's really huge.

554
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: And you can do that in a couple of days

555
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: at least, get yourself your feet under you. And then

556
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: in the subsequent time you can bet that they've had

557
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: zoom meetings and all that that have helped them develop

558
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: that as well. So I'm totally with it. Get taking

559
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: that time to go out and get to knowing each

560
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: other personally, and you know what they look like, how

561
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: they act, you know how they are on the practice field,

562
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: what their personalities like. You get used to seeing them

563
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: and you get familiar with them, and you know, there's

564
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: just less of an adjustment period. Now when they get

565
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: to training camp, man, they can you know, shift gears

566
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: and go to work real for in earnest now. I

567
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: think it's a really important fact that all these guys

568
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: took a chance to get together and do that, and

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Speaker 1: the fact that it was player driven says a lot

570
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: about not just you know the guys who did at

571
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, those guys, but all the guys involved that

572
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: they're they're on that program as. I think it's a

573
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: huge step and the opportunity they got to do that

574
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: was is going to make a difference. I mean, can

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Speaker 1: you imagine, Steve if you were in this place being

576
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: a former player with one of the Super Bowl teams.

577
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: You have the talent, but your off season is basically

578
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: taken away from you and trying to put these pieces

579
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: together in a virtual setting to where you have new

580
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: players coming in that are essential to get this team

581
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: to the next level where they need to be. But

582
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: you can't do so many of those things because you've

583
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: been able to just meet, just talk, just game plan,

584
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: just do walk through virtually over zoom. I mean, how

585
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: tough is that, especially for a team that's full of

586
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: a lot of young players and a lot of young leaders. Yeah,

587
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: it's interesting too because they you come back and so

588
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: much goes on and goes into these game plans and

589
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: to have a basis for just getting to the point

590
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: where you know what to do when you line up,

591
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: and those guys have gotten a real head start on

592
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: it as well. Another thing that is really going to

593
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: help is that anybody who has been here before with

594
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills as a huge head start and all

595
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: of those guys, and you can tell by the atmosphere

596
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: they've created with Sean McDermott, Brandon Bean and all the

597
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: leadership with Edmonds and Alan and you know, Devin Singletary,

598
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: even you know, even the young players, Mitch Morris and

599
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: the offensive line. You know, these guys are all about

600
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: mentoring and making sure these guys, bringing these guys along

601
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: and that content annuity is one of the other reasons

602
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 1: you said the Bills have a real chance to make

603
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: up for lost time. It's picking up where you left

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00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: off now because of this offseason. You mentioned it. I

605
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: remember when we were going, even when we were going

606
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowls, and certainly on the years and

607
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: we were ascending to get to the super Bowl level.

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00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: Every year, the offense would would change a little bit.

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00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: We would stop doing things that we weren't good at

610
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: and start doing more things. And we had some success

611
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: and didn't do enough of so the offense would grow,

612
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: and it was you know, it's like any anything else

613
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: that's organic. You kind of cut away that which doesn't

614
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: work and which is dead, and you promote everything that's fruitful,

615
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: and that's what you do in the offseason. They're not

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00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: going to be able to do that this year as

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00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: well as they would have, but certainly they're going to

618
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: be have a chance to pick up right where they

619
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Speaker 1: left off at the end of last season and go forward.

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00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: They've got a ton of guys coming back. Yeah, we

621
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit yesterday, just the continuity

622
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: of this team and how it leads the league returning

623
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: eighty eight percent of their snaps from last season. Now.

624
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Speaker 1: Number two is of course, the Kansas City Chiefs, the

625
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: reigning Super Bowl champions. But it's it's not common to

626
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,959
Speaker 1: have a team who has been this talented the last

627
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: two years and has expectations to be even more talented

628
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: this year to return that number of players and pair

629
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Speaker 1: that with returning almost the entire staff, let alone, you're

630
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: all your three coordinators. That doesn't happen. And this is

631
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: something where it's like you got to catch lightning in

632
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: a bottle because if they continue to ascend and get better,

633
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: that that coaching staff is going to look different in

634
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: the years to come, as well as the players. Yeah,

635
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: you said it in your articles on offense. On the

636
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, they're returning ninety five point

637
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: four percent of all the guys who took a snap year,

638
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: all of every snap, ninety five point four percent of

639
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: those snaps are all coming back this year, eighty percent,

640
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: eighty point four percent. On the defensive side, you take

641
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 1: out Shack Lawson and Lorenzo Alexander and Jordan Phillips, those

642
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: guys you know, accounting for a good number of snaps

643
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: that are not coming back this year, but eighty percent

644
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: of them are every snap, eighty percent of every snap

645
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: on defense last year's back on the field this year.

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Speaker 1: That's a huge rank of placing for continuity, and of

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Speaker 1: course ninety five percent offensively. Let's hope that translate into

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Speaker 1: at least a touchdown more game if we can get

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Speaker 1: that to happen. But I think the continuity, particularly in

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Speaker 1: an offseason, like we've said, you'd like to think, it's

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Speaker 1: really going to be a huge asset for a football team.

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Speaker 1: Teams that are really have a high turnover, teams like

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Speaker 1: the Browns who have a brand new head coach, like

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Speaker 1: Caroline has got a brand new head coach. Those guys

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Speaker 1: are up against it. They haven't even had a chance

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Speaker 1: to meet with their teams yet, and it's you know,

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Speaker 1: there are three months away from having to field them

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Speaker 1: in NFL game. That's a huge task and it's going

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Speaker 1: to be really difficult to make to be successful at it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's tough because you can do your introductions, you can

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Speaker 1: set a culture, you can do those first steps that

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Speaker 1: happen as a new head coach or new GM enter

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Speaker 1: the building and start the rebuilding process. But you don't

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Speaker 1: know how that's going to work. Once you all come

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Speaker 1: and do that introduction over again and set that culture

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Speaker 1: over again, because now you are physically together. You're not

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Speaker 1: meeting over screens. You're actually putting this in place now

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Speaker 1: they will on defense, that's where they have their least

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Speaker 1: returning snaps. It's eighty point four percent, which is a

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Speaker 1: big number. That ranks seventh in the league for returning snaps.

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Speaker 1: But those new players that they welcome on defense, every

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Speaker 1: one of them but one knows the system and has

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Speaker 1: been coached by Sean McDermott and knows Brandon Bean their

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Speaker 1: Carolina players, they have been with him at some point

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Speaker 1: when he was at Carolina. That one person is Tyler Madakievich,

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Speaker 1: who is going to be thought of as more of

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Speaker 1: a special teamer rather than a linebacker. Yeah, he's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna get some opportunities at linebacker, but he's not going

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Speaker 1: to be your starting linebacker. So and he's someone who,

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Speaker 1: after having a zoom call with him, fits this culture

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Speaker 1: perfectly in how he thinks about football and playing football

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Speaker 1: and just his mindset and approach to the game. The

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Speaker 1: last of the three reasons you thought the Bills could

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Speaker 1: make up for lost time in this preseason is one

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Speaker 1: that I really find interesting and it's called and you

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Speaker 1: just call it development. Through Sean mcdermot's time here in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: we have seen him get a ton more out of

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Speaker 1: a roster than we thought was there. And not only that,

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Speaker 1: it's been fun to see how the team gets and

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Speaker 1: young players in particular individually get better and better and

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Speaker 1: better throughout the season each and every year. I think

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Speaker 1: it was fun to watch Josh Allen improved, certainly, fun

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Speaker 1: to watch Devin Singletary improved. We said ed Oliver's improved

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Speaker 1: greatly last year. It's been a hallmark of Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: and his coaching staff and to have that come in

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Speaker 1: going into this season with the young players available to

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Speaker 1: him now, after this draft and in this training camp,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun to think about how good

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Speaker 1: this team could be in December and January. And Browning

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Speaker 1: brought this up yesterday when we were talking about quarterback

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and how Harbaugh has done such a great

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Speaker 1: job of fitting the offense and the defense to the

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Speaker 1: players that they have the Bills do exactly that. They're

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Speaker 1: not going to put a scheme in place and then

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Speaker 1: put players in that scheme. They're going to figure out

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Speaker 1: what each player's strength is and then fit a scheme

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Speaker 1: around those strengths. So they are building everything around these

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Speaker 1: players to get the most out of each of these

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Speaker 1: players when they're on the field. But that offense is

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Speaker 1: built around Josh Allen and the wide receivers, that defense

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Speaker 1: is built around Trey White, the safety duo, the linebackers,

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Speaker 1: and the type of defensive linemen that are on the field.

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Speaker 1: They're not putting something into place and then asking players

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Speaker 1: to fit and fit into that mold in that scheme.

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Speaker 1: This is all based on how these players excel on

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Speaker 1: the field, which I think is so important, such an

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Speaker 1: important part of this conversation is they're able to develop

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Speaker 1: these players because they're investing in their strengths. Right And

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Speaker 1: Sean not for nothing, but Sean McDermott, each of the

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Speaker 1: years he's been here has tweaked his coaching staff, and

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Speaker 1: he said soon after he made some changes this year.

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Speaker 1: Day Ball has been here, Heath Farwell came in last year,

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Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser has been here throughout but McDermott said, listen,

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Speaker 1: with the addition of Eric Washington defensive line, they feel

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Speaker 1: like they've got a young, hungry and experienced, hungry and

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Speaker 1: experienced coaching staff and it's exactly the kind of atmosphere

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Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott has been striving for. I think he

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Speaker 1: together three years ago. And of course, because it contracts,

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Speaker 1: because of other commitments, guys weren't available, and the right

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Speaker 1: type of guy wasn't available, you couldn't do it. But

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Speaker 1: I think after three years now, Sean McDermott feels this

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Speaker 1: coaching staff is right where he wants it to be

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Speaker 1: in regards to the age of the guys, the experience

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Speaker 1: of the guys, the energy of the guys, the ambition

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Speaker 1: of the coaching staff, how their relationship and the way

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Speaker 1: they relate to the players. This coaching staff, I think

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Speaker 1: is right in line with where Sean McDermott wanted it

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Speaker 1: to be all along. And it, as per usual, it

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Speaker 1: takes a while for coaches to get their coaching staff

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Speaker 1: and the atmosphere and the relationships and the culture of

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Speaker 1: their coaching staff exactly where they wanted even though they

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time working on the player culture.

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Speaker 1: I think the coaching staff here this year, and it's

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Speaker 1: illustrated by their ability to get guys to develop young guys,

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Speaker 1: is going to be even better this year. Yeah. The

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Speaker 1: relationship building aspect of it is so important. These coaches

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Speaker 1: pour into these players and want to build relationships with them. Steve,

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Speaker 1: you know, the NFL is so much different now than

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Speaker 1: it was back in the day. It's not your mean coaches,

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Speaker 1: your I demand this out of you. It's about a relationship.

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Speaker 1: It's about give and take. Yeah, it's about It's about

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Speaker 1: having a personal relationship and liking each other and working

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Speaker 1: hard to for a common goal while you know, making

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Speaker 1: each other better, both as a coach and as a player.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, matt is a great article. Three reasons why

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills will make up for lost time in

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Speaker 1: the spring. Here in twenty twenty, Steve Tasker, Matti glab

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Speaker 1: here until three o'clock. Coming up at the top of

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Speaker 1: the hour, Peter King from Football Morning in America's One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kali to Health. I'm Buffalo Bill's

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Speaker 1: Radio back at until three o'clock. Mattie Before we get

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, let me remind everybody out there

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Speaker 1: to gear up for Episode two of Captain's Circle, presented

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Speaker 1: by Labatton Blue Light. The second of three episodes will

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Speaker 1: feature Jim Kelly, Kyle Williams, Mike Peca, and Mike Fellino.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be available to watch on the Sabers

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Speaker 1: and Bills YouTube channels and Facebook pages July twenty six.

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Speaker 1: That's seven pm. Make sure you tune in so you

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Speaker 1: can cheers to the captains. Good stuff. I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: That's that's a good group of guys right there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was fun to take. Brian Duff and I were

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Speaker 1: involved in that, and let me tell you there are

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Speaker 1: some great stories that come out of that one. Uh

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Speaker 1: an all star cast that we had to tape that

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Speaker 1: episode and hey, Tasker Year nine Presidents group text message

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Speaker 1: got brought up in that interview. So yeah, we'll see

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Speaker 1: if we'll see if it made the final cut. It's

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Speaker 1: only five. It's only five. Yeah, I think Jim named

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Speaker 1: like nine people there are they're like eight or nine

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Speaker 1: people in it, but only there's only five presidents. There's

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Speaker 1: only five presidents. The h O efforts are all the

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Speaker 1: hall of famers are the presidents. The rest of us.

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Speaker 1: The rest of us are just like, you know, junior

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Speaker 1: senators kind of. So I anyway, which which Bills rookie

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Speaker 1: you're gonna miss watching this year during the preseason and why?

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Speaker 1: We got a lot of feedback on that, and um, we're, well,

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Speaker 1: just a ton of people who are really gonna I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna miss preseason a little bit more than

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Speaker 1: we're letting on. Mattie. Yeah, I think some of these rookies,

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Speaker 1: some of these fringe players who have the potential to

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Speaker 1: make or not make this team, preseason is valuable for them.

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Speaker 1: So let's get to the tweet sheet brought to you

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Speaker 1: In a response, Tiffany Daniels said, I was excited to

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Speaker 1: see Gabe Davis this preseason. With a ton of talented receivers,

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Speaker 1: I was looking forward to see him compete for playing time.

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Speaker 1: His college highlights are impressive, especially in the red zone.

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Speaker 1: Our four wide receiver sets could be the best in

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Speaker 1: the league with this elite group. I agree, it would

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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to watch Gabe Davis out

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Speaker 1: on the field. Although I do think Gabe Davis is

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Speaker 1: going to make this roster. I think Isaiah Hodgins is

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Speaker 1: the player that I would really want to see to

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Speaker 1: see what he can bring to the table. He was

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Speaker 1: a layer round pick then Gabe Davis. But I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis's highlights. You put that on. It is a

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Speaker 1: reel of play after play after play. That's really fun

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Speaker 1: to watch. He average sixteen point one yards per catch

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Speaker 1: during college, so he'll be a fun player to watch. Yeah. Absolutely. Also,

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Speaker 1: Wandering Jack chimes in on the tweet sheets. I want

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Speaker 1: to say all of them. I love watching training camp

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Speaker 1: battles in preseason football to see the young, young guys

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Speaker 1: who have hope to make a name for themselves. But

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Speaker 1: if I have to choose, I was excited to see

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Speaker 1: the kicker Bass. He's got a live leg. How she

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Speaker 1: struggled a bit last year and wanted to see that battle.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see long field goals, Tyler Bass coming

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Speaker 1: in and trying to make a name for himself. He's right,

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Speaker 1: there's a ton of guys. Think about this, Matt. We've

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Speaker 1: got everybody from the quarterback to the kicker, defensive backs,

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Speaker 1: running backs, defensive lineman. This draft class of guys who

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Speaker 1: you would kind of expect to be able to make

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Speaker 1: the team goes all the way across the roster, from

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Speaker 1: special teams all the way through offense and defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've got corners, You've got a defensive and who's going

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Speaker 1: to play inside as well, wider fevers, running backs, quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: the whole nine yards. Tim Funk says a Japanessa, Zach

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Speaker 1: Moss and Tyler Bass they have the best chance to

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Speaker 1: make the roster and have an impact. Those are the

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Speaker 1: battles I enjoy the most. Bass has a huge leg,

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Speaker 1: so seeing that would have been fun. He apparently does

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Speaker 1: have a huge leg now. The longest field goal he

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Speaker 1: made in college at George's Southern was fifty yards. But

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Speaker 1: during the Senior Bowl is when he was really showing

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Speaker 1: off his leg strength and when he turned the heads

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Speaker 1: of a lot of owners and head coaches. Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: being one of them, loved what he saw with his

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Speaker 1: leg strength. Especially in a place like Buffalo. You need

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Speaker 1: a guy who can kick it pretty hard. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: going into the scoreboard end of the stadium, that wind, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta bang it. Yeah, Houshkill tell you that as well.

