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Speaker 1: Oh, a great time. I'll watch Steve Plasterer teks time

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Speaker 1: to time, textstop over time. Welcome to another week, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to a Monday show. It is One Bill's Live. John

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Speaker 1: Murphy here, Steve Tasker there, Producer Jay Harris is another place.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody. We're making do the best weekend radio

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Speaker 1: only today once again. We think that's gonna be it

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Speaker 1: Did you have an okay weekend? Is okay? It was okay? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I did. I did get in eighteen holes of golf.

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Speaker 1: other than that. Then I went to the I played

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Speaker 1: it was good. It was it was fun. It was

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Speaker 1: I was just you try to find silver linings, right,

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Speaker 1: He was talking about how this era now, this current

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Speaker 1: you know, your home typically with family, and there are

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Speaker 1: And he said, you know it's quiet. Maybe we come

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Speaker 1: there's always a silver lining, you know. Murb and I

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Speaker 1: And I know Jay Harris is like this. You tend

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Speaker 1: coordinator and a pretty successful head coach as well. It'll

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Speaker 1: be fun to touch base with him. Seahats going for

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Speaker 1: him since he does have some free time like the

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Speaker 1: rest of us, all of a sudden, twenty nine and

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Speaker 1: nineteen is the Bill's head coach. And if you don't remember,

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Speaker 1: Wade will tell you that that's right. Twenty nine wins,

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Speaker 1: nineteen losses. Wade coming by at one o'clock today. At

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Speaker 1: two o'clock, we're going to talk with Mark Showfield of

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Speaker 1: the USA today. He's got a lot of thoughts on

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Speaker 1: free agency and where in the NFL is right now,

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Speaker 1: and you can join us when those guys join us

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Speaker 1: on the line, and you can join us right now

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Speaker 1: at eight o three, five fifty and twelve three one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty steam. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna take credit for today's Twitter poll, whether it's good

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Speaker 1: or not. Five in so far, are you're ready? I'm ready?

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Speaker 1: The Bills through you would think they're through the bulk

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Speaker 1: of their free agency. You work right? If they pick

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Speaker 1: up anybody now like they just be a few add Ons,

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Speaker 1: And believe me, they have holes they're going to address

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Speaker 1: in the draft, and maybe there are those who will

447
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Speaker 1: still come. But the free agents they added yesterday, and

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Speaker 1: what was the number eight one two three four five

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Speaker 1: sixty seven seven plus you know adding of course Da

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Speaker 1: Stepan digs in the trade. Seven free agents. That's all

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Speaker 1: we're dealing with, the seven new free agents signed by

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Which free agent will play the biggest

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Speaker 1: role in the upcoming season? Give us a call at

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Speaker 1: eight O three five fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty sending a tweet. We'll

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Speaker 1: read them on the tweet sheet. You can vote in

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll at one goes live five ninety votes

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Speaker 1: in so far, sixty percent of our audience thinks Mario

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Speaker 1: Addison will be the most important I guess play the

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Speaker 1: biggest role this year the defensive end the Bills signed

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Speaker 1: from the Carolina Panthers. Sixty percent sixty percent say the

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Speaker 1: cornerback Josh Norman Walmer Panther now came comes to the

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Speaker 1: Bills from Washington. Only thirteen percent think a J. Klein

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Speaker 1: And I'll talk about that at a moment. Just thirteen

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Speaker 1: percent eleven percent of somebody else in my which new

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Speaker 1: Bills free agent will play the biggest role in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty Steve, I would vote for aj Clin. This guy's

468
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Speaker 1: gonna be a starter. I think that will only play

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Speaker 1: I would guess half or slightly around half of the snaps,

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Speaker 1: but he is I think the guy they have written

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Speaker 1: in as the replacement for Lorenzo Alexander. I would vote

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Speaker 1: a J. Klein for this. Yeah, I don't know. It's

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Speaker 1: it's hard because we don't there's some things we don't know.

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Speaker 1: If Josh Norman still has gas in his tank and

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Speaker 1: can win the starting corner job, he's the guy that's

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Speaker 1: gonna win this that should win this poll. If he's

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Speaker 1: the starting left corner opposite Tradavious White and can play

478
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Speaker 1: up to his the potential, he showed three or four

479
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Speaker 1: years ago in Carolina. In Sean mcdermot's defense, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: have the biggest impact because he'll be on the field

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Speaker 1: more than aj Clein and certainly more than Mario Addison.

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Speaker 1: Mario Addison part of the rotation. They rotate eight guys

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Speaker 1: through on that defensive line, so Mario Addison may come

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Speaker 1: in and play extremely well the snap count alone. If

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Speaker 1: Josh Norman can be the guy, is gonna lean heavily

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Speaker 1: in Josh Norman's favor, He's gonna get some targets. How

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Speaker 1: he handles them is gonna say how big it's a

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Speaker 1: contribution he makes, But that's that's hard to say. If

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Speaker 1: you think Josh Norman's the guy, you vote for him.

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Speaker 1: But Mario Addison, who is a long, lean pass rushing

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Speaker 1: with some ben We heard Greg co Sell kind of

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Speaker 1: give him some kudos last week on Friday when we

493
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Speaker 1: had Greg on about Mario Addison. He's long, lean, kind

494
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Speaker 1: of power forward guy. Love to see those guys on

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Speaker 1: the front line your defense because it's hard to throw

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Speaker 1: the football around him or over him. So Addison could

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Speaker 1: be a really welcomed addition on the edge. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm with those guys in aj Klein, Like he said, Murph,

499
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Speaker 1: he's gonna play a role, and I hope hopefully he'll

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Speaker 1: come in and play it in a big way. But

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he can completely jump in there

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Speaker 1: and get one hundred percent of the defensive snaps and

503
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Speaker 1: make that kind of contribution. Well, I think the way

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Speaker 1: they play it, he'll get a little more than half

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Speaker 1: the snaps and he'll come out I'm passing down just

506
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Speaker 1: like Lorenzo did. For the most part. Lorenzo obviously stayed

507
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Speaker 1: in the game as a down pass rusher oftentimes too,

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Speaker 1: But it would be interesting to see how they play.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight O three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty which

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Speaker 1: knew Bill's free agent will have played the biggest role

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Let's take a few phone calls here

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Speaker 1: Andrew and Batavia. Hello Andrew, you're on the air. Hey,

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Speaker 1: how's it going guys? Um? I guess just real quick.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say that I agree with Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with the Josh Norman making the biggest impact, but I

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Speaker 1: also wanted to mention that it seems like people are forgetting.

518
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Speaker 1: Before Tom Brady, Bill Belichick was an average coach. He

519
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Speaker 1: had one winning seasons and I believe six seasons before

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. So I don't see the Patriots doing that

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Speaker 1: well this year, and just wanted to hear your thoughts

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Speaker 1: about that. Thanks, all right, what do you think, Steve, Well,

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Speaker 1: he's got a point. I mean, but part of those

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Speaker 1: those years seasons were in Cleveland, and it was a

525
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Speaker 1: different animal back then, and certainly he had some things

526
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Speaker 1: to learn, and I don't believe he was ever able

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Speaker 1: to implement his total program in Cleveland the way he

528
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Speaker 1: wanted to, and because of that, they struggled to win games. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: he was also the guy who was left holding the

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Speaker 1: bag when Art Modell decided he was going to move

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Speaker 1: to Cleveland Browns out of Cleveland and did it eight

532
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Speaker 1: games into the season and announced it eight games into

533
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Speaker 1: the season. Bill Belichick. Uh, I don't know if any

534
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Speaker 1: any coach alive could have gotten a win out of

535
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Speaker 1: the group that was left over there in Cleveland in

536
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Speaker 1: those last eight games. Bill Belichick went oh and eight

537
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Speaker 1: to remain the remainder of the season, and then they

538
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Speaker 1: then they fired him when they moved let me tell

539
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Speaker 1: you something. They were good under Bill Belichick in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: He had it going on. They got caught with some

541
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Speaker 1: injuries a couple of times. I know we beat them.

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Speaker 1: I think we beat them be good in Cleveland on

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Speaker 1: a Monday night game. Uh is I think he was

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Speaker 1: that Murph. Maybe you can help me. Remember when in

545
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Speaker 1: that game when Darryl Talley had that pick six and

546
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Speaker 1: it was and late in the game, it was a

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Speaker 1: Monday night game. We thumped him pretty good forty two points.

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Speaker 1: I think Bill Belichick was their head coach then, and

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Speaker 1: I remember going into that game thinking, man, they've got

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Speaker 1: some guys and because of some injuries that hit him,

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Speaker 1: we were able to beat him pretty good. But it

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Speaker 1: wasn't because they were poorly coached. But I get it,

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Speaker 1: I get it. I'll take a look to you. I

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Speaker 1: can Uh yeah, I see if you can find exactly

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Speaker 1: I think he was because I remember I think it

556
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Speaker 1: was two I can't remember anyway, you know that I

557
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Speaker 1: remember not thinking that Bill Belichick wasn't a good coach.

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Speaker 1: We thought he was a really good coach and got

559
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Speaker 1: put in a tough position. But when and you know,

560
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Speaker 1: remember Mike Lombardi was a part of the personnel staff

561
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Speaker 1: there as a maybe a GM or part of a

562
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: personnel evaluation process in Cleveland with Bill Belichick. That's how

563
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: he knows Belichick really well. Regular Gift a regular guest

564
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: on our show. So, um, yeah, I don't know. I

565
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Speaker 1: can't remember, but I don't think so. I think Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick's a really good coach and I think it's going

567
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Speaker 1: to show. Thanks you a call. Let's take another call

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Speaker 1: here from Syracuse Steve and Syracuse. Hello, you're on the air,

569
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Speaker 1: says I got a suggestion for the upcoming draft and

570
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Speaker 1: also player under the XFLT donald paramount of XFLTK six

571
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: foot eight tight end. I think he could be a

572
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: real sleeper for him and then and then draft upcoming draft.

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Speaker 1: AJ Dillon aut of Boston College running back. He's probably

574
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Speaker 1: the best running back in the draft. They're also probably

575
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: the quietest. They're not talking about him much. He's strong,

576
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: he's fast, he bowls over people. He's like a Derrick Henry.

577
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: Oh he's Derrick Henry, same type of thing. All right, No.

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Speaker 1: Six one, two thirty five. What round do you think

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Speaker 1: he is? Uh? What do you think round? He would

580
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: be in? Three? Three? In the sixth round? But he's

581
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Speaker 1: gonna be gone. He's gotta be at least they're gonna

582
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Speaker 1: ge him at least by the third round or else

583
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna be gone. That's good. I'm telling you. He's strong.

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Speaker 1: He knocks people over. I don't know the corners. They're

585
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: gonna be free to tackle him because your knock over linebackers,

586
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: defensive ends everybody. He's very strong and fast. You're he's

587
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: going to under a four four forty. He's like two

588
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: hundred and forty pounds. He's a hell of a player.

589
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: I think he's the best running back in his draft.

590
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about him. That's good for Buffalo because I

591
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: think they might be able to pick him up. Yeah,

592
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: all right, you're right, all right, be able to I

593
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to get Yeah, I mean certainly,

594
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: the Bill's draft picks are the premium now, and you

595
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: also have a young running back and Devin Singletary who

596
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: needs carrots, and you know, you can we can debate

597
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: as much as you like whether he's the guy, but

598
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: I think he is their guy for now. Um, I

599
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know whether that's something the Bills

600
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: are I don't know if they'd even draft a running back.

601
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of running backs out there

602
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: and free agency, I'm sure they would even draft or

603
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: running back. What do you think, Well, they might if

604
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: they've got this guy, if they've got this guy or

605
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: a different guy rated that highly, and if they feel

606
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: like he's a really good player and has and has

607
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: gone has gone past him, If they've got him as

608
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: a second or third round talent and he's in the

609
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: fourth round, you can bet they'll probably take him. And

610
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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit different than you. I love Devin Singletary.

611
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: I think he's a great back, great person, and he's

612
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: a guy I would want on my team. But I caution,

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Speaker 1: and at this time of year, it's easy for me

614
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: to sit here and say this, but to be dispassionate.

615
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: If some draft pick like this kid Dylan or like

616
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: any of these high high, highly drafted running backs, are

617
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Speaker 1: highly touted running backs coming out of college, if any

618
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: of those guys make you better and should and can

619
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Speaker 1: get on the field ahead of Devin Singletary, they need

620
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: to be in the field, on the field ahead of

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. I mean, I I like Devon a lot.

622
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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be really hard to get him

623
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: out of that spot. But it is the job of

624
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean mcdermot's upgrade. And if you get

625
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: a guy that's two forty you can run that fast

626
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: and has all the stuff that the callers. If he's

627
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: all of that, he's gonna play, and you need to

628
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: get him on your team if you can. Good players

629
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: make you better, and you can't let the sentimentality or

630
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Speaker 1: even the investment you have in the third round picking

631
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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary deter you from getting better. Even if you

632
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Speaker 1: draft a kid in the fifth round who's better, you

633
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Speaker 1: play that kid. So while we all have our favorite

634
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: players on the teams and we all kind of have

635
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Speaker 1: a deep affection for him, this is the time of

636
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Speaker 1: year when you're trying to get guys who are even

637
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Speaker 1: better than them, and you gotta do it if you can.

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Speaker 1: So if there's a running back out there at this

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Speaker 1: point with a fifty fourth pick of the draft, I

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Speaker 1: don't care where you pick him, even if it is

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Speaker 1: a second round, or if he's that good, then you'll

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Speaker 1: have the kid for the first three years. But he's

643
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Speaker 1: got to be he's gotta be Sae Quon Barkley the

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Speaker 1: good though he can't be you know, he can't be

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Speaker 1: you know, Charlie, bag of donuts. Good. Look. I don't

646
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Speaker 1: have Devin Singletary's football card in my wallet or anything.

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00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: I think he's a good player. I think the Bills

648
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: have other serious needs. And if they're drafting a running

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Speaker 1: back at pick fifty four, I would scratch my head

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Speaker 1: and said, what we got Devin Singletary. He's got less

651
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Speaker 1: than a year on his tires here, the drafted offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: drafted defensive lineman. I like Devin Singletary. I'm not in

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Speaker 1: love with them. If you can get sae Quon Barkley

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Speaker 1: at fifty four and go ahead, but you can't. And

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Speaker 1: I just think they have other needs that I would

656
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Speaker 1: hate to get wrapped up in a running back, fall

657
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: in love with the running back and make him your

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Speaker 1: fifty fourth overall pick. Yeah. And I think they've really

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Speaker 1: filled some holes and gotten some need positions filled with

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Speaker 1: the free agency thus far. With the seven and six

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00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: or seven guys they've gotten. They got a couple of

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00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: defensive line three of them actually there, that I think

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Speaker 1: are as good or better than the guys that then

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Speaker 1: Shack and Shack and Jordan Phillips. Jordan Phillips had career year.

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Speaker 1: If he can do that again, you know, bless his heart.

666
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Speaker 1: But we got guys that are less expensive and have

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Speaker 1: something to prove as well. It'll be interesting to see

668
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Speaker 1: how they come through and if they can play as well.

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Speaker 1: I think that the Bills have every reason to believe

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Speaker 1: they can, so we'll see. But I'm with you, Murph.

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Speaker 1: That guy's got to be really good because I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's a glaring need and that running backs are

673
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Speaker 1: so scarce that you need to waste a high pick

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Speaker 1: on him. But if the guy's there, take him. But man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, I think that's a really unlikely scenario. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: go ahead and take him. Be ready to answer a

677
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: ton of questions after right, You better hope that guy

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Speaker 1: knocks it out in the park if you take him.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a break here, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: take more phone calls when we return, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: back in just a moment with our show. We're here

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Speaker 1: until three one Bills Live presented by collad of Health,

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Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, one Go

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Speaker 1: five Dosasker We're at home and our producer Jay Harris's

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Speaker 1: home tool and I kind of like this separation. Hey Steve,

686
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Speaker 1: what were you telling me during the break? The famous

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00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: Savers game? They're replaying games on MSG all week right.

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00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: Dominic Hashi's seventy save gat playoff Game six against the

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Speaker 1: Jersey Devils. He makes seventy saves in a shutout, four

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Speaker 1: overtime win. That's coming on at eight o'clock tonight on MSG.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch that that. You know, you know, I

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Speaker 1: sure don't do this. I'm just saying, if this was

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Speaker 1: normal times, you'd get a watch party together for that,

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Speaker 1: you have your friends over. You know you can't do it.

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Speaker 1: Nobody do. I'm not saying don't anybody do this, but man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, what a game that was. I keep telling

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Speaker 1: I've said this before Tumor and I've watched since I've

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Speaker 1: been in Buffalo, since like November of eighty six. I've

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Speaker 1: been living here, I've watched a lot of hockey, and

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Speaker 1: Dominic the Dominator was the best hockey player I ever

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Speaker 1: saw at any position, at any position, and it was

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Speaker 1: awesome to see him. I can't well, I'm gonna watch

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Speaker 1: that tonight Game six to ninety four Eastern Conference Quarterfinals.

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Speaker 1: Hashick with seventy saves. Damie Hannon scored in the fourth

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Speaker 1: overtime period one to nothing forced in Game seven, and

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Speaker 1: Vick Jenner echos, this one's going back to where Jimmy

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Speaker 1: hoffas or something like, yeah, it's great at that game.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. I do not think so. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what I was doing. You know what I

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Speaker 1: was looking for. I don't think I was there. So

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Speaker 1: they're in the odd and I was working a Channel

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Speaker 1: seven a couple of blocks away, and we would go

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Speaker 1: over and you know, we'd watch the first period, maybe

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Speaker 1: a little bit of the second. We need to go

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Speaker 1: back and get ready to do the eleven. And then

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Speaker 1: we do the eleven and they're in overtime. We're like, oh,

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00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? And then they're still in overtime.

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Speaker 1: We have to tape this poortscast the next day. What

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Speaker 1: are we're gonna do? And then there's still an overtime.

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Speaker 1: But by the third overtime, myself with my producer Timmy

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Speaker 1: Melligan who's now at CNN, said let's just go. We

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Speaker 1: went back to the odd to watch in the receipts

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Speaker 1: available because people had left. Yes, some people have left early.

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Speaker 1: Well it wasn't early. Some people left at like eleven

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Speaker 1: or midnight. And it was great. We watched Dave Hannon score.

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Speaker 1: The funny thing was, I've told you the story before,

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Speaker 1: Glenn Parker, your former teammate, great offensive linement. Great. So

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Speaker 1: I'm walking through the hall at the Odd in the

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Speaker 1: second overtime or third overtime or the intermission, and like me,

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Speaker 1: Glenn Parker's thirsty. I said, done, you got, you gotta get.

