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Speaker 1: down Down, that's not a time from Wednesday. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: our show one Live, coming to you a radio only

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Speaker 1: again today. Sorry about that. John Murphy and Steam Tasker

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Speaker 1: doing the show from our homes again for it's about

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Speaker 1: been about a week now. Jay Harris is on the

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Speaker 1: with each other each other my skype. John. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how to tell you this, but I've noticed there's

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Speaker 1: some strange man walking around behind you. There is again

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. You have an intruder,

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Speaker 1: I think in your house, Jay, And my mic was

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Speaker 1: debris from my basement. We are redoing our what happension

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Speaker 1: orange curtains. It's bad. It's bad, all right. So he's

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Speaker 1: so it is very cold in here, but keeps me awake.

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Speaker 1: It's our producer Jay Harris. I'm at home. I'm in

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Speaker 1: our kitchen where I have been. Steve's in his den

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Speaker 1: with all kinds of patting around you, Steve, what's going

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Speaker 1: what kinds of soundproof patting going on? It drives me

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Speaker 1: I sound all right? I'm sitting right at the kitchen table.

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Speaker 1: I don't have any patting around me. Well, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: York that are hit a little harder at this point

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Speaker 1: in time than other states are. And it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: and it's just not fair that all these you know,

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Speaker 1: all those teams in those states, whoever they are, Washington, California,

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Speaker 1: New York are two weeks behind everybody else. So they're

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Speaker 1: they're shutting down all they're they're having all the facilities

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Speaker 1: around the NFL shut down the same to keep at

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Speaker 1: a level playing field. That was it. And plus you're right, Murph,

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Speaker 1: if they move the draft back, the league is all

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Speaker 1: about unintended consequences and also the ripple effect unforeseen consequences.

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Speaker 1: If they move the draft back, they move OTA's back,

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Speaker 1: they move everything back, and then they've got issues, not

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Speaker 1: the least of which is probably their relationship with the

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Speaker 1: union and the CBA and the new CBA and all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that they're limited with. They can only do

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Speaker 1: so much by contract with the union. If they start

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Speaker 1: moving it back, all of a sudden, six things become compressed,

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Speaker 1: and they become so compressed that they become illegal because

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Speaker 1: of the CBA. And I think if they're really worried

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Speaker 1: about moving things around like that for all of those reasons,

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Speaker 1: and I think it just starts a chain reaction that

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Speaker 1: you and me and most of us casual most casual

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Speaker 1: fans just don't see and don't know about. Right, So

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Speaker 1: there you go. The league is, by a mandate of

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Speaker 1: the Commissioner of the League, is going to shut down.

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Speaker 1: But again, I don't think we'll feel it here in

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Speaker 1: Western New York with the Bills because they have been

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Speaker 1: for a while. That's it as far as new I'm

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Speaker 1: looking over what else is going on around the league.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota goes to the Raiders signed, Yes, so he

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Speaker 1: says he's ready to back up Derek Carr. He said,

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Speaker 1: first and foremost, this is Derek's team. And I understand

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Speaker 1: that that's impressed by Marcus Mariota, who's had a rough

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Speaker 1: goal the last year or two in Tennessee, to verbally

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Speaker 1: say that on the day he's signed with them, right,

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Speaker 1: isn't I'm impressed by that. Yeah, I think he There

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Speaker 1: were probably some conversations about that in the contract negotiations

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Speaker 1: as well, anyway, not that they were made public or

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Speaker 1: not even that Marcus Mariota or is his team made

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Speaker 1: public or either or the Raiders, just that listen, you're

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Speaker 1: not coming in here to compete. Derek's our quarterback. He

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Speaker 1: knew that when he agreed to the deal. That is

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Speaker 1: always made perfectly clear, and the fact that we're just

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Speaker 1: finding out about it really doesn't change the fact that

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Speaker 1: there's no question Marcus Mariota knew what he was getting

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Speaker 1: into three or three weeks ago when he agreed to

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Speaker 1: the deal. Yeah, but to say that I think is significant.

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Speaker 1: One other thing and we'll talk with rich Samini about this.

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Speaker 1: When he joined us at two o'clock as we talk

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Speaker 1: about the Jets, Robbie Anderson has gone from the Jets,

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Speaker 1: and uh, I guess I'm a little surprised. About a

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Speaker 1: week ago, I recall reading that the Jets expected him

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Speaker 1: to resign. He goes to the Carolina Panthers, reunited with

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Speaker 1: his college coach at Temple, Matt Rule, and maybe that

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Speaker 1: was the impetus for Robbie Anderson, one of the top

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Speaker 1: receivers for the Jets, to sign the contract with the

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. It's a two year, twenty million dollars deal,

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Speaker 1: not outrageous money. Twelve million dollars in the first year

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Speaker 1: of the contract. Pretty pretty comparable, I would say, to

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Speaker 1: what the Bills are going to pay their new receiver, right,

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Speaker 1: isn't it, Steve, It's about the same, right, twenty million dollars,

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Speaker 1: ten million year, twelve million first year exactly. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I gotta muract. Something just occurred and I want to

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Speaker 1: go back and talk about that. Marcus Mariota, Derek Carr

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Speaker 1: thing and I want to beat a dead horse. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's interesting to me because I'm positive what

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Speaker 1: I just said is probably accurate that they had conversations.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota knew he was not going to be in

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Speaker 1: competition to start for the Raiders, and he signed very early.

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Speaker 1: Did he not? I mean almost in the first couple

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Speaker 1: of days of a free agency or if not before

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Speaker 1: he wasn't released, was he or he was a free agent?

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Speaker 1: I think he was. Wasn't he free agent? I think

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Speaker 1: he signed last weekend? Didn't he? Yeah? I wonder if

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Speaker 1: they Anyway, My point is, what does it say about

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota's he signed up quickly to be a backup

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Speaker 1: and didn't hold out any hope of being a starter

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Speaker 1: for any of the other teams that that we're looking

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Speaker 1: for starters. As it says he's a realist, he knows

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Speaker 1: he hasn't been great. Yeah, it also says he didn't

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Speaker 1: have any competitive spirit. I mean he didn't want to

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Speaker 1: compete when he didn't even want to go someplace where

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Speaker 1: you can actually compete. I mean, there were there's a

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Speaker 1: there was a handful of team like Tampa Bay, like Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers and the Raiders, but all those teams you

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Speaker 1: could go in there and compete for a job. He

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Speaker 1: wanted no part of it. I mean that, And I

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Speaker 1: think that speaks to what we kind of observed from him.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't a fiery guy, let's go get it. He

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Speaker 1: was like a I don't know. It just says something

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Speaker 1: to me about his personality that he's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: he signed really early in the free agent process, when

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Speaker 1: there was a ton of teams looking for starters or

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Speaker 1: at least guys to compete for the starting job. He says,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm happy being a backup. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to I'm going to Vegas. That says something to me

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Speaker 1: about him. And and it's, you know, a from a

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Speaker 1: football stand for him, from a player stand for it

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Speaker 1: is it's not flattering. Yeah, you make a decent point.

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Speaker 1: The more you say it, the more I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: And I was thinking about and he's not a total comparable,

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Speaker 1: But look, Ryan Fitzpatrick has moved around the league a lot,

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Speaker 1: and most places where he signed people figure he comes

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Speaker 1: here to back x up. You know, he went to

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Speaker 1: Miami to be Ryan Tannehill's backup. He went to the

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Speaker 1: Jets to be somebody else's backup. He went to Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans as somebody else's backup. And I can't recall ever

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Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpactor going in there and saying, I'm happy to

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Speaker 1: be here to be Ryan Tannehill's backup. This is Ryan's team.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to back him up. You didn't say anything

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Speaker 1: about it, and then he goes out and takes the job. Eventually,

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Speaker 1: You're right, there is a little bit of a difference

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Speaker 1: there between what Marcus Mariota said and what Ryan Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: has never said. You're right about that. Yeah, I just

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Speaker 1: think it's I don't know. I think it's something that

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Speaker 1: most of I don't know most football people observed about

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota. He's a wonderful guy, one of the you know,

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Speaker 1: he's full of character, he's you know, hard workers. Teammates

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Speaker 1: loved him. But he doesn't strike me as a fiery

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Speaker 1: competitive leader. And I think this move to willingly sign

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Speaker 1: early in free agency as a backup speaks to that.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a I think he's a participant, he's

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Speaker 1: not a leader. Interesting. Our question today on Twitter deals

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Speaker 1: with quarterbacks getting set for a Bill season. We think

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season, we think it's coming up. Which

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen first round quarterback has the most pressure on

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Speaker 1: them this year? That's what we want to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: You know, there were what six quarterbacks drafted first round

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen? Is that right? Or five? Five? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Five five drafted in the first round. We picked the

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Speaker 1: top four because the fifth Josh Rosen, doesn't count anymore.

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Speaker 1: Which twenty eighteen first round draft pick at quarterback has

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Speaker 1: the most pressure this year going into a second year.

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Speaker 1: If you have an answer you'd like to give us,

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Speaker 1: we'll love to take your phone calls. The lines are

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Speaker 1: open eight oh three oh five fifty outside Buffalo toll

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Speaker 1: free at one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a tweet on the tweet sheet. We'll read

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Speaker 1: those in a little bit. You can vote in the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll. We got seven hundred fifteen votes in the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll so far. Which twenty eighteen first round quarterback

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Speaker 1: has the most pressure on them this coming year? Is

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Speaker 1: it the Bills, Josh Allen, the Jets, Sam Darnold, Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: Baker Manfield or Baltimore's Lamar Jackson. So far in the

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Speaker 1: early voting seven hundred and fifteen votes, forty six percent

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Speaker 1: of you say it's Cleveland's Baker Mayfield who has the

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Speaker 1: most pressure this year? Interesting thirty eight percent not far behind,

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Speaker 1: say it's Buffalo's Josh Allen, eight percent say Sam Darnold,

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Speaker 1: eight percent say Lamar Jackson. What are you think which

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen first round quarterback has the most pressure on them?

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Speaker 1: What do you think it is, Steve? I think it's

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, and then Josh got a considerable pressure as well,

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Speaker 1: But I think after the drop off in his production

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Speaker 1: last year and the Browns terrible year last year, I

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Speaker 1: think Baker Mayfield's most pressure on him. What do you think, Steve?

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Speaker 1: I do for a couple of reasons. One, I think

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Speaker 1: an outside of Buffalo and we've we've heard it, and

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Speaker 1: Josh Josh Owen's always been this polarizing figure, right there

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Speaker 1: are people who hate him and there's still people who

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Speaker 1: bash on him even after he won ten games, helped

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Speaker 1: him win ten games last year, because he's not an

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Speaker 1: accurate passer and you know, and whatever, say what you

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Speaker 1: want about Josh Allen he's really polarizing. And and I

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Speaker 1: think that being said, he was the what the seventh

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Speaker 1: player picked, fifth player picked overall in draft seventh right,

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Speaker 1: seventh seventh player picked overall. Baker Mayfield was the first

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Speaker 1: guy picked. And he's on his fourth head coach, fourth

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Speaker 1: head coach. He had Hugh Jackson, then he had Greg Williams,

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Speaker 1: then he had Freddie Kitchens, and now he's got Utefanski,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski. So he's on his fourth head coach. It's

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Speaker 1: starting to look like it's Baker Mayfield, you know, and

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Speaker 1: he's got to he's got to play well enough to

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Speaker 1: you know, get that out of people's minds. And and

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Speaker 1: he's you know, it hasn't been all. You know, it

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Speaker 1: hasn't been easy in Cleveland. Uh, some of it probably

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Speaker 1: was not his fault. Freddie Kitchens was not a good

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Speaker 1: head coach in Cleveland. You can't blame Baker Mayfield for that,

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Speaker 1: but certainly you would like to have seen Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: be more productive under a guy that he gave a

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Speaker 1: total vote of confidence to his head coach. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: he didn't. And he didn't so particularly with all the

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Speaker 1: talent around him. So I don't think it's any question

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Speaker 1: Baker's under the most pressure because of what's happened over

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Speaker 1: the course of his career in Cleveland and what it looked,

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Speaker 1: and now getting Kevin Stefanski on his offensive coordinator is

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Speaker 1: fourth head coach. I think it's put up for shut

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Speaker 1: up time for Baker Josh Allen. No question, They've done

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Speaker 1: everything they can to build a championship caliber roster around.

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Speaker 1: He's got a great defense, they just added another weapon.

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Speaker 1: They've got an offensive line that is solid. They've got

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Speaker 1: a young running back that looks great, young athletic tight

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Speaker 1: ends that are developing that I think are really going

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Speaker 1: to take a step forward. And Josh Allen did take

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Speaker 1: a step forward last year, so now it's expected that

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Speaker 1: he would take another one and that Oh while though

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Speaker 1: it's not as much pressure as Baker Mayfield, I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's any question Josh Allen would come for me,

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Speaker 1: come in right behind Baker on this list. I agree.

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Speaker 1: That's our Twitter Paul question. Which twenty eighteen first round

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Speaker 1: quarterback has the most pressure on him in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: Give us a call. We'd love to hear your voice

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Speaker 1: about anything regarding the Bills in the NFL eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: two five fifty vote in the Twitter poll sending your tweets,

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Speaker 1: we will read them on the tweet sheet when we return.

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Speaker 1: I got this on the tweet sheet. Unrelated to that topic,

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Speaker 1: Lee wants to know. He says, Hey, one goes live.

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Speaker 1: When are we going to hear from any of these signings,

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Speaker 1: especially Stefan Diggs. We'd like to hear what they have

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Speaker 1: to say. Good question, Lee, And we're waiting too, and

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Speaker 1: we're told that, you know, it's just a paperwork thing, right. Physically,

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Speaker 1: they can't bring these guys in. They don't bring anybody in.

639
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: They're not bringing them in for physicals. In some cases

640
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: they get independent physicals done and at that point, with

641
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: electronic transmission and paper, they would be able to make

642
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: it an official signing. But we're told that like Dean

643
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: Marlowe and Isaia McKenzie former Bills who were resigned the contracts,

644
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,719
Speaker 1: they might be quicker in the pipeline as far as

645
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: getting them in town or at least on the phone

646
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: for a guest shot with us and for all the media,

647
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: just because they have more recent physical information. With some

648
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: of the others, you know, the seven they signed, including

649
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: and traded for Diggs. They just don't have the physical done.

650
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: You can't get the paperwork done. So that's where we're

651
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: waiting for as far as getting those guys on as

652
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: soon as we can, we'll get them on. We'll promise

653
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: you that comedy on radio today. We are not in

654
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: the Seneca studios again. Today's radio coverage only for one

655
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: bills five and we'll come back and let's hear from

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Speaker 1: eight O three five fifty to three one eight eight

657
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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty one bills Live presented

658
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Speaker 1: by Kalidah Health and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

659
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: back to one of those lives. He cast along with

660
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: John Murphy, aired from our homes. Once again, we are

661
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: headed towards well the draft. It looks like it was

662
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: never it was never it was Tell you there, Steve, Oh, yeah,

663
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: we're yeah, we're on the air. Go ahead, moot your mind,

664
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: Pike or something. Yeah, no, I don't know what happens.

665
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: I think technical difficulties. Yeah. By the way, your your

666
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: skype cameras plant pointed at the ceiling too. By the way,

667
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: Brood coming in, I like you listen. I was gonna

668
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: say something about it, and I didn't. But it's it's

669
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: gonna be a nice one. I can tell it's a

670
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: little scant over here, but I'll give it some time.

671
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: I did this ten or twelve years ago. I had

672
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: a beard and it took a while, but when it

673
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: came in, it looked good. I liked it. Yeah, I

674
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: still line two. Mine takes mine takes forever two weeks

675
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: away from looking good anyway. Yeah, so we're I just

676
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: I just said that we're waiting on that. We'd we'd

677
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 1: talked in the first segment about the draft not being delayed,

678
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: and we're still waiting on that. I guess it's still

679
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: gonna happen, and it's not that far away now starting

680
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: to zoom in on us. I just have my doubts

681
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: as to whether it's gonna happen. Murph. I think that

682
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: leg will reconsider, don't you. Um, I don't know. I said,

683
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: I'm a little puzzled by what the league announced. Uh,

684
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: but the league in outs yesterday it's still on and

685
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: then the GM has to be postponed. It's a month

686
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: from tomorrow, right, Yeah, one month from tomorrow is around

687
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 1: one I still think there's time to make this happen

688
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: some way, isn't there. Yeah, I mean they can. Yeah.

689
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: I think they're getting some pushback from the football people,

690
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: right And I just think right now, kind of like us,

691
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: the football people are secondary considerations. I mean, for a

692
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: football league. I hate to say that, but I think

693
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: it's true. Right. Yeah, football and all the stuff is

694
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: secondary to what's really going on around the country. So

695
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: I think they're I think the league is just saying, listen,

696
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep on keeping on. We You know, there

697
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: was some you and I had the conversation about the

698
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: league going on with free agency on schedule, like they were,

699
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, like nothing was going on, and we I

700
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: suspected you you thought they were a little tone deaf,

701
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: and they got I saw a couple of them, but

702
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: I most people were like, yeah, I want something else

703
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 1: to watch other than Cuomo and the President's brief things

704
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: and all the other stuff that's going on. I want

705
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: something else to think about for about for a little while.

706
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: So free agency was a nice distraction from that they got.

707
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: I think you and I both think the NFL is

708
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: fortunate to get that kind of feedback from most people

709
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: but how's it going to be in a month from now?

710
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: You know, what's it gonna be? Like? Are they going

711
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: to continue to I don't have a problem with him

712
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: saying they're gonna go on with it the schedule now,

713
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: but they should also say, listen, this could change, and

714
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: they should start preparing for it to change if indeed

715
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,959
Speaker 1: it needs to. Yeah, I think they're ready to change

716
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: if they have to, righty, Well, I don't know. I mean,

717
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: what's it You and I are like everybody else, what's

718
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: it take? Really, it's just a decision that there's a

719
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: there's a hundreds of people that are going to be

720
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: involved in that decision that are going to have to

721
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: do some really some big changes in their schedule and

722
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: in their preparation for it to change. So I don't

723
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: know if they I don't know if it'll happen or not.

