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Speaker 1: are the Monday after Super Bowl fifty six. It is

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Speaker 1: l A Rams bringing home their first Super Bowl title

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Speaker 1: and so there they were. All the stars were out.

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Speaker 1: I think the rock miss leg Day at the beginning

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Speaker 1: these guys, I think I think the Rock miss leg day. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I mean, his legs are big, but in those pants,

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Speaker 1: his clothing on him just made him look like one

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Speaker 1: shredded individual, which of course he is. But I was like, holy, okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the NFL needs a hype guy. I

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Speaker 1: and he's part owner. That's that's where I would expect

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what to make of that. I was like,

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Speaker 1: do we need to smell what the Rock is cooking here?

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Speaker 1: It's the Super Bowl? You don't need him. I think

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Speaker 1: we can into one building and pack it into four hours.

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Speaker 1: I mean everywhere you looked, and they cut to it

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Speaker 1: just on the broadcast too. I mean, like you said,

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Speaker 1: so many different celebrities. That was really cool to see

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Speaker 1: But having a Super Bowl in La or another big city,

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Speaker 1: just seeing how many people came into town for that

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Speaker 1: a part of the end, We're a part of the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. Was was kind of cool to see all

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Speaker 1: the stars. Yeah, I see j Loo with Ben Affleck. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Or does Ben Affleck always look like he'd rather be

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Speaker 1: to j Loo. You should be happy to be if

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Speaker 1: And he looks he looks like he's completely just I'm

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Speaker 1: then he took it off. Too hot, just make it,

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Speaker 1: it was yet another one score affair. Did you think

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Speaker 1: Through most of my formative years, the Super Bowls were awful,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's ever gonna top that for me.

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Speaker 1: Um and I like Prince, I wouldn't call him even

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Speaker 1: the guy was a virtuoso. And that whole scene Purple

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Speaker 1: Rain in the rain, like, come on, that's like, I

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Speaker 1: It's gonna have to take something pretty special to top that.

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Speaker 1: This was pretty good. I felt what made it hard

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Speaker 1: was what you said you had. You had to cram

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Speaker 1: But for me, they were trying to cram too many,

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Speaker 1: could get a TfL when we needed it most. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and this will be something we discussed here a little

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Speaker 1: bit later in the show. Because the Rams have won

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, they made a pride. They put a

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Speaker 1: priority on holding onto elite talent Aaron Donald, They traded

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Speaker 1: free elite talent Jalen Ramsey, Matthew Stafford, you know, and

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Speaker 1: then they drafted an elite talent in Cooper Cup So

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Speaker 1: all of that elite talent showed up in big ways,

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Speaker 1: and they traded for another elite talent in von Miller,

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Speaker 1: who had two sacks sister. So that's basically our Twitter

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Speaker 1: conversation for today, which is a cent. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Rams won the Super Bowl with elite talent on their roster,

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Speaker 1: either drafted, traded four or acquired in free agency. Does

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Speaker 1: the rams super Bowl win change your mind on how

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Speaker 1: the Bills should attack this offseason knowing how close they are,

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Speaker 1: so feel free to chime in at one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: on Twitter or give us a call at eight oh three,

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Speaker 1: five fifty. We do have some phone callers waiting for

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Speaker 1: us here, and fresh out of the gate is Tom

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Tom, what do you have for us? You're

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Speaker 1: on one Bills, live your morning kids. You have to

447
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Speaker 1: show you I don't have short term memory loss. My

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Speaker 1: favorite part of the halftime shows probably I'm an im me,

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Speaker 1: even though I didn't really like much of it, any

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Speaker 1: of it. Okay, Well, I remember Steven Tyler and Arrow Smell. Okay,

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Speaker 1: didn't they do a halftime show? They must have. I

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Speaker 1: can't remember which one, but yeah, yeah, it's too bad

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Speaker 1: they never got pick floor in a real wall. Oh yeah. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: I concur the Bills are real close to being in

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Speaker 1: that super Bowl, and if they had been, they would

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Speaker 1: have won. Yeah. But anyway, I'm gonna complain about the

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Speaker 1: roughing again and the tides to gambling, because I wonder

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Speaker 1: if it's more obvious now that the Rusts are calling

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Speaker 1: plays are not calling plays on behalf of Vegas. And

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Speaker 1: then I could take it a step further and ask

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Speaker 1: you if the NFL is getting a cut of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you're. I think you're you're going way down

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Speaker 1: the rabbit hole. There, Tom M. Yeah, oh, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I didn't mean to cut you off there, but we

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Speaker 1: do have other callers that we gotta get to here.

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Speaker 1: I think what you have is a longstanding practice of

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Speaker 1: avoiding gambling like the plague, which is what the league did.

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Speaker 1: They didn't want to go anywhere near Las Vegas gambling,

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Speaker 1: any of that stuff. And now that you know, the

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Speaker 1: social norms have made it far more acceptable than maybe

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Speaker 1: it's ever been in this country, more states are taking

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Speaker 1: it an influx of revenue. I mean New York State

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Speaker 1: in their first month of legalized gambling Better is Bet

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Speaker 1: over one point three billion dollars in the first month.

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Speaker 1: New York State gets fifty two percent of that. That's

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Speaker 1: the tax they charge on the gambling and the sports books.

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Speaker 1: So it's a it's an undeniable source of revenue that

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Speaker 1: a lot of states desperately need, especially in the wake

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Speaker 1: of the pandemic. You're going all the way down the

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Speaker 1: rabbit hole of calls being influenced by revs who are

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Speaker 1: being influenced by Vegas, and you're claiming that the league

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Speaker 1: gets kuna at revenue. They're getting paid plenty just by

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Speaker 1: sports books sponsorships alone. They don't need that on top

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Speaker 1: of it. So they're doing just fine there. If you

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Speaker 1: want to argue that officials are going to get put

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Speaker 1: more under the microscope because people are now putting money

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Speaker 1: on games. It's not just their favorite teams that they're

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Speaker 1: mad if a call goes against them, it's their own

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Speaker 1: money out of their own pocketbook or wallet. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: could see that happening. Fans are going to get more

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Speaker 1: I rate by bad calls, especially if their own moneys

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Speaker 1: on the lines. Yes, So I don't know. I don't

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Speaker 1: know either. I don't I don't think so. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're I think you're going a little too far down

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Speaker 1: the rabbit hole time with some of the other stuff.

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Speaker 1: Back to the phones and we go to Truman and

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Speaker 1: Niagara Falls Wall you have for as Truman, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: What I have to find out is I think you

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Speaker 1: know what's going on with Leslie Fraser. Oh as far

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Speaker 1: as his coaching future, well, yeah, is he coming back

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Speaker 1: to Buffore or yeah? I mean he's still under contract

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Speaker 1: right now, and it doesn't all the head coaching jobs

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Speaker 1: are filled, and so knowing he's the assistant head coach

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Speaker 1: and the defensive coordinator here there really isn't a promotion

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Speaker 1: out there for him short of being a head coach,

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Speaker 1: and as I said, all those jobs are filled. So yes,

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Speaker 1: it looks like he will be back for twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: So that's good news, um, you know, because they'll have

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Speaker 1: a new special teams coordinate although he was promoted from

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Speaker 1: within in Matthew Smiley, And they'll have a new offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator who was also promoted from within in Ken Dorsey.

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Speaker 1: So even though there are changes in those two major roles,

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Speaker 1: there is continuity which has value. Yeah, I think with

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Speaker 1: the defense that we haven't placed the guys who have

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Speaker 1: been a part of the defense since Sean McDermott and

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean took over in twenty seventeen. Having that continuity,

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Speaker 1: even though we have plenty of veteran players who I

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Speaker 1: think would be fine if we had a new defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: it's nice to see at least one of those guys

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Speaker 1: come back. After we've had quite a bit of shakeup

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Speaker 1: in the coaching staff, which I think we all knew

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Speaker 1: was coming and I think we all understand is going

523
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Speaker 1: to keep coming as long as the Buffalo Bills continue

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Speaker 1: to have really great seasons. Teams are going to poach

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Speaker 1: the coordinators because look at what Buffalo did on offense,

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Speaker 1: look at what they did on defense. Of course, you

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Speaker 1: can look back at the thirteen seconds of their final

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Speaker 1: game against the Kansa City Chiefs and kind of wonder

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Speaker 1: what happened on defense there. But I don't think that

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Speaker 1: should take away from the amazing season that the defense

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Speaker 1: had to begin with. Yeah, tremendous body of work, finishing

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Speaker 1: first in the league, as we all know. Let's squeeze

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Speaker 1: Kathy and Buffalo in here before the break. What do

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Speaker 1: you have first, Kathy? Hey, I just want to talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about the defense in the Super Bowl yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Or are you talking about the building? Yeah? And in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl yesterday? Yet I felt like I felt

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Speaker 1: like the defense was great, um on both parts both teams. Okay,

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Speaker 1: did I felt I felt like the Rams, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're down to third down, it was always more than

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Speaker 1: five points, you know, five yards yards to go? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and bro, how many times is he six? Yesterday got

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Speaker 1: sacked seven times, so his defense So so the defense

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Speaker 1: on the other side was working just as well, right right, Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. Okay, So what I'm saying

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Speaker 1: is that I felt like the defense on both sides

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Speaker 1: played well. Well. Yeah, the points were down. I think

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Speaker 1: it was probably a little less scoring than maybe a

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Speaker 1: lot of people anticipated. I mean, through the course of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, the Rams have had average twenty eight points

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Speaker 1: a game. The Bengals had averaged twenty four, so they

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Speaker 1: weren't far off, but they were a little down from

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Speaker 1: maybe what some people expected. I think the Rams defense

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Speaker 1: proved to be more consistent and better finishers, certainly in

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Speaker 1: the second half than the Bengals were, although some might

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Speaker 1: argue the Bengals were the victim of some bad calls

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Speaker 1: down in the red zone there at the end. The

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Speaker 1: holding call on Logan Wilson. I mean, under the letter

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Speaker 1: of the law, you can probably throw that flag. Plus

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Speaker 1: it's Cooper Cup, high profile player, he's gonna get the

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Speaker 1: benefit of it out. So yeah, that was a tough

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Speaker 1: one because it would have been fourth down from the

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Speaker 1: eighteen yard line if they didn't call that one. Instead,

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Speaker 1: it's a fresh set of downs and then they go

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Speaker 1: in on the very next play. So don't worry Bengals fans.

