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Speaker 1: This One Bill's Live presented by Callida Health.

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Speaker 2: Here we are on a Wednesday, Chris Brown, Matty Glad

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Speaker 2: with you One Bill's Live. Thanks for making this a

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Speaker 2: part of your afternoon. Day two of OTA practices this week.

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Speaker 2: Already in the bag, off the field. They're done for

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Speaker 2: the day, at least on the field stuff. Maybe there's

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Speaker 2: some classroom work to do, some practice film to review,

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Speaker 2: but all of that is taken care of and accomplished already.

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Speaker 2: They started an hour earlier today on the field than

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Speaker 2: they did yesterday, and they were inside with rain moving through.

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Speaker 3: They were trying to beat the rain by starting earlier,

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Speaker 3: and they.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even beat the rain getting here this morning.

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Speaker 4: Me too.

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Speaker 2: You were saying, like in the afternoon, like all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden it got accelerated to like now.

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Speaker 1: This morning, I was.

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Speaker 3: It's the game you play when you sit in your

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Speaker 3: car and the rain starts, and you're like, do I.

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Speaker 5: Wait till it eases up a little bit, or do

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Speaker 5: I just go for it.

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Speaker 2: I almost I almost left the house without like a

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Speaker 2: rain jacket or something that's better than the shirt I'm

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Speaker 2: wearing in terms of repelling the rain.

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Speaker 1: And I'm glad I just grabbed. I'm like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take it. You ever play that game

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Speaker 1: with yourself where you say.

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Speaker 2: If I bring the umbrella it won't rain. Yes, that

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Speaker 2: doesn't apply here. It really does not apply here at all.

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Speaker 2: In way they rain, it's gonna rain, and probably sooner

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Speaker 2: than they predict. So yeah, the players were inside today,

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Speaker 2: got their session in and uh yeah, I mean only

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Speaker 2: yesterday's practice was open to the media.

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Speaker 5: So how long were you guys out there yesterday? You

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Speaker 5: and Steve, Steve.

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Speaker 2: And I were out there for probably like a good

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Speaker 2: twenty five minutes.

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Speaker 1: We only saw it.

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Speaker 5: Did you see any a team?

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Speaker 1: We saw the red zone?

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Speaker 2: Okay, seven on seven session and then we had to

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Speaker 2: get inside. So yeah, that's why I was like, dang,

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Speaker 2: I wish yesterday's practice could have been an hour earlier

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Speaker 2: than I would have seen an hour more of it.

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Speaker 2: But hopefully we get that opportunity here in the next Yeah,

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, whether it's the next week of

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Speaker 2: OTAs or maybe even mini camp, try to get a

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Speaker 2: full practice in just because I like to see all

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Speaker 2: the facets of everything going on there, but especially team,

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Speaker 2: and that usually doesn't happen until you're forty forty five

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it happened.

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Speaker 3: Towards the end of practice yesterday they had a few

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Speaker 3: team periods. One thing that caught my eye was some

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Speaker 3: of our younger players, some of the draft picks.

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Speaker 5: TJ.

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Speaker 3: Sanders, our newest defensive tackle. He blew up a pass

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Speaker 3: at the line of scrimmage, batted it down. He looked

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Speaker 3: fast and one of the reasons why Buffalo wanted to

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Speaker 3: Sanders was because of his quick feet and his ability

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Speaker 3: And seeing that and the way that he looked like

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Speaker 5: He was running straight at the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Was able to get past the offensive line and put

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Speaker 3: his hands up and the ball went flying like fifty

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Speaker 3: So I was impressed by that. Other things that caught

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Speaker 3: He almost grabbed it to it popped out and it

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Speaker 3: looked like he was going to come down with the

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Speaker 3: then Maxwell Harriston first round pick for Buffalo at cornerback.

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Speaker 3: You can see his speed on the field, Chris, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was impressive watching him catch up to guys, watching

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Speaker 2: It's not build up speed. There is suddenness and explosion

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Speaker 2: to his game. So whether it's a receiver snapping off

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Speaker 2: also got the long speed to flip his hips and

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Speaker 2: stride for stride with a guy. So so why is

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Speaker 2: early signs to see that. I am still getting accustomed

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Speaker 2: to Terrel Bernard wearing number three.

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Speaker 1: That is bugging me because he's worn forty three for

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Speaker 1: three seasons.

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Speaker 2: And look, I'm not knocking the switch. It's just it's

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Speaker 2: three in my brain, and now I have to make

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Speaker 5: You've got number changes.

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Speaker 3: You got a bunch of new players with numbers that

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Speaker 3: we have to learn a lot of OTA's and mandatory

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Speaker 3: mini camp while we are watching and taking notes is

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Speaker 3: spent trying to attach numbers to last names and quizzing

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Speaker 3: yourself throughout practice of who is number whatever?

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Speaker 2: We look at your card like I played that, don't

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Speaker 2: look at your card? Do you remember who that is?

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Speaker 2: Before looking down? Try to just play memory games with

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Speaker 5: Name Jackson is another interesting twenty three now three Dane

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Speaker 5: Jackson were twenty three?

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Speaker 1: Because what was he here?

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Speaker 5: He was thirty?

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Speaker 1: I believe, Yeah, that's right, he was thirty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So now it's like, oh yeah, the guy's back,

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Speaker 2: Oh jeesus, number is different, and it's just now you

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Speaker 2: gotta go through the mental hurdles of trying to master that.

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Speaker 2: But we'll have it down by training camp, for sure.

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Speaker 2: It was interesting to see NFL dot COM's Eric Edholm

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Speaker 2: put together his list of most complete rosters in the

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Speaker 2: league Bills he ranked fifth, behind Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, and

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Speaker 1: Here's part of what he wrote about.

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Raining MVP Josh Allen, coming off arguably his best season.

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Speaker 2: Todate he remains in his prime nine years old, protected

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Speaker 2: by a well constructed offensive line that brings all five

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Speaker 2: starters back, also as a good group of tight ends,

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Speaker 2: although Dalton Kincaid needs to do more and a strong

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Speaker 2: run game. The Bills would undoubtedly love it if one

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Speaker 2: Moore steps up, but they can also count on continued

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Speaker 2: development from Khalil Shakir and Keon Coleman. Buffalo bosts a

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Speaker 2: improvements on special teams, and the defensive depth could cause

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Speaker 2: more talented NFL squads. He did mention how the defense

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Speaker 2: a positive review of the roster certainly more positive some

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Speaker 2: other people.

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Speaker 1: So there it is.

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Speaker 2: I don't mind, do you mind that Baltimore, Philadelphia and

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Speaker 1: And that doesn't really bug me too much.

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Speaker 5: Doesn't bother me either.

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Speaker 3: Those are rosters who have established people a part of them,

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Speaker 3: who have done impressive things for their teams in the

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Speaker 3: last previous season's last few previous seasons, I should say,

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Speaker 3: and the Bills are right there with them. If they

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Speaker 3: want to rank the Bills fifth, fine, it's all good.

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Speaker 3: Let's see what happens once week one begins, once the

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Speaker 3: season as well. It makes sense that defense is Buffalo's

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Speaker 3: biggest question mark. That's where you have the most new faces,

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Speaker 3: the first six weeks. I think one of the biggest

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Speaker 3: question marks inside of the defense at large is going

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Speaker 3: to be what does the defensive line look like in

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Speaker 3: do they have on the defense?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, you can't scoff at being in the

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Speaker 2: rather not be number one, because then more hype gets

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Speaker 2: thrown on the pile there and all of that, and

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Speaker 2: let the have that as defending Super Bowl champs.

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Speaker 1: You can have it.

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Speaker 2: SI dot COM's Connor Or put together his top one

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Speaker 2: hundred bold predictions for the twenty twenty five NFL season,

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Speaker 2: and there is a heavy Bill's presence to it, beginning

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Speaker 2: with the first two items on the list. I mean,

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Speaker 2: right off the rip here he's got prediction number one,

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Speaker 2: the Bills will defeat the Eagles in Super Bowl sixty.

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Speaker 1: Okay, like wham right, number one, here we go.

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Speaker 2: And then number two was Josh Allen will win Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl sixty MVP.

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Speaker 1: I'll sign up for all of that.

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Speaker 2: I thought the funniest thing was his last line about

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Speaker 2: how the game.

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Speaker 1: Will play out.

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Speaker 2: He says, Khalil Shakiro will lead Buffalo and receiving with

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Speaker 2: prompting GM Brandon Bean to yell you like that in

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Speaker 5: Locker rule that you like that? That would be hilarious.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's taking a page out of

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Speaker 2: at that happens. Speaking of Bean, he was also listed

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Speaker 2: among a half dozen gms predicting them to be the

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Speaker 1: For Executive of the Year.

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Speaker 2: He also had Denver's George Patten, John Spytech with the Raiders,

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Speaker 2: Chargers Elliott Wolf with the Patriots, I can understand why

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Speaker 2: he's got the Patriots on that list. The Broncos, those

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Speaker 2: are teams that are expected to take a noticeable step forward.

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Speaker 2: You know, the Broncos would be looking for back to

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Speaker 2: John Schneider is not afraid to make a move. He

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Speaker 2: made some pretty bold moves when you think about it.

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Speaker 2: I mean he traded for a quarterback, traded away his

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Speaker 2: his best receiver. Also, I mean that's you're not shy

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Speaker 2: like some gms don't do that in their career, and

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Speaker 2: he did it in one off season.

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Speaker 1: So all right. I admire the Stones.

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Speaker 2: But there's a lot of change in Seattle that has

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Speaker 2: to get pulled together by second year coach Mike McDonald.

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Speaker 2: So if that happens, then yeah, Schneider will be in

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Speaker 2: the running. But there's a lot you know, we talk

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Speaker 2: about the new faces here, the turnover, especially at premium

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Speaker 2: That's a lot to overcome in one off season and

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Speaker 2: make it all fit and sing.

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Speaker 3: Because of that, you have to think about establishing a

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Speaker 3: when you lose a quarterback, trade a quarterback away, you

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Speaker 3: lose foundational pieces to your roster and it takes time

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Speaker 3: to build that back up again. That's what most of

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Speaker 3: McDermott said yesterday, it is about building team chemistry right

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Speaker 3: now so that when we face adversity in season, we're

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Speaker 3: not saying, let's have a Kumbayah meeting where we all

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Speaker 3: That number sounds right, especially because James Cook has been

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and contract or not, he knows he's got to perform.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's impossible, and I think we also

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Speaker 3: That's a good point. We've heard general manager Brandon Bean

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Speaker 3: And you better believe they're doing everything they can behind

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Speaker 2: Yes, and yeah, they're not under this regime. They are

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Speaker 2: And sometimes those two things don't meet, and if there's

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Speaker 2: we'll see what comes of it and how it may

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Speaker 2: bold prediction list from Connororosi dot com, he says Holiday Touchdown,

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Speaker 2: a Bill's love story will fail to capture the magic

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Speaker 1: Come, are you really throwing that out there?