724
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: Let's take the phone call here, Tim is on the line. Hello, Tim,

725
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Go ahead. I listened

726
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: a long time listener, love the show. I work. I

727
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: have my own business as a medical courier, so you

728
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: are exclusively in my life on the radio, and I

729
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: enjoy it on a daily basis, and it breaks up today.

730
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: But now that we've moved into a surreal world, I'm

731
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: that guy in the Rochester area that is going in

732
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: three different counties to hospitals and picking up the test

733
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: kits for the testing of the coronas virus. And needless

734
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,280
Speaker 1: to say, it kind of feels like playing a bad

735
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: hand of poker, but it must be done. So what

736
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: you guys have always given me has now moved to

737
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: a place where I feel safe when I'm between runs.

738
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: And I am not the only one. I've spoken to

739
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: other drivers that are fans of the show, and of

740
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: course fans of the bills, and we really appreciate that

741
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: you're going to extraordinary means to make this show keep

742
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: coming to us because it takes my mind off of

743
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: what I have to deal with on a daily basis,

744
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,959
Speaker 1: because it is when you're in it, it's a whole

745
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: other world. Now I get it, And Tim, thanks, that's nice.

746
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: I will say to have you tell me that we're

747
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: going to extraordinary means, I'm like shaking my head. I mean,

748
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: I'm walking down to my kitchen and firing up my laptop.

749
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: It's not exactly extraordinary, but I appreciate the sentiment and

750
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: we like doing the show no matter what circumstances. We

751
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: like doing the show. And if it helped you through it,

752
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,479
Speaker 1: I think that's good. What do you think, Steve? Well

753
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: For Tim, let me just tell you I admire you too.

754
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: I really appreciate where you're doing more so than us

755
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: talking about football and free agency. Thanks for kind of

756
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: keeping on keeping on, because there are and I've gotten

757
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: I said this the other day. I have a few

758
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: members of my extended family who were nurses in the area,

759
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: well established nurses, and there you know, their at risk.

760
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: And then at the end of their shifts, they still

761
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 1: they have to go home to their families and hopefully

762
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: take all the precautions they've taken are enough to keep

763
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: their kids and their husband's spouses safe from the virus.

764
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: So all of those people in the medical industry, they're

765
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: keeping on keeping on. And and like I said too, Murph,

766
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: not just Tim driving from place to place, hospital to hospital,

767
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get these results of the tests

768
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: and all the other things that are going on. You've

769
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: also got the same people that are just playing sick

770
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: for the other stuff, you know, and injured and falling

771
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: off the ladder, and you know, stepping off the curb

772
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: wrong and twisting their ankle and breaking their leg or whatever.

773
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: All of that stuff's still going on too, and that,

774
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: you know, and they got to do the medical industry's

775
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: got to deal with that as well. So man, oh man,

776
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: they're it's if me, if you and me sitting in

777
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: the comfort of our own homes aids in that I

778
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: can hit a home run with that job, right, I mean,

779
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: last we can do is that. So I'm doing it.

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00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: I am. I'm doing everything I can if if all

781
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: I have to do is be a slug, my god,

782
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: I all be the best one. So here we go. Yeah,

783
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: what's the most extraordinary thing you feel like you've done?

784
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: Hang up that that cushion in your background that deadened

785
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: the noise and your dead Yeah right, and maybe like

786
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: a skipper run to the supermarket, you know, dissolidate my

787
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: runs or whatever and whatever, you know, so I stay

788
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: in the house. That's that's the biggest Hey, you know,

789
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: the biggest sacrifice for me, Murph is probably curtailing the

790
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: urge to go see my grandkids, you know, yea, And

791
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: curtailing the ears to go see my kids and I

792
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: mean my son, you know, Luke, the one that is

793
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: co hosted the show, Luke. He and his wife they're

794
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: in one of their final doctor's appointments today for the

795
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: twins they're expecting. Yep. I mean, so, I you know,

796
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: you don't think I want to be like in the

797
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 1: midst of that. And that's the biggest of sacrifice for me,

798
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: So and I and I know that's just you know,

799
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: that's a that's a grain of sand on the Long

800
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: Sandy Beach for most people in all the sacrifice around us.

801
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: I got one grandson. Have you guys, you and Sarah

802
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: done the FaceTime with your grandchildren? Steve, No, you know

803
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: what we're planning on doing tonight though, Uh yeah, you

804
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: know we have the five children. Yeah, they're all grown. Yeah,

805
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have you know, zoom. I don't know

806
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: what zoom is yet. Yeah, I don't know what that

807
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: is yet. I'm finding out because everybody's meeting that way, right.

808
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have a Zoom cocktail party tonight after

809
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: the show's over. Right. I'm not a I'm not a

810
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: big heavy drinker, but were at least we're gonna get

811
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: together face wise, like on Scott like we are in

812
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: Skype today, you and me and Jay. So we're gonna

813
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: have like you know, everybody will have their own whatever cocktail,

814
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: and we'll sit there and talk about how everybody's doing.

815
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: My daughter is in Alaska Anchorage. Everything's shut down up there,

816
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: just like it is here. And they've only got them

817
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. They had a handful of cases, right,

818
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: So it's and then I have a son and daughter

819
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: in law who live in New York and white planes.

820
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: They're just outside the heat commutes to the city. They're

821
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: both working full time from home. And then I got

822
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: the two boys married here with kids here here in

823
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: East Aurora. And then I got the one. And here's

824
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: the big dilema, Murph and I don't want to be

825
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: we're going off on these personal stories. But at twenty

826
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: two year old who's suspended his college educa his senior year,

827
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't get a graduate. There's no you know, no

828
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: spring break, no classes, no senior projects, no no graduation

829
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: for him, none of that stuff. And he is still

830
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: down trying to get a handle on what they're gonna

831
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: do with the final trimester of his college career. As

832
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: a student, he didn't even know what he's gonna do,

833
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: how he's gonna take classes, who his professors are, what

834
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: he's gonna do. So he's in Savannah, Georgia kind of

835
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 1: trying to deal with that on his own, and and

836
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: we're wishing he was here. So and that's I'm pretty

837
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: sure we are probably typical of a lot of people

838
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: who have issues like this or similar to this that

839
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: they're dealing with, like you and Jay with his child

840
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: care at his house. So I don't know, I this

841
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: is uh, it's if if I can do my part

842
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: by sitting here in my office doing the show from there.

843
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: And I appreciate the call from Tim and Rochester who's

844
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: driving around. Hey, I'm I'll do it. And I know

845
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: you feel the same way. Yeah, I was gonna tell

846
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: you you try And if you miss your grandchildren, which

847
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure you do. We do it almost every day now,

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Speaker 1: us that way. It's pretty cool. Yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 1: highly recommended. We have for many people to found that

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Speaker 1: we have a photo share with our family. So all

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Speaker 1: every day. So that's nice. Yep, Well enough about us,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about it. We're gonna take a break here

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna come back and we'll get to some

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Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet when we return. It's

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Speaker 1: home season home. I'm at home reproducer Jay Harris's home.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, one of those

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Speaker 1: our homes. Happy to do it too. As we bring

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Speaker 1: you the show, we're gonna talk with Chris Brown coming

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Speaker 1: up at one o'clock, Sonomon Wilcox from Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 1: at one thirty, and Ritz Amini talking about the Jets

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Speaker 1: at two o'clock. Our Twitter poll today, which first round

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Speaker 1: quarterback drafted first round twenty eighteen has the most pressure

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Speaker 1: on him this year? Is it Buffalo's Josh Allen, the Jets,

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Speaker 1: Sam Jarnald, the Brown's Baker Mayfield, the ravens Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: and our Twitter poll, forty nine percent of you say

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield has the most pressure. Thirty eight percent thirty

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Speaker 1: six percent say it's Josh Allen. Let's read some of

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Speaker 1: the tweets. You can also give us a call to

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Speaker 1: discuss at eight O three five fifty and toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two fifty from Bills

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Speaker 1: and Mets fan on Twitter, Lamar exceeded expectations. Not a

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Speaker 1: lot of pressure. Josh is living up to expectations. Moderate

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Speaker 1: pressure nationwide more part of Bills fans, darn Old and

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Speaker 1: Mayfield have lots of pressure because both could be busts

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Speaker 1: Between the two. It's Mayfield because he was a number

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Speaker 1: one pick. That's pretty good analysis. By the way, we

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Speaker 1: had one person on Twitter and say, hey, you forgot

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Speaker 1: Josh Rosen. No he didn't. He's got no pressure because

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Speaker 1: he's got no career yet. But Lamar exceeded expectations. Steve,

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Speaker 1: do you believe that to be the case. I did

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Speaker 1: think Lamar Jackson overachieved. I mean, nobody thought he was

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Speaker 1: gonna be an MVP quarterback when he was drafted. I

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Speaker 1: was drafted in the first round, and I gave a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit yesterday to John Harbaugh when we had

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Speaker 1: Brian Bouldinger on the show. John Harbaugh. They went all

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Speaker 1: in with Josh, with Lamar Jackson and built a team

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Speaker 1: around him in a way that would give him the

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Speaker 1: best chance to see seed. And they did it. They

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Speaker 1: got the MVP, and they got the number two seat

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Speaker 1: in the conference or number one seed in the conference,

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Speaker 1: and he overachieved. I don't think anybody saw him doing that,

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Speaker 1: and I think for that he gets some slack this year,

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Speaker 1: although he can't fall off the table either. I don't

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Speaker 1: think this could be his ever in any scenario, would

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Speaker 1: be his last year in Baltimore if he did flop,

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Speaker 1: But I think it might be a second to last

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Speaker 1: year maybe. But I think he's I think it depends

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Speaker 1: on what teams do to contain him and how he

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Speaker 1: reacts to a league that has seen him for sixteen

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Speaker 1: games already. That's the big quit Howard. Teams are they

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Speaker 1: going to be able to defend him on the ground,

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Speaker 1: and if they can, can he still win? If he

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Speaker 1: still wins, obviously they're not going to move from him

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Speaker 1: at all, but he's got to prove that. I think, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to your question, how they're going to contain him, I

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Speaker 1: would say they're gonna make him play quarterback, gonna make

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Speaker 1: him throw the football, and I'm not convinced that he

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Speaker 1: can succeed that way. You know, I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: Lamar and I guess he props this question, but Josh

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Speaker 1: falls into this as well. Well. Maybe another question, or

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Speaker 1: a similar question, maybe a better question, would be which

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Speaker 1: of the twenty eighteen first round quarterbacks are going to

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Speaker 1: take a step back this year. I would think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Lamar Jackson. I wonder if sam Donold's going

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Speaker 1: to take a big step forward. He may or may not. Um,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I think has plenty of doubters who say, um,

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Speaker 1: you know you, and I think I would. I would

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Speaker 1: say in general that Josh has been pretty methodical stepping

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Speaker 1: forward in his career, and Baker Mayfield took his step

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Speaker 1: back last year. But of the four, I would say

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has a chance to take a major step

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Speaker 1: backwards this year. Yeah, I think so too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to go forward from the MVP, right, he

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Speaker 1: had to win. He's got to win the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: to take a step forward. So it's easy to see

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Speaker 1: and and you know, then even if he plays the

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Speaker 1: same as he did, it would be perceived as a

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Speaker 1: step backwards. If somebody else wins the MVP, who has

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Speaker 1: a breakout year? Um, you know when when and I

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Speaker 1: don't want to make a laugh, but what if Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen wins the MVP? Right? And then then where you stand? Right?

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the first time. Let me just go

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Speaker 1: on record as saying I'm the first guy that that

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Speaker 1: that put Josh Allen in the MVP in the same sense.

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Speaker 1: I'm not predicting he's gonna do that, but let's face it,

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Speaker 1: if he takes a step board, he continues to progress,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be really, really good quarterback. We have yet

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Speaker 1: to see him take a regression in his development. He

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Speaker 1: does it on a week to week basis. Once in

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Speaker 1: a while he'll have a worse game than he did

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Speaker 1: the week before, but man, oh man, that guy gets

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Speaker 1: is getting better. He did it in a course of

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Speaker 1: sixteen games this last year, and he continues to do so.

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Speaker 1: You know that's you know, I think if anybody else

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Speaker 1: wins the MVP, yeah, Lamar Jackson is going to be

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Speaker 1: perceived as having taken a step backward if they don't

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Speaker 1: do the same things offensively that they did a year ago. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're people are gonna lay that at the feet of

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. So I think that is you know, I

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Speaker 1: think it's easiest to say that if you're gonna ask

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Speaker 1: for which one of these guys is going to take

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Speaker 1: a step back, he has the biggest chance to because

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Speaker 1: of how high and how he played last year. Let

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Speaker 1: me ask you this question, and we're going to break

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Speaker 1: here in a minute, and it's kind of a similar question.

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Speaker 1: But um, I'm gonna give you two quarterbacks from the

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Speaker 1: class of twenty eighteen and ask you who's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the next one to be named an MVP. Is it

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has already got one, or Buffalo's Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Who will be the next of those two? Who would

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Speaker 1: be the next one to win MVP? I know who

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Speaker 1: I think it would be, and it's not a quarter

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Speaker 1: you will but I think Josh has potential to be

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Speaker 1: in the most valuable player, to be the leading quarterback

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Speaker 1: an effective quarterback, maybe not a great passer, an effective

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Speaker 1: will do that. Before Lamar Jackson repeats as MVP, what

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Speaker 1: do you think of that? It's interesting. That's that's bit,

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Speaker 1: And I'm glad you said it before I did and

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Speaker 1: I didn't think about it. I'll take the heat on

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Speaker 1: Twitter they are, I mean, people are gonna laugh at you.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take some You're gonna take some heat for it.

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Speaker 1: But you think about it and where Josh is headed

985
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 1: in his career and what he did a step forward

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Speaker 1: he took this last year, and what he has under

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00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: the hood as an athlete. Yeah, and now that this

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Speaker 1: team you add Steph Digs to the mix, you put

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00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: that defense as um. You know, statistically they got better

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Speaker 1: up front with the number of Saxon pressures that they

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Speaker 1: lost in Jordan Phillips and Shack Lawson. You bring in

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Speaker 1: the guys they brought in, and yeah, they statistically might

993
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Speaker 1: have gotten better UM to a top two or three

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Speaker 1: defense in the league. So yeah, that's it's not out

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Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility, but another way of saying,

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Speaker 1: who's got the bigger upside? I happened to think Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen has a bigger upside than Lamar Jackson. Well, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, he's well, Lamar's MVP. He's it's hard to

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Speaker 1: say he's got more of an up you know, any

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Speaker 1: more than we've already seen. Uh, he's a great player,

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Speaker 1: and he's and in some cases, Lamar Jackson's a unicorn.

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Speaker 1: We've never seen anybody like him. Right, He's one of

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Speaker 1: a kind. That makes him special. Uh, Josh has shown steady,

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Speaker 1: predictable improvement, and it'll be interesting to see if he

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Speaker 1: can continue that. We had doubt that he would last offseason,

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Speaker 1: although we were optimistic, and sure enough, he came through

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Speaker 1: last year with a ten win season. Five or lasise

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Speaker 1: eight points better, no, six points better in his uh

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Speaker 1: completion percentage. Uh, you know all of that. So he

1010
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Speaker 1: just ran the offense better. So, yeah, Josh is gonna

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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, you can be optimate like this, Murph,

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00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: I gotta wait and see it, but you can be

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Speaker 1: optimistic that Josh is gonna take another step forward. And

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Speaker 1: now what's that gonna look like on a team that

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Speaker 1: won ten games and now has even a better defense?

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Speaker 1: Possibly yep, I don't. I don't know. It's fun, fun

1017
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Speaker 1: talking about locks into our house so much that we're

1018
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Speaker 1: clearly I don't know, No, I just did. That's the

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Speaker 1: way I feel. I'm ready to take the heat for it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna Chris brown In in a moment or two.

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Speaker 1: Chris will give us this update on what he's wearing

1022
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Speaker 1: during the quarantine, what he's doing during the quarantine, whether

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Speaker 1: don't he think of the Bills moves, all of that

1024
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Speaker 1: from Brownie coming up when we returned, come out back.

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Speaker 1: One does Live present about collout of help from our

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Speaker 1: home today. Steve's at home, I'm at home. Jay Harris,

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Speaker 1: our producer at home and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: The update comes from One Bills Live Today and sad

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Speaker 1: news around the Buffalo Bills Today. Knews that one of

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Speaker 1: the all time great Buffalo Bills has passed away. Bills

1031
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Speaker 1: legend Walla Fame linebacker Mike Stratton passed away this morning

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Speaker 1: at his home in Tennessee. Believed to be deceased due

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Speaker 1: to natural causes. Six time AFL All Star, two time

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Speaker 1: American Football League Champion, Stratton, most famously known for the

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Speaker 1: hit Heard Around the World nineteen sixty four championship game

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Speaker 1: win over the San Diego Chargers when he hit Keith

1037
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Mike Stratton Bill's walla Famer passing away today at

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Speaker 1: his home in Tennessee. The NFL plans to stick with

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Speaker 1: the Tapril twenty third, twenty fifth schedule for this year's draft,

1040
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Speaker 1: despite a recommendation from these general managers to the Commissioner

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Speaker 1: that have he moved back due to the current pandemic.

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Speaker 1: General managers concerned that in the current environment, with offseason

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Speaker 1: activities canceled some teams facilities closed, there won't be enough

1044
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Speaker 1: time for player physicals, get psychological testing, getting further verified information.

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Speaker 1: League sources have said it would be a competitive disadvantage

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Speaker 1: to have some teams in their training facilities during the

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Speaker 1: draft while teams in California, New Jersey and here in

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Speaker 1: upstate New York are in lockdown unable to be in

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Speaker 1: their teams buildings. A league still has time to make

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Speaker 1: further in final decisions, but right now the draft is

1051
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Speaker 1: scheduled to go on as schedule. NFL is now implementing

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Speaker 1: league wide workplace and operational mandates, including closing most of

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Speaker 1: these facilities until further notice. That includes the Bill's facility,

1054
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Speaker 1: which has been closed for more than a week now.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota has been a starting quarterback for most of

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Speaker 1: his five year NFL career. He's getting seventeen and a

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00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: half million dollars for two years from the Raiders, but

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00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 1: he says he knows his place. He has no confusion

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00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: over the pecking order with the loss end or the

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders. He's coming in as Derek Carr's backup.