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Speaker 1: They shut down the concession stands and the only concession

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Speaker 1: stands we're looking for a beer. The only concession stands

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Speaker 1: were in the Odd Club, the Old Odd Club. So

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Speaker 1: Glenn and I neither won an Odd Club member, walking

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Speaker 1: at the Odd Club and get the four beers each

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Speaker 1: or something that many as we could get. And it

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00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: comes time to pay, and the guy there says, we

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Speaker 1: whip out, you know, twenty dollars for eight beers or whatever.

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Speaker 1: And guy says, what are you doing. We don't take cash.

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Speaker 1: You got to be an un club member. And Glenn

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00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: and I look at each other and say, neither one

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Speaker 1: of us is a member. And the great guy I

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00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: don't know who was supposed to go ahead, just go

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00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: just yeah. We had beers for all of our crew.

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00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: I had. That is a total Buffalo story right there.

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00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: Just just take the beer. And it was great. It

747
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: was that. It was great. Dale Howard Chuck mo Gildy

748
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: was on that team in Hashing. He took over for

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Speaker 1: Grant Fuer during the sea. It was great. So I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing that games. And I'll it'll take

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Speaker 1: like nineteen hours to get over, right, I mean, I

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00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: hope shorten up the intermissions or something. I'm sure they will,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, but you know, I can't wait because I

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Speaker 1: was just sitting u when I went to, you know,

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Speaker 1: drop some stuff off of my son's house. He and

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00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: I had his chance to sit down for a minute,

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00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: and uh, he's the one that you know gets the

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00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: hockey tickets with me, right, and we both sat down

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00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: and said, man, we missed going to the games, you know,

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00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: miss going to the saved games. So it'll be fun

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00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: to be able to sit down and watch a nice

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Speaker 1: hockey game. Uh. Like we did, like we like we

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Speaker 1: were but um, anyway, Steve Tasker along with John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: we're here. Murphy's Internet has frozen up. Just so you're

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00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: back there. They've got a game every night this week,

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Speaker 1: Savers Classics eight o'clock tonight. That is what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: Forget anything else. I will take the phone calls here

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Speaker 1: eight fifty and twelve three one eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty Tim and like you, Hello Tim, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air. Hi, John, how are you good? I

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00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you and Steve thank you for everything

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00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 1: you do. I'm glad you guys are still on the air. Um.

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Speaker 1: I'm a paramedic and while I'm on duty, i'd like

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00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: to listen to the show. It gives me something better

775
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: than just to listen to news all the time, and

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00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: it's it's nice to have a little distraction and talk

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00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: about sports. So I do thank you guys for staying

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00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: on the air. UM. My question for you guys is,

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Speaker 1: with the upcoming draft coming less than a month away,

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Speaker 1: who do you think the Bill should prioritize in that

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00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: second round since we don't have a first round draft pick. Yeah.

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00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give you any names because I don't.

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00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: I haven't researched the draft that much. Steve may have,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's I have it should be alignment.

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00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: I would think an offensive linement, maybe a good tackle.

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00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: It should be able to get a decent tackle at

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Speaker 1: pick fifty four. I hope they can get an offensive

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00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: linement with the fifty fourth overall pick. What about you see? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree. I'd like to see him do that. With

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Speaker 1: what happened in free agency and the defenders they brought in,

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00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: I think that's their next the next most glaring weakness,

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00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: which I don't think it. I mean, they can come

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Speaker 1: back now with the same five guys they ended the

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Speaker 1: season with, plus a swing tackle and Inseki. So if

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Speaker 1: they can get a guy that's that big and that

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Speaker 1: good at fifty four, that's what I agree with humor.

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Speaker 1: If get a tackle, get an outside guy. But at

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Speaker 1: fifty four, this draft is not that deep in quality tackles,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know if they'll be one worth it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It'll be interesting because we still have

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00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: two or three weeks of free agency and there's some

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00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: guys out there that can still play. We've got Mark

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Speaker 1: Scofield coming up. He's written an article about the best

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00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: free agent still available. We can ask him about offensive

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00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: tackle and some guys that are still out there that

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00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: may be able to play, and what he thinks about him.

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00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: But you know who's at the top of the list.

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Speaker 1: I am that Mike clay sheet as of an hour ago.

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Speaker 1: Top of the offensive tackle is for free agents. Jason Peters,

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Speaker 1: that's thirty eight years old. Where you're going with that,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't know that there's any you know,

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00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: Donald pen of Washington, Jason Peters. Um, you don't need

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Speaker 1: him if you I think Jason Peters might be a

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00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: better option than tie to Secki. Um. Peters can play,

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Speaker 1: but you don't need him to play. If he wants

816
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: to play, and you can get him for a song,

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00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: let him play here. You know the snaps. Yeah, he's

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00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: done him before, he's quit here. Well, he didn't want

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Speaker 1: to be here, no question. Well it may be different now,

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Speaker 1: it may be different. I mean, well I'm sure it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we know it's different here now because you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, everything's different here. Now. We'll take a break

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Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome. Mac One goes Live,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tansker working from home today radio only.

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Speaker 1: The Seneca Studio is closed, close for business. We'll be

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Speaker 1: open again soon Sunday Radio Only Today Here Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: which new Bills free agent signed last week? Which signing

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Speaker 1: will play the biggest role in twenty twenty. We offer

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Speaker 1: a few suggestions on Twitter. Is a Mario Addison the

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Speaker 1: defensive end? Is a linebacker? A J. Klein cornerback? Josh Norman?

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Speaker 1: Is it somebody else? Let's go to the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: brought here by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Jack A says he's got to be

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Speaker 1: super Mario. He's talking about Addison. The guy has at

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Speaker 1: least nine sacks in each of his last four seasons.

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Speaker 1: He's a veteran, knows the defense, how to prepare, and

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Speaker 1: can get after the quarterback. His presence on defense may

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00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: also help attract attention away from Jerry Hughes and Ed

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Speaker 1: Oliver so they can get after the quarterback as well.

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Speaker 1: Steve Weird so many good things about Mario Addison. Once

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Speaker 1: the Bills make it signing an official, we open to

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Speaker 1: get them on the show. Of course, they're slowed down

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Speaker 1: by getting physicals done and that sort of thing paperwork,

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Speaker 1: But once that happens, I look forward to talking to

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Speaker 1: that guy, meeting him he sounds like a great guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to watch all these guys take

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Speaker 1: shape in training camp and all the stuff that that.

848
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna make them money. We haven't had

849
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: a chance to even lay eyes on these guys, so

850
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: but I have a lot of I got a lot

851
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,439
Speaker 1: of excitement about the signings as well. We knew going

852
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: in because of the way they're doing things. And I

853
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: keep going back to this every so often, you know,

854
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: because of all the way the way they structure all

855
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: these contracts, Murph with the one year prooven deals are

856
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: the two year deals with you know, they got to

857
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: play for that contract. In the second year, the team

858
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: can can go move on from him. Because they have

859
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: so many guys on these very short term tracks, they

860
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: get a bigger turnover than maybe what we've we're used

861
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: to seeing in decades past. So there's gonna be a

862
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: lot more new faces at as a matter of course,

863
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: over the you know, the offseason for most of these

864
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 1: team or at least this Buffalo Bill's franchise under McBean,

865
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: McDermott and McBean and Bean, there's gonna be more new faces.

866
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: And I think the fun of it is gonna be

867
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: seeing these guys acclimate to this culture and being the

868
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: kind of guys that we like and are happy that

869
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: are on our team and growing into one of those guys,

870
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: and we hope they resign. And Addison has every chance

871
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: of doing this. He's a big, long bodied defensive end

872
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: at a spot where we'd love to see a little

873
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: bit more pass rush. We'll see if he can make

874
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 1: that happen. But he's jack A said, he's if he's good.

875
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: If he can get another nine and a half sack

876
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:57,479
Speaker 1: season together or a ten sack season together, Jerry Hughes

877
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: may well do it as well. He's gonna get some attention.

878
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: And Jerry Hughes will benefit from us, so will so

879
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: will Harrison Phillips, and so will the rest of these guys,

880
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, Trent Murphy, all of them, they'll all get

881
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: better from it. So that I agree, Mario Addison's going

882
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: to be a fun guy to watch and to see

883
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: him take shape as part of the team. One more

884
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet from God Billers. When we asked

885
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: the question which new Bill free agent signing will have

886
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: the most impact this year the biggest role in twenty twenty,

887
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: God Billers tweets and Josh Norman and he makes it

888
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: interesting too. He says he was left hanging out to

889
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 1: dry in Washington. Payer and Hyde will be his best friends.

890
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: He'll be good, and he'll be a good, not yet

891
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: great veteran opposite White. Until Wallace, a rookie or unproven

892
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: future free agent, takes a sizeable step necessary to overtake him,

893
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: he will successfully raise the bar. That's interesting. Josh Norman,

894
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: thirty two years old. He's right. He was left hanging

895
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: a different defense and Washington he could not make plays

896
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: the way he became accustomed to. But I don't know.

897
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: It's a lot to ask him. See, there are those

898
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: who would think the other way that, you know. Jass

899
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: Narmant at age thirty two is done. We're gonna find

900
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: out pretty quickly. I think, yeah, And it's interesting to think.

901
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: I like the way he put that where he'll raise

902
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: the bar. That's what you gotta do. They rotated Levi

903
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: Wallace and Kevin Johnson in there last year at the

904
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 1: corner spot. You'd like to have somebody in there who

905
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: doesn't get rotated in for you know, you'd like to

906
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 1: have somebody in there and say wow, that guy's you

907
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: can't get him off the field. That would be nice

908
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: if Josh Norman could do that. We'll see he's old,

909
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: he's long in the tooth. But man, oh man, this,

910
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: let's face it, all of us are starting to toot

911
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: our horn as Bills fans about this culture and this

912
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: head coach and this coaching staff being able to get

913
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: the most out of people. They did it themselves at

914
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: the Combine this year. They said, if these players want

915
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: to be the best version of themselves, then get their career,

916
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: kickstart their career, and prove the league what they're really worth.

917
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo is the place for him. If that's all true,

918
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: you know, that's a This is the spot where it

919
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: could prove it again. You know, a guy like Josh

920
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: Norman coming in and showing that what happened in Washington

921
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: wasn't as much about him as it was about a

922
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: dysfunctional culture. Yep, all right to break care When we

923
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: come back. Wade Phillips farmer, Bills head coach, former defensive

924
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 1: coordinator of several teams, former head coach of the Cowboys.

925
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips. When we return, It's One Bill's Live, presented

926
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: by Kalidah health, not from the SACA studio, from our

927
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: homes today and this is Auffalo Bills Radio Steve Tasker

928
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: along with John Murphy here on One Bill's Live. We're

929
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: expecting to have Wade Phillips on the line with us momentarily.

930
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: And Wade Phillips is on the line with us and

931
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 1: Wade Steve Tasker along with John Murphy here and Buffalo,

932
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on with us. Head. Where are you

933
00:45:55,520 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: right there right now? Well, I'm at home like most people. Uh,

934
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not doing I'm not doing nothing and

935
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: I don't start till noon. Sock. Wait where it's home?

936
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: I know you you you're two years in with the Rams.

937
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: You kind of uh settled in there because your daughter

938
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: lives there. Is that home now or are you in Texas? No,

939
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: I'm in I'm in Houston. We moved back to Houston. Okay.

940
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: You enjoyed your two years with the Rams, right, I

941
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: mean having your daughter there and moved. Uh you know

942
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: you and your wife had at a good time and

943
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: in the Rams, and you want obviously went to a

944
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: super Bowl with that crew. Yeah. Yeah, I was there

945
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: three years and uh we won thirty five games and

946
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: three years and I went to a Super Bowl and

947
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: had a chance to win that one. Really except for um,

948
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,760
Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't play quite good enough, but we

949
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: we played pretty well. So uh yeah, we're we're we're

950
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: back home in Houston. Though you've had a run to

951
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: give us a give us a quick synopsis, real quick

952
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: brief summary. You were head coached here in Buffalo from

953
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: ninety eight to two thousand. You've been a part of

954
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. Goodness gracious for almost what four decades or

955
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: five decades maybe? I mean you you started young with

956
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: your dad there in Houston, right, yeah, forty two years

957
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: I got in so pretty good run. Do you consider

958
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: the run overweight? Or it seemed like when you first

959
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: when the Rams decided to move on, you sounded like

960
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: you still wanted to coach somewhere, right You still do? Yeah, sure, sure.

961
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: I hopefully somebody will will pick me up at some

962
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: time if they need some help. But we'll see, you know.

963
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's uh, sometimes it's a force retirement. Although I

964
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: was a couple of years ago. I was out a

965
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and luckily I got picked up

966
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,959
Speaker 1: by Denver the next year. We won the Super Bowl

967
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: that year so that was pretty nice. Up, says our guests.

968
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: He's on the line with us and wait, I came

969
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: across a stat to find an incredible You have the

970
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 1: record in NFL history for most times being a head

971
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: coach six different teams in room or not named. You're

972
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,240
Speaker 1: a head coach, it's got to be something you're pretty

973
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: proud of. I would think, yeah, I got fired six times,

974
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: but I got that. I got that record too. But

975
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: but actually, you know, actually as a as a as

976
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:28,280
Speaker 1: a well a head coach and the coordinator last ten times.

977
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: First year I was there, we went the playoffs, So

978
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: I'm pretty proud of that. Yeah, one of you. One

979
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: of the things about this that you you're also an author.

980
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,760
Speaker 1: You listen as your dad taught you about football and life.

981
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: What you know, what prompted the book all other than

982
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: the you know other thing. Obviously you had a great

983
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: dad who was a football dad and got you into

984
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: the line of work you're in. Now, What are some

985
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: of the things that you really feel feel like you

986
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: want people to know about your dad? Bum who I know,

987
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: I was a big fan growing up and in my

988
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: early day he had just left Houston when I became

989
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: an oiler myself. So, what are some of the lessons

990
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: that you really wanted people to know about what your

991
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: dad bomb taught you about being a football coach and

992
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: about life? Yeah, I think mostly about lives. And then

993
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: really I did the book from my grandkids, you know,

994
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: and let them know about their great granddad and their granddad,

995
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: I guess, um let them know kind of about what

996
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,760
Speaker 1: he was like, and um, you know, I was pretty

997
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: proud of being a time so um and I hope,

998
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: you know, football people would enjoy it too. Wade Phillips

999
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: our guest Farmer Bills head coach, Farmer Bills defensive coordinator.

1000
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: I have a question for you about defense, Wad. We

1001
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: with Steve and I've been talking a lot in the

1002
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: last several weeks about how lucky the Bills are that

1003
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: they have Leslie Frasier getting set for his fourth consecutive

1004
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: year with much of the same personnel and certainly the

1005
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 1: same defensive scheme. How much of an advantage is that

1006
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 1: for a team when they have a good a good

1007
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: route that's coming back for the most part, every every

1008
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 1: piece is intact. What do you make of that? Yeah,

1009
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: I think that's uh, you know, it's unusual in this

1010
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 1: day and time, certainly with all the movement, you lose

1011
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: so many players a year. But uh yeah, it's great

1012
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: to have the same players that you know, if they

1013
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: know what to do, that's a big part of it.

1014
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 1: And you know, if you had the same group no

1015
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 1: matter what your scheme is, you know, as long as

1016
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: everybody knows what to do and then they learn to

1017
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: work together, um, you know, you got a group that's

1018
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: that's familiar with each other and knows what to do.

1019
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: So that's that's a big advantage, I think. And one

1020
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: of the things one of the things that's going on

1021
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL now, uh Wade, is that the league,

1022
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's more and more and more as the

1023
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: years passed, it becoming more and more of a throwing league.

1024
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you came into the league. You

1025
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 1: were with guys like Earl Campbell and the great running

1026
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: backs and teams that used to you know, just have

1027
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: those big, hard nosed defensive linemen that you know, stop

1028
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: the running all that. Now, I mean we're seeing linebackers now.

1029
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: I mean back then, I mean Jack Lambert was only

1030
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: two twenty five, but most of the linebackers were big,

1031
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: heavy dudes who could kind of bear up for the

1032
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: run game. Now you know, things have evolved kind of

1033
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: away from that. Where do you see the league headed

1034
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: in the future. I mean you've seen it for forty

1035
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: two years. How what are the most striking differences and

1036
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: similarities you see? Well, you know, I've always thought the

1037
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: pass I mean, if you remember in ninety five, my

1038
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: first year there, we played we played Miami in the

1039
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: playoffs and Marino threw it I think sixty four times,

1040
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: so they were but in fact I think you had

1041
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,359
Speaker 1: touchdown in that game. But we won that game, so

1042
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: that was But anyway, Yeah, the passing game. I've always

1043
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: thought the passing game was a key. You know, if

1044
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: you can get pressure on the passer, you can score

1045
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: a lot more throwing the ball than you can't run

1046
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: the ball because running ball takes more time. Um, and

1047
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: you know, the worst passer in the league overall average

1048
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: about five yards in attempts, so you know you don't

1049
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: have running backs that everge that. So, um, you know,

1050
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: passing game is still the key in pro football in

1051
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: my opinion. What about defending the passing game, weed, what's

1052
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: the key to doing that? Well, you have to have

1053
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: pressure own passer. Um, you know, because if they can

1054
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: stand back there, all of them, you know, all all

1055
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: of them can complete a high percentage passes. Obviously, coverages

1056
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: and coverage and rush or the key. But you know

1057
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: it's and it's uh, it's a constant work on defensively

1058
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,280
Speaker 1: to try to try to get that on the passer

1059
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: and and the coverage together. So it's Steve and I

1060
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: have sort of an ongoing discussion about that weed. Uh

1061
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: is it is it? Is it more important to rush

1062
00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: the passer or have good coverage on the back end? Uh?

1063
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: I think the Russian the pastor probably you know, we'll

1064
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: determine unless you've got people that can cover a man

1065
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: the man, you know, all over the field, which it's

1066
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 1: just hard to find. Um, you got to play some zone.

1067
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: So I think your pass rushing probably a little more important,

1068
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: although coverage is really key. But I would say the Russiers,

1069
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: you know, you when you took a team you went

1070
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl with the Rims just to cut

1071
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: you know, Cup two two years ago, and you know

1072
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: you did it with you know, Sean McVay and he

1073
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: got a lot of kudos for the way he ran

1074
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: his offense and all that can a defense. Can defense

1075
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: is still win championships? Way well, super Bowl fifty, I'm

1076
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: pretty sure we did with the Denver and then uh,

1077
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 1: right now it's thirteen to three, so well, I mean

1078
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,280
Speaker 1: we we played pretty well against Tom Brady and that loses.

1079
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 1: So I think deferent Yeah, They're defense won the game.