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Speaker 1: We've been there right. Yeah. Brief Week fourteen in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: Maybe didn't call whole defense. If holding there, that would

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Speaker 1: have been nice. We would have taken that one easily.

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Speaker 1: All right, We got to take a break here, but

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Speaker 1: we'll have more of your phone calls at eight three fifty.

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Speaker 1: Got an open line for you there. And does the

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Speaker 1: Rams Super Bowl win change your mind on how the

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Speaker 1: Bills should attack the offseason? You let us know, Maddie

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Speaker 1: and I back in a second here on one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collot of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Does the Rams Super Bowl win change your mind on

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Speaker 1: how the Bills should attack the off season? Their big,

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00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: top flight elite stars showed up in a big way

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Speaker 1: in a tight game. Aaron Donald, Cooper Cup, Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 1: even Obj before he got hurt, was having a heck

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Speaker 1: of a game. And Von Miller, I mean, all of

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Speaker 1: the big names had some kind of impact on the

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Speaker 1: I'll come in that game and in the end, the

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Speaker 1: Rams win the Super Bowl as LA has their first

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Buy the Rams in LA. We've got callers

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Speaker 1: waiting for us at eight oh three, oh five fifty,

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Speaker 1: so we'll go right back to them. We've got Gary

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Speaker 1: on a cell waiting for us. What do you have

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Speaker 1: for us? Gary? Hey, guys, how y'all doing doing good?

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Speaker 1: What you got for us? I think we can do

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Speaker 1: a little bit what the Rams did for the pass rusher.

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Speaker 1: I'm not everybody's the con the same thing. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would try to resign Philips if stars salary calend on

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Speaker 1: what his cutting it would be. Yeah, it's I think

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Speaker 1: it's about seven and change. So it's a pretty stiff

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Speaker 1: hit there, so they got to figure something. Now, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna probably have him and we'll see,

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Speaker 1: But obviously I like a pass rusher. That's what I

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Speaker 1: would do, and I would go all in because they're

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Speaker 1: ready to win the super Bowl, now, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and that's and that's the thing, right, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: the it's the window, Maddie, because you know, you've got

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Speaker 1: a team that's right on the cusp, and you know,

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Speaker 1: before other changes take place, most notably Josh Allen's percentage

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Speaker 1: of the cap going up significantly in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: last year. This year, it's still manageable. After this year

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Speaker 1: goes up to like thirty ninety, you know, the real

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Speaker 1: big figures that kind of limit what Brandon Bean can

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Speaker 1: do in terms of maneuvering around the cap. This year,

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Speaker 1: he still has a chance to do that. People are

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Speaker 1: wondering if he's going to take a swing here. I

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Speaker 1: totally agree with, you know, building your team through the

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Speaker 1: draft and with what he's done since he came into

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and what he's gotten out of his draft picks

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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen being one of those, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of your core pieces. But you have what you have

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Speaker 1: with the draft, and then I am totally in for

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Speaker 1: whatever you need to supplement whatever you need to win

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Speaker 1: within the window that you want to win. Try and

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Speaker 1: make that happen as much as you can. Jordan Poyer,

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Speaker 1: Micah Hide are guys that they added as soon as

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Speaker 1: they walked in the building and they've became huge parts

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Speaker 1: of this team. And you're at this place this past season,

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Speaker 1: this coming season, this season before where you were I

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Speaker 1: think a couple pieces away here and there throughout different

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Speaker 1: games of what you needed, what you needed to push

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Speaker 1: you over the top, what you needed to beat the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: what you needed to get into that Super Bowl game,

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Speaker 1: And I think this season you've got to go for

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Speaker 1: it because that window it's not going to be open

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Speaker 1: for ten years. This is a window of two to

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Speaker 1: five years that you're looking out where the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: can be super Bowl champions. And yes, I do think

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Speaker 1: because of the people we have on our coaching staff

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Speaker 1: in our scouting department, that the Bills will be good

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Speaker 1: long term. But your first super Bowl window, I think

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Speaker 1: is not going to be open for five more years.

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Speaker 1: So I think capitalize on what you can capitalize on,

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Speaker 1: because just believing your draft picks can do it, it's

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Speaker 1: not enough time. Well, it's putting an awful lot of

641
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: faith in young play years. And as we know, Manny,

642
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: you've got seven players on Buffalo's defensive line whose contracts

643
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 1: are up, so there are going to be changes there

644
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: because to think that everybody's going to be back is

645
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: just unrealistic. That's just not the way NFL offseasons work.

646
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: Number one. Number two, what is the decision they make

647
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: on players that, granted are proven veterans Jerry Hughes, Mario Addison,

648
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: but are aging veterans. Is it time to turn the

649
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: page there and then take that money that you might

650
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: save by not resigning them and invest it in a proven,

651
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: elite quote unquote veteran player that could be a leader

652
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: for maybe guys like aj F and SA and Greg

653
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: Russo and Boogie Basham and kind of pull them along,

654
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: but say, hey, when it's crunch time, I'm going to

655
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: deliver the way Aaron Donald delivered for the Rams last night.

656
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: That's the question. So yeah, a lot of a lot

657
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: of interesting decisions sitting in front Brandon Being and Sean

658
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: McDermott this offseason in terms of the approach to take

659
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: to get to the big game, the game that we

660
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: all were hoping they would be playing in yesterday. Let's

661
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: go to Kevin and Hamburg next. What do you have

662
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: for us, Jevins? How are you doing? Thanks for taking

663
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,439
Speaker 1: my call. I'm looking at this free agent and thing.

664
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes is gonna be gone pretty well anyway from

665
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: age and Addison how about him. But Jerry Hughes is

666
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: gonna be gone. Levi Wallace is gonna be gone testing

667
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: the markets, or he might be bye bye. So we

668
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: need another cornerback out there somewhere. We got to get

669
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: another cornerback, and dependable cornerback. Levi got burned, he got

670
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: a little bit over the last couple of years, but

671
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: he's still He's still burned. I guess you could say

672
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: not independently. He's been burned a couple of times here

673
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 1: and there are still too much for what we need,

674
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: and that still can be a very scary thing when

675
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: you're going next year. We got to play the rams

676
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: and Turnavias, you know, probably cover Coober cover for example,

677
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: and we need someone to recover Obj if he's not hurt,

678
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: or Robert Wood to get back, and I'd be like,

679
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: oh god, we had to worry about that and getting

680
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: smoked constantly. Yeah, all right, I respect that. Kevin Um.

681
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: What do you think about cornerback, Maddie. I mean, we've

682
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: started to track mock drafts already, which we may get

683
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: into later in the week, and judging on the fourteen

684
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: that I've tracked so far and the many that are

685
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: going to come out in the future, corner is the

686
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: spot again for this season. I mean, corner was the

687
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 1: spot last season for us. But we heard from Brandon

688
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: Bean after we drafted our first round pick and Greg

689
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: Russ that if we could have taken a corner at

690
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: that spot, we would have, but we didn't have first

691
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: round grades on any of the corners that were still available,

692
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: and we didn't feel like we should be spending it

693
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: on a corner based on what we what we had

694
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: on our board. So this year's draft is deep in

695
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: corners based on what I've read, and we have been

696
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: mocked a corner I think five times maybe in the

697
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: fourteen mocked drafts that I've tracked so far. Defensive line

698
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: has also already been a popular position for the Buffalo

699
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: Bills in the first round, that number twenty five pick

700
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: that they have, So based on the type of corner

701
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: that may be available in the first round, I could

702
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: see them drafting a corner. And maybe this corner could

703
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: be someone who could come right in and who could

704
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: play a role I don't know as a starter, depending

705
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: on how camp goes, or depending on the person that

706
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,720
Speaker 1: walks inside the building and what they can do throughout

707
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: training camp. But I think it's a position that we

708
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: could be drafting this year based on what's available. But

709
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: also when you look at the draft, the quarterbacks are

710
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: not that deep in this year's draft class, And what

711
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: happens when you don't have a lot of quarterbacks is

712
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: you have teams who are picking one through ten who

713
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: are picking outside of the quarterback position, and that sometimes

714
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: takes guys away from someone who could be available at

715
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: the high twenties low twenties. You're hoping that the quarterbacks

716
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: get picked to push the other town down to the Bills,

717
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: who are going to be picking at twenty five. And

718
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: that's the problem. When you are picking later in the rounds,

719
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: you don't. It's harder to draft for maybe a position

720
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: that's to perceive need. Not that Brandon, being in the

721
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: personnel department do that all the time anyway, but it's

722
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: harder to gravitate towards positional need because you're left with

723
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: what's left on the board. When you're picking at twenty five,

724
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot less left on the board, not to

725
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: mention the fact, less in the range of the proper

726
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: value that you've designated on your board, because inevitably some

727
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: of that has already come off the board. So it's

728
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: harder when you're picking down lower in the round to

729
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: get exactly what you might be after in the draft,

730
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: depending on what you landed in free agency. Let's go

731
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: back to the phones. We'll go to Ben in Amherst next.

732
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Ben? Hey, guys, how

733
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: you doing too good? So i'd be interested in hearing

734
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 1: your input. I know there's a couple of different camps

735
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: out there. You know, offense should be the priority, defense

736
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: should be the priority. You know, it's like, hey, we

737
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: either got to outscore him or we got to stop him.