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00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: Mariota says, first and foremost, this is Derek's team, and

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Speaker 1: I understand that former Jets wide receiver Robbie Anderson signing

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00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: a two year, twenty million dollars deal with the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 1: It includes twelve million in his first year. He becomes

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00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: the latest Temple player former Temple player to reunite with

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00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: Panthers first year head coach Matt Rule. And Generes Jenkins

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00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: has signed in the New Orleans Saints. The cornerback sounds

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00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: a two year extension more sixteen point seven five million

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Speaker 1: dollars in That is the update from One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy Steave Tasker coming to you from our homes

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Speaker 1: today once again and joining us on the line Builds

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Speaker 1: Insider from Buffalo Bills dot Com. Happy to have the

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Speaker 1: great Chris Brown on the line with us. Oh Chris,

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00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: how are you doing today? I'm doing okay, good afternoon, guys.

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00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 1: Hey Chris, I know you've done well. I don't want

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00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: to dwell on this, but it is sad news about

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00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: Mike Stratton passing away. And I know many people will.

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00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: You know, there are a certain younger age of Bills

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00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,320
Speaker 1: fans who say, who the heck is he? But people

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00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:48,280
Speaker 1: should know this guy, Mike Stratton. He was an important

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00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: figure in the history of the franchise and it goes

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00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: beyond the hit on Keith Lincoln, doesn't it. Well, Yeah,

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00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: And I think one of the reasons why is he

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00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: was probably one of the first true athletic linebackers in

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00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: Bill's history, like a supreme athlete at the position that

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00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: they had not previously had in their short existence before

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00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: he got there in sixty two, I believe so. I

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00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: remember back about ten years ago when we were putting

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00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: together all these video packages of candidates for the fiftieth

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00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: anniversary All Time Team, and I got an opportunity to

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00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: talk to Mike and a lot of his teammates and

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00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:38,879
Speaker 1: I can't say enough how impressed, even forty some odd

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00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: years later, how a lot of his teammates were with

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00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: the rare athletic ability that he possessed, and several of

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00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: them told me they felt that he was one of

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00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: the few guys from their championship teams in the mid

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00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: sixties whose athletic skill set would still make him an

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00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: NFL caliber player even now. Yeah, he wasn't a bugger, right, Chris.

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00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: He was long and rangy and tall, and kind of

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00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: a different physical sort than what we may have seen

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00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: at linebacker back in those days. Yeah, I mean he

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00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: he'd probably be a little more comparable to you know,

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00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: what you see at the outside linebacker position in these

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00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: three four s games. You know, taller, longer players, you

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00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: know who can get their hands up in the passing lane,

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00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 1: but also effectively get up on the line and set

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00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,320
Speaker 1: the edge and use their length to kind of steer

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00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: everything back inside. But it was his speed that I

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00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: think impressed a lot of his teammates more than anything else,

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00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 1: because back then, six foot three guys were unheard of

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00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: at linebacker number one, and then to have the speed

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00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 1: that he had, I think was what made him even

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00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:52,839
Speaker 1: seem like more of a unicorn. Yeah, Brownie, we're talking

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00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: about it. And most people when you talk about the

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00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: you know, the great moments of the franchise history. You know,

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00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: you talk about even three years ago for the art crowd,

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00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: that moment when the Bills broke the drought and we're

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00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: all watching together in the locker room and all the

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00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: fans all around the country and all the Bills backers

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00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: watching all around the country. Is Andy Dalton throws a

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00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: fourth quarter touchdown pass to put the Buffalo Bills into

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00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,839
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Moments like that, the fifty one to three

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00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: football game, the Great comeback game. That hit that Mike

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00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: Stratton made back in the nineteen sixties was thought of

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00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: along those lines as a great moment, something that people

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00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 1: talk about of that generation, that about you know, where

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00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: were you or what you think or who were you

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00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: with when you saw that hit. Yeah, I mean it's

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00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: certainly one of those moments. As a matter of fact,

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00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: when we were doing some recent video series the last

1131
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: few off seasons, I know that did make the list,

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00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: if memory serves or one of the top ten moments

1133
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: in Bill's history. So you know, you think about, you know,

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00:56:55,200 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: sixty years now of games. And obviously it was a

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00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: high profile game, you know, being a championship contest. But

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00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: and because it had that stage, that's probably part of

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00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: the reason why it is so memorable. But you talk

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00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: to any Bills fan over the age of fifty fifty

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00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: five and they'll they'll reference that thing immediately. Yep, Chris

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00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: Brown Bills inside at Buffalo Bills dot com on the

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00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: line when that's talking about a variety of topic. To

1142
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: spend several days since we had Chris back on one

1143
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: NFL note, I wanted to get your take on Chris Uh.

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00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: I guess a committee of general managers asked the commissioner

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00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: in the league to postpone the April twenty third start

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00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: of the draft. The league said no. For now, I'm wondering,

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00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: what reason do you think the league would have to

1148
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: ignore that. They didn't ignore it, but not go along

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00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: with that request. Why not postpone the draft? What do

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00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, it's kind of hard to crawl into

1151
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: the mind a commissioner Goodell and his you know, committee

1152
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: of people that you know he relies on for sound

1153
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: advice and guidance because he doesn't always make these decisions unilaterally.

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00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: Contrary to popular opinion, but I think that in a

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00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: state in which we're living right now, which is dramatically

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00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: different than what it was just a few weeks ago.

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00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if the league feels that they're some

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00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: way helping to serve as a distraction of sorts. I

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00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: don't know if they're anxious to have the draft play

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00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: out on time so you know, they can maybe facilitate

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00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: their network media deals. I'm just spitballing here. I really

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00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: don't know what the impetus is. I understand the concerns

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00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,919
Speaker 1: on the part of the GMS for sure, because their

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00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: normal set of preparations has been compromised to a great degree.

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00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: It started at the Combine getting their interviews reduced from

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00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: six to forty five, so they were working with fifteen

1167
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: fewer there right off the bat, and then obviously, you know,

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00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen pandemic has completely turned things upside down,

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00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: with pre draft visits being wiped off the map, pro

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00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: days being wiped off the map, along with a host

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00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: of other things, including the medical recheck at the Combine,

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00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: which usually takes place back in Indianapolis in late March

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00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 1: or early April, so apps in those elements, I can

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00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:33,959
Speaker 1: see why nflgms are very uneasy. The draft is enough

1175
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: of an inexact science to begin with, and when you

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00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: take out these opportunities for gms to check off boxes

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00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: or to do the kind of fact finding even in

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00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: the tenth or eleventh hour that these gms do, I

1179
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: think it makes it even more of a guessing game.

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00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 1: And that has to be tremendously unsettling for the gms

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00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: that are going to be making these kinds of decisions. Well, Brownie,

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00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: before we get to the d after, I mean, this

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01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 1: free agency ce has hit the book. League went right

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01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: on with its schedule and it went it seems to

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01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: have gone swimming league set for, like you say, the

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01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:10,959
Speaker 1: physical part of it. As you look down the Bills roster.

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01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: We're going to go over this with you because I've

1188
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: said it many times. You're you know, you're always neck

1189
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: deep in the roster. What do you think if you

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01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,479
Speaker 1: go down position by positions, starting on the offensive side

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01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: of the ball, what's left to be done for the

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01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: Bills roster? Where are their holes? Where their weaknesses? Where's

1193
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: the lack of depth? Where's the guy or the group

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01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: of the position group? Where the Bills need to really

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01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: work on to get better. I mean, where do you

1196
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: start if you start on the offensive side of the ball,

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01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: what jumps to your mind after free agency that the

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01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 1: Bills still need to do. Yeah, I mean, I think

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01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: you can make an argument for two positions, chiefly, and

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01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: that's running back in offensive line offensive line. In terms

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01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: of the tackle positions specifically, you know, I think there

1202
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: are going to be steps taken to get Dion Darkins

1203
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: locked up to a long term contract at some point

1204
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 1: in time when who knows. So even though he's entering

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01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: the final year of his contract, I don't think he's

1206
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: got a red exclamation point next to him, like, hey,

1207
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: this is a guy we have to replace, because I

1208
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: think he's going to be in the fold for a

1209
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: long time. But the fact remains that Tie and Seki

1210
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: is entering the last year of a two year contract,

1211
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 1: and while you do have Cody Ford, what is the

1212
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 1: long range plan for him? Is he going to be tackle?

1213
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: Is he going to be guard? Knowing that John Feliciano

1214
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 1: is entering the last year of his two year contract

1215
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 1: that he signed with the team last year, So with

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01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: those elements in mind and potential moving parts, A year

1217
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:41,439
Speaker 1: from now, I think it would be a good time

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01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 1: to try to get a young offensive tackle on board,

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01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: the kind of groom in the event that in the

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01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: next offseason, you know, maybe because you've extended some of

1221
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: the players from your twenty seventeen class that you want

1222
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:56,439
Speaker 1: to have in the fold long term, you have less

1223
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 1: cap room to work with, and so maybe in the draft,

1224
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: you know, if you can pick up an offensive tackle

1225
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 1: that fits your value when you're on the board, that

1226
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: can kind of take care of having an understudy, so

1227
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,600
Speaker 1: to speak, who might be ready to go come twenty

1228
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: twenty one. And then at running back, really, to me,

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01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 1: it's more of a depth thing than anything else. I

1230
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: tend to have a little bit more faith in TJ.

1231
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: Eldon as a competent compliment to Devin Singletary than maybe

1232
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: some others do. But I think you still need that

1233
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: third option, knowing the attrition rate that running backs operate

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01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,439
Speaker 1: under this day and age in the NFL, and so

1235
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: whether that's a veteran free agent that you can get

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01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: on a one year deal to serve as a stop gap,

1237
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 1: or whether you take advantage of what is considered to

1238
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: be a deep running back class in this year's draft.

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01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 1: I think some depth at that position is warranted. Chris,

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01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 1: I'll go along. Let me talk about running back for

1241
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 1: a second, because we've got a lot of listener input

1242
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: on that for a few days. And I think people

1243
01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: kind of underestimate how or maybe overestimate how badly the

1244
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: Bills need a running back want to get a running back.

1245
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: I think they're looking for a complimentary running back to

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01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. He only played twelve games last year. He

1247
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: only had one hundred and fifty charity's last year. I

1248
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 1: think Devin Singletary is their lead back and is poised

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01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 1: to take an even greater role in the offense this year.

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01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: Tell me why I'm wrong, Chris, please, I don't think

1251
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to disagree with you. I think I think

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01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 1: he is going to be the feature back just because

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01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: of the versatile skill set he brings to the table.

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01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 1: Unfortunately for the Bills. I think T. J. Eldon is

1255
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 1: more versatile than he gets credit four as a pass

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01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 1: catcher out of the backfield, and you know, as a

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01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,439
Speaker 1: between the tackles type runner who can run with maybe

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01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 1: a little bit more power and lean than Singletary can.

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01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:49,080
Speaker 1: At you know, two hundred and twenty five pounds. The

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01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: interesting thing to keep an eye on here because I

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01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: do believe at some point in time, whether it's later

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01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: in free agency or you know, on Day two or

1263
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: day three of the draft, the type of running back

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01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: that they had, do they decide, you know, we need

1265
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: a guy that can really push the pile, and let's

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01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: get someone like that. Do we need someone who is

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Speaker 1: better out in space and is more of an elusive

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Speaker 1: type back. I mean, Devin Singletary is elusive, but in

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Speaker 1: a different way than maybe a jitterbug type back would be.

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Speaker 1: He's not a quick twitch guy. He's just a very

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Speaker 1: skilled player in terms of his vision and contact balance.

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Speaker 1: People get arms around Devin Singletary, but he's very slippery

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Speaker 1: and can get out of them. It's not because he's

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Speaker 1: just to reference a guy from years past. He's not

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Speaker 1: an Eric Metcalf type, if you know what I'm getting at.

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Speaker 1: He's kind of more of a low built, load of

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Speaker 1: the ground type back who guys just kind of slip

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Speaker 1: off of and he has a low center of gravity,

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Speaker 1: so he can drive a defender off his feet quicker

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Speaker 1: than he's taken off balance himself. So what out of

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Speaker 1: back do they want. Do they want a pile pusher?

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Speaker 1: Do they want a space player that they can utilize

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Speaker 1: more than just in the backfield. Maybe they split them

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Speaker 1: out wide a little bit, although they did that with

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Speaker 1: Singletary last year. So I'm really interested to see the

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Speaker 1: type of back that they choose to add for depth purposes.

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Speaker 1: But if they if they were to wait and do

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Speaker 1: something in the draft with this back, wouldn't you think

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Speaker 1: that they're just gonna take the best running back available

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Speaker 1: and use him whatever his skill set is and fastest

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Speaker 1: to the offense that gives him the best chance to succeed.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you think there really is a back

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Speaker 1: out there of a certain type that they want to

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Speaker 1: grab or they just gonna grab the best guy. Certainly

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Speaker 1: they want somebody who can catch and run, you know

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Speaker 1: they I mean, but they're not going to grab a

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Speaker 1: like a Derrick Henry if he can't catch and run routes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I mean. I mean, they've

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Speaker 1: got to have a guy that's that's good enough to

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Speaker 1: carry the load if Devin's Singletary and run the entire offense.

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Speaker 1: If Devin Singletary twists an ankle or pulls another hamster

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Speaker 1: and like you did last year, God to have a

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Speaker 1: guy that they can win with. Doesn't that just include

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01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: the fact that they're going to get the best guy

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01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: they can line of leads to the second compelling question

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Speaker 1: concerning the running back, which is, if you're going to

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Speaker 1: wait until the draft, are you comfortable taking the best

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Speaker 1: player available at the running back position if the value

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Speaker 1: is right, if you feel you have a specific kind

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Speaker 1: of back in mind. If you don't, then you're probably

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01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: fine and hope that the value matches up when you're

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Speaker 1: on the clock to take a running back, whether it's

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Speaker 1: day two or day three. If you have a specific

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Speaker 1: skill set in mind, you're probably more apt to scour

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Speaker 1: what's left in the free agent market so you can

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Speaker 1: get the kind of back that you want. Knowing you

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Speaker 1: have a guy that you've seen on tape at the

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Speaker 1: NFL level and you know what he can do, So

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Speaker 1: that could be a secondary prerequisite, so to speak, in

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Speaker 1: terms of what direction the Bills go to address the

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Speaker 1: depth need there With Chris Brown, Bill's Inside at Buffalo

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Speaker 1: bills dot Com, John Murphy and Seem Tasker on the

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Speaker 1: show One Bill's Live, Coming to You from our Homes

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Speaker 1: everybody's at home today, Hey, Chris says, since we last

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Speaker 1: talked to you, I think it was last Friday. The

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Speaker 1: Bills resigned some of their own who were out there

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Speaker 1: as well, in one case a restricted free agent and

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Speaker 1: one case unrestricted. Isaia McKenzie and Dean Marlowe added to

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Speaker 1: the roster. And McKenzie's case is interesting, Chris, because by waiting,

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Speaker 1: by not tagging him as a restricted free agent, I

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01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: think they may have saved themselves for some money and

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Speaker 1: gotten I think they got McKenzie on a pretty good deal. Correct. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they did not tender them a qualifying offer. You know,

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Speaker 1: the low tender this year was just over two million dollars.

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Speaker 1: I think that was a little too rich for the

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Speaker 1: Bill's blood. And we hear all the time, Brandon Beans say.

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Speaker 1: You know, in the off season, as our pro personnel

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01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 1: staff is preparing for free agency and getting ready to

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01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: negotiate with our own free agents, they assign a value

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01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: to the player and they try to stick to that value.

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Speaker 1: And obviously their value was different than what the tender

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Speaker 1: offered levels were, and so they chose instead to you know,

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Speaker 1: negotiate with the mackenzie camp and say, hey, look, we're

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Speaker 1: not going to tender you, but we are interested in

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01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 1: keeping you. Can we negotiate something, you know, completely separate

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Speaker 1: from what the restricted free agent tender levels are and

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01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:35,520
Speaker 1: clearly they were able to do that and bring mackenzie

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Speaker 1: back into the fold. Yeah, that's what it meant, tender,

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Speaker 1: not toay. Do you have any do you have a

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01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,960
Speaker 1: short list of guys who are possibilities also that the

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01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: Bills would resign that we're on the roster last year,

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01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 1: maybe hanging out that there as a free agent or

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01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: a you know, that they still like to get their

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01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:53,599
Speaker 1: hands on anybody's still out there that you think maybe

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01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 1: they're thinking about in the same way they thought about

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Speaker 1: Isa McKenzie. I mean, I think it's I think it's Pole.

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01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,840
Speaker 1: But a lot of the guys that are still on

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01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: the list fellas are veteran players. I mean, we're talking

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01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: about seven, eight, ten, more, ten or more years in

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01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:16,719
Speaker 1: the league that are on the list of Bills free

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01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 1: agents that have not been back. You know, lie Adrian

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01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 1: Waddle is one of the younger free agents left on

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01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: their list as a six year vet. Sonoras Perry is another.

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01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: But beyond that, guys, you're talking ten eleven year players.

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01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:38,759
Speaker 1: You do have Moreurice Alexander, the outside linebacker whose season

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01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: was cut short last year due to injury. But you

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01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:46,000
Speaker 1: know players like Kurt Coleman, who was brought in, you know,

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01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 1: as a veteran safety, Frank Gore. I mean, these are

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Speaker 1: guys that I'm just not anticipating. And this is just

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Speaker 1: a guess on my part, but I'm not anticipating them

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Speaker 1: being back. Chris Brown, our guests goes into at Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills dot com. I have followed you on Twitter, Chris,

1373
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:05,719
Speaker 1: You've been keeping busy by what tie dyeing your shirts?