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Speaker 2: With the disdain that people in Western New York have

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna read a couple of sentences that he

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Speaker 1: Sequels are hard. Sequels are especially hard.

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Speaker 2: When Hallmark abandons its factory of self made stars in

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Speaker 1: He talks about how the.

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Speaker 2: I'll respect I'll respectfully disagree. Let's at least wait until

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Speaker 1: Also, you know, what, did you get an advance you?

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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen the numbers that the Bills pull

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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter if it's not the best opponent. Bills fans

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll see, Yeah, we'll see. Let's wait until

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Speaker 5: Have you watched The Chiefs One?

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Speaker 1: I have not.

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Speaker 1: It's like a daily ritual almost.

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Speaker 2: So there will be fans like that who watch it

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Speaker 5: We're just shooting this movie now, seriously.

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Speaker 2: The question will be can Geno Smith be good enough

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Speaker 2: Because even if he's asked in Genty, an eight man

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Speaker 2: He also had NFL teams passing last this year because,

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Speaker 2: a lot of high draft choices, and there are running

444
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Speaker 2: back hungry teams out there, so I wouldn't be surprised

445
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Speaker 2: if a team gets desperate and offers enough for the

446
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Speaker 2: Jets to move somebody. He thinks Trey Hendrickson will ultimately cave.

447
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Speaker 2: I think that's probably accurate. NFL, how about this one,

448
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 2: NFL will begin to leave the United Kingdom behind. His

449
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 2: argument is South America and Australia offer better time slots

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Speaker 2: for you as viewers. You know it's not nine thirty

451
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Speaker 2: in the morning East Coast time as it is when

452
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Speaker 2: they play in England and he thinks that's going to

453
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Speaker 2: prompt them to put more games in Australia and South America.

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I wouldn't mind if the Bills

455
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Speaker 2: had to play in South America because even that Brazil game,

456
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Speaker 2: it's only one hour ahead of us because it's on

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Speaker 2: Atlantic time. I think, so the time change isn't different.

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Speaker 2: The travels probably just as far, but the time change,

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Speaker 2: you're not going through four or five time zones. That's

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Speaker 2: that's what messes me up.

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Speaker 3: Traveling all the way to Australia though, just for a

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Speaker 3: better time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a big That is a hall.

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Speaker 5: And I see have you ever been to Australia?

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Speaker 3: I have never been, but I see teams and owners

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Speaker 3: maybe saying, are we going to do them multiple games

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Speaker 3: in Australia. Let's try it out first and then have

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Speaker 3: our opinions after we've actually done it.

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Speaker 7: It's a lot.

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Speaker 5: I do enjoy the nine thirty games.

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Speaker 3: I love coming in the office for a one o'clock

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Speaker 3: game we're getting for Kickingsay, there's a.

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Speaker 5: Game already on. How great is that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't I don't mind the nine thirty when we're

475
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Speaker 2: here and there are games over there because it's, you know,

476
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Speaker 2: just something to kind of fill the background noise while

477
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Speaker 2: we're getting ready for our game. So it doesn't bother me.

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Speaker 2: But he thinks there's going to be more experimentation with

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Speaker 2: South America and Australia with the international slate. He has

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Speaker 2: this as the breakdown of games started by Giants quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: this season.

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Speaker 1: God help, Brian Dable.

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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson thirteen starts, Jamis Winston two starts, Jackson Dart

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Speaker 2: two starts. I don't know if Russell Wilson's getting at thirteen.

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Speaker 2: And the only reason I say that is their schedule

486
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Speaker 2: is abominard, holy crow. I don't know if he's gonna

487
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Speaker 2: make it. He may not survive, let alone quality of play.

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Speaker 1: But we'll see.

489
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Speaker 2: He's got Pina Suwel winning the inaugural Protector of the

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Speaker 2: Year award. The Lions right tackle this one made Headlint

491
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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey will call it quits.

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Speaker 1: Now, that's a bold prediction.

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Speaker 5: That is a bold prediction. What does he know that

494
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Speaker 5: we don't know?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

496
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Speaker 2: He said that the split will be amicable, so he's

497
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Speaker 2: not expecting major drama.

498
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Speaker 1: He just thinks it's just gonna get too complicated.

499
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Speaker 2: And then he thinks Jets coach Aaron Glenn will forcibly

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Speaker 2: retire jumbo Tron Diva and attention hog fireman at the

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Speaker 2: guy that starts the j E t s Jets champ,

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Speaker 2: which it's something, but he thinks amid a culture rebuild

503
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Speaker 2: centered around selflessness, he's gonna say, yeah, we're cannon fireMany

504
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Speaker 2: all know how.

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Speaker 1: To spell jets, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: I thought that one was pretty funny. Anybody taking pot

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Speaker 2: jets at the Jets is entertaining.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: We we do have to go around the NFL, though,

510
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Speaker 2: which we kind of did. They're are two certain extent,

511
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Speaker 2: but we'll do it. As presented by Kalid a Healthy

512
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Speaker 2: official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills. Terry Bradshaw making

513
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Speaker 2: waves in the Steel City, the four time Super Bowl

514
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Speaker 2: winning Steelers quarterback from the seventies, did not hold back

515
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 2: when asked to comment on the whole Aaron Rodgers saga,

516
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 2: which is yet to reach a conclusion. In a radio

517
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 2: interview down there, he said he actually the radio interview

518
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Speaker 2: was in Arkansas because he lives down there.

519
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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, he said the whole thing with.

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Speaker 2: Forty one year old Aaron Rodgers. He said, it's a joke.

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Speaker 2: It's a joke to me.

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Bring him in for one year?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: That guy needs to stay in California, Go somewhere and

525
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Speaker 2: chew on bark and whisper to the gods out there.

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Speaker 3: WHOA Those are strong words.

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Speaker 2: He also criticized the Steelers for their handling of former

528
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Speaker 2: QB in first round pick Kenny Pickett, saying they didn't

529
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Speaker 2: do much to put talent around him or put a

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Speaker 2: line together to protect him.

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Speaker 1: Which there is some merit to that.

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Speaker 2: They drafted George Pickens, but you know, and they had

533
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Speaker 2: Najie Harris already, but their offensive line was not great.

534
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Speaker 2: They did make some draft choices to make it better.

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Speaker 2: It did not come together, I think in the fashion

536
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Speaker 2: that they had hoped. But Pickett had his share of

537
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Speaker 2: decision making issues also in terms of where to go

538
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Speaker 2: with the football, a little turnover prone, and they quickly

539
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 2: washed their hands of him as he got moved or released.

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Speaker 1: Did he get released out? I think he might have got.

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Speaker 2: Released signed by Philadelphia and to a one year deal,

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Speaker 2: and then Onie went to Cleveland, which is where he

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Speaker 2: is right now. Found it funny I saw on social

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Speaker 2: media they're calling Kenny Pickett KP.

545
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Speaker 1: Now the social media peeps with the Browns call him kpeep.

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Speaker 3: So interesting.

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Speaker 1: Make of it what you will.

548
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, there was a video circulating on social media the

549
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Speaker 2: last couple of days of Patriots receivers fon digs on

550
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Speaker 2: a boat in Miami for Memorial Day weekend with a handful.

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Speaker 1: Of young women.

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Speaker 2: No sign of Cardi b on this boat, at least

553
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Speaker 2: in the video, who is said to be his significant other.

554
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: So perhaps that relationship is on pause or is effectively

555
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 2: met its demise with the release of this video. We'll

556
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: have to see. Also, not at Ota practices this week

557
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Speaker 2: with his Patriots teammates in New England.

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Speaker 1: That was confirmed by head coach Mike Rabel.

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Speaker 2: First question out of the shoot at the Rabel press

560
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 2: conference was the boat video involving Stefan Diggs. So here

561
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 2: was Rabel's comment on that. He said, quote, it's something

562
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 2: we're aware of. We want to make great decisions on

563
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: and off the field. The message will be the same

564
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: for all our players. Any conversations that have taken place

565
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 2: between myself and Stefan will stay between myself and him,

566
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Speaker 2: and that is where it was left. But you can

567
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Speaker 2: imagine talk radio in Boston today they having a field

568
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 2: day with this. So until Steffan shows up, when he

569
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: will be undoubtedly answered about the boat for ten questions.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to know what the thing about the

571
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Speaker 2: boat video that bothered me the most? It wasn't It

572
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Speaker 2: wasn't the handful of women he had around him as

573
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Speaker 2: he was holding court there. It was the fact that

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Speaker 2: the man was on a boat, no shoes and he

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Speaker 2: was wearing socks.

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Speaker 1: That is like boating one oh one. You do not

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Speaker 1: wear socks on a boat deck ever.

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Speaker 2: Ever, First of all, your footing is compromised. Second of all,

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Speaker 2: the likelihood of getting wet socks is enormously high, and

580
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 2: wet socks are not fun. So Stefan, you got to

581
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Speaker 2: brush up on the boat atquette like ditch the socks

582
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Speaker 2: man like that is.

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Speaker 1: Terrible, terrible look.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see what comes of it if and when

585
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Speaker 2: he reports to Voluntary OTAs. I guess he was there

586
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 2: last week m but not this week.

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Speaker 3: So I did see some tweets out of Patriots practice

588
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Speaker 3: today and it was I believe some pictures or video

589
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 3: in the caption was just Drake May throwing bombs at practice.

590
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 3: So seems like their quarterback Drake May is having a

591
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 3: good week of practice. I'm looking forward to seeing what

592
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 3: he looks like in his second year with the Patriots.

593
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Speaker 3: I know the Bills have to play him twice a year,

594
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Speaker 3: but I thought he had a really good rookie season.

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Speaker 2: He looks like the guy for them for sure, and

596
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Speaker 2: that's what I think is gonna make them probably the

597
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 2: second best team in this division this season. We have

598
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Speaker 2: to take a break here, but before we do, we're

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Speaker 2: gonna throw out the top of a discussion today we

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Speaker 2: got Ota is still rolling along here in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 2: What underlying Bill's storyline are you most curious about? As

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Speaker 2: we inch our way towards training camp about a month

603
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Speaker 2: and a half away, What underlying Bill's storingline are you

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Speaker 2: most curious about? As training camp draws closer? Eight oh

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Speaker 2: three oh five point fifty one.

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Speaker 1: Eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty those are

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Speaker 1: the numbers to join us.

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Speaker 2: We got open lines for you, so let us know

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Speaker 2: storyline you're curious about. With this Bill's roster, as you

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Speaker 2: see it your phone calls coming your way. Next here

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Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live, presented by Colid of Health, It's

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Matty Gleb with you and topic of discussion today,

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Speaker 2: What underlying Bill's storyline are you most curious about? As

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Speaker 2: we inch our way towards Bill's training camp at Saint

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Speaker 2: John Fisher in a little under two months, right, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: under two months now, So we're gonna blink and it's gonna.

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Speaker 7: Be here, I know.

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Speaker 1: But we're not anticipating major changes to this roster at

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Speaker 1: this point in time, so you kind of know what

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Speaker 1: the roster is going to look like at least go

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Speaker 1: in to training camp.