738
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: And so I guess when you're you're being or McDermott,

739
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: how do you prioritize. I know when I was in

740
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 1: the military, we had this saying and it was if

741
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: everything's a priority, then nothing's a priority. So is it

742
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: free agency? Is it offensive defense? In the draft? I'd

743
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: be I'd be interested in hearing your input. Guys, Okay,

744
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: do you want to take that one first man? You

745
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: want to Yeah, I have to swing. I mean free agency.

746
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: I think we're all hoping that we get some big

747
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: name on the defensive line. I would raise my hand

748
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: and say I'm I'm a part of that camp because

749
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: I think that's what this team needs going forward next

750
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: year to really up their anti in different ways. But

751
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: based on what Brandon Being said at his end of

752
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: season press conference, he said, we are going to start

753
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: with the lines. We're going to look at our defensive line,

754
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: look at our offensive line, lookout protecting Josh Allen. But

755
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: then when he was asked about free agency, he said, don't.

756
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: We'll look to add in certain areas, but we're not

757
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: going to be big spenders again, right, And so I

758
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: still think they're going to assess where they're at and

759
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: if they believe that it's worth taking a big swing

760
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: in an offseason, it's probably this offseason because, as I mentioned,

761
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen's contract, the way it's structured, gets

762
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: cost prohibitive in terms of being able to do other

763
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,240
Speaker 1: things on the roster. After this year, this is arguably

764
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: the last year where you're really going to be able

765
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: to maybe pay And I know Brandon Being doesn't have

766
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: a history of paying giant money for free agents. Mitch

767
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: Morris is probably the only exception when he paid top

768
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: of the market value for a free agent center. Other

769
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: than that, he really hasn't done that in his time

770
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: here in free agency? Does that change? There are always

771
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: exceptions to the rule, and if you want to do

772
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: it for a veteran pass rusher, I'm signing up too now.

773
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: At the same time, I would argue corner, But the

774
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 1: bottom line is this. You look at Buffalo's list of

775
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: free agents and the important ones are on the defensive

776
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: side of the ball from a numbers perspective, on the

777
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: defensive line, Jerry Hughes, Vernon Butler, Brian Cox who was

778
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: on ir all year, Harrison Phillips, elianku is Back, Mario

779
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: Addison Faobada, and then Justin Zimmer who's a restricted free agents.

780
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: A lot of defensive line. That's a lot of turnover there,

781
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: so that has to be addressed just from a pure

782
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: numbers standpoint. Then you have the cornerback situation. Is Levi

783
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: staying here? Is he going to go look for a

784
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: big contract? If I was him, I'd probably be looking

785
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: for a big contract. I don't know if that's happening here.

786
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: So now you may have to reinvest early in the

787
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: draft to replace that. Yes, you have Dane Jackson, but

788
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: there's very little depth behind him, and Tredavious White, who, oh,

789
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: by the way, is coming off an ACL injury, so

790
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,959
Speaker 1: there are decisions to be made there. So defense would

791
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: seem to be the focus early. How much of that

792
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: is addressed in free agency? How much of that is

793
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: addressed in the draft. Then and only then do I

794
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: think you can kind of flip it to the other

795
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: side of the ball and say, Okay, what do we

796
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: have to fix here? Do we have to improve our

797
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: depth at receiver? Are we happy with what we have

798
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: on the offensive line? Is their proper depth behind it?

799
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: Do we want veterans that are plug and play or

800
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: do we want to reinvest in the draft again like

801
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: we did last year. I would tend to think they

802
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: would slide more to the veterans side. For the interior

803
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: offensive line guys you know that can play if you

804
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: need him to play. But you know, the money and

805
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: the dollars and the sense and some of the roster

806
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: decisions they have to make. Maybe even with some high

807
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: priced veterans that are under contract, maybe they I mean,

808
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: we saw with the last year, Maddie, they had guys

809
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: take pay cuts. They waved goodbye to John Brown even

810
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: though he had another year left on his deal. They

811
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: may have to make some of those tough decisions again

812
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: if they feel it's the difference between being very, very

813
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: good and being great and great enough to win the

814
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We have to take a break here, but

815
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll get to some of those

816
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,399
Speaker 1: news and notes that we missed from the Super Bowl.

817
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: We had plenty to talk about, including a wide receiver

818
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: whose wife went into label during the game. Holy cow,

819
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean talk about a big day, super Bowl champ

820
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: and a dad all in the same day. That's that's

821
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: a heck of a cram calendar schedule. We'll get to

822
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: that and plenty more coming out of the Super Bowl next.

823
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Maddi glab with you here on One Bills Live.

824
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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, all right, Welcome back to one Bills Live.

825
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Maddy glab with you here on a Monday

826
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl, and plenty of stuff came out

827
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl, obviously besides the game and who

828
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,959
Speaker 1: won and who didn't. Odell Beckham Junior suffers a left

829
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: knee injury non contact injury. Maddie. It's the same knee

830
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: in which he tore his ACL. Hate to see it

831
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and even worse, he's set to become

832
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: a free agent. That is a tough time table to

833
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: come back from and be ready to play for the

834
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two season. They usually say it's a seven

835
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: to nine month rehab, and knowing all the stopping and

836
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: starting and cutting that receivers have to do, man, I

837
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: would tend to think he'd be on the longer side

838
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: of that window and now you're talking November, and he

839
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: had a great game up until when he came out

840
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,240
Speaker 1: of the game. He had two catches for over fifty

841
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: yards that touchdown in the beginning of the game, which

842
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: was awesome. So I feel for the guy. And everybody

843
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: saw the shots that the TV broadcast cut to him

844
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: on the sideline, and he did not look like he

845
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: was in a good headspace during that game. Looks very bombed.

846
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: And then you see them win the Super Bowl and

847
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: he's in tears as so many other players were on

848
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: the Ram's roster. But hope that he's gonna be okay.

849
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: I mean, if it is an ACL tear, it's better

850
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: than doing it right before the season begins. But you know,

851
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: any type of knee injury, like you said, as a receiver,

852
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: you've got a long road ahead, and he just came

853
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: back from one. Yes, like he just had a long rehab.

854
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: Worst luck if that's the case. Yeah, So yeah, we

855
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: don't know the nature of the injury, the severity injury.

856
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: But if it's an ACL again knee, yeah, that's gonna

857
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: be tough. Aaron Donald, how about that? But like it

858
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: kind of broke during the game, I guess Rodney Harrison

859
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: from NBC had been talking to Aaron Donald. He's like, Wow,

860
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 1: if we win this thing, don't be surprised if I retire.

861
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: It's like, what I mean, He's only been in the

862
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: league eight years. So he was asked again after the

863
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,280
Speaker 1: game after some of those reports were flying around social media.

864
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: This was his quote, Maddie after the game. I'm just

865
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: in the moment right now. I'm going to enjoy this

866
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: with my teammates, my family. I'm just going to be

867
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: in the moment and enjoy this for a couple of days.

868
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: This is a blessing in other words, that it's not

869
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: a no. It's not a no. I'm not retiring. So

870
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: I guess Rodney Harrison n NBC's Michelle Tafoya both reported

871
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: that he is contemplating hanging it up now that the

872
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: Rams have won the Super Bowl. That would be a

873
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: major subtraction from the Rams roster. For the Rams, ross

874
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: for the NFL. This dude is an incredible player. There's

875
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: nobody like him in the game right now. And I

876
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: mean he's had a great career, but he was drafted

877
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: in two and fourteen and could already be hanging it up. Yeah,

878
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: and we saw that for a little bit, right, Like

879
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: there was like a two or three years stretch where

880
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: there were some players that we're retiring after like six

881
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: years in the league. Like Patrick Willis, the linebacker from

882
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: San Francisco comes to mind, played for like six or

883
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: seven years. He's like, yeah, I'm turning thirty next year.

884
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: I'm done. That's like what, Like you're not used to

885
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: seeing that, especially from high end player who could play

886
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: as long as they want. But you know, these guys

887
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: are making so much money now, you know, generational wealth.

888
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: Eight years for him, he's got enough money to live on.

889
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,879
Speaker 1: He's got enough money for his grand kids to live

890
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: on quite frankly without having to work a day in

891
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: their life. So it's gonna be very interesting to see

892
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: what the decision is there. There was even some McVeigh

893
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: might step away. That's not happening. He might TV now

894
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: that he's won his Super Bowl and like this dude

895
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: is so young as a head coach. It all stems

896
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: from him talking about I'm thinking about starting a family.

897
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: He just got married, all right, Yeah, I mean starting

898
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: a family, Yes, I get it. Time commitment that coaching

899
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: is I understand all he's not going anywhere, not this year.

900
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: I don't think I would be. I would be shocked

901
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: by that. I would be more I would expect Aaron

902
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: Donald to retire more than I would expect Sean mcvag

903
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: to step away from football. From a coaching perspective. Yeah,

904
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: the other thing about ob J's injury, Maddie, I don't

905
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,720
Speaker 1: know about you. The first thing I thought it was Trey,

906
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: Like I watched the knot. I was like, son of

907
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: a gun, A non contact injury. It's just like Trey

908
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, non contact injury. Just look, you know,

909
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: like the knee just kind of pivots the wrong way.

910
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: The first thing I thought of. So, I know Trey's

911
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: doing well in rehab. He's attacking it here in Buffalo,

912
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: so hopefully that keeps on trucking. And then finally, as

913
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: we said, Van Jefferson, the wide receiver for the Rams,

914
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: his wife Samaria, goes into labor during the game. During

915
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: the game, as she's getting wheeled to the hospital, she

916
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 1: tells the people helping her, don't tell my husband until

917
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: the game's over. That wow, good on you. So he

918
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: finds out right after the game the hospital with his

919
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: dad and he's a proud father to a baby boy,

920
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: and from all news reports there, everything's going well. So

921
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: glad everybody's healthy there. And I think it's his second kid,

922
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: or maybe not, maybe it is his first child. The

923
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: thing that confused me was the post when he said

924
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: times too. So maybe he's saying I'm a super Bowl champion,

925
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: I'm a dad. Maybe that's the times too. I didn't

926
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: know if times two men it's my second child. I

927
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: was kind of confused, But I don't know the Jefferson

928
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: family well enough to congratulations either way. Glad it all

929
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,760
Speaker 1: worked out. Uh, that is a day your year is made.

