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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and uh

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Speaker 1: interesting weekend rookie minicamp took place. Way too much yard

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Speaker 1: were going. Do you have are you wired at your house, Like,

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Speaker 1: but at least in my neighborhood, there's one other woman

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Speaker 1: But that's about it. Yeah, you got a big you

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Speaker 1: Let me just say this, it's a little bit like

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Speaker 1: So if your teenage son helps you with the yardwork,

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Speaker 1: there's too many more things left to do. So this

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Speaker 1: obviously the Bills had their rookie mini camp over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: star players Aaron Rodd and the guys you can you

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Speaker 1: can point to all of them. They've got a huge

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Speaker 1: picture in mind about you know how maybe they could

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Speaker 1: affect the policies of the NFL for future guys by

429
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Speaker 1: making it better, having better off seasons and you know,

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Speaker 1: more free time, that kind of thing. And I get

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Speaker 1: all that, but it's a disservice to the young players

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Speaker 1: who come in and the rank and file of the

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Speaker 1: union are the young guy three years and less. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's a ton of guys that are that haven't even

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Speaker 1: played four years yet. Yeah, I wonder, I'm I'm kind

436
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 1: of perplexed as to why the Players Association hasn't come

437
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: up with the thought of, well, why don't we have

438
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Speaker 1: the option for veterans that have been in the league

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00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: six years or more to go all virtual. That way,

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Speaker 1: the pressure isn't on the younger players who are still

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Speaker 1: working their way up to you know, true veteran status

442
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Speaker 1: in the league. They're off the hook. They're not made

443
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Speaker 1: to feel like they're going against the wishes of the

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Speaker 1: union membership. And then the veteran players if they choose

445
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Speaker 1: don't go and they have all virtual. I told you

446
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Speaker 1: that you have a dividing line like that, or no,

447
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: you could, but you know, it's if it's it's not,

448
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: if it's not binding, it's not gonna be buying it,

449
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: not gonna it'll be ignored. Largely, but I think it

450
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 1: should be whatever the whatever the off season the club

451
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Speaker 1: wants to have, let them have it. Yeah, Because if

452
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Speaker 1: you've got one club, like you know, like a Buffalo

453
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Speaker 1: or New England or Green Bay, whatever, and they their

454
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Speaker 1: guys never leave year round. They have to come in

455
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Speaker 1: at the day the week after the season's over. There's

456
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Speaker 1: no locker clean out day. They're just we're just getting

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Speaker 1: reset and starting on our off season program. And you

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Speaker 1: do that all the way through the off season, through

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Speaker 1: the draft, through all of that, you have you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe one unpadded practice every couple of weeks or maybe

461
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Speaker 1: you know whatever, if I want to if you want

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Speaker 1: to exaggerate, to make the point, they wan't padded practices

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Speaker 1: through February, March and April. You know that kind of thing. Well,

464
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Speaker 1: you got another team like maybe in LA or maybe

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Speaker 1: Green Bay or Buffalo or whoever, the same cities. The

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Speaker 1: other cities, they give their guys four months off, they

467
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Speaker 1: don't even call them. Yeah, and then when they come back,

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Speaker 1: it's a couple of weeks here, It'll be a couple

469
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Speaker 1: of weeks in May. And who do you think the

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Speaker 1: free agents are going to sign with? Right? But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, that's going to rankle the coaches that

472
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Speaker 1: feel like other teams are getting ahead of them, and

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Speaker 1: I don't see them doing that for very long, you know.

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Speaker 1: So then there's another it's another competitive competitive edge argue.

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Speaker 1: It would Yeah, it would be a real it would

476
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Speaker 1: be a real away and at least as it currently

477
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Speaker 1: sits in the way we're describing it, it would be

478
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Speaker 1: a way for one club to really either separate itself

479
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Speaker 1: because of its ability to take care of its players,

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Speaker 1: or separate itself because when they hit the field in September,

481
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: they're rolling. They're rolling, but they're gonna do it with

482
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Speaker 1: lesser players because no free agent is going to sign there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I'm saying. They don't. Steph

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Speaker 1: Digs ain't going there, you know. You know, Levion Bell's

485
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: not going there, right, Jadevian clown, He's not going to

486
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Speaker 1: the place where you got to show up for work

487
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Speaker 1: twelve months a year, that kind of thing. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting though, because what you have, and JC Treder

489
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Speaker 1: said this, he you know, they're looking very closely at

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Speaker 1: this Juwan James situation. The reports over the weekend where

491
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Speaker 1: James is seriously considering filing a grievance. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how he wins that grievance because the CBA language is

493
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: pretty clear on it. If you're off site, you get hurt,

494
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Speaker 1: it's a non football injury. The team isn't on the

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Speaker 1: hook for it. So I don't know how he gets

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Speaker 1: around that. But Treder basically said, you're tasked with working

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Speaker 1: out year round, and guys have always felt teams have

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Speaker 1: had their back when they're training working out for the seasons.

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Speaker 1: The players are watching this closely, the Juwan James situation

500
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Speaker 1: to see which teams aren't going to have players backs,

501
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Speaker 1: and doing this also disincentivize this guy's working out. If

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Speaker 1: you're gonna hold this over my head and I don't

503
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: want to get hurt, well then I'll play myself into

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Speaker 1: shape when I do show up and protect myself and

505
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Speaker 1: my money. They can do that. Yeah, they can do

506
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Speaker 1: that if they want, but they're gonna be they don't know.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna make the team that way, you're gonna

508
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: you better hope you're around long enough to get in shape,

509
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: because there's gonna be a younger guy or a guy

510
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Speaker 1: who's more committed even if it's a twelve year vet

511
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 1: who never leaves, stays there, comes in, works out every week,

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Speaker 1: and then you show up fat and happy and you're cut.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's how it's happened. If and I can't

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Speaker 1: get my mind around guys who think that it like

515
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't have any consequences deciding that you want to

516
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: You're gonna go live somewhere else. You're not gonna live

517
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Speaker 1: in this or whatever. You're going to be a professional

518
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Speaker 1: athlete for a city and then not live there, either

519
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: in the off season or whatever. It's not worth the

520
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: risk for the salary that you're being paid. Yeah, you

521
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: need to do everything you can to make yourself more valuable,

522
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Speaker 1: not disappear. I hear you, right. The voluntary attendance next week,

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Speaker 1: for you know, OTAs around the league is going. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be kept pretty ardently by reporters to see what

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Speaker 1: the numbers look like, to see if this talk of

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Speaker 1: a fully virtual offseason is going to be taking route

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Speaker 1: in the form of players not showing up because it

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Speaker 1: is voluntary, there are no fines at play if they

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Speaker 1: choose to do so. We'll get into that topic probably

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Speaker 1: more next week. We probably talked about it longer than

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Speaker 1: we even anticipated today, because what we did want to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about today is a little bit more

533
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: fun than that. It's about the young AFC quarterbacks. This

534
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: was sparked by a tweet sent out by CBS Sports

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Speaker 1: HQ over the weekend where they basically lined up four

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Speaker 1: young AFC quarterbacks side by side and just tossed it out.

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Speaker 1: Ranked these qbs one through four, and there were pictures

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Speaker 1: of Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, and Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: And all I'm gonna tell you is I didn't even

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Speaker 1: respond to this, but I was included and added and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, with all the responses by every Bills

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Speaker 1: fan that was ticked off by somebody not putting Josh first,

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Speaker 1: and you know, had Justin Herbert first. Oh what are

544
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: you talking about? Oh, he's the offensive rookie of the year.

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson can't throw. Baker Mayfield's physically limited more than

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Speaker 1: any of the other three. Josh Allon was a one

547
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Speaker 1: year wonder. Yeah, so's it's set off a fire story, guys.

548
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Speaker 1: It It's like they gave everybody a flamethrower for this discussion. Yeah,

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00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: oh my gosh it, it took out a life of

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Speaker 1: its own, right. Every one of those four quarterbacks had

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Speaker 1: somebody saying they were they should be in the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame already, and somebody else saying they should never

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Speaker 1: been drafted and should have played tennis. You know, that's

554
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: how that's the wide ranging opinions. You gotta exaggerating to

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00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: make a point, But that's and it's really interesting because

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00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: these are four quarterbacks who had pretty good years last year,

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Speaker 1: all of them. Yeah, you know, Herbert was a surprise

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Speaker 1: because of his rookie season. He played well. Josh of course,

559
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: was runner up in the MVP race, Baker Mayfield finally

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00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: got a head coaching staff and a team around him

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Speaker 1: where he could play well. And Lamar Jackson's coming off

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Speaker 1: an MVP type season and had a target on his

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Speaker 1: back but still had a pretty productive Yeah, so we

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Speaker 1: wanted to spend that into something else, not just about

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Speaker 1: those guys on their own merits necessarily. So our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll today is which young AFC quarterback in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one can do for their team what Josh Allen did

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Speaker 1: for the Bills last season. Let us know who you

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Speaker 1: think that is and why you can hit us up

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live, or give

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Speaker 1: us a call eight oh three five fifty one eighty

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty We have to take

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Speaker 1: a break, but Aaron Buffalo, hang tight. We'll get first

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Speaker 1: to you when we return. Here on one Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by a Lot of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you here on a Monday, beautiful Monday is summer has

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00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: finally arrived here in Western New York. Thank God for that.

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Speaker 1: It's a long wait every year. They're obviously catching up

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Speaker 1: on some missed opportunities for construction. We got guys walking

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Speaker 1: on our ceiling here up on the roof a we're

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Speaker 1: joined by an uninvited guest. You'll know rather quickly if

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Speaker 1: you don't. You can literally here footprint, foot falls, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys walking across right above our heads on the on

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Speaker 1: the roof of the of the building. There must be

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Speaker 1: patching a roof or something. I well, well, they're sure.

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00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're up there for a reason. Twitter poll

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00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: today which young AFC quarterback in twenty twenty one can

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Speaker 1: do for their team? What Josh Allen did for the

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Speaker 1: Bills last season. There's certainly a host of candidates, particularly

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Speaker 1: in the AFC conference, which is why we were talking

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Speaker 1: about that. But we'll take any at all suggestions that

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Speaker 1: you're interested in seeing. But let's go to the phones

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Speaker 1: open line for you at eight oh three five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight eight fifty two, five fifty. We lead off with

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Speaker 1: Aaron in Buffalo today. Aaron, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Hey, Christian Stee, thanks for

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00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: taking my call. So I was listening to you guys

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00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: talk about the virtual off seasons and it kind of

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00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: made me think about what Bills players would be affected

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00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: by those, and I think you know two of the

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00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: names that jumped out to me. The first one is

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Speaker 1: Christian Wade. I mean, here you have a guy who

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00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: has such raw athletic talent and such potential, but for

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00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: someone who needs those on field reps, I mean, he

606
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: didn't get a preseason last year, didn't really get the

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00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: offseason workout that he would have gotten under a normal year.

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Speaker 1: And I felt so ad one they went to virtual

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Speaker 1: offstein because he was the first person I thought that

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00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: it would affect the most because I feel like he

611
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: has such potential for the Bills, but it's just kind

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00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 1: of getting stidied by the whole situation. The other one

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Speaker 1: that came to mind two more specifically nowadays is Gregor

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Speaker 1: Rousseau because he opted out last year, so he's another

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00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: person that really needs those reps to help put him

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Speaker 1: back into that groove. I don't know if what your

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Speaker 1: guests thoughts are on that. Yeah, I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 1: expecting Greg Rousseau to miss any of the offseason this year.

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Speaker 1: If there is work to be done on the field,

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Speaker 1: he is going to be here for it. And I

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Speaker 1: think he knows that, and I think his work ethic

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Speaker 1: and you know, innate self motivation is going to carry

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Speaker 1: him through in that regard, because even he knew the

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Speaker 1: year that he opted out he had to get to

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Speaker 1: work and not be a couch potato, and that's what

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Speaker 1: he did. He went right to work and basically put

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Speaker 1: on twenty pounds a lean muscle mass. That's an indication

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Speaker 1: of how hard that kid was working when he wasn't

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Speaker 1: on the field playing for the Universe City in Miami.

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00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown's another example of that. His FCS season got

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Speaker 1: canceled he didn't want to enter the transfer portal and

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Speaker 1: play for an FBS team. He goes out West and

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00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: works with Joe Staley, the former NFL offensive tackle, former

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Speaker 1: first round draft pick of the San Francisco forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: for the better part of seven months. Those are not

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Speaker 1: guys that I think is going to take part in

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Speaker 1: a virtual offseason, because I think even if veterans say

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Speaker 1: we're not showing up, it's a voluntary situation. I think

639
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: the younger players are going to show up. And I

640
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: think a guy like Christian Wade is definitely going to

641
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: show up because he's doing everything he can to get

642
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: on this roster. I don't think there's any question, though

643
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: he was hurt by last year's offseason, which was fully

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Speaker 1: virtual and then no preseason games, which is the number

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Speaker 1: one opportunity for a guy like that to get game

646
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: like reps. Nobody was helped by COVID last year in

647
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: the off season, nobody. It hurt everybody, but just to

648
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: this extent or a lesser extent some of than others.

649
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: And I get that. The Union and certainly the league too,

650
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,439
Speaker 1: touted the fact that they got two hundred and fifty

651
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: six regular season games in, didn't miss a beat in

652
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They got everything in when it looked like

653
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: at this time last year that there may not be

654
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: a season at all. It was a great feat of

655
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: will that the league got it done on a huge

656
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: testament to the teamwork that went into it and the

657
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: effort putting forth in the money that was spent to

658
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Speaker 1: get it done. But I don't think there's any question

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00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: we saw, while it was highly entertaining a year ago,

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00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: even in the beginning of the season, it was a

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00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: little bit different than what we'd seen in years past.

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00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: I think there's in my opinion, I don't know this

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Speaker 1: for a fact. I don't know this. This is my opinion,

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Speaker 1: and I'm this is strictly editorializing. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: any question that the league sent out a memo to

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Speaker 1: the officiating cruise that hey, listen, think about these things

667
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: this and we're trying to get this thing up and run,

668
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: and we want these games to be entertaining. Don't get

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Speaker 1: caught up in spotting the ball. I know you guys

670
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: don't want to trade back and forth with the chains

671
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: and all that. Just give them first downs, keep this

672
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: game moving, make it fast, make it clean, agios, give

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00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman the benefit of the doubt. Let these

674
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: teams get their legs under them, and it was very entertaining.

675
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: For that reason, the officials stayed out of the way,

676
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: and certainly scoring was up. Offensive teams had a huge

677
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: benefit last year. Maybe that'll go away this year. I

678
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: don't know. But make no mistake that the Union can

679
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: say whatever they want about how great it was a

680
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: virtual offseason and they came out and they played good.

681
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: The league had as much to do with that as

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00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: the players did. And the way they handled the offseason,

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00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: the COVID and all that, and the way the officials

684
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: officiated games, the way they they you know, they manipulated

685
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: the you know, the chains and the first downs and

686
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: spotting the ball and streamlining a lot of game day

687
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: protocols and in game protocols. There's just a ton of

688
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: instances where you can point to were that early in

689
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: the season it was a little bit different than it

690
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: had been. And I'm not saying it was unfair or

691
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: biased or arbitrary in any sense of the word. But

692
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: they wanted this game to look slick, sleek, and and

693
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: they wanted it to go without a Hitch and they

694
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: did so for whatever the virtual off season was or wasn't,

695
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: the NFL and the way they administrated the season was

696
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: as much of a boost as the virtual off seasons

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00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: and the players and you know, coming in shape and

698
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: all that kind of thing, and the and the virtual

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00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: preseason that they had. So you know, the Union can

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Speaker 1: tout all they want about how hey, they don't need

701
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: us for that, but it doesn't fly one hundred percent

702
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: correct to me. Yeah, yeah, I still think the dividing

703
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: line is going to be there. It's going to be

704
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: there because you got guys scraping and clawn to try

705
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 1: to make a roster and carve out a niche role

706
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: to have a career in this league. And then you've

707
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: got other guys that feel safe either based on their

708
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: contract or what they've done in this league, and they'll

709
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: feel more comfortable in voluntarily choosing not to show up.

710
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: We'll have to see where it goes. Which young AFCQB

711
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one can do for their team what

712
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen did for the Bills last season. Let's go

713
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: to the phones and we go to Jake in Canada. Jake,

714
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's lives. Hey, guys,

715
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: I'm thinking Sua honestly in Miami with Jalen Model is

716
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: MultiMate from Alabama. I think that that could be a connective.

717
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: And if we're talking about someone who's maybe not as

718
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: young person once for you and I think with Frank Ray,

719
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: what do you think about that? Yeah, I know Steve's

720
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: a big fan of the stuff that INDI's got going

721
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: out there, not just because Frank is a close personal

722
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: friend of his. I mean, they have a good roster,

723
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: and they gave the Bills all they could handle last

724
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: year in the playoffs. I mean, for gosh sakes, it

725
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: came down to a hail Mary throw at the end

726
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: of the game to preserve the victory with Micah Hyde

727
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: knock in the ball down. So yeah, I mean there,

728
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Speaker 1: If Carson Wentz can recapture the magic of his twenty

729
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: seventeen season, and he's still only twenty six, twenty seven

730
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: years old, I think, or maybe he's turned twenty eight

731
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: this year, a lot of football left in that kid.

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00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: If if you know, coach Ry can get him back

733
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,919
Speaker 1: on track and playing at that kind of a level.

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Speaker 1: If he can, cults are going places and I would, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm comfortable in saying they're the division favorite in the

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Speaker 1: South this year. There there's to me, there's big a

737
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: favorite that the Bills are in the AFC East. In

738
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: the South, I think Tennessee's taking a step back. I

739
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,280
Speaker 1: Jacksonville has got a long way to go, and Houston

740
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: is a dumpster fire right now. So the Colts are

741
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: the last guy standing by and they may win that

742
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: by default. But I agree with you. I think Carson

743
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: Wentz is a great candidate for it. I think whether

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00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: you consider him young or not, I think I do

745
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: m young ish. He's still he's still not five years

746
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: deep into his career. Perhaps this is his fifth year

747
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: come up or sixth, but he's still a young guy.