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Speaker 2: You know what the coaching staff looks like. So what

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Speaker 2: is an underlying storyline that has you curious that you're

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Speaker 2: wondering about going into the twenty twenty five campaign. Eight

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Speaker 2: oh three zero, five point fifty one eighty eight, five

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Speaker 2: point fifty two, five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Those are the numbers to join us.

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Speaker 2: If you don't have time to give us a phone call,

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Speaker 2: you can always hit us up on the tweets sheet

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Speaker 2: at one that Bill's Live. But did you have anything

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Speaker 2: like that came to mind right away that you're like,

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Speaker 2: I wonder what that's going to look like.

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Speaker 3: There's a few obvious ones in my mind, you know,

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Speaker 3: who's going to win, what jobs that are open for competition,

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Speaker 3: but other storylines curiosity of how things are going to

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Speaker 3: play out. Very interested to see Don Kinkaid in his

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00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 3: third season. I think that's an underlying storyline. What he

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Speaker 3: will mean to this offense, how he takes a step

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Speaker 3: forward in his growth as a tight end and as

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Speaker 3: hopefully a big time weapon. That's what I think him for, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: to get back to those rookie numbers, and if putting on,

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Speaker 3: you know, some more muscle this offseason turns him into

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Speaker 3: a more reliable player for the entirety of this season.

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Speaker 3: Somebody who's not going to have those bumps and bruises

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Speaker 3: that cause you to not play at one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: I know everybody's not going to be one hundred percent

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Speaker 3: through seventeen games in a season, but injuries that really

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Speaker 3: aren't going to limit to you through an entire season.

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Speaker 3: I think that's something that I'm looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 3: how it plays out. Another one that comes to mind

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Speaker 3: is we saw Matt Mulano start to look more like

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Speaker 3: himself at the end of last season. How does he

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Speaker 3: progress now with a healthy off season and just him

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Speaker 3: and Terrell Bernard getting back together and having a full

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Speaker 3: season hopefully together to work off of each other. We

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Speaker 3: speak about defensive line in the question marks there, I

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Speaker 3: think Terrell Bernard and Matt Mulano could help mask maybe

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Speaker 3: some of those question marks early on in the season

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Speaker 3: with injuries or with the two players who are going

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Speaker 3: to be out for the first six weeks of the season.

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Speaker 2: Those are good, yeah, individual players that I think people

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Speaker 2: are clearly wondering about. For me, it's more of a

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Speaker 2: phase of the game, and that's special teams because with

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Speaker 2: this is the first time since twenty eighteen the Bills

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Speaker 2: have a special teams coordinator who has held that job

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Speaker 2: somewhere else in the professional football ranks.

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Speaker 1: Before they got here.

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Speaker 2: That's a seven year stretch where the Bills have had

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Speaker 2: a first time special teams coordinator at the NFL level,

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Speaker 2: and I think experience matters clearly.

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Speaker 1: Coach McDermott believes it does, because the last couple.

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Speaker 2: Of forays into that area with a guy in that

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Speaker 2: position for the first time have not gone great, and

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Speaker 2: now you've got a veteran guy who's done it before

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Speaker 2: at this level and has had success. He's had a

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Speaker 2: lot of top ten finishes and a lot of Special

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Speaker 2: Teams categories over his career. So I'm very curious with

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Speaker 2: Chris Taber as the new special teams coach, here's where

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping they go, and so I'm very curious to

682
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Speaker 2: see if they can get there in year one under

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Speaker 2: coach Tabor, because I think over the last few years

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Speaker 2: we've just looked at special teams.

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Speaker 1: What's the best way to phrase this as.

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Speaker 2: A phase of the team that you just want to

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Speaker 2: remain stable and steady, And I want to see if

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Speaker 2: this special teams unit can get to a place where

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Speaker 2: they can help you change the course of a game,

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Speaker 2: give your team an edge, go into a week where

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Speaker 2: you feel like they might be able to pull something

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Speaker 2: over on the opponent, rather than the other way around,

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Speaker 2: where you're like, all right, let's just hope we get

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Speaker 2: through this game without you know, paying for it on

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Speaker 2: special teams. And I think Chris Taber can bring that

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Speaker 2: to this squad. So I'm that is a storyline I

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00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 2: am very curious to see develop I want to see.

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Speaker 2: I'm really anxious to see what it looks that phase

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Speaker 2: of the game looks like in preseason games, and I

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Speaker 2: want to see that get carried into the regular season.

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Speaker 1: Where they may win a game.

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Speaker 2: Or two because of what happens on special teams. Because

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Speaker 2: you can think there's been a couple of games they

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Speaker 2: have lost because of what happened on special teams. The

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Speaker 2: last home loss here was Denver with twelve men on

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Speaker 2: the field on a missed field goal and they get

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Speaker 2: a second chance at it and let's hits the game

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Speaker 2: winner for Denver two years ago. That's the last home

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Speaker 2: loss so in the regular season. So and there have

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Speaker 2: been instances where things, you know, guys didn't get the memo,

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Speaker 2: you know, like Brandon Codrington didn't get the memo you

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Speaker 2: have to field the ball at the end of the

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Speaker 2: Rams game. Instead it bounces and the end zone clock

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Speaker 2: runs out. You don't have a chance to do anything

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Speaker 2: with it. And there were other instances too. Those I'm

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Speaker 2: confident those things are going to be ironed out under

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Speaker 2: Chris Taber number one, but number two, can they get

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Speaker 2: to a place where they can be a difference making

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Speaker 2: unit for this football team? The last special teams coach

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Speaker 2: that was an expert in that area for special teams

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Speaker 2: for the Bills was Bobby April. Now, granted that was

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Speaker 2: at a time where the offense wasn't great and the

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Speaker 2: defense wasn't much better, and special teams for a stretch

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Speaker 2: there kind of was the quintessential phase and the strongest

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Speaker 2: phase of the football team. But every week you were wondering, like,

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Speaker 2: what does Bobby April have up his sleeve this week.

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Speaker 1: For the Bills and the opponent.

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Speaker 2: And they swung games precipitously at times for that football team.

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Speaker 2: I want to see if Chris Taber can get the

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Speaker 2: Bills special teams you back to that level of execution,

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Speaker 2: you know, creating an edge for your football team. I'm

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Speaker 2: really really interested to see what he can cook up

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Speaker 2: for them.

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Speaker 3: There's going to be some tight games that Buffalo is

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Speaker 3: in this season, at the end of the season, at

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the season, into the playoffs, and to

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Speaker 3: have a phase of the game where you can flip

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Speaker 3: the field a couple times, where you can have the

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Speaker 3: upper hand, that's what's going to win you some of

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Speaker 3: these really tight games that the Bills are going to

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Speaker 3: find themselves in at some point. I also was thinking

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Speaker 3: about this yesterday, just the fact that Chris Taber was

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Speaker 3: not in the game last year. He had a season

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Speaker 3: to reflect on the new rules that are a part

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Speaker 3: of special teams and maybe even create here's how I

746
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Speaker 3: want it to look for my team once I'm back

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Speaker 3: in a coach seat, and here's how it's going to operate.

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Speaker 5: So maybe that does give.

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Speaker 3: Buffalo an upper hand on special teams is having a

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Speaker 3: coach who, yes, has lots of experience, but got to

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Speaker 3: watch these new rules play out from a different vantage

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Speaker 3: point than other special teams coordinators last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so for me, I just I'm I'm really interested.

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Speaker 2: And look, you're gonna have a punter competition in training camp.

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00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a returner competition in training camp because

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Speaker 2: Leviska Chanel is a guy that has played under coach Tabor,

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Speaker 2: so coach Taber has a relationship there. But Codrington was

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Speaker 2: the number one return man here last year as a rookie,

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Speaker 2: and now he's got a year under his belt, so

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Speaker 2: that's going to be a very interesting competition. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm I think there are a lot of elements of

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Speaker 2: the special teams game that are going to be under

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Speaker 2: the microscope in training camp number one and then number two.

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Speaker 1: Collectively. What does that group look like on game days?

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Speaker 1: That's because just having just recalling what it used to

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Speaker 1: look like.

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Speaker 2: And we're talking fifteen twenty years ago now from when

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Speaker 2: Bobby April was here. But that guy was so good

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Speaker 2: on special teams. He survived through two or three coaching

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Speaker 2: regimes like head coach fired, new head coach comes in up.

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Speaker 2: You're staying, I want you with me, like that's how

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Speaker 2: good he was. So hopefully Chris Taber is something similar.

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Speaker 2: Eight oh three, five point fifty one eighty eight, five

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Speaker 2: fifty two, five fifty.

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Speaker 1: That's the number to get on board.

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Speaker 2: Let's crack open the tweet sheet here while we have

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Speaker 2: Underlying storyline you're curious about ahead of training camp, James says,

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Speaker 2: do we have any pending superstars in the crop of

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Speaker 2: first and second year players? And it was a subject

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Speaker 2: that was mentioned by coach McDermott way back in January

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Speaker 2: after the season was over, where he pretty much said

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Speaker 2: you need to have two or three superstars on each

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Speaker 2: side of the ball, and I think they probably have

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Speaker 2: two on offense with Alan and Cook. Do they have

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Speaker 2: two on defense at this very moment. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if Milano can get back to pro you know, all

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Speaker 2: pro Milano maybe he got one there and.

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Speaker 1: The rest is kind of a wait and see.

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Speaker 2: Right now, you have very good players, but superstar is

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Speaker 2: a different category.

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Speaker 3: I think if Christian Benford can get his hands on

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Speaker 3: a couple more balls this season, that could qualify for

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Speaker 3: being a superstar. He had a good season last year

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Speaker 3: and one thing that I've spoken to him about this

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Speaker 3: offseason is what do you want to do now that

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Speaker 3: you have that second contract? And one of the things

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Speaker 3: he said was, I need to be more productive on

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Speaker 3: the field. I need to get more takeaways, more interceptions.

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Speaker 3: If you do that, you're going to be a more

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Speaker 3: notable player and a recognizable name in the league.

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Speaker 2: Right And it's interesting that they mentioned first and second

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00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 2: year players. You know, just a Erston hit the ground

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00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: running and he's a phenom right out of the gate.

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Speaker 2: Second year players who could have much larger roles this year.

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Speaker 2: Cole Bishop comes to mind. You know, as a player

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Speaker 2: that would fit in that category.

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 2: What does his season this year look like? Does he

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Speaker 2: take a big jump? Does he earn a starting job

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00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 2: number one? And then does he excel in that job?

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Speaker 2: So there are there are certainly a handful of candidates

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Speaker 2: that you're hopeful could be in Superstar territory in the

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Speaker 2: not too distant future. But yeah, that's a good one

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00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 2: to be curious about because it hasn't materialized yet. And

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Speaker 2: so that's a good one, James, So good contribution there.

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Speaker 1: We do have to take a break when we come back.

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Speaker 2: More of your comments on the tweet sheet and your

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Speaker 2: phone calls here on One Bill's Live, presented by Colt

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Speaker 2: of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. What underlying storyline are

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Speaker 2: you curious about? Ahead of training camp for your bills?