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01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: Have you done? All of them? One of them would

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Speaker 1: have been done? Well, this was just a one time thing,

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01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: to be completely honest with you, And I was talked

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Speaker 1: into this by my daughter, who was probably ten times

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01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:19,600
Speaker 1: as bored as I was this past weekend. And she

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Speaker 1: often has advice for me with respect to social media,

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01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,600
Speaker 1: and she came up with this concept, and she was

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01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:28,600
Speaker 1: leaning on me, leaning on me, leaning on me, and

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01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 1: I said, okay, fine, I said, but you're doing all

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01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 1: the video editing and all of that stuff. So she's like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's my idea. What do you think? I said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. I mean, we were that board, so

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01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 1: we're figuring bills fans are probably just as board, you know,

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01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:44,640
Speaker 1: in this new reality that we have to deal with,

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01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: especially on the weekend where you don't have to worry

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01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:50,680
Speaker 1: quite as much about work responsibilities or online learning for

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01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: school for students. So that's where we came up with. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: the results were horrific. I don't think I did a

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01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:00,880
Speaker 1: very good job at all. I was getting all kinds

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01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:04,679
Speaker 1: of advice on the social media pages from Bill's fans,

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01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,800
Speaker 1: the best of which was that I probably wrapped the

1395
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:10,599
Speaker 1: shirt too tight, which prevented the color from covering most

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01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 1: of the shirt. But for a first time attempt for

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Speaker 1: a guy who's really not into the tide I've seen,

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Speaker 1: I guess I did probably C minus D plus work.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't So it doesn't surprised me, Brownie that you

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Speaker 1: might have got just like just a little advice from

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Speaker 1: social media. I'm sure that nobody was interested in telling

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01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 1: you how you were supposed to do it. Oh well, yeah,

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01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 1: let's just say the response was healthy. We'll leave it

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01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 1: at test. Yeah. I don't want to keep you, Chris,

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01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:44,280
Speaker 1: but I'm just doing a little math here. So you've

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Speaker 1: been quarantined at home for a while. Before that, you

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01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:49,040
Speaker 1: and your family were around to a catern for a while.

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01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:50,720
Speaker 1: What do you look at like six weeks where the

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Speaker 1: four of you, you and Tracy and your two teenage

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01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:56,000
Speaker 1: children have been together about six weeks now, four weeks,

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01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 1: six weeks. What are we talking about? Yeah? I love

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Speaker 1: my family, but we're getting a little long with um.

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Speaker 1: There's there's a reason. There's a reason we're all in

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Speaker 1: different rooms during the course of the business day. Shall

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Speaker 1: we say that's great, Brownie, thanks hanging there, Thanks for

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01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 1: joining us today. All right, it's brown fills inside of

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01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo bills. I found a distinct lack of energy from

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01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: Chris today. I would say, Steve, right, I think up.

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Speaker 1: I think it's yeah, exactly what I say. I think

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Speaker 1: he's getting a little beat up. That's it's you know,

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01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:32,559
Speaker 1: he'll he'll be all right, Brownie will come through it.

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01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 1: He's a grinder. You may want to get the police

1423
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,880
Speaker 1: over there, just to drive by to make sure everything's okay. Yeah,

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01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he sounds he sounds despondent. You know,

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01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:42,640
Speaker 1: he's going to break through the door with the with

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01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,280
Speaker 1: a hatchet like U. What's the name of the Shining

1427
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholas Crazy, Chrissy. Oh my guys, stop, just stop.

1428
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: We're getting worse and worse as the day goes on.

1429
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,879
Speaker 1: How to break here? When we come back, Solomon Wilcox

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Speaker 1: from Pro Football Focus, we'll join us talking about a

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01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 1: variety of NFL topics. John Murphy's team Tasker One Bills

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Speaker 1: I present about collid to health and this is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker

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01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: along with John Murphy here broadcasting from our homes during

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Speaker 1: the coronavirus quarantine. Murph and I are please to welcome

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Speaker 1: in a good friend of mine from my days in

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01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: CBS sideline reporter for some Monday night football. He's an

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Speaker 1: analyst in the booth for CBS and now he's working

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Speaker 1: for Pro Football Focus. My good friends Solomon Will called Sali,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and John Murphy here and Buffalo thanks for

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01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 1: coming on with us. Steve, John, Hey, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Always great to be audit. Let's get started. What you're

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01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 1: working for Pro Football Focus? You're doing some articles and

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01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: some video productions. What's your main area of expertise for

1445
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:05,960
Speaker 1: the focus. What are you doing with them? Well, you know,

1446
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:11,440
Speaker 1: it's really about producing content for viewers and using analytics

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01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: and Steve as you well know. You and I we've

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Speaker 1: been around the game for a long time, well over

1449
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 1: thirty years, whether it's as a player reporter or broadcast

1450
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 1: on an Now with data analytics, the science is so

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01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:28,479
Speaker 1: predictive and helping to evaluate players via the graft for

1452
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Speaker 1: free agency, helping to quantify activity, and so being able

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Speaker 1: to blend the new the nuances of data analytics with

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01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: the experience that we have. I find it very pleasing

1455
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: to be content for our website and for viewers on

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Speaker 1: our channel on YouTube. Hey Solomon, we're interested in getting

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01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 1: opinions on the bills move so far a week and

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01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 1: a half into free agency, and of course the trade

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Speaker 1: of Stefan Diggs. What do you think of those moves? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I like the move by Stefan Diggs. I said at

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Speaker 1: the time our content around this move. I thought it

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Speaker 1: was good for both teams. Very seldom do you find

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Speaker 1: these trades to be equitable for both sides. But the

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Speaker 1: Vikings they needed. He needed the cap relief right and

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Speaker 1: getting Stefan Diggs off the books and getting a draft

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Speaker 1: pick in return helps them. We all know one of

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Speaker 1: the things that that number one receiver, whide receiver number

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Speaker 1: one was needed. I think it's going to help the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: It helps lift the team, his attitude and what he

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Speaker 1: of the locker room because he's a true competitor, but

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Speaker 1: he also knows how to fit into a team environment.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's a good move on both sides.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that the Bills got criticized for

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Speaker 1: was paying so much to get Stefan Diggs, and I've

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01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 1: kind of countered with and I love the deal when

1476
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: they did it, trading a first and the other a

1477
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: couple of draft picks for Stefan Diggs in a seventh.

1478
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: I love the deal mainly for this reason, Sally. You

1479
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: see Amari Cooper signed for twenty million dollars with the

1480
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. You've got Stefan Diggs for four more years

1481
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:11,120
Speaker 1: at eleven million bucks a year, and I think that

1482
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: makes this deal going forward really great for the Buffalo Bills.

1483
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: You've got yourself your number one receiver at eleven million.

1484
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:23,759
Speaker 1: Teams are paying close to eighteen, nineteen and twenty million

1485
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:26,759
Speaker 1: dollars a year for their number one receiver. This allows

1486
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,679
Speaker 1: you to be able to take care of that position

1487
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,440
Speaker 1: in you to build a team around a very young quarterback.

1488
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 1: One might say that you can go into this year's

1489
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: draft and get a top receiver, and you'd be right.

1490
01:16:38,240 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: I still believe the receiver in the second and third round,

1491
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 1: but you're not gonna get a receiver that can come

1492
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 1: in and hit the ground running like Stefan Diggs, who's

1493
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:52,040
Speaker 1: already a veteran young wide receiver played a position. They

1494
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:56,040
Speaker 1: have a tough time with site adjustments, reading blitz coverages,

1495
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: knowing how to break off routes to be able to

1496
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: get a polished receiver. Day want the way to go

1497
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 1: for the Bill. I think we might have lost Murph

1498
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: just for a second. Let me go ahead and I

1499
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: ask you this solid, how do you think you're as

1500
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 1: a defense? You were a defender in the NFL, and

1501
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: you've seen a lot of running backs. You've watched him.

1502
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: The Bills have this young running back in Devin's single Tarry,

1503
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:23,680
Speaker 1: and he's really shifty, has elite vision. Not maybe not

1504
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: a home run hitter, but he gets every yard that's

1505
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 1: coming to him and plus can make some extra stuff.

1506
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:32,600
Speaker 1: Also really shifting, great change of direction. What kind of

1507
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:34,600
Speaker 1: running back do the Bills need to go out and

1508
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 1: get or maybe you have even a name of a

1509
01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 1: guy that they need to go out and get in

1510
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 1: free agency or in the draft, who would like compliment

1511
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: Devin single Tarry or maybe even compete with him. What

1512
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 1: kind of guy do you look for as the Buffalo Bills.

1513
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: Do you just go get the best guy available? Or

1514
01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: do you get a guy with a specific skill set

1515
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: when you're drafting and even if free agency and we're

1516
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:00,760
Speaker 1: working doing more work on this is that forget about

1517
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:04,759
Speaker 1: the jersey just for one minute and just focus on

1518
01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 1: the productivity of the player. What are you need specifically

1519
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 1: in your offense and defensive What are the skill sets

1520
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:15,439
Speaker 1: you to perform the work that needs to be done?

1521
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: You mentioned it definite Singletary is a guy that he

1522
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,439
Speaker 1: can run it between the tackles, He can hit the edges.

1523
01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 1: He seems for the runner. If you said that, in

1524
01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:28,360
Speaker 1: the Buffalo builds offense, you need someone who can impact

1525
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 1: the passing game and be a receiver coming out of

1526
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: the backfield. You need a running back like an Albacama.

1527
01:18:36,479 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: You want one maybe like a Christian McCaffrey. And so

1528
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 1: you're looking in this draft and you're trying to find

1529
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: that players. You don't have to cut your round pick

1530
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:46,920
Speaker 1: to find those kinds of players. You can get them

1531
01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:50,799
Speaker 1: third or even fifth round. It really is about finding

1532
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: the right guy who's the right fit for you and

1533
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: who has the rights based on what you want to

1534
01:18:56,320 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 1: accomplish in your offense. And then once again, every time

1535
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 1: Murk tries to chime in, Sally, he's getting snapped off

1536
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 1: on his skype. So I'm just gonna keep on rolling

1537
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,679
Speaker 1: with this. I can't tell you how much we appreciate

1538
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 1: you coming on. It's been great. It's great to see again.

1539
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:12,879
Speaker 1: I know I told Murph during my career at CBS,

1540
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 1: there's maybe a handful of times when I called you

1541
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 1: and said, Sally, what do I do about this? And

1542
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: you were always you're always really gracious to me and

1543
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: coming up with the right advice and the right situations,

1544
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: because sometimes you deal with these teams you don't know

1545
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 1: what they're talking about, you know, you don't know what

1546
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: to do and why they're saying the things they are

1547
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I got to ask you though

1548
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 1: this when we were talking about you said, about the

1549
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:40,720
Speaker 1: Tom Moore and Bruce Arians. Tom Moore is the guy

1550
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 1: who worked with Peyton Manning. He knows how to give

1551
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 1: his quarterback a lot of rain. Bruce Arians is known

1552
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,600
Speaker 1: for being able to get the most out of quarterbacks.

1553
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 1: How do you think it's gonna work? I expect Tom

1554
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: Brady to really thrive under those two guys. And they're

1555
01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:01,799
Speaker 1: and they're coaching. What do you think? Agree with you there, Steve,

1556
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: And we're working on a piece right now. Just submitted

1557
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:08,679
Speaker 1: it to my editor. And basically I'm talking about Tom

1558
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:13,519
Speaker 1: Brady and his the right team, not simply because they

1559
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: have really talented receivers and Mike Evans and Chris Scottwin

1560
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: and they did okay, But I'm talking coaches. When you

1561
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: think about Tom Moore and Bruce Arians in nineteen ninety eight,

1562
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,680
Speaker 1: they were with the Indianapolis coach, as you well know,

1563
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:35,360
Speaker 1: you're Pollion. They were there when the coach drafted Peyton Manning,

1564
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:38,600
Speaker 1: and they helped groom him and helped empower him to

1565
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 1: run an offense and read and get the offense into

1566
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 1: the right play. They metally took the offense and put

1567
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: it in the hands of a young quarterback and they

1568
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: taught him to be aggressive. Now what did it mean?

1569
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:54,720
Speaker 1: Admit that in interceptions that year were twenty eight, but

1570
01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:58,880
Speaker 1: he also set a rookie record for receiving excuse me

1571
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 1: for passing yards if the touchdown passes and everyone whether

1572
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 1: it was Bruce Arians working with Ben Roethlisberger, Bruce Arians

1573
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:10,839
Speaker 1: working with Andrew luck during his first season in TWE twelve,

1574
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: he's called the quarterback whist sort of resurrected Carson Palmer's

1575
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:20,639
Speaker 1: career with the Cardinals. These two guys together working with

1576
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:25,520
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, even at forty three years old, James Winston

1577
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,559
Speaker 1: could throw for five thousand yards in that offense and

1578
01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 1: have two thousand yards receivers. What do you think Tom

1579
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: Brady could do? Who design know? They're gonna empower him

1580
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:39,840
Speaker 1: to go out and attack the defense. They're gonna turn

1581
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:43,320
Speaker 1: it all over the time. They're gonna literally hand it

1582
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 1: over to him and help him do the things that

1583
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:48,600
Speaker 1: he loves to do and the best way that he

1584
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 1: wants elaboration. And that's what I'm excited about with the

1585
01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The amazing thing about this whole scenario

1586
01:21:56,120 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: with Caroline is that they got a chance to they

1587
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 1: they told Cam Newton go out and seek a trade,

1588
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 1: and they Cam couldn't make it happen. So Caroliner ends

1589
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:10,599
Speaker 1: up releasing a former MV while getting a fifth round

1590
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 1: draft pick in return for a backup quarterback Kyle Allen.

1591
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 1: Is Cam Newton still a starting quarterback? Does he have

1592
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:20,840
Speaker 1: a chance to be productive? You know, I think it's

1593
01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:23,639
Speaker 1: a really good question. See, because we don't know about

1594
01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: his health. Remember the guy had surgery on his flip

1595
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:30,759
Speaker 1: for Liz Frank injury, had surgery on his shoulder prior

1596
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:34,920
Speaker 1: to the twenty nineteen season. We haven't seen him throw

1597
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 1: without having discomfort and pain. We haven't seen him run

1598
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: without discomfort or pain. And as you well know, Cam

1599
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:45,760
Speaker 1: Newton is a unique specimen. Is a unique quarterback. Any

1600
01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: offense that he plays in, you're gone off the Taylor

1601
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: the offense. To his skill set. He has a career

1602
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: completion percentage of fifty eight percent. Now, Cam could win

1603
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 1: with that low number, but most quarterbacks couldn't. And the

1604
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: reason why he could win with that number because he

1605
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:05,640
Speaker 1: goes about generating offense in a different way. However, we

1606
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 1: don't know if he could continue to play with the

1607
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 1: same style in the same physicality given his injuries with

1608
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 1: foot and the throwing shoulder, and it's gonna be tough.

1609
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if the team is willing to take

1610
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:21,040
Speaker 1: that on with the uncertainty to help, and I don't

1611
01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:22,799
Speaker 1: know if they're willing to give up the whole office,

1612
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: the Taylor and around him when you don't know if

1613
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 1: he's going to be in a lineup he is. He's

1614
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 1: an untraditional quarterback much in the same way that a

1615
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is. You gotta be all in with Cam

1616
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 1: or you can't even go there. But this also speaks

1617
01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:40,559
Speaker 1: to the way that he's always played the game for

1618
01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:44,360
Speaker 1: nine years. We know that that solar players quarterback position

1619
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,599
Speaker 1: does not come with longevity, and this is the one

1620
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:49,680
Speaker 1: that the Baltimore Ravens is gonna have to even come

1621
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 1: to this conclusion. Do you continue to allow Lamar Jackson

1622
01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: to play this way or should it morph into something

1623
01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 1: more traditional because the more traditional way of playing the

1624
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:03,080
Speaker 1: quarterback position lends to longevity. And that's where we're at

1625
01:24:03,120 --> 01:24:06,920
Speaker 1: a crossroad with Cam Newton where we simply don't know

1626
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:08,920
Speaker 1: and I don't know if there's a team out there

1627
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: right now that's gonna scrap it all when you have

1628
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:17,160
Speaker 1: no insurances with his health, So it's very difficult question

1629
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: to ask. Do you have a gut feeling about where

1630
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:23,920
Speaker 1: Cam will end up? Yeah? I think you know, listen,

1631
01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 1: I think if he's healthy, would Ron Rivera They say, hey,

1632
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:30,600
Speaker 1: look i'll take you, but you're gonna have to be

1633
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: a backup you're gonna have. But you know, you know,

1634
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:36,720
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen is now making the moves right, He's now

1635
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 1: landed there, So I don't even think that's a spot

1636
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 1: if something happened to Tyrod Taylor stay with the Charges.

1637
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 1: They seem to be ready to roll with Tyrod. But

1638
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:48,479
Speaker 1: I think that's the kind of offense that if you're

1639
01:24:48,520 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: gonna tailor it around Tyrod Taylor with the Chargers, then

1640
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: Cam would be able to fit there too. So I

1641
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 1: could see that door possibly opening up once physicals are

1642
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,960
Speaker 1: allowed to be done and once there's some certainty with

1643
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 1: regards to his health. One last thing for me and

1644
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:07,720
Speaker 1: before I let you go, So I really appreciate you being, oh,

1645
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: we're salting on with Solomon will cost a foot Pro

1646
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 1: Football focus, Where do you think the remaining quarterbacks are

1647
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:16,040
Speaker 1: gonna land Cam Newton? Where do you think do you

1648
01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 1: think Andy Dalton stays in Cincinnati? Do you think Jamis

1649
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:21,679
Speaker 1: Winston is going to be the last guys standing? Where

1650
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:25,160
Speaker 1: do you think some of these guys are gonna land? Yeah?

1651
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:28,040
Speaker 1: You know, I don't. I don't see. Listen, we may

1652
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:31,400
Speaker 1: have a market for Andy Daltons before the trade deadline

1653
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:34,200
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season. Same with Cam same

1654
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,840
Speaker 1: with Jameis Winston. Because you know these teams that they

1655
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:41,839
Speaker 1: start playing games, someone gets hurt, the dynamic shift quickly

1656
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 1: and desperation set is. People don't want to see their

1657
01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:48,599
Speaker 1: season evaporate. The problem is, can you bring a quarterback

1658
01:25:48,840 --> 01:25:51,840
Speaker 1: talk a quarterback position? Can you bring a quarterback in

1659
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 1: at such late stage after you started the season, before

1660
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 1: the trade deadline. I think he's gonna make an impact.

1661
01:25:57,720 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 1: So I think you've got to get guys in there

1662
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:03,519
Speaker 1: during training camp where they can get raped, get used

1663
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 1: to your system. And so with that said, Jameis Winston,

1664
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 1: I think there's a backup market for him right now.

1665
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 1: I don't see a market as a starter. If he

1666
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 1: does find a market at the backup an he's the

1667
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:17,000
Speaker 1: best place for him. It's Pittsburgh where Ben Rotliosberger. He

1668
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:21,720
Speaker 1: has uncertain health, and I think that he can reclaim

1669
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:26,639
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston, reclaim some kind of glory. It fitted into

1670
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:29,200
Speaker 1: a system and a team that's ready to be successful.