748
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: And I think with the Colts roster and the way

749
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: they've managed things, I'll tell you this too. The Colts

750
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: and I don't want to say one or the other,

751
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: but the Colts and the Buffalo Bills seem to be

752
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: building their teams the exact same way. I mean, they

753
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: are deliberate in their financial decisions, they bring in relief

754
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: as like in one year deals they signed guys. They

755
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: seem to always have a lot of cap space coming

756
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: into the off season. They've stayed disciplined and they're spending. Certainly,

757
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: they took they rolled the dice on Philip Rivers last

758
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: year and it paid off for him in a playoff run,

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00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: so I think Wentz is going to give him a boost.

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00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: The Colts are an organization with with Ballard and Frank

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00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: running things over there. They've they're doing a really nice

762
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: jobs and I can't pay any bigger compliment than this.

763
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: They're doing it as what as the Bills are. Those

764
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: two franchises seem to get not only how to get competitive,

765
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: but to stay there. And the Colts are gonna beat

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00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: The Kilts are gonna be there at the end. They

767
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,959
Speaker 1: have as much of a chance as any as I'd

768
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: say it's Kansas City, the Bills, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and maybe

769
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 1: one of the maybe Baltimore again if Lamar bounces back.

770
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: But those are the teams to me. A lot of

771
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: people are pointing at the Chargers saying, hey, they could

772
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: get it done. We'll see, but I think Indianapolis is

773
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: at the top echelon of the AFC, along with Buffalo,

774
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: Cleveland and of course Kansas City. We have to take

775
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 1: a break here. We'll also address ta which the caller

776
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: brought up as a possibility, and we'll get to Judy

777
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: on a cell who's waiting there. We'll get to you

778
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: first after the break as well. Here on One Bill's Live,

779
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: presented by a lot of Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio.

780
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

781
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: with you our number one on a Monday about ten

782
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: minutes time. We'll have NFL Network reporter a DD Ken

783
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: Gibwalla joining us as we'll talk to her about just

784
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: about everything under the sun this offseason, including the Bills schedule.

785
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:17,919
Speaker 1: As we know, a DD spends a lot of time

786
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: covering the Steelers, that is Buffalo's Week one opponent, so

787
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: we'll get her thoughts on that along with the Bill's

788
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: draft class, among other things. But we want to get

789
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 1: back to the phones here at eight O three five

790
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: fifty because we're asking you which young AFC quarterback in

791
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one can do for their team what Josh

792
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: Allen did for the Bills last season. Open line for

793
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: you there, But we go back to the phones and

794
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: to Judy on a sell. Judy, what do you have

795
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: for us? You're on one Bills Live. Hello Judy, Yeah, Hi,

796
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: what do you got for us? Well, first of all,

797
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: I want to tell these two male chauvinus, I just

798
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: finished cutting my own lawe. There you go. I'm not

799
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Speaker 1: a male chauvin as. My wife helps me out a lot.

800
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: I said that earlier. What else you got, Judy? Thank you?

801
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 1: You're on the air, Judy ahead, Judy. Oh we lost her. Yeah,

802
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: she was listening to the radio, not I think she was. Yeah,

803
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: that's okay. Well, at least we know where we stand

804
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: with Judy. Right, we're two male chauvinists apparently. Well, they're

805
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: just commenting on the yardwork we were doing. Her calling

806
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: in and setting a straight Why is that? I said?

807
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: My wife gives me a lot of assistant to the yard.

808
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I know I'm fortunate, so I don't

809
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: have any problem with Well, I got a lady right around,

810
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: right on my block. She does all the laws, she

811
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Speaker 1: does all the yardwork, and her husband basically busy. He's

812
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: a gearhead. He's always fixing the cars and stuff. So

813
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: he does the cars and she does the yard. Hey whatever,

814
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: you know the one if as a guy like a homeowner, Yeah,

815
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: the best skill you can have is his small engine repair.

816
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that is that if you can do that,

817
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: I can fix any Oh my guys, you can save

818
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: yourself so much heartache over the course of the you know,

819
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: because most of these machines that I have, all the

820
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,439
Speaker 1: weed whackers and the chainsaws, it almost have to treat

821
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,800
Speaker 1: them like they're disposable. I do. I am such Oh wow,

822
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't. But yeah, you try to fix it though,

823
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: You try to, and that's the only way to learn how. Yeah,

824
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: let's discuss Tua that the previous caller brought up. He

825
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: thinks that Tua has a chance to do something similar

826
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: to what Josh did last year, which would certainly be

827
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: of concern to Bills fans and the Bills themselves. We

828
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: should not forget the Dolphins were a ten win team

829
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: last year and to despite all of the inconsistencies of

830
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: his rookie season, when you look at his numbers at

831
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: the end of the year, they were not terrible sixty

832
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: four percent completion, eleven touchdowns, five picks through for over

833
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred yards, and had a passer rating of eighty

834
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: seven point one sack twenty times at a QBR of

835
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: fifty two five, and I think what we know or

836
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: what we learned about who Tuah is is he's a

837
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: rhythm passer. He's not a guy that's going to extend

838
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: the play very much much like Josh Allen does. It's

839
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: a scripted type of offense in which he works best.

840
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: My greatest concerns lie in the coaching that is going

841
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: to be around him this year. Because we had Armando Selgeru,

842
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: who writes for the Miami Herald, on last week and

843
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: we were talking to him about this offensive coordinator situation

844
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: where they have co offensive coordinators in George Gotzie, the

845
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: tight ends coach, and Eric Studisville, a running backs coach,

846
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: and how is that going to work? Who's going to

847
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: call the plays? What kind of input is each guy

848
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: going to have? The quarterbacks coach is supposed to also

849
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: be involved. Charlie fry So, I worry about too many

850
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: cooks in the kitchen for Tua and that crossing him

851
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: up when he's on the fields. Mixed messages. You know

852
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: what I mean, You've heard it. I mean it's the

853
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: old saying if if you've got two quarterbacks, you can't

854
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: decide you don't have any and if you've got you know,

855
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: too many coaches. If there's three offensive coordinators, you got

856
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: a run game coordinator, you got a pass game coordinator,

857
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: you got none? You know who how it's gonna worry about.

858
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: They may handle it great. They may they may have

859
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: already had these things. I listen, he has the finals.

860
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: Say this guy is the Finals. Say whatever the problem is.

861
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: I mean, who's two are going to be bouncing this

862
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: stuff off of? And and how that communication is going

863
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 1: to work between the coaches and with Tah Now Tah

864
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 1: even Fits has said two has got great accuracy, pinpoint accuracy,

865
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:45,280
Speaker 1: and he's got great anticipation. If they can maximize those traits,

866
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: they got a shot with him, no question about it.

867
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: He's got to come along way. He's got to put

868
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: in the work and all that and get deeper into

869
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: the offense. And he's got and I think, like any

870
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: young quarterback, the better the guys around him, the better

871
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 1: he's gonna be. I think they needed to be better

872
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: last year than they were around him. But he's gonna

873
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: have another year under his belt. I expect him to

874
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: take a step forward. I don't know that that team's

875
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: going to be ready to I mean they got a

876
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: lot of new moving parts they do. All six of

877
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: their captains are gone. They got three offensive coordinators. I mean,

878
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I'm looking at right, And

879
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: that's a lot to fit together and hit your stride

880
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: and be just as competitive as you were last year

881
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: when you had Let's think about it, they had a

882
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: lot of new pieces they added the year before, and

883
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: it took a while before they gained some traction. And

884
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: if I remember looking at it right, their first five

885
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:44,359
Speaker 1: weeks of the season are pretty tough. I'll take a

886
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: look at it when we're in the break here, but

887
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: if I remember right, their schedule is a bear. The

888
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: first five weeks. They've got the well we know they

889
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: have the Bills in week two, but they have the

890
00:48:55,520 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: Patriots Week one on the road, Bills Week two at home.

891
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: Then they have the Raiders, and then that's followed by

892
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 1: the Colts and the Bucks. That's Steve. That's three eleven

893
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: win teams and improved Patriots team and a Raiders team.

894
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: That's a tough one to start the season. So putting

895
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: all that together plus a tough schedule to boot, and

896
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna be tough. If people start pointing the finger

897
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: at two as being a reason why they're one and

898
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: four even though we are acknowledging a tough schedule, that's

899
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: a tough place to be. Break time for us when

900
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: we come back. NFL Networks add Ki Kabwalla joins us

901
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: as we discuss the Bills schedule, that opener against the Steelers,

902
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: how they did in the draft, and maybe she's got

903
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: to take on this to a situation in Miami with

904
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: the schedule, they're staring down the barrel of the first

905
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: five weeks of the season. We'll have a dd on

906
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: in just a second. Here on one Bill's Live, presented

907
00:49:53,840 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Had a

908
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all all of her fields,

909
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

910
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

911
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:29,959
Speaker 1: the straded fere of normalcy. Welcome back to our number

912
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: two one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

913
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: waiting to be joined by NFL Network reporter add kink

914
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: of Wallafe, who's going to be talking to us chiefly

915
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: about Steelers since that is the Bills Week one opponent

916
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: and she usually has her ear to the ground on

917
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: all things Steelers. She does that for NFL Network along

918
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: with some other teams in the region, but that is

919
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: one of her main beats during the season. So we

920
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: wanted to get a sense from her because that's another

921
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: a roster that has experienced a good deal of turnover,

922
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: particularly on their offensive line and on defense as well.

923
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: Some pretty big name players like Bud Dupree, Stephen Nelson,

924
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: they're starting corner who's still out there and floating around

925
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: in free agencies. So I think he's picking his spot.

926
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean he's got five teams interested into him,

927
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: including the Bills. I'm sure none of those teams have

928
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: offered him much more than the veteran minimum, and so

929
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: he's like, you know what, I'm gonna wait until somebody

930
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: really needs me, and then they're gonna have to pay.

931
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: Maybe somebody's got a couple extra bucks and throw and

932
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: give him a one year dealing hit the market again. Yeah,

933
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: so let's do that. Now. We bring in NFL Network

934
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: reporter add King Kabwalla and add thanks for giving us

935
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: some time. First and foremost, I don't mean to poke

936
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 1: fun at you too much here, but we were watching

937
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft coverage and they station you probably in

938
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: the windiest location by the lake the day of the draft,

939
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: and we are watching you on camera doing your best

940
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: smile through gritted teeth as it was clear to us

941
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: that you were freezing your took us off. How cold

942
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: was it that first day of the draft? Okay, so

943
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't about the cold. It was about the bugs

944
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: because I absolutely swallowed a bug as I was trying

945
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: to report on the Steelers scutchel, which is a little

946
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: bit ridiculous, but you swallowed a bug. Reconnect Well, it

947
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: made me reconnect with Joba Chamberlain, who, as you all know,

948
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: had this awful bug midge experience in Cleveland. But let

949
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: me tell you, guys, as you're sitting here introducing me

950
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 1: and you're talking about the Steelers and the Aft North

951
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 1: and et cetera, et cetera. I'm not sure if you're

952
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: aware of this, but my first and only son is

953
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: a Mega Mega Mega Bills fan. Oh wow, re yes,

954
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 1: like Mega Mega, So he's got He's had many fights

955
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: with his father, who had a Steeler season ticket holder

956
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: coming up for a opening day. Well, yes, because my

957
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: son has already declared that should be a family road trip.

958
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: But here's where I ask both of you for advice.

959
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: How do you manage this? You know, as a member

960
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: of the media, you're supposed to be completely impartial and

961
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: not biased. But when one of your children one of

962
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: the you know, most vital to you, Yeah, I think

963
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: that's a team. You need to have a bias towards

964
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: that team. Well, I think happy, I think a deity.

965
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: The people to consult on this are are the people

966
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 1: that you consulted for the Steelers Bills Sunday night game

967
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,720
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. I remember you talked to the Edmunds family.

968
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, they had a jersey like sliced

969
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: in half or maybe even three ways with two two

970
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: brothers on the Steelers roster, and then Tremaine obviously up

971
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. I think those are the people you

972
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: need to consult for this. We are no way think

973
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: we're two died in the wool on one side of

974
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: the fence. Yeah, let me just be se go ahead. No,

975
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying, why do I need to have any loyalty

976
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: to the husband? Like he's not exactly a no, no,

977
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: that's true, not a material at the risk Yeah, at

978
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: the risk of sounding self serving, you obviously side with

979
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: the kid. Perfect, Okay, good advice, you don't have to. Yeah,

980
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: So what so is he like? Is he a huge

981
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: Josh fan or is he just like somebody else on

982
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: the team that he really loves or is it just

983
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: the whole thing, the whole ball away. I think it's

984
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: a hat but quite frankly, when he was a baby,

985
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: I was sent up to Buffalo for the year that

986
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:32,359
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Tremaine Edmunds were drafted, and he came

987
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 1: up with me. So he spent a week up in

988
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo at the Marriott Harbor Center or whatever it is

989
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: called that the Pagoula's old downtown. He had the best

990
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: time of his life, and the staff there took care

991
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: of him and gave him a Savers hockey stick and

992
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: all of that. And he decided that he loved Buffalo. Wow.

993
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: And when yeah, and when his father tells him that

994
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: you're allowed to like Buffalo except when they played the Steelers,

995
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: he tells his father, I'm a films fan. Get over it. Yeah, Well,

996
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: there's no other sounds like a Bills fan. There's nothing

997
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: like it. There's nothing like you know, just a good

998
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: old fashioned bribe with a hockey stick and a hat

999
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: and a weekend the way, that's like that exactly, well,

1000
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: that's really as a person who enjoys maybe stirring the

1001
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: pot occasionally, I feel like I enjoy this tremendously. That

1002
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: is great and that and I'm I'm sorry you had

1003
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: to eat a bug during a live shot. That is

1004
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: something I fortunately have never experienced. And good on you

1005
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: for staying in professional form there throughout the whole thing,

1006
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: because I had no idea that is what transpired. I

1007
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: just thought you were cold there on the lake because

1008
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: we've experienced the wind here off lake here and it

1009
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: is not fun. Well, and that, you know, the whole

1010
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: point of like this lake eerie triumvirate. And this is

1011
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: what I wish like as we sit here and we

1012
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: talk about the NFL now and moving into the future,

1013
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't you love for the Browns, the Steelers and the

1014
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: Bills to all be kind of the elite of the

1015
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: NFL and tremendous. And here we are in this two

1016
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,959
Speaker 1: hour radius, yeah, where these three teams are creating all

1017
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: sorts of I don't know, chaos. Yeah, I would. I

1018
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: think that's the that's a great scenario. If they realigned

1019
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: everything and you had Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh in a

1020
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: Cincinnati with Cincinnati or somebody in the in a division,

1021
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 1: it would be it would be fun. Home in the

1022
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,760
Speaker 1: ways would be great. Um, yeah, because you could drive everywhere. Yeah,

1023
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: that'd be great. Well, and that's the whole point, right Like,

1024
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: animosity and rivalries and all those good feelings are tremendous.

1025
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: And right now, at this time of year, when we're

1026
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,479
Speaker 1: sitting here and we're talking about draft and we're talking

1027
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: about who has done what, it's kind of and I

1028
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: you know, on one hand, I'm loath to quote Mike Tomlin,

1029
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: but I'll quote Mike Tomlin a depth chart in April.

1030
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: It's not worth the piece of paper that it's written on.

1031
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: So we can sit here and we can talk about, Okay,

1032
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: what does the bull Bills look like right now? What

1033
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: does the Steelers look like right now? But we don't

1034
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,479
Speaker 1: really know how anything is going to shake itself out.

1035
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: So it's these sort of ancillary conversations that are that

1036
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: much more fun. I mean, not that we can't sit

1037
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: here and have fun talking about whether the Bills improved

1038
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: themselves in the draft, or the Steelers did, or the

1039
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: judge did, or you know, the Patriots or whoever. So,

1040
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: what was the what's the vibe in Pittsburgh about the

1041
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: Steelers draft? Nagy? All we can think about up here

1042
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: in Buffalo is Nagy Harris and how you know we

1043
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: had There's a certain always a certain percentage of fans

1044
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: who thinks that running a running back of a certain

1045
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: type is going to be the guy that changes the

1046
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: fortunes of your team. How was it received in Pittsburgh?

1047
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: Nagy Harris and also the rest of their draft? You know.

1048
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: So I think that it's really split down the middle.

1049
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: And there's the camp that sits here and says, Wow,

1050
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: we've got this unbelievable running back and you can find,

1051
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: as Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said, invisible yards, and

1052
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what else we have on the field,

1053
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: we've got this great running back. And then there's another

1054
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,439
Speaker 1: half that says, who cares how great the running back

1055
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: is if you have no offensive line and you have

1056
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: no offensive Simmon Tree or a plan or any of that.

1057
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: So I think there's a fair amount of skepticism. I

1058
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: do think that there's a lot of appreciation for who

1059
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: Naji Harris thus far seems to be. This is a

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00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: twenty three year old young man who has felt very

1061
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: embedded and invested in every community that he's ever been

1062
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 1: a part of. He was homeless as a young man.

1063
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: He feels that very strongly. His very first weekend in

1064
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh he went and volunteered with an organization called the

1065
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: Convoy of Hope to help people who don't have money

1066
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: and don't, you know, as much as one would hope

1067
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: that people would have to sustain life. So that's all wonderful, tremendous.

1068
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: He has said all the right things, and the Steelers

1069
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: have certainly said all the right things about being committed

1070
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: to the run game. But they don't have a left tackle.

1071
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 1: We don't know who their left guard is. We think

1072
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: that a third round draft pick might be the starting center,

1073
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: but we're not really sure. Their right guard is indeed

1074
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl right guard. But then they're right tackle

1075
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: is a guy who's coming off surgery who started exactly

1076
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: one game in his entire NFL career. So if you

1077
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: think that the offensive line is where everything starts, that's

1078
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: a very very very big question mark right there, which

1079
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:19,439
Speaker 1: is an unconventional place for the Steelers to be as

1080
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: we know, and Steve and I I remember leading up

1081
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 1: to the draft adity, we were thinking, like everybody was saying,

1082
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: running back, running back, running backs of possibility at twenty

1083
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: four for the Steelers, and I guess Steve and I

1084
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: were kind of thinking of the old way of the

1085
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: Steelers when that is an offensive tackle, Lockstock and Barrel

1086
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: just mark it down in pen for the Steelers at

1087
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: twenty four, and that didn't happen. I mean, I realized

1088
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: they got you know, Kendrick Green in round three, and

1089
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: then they doubled down and got Dan Moore the tackle

1090
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: from Texas A and M in round four. But they're

1091
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: looking at a situation where they're probably going to have

1092
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: four new members on that offensive line in comparison to

1093
00:59:57,760 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: last year, right, I mean, that's probably what we're looking at.