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Speaker 2: Eight O three oh five fifty one eighty eight five

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Speaker 2: fifty two five fifty the number to call Chris Brown,

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Speaker 2: Maddy Glad with you here on a Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 2: One Bills Live. And that's where we are going to

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Speaker 2: go to the phone lines where Gary on a celle

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Speaker 2: is waiting what you got for us?

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Speaker 1: Gary?

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Speaker 8: Hey, guys, they'll do im good. I mean what I've

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Speaker 8: been calling about for a month now since the end

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Speaker 8: of the season.

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Speaker 7: That defense.

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Speaker 8: It's all about the defense. It's going to be that

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Speaker 8: way until I see, you know, big improvements so we

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Speaker 8: get to the super Bowl. That's what's missing is there is.

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Speaker 2: There a specific part of it, specific part of the defense, Gary,

838
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 2: that really has you kind of maybe gripping a little

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Speaker 2: bit until you see it.

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Speaker 8: The edges. I want to see them hold the edges better.

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Speaker 8: I thought we got killed in the edges last year

842
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 8: the latest games, and they're running out that was killing us.

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Speaker 8: If we can hold the edge, that's my main thing secondary. Okay,

844
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Speaker 8: but they really got to hold the edges.

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Speaker 1: All right, very good, Thanks for the call, Gary. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean.

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Speaker 2: They added more length there. I mean Landon Jackson is

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00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 2: another long player, and you know, I think Bosa, when

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Speaker 2: he's healthy and back on the field, I think is

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Speaker 2: going to largely be used as a pass rush specialist,

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00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 2: you know, which means obvious passing situations. So I think

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Speaker 2: Landon Jackson is going to be competing with Ajpinessa to

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Speaker 2: be a base defensive end opposite Greg Rousseau, who we

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Speaker 2: already know is an excellent edgesetter on his side. So

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Speaker 2: if you have that kind of a length, that kind

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00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: of length on the other side, you would hope it

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00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 2: would bode well. They were a decent run defense during

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Speaker 2: the regular season. I think they finished thirteenth against the

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Speaker 2: run last year, which you know.

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Speaker 1: That's respectable. It's not elite, but it's respectable.

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Speaker 2: So where they really have to improve is against the pass.

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00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 2: I mean twenty ninth and third down defense. I think

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Speaker 2: they were like twenty fourth or twenty fifth in pass

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Speaker 2: defense and completion percentage against they were fifth highest in

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Speaker 2: the league at like sixty eight and.

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Speaker 1: A half percent.

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Speaker 2: Those things have to change and change quickly if this

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Speaker 2: defense is going to live up to expectations with the

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Speaker 2: player improvements they made in the offseason.

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Speaker 3: Sean McDermott was asked about Greg Russo and Russo stepping

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Speaker 3: up this season. Russeau is not looked at as a

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Speaker 3: younger player anymore. He has played multiple years now on

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Speaker 3: this team and when asked about what he needs to

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Speaker 3: do to step up, Sean McDermott said, I think Greg

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Speaker 3: Russo understands he needs to take his physicality to the

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Speaker 3: next level this season. Needs to be a more physical

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Speaker 3: defensive end. He's been involved in a lot in terms

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Speaker 3: of pressuring the quarterback and sacking the quarterback back. But

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Speaker 3: that physicality of his game has got to take a

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Speaker 3: little bit of an uptick. So that's what Sean McDermott

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Speaker 3: about one of his defensive ends and Aja Abanessa to

882
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 3: throw him in the mix with the defensive line, and

883
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 3: sure with any position group too, But it's about the

884
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 3: consistency how you can show up every single down, and

885
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 3: defensive line is not an easy position to play. You

886
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 3: have to be in great shape to play the position

887
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 3: every single snap, trying your hardest to get after the

888
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 3: quarterback and somebody else who's going to be in the

889
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 3: mix there too, and moving about the defensive line is

890
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 3: Michael Hoyt.

891
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: Right.

892
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 2: And look, Rousseau was the most consistent defensive lineman on

893
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 2: this roster last season, and I don't even think it's close.

894
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 2: I mean, he led the team in sackle sack sackles, sacks,

895
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 2: tackles for loss. That was me combining those two things. Sacks,

896
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 2: tackles for loss, forced fumbles. I mean he led the

897
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 2: team in all of those categories.

898
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, and quarterback hits.

899
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 2: He led the team in quarterback hits also, So four

900
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 2: different defensive categories. He led across the board in all

901
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: all of them. That doesn't get lost on people. Now,

902
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 2: can you take some of those quarterback hits, of which

903
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 2: he had twenty four last year, and put a couple

904
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 2: of more of those, or maybe four or five of

905
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 2: those in the sack column? Now you're a Pro Bowl

906
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 2: defense eve end going from eight to twelve.

907
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: Like that's the difference.

908
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 2: So instead of twenty four quarterback hits, how about twenty

909
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 2: quarterback hits in twelve sacks instead of eight and twenty four.

910
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 2: I mean, he still had sixteen tackles for loss. I

911
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 2: mean that guy is an excellent edgesetter. What happens on

912
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 2: the other side, I think is going to bear watching

913
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 2: in training camp, because I think that's firmly a position

914
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 2: up for grabs, primarily because I believe that Bosa is

915
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 2: going to be used as a pass rush specialist. They

916
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 2: don't want to wear him out. They know he's a

917
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 2: little longer in the tooth. Injuries are already an issue,

918
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 2: and we haven't even gotten to real football with pads

919
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 2: on yet, so I think they're going to pace him

920
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 2: through the season.

921
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 3: It'll be fun to watch that position opposite of Greg Grusso,

922
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 3: to see how aj Apanessa does with competition in the room,

923
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 3: to see how Land and Jackson does in his first

924
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 3: season as an NFL player, and to see how they

925
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 3: decide to use Michael Hoyt on the defensive line as

926
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 3: a whole.

927
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 5: How much is he moving around?

928
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 3: Is he really sticking in that defensive end spot, maybe

929
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 3: a little bit more than we thought, or maybe way

930
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:14,919
Speaker 3: less than we thought.

931
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a movable chess piece

932
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 2: in every sense of the word. It's crazy to think

933
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 2: that he used to be defensive tackle by trade, like

934
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 2: full time, and then the Rams asked him to shed

935
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 2: some weight and moved him to the edge, and then

936
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 2: he was off the ball sometimes. And I think the

937
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 2: Bills want to use him similarly when he gets back

938
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 2: from suspension. So I think he is going to be

939
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 2: lining up in a lot of different places and will

940
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 2: very much be a movable chess piece. Jeremy on the tweet,

941
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,720
Speaker 2: she says his under your lying storyline is safety position.

942
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 2: Will Bishop be number one? And it's a big question.

943
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 2: It's a position that I think is available. I think

944
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 2: Taylor Rapt probably has a pretty good handle on the

945
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 2: box safety roll as the incumbent, but what happens at

946
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 2: free safety. Bishop played back there at the end of

947
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 2: last year a little bit when Hamlin was dinged up

948
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 2: and you had guys out of a lineup. But what

949
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 2: kind of step is he going to take in training

950
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 2: camp and is enough to convince the staff we can

951
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 2: trust this guy. He's making the right reads, He's getting

952
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 2: everybody lined up right.

953
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: So, yeah, that is a big That is.

954
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 2: A big storyline going into training camp because that's one

955
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 2: of the primary jobs that will be up for grabs

956
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 2: on the defensive side of the ball, and it's going

957
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 2: to be instrumental in how that secondary takes shape.

958
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,399
Speaker 3: McDermott was asked about Cole Bishop yesterday too, and one

959
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 3: of the things that McDermott said about Cole Bishop was

960
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 3: that he has liked the way he's been in the

961
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,240
Speaker 3: weight room and said that about a bunch of younger

962
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 3: players like the onus to to spend a lot of

963
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 3: time in the weight room in the offseason, and just

964
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 3: spoke about even through the phase one of workouts, just

965
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 3: how much the team was working together in the weight

966
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 3: room and how proud he was of that. But said

967
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 3: Cole Bishop is starting to understand this defense and is

968
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 3: becoming more and more comfortable in this system. Now it's

969
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 3: about working his magic within this defensive system. Where can

970
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 3: he cheat? Where can he play fast? And time will

971
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 3: tell as we get to watch more and more practices

972
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 3: of how comfortable does Cold Bishop look in this role?

973
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why you do see players across the

974
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 2: league make that jump from year one to year two

975
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 2: because year one, as a rookie, they spend most of

976
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 2: the spring on the banquet circuit, going to Pro days,

977
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 2: doing workouts, and training to be a good performer at

978
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 2: the combine. Now you have your first NFL offseason with

979
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 2: an NFL training regimen, and because of that second year,

980
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 2: a lot of players come back bigger, stronger, faster, and

981
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 2: more ready for the NFL seventeen game season. So hopefully

982
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,959
Speaker 2: he's one of those guys that benefits from a true

983
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 2: NFL offseason, not a college getting ready for draft off season.

984
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: Gotta take a break.

985
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 2: Here, but our number two will begin with analytics expert

986
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 2: for ESPN and FTN Fantasy, Aaron Shott's gonna join us.

987
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 2: He's got some underrated players on the Bills roster that

988
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,720
Speaker 2: he profiled. He's also talked about some of the remaining

989
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 2: roster holes for teams around the league. What's Buffalo's hole

990
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 2: in his estimation. We'll check in with him next Here

991
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live presented by Cold of Health, It's

992
00:51:26,239 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills Radio.

993
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: This this One Bill's Live presented by Calllida.

994
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 2: Help all right, second hour here on a Wednesday. Chris Brown,

995
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 2: Maddy Glad with you here on One Bill's Live. OTAs

996
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 2: in full swing this week, but we take a pause

997
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 2: on that now to talk to analytics expert for ESPN

998
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 2: and FTN Fantasy. It's Aaron Shotts joining us here on

999
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 2: the show. And Aaron, I know you've been, you know,

1000
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 2: still cranking out the content here in the off season

1001
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 2: as you guys are wont to do. And I saw

1002
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 2: that two Bill's players major NFL's most underrated list in

1003
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 2: terms of you know, starting eleven for each side of

1004
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 2: the ball here. So I know you're a numbers guys,

1005
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 2: So tell us why the numbers indicate to you that

1006
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: these two guys, Tailor Rapp and Christian Benford are underrated.

1007
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, I didn't quite I do a starting eleven, but

1008
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 9: I did do a player at each position. Benford is

1009
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 9: really good the last couple of years. He was eighteenth

1010
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:14,240
Speaker 9: in my coverage DVOA two years ago. He was fourth

1011
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 9: last year. And that involves coverage on every play, so

1012
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 9: it's measuring not just what you allow per target, but

1013
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 9: how often you're targeted. So he's not targeted very much,

1014
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 9: and when he is targeted, he's very good. And I

1015
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 9: don't think people realize how good Benford is. He's so

1016
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 9: good that I actually put him on my Defensive Player

1017
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:36,720
Speaker 9: of the Year ballot.