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Speaker 1: And I've had conversations with everybody as well, with other

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Speaker 1: players as well, and actually with Josh Allen. I think

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Speaker 1: where if you go on the visitors side of the

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Speaker 1: scoreboard end, uh, the wind comes over the top of

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Speaker 1: that scoreboard and just knocks everything down. I remember when

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Speaker 1: I played, we got a more than a handful of

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Speaker 1: turnovers just because of that constant over the top of

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Speaker 1: the scoreboard when knocking punts or kickoffs down short and

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Speaker 1: they couldn't feel them all of that stuff. So, uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you need a strong leg in Buffalo. We all know it.

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Speaker 1: That's why Josh Allen was was so was so sought

858
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: after him seemed like such a fit here in Buffalo

859
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: as well. Forget about his personality. The arm was was

860
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 1: a big, big selling point as well. It all counts, Maddie.

861
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: Sooner or later, it all comes back and helps you

862
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: out at some point down the road. We'll see. All right,

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00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: We're coming back with Peter King of Good Morning of

864
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 1: Football Morning in America, One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radios. That's done. Welcome back

866
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker along with Maddy glad

867
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 1: We just spent the last a few minutes before the

868
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 1: break going over Maddie's article about three reasons the Bills

869
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: could make up for lost time in this last spring

870
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: and coming back, And there's three really good reasons. One

871
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: is the fact that the players have worked extremely hard

872
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: on their own. We knew that was the case last year,

873
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: but this year that was pulled to the test and

874
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: it seems like they came through with flying colors, doing

875
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: a lot of work on their own. And of course,

876
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: then again, the fact that so many and so much

877
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: continuity within the organization is prevalent over the last three

878
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: years gives them a leg up on you know, they

879
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: don't have to install a new offense or a new defense.

880
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: It's more about plugging in parts. And then, of course

881
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 1: this coaching staff. The third reasons, this coaching staff that

882
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: was that has been so good at developing talent. We

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00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: please not to join on the line now. By Peter

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00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: King Football Morning in American columnist. He also coined the

885
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: phrase Monday Morning Quarterback, and his articles and columns are

886
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 1: absolute must reading for everybody who follows and watches the

887
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,479
Speaker 1: National Football League and who covers the National Football League.

888
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: He's been a friend of the show for a long time.

889
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: He's been a friend of mine for a long long time. Peter,

890
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, and Mattie Glab here in Buffalo. Thanks for

891
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: taking a couple of minutes and joining us. Hey, how's

892
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 1: it going, Steve him Maddie, it's going good. Hey, I

893
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: gotta ask you the first thing we ask all of

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00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: our guests, Peter, how are you doing during the pandemic?

895
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: Is your family safe and well? Is everything okay? Yeah,

896
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: everything's going fine. We've got my wife and I live

897
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, and we've been other than last weekend when

898
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: when I went all right, last Thursday, I guess I

899
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: went to Minnesota to do my tour of the Vikings

900
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: facility and how it's going to be really kind of

901
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: buttoned up, been sanitized. Other than that, I haven't been

902
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: on a plane for about one hundred and forty days,

903
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: so that's been weird. But other than that, everybody's fine.

904
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: Two kids, one lives in San Francisco, married to two children,

905
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,479
Speaker 1: all as well there, and the other one married living

906
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:23,399
Speaker 1: in Seattle, all as well there. So yeah, we uh,

907
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: we do everything. We're supposed to do. We wear the

908
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: masks and we are hoping for better days ahead. So

909
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: that's kind of how we're how we're living in. Well,

910
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: that's good to hear. I got one of the things

911
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: that has happened. Now. I guess we'll just keep it current.

912
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: This last yesterday and today, the owner of the Jets,

913
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: Woody Johnson, was reported by CNN, who said some a

914
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: bunch of inappropriate things about the workplace and what his

915
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 1: philosophies were. What's your take on this story? It's you know,

916
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: and the short news cycle that we live in. Do

917
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: you think this will have any long lasting effects? I

918
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: think it probably will, Steve, because I think that once you,

919
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: once you sort of make the comments that Woody Johnson

920
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 1: allegedly made, um, you know, if that turns out to

921
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: be accurate, hard for me to imagine him going back

922
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: to being the being the owner of the Jets, being

923
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: the majority owner of the Jets, because I think once

924
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: you're accused of making racially insensitive comments and you're in

925
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: a position that he is in, you know, you wonder

926
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 1: how is that going to impact you running a team

927
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: that you know is majority black players? And so I

928
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: think I think now especially because he's been gone for

929
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: three or four years. I wouldn't be surprised if Christopher Johnson,

930
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: his brother, continued his owner. We'll see what happens and

931
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: we'll see about the fallout of this, but I think

932
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: it would be hard for him to return as the

933
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: owner of the Jets. We've seen this Woody Johnson's story now,

934
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: and we saw the Washington Post story about Washington and

935
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: the people high up in their department and how they

936
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: have handled situations. What is the appropriate way for the

937
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: league to handle these two stories and maybe more that

938
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: will come in the future. Well, I think when you

939
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: look at what happened in Washington, I think the league

940
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: is going to have to respond with a heavy hand.

941
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: Um they you know, the NFL has said for some

942
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: time that that they are going to be that they're

943
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: going to be serious about disciplining cases of sexual harassment

944
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:09,280
Speaker 1: in the workplace. And although Daniel Snyder is not directly

945
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:15,760
Speaker 1: named in any of the you know, any of those stories,

946
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: I think the NFL really has to has to draw

947
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: a line in the sand and and say, look, we're

948
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: taking this seriously. We're not going to allow this, and

949
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: we're not going to allow you to get away with

950
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: this now. So I think a lot of people in

951
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: the last few days have wondered what could could he

952
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: be forced to sell his franchise. I think for football

953
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:46,240
Speaker 1: fans in the Washington area that would be a blessing.

954
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 1: Quite honestly, he's been a terrible owner. I can't think

955
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: of anything he's done well or anything he's done right.

956
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: But I don't know that this is going to rise

957
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: to the level of forcing him to sell his team.

958
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: But I do think that that he'll be disciplined, probably

959
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: quite significantly for it. Do you think he's done enough

960
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: to deflect whatever bad pr he's going to get by

961
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: agreeing to finally change the name of the team, the

962
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,720
Speaker 1: nickname of the team, and then hiring a prominent female

963
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: anchor to lead the radio broadcast. Obviously, this is reactionary

964
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: stuff that has happened in regards to the Post. Steve.

965
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you know clearly he made that move

966
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: when he made the move as a reaction to the

967
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 1: Washington Post story in naming Julie Donaldson to head their

968
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: media operations. But you know, as far as the team name,

969
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: you know, which obviously was long overdue to be changed.

970
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think that's a I don't think

971
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: that's a discipline thing. I think it's a tone deaf

972
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: thing that I think he's been. He's been really tone

973
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: deaf about it. That What says it all to me

974
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 1: is that Snyder own sixty five percent of that franchise.

975
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: The over thirty five percent is owned by three, uh

976
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: different men, and those three men all now are actively

977
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: trying to sell their shares in the team. So that

978
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: should tell you everything about what it's like to work

979
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: with Daniel Snyder. Everybody wants out, and it looked as

980
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: I say, I think it would be for the best

981
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: if he sold his franchise, but unfortunately I don't, and

982
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 1: who knows. The league may feel differently, but I don't

983
00:56:55,440 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: think that these two things together combine mind are enough

984
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: to force him to sell this franchise. I want to

985
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: move on to the piece that you did with the

986
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. You said that you traveled over to Minnesota

987
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:15,439
Speaker 1: to kind of see all these protocols in person, learn

988
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,919
Speaker 1: about the day to day how this is actually going

989
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 1: to work football season in the middle of the COVID

990
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic. What were your first thoughts, your first impressions

991
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 1: getting onto that facility and starting to learn about how

992
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: this is actually all going to look. Well, Maddie, it was.

993
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: You know that the Minnesota Vikings have a three year

994
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: old training facility. It's absolutely beautiful, state of the art.

995
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: It's huge. I mean the locker room itself in of

996
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: itself is sixty five hundred square feet. So you know

997
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,959
Speaker 1: when I when my wife and I raised our kids

998
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: in the suburbs in New Jersey, we had a thirty

999
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: seven hundred square foot house and any of the four

1000
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 1: of us who lived there could get lost at any time.

1001
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: So just imagine having a sixty five hundred square foot

1002
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: locker room. I was impressed with the fact that, you know,

1003
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: everything about being in that facility was different than I

1004
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: remember the last time I was there. And by that,

1005
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, to even walk in the door,

1006
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: you have to pass a station where your temperature gets

1007
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: taken and you don't get to pass unless it's und

1008
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 1: you know, less than one hundred point four About every

1009
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty feet in the facility is a pure

1010
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: l station, you know, a pure l dispenser, and and

1011
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: so there's all these examples throughout the facility of how

1012
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: clean it's going to be and how sanitized it's going

1013
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: to be. And they're very insistent that no matter who

1014
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: you are, it won't matter you other than when you

1015
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: put your helmet on and go out to practice for

1016
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: the day. Every person, you know, whether it be a

1017
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: player or a coach, a staff member, is going to

1018
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: wear a mask the entire day that they're in that facility.

1019
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: So you know, really, as I said to Eric Sugarman

1020
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 1: the train or the Vikings when I left, I said,

1021
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, hey, you can eat off the floor in here.

1022
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 1: It's it's fantastic. You guys have clearly done a great

1023
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: job in this. But my big question is, you know,

1024
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: that's not between eight in the morning and five in

1025
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: the afternoon when these guys are going to be in

1026
00:59:55,160 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: danger of, you know, of of running into COVID nine team.

1027
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: It's gonna be when they leave the facility, and it's

1028
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: gonna be young players with money in their pocket, wanting

1029
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: to go out and wanting to live life. And again,

1030
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: I hope that all players this year will understand that,

1031
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: you know, when you're out in the public, first of all,

1032
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: you ought to wear a mask except when you're asleep.

1033
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: You know, you should probably wear a mask almost twenty

1034
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: four to seven, but when you're out, you've got to

1035
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: be extraordinarrowly careful. I told the story in my column

1036
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: also this weekend, and and you may you guys may

1037
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: have heard about it. Andrew Whitworth, the left tackle of

1038
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: the Rams. You know, basically he his wife, his nanny,

1039
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 1: their four children, and his I think her mom and dad.

1040
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: He said, we're nine for nine. One of them got COVID,

1041
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: his the kids, nanny got got COVID, and before she

1042
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: even knew it, she had infected almost everybody in the family.

1043
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously an accident. She hadn't done anything

1044
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: wrong other than go out to lunch with a friend.

1045
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 1: So that, to me is the biggest issue that the

1046
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: NFL faces, you know, the transmitting of the disease, even

1047
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: whether whether it's some young person being careless or whether

1048
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: it's just somebody going out to dinner with friends on

1049
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: a Friday night and accidentally obviously getting infected. So I

1050
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: still think it's going to be a tough thing for

1051
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 1: the NFL to police this. You know, obviously, in the

1052
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: NBA they're in a bubble in the in the NFL,

1053
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: they're not going to be in a bubble. We're talking

1054
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: with Peter King, Football Morning American columnist, a longtime friend

1055
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: of the show. Peter, this we saw, Mattie and I

1056
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 1: both watched the media content people for the Denver Broncos

1057
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: put out a They followed one of the players around

1058
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: for a day and showed what it's going to be

1059
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: like and what the protocols are going to be like

1060
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: for NFL players around. And I assume, maybe wrongly, but

1061
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: I assume that most of the rest of the teams

1062
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: in the NFL are going to be somewhat similar to

1063
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: what Denver's doing. And watching that video, just like you,

1064
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: when you go through that building, you get a sense

1065
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: of how serious the NFL is going to take this

1066
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: inside their building, And like you, I know that the

1067
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 1: weakness comes when those guys go home. But I think

1068
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: one of the things that I that struck me as

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Speaker 1: a former player, what I would have thought was I

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01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 1: would have the first thing I would have told my

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Speaker 1: wife when I got home after going through that day

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Speaker 1: as opposed to what a normal day used to be like.

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Speaker 1: I would have really driven home the message to my

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01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: family and my support you know, my support system. That

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01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: man this is serious. We've got to stay on board

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Speaker 1: with it. I think me watching that video and maybe

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01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: you can relate this too. When you went through the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Via facility, I kind of got a little optimistic

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Speaker 1: that maybe they could carry this off. But if they

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01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: can carry it off and get a sixteen game regular

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01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: season off without a hitch, it may be one of

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01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: the greatest accomplishments that any industry is pulled off in

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01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 1: the history of pro sports. But man, I kind of

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01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: get optimistic that they might be able to do it.

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Speaker 1: What's your thought, Yeah, I think Steve that I feel

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01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: the way you do. Accept that. Uh, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: there's one hole in the testing that I think is

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01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: going to be difficult for teams to pull off. As

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Speaker 1: you say, okay, and even if the testing is done

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01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 1: daily throughout the entire season, there's a there's a little

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01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: there's a little hole in there because the test results

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01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: are due back now. The company that is doing the

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01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: testing basically is going to have the ability in some

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01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: NFL markets to get those tests developed and you'll know

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01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 1: the results of those tests within hours, but they're guaranteeing

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Speaker 1: the results of the test back in twenty four hours,

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Speaker 1: So what that means is that and I have no

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01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: idea if there's a testing facility in Buffalo, or if

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Speaker 1: it's got to be flown somewhere or whatever. But the

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01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: issue is that if it's a practice day, let's say

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Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, and someone who has tested positive but

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Speaker 1: just doesn't know it yet goes in practice, and he's

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01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: in a huddle with his teammates, and he goes out

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01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: and basically has a day of norm relatively normal football,

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01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: socially distanced inside the facility, but outside, you can't. Everybody

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01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: can't be socially distant at all times. So that is

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01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 1: going to be one of the things that at some point,

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01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: you just I think it's natural to think that at

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01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: some point someone is going to test positive during the

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01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:33,720
Speaker 1: season and will be exposed to his teammates for one

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01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 1: day before they find out that he's he's positive. So

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Speaker 1: I would agree with you. When I left Minnesota, I

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01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: just I kind of felt, Look, nobody during the day

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01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,400
Speaker 1: is gonna be testing positive in this building. I can

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01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,959
Speaker 1: tell you that, and I'm sure it'll be the same

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01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: at all the buildings, But you know, then you wonder

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01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:01,919
Speaker 1: what happens at night, And then a couple of days

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01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: later when it shows up and you finally test positive.