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01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: I mean, agreed, And when you and it makes me

1095
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: feel almost validated that publicly you and Steve are saying, yes,

1096
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,479
Speaker 1: that's what you were thinking, because I was completely one

1097
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 1: hundred percent advocating for the fact that no matter how

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01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: much do you want to run the football, you're not

1099
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: running it if you don't have an offensive line that

1100
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: can create holes or when your quarterback needs to throw

1101
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: the ball, protect your quarterback, and you know, you look

1102
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: at teams that have done significantly well, you think about, how,

1103
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: let's go back to the Browns. Since we just talked

1104
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: about the Browns two and a half minutes ago. Baker

1105
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: Mayfield was a very, very, very different quarterback this past

1106
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: season than he was a year ago. And the number

1107
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: one reason for that was that he wasn't running for

1108
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: his life and he had some faith in some trust

1109
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: in the offensive line that he had in front of him.

1110
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: And so you sit here and you think, Okay, you're

1111
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: bringing back a thirty nine year old quarterback. You're bringing

1112
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: back a guy who can no longer kind of run

1113
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 1: and make magic happen and extend to play. You're bringing

1114
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: back a guy who last year was so skittish that

1115
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: he needed to get rid of the ball faster than

1116
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 1: anybody else in the NFL. And you're also bringing back

1117
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: a quarterback who didn't have enough faith in what the

1118
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 1: run game could do that the Steelers were last in

1119
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: the NFL and running the football, So what have you

1120
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 1: done to address the trenches kind of the biggest part

1121
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: of the game. And you know, I sat here and

1122
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: I said, I don't care who the best available player is.

1123
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 1: At twenty four when the Steelers drafted, you pick an

1124
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: offensive tackle and that's that. You take the best offensive

1125
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: offensive lineman that's available on the board at that moment.

1126
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: And obviously the Steelers chose not to do that, and

1127
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: they didn't do that in the second round when they

1128
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 1: chose the tight end, and then they chose the guy

1129
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,439
Speaker 1: in the third round that will hopefully start for them,

1130
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: but their offensive line is still a mess. So I

1131
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I'm still old school enough that

1132
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: I believe that the game of football is won in

1133
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: the trenches, and I am welcome to listening to you. Guys.

1134
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 1: Disagree with me, Well go ahead and tell me I'm wrong.

1135
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you could be sitting in my chair for

1136
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 1: the last two months talking about the Buffalo Bills in

1137
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 1: their running game. I mean, if you want to get

1138
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: better in the running game, move people out of the way,

1139
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 1: and then that starts up front. I was going to

1140
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: ask you next, is So it sounds like after this

1141
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 1: draft the Steelers have almost just as many questions as

1142
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: they did going into the draft, not because they didn't,

1143
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: you know, sign enough guys, It just nobody's proven and

1144
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: that offensive line still seems to be a question mark.

1145
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: You know what, Like the flip side of me as

1146
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: a storyteller sits here and says, nobody knew who Russell

1147
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 1: Wilson was until he came to training camp and all

1148
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 1: of a sudden won a starting job, right Like, there

1149
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: was no expectation that this somewhat low round draft pick

1150
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: would suddenly come into training camp and do something. So

1151
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: maybe one of these kids is more than we expect

1152
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: him to be at this moment. And I don't want

1153
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: to be such a negative nelly that I'm pooh pooing

1154
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: that idea. But as we here right now, no, I

1155
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 1: feel much better about the Ravens and the Browns than

1156
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:15,360
Speaker 1: I do the Steelers. I mean, I really do. And

1157
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: I also feel that when the Steelers decided that they

1158
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 1: were going to go ahead with Ben Roethlisberger, then that

1159
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: was saying, we believe that we have our best chance

1160
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 1: to win with Ben. So then you need to build

1161
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 1: around Ben. Have you done that? Yeah? Yeah, that would

1162
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: be not enough in my estimation. So let's with you.

1163
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 1: So let's take it a step further because we've got

1164
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: you know, the schedules came out last week, and we

1165
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 1: know that the Steelers and the Bills are opening up

1166
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: against one another, and then the schedule is kind of

1167
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: interesting because Pittsburgh first off, has the extra preseason game

1168
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 1: because they're in the Hall of Fame game, so they've

1169
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: got free when everybody else except the Cowboys have three.

1170
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: And then they've got the Bills and the Packers, two

1171
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 1: of the final four teams last year, in the first

1172
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: four weeks. And it's hard for me to say, even

1173
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: in the best case scenario, that that offensive line is

1174
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: going to be humming in the first month of the

1175
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: season for them, which I think puts them at a

1176
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: decided disadvantage against a high scoring team like the Bills

1177
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: and or the Packers. I don't know that they're a

1178
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 1: team that really ever comes out with their foot on

1179
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: the gas. Quite frankly, you know, you've seen a lot

1180
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: of I mean, I've seen blowouts in New England. I've

1181
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: seen embarrassments all over the place. Now, I remember a

1182
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 1: few years ago where they went out to Washington and

1183
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: put together this amazing performance and then didn't follow it

1184
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: up with anything. So I think it's a very fair

1185
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: point that you're making. But the one thing I would

1186
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 1: say is I've also seen them start owing four and

1187
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 1: then finish in a I don't know if they finished

1188
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: season eight and eight or ten and six. I mean,

1189
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 1: they're just they The Steelers are a team that to

1190
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,439
Speaker 1: buy logic, you know, like you did here and you say, okay,

1191
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 1: you need a hot start. You need to when you

1192
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 1: look at the Steelers schedule, the end of their schedule

1193
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: is very, very very difficult. Their last four games are

1194
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: against four playoff teams, five of their last six are

1195
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: against playoff teams, and the sixth game is against Mike

1196
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 1: Zimmer and the Vikings. And Mike Zimmer knows the Steelers

1197
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: as well as anybody, having been the Cincinnati Bengals defensive

1198
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: coordinator for so long, So you think that the end

1199
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: of their schedule is so tough. And the last three

1200
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: seasons they haven't finished any season particularly well. They've kind

1201
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 1: of limped to the end line. So then normal, like

1202
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:48,439
Speaker 1: conventional wisdom is take advantage of the very beginning, get

1203
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 1: out to a hot start. But the Steelers aren't just

1204
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 1: not a team that really start hot. You know, explain

1205
01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: last year's season to us. We you know, we saw

1206
01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:00,080
Speaker 1: him go eleven and oh to begin the season and

1207
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: they and whatever, you know, that to me is a

1208
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: it's a fast start because they are getting wins, even

1209
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,320
Speaker 1: if they weren't convincing or whatever. How did they manage

1210
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: to go eleven and oh? And then as you said,

1211
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 1: I think politely limp to the finish, I mean they

1212
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: were crawling across the five limping or is one in

1213
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:21,440
Speaker 1: five like absolutely completely totally collapsing and that, Yeah, the

1214
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,640
Speaker 1: house is on fire. Yeah yeah, they yeah, they evacuated.

1215
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's so interesting. So when you say this

1216
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 1: eleven and oh, there was a point in the season

1217
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,120
Speaker 1: where I was just like, they are living on the edge.

1218
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 1: They're about to lose. And there were three consecutive games.

1219
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 1: Dallas was one, Tennessee was another, and I, off the

1220
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: top of my head, I apologize, I can't remember the

1221
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 1: third where you know, the last possession I think it

1222
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 1: was Baltimore, actually Tennessee Dallas, Baltimore last possession. The other

1223
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 1: team had a chance to win and did not win.

1224
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 1: And so you sit here and you think, Okay, is

1225
01:06:57,040 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: this a team that is skating on the edge that

1226
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 1: is really surely not that good. But they're just getting

1227
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 1: every lessy bound or do you say, well, you know what,

1228
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 1: this is a team that knows how to close out

1229
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: a game. And this is a team that even when

1230
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: everything seems aligned against them, they somehow know how to

1231
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: gut out of wins. And it's their magic in the

1232
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 1: fact that even when they don't play well, they can

1233
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: somehow finish a game. And I don't I mean, I'm

1234
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: saying this very honestly to both of you. I don't

1235
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: really know the answer to that. On the one hand,

1236
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 1: I thought this team had a lot of flaws. I

1237
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 1: thought that they would be exposed, would happen at the

1238
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: end of the season. Do not surprise me in any

1239
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 1: way because I felt like, once you abandon the run,

1240
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,680
Speaker 1: you're in trouble. And I am still of the mindset

1241
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 1: that when it comes to December and January, especially in

1242
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 1: the AFT nor at the AF to East, you better

1243
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 1: be able to run the football. And when you are

1244
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 1: choosing not to run the ball at all, then a

1245
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: defense doesn't even need to need to even defend the run.

1246
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 1: This isn't about not being able to do it. This

1247
01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 1: is choosing not to do it period. Yeah, which means

1248
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Finished up a dude, no, no, no, as

1249
01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: you're saying, it just felt like, Okay, what happened at

1250
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: the end was not that surprising. But then when you

1251
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 1: look at that eleven and oh it's you give them

1252
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: a lot of credit for being able to get out

1253
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: the wings or do you sit here and say, Okay,

1254
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: there were a lot of warning signs and they didn't

1255
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: a dress those warning signs because they were winning. Yeah, yeah,

1256
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: I think it makes it makes what Kansas City did

1257
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:26,360
Speaker 1: with their offensive line all the more interesting, like Pittsburgh

1258
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 1: was the team that needed to do basically what Kansas

1259
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:30,640
Speaker 1: City did. I knew they didn't have the money to

1260
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 1: throw around like Kansas City did, so I understand that.

1261
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:35,600
Speaker 1: But the draft was there one chance to take the

1262
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 1: big swing to invest in their offensive line, and they

1263
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,720
Speaker 1: waited until the latter stages a Day two and Day

1264
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:42,639
Speaker 1: three to do so. But I want to I want

1265
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 1: to move on here, Addy, because I wanted to get

1266
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: your take on this because the show we're doing today

1267
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:52,000
Speaker 1: is kind of a little bit of a play off

1268
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 1: of a tweet we saw over the weekend that basically

1269
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 1: lit a firestorm. CBO Sports had a tweet that said

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Speaker 1: ranked these quarterbacks one to four, and it was Mayfield, Allan,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and Justin Herbert and people could not agree

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Speaker 1: and it was just like butting heads all weekend on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: But we tried, we tried to tweak it a little.

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Speaker 1: And we were asking today which young AFCQB in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one can do for their team what Josh Allen

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01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:22,439
Speaker 1: did for the Bills last season. We figured there's enough

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Speaker 1: young quarterbacks in the AFC to kind of make that

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Speaker 1: an argument or a debate worth having. So who kind

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Speaker 1: of comes to mind with that? And we're not necessarily

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Speaker 1: looking for who we think is the most talented quarterback,

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Speaker 1: but who's in a position not only in terms of

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Speaker 1: their own ability, but what's around them to kind of

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Speaker 1: make that kind of a season happen. So we're talking

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Speaker 1: about only the AFT, right, can I retweak that? Though?

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Speaker 1: I would not put Baker first, and not because I

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01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 1: don't like Baker and not that I don't believe that

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01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 1: he is in an absolutely exceptional situation with the coaching

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01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:57,679
Speaker 1: staff that understands him and what he can do best.

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Speaker 1: But I would go Lamar, Josh Baker, and then Justin Okay,

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01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 1: that would be my ranking and would you throw any

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01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: other AFC QB in the mixer? Is that pretty much it? No,

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01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,840
Speaker 1: I'm not a big to a person. I'm not throwing

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01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: some others at me because right now, what about Carson Wentz? Um?

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01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: Does he count young? Yeah? We were still, we were

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01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 1: wondering ourselves. Yeah, that's the that's the razor's edge there. Young.

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01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:27,720
Speaker 1: He's in his fifth year, maybe going into the six year. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Although if we call him young, then

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01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 1: we're all still young, right guys? Um? Yeah, so okay.

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Speaker 1: I really like the match of Kyle Wilson in New

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01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: York or New Jersey. As a Jersey girl, I feel

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,639
Speaker 1: like it's very wrong to call the Jets New York

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01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:50,320
Speaker 1: considering they play in New Jersey and there heads are

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01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. I just think he's a nice fit.

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01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 1: I think that the way that he grew up means

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01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:00,680
Speaker 1: that he won't get all um. And I don't know

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01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 1: this for a fact. I just feel that I talked

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01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 1: to his quarterback coach John Becks a fair amount, and

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01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 1: I feel that this is not a kid that's going

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01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:10,640
Speaker 1: to get all wrapped up in the bright lights and

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01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: craziness of Broadway. I hope you're right with that, because

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01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 1: from what we had heard, he'd never really been out

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01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: of provo much right, Like ever, that's somewhat of a

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01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 1: sheltered existence to then be dropped into the media cauldron

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Speaker 1: of New York. But I will say this to his credit, So,

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01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: as I learned via John Beck, he spent a fair

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01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,200
Speaker 1: amount of time on the phone with Chad Pennington and

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01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:42,879
Speaker 1: with three former quarterback Mark Sanchez, Chad Pennington, and Josh McCown,

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01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: all of whom played for the Jets. Pen Is just

1319
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: to get a feel of, Okay, what is the media climate, like,

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01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: what is it that is expected of you? What should

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01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: I know? And to me, that speaks volumes that he's

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01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 1: trying to prepare and he understands that this is a

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01:11:57,320 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 1: completely different environment than the one that he grew up in.

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01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 1: So what can I do to make the situation a

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01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:05,240
Speaker 1: little bit better or easier? Yeah, because I mean, and

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01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 1: I like that it's sink or swim there with him.

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01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the backups on the roster,

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01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: there's no It's almost like they did that on purpose

1329
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:14,880
Speaker 1: to kind of keep the fans and the media at

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01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: bay in case he struggles early. So they say Hey,

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01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 1: this guy's our ticket. Either support him or don't bother

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01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:24,599
Speaker 1: because I mean, the backups on the roster are totally

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01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:28,639
Speaker 1: unproving guys themselves, which, you know what, But that goes

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Speaker 1: back to another very interesting conversation in Steve. I'd love

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01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 1: your take on this. I like the idea of Justin

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01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: Fields sitting behind Andy Dalton and I know that we're

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01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 1: moving to Chicago and we're moving to the NFC, but

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01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: just the idea of a young quarterback apprenticing, you know,

1339
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: the way that Eli Manning did under Kurt Warner, the

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01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:51,679
Speaker 1: way that Aaron Rodgers did under Brett Farve. I don't

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01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:54,559
Speaker 1: see why that's a bad thing. I don't see why

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01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: teams feel so obligated to rush these young guys into

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01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: that position when there's so much to learn behind the scenes.

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01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: Well wouldn't like, don't you feel as if that sets

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01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:08,280
Speaker 1: up a young player better than being thrust into the

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01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:11,680
Speaker 1: spotlight and the pressure situation right away? I would say

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01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 1: in some cases yes, But the only thing that I'm

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01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: wondering about is the let's just call a spade a

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01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: spade here. I mean, Ryan Pace and Matt Naggie, they

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01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:27,800
Speaker 1: got to win now, so I'm I'm wondering if they're

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01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: saying all the right things now. But as soon as

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01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton looks ordinary and Justin Fields is lightened it

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01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:36,720
Speaker 1: up in practice, I think that's gonna don't you think

1354
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 1: that's gonna change? Great? Yeah, I think add I think

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01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 1: you hope Justin Fields plays well enough to force the issue.

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01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:46,519
Speaker 1: But I'm with you. I think it's a smart move to,

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01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:50,160
Speaker 1: even if it's for the first month, let Andy Dalton

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01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 1: take the reins. You've really said for a long time

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01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: all you needed was steady quarterback play, and you you

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01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 1: kind of got it with Andy Dalton is nothing if

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01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: not steady. But that's all the piece of it. Two, right,

1362
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:06,840
Speaker 1: Like it feels as if everybody has forgotten that Andy

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01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,759
Speaker 1: Dalton in his first five years with the Cincinnati Bengals

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01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:12,679
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs, right, you know? The young man

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01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 1: is a study as can be. He doesn't make tremendous mistakes,

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01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 1: like does he wow you and light up the scoreboard? No,

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01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: but he doesn't make mistakes right, right, And so I

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01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 1: feel like there's value in that and that counts for something.

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01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 1: And yeah, do you want Justin Fields to be pushing

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01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 1: the issue on the practice Field, Sure, but you also,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I definitely don't want he's

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Speaker 1: starting week one. Yeah, And I say that because I

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01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 1: went to Justin Fields pro day. I really liked the kid,

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01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: and I would prefer that Aaron Donald does not eat him. Yeah.

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01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 1: Let me just let me just into the NFL. Yeah,

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01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 1: let me just clearly say I agree with you. I

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01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:50,679
Speaker 1: just am not convinced that Ryan Pace and Matt Naggie

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01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 1: are going to feel the same way if they're two

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01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:55,639
Speaker 1: and two after four games, or even two and three

1380
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: after five games, that's my concern. I mean, you go

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01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:01,400
Speaker 1: back to the Giants and Kurt Warner and Eli Manning

1382
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:03,639
Speaker 1: and the Giants were not out of the playoff race.

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01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 1: I can't remember what exactly their record was. I mean

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01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 1: I think it was something like six and three, and

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01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,720
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin made the move to Eli Manning off of

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01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner, and I remember Kurt Warner felt bad. He

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01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: was like, we're still in this and Tom Coughlin just

1388
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 1: kind of felt like, no, we're not, so here we go.

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01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 1: And that's an argument too. I remember covering the Ravens

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01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:26,919
Speaker 1: when they made the switch to Lamar Jackson from Joe Flacco.