1018
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 4: Last year.

1019
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 9: I had him fifth, which you know is not one,

1020
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 9: but it's pretty good to be out of ballot. So

1021
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 9: Rap is overrated in a different way, underrated in a

1022
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 9: different way. There's two different ways to be underrated, right,

1023
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 9: Either you're a good player and people think you're bad,

1024
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 9: or you're a great player and people just think you're good.

1025
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 9: Benford is the great player. Rap is a good player

1026
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 9: that I think people think as a hole in the

1027
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 9: lineup for the Bills. But he's a good tackler. He

1028
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 9: had very few broken tackles last year. He was an

1029
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 9: important part of the fact that they ranked seventh in

1030
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 9: the league against deep passes. I think he's less of

1031
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 9: a hole than fans think he's not as good as Benford,

1032
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 9: but I think he's underrated.

1033
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 3: When we hear from our coaches, they talk very highly

1034
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 3: of Taylor rap and what he means to the defensive

1035
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 3: backs unit and the safety unit. When you started digging

1036
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 3: into some of these stats with Christian Benford and Taylor Rapp,

1037
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:36,839
Speaker 3: were there any that really stuck out to you that

1038
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:38,280
Speaker 3: weren't a part of the article.

1039
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 9: I think everything that sticks out was in the article.

1040
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 9: But I know that the Rams coaches talked about Rap

1041
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 9: in the same way, like he's always been a coach's favorite.

1042
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 4: I think at both of.

1043
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 2: His stops right, and that would make sense, which is

1044
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 2: why he kind of fits the Bills DNA here and

1045
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 2: why he was a target of Theirs in free agency.

1046
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:02,280
Speaker 2: When you look at the roster in totality for Buffalo,

1047
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 2: I know you did some roster whole work too for the.

1048
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: Teams in the league, and you know you had like.

1049
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 2: X number one receiver for Buffalo, which you wouldn't be

1050
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 2: alone in that assessment. But at the same time, I

1051
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 2: wonder if the way the Bills look at it is

1052
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 2: we have a guy that might be able to grow

1053
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 2: into that role in Keon Coleman. That might be overly

1054
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 2: optimistic in the eyes of some, but let me know

1055
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 2: where you come down on that.

1056
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 4: I think that is how they look at it.

1057
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 9: And the other thing about this and having to pick

1058
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,919
Speaker 9: a hole for the Bills for an article I did

1059
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 9: for ESPN on best you know, biggest remaining hole for

1060
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 9: each team is there isn't really a guy to fill

1061
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 9: the hole. There's really no free agent out there. They've

1062
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 9: decided that Amari Cooper wasn't the right guy last year,

1063
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 9: and the other wide receiver free agent, Keenan Allen, is

1064
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 9: not this guy. Keenan Allen is a different guy. They

1065
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 9: have guys that do what Keenan Allen does. They don't

1066
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 9: need that, so it's not really a hole they can fix.

1067
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 9: The only way to fix this hole is for Keyon

1068
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 9: Coleman to mature, and I'm sure that is what they

1069
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 9: are hoping will happen. And the fact is that as

1070
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 9: far as holes go, it's not a great big hole

1071
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 9: because they do have a lot of good receivers that

1072
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,880
Speaker 9: I think you would consider two and three receivers.

1073
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 4: They just don't have that number one guy.

1074
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we look back at Buffalo season last year,

1075
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 3: they went with the everybody eats mantra where everybody is

1076
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 3: going to be featured in the offense. And Josh Allen

1077
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 3: kicked off his offseason press conference once he was back

1078
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 3: in the building wearing a hat that said everybody eats

1079
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 3: and explaining, Hey, this is going to be a part

1080
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 3: of our offense going forward in twenty twenty five. And

1081
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 3: we've heard Brandon Bean explain.

1082
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 5: That as well.

1083
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 3: Looking at other teams in the AFC East, a part

1084
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 3: of this article for the New York Jets position of

1085
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 3: need you had quarterback.

1086
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 5: Now they picked up justin fields this offseason to fill

1087
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 5: that need. Why do you believe that is still a

1088
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 5: position of need for the Jets?

1089
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:08,760
Speaker 9: To quote the movie Clueless, Sorry to quote the movie

1090
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 9: mean Girls. We need to stop trying to make fields happen.

1091
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 9: It's not going to happen. Yeah, it's been four years

1092
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 9: and the best that we've gotten out of him is

1093
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 9: a third of a season where he's average. It's not

1094
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 9: going to get better than that. And the Jets don't

1095
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 9: necessarily have great stuff around him other than you know,

1096
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 9: Grett Kerrett Wilson. Good running backs, good running backs, But

1097
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Speaker 9: I think that I don't think fields is going to

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Speaker 9: suddenly become even an average NFL starting quarterback, let alone

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Speaker 9: an above average one. So that's the biggest hole for

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Speaker 9: the Jets, and it's not one that they're going to fill.

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Speaker 9: I mean, they can't at this point fill that hole.

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Speaker 9: Fields is their guy for this year, and they're going

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Speaker 9: to end up probably drafting a quarterback in a really

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Speaker 9: interesting quarterback draft with twenty twenty six where there are

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Speaker 9: a number of quarterbacks who might go in the first

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Speaker 9: round depending on what they do this year. They're not

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Speaker 9: necessarily guaranteed like these are the guys. It's more like

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Speaker 9: there's like nine guys and you could end up with

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Speaker 9: five or six of them going in the first round.

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Speaker 4: But right now we don't even know. We don't know

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Speaker 4: which of those guys.

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Speaker 1: That is.

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Speaker 2: Talking with analytics expert for ESPN and FT and Fantasy

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Speaker 2: Aaron shots with us, and I want to get back

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Speaker 2: to what you were saying about the Bills receiving court

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Speaker 2: because knowing you kind of combed through rosters pretty thoroughly,

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Speaker 2: just the philosophy that the Bills clearly have. It's a

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Speaker 2: philosophical shift since they traded away Stefan Diggs, which was basically,

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Speaker 2: we don't feel we need an alpha, true number one

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Speaker 2: wide receiver. The team led the league in points counting

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Speaker 2: playoffs last year without a true number one receiver, whether

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Speaker 2: it's an X outside or a slot guy, whoever you

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Speaker 2: deem it to be. They didn't really have one, and

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Speaker 2: they were fine without it. How many other teams realistically

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Speaker 2: subscribe to that kind of approach in their passing game?

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Speaker 1: If any in your mind.

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Speaker 9: Well, I think clearly the Packers too. Clearly, the Packers

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Speaker 9: have just been putting together as much young talent as

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Speaker 9: receivers as possible, and like the Bills, they also tight ends, right,

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Speaker 9: they also have two good young tight ends in Tucker

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Speaker 9: Craft and Luke Musgraves, So there's no clear number one.

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Speaker 4: The difference, I think is that there's a feeling that

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Speaker 4: there are.

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Speaker 9: A couple of guys in Green Bay who could be

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Speaker 9: number one if they put it all together, including Jaden Reid,

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Speaker 9: who could be an Ammon Ross Saint Brown type number one,

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Speaker 9: like a number one is a slot like a Cooper

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Speaker 9: Cup title, as opposed to the feeling that the Bills

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Speaker 9: the only guy who's really like that is Coleman. He's

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Speaker 9: the only guy who has that potential. But Kansas City

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Speaker 9: also doesn't really.

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Speaker 4: Have a clear number one. I mean, I guess.

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Speaker 9: Rushie Rice is that sort of in the slot or

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Speaker 9: Hollywood Brown on the outside.

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Speaker 4: Neither of them is really number one.

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Speaker 9: So that's another team that also spreads the roll around

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Speaker 9: a lot and also has the tight ends. Although Travis

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Speaker 9: Kelcey suddenly got old last year, Noah Gray sort of underrated.

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Speaker 4: People don't really know who he is.

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Speaker 3: And also with that and the ability for Buffalo's offense

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Speaker 3: to look like an offense that you know has different

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Speaker 3: players that are featured at different moments. James Cook was

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Speaker 3: very much a part of the conversation in Buffalo's ability

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Speaker 3: to do that because of what he meant to the

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Speaker 3: running game and his ability to be a pass catching

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Speaker 3: running back as well flipping it to the defense.

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Speaker 5: And one of.

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Speaker 3: Buffalo's players that they drafted this season was an edge rusher,

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Speaker 3: land and Jackson. Now, you had an article come out

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Speaker 3: that was ranking the NFL draft edge rusher projection projections

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Speaker 3: and land and Jackson didn't come in at the top.

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Speaker 3: But what are some things that you thought he offered

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Speaker 3: as an edge rusher and why he was a valuable pick.

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Speaker 9: In this year's draft, he comes in pretty well in

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Speaker 9: the projection. So we called the system Sacks here and

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Speaker 9: it comes out with two projections. One is a projection

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Speaker 9: of sacks that incorporates where your draft position is, and

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Speaker 9: the other is a rating that's just based on workouts

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Speaker 9: and college sack and passes defense production. In the rating,

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Speaker 9: Landon Jackson came out fourth this year in the In

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Speaker 9: the projection, he's lower because he was expected to be

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Speaker 9: a third round pick, and in fact he was a

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Speaker 9: third round pick, and those guys aren't going to get

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Speaker 9: the opportunity.

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Speaker 4: That the first round picks are going to get.

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Speaker 9: But in the ratings, he didn't have a ton of

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Speaker 9: production in college. Right, he only had six and a

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Speaker 9: half sacks in his last year.

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Speaker 4: That's not a lot.

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Speaker 9: But what he did was he really you know, it

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01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 9: was great at the explosion drills, at the combine, had

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Speaker 9: a great three cone time, all the drills that we

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Speaker 9: consider as good markers for guys who are going to

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Speaker 9: improve their sack production in the NFL. Landon Jackson did

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Speaker 9: well in those drills. So I think he's a that's

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Speaker 9: a good pick in the third round, and I think

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Speaker 9: you can definitely feel like this guy has got some

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Speaker 9: serious potential.

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Speaker 1: Last one I've got for you, Aaron concerns.

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Speaker 2: You know the surge that we saw in the run

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Speaker 2: game last season across the league. You know, past attempts

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01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 2: were down on average across the league, slightly but down. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 2: are we expecting that surge in the run game to

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Speaker 2: continue with more teams leaning on it in the way

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Speaker 2: that we saw last year.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna guess it's a little bit of a one

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Speaker 9: year blip. Okay, that running games having more success and

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Speaker 9: being used a little bit more as a little bit

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Speaker 9: of a one year blip.

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Speaker 4: Now here's the exception to that.

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Speaker 9: As teams become more analytically focused and go for it

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01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 9: more often in short yardage, they naturally run the ball

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Speaker 9: more often, in part because running the ball is successful

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Speaker 9: in short yardage, and in part because there's no longer

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Speaker 9: this feeling like you have to get the conversion on

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Speaker 9: the third down, right, there's a feeling like if you

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Speaker 9: can get to fourth and one, you go. And so

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Speaker 9: therefore on first and second you might be a little

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Speaker 9: bit more likely to run to get you two, third

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Speaker 9: and one, and then fourth and one. So I think

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Speaker 9: those things sort of impact the idea of running a

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Speaker 9: little bit more. But last year was a little bit

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Speaker 9: of a fluke in that, like, for example, all the

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Speaker 9: older veteran free agent running backs who.