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01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 1: It'd be great if they could if they have the

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Speaker 1: instant test, But that's another interesting issue. The NFL does

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01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 1: not think the science, does not think the technology is

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01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: on the side of the instant tests. They think there's

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Speaker 1: too many false negatives, false positives with those instant tests,

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Speaker 1: so they decided to go with the test that has

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01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 1: been deemed more reliable, which I can't blame them for that,

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01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 1: but I do think that there's going to be a

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01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 1: hole in this that, you know, I hope for the

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Speaker 1: NFL's sake, doesn't come out to bite teams, but I've

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01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: got I got my doubts about it. What are some

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01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: other hurdles that remain The NFLPA and the NFL have

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01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: agreed on some things, but one thing that's still left

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01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: on the table is the economic impact this year the

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Speaker 1: salary chap. They originally wanted to hold thirty five percent

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Speaker 1: of the salary in escrow. What are some other hurdles

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01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 1: that you see that remain before the season starts. Well, Maddie,

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01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 1: you're right, the salary cap issue is going to be

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01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 1: significant because you've seen all sorts of estimates that the

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Speaker 1: salary cap number next year if they if they took

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01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: the entire bite of it in one year, the salary cap,

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01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: which this year is one hundred and ninety five, next

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01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: year could be one hundred and forty and that would

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01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 1: be disastrous for an awful lot of players around the NFL.

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01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: So I think they've got to figure out whether that

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01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: should be spaced out over a period of years, which

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01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 1: I think really is probably the only fair thing to do,

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01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: so that in a given year in twenty twenty one,

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01:07:54,680 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 1: players just don't get crushed by, you know, by the cap.

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01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 1: I think that's one thing, and I think the other

1149
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:07,520
Speaker 1: thing is one of the one of the good elements

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01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: of the CBA that you know that the players have earned,

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01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: that the players fought for. Is essentially, if you play

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01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:22,560
Speaker 1: the first game of the season, your salary for the

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01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:25,560
Speaker 1: rest of the season, for the last fifteen games, in

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01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 1: the last sixteen weeks is guaranteed. And so now the

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01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:35,400
Speaker 1: question becomes what happens if the NFL plays six weeks

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01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 1: and then there is a rash of positive cases two

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01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 1: or three teams have ten positives or whatever, and there

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01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 1: are these hot spots all over the country, and the

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01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 1: NFL just decides to listen, we got to suspend operations now, well,

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01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, for how long? Is that it for the

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01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 1: year or are they just going to be off for

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01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 1: eight weeks while the pandemic gets under control. I don't know,

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01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 1: but I do think that the NFL is going to

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01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:09,759
Speaker 1: have to get some sort of assurances from the players

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01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: that if the season is not completed, that they don't

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01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: have to pay the full salaries of every player on

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01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,759
Speaker 1: the team. And I'm sure that players are going to say, listen,

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01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 1: it's not our fault. The contracts say that, you know,

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01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 1: if we're on the team and we play Week one

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01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:32,840
Speaker 1: of the season, the rest of our salary is guaranteed.

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01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: So that's one of the other things that has to

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01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: get worked out, I think between players and owners. Peter,

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01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on with us. I'm glad you're doing

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01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: well during the pandemic as well as anybody can anyway,

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01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you taking some time with us, and

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01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 1: I hope you get to cover the entire NFL season

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Speaker 1: like the rest I do too, Steve, and I you

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01:09:56,200 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: know what I'll miss, I really will miss Saint John

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01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:04,600
Speaker 1: Fisher this year, you know, It's always always one of

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01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 1: my favorite spots. But anyway, I hope at some point

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01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 1: in the next month or so I'm up in helping

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01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo and get to see you guys. But anyway, thanks

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01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 1: for having me. If you come up, we'll share a

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01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: socially distant beer. It's good to talk with you. Peter

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01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 1: Peter King Faketball Morning in America column is formerly of

1186
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:26,439
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated. He coined the phrase Monday Morning Quarterback. He's

1187
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 1: one of the stalwarts of NFL media and his work

1188
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: is a must read for everybody in the sport. Thanks

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01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:35,439
Speaker 1: for being with us. We'll be back. Steve Tasker. Maddi

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01:10:35,479 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: glab One Bills I presented by Klyda Health on Buffalo

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01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live Chat for

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01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: Maddic Lab. Thanks to Peter King for coming on last

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01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:54,920
Speaker 1: half hour. It is time now, Maddie for what's for lunch?

1194
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 1: Column A and Colum Bean. We're gonna go down the menu.

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01:10:58,000 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: You gotta pick one or the other. You don't have

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01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 1: to like either of them, and you can like both

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01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: of them, but you can't pick one. And here we'll

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Speaker 1: get started. Are you ready, Let's do it? We're starting

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Speaker 1: with the Bears question. That's right, this is your this

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01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:12,759
Speaker 1: is your wheelhouse, mad girl. Who will start more games

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01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:17,640
Speaker 1: this year for the Chicago Bears, Nick Foles or Mitch Trubisky.

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01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna go with Nick Foles. He

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01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: has ties to the coaches there. I think he was

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01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:32,640
Speaker 1: brought in for a reason. I'm sorry, but I'm I

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01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: was never for that Mitch Trubisky pick. I'm I'm still

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01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:40,639
Speaker 1: not for it. So I told you so. I guess well,

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01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 1: you know I was never for it. So because of that,

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01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 1: I think Nick Foles is going to or in the

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01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: starting job. That's my hot take. I would say agree,

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01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: I would agree Nick Foles was brought in for more

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01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: than one reason. He was brought in for a bunch

1212
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: of reasons, not least of which was that Mitch Trubisky stinks.

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01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 1: So that's the reason Nick Foles is going to start

1214
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:07,760
Speaker 1: more games than Mitch Rubisky. Foles has been around the league.

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01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 1: He went to you know, he was high draft pick.

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01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: He's bounced around. He's a veteran in the National Football League.

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01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: He's been to a number of franchises. He knows what

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01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: it is to acclimate and do it quickly, and he

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01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: knows how to lead a team. Nick Foles is going

1220
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: to spread his wings in Chicago's going to be a

1221
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: better team for so I think Nick. Here here are

1222
01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 1: some of the connections for Nick Foles to the Chicago Bears.

1223
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:38,360
Speaker 1: If people listening don't know, Matt Nagy was the offensive

1224
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 1: QC when Foles was a rookie with the Eagles in

1225
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. Offensive coordinator for the Bears. Was Foles his

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01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:49,360
Speaker 1: QB coach in twenty thirteen when he threw twenty seven

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01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: touchdowns and only two interceptions, and the Bears quarterbacks coach

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01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:56,640
Speaker 1: was Foles his quarterbacks coach in twenty seventeen when he

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01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:01,200
Speaker 1: became the Super Bowl MVP, taking over for Carson. A

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01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:04,439
Speaker 1: lot of people that Nick Foles knows and Nick Foles

1231
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 1: performed well under that's right, and that's why Nick Foles

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01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: is going to start for the Chicago Bears and they're

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01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: gonna be a much better team. I'm totally with you,

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01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:14,320
Speaker 1: all right. Now, here's another quarterback question. Who's more likely

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01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 1: to have a better third year? Baker Mayfield or Sam

1236
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 1: darnoald Well. Our producer JJ was trying to make the

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01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 1: case for Sam Darnald in the commercial break. I hope

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01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 1: he's not a closet Jets fan. I don't think he is.

1239
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:34,760
Speaker 1: He's Bills through and through. But I think Baker Mayfield

1240
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 1: is going to have the better third year because of

1241
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 1: the pieces he has around him. I think he has

1242
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:44,679
Speaker 1: more weapons that will make him a more successful quarterback. Yeah,

1243
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 1: he's got more people around him. I like Kevin Stefanski

1244
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:50,799
Speaker 1: as well. And we were talking to this too. Adam

1245
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: Gaze has floundered a little bit in New York. Whatever

1246
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,200
Speaker 1: he was as a quarterback coach, and you know that

1247
01:13:56,320 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning has been well document as being in Adam

1248
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 1: Gaze's corner. But I just think it's been It has

1249
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 1: not gone well in New York, and I think it's

1250
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 1: going to continue not to go well. I don't think

1251
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 1: that team has put together just right for a guy

1252
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: like Sam Darnold. I like Sam Darnold a lot. I

1253
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a really good quarterback. And I

1254
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:20,720
Speaker 1: think he got taken by the Jets at a time

1255
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 1: when it looked like they were poised to do it,

1256
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 1: and then they muffed it and started signing guys for

1257
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:28,760
Speaker 1: big contracts and instead of building the team from the

1258
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: ground up. So I think Sam Darnald's going to be

1259
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 1: a victim, and I think Baker Mayfield with Kevin Stefanski,

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01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 1: if the Cleveland Browns can let Stefanski do his thing,

1261
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 1: because Stefanski reminds me of a little bit of a

1262
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, whereas he's a guy who has prepared himself

1263
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:48,240
Speaker 1: to be a head coach. Last time around, the Cleveland

1264
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:51,719
Speaker 1: Browns hired Freddie Kitchens, and it was because Baker Mayfield

1265
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 1: liked him. Freddie Kitchens was not ready and had not

1266
01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: prepared himself, and it didn't have enough time to prepare

1267
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:58,600
Speaker 1: himself in his career to be a head coach in

1268
01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Stefansk he has done nothing else,

1269
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 1: so I think he's gonna be ready for this challenge

1270
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:06,560
Speaker 1: when it hits now. Obviously, this is a weird offseason

1271
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:09,480
Speaker 1: and it's not going to be like normal in Stefanski's

1272
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:11,560
Speaker 1: plan had to be altered whatever it was going in.

1273
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: But I do have a little faith in Instafanskin that

1274
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:15,800
Speaker 1: he's going to be able to bring out some things

1275
01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 1: in Baker Mayfield. And Baker Mayfield has a better offensive

1276
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:22,479
Speaker 1: roster around him than Sam Darnald anyway, so I would give.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking Baker Mayfield is going to have a better

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Speaker 1: third year than Sam Darnold just for that reason. I

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Speaker 1: like both guys, but I think Baker Mayfield had a

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Speaker 1: little better position as a good is right now going forward.

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Speaker 1: NFL true false Number three. If you're an NFL owner

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Speaker 1: and you could own a second pro sports franchise, which

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Speaker 1: would it be. Would it be an NBA franchise or

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Speaker 1: an NHL franchise. I'm thinking about where the money is. Well,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say NBA. Yeah, I am too big

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01:15:56,680 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: market team in the NBA to change. NHL is a

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01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: little harder to make money in the NHL owning a team. Yeah,

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01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 1: I think the NBA is a much better place to

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01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 1: go for stability even Yeah, I think it's easy. I

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01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: think it's a smaller, more compact business, smaller rosters, smaller

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Speaker 1: coaching staffs, smaller support crew, smaller payroll. Uh. And yet

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01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: it has a really high profile and it is a

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01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:28,280
Speaker 1: star driven league. And if you can get one or

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01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: two or maybe even three guys to sign on for

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01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:34,120
Speaker 1: your franchise, they can carry you deep into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Make sure that your fan base has charged and energized.

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01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:41,680
Speaker 1: I just think it's an easier formula to be successful

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01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Hockey. You've got to you've got to span.

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Speaker 1: You can do this in the NBA, but you've got

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01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 1: to span the globe to bring in talent. There's some

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01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 1: of the world the best town in the world is

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01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 1: in Europe and in the Netherlands and you know, Russia.

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01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 1: It's it's you know, hard to assimilate a large group

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01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:05,160
Speaker 1: of players that can really play together. In the NBA,

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01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 1: it's a smaller universe, I think, not just because of

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01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 1: the nature of the game, but certainly here in the States, Uh,

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01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: there's a culture that is all about the NBA and

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01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: it's growing now certainly like in Australia and in Europe.

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01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 1: Of course you can find good players obviously, but it

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01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 1: just seems less far wide ranging and far reaching to

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01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: have to, you know, to go out and find these guys.

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01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 1: I just think the talent pool is there, and I

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01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: think the NBA is much more attractive to me as

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01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 1: an order. But you know, you and I are maybe

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01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: maybe one or two billion dollars away from thinking about it.

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01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 1: So maybe we didn't don't know one thing that the

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01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 1: NBA has more of, though that's not a positive. You'd

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01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: have a lot more drama in the NBA rather than

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01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: the NHL. That's because those guys are elite. Every one

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Speaker 1: of them, even the thirteenth guy on the bench, has

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01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: been a diva his whole life. And and that's because

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01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: those guys. If you ever you've you've watched NBA game

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01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: up close and personal, haven't you. Oh yeah, my dad

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01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: used to have season tickets to the Chicago Bulls when

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01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: MJ was on the team. Okay, let me just say,

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01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: you go down and stand next to the locker room

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01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,479
Speaker 1: door when those guys pop out onto the court, and

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01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 1: that'll tell you how freakish that sport is. Those guys

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01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 1: are a world apart physically and a lot of them

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01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 1: mentally as well. And I'm not saying crazy, I'm talking intelligence.

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01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:28,799
Speaker 1: They are sharp and they are physically gifted beyond belief.

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Speaker 1: And that's why you get divas in that game, because

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01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:35,639
Speaker 1: they are. They are above it all. They are better

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01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,720
Speaker 1: than anybody else in their sport, and they're probably way

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01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:41,080
Speaker 1: more intelligent than most of the people watching the sport.

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01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:43,720
Speaker 1: They don't get credit for that, but that's to me

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01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: That's what I have observed close, close up, up close

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01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:49,680
Speaker 1: and personal, um talking to them and getting to know them.

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01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:52,599
Speaker 1: They are their lights are on and they don't get

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01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 1: enough credit for that. Guys like Lebron uh Kobe, Michael Jordan,

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01:18:57,880 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: those guys are elite for a reason. And the guy

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01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 1: around them on the bench, on the team in the

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01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 1: league are cut from the same cloth. They are physically

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01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 1: different and they're mentally different, and it's it's a it

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01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,559
Speaker 1: is a distilled product when it hits the floor. Those

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01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:13,840
Speaker 1: guys are special. That's why you get divas up there.

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01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 1: That's why I just got really excited for NBA basketball.