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01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 1: And then in the first round of the playoffs they

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01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 1: played the San Diego Chargers. And now I know I'm

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01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: getting very inside football, but if you'll stick with me

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01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: for just a minute, Lamar Jackson played a terrible, terrible,

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01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 1: terrible first half and Joe Flacco was talked too at halftime,

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01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 1: do you want to go in? Joe Flacco came out

1397
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 1: at the half and started warming up, and John Harbaugh

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01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 1: had this moment like, we're losing to the Chargers, We're

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01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 1: playing terrible. Do we put Flacco in? And Jane Urban,

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01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:59,320
Speaker 1: who was the Ravens quarterback coach, said, our future is

1401
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:02,960
Speaker 1: Lamar and how far are we really getting this year,

1402
01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 1: whether we win this game or not, what do we

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01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 1: want to do for our future? And so the decision

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01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:12,840
Speaker 1: was made to play Lamar Jackson. And at the very

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01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 1: end of the fourth quarter in that game against the Chargers,

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01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: he finally put together two touchdown drives and that was great.

1407
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:22,679
Speaker 1: And Lamar Jackson has since been the Ravens franchise quarterback.

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01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:25,200
Speaker 1: And you wonder how much of that, how much of

1409
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: that decision right there in that moment where you said, Okay,

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01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: we may lose this game, but for the betterment of

1411
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 1: the entire franchise. Let's stick with the guy who's not

1412
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 1: playing so well, and that was the choice of John

1413
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:40,360
Speaker 1: Harball Maine. So again, when we talk about young quarterbacks

1414
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,719
Speaker 1: like Tom Coughlin making the decision to move from Kurt

1415
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 1: Winner to Eli Manning in that same vein, what will

1416
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 1: we see in Chicago? I don't know, you know, like

1417
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 1: Andy Dalson doesn't necessarily need to go oh and four

1418
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,680
Speaker 1: for them to move to justin field. But it's not

1419
01:16:55,720 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 1: as clear cut as hey, let's just ham the reins

1420
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:01,160
Speaker 1: to Josh Allen and see what happens. A dd we

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01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 1: appreciate it is always. Thanks so much for taking some

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01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: time with us. Well, we went like an eighteen different directions. Okay,

1423
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: you're allowed to do that in the off season. That's

1424
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 1: perfectly allowed at this time on the NFL calendar. So

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01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 1: thanks for doing it. And uh, tell your son he

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01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 1: is officially welcome to Bill's mafia. He's officially amen. Thank you.

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01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 1: I will message you photos of him and guys. Thanks

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01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 1: so much for having me. Always a pleasure of DDY.

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01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 1: Thanks for the time as always. Take care all right,

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01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:31,679
Speaker 1: that's a d kink. While NFL Network reporter who spends

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01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 1: a lot of time covering the Steelers. She's based out

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01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: that way, and uh, I wouldn't be surprised. We should

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01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:37,840
Speaker 1: have asked her, do you know if you're going to

1434
01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 1: be assigned up here for week one? Knowing her husband

1435
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 1: and son are probably gonna be sitting in the stands,

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01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,559
Speaker 1: I would hope so for her sake, making a family

1437
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 1: road trip all around. But uh, yeah, that's kind of cool.

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01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:53,520
Speaker 1: Kids spends a week in Buffalo. He's hooked. That's awesome. Yeah,

1439
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,559
Speaker 1: why not? Yeah, that's there are there are worse ways

1440
01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:00,200
Speaker 1: to become a fan. Amen to that. So we will

1441
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 1: take a break here because we are way over the

1442
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: break and be back with more, including your comments on

1443
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:08,759
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet about which young AFCQB in twenty twenty

1444
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 1: one can do for their team what Josh Allen did

1445
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 1: for the Bills last season, also taking your phone calls

1446
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: at eight oh three oh five fifty back in a

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01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:19,599
Speaker 1: flash here on One Bill's Line, presented by Kalid to health,

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01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. We'll get back to One Bills Live.

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01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:33,799
Speaker 1: Second half of the show under way. You know Adity

1450
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent right, Steve, We were talking about

1451
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:40,120
Speaker 1: this during the break, that Steelers schedule at the end. Whoa, whoa?

1452
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean if they and they you mentioned it's Steve

1453
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 1: and I totally forgot about it. They do have the

1454
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: number one strength of schedule in the league based on

1455
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 1: last year's records. And not only that, you gotta play

1456
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 1: an extra preseason game because they're in the Hall of

1457
01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 1: Fame game. Okay, so you sit all your regulars and

1458
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: you don't play him in that game anyway, especially Ben.

1459
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 1: But I already mentioned you got the Bills and the

1460
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 1: Packers in your first four weeks when you're trying to

1461
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: put that new offensive line together. That's gonna be tough

1462
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 1: enough not to mention the Raiders are in the first

1463
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,640
Speaker 1: three weeks. I mean, yeah, they're not a juggernaut, but

1464
01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 1: they're a tough out at times. But those last six

1465
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: games Steve at Ravens or home against the Ravens, at

1466
01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:26,959
Speaker 1: Vikings home against the Steelers, at Chiefs home against the Browns, Titans, sorry,

1467
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 1: and then at the Ravens at the end of the season.

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01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: Man alive. You got the Ravens twice, the Chiefs on

1469
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:37,519
Speaker 1: the road, Titans, and Browns. What his a? That is?

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01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:41,200
Speaker 1: Just a death march. There are not going to the playoffs.

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01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:43,800
Speaker 1: There is no way. Last year and went one and

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01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:46,160
Speaker 1: five down the stretch. They're not going to the playoffs

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01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: this year. I'm just saying it now. They went eleven

1474
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 1: and new last year. Yeah, and went one and five

1475
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: down there. It's gonna be the Browns and the Ravens

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01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 1: out of the North. Those are the two playoff teams

1477
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: coming out of that division. And that is it. Yeah,

1478
01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: that is a bear. And how did they not Steve

1479
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: How did they not take offensive lineman? They should have

1480
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 1: done what the Bills did in the draft with their

1481
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,120
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's what I mean by that is they

1482
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: went past rusher or pass rusher. The Steelers should have

1483
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: gone O line, O line. Right. It seems to me

1484
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 1: like that as well. This and Mike Tomlin just signed

1485
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 1: a three year extension and he's under I don't know what,

1486
01:20:24,600 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 1: under extreme scrutiny by the Pittsburgh fan base. To me, um,

1487
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 1: I can't believe the guy gets any criticism. Well, he's

1488
01:20:33,080 --> 01:20:34,559
Speaker 1: are in the benefit of the doubt. I would like

1489
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 1: to think that's not the case in Pittsburgh, where it's

1490
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 1: championship or bust. Ever, here there's still number six. It

1491
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: was still a percentage of Steeler fans. I think Mike

1492
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:45,599
Speaker 1: Tomlin's a bust as a head coach, Oh my god.

1493
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 1: And he just signed a three year deal, so he'll

1494
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:50,600
Speaker 1: have that under his belt going into this season. But

1495
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I this team, it's particularly Ben in particular,

1496
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:58,719
Speaker 1: strikes me as a guy who's he's a statue. Who

1497
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: is he's a statue. He can throw it pretty good

1498
01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: as although he's not what he wants was, But he

1499
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: starts fresh, which is why I'm like, Okay, we got

1500
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 1: to play these guys this year opening Day. He's gonna

1501
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 1: be fresh and ready to go. But he's last year.

1502
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:19,920
Speaker 1: They looked starting with Ben Old in the last month

1503
01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:21,680
Speaker 1: and a half of the season, they looked like they

1504
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: were just tired and okay, so they flushed out a

1505
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: lot of the old lineman. Good first move. Now you

1506
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 1: got to fill it in. Yeah, but they're doing it

1507
01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:33,559
Speaker 1: with a third and a fourth round draft choice who

1508
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 1: may both have to start. I mean, they've got a

1509
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:39,640
Speaker 1: Kora for who is a third round pick from a

1510
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. But you heard a d D

1511
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 1: say in herself, we have no bonified starting left tackle.

1512
01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:46,719
Speaker 1: I don't know who it's gonna be. Yeah, it's an issue,

1513
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:50,040
Speaker 1: and it's just it's not just left tackle, it's left guard, center,

1514
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 1: and right tackle. I mean they've got a former first

1515
01:21:53,240 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: round draft choice to Castro who's long in the tooth,

1516
01:21:56,200 --> 01:22:00,439
Speaker 1: starting at right guard. After that, everything else is an unknown. Yea, yeah,

1517
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:05,240
Speaker 1: that's dangerous with the STU was gone. Yeah, it's it's

1518
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 1: a it's a. I think those are the questions they

1519
01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:09,479
Speaker 1: got to answer hard to win that. I get Nagi Harris,

1520
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:13,080
Speaker 1: he's an I hear that. But man oh man, I

1521
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 1: thought for a team like a perennial contender like the

1522
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:19,840
Speaker 1: Steelers are expected to be and expect themselves to be,

1523
01:22:21,479 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 1: I would just think they would get guys up front. Yeah,

1524
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:28,320
Speaker 1: I mean look at their I mean you look at

1525
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: all their really good football teams. They've all had really

1526
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:34,680
Speaker 1: good offensive lines. Certainly, they've had some skill players, no

1527
01:22:34,760 --> 01:22:37,040
Speaker 1: question about it. But man oh man, it started up

1528
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:38,760
Speaker 1: front for all of their really good teams, all their

1529
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 1: Super Bowl teams. Yeah. I don't know. I'm with you.

1530
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers. This is the first time I've

1531
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:48,639
Speaker 1: thought about the Seeders like, I don't know, I don't know,

1532
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen. Now. They may have

1533
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 1: a lot, they may may have high hopes for these

1534
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 1: offensive linemen that they drafted, because as we said, there's

1535
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:58,120
Speaker 1: they were counting on them a lot. There was some

1536
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 1: depth in the draft. But I don't know. We'll see.

1537
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 1: I'm it's like, you know, you got a nice paint job,

1538
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:10,400
Speaker 1: but the engine isn't there. Yeah, let's let's we're gonna

1539
01:23:10,439 --> 01:23:12,559
Speaker 1: do a take two here as we go back to

1540
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:15,880
Speaker 1: the phones at eight oh three, five fifty and uh,

1541
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:19,760
Speaker 1: we lost connection with Judy in Buffalo last hour. We're

1542
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: gonna try again here, Judy, are you there? You're on

1543
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live. Okay. What I really called about earlier

1544
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:30,679
Speaker 1: was that I think Justin Herbert is an up and comer,

1545
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 1: and Miami made a big mistake choosing him over tah

1546
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:38,280
Speaker 1: It's as big a mistake as Denver made by taking

1547
01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:42,560
Speaker 1: Chubb over Josh Allen. I really think San Diego is

1548
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:45,880
Speaker 1: a coming team, and I mean, I love Josh Allen,

1549
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 1: but I think Justin Herbert has a really big uptake

1550
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 1: coming up right, And I and I do like what

1551
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: the Chargers did in the draft. Unlike Pittsburgh. You know,

1552
01:23:57,560 --> 01:24:00,160
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert got sacked thirty two times last year in

1553
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: fifteen games, which is in a tremendous amount, but it's

1554
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: enough to give you cause for concern. They made a

1555
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:07,400
Speaker 1: lot of changes on that offensive line. And who's their

1556
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:10,680
Speaker 1: first round draft choice, Rashaan Slater, the tackle out of Northwestern. Right,

1557
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:12,599
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. He's gonna line up and play left

1558
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:16,719
Speaker 1: tackle day one. That helps your quarterback, right. I agree

1559
01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 1: with you, Judy. I think that the Chargers have a

1560
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:21,120
Speaker 1: lot of reason to be really optimistic about how Justin

1561
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: Herbert is gonna play. He was offensive rookie of the

1562
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 1: Year and he came in off the bench with five

1563
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 1: minutes notice and gave the Chiefs everything they could handle

1564
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,760
Speaker 1: as a rookie. That says a lot about how good

1565
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 1: a player he is. And and the Dolphins taking to

1566
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: a tongue of ioloa over Justin Herbert, I think that's

1567
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 1: putting a little too much emphasis on the intangibles and

1568
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 1: not enough on the physical abilities the guy displays. I'm

1569
01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 1: not I don't know what they saw in Justin Herbert

1570
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:58,040
Speaker 1: that made him think maybe he wasn't there. Guy. I

1571
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 1: know TA did it at the absolute high slowly came

1572
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: in as a true freshman and won a national championship.

1573
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:06,639
Speaker 1: In the second half of his of the championship game,

1574
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: he was you know, Jalen Hurtz was benched. They brought

1575
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:12,120
Speaker 1: two in and Brian day Ball called the plays that

1576
01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:14,800
Speaker 1: you know, put him into the national championship and gave

1577
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: him the national championship. I know that goes a long

1578
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: way for a lot of people, but Justin Herbert is

1579
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:25,160
Speaker 1: a lot like Josh Allen, big, big arm athlete. That's

1580
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 1: hard to overlook when you when you stand those two

1581
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: guys up side by side, Tuah and Justin Herbert. And

1582
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:32,080
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I think they made a mistake, at

1583
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: least at first blush when you look at Justin Herbert

1584
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:37,519
Speaker 1: that they picked Tua over him. So I'll go with

1585
01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:42,720
Speaker 1: you on that, Judy, anything else, Junior or You're good? No,

1586
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 1: But um you know, I you forgot my comparison to

1587
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 1: the Denver taking Chubb over yeah Allen, And I mean

1588
01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:55,120
Speaker 1: I mean Denver, Denver's gonna rue the day they did that. Well. Yeah,

1589
01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:58,679
Speaker 1: And the interesting art is, the interesting thing is Elway

1590
01:25:58,760 --> 01:26:00,320
Speaker 1: was still in charge at that time. I mean, he

1591
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:02,479
Speaker 1: was picking quarterbacks almost every year, and that was the

1592
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 1: one year he decided not to do it, and he's

1593
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 1: still paying for it today, as Judy points out, So

1594
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: good call there, Judy, thanks for making it. I really

1595
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 1: like what the Chargers did to help Justin Herbert in

1596
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 1: this draft. They go Rashaun Slater round one. Then they

1597
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:19,479
Speaker 1: go defense to help their their back back for in

1598
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:22,760
Speaker 1: the secondary. They take Asante Samuel Junior. Good pick there

1599
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 1: because he can play insider outside. And then after that

1600
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:28,440
Speaker 1: they take Josh Palmer, the big wide receiver six one

1601
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 1: like two fifteen and played in the Senior Bowl. Did

1602
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:35,719
Speaker 1: well down there, and you know it was at Tennessee

1603
01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:38,799
Speaker 1: a lot of playing time, played in forty seven games started,

1604
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 1: thirty six of them, average over fifteen yards of reception

1605
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:46,720
Speaker 1: down there, big kid. I think that's gonna help Herbert too,

1606
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:49,760
Speaker 1: because Keenan Allen's still a dynamic performer, getting a little

1607
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:52,839
Speaker 1: long in the tooth. Mike Williams still a young veteran player,

1608
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: but has had injury problems and has been in and

1609
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 1: out of the lineup a lot over the last several years.

1610
01:26:57,800 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: As Palmer kids, another guy in the pipeline at Eckler

1611
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:03,479
Speaker 1: and you're talking about Denvers San Diego. I'm talking about

1612
01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 1: the LA Chargers. Yeah, and I think they could. They

1613
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:08,960
Speaker 1: could be another team Steve after losing Hunter Henry that

1614
01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:12,240
Speaker 1: decides to go ten personnel Moore and so now Josh

1615
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 1: Palmer is suddenly a bigger part of the equation. Well,

1616
01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 1: I think they're also a team that's got to play

1617
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:21,599
Speaker 1: Kansas City twice, uh and the Raiders twice UM, Darren Waller,

1618
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:26,320
Speaker 1: the tight end in in Vegas, uh, John Gruden and

1619
01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 1: that crew. They're gonna have to They gotta keep up.

1620
01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: I think you gotta keep up athletically as well as

1621
01:27:31,439 --> 01:27:34,479
Speaker 1: you know up front. So you're right, I think they

1622
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 1: will go more ten personnel, particularly when Justin Herbert has

1623
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 1: shown him what he can do. Yeah, they'll get him

1624
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:40,920
Speaker 1: some guys that can run and or they seem to

1625
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 1: have gotten him some guys that can run them and

1626
01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 1: turn him loose. He's the closest thing to Josh Allen

1627
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: the entire league right now. Big arm can run really well. Yeah,

1628
01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 1: he's I can't think of a better comparison. Yeah. Yeah,

1629
01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:58,400
Speaker 1: he's the closest thing too. Yeah. Yeah, And you got

1630
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 1: to build it the same way. It'll be interesting to

1631
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:05,000
Speaker 1: see how their offense comes together. But they've got a

1632
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: new head coach, right, so well yeah, and that's the rub,

1633
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:13,640
Speaker 1: and you know they're changing it again, but they are,

1634
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:15,840
Speaker 1: I think from what I heard, they're trying to keep

1635
01:28:15,880 --> 01:28:19,639
Speaker 1: the offense the same. So I can't remember they didn't

1636
01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: keep Shane Steiken as their offensive coordinator. Who was the

1637
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:29,360
Speaker 1: OC there under um the former head coach who's name

1638
01:28:29,400 --> 01:28:30,800
Speaker 1: is escaping me now, he was here, he was the

1639
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:33,719
Speaker 1: running backs coach, and Anthony Lynn, Anthony Lynn, I wanted

1640
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 1: to say, I kept I had Jerry Gray in my

1641
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: mind that I knew that was Roy, couldn't get it

1642
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:38,639
Speaker 1: out of my head. And the guy they've got now,

1643
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: and I can't. I can't even tell you who the

1644
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:43,320
Speaker 1: LA Charger's head coach is now. It's Stokely. Oh yeah,

1645
01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 1: Brandon Stokely, the former wide receiver. No no, no no, no,

1646
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:48,840
Speaker 1: it's not the former wife. It's not he's the guy

1647
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 1: who's in he's even Brandon Staley sale s he is

1648
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:58,599
Speaker 1: Division two. I confused you, and I was wrong. Before

1649
01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:01,439
Speaker 1: you were Staley two or three years ago. He was

1650
01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:04,640
Speaker 1: in in Ai first school, yeah, high school before that.