930
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: And what is it, February? We're good years twenty twenty

931
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 1: two is set. It's not getting any better than today

932
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: for Van Jefferson, no way. Maybe in his life. That's

933
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: just that's a hell of a day. You're you're at

934
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of your professional career and you know, one

935
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: of the best days of your life, as you know,

936
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:30,479
Speaker 1: a dad. Unbelievable. All right, we gotta step aside here

937
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: because when we come back, our number two of the

938
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: show is going to involved Mark Scofield, USA today going

939
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: to join us. Got some interesting thoughts on the Super

940
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: Bowl and the game that was that we were all

941
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: watching yesterday. We'll catch up with him next here on

942
00:50:45,520 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live. Stay tuned at a Steve Tasker who

943
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: has been all the field kind of unique. He was

944
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you state, Steve

945
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strato here of

946
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: normalcy here all right, here we are our number two

947
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Maddie glad with you on the Monday after

948
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and please to be joined now by

949
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: Touchdown Wire for USA Today, NFL writer Mark Scofield joining us,

950
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 1: also host of the show. Is it sco Show? It's

951
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: the sco Show, right, the sco Show? Yeah, that's what

952
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: I doing. How you doing, Maddie? Great to be here. Yeah.

953
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: So so let's start here. Give us your biggest takeaway

954
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: from Super Bowl fifty six. Were you surprised by something,

955
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: were you lamenting the failures of some part of the game.

956
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: Where'd you kind of come down in terms of a

957
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: headline to pull out of this one? Right? I think

958
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: the biggest headline was just how important it is in

959
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: the NFL today to figure out the quarterback position. When

960
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,879
Speaker 1: you look at the differences between the Los Angeles Rams

961
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,959
Speaker 1: when they're in Super Bowl fifty three and this version

962
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,439
Speaker 1: of the Rams where you had a quarterback in Jared

963
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: Golf just a couple of seasons and go that perhaps,

964
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: and the biggest play of that game was a bit

965
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: hesitant to make a throw into the end zone. They

966
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: could have changed the entire complexion of Super Bowl fifty three.

967
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: And then last night you see Matthew Stafford on what

968
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: was ultimately the game, wouldn't drive and make an aggressive

969
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: decision to challenge windows in the secondary to even do it,

970
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: and a little bit of a no look variety sort

971
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: of looking off a defender underneath to hit Cooper Cup

972
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: on that dig route. The importance of the quarterback position

973
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: is paramount in the NFL today and that's why the

974
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: Rams went all in the way they did this past

975
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: offseason making that aggressive trade for Matthew Stafford. Teams that

976
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: have the quarterback position figured out are always going to

977
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: be in a little bit better shape when it comes

978
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: to make it a deep playoff run. And so for me,

979
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: that was the biggest takeaway. Of course, there is the

980
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: secondary one about Joe Burrow the Bengals offensive line. It

981
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: was a storyline this entire postseason for Cincinnati, could they

982
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,760
Speaker 1: protect Burrow was a storyline in the wild Card round.

983
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: He was then sacked nine times by the Tennessee Titans. Yes,

984
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: he managed to escape a number of times against the

985
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, but then last night sacked seven times

986
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,359
Speaker 1: by that imposion Rams defensive front. And so they'll need

987
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: to figure out going forward how they can best protect

988
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow and that has to start here in the

989
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: off season. Well, speaking of Matthew Stafford, you have an

990
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 1: article that came out late last night about him in

991
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: kind of details the story of Sean McVay and Stafford

992
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: coming together, and you talk about how they were in

993
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: Mexico at the same time during the off season, and

994
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: then how this marriage came together. And now when you

995
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: look at look back on how it came together and

996
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: how it played out during the entire season leading up

997
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and then the Super Bowl. Was this

998
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: the perfect marriage for somebody like Sean McVay finding a

999
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: quarterback like Matthew Stafford to finally win one with the

1000
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: La Rams man, I think that's exactly right. And I

1001
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: think looking back at the decision that the Rams made

1002
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: and the Sean McVay made to pursue Matthew Stafford and

1003
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: to make the aggressive decision to trade for him, to

1004
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: give up the draft capital they did to acquire him.

1005
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: When Matthew Stafford showed on film last season, really through

1006
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: his entire career in Detroit, was a quarterback that in

1007
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,280
Speaker 1: big moments can, as Sean McVay termed it, fixed mistakes quickly.

1008
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: It gets you again to that idea that in the

1009
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: hands of Jared Goff, the Sean McVay offense can only

1010
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: do so much. He needed a quarterback that would be aggressive,

1011
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,240
Speaker 1: that would be decisive, that would it hesitating key moments.

1012
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: And we saw that in the playoffs, and we saw

1013
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: that again in Super Bowl fifty six, where on that

1014
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: final game winning drive you saw aggressive decisions from Stafford.

1015
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: He shrugged off two mistakes, he came back and kept

1016
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: being aggressive, maintained that aggressive nature deep into the fourth

1017
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: quarter and certainly on the game would a throw to

1018
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. That ability to shake off mistakes, that ability

1019
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 1: to remain aggressive and decisive, that was the missing component

1020
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: to Sean mcvay's offense with Jared Goff, you had to

1021
00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: do more in the play action passing realm, you had

1022
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: to do a lot more in sort of propping up

1023
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: the quarterback. But in Stafford's hands, they could go empty,

1024
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: they could go five wide, They could really rely on

1025
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: the quarterback to as McVay termed it when he was

1026
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 1: talking about why he traded for Stafford to fix things

1027
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,479
Speaker 1: quickly after the snap when the defense might have shown

1028
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: him a different look. This was exactly the reason they

1029
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: went out and inquired him. It wasn't a perfect game,

1030
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: but they got it done, and Stafford was critical to

1031
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: them pulling out that win in the fourth quarter. Applying

1032
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,800
Speaker 1: those thoughts to the Bills, Mark they would already appear

1033
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: to have the quarterback part, answered Brandon Bean. Yeah, it

1034
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: was hard to look at your quarterback efficiency table there

1035
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: and you're right up and see Josh Allen the upper

1036
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,919
Speaker 1: right hand corner, far ahead of even Matthew Stafford's table.

1037
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: Chris broke the table. I know, it was just it's

1038
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: still rolling my eyes over that. But anyway, applying those

1039
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: thoughts to the Bills, the quarterback thing is already taken

1040
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: care of, Brandon Bean. Sean McDermott, the personnel department believe

1041
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: wholehearted in building through the draft, signing their own, resigning

1042
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: their own. They'll explore free agency at the Tier B

1043
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: level if you will. They rarely overpay for anybody. Mitch

1044
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 1: Morris is probably the only example since Brandon Bean's been

1045
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:16,760
Speaker 1: here in free agency where they've spent big at a position.

1046
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: Does that approach, though, have to be altered this offseason

1047
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: in light of the model that worked for the Rams,

1048
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: because elite talent on the Bills is really Josh Allen,

1049
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, and then maybe Tredevias White who's coming off

1050
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:37,400
Speaker 1: an ACL injury. Is elite talent what the Bill should

1051
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: be after? Now? I mean, I think generally speaking, Chris

1052
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:44,359
Speaker 1: teams and organizations should be after elite talent. But what

1053
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: we've seen from the NFL recently is that elite talent

1054
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position can mask all manners of sin

1055
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: from a roster construction standpoint. If you miss in free agency,

1056
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: if you missing the draft, if you have that elite quarterback,

1057
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 1: you can sort of raise the level of play in

1058
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:00,760
Speaker 1: the players around him. We've seen it from Tom Brady,

1059
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: and I think Josh Allen has certainly joined that tier

1060
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:07,720
Speaker 1: of elite quarterbacks that can fixed efficiencies from a roster

1061
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: construction standpoint. Now you did sort of mention in touch

1062
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: upon Chris two positions. I do think Buffalo needs to

1063
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: look at, whether it's via that sort of tier, be

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00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: a free agency or in this raft class. Quarterback depth

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00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: I think is certainly an area of conservative Tredevious White

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00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: coming back from that ACL injury. I think we do

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00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: have coleby easily. Emmanuel Sanders, I say I McKenzie potentially

1068
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: tested free agency waters and decisions that need to be

1069
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: made there. You might want to look at that position,

1070
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position, whether it's via draft or free agency.

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00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: But I think because of what the Bills haveing Josh Allen,

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00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: that elite quarterback, that it's a dual threat quarterback that can,

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00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: as we talked about with Matthew Stafford fixed things quickly

1074
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: after the snap based on his arm, his mentality, his

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00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: process and speed and certainly is athleticism that gives the

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00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: Bills a sort of wide error band in terms of

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00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: roster construction if they miss here or there in a player,

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00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: or miss here and there and a player in free agency.

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00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: Allen's ability as a quarterback in today's NFL is going

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00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: to help make up for that You also had an

1081
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: article that came out just about the important plays of

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00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and the Bengals had a chance at

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00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: the end of the game with a minute and a

1084
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 1: half left to try and make something happen, being down

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00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: with three points and they get to a third and

1086
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: one and a fourth and one, and some questionable decisions

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00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: were made. But also Aaron Donald showed up when he

1088
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: needed to. How important is Aaron Donald to that defense

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00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: and how important is it to have a defensive lineman

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00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: on your team who can be that star guy when

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00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: he needs to, who could be that heartbeat of the

1092
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 1: defense at times. It's a great question, Maddie, and you

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00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: could look at a number of ways that Aaron Donald

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00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: impacted that game. It's certainly there were those plays at

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00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: the end, but even before that, when you looked at

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00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: how Raheem Morris aligned his defense affront and sometimes isolate

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00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: and Chris Collinsworth talked about this a lot during the game,

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00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: isolate Donald to one side, perhaps with von Miller or

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00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: another defender Lurkin, and then you have three defenders to

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00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: the other side. Since then, I was still slided protection

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00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: towards Donald because they were concerned that look that interior

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00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, if he can get quick initial penetration, that

1103
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: can disrupt plays early in the down and make it

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00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: much much tougher for a quarterback, even somebody like Joe

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00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: Burrow to make something happen to avoid that interior pressure.