1671
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 1: So I think that's a good for him there, and

1672
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:34,439
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers for Cam. But Cam's got to

1673
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 1: get in there quickly. You can't wait so training camp

1674
01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: is over, in the preseason games have been played, and

1675
01:26:40,080 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 1: then get in there as a quarterback. So that's how

1676
01:26:43,040 --> 01:26:45,880
Speaker 1: I see it for those two guys. Andy Dalton, I

1677
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:49,519
Speaker 1: think the Patriots are waiting. They want to be patient.

1678
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,679
Speaker 1: Seventeen million a year has gone a cost right now.

1679
01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 1: The Patriots don't have the cap for him. They would

1680
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,760
Speaker 1: have to cut players in order to bring Dalton, so

1681
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:00,720
Speaker 1: I think Dalton kind of stays in since Naddie. I

1682
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 1: think the Bengals are ready to keep them and take

1683
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:07,240
Speaker 1: that beating for one year before they throw Joe Burrow,

1684
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 1: whomember that rookie quarterback is gonna be. So I think

1685
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: it's a wait to see with Andy Dalton, But right

1686
01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 1: now it looks like Dalton could end up being with

1687
01:27:16,200 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 1: the Beings for the start of the twenty twenty feat Solomon.

1688
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: Thanks for this. I appreciate you coming on. I'll look

1689
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 1: forward to seeing you and crossing paths with you down

1690
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 1: the road. All right, anything you need, Steve any time,

1691
01:27:27,120 --> 01:27:30,599
Speaker 1: Take care, Solomon will Cost Pro Football Focus, Deep Tasker,

1692
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: and John Murphy coming back with more One Bills Live

1693
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour. We'll be back. This

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01:27:34,439 --> 01:27:50,479
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio back on the air. It's one five,

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01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:52,640
Speaker 1: presented by Collid of Health. I'm John Murphy. I think

1696
01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:54,599
Speaker 1: I'm back on the air. Steve, can you hear me? Yeah,

1697
01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 1: you're moving and talking again. It sounds good what we're doing. Well,

1698
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:01,479
Speaker 1: it wasn't you were You started to talk and then

1699
01:28:01,479 --> 01:28:05,599
Speaker 1: it would you're you were freezing up and the connection

1700
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:09,920
Speaker 1: with Solomon Wilcox went out and and yeah, it was.

1701
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,920
Speaker 1: It was rough. It was rough for a minute. We

1702
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:15,439
Speaker 1: got through it though, Okay. Good having Sally on. What

1703
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:17,639
Speaker 1: does it tell me about it? Yeah? He was good.

1704
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 1: He's he's got some real thoughts on how good is

1705
01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:24,200
Speaker 1: gonna go. I he thinks Tom Brady's gonna gonna soar

1706
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: like an eagle in Tampa Bay. We'll see, we'll see. Uh.

1707
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: He think it's gonna go really well for them down there. Okay,

1708
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:35,680
Speaker 1: So on Twitter poll today which eight twenty eighteen first

1709
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 1: starting quarterback has the most pressure In twenty twenty, we

1710
01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 1: got twelve hundred votes and forty nine percent say Baker Mayfield,

1711
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:45,160
Speaker 1: thirty six percent say the Bills owned Josh Allen, nine

1712
01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 1: percent say the Jet Sam Donald, and six percent say

1713
01:28:48,040 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 1: Lamar Alexander. Let me look at some of the responses

1714
01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: on the twee cheap roughtor by um Corrigan Moving Systems,

1715
01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 1: the official moves of the Buffalo Bill. Steve says, I

1716
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: think Sam Donald because it's a New York media. I

1717
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:01,680
Speaker 1: think this front offense has given him the least to

1718
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 1: work with. But if he fails, the New York media

1719
01:29:04,160 --> 01:29:06,759
Speaker 1: will get to him. It's not a bad observation, Steve.

1720
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: There is a New York media and it is gonna

1721
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:13,439
Speaker 1: be his third year, and if he doesn't produce, and

1722
01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:15,760
Speaker 1: I know the Jets don't have a great surrounding caster

1723
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:18,479
Speaker 1: around him, some of the focus will be on him. Right,

1724
01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:22,840
Speaker 1: maybe it'll take a while to get to him. I

1725
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:25,679
Speaker 1: don't think he's under as much pressure because of Adam Gase.

1726
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: I think Adam Gas is under the real pressure. I

1727
01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:30,640
Speaker 1: think Adam Gase is gonna shoulder a bunch of the

1728
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:33,880
Speaker 1: blame if the Jets season goes south. Certainly if if

1729
01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:36,760
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's missing open guys and playing bad, which I

1730
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:38,360
Speaker 1: don't think he will. You and I both think he's

1731
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 1: a pretty good quarterback, and I still do. I think

1732
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:44,160
Speaker 1: it's I think if there's anybody under pressure in New York,

1733
01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:47,040
Speaker 1: it's Adam Gase before it's Sam Darnald. That's why I

1734
01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:51,160
Speaker 1: would put you know, Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen when Lamar

1735
01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 1: Jackson had him. I think Sam Darnold may be under

1736
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:56,160
Speaker 1: the least pressure the four guys we mentioned, just because

1737
01:29:56,160 --> 01:29:58,280
Speaker 1: of the fact that his head coach, I think now

1738
01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: is on the hot seat. Huh. All right, we're gonna

1739
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 1: take a we'll talk more about Sam Donold with Rich

1740
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: Semini from ESPN NFL Nation, who covers the gems for them,

1741
01:30:07,439 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 1: and he's coming up next right here in the show. One.

1742
01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:13,600
Speaker 1: What's that you're wrestling papers? Oh that's me. I was

1743
01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:16,479
Speaker 1: flipping the page on my notebook. We're gonna critique each other.

1744
01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 1: You're gonna critique each other for the background noise. Yeah,

1745
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:21,040
Speaker 1: I got a little noise here. I got a glass

1746
01:30:21,040 --> 01:30:23,160
Speaker 1: of water here. Can you hear that. Yeah. I heard that.

1747
01:30:23,320 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 1: I heard yeah, Yeah, we heard that. You're yeah, I

1748
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:30,519
Speaker 1: heard you. What was it slamming cabinets? You had a cabinet,

1749
01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:32,040
Speaker 1: you had something out you were getting you had a

1750
01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:33,840
Speaker 1: wrapper out a little earlier, and I can't remember what

1751
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:36,080
Speaker 1: it was. It's so hard to stay focused when you

1752
01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 1: got this. You know what I mean? Did you get up?

1753
01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:41,600
Speaker 1: I walk around the office? You know you're because we

1754
01:30:41,680 --> 01:30:44,519
Speaker 1: got Oh my gosh, I got I need to work

1755
01:30:44,520 --> 01:30:48,120
Speaker 1: on myself. We do. We cannot be trusted with this

1756
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:52,599
Speaker 1: for you. One Bill's Live from presented by Kalidah Helton.

1757
01:30:52,680 --> 01:31:00,720
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Gill's Radio. The update from One Bills Live.

1758
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:02,600
Speaker 1: One of the major parts of the Bills back to

1759
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 1: back AFL championship teams in the nineteen sixties has passed away.

1760
01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 1: Mike Stratton, one of the bills best linebackers ever, died

1761
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: did today. Best known for the hit heard around the

1762
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,400
Speaker 1: world in nineteen sixty four AFL Championship game, he broke

1763
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:18,559
Speaker 1: Keith Lincoln's ribs on a perfectly time play, but he

1764
01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:20,920
Speaker 1: made many more plays than that. Stratton burst into the

1765
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 1: Bills lineup with a career high six interceptions in nineteen

1766
01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 1: sixty two, went to six consecutive AFL All Star Games,

1767
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:30,320
Speaker 1: three First Team All Pro honors. A member of the

1768
01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:32,639
Speaker 1: Bills Wall to Fame in the twenty fifth Anniversary team,

1769
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 1: Mike Stratton passed away at his home in Tennessee. He

1770
01:31:35,520 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 1: was seventy eight years old. The National Football League says

1771
01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:41,799
Speaker 1: they are sticking right now for April twenty third, twenty

1772
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:44,560
Speaker 1: fifth as the schedule for this year's draft, despite a

1773
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:47,800
Speaker 1: recommendation from league general managers to push it back due

1774
01:31:47,840 --> 01:31:51,639
Speaker 1: to the coronavirus pandemic. General managers concerned that with offseason

1775
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:55,040
Speaker 1: activities canceled and some teams facilities closed, there won't be

1776
01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:57,760
Speaker 1: enough time for player physicals and other testing, but the

1777
01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:00,800
Speaker 1: league says they're pushing forward with April twenty third through

1778
01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:04,839
Speaker 1: April twenty fourth. Cornerback nickol Robie Coleman, a former Bills cornerback,

1779
01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 1: has agreed to a one year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles.

1780
01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: Robie Coleman became a free agent when the Rams declined

1781
01:32:10,280 --> 01:32:13,000
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty option on his contract. He was getting

1782
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:15,559
Speaker 1: set to enter the final season of a three year,

1783
01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: fifteen point seven million dollars deal. Seven year NFL veteran

1784
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:21,679
Speaker 1: Robie Coleman played with the Bills to start his career,

1785
01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:26,160
Speaker 1: got noticed in the NFC Championship Game in January twenty nineteen.

1786
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:29,599
Speaker 1: He delivered the hit to New Orleans Saints receiver Tommy

1787
01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 1: Lee Lewis that called for a change in NFL rules.

1788
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:34,840
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota says he's been a starter for most of

1789
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:36,760
Speaker 1: his five years, but he's now ready to back up

1790
01:32:37,040 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 1: Derek Carr as the quarterback with the Las Vegas Raiders.

1791
01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:42,960
Speaker 1: This is Derek t He says, I understand that former

1792
01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:46,160
Speaker 1: Jets wide receiver Robbie Anderson signing a two year, twenty

1793
01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:49,200
Speaker 1: million dollars deal with the Carolina Panthers. Anderson got off

1794
01:32:49,240 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 1: to a slow start with the Jets last year, but

1795
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 1: picked it up late in November. Finished with fifty two

1796
01:32:54,320 --> 01:32:58,000
Speaker 1: catches to lead the Jets last season. And that is

1797
01:32:58,040 --> 01:33:01,280
Speaker 1: the update from One Bills Live. John Murphy and Steve

1798
01:33:01,320 --> 01:33:04,639
Speaker 1: Tasker in our homes today. We're radio only once again

1799
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: today because of the restrictions put on us. Joined on

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01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 1: the line right now by ESPN, NFL NAS reporter for

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01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:13,639
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, the host of the flight Deck

1802
01:33:13,720 --> 01:33:17,080
Speaker 1: podcast on ESPN. Going into his thirty second year covering

1803
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:19,000
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. Happy to have Rich Samini on

1804
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 1: the line. Hello Rich, John Murphy and Steve Tasker up

1805
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Thanks coming on, Hey Johnny, thanks for

1806
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:27,840
Speaker 1: having me today. How are you holding up down there?

1807
01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:29,920
Speaker 1: I know it's it's tough, especially in the New York

1808
01:33:29,920 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: City area. Are you doing okay? Everybody healthy? Everything? Okay? Yes,

1809
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:36,840
Speaker 1: thanks for asking. I am fortunately not in the New

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01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:39,559
Speaker 1: York City. I live out on Long Island a little ways,

1811
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: so we're about fifty miles from the epicenter where it is.

1812
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:47,000
Speaker 1: It is dire right now. I mean just I'm sure

1813
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:50,439
Speaker 1: you what. Everybody's watching the news. But so we're okay

1814
01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:53,639
Speaker 1: in our little place out here on Long Islands. Did

1815
01:33:53,640 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 1: they get much pushed back from Jet fen? Did the

1816
01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:58,760
Speaker 1: league in New York? Out here? People were welcomed the

1817
01:33:58,760 --> 01:34:01,760
Speaker 1: distraction of free agent? See? Did there get much pushed

1818
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:04,719
Speaker 1: back in New York for the Jets about the league

1819
01:34:04,760 --> 01:34:08,920
Speaker 1: going on with their free agency schedule? No, Steve, I

1820
01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:12,160
Speaker 1: don't think they did. I mean, to be perfectly honest

1821
01:34:12,160 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 1: and upfront, I wasn't thrilled about them myself going on

1822
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:17,799
Speaker 1: with free agency, which is so many more more important

1823
01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:20,720
Speaker 1: things going on. But I think most fans, at least

1824
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:23,760
Speaker 1: the ones I interact with on social media, were like, yeah,

1825
01:34:23,760 --> 01:34:25,559
Speaker 1: we want to do this. We you know, we need

1826
01:34:25,560 --> 01:34:29,000
Speaker 1: the distraction. And so I think most most of the

1827
01:34:29,040 --> 01:34:32,080
Speaker 1: people that I've seen or heard from were in favor

1828
01:34:32,120 --> 01:34:34,800
Speaker 1: of it going through. And to be quite honest, retrospectively,

1829
01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:37,360
Speaker 1: you know, I think it has been good. I mean,

1830
01:34:37,400 --> 01:34:40,400
Speaker 1: certainly from the business standpoint. We're all in the sports

1831
01:34:40,439 --> 01:34:42,759
Speaker 1: media business, and it gave us a lot of content

1832
01:34:43,120 --> 01:34:45,599
Speaker 1: to get us through the last week to ten days.

1833
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:49,640
Speaker 1: Rich Somini covers the Jets for ASPN. He's live on

1834
01:34:49,680 --> 01:34:52,120
Speaker 1: the line with us. Rich I mentioned it during the update,

1835
01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:54,840
Speaker 1: the loss of wide receiver Robbie Anderson. I get at

1836
01:34:54,840 --> 01:34:57,200
Speaker 1: the appeal of maybe playing for a coach that, you know,

1837
01:34:57,320 --> 01:35:01,439
Speaker 1: Matt Ruling Carolina. But well, I feel like as late

1838
01:35:01,479 --> 01:35:03,639
Speaker 1: as last week I was reading reports that the Jets

1839
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:06,920
Speaker 1: planned on resigning Robbie Anderson. That didn't happen. Do you

1840
01:35:06,920 --> 01:35:10,799
Speaker 1: think they had a chance to Keaton They were hoping

1841
01:35:10,800 --> 01:35:16,160
Speaker 1: to resign him, and especially with such a sluggish receiver

1842
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:20,680
Speaker 1: market out there, the numbers were lower than a lot

1843
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:23,080
Speaker 1: of people expected. So I think the Jets thought they

1844
01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: had still had a shot, and you know, it came

1845
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 1: down to money. I know there's some talk out there

1846
01:35:28,080 --> 01:35:30,120
Speaker 1: that you know, he wanted to go play for Matt

1847
01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:33,240
Speaker 1: Rule as old coach at Temple. I don't think that

1848
01:35:33,320 --> 01:35:36,439
Speaker 1: was the big factor. I think the big factor, like always,

1849
01:35:36,479 --> 01:35:39,120
Speaker 1: the factor is money. And you know, the Panthers went

1850
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:41,120
Speaker 1: higher than the Jets. You know, it was two years

1851
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:44,479
Speaker 1: years twenty million, with twelve in the first year, and

1852
01:35:44,520 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 1: I think the Jets were all okay with the ten

1853
01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,639
Speaker 1: a year. I think they valued that Robbie as about

1854
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:51,840
Speaker 1: a ten million a year receiver, but they just didn't

1855
01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 1: want to go twelve in the first year until Robbie

1856
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 1: took the money. And can't blame him for that that

1857
01:35:57,160 --> 01:35:59,960
Speaker 1: it's a business and he'll be down there in Carolina.

1858
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:04,640
Speaker 1: And the Jets answered by signing what's the game the

1859
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:08,640
Speaker 1: net gain loss between Robbie Anderson Rashad Perriman both financially

1860
01:36:08,680 --> 01:36:12,760
Speaker 1: and production wise. You know, Steve, I think it's absolutely

1861
01:36:12,880 --> 01:36:15,360
Speaker 1: kind of close. I mean, Robbie's a better player. I

1862
01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:17,559
Speaker 1: mean just you know, you could just look at the

1863
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:19,880
Speaker 1: back of his card and see that. I mean, his

1864
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:23,240
Speaker 1: stats are much better. He's a better overall player than

1865
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:26,840
Speaker 1: the Perryman, but not by a whole lot. You know,

1866
01:36:26,880 --> 01:36:29,599
Speaker 1: there's the same kind of player, a vertical receiver, like

1867
01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:32,760
Speaker 1: a home run threat type of guy. Really more of

1868
01:36:32,800 --> 01:36:35,599
Speaker 1: a one trick pony, especially in Perriman's case, because he's

1869
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:39,479
Speaker 1: really just a go route runner. Robbie used to be that.

1870
01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:42,519
Speaker 1: I think he verse you know, diversified his game a

1871
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 1: little bit last year, but so they drop a notch

1872
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 1: in terms of playing ability, but they also save money

1873
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:51,840
Speaker 1: on the cap. I don't have the exact number yet,

1874
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 1: but I think there's gonna say about two to three

1875
01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:56,439
Speaker 1: million on this year's cap, so they get a little

1876
01:36:56,520 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 1: less offer player, but they also saved some money on

1877
01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:01,479
Speaker 1: the cap. All in all, I think it's not a terrible,

1878
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:05,639
Speaker 1: you know, move for the Jets, and they still will

1879
01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:08,080
Speaker 1: draft a wide receiver as well, so they should be

1880
01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:12,200
Speaker 1: stronger there. Rich Semini covers the Jets for ESPN. Rich

1881
01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:15,040
Speaker 1: it seems like through the first week or so a

1882
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:17,920
Speaker 1: free agency, the offensive line has been the focus of

1883
01:37:17,960 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 1: attention for the Jets. Is that true? What have they

1884
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 1: got there? Yeah? I mean, you know, their GM Joe

1885
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:27,640
Speaker 1: Douglas said at the end of the year that you

1886
01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:29,800
Speaker 1: know that the line was one of the priorities, and

1887
01:37:29,880 --> 01:37:32,639
Speaker 1: anybody who watched the Jets offensive line this year would

1888
01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:34,720
Speaker 1: would agree with last year, would agree with him. The

1889
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:38,640
Speaker 1: line was stunt last year. So it's basically a total rebuild.