1651
01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 1: And he's thirty seven years old, but they think they

1652
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:10,600
Speaker 1: have the next Sean McVeigh. Okay, we'll see. There's a

1653
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,040
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts over there. Yeah, that's why I'm

1654
01:29:13,080 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 1: not as giddy about the Chargers. Is everywhere? Okay, fair enough,

1655
01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:19,840
Speaker 1: we'll take a break here. We'll come back with more

1656
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:22,720
Speaker 1: from you and your comments on the tweet sheet. As

1657
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 1: we are asking which young AFC qb in twenty twenty

1658
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:29,960
Speaker 1: one can do for their team what Josh Allen did

1659
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:33,240
Speaker 1: for the Bills last season. There are plenty of choices

1660
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:35,680
Speaker 1: out there, some obvious ones and maybe some under the

1661
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:37,720
Speaker 1: radar ones. Let us know what you think at eight

1662
01:29:37,720 --> 01:29:40,160
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty open line for you there. We'll

1663
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:41,960
Speaker 1: get some of your comments on the tweet sheet. Next

1664
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's

1665
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:56,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Or go back to one Bills Live.

1666
01:29:56,920 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 1: Chris Brown screed task here with you. Got wide open

1667
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:02,680
Speaker 1: phone lines here in the third hour the show, So

1668
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 1: get on board eight oh three five fifty one eight

1669
01:30:05,320 --> 01:30:09,240
Speaker 1: eight fifty two five fifty as we're asking you which

1670
01:30:09,720 --> 01:30:13,760
Speaker 1: young AFC quarterback in twenty twenty one can do for

1671
01:30:14,439 --> 01:30:17,719
Speaker 1: their team what Josh Allen did for the Bills last season.

1672
01:30:17,840 --> 01:30:20,240
Speaker 1: It's a it's a setup. It's a tough question because

1673
01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:23,160
Speaker 1: anybody if you can step back. And this is my

1674
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:26,240
Speaker 1: opinion obviously, because I don't want to put project my

1675
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:29,160
Speaker 1: thoughts on anybody else because I know how social media is.

1676
01:30:29,240 --> 01:30:32,400
Speaker 1: But all four of these quarterbacks had nice years last year.

1677
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:35,040
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert offensive Rookie the Year, Josh Allen runner up

1678
01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:37,680
Speaker 1: in the MVP race, Lamar Jackson led his team to

1679
01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 1: a playoff win and got to the divisional round of

1680
01:30:39,600 --> 01:30:42,720
Speaker 1: a playoffs. Baker Mayfield and the Browns breakthrough, get to

1681
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:45,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs and give the Chiefs all they can handle.

1682
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:48,600
Speaker 1: All these guys statistically and in the intangibles had a

1683
01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 1: nice season. And they're all in kind of different different places.

1684
01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:57,280
Speaker 1: And certainly Lamar is the outlier in that he's a

1685
01:30:57,280 --> 01:30:59,519
Speaker 1: guy that they run a different type of offense. But

1686
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:03,160
Speaker 1: the guy was MVP and he had a big, big

1687
01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:05,840
Speaker 1: target on his back last year. That was a team

1688
01:31:05,880 --> 01:31:08,960
Speaker 1: that people geared up to stop and after getting a

1689
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:12,120
Speaker 1: look at him, they forced them into doing things that

1690
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:14,160
Speaker 1: they weren't ready to do or couldn't do well enough

1691
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:15,840
Speaker 1: to win enough, and they got into the playoffs and

1692
01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:17,559
Speaker 1: got to the divisional round. So I don't know who.

1693
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 1: There's not too many teams left that can talk bunk

1694
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:23,080
Speaker 1: to the Baltimore Ravens because they beat a lot of

1695
01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:26,360
Speaker 1: people and they're gonna do it again this year. Justin

1696
01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:29,280
Speaker 1: Herbert was I think the guy that was the most

1697
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:33,280
Speaker 1: surprising last year out of nowhere coming in and be

1698
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:35,360
Speaker 1: an offensive rookie of the year, even after the year

1699
01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:37,640
Speaker 1: that Joe Burrow looked like he was gonna have. And

1700
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 1: of course Baker Mayfield and Josh Allen coming out in

1701
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:42,920
Speaker 1: the same year. Baker taken first overall, Josh taking seventh,

1702
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:48,960
Speaker 1: and so they're all four really good quarterbacks. If you

1703
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 1: rank them which week you're talking about, Well, the problem

1704
01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:56,880
Speaker 1: is there the CBS Sports HQ when they put that

1705
01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:59,880
Speaker 1: tweet out, they said rank these quarterbacks one through four.

1706
01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:01,880
Speaker 1: What we're asking, I think is a little bit different

1707
01:32:02,360 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 1: because we're asking which quarterback is best position to do

1708
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:09,920
Speaker 1: for his team what Josh did for his team last year.

1709
01:32:09,960 --> 01:32:11,439
Speaker 1: And you think about all the things that were put

1710
01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:13,800
Speaker 1: around Josh to succeed in the fashion that he did.

1711
01:32:14,040 --> 01:32:16,200
Speaker 1: And I'm not tired to take away any credit from Josh.

1712
01:32:16,200 --> 01:32:18,559
Speaker 1: He did a lot of that, you know, through his

1713
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:23,320
Speaker 1: own hard work, having that season that he did last

1714
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:27,599
Speaker 1: year to catapult this team into Final four status. But

1715
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 1: if you look at either the other three that are

1716
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 1: on that CBS Sports tweet or you're looking around the

1717
01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:38,080
Speaker 1: rest of the conference in total, you'd be hard pressed

1718
01:32:38,080 --> 01:32:40,439
Speaker 1: to say someone's in a better position than Baker Mayfield

1719
01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 1: right now with the roster he has because, oh, by

1720
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:46,360
Speaker 1: the way, he gets Odell Beckham junior back this year.

1721
01:32:46,439 --> 01:32:49,000
Speaker 1: He didn't have him on the playoff run they made

1722
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:54,920
Speaker 1: last year. And there seriously a backup quarterback scramble run

1723
01:32:55,560 --> 01:32:58,240
Speaker 1: away from playing the Bills in the AFC title game

1724
01:32:58,320 --> 01:33:00,680
Speaker 1: last year, right, I mean, let's be real about it.

1725
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:02,720
Speaker 1: I mean that was a that was a closed game

1726
01:33:02,880 --> 01:33:05,559
Speaker 1: twenty two seventeen. It's a five point game at the end,

1727
01:33:06,640 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 1: and you know if and I can't even remember who

1728
01:33:10,320 --> 01:33:12,280
Speaker 1: the heck was the backup quarterback for the Chiefs last year.

1729
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:15,640
Speaker 1: It was the former Michigan Denny. Yeah, Chad Henney. He

1730
01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:19,240
Speaker 1: doesn't run for a fourth and thirteen and converted by

1731
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:24,920
Speaker 1: the slimmest of margins, you know what I mean? Like, yeah,

1732
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:27,360
Speaker 1: I agree, it could have been Bill's you go from

1733
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:32,919
Speaker 1: the bottom and you go, you know, Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson,

1734
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, Joe Burrow, whoever the guy is in Denver,

1735
01:33:39,439 --> 01:33:45,599
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Justin Herbert cam Newton or mac Jones,

1736
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:59,639
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, Tua Carson Wentz, Baker Lamar, Tannehill, Ben Josh

1737
01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:04,240
Speaker 1: and and I'm not expecting Trevor Lawrence any of this either.

1738
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:06,360
Speaker 1: But I mean there's another young quarterback that's now in

1739
01:34:06,400 --> 01:34:11,479
Speaker 1: the afco's Trevor freaking Lawrence. Yeah, you know what I mean,

1740
01:34:12,160 --> 01:34:14,120
Speaker 1: they do the right things over the next two years,

1741
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:16,639
Speaker 1: they could be pushing people in the South Division. Here's

1742
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:19,080
Speaker 1: no problem with some of these Chargers got a new

1743
01:34:19,120 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 1: head coach. Jacksonville's got a new head coach, so do

1744
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:27,720
Speaker 1: the Jets, and Houston as a new head coach, a

1745
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:32,160
Speaker 1: new head coach. That's a hard thing to do to

1746
01:34:32,240 --> 01:34:36,040
Speaker 1: get a team that struggles into the playoffs. Stability, I

1747
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:38,599
Speaker 1: think has been has been a value on. Stability has

1748
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:41,599
Speaker 1: been placed at a higher point in the last couple

1749
01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 1: of years around the league than it ever has been.

1750
01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:48,240
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, Buffalo has benefited from that,

1751
01:34:48,360 --> 01:34:52,160
Speaker 1: no question. Kansas City Pittsburgh is, you can't. They're the

1752
01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 1: most stable organization in the league all the time. Tennessee

1753
01:34:58,040 --> 01:35:02,400
Speaker 1: has stabilized a little bit. I' I think the mindset

1754
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:06,599
Speaker 1: of their ownership has changed since um Amy Adams Strunk

1755
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:11,880
Speaker 1: has taken over from her father, Bud Adams. Surprisingly, I

1756
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 1: think she's a better owner than her dad was, and

1757
01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:19,000
Speaker 1: so we'll see. Um. But having having said all of that,

1758
01:35:20,479 --> 01:35:22,960
Speaker 1: the new you know, some of these young guys like well,

1759
01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:26,080
Speaker 1: like Herbert, I think a new head coach changes things,

1760
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:32,759
Speaker 1: does um Jacksonville new head coach knew everything's new in Jacksonville. Um,

1761
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:38,559
Speaker 1: that's gonna be hard. Houston is so just you can't.

1762
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:40,920
Speaker 1: I don't care what the odds are. I'm not putting

1763
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:44,120
Speaker 1: a dime on that on that club to do anything. Um,

1764
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 1: there's you can take a handful of teams and for

1765
01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 1: me just throw them, no matter what kind of good

1766
01:35:48,880 --> 01:35:52,720
Speaker 1: players they've got on them. So I'm I think when

1767
01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:54,840
Speaker 1: you're talking about which team is gonna take a step up,

1768
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:56,519
Speaker 1: you look kind of in the middle of the pack,

1769
01:35:57,000 --> 01:36:00,160
Speaker 1: where Indianapolis was just the seventh seed coming in the

1770
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:03,879
Speaker 1: playoffs as an eleven win team. By the way, Miami

1771
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:06,400
Speaker 1: is a ten win team could take us. If he

1772
01:36:06,439 --> 01:36:09,080
Speaker 1: takes a little bit of a step forward, you're talking

1773
01:36:09,120 --> 01:36:11,240
Speaker 1: about a twelve win team. That's a that's a jump.

1774
01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:14,519
Speaker 1: The Bills only took content a three game jump last year,

1775
01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:18,519
Speaker 1: and it was from ten wins to thirteen. Miami do that? Maybe,

1776
01:36:18,560 --> 01:36:21,200
Speaker 1: if they do, you got to give to a little

1777
01:36:21,240 --> 01:36:22,760
Speaker 1: bit of a nod, like that's gotta be a little

1778
01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:26,160
Speaker 1: bit of him. Oh yeah, So yeah, I think I

1779
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:27,760
Speaker 1: think that's where you're at. You're looking at, you know,

1780
01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:30,519
Speaker 1: Derek Carr. What if that team wins three more games

1781
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:32,600
Speaker 1: than they did. You know, they're too dysfunctional to do that,

1782
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:35,280
Speaker 1: you think. But if they win three more games, they're

1783
01:36:35,280 --> 01:36:36,920
Speaker 1: in eleven and five team and they're in the thick

1784
01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:39,519
Speaker 1: of it, they're eleven and sixteen. I think that's a

1785
01:36:39,520 --> 01:36:42,719
Speaker 1: big if for them. I just yeah, it just seems

1786
01:36:42,840 --> 01:36:46,360
Speaker 1: if they do, if I would be too much disjointed

1787
01:36:46,439 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: stuff with the Raiders all the time. They can't get

1788
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:51,120
Speaker 1: their ducks in a row. Let me ask all you, Scott,

1789
01:36:51,200 --> 01:36:56,800
Speaker 1: let me ask you this guy Mac Jones. He's not

1790
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:59,519
Speaker 1: doing anything this year. I think I think he'll make them.

1791
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:02,640
Speaker 1: I think they'll be happy if he can just be

1792
01:37:02,680 --> 01:37:05,320
Speaker 1: a game manager for them. Think about Tom Brady in

1793
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:08,799
Speaker 1: his first year there when he took over for Drew Bledsoe.

1794
01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: I mean they were winning games thirteen to ten, seventeen

1795
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 1: to thirteen. He was throwing for one hundred and sixty

1796
01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:20,040
Speaker 1: yards a game. Touchdown here, no turnovers, just manage the game.

1797
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:25,120
Speaker 1: You think the games evolved away from that that they're

1798
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 1: getting all those opt outs out on defense. They're not

1799
01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:29,200
Speaker 1: going to give up twenty five points. I think their

1800
01:37:29,240 --> 01:37:31,880
Speaker 1: defense is poised to rebound nicely. So, yeah, they can

1801
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:34,639
Speaker 1: win more games than they lose playing that way, But

1802
01:37:34,880 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 1: when you get to the twelve and thirteen win teams

1803
01:37:36,960 --> 01:37:38,680
Speaker 1: in this conference, I think it's a lot tougher to

1804
01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:42,439
Speaker 1: make that work. I think the AFC is vastly different

1805
01:37:43,360 --> 01:37:46,599
Speaker 1: from what it was when Brady was playing his rookie year.

1806
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 1: You got teams that can throw thirty points up on

1807
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:53,599
Speaker 1: the board without even sweating. It's a different league now.

1808
01:37:54,080 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 1: And so while it's an admirable approach, and they may

1809
01:37:57,000 --> 01:37:59,000
Speaker 1: have to go that route, if Cam Newton keeps throwing

1810
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: ten yard bounce passes, you know he looks more like

1811
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:04,880
Speaker 1: Bob Kuzy than he looks like Cam newt be nice.

1812
01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:08,000
Speaker 1: So if you got to lean on mac Jones to

1813
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 1: be that, Okay, you can be a game manager. But

1814
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:13,240
Speaker 1: I think that's only taking you so far. Here's the thing,

1815
01:38:13,479 --> 01:38:16,160
Speaker 1: and it's like we've said, mac Jones is really intriguing

1816
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:21,400
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, when does he play? Does he play?

1817
01:38:21,479 --> 01:38:26,160
Speaker 1: And if he doesn't, how alarming is that? Given what

1818
01:38:26,160 --> 01:38:28,160
Speaker 1: we saw a year ago. Now it may be now

1819
01:38:28,240 --> 01:38:30,679
Speaker 1: Cam may play markedly better. I think it might say, Okay,

1820
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:32,280
Speaker 1: I can understand why the kid's not making her on

1821
01:38:32,280 --> 01:38:33,800
Speaker 1: the field, but if he plays like he did last year,

1822
01:38:33,800 --> 01:38:36,839
Speaker 1: it's like they don't even have a package for mac Jones. Yeah.

1823
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:39,160
Speaker 1: I think there's even a more interesting discussion to be

1824
01:38:39,160 --> 01:38:41,280
Speaker 1: had about Lamar Jackson, and we will do that after

1825
01:38:41,320 --> 01:38:44,560
Speaker 1: the break, because that is one franchise that does have stability,

1826
01:38:44,760 --> 01:38:47,719
Speaker 1: but they're changing some things on offense. Is this scheme

1827
01:38:48,560 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 1: going to change along with it? We will discuss that

1828
01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:54,439
Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bills Live presented by

1829
01:38:54,479 --> 01:39:12,839
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve

1830
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:16,400
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over the field. Kind of unique.

1831
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:18,639
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

1832
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:24,920
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strated here

1833
01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 1: of normalcy here. It is our number three on a Monday,

1834
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:34,360
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Chris Brown with you as we're chewing on

1835
01:39:34,400 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 1: this topic that we wanted to kind of throw out

1836
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:39,040
Speaker 1: here today, which young a f C QB in twenty

1837
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 1: twenty one can do for their team what Josh Allen

1838
01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:43,400
Speaker 1: did for the Bills last season. It's kind of a

1839
01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:46,439
Speaker 1: playoff of the CBS Sports HQ tweet over the weekend

1840
01:39:46,479 --> 01:39:49,800
Speaker 1: that asked you to rank the following AFC quarterbacks one

1841
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:53,679
Speaker 1: to four in order, Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,

1842
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:56,280
Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert. We decided to tweak it a little bit.

1843
01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:58,920
Speaker 1: See if you're bullish on one of these young a

1844
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:01,559
Speaker 1: f C qbs having the kind of year that Josh

1845
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:04,360
Speaker 1: had in lifting the Bills to a Final four team

1846
01:40:04,439 --> 01:40:07,759
Speaker 1: last year. So it's not confined to Mayfield, Herbert and Jackson.

1847
01:40:07,760 --> 01:40:10,439
Speaker 1: You can pick any AFC quarterback you want. Maybe you

1848
01:40:10,520 --> 01:40:14,000
Speaker 1: like Touah, Maybe you're a gigantic fan of you know,

1849
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:16,560
Speaker 1: some other young quarterback, Joe Burrow. Maybe you think is

1850
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:19,000
Speaker 1: gonna like the world on fire this year. I don't know,

1851
01:40:19,240 --> 01:40:22,840
Speaker 1: pick whoever, you like and tell us why. But we

1852
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 1: wanted to have this discussion with respect to Lamar Jackson

1853
01:40:27,320 --> 01:40:29,920
Speaker 1: because he's gone about it in a very different way

1854
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:32,599
Speaker 1: due to scheme than some of these other young qbs

1855
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:38,200
Speaker 1: in the AFC. But then you see and hear how

1856
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:42,200
Speaker 1: the team was concerned about the caliber of his passing targets.

1857
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:44,519
Speaker 1: It was a passing offense that largely went through tight

1858
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:48,320
Speaker 1: end Mark Andrews Hollywood. Brown has been a veritable disappointment

1859
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:51,000
Speaker 1: in each of his first two seasons, due in part

1860
01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:55,200
Speaker 1: to his diminutive stature, And they really haven't had much

1861
01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:58,360
Speaker 1: else to write home about. And so what do they

1862
01:40:58,360 --> 01:41:02,080
Speaker 1: do in free agency? They signed Sammy Watkins and then

1863
01:41:02,120 --> 01:41:06,479
Speaker 1: in the draft, their first pick in round one is

1864
01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:11,559
Speaker 1: Minnesota wide receiver Rishad Bateman. They follow that up later

1865
01:41:11,600 --> 01:41:14,160
Speaker 1: in the draft with a player who I think is

1866
01:41:14,240 --> 01:41:17,840
Speaker 1: very underrated, Oklahoma statewide receiver Tyland Wallace in round four.