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Speaker 4: Signed with new teams have these really big years.

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Speaker 9: And it just happened that really good running backs coincided

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01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 9: with really good offensive lines, and so you had that

1218
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 9: kind of rebirth of the running game a little bit.

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Speaker 9: But you know, it ebbs and flows from year to years.

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Speaker 2: And what about you know, the advent of the RPO game,

1221
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 2: which pretty much everybody uses now, and the ability for

1222
01:03:55,560 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 2: quarterbacks to identify light boxes, and you know, the the

1223
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 2: logic says, you got a light box, run the ball.

1224
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Speaker 9: That's the funny thing is because we talk about run

1225
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 9: pass ratios and you forget that there's a number of

1226
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Speaker 9: plays because of our pos. There's a number of plays

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Speaker 9: that are both right, they're not called as runs are passes.

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Speaker 4: They're called as our pos.

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Speaker 9: And you've got the option based on the box I mean,

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Speaker 9: and even not non RPOs, you have the option. A

1231
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Speaker 9: lot of quarterbacks have the option to audible into a

1232
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Speaker 9: run if it's a really light box and everything. So

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Speaker 9: we try to talk about run past ratios but you're

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Speaker 9: absolutely right that first of all, you have to always

1235
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Speaker 9: consider scrambles as passes because they're not runs, they passes.

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Speaker 9: And the other thing is you're right that like it's

1237
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Speaker 9: not as strictly like obvious what's a run and what's

1238
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Speaker 9: not a run?

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Speaker 3: Right, You're a fantasy guru, so it's never too early

1240
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Speaker 3: to talk about fantasy football. I know Buffalo goes with

1241
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 3: the mantra everybody eats, So while they may not have

1242
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 3: a number one wide receiver on their team like other

1243
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 3: teams do, are there any players on Buffalo's offense that

1244
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 3: you're looking at thinking this would be a good pick

1245
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 3: in your fantasy draft?

1246
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Speaker 9: And why, yeah, you know what, not really other than

1247
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 9: Josh Allen because of the everybody eats idea. I doubt

1248
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 9: severely that any either of their tight ends is going

1249
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Speaker 9: to be a top twelve tight end because they share.

1250
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Speaker 9: None of their wide receivers are going to really.

1251
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Speaker 4: Stand out because they share.

1252
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 9: And even James Cook, I don't know if he'll stand

1253
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 9: out because I would expect to see a little bit

1254
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 9: more of Ray Davis this year, especially if they move

1255
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 9: towards the idea the Cook's going to maybe go elsewhere

1256
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 9: next year. So this is not a great team for

1257
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 9: fantasy football, as good as the offense is, because everything

1258
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 9: is spread out throughout the offense and because you know,

1259
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 9: you don't draft the left tackle in fantasy football, so

1260
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 9: you can't be like, he's a really good offensive player

1261
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 9: that is not going to matter to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So basically Josh Allen and then maybe somebody a

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Speaker 2: late late round flyer.

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Speaker 1: I guess if you're in.

1265
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Speaker 2: A PPR, Khalil Khalil Shakir could make some sense. But

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Speaker 2: outside of that, and even that is probably a third.

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Speaker 9: If you're a Bills fan, you'd rather own your guy, right, Like,

1268
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,280
Speaker 9: if you're gonna like, who are you going to draft

1269
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 9: as your as your last wide receiver, you'd rather own.

1270
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 9: You'd rather root for one of your guys. But none

1271
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 9: of them stand out where people around the country are

1272
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 9: going to be like, yeah, I want I want that guy,

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Speaker 9: except Alan obviously Alan.

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Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, Aaron, thanks for the conversation, appreciate it. Enjoy

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Speaker 2: what downtime you have here in the off season, because

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01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 2: we'll be cranking it back up here before we know it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much for the time.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we're working on our preseason book. The FTN Football Almanac,

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01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 9: which will be out in early July.

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Speaker 4: So there's no rest for the wicket. Yeah, and I'm

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Speaker 4: working hard. All right.

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Speaker 2: Sounds good, Aaron. We look forward to seeing that. Thanks

1283
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 2: very much for the time.

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Speaker 4: You got it all right.

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Speaker 2: That's Aaron Schotts joining US analytics expert for ESPN and

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Speaker 2: FTN Fantasy. Those number crunchers like crunching numbers like they

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Speaker 2: just it's fun for them.

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Speaker 5: Crazy.

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Speaker 3: I am not a numbers person. I do think it.

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Speaker 3: It's so interesting what they do. I find it absolutely wild,

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Speaker 3: and I'd like to be a fine on the wall

1292
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Speaker 3: for how they crunch some of those numbers.

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Speaker 2: I respect the numbers, I just don't like crunching them

1294
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Speaker 2: the way they do, Like that's next level stuff. I

1295
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 2: kind of stay very surface to second level area with

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Speaker 2: stats and whatnot. And I'm fine to do the homework

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Speaker 2: if we have to. It's just nowadays, because people like Aaron,

1298
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Speaker 2: stuff's just so readily available. We don't have to crunch

1299
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Speaker 2: the numbers like we used to. When you had a

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Speaker 2: hunch and you're like, you know what, I think this

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Speaker 2: is true, but let me look, let me check the numbers,

1302
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Speaker 2: and blah blah.

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Speaker 1: Blah, and then you're happy when it bears it out.

1304
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: When you're not.

1305
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Speaker 2: When you're not happy is when you have a hunch

1306
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Speaker 2: and it's completely wrong and you're like, oh, I guess not,

1307
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Speaker 2: and then you just wasted an hour in your time

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Speaker 2: crunching numbers. These guys pour time into doing that kind

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Speaker 2: of stuff. I don't know if I got the stomach

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Speaker 2: for that, and my uh my grade and intro to

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Speaker 2: accounting in college would prove that.

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Speaker 3: So oh same, Yeah, we did pass fail for that

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Speaker 3: class in college.

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Speaker 1: I passed, have that option, but I did have a passing. Great,

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Speaker 1: we'll just leave it at that.

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Speaker 2: Uh eight oh three oh five fifty one eighty and

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Speaker 2: eight five fifty two five fifty the number to jump

1318
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Speaker 2: on board with us. As we've been asking you today,

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01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 2: what is one underlying storyline about the Bills that has

1320
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 2: you curious? As training camp draws closer under two months away?

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01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 2: Now you know the roster, for all intents and purposes

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01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 2: is what it is. So what storyline has you curious

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01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 2: going into the season that you're hoping you can get

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01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:36,840
Speaker 2: an answer to before they start playing games for real?

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Speaker 1: Come week one?

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Speaker 2: Eight oh three oh five fifty one eighty eight, five

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Speaker 2: fifty two, five fifties, the numbers to get on board.

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Speaker 2: And you know, Maddie was talking about a couple of

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Speaker 2: players and what they can bring to the table. Here

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, I was talking about special teams

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01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 2: as a whole under Chris Taber. How much more of

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Speaker 2: a difference making unit they can be is something I'm

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01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 2: very interested in wiessing, you know, through the course of

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Speaker 2: the preseason and the early.

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Speaker 1: Stages of the season.

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Speaker 2: But you let us know what's on your mind, what

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01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 2: you're curious about. We had some people on the tweets

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01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,639
Speaker 2: sheet curious about Cole Bishop in year two? Do take

1339
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 2: does he nail down a starting job? I mean, we

1340
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 2: cannot dismiss the fact that this guy was a second

1341
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 2: round draft choice. I think we were expecting him to

1342
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,679
Speaker 2: challenge for a starting role as early as this year.

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01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 2: So whether that comes to fruition, we'll have to wait

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01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 2: and see. We had some other people, you know, talking

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01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 2: about second and third year players becoming superstars. Are there

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01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 2: any of those in the equation.

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Speaker 1: It would be a big help if they were. It

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01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:37,519
Speaker 1: would be a big.

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01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 2: Help if they were, because you know, we talked about

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01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 2: it earlier Sean McDermott said, you need about two or

1351
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 2: three superstars on either side of the ball to make

1352
01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:46,719
Speaker 2: it to the Promised Land at the end of the season.

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01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 2: So hopefully someone emerges and there's another, and another and another,

1354
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:56,200
Speaker 2: and worry about paying them later. Get the superstars to

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01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:59,600
Speaker 2: get production for you now. But let's go to the

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01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 2: phones Anto three zero five point fifty and to tom

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01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 2: Over on the west side.

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Speaker 1: What's up Tom?

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Speaker 6: Hey? Kids? I thought of an interesting question. Everybody keeps

1360
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 6: talking about how James Cook he get hold out for

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01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:15,639
Speaker 6: his contract and then what he's got to play six

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01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:16,719
Speaker 6: games this season?

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Speaker 1: Right, well to get into crude season.

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Speaker 6: Yes, okay, so he holds out until the last six

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Speaker 6: games or even let's say eight games, so he's got

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01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 6: a little buffer there and Casey gets injured. But what's

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Speaker 6: to say he starts the season, plays US six games

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Speaker 6: and then sits down.

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01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:42,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, is could that possibly happen? I suppose.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's who James Cook is. Quite frankly.

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01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 2: I think he's too big of a competitor to pull

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01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 2: the and I think he's got too much respect for

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01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:56,200
Speaker 2: his teammates to pull the rugout from under them. After

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01:10:56,240 --> 01:10:58,559
Speaker 2: playing six games and saying I got ancrude season. Now

1375
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hang out. I don't think that. I don't

1376
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 2: think that's Cook's mindset. I don't think he functions that way.

1377
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Speaker 2: I think we all know he's an ultimate competitor, so

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01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 2: and I think most players in the professional ranks would

1379
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 2: approach it this way. Hey, when I show up, I'm

1380
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:20,599
Speaker 2: here like, I got your back, you got mine, let's go.

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01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:22,879
Speaker 1: Business is business.

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01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 2: But I think the relationships that James has built here

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Speaker 2: with his teammates in Buffalo, once he's in the building

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01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 2: or on the field and practicing, it's go time at

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01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:36,640
Speaker 2: that point in time. I don't see him turning his

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01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:38,759
Speaker 2: back on his teammates after playing six games.

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Speaker 3: I also think your actions don't just hold weight in

1388
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 3: this building, but they hold weight in other buildings across

1389
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 3: the NFL. You're trying to put tape together, hopefully to

1390
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 3: stay in Buffalo, but if it's not going to be

1391
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:53,559
Speaker 3: in Buffalo, you're trying to put tape together for other

1392
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,160
Speaker 3: NFL teams to show what you can do. Six games

1393
01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 3: is a sample size. Yes, he had the season that

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01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:03,719
Speaker 3: he did last, but I would want to put together

1395
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 3: a full season of tape in a second season to say,

1396
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 3: look what I can do well?