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00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: And so Donald's presence upfront opens up all sorts of

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00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: manners for the Rams and redeemorise their defensive coordinator to

1108
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: put pressure on opposing passers to confuse and disrupt pass

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00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,959
Speaker 1: protection schemes. And then on those two final plays, first

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00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: there was the thirty short run by some rs p

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00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 1: Ryan where you had Aaron Donald again setting that edge

1112
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: forcing him to cut inside a great gains, doing a

1113
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: tremendous job to force p Ryan to make a cut

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00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: behind the backfield. And then certainly on that fourth down,

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00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: get in that early pressure. If we just talked about,

1116
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: when you as an interior defensive tackle can get quick

1117
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: interior pressure, that makes life miserable for quarterbacks, particularly on

1118
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: a fourth of one play where you're trying to get

1119
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: the ball up quickly, but if you have to pull

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Speaker 1: it down and you have to you set your feet

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01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: because you have that interior pressure, it makes it that

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01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: much harder to make a play. So Donald again, Cooper

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Speaker 1: Cups certainly worthy of the MVP vote considerations he earned,

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Speaker 1: but I think Aaron Donald had a huge impact on

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Speaker 1: that game. Talking to Mark Schofield, NFL writer for USA

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Speaker 1: Today's Touchdown Wire, and I thought you drew an interesting

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01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: parallel mark between Joe Burrow and Dan Marino, guys that

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Speaker 1: got to the Super Bowl and just there, you know,

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01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: very early in their career. Marino, as we know, never

1130
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: got back there due to some compelling competition in the

1131
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: AFC at that time. You know, the eighty three quarterback

1132
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:36,919
Speaker 1: class had a big hand in that, Jim Kelly, John

1133
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: Elway all going to Super Bowls when Dan Marino did

1134
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: not after that early crack, think in his second year

1135
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: in the league, if I remember right, So, how does

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01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow avoid that in what is also a very

1137
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: crowded AFC quarterback field with the likes of Josh Allen,

1138
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert. If Trevor Lawrence catches fire with

1139
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, he could be another guy in the mix.

1140
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: How does he navigate all that and get back to

1141
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: the big game after some early success, Right, It's going

1142
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: to be tough in that AFC. As we all know,

1143
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: this is a crowded conference right now. You just rattled

1144
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: through Chris some of the teams that we expect to

1145
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: be in the mix next season, and there's certainly a

1146
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 1: wealth of talent at the quarterback position in the AFC

1147
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 1: right now. It certainly looks like the emergence of a

1148
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: lot of young passers in the AFC is going to

1149
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: make it fun to watch for years to come. And

1150
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: the concerns about the Marino comparison are valid. There's a

1151
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: lot of people that woke up the sport and had said, well,

1152
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: look they got there in the second year that you're

1153
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: on that talented You have Chase, you have Jamar, you

1154
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: have Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase. You've got a lot of

1155
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 1: talent in that locker room. But you don't always get back.

1156
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: It's tough to win, it's tough to come back. Sometimes

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01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: teams that lose Super Bowls they struggle more than the

1158
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: team won the Super Bowl in the following season. That's

1159
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: sort of post super Bowl loss hangover. I think what

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01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: the Bengals have to figure out now is how they

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01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: can protect Joe Burrow both conceptually with the schemes that

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01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: they call, and with the personnel that they have upfront,

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01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to go sort of revisit that Jamar

1164
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,959
Speaker 1: Chase versus any Swell decision of five because I think

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01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 1: they made the right decision to draft Chase, and I

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01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 1: think his season's production as a rookie receiver and the

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01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: fact that they made it to the Super Bowl sort

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01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: of speaks for itself with respect to that decision. But

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01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: now they have to figure out the offensive line. They

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01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: have to look hard at free agency, whether it's a

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01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: guy like Brandon Sheariff from Washington to help on the interior.

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01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: They have to look hard at options in the draft.

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01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 1: They have to make sure that when next season rolls around,

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01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 1: you don't have a quarterback in Joe Burrow that is

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01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 1: getting sacked seventy times over the course of a season,

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01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: that's getting sacked nine times in a division around Gate

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01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: against Tennessee, that is setting a Super Bowl record for

1178
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: Sachs taken like he did last night against the Rams.

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01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: The decision to draft Chase was the right one at

1180
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 1: the moment, But now to avoid that sort of Damn

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01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: Marino type fate for Burrow, they have to make sure

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01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: they could protect him in twenty twenty two and four.

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01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: The Bengals certainly will get better next year or try

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01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 1: to get better next season in certain ways, because you

1185
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: can't play the same every single season and expect to

1186
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: make it to the super Bowl. But the fact that

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01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: this was a ten and seventeen, it's ten and seventeen

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01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: with a lot of youth on their roster. What do

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01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 1: you think the Bengals season told or taught the NFL

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01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: and other teams what they can do kind of catching

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01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: lightning in a bottle there and being able to ride

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01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: it all the way to the super Bowl. Well, I

1193
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 1: think it also speaks to what we've sort of touched

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01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: about talked about it this discussion is the importance of

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01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 1: getting the quarterback position and that evaluation process right. When

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01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: you have the quarterback that can delivering key moments, that

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01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 1: can lead his team, that has that sort of competitive

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01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: toughness to shake off nine sacks against the Titans, to

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01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: sort of fix things quickly after the snap, like we

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01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 1: saw both from Joe Burrow throughout this season and to

1201
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: an extent Matthew Stafford last night. Getting the quarterback piece

1202
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 1: is critical. If you have that, it can cover up

1203
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: other mistakes from a roster construction standpoint, And so teams

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01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: like the Bills, teams like the Chargers, teams like the

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01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs that were watching this game from home, they can

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01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: feel comfortable that, you know, we have that component figured out.

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01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: Now we have to figure out the rest around that

1208
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: player and add talent where we need to, whether it's

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01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: like in the Bengals example, the offensive line. And it's

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01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 1: also going to have a sort of key factor and

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01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 1: how this off season will unfold Teams that don't have

1212
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: that position figured out. Will they be aggressive in free agency?

1213
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: Will they be aggressive pursuing trades, whether it's for Russell

1214
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 1: Wilson or Jimmy Garoppolo who might find himself available via

1215
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 1: trade and nowlett the fort n Ire seemed like they're

1216
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: ready to move forward with Trey Lances their starting quarterback.

1217
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: Quarterback decisions are going to be a huge part of

1218
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: this offseason process. And when you factor in the idea

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01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: that it might not be the best quarterback draft class room.

1220
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: It's not like last year's will you have, you know,

1221
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: five players in the top fifteen picks. This is a

1222
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 1: bit weaker of a class. You might have quarterbacks that

1223
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: are going to be good at some point, whether it's

1224
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 1: a Teddy Pickett, a Malik Willis and Matt Corrall and

1225
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter, they might not be ready week one of

1226
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 1: next year. And if you're a team like say Denver,

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01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 1: that feels that you're close. But you've got to keep

1228
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: up with Justin Herbert. You've got to keep up with

1229
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. You've got to keep up with Patrick Mahomes.

1230
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 1: You need that quarterback piece. You might have to address

1231
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 1: it via trade. And so both these teams, the Rams

1232
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: and the Bengals, they illustrated that you need to figure

1233
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 1: out the quarterback piece, how however you go about doing it,

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01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 1: whether draft or free agency, you've got to get that

1235
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: right and then you can fill in the rest around it. Yeah,

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01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 1: and speaking of that, there's one more that I wanted

1237
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: to throw at you, which was on the NFC side.

1238
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 1: Brian Dables, the new head coach in New York with

1239
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 1: the Giants, obviously leaves Buffalo for his first head coaching

1240
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 1: job at the NFL level, and he's got to work

1241
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: with Daniel Jones. It looks like he's Jones is going

1242
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: to have this year to prove that he can develop,

1243
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: he can flourish under dable and offensive coordinator Mike Kafka.

1244
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: Jones has athletic ability. You know, we've seen him take

1245
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: off and run for big time yardage at times. His

1246
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: arm seems good enough. He certainly seems to have it

1247
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: between the years, but it looks like he's only going

1248
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:44,280
Speaker 1: to get probably this year, right, Like this is kind

1249
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 1: of the gimming year that day Ball gets as head coach,

1250
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 1: and for Jones, it's got to work otherwise they're going

1251
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 1: to be in that same pool we find some teams

1252
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: in this offseason, right, Chris, I think that's exactly the

1253
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 1: right And you know, Jones is one of those quarterbacks

1254
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 1: that as an incumbent starter in the NFL season, I

1255
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 1: think is going to get that benefit of an extra

1256
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: season because of this incombent rookie class. If this were

1257
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: say last year, we were in the same boat with

1258
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, I think the Giants would probably have explored

1259
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,439
Speaker 1: draft and a quarterback. If this were perhaps next year

1260
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 1: with Bryce Young, C. J. Stroud and Phil dr Covid

1261
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: from Boston College, you might see the Giants society, Look,

1262
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: you know what we've seen, what we've got from Daniel Jones.

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01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: Let's move forward with a different name of this position.

1264
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: I think that sort of weaker draft class is going

1265
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 1: to give Daniel Jones one more season under Brian Dable

1266
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 1: to put it all together. You mentioned the athleticism, you

1267
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: mentioned the arm talent. Brian Dabele has said that, look,

1268
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to build this around Daniel Jones.