1080
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 1: You know, we only got three points. So yeah, I'd

1081
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: say superow defensives can went championships or Super Bowls, one

1082
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: of them. You know, their their defense won it. And

1083
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: I really believe our defense. Uh in Super Bowl fifty

1084
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: with Denver against Cam and those guys, you know, we

1085
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: had seven sacks and you know, scored a testy and

1086
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: on defense we had I think we won overall, won

1087
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: the game on defense. Although tea, you know, teams are

1088
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: most important, you know, and and all of us know

1089
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: that line on the line with Wade Philip, former Bills

1090
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 1: head coach, former Bills defensive coordinator, you had good defenses

1091
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills, both as coordinator and head coach. Wade,

1092
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: people like Sam Cowart and John Holli, second Bruce Smith,

1093
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: Ted Washington, How do those how does that group rank

1094
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: with some of the great defenses you've had around the

1095
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: NFL whatever right up there. I mean, you know, Bryce

1096
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: Pop was player the he's as a player of the year.

1097
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,760
Speaker 1: Boots Smith was decent as the player of the year. Uh,

1098
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,879
Speaker 1: you know the guys you name were all the really

1099
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,879
Speaker 1: good players. Um, you know, then we had we had

1100
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: this guy on offense that played special teams, was the

1101
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: best special teamer and should be in the Hall of Fame.

1102
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: Got the ball in good field position all the time.

1103
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: And you know the other thing about Steve is you

1104
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: know the gunner position. You know, that's part of the

1105
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: special teams and he was the best ever. So um,

1106
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think he used to certainly

1107
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Time. I wish they'd give

1108
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: special teamers and uh, assistant assistant coaches a chance to

1109
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame. But yeah, wait, you're

1110
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to watch what you talk about it

1111
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: because people are gonna think you're senile in your old

1112
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: age here. But I appreciate the thoughts anyway, and I'm

1113
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: here you move back to Houston. I remember, I know

1114
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: that a number of guys who who I used to

1115
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 1: cross paths with, and I when I got drafted way

1116
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: back in the day, A lot of guys make their

1117
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: home down there. Has become a real haven for former

1118
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: football players. Particularly the old Oilers are even still there

1119
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: now that they're the Texans. Do you have any any

1120
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: thoughts about how that changeover occurred? I mean, I know

1121
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: you've you've been a kind of a Houstonian for a

1122
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,959
Speaker 1: long long time. What do you think about the fact

1123
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 1: that there's a different team in Houston rather than the

1124
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: old Oilers. Yeah, I mean, you know, the you know,

1125
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: once the team left. I guess the same thing happened

1126
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: to Cleveland, I don't know, or Baltimore, I mean so,

1127
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 1: but yeah, there was a loss here for a while.

1128
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: And you know, and of course I was part of

1129
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 1: the Oilers and coached for the Oilers, and I went

1130
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: to University of Houston, so I'm a Houstonian anyway, So

1131
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: I was certainly sad when they left. And then uh,

1132
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: and I was here, you know, with the Texans when

1133
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: they came back. So I coached for the Oilers and

1134
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: the Texas so and the and the Cowboys. So right, um,

1135
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: but as far as the Tech is coming in, I

1136
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: coached with him and we won. We won the division

1137
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: in the playoff games the first time ever, so that

1138
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: was kind of fun to be back in Houston do that. Yeah,

1139
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: with Wade Phillips on the line with us. Hey wait,

1140
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: I was thinking about, as you said, you're corrected me

1141
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: three years with the Rams, and the Rams have had

1142
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: a lot of turnover. I mean even I consider myself

1143
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: a fan of Nickell Robie Coleman, who just got let

1144
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: go the other day last week. I guess, uh, they

1145
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: just got caught up in what Cap crunches for as

1146
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: far as players or what. Do you think what went

1147
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: wrong with the Rams? Uh? Well, it looked like a

1148
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean yeah, Uh, Robi is a great one.

1149
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's he's a really good player. You know, somebody,

1150
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: somebody needs a nickelback. He's the best. Uh yeah, I've

1151
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: been in a long time. So to be smart for

1152
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: somebody to pick him up, that's for sure. But it

1153
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: was a good kid too. I felt bad that you

1154
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: got all caught up in that rules change. He told

1155
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: me at the Super Bowl. I talk to him. He said, yeah,

1156
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: I interfere with them, but they didn't call it. Now

1157
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: they're going to change it. You know it's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1158
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: but he he's really good player. I think somebody would

1159
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: be smart to pick him up for sure. Um, and uh,

1160
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: it's for the rules. I mean, you know, they they

1161
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 1: some of us need jerk, you know. And I think

1162
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: we saw that. I mean I think it didn't work

1163
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: out the way they thought it would. It looked like

1164
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: to me at least last year. Wait, I know that

1165
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: you've been you coached for a long time and guys

1166
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: like Nikel Roby Coleman. There's a lot of a ton

1167
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: of players that you coached that now a lot of

1168
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: people probably wouldn't remember. And I'm never going to ask

1169
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: you to, you know, pick out your all time favorite,

1170
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: but could you give us a short list of guys

1171
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: that will, you know, forever kind of be special to

1172
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: you for maybe they're not even maybe so much for

1173
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: their ability to play football, but maybe for the kind

1174
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: of person they were, the relationship ship you had with them.

1175
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: Oh wow, there's too many. I mean that's the great

1176
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: thing about uh football and certainly places I've been that's Uh,

1177
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: there's so many really great players that are good people too.

1178
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: You know that that I think it goes hand in hand,

1179
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, some people, you know talk about athletes

1180
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: being whatever prima Donnas or whatever. But the guys I've

1181
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: been around overall, I mean the great players that I've

1182
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,919
Speaker 1: been around. I've been around a whole bunch of them.

1183
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, like forty or fifty Hall of famers,

1184
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: so uh, most every one of them were great guys. So, um,

1185
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 1: you know, to pick out you pick out one or two.

1186
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, uh at Buffalo, I mean the

1187
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: time we were there. I mean, how do how do

1188
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: you get better people than you know, been around Jim

1189
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: Kelly or thurmon Thomas or Bruce Smith or or vice

1190
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: Pop or and all the other guys you mentioned too,

1191
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: I mean, and and Ken Irban who played uh you

1192
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: know who played from a big player, I mean, you know,

1193
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: I just it goes on and on. So I'm blessed

1194
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 1: to be uh been able to be a part of

1195
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: a lot of different teams and uh and enjoyed it.

1196
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: Hey wait, that came across a quote of yours from

1197
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: a month or so ago. Uh he was a sports

1198
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 1: illustrator article. You said, quote, if they only fired bad coaches,

1199
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: then I'd feel bad, But they they have fired a

1200
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: lot of good coaches. It happens. It's part of the business.

1201
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: You kind of resign yourself to that fact. Huh I do,

1202
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: I do. I mean, you know they um and now

1203
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: they've cut good they've cut good players too, you know

1204
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: you know that happened so uh but yeah, coaching wise,

1205
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: I mean it's there's a lot of different things to

1206
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: go into it, certainly, and uh, and it's not because

1207
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: it's not all wins and losses. And I found that

1208
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: out over my first five years with the Oilers. Um,

1209
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: we had we had the most wins in the in

1210
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 1: the national football like through those five years to the

1211
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: the three years, uh, the last three years I was

1212
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: with the Oilers, we had the most wins in football

1213
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: and we got fired. So that's when I realized, you know,

1214
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: just do the best you can do whatever you do.

1215
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: And uh, certainly you two guys have done that too,

1216
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: so it can happen to anybody. Though. Wait, is your

1217
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: son Wesley still coaching with the Rams? Yeah? West with

1218
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: the Rams and uh he's tight ends coach, right, Yeah,

1219
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: he's coaching tight ends. You know he should be a

1220
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: coordinator pretty soon, I would thank He's got a great

1221
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: back background and he's a hell of a coach. So awesome. Wait,

1222
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: he's great talking to you, I got. I gotta ask

1223
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: you how big of an inconvenience has this quarantine been

1224
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 1: for you and your family down at Houston. I think

1225
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: just like everybody else, you know, like I say, I

1226
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: mean you you uh you know, I'm I'm. My campaign

1227
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 1: is uh uh stop stop the virus, save the old people.

1228
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: Uh as the old pave the old people. But anyway

1229
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: stop Yeah, so we need to stop. We need to

1230
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 1: stop this thing. And everybody's doing their part. You know,

1231
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: we're staying at home and uh I tell Laurie, we're

1232
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: enjoying each other a little more closer then sometimes you

1233
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 1: want to. But it's but you know, you still talk

1234
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 1: to your family a lot on the phone and go

1235
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: forth and uh you know, so maybe bringing this closer

1236
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: closer together. I hear you. Hey, wait, thanks for this.

1237
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: It's from great catching up. We appreciate it. Thank you

1238
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: very much. Yeah, you know, And I still love the

1239
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 1: fans in Buffalo. I mean, uh, probably the greatest fan

1240
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: that I've been around, and I've been around the league

1241
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: a long time, So kudos for them. They're they're great,

1242
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: and and they got they got the best broadcaster and

1243
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 1: the best special teamer that uh anything we're gonna have

1244
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: to get you down. We're gonna have to get you

1245
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 1: on once a week. Wait, you're good for uh, you're

1246
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,960
Speaker 1: good for our morale here. Thanks very much kid. Yeah,

1247
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 1: well I might. I might basically now like you did.

1248
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 1: Thanks way appreciate you. Man. Take care of Wake Phillips,

1249
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: former Bill's head coach. Uh, let go buy the rams

1250
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 1: and now out there on the street. He's seventy two

1251
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 1: years old. Um still wants to coach, as he said,

1252
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: is is Uh you know he talked a little bit

1253
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: with Cleveland. I read in Game of that that I

1254
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: hired somebody else in new coach in Cleveland. Uh, he

1255
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: can probably still coach Steve even though he is seventy two, right,

1256
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: I mean, what's he gonna do forget all these great

1257
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: defenses and how to how to scheme up a game

1258
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: plan with defense? I don't think so Well only has

1259
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: a depth of knowledge and experience that you know, a

1260
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 1: lot of teams had a lot of guys just don't have.

1261
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing I noticed when I used

1262
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: to hang around coaches and we had a couple of

1263
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 1: older coaches on the staff there guys, well, Marv was

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Speaker 1: an older guy when he got the job. I mean

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Speaker 1: he was fifty eight, I believe fifty nine, and and

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Speaker 1: Teddy marcher Brod was part of that crew. We got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of guys, as we know, had some success.

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Speaker 1: Guys hung around that staff. So the one thing about

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Speaker 1: those old coaches, there's nothing new under the sun. When

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Speaker 1: a team tries an innovation, it's not the first time

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Speaker 1: those guys have seen it, and they got an answer

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Speaker 1: for it. Because as soon as you come up with

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Speaker 1: a with a new thing, there's always somebody smart on

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Speaker 1: the other side of the ball that comes up with

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Speaker 1: a counter measure. And those guys just it's like flipping

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Speaker 1: a switch. If they do that, well, we can do

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Speaker 1: this and make them pay for it. That's the one

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Speaker 1: thing that really was amazing to me. When you get

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Speaker 1: around these old coach and they have those conversations and

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01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:05,479
Speaker 1: they started throwing out xs and oh's, and every time

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01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 1: you throw out and out an oh, they throw out

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Speaker 1: an X. That's just as good, and uh, it's fun

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01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: to be around him. So that's why coaches that get

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01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: along in the tooth like Wade Phillips have, that's why

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Speaker 1: they're so valuable to these organizations. They've got an answer

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01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 1: right away. You don't have to sit in on a

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Speaker 1: Tuesday trying to game plan and say, Wow, what are

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01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 1: we gonna do about this this new thing. They always

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Speaker 1: have an answer, and it's always fun to hang around

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Speaker 1: him for that reason, if nothing else. Oh, he's got

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Speaker 1: a kick out of Wade. Love hearing his voice. I

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01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 1: just like tore him talk. He can he can recite

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Speaker 1: the menu at a barbecue restaurant and I'd just be transfixed. Yeah,

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01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 1: well they got some they got pulled pork at real

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Speaker 1: Little Skirt steak Ker Murphy anything, all right, we're taking

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Speaker 1: a breaking we're coming back. It is John Murphy at homes,

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Speaker 1: Team Tasker at home. Our producer Jay Harris is home.

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Speaker 1: We're not in Seneca Studio anymore. We're still One D's

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Speaker 1: Life presented by Kalia Health, and this is Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio fulcome back. It's one of those Live John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Cansker. We're at home bringing in the show today.

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Speaker 1: Happy to do it. We got Mark Scofield from USA

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Speaker 1: today coming up at two o'clock. Good to hear from Wade.

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01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 1: Wade kind of warmed up after a while too, Steve

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01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: didn't he Wade Phillips. I took him a while to

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Speaker 1: get his engine running, but it was good. It's always

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01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 1: good to hear from him. He's such an He's one

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01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 1: of the all time fun guys to be around, great

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01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: guy to have on the coaching staff. I remember we

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Speaker 1: got him. I think it wasn't ninety five, right, and

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Speaker 1: under his yeah, under his direction, I member Bryce Pop

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Speaker 1: got Defensive Player of the Year for the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Then opposite Bruce Smith over there. It was a great

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Speaker 1: year as a great team. A lot of fun to

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Speaker 1: have him on board. Hey, the Bills added some help

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Speaker 1: defensively last week. Which Bills free agent signing will play

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Speaker 1: the biggest role in twenty twenty. That's our Twitter poll today.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call three five fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty phone lines

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Speaker 1: open right now, Radio covered Jo only today. You can

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Speaker 1: vote on the Twitter. But we got eight hundred seventy

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Speaker 1: five votes and so far, fifty eight percent of you

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Speaker 1: say it is defensive end Mario Addison will have the

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Speaker 1: biggest role to play. You might be right. Seventeen percent

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Speaker 1: say it is cornerback Josh Norman. We'll have the biggest

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Speaker 1: role to play thirteen percent say linebacker A. J. Klein.

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Speaker 1: Twelve percent have somebody else in mind? Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight oh three oh five fifty and toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. The

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Speaker 1: phone lines wide open. Right now, let's do some tweets.

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Speaker 1: When I do that, Steve from the tweet sheet, Sure,

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Speaker 1: find it here. Let me get to it. Here the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: official movers of the Buffalo Bills. Where is it here?

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Speaker 1: The tweet sheet. I've lost mine. Yeah, I've got one.

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Speaker 1: I've got one, but we've got he said. This is

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Speaker 1: from Bill's Mess fans. I don't think you've read this one.

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01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: I liked what I heard last week from Panthers play

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01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 1: by play guy Jim Zoki. Remember we had him on

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Speaker 1: last week and he said Mario Addison was looking forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing him play on this squad. Yeah, and Jim

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Speaker 1: Zoki was very, really complimentary about Mario Addison. And most

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Speaker 1: of our respondence must have been listening to that last

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Speaker 1: week because they're voting for him, thinking he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the big difference maker. Also, we've got this one from

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Speaker 1: Tiffany going the other direction. She thinks Josh Norman was

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01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: a stud cornerback not too long ago, flourishing under coach McDermott,

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Speaker 1: and I have a feeling he's gonna have a career

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Speaker 1: revival playing alongside Tredavious. Our secondary has the potential to

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01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: be an elite group loaded with top end talent. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you think Josh Norman's got that left in the tank,

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Speaker 1: I think she's right because I think these guys are

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01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 1: gonna play their best for Buffalo. Yeah, I'm maybe I

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01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: could be wrong, and I guess I hope I am.

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Speaker 1: I'm not relying a whole lot on Josh Norman just

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Speaker 1: because he's thirty two years old and coming off a

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Speaker 1: rough year and maybe a rough couple of years with Watchington.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not counting on him very much. What do

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Speaker 1: you think? I agree with you, But you know this

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Speaker 1: is the defense. You're not counting on him to be

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Speaker 1: the number one guy. You know you're not counting on

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Speaker 1: him to carry the secondary on his own. Yeah, Micah Hide,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer and Tradavious White. All we need him to

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Speaker 1: do is be above average and that that defense of

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Speaker 1: backfield is gonna be exponentially better. A guy who is

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Speaker 1: there and can and knows the defense and has a

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Speaker 1: lot of savvy and a lot of understanding about what's

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Speaker 1: going on, he'll be able to And I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't want to go too far down this rabbit hole.

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Speaker 1: But a guy who's thirty two, who's played in a

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Speaker 1: defensive scheme of this type for a while, for four

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Speaker 1: years while he was in Carolina, when he comes back

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Speaker 1: into it and kind of gets up to speed again,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna start to remember things he could do that

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Speaker 1: were short cuts, things to do that were m You

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Speaker 1: know that we're that you're under You're having innate understanding

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Speaker 1: of how to make it easy on yourself, where your

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Speaker 1: helps coming from, what you can take away. He won't

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Speaker 1: be asked to do things that are outside of his

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01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: skill set, which I do think he was asked to

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01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:09,759
Speaker 1: do in Washington. I think he could. He could really

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01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 1: have an uptick in his play now. Of course, there

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01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: are a lot of people out there, his critics will say, murph,

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01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: of course he needs to uptake his play. If if

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Speaker 1: he takes a down ticket, he plays out of the league.

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01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 1: But that's the thing too. The Bills have risked really

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01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:25,680
Speaker 1: not very much by signing him. If he does not

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01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: have a good training camp, they can wash their hands

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Speaker 1: of him, not be out any money. And I just

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01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:35,400
Speaker 1: think it's a great signing for them to get him

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01:10:35,439 --> 01:10:37,720
Speaker 1: in and because if he does, if he is that

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Speaker 1: guy that he was, if there is some of that

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01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:42,559
Speaker 1: guy left that was there twenty or four years ago

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01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:45,360
Speaker 1: or three years ago, man, he's going to be a

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01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: real help to this defense. I don't know if every

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Speaker 1: Bill fan caught this. I caught it up, caught up

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Speaker 1: over the weekend, But the Cleveland Browns have signed former

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Speaker 1: Bills corner Kevin Johnson a one year, three and a

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01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:58,760
Speaker 1: half another contract in sentims could make it as high

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Speaker 1: as six million dollars, they say, former first round pick,

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01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:04,680
Speaker 1: the twenty seven years old, he's still you know, he

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01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: still can play, I think, and the Brown's talking about

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01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: use him as a nickelback. The Bills used him a

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01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 1: little bit there, but a lot outside as well. I

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Speaker 1: think Kevin Johnson did a good job for the Bills.