1867
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:23,519
Speaker 1: And so you say, okay, there's some receiving targets coming

1868
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:25,760
Speaker 1: up in the pipeline. Now, are they going to get

1869
01:41:25,760 --> 01:41:28,040
Speaker 1: thrown on the field right away? Are they going to

1870
01:41:28,120 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 1: be worked in steadily? Is the offense going to change

1871
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:36,639
Speaker 1: ever so slightly? We know that offensive coordinator Greg Roman

1872
01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: completely rewrote the offensive playbook for the Ravens to Taylor

1873
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:45,760
Speaker 1: to the talents of Lamar Jackson, and he won an

1874
01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:49,200
Speaker 1: MVP because of it. But last year his numbers come

1875
01:41:49,240 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 1: back down to earth a little bit. Still ran for

1876
01:41:50,960 --> 01:41:54,880
Speaker 1: over a thousand yards, seven touchdowns through for I think

1877
01:41:55,040 --> 01:42:01,360
Speaker 1: twenty six touchdowns, nine picks. Completion percentage was down after

1878
01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:05,200
Speaker 1: an MVP year, it looked ordinary by Lamar Jackson standards.

1879
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:07,519
Speaker 1: I think there'd be about twenty six quarterbacks in the league.

1880
01:42:07,520 --> 01:42:10,599
Speaker 1: They would take that season in a heartbeat. But then

1881
01:42:10,640 --> 01:42:12,639
Speaker 1: they add these two receivers in the draft. They add

1882
01:42:12,680 --> 01:42:15,680
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, and people are like, ooh, I wonder if

1883
01:42:15,680 --> 01:42:19,320
Speaker 1: the scheme's gonna change ever so slightly and let Lamar

1884
01:42:19,439 --> 01:42:21,920
Speaker 1: throw it a little bit more. And then there are

1885
01:42:21,960 --> 01:42:25,360
Speaker 1: some critics that say, Lamar can't throw it outside the numbers,

1886
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:29,639
Speaker 1: why would you do that? So there's this big sense

1887
01:42:29,680 --> 01:42:32,640
Speaker 1: of wonder as to what the Ravens offense is going

1888
01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:35,280
Speaker 1: to look like this season. And then I go to

1889
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:41,320
Speaker 1: the end of Baltimore's draft. Their last pick came in

1890
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:49,080
Speaker 1: round five, number one eighty four overall, fullback Ben Mason

1891
01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:52,800
Speaker 1: out of Michigan. Now, this kid was an All state

1892
01:42:52,840 --> 01:42:55,519
Speaker 1: player out of Connecticut. He was the Gatorade Player of

1893
01:42:55,520 --> 01:42:57,320
Speaker 1: the Year in the state of Connecticut, played just about

1894
01:42:57,360 --> 01:43:02,240
Speaker 1: every position on the field. Goes to Michigan, can't get

1895
01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:06,479
Speaker 1: a regular job positionally on offense or on defense for

1896
01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:09,960
Speaker 1: that matter. Also as an injury history. He winds up

1897
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:13,120
Speaker 1: being an h back in the pro spread scheme that

1898
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:17,599
Speaker 1: they run at Michigan and is voted a team captain.

1899
01:43:17,880 --> 01:43:22,840
Speaker 1: I mean, this kid is football player personified. And they

1900
01:43:22,920 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 1: draft him in round five because John Harbaugh probably got

1901
01:43:27,479 --> 01:43:30,200
Speaker 1: the full breadth of information that he needed from his

1902
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:35,120
Speaker 1: brother who coaches at Michigan, as we know. So because

1903
01:43:35,160 --> 01:43:37,160
Speaker 1: they're bringing in what some people believe is going to

1904
01:43:37,240 --> 01:43:40,280
Speaker 1: be in the next Kyle Yushchik, Does that mean the

1905
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:42,439
Speaker 1: offense is going to be the same as it's always been.

1906
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 1: Where are they going to take these two wide receivers

1907
01:43:45,200 --> 01:43:47,320
Speaker 1: and throw it around a little bit more, combining him

1908
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:51,000
Speaker 1: with veteran free agent Sammy Watkins. That is the question, Steve,

1909
01:43:51,280 --> 01:43:54,280
Speaker 1: that I posed to you. They will. Here's what they're

1910
01:43:54,280 --> 01:43:56,160
Speaker 1: gonna do. They're gonna see what they got and get

1911
01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: these guys into training camp. See if this fullback can

1912
01:43:58,160 --> 01:44:00,759
Speaker 1: help Lamar see if their running game can get even better,

1913
01:44:01,040 --> 01:44:03,960
Speaker 1: and by getting better, maybe they can expand their passing game.

1914
01:44:04,400 --> 01:44:06,960
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins is no joke. I mean, we know how

1915
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 1: fast he is, and he's got great hands. You can

1916
01:44:09,400 --> 01:44:11,960
Speaker 1: say what you want about how much he wants to

1917
01:44:11,960 --> 01:44:14,120
Speaker 1: be in the middle of things, how much he is

1918
01:44:14,120 --> 01:44:16,640
Speaker 1: a you know, number one option. I mean he's you know,

1919
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:18,880
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, we have our own opinion about him.

1920
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:21,479
Speaker 1: In Kansas City, he was the fourth option. He was

1921
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 1: making fourteen million a year. They were set up for that,

1922
01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:27,160
Speaker 1: and I think that was I think that was Sammy's

1923
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:30,439
Speaker 1: sweet spot. Oh yeah, I don't think he make a

1924
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:32,640
Speaker 1: lot of money and not have a lot of Responsible's

1925
01:44:32,680 --> 01:44:37,000
Speaker 1: exactly right, I think. And hey, hey, that would be

1926
01:44:37,040 --> 01:44:39,040
Speaker 1: a great power too. I'm a great spot for me too,

1927
01:44:39,080 --> 01:44:40,559
Speaker 1: if I could, you know, if I might just say,

1928
01:44:41,240 --> 01:44:43,680
Speaker 1: but I don't know that he's gonna be all of

1929
01:44:43,720 --> 01:44:49,000
Speaker 1: a sudden, a guy that's gonna go out and hold

1930
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:51,920
Speaker 1: up a linebacker in the running game consistently, you know,

1931
01:44:52,040 --> 01:44:54,280
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the time or fifty five percent of

1932
01:44:54,280 --> 01:44:56,799
Speaker 1: the time and then try and get free on a route.

1933
01:44:57,000 --> 01:45:00,360
Speaker 1: The other percentage of the time to a quarterback who

1934
01:45:00,520 --> 01:45:02,439
Speaker 1: may or may not be able to get it to him.

1935
01:45:02,439 --> 01:45:04,720
Speaker 1: I you know, that does not strike me as a

1936
01:45:04,800 --> 01:45:08,720
Speaker 1: really good environment for Sammy Watkins from what we've seen

1937
01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:12,280
Speaker 1: in his career to thrive. Now, these other guys they

1938
01:45:12,320 --> 01:45:17,360
Speaker 1: got may but they're young. Um, I think the Ravens

1939
01:45:17,400 --> 01:45:20,360
Speaker 1: are gonna go with what they can do best. Lamar

1940
01:45:20,439 --> 01:45:22,439
Speaker 1: is gonna be Lamar Jackson and he don't have to

1941
01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:25,439
Speaker 1: and for whatever, you know, people criticize him where he

1942
01:45:25,439 --> 01:45:29,479
Speaker 1: didn't have to apologize for the guy who's MVP. He's

1943
01:45:29,520 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: the guy and I and so you know, more power

1944
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:37,519
Speaker 1: to him. They don't have to apologize for having their

1945
01:45:37,640 --> 01:45:40,920
Speaker 1: MVP and get being a playoff team every year and

1946
01:45:41,120 --> 01:45:44,120
Speaker 1: you know, doing the things that they do. So you know,

1947
01:45:44,160 --> 01:45:46,080
Speaker 1: if the if the club is good enough to get

1948
01:45:46,120 --> 01:45:48,120
Speaker 1: them out of that game, okay, then they might have

1949
01:45:48,160 --> 01:45:51,920
Speaker 1: some problems. But until you can, Lamar Jackson is an

1950
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:58,400
Speaker 1: MVP and your quarterback probably isn't. So yeah, they don't

1951
01:45:58,439 --> 01:46:01,000
Speaker 1: have to. They don't have to apologize for who they

1952
01:46:01,040 --> 01:46:03,280
Speaker 1: are and what they're gonna be. They may try and

1953
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 1: expand their passing game. They might ask Lamar to do

1954
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:08,479
Speaker 1: some things differently, and they may do some things a

1955
01:46:08,520 --> 01:46:11,400
Speaker 1: little differently and expand a little bit. But man, oh man,

1956
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:15,559
Speaker 1: just because just so people won't be able to say

1957
01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:19,720
Speaker 1: that about them, forget it. They're winning games and not

1958
01:46:19,800 --> 01:46:22,800
Speaker 1: for nothing. But that is a question, like do they

1959
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:26,200
Speaker 1: internally believe that that scheme can win them a super

1960
01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:29,679
Speaker 1: Bowl with Lamar Jackson, because after the shortcomings of last season,

1961
01:46:29,760 --> 01:46:31,960
Speaker 1: you wonder if they feel they have to tweak it

1962
01:46:32,479 --> 01:46:35,200
Speaker 1: ever so slightly and rely on the passing game that

1963
01:46:35,280 --> 01:46:39,000
Speaker 1: much more and ken Lamar execute enough to convince them

1964
01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:40,920
Speaker 1: that's the better way to go. I don't know. That's

1965
01:46:40,920 --> 01:46:42,559
Speaker 1: what we're all going to have to wait and see

1966
01:46:42,760 --> 01:46:45,040
Speaker 1: once we get to the regular season. It should be

1967
01:46:45,080 --> 01:46:47,559
Speaker 1: mentioned they are retooling their offensive line a little bit.

1968
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:50,280
Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley comes back from injury at left tackle. We

1969
01:46:50,360 --> 01:46:53,519
Speaker 1: know they traded Orlando Brown to Kansas City. They signed

1970
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 1: Alajandro Villaneueva away from Pittsburgh. He's probably gonna start a

1971
01:46:56,640 --> 01:46:59,400
Speaker 1: right tackle for them. They also picked up Kevin Zeitler

1972
01:46:59,439 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 1: in free agent seen from the Giants veteran guard. They're

1973
01:47:02,320 --> 01:47:05,000
Speaker 1: starting a new center in Patrick McCarry and they have

1974
01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:07,960
Speaker 1: their former sixth round pick from twenty eighteen, Bradley Boseman,

1975
01:47:08,240 --> 01:47:10,760
Speaker 1: who's the post, is projected to man the left guard spot,

1976
01:47:10,760 --> 01:47:12,720
Speaker 1: although he's gonna get a competition from their third round

1977
01:47:12,760 --> 01:47:15,040
Speaker 1: pick this year, Ben Cleveland, so we'll have to see

1978
01:47:15,040 --> 01:47:20,599
Speaker 1: where that goes. Defense is solid as it usually is,

1979
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:23,000
Speaker 1: still one of the best secondaries in the league. They

1980
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:25,680
Speaker 1: drafted a couple of dbs as well. And oh, by

1981
01:47:25,720 --> 01:47:27,920
Speaker 1: the way, they drafted Jason Away, who wants to now

1982
01:47:28,000 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 1: be called Feway, which is his real first name, right,

1983
01:47:32,439 --> 01:47:35,680
Speaker 1: So we'll try to honor that. I'll say this, you

1984
01:47:35,720 --> 01:47:39,320
Speaker 1: can and we're trying to compare and rank these quarterbacks Lamar,

1985
01:47:40,439 --> 01:47:45,400
Speaker 1: Josh Baker, and Justin Herbert look at if you look

1986
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:48,200
Speaker 1: at And I hate doing it because we never wanted

1987
01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:51,719
Speaker 1: to do it when Josh was being criticized. But Josh

1988
01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:56,080
Speaker 1: had forty nine hundred and sixty five yards of offense

1989
01:47:56,160 --> 01:48:01,400
Speaker 1: last year, both running and throwing and receiving. He got

1990
01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:03,800
Speaker 1: a touchdown too, Yeah, let me twelve yard. I want

1991
01:48:03,800 --> 01:48:05,840
Speaker 1: to say, yeah, hold on, let me just throw another

1992
01:48:05,880 --> 01:48:07,680
Speaker 1: twelve yards on that total. He's down here at the

1993
01:48:07,680 --> 01:48:09,720
Speaker 1: bottom one for twelve and a TV so he had

1994
01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:14,760
Speaker 1: forty six touchdowns, and he had forty nine sixty five

1995
01:48:15,080 --> 01:48:18,799
Speaker 1: total offensive yards. Lamar had twenty seven hundred and fifty

1996
01:48:18,840 --> 01:48:22,120
Speaker 1: seven passing and a thousand rushing for thirty three thirty

1997
01:48:22,120 --> 01:48:24,439
Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty two yards. That's not a bad season.

1998
01:48:24,520 --> 01:48:27,440
Speaker 1: It's not a bad season. He had thirty three total touchdowns.

1999
01:48:27,680 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 1: Josh had forty six total touchdowns. Josh completed sixty nine

2000
01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:34,679
Speaker 1: point two Lamar sixty four point four. Sixty four point

2001
01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:37,559
Speaker 1: four is not a joke, but it makes you wonder

2002
01:48:37,960 --> 01:48:40,720
Speaker 1: is that enough to convince the Ravens to tweak that

2003
01:48:41,280 --> 01:48:44,880
Speaker 1: offense ever so slightly, to say, Lamar, we're gonna have

2004
01:48:44,920 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 1: you throw it half a dozen more times than you

2005
01:48:47,120 --> 01:48:51,120
Speaker 1: run it. Now. Well, you ran it maybe eighteen times

2006
01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:53,519
Speaker 1: a game last year. Now we want you to run

2007
01:48:53,520 --> 01:48:56,759
Speaker 1: it thirteen times a game and take those five rushes

2008
01:48:56,760 --> 01:48:59,160
Speaker 1: and turn them into five passes that hopefully result in

2009
01:48:59,200 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 1: even more yards. And you're in for it. Even if

2010
01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:04,000
Speaker 1: it's five rushes and five passes instead of five rushes.

2011
01:49:04,640 --> 01:49:06,920
Speaker 1: You want to complete three of those just like you would, right,

2012
01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:09,160
Speaker 1: three of those. You got to complete them and if

2013
01:49:09,360 --> 01:49:13,560
Speaker 1: you know, keep us on the football field. So yeah,

2014
01:49:13,600 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 1: and let's face it if you're the Ravens, what you're doing.

2015
01:49:17,560 --> 01:49:20,000
Speaker 1: When Lamar says goodbye for the season after you got

2016
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:22,519
Speaker 1: put out of the playoffs, you have me say, Lamar,

2017
01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:25,560
Speaker 1: we need you to do a B and C this offseason.

2018
01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:28,680
Speaker 1: You gotta work on it. You gotta do film, you

2019
01:49:28,720 --> 01:49:30,760
Speaker 1: gotta do drills, you gotta do this, you gotta do that,

2020
01:49:30,920 --> 01:49:33,840
Speaker 1: whatever it is. You gotta put the work in and

2021
01:49:33,960 --> 01:49:35,600
Speaker 1: you gotta trust him that he's gonna do it. And

2022
01:49:35,720 --> 01:49:37,280
Speaker 1: you know, there's no reason to think Lamar wouldn't do

2023
01:49:37,280 --> 01:49:40,400
Speaker 1: anything he asked him too, So you gotta think it.

2024
01:49:40,560 --> 01:49:43,719
Speaker 1: You know, as much as Josh is developed as a passer,

2025
01:49:43,920 --> 01:49:47,240
Speaker 1: Lamar can develop as a passer as well. Maybe not

2026
01:49:47,280 --> 01:49:50,240
Speaker 1: to the same extent, but certainly the more you work

2027
01:49:50,240 --> 01:49:53,120
Speaker 1: on it, the better you're gonna be. So there's no

2028
01:49:53,160 --> 01:49:55,240
Speaker 1: reason to think Lamar isn't going to get better in

2029
01:49:55,640 --> 01:50:00,960
Speaker 1: every respect. But it's like always, I mean, it's both

2030
01:50:01,200 --> 01:50:04,080
Speaker 1: run and pass are not equal. When a quarterback runs,

2031
01:50:05,800 --> 01:50:08,400
Speaker 1: he takes a pounding yeah one way or the other,

2032
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:13,920
Speaker 1: and sooner or later that's narrow framed. Ask Cam Newton

2033
01:50:13,920 --> 01:50:15,760
Speaker 1: how he feels when he gets out of bed night

2034
01:50:15,760 --> 01:50:19,000
Speaker 1: and he's a behemoth. He's huge. Ask all these guys

2035
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:21,000
Speaker 1: that did that. I mean, he's got about sixty pounds

2036
01:50:21,000 --> 01:50:24,800
Speaker 1: on Lamar Ben Roethlisberger. Ben's the same way. Big Ben's

2037
01:50:24,800 --> 01:50:26,360
Speaker 1: the same way. He didn't run too much, but he

2038
01:50:26,360 --> 01:50:29,280
Speaker 1: extended plays all over the yard, shrug off a sack

2039
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:31,160
Speaker 1: and move out to the same size of the pressure

2040
01:50:31,360 --> 01:50:35,360
Speaker 1: and look for guys, it just wears you out. So

2041
01:50:35,400 --> 01:50:37,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that Lamar Jackson playing the way his

2042
01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:39,920
Speaker 1: playing is gonna have a sixteen or seventeen or eighteen

2043
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:42,680
Speaker 1: year career. But I'll tell you this, while he's out

2044
01:50:42,720 --> 01:50:46,439
Speaker 1: there running the four three, that guy can win games.