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01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: I think he can be the starting quarterback that the

1270
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 1: New York Giants need to take steps to win this division.

1271
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: Now they have to put it together. What's going to

1272
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: be tough for Jones? This is now I think his

1273
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: fourth offense and sort of four years dat him back

1274
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 1: to his time in Duke anytime as an offseason, in

1275
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 1: an offseason program, you have to spend time learning a

1276
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 1: new playbook, learning a new system. That's going to make

1277
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: it tough. But Dable earnest time in Buffalo with the

1278
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: Bills showed the ability to work with his young quarterback.

1279
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen talked about it during Super Bowl media week.

1280
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 1: He sat down Brian Dabel did with Josh Allen asked

1281
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: of what plays do you like? What concepts do you

1282
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 1: not like? If you don't like it, we're not calling it.

1283
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: And so I have confidence that Dabel is going to

1284
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 1: be able to sit down with Jones, get together in

1285
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: the game plans that Jones wants to see the roll

1286
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: concepts that he wants to have called, and that's gonna

1287
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: put Jones in a position to be successful. But you're right, Chris,

1288
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: this is a make or break season for Daniel Jones

1289
01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: because the Giants are gonna face a decision. If he

1290
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:33,960
Speaker 1: can't make that step that he needs, they're gonna have

1291
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 1: to move on next offseason. Yeah, Mark, thanks as always

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01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,120
Speaker 1: for the time. Get some rest after a long season.

1293
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: You finally get to kick your feet up a little bit.

1294
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 1: But I know you'll be back on the free agency

1295
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 1: trail in the not too distant future. Here, Thanks again,

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01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 1: Thanks so much to both of you. Have a great day. Yeah,

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01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 1: take care now. That's Mark Schofield, NFL writer for USA

1298
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:57,320
Speaker 1: Today's Touchdown Wire. Yeah, definitely make or break for Daniel Jones.

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01:07:57,360 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 1: But I think there's gonna be more quarterback movement again

1300
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 1: this offseason. Maybe not to the degree that we saw

1301
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 1: last year, you know, with Wentz going here, Stafford going there, Jarragott,

1302
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 1: but I think Russell Wilson could be on the move.

1303
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: Is Carson Wentz on the move? We don't know. There

1304
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 1: was some interesting stuff surfacing yesterday that kind of made

1305
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,280
Speaker 1: you scratch your head. Kyler Murray apparently doesn't like getting

1306
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 1: blamed for the problems in Arizona, so that seems really

1307
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,680
Speaker 1: strange an odd down there. And he mentioned Jimmy Garoppolo too.

1308
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean, there's gonna be some name guys that are

1309
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: going to be out there floating around. I think some

1310
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 1: people could be changing addresses here in the off season.

1311
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,400
Speaker 1: At quarterback again, it's gonna be crazy. And I think

1312
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,759
Speaker 1: now that you saw all the shifting that happened last season,

1313
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:39,679
Speaker 1: I think more quarterbacks are willing to take a chance

1314
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: and go somewhere else now because look at what happened

1315
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: for Matthew Stafford, and not saying that it's going to

1316
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: happen for any quarterback. If they choose to go to

1317
01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: a good team, you're bound to win a Super Bowl.

1318
01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: But I just think we're in this new era of

1319
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: the NFL where you don't have to be tied to

1320
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 1: that one team as a quarterback for your entire career.

1321
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 1: You have the freedom to move around as your contract says,

1322
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: or as you want to negotiate and communicate, whether it

1323
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:06,120
Speaker 1: be social media or to your head coach or whatnot.

1324
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 1: I think we're starting to see more guys have willingness

1325
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: to go outside of the team that they've been a

1326
01:09:12,400 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 1: part of for five to ten years. Yeah, and if

1327
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 1: you look at the last two years as examples, I

1328
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 1: think it only convinces those quarterbacks who may not be

1329
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 1: one hundred percent happy with where they are all the

1330
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 1: more to look to make a move because you go

1331
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 1: because it used to be ah well as contracts too big,

1332
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: You can't move him because the cap hits too much.

1333
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz gave the Philadelphia Eagles a thirty seven million

1334
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 1: dollar capit they traded him anyway. Matthew Stafford spent eleven

1335
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: years in Detroit, got traded, won the Super Bowl. Those

1336
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: two examples alone are probably convincing any quarterback that's even

1337
01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 1: thinking about it that it's now possible. Based on those

1338
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: two examples alone. Let's get back to the phones though,

1339
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:52,679
Speaker 1: at eight oh three five fifty one, eight eight five

1340
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty, where we're asking you does the

1341
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: Rams Super Bowl win change your mind on how the

1342
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: Bills should attack this off season? We go to Andy

1343
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 1: in Florida next Andy, what do you have for us.

1344
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's lives. Hey, guys, how are you good?

1345
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:12,639
Speaker 1: And Maddy? I really just wanted to get this off

1346
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 1: my chest, and I'm gonna make this as quick as

1347
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 1: possible for you guys, because this is really my almost

1348
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 1: my end of season type of take where I finally

1349
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: am getting to the point where I can kind of

1350
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 1: express myself about all this. But a previous college stated

1351
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 1: to you guys a little while ago that he wanted

1352
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: defending of you guys about what the priority of this

1353
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 1: off season was, whether it's offense, de friend, etc. I mean, honestly,

1354
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,120
Speaker 1: I have a concere different opinion, and that's what triggered

1355
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,160
Speaker 1: me to even give you guys a call, And hopefully

1356
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:42,320
Speaker 1: this helps me get through this last step of the

1357
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: stage of the Greek five pages of the Greek are denial, anger, bargaining, depression,

1358
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: and acceptance. And honestly, maybe not in this order, but

1359
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: the one I've been missing is acceptance and I still

1360
01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:56,679
Speaker 1: don't have it fully, But I promise you, I hope

1361
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 1: this this phone call and you guys can help me

1362
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:03,000
Speaker 1: with getting to that final steps. But honestly, let me look,

1363
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 1: this is how it started for me. It was in

1364
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:09,400
Speaker 1: the first and foremost thing was it was denial absolutely,

1365
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 1: then depression, maybe even a combo of those two. After

1366
01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 1: after the game, I bargained with the idea that overtime

1367
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: was squawed. I mean, but that was easily fleeting for me,

1368
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:22,800
Speaker 1: because truly, to me, overtime he's never even supposed to happen.

1369
01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 1: And then anger definitely kicked in and immediately after that

1370
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 1: and watching football again. But I combated that with turning

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01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:31,600
Speaker 1: off every single radio and TV show. I mean, I

1372
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: listened to you guys every single day starting at six am,

1373
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 1: all the way through for you know, to show up

1374
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: in the Bulldog when I I mean, I do this

1375
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:42,599
Speaker 1: every day, and I couldn't even do it because somebody

1376
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:44,719
Speaker 1: would remind me of something that it would just trigger

1377
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 1: me and be like, oh, And then I'm literally right

1378
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 1: now featuring the line with anger and acceptance because I'm

1379
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 1: trying to. I don't think I can ever forget or

1380
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:00,639
Speaker 1: forgive thirteen seconds simply stated. I'm thirty eight years old.

1381
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 1: And what this reminds me of, honestly, is when we

1382
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: didn't finish in Game seven in Carolina as a Buffalo

1383
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:08,720
Speaker 1: favor fans and our opponent would have been in the

1384
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 1: Edmonton Oilers and Dwayne Rollers. That was our cups. Yeah,

1385
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: this year we would have had since the at home

1386
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,599
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park and have been able to get the

1387
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:21,680
Speaker 1: Lombardi in my opinion versus an inferior ranting. But I

1388
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: mean we would have got there. The way Josh was playing,

1389
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 1: he was on a different level. He was a super human.

1390
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 1: I mean, he's good, but what he was doing, he

1391
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: was it was just insane. But you know, the main

1392
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:33,920
Speaker 1: part that I'm really trying to tell you is what

1393
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: the priority to me in the off season is, it's

1394
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: signed as many of the guys that were on our

1395
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 1: roster wearing a Buffalo Bill's uniform. I don't care about offense.

1396
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: I don't care about defense. I care about Brandon being

1397
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: and trusting that process because I know he'll built through

1398
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 1: the draft, he will continue to do that. But if

1399
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:55,320
Speaker 1: there's a priority, it's truly we'll signed as many of

1400
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 1: those guys as you possibly can. Because if there was

1401
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: a defination of humble and hungry, I mean, you can't

1402
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: lose in thirteen seconds and not be humble and hungry.

1403
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 1: We got humbled, and if you're not hungry and then yeah,

1404
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:11,000
Speaker 1: we don't want you on the team, but those guys

1405
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:14,840
Speaker 1: need to come back because we were thirteen seconds away

1406
01:13:14,880 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: from doing something special. Second AFC championship in two consecutive years.

1407
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not many things, there's not many goals

1408
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 1: that we need to fill. We were there. Yeah, I

1409
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: mean there's no excuses. It was. I mean, I'm sorry,

1410
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ramble, but that's it. I mean, that's my take.

1411
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that it's about offense and defense.

1412
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: I think it's simply about getting those boys back, getting

1413
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:40,720
Speaker 1: them in the offseason, get them in the weight room

1414
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:43,599
Speaker 1: and handle it. I mean, yeah, you come back next

1415
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: year and get hungry. Right. I get it, Andy, and

1416
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 1: I know I feel for you because it's hard to

1417
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: make peace with it. I get it, and thanks for

1418
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 1: the call. But I will say this, the Bills to

1419
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:56,599
Speaker 1: a great degree, Maddie tried to run it back last year.