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01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 1: They just you know, they have Josh Norman instead now,

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Speaker 1: is there right now? Anyway? Their primary backup at corner

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Speaker 1: Steve Yeah. The fact that Kevin Johnson isn't here. Simply

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01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,360
Speaker 1: says that his contract ran out with the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: and the Bills found a guy they I think they

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Speaker 1: might like better. Maybe the skill set that Josh Norman

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Speaker 1: has is still a better fit, even though he's probably

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Speaker 1: not as great an athlete as Kevin Johnson is. Given

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Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson being a first round pick, Kevin Johnson's skill

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Speaker 1: sets probably not perfect for the defense, although he played

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Speaker 1: well for the team last year and got on it

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01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: was in and out of the lineup, and was I

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Speaker 1: think a pretty good signing, obviously on a playoff team

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Speaker 1: on one of the best defenses in the league last year.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson no reason to think he can't play. It's

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Speaker 1: just the Bills are moving in a different direction with

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Speaker 1: Josh Normans and probably some other signings that they're making. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson can play, and he may be a better

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Speaker 1: player in Cleveland's defensive scheme than he was in Buffalo's

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Speaker 1: last year. Take a phone call here from Ken Canvas

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Speaker 1: on the line, Hi, can you're on the air? Hey,

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Speaker 1: how's it going? Guys? Love the showy gas? Hey? My

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Speaker 1: question is man, I absolutely love Kareem Hunt. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know what our what our draft take situation? All right, now,

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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts to the Bills going after jam Hunt?

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Speaker 1: I'll go first. I may ask you a question, Ken,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about Devin Singletary? I think that is, uh,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty good. I like them. I think it's also

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01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: am holding orange when you have someone to have. Um,

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01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: you know, he's been reported to be available by a

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Speaker 1: trade in Cleveland. I shudder to think what the Bills

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Speaker 1: would have to give up. They've already given up their

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Speaker 1: first round pick this year. Um No, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: interested in him. I think they're there. They need a

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01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: complimentary running back to them and Singletary period. They don't

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Speaker 1: need a number one Steve, your thoughts, yeah, I mean

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01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 1: here's the thing, Kareem hunts a good running back, no question.

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01:13:18,479 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what it would take to get him.

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01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,040
Speaker 1: That's the whole point. And if and if the Bills

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01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: think he's a good option for them, they'll probably pursue

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01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: him and kick the tires. But if the if the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns come back and say, hey, listen, we want

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01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,360
Speaker 1: your second round draft pick this year for him, you

1449
01:13:31,439 --> 01:13:34,680
Speaker 1: know that's too steep for the Bills, particularly in a

1450
01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 1: draft where you could probably pick up a guy and

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01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,080
Speaker 1: I think most running backs. It's not just Kareem Hunt.

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Speaker 1: Can I'm the caller. I'm It's not just about Kareem Hunt.

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01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: It's about the position more so than the talents out there. Murphy,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you agree with that. It's more

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01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 1: about the position and how many guys are available at

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01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 1: that position, and how good those available guys are, and

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01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:58,640
Speaker 1: how good they have to be and what you have

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01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 1: to pay them. It's more about those guys then having

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01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: one specific guy you think is a is a really

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Speaker 1: good back and you'd like to get your hands on him.

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01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:10,640
Speaker 1: I follow what I mean, Murph. Yeah, I think the

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01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 1: position has been devalued. Thurman would like to hear this,

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01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,879
Speaker 1: but a team's you know, look, the Bills had Shady

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01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, had him at his peak,

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01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,679
Speaker 1: one would argue, and even in the first year under

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01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:26,480
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. You know, they use him as a primary,

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Speaker 1: elite level running back and that gets old. After all.

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Speaker 1: I don't think a team like the Bills or anybody

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01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: really needs It's nice to have them, but you don't

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Speaker 1: need to be in pursuit of an elite level running back,

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Speaker 1: and if I were the Bills, I would not I've

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Speaker 1: said a couple of times in this draft. Now, with

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Speaker 1: the limited picks they have, running back is not on

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Speaker 1: my to do list. You can make that up in

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Speaker 1: free agent market. I think, yeah, I think you need

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Speaker 1: to find an elite running back and where nobody was

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Speaker 1: looking for one, you know you're not going to find

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Speaker 1: him where one is a guy has already emerged, like

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Speaker 1: a like a Levy on Bell or or a Todd

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Speaker 1: Gurley or a Melvin Gordon. I think you're looking for

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Speaker 1: an elite running back the way that New Orleans Saints

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Speaker 1: found Alvin Kamara in the fifth round of the draft.

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Speaker 1: You know, you find them where the Bills found Devin Singletary.

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Speaker 1: You find them in a place where nobody was looking

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Speaker 1: for him. Those guys that are proven they can really

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01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 1: play are are just it's hard to get those guys

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Speaker 1: on your team, first of all, because they become too

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01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: expensive and it's hard to get the same production out

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Speaker 1: out of them when they switch teams. A lot of

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Speaker 1: not a lot, but once in a while, these running

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Speaker 1: backs are effective because they have the right quarterback the

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Speaker 1: right offensive coordinator, the right offensive line at the right

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Speaker 1: time in their career. And that's a lot of things

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Speaker 1: to get right. Whether than just finding a guy you

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01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: know on another team who played pretty well and get

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01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:57,880
Speaker 1: put them onto your team and expecting the exact same

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Speaker 1: thing from him. You're probably not gonna get it as

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Speaker 1: just the way that position works. It might be probably

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Speaker 1: a good time to remind ourselves of one of the

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Speaker 1: great things I think Brendan Bean said about a year ago.

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Speaker 1: He said, Look, we're not about collecting talent, We're about

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01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:14,320
Speaker 1: building a team, right. Yeah, Kareem Hunt is a talented

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01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:16,600
Speaker 1: running back. He'd helped whatever team he was on. The

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01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: Bills are not about collecting talent. They're trying to put

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01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 1: together a winning team here. I think we need to

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01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:23,639
Speaker 1: remind ourselves that once in a while. Yeah, it's true,

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01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 1: and we've seen it that, I mean two years and

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01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:30,599
Speaker 1: it was it's illustrated two years ago when the team

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01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs with and we've said this is

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Speaker 1: a ton two. There were reports, actual real articles written

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Speaker 1: and guys on the air like us in other cities

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01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: and nationally who when the Bills traded away what who

1513
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 1: wasn't Sammy Watkins. When they traded away the cornerback to Philadelphia,

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01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:57,120
Speaker 1: they were accused of tanking. But when they got the

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Speaker 1: guys in the building that they really wanted and the

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01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 1: type guy, and they the guys they wanted and had

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01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: the vibe going that they wanted, that's a team that,

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01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: instead of being a tank team went to the playoffs

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01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:12,880
Speaker 1: with Tyrod Taylor as their quarterback. So I think when

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01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: you're talking about getting these good players off the street

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01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 1: and all of the things that we're talking about, yeah,

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01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:18,760
Speaker 1: this is this is the place that gets the most

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01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 1: out of the guys they have in the in the

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01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 1: building and they know what they're looking for. And if

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01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: they don't sign a guy like Kareem Hunt, or a

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01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:28,719
Speaker 1: guy like Todd Gurley or a guy like Melvin Gordon,

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01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:33,920
Speaker 1: either the price was too high or it's not the

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01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: guy they're looking for to fit the right piece of

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01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 1: the puzzle that they're trying to find. So I think

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01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: that says as much about any of it as it

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01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:43,519
Speaker 1: does as as the talent, the sheer talent or worth

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Speaker 1: what position the guy plays. Our critter pole today, which

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01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 1: Bill's newly signed free agent, will play the biggest role

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Give us a call eight three fifty

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Speaker 1: toll free eight five fifty two five fifty. By the way,

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Speaker 1: if you miss any of our segments today, you can

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01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: catch up. You can always listen live on the Bills app.

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Speaker 1: Got podcasted shows available on bills dot com, the Buffalo

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01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: Bills App, iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and video portions of

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01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: the show, including interviews at Buffalo bills dot com and

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01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 1: on YouTube. We'll take a break, gonna talk a little

1542
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:15,439
Speaker 1: bit about the Patriots where they're at, especially at quarterback.

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01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 1: When we return. One Bill's Live, John Murphy and Steave

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01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 1: Tasker Company from our Homes Today, presented by Collat of Health,

1545
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. It's a radio edition

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01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:32,280
Speaker 1: of One Does Live. There is no TV edition, not

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01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:35,599
Speaker 1: for a while anyway, But we're making do John Murphy

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Speaker 1: and Steam Tasker each in our homes. I'm in my kitchen.

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Speaker 1: See where are you in your den? I call it's

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Speaker 1: den or whatever. It's my office. I got a office.

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01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:46,680
Speaker 1: Jay Harris, our producer, is home. Looks like he's in

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Speaker 1: a what are you in? Jay? A family room? Kind

1553
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: of a you're on the floor. I'm on the floor.

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01:18:52,479 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: This is the this is our family room. Yeah yeah,

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01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:59,680
Speaker 1: so over here that right over there, which the listeners

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Speaker 1: can't see, but that is a and hopefully nobody knows

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01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:05,879
Speaker 1: where I live. That is a Muhammad Ali Mike Tyson

1558
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,639
Speaker 1: signed signed poster up there says Ali says I am

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01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 1: the greatest Muhammad Ali. And then to the right of it,

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01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: as Tyson, it says I am the Baddest Mike Tyson.

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01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 1: But Mike Tyson spelled baddest wrong, which is funny. Couple

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01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: couple too many d's in there. It's just funny. Did

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Speaker 1: you did you like, were you there when you got that?

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01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 1: Or did you buy an auction? Well, so I helped

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01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:32,879
Speaker 1: at an auction set up before the auction even started.

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01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:37,519
Speaker 1: That had to be the best item there. So I

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01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 1: put in the first bid, which was like five hundred dollars,

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Speaker 1: expecting there was thousands of people there, expecting more people

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Speaker 1: would bid on it. And at the end of the

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Speaker 1: night I got a text and I look over at

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Speaker 1: my wife and I'm like, I need your check book.

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Speaker 1: So that was Merry Christmas to me for the next

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01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: three Christmases. So there's my story about that. Yes, And

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Speaker 1: do you have a certificate of authenticity. Yeah, it's on

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01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 1: the bad nice awesome. Wow, that's great, Holmes. Until further notice,

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Speaker 1: take a call from Brent Ian Rochester. Hello, Brent, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air. Hi, this is Brent from Rochester. How

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01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:19,679
Speaker 1: are you guys? Good? We're good good. Um. I'm actually

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01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:23,200
Speaker 1: just calling to let Steve Tasker know that. Um. He

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01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: when he was playing in his career, my dad told

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01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: me to watch him after he got drafted by the

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01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo or after he landed on the Buffalo Bills that

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01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 1: he was the hardest working man on the football field.

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01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: And I watched him his whole career and that was true,

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01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,960
Speaker 1: and that led me to be a hard working man

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Speaker 1: as I am. And I just appreciate all he's done

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01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills organization. Um. And I loved watching

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01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:53,599
Speaker 1: him play football, and I love hear him on the radio. Now. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's nice. Thanks, I appreciate it. I'm I gotta tell you, though,

1590
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:01,080
Speaker 1: being on the radio with Murph m and with Jas

1591
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,719
Speaker 1: Hardy could be construed as breaking rocks with a hammer.

1592
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not like, I mean, it's not as

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01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,599
Speaker 1: hard as playing pro football, but it's but it's it's

1594
01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Anyway. But I appreciate that, Brett.

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01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:13,479
Speaker 1: That's nice. You have any football questions, you're still there.

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01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:17,800
Speaker 1: He's gone, Okay, what he called in to say that, Yep,

1597
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 1: we need e vent our calls better. Hey, I gotta

1598
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: run something by it. Patriots a quarterback? Are they for real?

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01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 1: Yesterday they agreed to a one year contract with Brian Horner,

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Speaker 1: So it looks like they're going to go with Brian

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01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: Hoyer along with Jared Stidham and five year veteran Cody

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01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 1: Kessley three quarterbacks on the roster. Could that really be it? Steve?

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01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Andy Dalton you would think is available, Jamis

1604
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 1: Winston could be available. Cam Newton certainly is available. Is

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01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:49,640
Speaker 1: Belichick planning on going with those three? Brian Hoyer and

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01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:53,040
Speaker 1: Cody Kessler and Jared Stidham. What do you think? I

1607
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, I mean, I guess. I know he's

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01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:58,760
Speaker 1: a good coach, but come on, yeah, and I think

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01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:04,799
Speaker 1: they're probably have had some meetings with Robert Kraft saying listen, Bob,

1610
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:08,640
Speaker 1: this is gonna take a little while to develop. The

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01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 1: Stidham guy. He's pretty good. We think he might have

1612
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 1: a top end that we can win with. But it's

1613
01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:15,920
Speaker 1: gonna take some time. You're gonna hang in there with us,

1614
01:22:15,920 --> 01:22:17,760
Speaker 1: And of course Robert Kraft saying, yeah, do what you

1615
01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 1: gotta do. I mean, we just lost Tom Brady. It's

1616
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 1: gonna be difficult to replace Brady in New England for

1617
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons, obviously the iconic nature of his being.

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01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:32,839
Speaker 1: But they're going to start somewhere, and we've heard reports

1619
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:34,760
Speaker 1: so they say, hey, they like Charon. But you know,

1620
01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:37,439
Speaker 1: you kind of hear that about everybody's saying that when

1621
01:22:37,439 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 1: they got a young quarterback, who's the last guy standing, right,

1622
01:22:40,240 --> 01:22:41,960
Speaker 1: we really liked the guy, you know. I mean the

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01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers are saying it about Tyrod Taylor, who

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01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 1: at this point is what a ten year veteran who's

1625
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: been the only place he started was here in Buffalo.

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01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: I think teams say that, but when you sign a guy, yeah,

1627
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 1: it does. They may be going in with Jared Stenham

1628
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 1: into the regular season, and I don't like I said,

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01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:06,720
Speaker 1: they may be willing to take a step back at

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01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 1: that position if it opens him up to take a

1631
01:23:09,320 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: step forward to every place else. But man, oh man,

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01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 1: that's that You talk about a paradigm shift in New England.

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01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:21,679
Speaker 1: That's it, from going from Tom Brady to whoever else

1634
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 1: they can find it line up there without going out

1635
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:25,720
Speaker 1: and trying to fix that position. Man, I don't know.

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01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: Ran Horrier, thirty four years old, started his career with

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01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Also, it was with the Cardinals, the Browns, Texans,

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01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:35,360
Speaker 1: Bears forty nine ers, went back to New England last year,

1639
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: appeared in four games, and then he went to the

1640
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 1: Colts and made one start when Jacoby Brissett suffered a

1641
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 1: knee injury. I don't know. I guess I can't believe.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm trying not to say that Belichick

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01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: is he's that vain that he thinks he can take

1644
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:56,760
Speaker 1: whoever and win games with them. But he might be

1645
01:23:56,960 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: he might be that self absorbed. Do you think that

1646
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: doesn't matter whose quarterback is? I don't know what the

1647
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: point I don't know. I think one thing is we

1648
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:07,479
Speaker 1: don't know really what Jared's did him is and what

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01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 1: he does. There's probably at this point and even at

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01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:14,560
Speaker 1: this point in his career, when Jared's did him physically

1651
01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 1: is better in a lot of ways than Tom Brady was. Right.

1652
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he can probably run faster and probably a

1653
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:24,320
Speaker 1: better athlete, but by the same token, you know you're

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01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:28,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've got I don't think. I

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01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 1: don't think Bill Belichick is the kind of guy that

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01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 1: would make that kind of mistake. He's too dispassionate looking

1657
01:24:37,479 --> 01:24:40,720
Speaker 1: at players. He said goodbye to too many really good

1658
01:24:40,760 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 1: players who have helped him win games. He has totally

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01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:46,559
Speaker 1: been devoid of that emotion in other parts of his

1660
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: head coaching life. I don't know that he'd have be

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01:24:52,080 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 1: able to be that dispassionate about himself in his quarterback room,

1662
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:57,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I mean, he'd got to

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01:24:57,840 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: see it for what exactly what it is, and if

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01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:03,639
Speaker 1: he sees enough there, I think you gotta think he does.

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01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:05,639
Speaker 1: I don't think he's trying to be vain or saying

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01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 1: I'm going to show them. I don't think he's that

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01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: kind of I don't think that's in his personality. We're

1668
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,479
Speaker 1: gonna find out. Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be interesting.

1669
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:16,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Jared's did him or Brian Porter's

1670
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:18,760
Speaker 1: gonna tear it up for those guys. But like I said,

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Speaker 1: I still think they're gonna be a really good football team.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We're coming back. We got

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Speaker 1: a good guest coming up next. Mark so Field, Scofield

1674
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 1: of USA. Today, we'll talk about the Bills moves. We'll

1675
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,599
Speaker 1: talk about the rest of the AFC East, what's going

1676
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:33,479
Speaker 1: on around the NFL. Mark Schofield of USA Today. When

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Speaker 1: we return John Murphy's Team Tasker, it's One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: out of Health and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. The

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Speaker 1: update on One Bills Live. The NFL Draft one month

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Speaker 1: from today, Round one, and the NFL has to make

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Speaker 1: a decision whether to go on with it. So far,

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Speaker 1: they have canceled the annual meeting in Florida at the

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Speaker 1: end of this month. They have prevented free agent and

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Speaker 1: draft prospect visits. The draft is scheduled to be held

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Speaker 1: April twenty third to the twenty fifth in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: but that city has shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic,

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Speaker 1: and the NFL canceled public fan against but not the

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Speaker 1: draft itself. It may just take place inside a television

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Speaker 1: studio of some kind, with cutaways to each team's draft

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Speaker 1: headquarters as the process rolls along. New England Patriots had

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Speaker 1: put together their quarterback room. They've agreed to terms on

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Speaker 1: a one year contract with veteran quarterback Brian Hoyer. Lawyer's

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Speaker 1: contract is for one point zero five million dollars is

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Speaker 1: making two million from the Indianapolis Colts, who released him

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. It's his third stint with the Patriots. He

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Speaker 1: joins last year's fourth round draft pickchare At Stidham and

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Speaker 1: five year veteran Cody Kessler as the three quarterbacks on

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots roster. Panthers now have another quarterback

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Speaker 1: on their depth chart, the Panthers signing quarterback PJ. Walker.