2045
01:50:46,600 --> 01:50:48,720
Speaker 1: And they're not. They don't. They don't have to. They're

2046
01:50:48,720 --> 01:50:51,519
Speaker 1: not gonna deviate from that. So I think they may

2047
01:50:51,560 --> 01:50:53,760
Speaker 1: try and expand it and make a play here and there.

2048
01:50:54,280 --> 01:50:57,080
Speaker 1: But all they're you're talking about but it's a tweak. Yeah,

2049
01:50:57,840 --> 01:51:00,960
Speaker 1: you're talking about maybe two or three plays a game. Yeah,

2050
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:03,639
Speaker 1: And you know, so I'm and maybe Sammy Watkins can

2051
01:51:03,640 --> 01:51:06,080
Speaker 1: give him that or guys like you know, all these

2052
01:51:06,120 --> 01:51:08,200
Speaker 1: guys they got, I think it's worth the trying, and

2053
01:51:08,240 --> 01:51:09,920
Speaker 1: I applaud them. I think that they're right on the

2054
01:51:09,960 --> 01:51:12,559
Speaker 1: money with what they're doing. And while I will say

2055
01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:15,720
Speaker 1: in terms of individual skill set, you know, if you've

2056
01:51:15,720 --> 01:51:19,400
Speaker 1: got Herbert, Jackson, Allen and Mayfield, Mayfield is the least

2057
01:51:20,080 --> 01:51:23,040
Speaker 1: He's the lowest rung on that physical skill set ladder

2058
01:51:23,400 --> 01:51:26,960
Speaker 1: of those four. But I think you can definitively make

2059
01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:30,200
Speaker 1: the argument if you want to pick somebody that can

2060
01:51:30,240 --> 01:51:32,439
Speaker 1: take their team as far as Josh did last year,

2061
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:35,240
Speaker 1: it's probably Mayfield with what he has around him. Yeah.

2062
01:51:35,439 --> 01:51:38,200
Speaker 1: In Cleveland, I mean they have a good They have

2063
01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:41,480
Speaker 1: a really good offensive line that I think is terribly underrated.

2064
01:51:41,800 --> 01:51:44,960
Speaker 1: This is a starting five Steve Okay first round pick

2065
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:51,000
Speaker 1: from last year, Jedrick Wills, Joel Beatonio, JC Treder, Wyatt Teller,

2066
01:51:51,479 --> 01:51:55,600
Speaker 1: Jack Conklin. That's really good. Yeah, that's a that's like

2067
01:51:55,600 --> 01:51:58,400
Speaker 1: a top five offensive line in the league. Wyatt Teller,

2068
01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:00,519
Speaker 1: who was traded from the Buffalo Bills, like an all pro,

2069
01:52:00,960 --> 01:52:03,320
Speaker 1: a pro. He's an all pro. He's a good player.

2070
01:52:03,479 --> 01:52:05,600
Speaker 1: And Platonio is the second round pick, Wills is a

2071
01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:08,200
Speaker 1: first round pick, and Jack Kylakland was the first round pick.

2072
01:52:08,200 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 1: In Tennessee. I think when you say j Baker Mayfield

2073
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:15,320
Speaker 1: is like the bottom rung and physical attributes. You're probably right.

2074
01:52:15,360 --> 01:52:19,040
Speaker 1: Remember when Baker came out the year same year Josh did.

2075
01:52:19,280 --> 01:52:23,400
Speaker 1: The big deal was like he was six feet tall. Yeah,

2076
01:52:23,520 --> 01:52:25,800
Speaker 1: remember they had this he was six feet and a

2077
01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:27,920
Speaker 1: half inch or six feet and a quarter inch or whatever,

2078
01:52:28,640 --> 01:52:30,280
Speaker 1: and that was a big deal that people thought he

2079
01:52:30,320 --> 01:52:33,559
Speaker 1: was five ten five eleven and he ends up he's

2080
01:52:33,560 --> 01:52:35,200
Speaker 1: six foot and he was like okay. Then you know,

2081
01:52:35,439 --> 01:52:38,160
Speaker 1: people felt okay that he can play. Well. Now that's

2082
01:52:38,160 --> 01:52:40,360
Speaker 1: all been thrown to the you know, Kyler Murray or roster,

2083
01:52:40,520 --> 01:52:44,439
Speaker 1: all these guys. He's loaded. Yes, I mean Jarvis Landry,

2084
01:52:44,560 --> 01:52:48,840
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham junior comes back, got Richard Higgins, Donovan, people,

2085
01:52:48,920 --> 01:52:52,040
Speaker 1: Jones in reserve. They just drafted Anthony Schwartz, who was

2086
01:52:52,040 --> 01:52:54,160
Speaker 1: the fastest kid in the draft. Ran a four two

2087
01:52:54,200 --> 01:52:58,760
Speaker 1: one or four two five. Sorry, and then they got

2088
01:52:58,880 --> 01:53:03,719
Speaker 1: Chubb and Hunts. Still on the roster. Your tight ends Harrison, Bryan, Austin, Hooper,

2089
01:53:03,800 --> 01:53:06,120
Speaker 1: David and Joco is your third string tight end on

2090
01:53:06,160 --> 01:53:09,879
Speaker 1: that team. He would start on sixteen teams in the league.

2091
01:53:10,040 --> 01:53:12,360
Speaker 1: It's and I don't even got to the defense yet.

2092
01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:15,439
Speaker 1: It's a good call. Baker may be the guy and

2093
01:53:15,520 --> 01:53:18,400
Speaker 1: the Browns certainly have high, high expectations, and they're a

2094
01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:20,519
Speaker 1: little bit like the Bills that you know, the arrows

2095
01:53:20,560 --> 01:53:22,519
Speaker 1: pointed up and just wonder when it's going to start

2096
01:53:22,560 --> 01:53:24,519
Speaker 1: to point side, you know, cross way, you know when

2097
01:53:24,520 --> 01:53:27,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna plateau. The Bills haven't done that yet. I

2098
01:53:27,479 --> 01:53:29,960
Speaker 1: don't think the Browns have done that yet. They both

2099
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Speaker 1: these teams got a few like that, the arrows pointing

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Speaker 1: up on them. You know, there's there's thirty one other

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Speaker 1: teams for each of them that are trying to knock

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Speaker 1: them off. But it's a it's a legit question. The

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Speaker 1: Browns haven't reached their ceiling, right. And you look at

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Speaker 1: their defense. I mean, I think this is pretty well

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Speaker 1: known at this point. But Miles Garrett and Jadavian Clowney

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Speaker 1: on the edges, Andrew Billings, Jordan Elliott in the middle,

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Speaker 1: Malif Jackson is their rotational defensive tackle like Malik Jackson hello.

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Speaker 1: And then at lineback it's a little bit softer. It's

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Speaker 1: not as stacked as the other positions because you got

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Speaker 1: like Jacob Phillips, Anthony Walker, Sioni, Tackey Tacket. It's like,

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Speaker 1: who are those guys? But their secondary I mean Denzel Ward,

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Speaker 1: they get John Johnson the third and Troy Hill over

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Speaker 1: from the Rams. Hill's gonna play Nicol Johnson's gonna play

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Speaker 1: safety with Grant Delpitt, who was their second round pick,

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Speaker 1: you know, in twenty twenty, but got injured, and then

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Speaker 1: they just drafted Greg Newsom in the first round. A

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Speaker 1: long six. One mean, Grady Williams is on the bench.

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Speaker 1: Grady Williams is on the bench. He would start for

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Speaker 1: ten teams in this league. They're deep and they're talented,

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Speaker 1: so I think it's a good call. Baker is probably

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Speaker 1: the guy who for whom the expectations are highest, you know.

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Speaker 1: For another step for people quickly forget they were right

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Speaker 1: there against the Chiefs, right there, and with that line,

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Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want. You want to run

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Speaker 1: the ball, five, give it to Chub, give it to Hunt,

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Speaker 1: you want to throw the ball? Okay, because now they

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Speaker 1: got Obj back to go with Jarvis Lantry. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they can do whatever they want if they stay healthy,

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Speaker 1: whatever they want. You gotta look out for that Brown's

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Speaker 1: team this year in the AFC because they are stacked,

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Speaker 1: stacked on both sides of the ball, so they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a tough out this year, and we just had

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Speaker 1: a kinky kin a DT kink of walla on the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Covers the Pittsburgh for NFL Network. The Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: may be in a little bit of a lot of

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Speaker 1: finger quotes transition year. You know, they're going eight and nine,

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Speaker 1: nine and eighth this year. Well anyway, so you know

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Speaker 1: they're not going eleven and oh to start the season

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Speaker 1: and they're certainly not finishing six and zero to end

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Speaker 1: the season. With the with the schedule we went over

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Speaker 1: early in the show, they've got a really tough closing

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Speaker 1: half of the season in the second half. So Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: in a spot where they could slide in, you know,

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Speaker 1: come in and get get seeded in the tournament right

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Speaker 1: and just get in. So enough from us, Let's go

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Seth says,

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Speaker 1: catapult their team to the championship game and finish second

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Speaker 1: and MVP voting. After being heavily scrutinized for his first

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Speaker 1: couple of years, none of them maybe Baker, but no

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Speaker 1: one other than Lamar silenced as many haters in a

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Speaker 1: single season than seventeen did in twenty twenty, and he's

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Speaker 1: still on the rise. I agree with all that. I

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Speaker 1: don't think we were looking for somebody to completely mirror

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Speaker 1: all of the accomplishments that Josh did. We're just talking

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Speaker 1: about getting their team that far. I think that's what

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Speaker 1: we're doing. We're not looking for him to, you know,

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Speaker 1: prove all the haters wrong, or throw for forty four

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Speaker 1: touchdowns or account for forty six touchdowns. I think we

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Speaker 1: were just looking for someone that could take their team

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Speaker 1: as far as Josh did last year. And I think

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Speaker 1: you've got to go anywhere from teams being from number

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Speaker 1: twelve last year's standing the twelfth team in the AFC

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Speaker 1: of sixteen teams was Denver, and he'd go up to

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Speaker 1: number six, which would be Cleve and everybody in between

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Speaker 1: that Cleveland, Indie, Miami, Vegas, New England, the Chargers, and Denver.

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Speaker 1: Those are the kind of the teams where you'd like

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Speaker 1: to think, Okay, those teams are in a spot where

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Speaker 1: they could take a step forward and jump up into

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Speaker 1: the championship round, because you know, you get to Baltimore, Tennessee, Pittsburgh, Buffalo. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're kind of there. Yeah, it wouldn't be that big

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Speaker 1: a jump for them. The rebel Gentleman says, Justin Herbert,

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Speaker 1: he had a terrific rookie season, very impressive, will continue

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Speaker 1: to improve in his second season. And the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Chargers added a lot of depth at old line

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Speaker 1: and signed a great tight end in Jared Cook. Cook's

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Speaker 1: a little long in the tooth, but you know, he's

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Speaker 1: still serviceable. But it's hard to argue with Herbert's rookie season.

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Speaker 1: Man fifteen starts, what do you have? Thirty one touchdown passes,

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Speaker 1: offensive Rookie of the Year, Man, the kid was slinging it.

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Speaker 1: He played, He's got talent to throw to. He played great.

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Speaker 1: I still think he's underrated as an athlete running around

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Speaker 1: extending place well. I think I think because of you know,

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Speaker 1: how well he played from the pocket, it got forgotten,

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Speaker 1: you know, he was. He threw for forty three hundred yards,

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Speaker 1: completed two thirds of his passes, thirty one touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: against ten interceptions. He played really well. I My thought

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Speaker 1: is it's still the Chargers. They still have six people

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Speaker 1: on the planet that are their fans. They got They've

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Speaker 1: got an organization that can't get to the playoffs. They

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Speaker 1: you know, they go to the playoffs. You know, I

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01:58:32,320 --> 01:58:35,440
Speaker 1: don't once in a not even they can't get to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I just there's too many news, there's

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Speaker 1: too many That team is in a similar predicament that

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Speaker 1: the Bills and every other team in the AFC East

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Speaker 1: was in when New England had Tom Brady. Right, they're

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01:58:49,760 --> 01:58:52,680
Speaker 1: dealing with Patrick Mahomes in the Chiefs and that is

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Speaker 1: the big bully on the block and that's not changing

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Speaker 1: anytime soon. But I think the Chargers now have a

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Speaker 1: quarterback who is very close to competing at that level,

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Speaker 1: very close. Now it's a matter of surrounding him with

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Speaker 1: the right talent to help you get over the hump and,

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Speaker 1: if not beat the Chiefs for the division, be the

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Speaker 1: perennial wild card in that division. And I think they

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Speaker 1: are poised to do that in a division that has

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Speaker 1: denvered wayward at the quarterback position and the Raiders dysfunctional

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Speaker 1: as an organization. So I think they got a chance

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Speaker 1: to be a wild card this year. Especially know when

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Speaker 1: there's seven seeds in the AFC, I keep forgetting that

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Speaker 1: that there's an extra seed for playoffs. Now in the

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Speaker 1: AFC break time for us more of your tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: comments when we return, and maybe a little NFL true false.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that when we return. Here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you. Which young AFC QB in twenty twenty one

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01:59:57,320 --> 01:59:59,160
Speaker 1: can do for their team what Josh Allen did for

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01:59:59,200 --> 02:00:01,280
Speaker 1: the Bills last reason, which was taken to the AFC

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02:00:01,440 --> 02:00:05,440
Speaker 1: title game. Alan on the tweet sheet says, Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: he played like a first round pick last season. He'll

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Speaker 1: be better than boomeris Siason was. Wow. Okay, we'll see

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Speaker 1: because Boomer got him to a super Bowl. He got

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Speaker 1: the Bengals to a super Bowl, lost it with twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty four seconds left to the forty nine ers. It's

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Speaker 1: the greatest dynasty of the eighties. And Herbert Burrow was

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Speaker 1: playing really well last season before he got her tar

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02:00:30,360 --> 02:00:33,080
Speaker 1: kicked out of him. That guy. Everybody realized he didn't

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Speaker 1: have an offensive line so and he still might not

2229
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Speaker 1: because they didn't draft one they took. They went with

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase. They have Riley Reef and they have their

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Speaker 1: first round pick from a couple of years ago. They'll have,

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Speaker 1: you know, eight months to think about getting better on

2233
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Speaker 1: the offensive line. Yeah, Jesse says Justin Herbert. I was

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Speaker 1: on that hype train since the beginning of his final

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Speaker 1: year of college football. I knew he'd be good. Well, good,

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Speaker 1: good on you, Jesse. Pat yourself on the back one

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Speaker 1: more time. Stuff. It's amazing when you we saw the

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Speaker 1: guy play, yeah, live in person here in the stadium

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Speaker 1: this last year in twenty twenty, poised player and I

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Speaker 1: was like, how do they miss that? How do you

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Speaker 1: pick anybody ahead? How do you pick anybody ahead of

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow? Okay, maybe Joe Burrow had a phenomenal and

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Speaker 1: maybe he's saying this guy, how do you pick two

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Speaker 1: way ahead of that guy? I mean, look at that,

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Speaker 1: that's that guy. Yeah, that guy's like that guy can go, man,

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert can play. And we come out here he

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Speaker 1: comes out here five and we didn't know, but literally

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Speaker 1: five minutes before he plays, the Kansas City Chiefs take

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Speaker 1: overtime call, and he takes those jokers to overtime and

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Speaker 1: they're building three hundred bills first starts. First start with

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Speaker 1: five minutes. Notice after Tyrod got the shot in his

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Speaker 1: ribs that was bad, and he steps in and lights

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Speaker 1: them up. What? How tough does that? How? What? What

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Speaker 1: do we do it? What are you? Why are you doing?

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Speaker 1: How can you? And I listened to as a great kid,

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Speaker 1: but you don't traits? You stand those guys next to

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Speaker 1: each other. It ain't even a it's not even a conversation.

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Speaker 1: And I know we're sitting here with Josh Allen myopia.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's all about Josh right. I mean we

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Speaker 1: watched him struggling, but you know he had these moments

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Speaker 1: and then he so we know what it is to

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Speaker 1: have a guy with some physical traits, and we got

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Speaker 1: the guy and Justin Herbert is you know he's in

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Speaker 1: that ballpark how and he had a better resume than

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Speaker 1: Josh did mm hmmm, in a bigger conference, with more accomplishments.

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Speaker 1: What are you? How do you? How do you like? Whiff?

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Speaker 1: Because that's a to me, that's a whiff. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you another thing. That's why Anthony Lynn should have

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Speaker 1: lost his job. I like Anthony Lynn. I spoke, he's

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Speaker 1: a good guy. He should have lost his job, because

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Speaker 1: how do you have Tyrod on the roster and that guy?

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Speaker 1: How you have Tyrod's starting? Right? How long was that

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02:03:12,240 --> 02:03:15,120
Speaker 1: Herbert got in the lineup by accident? How long was

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Speaker 1: that thing going to go on with Tyrod? Are you

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Speaker 1: saying the best coach on the roster might have been

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Speaker 1: their head doctor? No? Okay, he was the worst. Now

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Speaker 1: he was the worst doctor, not the best coach. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so that what do you so? Justin Herbert comes out

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Speaker 1: and almost beats the Chiefs. If you're sitting up, if

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Speaker 1: you're the owner, if you're if you're Dean Span was

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Speaker 1: sitting up in the owner's box and you're seeing this,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at your head coach going, whoa, how is

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Speaker 1: Tyrod the starter? Prior to this occurrence? What do you did?

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Speaker 1: We not see any of this in training camp? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: am I am? Is this new? What does this guy like?

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02:03:53,840 --> 02:03:57,400
Speaker 1: What did the switch go off? Miss? And not only

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Speaker 1: that Anthony had the the snaffoos with the clock Layton

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02:04:02,080 --> 02:04:05,600
Speaker 1: games where that's why he lost his job right, but

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Speaker 1: here against the Bills he did to me the Herbert

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Speaker 1: playing behind Tyrod was just as egregious because it's easy

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Speaker 1: for me to sit here a thousand and fifteen hundred

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Speaker 1: miles away. Same. Yeah, but the proof is he stood

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02:04:23,240 --> 02:04:24,960
Speaker 1: there on the practice field watch the guy practice. He

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02:04:25,000 --> 02:04:29,040
Speaker 1: didn't know he could play like that. Yeah, it's amazing

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Speaker 1: because it's gotta be harder than that looks, because is it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. When you stand next to those guys

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Speaker 1: on the practice field and you watch them, because the

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Speaker 1: combine whatever, you gotta be able to see two a

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Speaker 1: Tonga voloa at six foot one maybe right six two

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Speaker 1: hundred pounds, and then you see Justin Herbert at six

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Speaker 1: five five and he can and I mean that guy's

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Speaker 1: throwing laser beams. I mean he's like an action figure

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Speaker 1: like Josh and he's got the resume he played at Oregon.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think want to pack twelve

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Speaker 1: title in his time or no, he got to the

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Speaker 1: PAC twelve championship. Might have one. The truth the guy

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02:05:17,280 --> 02:05:20,760
Speaker 1: could really sling it. We watched him. Jack on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet says, well, I think Herbert will do great things.