1890
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,639
Speaker 1: And they've added four new guys and they brought back

1891
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 1: to their left guard Alex Lewis, to you know, a

1892
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:48,320
Speaker 1: fairly modest deal. Yes, I won't go through all the guys,

1893
01:37:48,360 --> 01:37:51,479
Speaker 1: but the guys that they really expect to contribute immediately

1894
01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:54,040
Speaker 1: are the center Connor McGovern. They got him from Denver.

1895
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:57,479
Speaker 1: They gave him eighteen million guaranteed, so they obviously have

1896
01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:00,559
Speaker 1: plans that go beyond one year for him. They'll be

1897
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:02,640
Speaker 1: their new starting center, and that's a good thing for

1898
01:38:02,640 --> 01:38:04,880
Speaker 1: the Jets because they honestly haven't had a good center

1899
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:09,280
Speaker 1: since Nick Mangold and George Fans they picked up from Seattle.

1900
01:38:09,840 --> 01:38:12,800
Speaker 1: Right now, he's penciled in as their left tackle. That

1901
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:16,120
Speaker 1: possibly could change depending on the draft, But to me,

1902
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:18,719
Speaker 1: that's a little bit riskier pick because Fan was always

1903
01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:21,559
Speaker 1: a He was a part time starter in Seattle, never

1904
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:23,960
Speaker 1: really been a full time starter, So to me, that's

1905
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:27,080
Speaker 1: a reach. But yeah, I mean there's just a lot

1906
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:30,600
Speaker 1: of turnover on the offensive line for mostly you know,

1907
01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 1: modest type contracts. Jah Murphy, Steve Tasker coming to you

1908
01:38:34,560 --> 01:38:37,679
Speaker 1: from our homes talking to Ritz Amini of ESPN. Steve,

1909
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:39,320
Speaker 1: you have a question, I think, Yeah, how much how

1910
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:43,759
Speaker 1: much pressure is Adam gaze under this year? Rich? Yeah,

1911
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:46,800
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean seven and nine last year was

1912
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 1: actually it was kind of a small racle. They got

1913
01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:51,599
Speaker 1: to seven and nine because they were one and seven

1914
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:55,280
Speaker 1: at one point, and so I think that helped. But

1915
01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:58,559
Speaker 1: you know, the offense finished last last year. They were

1916
01:38:58,680 --> 01:39:01,840
Speaker 1: thirty second in total off and Adam Gays was hired

1917
01:39:01,880 --> 01:39:04,880
Speaker 1: in large part because of his offensive coaching ability. He

1918
01:39:04,960 --> 01:39:07,920
Speaker 1: did not show that last year. I think there were

1919
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:11,320
Speaker 1: another area where he's got to improve on his player relations.

1920
01:39:11,439 --> 01:39:14,439
Speaker 1: You know, there were some discruntled players last year with

1921
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:16,920
Speaker 1: the coaching stead off, in particular Gaye. So I think

1922
01:39:16,960 --> 01:39:19,560
Speaker 1: that's an area he has to improve on. And with

1923
01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:22,240
Speaker 1: Brady out of the division, you know, it changes the

1924
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:24,880
Speaker 1: landscape of the division, you know, I think it gives

1925
01:39:24,880 --> 01:39:28,200
Speaker 1: everyone a better chance. I don't think the Jets are

1926
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:30,080
Speaker 1: the best team in the division. I think Buffalo is

1927
01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:32,640
Speaker 1: the best team. In the division now. But you know,

1928
01:39:32,800 --> 01:39:35,800
Speaker 1: so Gays, Yeah, there's pressure on another seven and nine year.

1929
01:39:37,520 --> 01:39:39,800
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if he survives that, you know.

1930
01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:42,120
Speaker 1: I mean they have a new GM and they're working

1931
01:39:42,160 --> 01:39:45,920
Speaker 1: well together from what I understand, which is different from

1932
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: what the dynamic was last year with Gaye and Mike mccacknen,

1933
01:39:49,520 --> 01:39:52,160
Speaker 1: which was one of the reasons why mccacknin was fired.

1934
01:39:53,040 --> 01:39:56,040
Speaker 1: But you know, seven and nine probably doesn't cut it

1935
01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:57,559
Speaker 1: again for Gays. I think they got to have to

1936
01:39:57,600 --> 01:40:00,000
Speaker 1: contend or at least get a winning record, or really

1937
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:04,040
Speaker 1: contend for a playoff spot. I'm speaking of Fresher Rich.

1938
01:40:04,080 --> 01:40:06,519
Speaker 1: How much pressure is Sam Donald in as he gets

1939
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:10,200
Speaker 1: set to enter his third year. Yeah, I think it's

1940
01:40:10,240 --> 01:40:15,960
Speaker 1: a proven year for Donald. He has made gradual progress.

1941
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:19,200
Speaker 1: I mean from year one to year two. You know,

1942
01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:21,240
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think they were I don't think

1943
01:40:21,280 --> 01:40:25,200
Speaker 1: he was. He was marginally better in a lot of categories.

1944
01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:30,240
Speaker 1: And last year he had unfortunate and highly unusual situation

1945
01:40:30,320 --> 01:40:33,880
Speaker 1: of getting motto early in the year, which cost cost

1946
01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:37,280
Speaker 1: him three games and probably affected him for a bunch

1947
01:40:37,320 --> 01:40:39,920
Speaker 1: of others. But he ended up going seven and six

1948
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:43,640
Speaker 1: as a starter last year, so that was somewhat encouraging

1949
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:46,599
Speaker 1: considering he had no offensive line in front of him,

1950
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:49,760
Speaker 1: and so I think the Jets the organization is still

1951
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:53,280
Speaker 1: very high on Sam's future. But I think now that

1952
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:55,559
Speaker 1: he's had a year in Gaze's offense, you really want

1953
01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:58,880
Speaker 1: to see a significant jump in the third year. Do

1954
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:01,519
Speaker 1: you think you can see that statistically or is it

1955
01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:04,080
Speaker 1: going to have to be in flat out wins and losses?

1956
01:41:06,160 --> 01:41:10,400
Speaker 1: Well both. I mean, you know, the team is here

1957
01:41:10,720 --> 01:41:14,240
Speaker 1: without a playoff appearance, and certainly you guys can appreciate

1958
01:41:14,360 --> 01:41:16,439
Speaker 1: a long playoff drought. I think the Bills got up

1959
01:41:16,479 --> 01:41:21,360
Speaker 1: to before they finally, you know, broke through a couple

1960
01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:23,280
Speaker 1: of years ago. So the Jet are in the midst

1961
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:26,519
Speaker 1: of the third longest current drought in the league. So

1962
01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:29,360
Speaker 1: wins are the most important thing. I mean, they got

1963
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:31,560
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to get in the playoffs

1964
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:34,000
Speaker 1: because the fans are sick and tired of it. It

1965
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:37,120
Speaker 1: seems like they're rebuilding every year. Every new regime that

1966
01:41:37,200 --> 01:41:39,559
Speaker 1: comes in says the same thing, and it just seems

1967
01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:43,040
Speaker 1: like a perpetual cycle of rebuilding. So yeah, for Sam,

1968
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:46,040
Speaker 1: mostly it's just winning, and of course with that, the

1969
01:41:46,080 --> 01:41:50,719
Speaker 1: stats will come, hey, Rich, I'm curious about Joe Douglas

1970
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:53,320
Speaker 1: and the impact he's had so far. And you know,

1971
01:41:53,320 --> 01:41:55,840
Speaker 1: he hasn't been extremely active in free agency, but it

1972
01:41:55,920 --> 01:41:59,840
Speaker 1: seems like his moves are measured and logical. When does

1973
01:41:59,880 --> 01:42:01,240
Speaker 1: he really good going? Do you think it is a

1974
01:42:01,320 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 1: gam there? Yeah, that's a good word, John. Measured is

1975
01:42:06,280 --> 01:42:09,679
Speaker 1: pretty much the way I would summarize it. They actually

1976
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:13,400
Speaker 1: have been active. I think they added seven new players

1977
01:42:13,439 --> 01:42:17,160
Speaker 1: and maybe resigned six. It just hasn't been active in

1978
01:42:17,439 --> 01:42:19,920
Speaker 1: a big splash kind of way. I mean, we're so

1979
01:42:20,040 --> 01:42:23,439
Speaker 1: used to seeing the signed big name players. Just a

1980
01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:26,759
Speaker 1: year ago they signed Levian Bell and c. J. Mosley,

1981
01:42:27,320 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 1: and you know they're winning. They always win March and

1982
01:42:30,360 --> 01:42:33,920
Speaker 1: then when it comes to September, you know they fall apart.

1983
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:37,480
Speaker 1: So this year it's it's a measure a measured discipline

1984
01:42:37,520 --> 01:42:40,280
Speaker 1: approach with free agency. They don't want to overspend. You

1985
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:42,840
Speaker 1: saw it yesterday. They didn't want to extend themselves a

1986
01:42:42,880 --> 01:42:46,080
Speaker 1: little bit more to keep Robby Anders and they said goodbye,

1987
01:42:46,240 --> 01:42:48,439
Speaker 1: and they said you want to leave, so we'll get

1988
01:42:48,479 --> 01:42:51,400
Speaker 1: someone else who's cheaper. And so really that's the new

1989
01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 1: approach and free agency, which is fine. I think it's

1990
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:57,040
Speaker 1: it's a good way to build a team. But when

1991
01:42:57,080 --> 01:42:59,719
Speaker 1: that's your business model, you really have to draft well,

1992
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:02,920
Speaker 1: you know, you're really really relying on the draft and

1993
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:06,200
Speaker 1: the Yet that's not something that Jets have done well recently,

1994
01:43:06,240 --> 01:43:09,360
Speaker 1: actually probably not in the last thirty years or so,

1995
01:43:09,360 --> 01:43:12,280
Speaker 1: so that Joe Douglas in his first draft next month,

1996
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:15,640
Speaker 1: it's didn't really have to deliver. I gotta ask you

1997
01:43:15,720 --> 01:43:19,240
Speaker 1: this as well, how much take the temperature of the

1998
01:43:19,280 --> 01:43:23,400
Speaker 1: fan base about Levion Bell where he's at, and contrasted

1999
01:43:23,479 --> 01:43:26,479
Speaker 1: with the temperature of the front office and the coaching

2000
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:28,840
Speaker 1: staff about Levion Bell and how his first year is

2001
01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:32,759
Speaker 1: a Jet went I think the fans are mostly behind Leveyon.

2002
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:38,040
Speaker 1: Like the Lebon season, which was by the way, historically bad,

2003
01:43:38,120 --> 01:43:41,800
Speaker 1: not just bad for a running back, but historically bad.

2004
01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:45,559
Speaker 1: He averaged three point two yards per carry. It was

2005
01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:48,920
Speaker 1: the worst in franchise history for a running back with

2006
01:43:49,120 --> 01:43:53,839
Speaker 1: over two hundred attempts, so you know that was not good. However,

2007
01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:58,280
Speaker 1: from the therapist perspective, that was not Lebon fault. That

2008
01:43:58,400 --> 01:44:01,000
Speaker 1: was Adam Gaye's fault for knowing how to use them,

2009
01:44:01,120 --> 01:44:03,679
Speaker 1: and that was the offensive lines fault for being bad.

2010
01:44:04,240 --> 01:44:07,599
Speaker 1: So I think Lebon still has a high popularity rating

2011
01:44:07,680 --> 01:44:12,400
Speaker 1: among fans just because of his background with Pittsburgh and

2012
01:44:12,439 --> 01:44:15,320
Speaker 1: they know what he can do. I'm a little bit

2013
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:18,160
Speaker 1: more objective on it. I think it's a combo of

2014
01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 1: all three. I think Lebion has slipped a little as

2015
01:44:20,439 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: a running back. He's not the same player he was.

2016
01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:26,760
Speaker 1: You know. He obviously needs a better line and I

2017
01:44:26,760 --> 01:44:29,360
Speaker 1: think Gays could be a little more creative with the

2018
01:44:29,360 --> 01:44:32,439
Speaker 1: play calling. But yeah, Lebon's going to be here. They

2019
01:44:32,479 --> 01:44:34,760
Speaker 1: can't trade him, they can't cut him, and so they're

2020
01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna have to try to make the best of it.

2021
01:44:37,560 --> 01:44:40,519
Speaker 1: On a line with Rich Sumini, ESPN NFL Nation Reporter

2022
01:44:40,600 --> 01:44:43,080
Speaker 1: covers the Jets. Hey, Rich, A year ago, we've been

2023
01:44:43,120 --> 01:44:46,160
Speaker 1: talking about the Jets defense. What a great lineup they had,

2024
01:44:46,160 --> 01:44:50,160
Speaker 1: including two pretty good cornerbacks startners last year, Daryl Roberts

2025
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:52,559
Speaker 1: Trumaine Johnson, and at the end of last week they

2026
01:44:52,600 --> 01:44:56,040
Speaker 1: cut them both. What's the thinking on that defense and

2027
01:44:56,320 --> 01:44:58,920
Speaker 1: how many miracles can Greg Williams be asked to perform

2028
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:02,639
Speaker 1: for that defense? Do you think while they both stunk

2029
01:45:02,920 --> 01:45:05,439
Speaker 1: last year? I mean, quite frankly, it just to be

2030
01:45:05,520 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: brutally honest. I mean, Trueman Johnson was just bad and

2031
01:45:09,720 --> 01:45:12,880
Speaker 1: not only bad on the field, but just bad off

2032
01:45:12,920 --> 01:45:16,400
Speaker 1: the field, not a good teammate, practice habits. And this

2033
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:19,080
Speaker 1: is a player that the Jets gave one of the

2034
01:45:19,080 --> 01:45:24,080
Speaker 1: biggest contracts too in team history. It was it was

2035
01:45:24,120 --> 01:45:28,480
Speaker 1: thirty four million guaranteed for two seasons worth of plays.

2036
01:45:28,760 --> 01:45:31,599
Speaker 1: He only played seventeen games, so he's made a cool

2037
01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:35,240
Speaker 1: two million per game and did not play anywhere near

2038
01:45:35,280 --> 01:45:38,720
Speaker 1: close to the expectation level they had for him, So

2039
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:42,479
Speaker 1: they cut him. Darryl Roberts more the same. Obviously not

2040
01:45:42,600 --> 01:45:45,920
Speaker 1: that much money with him. But so they're starting over

2041
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:49,320
Speaker 1: at corner and Greg. I think Greg did a great

2042
01:45:49,400 --> 01:45:53,760
Speaker 1: job last year of changing on the fly. I mean

2043
01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:56,559
Speaker 1: they went from really a band to band defense. He

2044
01:45:56,680 --> 01:46:00,000
Speaker 1: had to play a lot more zone simply to discuss

2045
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:02,880
Speaker 1: eyes and protect his cornerbacks. So you saw them playing

2046
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:05,439
Speaker 1: you know, more too deep looks, you know, with the

2047
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:07,960
Speaker 1: safeties helping over the top. He just didn't have the

2048
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 1: corner as he could trust in man to man. So

2049
01:46:10,920 --> 01:46:14,040
Speaker 1: I mean, are they any better now? I mean I

2050
01:46:14,080 --> 01:46:16,479
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean they signed Pierre to see here

2051
01:46:16,479 --> 01:46:19,960
Speaker 1: from the call who with cut They signed him very quickly,

2052
01:46:20,040 --> 01:46:22,759
Speaker 1: brought him in on a one year deal. He becomes

2053
01:46:22,760 --> 01:46:26,439
Speaker 1: their best cornerback. So you know, they're not they don't

2054
01:46:26,520 --> 01:46:29,840
Speaker 1: have any tradevious whites of the roster. They're looked up

2055
01:46:29,840 --> 01:46:32,280
Speaker 1: for one. They it's hard to find guys like that,

2056
01:46:32,479 --> 01:46:36,240
Speaker 1: and so they're going to probably draft a corner and

2057
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:39,240
Speaker 1: put them out there with Pierre just here and see

2058
01:46:39,280 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 1: that how that goes. But that's a big, a big

2059
01:46:41,320 --> 01:46:45,120
Speaker 1: concern for them. I gotta ask you this too, what

2060
01:46:45,200 --> 01:46:47,639
Speaker 1: are what are the Jet fans looking for the Jets

2061
01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:49,720
Speaker 1: to do in the draft? What can we look for

2062
01:46:50,080 --> 01:46:55,200
Speaker 1: from the Jets on April twenty third. I think there's

2063
01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:58,320
Speaker 1: there's a it's a fifty fifty dilemma between fans and

2064
01:46:58,520 --> 01:47:00,920
Speaker 1: you know, for all I know, media and maybe even

2065
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:03,760
Speaker 1: the Jets themselves, it's like, do we take the offensive

2066
01:47:03,800 --> 01:47:08,160
Speaker 1: lineman at number eleven or do we go wide receiver? Receiver?

2067
01:47:08,760 --> 01:47:12,320
Speaker 1: The need is even more pronounced with Robbie leaving yesterday,

2068
01:47:12,840 --> 01:47:15,479
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a fascinating choice for the

2069
01:47:15,560 --> 01:47:18,960
Speaker 1: Jets because I think most people would agree there's probably

2070
01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:23,200
Speaker 1: four offensive tackles in this draft that are probably heading

2071
01:47:23,200 --> 01:47:25,679
Speaker 1: shoulders above the rest. I think there's a pretty good

2072
01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:28,760
Speaker 1: chance one of those will be there at eleven. So

2073
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:31,400
Speaker 1: do you take the tackle? And in spite of all

2074
01:47:31,439 --> 01:47:34,000
Speaker 1: the offensive line moves they've made in free agency, they

2075
01:47:34,040 --> 01:47:37,920
Speaker 1: still need an offensive tackle, and so they could go tackle,

2076
01:47:38,080 --> 01:47:43,240
Speaker 1: saying Andrew Thomas from Georgia or you know, maybe Jedrick

2077
01:47:43,280 --> 01:47:47,080
Speaker 1: Wills junior from Alabama, or do they go for the

2078
01:47:47,120 --> 01:47:49,759
Speaker 1: big splash and try to bring in a wide receiver

2079
01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:53,760
Speaker 1: a Jerry Judy raside Lamb. That's the fan base is

2080
01:47:53,760 --> 01:47:57,080
Speaker 1: pretty split on that right now. You know, personally, I

2081
01:47:57,120 --> 01:48:00,600
Speaker 1: would go offensive line myself, because I believe it or not.