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01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:22,680
Speaker 1: So now I can't wait till it comes back. Some

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01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 1: bubble basketball. I gave a pep talk and he wasn't

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01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:28,240
Speaker 1: even trying. Right. Here's the last one NFL true falls,

1351
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:31,599
Speaker 1: which veteran free agent is going to sign for more money?

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01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 1: Devanta Freeman or Lamar Miller we're talking about before we

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01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:41,840
Speaker 1: went on that Devanta Freeman already turned down some money

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01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 1: and he just changed agents to Drew Rosenhouse overnight and

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01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 1: he said they said they're ready to sign. He's turned

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01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: down a four million dollars one year deal from I

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01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,920
Speaker 1: think Minnesota Davanta Freeman the cut from the Atlanta Falcons.

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01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:55,759
Speaker 1: He thinks he's worth more than that, and he changed

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01:19:55,880 --> 01:20:00,040
Speaker 1: agents to get a deal done. I think that's I

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01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 1: think since he turned down that money, he's gonna get less.

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01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 1: I think Lamar Miller is gonna get more money because

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01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman probably turned down his best offer. Maybe, but

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01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 1: it's a one year, four million dollar offer. How about this?

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Speaker 1: That's exactly this guy is exactly the kind of guy

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Speaker 1: I don't kind, I don't kind of guy he is. Now,

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01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:23,639
Speaker 1: if he's got the right DNA for the Buffalo Bills

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01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: to take interest in, that could be the exact guy

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01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: that the Bills go out and say, I'll give you

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01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: six million bucks for this one year. Prove it. Come in,

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01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:35,080
Speaker 1: you can be on the If he's got that DNA

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01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:38,600
Speaker 1: like like Frank Gore, you know, and those guys like

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01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,080
Speaker 1: one of those veteran guys. If he can come in

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01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 1: and be a solid guy like a Pat DeMarco in

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01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:46,960
Speaker 1: the room and help Devin Singletary and help Zach Moss

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01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,760
Speaker 1: become real pros, they'd pay him six million bucks and

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01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 1: that would be a threesome of a running back room.

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Speaker 1: That would be unbelievable. I mean, that's that's the one

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01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:58,479
Speaker 1: position group that you look at on this team and

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01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 1: you think there is there's no veteran in this room.

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Speaker 1: Devin single Terry has played for one year, Zach Moss

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01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: has zero not played yet in the NFL. Yeah, you

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01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 1: have t J Yelden, but he is not a big

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01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:20,760
Speaker 1: piece of this offense. Uh. You have Pat DeMarco. He's

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01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:23,400
Speaker 1: a leader on the team. He's a veteran, but he's

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01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:29,439
Speaker 1: a snaps. So if you had the money to bring

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01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:32,639
Speaker 1: in somebody for a year like DeVante Freeman, I think

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Speaker 1: that would benefit single Terry and Zach Moss. Yeah, I

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01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 1: agree to you. That's it's intriguing. Now Lamar Miller can

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01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: play as well, and he might be able to get

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01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 1: him for less money. So I think it's it's a

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01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:47,600
Speaker 1: spot that I don't even know if they have a

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01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:49,800
Speaker 1: roster spot. It's impossible to keep track of what the

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01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 1: roster is these days because of you know, everything's locked

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01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 1: down and nobody's around so and and I'll tell you

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01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: this too, Maddy. Not for another roster's or stagnant a

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01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: little bit probably at this point because more so than

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01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:03,719
Speaker 1: they've ever been. You could see coming up to training

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01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:06,640
Speaker 1: camps after OTAs and many camps, teams would cut and

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01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,559
Speaker 1: sign new guys. You know that bottom of that roster

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01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: is always getting churned. It has not been churned like

1401
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:14,720
Speaker 1: that for any of these teams over this COVID pandemic

1402
01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:18,200
Speaker 1: for good reason. You know, you can't your name, evaluate

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01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: the guys. How are you gonna cut them? So it's

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01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: an interesting question. DeVante Freeman last night overnight fired or

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01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: parted ways with his former agent and hired Drew Rosenhouse

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01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:30,160
Speaker 1: and they said, listen, we are open to all teams.

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01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:31,519
Speaker 1: We're looking for a deal and we want to get

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01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:34,040
Speaker 1: signed for July. They want to go to training camp

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01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: with the team and it'll be interested to see. Now.

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01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:42,759
Speaker 1: His former agent was Kristin Campbell, and she severed ties

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01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 1: with him. He turned down an offer by the Seattle Seahawks.

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01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: They signed, the Seahars signed Carlos Hide. Seattle was offered

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01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: it was in Minnesota. The Seattle offered up to four

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01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: million dollars on a one year deal. That was at

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Speaker 1: the report at the time of that refusal of that contract.

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01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:05,599
Speaker 1: So DeVante Freeman's trying hard to get on a roster

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01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:08,560
Speaker 1: and go ahead and go to training camp. Interesting, But

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01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: I think I think depends on how much faith you

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01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 1: have and Drew Rosenhouse to get him a deal, and

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01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 1: how willing you think he is to sign it. I

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01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: think he's a better running back, Li Lamar Miller, But

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01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 1: you might be right, Lamar Miller might be just in

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01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:25,920
Speaker 1: a better spot to be signed by somebody and they

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01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:28,599
Speaker 1: sign one of these deal or deals like we were

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01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: talking about earlier, like Cam Newton deal that is you're

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01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 1: guaranteed only this much, but it's very incentive based. Yeah, exactly. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's what's for lunch. Thanks for tagging along. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be back. We've got news and notes coming up after

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Speaker 1: the break. One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health on

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01:23:45,240 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, Radioster Magic glab As training camp looms just

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01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 1: on the horizon. I was just reading this in our rundown, Maddie,

1432
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 1: that the Green Bay Packers, every team, we all think

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01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: that the NFL is gonna go belly. All these teams

1434
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:07,479
Speaker 1: are going to take a loss on the season, And

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01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 1: from what we're hearing from the Green Bay Packers is

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01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:13,160
Speaker 1: that they brought in more than a half a billion

1437
01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 1: dollars in the last fiscal year and they and their

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01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 1: margins were like, you know, one percent or something. It

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01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:21,760
Speaker 1: was like eight million bucks that they that they came

1440
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 1: out on top of ahead. And but they are saying

1441
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:30,400
Speaker 1: now that the despite that the team expects to be

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01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:36,640
Speaker 1: profitable this season. The Paul Baniel, I'm not sure, the

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01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 1: Packers vice president of Finance and Administration, and I'm sorry

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01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 1: I've butchered his name. B A. N I E. L. Daniel.

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01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:47,599
Speaker 1: He said that, Uh, I think he's just quoting Paul Baniel,

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01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,800
Speaker 1: Packers VP. I think we're safely north of what the

1447
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 1: break even point is, just based on the current conversation

1448
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: of where the numbers of fans will be, and that

1449
01:24:57,120 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: numbers of fans will be different in Wisconsin than it

1450
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 1: is any place obviously. But if that's the case, things

1451
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:07,120
Speaker 1: may not be as dark and gloomy as we all

1452
01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:09,600
Speaker 1: thought for all the teams. Now, certainly there's going to

1453
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:11,720
Speaker 1: be some who are going to be in different situations

1454
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:14,880
Speaker 1: financially than the Packers are, because the Packers are a

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01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: publicly owned team. But certainly it may not be as

1456
01:25:18,680 --> 01:25:21,360
Speaker 1: all doom and gloom as it could be for the

1457
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 1: NFL given that maybe at least one of their franchise

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01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:26,800
Speaker 1: is going to turn a profit this year. Yeah, I

1459
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:31,120
Speaker 1: think if you have you're able to have a certain

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01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 1: number of fans in stadiums. I mean, yeah, you're making

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01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: revenue off the ticket sales, but you're also making money

1462
01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:43,320
Speaker 1: off of concessions and food and beer, and then you

1463
01:25:43,439 --> 01:25:47,640
Speaker 1: also have to think about all the in stadium advertising

1464
01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: that is going to be able to stay in place.

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01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 1: That is also a huge part of this revenue. So

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01:25:53,560 --> 01:25:58,679
Speaker 1: it would make sense for vps of finance for certain

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01:25:58,760 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: teams to believe that they can have somewhat of a

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01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: profit off of this season if you're able to have

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01:26:05,280 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 1: people in the stands. Now, those teams who aren't able

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01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 1: to do that, I don't think there's any way where

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Speaker 1: you can turn a profit this year, right. And also

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Speaker 1: while we were at in the break, this just came

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01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 1: out Brian McCarthy. If that name sounds familiar, he's the

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01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 1: NFL PR guy and at Twitter is Brian McCarry at

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01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 1: NFL PR guy. Brian McCarthy's the spokesperson for the NFL,

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01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: and he said, listen for those wondering, Yes, it is

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01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:36,320
Speaker 1: league wide fans at NFL games this season, will be

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01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 1: required to wear face coverings. So you're gonna have to

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01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 1: wear a mask if you're gonna go watch a game

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01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: in person, even if you're socially distanced and your eight

1481
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:47,120
Speaker 1: rows back from the field, you're gonna have to have

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01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: a mask on your face. My question is how am

1483
01:26:49,360 --> 01:26:51,600
Speaker 1: I gonna drink beer when I got a mask on?

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01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 1: That is the question that really needs to be answered.

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. I don't I don't know how

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01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:03,719
Speaker 1: that's going to be possible, whether it's drinking or eating food.

1487
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 1: There's obviously the rules that follow with that. If you're

1488
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: required to wear a mask at these games. Usually when

1489
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:14,439
Speaker 1: you're required to wear a mask in other settings that

1490
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 1: we currently know of that it's okay to take your

1491
01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: mask off while you're eating or while you're drinking. I

1492
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:24,800
Speaker 1: think it's as long as you're following the rule to

1493
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: wear your mask when you're not doing any of those things.

1494
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: But it's the smart thing to do to wear a

1495
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:34,959
Speaker 1: mask when you're at these games, even if you're socially distanced,

1496
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 1: even if you're outside. We've all been told how helpful

1497
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:43,040
Speaker 1: masks can be, so it's important to to follow that

1498
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:46,599
Speaker 1: protocol from the players, to the coaches to the fans

1499
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 1: to have to do that at certain times, all right,

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01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:53,479
Speaker 1: And I've heard the understanding the use and the benefit

1501
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:55,519
Speaker 1: of the mask is that when you're sitting and you're

1502
01:27:55,560 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 1: sitting three hours watching the game, so the people around

1503
01:27:58,040 --> 01:28:01,600
Speaker 1: you're going to be sitting there with you. Probably that

1504
01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:07,400
Speaker 1: kind of contact, sustained contact, is what makes it possible

1505
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 1: to if somebody is asymptomatic, that's going to get spread

1506
01:28:11,560 --> 01:28:13,679
Speaker 1: to those people around them because of the sustained long

1507
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:15,960
Speaker 1: contact with them around them. So that's when the mask

1508
01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:19,040
Speaker 1: really does its business. If you're just walking around in

1509
01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:23,920
Speaker 1: the open air, I guess from what I understand, it's

1510
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:27,640
Speaker 1: not as likely that you'll catch it. It's being in

1511
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:33,680
Speaker 1: a sustained conversation or proximity to someone who while you're

1512
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:36,000
Speaker 1: talking or whatever, and that you don't have masks on it.

1513
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 1: That's when you really get exposed to it and that

1514
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:42,800
Speaker 1: chances are great or vastly greater to catch it. So

1515
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:45,680
Speaker 1: being in the stands, sitting in the stands with these

1516
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 1: people for three hours, yeah, that's exactly the kind of

1517
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: Petrie dish that gets this stuff transmitted. And that's why

1518
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: the league is forcing everybody to wear masks one stadium

1519
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: where they're not going to wear masks. Maddie met Life,

1520
01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:01,120
Speaker 1: the Jets aren't going to have any and the Jets

1521
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 1: or the Bills aren't going to have any fans in

1522
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:05,639
Speaker 1: their stadium. The Jets owner and reason I mentioned the Jets.

1523
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:09,800
Speaker 1: They're owner Woody Johnson's under investigation by State Department watchdog

1524
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: following allegations that he made racist and sexist comments while

1525
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:17,240
Speaker 1: serving as an ambassador to the United Kingdom, according to

1526
01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 1: a CNN report today, Jets safety Jamal Adams retorted tweeted

1527
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: a rebuttal to that. He says, we need the right

1528
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:30,800
Speaker 1: people at the top. Wrong is wrong, right is right,

1529
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:32,679
Speaker 1: Wrong is wrong. If you don't think this is wrong,

1530
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 1: you're part of the problem, not solution. If indeed the

1531
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 1: owner of the Jets made a made statements of which

1532
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:43,080
Speaker 1: you're ale, which are alleged against him, we haven't heard

1533
01:29:43,120 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 1: the last of it, so we'll wait to hear more

1534
01:29:45,040 --> 01:29:47,160
Speaker 1: on that and as it comes down the Pikes, Steve Tasker,

1535
01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:49,240
Speaker 1: Mattie Glab coming up. We've got an article from The

1536
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:52,479
Speaker 1: Athletic by Matthew Faber, and we're gonna dissect it's over

1537
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:55,640
Speaker 1: unders for Josh Allen, some of the statistic benchmarks that

1538
01:29:55,880 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 1: may be on the horizon for the Bills quarterback. One

1539
01:29:58,240 --> 01:30:10,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health Falo Bills Radio. Welcome

1540
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:12,519
Speaker 1: back to our number three of the program's chief task

1541
01:30:12,560 --> 01:30:15,120
Speaker 1: along with Maddie Glad. There's a lot of stuff being

1542
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 1: written about the Buffalo Bills, a lot of positive attention

1543
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 1: in the ground, the nation's media people who watched the

1544
01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:24,679
Speaker 1: league and cover the Bills. A lot of optimism about

1545
01:30:24,680 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 1: the bills chances this year, Maddie, but they all hinge,

1546
01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:32,679
Speaker 1: most of them on Josh Allen and what he's gonna

1547
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:35,280
Speaker 1: do in his third years quarterback. Another article came out

1548
01:30:35,479 --> 01:30:38,719
Speaker 1: on the Athletic from Matthew Fairburn, who broke down some numbers.

1549
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,320
Speaker 1: We found it pretty interesting enough to spend some time

1550
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:44,040
Speaker 1: talking about it today, and we've talked about, you know,

1551
01:30:44,080 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: we talked about Josh Allen constantly. There's a lot to

1552
01:30:47,600 --> 01:30:52,439
Speaker 1: love about him, but as is with polarizing figures like

1553
01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:55,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, most of what you love about him is

1554
01:30:55,160 --> 01:31:00,400
Speaker 1: the intangible stuff. His personality, his leadership, his athleticism, which

1555
01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:03,800
Speaker 1: is a little not less tangible. But and the things

1556
01:31:03,840 --> 01:31:05,519
Speaker 1: that people don't like about him is when you know

1557
01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 1: he's a thrower a football, they want to see him

1558
01:31:08,120 --> 01:31:10,639
Speaker 1: throw the football better than he has, be more efficient,

1559
01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:14,680
Speaker 1: higher completion percentage, yards per yards per attempt, all that

1560
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:18,360
Speaker 1: stuff that goes into the statistical way you evaluate a quarterback.