1397
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,680
Speaker 2: And the last thing you want is other teams that

1398
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 2: may be interested in your services, if perhaps you are

1399
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 2: able to get to the free agent market next year

1400
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 2: at this time, do you want them saying well, I

1401
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 2: want to pay you a lot of money. I respect

1402
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 2: your game, but how do I know you're not going

1403
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 2: to quit on us? Like what happens if by year

1404
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 2: or two of this contract we signed you too you're

1405
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 2: not happy with the average annual value.

1406
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 1: I canna play six games and sit out with us too.

1407
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 2: So there are repercussions that come from taking actions like that.

1408
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, they're deemed unprofessional.

1409
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 2: So I don't and I don't think James is that

1410
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:48,200
Speaker 2: guy anyway, So I don't think that would be of concern.

1411
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:53,520
Speaker 2: Carl on the tweet sheet as far as underlying storylines

1412
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 2: that he's curious about, says the D line.

1413
01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:59,679
Speaker 1: It needs to be good, too, great, and.

1414
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:03,639
Speaker 2: There's certainly going to have enough bodies to give them

1415
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:05,599
Speaker 2: opportunities to be great.

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01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: Who emerges is the question? And you know, is it

1417
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: a true eight man rotation?

1418
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 2: How many players do they keep on the defensive line

1419
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,000
Speaker 2: on the fifty three man roster, Is it ten? Is

1420
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 2: it only nine? You know, who's willing to take a

1421
01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 2: practice squad roll? Like, there's all these things that are

1422
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:27,960
Speaker 2: in the mix, And is there a rookie on the

1423
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:28,599
Speaker 2: fast track?

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01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: You know, Deon Walker, TJ.

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01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:33,800
Speaker 2: Sanders, Land and Jackson they all got drafted, you know,

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01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 2: in succession there.

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01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:39,639
Speaker 1: On Day two and three of the draft. Who's quick

1428
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 1: on the uptick?

1429
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 2: Who do the coaches trust right right out of the

1430
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 2: gate and say that guy can play forty snaps for

1431
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 2: me every week in our rotational scheme because he's been

1432
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:52,760
Speaker 2: that good in training camp, he's been that consistent, and

1433
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 2: we believe he can get the job done even though

1434
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 2: he's a rookie.

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01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 3: One thing that I love about the offseason and the

1436
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,960
Speaker 3: players on the defensive line that we have in the

1437
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 3: building right now, You've got eight edge rushers and you

1438
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 3: have nine defensive tackles. I believe with the competition that

1439
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 3: has been brought into this building through the draft and

1440
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 3: through free agency, you're not going to just see those new.

1441
01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 5: Players try to rise to the occasion.

1442
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 3: You're going to see players who have been on this

1443
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:24,640
Speaker 3: roster for years also try to rise to the occasion,

1444
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 3: the cream is going to rise to the top. We

1445
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 3: don't know who it's gonna be yet, but I believe

1446
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 3: the bodies in both of those position groups, it's going

1447
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 3: to create guys who are really gonna fight hard for

1448
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 3: those opportunities.

1449
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,680
Speaker 2: People are gonna be pushing in straining for reps in

1450
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 2: training camp, and I think guys are gonna be going

1451
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 2: hard in the preseason games because from one preseason game

1452
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 2: to the next, the depth chart, the rep count could

1453
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 2: all change, and you better put it on the field

1454
01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 2: as soon as it's handed to you and produce because

1455
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 2: if you don't, well, there's somebody else just as capable

1456
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 2: and in many cases here just as talented that could

1457
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:09,320
Speaker 2: take time time away from you on the field. So

1458
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 2: and like it's hard not to think of a guy

1459
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 2: like Dwayne Carter. This guy comes in last year as

1460
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 2: a third round pick. He's a young guy in a

1461
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 2: group amongst a group of veterans, and flashed before he

1462
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 2: broke his wrist, was playing well. Then breaks his wrist

1463
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 2: and it's pretty much on the shelf, and by the

1464
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 2: end of the year he's a healthy scratch for some games.

1465
01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 2: Then he watches two guys get drafted at his position

1466
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:39,439
Speaker 2: pretty high, you know, second and fourth round, and it's like, okay.

1467
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 1: Like you're on notice.

1468
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:43,920
Speaker 2: If you don't think that Dwayne Carter is going to

1469
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 2: be snorting and sweating every time he steps between the lines,

1470
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:51,080
Speaker 2: you're delusional because he knows as well as anybody else,

1471
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 2: the competition has been ratcheted up considerably. Players just as

1472
01:15:56,920 --> 01:16:00,760
Speaker 2: young and spry as you are, if not younger. Yeah,

1473
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:02,680
Speaker 2: bring it every day if you want to be one

1474
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:03,520
Speaker 2: of those guys.

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01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:03,879
Speaker 1: In the rotation.

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01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 3: And Javon Soloman, I know he was a later round pick,

1477
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:09,400
Speaker 3: but you draft a guy like Landon Jackson high in

1478
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 3: this draft, you better believe that he is with Dwayne

1479
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 3: Carter on that I need to take a step forward

1480
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 3: in how I play this game. I need to fine

1481
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 3: tune some of these things that can make me a

1482
01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 3: better option for this roster in my second season.

1483
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 2: We are up against the break here, so we will

1484
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 2: step aside. But more of your phone calls when we

1485
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 2: come back, more of your thoughts on the tweet sheet

1486
01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 2: as well your underlying storyline that you're curious about for

1487
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 2: the Bills as we get closer and closer to training camp.

1488
01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 2: Eighth three five p fifty to join us. We're back

1489
01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 2: with more phone calls. Next here on one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Stay tune all right back here on One Bill's Live.

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01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 2: Chris Brown Matti lab with you, and it's been a minute,

1492
01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 2: So we're gonna do a little NFL. True false presented

1493
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 2: by Patrol Tequila, the official tequila of the Buffalo Bills,

1494
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 2: and we begin with the Browns mess at quarterback Mattie

1495
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:14,719
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco will begin the season as the Browns starting QB.

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01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:17,599
Speaker 1: True or false.

1497
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:23,759
Speaker 3: I'm saying true here. I don't think they have solid

1498
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:29,559
Speaker 3: enough talent at the quarterback position in terms of players

1499
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 3: who have shown that they can be a starting quarterback.

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01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 5: Kenny Pickett has had his time with the.

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01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 3: Steelers, but I believe they would view Joe Flacco as

1502
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 3: somebody who can be more reliable, at least to start

1503
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 3: the season. And then you have Shador Sanders and if

1504
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 3: he's going to be the starting quarterback at some point,

1505
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 3: I just don't see that being in Week one. I

1506
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:53,519
Speaker 3: think as a rookie you have a lot to learn,

1507
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 3: especially with where he was drafted and everything we heard

1508
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 3: about Sanders leading up to the and then seeing how

1509
01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:04,120
Speaker 3: he fell in the draft. I just don't think that

1510
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 3: says I'm ready to be a starter on day one.

1511
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:09,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that is probably going to be

1512
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 2: the case as well. Historically, head coaches in this boat

1513
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 2: in which they have four quarterbacks technically five with an

1514
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 2: injured Jashn Watson, they generally side with the veteran at

1515
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:25,759
Speaker 2: the outset of the season.

1516
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: And you know there's talent on the roster, it's just.

1517
01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:35,759
Speaker 2: Inexperienced in Dylan Gabriel and Shudeur Sanders.

1518
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 1: Chiefly.

1519
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett's got more experience but has been largely ineffective

1520
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 2: in his career. Flaco's got a Super Bowl ring, a

1521
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 2: Super Bowl MVP, has a rubber arm and can still

1522
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:50,720
Speaker 2: throw it. He doesn't move, So you better feel good

1523
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:54,679
Speaker 2: about your offensive line and their ability to protect. But yeah,

1524
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 2: I think Flacco starts. So here's the bonus question within

1525
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 2: this question, Mattie, who will be the starting quarterback that

1526
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 2: the Bills face from the Browns in week sixteen, December

1527
01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:14,280
Speaker 2: twenty First, who's going to be the quarterback then?

1528
01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 1: For your Cleveland Browns?

1529
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:21,200
Speaker 3: What was the latest update that we've gotten on to

1530
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 3: Shaun Watson?

1531
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,400
Speaker 5: Is he completely all you think.

1532
01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 2: He would be part of the I think they're just

1533
01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 2: going to tell him nice, But why don't you just

1534
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:29,800
Speaker 2: stay over there?

1535
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,280
Speaker 1: No need to report to work, That's what That's what

1536
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 1: I think.

1537
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 2: But it's the Browns like I wouldn't rule him out

1538
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 2: if I were you.

1539
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:38,479
Speaker 5: He's an option.

1540
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:39,160
Speaker 4: You're going to do it.

1541
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 5: No, I'm going I thought you were going to do it.

1542
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1543
01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 2: I think Shadoor too, because I think by this point

1544
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 2: the season has gone up in smoke week sixteen, they're

1545
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 2: playing anybody. I think you got a better chance of

1546
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:57,679
Speaker 2: it being Shador Sanders or even Dylan Gabriel than anybody

1547
01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 2: else come week sixteen for the brown all right, question

1548
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:04,879
Speaker 2: number two or true falls number two, These aren't questions.

1549
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 2: Cam Ward does not have enough weapons to succeed in

1550
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:11,720
Speaker 2: year one with the Titans.

1551
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the roster right now to refresh myself.

1552
01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 3: Running backs that you have that are names that you

1553
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 3: have heard of, Yeah, Tony Pollard, Tajy Spears, and then

1554
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 3: you go over it tight ends and not a lot

1555
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 3: of big names in the tight end position group. But

1556
01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 3: if you look at wide receivers, Treylon Burke was somebody

1557
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 3: who was drafted there a few years ago. You've got

1558
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 3: Tyler Lockett on that roster as well, Calvin Ridley.

1559
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:44,879
Speaker 5: I'm saying he does not have enough.

1560
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 3: Weapons to succeed in year one. I don't see enough

1561
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 3: star power. We've we've talked about star power today and

1562
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:53,879
Speaker 3: I can't name multiple on the offense.

1563
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:57,639
Speaker 5: So I think he needs help.

1564
01:20:57,880 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 1: So I'm going true, Oh.

1565
01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 2: True, Yeah, yeah, does not have Yeah yeah, Chega kon

1566
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:05,479
Speaker 2: Quo they're starting tight end is a guy that they've

1567
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 2: been talking about having potential for three years now and

1568
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:09,840
Speaker 2: the potential has never showed up.

1569
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 1: So does it show up now? Maybe, but I'm not

1570
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:14,600
Speaker 1: betting on it.

1571
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:18,800
Speaker 2: Tony Pollard and Calvin Ridley are your most talented offensive

1572
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 2: weapons there.

1573
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: Do they show up?

1574
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,479
Speaker 2: Tyler Lockett is not the player he once was, but

1575
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:25,679
Speaker 2: he could probably help.

1576
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:30,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's tough.