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Speaker 1: I still feel Joe Burrow can take the next biggest

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Speaker 1: jump and improve his team the most, proving the Bengals

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02:05:29,000 --> 02:05:31,920
Speaker 1: can keep him. Provided the Bengals can keep him upright

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Speaker 1: and in the lineup. Burrow showed the talent and promise

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Speaker 1: in spurts before he went on IR. I think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a great QB. Now that's a question for

2315
02:05:38,600 --> 02:05:43,440
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. Which organization do you have more confidence in

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02:05:44,480 --> 02:05:49,880
Speaker 1: them supporting their franchise quarterback, The Chargers with Herbert or

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02:05:49,960 --> 02:05:53,840
Speaker 1: the Bengals with Burrow. I can't believe I'm saying it,

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Speaker 1: but I'll say the Bengals. Wow? Really? Why? Really? The Bengals? Okay, wow?

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Speaker 1: You really have a distaste for the I like the

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Speaker 1: I like no the I just the Chargers. The Chargers idea,

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02:06:12,440 --> 02:06:13,800
Speaker 1: and I told you this in the break. The tird

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02:06:13,880 --> 02:06:15,920
Speaker 1: Chargers idea of taking care of their players gives them

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02:06:15,960 --> 02:06:17,880
Speaker 1: a warm It's giving them a warm, sunny place to

2324
02:06:17,960 --> 02:06:21,440
Speaker 1: live in Buffalo. The idea of taking care of their

2325
02:06:21,440 --> 02:06:24,680
Speaker 1: players has given them an entirely staffed sports science department

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02:06:24,720 --> 02:06:30,760
Speaker 1: with recovery rooms, massage therapist, act hyper hyperbaric chambers, cryo chambers,

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02:06:31,000 --> 02:06:33,000
Speaker 1: and the staff to run it and put them out there.

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02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:36,280
Speaker 1: It's got a staff of coach strength and leeches. People.

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02:06:36,640 --> 02:06:38,600
Speaker 1: If they got it's all staff, are you gotta show up?

2330
02:06:38,720 --> 02:06:41,879
Speaker 1: And they'll they got you in you know, in San Diego,

2331
02:06:42,440 --> 02:06:45,120
Speaker 1: our weight our weight rooms outdoors, and it's sunny and warm.

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02:06:45,200 --> 02:06:47,320
Speaker 1: There you go, guys, go knock yourself out. I mean,

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02:06:47,600 --> 02:06:49,880
Speaker 1: you know that's what you're talking about. And also we

2334
02:06:50,080 --> 02:06:51,880
Speaker 1: hired a guy who doesn't know how to work the

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02:06:51,960 --> 02:06:53,600
Speaker 1: clock in the last two minutes of the thing too,

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Speaker 1: to be your head coach. Yeah, I'll take the I'll

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02:06:56,280 --> 02:06:59,800
Speaker 1: take the Bengals, all right. I'll take the Bengals, okay.

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02:07:00,120 --> 02:07:02,560
Speaker 1: And and I'm not saying the Bengals are you know

2339
02:07:04,240 --> 02:07:07,160
Speaker 1: the Steelers, Yeah, you know, the New York Football Giants

2340
02:07:07,200 --> 02:07:10,040
Speaker 1: and have in all this this stability and stuff. But

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02:07:10,080 --> 02:07:12,400
Speaker 1: I'm saying they're they're better than the other. I like

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02:07:12,560 --> 02:07:14,560
Speaker 1: Burrow and I like Herbert. I do too. I think

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02:07:14,600 --> 02:07:17,000
Speaker 1: Herbert can take his team further. I think he's got

2344
02:07:17,040 --> 02:07:21,160
Speaker 1: a better roster um. Although Higgins and Jamar Chase is

2345
02:07:21,160 --> 02:07:23,560
Speaker 1: going to be pretty good tee. Higgins and Jamar Chase

2346
02:07:23,640 --> 02:07:27,360
Speaker 1: with Burrow, we'll see. They got some guys, no question,

2347
02:07:27,520 --> 02:07:29,880
Speaker 1: And I think if they're smart, they go three wide

2348
02:07:30,560 --> 02:07:34,680
Speaker 1: and turn them loose. But I'm with you. I'm that's

2349
02:07:34,840 --> 02:07:38,040
Speaker 1: I get. It's it pains me to say it, but

2350
02:07:38,120 --> 02:07:42,240
Speaker 1: I give Cincinnai Bengals the edge organizationally, JT says, none

2351
02:07:42,280 --> 02:07:46,440
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks in order to do what Josh did,

2352
02:07:46,600 --> 02:07:48,560
Speaker 1: they have to make it to the AFC Title Game,

2353
02:07:48,920 --> 02:07:51,320
Speaker 1: and the Bills will make the AFC Title Game and

2354
02:07:51,480 --> 02:07:53,560
Speaker 1: be Super Bowl champs. I don't see any of the

2355
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:56,480
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks getting that far this season. The most upside

2356
02:07:56,520 --> 02:08:02,000
Speaker 1: QB I C is Burrow. He's got some wet Pence's

2357
02:08:02,080 --> 02:08:04,760
Speaker 1: good point. He does have, so I'm just not convinced

2358
02:08:04,800 --> 02:08:07,600
Speaker 1: he's got the protection to the degree that he's gonna

2359
02:08:07,640 --> 02:08:10,160
Speaker 1: need it. Do you think that the ceiling for a

2360
02:08:10,240 --> 02:08:15,600
Speaker 1: guy like Tua in this conversation with Burrow Herbert, do

2361
02:08:15,680 --> 02:08:19,360
Speaker 1: you think TWA's ceiling is where Baker was last year,

2362
02:08:21,200 --> 02:08:24,640
Speaker 1: like for divisional round of the playoffs, and about that

2363
02:08:24,760 --> 02:08:27,520
Speaker 1: bigger role in the offense with that good a roster

2364
02:08:27,640 --> 02:08:29,960
Speaker 1: around him. And I know they don't think they have

2365
02:08:30,080 --> 02:08:33,640
Speaker 1: the running game that the Browns do. He's but if

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02:08:33,640 --> 02:08:35,400
Speaker 1: they do. But but the Dolphins got to put together

2367
02:08:35,400 --> 02:08:37,200
Speaker 1: a roster like the Browns to have the success the

2368
02:08:37,240 --> 02:08:40,240
Speaker 1: Browns to think there's more work to be done. I

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02:08:40,280 --> 02:08:43,280
Speaker 1: don't think Ta elevates him. No, they may qualify for

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02:08:43,280 --> 02:08:46,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs this year. Yeah, yeah they could. Sure, I

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02:08:46,240 --> 02:08:48,000
Speaker 1: don't see him winning a playoff game, but I think

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02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:50,160
Speaker 1: they could qualify for the playoffs. All four of these

2373
02:08:50,200 --> 02:08:53,720
Speaker 1: teams we're talking about with Baker, Justin Herbert, Josh and

2374
02:08:53,840 --> 02:08:58,760
Speaker 1: of course Um Lamar, I think all four of those

2375
02:08:58,800 --> 02:09:00,760
Speaker 1: teams could get in the playof House this year. He's

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02:09:00,880 --> 02:09:02,600
Speaker 1: you know, I think you could easily see that. Yeah,

2377
02:09:03,480 --> 02:09:06,480
Speaker 1: Max on the tweet sheet says none of them Josh

2378
02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:09,280
Speaker 1: Allen versus Mahomes part two. Therefore, none of them will

2379
02:09:09,320 --> 02:09:11,840
Speaker 1: be doing what Josh did last year. Besides the man himself,

2380
02:09:12,160 --> 02:09:18,360
Speaker 1: these guys aren't overtaking him this year. Maybe not, yeah,

2381
02:09:18,600 --> 02:09:21,080
Speaker 1: maybe maybe not. I mean, I'll tell you this, I

2382
02:09:21,200 --> 02:09:25,000
Speaker 1: think I think Justin Herbert gets to the playoffs as

2383
02:09:25,000 --> 02:09:30,560
Speaker 1: a wild card out of the West. I think it's

2384
02:09:30,680 --> 02:09:33,880
Speaker 1: Baker and the Browns winning the division in the North,

2385
02:09:35,080 --> 02:09:37,760
Speaker 1: and I think the second place team in the North

2386
02:09:37,880 --> 02:09:42,839
Speaker 1: is Baltimore with Lamar. And then the East is tricky,

2387
02:09:44,320 --> 02:09:47,480
Speaker 1: but I think there's just it's tricky. I don't know

2388
02:09:47,480 --> 02:09:50,120
Speaker 1: if it's New England or Miami. I really don't well,

2389
02:09:50,360 --> 02:09:52,040
Speaker 1: as the wild card out of the East. It might

2390
02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:53,520
Speaker 1: not be a wild card out of the East. It

2391
02:09:53,600 --> 02:09:55,920
Speaker 1: might be somebody. It'll be Indianapolis out of the South.

2392
02:09:56,000 --> 02:09:58,520
Speaker 1: Indianapolis wins the South, and it could somebody. It could

2393
02:09:58,560 --> 02:10:02,800
Speaker 1: be somebody like La or Vegas, you know, to get

2394
02:10:02,840 --> 02:10:04,880
Speaker 1: the other wild card. Yeah, maybe it's Vegas. I don't know.

2395
02:10:06,440 --> 02:10:08,880
Speaker 1: I can't put my I can't put my eggs in

2396
02:10:08,920 --> 02:10:11,120
Speaker 1: the two a basket. I can't do it. I can't either.

2397
02:10:11,960 --> 02:10:16,400
Speaker 1: I can't either. I they had that, I can't get it.

2398
02:10:16,440 --> 02:10:18,280
Speaker 1: And I know we were kind of slanted by that

2399
02:10:18,400 --> 02:10:21,040
Speaker 1: last that week seventeen game where Miami was a win

2400
02:10:21,120 --> 02:10:26,520
Speaker 1: and in and they didn't have bad numbers and the

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02:10:26,720 --> 02:10:30,160
Speaker 1: rest of that team had no faith in two. And

2402
02:10:30,200 --> 02:10:32,680
Speaker 1: then it's all the other stuff. The coordinator mess. I

2403
02:10:32,760 --> 02:10:34,880
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a mess, the coordinator thing, the

2404
02:10:34,960 --> 02:10:38,040
Speaker 1: two headed coordinator thing with quarterback coach influence. I mean

2405
02:10:38,080 --> 02:10:40,360
Speaker 1: it's a three headed coordinator thing. That's a mess for

2406
02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:45,520
Speaker 1: a young quarterback. And then jettisoning five captains from last

2407
02:10:45,600 --> 02:10:48,720
Speaker 1: year's roster, like, that's a lot to that's a lot

2408
02:10:48,800 --> 02:10:53,440
Speaker 1: to turn around and sew together. Yeah, in an offseason break.

2409
02:10:53,480 --> 02:10:55,240
Speaker 1: But it seems like Brian Flores, and I got a

2410
02:10:55,280 --> 02:10:56,600
Speaker 1: lot of respect for him. I like the way. I

2411
02:10:56,720 --> 02:10:58,880
Speaker 1: like his decisiveness. I think the players rally around him.

2412
02:10:58,880 --> 02:11:04,640
Speaker 1: But I think he's always trying to you know. He

2413
02:11:04,800 --> 02:11:06,960
Speaker 1: makes some bold moves and I applaud him for it.

2414
02:11:07,080 --> 02:11:09,800
Speaker 1: But man, old man cutting five captains going, I mean,

2415
02:11:09,880 --> 02:11:12,080
Speaker 1: this is this is the clearing of the decks again.

2416
02:11:12,200 --> 02:11:16,520
Speaker 1: It seems like again. Yeah, I don't know. Andrea last

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02:11:16,640 --> 02:11:18,560
Speaker 1: on the tweet does get the most out of his players, though,

2418
02:11:18,560 --> 02:11:20,600
Speaker 1: I will say that, yes, he does last on the tweet. Yet,

2419
02:11:20,640 --> 02:11:24,040
Speaker 1: Andrea Mayfield, he's got the right coach now. I know

2420
02:11:24,120 --> 02:11:27,400
Speaker 1: you like his old line is stout. Receivers and running

2421
02:11:27,440 --> 02:11:29,480
Speaker 1: backs are Grade A. They are right about all that.

2422
02:11:29,520 --> 02:11:31,520
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, watch out for the Browns this year.

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02:11:31,600 --> 02:11:33,720
Speaker 1: I agree. Break time for us, Steve and I to

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02:11:33,760 --> 02:11:35,920
Speaker 1: close it up. Next here on One Bill's Live, presented

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02:11:35,960 --> 02:11:51,040
Speaker 1: by a Collid of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. What

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02:11:51,280 --> 02:11:56,560
Speaker 1: If We Learned? What If We Learned? Brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of the

2428
02:12:00,360 --> 02:12:02,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. I think we've learned that there's a range

2429
02:12:02,800 --> 02:12:05,800
Speaker 1: of opinions as to which one of these next young

2430
02:12:05,960 --> 02:12:09,200
Speaker 1: AFC quarterbacks is gonna grab the bull by the horns

2431
02:12:09,520 --> 02:12:11,720
Speaker 1: and have a year, maybe not quite as good as Josh,

2432
02:12:11,800 --> 02:12:14,800
Speaker 1: but something close to it. And a lot of people

2433
02:12:14,880 --> 02:12:17,720
Speaker 1: like the super talented guys Burrow and Herbert. Based on

2434
02:12:17,800 --> 02:12:19,960
Speaker 1: the feedback we got on the tweet sheet today, some

2435
02:12:20,120 --> 02:12:23,040
Speaker 1: people look at the team that's best poised to help

2436
02:12:23,080 --> 02:12:24,800
Speaker 1: their quarterback do that, and a lot of people say

2437
02:12:24,840 --> 02:12:26,880
Speaker 1: the Browns. And I'm in that boat. Even though I

2438
02:12:26,920 --> 02:12:29,520
Speaker 1: don't like Mayfield as a talent the best, I think

2439
02:12:29,560 --> 02:12:33,080
Speaker 1: what's around him, he's just he's loaded for bear and

2440
02:12:33,200 --> 02:12:36,280
Speaker 1: he also played better last year that's had with the

2441
02:12:36,440 --> 02:12:39,280
Speaker 1: COVID off season and a new head coach, you gotta

2442
02:12:39,280 --> 02:12:41,640
Speaker 1: think he's gonna take an even further step forward this year,

2443
02:12:41,800 --> 02:12:43,720
Speaker 1: like you know, because of the stability. Yeah, I mean,

2444
02:12:43,800 --> 02:12:46,440
Speaker 1: think about the steps the Bills took. Made the playoffs

2445
02:12:46,480 --> 02:12:50,360
Speaker 1: in seventeen, rebuild year in eighteen, make the playoffs in

2446
02:12:50,480 --> 02:12:53,880
Speaker 1: nineteen but lose, go back to the playoffs in twenty

2447
02:12:53,960 --> 02:12:55,840
Speaker 1: and win two games to get to the title game.

2448
02:12:56,040 --> 02:12:58,400
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people, including myself, see

2449
02:12:58,440 --> 02:13:01,320
Speaker 1: the Browns on that kind of trajectory. That's Ray the playoffs,

2450
02:13:01,360 --> 02:13:04,920
Speaker 1: didn't win. They're gonna win a playoff game this year.

2451
02:13:05,040 --> 02:13:06,720
Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance of it. Yeah, And

2452
02:13:07,040 --> 02:13:09,160
Speaker 1: we've got a chance now to see two which teams

2453
02:13:09,160 --> 02:13:11,640
Speaker 1: we've got a better handle on, which teams have a

2454
02:13:11,720 --> 02:13:14,360
Speaker 1: fully formed roster, Which are ready to take another step forward.

2455
02:13:14,440 --> 02:13:16,520
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield certainly sits that they're gonna get o bj

2456
02:13:16,720 --> 02:13:20,520
Speaker 1: back after an early injury. They got Jadavian Clowney on defense,

2457
02:13:20,680 --> 02:13:23,400
Speaker 1: they added a corner, even a dt kin. Kaballa told

2458
02:13:23,480 --> 02:13:26,120
Speaker 1: us today there's come some questions in Pittsburgh. Their offensive

2459
02:13:26,160 --> 02:13:27,960
Speaker 1: line has not been addressed. They've got you know, I

2460
02:13:28,040 --> 02:13:29,880
Speaker 1: certainly got some nice shiny new toys that got a

2461
02:13:29,920 --> 02:13:32,520
Speaker 1: tight end, got a got a running back in the

2462
02:13:32,560 --> 02:13:35,480
Speaker 1: first round. But you know, they got and Ben a

2463
02:13:35,520 --> 02:13:38,200
Speaker 1: lot of fixing. I don't have the money right to

2464
02:13:38,320 --> 02:13:41,320
Speaker 1: fill the holes. So it's laid out for the Browns

2465
02:13:41,360 --> 02:13:43,280
Speaker 1: to go in and get that division for the first

2466
02:13:43,320 --> 02:13:45,680
Speaker 1: time in a long time. That's gonna do it for

2467
02:13:45,800 --> 02:13:47,800
Speaker 1: us here on a Monday, But Steve and I will

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02:13:47,840 --> 02:13:50,360
Speaker 1: be back with you on a Tuesday to discuss more

2469
02:13:50,600 --> 02:13:54,000
Speaker 1: about the NFL, the Bills, just about anything under the

2470
02:13:54,040 --> 02:13:57,000
Speaker 1: football sun. We are here for you at One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: see tomorrow