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Speaker 1: He was the top quarterback in the XFL. Spent time

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Speaker 1: with the Colts in the past, but his time at

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Speaker 1: Temple is where he was united with Matt Rule, now

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Speaker 1: the new head coach of the Carolina As. The Bearers

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Speaker 1: have agreed to terms with the free agent linebacker Barcabous

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Speaker 1: Mingo one year deal, according to Multi World reports. The

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Speaker 1: deal first reported by NFL Network worth one point two

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Speaker 1: million dollars and Mingo acquired by the Houston Texans and

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Speaker 1: the Jadavian Clowney trade and Cowboys defensiman Andy Gregory suspended

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Speaker 1: indefinitely in February of last year, has officially filed for

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Speaker 1: reinstatement to the NFL. Canada will not send athletes to

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Speaker 1: the Olympics in Tokyo unless the games are postponed by

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Speaker 1: one year. That's what Canada's Olympic Committee announced last night

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Speaker 1: of the concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. And that is

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Speaker 1: the update from one Bill's line. John Murphy, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: on the line. I hope we have our guest on

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Speaker 1: the line, he joined us. No, he's not on the

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Speaker 1: line with us. We're gonna try to get to him

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Speaker 1: in a moment. He is a writer for UM. In fact,

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Speaker 1: i'd lost all audio. Steve, are you there? Yeah, I'm here,

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Speaker 1: Mark Field, Yeah, Marco Field Field, writer for USA the

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Speaker 1: Touchdown Wire. Yeah. The meantime, let's take a phone call

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Speaker 1: here Tony and Buffalo. I Tony around the air with U. Hey,

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Speaker 1: how are you guys doing okay? Great good? I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to ask John a question. I heard you say

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Speaker 1: something earlier on somebody's take about the running back situation,

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Speaker 1: and I was just curious to why we're so stuck

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Speaker 1: on not getting somebody better than UM Motor now. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. I go ahead. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you my initial because if other needs bigger needs than

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Speaker 1: somebody better than Devin Singletary, I think we're go ahead

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Speaker 1: get more. Yeah. No, I was just gonna say, if

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Speaker 1: if you know, it just so happens that we bring

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Speaker 1: somebody in that does one possibly have a chance of

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Speaker 1: taking you know, some reps from him, or maybe he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he pushes Motor, you know, to to continually even

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Speaker 1: get better. But in the end, um, if so, I

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Speaker 1: just feel like, whether he is or isn't, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be, you know, still a help for us. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pay you know, how to Wadu

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Speaker 1: or whatever however you want to say it for a

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Speaker 1: guy that you know, we don't necessarily need to pay

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Speaker 1: a lot for. But if indeed we do get a

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Speaker 1: good price, I feel like it may you know, be

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Speaker 1: more beneficial for our team in the end, whether it's

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Speaker 1: Motor or somebody else who carries the load. Well, I

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Speaker 1: guess I agree with that. I mean, as I said

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Speaker 1: to Steve earlier, I look, I'm not walking around with

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Speaker 1: a football card of Devon Singletary in my wallet, but

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pay a lot to get another

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Speaker 1: running back. I don't think that is in the top

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Speaker 1: five of needs for this team. They need a complimentary

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Speaker 1: back for Singletary, but they don't need an elite level

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Speaker 1: running back. Then it's going to cost them a lot

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Speaker 1: of draft picks or a veteran on the team, and

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Speaker 1: they don't want to pay a lot of money for one.

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Speaker 1: I don't think is that? Okay? Yeah, what do you

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Speaker 1: think if it's not in the top five? What are

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Speaker 1: the top five needs? Offensive line, defensive line, even signings?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, rusher, big receivers, three, offensive line

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Speaker 1: again its four, and probably a cornerback to get a

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Speaker 1: little bit younger, a quarterback. Look, they don't have any

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Speaker 1: premium draft picks left. Their first one is fifty four,

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Speaker 1: So you're rolling the dice on any of these picks.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah and so yeah, okay, So what I

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Speaker 1: think when when I think about this stuff and how

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Speaker 1: they fill these boys, I always think, what happens if

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Speaker 1: the season started today, and if the season started today,

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Speaker 1: You've got guys like Josh Gordon. You've got Levi Wallace

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Speaker 1: at the other corner aside from Todavious White. You've got

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, plus maybe some depth coming into this

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Speaker 1: season that the exact same stuff that you had last

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Speaker 1: year when you went to the playoffs. Your defensive line,

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Speaker 1: you've got three guys who have had some production and

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Speaker 1: veteran you know, be it all limited, but you've you've

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Speaker 1: almost statistically replaced the defensive lineman you lost from a

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Speaker 1: year ago with the guys you've brought in. You've gotten

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Speaker 1: the number one wide receiver from Minnesota. Albeit he's not

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Speaker 1: sixty four, he's six foot one ninety, but he's considered

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Speaker 1: as a as a great player. And I so I

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Speaker 1: think the real thing the only thing they haven't addressed

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Speaker 1: is the running back. So for me, I think for me,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's just because it's maybe because of the lack

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Speaker 1: of attention or lack of stuff to talk about. I

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Speaker 1: think the running back thing may be the first thing

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Speaker 1: on the list that they look at. Next O. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't think. So, Hey, we got our guests on

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Speaker 1: the line. He's an NFL writer for a USA Today's

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Speaker 1: Touchdown Wire. He's a former attorney turned sports writer. Mark

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Speaker 1: Showfield on the Line with This Smart Or Schofields on

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Speaker 1: the Lane with Hello, Mark, John Murphy and his team

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you. How you doing today, Thanks coming on,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me guys. Great to be on with you.

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Speaker 1: Great to talk a little bit about the Bills and

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Speaker 1: from NFL free agency. Excited to do it. I'm curious

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Speaker 1: about your bio. It says you were a reformed lawyer.

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Speaker 1: Does that mean you were you were not following the

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Speaker 1: straight and narrow as an attorney? What does it mean?

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Speaker 1: What show? But I wasn't following on the straight and narrow.

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Speaker 1: It's just that I found as a lawyer after practice

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Speaker 1: it for about ten years, I was much better talking

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Speaker 1: about ball than I was talking about laws and things

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Speaker 1: like that. I was a great talker about football, not

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Speaker 1: a great talker about the law. Okay, I get that.

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Speaker 1: So you've taken note of what the Bills did in

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Speaker 1: free agency. You thought they did pretty well. What are

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Speaker 1: your thoughts overall and why do you think the Bills

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Speaker 1: did so well compared to maybe other teams who didn't well.

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Speaker 1: I think the main thing that you're looking at when

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Speaker 1: you have a team like the Buffalo Bills where they

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Speaker 1: are right now as a franchise, when you have that

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback on his rookie deal, it's that window to

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Speaker 1: sort of maximize the level of talent around that quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and you want to do everything you can to help

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Speaker 1: that quarterback excel so you can really sort of hit

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Speaker 1: it big during that rookie contract window and studying. You

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Speaker 1: know Josh Allen back in his days at the University

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Speaker 1: at Wyom and you know now through where he is

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League sort I think everybody really

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Speaker 1: expected him to be a great downfield, vertical based passing quarterback,

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Speaker 1: but that was one part of his game that was

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Speaker 1: missing last year. You know, I was very impressed with

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Speaker 1: that Brian Dabble did with him almost turning them into

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Speaker 1: a a timing in rhythm based passer, but he struggled

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Speaker 1: in the downfield part of the game. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's why the Stefon Diggs acquisition is so huge for them,

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Speaker 1: because he is that sort of vertical downfield threat. He's

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Speaker 1: not your traditional X type guy that's gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: that six four type guy on the boundary, But when

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Speaker 1: you watch him on film, you see the route running,

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Speaker 1: you see the way the Vikings used him twenty nine

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Speaker 1: targets of twenty yards or more downfield last year. That

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Speaker 1: was third most among wide receivers. In the league. And

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Speaker 1: I'm and on those twenty nine targets, six of those

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Speaker 1: one for touchdowns, which he's the most out of any

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Speaker 1: wide receiver in the league. He gives them that downfield

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Speaker 1: presence and you know the trickle down effect that a

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Speaker 1: receiver like that has on everything you do offensively. As

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Speaker 1: a result, the Bill is going to see more too

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Speaker 1: high coverage, more too safety, you know, deep protect me

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Speaker 1: eats out of the field that lightens up the box

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Speaker 1: and to whoever it is, whether it's Signletary or another acquisition,

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Speaker 1: is going to be running against the lighter boxes. Diggs

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Speaker 1: is going to create space for the guys underneath, like

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Speaker 1: Beasy to like Brown, and he's gonna give Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: that target he can find in the downfield passing game,

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Speaker 1: where if Josh hitting on some of those, that really

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Speaker 1: softens up the defense. And so I think both what

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Speaker 1: Diggs will do for Alan as well as the trickle

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Speaker 1: down effects he's going to have on that offense. It's

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Speaker 1: such a huge acquisition from them, and then you look

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Speaker 1: at something that's a big if Mark. I mean, that

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Speaker 1: was a big problem for Josh Hadden last year. And look,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I both think he's working on it and

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Speaker 1: it will get better. But he's got to be better

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Speaker 1: on the deep passing game. Yeah he does. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think if you look at you know, various statistics

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Speaker 1: like for example, Pro Football Focus there at justice twenty

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Speaker 1: percentage on downfield throws. He was twenty third out of

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Speaker 1: twenty four qualified passers in that statistic last year. It

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Speaker 1: was one of his strength coming out of Yomen was

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Speaker 1: the downfield vertical passing game, and so to see him

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Speaker 1: struggle with a last year, it's a bit of a surprise,

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Speaker 1: but you know it's certainly something that he's working on,

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Speaker 1: and since it was a strength of is coming out,

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Speaker 1: you expect that he can't get better there and get

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Speaker 1: better quickly and Diggs will certainly help. And if you

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Speaker 1: start hitting those throws downfield, man, you can really do

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Speaker 1: so many things against the defense. With the stuff they

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Speaker 1: can do in the ground game, the space is going

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Speaker 1: to create upfront and create the space underneath for guys

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Speaker 1: like Beasley and Brown. It's such a big deal if

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Speaker 1: they can start hinting on those with the other strides

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen is made as a passer, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: huge for his development. What he can do next year.

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Speaker 1: Now on the line with Mark Goofield from USA Today,

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Speaker 1: NFL writer for USA Today's Touchdown Wire, he Mark Touchdown

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Speaker 1: Wire give us the Bills an A for their free

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Speaker 1: agent All digs, of course came into trade. What do

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Speaker 1: you like about the Bills seven free agents safe signed? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the bigs portion is a huge part of

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Speaker 1: that because you want to sort of, you know, help

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Speaker 1: what your young quarterback is doing. But I also think, look,

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Speaker 1: Bridig's about the site, Brinn and Butler, that's gonna give

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Speaker 1: you some help at front. And I also think they

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Speaker 1: deserve a lot of credit and offer a guy that

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01:35:41,040 --> 01:35:43,360
Speaker 1: they brought in, but the guy they catts and that's

1887
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:45,880
Speaker 1: your employer, the free safety. Because would you study this

1888
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 1: Bill's defense over the past couple of years, You see

1889
01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:51,600
Speaker 1: the way those safeties Ployer and Hide worked in tandem.

1890
01:35:51,800 --> 01:35:53,400
Speaker 1: You know, I come to this as sort of a

1891
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,200
Speaker 1: guy that covers the Patriots as well, and I see

1892
01:35:56,200 --> 01:35:59,280
Speaker 1: how those safety rotations confuse Tom Brady with the past

1893
01:35:59,320 --> 01:36:02,280
Speaker 1: couple of the season, and how Jordan Player and Micah

1894
01:36:02,320 --> 01:36:04,479
Speaker 1: Hide were able to confuse him at the snap at times,

1895
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:06,760
Speaker 1: which is something that's really hard to do. I mean,

1896
01:36:06,760 --> 01:36:09,120
Speaker 1: it's Tom Brady twenty years in the league, one of

1897
01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:12,000
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time, and when you can confuse him,

1898
01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:14,040
Speaker 1: you're going to have success confusing some of the other

1899
01:36:14,120 --> 01:36:16,880
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in this league, having success confusing some of the

1900
01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:19,599
Speaker 1: other receivers when they're trying to read those rotations as well.

1901
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:22,640
Speaker 1: And so I think keep Employer in house was a

1902
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:24,880
Speaker 1: massive good for this defense. Is going to really help

1903
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:29,360
Speaker 1: them confuse quarterbacks wide receivers next season. I know the

1904
01:36:29,400 --> 01:36:32,080
Speaker 1: Bills signed a bunch of defenders during the early part

1905
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:34,439
Speaker 1: of free agency or in the early tampering said they

1906
01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:36,680
Speaker 1: agreed to terms with these guys that any of them

1907
01:36:36,720 --> 01:36:38,920
Speaker 1: grab you or stand out to you as it maybe

1908
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:42,280
Speaker 1: being better than the rest, you know. I think the

1909
01:36:42,400 --> 01:36:45,840
Speaker 1: Vernon Butler acquisition is a big one upfront. I like

1910
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:47,760
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table. I think he's one

1911
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:49,800
Speaker 1: of those defensive tackles that you can use in a

1912
01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 1: variety of ways. When you can see him sort of

1913
01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:54,400
Speaker 1: into the run game, you can get some pressure or

1914
01:36:54,439 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 1: push the pocket a bit, you know, can give you

1915
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:58,639
Speaker 1: some of that as well as an interior press pass rusher.

1916
01:36:58,720 --> 01:37:01,600
Speaker 1: I think that's a nice act quisition. I think, you know,

1917
01:37:01,720 --> 01:37:04,400
Speaker 1: Jefferson and Addison, those are guys who would give you know,

1918
01:37:04,439 --> 01:37:06,719
Speaker 1: some ability off the edge to get after the quarterback

1919
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:09,160
Speaker 1: in a little bit. But I do like the Butler acquisition.

1920
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 1: I think that was a really nice piece with this defense.

1921
01:37:12,479 --> 01:37:14,479
Speaker 1: Well on the line with Mark Scofield, the NFL writer

1922
01:37:14,600 --> 01:37:18,679
Speaker 1: for USA Today's Touchdown Wire, he might mark around them

1923
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 1: around the AFC East. Look, the Dolphins have been busy,

1924
01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:23,519
Speaker 1: but they got a lot of ground to make up.

1925
01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:25,599
Speaker 1: Are are they ready to? Uh? I mean, how much

1926
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:27,559
Speaker 1: can they improve on a five win season last year?

1927
01:37:27,560 --> 01:37:30,080
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah? I do like some of

1928
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:32,599
Speaker 1: the moves that they've made. I mean, obviously Bryan Flordes

1929
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:34,320
Speaker 1: is trying to get some pieces in to run the

1930
01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:37,040
Speaker 1: defense that he wants to run. Your ad Byron Jones

1931
01:37:37,080 --> 01:37:39,519
Speaker 1: the corner that gives him a nice cornerback Tandon with

1932
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:42,719
Speaker 1: him and Xavien Howard, guys that they can run man coverage,

1933
01:37:42,920 --> 01:37:45,639
Speaker 1: man pressure schemes with. I think the Van Noy side

1934
01:37:45,680 --> 01:37:47,439
Speaker 1: of as a nice piece as well. That gives them

1935
01:37:47,479 --> 01:37:50,439
Speaker 1: that you know, outside linebacker that can rush the passers,

1936
01:37:50,479 --> 01:37:53,200
Speaker 1: that can drop into coverage and playing underneath zones. And

1937
01:37:53,240 --> 01:37:55,120
Speaker 1: he's going to use him much like Dan Noi was

1938
01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 1: used in New England when they really sort of tapped

1939
01:37:56,960 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: into what he can be as a linebacker until those

1940
01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:02,400
Speaker 1: acquisitions were nice. You know, Shack Lawson gives them some

1941
01:38:02,439 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 1: pressure off the edge. And of course, look they have

1942
01:38:05,040 --> 01:38:07,240
Speaker 1: the three first round draft picks and so they'll be

1943
01:38:07,320 --> 01:38:09,679
Speaker 1: able to address a lot of needs. But the big

1944
01:38:09,760 --> 01:38:12,320
Speaker 1: question facing them is obviously the quarterback position. You know,

1945
01:38:12,360 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo is and a nice position. They don't have to

1946
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:16,920
Speaker 1: figure that out. Miami still does. And what are they

1947
01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:19,160
Speaker 1: gonna do. Are they're gonna take somebody at five or

1948
01:38:19,160 --> 01:38:21,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to trade up to draft a two,

1949
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:23,120
Speaker 1: a Toungo by Lola who might not even be ready

1950
01:38:23,160 --> 01:38:26,040
Speaker 1: for next year. And so they've made some nice moves,

1951
01:38:26,360 --> 01:38:28,960
Speaker 1: you know, I think they've improved themselves here from you know,

1952
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:30,960
Speaker 1: the start of free agency, and they'll be able to

1953
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:33,200
Speaker 1: do more in the draft. But getting that quarterback is

1954
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:35,280
Speaker 1: a massive thing that they have to get done. And

1955
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:36,920
Speaker 1: until they do that, it's hard to say they're going

1956
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:39,960
Speaker 1: to be much improved from where they were last year. Well,

1957
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:42,280
Speaker 1: how do you think that the absence of Tom Brady

1958
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:44,160
Speaker 1: going him going to the Buccaneers how do you think

1959
01:38:44,200 --> 01:38:46,599
Speaker 1: that changes the landscape not only in the AFC East

1960
01:38:46,600 --> 01:38:49,720
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins, Bills and the Jets, but also the conference.

1961
01:38:50,640 --> 01:38:54,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a massive you know, the landscape

1962
01:38:54,240 --> 01:38:57,200
Speaker 1: has completely shifted overnight. And you know when you look

1963
01:38:57,240 --> 01:39:00,160
Speaker 1: at New Wing with obviously losing Tom Brady is a

1964
01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 1: drastic situation for them because now they have to figure

1965
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:05,000
Speaker 1: out the quarterback position for the first time in two decades.