1561
01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:20,960
Speaker 1: So while Buffalo Bills fans love him and think he's

1562
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: the best, he's he's got that it factor and all that,

1563
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:26,840
Speaker 1: a lot of people around the country have more black

1564
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:30,280
Speaker 1: and white evaluations of him. Matt Fairburn gets into a

1565
01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 1: little bit of that, and it's into the realm of

1566
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:35,080
Speaker 1: what ifs and what will it look like if Josh

1567
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:38,280
Speaker 1: Allen does take another step forward, And it's pretty telling

1568
01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 1: and it is concrete and and quite frankly, if if

1569
01:31:42,560 --> 01:31:46,719
Speaker 1: Josh Allen reaches most of these little over under numbers,

1570
01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:51,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be ecstatic about it. Definitely. Same here he

1571
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:55,839
Speaker 1: laid out numbers from his first season, his second season,

1572
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 1: and then he projected some numbers for his third season

1573
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:02,519
Speaker 1: as an over under of some benchmarks that he needs

1574
01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 1: to meet to be within the conversation of the middle

1575
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:09,599
Speaker 1: of the pack quarterbacks in their third seasons. In their

1576
01:32:09,680 --> 01:32:13,800
Speaker 1: third season, So this number was really based on a

1577
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:18,360
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus study that they had done on third

1578
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:22,799
Speaker 1: year breakout quarterbacks. This is Alan, this is Sam Darnold,

1579
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:24,960
Speaker 1: what they're going to face this season. And the number

1580
01:32:25,040 --> 01:32:27,520
Speaker 1: that they used, which is a number that we technically

1581
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: don't see in normal stats, was an adjusted net yards

1582
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: per completion as the measure of efficiency. So adjustin netyards

1583
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:41,640
Speaker 1: per completion is decided by buckle up here because this

1584
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:45,520
Speaker 1: is this is going to be this act is calculated

1585
01:32:45,680 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 1: as passing yards sackyards. So passing yards minus sack yards

1586
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:54,720
Speaker 1: with a bonus for touchdowns of plus twenty and a

1587
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:59,200
Speaker 1: penalty for interceptions minus forty five. You get that number.

1588
01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 1: Then you did it by the total number of attempts

1589
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:06,080
Speaker 1: plus sacks. So a lot of things go into this

1590
01:33:06,280 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 1: number and everything in that number. Yes, this number breakfast number.

1591
01:33:13,040 --> 01:33:16,280
Speaker 1: That is a health number number for quarterbacks, right, that

1592
01:33:16,479 --> 01:33:19,599
Speaker 1: is the number that you put everything in the vita

1593
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 1: mix and you blend it and you come out with

1594
01:33:22,160 --> 01:33:25,879
Speaker 1: what you hope is a smooth, creamy smoothie of prediction.

1595
01:33:27,720 --> 01:33:31,160
Speaker 1: Burn looks at this number and the middle of the

1596
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:35,040
Speaker 1: pack of this number is six point two. Is what

1597
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:39,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to get to to show that you can

1598
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:42,880
Speaker 1: have a successful career basically in the NFL based on

1599
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:47,240
Speaker 1: your third season, and this number, he has explained a

1600
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:50,559
Speaker 1: lot of these quarterbacks don't show this number until their

1601
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:53,719
Speaker 1: third season. Josh Allen has yet to show this number.

1602
01:33:54,479 --> 01:34:01,799
Speaker 1: So this number for good quarterbacks who have already passed

1603
01:34:01,840 --> 01:34:07,760
Speaker 1: their third year. Patrick Mahomes was eight point three eight,

1604
01:34:07,920 --> 01:34:10,720
Speaker 1: Jared Goff was seven point six nine, Andrew Luck was

1605
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:13,240
Speaker 1: seven point two eight. This is in their third year.

1606
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:16,240
Speaker 1: Derek Carr was seven point two, Matt Stafford is six

1607
01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:20,240
Speaker 1: point nine eight. That six point two middle middle of

1608
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:24,320
Speaker 1: the road was Andy Dalton six point two nine, Matt

1609
01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:28,280
Speaker 1: Ryan six point two three, Dak Prescott six point two two.

1610
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:32,519
Speaker 1: Now just under his players like Nick Foles, Cam Newton,

1611
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:37,000
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota. And one thing that Matt Fairburn talked about

1612
01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:39,920
Speaker 1: in this article is even though six point two is

1613
01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:42,320
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack, quarterbacks that you see that

1614
01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:47,519
Speaker 1: are under that six point two threshold that have gone

1615
01:34:47,560 --> 01:34:51,439
Speaker 1: on to be successful are those quarterbacks that also have

1616
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:55,719
Speaker 1: a rushing component in their game. That is Cam Newton

1617
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 1: who got a five point six nine for the adjusted

1618
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:03,760
Speaker 1: net yards per completion. So you have this number that

1619
01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:07,800
Speaker 1: we don't really track in I guess you would say

1620
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:11,679
Speaker 1: normal statistics that are measured after a game or tracking

1621
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 1: first season. So then Matt Fairburn went in and broke

1622
01:35:16,200 --> 01:35:20,760
Speaker 1: down over unders for what he should be hitting in

1623
01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:23,839
Speaker 1: his third seasons. So what are some of those numbs? Tasker.

1624
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:26,599
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, because here's what he did in eighteen

1625
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:29,400
Speaker 1: into last year. The improvements we kind of know about.

1626
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 1: He added twenty plus yards per game average in passing.

1627
01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:37,840
Speaker 1: He went from eighteen total touchdowns in twenty eighteen to

1628
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:41,280
Speaker 1: twenty nine total touchdowns in twenty nineteen. He went from

1629
01:35:41,360 --> 01:35:44,840
Speaker 1: twelve interceptions in eighteen to nine interceptions, so he got

1630
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:48,240
Speaker 1: better in all of those. He raised his completion percentage

1631
01:35:48,280 --> 01:35:51,599
Speaker 1: by six full percentage completion points from fifty two point

1632
01:35:51,640 --> 01:35:57,560
Speaker 1: eight to fifty eight point eight. The DVOA, which is

1633
01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:03,920
Speaker 1: below average the league average, he's eleven percent or twelve

1634
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: percent below average last year. He was thirty three percent

1635
01:36:07,280 --> 01:36:10,680
Speaker 1: below average two years ago. So he got better in

1636
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:16,599
Speaker 1: every statistical category a year ago, significantly better. And those

1637
01:36:16,760 --> 01:36:21,519
Speaker 1: kind of over unders are that kind of progress is

1638
01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:24,160
Speaker 1: what Bill's fans look at when they see him, and

1639
01:36:24,880 --> 01:36:27,439
Speaker 1: you know, people who are critics of him. While they

1640
01:36:27,520 --> 01:36:29,880
Speaker 1: will you give him a nod to lay played better,

1641
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 1: but they'll say, hey, the team around him got a

1642
01:36:32,240 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: lot better, and his offensive line was a lot better,

1643
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:37,120
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. He's never gonna be that guy.

1644
01:36:37,960 --> 01:36:39,560
Speaker 1: But then you look at this twenty twenty. What's it

1645
01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:43,679
Speaker 1: gonna look like if Josh Allen does take that step forward?

1646
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:50,719
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because the gambling sites will say Allan's

1647
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:53,519
Speaker 1: passing yards the over under at his passing yard just

1648
01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:57,439
Speaker 1: thirty three hundred yards thirty three hundred and a half yards,

1649
01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:03,400
Speaker 1: and his touchdown passes is twenty two point five. I

1650
01:37:03,439 --> 01:37:04,960
Speaker 1: don't know that I would set them there. And then

1651
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:07,280
Speaker 1: that in the article, Fairburn sets his passing yards at

1652
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:10,639
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five hundred totally yards at four thousand, which

1653
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:13,760
Speaker 1: gives him five hundred yards of rushing, twenty five put

1654
01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:18,240
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, thirty two total touchdowns, and the yards pertempt

1655
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:19,760
Speaker 1: is right there in the middle that you said. That's

1656
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:24,360
Speaker 1: six point two adjusted yards per attempt, and his completion

1657
01:37:24,400 --> 01:37:29,280
Speaker 1: percentage would be sixty percent completion percentage, interception percentage would

1658
01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:31,120
Speaker 1: be two point five percent of the passes he throws

1659
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:34,760
Speaker 1: would get intercepted. And his QBR would be fifty for

1660
01:37:34,920 --> 01:37:36,760
Speaker 1: me that I would argue a bunch of those. I

1661
01:37:36,960 --> 01:37:39,120
Speaker 1: don't think sixty percent is going to be good enough

1662
01:37:39,160 --> 01:37:40,920
Speaker 1: for him. I think he's going to be above that.

1663
01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:45,240
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be over sixty three percent. That's

1664
01:37:45,280 --> 01:37:46,720
Speaker 1: what I would put it at it. You gotta get

1665
01:37:46,720 --> 01:37:50,280
Speaker 1: over sixty percent, sixty two or three percent. I think

1666
01:37:50,360 --> 01:37:53,479
Speaker 1: as a as a progress I think the team around

1667
01:37:53,520 --> 01:37:57,280
Speaker 1: you can affect you that much. But it's it's an

1668
01:37:57,320 --> 01:38:01,040
Speaker 1: interesting look at where he lines up, because you're right

1669
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:07,200
Speaker 1: when you get over Once. Scott Lenahan, who's a guy

1670
01:38:07,240 --> 01:38:09,519
Speaker 1: who coached in the NFL, is quoted in the article.

1671
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:13,679
Speaker 1: He coached Matthew Stafford and Dak Prescott. He's now coach

1672
01:38:13,720 --> 01:38:18,600
Speaker 1: at LSU. You're trying to find your your quarterback, and

1673
01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:21,519
Speaker 1: unless you have your quarterback, everything else is hampered. You

1674
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:26,040
Speaker 1: can't progress ahead. And there's and he says you got

1675
01:38:26,120 --> 01:38:30,200
Speaker 1: to be patient with him. We've been patient with josh Alan.

1676
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:33,040
Speaker 1: He's going into his third year. He's got nothing but

1677
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:35,880
Speaker 1: continuity around him. He's got the same offense, he's got

1678
01:38:35,960 --> 01:38:38,800
Speaker 1: better players around him. He's got better players who now

1679
01:38:38,840 --> 01:38:42,479
Speaker 1: are a year in the system. He's got added pieces

1680
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:48,280
Speaker 1: to supplement those better players. Everything about this roster has

1681
01:38:48,640 --> 01:38:54,040
Speaker 1: improved since Josh Allen, and his statistics have improved with it. Now,

1682
01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:57,080
Speaker 1: the question is this, Maddie, do you think Josh Allen

1683
01:38:57,200 --> 01:38:59,880
Speaker 1: has taken a step largely due to the improved roster

1684
01:39:00,160 --> 01:39:02,680
Speaker 1: around him, or do you think it's due to him

1685
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:06,640
Speaker 1: being a better quarterback or what's the percentage of one

1686
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 1: or the other. I think it's both. I mean, I

1687
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:14,800
Speaker 1: think one stat that at least really opened up my

1688
01:39:15,040 --> 01:39:19,640
Speaker 1: eyes was looking back at Josh Allen's attempts in college

1689
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:22,840
Speaker 1: versus some of these other quarterbacks that had a lot

1690
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:26,960
Speaker 1: more attempts them than him. I think what he has

1691
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:29,680
Speaker 1: done in two years in the league, based off of

1692
01:39:30,360 --> 01:39:33,720
Speaker 1: how many attempts he got in college, says a lot

1693
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:38,519
Speaker 1: about his trajectory in year three, in year four, in

1694
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:41,800
Speaker 1: year five. I think you can expect him to continue

1695
01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:45,160
Speaker 1: to grow because of the growth he's shown from year

1696
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:48,479
Speaker 1: one to year two. Yeah, his year two numbers weren't

1697
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:52,320
Speaker 1: off the charts that blew your mind. They were an

1698
01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:55,720
Speaker 1: improvement from year one, and I think into year three,

1699
01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:58,519
Speaker 1: year four, year five, we're going to continue to see

1700
01:40:00,040 --> 01:40:05,360
Speaker 1: those benchmarks improve for him to get better in statistical categories. Yeah,

1701
01:40:05,880 --> 01:40:09,120
Speaker 1: you may take a step back here there, but I

1702
01:40:09,240 --> 01:40:13,640
Speaker 1: think this team is very confident in how they evaluated

1703
01:40:13,800 --> 01:40:16,600
Speaker 1: him coming out of college and what he's done so

1704
01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:19,599
Speaker 1: far in the NFL. Yeah, he still has a lot

1705
01:40:19,680 --> 01:40:22,200
Speaker 1: to grow on and improve on, but I do think

1706
01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:26,719
Speaker 1: what they've put around him has really aided his success

1707
01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:30,519
Speaker 1: and will continue to help with his success this season.

1708
01:40:30,920 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs, Yeah, that's gonna help him a ton. Josh

1709
01:40:35,320 --> 01:40:40,600
Speaker 1: Allen is in the perfect environment to grow. You have

1710
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:45,720
Speaker 1: the correct pieces around him, from a receiving standpoint, from

1711
01:40:45,720 --> 01:40:49,520
Speaker 1: a tight end standpoint, from running backs, to an offensive

1712
01:40:49,560 --> 01:40:53,320
Speaker 1: line that returns all five starters, to a coordinator you're

1713
01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:56,719
Speaker 1: going into your third season with, to a head coach

1714
01:40:56,840 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 1: that you're going into your third season with. There hasn't

1715
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:03,839
Speaker 1: been a fork in the road in terms of environment

1716
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:07,280
Speaker 1: and setting that he's been put in. Everything I think

1717
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:11,800
Speaker 1: is ideal and perfect to grow. This incubator that he's

1718
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:16,240
Speaker 1: been put in is as perfect as you can get. Yeah,

1719
01:41:16,280 --> 01:41:19,720
Speaker 1: and let's face it too, he came from Wyoming. He

1720
01:41:19,920 --> 01:41:22,639
Speaker 1: lost a lot of great players after his junior year

1721
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:24,720
Speaker 1: and was forced to play his senior year and kind

1722
01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:27,200
Speaker 1: of carry the whole thing on his back. He lost

1723
01:41:27,280 --> 01:41:30,360
Speaker 1: some NFL caliber players from his offense his junior year

1724
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:32,680
Speaker 1: went into his senior year. It was kind of him

1725
01:41:32,720 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 1: and everybody else. So he had a longer way to

1726
01:41:37,479 --> 01:41:42,840
Speaker 1: go to get to a National Football League level with

1727
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:46,600
Speaker 1: his experience, with the type of offense he ran, with

1728
01:41:46,840 --> 01:41:50,040
Speaker 1: the type of coaching he received, with the players around him,

1729
01:41:50,080 --> 01:41:53,320
Speaker 1: getting acclimated to that, getting up to speed with better

1730
01:41:53,439 --> 01:41:56,320
Speaker 1: and bigger and better athletes everywhere on the field, not

1731
01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 1: just on his side of the ball, but on the

1732
01:41:57,800 --> 01:41:59,280
Speaker 1: other side of the ball. So he had a further

1733
01:41:59,439 --> 01:42:02,479
Speaker 1: way to go to get developed into both mentally and

1734
01:42:02,720 --> 01:42:06,880
Speaker 1: physically and skill wise to an NFL level and get

1735
01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:08,760
Speaker 1: acclimated to that. He had farther to go, so you

1736
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 1: would think it would probably take more time for him

1737
01:42:11,400 --> 01:42:16,680
Speaker 1: to do that. Secondly, we have seen marked improvement. As

1738
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:20,559
Speaker 1: we've just said is passing completion percentage went up six

1739
01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:24,559
Speaker 1: percentage points this last year. You could make the case

1740
01:42:24,640 --> 01:42:29,120
Speaker 1: that he's far from his limit from the guy he's

1741
01:42:29,160 --> 01:42:30,960
Speaker 1: going to be when he plays his best football and

1742
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:34,040
Speaker 1: plays it consistently. And the question is how long do

1743
01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:35,320
Speaker 1: you think it's going to take him to get to

1744
01:42:35,439 --> 01:42:38,040
Speaker 1: that place where he is playing as good a football

1745
01:42:38,040 --> 01:42:40,080
Speaker 1: as Josh Allen is ever going to be able to play.