1420
01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: They brought a lot of the same guys back into

1421
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 1: the fold and they didn't even get as far as

1422
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 1: they did the year prior. And the sentence that is

1423
01:14:05,439 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 1: ringing in my years right now is when coach McDermott

1424
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 1: says every year is different and He's right. Every year

1425
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:16,800
Speaker 1: is different. So to think you can take the tear

1426
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 1: that this team was on at the end of this

1427
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: past season and repackage it with the same guys and

1428
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 1: have just as much success, if not more, in twenty

1429
01:14:27,200 --> 01:14:30,040
Speaker 1: twenty two, I think with the way this league works

1430
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 1: is a little flawed in terms of its thinking. Every year.

1431
01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:36,879
Speaker 1: As Brandon Bean said at his end of season press conference,

1432
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: you have to be looking for what the next thing

1433
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:43,479
Speaker 1: is in this league. You can't say, well, let's just

1434
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 1: get everybody back and hope it's good enough. You have

1435
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: to stay ahead of the curve. You can't stay on

1436
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,439
Speaker 1: the curve. You have to be ahead of it because

1437
01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 1: the margins are so thin in this league, so andy,

1438
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 1: as hard as it is for you to find peace,

1439
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:58,759
Speaker 1: you will have to find and make peace with what happened.

1440
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 1: And then second, you have to expect this team to

1441
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: try to look for ways to improve, not stay the same.

1442
01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 1: I don't know if you feel the same way, but

1443
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: I think back to the NFC season press conference with

1444
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,599
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and when he was asked about running it

1445
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,680
Speaker 1: back this past season and then trying to do the

1446
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:18,080
Speaker 1: same for this season. He was really quick to say well,

1447
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:20,559
Speaker 1: we didn't just want to run it back last season.

1448
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: We didn't necessarily think that we could get the guys

1449
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: that we could at the value at the value we

1450
01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 1: placed on them, But then it ended up working out

1451
01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 1: for us, so that he was quick to say that

1452
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: was never really the plan for us, but that's kind

1453
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: of just how it worked out, and was then quick

1454
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: to say that's not going to be the case this

1455
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: year as well. We are going to try and run

1456
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: it back with some of the guys who we deem

1457
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: are important to this team and can help us out

1458
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 1: for next year. But also when you asked players, when

1459
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: you asked the coaching staff after the season, when the

1460
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,599
Speaker 1: guys did locker clean out day about having a lot

1461
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 1: of the same pieces for next year, they were all

1462
01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:58,799
Speaker 1: saying things like, this team is going to be different

1463
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 1: next year. Every year different, every year has new pieces.

1464
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 1: Every year you part ways with people. So I think

1465
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 1: the Bills understand that maybe maybe this year is going

1466
01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 1: to look different than the previous years, than last year,

1467
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 1: maybe we're going to see a wave of new people

1468
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: come in because that's what they need. I do think

1469
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 1: the players that remain on this roster that they want

1470
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 1: to be on this roster, you have a different feeling

1471
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 1: about next season, knowing what you went through this season,

1472
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: Knowing the thirteen seconds I think that's going to stick

1473
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 1: with those guys a lot longer than the previous season did.

1474
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 1: I think the thirteen seconds irks them in ways that

1475
01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: the last loss in twenty twenty did not. You lost

1476
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:43,240
Speaker 1: that game by two touchdowns, yes, I mean that game

1477
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: was over, yes, and you know you had mistakes, you

1478
01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:49,679
Speaker 1: had turnovers, you didn't execute a key times of the game,

1479
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 1: and you know with about four or five minutes left

1480
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:55,600
Speaker 1: the game was largely decided and you knew what was

1481
01:16:55,680 --> 01:17:00,439
Speaker 1: going to happen. The divisional playoff, we all know they

1482
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: had it in the bag. They let it get away,

1483
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:08,600
Speaker 1: and those tend to sting more and to spin it positive.

1484
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,719
Speaker 1: Those often motivate you more to make good on those

1485
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 1: past failures in the future. So hopefully that is very

1486
01:17:16,439 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 1: much the case. But I think this roster is going

1487
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: to look dramatically different from what it did last year

1488
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: because I think they have to know, they know they

1489
01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: have to get better in different ways to get over

1490
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: that hump. What ways those are the questions that you

1491
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 1: know only Brandon being in the personnel department and head

1492
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 1: coach on mcdermc can answer, and we'll be here for

1493
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: all of them. We have to take a break here

1494
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:38,519
Speaker 1: because when we come back a very special Super Bowl

1495
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: edition of the Maddie Awards, they come our way next

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01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by CALLI to help.

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01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:58,720
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One

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01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Maddie glab would you, and it

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01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: is that time a special Super Bowl edition of the

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01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:09,560
Speaker 1: Maddie Awards, presented by Energy Bark, the official energy supplier

1501
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. As Maddie did a little extra

1502
01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: postseason work. What if we come up with here, Maddie,

1503
01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:19,200
Speaker 1: what are we? Where are we starting? MVP? I guess yeah,

1504
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: we'll start with MVP. Also, I've got to say, I

1505
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: don't think I've done the Maddie's in studio since season

1506
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:30,360
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I also don't think I've co

1507
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: hosted in here. Yeah, since that season as well. You've

1508
01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 1: been remote day. It's a new day. It's a happy day.

1509
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:40,639
Speaker 1: I hope. I hope next season it's the same thing

1510
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:44,519
Speaker 1: that means COVID lord better not a thing. Can't wait

1511
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: for that, all right, We'll start with MVP of the

1512
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:51,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I'm giving it to Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford.

1513
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 1: I don't think you win this game without both of

1514
01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:57,960
Speaker 1: those players. Cooper Cup was amazing in a lot of

1515
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: different ways. Two touchdowns for him, ninety two receiving yards.

1516
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: Also popped off a run play of his own, which

1517
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 1: was a big conversion. Incredible that the way that he

1518
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 1: was able to do that, he I think had three

1519
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: or four guys on him and was still able to

1520
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: get a couple of yards. And to trust a player

1521
01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: like that, to trust a receiver and know in that

1522
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: moment that is what you need who can do it

1523
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:22,599
Speaker 1: for me? I'm just going to give it to our receiver,

1524
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:25,599
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup and let him get the first down. I

1525
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:28,759
Speaker 1: think he is one of the best receivers in the NFL.

1526
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: His second touchdown catch, they went to him, went to him,

1527
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:36,640
Speaker 1: went to him. Finally gets a touchdown catch there in

1528
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:38,519
Speaker 1: the corner of the end zone. Both of his touchdown

1529
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 1: catches were in the corner of the end zone. I

1530
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 1: think he's elite. I think he's a special talent. A

1531
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 1: lot of people can't do what he can do, and

1532
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:48,640
Speaker 1: I'm glad that we have someone similar to him on

1533
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: our roster named Stefan Diggs and then just Matthew Stafford.

1534
01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 1: Just the story of him coming to the Rams, uniting

1535
01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:59,840
Speaker 1: with Sean McVay, a guru in a lot of different ways,

1536
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: and what he knows and what he could do and

1537
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 1: what he could draw up. It worked out well for

1538
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 1: both of those guys this season. It was awesome to

1539
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: see him see the season that he had at times

1540
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:13,720
Speaker 1: maybe not the best, but really in the playoffs. I

1541
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: was listening to Good Morning Football this morning and I

1542
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 1: think they said this year in the playoffs, he completed

1543
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:22,680
Speaker 1: seventy percent of his passes, had nine touchdown passes and

1544
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:26,599
Speaker 1: just three interceptions, And compared it to his time during

1545
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: the Lions where when he was in the same situation

1546
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 1: or playoff wise, I think he had four touchdown passes

1547
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:35,599
Speaker 1: and three interceptions. So the production that he has had

1548
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: this season with the Rams, I think it's a really

1549
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 1: cool story. I feel great for him. He's great with

1550
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: what he does in the community, same with his wife.

1551
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 1: The story of them. So those are my MVPs in

1552
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: my eyes for the Super Bowl. Yeah, I mean, I

1553
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: still remember Cooper cup at the twenty seventeen Senior Bowl.

1554
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 1: He was the best player on the field offense, defense,

1555
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 1: special teams, like the whole Week Gang. He just stood

1556
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:05,200
Speaker 1: out so much and it's like, who's this guy from

1557
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:08,479
Speaker 1: eastern Washington. Yeah, you know, and he was just he

1558
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:11,839
Speaker 1: was phenomenal then. So to see it get to this point,

1559
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, you know, four or five years later, pretty

1560
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:17,560
Speaker 1: special for him, especially considering OBJ got hurt and you

1561
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:20,720
Speaker 1: got receivers out there whose names we can't even pronounce, Grounic,

1562
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: who knows who else it was. I mean, they had

1563
01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:24,719
Speaker 1: to go to him. They didn't have a choice, nobody

1564
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: else was healthy. All right, Let's go from that to

1565
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: most entertaining. Most entertaining part of the game for me

1566
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: was the halftime show. We talked about it in the

1567
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 1: open in our first segment. I just thought it was great.

1568
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,439
Speaker 1: Elite names that were a part of it, doctor dre

1569
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 1: Em and then Mary J. Blise, you have fifty cent

1570
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: come out as a surprise at Snoop, Diggety Dog, and

1571
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 1: then my boy King Kung Fu, Kenny Kendrick Lamar. I

1572
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:54,720
Speaker 1: thought it was fun to watch. I loved how it

1573
01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:58,000
Speaker 1: all came together. I like how everybody had their own

1574
01:21:58,080 --> 01:21:59,880
Speaker 1: little part, but also I wish it could have gone

1575
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: on for a lot longer. Yeah, and we didn't talk

1576
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: about this. I'm guessing this was supposed to be like

1577
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: an LA house party vibe. Is that how I'd had

1578
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 1: all these houses or underground pieces? Right? Yep? It was

1579
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:17,120
Speaker 1: an ode to some of the neighborhoods in LA and

1580
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: across LA. So that's kind of yeah, that was the

1581
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: vibe of it. So glad I captured. Yes, Okay, we're

1582
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: short on time, so we will move to Super Bowl

1583
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: or no. Sorry, Best catch in the Super Bowl. I

1584
01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:32,880
Speaker 1: think this one's pretty easy. Oh my gosh. Jamar Chase

1585
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: had an amazing catch where he burned Jalen Ramsey down

1586
01:22:36,479 --> 01:22:39,040
Speaker 1: the field. I can't remember what how many yards it was,

1587
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:43,439
Speaker 1: but it was a huge play. One handed catches. He's

1588
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 1: falling down this wide receiver. The season that he had,

1589
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:50,680
Speaker 1: what he was able to do with Joe Burrow, the

1590
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:54,360
Speaker 1: catches that he was able to make consistently throughout the season,

1591
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:56,760
Speaker 1: the best guy in a lot of ways when he

1592
01:22:56,800 --> 01:23:00,120
Speaker 1: was going up against some great talent at cornerback. Love

1593
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 1: watching him burn Jalen Ramsey. But that catch was number

1594
01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: one in my eyes. The way that he was able

1595
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 1: to get the ball there and not necessarily bobble it

1596
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 1: let it hit the ground. That is not easy to do.