1966
01:39:05,360 --> 01:39:07,519
Speaker 1: But they've lost a number of players. I mean, it's

1967
01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:10,080
Speaker 1: not just Brady, it's Van Noy, it's Jamie Collins, it's

1968
01:39:10,080 --> 01:39:12,479
Speaker 1: still run harm and it's even some depth guys like

1969
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:14,559
Speaker 1: the Ted Carriss where they lost to the Dolphins, or

1970
01:39:14,920 --> 01:39:17,160
Speaker 1: you know in Atlanta Roberts who they also lost to

1971
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:20,240
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. And so they're in a really tough situation

1972
01:39:20,400 --> 01:39:21,760
Speaker 1: right now, and they don't have a ton of money

1973
01:39:21,760 --> 01:39:23,720
Speaker 1: against the camp, but they can really go up there

1974
01:39:23,720 --> 01:39:26,360
Speaker 1: and make acquisitions with it does seem like by Burdid

1975
01:39:26,439 --> 01:39:28,760
Speaker 1: and Brian Hoyer they're gonna roll with Jared's did it

1976
01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:30,600
Speaker 1: when they drafted in the fourth round last year and

1977
01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:33,280
Speaker 1: see where they have a quarterback. But that really sort

1978
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:35,120
Speaker 1: of puts them behind the eight ball, and yes they

1979
01:39:35,120 --> 01:39:37,000
Speaker 1: have Bill Belichick and the defense will be good, but

1980
01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:39,479
Speaker 1: you sort of struggle to see how they're going to

1981
01:39:39,520 --> 01:39:42,439
Speaker 1: score points. I think, look, if you're the Bills, you've

1982
01:39:42,439 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: improved yourself. You have to feel really good about while

1983
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:47,360
Speaker 1: you're on the AFC East. If you look around the conference, yeah,

1984
01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:49,879
Speaker 1: there are teams like Baltimore and Kansas City that will

1985
01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:51,840
Speaker 1: probably be still in the mix. We know what they have,

1986
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:54,200
Speaker 1: what they can do in Tennessee as well. You know

1987
01:39:54,320 --> 01:39:56,599
Speaker 1: the run they made last year. But if you're the Bills,

1988
01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:58,840
Speaker 1: you have to feel pretty good about where things stand

1989
01:39:58,920 --> 01:40:01,400
Speaker 1: right now. With Brady Leave in town, you might feel

1990
01:40:01,400 --> 01:40:03,280
Speaker 1: like you've got a real solid shot here to win

1991
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:07,320
Speaker 1: that AFC East Mark. We haven't talked much about the Jets.

1992
01:40:07,360 --> 01:40:11,000
Speaker 1: They have improved their offensive line. Could the Jets be

1993
01:40:11,120 --> 01:40:13,439
Speaker 1: ready to contend in some way in the AFC East?

1994
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:17,760
Speaker 1: Do you think? I mean, it's possible, but I know, look,

1995
01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: they've made some acquisitions on the offensive line that I

1996
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:22,720
Speaker 1: think will help them. They needed to address that, you know,

1997
01:40:22,920 --> 01:40:25,280
Speaker 1: part of their offense, and you know Britton and a

1998
01:40:25,360 --> 01:40:28,280
Speaker 1: guy like you know, Greg van Route and the guards

1999
01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:31,640
Speaker 1: from the Caromna. A penis a thousands acquisition. You know,

2000
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:34,599
Speaker 1: they go out and they get another tackle, George Fan

2001
01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:36,960
Speaker 1: who you know, show flashes of times at what he

2002
01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:39,080
Speaker 1: can do. So that kind of gives them a little

2003
01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:41,040
Speaker 1: bit of a wiggle room at eleven. With that eleventh

2004
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:43,680
Speaker 1: pick overall, you know, you've sort of a penciled in

2005
01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:45,640
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle there. Maybe they don't have to do that,

2006
01:40:45,720 --> 01:40:48,120
Speaker 1: maybe that you get a wide receiver. But I don't

2007
01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:51,800
Speaker 1: think they've done enough to really help Sam Donald. They've

2008
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:54,760
Speaker 1: gotten them some guys up front Connor mcgovernment center as well,

2009
01:40:55,360 --> 01:40:58,240
Speaker 1: but I still I'm not set on their offensive line,

2010
01:40:58,280 --> 01:41:00,479
Speaker 1: just debt and so they might still have to draft

2011
01:41:00,520 --> 01:41:02,599
Speaker 1: a tackle at eleven, and then that if they lose

2012
01:41:02,720 --> 01:41:05,040
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, they lose that vertical thread in their offense.

2013
01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:07,639
Speaker 1: And Anderson was a very nice receiver for them. It's

2014
01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:09,800
Speaker 1: a while. I think they've taken some steps. I'm much

2015
01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:11,600
Speaker 1: more excited if I'm a Bills fan than I'm a

2016
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:15,680
Speaker 1: Jets fan right now. I gotta ask you too, what

2017
01:41:15,720 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 1: we're talking to Mark Scofield of USA today a touchdown wire. Mark,

2018
01:41:19,120 --> 01:41:20,840
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you about some other teams around the

2019
01:41:20,920 --> 01:41:23,760
Speaker 1: league that seemed like maybe they got a missing piece,

2020
01:41:23,920 --> 01:41:27,679
Speaker 1: most likely the Indianapolis Colts. They got Philip Rivers Frank Reich,

2021
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:30,960
Speaker 1: they reunite after their time when frank Reich was the

2022
01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:35,120
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator or quarterbacks coach in San Diego or in LA.

2023
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 1: What do you think about the Colts and their ability

2024
01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:41,439
Speaker 1: to get into that conversation? You mentioned Baltimore, Kansas City, Tennessee,

2025
01:41:41,800 --> 01:41:44,280
Speaker 1: and of course Buffalo liking their chances now in the East.

2026
01:41:44,520 --> 01:41:48,400
Speaker 1: What about Indianapolis and their chances in the South. You know,

2027
01:41:48,479 --> 01:41:51,200
Speaker 1: I think that's a fantastic acquisition for them because you know,

2028
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:53,240
Speaker 1: when you get Philip Rivers, you're going to get, you know,

2029
01:41:53,280 --> 01:41:56,240
Speaker 1: a consistent level of quarterback player that's been missing basically

2030
01:41:56,680 --> 01:42:00,560
Speaker 1: since Andrew Luck retired. And you know, Recept did some

2031
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:02,160
Speaker 1: nice things for them, he was a leader in that

2032
01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:05,040
Speaker 1: locker room. But I think Rivers gives them some stability

2033
01:42:05,080 --> 01:42:08,320
Speaker 1: at that position and obviously booked. You know, the familiarity

2034
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:10,439
Speaker 1: between Frank Reich and Philip Rivers is going to be

2035
01:42:10,560 --> 01:42:12,800
Speaker 1: huge for that offense because they know each other, like

2036
01:42:12,880 --> 01:42:14,839
Speaker 1: you said, dating back to their days with the Chargers.

2037
01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:16,519
Speaker 1: I think Rivers is going to be able to come

2038
01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:18,840
Speaker 1: in and at this point in his career, that sort

2039
01:42:18,840 --> 01:42:22,280
Speaker 1: of West Coast offense that Frank Reich is installed in Indianapolis,

2040
01:42:22,560 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 1: a lot of quick reads, quick throws. I think that's

2041
01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:27,519
Speaker 1: going to bold wealth For where Rivers is in his career.

2042
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:29,680
Speaker 1: The one sort of question I have, and I think

2043
01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:31,439
Speaker 1: he'll be answered because of the guys he has up front,

2044
01:42:31,479 --> 01:42:33,479
Speaker 1: like Quinton Nelson, is are we going to see the

2045
01:42:33,520 --> 01:42:36,160
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers we saw in two and eighteen where he

2046
01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 1: was one of the top quarterbacks in the league against pressure,

2047
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:40,679
Speaker 1: or we're gonna see the guy last year that struggled

2048
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:42,439
Speaker 1: against pressure. But I think a lot of that was

2049
01:42:42,520 --> 01:42:44,479
Speaker 1: due to the offensive line. He'll have a better old

2050
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:46,479
Speaker 1: line in front of it with Nelson and getting Anthony

2051
01:42:46,560 --> 01:42:48,920
Speaker 1: Castanzo back at the left tackle spot. And so I

2052
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:52,479
Speaker 1: think this is a position where Indianapolis, certainly, and when

2053
01:42:52,560 --> 01:42:54,640
Speaker 1: you look around the AFC self, you know kind of

2054
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 1: see we expect to be there. Houston probably took a

2055
01:42:56,560 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 1: step back with that Hopkins trade. Indianapolis has to like

2056
01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:02,200
Speaker 1: their chances right now with Philip Rivers and under center

2057
01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:06,559
Speaker 1: for them. Marks Fields, NFL writer for USA Today Touchdown

2058
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:09,519
Speaker 1: Wire Mark NFC and in particular, let's start with Tom

2059
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:14,280
Speaker 1: Brady in Tampa Bay. Can he at forty two years old,

2060
01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:16,360
Speaker 1: can he bring them to playoff contention? Would you think?

2061
01:43:17,400 --> 01:43:20,640
Speaker 1: I think so? I think because when you look at

2062
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:23,000
Speaker 1: the weapons they're gonna have around him, you know, you

2063
01:43:23,080 --> 01:43:24,880
Speaker 1: look at having a guy like Mike Evans. You look

2064
01:43:24,880 --> 01:43:27,040
Speaker 1: at having a guy like Chris Godwin, who I think

2065
01:43:27,080 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 1: we expect to serve as that sort of slaw type

2066
01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:31,560
Speaker 1: guy that he had an Edelman and Welker while he

2067
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:33,280
Speaker 1: was in New England. You look at having a tight

2068
01:43:33,439 --> 01:43:36,400
Speaker 1: end actually tight end duo with Og Howard and Cameron Braid.

2069
01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:38,800
Speaker 1: I mean, the big thing that this does for the

2070
01:43:38,840 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers is that defense was coming on down

2071
01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:43,880
Speaker 1: the stretch last year. They were getting to be a

2072
01:43:43,960 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: much better yearned But when your quarterback is out there

2073
01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:49,840
Speaker 1: throwing thirty interceptions, you're constantly defendant short fields and you're

2074
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:52,719
Speaker 1: constantly getting back on the field after a quick turnover.

2075
01:43:53,280 --> 01:43:55,479
Speaker 1: That hurts your defense. And there's that trickle down effect

2076
01:43:55,520 --> 01:43:57,320
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball when his quarterbacks

2077
01:43:57,360 --> 01:43:59,479
Speaker 1: throwing off his picks. Brady's not going to do that.

2078
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:01,640
Speaker 1: He's not the guy who was in two thousand and

2079
01:44:01,760 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 1: seven or two thousand and seventeen. But he's gonna take

2080
01:44:04,240 --> 01:44:06,160
Speaker 1: care of the football. He's gonna make smart decisions. They're

2081
01:44:06,160 --> 01:44:09,080
Speaker 1: gonna extend drives as a result, He's got weapons around

2082
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:11,040
Speaker 1: him this year that he didn't have last year. And

2083
01:44:11,160 --> 01:44:13,479
Speaker 1: so I think you have to quit Tampa Bay into

2084
01:44:13,560 --> 01:44:16,320
Speaker 1: that NFC self, you know, discussion right away having the

2085
01:44:16,360 --> 01:44:18,400
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints, I think, and when you look around

2086
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:20,880
Speaker 1: the landscape in the NFC overall, I think you'd have

2087
01:44:20,920 --> 01:44:22,920
Speaker 1: to say they're probably a team that's in the mix

2088
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:30,559
Speaker 1: for that NFC championship. Mark, what about what about Cam Newton?

2089
01:44:30,640 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: Is there a place for him in the NFL. He's

2090
01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:33,800
Speaker 1: kind of getting hurt by not being able to take

2091
01:44:33,800 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: a physical, right, Yeah. I mean that's that's sort of

2092
01:44:37,120 --> 01:44:39,720
Speaker 1: the interesting thing about this current, you know, landscape that

2093
01:44:39,760 --> 01:44:43,200
Speaker 1: we're at. We were guys that have medical concerns, whether

2094
01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:45,160
Speaker 1: it's a Cam Newton and his medical history or for

2095
01:44:45,200 --> 01:44:47,640
Speaker 1: you think about the draft to a Tungo Byloa and

2096
01:44:47,720 --> 01:44:50,519
Speaker 1: his hip injury. Guys can't get physicals done. It's sort

2097
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Speaker 1: of he's gonna hurt their ability to find either a

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Speaker 1: spart in free agency or improve that draft spot by

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Speaker 1: putting team's minds at these But I do think that

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Speaker 1: there's a role for Philip Rivers in the National Football

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01:44:59,760 --> 01:45:01,920
Speaker 1: League still. I mean, I've always been banned up like

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Speaker 1: we've been talking about, but I think it's sort of

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01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:06,879
Speaker 1: been still in that you know, vertical based passing offense,

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Speaker 1: which is taylored to his skill set, that mixes in

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Speaker 1: some of the RPO stuff like they were doing in

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Speaker 1: Carolina under North Turner and later Scott Turner. I think

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Speaker 1: that's ideal for him, and I think a team to

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Speaker 1: still watch. Are they in Los Angeles Chargers? You know

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Speaker 1: they lost Rivers. They've said they're gonna be happy with

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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor. They're in the sixth spart of the draft.

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Speaker 1: People assume they take their quarterback, but look their new

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. He's rooted in that air correal downfield passing games,

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Speaker 1: cut his teeth under Roggenski, also with coreal disciple, that

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01:45:34,800 --> 01:45:37,639
Speaker 1: vertical element to the passing game, which fits with Cam Taylor.

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Speaker 1: With Cam Newtons, does I think that's a good spot

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Speaker 1: for him, you know, and if they do decide the

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Speaker 1: draft a quarterback at six, while I think Cam Newton

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Speaker 1: can be that guy that gives you a season or

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Speaker 1: two until that guy is ready, And so I think

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Speaker 1: i'd watched the Chargers for Cam Newton. One of the

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Speaker 1: things that happens that this free agency season is that

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01:45:56,040 --> 01:45:58,559
Speaker 1: all these teams and make these moves, and a lot

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01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:01,080
Speaker 1: of their fans, like Bills fans, get all excited about

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01:46:01,120 --> 01:46:03,880
Speaker 1: watching their clubs and seeing the moves they made and

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01:46:04,080 --> 01:46:06,920
Speaker 1: envisioning their team getting better. But you've got some moves

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01:46:06,960 --> 01:46:09,200
Speaker 1: that you've seen during this free agency time that makes

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01:46:09,240 --> 01:46:12,160
Speaker 1: you scratch your head a little bit. What are some

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01:46:12,280 --> 01:46:15,160
Speaker 1: of the top moves you thought were like, Wow, that's

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01:46:15,200 --> 01:46:16,800
Speaker 1: a that's a lot of money for that guy, or

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01:46:16,880 --> 01:46:19,560
Speaker 1: that's a funny signing for this team. What were some

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Speaker 1: of the things that had you scratching your head? And

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01:46:21,320 --> 01:46:24,000
Speaker 1: some of the teams involved, well, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: you have to sort of look at what they're doing

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Speaker 1: down in Houston, and you know, the decision to trade

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, you know, I understand that, Look, there's going

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01:46:30,600 --> 01:46:32,680
Speaker 1: to be a contractual situation there. But like we were

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01:46:32,720 --> 01:46:35,439
Speaker 1: just talking about a little bit earlier with Josh Allen

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01:46:35,479 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 1: and helping that rookie quarterback young quarterback on the rookie deal,

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01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:41,280
Speaker 1: that's what DeAndre Hopkins does. I mean, he's a security

2140
01:46:41,360 --> 01:46:44,559
Speaker 1: blanket for Deshaun Watson when it's starting seven. He knows, look,

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01:46:45,080 --> 01:46:47,200
Speaker 1: Deehawk's gonna get open. I'm gonna I'm gonna find a

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Speaker 1: way to get him to football and to trade that guy.

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Speaker 1: And I know that they needed some picks, but you're

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Speaker 1: gonna trade them out and you know, potentially like draft

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01:46:54,120 --> 01:46:56,200
Speaker 1: his replacement at some point in this draft. It just

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01:46:57,080 --> 01:46:59,479
Speaker 1: that does not make sense to me. And when we're

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01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:01,760
Speaker 1: looking at him back in office of today's NFL and

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01:47:02,200 --> 01:47:04,439
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest competitive vantage you can have as

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Speaker 1: a team is that good quarterback on a rookie quarterback deal,

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01:47:08,360 --> 01:47:10,080
Speaker 1: you've got to load up and make the run then

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01:47:10,360 --> 01:47:12,320
Speaker 1: and to see Houston sort of move on from him,

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01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:14,800
Speaker 1: that one sort of really left me scratching my head,

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01:47:14,880 --> 01:47:17,560
Speaker 1: just wondering, look what are they doing here? And you

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01:47:17,680 --> 01:47:19,320
Speaker 1: know another one is the one we talked about with

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01:47:19,439 --> 01:47:22,599
Speaker 1: George Fan. Now, the Jets have done more to help

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01:47:22,640 --> 01:47:25,800
Speaker 1: the offensive line, but given George Fan to contract, they

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Speaker 1: did when there were other tackles out there, like a

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Speaker 1: Jack Conklin or a Brian Beluga or example, who got

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Speaker 1: similar kinds of deals. I think those might have been

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01:47:33,160 --> 01:47:34,840
Speaker 1: better players that the Jets could have gone out and

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01:47:34,840 --> 01:47:37,439
Speaker 1: acquired rather than Burter than George Fan He does some

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01:47:37,600 --> 01:47:39,800
Speaker 1: nice things, but a lot of the snaps that he's

2163
01:47:39,800 --> 01:47:41,680
Speaker 1: done over the past couple of years, they were using

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01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:43,960
Speaker 1: him as a tight end as a sixth offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not sure he can step in and be

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Speaker 1: that sort of cornerstone left tackle that the Jets lead

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Speaker 1: right now. Hey, you know what, Mark one team can

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Speaker 1: only be. Mostly because we had Wade Phillips on our

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Speaker 1: show last hour, and we're big fans of Wade here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. But I just think the Ram are going

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01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:03,160
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. Even a relatively minor move. They

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01:48:03,240 --> 01:48:06,240
Speaker 1: let the nickel corner to Kel Robie Coleman go last week.

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01:48:06,280 --> 01:48:08,920
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I know they're all tied up with

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Speaker 1: money with Jared Goff, but I could it be that

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01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:14,800
Speaker 1: the Ram super Bowl window is already closed. I think

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Speaker 1: it has, And you know, it's sort of the risk

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Speaker 1: reward of trying to hit it big during that rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterback window because you look at some of the moves

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Speaker 1: they made. The big extension they gave Todd Gurley, they

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01:48:27,479 --> 01:48:29,800
Speaker 1: went out and they traded for like Marcus Peters, and

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Speaker 1: they made all of his moves to keep to lead

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01:48:31,920 --> 01:48:34,800
Speaker 1: to really load up for that run. And then they

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Speaker 1: lose the Super Bowl and now just sort of reaping

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Speaker 1: the whirlwind for all the moves that you made. And

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01:48:39,200 --> 01:48:41,639
Speaker 1: so they're up against it against the cap. They had

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Speaker 1: to move on from Tard Gurley because of the injury

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01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:45,920
Speaker 1: and the contract extension. The money just didn't make it work.