2082
01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:02,559
Speaker 1: I just looked this up yesterday, But Jets are the

2083
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:05,200
Speaker 1: only team in the league without a first or second

2084
01:48:05,280 --> 01:48:08,360
Speaker 1: round pick on their offensive line, so I think they

2085
01:48:08,439 --> 01:48:12,200
Speaker 1: need to start infusing that line with some young talented players.

2086
01:48:12,280 --> 01:48:17,000
Speaker 1: So I personally would go offensive line. You're rich. You

2087
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:20,800
Speaker 1: know everybody's talking about uncharted waters with the coronavirus, But

2088
01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:23,600
Speaker 1: you said something earlier on which takes me into unchartered

2089
01:48:23,640 --> 01:48:26,160
Speaker 1: waters about the Bills in the AFC East. You call

2090
01:48:26,240 --> 01:48:28,439
Speaker 1: the Bills the best team in the AFC East. I'm

2091
01:48:28,439 --> 01:48:31,680
Speaker 1: not disagreeing you that you may be right. Still, I

2092
01:48:31,680 --> 01:48:34,000
Speaker 1: don't know if I like hearing that. I feel uncomfortable.

2093
01:48:34,040 --> 01:48:36,479
Speaker 1: They have the Bills being referred to as the most

2094
01:48:36,479 --> 01:48:42,120
Speaker 1: talented team in the division. Well, I mean, I'm not

2095
01:48:42,200 --> 01:48:44,880
Speaker 1: saying yeah. I mean it's a little different things as

2096
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:49,000
Speaker 1: opposed to the hunted, right. So, yeah, Patriots have just suffered.

2097
01:48:49,280 --> 01:48:51,519
Speaker 1: I mean, no one respects Belichick more than I do.

2098
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:54,679
Speaker 1: I think he's probably the best ever. But they've lost

2099
01:48:54,720 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 1: so much and I think they're in a rebuilding stage.

2100
01:48:58,200 --> 01:49:01,719
Speaker 1: They'll never call it that, but they've lost so many players,

2101
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 1: and they lost the best one they got, you know,

2102
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:06,320
Speaker 1: a number twelve. So it's going to be really hard

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Speaker 1: for them. And the Jets aren't there yet. A Dolphins,

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01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:11,640
Speaker 1: we don't even know who their quarterback is going to

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01:49:11,720 --> 01:49:14,559
Speaker 1: be yet. So the Bills, you know, if you want

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01:49:14,560 --> 01:49:16,880
Speaker 1: to say by default, maybe by default. But I think

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01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:19,200
Speaker 1: the Bills are a solid team. I think what the

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01:49:19,200 --> 01:49:22,400
Speaker 1: Bills have going for them that some of the other

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Speaker 1: They're a good defensive team, first of all. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're probably the best defensive team in the division. And

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Speaker 1: they have they have an organization you know that's on

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Speaker 1: the same page. You know, they have a really good

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01:49:35,400 --> 01:49:39,040
Speaker 1: synergy between McDermott and being you know, and I don't

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01:49:39,040 --> 01:49:40,600
Speaker 1: know if you guys see it the same way, but

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01:49:40,680 --> 01:49:44,360
Speaker 1: it seems like those guys are in locksteps and whereas

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01:49:44,439 --> 01:49:46,880
Speaker 1: in some of the other organizations, I think the Jets

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01:49:46,880 --> 01:49:49,719
Speaker 1: maybe getting there a year ago they were not. Maybe

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01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:52,160
Speaker 1: they're getting there now, They're just behind in the process.

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Speaker 1: So but right now, I just think from top to bottom,

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Speaker 1: the Bills are probably the best now are they? I

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01:49:57,800 --> 01:49:59,439
Speaker 1: don't see them as one of the better teams in

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01:49:59,520 --> 01:50:02,000
Speaker 1: the AF but I do see them as the best

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Speaker 1: team in the division. That's gonna take some getting used to.

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Speaker 1: I gotta say, Rich, thanks for this, Rich, We appreciate it.

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01:50:11,040 --> 01:50:14,639
Speaker 1: Thanks Rich, Yeah, you bet, take care, guys. Okay. Rich

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Speaker 1: Smini is ESPN NFL Nation reporter for the Jets going

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Speaker 1: into his thirty two thirty second year covering the New

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01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:23,120
Speaker 1: York Jets. Am I right, Steve, doesn't this team? I

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01:50:23,160 --> 01:50:25,200
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't disagree with them. He's right, they

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01:50:25,200 --> 01:50:28,000
Speaker 1: are probably the best team in the division. Um. It

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01:50:28,120 --> 01:50:31,120
Speaker 1: just is weird to hear people refer to him so easily.

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01:50:31,280 --> 01:50:33,200
Speaker 1: Is that, isn't it? It's been a long time since

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01:50:33,200 --> 01:50:35,120
Speaker 1: we've heard it, and I think it makes us uncomfortable

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01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:37,280
Speaker 1: because we've seen what it happens to other teams who

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01:50:37,840 --> 01:50:41,360
Speaker 1: you know, win the off season, who looked great on

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01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:43,479
Speaker 1: paper in the offseason, who did some stuff that wow,

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01:50:43,479 --> 01:50:46,240
Speaker 1: there's no stop on them now, right, like the Cleveland

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01:50:46,320 --> 01:50:49,920
Speaker 1: Browns last year and other teams in the past, where Wow,

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01:50:49,960 --> 01:50:51,680
Speaker 1: they look like they're gonna be great and then it

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01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:53,960
Speaker 1: just doesn't work out like that. I've seen it too

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01:50:53,960 --> 01:50:57,439
Speaker 1: many times. But you have to agree with them. The

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01:50:57,520 --> 01:51:00,439
Speaker 1: Bills look solid, they look like they're progressing year to

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01:51:00,560 --> 01:51:04,479
Speaker 1: year over year in predictable ways. And the next year

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01:51:04,520 --> 01:51:06,720
Speaker 1: it looks like if you look add everything up that's

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01:51:06,720 --> 01:51:08,760
Speaker 1: happened to them, it looks like another better year than

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01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 1: it was. This year they were they won ten games.

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01:51:12,200 --> 01:51:16,680
Speaker 1: It just it's disconcerting to hear people talk like that

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01:51:16,800 --> 01:51:18,840
Speaker 1: about a team other than the New England Patriots in

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01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:22,840
Speaker 1: the AMC East. You give trouble getting used to it, right,

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01:51:22,880 --> 01:51:24,680
Speaker 1: you still And I don't think the Patriots are going

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01:51:24,720 --> 01:51:28,200
Speaker 1: in the tank. But I think he's right. The Bills

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01:51:28,200 --> 01:51:30,320
Speaker 1: are better than the Patriots right now, right And I

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01:51:30,360 --> 01:51:32,400
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's because of all the Patriots

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01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:35,280
Speaker 1: have lost. Now we haven't really seen I think what

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01:51:35,400 --> 01:51:38,800
Speaker 1: we have yet to see, which will kind of give

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01:51:39,040 --> 01:51:41,479
Speaker 1: have a chilling effect on everybody. The Patriots are going

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01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:44,439
Speaker 1: to build their roster, and when you start seeing who

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01:51:44,479 --> 01:51:46,320
Speaker 1: they bring in, it'll start to give you a little

2159
01:51:46,320 --> 01:51:51,040
Speaker 1: bit more angst about Bill Belichick putting together another good team.

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01:51:51,479 --> 01:51:54,880
Speaker 1: I think he'll be able to do it, although right now, man,

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01:51:54,920 --> 01:51:56,640
Speaker 1: old man, it's hard to envision them being able to

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01:51:56,640 --> 01:51:59,280
Speaker 1: do it, given their cap constraints and given the guys

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01:51:59,280 --> 01:52:02,400
Speaker 1: that they've lost. Yep, all right, thanks to rich Aminium.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, do a little NFL tour falls

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01:52:04,920 --> 01:52:06,840
Speaker 1: and you've got time to get involved in our Twitter pole,

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01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:09,439
Speaker 1: which first round quarterback from two years ago has the

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01:52:09,479 --> 01:52:11,800
Speaker 1: most pressure around him this year? Is it the Jet

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01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:15,080
Speaker 1: Sam Donald? Only eight percent of responded say that Baker

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01:52:15,120 --> 01:52:17,479
Speaker 1: Mayfield of the Browns gets forty eight percent of the vote,

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01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:20,920
Speaker 1: Bills Josh Allen gets thirty six percent, Lamar Jackson gets

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01:52:20,920 --> 01:52:23,160
Speaker 1: eight percent. Give us a call eight oh three five

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Speaker 1: fifty twenty three one eight eight eight five fifty two

2173
01:52:26,040 --> 01:52:28,439
Speaker 1: five fifty vote in our Twitter poll. We'll get back

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Speaker 1: to tweet sheets as well. One does live percent about

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Speaker 1: the lie the health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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01:52:45,240 --> 01:52:47,800
Speaker 1: back one Bals Live, John Murphy's he tasker. Both working

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Speaker 1: from home again, no radio. We're gonna do our best

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01:52:50,560 --> 01:52:52,599
Speaker 1: and maybe solve that someday in the future. I hope

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01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:55,120
Speaker 1: we can get that done for you. If the radio

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01:52:55,160 --> 01:52:57,080
Speaker 1: is good. We're pretty much a radio show, Steve. We

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01:52:57,120 --> 01:53:00,000
Speaker 1: do the simulcast of TV side we're doing radio. Put

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01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:03,280
Speaker 1: a few pictures on it, right, yeah, oh yeah, that's good.

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01:53:03,320 --> 01:53:05,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what MSG's doing while we're off the hear.

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01:53:05,479 --> 01:53:07,760
Speaker 1: I you know, I can't watch because I'm doing this,

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01:53:07,800 --> 01:53:13,080
Speaker 1: but I'm sure they're not sweating it too much. You've

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01:53:13,080 --> 01:53:15,240
Speaker 1: gotten some feedback. Some people are missing us though. I

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01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:17,519
Speaker 1: know that. So it'll be good to get back on

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01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:19,360
Speaker 1: the ear when everything passes and we can get back

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01:53:19,360 --> 01:53:22,080
Speaker 1: to maybe a little bit more normal life. YEP. A

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01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:25,599
Speaker 1: couple of NFL notes, one the big one regarding the Bills.

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01:53:25,880 --> 01:53:28,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Wall of Famer Mike Stratton passed away this morning

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01:53:28,479 --> 01:53:31,800
Speaker 1: at his home in Tennessee. Member of the AFL title

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01:53:31,880 --> 01:53:34,559
Speaker 1: teams in sixty four and sixty five, known for the

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01:53:34,640 --> 01:53:38,400
Speaker 1: shot heard around the world. The sixty four AFL Championship

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01:53:38,400 --> 01:53:41,080
Speaker 1: Game when he drilled Keith Lincoln right and the ribs

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01:53:41,080 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 1: broke his ribs on a perfectly time play. Mike Stratton

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01:53:44,840 --> 01:53:48,800
Speaker 1: was six times an AFL All Star, three time First

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Speaker 1: Team All Pro. Remember the Bill's Wall of Fame and

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth Anniversary Team and named of the fiftieth

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01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:57,200
Speaker 1: Anniversary Team as well. Mike Stratton and passed away today

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Speaker 1: at the age of seventy eight. And this just came in,

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01:53:59,360 --> 01:54:02,280
Speaker 1: and this is uh and Dominican Sue is going to

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01:54:02,360 --> 01:54:04,320
Speaker 1: go back to the Tampa b eight Bucks agreed to

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01:54:04,320 --> 01:54:07,080
Speaker 1: a one year deal worth eight million dollars. The Bucks

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01:54:07,080 --> 01:54:09,439
Speaker 1: were the number one rushing defense in the league last year.

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01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:11,400
Speaker 1: Now they have Tom Brady on the other side of

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01:54:11,400 --> 01:54:13,840
Speaker 1: the ball. So eight million dollars for one season for

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01:54:13,880 --> 01:54:16,439
Speaker 1: in Dominican Sue. He sort of quieted down. I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen him play the Bills, haven't played the Bucks in

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01:54:18,400 --> 01:54:20,200
Speaker 1: a while. I've seen a couple of games, but he

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01:54:20,280 --> 01:54:22,280
Speaker 1: seems like he's quieted down, and maybe he's a little

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01:54:22,280 --> 01:54:24,759
Speaker 1: bit more business like than he was earlier in his career. Steve,

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01:54:25,080 --> 01:54:27,439
Speaker 1: but I think at this point he's probably been around

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01:54:27,520 --> 01:54:29,680
Speaker 1: He's been around the block so many times on his

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01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:35,400
Speaker 1: what third team? Uh yeah, so so yeah. I think

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01:54:35,440 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 1: he's come to the realization he's been in the league

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01:54:38,040 --> 01:54:41,040
Speaker 1: a long time, and you know, he went over he

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01:54:41,080 --> 01:54:43,560
Speaker 1: went through a lot of frustrating times, I think personally

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01:54:43,960 --> 01:54:46,640
Speaker 1: earning his career because he elevated to the NFL, and

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01:54:46,680 --> 01:54:48,400
Speaker 1: I think you know, he saw him act out earning

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01:54:48,440 --> 01:54:51,560
Speaker 1: his career, Murph, when he was stepping on guys and yeah,

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01:54:51,760 --> 01:54:54,040
Speaker 1: kind of cheap shotting guys. I think that was I

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01:54:54,080 --> 01:54:56,000
Speaker 1: think it was he did. He wasn't. He didn't come

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01:54:56,040 --> 01:54:58,320
Speaker 1: across the bad guy. I think it was frustrating for

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01:54:58,320 --> 01:55:01,200
Speaker 1: a guy like him, who had been so physically dominating

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01:55:01,720 --> 01:55:04,880
Speaker 1: throughout his throughout his life, to come into the league

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01:55:04,880 --> 01:55:08,240
Speaker 1: and have guys not only hold their own but play

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01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:10,960
Speaker 1: as well as him against him. I think it was

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01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:12,600
Speaker 1: really frustrating for him, and he didn't know how to

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01:55:12,600 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 1: cope with He didn't cope with it well early in

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01:55:14,320 --> 01:55:16,600
Speaker 1: his career. I think he's probably a little bit more

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01:55:16,600 --> 01:55:19,480
Speaker 1: mellow at this point. Though. Hey, a Twitter poll today

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01:55:19,960 --> 01:55:23,040
Speaker 1: which twenty eighteen first round quarterback has the most pressure

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01:55:23,120 --> 01:55:25,720
Speaker 1: on him in twenty twenty. Give us a call and

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01:55:25,840 --> 01:55:28,080
Speaker 1: let's talk about it eight O three five fifty toll

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

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Speaker 1: Is it Baker Mayfield? Forty forty eight percent of you

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01:55:34,280 --> 01:55:36,960
Speaker 1: say it is? Is it Josh Allen? Thirty six percent

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01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:39,560
Speaker 1: say it's the bills guy? Is it Sam Donald or

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson? Eight percent of you say they have more

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Speaker 1: pressure than anybody. Give us a call. Let us discuss

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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. You can send in

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Speaker 1: a tweet. We're gonna get back to the tweet sheet

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01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:54,400
Speaker 1: in a moment. You can vote in the Twitter poll.

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01:55:54,480 --> 01:55:57,600
Speaker 1: Thirteen hundred of you have so far, and the phone

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01:55:57,600 --> 01:55:59,760
Speaker 1: line's open for anything. Maybe you have a reminiscence of

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01:55:59,800 --> 01:56:02,760
Speaker 1: my Stratton an anything else? Question about the bills? Give

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01:56:02,800 --> 01:56:04,360
Speaker 1: us a call. The lines wide open at eight O

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Ready for a little true and false? Steve, Yes,

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01:56:11,040 --> 01:56:14,720
Speaker 1: I am. Here we go NFL true or false? Um,

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01:56:15,760 --> 01:56:18,120
Speaker 1: here we go true false. By the way, is Brock

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01:56:18,280 --> 01:56:22,080
Speaker 1: Who's who's the sponsor? I had to hear Yancy's fancy

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01:56:22,160 --> 01:56:24,800
Speaker 1: that's right. He started in cheese. Yeah. Over on the

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01:56:24,840 --> 01:56:26,320
Speaker 1: other side of the table, they have all the sponsors.

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01:56:26,600 --> 01:56:29,840
Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy is the sponsor of True or False Number

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01:56:29,840 --> 01:56:34,160
Speaker 1: one True or False. The Patriots should trade Stephan Gilmore.

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01:56:34,240 --> 01:56:37,600
Speaker 1: It seems unlikely, but um, you know, Belichick has never

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01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:40,000
Speaker 1: been afraid to let a star player walk off if

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01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:42,320
Speaker 1: he felt it would cost the team too much. This

2262
01:56:42,400 --> 01:56:45,480
Speaker 1: is a Bleacher Report article. A deal before June first

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01:56:45,480 --> 01:56:47,520
Speaker 1: would only save the team three point three million. It

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01:56:47,520 --> 01:56:51,320
Speaker 1: would create a ton of dead space. Um. Look, I

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01:56:51,720 --> 01:56:53,760
Speaker 1: don't think they should. He was the defensive player of

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01:56:53,800 --> 01:56:56,280
Speaker 1: the Year last year, Steve. But if they do, there's

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01:56:56,400 --> 01:56:58,520
Speaker 1: very little question in my mind that the Patriots are

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01:56:58,720 --> 01:57:02,200
Speaker 1: retrenchy going back words, i e. Tanking to get rid

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Speaker 1: of draft pick next year. What do you think, Well,

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01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:06,240
Speaker 1: if they trade him now, yeah, it's only three million

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01:57:06,240 --> 01:57:08,600
Speaker 1: dollars help, But if they do it after the trade,

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01:57:08,680 --> 01:57:12,480
Speaker 1: after the deadline, it's like eleven million dollar plus for them.

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01:57:12,520 --> 01:57:14,760
Speaker 1: So I think they'll probably will trade him, but it'll

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01:57:14,800 --> 01:57:17,680
Speaker 1: be later in the calendar when they don't get hit.