1746
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:42,240
Speaker 1: How long is it gonna take for him to get there,

1747
01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:48,600
Speaker 1: What that's gonna look like, and what that looks like

1748
01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: is really the key question. Certainly they can they can

1749
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: afford now with the roster they've got around him, is

1750
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:59,439
Speaker 1: you know, is good. They put a strong team together,

1751
01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:01,640
Speaker 1: a great defense, They got to the playoffs, and he

1752
01:43:01,800 --> 01:43:04,080
Speaker 1: wasn't playing his best. So if he can take another

1753
01:43:04,160 --> 01:43:07,880
Speaker 1: step and making another improvement this year where he gets

1754
01:43:07,920 --> 01:43:12,400
Speaker 1: to sixty four percent of his passes completed, which is

1755
01:43:12,439 --> 01:43:14,559
Speaker 1: which would it would be sixty four point eight percent

1756
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:16,560
Speaker 1: if he makes the exact same jump he did a

1757
01:43:16,640 --> 01:43:21,640
Speaker 1: year ago, where his touchdowns go from let's see, what

1758
01:43:22,160 --> 01:43:25,560
Speaker 1: were his touchdowns in twenty nineteen, he was, yeah, he

1759
01:43:25,720 --> 01:43:28,439
Speaker 1: had He went from eighteen to twenty nine, so he

1760
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:32,439
Speaker 1: added you know, nine or eleven touchdowns onto his career.

1761
01:43:32,520 --> 01:43:34,839
Speaker 1: So if he goes to if he goes to forty

1762
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:40,280
Speaker 1: touchdowns and six interceptions total touchdowns, I'm talking about, that's

1763
01:43:40,320 --> 01:43:43,639
Speaker 1: an enormous year. That's what That's the kind of jump

1764
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:45,639
Speaker 1: we're talking about that he could make again. I don't

1765
01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:48,439
Speaker 1: think he'll do that. Forty touchdowns is a ton. I

1766
01:43:48,439 --> 01:43:50,560
Speaker 1: don't know that he can do that. But if he

1767
01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:53,479
Speaker 1: does get over thirty touchdowns and drops his interceptions down,

1768
01:43:54,400 --> 01:43:58,000
Speaker 1: that's a really good year and he complete sixty five

1769
01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:00,880
Speaker 1: percent of his passes, that's a good year. But that's

1770
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:04,240
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. If he takes another step just

1771
01:44:04,439 --> 01:44:06,719
Speaker 1: like he took last year, Now is that in there?

1772
01:44:07,560 --> 01:44:10,800
Speaker 1: Is that in him to take that next step? We've

1773
01:44:10,840 --> 01:44:14,439
Speaker 1: seen flashes that. Yeah, he's got the arm for it's

1774
01:44:14,439 --> 01:44:19,560
Speaker 1: got the athleticism. We've seen him make fewer mental mistakes

1775
01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:23,519
Speaker 1: just with the naked eye in live action, forget about

1776
01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:26,720
Speaker 1: film study. Certainly he's got things he can improve upon.

1777
01:44:28,040 --> 01:44:30,599
Speaker 1: Can he do it? Is it in there? I think

1778
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:33,479
Speaker 1: most Bills fans would say, yeah, it's in there. We've

1779
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:35,840
Speaker 1: seen too much good stuff out of this Guy's seen

1780
01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:38,120
Speaker 1: too much improvement to think we've reached the limit. Now,

1781
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:41,240
Speaker 1: you've got to think there's at least another half a

1782
01:44:41,320 --> 01:44:44,280
Speaker 1: step under the trunk, you know, under the hood of

1783
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:46,960
Speaker 1: his engine that he can get. And that's what this

1784
01:44:47,120 --> 01:44:51,759
Speaker 1: whole thing boils down to, right. Yeah, And he hasn't

1785
01:44:52,360 --> 01:44:57,840
Speaker 1: tapped into arguably one of the best parts of his game,

1786
01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:02,320
Speaker 1: which is his arm haven't really seen him do that yet.

1787
01:45:02,840 --> 01:45:05,000
Speaker 1: It didn't work out his rookie year. Last year he

1788
01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:09,320
Speaker 1: struggled with it as well. Why do people like Josh Allen. Yeah,

1789
01:45:09,400 --> 01:45:12,240
Speaker 1: he's athletic, but people love Josh Allen because of his

1790
01:45:12,520 --> 01:45:15,920
Speaker 1: arm strength too. And if he can tap into that

1791
01:45:16,120 --> 01:45:19,960
Speaker 1: this season, then we're seeing Josh Allen. Fully, We've only

1792
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:22,800
Speaker 1: seen part of Josh Allen. I think you add this

1793
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:26,679
Speaker 1: element to his game, which I believe he can find

1794
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:30,120
Speaker 1: success in. I think we're seeing the full potential that

1795
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:33,880
Speaker 1: this quarterback can offer. And by putting guys like Steph

1796
01:45:33,960 --> 01:45:37,920
Speaker 1: Diggs and taller receivers on the field, you get a

1797
01:45:38,040 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 1: chance to make that happen. It's tough to throw up

1798
01:45:41,960 --> 01:45:46,160
Speaker 1: a deep ball to receivers like Cole Beasley and John

1799
01:45:46,240 --> 01:45:50,960
Speaker 1: Brown who are just unfortunately sometimes not tall enough to

1800
01:45:51,120 --> 01:45:53,479
Speaker 1: make the play or to go up and high point

1801
01:45:53,520 --> 01:45:56,800
Speaker 1: the football in the end zone. Right and red zone

1802
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:58,560
Speaker 1: offense has been a real issue, but one of the

1803
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:00,920
Speaker 1: good things about the Bills rid zone offense is the

1804
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:02,920
Speaker 1: fact that they've got a quarterback who can get it in.

1805
01:46:03,960 --> 01:46:06,439
Speaker 1: He ran for touchdown, he ran for I think nine

1806
01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:09,600
Speaker 1: or ten touchdowns last year. It's in and he you know,

1807
01:46:10,200 --> 01:46:12,640
Speaker 1: he did it from everywhere. Uh, he did it from

1808
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:14,320
Speaker 1: as far as ten yards out, and he had I

1809
01:46:14,400 --> 01:46:18,960
Speaker 1: think his ten touchdown runs we're all inside the ten

1810
01:46:19,880 --> 01:46:24,519
Speaker 1: and you know, four of them were from one yard out,

1811
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:26,680
Speaker 1: a couple of them four from three, from six, that

1812
01:46:26,800 --> 01:46:28,479
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But the fact that he can run

1813
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:31,639
Speaker 1: down close adds a dimension to their red zone offense.

1814
01:46:31,680 --> 01:46:33,719
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna exploit even to a greater extent

1815
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 1: this year with Steph Digs in the mix, with the

1816
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:40,879
Speaker 1: taller receivers in the mix like Gabriel Davis and Isaiah Hodgins,

1817
01:46:41,520 --> 01:46:43,400
Speaker 1: if those guys can get on the field, and of course,

1818
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:45,559
Speaker 1: you know you've got Dawson Knox who's as tall as

1819
01:46:45,600 --> 01:46:48,160
Speaker 1: a tree and as tall as Josh himself. So they've

1820
01:46:48,240 --> 01:46:50,240
Speaker 1: got enough big bodies to put out there if they

1821
01:46:50,280 --> 01:46:54,080
Speaker 1: can get the matchups they want. But if their red

1822
01:46:54,200 --> 01:46:56,719
Speaker 1: zone offense can take a step forward, if of course,

1823
01:46:56,760 --> 01:46:59,120
Speaker 1: if we all know, if he can connect on just

1824
01:47:00,520 --> 01:47:06,760
Speaker 1: of you know, one or two that's right, one or

1825
01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:09,120
Speaker 1: two throws like that in a game, this is a

1826
01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 1: whole different football team. Uh, they are on the cusp

1827
01:47:12,520 --> 01:47:15,640
Speaker 1: of being not just a good NFL football team, but

1828
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:20,360
Speaker 1: a really great NFL football team. They've got a great

1829
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:24,920
Speaker 1: defense that has gotten better I think this offseason. They've

1830
01:47:24,960 --> 01:47:27,559
Speaker 1: got an offense with a running game and an offensive

1831
01:47:27,600 --> 01:47:32,000
Speaker 1: line that's stable, uh and at times really good in

1832
01:47:32,040 --> 01:47:34,840
Speaker 1: the run game. And they got a young quarterback with

1833
01:47:35,040 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 1: enough weapons on the outside to be really dangerous, and

1834
01:47:38,200 --> 01:47:39,840
Speaker 1: I think the the ace in the hole for the

1835
01:47:39,920 --> 01:47:43,040
Speaker 1: whole shooting matches. They've got a coaching staff that's up

1836
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:45,719
Speaker 1: to it. They got a head coach that has gotten

1837
01:47:45,800 --> 01:47:47,960
Speaker 1: better in each of his two or two years at

1838
01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:51,040
Speaker 1: the Helm, and they've got a coaching staff that is

1839
01:47:51,160 --> 01:47:54,000
Speaker 1: on it like a professional coaching staff should be. They

1840
01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:56,639
Speaker 1: make in game adjustments, they have come out with great

1841
01:47:56,680 --> 01:48:00,160
Speaker 1: game plans to begin games, and they get better or

1842
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: as the game wears on inside the game, and I

1843
01:48:02,360 --> 01:48:04,439
Speaker 1: think that's that's the sign of a really good staff.

1844
01:48:04,479 --> 01:48:07,080
Speaker 1: So I'm there's a lot to like about this and

1845
01:48:07,360 --> 01:48:13,000
Speaker 1: everything You're right, Everything is in place. The incubation process

1846
01:48:14,160 --> 01:48:16,400
Speaker 1: could not be more perfect for a young quarterback like

1847
01:48:16,560 --> 01:48:20,439
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Yeah. The only hitch in all of this

1848
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:24,880
Speaker 1: is COVID and the ability that they haven't been able

1849
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:28,160
Speaker 1: to be together for these mini camps. This is the

1850
01:48:28,640 --> 01:48:31,719
Speaker 1: only fork in the road, as that I explained earlier,

1851
01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:34,760
Speaker 1: that he's had to face, is how are you going

1852
01:48:34,800 --> 01:48:37,240
Speaker 1: to deal with this? And I mean I believe that

1853
01:48:37,880 --> 01:48:41,160
Speaker 1: they'll be okay because of his leadership, because of him

1854
01:48:41,360 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: organizing that training session in Florida together, because of how

1855
01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:48,760
Speaker 1: he's tried to connect with these guys, of virtually because

1856
01:48:48,800 --> 01:48:53,719
Speaker 1: of how he approaches these meetings. I think it's all

1857
01:48:53,920 --> 01:48:57,560
Speaker 1: going to work out. Brandon Bean and the scouting department

1858
01:48:57,760 --> 01:49:02,080
Speaker 1: are incredible out there jobs We've seen how some of

1859
01:49:02,120 --> 01:49:06,880
Speaker 1: these young players have developed in the scheme with these coordinators,

1860
01:49:06,920 --> 01:49:10,920
Speaker 1: with these coaches, how they've been able to find talent

1861
01:49:11,439 --> 01:49:14,560
Speaker 1: in later rounds. I mean, obviously Josh Allen was a

1862
01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:18,600
Speaker 1: first round pick, top ten pick, but the way that

1863
01:49:18,760 --> 01:49:21,400
Speaker 1: they've been able to coach him up in just two seasons,

1864
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:25,280
Speaker 1: and the way that offensive coordinator Brian Dayball wants to

1865
01:49:26,240 --> 01:49:31,120
Speaker 1: create his system around Josh Allen with in game adjustments,

1866
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,519
Speaker 1: with creating a plan that works for the team as

1867
01:49:34,560 --> 01:49:37,120
Speaker 1: a whole, to focusing on what Josh is good at

1868
01:49:37,200 --> 01:49:39,760
Speaker 1: and eliminating the things that he's not good at out

1869
01:49:39,800 --> 01:49:44,439
Speaker 1: of their their attack every single week when they go

1870
01:49:44,560 --> 01:49:47,680
Speaker 1: and play another team. I mean, we saw how the

1871
01:49:47,840 --> 01:49:50,799
Speaker 1: no huddle started to work for this team last season.

1872
01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:53,920
Speaker 1: That wasn't a thing in the beginning of the season,

1873
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:56,360
Speaker 1: and then they moved to no huddle and they're seeing

1874
01:49:56,439 --> 01:49:59,080
Speaker 1: more success, and Brian Daball wants to keep that in

1875
01:50:00,120 --> 01:50:02,720
Speaker 1: in the system. Yeah. And I think one of the

1876
01:50:02,760 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 1: points I got from this, the article that we're referring

1877
01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:07,360
Speaker 1: to and all these statistics that are given, is that,

1878
01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:10,160
Speaker 1: in fact, they said this that Josh Allen may never

1879
01:50:10,320 --> 01:50:12,320
Speaker 1: be a guy like Aaron Rodgers or a Tom Brady

1880
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:15,000
Speaker 1: who's gonna throw a three hundred and fifty nine yard

1881
01:50:15,120 --> 01:50:17,240
Speaker 1: passing game out there with four touchdowns. He may not

1882
01:50:17,360 --> 01:50:20,120
Speaker 1: be one of those elite accurate passers who picks a

1883
01:50:20,200 --> 01:50:24,880
Speaker 1: defense apart. But the floor from where people thought he

1884
01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:28,639
Speaker 1: was gonna be seems to be way higher than anybody

1885
01:50:28,720 --> 01:50:32,080
Speaker 1: gave him credit For the consistent level of quarterbacking he's

1886
01:50:32,080 --> 01:50:34,120
Speaker 1: going to be able to give this team, I think

1887
01:50:34,320 --> 01:50:36,120
Speaker 1: has got to be much higher than a lot of

1888
01:50:36,160 --> 01:50:39,280
Speaker 1: people are given him credit for. This is a guy

1889
01:50:39,400 --> 01:50:42,120
Speaker 1: I think that this team is more and more we'll

1890
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:43,960
Speaker 1: see this season, will have a lot to say about it.