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01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:48,280
Speaker 1: And now they're trying to piece it together around the

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01:48:48,360 --> 01:48:51,000
Speaker 1: quarterback and Jared Goff that you know, he's good enough

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01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:53,680
Speaker 1: to have earned an extension, but maybe isn't going to

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01:48:53,720 --> 01:48:55,160
Speaker 1: be good enough to get them to where they wanted

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01:48:55,200 --> 01:48:57,680
Speaker 1: to go. And now when he's onto that extension, you

2193
01:48:57,800 --> 01:48:59,040
Speaker 1: have to hope that the quarterback is going to be

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01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:01,080
Speaker 1: good enough to raise the leve to play and everybody

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01:49:01,120 --> 01:49:03,360
Speaker 1: around him, and maybe Golf's not good enough to do that.

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01:49:03,920 --> 01:49:05,800
Speaker 1: And so it does seem like you're right that winter

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Speaker 1: was closed and they've got a Super Bowl appearance to

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Speaker 1: show for it, but not the Super Bowl title they

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Speaker 1: were hoping for. One last thing, I gotta ask you, Mark,

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01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:16,960
Speaker 1: the NFL is given away NFL game pass. You've probably

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Speaker 1: got it anyway, But are you going back and looking

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01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:22,840
Speaker 1: at any great games over your free time these days? Yeah?

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01:49:23,040 --> 01:49:25,040
Speaker 1: I mean a game that comes to mind, and we

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01:49:25,120 --> 01:49:27,360
Speaker 1: were just talking about the Rams that Rams Chiefs game

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Speaker 1: from a couple of years ago where they put up

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Speaker 1: I think fifty fifty and forty eight or something like that.

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Speaker 1: You know, that was a game and just an offensive

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Speaker 1: display that was fantastic to watch. You know, I will

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Speaker 1: mention one of the things I love to do, you know,

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Speaker 1: as you know a quarterback guy that studies quarterbacks is

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01:49:43,680 --> 01:49:47,120
Speaker 1: watch how quarterbacks are just too good defenses. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to take a chance to go back and see

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Speaker 1: how those Bills teams played Tom Brady, you know, because

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01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:56,000
Speaker 1: seeing how they confused him, seeing how they confused the

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01:49:56,160 --> 01:49:59,559
Speaker 1: wide receivers, and seeing how they would move with the snap,

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01:50:00,080 --> 01:50:02,360
Speaker 1: been there safety at the snap really give Tom Brady

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01:50:02,439 --> 01:50:04,960
Speaker 1: different looks. I think that's a model for how teams

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01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:07,000
Speaker 1: are gonna have to defend quarterbacks in this day and age,

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01:50:07,200 --> 01:50:10,160
Speaker 1: because when so many route concepts has different route conversions,

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01:50:10,240 --> 01:50:12,200
Speaker 1: and you know, if you see a two high looks

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01:50:12,280 --> 01:50:13,880
Speaker 1: gonna run this. If you seen a single high looks

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01:50:13,880 --> 01:50:16,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna run something. Else. When you can confuse these

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01:50:16,320 --> 01:50:19,080
Speaker 1: as a quarterback and even the quarterback and the receivers,

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01:50:19,439 --> 01:50:21,000
Speaker 1: that's going to give you an advantage as a defense.

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01:50:21,080 --> 01:50:23,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be watching some of those old Bills Patriots

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01:50:23,120 --> 01:50:26,760
Speaker 1: games to see how they were doing that against Tom Brady. Hey,

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Speaker 1: one more thing, Mark, and you're answer to my question

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01:50:29,160 --> 01:50:33,360
Speaker 1: about the rams to me means where the Bill is

2229
01:50:33,400 --> 01:50:35,639
Speaker 1: better be right and they better not waste any time

2230
01:50:35,680 --> 01:50:37,439
Speaker 1: as far as getting these free agents in to take

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01:50:37,479 --> 01:50:42,040
Speaker 1: advantage of the cheap quarterback window, right with Josh Ellen, Yeah,

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01:50:42,240 --> 01:50:44,680
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's exactly right. I mean, if

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01:50:44,720 --> 01:50:46,560
Speaker 1: you want to load up, you want to make that

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01:50:46,760 --> 01:50:49,160
Speaker 1: window count, and then you hope at the end of

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01:50:49,200 --> 01:50:51,160
Speaker 1: that window when you have to extend the quarterback, that

2236
01:50:51,439 --> 01:50:53,760
Speaker 1: they've gotten to a point where, okay, you could pay

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01:50:53,840 --> 01:50:55,599
Speaker 1: them the money, but they're gonna be worth it because

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01:50:55,880 --> 01:50:57,360
Speaker 1: now you're gonna have to get you know, a little

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01:50:57,360 --> 01:51:00,040
Speaker 1: bit more cost effective at other positions. They're can to

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Speaker 1: raise the level of playing those guys like Russell Wilson

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01:51:02,520 --> 01:51:05,320
Speaker 1: is obviously you know, the prototype example of this concept

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01:51:05,400 --> 01:51:07,760
Speaker 1: because you know they had that Ham under his cheep

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01:51:07,840 --> 01:51:10,360
Speaker 1: contract early. They win the Super Bowl, but now he's

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01:51:10,400 --> 01:51:12,639
Speaker 1: good enough where he can raise the level of play

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01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:14,840
Speaker 1: in the receivers that can make things happen, and you

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01:51:14,920 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 1: know you don't have to rely on other guys to

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01:51:16,880 --> 01:51:19,439
Speaker 1: make him better. So that's the that's the sort of

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01:51:19,520 --> 01:51:22,479
Speaker 1: dilemma face in the bills right now. Can they maximize

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01:51:22,520 --> 01:51:24,680
Speaker 1: this window and get it done? And by the time

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Speaker 1: they have to withstand down, is he's gonna be good

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Speaker 1: enough to carry the load more on his own? Yeah,

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01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:33,760
Speaker 1: well let's see how Mark, I appreciate it. Thanks so much, guys,

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Speaker 1: have a great day. Thanks for having me. Okay. Mark Gofield,

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01:51:37,400 --> 01:51:40,799
Speaker 1: the NFL writer for USA Today's Touchdown and Wire, speaking

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Speaker 1: to Jared Goff and the Rams. He's gonna I think

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Speaker 1: it's today. A twenty one million dollar roster bonus paid today,

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01:51:46,960 --> 01:51:49,880
Speaker 1: another forty three million of future sary and bonus becomes

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01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:53,160
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed. He now holds a camp figure for twenty

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01:51:53,200 --> 01:51:57,639
Speaker 1: twenty of ninety four million dollars. I don't know, it's night, Irene.

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01:51:58,200 --> 01:51:59,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing, it's easy to say there's

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01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:02,320
Speaker 1: suck with him. They are clearly stuck with him, and

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01:52:02,439 --> 01:52:04,200
Speaker 1: he's not a bad quarterback, but he's not a great

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01:52:04,240 --> 01:52:07,479
Speaker 1: quarterback either, Steve. You know, no, that's and that's the thing.

2264
01:52:10,520 --> 01:52:13,640
Speaker 1: They're so hard to find that when you get one

2265
01:52:13,720 --> 01:52:16,559
Speaker 1: that you think you can build a championship team around,

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01:52:16,840 --> 01:52:18,600
Speaker 1: you kind of got a king. Onto him, right, and

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01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:21,680
Speaker 1: then work on everything else. Trust him to get better,

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01:52:21,800 --> 01:52:24,920
Speaker 1: trust him to try and earn that money. But you really,

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01:52:25,080 --> 01:52:27,320
Speaker 1: once you find a guy that, I think, what do

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01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:28,960
Speaker 1: you finger quotes? I don't know what you want to do?

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01:52:29,240 --> 01:52:32,479
Speaker 1: Is good enough without being you know, he doesn't have

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01:52:32,600 --> 01:52:35,519
Speaker 1: to be Aaron Rodgers or Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady or

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01:52:35,600 --> 01:52:38,080
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, but he can be good enough to win

2274
01:52:38,160 --> 01:52:40,600
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. You got to try and build a

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01:52:40,640 --> 01:52:43,080
Speaker 1: team around him, because a guy that's that good is

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01:52:43,160 --> 01:52:45,400
Speaker 1: hard to find, let alone a guy that's just okay,

2277
01:52:45,560 --> 01:52:47,639
Speaker 1: you know, the guy that's elite, you know what I'm saying.

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01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:50,479
Speaker 1: So I think the Rams are kind of up against it.

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01:52:50,560 --> 01:52:53,160
Speaker 1: They had the kid, they drafted him high, and he

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01:52:53,280 --> 01:52:56,240
Speaker 1: had that great year that got him deep. What are

2281
01:52:56,240 --> 01:52:59,240
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Bail on him? That's hard to do. Hey,

2282
01:52:59,320 --> 01:53:02,200
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll today which bills free agent signing from

2283
01:53:02,280 --> 01:53:04,120
Speaker 1: this last week. We'll play the biggest role on the

2284
01:53:04,240 --> 01:53:06,880
Speaker 1: roster in twenty twenty. You got nine hundred and sixty

2285
01:53:06,920 --> 01:53:09,200
Speaker 1: votes in on the Twitter Bowl so far. Fifty nine

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01:53:09,240 --> 01:53:12,120
Speaker 1: percent of you say it's defensive end Mario Addison, seventy

2287
01:53:12,200 --> 01:53:15,960
Speaker 1: percent say it's cornerback Josh Lurman, fourteen percent say it's

2288
01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:18,479
Speaker 1: linebacker A. J. Cline, ten percent have somebody else in mind.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from you. Give us a call eight O

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01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:23,760
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo one

2291
01:53:23,960 --> 01:53:27,360
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Send it

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01:53:27,439 --> 01:53:29,040
Speaker 1: a tweet. We can read it on the tweet sheet.

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01:53:29,040 --> 01:53:30,880
Speaker 1: We got full nines open. We're coming back with more,

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Speaker 1: including NFL Tour fall. So come on back. One Bill's Live,

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01:53:34,360 --> 01:53:37,160
Speaker 1: presented by Kalada Health. Right, We're not in the Seneca

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Speaker 1: studio today. We're at home. Steve's home, I'm home. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: steep Task along with John Murphy from our houses today. Murph,

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Speaker 1: during this last break, I took it pretty good, pretty

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01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:02,000
Speaker 1: good interview with Mark Scofield. He had some kind of

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01:54:02,040 --> 01:54:04,400
Speaker 1: a well rounded view about what was going on all

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Speaker 1: across the league, particularly how it was going to affect

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01:54:06,760 --> 01:54:09,560
Speaker 1: the AFC East. It's always good because you know, you

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01:54:09,640 --> 01:54:12,000
Speaker 1: look and you feel good about what the Bills have done,

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Speaker 1: but you also got to look at the Miami Dolphins

2306
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:18,120
Speaker 1: and the huge changes they've made and kind of feel like, well,

2307
01:54:18,960 --> 01:54:20,920
Speaker 1: maybe it's the thing we always go through. You always

2308
01:54:20,960 --> 01:54:22,759
Speaker 1: feel like maybe the Jets are gonna get it together,

2309
01:54:23,160 --> 01:54:26,240
Speaker 1: but you always take it with a grain of salt.

2310
01:54:26,320 --> 01:54:28,200
Speaker 1: And there's still a lot of questions in New England.

2311
01:54:28,240 --> 01:54:30,280
Speaker 1: So the AFC East for the first time in a

2312
01:54:30,360 --> 01:54:33,720
Speaker 1: long time, he said it, it looks a lot different

2313
01:54:33,760 --> 01:54:35,320
Speaker 1: than it has in the past. Yeah, let me you

2314
01:54:35,400 --> 01:54:38,120
Speaker 1: know what I really liked, You know what I really

2315
01:54:38,200 --> 01:54:41,520
Speaker 1: liked about the And he has no answers obviously, but

2316
01:54:41,680 --> 01:54:44,400
Speaker 1: Scofield said this and I followed up at the end. Look,

2317
01:54:44,960 --> 01:54:47,320
Speaker 1: I think the Rams service sort of an object lesson

2318
01:54:47,400 --> 01:54:50,720
Speaker 1: for the Bills. You know, the Rams thought that their guy,

2319
01:54:50,840 --> 01:54:52,680
Speaker 1: Jared Golf was the guy and gonna be the guy.

2320
01:54:52,720 --> 01:54:55,880
Speaker 1: He had a great first year once McVay was out

2321
01:54:55,880 --> 01:54:57,640
Speaker 1: there his head coach, and then sort of hit the wall.

2322
01:54:57,880 --> 01:54:59,680
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's gonna happen in the jobs. That's

2323
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:02,560
Speaker 1: not the object lesson. The object lesson is they loaded

2324
01:55:02,640 --> 01:55:05,640
Speaker 1: up out of his first contract into his second contract

2325
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:08,280
Speaker 1: golf that is. And now look, now they got to

2326
01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:10,720
Speaker 1: get rid of people. They gotta get rid of Todd Gurley,

2327
01:55:10,760 --> 01:55:12,880
Speaker 1: they gotta get rid of a bunch of good players,

2328
01:55:12,920 --> 01:55:16,040
Speaker 1: including the farm mentioned the kel Robie Coleman. Because the

2329
01:55:16,120 --> 01:55:19,280
Speaker 1: quarterback contract is so huge. We talked about the numbers

2330
01:55:19,320 --> 01:55:22,200
Speaker 1: that he's getting paid today. I'm not saying, look, the

2331
01:55:22,240 --> 01:55:25,360
Speaker 1: Bills aren't doing anything wrong here, but it's really gotta work.

2332
01:55:25,600 --> 01:55:27,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to win, and when he's in

2333
01:55:27,320 --> 01:55:30,240
Speaker 1: the first couple of years of his contract, before before

2334
01:55:30,320 --> 01:55:32,280
Speaker 1: Josh gets to the second year, and then you got

2335
01:55:32,400 --> 01:55:35,720
Speaker 1: to really be creative, as Scofield pointed out, as the

2336
01:55:35,840 --> 01:55:38,760
Speaker 1: Seahawks have been the structures contract so that you continue

2337
01:55:38,800 --> 01:55:41,160
Speaker 1: to win. It's it's a tight rope and we're gonna

2338
01:55:41,160 --> 01:55:42,840
Speaker 1: find out if the Bills can do it. And first

2339
01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:46,040
Speaker 1: we'll find out whether they can surround Josh with enough

2340
01:55:46,120 --> 01:55:48,960
Speaker 1: talent now to contempt for a championship at the early

2341
01:55:49,040 --> 01:55:51,320
Speaker 1: stages of his career. I think it's tough to do. Yeah,

2342
01:55:51,400 --> 01:55:53,160
Speaker 1: what do you think, Murph? Is there a team out there?

2343
01:55:53,160 --> 01:55:55,320
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking of one off the top of my head,

2344
01:55:55,360 --> 01:55:57,880
Speaker 1: that that kind of did that. They kind of made

2345
01:55:57,960 --> 01:56:00,320
Speaker 1: hay While the quarterbacks in his rookie season. But they've

2346
01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:03,560
Speaker 1: remained competitive and been in the conversation since they paid

2347
01:56:03,600 --> 01:56:07,760
Speaker 1: their quarterback. Do you know who I'm thinking of? I

2348
01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:11,360
Speaker 1: mean again, they had this, they've kind of they won

2349
01:56:11,400 --> 01:56:14,560
Speaker 1: a World championship with a quarterback on his rookie contract.

2350
01:56:14,680 --> 01:56:17,320
Speaker 1: Now he's in his second contract with the same team

2351
01:56:17,400 --> 01:56:22,880
Speaker 1: making really big money. Uh, and they're still competitive. They're

2352
01:56:22,920 --> 01:56:24,920
Speaker 1: still in the conversation for the Super Bowl a lot.

2353
01:56:26,040 --> 01:56:29,480
Speaker 1: Give me a hit. Well, Uh, we know who are

2354
01:56:29,480 --> 01:56:32,120
Speaker 1: you thinking of it? I'm thinking of the Seahawks with

2355
01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:35,680
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Yeah, Okay's they kind of you know, he

2356
01:56:35,960 --> 01:56:38,560
Speaker 1: kind of grew into it. They won a World championship,

2357
01:56:38,600 --> 01:56:40,480
Speaker 1: then they lost a World championship when he threw the

2358
01:56:40,520 --> 01:56:42,680
Speaker 1: interception on the goal line. They went to two in

2359
01:56:42,760 --> 01:56:46,600
Speaker 1: a row, the Seahawks did, and then now they haven't

2360
01:56:46,680 --> 01:56:49,040
Speaker 1: been back to one. But they're in the playoffs a lot.

2361
01:56:49,120 --> 01:56:52,160
Speaker 1: They're in the hunt a lot. They're contenders. They got

2362
01:56:52,240 --> 01:56:54,080
Speaker 1: to feel like they got a good chance every year,

2363
01:56:54,840 --> 01:56:57,959
Speaker 1: and they've done it. Building. They won the World Championship

2364
01:56:58,000 --> 01:57:00,600
Speaker 1: with the Legion of Boom and now they're trying to

2365
01:57:00,600 --> 01:57:03,160
Speaker 1: get back with Russell Wilson in the offense, and that's

2366
01:57:03,280 --> 01:57:05,280
Speaker 1: kind of you know, I don't know whether you like

2367
01:57:06,080 --> 01:57:07,840
Speaker 1: whether you like him or not, Russell Wilson or not,

2368
01:57:07,960 --> 01:57:09,800
Speaker 1: whether you like Pete Carroll or not, whether you like

2369
01:57:09,880 --> 01:57:14,360
Speaker 1: the Sea Arks, Nazi irelevant. They have managed to stay relevant,

2370
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:16,880
Speaker 1: oh yeah, when other teams have kind of had a

2371
01:57:16,920 --> 01:57:19,960
Speaker 1: windows slam on them and they just keep their window open. Yeah.

2372
01:57:20,120 --> 01:57:23,240
Speaker 1: And again I give them credit for structuring Russell Wilson's

2373
01:57:23,280 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 1: second contract to make it so that they can keep

2374
01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:28,120
Speaker 1: good pieces around them. Maybe not the pieces they had

2375
01:57:28,160 --> 01:57:30,240
Speaker 1: when they were the Legion of Boom, and they certainly

2376
01:57:30,320 --> 01:57:32,800
Speaker 1: don't have the high price defensive players they have back then.