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01:57:17,800 --> 01:57:20,560
Speaker 1: They'll be able to take the entire cap off his

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01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:24,040
Speaker 1: cap hit off the books, there's up against it they're

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01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:26,320
Speaker 1: letting all these guys walk because they don't have any

2278
01:57:26,360 --> 01:57:29,400
Speaker 1: cap room. Even tom Brady's costing him thirteen million this year,

2279
01:57:29,560 --> 01:57:32,280
Speaker 1: so they've got some problems. And if if Steph Gilmore

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01:57:32,600 --> 01:57:36,040
Speaker 1: can free up you know, eight digits a cap room,

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01:57:36,080 --> 01:57:38,640
Speaker 1: they'll probably do it. So I think, yes they will,

2282
01:57:38,680 --> 01:57:41,000
Speaker 1: but it won't be until after the trade deadline when

2283
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:44,480
Speaker 1: they get a much bigger dose of cap relief for it.

2284
01:57:45,040 --> 01:57:48,400
Speaker 1: NFL True or falls apart two Another Patriots question. This

2285
01:57:48,560 --> 01:57:51,600
Speaker 1: is an article from NFL dot com. The Patriots should

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01:57:51,600 --> 01:57:54,160
Speaker 1: not be in a rush to replace Tom Brady, is

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01:57:54,160 --> 01:57:58,160
Speaker 1: the assertion Jared Stidham three NFL game appearances under his belt.

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01:57:58,880 --> 01:58:01,480
Speaker 1: You know, they signed Brian Horrier over the weekend. It

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01:58:01,520 --> 01:58:03,320
Speaker 1: can be. But should they be in a hurry to

2290
01:58:03,320 --> 01:58:05,640
Speaker 1: find Brady's replacement or should they just sit tight for

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01:58:05,640 --> 01:58:07,440
Speaker 1: a while? True? Falls So I'll let you go first

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01:58:07,440 --> 01:58:11,680
Speaker 1: on that seat. Well, first of all, they're never gonna

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01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:17,000
Speaker 1: replace Tom Brady, right right. So second, I mean, so now,

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01:58:17,040 --> 01:58:19,680
Speaker 1: I mean, just get the best guy available. You got

2295
01:58:19,680 --> 01:58:22,000
Speaker 1: to find a guy to take snaps. If Jared Sittams

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01:58:22,040 --> 01:58:24,280
Speaker 1: your guy, load up, give him whatever he needs to

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01:58:24,320 --> 01:58:28,200
Speaker 1: be successful. If you can but know this, first of all, One,

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01:58:28,320 --> 01:58:30,840
Speaker 1: you're not going to replace Tom Brady because there's only

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01:58:30,880 --> 01:58:34,480
Speaker 1: one of him. And two, nobody really is standing in

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01:58:34,560 --> 01:58:38,200
Speaker 1: line to beat Tom Prady's replacement and all that he's done.

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01:58:38,320 --> 01:58:40,360
Speaker 1: If you go in there and throw one interception, you're

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01:58:40,360 --> 01:58:42,880
Speaker 1: gonna stink and you're gonna hear about it. It's gonna

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01:58:42,880 --> 01:58:45,040
Speaker 1: be a really tough role to play for anybody. So

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01:58:46,200 --> 01:58:48,800
Speaker 1: for those two things, they're not They whether they're in

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01:58:48,840 --> 01:58:51,520
Speaker 1: a hurry or not doesn't matter, because they're never going

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01:58:51,560 --> 01:58:55,440
Speaker 1: to replace the guy they lost. Okay, I can't argue

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Speaker 1: with that. He is irreplaceable. I think he may be

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01:58:58,280 --> 01:59:01,080
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterback to ever played. Probably he is. But

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Speaker 1: to add Brian Horrier over the weekend, I think what's

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Speaker 1: kind of a shocker In many respects. It's like, that's it,

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01:59:07,280 --> 01:59:08,720
Speaker 1: that's all you're gonna do. They have a three man

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01:59:09,160 --> 01:59:11,960
Speaker 1: quarterback room now with Cody Kessler along with Stidham and

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Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer. I would hope they'd had somebody else for

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01:59:14,520 --> 01:59:17,880
Speaker 1: competitive purposes. And there are options out there right Jameis

2315
01:59:17,920 --> 01:59:21,280
Speaker 1: Winston is out there and Joe Flacco is out there.

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01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:24,080
Speaker 1: There are options out there for him if they if

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01:59:24,120 --> 01:59:25,920
Speaker 1: they want to pursue them, I'm not sure if they

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Speaker 1: want to pursue them. So too, I think it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting to see who what kind of

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Speaker 1: guy they get who takes snap and I guess it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll take them at their word if they

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01:59:34,920 --> 01:59:36,960
Speaker 1: love Jared Stidham and they're gonna go with them and

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01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:40,560
Speaker 1: Bill m okay, but I don't know, And they may

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Speaker 1: be forced to do that, murph By because of their

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Speaker 1: salary cap limitations. They're already paying Tom Brady thirteen and

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01:59:47,160 --> 01:59:50,760
Speaker 1: a half this year without paying anybody, so they may

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01:59:50,800 --> 01:59:53,400
Speaker 1: be stuck with Jared Stidham, whether they like him or not.

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01:59:53,440 --> 01:59:55,480
Speaker 1: They're making They're just putting the most positive spin on it.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's going to be fascinating to see

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Speaker 1: who actually does take snaps for them. I do too.

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Speaker 1: Part three, NFL two or false quarterback question again, Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor is the Los Angeles Chargers best option to quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And look, we mentioned Jameis Winston. Cam Newton is now

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Speaker 1: a free agent. You could probably trade for Andy Dalton.

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Speaker 1: There are options out there. They could draft toa They

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Speaker 1: could draft Justin Herbert at the quarterback spot. I don't

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Speaker 1: think Joe Burrow will slide down to the Los Angeles Chargers.

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Speaker 1: What are they number six? Number six? But he's the

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Speaker 1: best option to quarterback for the Chargers. No, I would

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Speaker 1: say that's false, Steve, and I think they know it.

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Speaker 1: I think they're biting their time, waiting to see what

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Speaker 1: happens with the quarterback market, maybe going to draft one

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Speaker 1: of those rookies, maybe evaluating, and it's hard to do

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02:00:40,840 --> 02:00:43,960
Speaker 1: now with everything shut down, evaluating whether one of those guys,

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert or Tua is ready to start as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: which is a difficult prospect for an NFL quarterback. I

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02:00:50,480 --> 02:00:52,840
Speaker 1: don't think he is their best option. I say that's false.

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02:00:53,080 --> 02:00:55,760
Speaker 1: I'd say false too. I think there's a couple better options.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I like Tyrod Taylor, but I think Cam

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02:00:58,240 --> 02:01:01,360
Speaker 1: Newton or Jamis Winston. You talk going from one extreme

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02:01:01,400 --> 02:01:04,680
Speaker 1: to the other. Look at a Tyrod Taylor, a guy

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02:01:04,720 --> 02:01:08,240
Speaker 1: who doesn't never turns it over, but he doesn't ever

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Speaker 1: take chances, and you get Jamis Winston. If what if

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Speaker 1: the Chargers hired Jamis Winston or signed him and had

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Speaker 1: both those guys Jamis Winston, who doesn't care if he

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Speaker 1: turns it over more than anybody playing on the same

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Speaker 1: quarterback room with Tyrod Taylor, who won't throw it if

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Speaker 1: there's a if there's a player within shouting distance of

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Speaker 1: the ball. So you know, those two guys are polar opposites.

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Speaker 1: And then Cam Newton is a big question mark. I

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02:01:31,160 --> 02:01:33,520
Speaker 1: still think he's got some football to play. There's no question.

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Speaker 1: He's made it clear he has football he wants to play.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers are at number six in the draft, Murph,

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Speaker 1: what will it take for them to flip flop with

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Speaker 1: a team like Washington at number three or two or

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Speaker 1: Detroit at number three? They may jump up there to

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Speaker 1: get one of the guys that's left over in this draft,

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Speaker 1: and I think they I think that's more likely that

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Speaker 1: they'll do that. All Right, there you go. NFL trur

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Speaker 1: or false brought to you by Yancy's fancy New York

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Speaker 1: Arnis and Cheese. Our phone line is open if you

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Speaker 1: want to discuss any of this bill stuff or provide

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Speaker 1: an answer to the Twitter poll which twenty eighteen first

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Speaker 1: round quarterback has the most pressure In twenty twenty. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to the tweet sheet, and that has brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Cargan Moving Systems, the official movers of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Here's one from Kyle. He says, Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: seems to have all the pieces needed to succeed. Jackson

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02:02:23,600 --> 02:02:25,800
Speaker 1: needs to have a similar season or a limited drop

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Speaker 1: off Lamar Jackson. Sam Darnald probably held back by head

2381
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Speaker 1: coach Baker Mayfield needs to get back to rookie form.

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02:02:32,120 --> 02:02:34,400
Speaker 1: Bills are not sneaking up on anyone this year. That's

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Speaker 1: why I went with Allen. A couple of interesting things there.

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, he says, held back by his quarterback or

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Speaker 1: by his head coach. That's that coach who's supposed to

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Speaker 1: be the quarterback whisper down there in New York, Steve Well,

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Speaker 1: I think we've seen. I don't think you or I

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Speaker 1: either one believe that that's the case anymore. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he might have had that reputation, but the way he

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Speaker 1: has handled his work in Miami and then subsequently now

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Speaker 1: with the New York jetson, I have my doubts about

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Speaker 1: that label. For Adam Gaze's I just don't think he's

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Speaker 1: the guy that's going to get the most out of

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, in this offense. Certainly they struggled with their

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Speaker 1: offensive line last year. They're trying to fix that. But

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Speaker 1: I think in New York and Sam Darnold is not

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Speaker 1: under as much pressure as Adam gas is. Here's an

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Speaker 1: interesting response on Twitter. On the tweet sheet, only eight

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Speaker 1: percent of the respondents on the poll named Baltimore's Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: but Francis writes in Lamar Jackson was the MVP and

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Speaker 1: the year prior, he had seven completed passes in a

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Speaker 1: home playoff game. Last season his team was the number

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Speaker 1: one seed. He looked terrible. There's so much hikes around

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Speaker 1: h Lamar Jackson and he just playing choked. Mayfield is

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Speaker 1: a close second. I guess he must be talking about

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Speaker 1: the playoff game because he didn't choke through the regular season.

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Speaker 1: But I can understand why people might might make him

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Speaker 1: the guy with the most pressure this year. His team

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Speaker 1: was the number one seed, he was the MVP. As

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Speaker 1: we said at the top of the show, Steve, there's

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Speaker 1: only really one direction for Lamar Jackson to go, and

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Speaker 1: that's down. He's under some pressure to get to the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and to do better than he did this year.

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Speaker 1: But if that's a team that can't make it to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think that pressure goes away from him

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Speaker 1: because you know, you get to the playoffs. It's a

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Speaker 1: kind of a team accomplishment. Certainly, if he falls flat,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna come back the next year under some pressure.

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Speaker 1: But I think under under the scenario that Frances just mentioned,

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Speaker 1: because of you know, of them getting to the playoffs

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Speaker 1: two years in a row and him flopping two years

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Speaker 1: in a row, the only ten the only time that

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Speaker 1: pressure kicks in is if they get another playoff game. Murph,

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Speaker 1: he's just gotta I mean, if he goes in and

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Speaker 1: plays great in the next playoff game, then all that

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Speaker 1: other stuff gets forgotten. But I see what he's saying.

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Speaker 1: Two years ago he had seven completed passes in a

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Speaker 1: home playoff game, and then last season they got beaten

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Speaker 1: by Tennessee in their own building as a number one seed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that looks bad for Lamar Jackson, but I think that

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Speaker 1: takes off the pressure. The regular season puts it squarely

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Speaker 1: on if they get to the playoff. I wouldn't that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't put any pressure on Lamar Jackson until they got

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Speaker 1: back to the playoffs. So I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: agree with that completely, you know what I mean. I

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Speaker 1: just think Lamar Jackson can come back, have a good

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Speaker 1: year and still be thought of pretty highly. But if

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Speaker 1: he has a good year, just a good year, and

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Speaker 1: they lose first round of the playoffs again, then what

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Speaker 1: do we say about Lamar Jackson. Well, it depends on

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Speaker 1: how he plays, depends on how he plays. But yeah,

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02:05:24,640 --> 02:05:27,520
Speaker 1: you're right, if he stinks again in a playoff game,

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02:05:28,120 --> 02:05:30,680
Speaker 1: yeah he's got some issues. And I think if they

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02:05:30,720 --> 02:05:32,840
Speaker 1: do get to that next step and get to the

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Speaker 1: playoffs again next year, that's gonna be front and center

2446
02:05:36,480 --> 02:05:38,720
Speaker 1: that just like it would be for Andy Dalton who

2447
02:05:38,760 --> 02:05:41,320
Speaker 1: was one and done four straight years back in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's there. But man's there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of football to be played in a lot of games

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02:05:46,960 --> 02:05:48,760
Speaker 1: won and lost before you get to that point with

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Let's hope they play it. Gonna take a break,

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Speaker 1: We're coming back in a moment. One Bill is presented

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Speaker 1: by Collida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. What have

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Chris Brown, Bills insider from Buffalo Bills dot com,

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Speaker 1: joined us earlier today. On the show, Brownie talked about

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Speaker 1: a lot, including the Bills and the challenges facing the

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft next month. The COVID nineteen pandemic has completely

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Speaker 1: turned things upside down, with free draft visits being wiped

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Speaker 1: off the map, pro days being wiped off the map,

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Speaker 1: along with a host of other things, including the medical

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Speaker 1: recheck at the combine which usually takes place back in

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis in late March or early April. So apps and

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Speaker 1: those elements. I can see why nflgms are very uneasy.

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Speaker 1: The draft is enough of an inexact science to begin with,

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Speaker 1: and when you take out these opera tunities for gms

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Speaker 1: to check off boxes or to do the kind of

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Speaker 1: fact finding even in the tenth or eleventh hour that

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Speaker 1: these gms do, I think it makes it even more

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Speaker 1: of a guessing game. And that has to be tremendously

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Speaker 1: unsettling for the gems that are going to be making

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Speaker 1: these kinds of decisions. Chris Brown Bills Inside from Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills dot com. Solomon Wilcots, formerly in the NFL on CBS,

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Speaker 1: was on the show and he talked about where some

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Speaker 1: of the free agent quarterbacks may land in the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty season. James Winston, if he does find a market

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Speaker 1: at the back of that, he's the best place for

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Speaker 1: him at Pittsburgh, where Ben Rothlisberger has on certain health

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Speaker 1: and I think that he can reclaim some kind of

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Speaker 1: glory if fitted into a system and a team that's

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Speaker 1: ready to be successful. And I think the Chargers for Cam.

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Speaker 1: But Cam's got to get in there quickly. You can't

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Speaker 1: wait so training camp is over and the preseason games

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Speaker 1: have been played and then get in there at the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So after all, I see it for the two guys.

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, I think the Patriots are waiting. They want

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Speaker 1: to be Patriots. Seventeen million a year. It's gonna cost

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Speaker 1: right now. The Patriots don't have the cap for them.

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Speaker 1: They would have players in order to brank Dalton. So

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Speaker 1: I think Dalton kind of stays in Cincinnati. I think

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Speaker 1: the Bengals are ready to keep them. There you go.

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Speaker 1: That's Solomon Wilcott's talking about where the quarterbacks will go.

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02:08:24,520 --> 02:08:26,120
Speaker 1: I think that's a big mystery. Don't you see where

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02:08:26,120 --> 02:08:28,200
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks are gonna wind up? The guys who are

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02:08:28,200 --> 02:08:30,800
Speaker 1: still out there, Jamis Winston, Cam Newton, even Andy Dalton.

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Speaker 1: Still is starting to get really interesting because it's starting

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02:08:34,240 --> 02:08:37,640
Speaker 1: to look like there's too many quarterbacks and not enough chairs.

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Speaker 1: And we've never in the history of the league, murf,

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Speaker 1: We've never seen that. Never. There's always a place for

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Speaker 1: these quarters, and I'm sure they'll all land someplace, but man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, right now, I think that's that's the most

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Speaker 1: compelling thing about this offseason coming up. The rest of

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02:08:50,240 --> 02:08:52,880
Speaker 1: it is where those guys are gonna Cam Newton, former

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Speaker 1: MVP three four years removed from a MVP, Philip Rivers

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02:08:57,480 --> 02:08:59,840
Speaker 1: and all these guys and Andy Dalts on the trade.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the most intriguing part of what's left

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Speaker 1: before the draft. It doesn't help when the league is

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Speaker 1: essentially shut down for who knows how much longer, right,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna keep us everybody on pins and needles, And

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Speaker 1: I do, I'll say it. I do have a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of sympathy for Cam Newton, who can't even go

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Speaker 1: get a physical for someone to check out whether he's healthy.

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Speaker 1: That's that stinks. Yeah, he may be one hundred percent,

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Speaker 1: plus he may be better than he's Ben and he

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Speaker 1: can't prove it to anybody. He's gonna have sit back.

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Speaker 1: It's yes, it's unfortunate for him. Did you see his

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Speaker 1: agents or his advisers set up a physical form with

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Speaker 1: a private doctor in Atlanta. But teams are gonna want

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Speaker 1: to check him out themselves, right, Oh yeah, that's I

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Speaker 1: mean they can if they know the guy or whatever.

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Speaker 1: They can certainly get a third party to do it.

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Speaker 1: But certainly too, you got to find out. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to know who's interested in him. Don't the Chargers have

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Speaker 1: to be interested in some of these other teams. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to find out what that list consists of, too. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow's show seth Wickersham, who wrote the Comprehensive Peace on

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's departure from the Patriots. He'll join us tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Maddie Glab will join us as well. Hope you joined

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Speaker 1: us at twelve noon one to thank car production assistants.

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Speaker 1: They're hanging in George Blast, Jeff Colt, Nick Thomas, Honolder,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Turrito, Kevin Cargis, James Robel, Thanks to

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Speaker 1: our board opts at enter com Brayton Wilson, Derek Kramer

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Speaker 1: doing great work and of course our producer Jay Harris, Steve,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks, yeah, looking forward to

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Speaker 1: talk to you then. One Bills Live returns to twelve

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Speaker 1: noon tomorrow on Buffalo Bill's Radio