1891
01:50:44,000 --> 01:50:45,720
Speaker 1: But I think more and more people are finding out that,

1892
01:50:45,840 --> 01:50:49,280
Speaker 1: you know, you can win with a quarterback that looks

1893
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:51,840
Speaker 1: a little different than we thought, Guys like Lamar Jackson,

1894
01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:54,960
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson was even a guy who was

1895
01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:56,840
Speaker 1: a hybrid guy when he came out, and of course

1896
01:50:56,880 --> 01:50:59,439
Speaker 1: everybody loved to have a guy like Russell Wilson, even

1897
01:50:59,479 --> 01:51:03,880
Speaker 1: Patrick Home. So the prototypical quarterback has changed significantly in

1898
01:51:03,960 --> 01:51:07,040
Speaker 1: the last five, six, seven years, eight years, and I

1899
01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:09,599
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen fits that a little bit more than

1900
01:51:09,640 --> 01:51:12,880
Speaker 1: he does the old time prototypical quarterback like Philip Rivers,

1901
01:51:13,080 --> 01:51:16,680
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, even Ben Roethlisberger, those kind of guys. I

1902
01:51:16,760 --> 01:51:19,240
Speaker 1: think the quarterback positions being asked a little more of

1903
01:51:19,400 --> 01:51:21,640
Speaker 1: these days, and Josh has a little bit more of

1904
01:51:21,720 --> 01:51:24,760
Speaker 1: that to give. So I think it's interesting, it's a

1905
01:51:24,800 --> 01:51:27,840
Speaker 1: good article, and I guess we should recommend it since

1906
01:51:27,880 --> 01:51:29,840
Speaker 1: we talked about it for the last twenty twenty five minutes.

1907
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:35,680
Speaker 1: But Josh Allen really is the centerpiece of what is

1908
01:51:35,720 --> 01:51:38,920
Speaker 1: the question mark about this franchise right now, and I

1909
01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:41,760
Speaker 1: think for most Bills fans, seeing the kind of knowing

1910
01:51:41,800 --> 01:51:44,120
Speaker 1: the kind of hard work he has put in, knowing

1911
01:51:44,360 --> 01:51:46,320
Speaker 1: the kind of guy he is on game day when

1912
01:51:46,800 --> 01:51:50,000
Speaker 1: it's on, I think I think Bills fans feel pretty

1913
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:52,280
Speaker 1: good about what he can bring to the season. I

1914
01:51:52,400 --> 01:51:56,160
Speaker 1: think the answer to any argument about what the Bills

1915
01:51:56,280 --> 01:51:59,880
Speaker 1: can be this season is Josh Allen and a lot

1916
01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:03,160
Speaker 1: of this falls on his shoulders, and he's not going

1917
01:52:03,240 --> 01:52:05,400
Speaker 1: to do it alone. He has a lot of help

1918
01:52:05,800 --> 01:52:09,639
Speaker 1: to take this team to the next level, to take

1919
01:52:09,680 --> 01:52:12,960
Speaker 1: this team into the playoffs, take this team hopefully deep

1920
01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:17,519
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Amazing it would be to have a

1921
01:52:17,600 --> 01:52:20,680
Speaker 1: super Bowl run with this team. But he's got the

1922
01:52:20,760 --> 01:52:23,680
Speaker 1: help around him that he needs to be able to

1923
01:52:23,840 --> 01:52:27,680
Speaker 1: meet those benchmarks. There's no question. Yeah, there's no question.

1924
01:52:27,760 --> 01:52:29,320
Speaker 1: It's a good football team and it's gonna be fun

1925
01:52:29,400 --> 01:52:31,040
Speaker 1: to watch him play, and we're getting closer to that

1926
01:52:31,160 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 1: even with each passing day. We're gonna be back with

1927
01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:36,160
Speaker 1: the NFL True False Deep Taskermatic Lab. Here till three,

1928
01:52:36,240 --> 01:52:39,040
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio.

1929
01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:51,920
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Life, Keep Taskermatic Lab. We're

1930
01:52:51,960 --> 01:52:54,120
Speaker 1: gonna try and get through a couple of things on

1931
01:52:54,200 --> 01:52:56,599
Speaker 1: the news and knows, because we're gonna do NFL true

1932
01:52:56,720 --> 01:53:00,439
Speaker 1: false brought to you by Yancy's Fancy Yancey's, Fancy York's

1933
01:53:00,560 --> 01:53:02,400
Speaker 1: artists and Cheese. A lot of stuff going on in

1934
01:53:02,439 --> 01:53:04,800
Speaker 1: the league and some all these rankings are coming out

1935
01:53:04,840 --> 01:53:07,040
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do some true false because one of

1936
01:53:07,080 --> 01:53:09,599
Speaker 1: the things that came out was ESPN ranked the Miami

1937
01:53:09,720 --> 01:53:13,360
Speaker 1: Dolphins as the most improved team headed into twenty twenty.

1938
01:53:14,680 --> 01:53:17,960
Speaker 1: True or false, Dolphins are the most improved team headed

1939
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:25,000
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty. Um, No, come on, that's the Dolphins,

1940
01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:29,120
Speaker 1: like revamped their entire defense and got some names on offense,

1941
01:53:29,240 --> 01:53:35,240
Speaker 1: but they they're still a question mark in my book. Well,

1942
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:39,040
Speaker 1: they've got Ryan Fitzpatrick as their as their quarterback. Love

1943
01:53:39,120 --> 01:53:42,639
Speaker 1: the guy, but you know, he's played for nineteen different

1944
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:47,120
Speaker 1: eight different teams, and that's you know, as that's not

1945
01:53:47,479 --> 01:53:51,479
Speaker 1: that's not getting better now. They drafted a guy, but

1946
01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:54,080
Speaker 1: you're not going to get better with a rookie quarterback.

1947
01:53:54,360 --> 01:53:55,840
Speaker 1: That's all there is to it. And the same thing

1948
01:53:55,880 --> 01:53:59,040
Speaker 1: with the Cincinnati Bengals, who ranked number two on this thing.

1949
01:53:59,080 --> 01:54:01,920
Speaker 1: They're not gonna get better with Joe Burrow getting in there.

1950
01:54:01,920 --> 01:54:04,240
Speaker 1: And he may be good, no question, but they you know,

1951
01:54:04,320 --> 01:54:09,439
Speaker 1: they benched up a quarterback and Andy Dalton. All of

1952
01:54:09,479 --> 01:54:11,880
Speaker 1: those guys. You can say what you want about Andy Dalton.

1953
01:54:12,760 --> 01:54:14,519
Speaker 1: I'll bet you Andy Dalton would play better than it

1954
01:54:15,160 --> 01:54:18,280
Speaker 1: now than Jeff than Joe Burrow is going to play

1955
01:54:18,280 --> 01:54:21,120
Speaker 1: in his rookie season. Um. The team that really got

1956
01:54:21,200 --> 01:54:25,599
Speaker 1: better to me is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yeah, they

1957
01:54:25,640 --> 01:54:29,280
Speaker 1: were really good, did not make the playoffs they should

1958
01:54:29,320 --> 01:54:31,280
Speaker 1: have and almost did make the playoffs, and now they

1959
01:54:31,360 --> 01:54:36,800
Speaker 1: got Tom Brady at quarterback. The playoffs then be tough. Yeah,

1960
01:54:36,880 --> 01:54:40,000
Speaker 1: I think that puts them over the top. Also, Arizona

1961
01:54:40,040 --> 01:54:43,960
Speaker 1: Cardinals fit into that conversation too. That's right, second year

1962
01:54:44,080 --> 01:54:48,400
Speaker 1: with UH with Kyler Murray, Yeah, I think I think

1963
01:54:48,480 --> 01:54:51,640
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals need to be in that. You know,

1964
01:54:51,760 --> 01:54:57,720
Speaker 1: they got DeAndre Hopkins, Devon Kennard, Devin Kinnard, Jordan Phillips,

1965
01:54:57,760 --> 01:55:00,800
Speaker 1: they signed Buffaloes Jordan Phillips, and they out that linebacker

1966
01:55:00,840 --> 01:55:03,160
Speaker 1: out of Clemson, Isaiah Simmons. I can't wait to see

1967
01:55:03,160 --> 01:55:05,240
Speaker 1: that guy play. Arizona is going to be a different

1968
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:09,840
Speaker 1: club now, granted they're in the NFC West with Seattle

1969
01:55:10,160 --> 01:55:14,560
Speaker 1: La and San Francisco, three teams that have been in

1970
01:55:14,640 --> 01:55:16,720
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in the last five or six years

1971
01:55:17,960 --> 01:55:20,560
Speaker 1: or ten eight years. I guess for the Seahawks, those

1972
01:55:20,600 --> 01:55:25,040
Speaker 1: are That's a good division with a lot of established quarterbacks.

1973
01:55:27,400 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: But I still think the Arizona Cardinals are a much

1974
01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:31,440
Speaker 1: better team. But I think Tampa Bay is the most

1975
01:55:31,480 --> 01:55:34,040
Speaker 1: improved team. Yeah, I agree, Tampa Bay Bucks are the

1976
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:37,160
Speaker 1: most improved, not the Miami Dolphins. All right? Are we

1977
01:55:37,240 --> 01:55:40,800
Speaker 1: both say false to that? When NFL true false? Number two,

1978
01:55:41,560 --> 01:55:45,080
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey is the most dominant running back in the

1979
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:50,360
Speaker 1: National Football League true or false. He just signed the

1980
01:55:50,760 --> 01:55:58,120
Speaker 1: enormous new contract. Good for him, happy for him. True,

1981
01:55:58,680 --> 01:56:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying true. There's not many running backs that can

1982
01:56:03,240 --> 01:56:05,520
Speaker 1: do what he can do that are in the NFL

1983
01:56:05,720 --> 01:56:09,200
Speaker 1: right now that have the ability to run the ball

1984
01:56:09,320 --> 01:56:13,440
Speaker 1: and catch the ball like him. I mean, he is

1985
01:56:13,760 --> 01:56:16,880
Speaker 1: a triple threat. He's a very talented running back. He

1986
01:56:16,960 --> 01:56:22,520
Speaker 1: can carry a team. He had a great season last

1987
01:56:22,600 --> 01:56:25,440
Speaker 1: year at the Panthers. Unfortunately they didn't do too much

1988
01:56:25,600 --> 01:56:29,160
Speaker 1: and I wonder how he'll help the team this season

1989
01:56:29,400 --> 01:56:33,720
Speaker 1: with a new head coach, no more Cam Newton. But

1990
01:56:34,480 --> 01:56:37,680
Speaker 1: I think he's, yeah, the most talented running back in

1991
01:56:37,760 --> 01:56:43,120
Speaker 1: the NFL at twenty. Well here's the thing. He ran

1992
01:56:43,280 --> 01:56:45,280
Speaker 1: for a thousand last year and he caught for a

1993
01:56:45,360 --> 01:56:48,320
Speaker 1: thousand last year. The last guy to do that was

1994
01:56:48,480 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 1: Marshall Falk in nineteen ninety nine. So you got to

1995
01:56:53,320 --> 01:56:54,960
Speaker 1: give them not to him. I mean that, whether you

1996
01:56:55,080 --> 01:56:56,720
Speaker 1: like the guy or not, or whether you think he's

1997
01:56:56,960 --> 01:56:59,040
Speaker 1: they use him too much. He had forty four percent

1998
01:56:59,200 --> 01:57:02,840
Speaker 1: of their yard total yards last year. Offensively, he was

1999
01:57:03,280 --> 01:57:06,520
Speaker 1: the Panthers offense. Now granted, uh they didn't do anything,

2000
01:57:06,600 --> 01:57:08,120
Speaker 1: didn't go to the playoffs or any of that, and

2001
01:57:08,160 --> 01:57:10,560
Speaker 1: they got their head coach was fired after the season,

2002
01:57:11,720 --> 01:57:14,680
Speaker 1: but Christian McCarey wasn't because Christian McCaffrey didn't give it

2003
01:57:14,680 --> 01:57:18,240
Speaker 1: a full effort. Uh, he was phenomenal last year, and uh,

2004
01:57:19,240 --> 01:57:21,000
Speaker 1: you gotta tip your hat to him. So I'll stay true,

2005
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:23,680
Speaker 1: you know, I'll tip my hat to the kid. He

2006
01:57:24,120 --> 01:57:28,320
Speaker 1: had a phenomenal season. I hope at lasted it paid him.

2007
01:57:28,360 --> 01:57:32,040
Speaker 1: It paid off for him, and you know, you start

2008
01:57:32,120 --> 01:57:34,880
Speaker 1: comparing yourself to guys he became. He's the third player,

2009
01:57:35,800 --> 01:57:39,680
Speaker 1: uh to ever do it. Marshall Falk did it last uh,

2010
01:57:39,880 --> 01:57:41,440
Speaker 1: and you know he did it when he was with

2011
01:57:41,560 --> 01:57:44,760
Speaker 1: the greatest show on turf. Christian McCaffrey did it with

2012
01:57:44,880 --> 01:57:47,680
Speaker 1: a you know, a young quarterback and no Cam Newton.

2013
01:57:48,400 --> 01:57:51,440
Speaker 1: So I think it's an even greater thing. So I'm

2014
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tip my hat to him and say, yeah,

2015
01:57:53,120 --> 01:57:54,960
Speaker 1: he is the most dominant running back and good for him.