2377
01:57:33,040 --> 01:57:34,680
Speaker 1: But I think they've done a good job of keeping

2378
01:57:34,720 --> 01:57:36,640
Speaker 1: the group together finding a way to do it. That's

2379
01:57:36,680 --> 01:57:38,840
Speaker 1: the tight rope part I was talking about. I know

2380
01:57:38,960 --> 01:57:41,240
Speaker 1: the Bill. I think the Bills would like to get

2381
01:57:41,280 --> 01:57:45,480
Speaker 1: a championship contention in while Josh's in his first contract

2382
01:57:45,520 --> 01:57:47,960
Speaker 1: and then redo them and keep it going, right, isn't

2383
01:57:48,000 --> 01:57:50,280
Speaker 1: that the goal? Well? Yeah, that's it and and it

2384
01:57:50,400 --> 01:57:52,760
Speaker 1: didn't and it got ugly in Seattle too. But when

2385
01:57:54,040 --> 01:57:56,720
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman left, and the safety left, and you know,

2386
01:57:56,760 --> 01:58:01,840
Speaker 1: all Calaist class, Campbell left, all these guys took off

2387
01:58:01,920 --> 01:58:04,640
Speaker 1: and Cam Chancellor and how ugly it got when he

2388
01:58:04,720 --> 01:58:07,200
Speaker 1: got his injury and left, and you know, so it

2389
01:58:07,680 --> 01:58:11,520
Speaker 1: was a tough, tough thing from that point of view

2390
01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:16,280
Speaker 1: to get done. But they were still winning games when

2391
01:58:16,320 --> 01:58:18,720
Speaker 1: they made that transition, as hard as it was. And

2392
01:58:19,040 --> 01:58:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it has to look pretty all the time,

2393
01:58:21,040 --> 01:58:25,080
Speaker 1: but certainly to win games and pay your quarterback, there

2394
01:58:25,240 --> 01:58:27,480
Speaker 1: is a blueprint. I think the Seattle Seahawks has probably

2395
01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:29,840
Speaker 1: done as good a job as anybody of making it

2396
01:58:29,920 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 1: happen can argue with that. Take some phone calls here,

2397
01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:37,000
Speaker 1: eight fifty to three one eight five fifty two, five

2398
01:58:37,160 --> 01:58:39,920
Speaker 1: fifty eighty. Thing is on your agenda, becomes our agenda.

2399
01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:41,520
Speaker 1: Dan is on the air with this. Hello, Daniel on

2400
01:58:41,600 --> 01:58:46,800
Speaker 1: the air, Go ahead, guys, good afternoon, great shot always.

2401
01:58:47,720 --> 01:58:49,400
Speaker 1: And I think the Bills have done a great job

2402
01:58:49,480 --> 01:58:53,560
Speaker 1: in free agency, but I think that the running back

2403
01:58:53,640 --> 01:58:56,000
Speaker 1: position should be a little bit of a higher priority,

2404
01:58:56,720 --> 01:59:00,200
Speaker 1: especially if they could get somebody liking Derrick Henry, who

2405
01:59:00,320 --> 01:59:04,400
Speaker 1: really carried the Titans this year in the playoffs and

2406
01:59:04,600 --> 01:59:07,080
Speaker 1: especially late in the season when the weather gets bad,

2407
01:59:08,840 --> 01:59:11,440
Speaker 1: and maybe he's third or fourth round pick. That would

2408
01:59:11,480 --> 01:59:15,600
Speaker 1: be a really good investment. I think, Yeah, I'm not

2409
01:59:16,800 --> 01:59:20,200
Speaker 1: much about this today. Yeah, third or fourth round pick, Yeah,

2410
01:59:20,200 --> 01:59:22,680
Speaker 1: I can live with that. I'm not taking him in

2411
01:59:22,720 --> 01:59:25,480
Speaker 1: the first or second round. But if you get a

2412
01:59:25,560 --> 01:59:28,240
Speaker 1: guy who's very good, getting Derrick Henry in the third

2413
01:59:28,280 --> 01:59:32,920
Speaker 1: or fourth round are remote, right, Right, you're gonna get

2414
01:59:33,120 --> 01:59:35,000
Speaker 1: You have to get incredibly lucky to get a great

2415
01:59:35,040 --> 01:59:36,920
Speaker 1: player like that in the third or fourth round, right,

2416
01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:39,480
Speaker 1: That's right, And I think I think it's easy. And

2417
01:59:39,640 --> 01:59:42,000
Speaker 1: we've done it all game. We've had this discussion the

2418
01:59:42,200 --> 01:59:44,760
Speaker 1: entire show, Murph about how high and how much value

2419
01:59:44,800 --> 01:59:46,720
Speaker 1: you put on it, how easy that guy is to find.

2420
01:59:47,000 --> 01:59:52,680
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Yes, the Tennessee Titans made an incredible

2421
01:59:52,760 --> 01:59:55,640
Speaker 1: run last season due in large part of Derrick Henry

2422
01:59:55,680 --> 01:59:57,880
Speaker 1: and his size and power and all of that stuff,

2423
01:59:58,000 --> 02:00:01,600
Speaker 1: No question about it. The question is how many of

2424
02:00:01,640 --> 02:00:04,720
Speaker 1: those guys are out there like that? And if they're

2425
02:00:04,760 --> 02:00:08,960
Speaker 1: out there, you know somebody's already got them. I mean,

2426
02:00:09,040 --> 02:00:13,160
Speaker 1: somebody's already got those those guys. You're not there's there

2427
02:00:13,280 --> 02:00:14,920
Speaker 1: isn't one of those you can make the case that

2428
02:00:15,040 --> 02:00:17,080
Speaker 1: you think there is a guy like that in this draft.

2429
02:00:17,480 --> 02:00:20,000
Speaker 1: But Derrick Henry's been in the league for what four years,

2430
02:00:20,080 --> 02:00:23,200
Speaker 1: four full years by full years maybe, and before he's

2431
02:00:23,240 --> 02:00:26,400
Speaker 1: actually made the run like that, had a stretch like that,

2432
02:00:26,840 --> 02:00:28,800
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get it out of a young back.

2433
02:00:29,040 --> 02:00:31,360
Speaker 1: You're gonna kind of catch it yourself, and it's gonna

2434
02:00:31,400 --> 02:00:33,600
Speaker 1: work because it's your team that did it. You're not

2435
02:00:33,680 --> 02:00:37,200
Speaker 1: gonna find that. If Derrick Henry leaves the Tennessee Titans,

2436
02:00:38,680 --> 02:00:41,040
Speaker 1: we may never hear from him again. That's the way

2437
02:00:41,080 --> 02:00:44,000
Speaker 1: I kind of think about it. It's a it's a

2438
02:00:45,600 --> 02:00:48,240
Speaker 1: very brief window for running backs to have the kind

2439
02:00:48,280 --> 02:00:51,680
Speaker 1: of run Derrick Henry put together. In today's NFL, it's

2440
02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:54,840
Speaker 1: a throwing league, it's and they got hot at the

2441
02:00:54,920 --> 02:00:57,640
Speaker 1: right time. They changed quarterbacks, they had a revamp of

2442
02:00:57,680 --> 02:01:00,960
Speaker 1: their offense, they started handing in the ball more, and

2443
02:01:01,120 --> 02:01:03,400
Speaker 1: he started coming through for him. It wasn't like I

2444
02:01:03,480 --> 02:01:06,800
Speaker 1: don't believe that the Titans went into the season with

2445
02:01:07,040 --> 02:01:09,720
Speaker 1: that as their blueprint. They did it on the fly.

2446
02:01:10,080 --> 02:01:12,280
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota. They thought he was going to be the

2447
02:01:12,320 --> 02:01:14,400
Speaker 1: guy that carried him through he's gonna throw the football

2448
02:01:14,440 --> 02:01:16,800
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have a passing offense. Well, they had

2449
02:01:16,840 --> 02:01:19,360
Speaker 1: to change it. So you know, you can say what

2450
02:01:19,440 --> 02:01:22,000
Speaker 1: you want about the running backs and how important they are.

2451
02:01:23,000 --> 02:01:26,840
Speaker 1: History and the rest of the league shows us. It's

2452
02:01:26,880 --> 02:01:29,760
Speaker 1: just not gonna be like that for most teams. And

2453
02:01:30,440 --> 02:01:33,040
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to copy what the Tennessee

2454
02:01:33,160 --> 02:01:37,680
Speaker 1: Titans did this last season. I just don't think it

2455
02:01:37,760 --> 02:01:40,920
Speaker 1: works that way. I don't either. I've said that a

2456
02:01:40,960 --> 02:01:43,800
Speaker 1: couple hundred times today and I don't feel like repeating it.

2457
02:01:45,520 --> 02:01:49,360
Speaker 1: It's not a major need. It's a need a complimentary back.

2458
02:01:49,400 --> 02:01:51,720
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry was a second rounder. You really want to

2459
02:01:51,760 --> 02:01:54,480
Speaker 1: use Buffalo's loan second rounder, their first bock overall on

2460
02:01:54,760 --> 02:01:59,000
Speaker 1: a running back? I don't. Here's the thing, You're not

2461
02:01:59,080 --> 02:02:03,760
Speaker 1: gonna get a an elite running back not picking at

2462
02:02:03,800 --> 02:02:06,560
Speaker 1: number fifty four in this year's draft. You're just not

2463
02:02:06,720 --> 02:02:09,600
Speaker 1: going to. So maybe we can get a Twitter poll

2464
02:02:09,640 --> 02:02:13,800
Speaker 1: out of this murph about what type of complimentary back

2465
02:02:13,920 --> 02:02:17,080
Speaker 1: should we get for Devin Singletary, because that's what you're

2466
02:02:17,120 --> 02:02:19,120
Speaker 1: gonna get. Now, there's a chance you get a guy

2467
02:02:19,160 --> 02:02:21,720
Speaker 1: that could push him and maybe take some snaps away

2468
02:02:21,800 --> 02:02:24,000
Speaker 1: from him because he is that good. But what kind

2469
02:02:24,000 --> 02:02:25,560
Speaker 1: of back do is that guy? What's that gonna look like?

2470
02:02:25,920 --> 02:02:28,560
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be a big, big guy and he's

2471
02:02:28,560 --> 02:02:31,080
Speaker 1: gonna be it a fifty. You get a big, heavy,

2472
02:02:31,640 --> 02:02:34,760
Speaker 1: tall running back in this year's draft. He's gonna have

2473
02:02:34,880 --> 02:02:38,320
Speaker 1: some deficiencies because if he was Derrick Henry, he would

2474
02:02:38,360 --> 02:02:42,840
Speaker 1: never reach your draft pick. Okay, so he's gonna he

2475
02:02:42,960 --> 02:02:45,880
Speaker 1: can't catch, he can't run, he can't run routes, he

2476
02:02:46,000 --> 02:02:49,320
Speaker 1: can't pass protect. There's gonna be something wrong with the guy.

2477
02:02:49,800 --> 02:02:52,120
Speaker 1: So what's this guy gonna look like? If he's gonna

2478
02:02:52,680 --> 02:02:56,160
Speaker 1: compliment Derek Devin's Singletary, what's he gonna look like? You know,

2479
02:02:56,240 --> 02:02:59,240
Speaker 1: he's gonna have some deficiencies. You know what not surprised

2480
02:02:59,280 --> 02:03:03,800
Speaker 1: me is the Bills are waiting out Carlos Hide, for example,

2481
02:03:03,880 --> 02:03:05,400
Speaker 1: the guy who's out there on free agent mark of

2482
02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:09,680
Speaker 1: a big back, A good compliment to U. Devin Singletary

2483
02:03:09,840 --> 02:03:12,440
Speaker 1: a veteran and I don't know anything about his work

2484
02:03:12,480 --> 02:03:14,440
Speaker 1: ethic or what kind of teammate he is, but I

2485
02:03:14,800 --> 02:03:16,520
Speaker 1: like that. I think would be a good fit. A

2486
02:03:16,600 --> 02:03:19,120
Speaker 1: bigger guy than Singletary and guy who's been around the

2487
02:03:19,160 --> 02:03:22,880
Speaker 1: league a little bit longer than Singletary, and he's out there,

2488
02:03:23,400 --> 02:03:25,480
Speaker 1: still out there. Nobody's signed him yet. Maybe they just

2489
02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:28,200
Speaker 1: wait him out and think you think the Bills are

2490
02:03:28,200 --> 02:03:30,760
Speaker 1: the only team that needs a running back right now,

2491
02:03:30,880 --> 02:03:32,960
Speaker 1: like maybe he'd be light there or maybe not happy,

2492
02:03:33,120 --> 02:03:36,280
Speaker 1: totally happy with the guy they've got. There's thirty one

2493
02:03:36,320 --> 02:03:38,320
Speaker 1: other teams in the league. There's got to be at

2494
02:03:38,440 --> 02:03:42,280
Speaker 1: least a handful that are at at least as needy

2495
02:03:42,440 --> 02:03:44,680
Speaker 1: as the Bills are running back and nobody else is

2496
02:03:44,720 --> 02:03:47,400
Speaker 1: breaking his door down either. That should tell you something

2497
02:03:47,520 --> 02:03:50,320
Speaker 1: right there. You give me the list of free agent

2498
02:03:50,440 --> 02:03:54,600
Speaker 1: running backs available as of this morning, anyway, Carlos Hyde

2499
02:03:54,680 --> 02:03:57,400
Speaker 1: we mentioned, and he's at the top of Mike Clay's list.

2500
02:03:57,960 --> 02:04:00,440
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman from Atlanta maybe a little bit too close

2501
02:04:00,480 --> 02:04:03,800
Speaker 1: to Singletary, Lamar Miller of Houston, Dion Lewis of Tennessee,

2502
02:04:04,000 --> 02:04:09,800
Speaker 1: too small, Chris Thompson McCoy, Frank Gore three to four

2503
02:04:09,880 --> 02:04:12,240
Speaker 1: or five or six. Frank Gore is the seventh highest

2504
02:04:12,320 --> 02:04:16,240
Speaker 1: radio running back on Mike Clay's list of unrestricted free

2505
02:04:16,240 --> 02:04:18,680
Speaker 1: agent veteran running backs. You only want to go back

2506
02:04:18,680 --> 02:04:21,040
Speaker 1: to Frank Gore or Lashan McCoy, who's six. I don't

2507
02:04:21,040 --> 02:04:22,920
Speaker 1: think so. All right, we're gonna take a break. We're

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02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:25,400
Speaker 1: back at a moment One Bill's Live, presented by Kalidah

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2510
02:04:28,160 --> 02:04:44,240
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Speaker 1: now it's time for what have we learned? Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We had Wade Phillips on the show today.

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Speaker 1: Just lost his job last year as a defense coordinator

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Speaker 1: for the Rams, former head coach of the Bills. We

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Speaker 1: told him and he agreed. He had quite a defense

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Speaker 1: a group together when he was head coaching defensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Back in the nineteen nineties, Bryce pop

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Speaker 1: was Player of the Defensive Player of the Year. Bruce

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Speaker 1: Smith was Defensive Player of the Year. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the guys you name were all the really good players

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Speaker 1: that we had. We had this guy on offense that

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Speaker 1: played special teams was the best special teamer and should

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Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame. Got us the ball

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Speaker 1: in good field position all the time, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the other thing about Steve is, you know the gunner position.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's part of special teams, and he was

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Speaker 1: the best ever. So uh, you know, I think I

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Speaker 1: think he should certainly be in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: I wish they'd give special teammers and uh assistant assistant

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Speaker 1: coaches a chance to be in the Hall of Thames.

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Speaker 1: Wade Phillips throwing bouquets at Steve Tasker when he was

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Speaker 1: on the US Today. Also on the Show Today, Mark

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Speaker 1: Scofield from USA Today and their Touchdown Wire. He said

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is a big kick up for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: He thinks Diggs will have a positive effect on the

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Speaker 1: overall Buffalo offense. He gives them that downfield presence and

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Speaker 1: you know the trickle down effect that a receiver like

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Speaker 1: that has on everything you do offensively. As a result,

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Speaker 1: the Bill is going to see more too high coverage,

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Speaker 1: more too safety, you know, deep protecting me each side

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Speaker 1: of the field. That lightens up the box and to

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Speaker 1: whoever it is, whether signletary or another acquisition, is going

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Speaker 1: to be running against the lighter boxes. Diggs is going

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Speaker 1: to create space for the guys underneath, like Beasy like Brown,

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna give Josh Allen that target he can

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Speaker 1: find in the downfield passing game, where if Josh starts

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Speaker 1: hitting on some of those, it really softens up the defense.

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Speaker 1: And so I think both what Diggs will do for

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Speaker 1: Allen as well as the trickle down effects is going

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Speaker 1: to have on that offense. It's such a huge acquisition

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Speaker 1: from them, interesting, Mark Scofield, Steve I. Yet it's been

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Speaker 1: just a week now, six days or so. If you

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Speaker 1: had to hear anybody who doesn't love the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: acquisition is Stephan Diggs. What about you? Yeah? I think so.

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Speaker 1: The only criticism you'll ever hear about it, Murph, is

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Speaker 1: if they think they paid too much form, too many

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Speaker 1: draft pick, too much draft capital for a player of

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Speaker 1: that quality. The thing I always come back to, though,

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Speaker 1: is this, they're only paying the guy ten or eleven

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Speaker 1: million bucks a year, and the same guys on other

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Speaker 1: teams are signing for twenty. It's an enormous I think

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Speaker 1: it's an enormously good deal for Buffalo. Yes, you gave

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Speaker 1: up three draft picks and got one and only got

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Speaker 1: one in return. I just still think that the Diggs

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Speaker 1: move is one that fits a need. You get it

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Speaker 1: for the right price, the guy at the right price,

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Speaker 1: You get him while he's still in his prime. I

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Speaker 1: just love everything about it, particularly the amount they've got

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Speaker 1: to pay him on a contract at lasts four more years.

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Speaker 1: Yea Hey. Our Twitter poll today which Bill's free agent

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Speaker 1: signing will play the biggest role this upcoming season? And

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Speaker 1: thousand votes exactly in. Fifty eight percent of you said

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Speaker 1: Mario Addison, seventeen percent say Josh Norman, fourteen percent said

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Speaker 1: aj Clin, eleven percent cent said other Steve Tomorrow, your

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Speaker 1: former teammate Jim Kelly scheduled to be on the show

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Speaker 1: with us. What do you think of that? Oh? Nice?

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Speaker 1: I mean I texted him once. I've text him once

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Speaker 1: in a while. I haven't heard his voice in a while.

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Speaker 1: It'll be nice. Yeah, Jim Kelly be with us tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and Brian Baldinger, a couple of former Bills, will be

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Speaker 1: on the show with us tomorrow. Make sure you're tune in.

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Speaker 1: We want to thank our crew, including Jay Harris, our

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Speaker 1: producer working at home today, and our production assistants working

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Speaker 1: from home as well, George Blast, Jeff Colton, Nick Thomas, Homelder,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, J, j Teredo, Kevin Kargis, and James Robe. Steve,

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Speaker 1: I hope you had a good day today. Yeah, it's good,

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Speaker 1: much better. I hope my voice sound a little better.

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Speaker 1: I got my little set up here. Maybe you're not

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Speaker 1: down the echo great. I agree with Wade, you're great.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow. Twelve Aine Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalidah Health and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.