1577
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 2: And Treylon Burks he is getting run through the ringer

1578
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:38,880
Speaker 2: right now. Somebody put out a video of him running

1579
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 2: around at OTA's and he's like rounding it off, taking

1580
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 2: ten steps to get in and out of his break.

1581
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 2: People are like, this guy is broken and that was

1582
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 2: a first round draft choice.

1583
01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:53,919
Speaker 1: So yikes.

1584
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to say true as well.

1585
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 2: There is not enough they did. They did try to

1586
01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 2: shore up the offensive line a little bit more, and

1587
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 2: I'm sure you know he'll make some plays here and there.

1588
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:09,280
Speaker 2: But I mean they had two receivers drafted, the DK

1589
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 2: kid and I a man are out of Stanford who's

1590
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:17,120
Speaker 2: a nice, big, physical target, not a burner by any means.

1591
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 2: So maybe those guys can help a little bit. But yeah,

1592
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 2: it's not looking good on that side of the ledger

1593
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 2: for Tennessee. And it's a big reason why they had

1594
01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 2: the number one pick in the draft. So make of

1595
01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 2: it what you will.

1596
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:32,320
Speaker 1: True false.

1597
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 2: Number three Kirk Cousins will remain in Atlanta this season.

1598
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:46,040
Speaker 3: I could say yes, but I could also say no.

1599
01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, just for fun, I'm saying false. There's

1600
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:54,200
Speaker 3: going to be a team that needs a quarterback because

1601
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 3: of an injury that happens at some point, and Kirk

1602
01:22:58,439 --> 01:23:01,519
Speaker 3: Cousins will be going elsewhere because it's been pretty clear

1603
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 3: in Atlanta that they are moving on. Yeah, and they

1604
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 3: are ready to reset.

1605
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 2: And he's in agreement. He wants out the problem here.

1606
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 2: This is the sticking point. The Falcons want the team

1607
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 2: interested in his services to pay the bulk of the

1608
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 2: money that's left on his contract, much of which is

1609
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:23,680
Speaker 2: guaranteed or bonus, and it's twenty million dollars. All I

1610
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 2: know is I can see an NFL owner at some

1611
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:29,760
Speaker 2: point here, if they're desperate enough or their quarterback that

1612
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,200
Speaker 2: they currently have on the roster looks like hot garbage,

1613
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 2: to say, I don't care, just pay it. Just get

1614
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 2: a guy here that I know can do the job.

1615
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 2: And that's Kirk Cousins. So yeah, I would tend to

1616
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:42,640
Speaker 2: agree with you. I'm going to say false here. I

1617
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 2: think they'll find a way to move him, and I

1618
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 2: think the latest he would move is at the trade deadline. Yes,

1619
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 2: and at that point, you know, the team that acquires

1620
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 2: him is probably only paying ten million for the rest

1621
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:57,920
Speaker 2: of the year, so that's maybe more palatable.

1622
01:23:58,439 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 1: And maybe he gets moved after.

1623
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:02,599
Speaker 2: This and starts especially like you know, maybe they've got

1624
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:07,439
Speaker 2: some hotshot quarterback and he's not living up to the

1625
01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:10,800
Speaker 2: billing and it's pretty ugly and they want better.

1626
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 3: So maybe Aaron Rodgers is not playing this season and

1627
01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 3: got the Steelers.

1628
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:17,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well yeah, if he just says, yeah, I'm

1629
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:24,360
Speaker 2: riding off into the sunset audios egos, Yeah, could be

1630
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:29,639
Speaker 2: the Steelers. Maybe Terry Bradshaw was right, they're.

1631
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:32,560
Speaker 1: Wasting their time with that guy. Go tell him to

1632
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:33,439
Speaker 1: choose some tree bark.

1633
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:38,800
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a very ted Terry Bradshaw statement, if there

1634
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:41,640
Speaker 2: was one. All Right, that's NFL True Falls brought to

1635
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 2: you by Patron Tequila, the official tequila of.

1636
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:45,360
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills.

1637
01:24:45,400 --> 01:24:47,080
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones where we've been asking

1638
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,919
Speaker 2: you about your underlying storylines that you're curious about concerning

1639
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:53,479
Speaker 2: the Bills. As we close in on training camp and

1640
01:24:53,520 --> 01:24:56,439
Speaker 2: we go to Jordan in Wilmington, what's up.

1641
01:24:56,360 --> 01:25:03,839
Speaker 7: Jordan's fellows and Maddie? Uh, just a question about Maddy. Maddie,

1642
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:07,080
Speaker 7: you might know the gap about this now Cook's situation.

1643
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:11,680
Speaker 7: Did he say explicitly he wasn't going to play unless he.

1644
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 6: Was getting paid.

1645
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,640
Speaker 5: No, he has never been explicit about that.

1646
01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 1: No, he's never said that.

1647
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:20,720
Speaker 7: So okay, and so that kind of leaves the door

1648
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:23,880
Speaker 7: open on me thinking that he'll play, and that more

1649
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:26,800
Speaker 7: so probably because of the HBO thing. I don't think

1650
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:31,559
Speaker 7: he's gonna want to sit that one out if he does, honestly,

1651
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 7: I think he's going to be there for HBO honestly,

1652
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:37,559
Speaker 7: and my one My one thing is I think Sanders

1653
01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 7: will be there in be sixteen and TJ. Sanders will

1654
01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:42,839
Speaker 7: get a sack. Landon Jackson will get a tipped interception.

1655
01:25:43,320 --> 01:25:44,000
Speaker 6: That's all I thought.

1656
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:47,840
Speaker 1: Wow, Week sixteen predictions, that's fun.

1657
01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 2: I'll sign up for that. I'm just gonna be honest

1658
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:55,719
Speaker 2: with you. James Cook doesn't care two iota is about

1659
01:25:56,040 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 2: camera time. The fact that HBO will be a training

1660
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:03,880
Speaker 2: camp will have zero bearing in my estimation on what

1661
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 2: James Cook wants to do in terms of reporting for

1662
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:09,360
Speaker 2: work or to hold in or whatever decision he and

1663
01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 2: his agent decide to make short of a contract extension. So,

1664
01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:18,599
Speaker 2: I mean, this was a guy that oftentimes would give

1665
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:22,519
Speaker 2: four and five word answers because he doesn't really care

1666
01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:24,760
Speaker 2: for the cameras and the interview setting and all of

1667
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:27,879
Speaker 2: that jazz. So to think that that's going to attract

1668
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 2: him to report to training camp, I think is a

1669
01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:36,759
Speaker 2: little off the mark. It's all about business for him,

1670
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 2: and it's all about competition for him. All the off

1671
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:43,160
Speaker 2: the field stuff is really immaterial to a.

1672
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 1: Guy like James.

1673
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:47,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, James Cook has never been somebody that's going to

1674
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,640
Speaker 3: run towards a camera to get more FaceTime us.

1675
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: He's running into the end zone and there's one in the.

1676
01:26:52,360 --> 01:26:53,680
Speaker 5: Back of the exactly.

1677
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:56,439
Speaker 3: And that's why that's why we love James Cook in

1678
01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:59,720
Speaker 3: this building. He is a fun personality if you talk

1679
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:03,960
Speaker 3: to him his teammates. From our perspective, James Cook doesn't

1680
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 3: do a lot of talking, but once you talk to

1681
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,879
Speaker 3: his teammates, a lot of people say he's really funny,

1682
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:12,760
Speaker 3: and he does a lot of talking in meetings and

1683
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,080
Speaker 3: on the field during practice and off the field. But

1684
01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 3: public and us, we don't know him like that.

1685
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, becau see I mean Sedric van Prank Grangrew it

1686
01:27:20,760 --> 01:27:22,839
Speaker 2: was his college teammate and now he's his pro teammate

1687
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:28,439
Speaker 2: here said he's hilarious. But most people on the outside

1688
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:31,879
Speaker 2: don't see that part of James because he's very business

1689
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:34,879
Speaker 2: like when he's doing the football thing. So that's fine

1690
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,439
Speaker 2: as long as he's producing. Be whoever you want to

1691
01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 2: be off the field with your buds, because you know

1692
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 2: he feels comfortable with him.

1693
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:42,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And James has said to me, I am

1694
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,479
Speaker 3: like that because I am my true self when I'm

1695
01:27:45,520 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 3: around people that I feel comfortable around. If I do

1696
01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:51,400
Speaker 3: not know you or feel comfortable around you. I'm not

1697
01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:51,720
Speaker 3: going to.

1698
01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:53,920
Speaker 5: Show you who I truly am.

1699
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:55,800
Speaker 3: I'm not going to give you the James Cook that

1700
01:27:55,880 --> 01:27:57,640
Speaker 3: everybody says is funny.

1701
01:27:57,840 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 1: We have to take a break when we come back.

1702
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:02,679
Speaker 2: Some final thoughts on the tweet sheet about some underlying

1703
01:28:02,680 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 2: Bill's storylines you are most curious about as we inch

1704
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 2: closer and closer to training camp that's coming your way.

1705
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 2: Next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Coll lot

1706
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:20,519
Speaker 2: of help, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right back here

1707
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:23,160
Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live, Chris Brown Maddy lab with you

1708
01:28:23,760 --> 01:28:27,120
Speaker 2: and kind of going over some final thoughts here on

1709
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 2: the tweet sheet in terms of underlying storylines you are

1710
01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:32,720
Speaker 2: curious about.

1711
01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 1: And next up.

1712
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:37,840
Speaker 2: Was Bill's banter who said Bishop and Coleman's development at

1713
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 2: their respective positions, Manny, two second year players, top two

1714
01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 2: draft choices that year.

1715
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:50,320
Speaker 1: Year two is big for those two dents. If those guys.

1716
01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:55,640
Speaker 2: Really take a noticeable step forward, most notably, Coleman is

1717
01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 2: like a top three receiver on the team and Bishop's

1718
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:03,880
Speaker 2: a starter, they could really be forced multipliers.

1719
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 1: For this team.

1720
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 3: You draft these players high for a reason. It's because

1721
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:10,960
Speaker 3: you believe that they can turn into something on your

1722
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:14,120
Speaker 3: roster in the NFL, and I know we hear Brandon

1723
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 3: meansay a lot. Year three is a turning point for

1724
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:18,800
Speaker 3: a lot of players, But I believe year two can

1725
01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:22,599
Speaker 3: also be a turning point for players in a season

1726
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 3: where you can build on some of the highest points

1727
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 3: of your rookie season. This team, I believe, is leaning

1728
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:32,639
Speaker 3: on these two to do a little bit more this year.

1729
01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, two players that will be under the microscope.

1730
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 1: Hey, can you do more for this team?

1731
01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:41,600
Speaker 2: If you can, those are the kinds of players that

1732
01:29:41,640 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 2: could finally put this team over the hump and in

1733
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:45,800
Speaker 2: the big dance at the end of the season. That's

1734
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 2: it for us today, Matt, he's in here with Christoph Passo.

1735
01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:54,600
Speaker 2: Tomorrow they'll see it. One