2016
01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:59,240
Speaker 1: And you said the same thing, Ye say true? All right,

2017
01:57:59,280 --> 01:58:01,760
Speaker 1: So we've agreed both. The Dolphins are not the most

2018
01:58:01,840 --> 01:58:04,360
Speaker 1: improved team in the NFL. Christian McCaffrey is the most

2019
01:58:04,400 --> 01:58:07,240
Speaker 1: dominant running back in the NFL and NFL. True false

2020
01:58:07,360 --> 01:58:12,360
Speaker 1: Number three Tredavius White is the most likely Buffalo Bill

2021
01:58:12,440 --> 01:58:15,160
Speaker 1: current Buffalo Bill who is likely to be a Hall

2022
01:58:15,200 --> 01:58:18,880
Speaker 1: of Famer. True or false, Tavius White is the current

2023
01:58:19,880 --> 01:58:21,440
Speaker 1: Bill who has the best chance to get in the

2024
01:58:21,480 --> 01:58:30,560
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Current Yeah, current, I think true, because

2025
01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:32,600
Speaker 1: he is one of our best players and is still

2026
01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:36,960
Speaker 1: young and can still do a lot on this team

2027
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:39,880
Speaker 1: and in this league. But I think there's also some

2028
01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:44,120
Speaker 1: other names that are young players that could be put

2029
01:58:44,200 --> 01:58:46,760
Speaker 1: in those early conversations. One guy I think of is

2030
01:58:46,800 --> 01:58:51,000
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds too. I think of two. He's got a

2031
01:58:51,080 --> 01:58:54,600
Speaker 1: chance at that. That's yeah, you think too. I mean,

2032
01:58:54,760 --> 01:58:57,440
Speaker 1: if if Frank Gore was still here, he's a he's

2033
01:58:57,600 --> 01:58:59,760
Speaker 1: a definite Hall of Fame. But he's not. He's a Jet.

2034
01:59:00,320 --> 01:59:05,120
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm saying, I'm saying probably true. He's got

2035
01:59:05,160 --> 01:59:07,760
Speaker 1: the best credentials thus far of the young players that

2036
01:59:07,800 --> 01:59:12,120
Speaker 1: we've seen. Uh. Yeah, I would say I would say

2037
01:59:12,120 --> 01:59:14,400
Speaker 1: Tredevious White is the most likely Hall of Famer for

2038
01:59:14,440 --> 01:59:18,320
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and current in their current incarnation. Uh.

2039
01:59:18,520 --> 01:59:20,800
Speaker 1: It's interesting. Uh, you know, you can think about guys

2040
01:59:20,840 --> 01:59:23,360
Speaker 1: who are probables and you go down the list of

2041
01:59:23,400 --> 01:59:25,760
Speaker 1: guys who were playing in the league. Now, who Wow,

2042
01:59:25,920 --> 01:59:28,080
Speaker 1: you know you think we're watching a Hall of Famer.

2043
01:59:28,480 --> 01:59:31,120
Speaker 1: You know it's and it's like, you know, years played,

2044
01:59:31,280 --> 01:59:36,840
Speaker 1: career statistics, career accolades, postseason success, team success. So you

2045
01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:43,520
Speaker 1: got guys like Larry Fitzgerald. Uh, Earl Thomas the free safety.

2046
01:59:44,120 --> 01:59:51,120
Speaker 1: Maybe not a lock, but close. Let's see Khalil Mack maybe, Yeah,

2047
01:59:51,200 --> 01:59:54,080
Speaker 1: that's what I was I was thinking, Khalil Mack. Yeah,

2048
01:59:54,320 --> 01:59:58,480
Speaker 1: there's Von Miller might have a shot at it. You know,

2049
01:59:58,520 --> 02:00:00,200
Speaker 1: who's an outside guy. And I'm going to on this

2050
02:00:00,280 --> 02:00:02,360
Speaker 1: list here, and I'm kind of skipping over some, but

2051
02:00:03,000 --> 02:00:07,720
Speaker 1: guys well like Philip Rivers, you know, Aaron Rodgers, Yeah,

2052
02:00:07,760 --> 02:00:14,920
Speaker 1: I got right exactly, Patton Mahomes maybe, but certainly Jason,

2053
02:00:16,320 --> 02:00:23,160
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger for sure, Aaron Donald Yeah right, Uh yeah,

2054
02:00:23,200 --> 02:00:27,080
Speaker 1: there's a ton of guys. Drew Brees, good grief, he

2055
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:31,520
Speaker 1: can started getting his jacket today. And there's there's guys

2056
02:00:31,560 --> 02:00:33,800
Speaker 1: like Frank Gore, Jason Peters, a left tackle for a

2057
02:00:33,840 --> 02:00:37,040
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Ben Roethlisberger. We've already said, I think you think

2058
02:00:37,160 --> 02:00:41,600
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman gets in the Hall of Fame. I think

2059
02:00:42,840 --> 02:00:47,280
Speaker 1: I think he might. Yeah, I think he is. Russell Wilson, Yeah,

2060
02:00:47,520 --> 02:00:49,960
Speaker 1: I think so. Of course, they had Tom Brady, I mean,

2061
02:00:50,040 --> 02:00:55,400
Speaker 1: good grief, he was. He's had two Hall of Fame careers. Uh,

2062
02:00:57,000 --> 02:01:00,520
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson Yeah, of course, you know, I mean that's

2063
02:01:00,560 --> 02:01:02,760
Speaker 1: all those guys. You think those are guys that have

2064
02:01:02,920 --> 02:01:07,960
Speaker 1: put together numbers and longevity and careers that have that

2065
02:01:08,080 --> 02:01:12,200
Speaker 1: are you know, pretty historic. And it's interesting too because

2066
02:01:12,200 --> 02:01:15,000
Speaker 1: we kind of take him for granted, Maddie, but when

2067
02:01:15,040 --> 02:01:17,160
Speaker 1: the when the Buffalo Bills play the Pittsburgh Steelers this

2068
02:01:17,240 --> 02:01:19,280
Speaker 1: year and Ben Roethlisberger has taking snaps for them. You're

2069
02:01:19,320 --> 02:01:21,840
Speaker 1: watching a Hall of famer, There's absolutely no doubt about it.

2070
02:01:22,200 --> 02:01:24,760
Speaker 1: And that's something you should, you know, young fans should

2071
02:01:26,000 --> 02:01:30,080
Speaker 1: should take a you know, take notice of you know,

2072
02:01:30,240 --> 02:01:31,760
Speaker 1: and you know, I know he's playing for the other

2073
02:01:31,800 --> 02:01:33,880
Speaker 1: team if you're a Bills fan, but that's something to

2074
02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:35,960
Speaker 1: be that's something to be said for that when he

2075
02:01:36,040 --> 02:01:38,280
Speaker 1: played teams that have guys like that. When the Bills

2076
02:01:38,320 --> 02:01:40,840
Speaker 1: go out to Arizona and Larry Fitzgerald's on the field,

2077
02:01:41,120 --> 02:01:42,920
Speaker 1: you may never see a guy as good as him

2078
02:01:43,240 --> 02:01:47,200
Speaker 1: at his position ever in person. And I go back

2079
02:01:47,280 --> 02:01:50,440
Speaker 1: to something that we talked about this week or previous

2080
02:01:50,520 --> 02:01:54,160
Speaker 1: week when Frank Gore and Adrian Peterson were on the

2081
02:01:54,280 --> 02:01:59,680
Speaker 1: field playing against each other, and how Devin Singletary took

2082
02:01:59,760 --> 02:02:02,480
Speaker 1: that in the three of them took pictures after the game.

2083
02:02:02,560 --> 02:02:04,720
Speaker 1: That was the storyline leading into the game, is that

2084
02:02:05,120 --> 02:02:09,200
Speaker 1: you have this much combined rushing yards out of these

2085
02:02:09,400 --> 02:02:12,800
Speaker 1: two vets who will be in the Hall of Fame

2086
02:02:12,920 --> 02:02:15,840
Speaker 1: one day hopefully, and then you have this young running

2087
02:02:15,880 --> 02:02:19,120
Speaker 1: back who's emerging as as somebody who could grow into

2088
02:02:19,200 --> 02:02:21,040
Speaker 1: that type of running back. And you have all three

2089
02:02:21,080 --> 02:02:26,240
Speaker 1: of them on the field. It's a special moment. Yeah yeah,

2090
02:02:26,440 --> 02:02:28,560
Speaker 1: and we got We're gonna ask this too. Will probably

2091
02:02:28,560 --> 02:02:31,240
Speaker 1: save it for tomorrow because there's some There's a ton

2092
02:02:32,440 --> 02:02:34,560
Speaker 1: to like about the Buffalo Bill schedule this year. It

2093
02:02:34,680 --> 02:02:37,040
Speaker 1: is a difficult schedule, no question about it. And if

2094
02:02:37,080 --> 02:02:41,880
Speaker 1: it was a regular, normal, non pandemic season, a ton

2095
02:02:41,960 --> 02:02:46,320
Speaker 1: of Bills fans would love to go to Vegas, to Denver,

2096
02:02:46,840 --> 02:02:51,920
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. They'd love to go out to Nashville,

2097
02:02:52,240 --> 02:02:54,080
Speaker 1: right and everybody always goes love A ton of people

2098
02:02:54,080 --> 02:02:57,640
Speaker 1: always go down to Miami. There's a lot of really

2099
02:02:57,800 --> 02:03:01,040
Speaker 1: cool destinations for Bills fans to go to away games.

2100
02:03:01,080 --> 02:03:02,880
Speaker 1: But by the same token, I think one of the

2101
02:03:02,920 --> 02:03:05,240
Speaker 1: things you go to watch the game, and certainly there's

2102
02:03:05,240 --> 02:03:06,800
Speaker 1: a lot of other fun stuff to do. If you

2103
02:03:06,880 --> 02:03:08,600
Speaker 1: go in to Vegas or Nashville or any of these

2104
02:03:08,640 --> 02:03:11,280
Speaker 1: other cities, there's a ton to do. But when you

2105
02:03:11,320 --> 02:03:13,400
Speaker 1: think about the football side of it, there's a ton

2106
02:03:13,480 --> 02:03:16,240
Speaker 1: of guys that you're gonna see play in the current

2107
02:03:16,360 --> 02:03:18,400
Speaker 1: age in the NFL that are headed straight to the

2108
02:03:18,440 --> 02:03:20,560
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and that's something I think Bills fans

2109
02:03:20,600 --> 02:03:23,360
Speaker 1: should appreciate. Once in a while they had an opportunity

2110
02:03:23,360 --> 02:03:25,800
Speaker 1: to see all those guys I played with play every

2111
02:03:25,840 --> 02:03:29,120
Speaker 1: week as Hall of Famers. But it's really something to

2112
02:03:29,200 --> 02:03:30,880
Speaker 1: see in the history of the game that the Bills

2113
02:03:30,920 --> 02:03:33,400
Speaker 1: are going to play a number of guys that are

2114
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Speaker 1: absolute first ballot Hall of Famers or at least getting

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Speaker 1: getting in the Hall of Fame for sure at some

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Speaker 1: point in their retirement. And good for them. I think

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Speaker 1: Bills fans should appreciate it. This is pretty good schedule

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Speaker 1: for that this year, and you're gonna get to see

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Speaker 1: some young guys that maybe in the future get in

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun to think about. All Right, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna come back. We're gonna take a break. Good stuff

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Speaker 1: on that. That was NFL True Falls, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Yancey's, Fancy New York's Artists and Cheese. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back with what do We Learn? To wind up to

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Speaker 1: day's show, Steve Tasker, Mattie Glad thanks for being here.

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Speaker 1: This is one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. I'm

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills reading what do you Buy? Skyworks, the official

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Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We had

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Speaker 1: our friend Peter King on we talked about everything that's

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Speaker 1: going on with the Washington NFL franchise, and this is

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Speaker 1: what Peter had to say about what's going on in DC.

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Speaker 1: When you look at what happened in Washington, UM, I

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Speaker 1: think the league is going to have to respond uh

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Speaker 1: with with a heavy hand. UM. They You know, the

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Speaker 1: NFL has said for some time that that they are

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Speaker 1: going to be uh, that they're going to be serious

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Speaker 1: about disciplining um okay as of sexual harassment in the workplace.

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Speaker 1: And although Daniel Snyder is not directly named in any

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Speaker 1: of the you know, any of those stories, I think

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Speaker 1: the NFL really has to has to draw a line

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Speaker 1: in the sand and and say, look, we're taking this seriously.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to allow this and we're not going

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Speaker 1: to allow you to get away with this. That was

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Speaker 1: Peter King on what's going on in Washington, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skyworks. One of the things that's happening, and

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Speaker 1: everything happens just before we get off the air. All

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Speaker 1: the charges and people of Bill's fans remember it. Oliver

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Speaker 1: got arrested for having a weapon in his car and

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Speaker 1: duy in Houston, Texans. All those charges are now being

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Speaker 1: dismissed by the District Attorney of Montgomery Country because a

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Speaker 1: lack of evidence. The blood results came back and they

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Speaker 1: were all totally negative. He didn't have any drugs at

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Speaker 1: all in this system, so it's not the attorney's getting

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Speaker 1: him off. They had no evidence, and as a weapon's charge,

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Speaker 1: it's not he got automatically dismissed because it's not illegal

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Speaker 1: in Texas to have a weapon in your car unless

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Speaker 1: you're intoxicated, so neither one of those things was illegal.

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Speaker 1: Ed Oliver walks, nothing was wrong. I don't so, I

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Speaker 1: don't know why they thought that he was duy, but

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Speaker 1: he wasn't, so all that goes away. Buffalo Bills are

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Speaker 1: happy with that. There won't be any suspensions or anything

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Speaker 1: like that for Ed Oliver or he can get on

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Speaker 1: with his life and soaking Bills fans. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: good news to go off the air with, isn't it, Maddie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's good news for Bills fans, good news for Ed Oliver.

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Speaker 1: Happy that all of that came back negative and he

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Speaker 1: knows that he is going to be able to play

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Speaker 1: all the games if he's healthy. He doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: get suspended for anything. So that's exciting to hear because

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Speaker 1: this is a player who could have a really big

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Speaker 1: second year on this team. Yeah, how about it. They

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Speaker 1: took blood and it was all totally What did they

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Speaker 1: take him in for? If he that's a great question

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Speaker 1: Steve be doing over there? Man? Anyway, Well that's good though.

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Speaker 1: At Oliver all the charges dismissed because they had no evidence.

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Speaker 1: He was totally sober when they pulled him over, and

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Speaker 1: therefore the pistol he had in his car was totally

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Speaker 1: legal in Texas. So at Oliver off the hook. That's

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Speaker 1: one thing that was probably you know, think of the

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Speaker 1: relief of a young guy like that being able to

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Speaker 1: get off with that. You know, I'm not get off

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Speaker 1: with it, but but be exonerated for the charges that

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Speaker 1: they brought against him. That's that's got to feel really

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Speaker 1: good for at Oliver, and he'll be really motivated to

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Speaker 1: come in. I wonder when he twenty eight, they get

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Speaker 1: into town, right, he drove back to town already, so

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Speaker 1: he was on his Instagram story the last two days.

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Speaker 1: He drove from Texas through the night to Buffalo with

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Speaker 1: his horses behind his truck. So he brought his horses

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Speaker 1: back with him. He posted a bunch of heart eye

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Speaker 1: emojis when he got to New Airfield. So At Oliver

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Speaker 1: is back in Buffalo right, So that's it's gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: That's it. We'll be back tomorrow noon to three. Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker Matic Lab. Thanks for joining us. This has been

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalidah Health and this is

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