1597
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase is a special wide receiver stuck to his

1598
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,799
Speaker 1: hand like glue. I will say as an honorable mention.

1599
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: Obj's touchdown catch, Yeah, was a higher degree of difficulty

1600
01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:24,000
Speaker 1: than I think a lot of people gave it credit for.

1601
01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 1: Because as soon as he caught it, the dB went

1602
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: to arm rakam and if he doesn't tuck that ball

1603
01:23:30,479 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 1: under his arm on the one side quickly, as soon

1604
01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: as he makes contact with the football, it's probably raked out.

1605
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: But because he tucked it so quickly and the angle

1606
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 1: was so narrow, I mean it's a great throw, but

1607
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 1: maybe even a better catch, that would be my honorable

1608
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 1: mention for best catch. Okay, we go to Super Bowl

1609
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:53,280
Speaker 1: punisher and I think most people can figure this one out,

1610
01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:57,799
Speaker 1: but Letteran Donald was the punisher of the game. Two sacks,

1611
01:23:57,840 --> 01:24:01,040
Speaker 1: a couple of TFLs, a few quarterback hit. He is

1612
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 1: that dude on the defensive line. You gotta be scared

1613
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:06,920
Speaker 1: of him if you're going up against him. The way

1614
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,080
Speaker 1: that they were able to put him in one on

1615
01:24:09,080 --> 01:24:11,960
Speaker 1: one situations, as we've talked about throughout the show and

1616
01:24:12,040 --> 01:24:14,840
Speaker 1: heard about. I think Mark Scofield pointed out when we

1617
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 1: had him on just earlier in the show, he was

1618
01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 1: important when he needs to be important. He was able

1619
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:23,800
Speaker 1: to affect the game in many different types of ways,

1620
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch there with that minute and a

1621
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: half left the last two plays, Aaron Donald showed up

1622
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:31,800
Speaker 1: and he is worth how much they have to pay

1623
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: for him. All the elites really showed up when they

1624
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: needed to. Feel for the guy Award. I feel for obj.

1625
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:42,839
Speaker 1: I mean, he started off that game and it was like, Ah,

1626
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:44,960
Speaker 1: is it going to be Odell's game instead of Cooper

1627
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 1: Cups game. He got off to a hot start and

1628
01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:50,599
Speaker 1: then he comes down with that non contact injury. We're

1629
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:53,000
Speaker 1: not sure what it's going to be, if it's ACL

1630
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:55,920
Speaker 1: or not, but he definitely looked bummed out on the

1631
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:00,559
Speaker 1: sidelines after he came out of the game and after

1632
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:02,320
Speaker 1: we knew he would not go back in the game

1633
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:05,599
Speaker 1: and street clothes. So feel for that guy, especially coming

1634
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:09,439
Speaker 1: off of an ACL injury to then maybe have one again.

1635
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:12,559
Speaker 1: It just sucks. You don't want to see that. Out

1636
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: of the best players in the NFL. You don't want

1637
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 1: to see that out of any athlete to have to

1638
01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 1: go through something like that and go through something similar again. Yeah,

1639
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: tough one to take. Best Super Bowl commercial. I thought

1640
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:26,599
Speaker 1: it was a down year for commercial I didn't love.

1641
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:28,679
Speaker 1: I didn't love any of them. But if I've got

1642
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:32,080
Speaker 1: to pick two, I think the coin Base commercial where

1643
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:34,280
Speaker 1: it was just the QR code going across the screen

1644
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:36,559
Speaker 1: because you were like, what is this I need to know?

1645
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,360
Speaker 1: So of course everybody whips out their phone and sees

1646
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:42,160
Speaker 1: that it's a coin based commercial for crypto. And then

1647
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:45,519
Speaker 1: the Larry David one, also another crypto ad. I thought

1648
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:47,640
Speaker 1: it was funny, kind of just being up with the

1649
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: times or new things in our world. So I think

1650
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:53,679
Speaker 1: it's funny that they used Larry David in that commercial.

1651
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 1: I think he is hilarious, So I thought that, Yeah,

1652
01:25:57,439 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 1: that's the only other one that I know I told

1653
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:02,600
Speaker 1: you about that I liked was the Scarlett Johansson and

1654
01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 1: Colin Joes who are obviously married but both in the

1655
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: acting world, and they were doing it with Alexa or something.

1656
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:11,760
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the product was, but it was

1657
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:14,000
Speaker 1: pretty funny. But yeah, the Larry David one was a

1658
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 1: lot of crypto commercials. This. Yeah, it's kind of like,

1659
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, when we had the whole y two K

1660
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 1: and everybody was doing the dot com commercials, Like there

1661
01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:23,160
Speaker 1: was this explosion of dot com commercials in the early

1662
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:26,240
Speaker 1: two thousands, and we're like, this is gonna last. And

1663
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 1: now that's what everybody's saying about crypto too. Yeah, all right,

1664
01:26:29,479 --> 01:26:32,599
Speaker 1: last one the You Deserve It Award, all right. Shout

1665
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:35,479
Speaker 1: out to my boy Q Morgan. You guys may not

1666
01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 1: know him, but Brownie and I and everybody here knows

1667
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 1: him by name and is good friends of us. So

1668
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,720
Speaker 1: Q worked for the Buffalo Bills as one of the

1669
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:50,080
Speaker 1: PR people in the department, and he left us. I

1670
01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:52,120
Speaker 1: wish he was still here because he's such a great friend.

1671
01:26:52,320 --> 01:26:54,280
Speaker 1: But he went to the La Rams to take a

1672
01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:58,000
Speaker 1: job in their PR department and his first season gets

1673
01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:01,639
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl ring lucky guy. I got to see

1674
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:03,439
Speaker 1: him in the background of a bunch of the shots

1675
01:27:03,439 --> 01:27:06,160
Speaker 1: when they were celebrating. He had the hat on right away.

1676
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:08,559
Speaker 1: I know he worked a long week, probably had a

1677
01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: really long day. Was texting with him a little bit,

1678
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:12,599
Speaker 1: and so I can't wait to catch up with him.

1679
01:27:12,960 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 1: He definitely deserves it. He's a hard worker and a

1680
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:18,080
Speaker 1: great guy. So I also sent him a congratulatory text.

1681
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 1: And we also had somebody from our video department that

1682
01:27:21,479 --> 01:27:23,760
Speaker 1: works over there with the Rams. Now to Sam Lack,

1683
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 1: who was I think he had already left by the

1684
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:27,720
Speaker 1: time you got here, Maddie, but he works for the

1685
01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:29,680
Speaker 1: RAMS too. In the video you may see him like

1686
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: running behind Matthew Stafford and the tunnel with the camera,

1687
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:36,120
Speaker 1: so he also right place, right time. So two former

1688
01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:39,880
Speaker 1: Bill's colleagues of ours getting a Super Bowl title with

1689
01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 1: the Rams. So really cool stuff out there, So good

1690
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: on them and happy for those guys. Hopefully they'll be

1691
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:48,400
Speaker 1: saying that about us next year. Right, Those are the

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01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:51,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Edition Mattie Awards. We'll be back to wrap

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01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: things up next here on one Bill's Line, presented by

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01:27:54,040 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Mattie. We were

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01:28:09,560 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 1: just talking about it and it is confirmed. It is

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01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:19,400
Speaker 1: a torn acl b J, same one, same one that

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01:28:19,479 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: he tore in twenty twenty. Just came back from that

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01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:27,439
Speaker 1: this year and got off to a slow start then

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01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 1: you know, wound up with the RAMS um But that

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01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:33,760
Speaker 1: is the report. Now it is a torn ACL, which

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01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:36,680
Speaker 1: when you watched it, that's kind of what you thought, right,

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01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I thought, and I was reminding unfortunately,

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01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 1: And it's just crazy how these non contact ones happen

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01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,800
Speaker 1: on turf nowadays. We saw it happen to Tradevious in

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01:28:47,840 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving game at UM at New Orleans, which looked,

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01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, completely innocuous and harmless. But it's just that

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01:28:55,439 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 1: little like that little tweak of the knee joints. And

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01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:02,680
Speaker 1: it's crazy to think, because I know some doctors and

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01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 1: athletic trainers have told me this the knee join. All

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01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:10,040
Speaker 1: you need is twenty pounds of lateral pressure and you

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01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 1: can do unspeakable damage to the knee joint. It's crazy.

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01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen more often, really nuts. It's sad, but

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01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 1: another long road to recovery for OBJ, and you wonder

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01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:22,880
Speaker 1: about his career in his future. This is a second time,

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01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:25,200
Speaker 1: same knee that's not easy to come back from. Yeah,

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01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:27,439
Speaker 1: at least it's got a Super Bowl. Maddie, Thanks for

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01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:29,479
Speaker 1: your help today. We will catch up with you down

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Speaker 1: the line for sure this offseason. We'll see you tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at one