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Speaker 1: Oh, a good time, Old Bay. Steve Claspers domes DOS

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Speaker 1: Time one Go five presented by Klan of Health. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Murphy with Steave task over here until three. Hello Steve.

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Speaker 1: How was your weekend? Murphy? Was great? I had a

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Speaker 1: really nice weekend. The weather on Saturday was fantastic. A

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Speaker 1: It was fun. It was a good weekend. It's a

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Speaker 1: raining here. Yeah, but it's beautiful before that. Finally got

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Speaker 1: We have a good start to the week two. As

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, with news just out, Governor Cuomo

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Speaker 1: daily update. The governor, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced just about

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago that Western New York is on scheduled

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Speaker 1: said the state wants to encourage major sports teams to reopen.

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Speaker 1: He says, quote, I want to watch the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Cuomo says, the team's getting reopened and the state is

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Speaker 1: phase one, and the NFL has a plan. Once the

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Speaker 1: government's cooperate, the teams can go ahead. That's good news, Steve.

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Speaker 1: That's really good news, not just for the Bills and

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Speaker 1: and given the updates, it's nice that because we always think,

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Speaker 1: and it's nice for him. I'm kind of worried about

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Speaker 1: seem like everybody kind of exploded outside, right, everybody had

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Speaker 1: note that even though the governor said that Western New

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Speaker 1: and it's just phase one tomorrow. And as far as

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Speaker 1: and White. He was on zeke elb Show on CBS

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Jim Kelly, listen to this, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: there to block anymore, so that to me is huge.

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Speaker 1: I definitely do think that the Bills are the team

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Speaker 1: to beat, even though you look at the Jets are

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Speaker 1: getting better Miami with two coming in, I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be better. And of course fellow Chest didn't have

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Speaker 1: new any the radio play. So we'll see what happens

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Speaker 1: at the quarterback position in New England. But right now,

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt that the Bills are probably favored to

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Speaker 1: win the AFC East, and if they don't, then they

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Speaker 1: must have some serious injuries because they have all the

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Speaker 1: ingredients to take to move on in the playoffs. Jim Kelly,

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterbacks saying the Bills not only are

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Speaker 1: the favorites, but if they don't win the division, something's wrong.

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Speaker 1: Talking about pressure. If people say this all the time

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Speaker 1: on our show, see that type of thing. But Jim

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Speaker 1: was as emphatic as anybody, something's wrong if they don't

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Speaker 1: win the division. Leave it to my boy Jim to

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Speaker 1: jump on the Bill's bandwagon and whip the horse he's

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Speaker 1: he may uh. At the same time, he sounds like

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Speaker 1: he's all over the expectation of the Bills, loves it

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Speaker 1: and thinks they're gonna be really good at the same

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Speaker 1: time throws down the gauntlet UH as to you know,

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Speaker 1: with a little bit of pressure added on to it.

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Speaker 1: It's true. Um, when he hears that, thanks Joe, Yeah exactly,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what he thinks, right, I was like, bro, like,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot. And there's no question now within the

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Speaker 1: when it when the people are in it. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: the football people that are involved with the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: that the expectations are always sky high. They were high

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Speaker 1: last year, they were high two years ago when they

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Speaker 1: went six and ten. They were high in nine, twenty

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Speaker 1: eighteen or seventeen when when Sean dermott took over, he

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Speaker 1: set that bar very high. I don't think there's any

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Speaker 1: question they have high expectations for this season and they're

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Speaker 1: doing everything they can to prepare to live up to them.

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Speaker 1: But when you have a guy like Jim saying that

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Speaker 1: the last thing you want is to have to deal

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Speaker 1: with those pressures from everybody else, the pressure is on yourself.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to those guys at the top level,

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Speaker 1: which is where Sean McDermot wants this Bill's team to

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Speaker 1: be at the top level. You take the mindset that

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Speaker 1: whatever expectations you have of us, ours are more. We

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Speaker 1: have more expectations. We have more on a day to

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Speaker 1: day basis, We have a more on a practice to

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Speaker 1: people do. Most fans are on a year long for

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Speaker 1: at this point, they're on a year long basis for

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Speaker 1: their expectations. Sean McDermott and his players and coaches or

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Speaker 1: have high expectations today for today, and you know, they

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Speaker 1: break it down into small pieces, and when you start

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Speaker 1: talking like they're talking, it just sets you up for

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Speaker 1: a lot of conversation that drain your energy, like, well,

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Speaker 1: why did you lose today in a season where you

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Speaker 1: have so high expectations? Why did you lose this preseason

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Speaker 1: game on a season when you had such high expectations

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Speaker 1: where every time you stumble or something goes in favor

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Speaker 1: of the other team or whatever it's, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: they throw these expectations up in your face and it

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Speaker 1: just makes for a really exhausting offseason and an exhausting

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Speaker 1: and a distracted regular season when they're not talking about

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Speaker 1: this game or that They're talking about everything in the

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Speaker 1: context of the big picture, and you got to deal

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Speaker 1: with it all the time. And that's what I think

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Speaker 1: and now you wonder how much that as tire Simmons

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Speaker 1: that it is as it is. It might be doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that it does. Uh. You know, you're

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Speaker 1: tempted to say, oh, Jim Kelly just put a lot

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Speaker 1: deeply about it, I'm thinking, who cares about pressure when

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Speaker 1: the division? Anyway? You know what I mean. That's a

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Speaker 1: Twitter question today. Do you agree with Kelly? Is something

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Speaker 1: Two On the Twitter poll, eighty seven percent say yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if to say something's wrong then yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Kelly got to it. You know, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: not ready to say, at least not yet that if

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't. First of all, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: what I say about this. Secondly, I just don't think

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Speaker 1: that helps to put that kind of a burden on

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Speaker 1: You know, I see this as two ways. One if

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Speaker 1: if they don't win, it's because they didn't live up

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Speaker 1: to the expectations. Yeah, it's not because they didn't live up.

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Speaker 1: It will mean that they did not live up to

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Speaker 1: the expectations we had for them in May, and that's wrong.

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Speaker 1: That will be something wrong right. And the second thing

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Speaker 1: is when Jim, when a guy like Jim says it.

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Speaker 1: When when an icon of the franchise that is nationally known,

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Speaker 1: like Joe Montan and the Niners, like Joe Namath and

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Speaker 1: Bradshaw on the Steels, you can go down the list

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Speaker 1: for all of those, you know, franchises. When when an

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Speaker 1: you understand what I mean when I say this, it

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Speaker 1: galvanizes those beliefs for people around the country. Who may

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Speaker 1: not be big Bills fans, they're gonna say, well, if

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Speaker 1: Kelly does and says that, they must have high expectations.

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Speaker 1: And that's my expectations for him too. You know, some

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Speaker 1: and say, oh, so the Bills think they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: pretty good this year. Okay, that's what I'm gonna think too.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch for him and that and if they

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Ye, that's that's what you say

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Speaker 1: we all fall victim to that about other franchises around

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Speaker 1: the league. But I think for Jim when he says that,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people who say, you

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Speaker 1: at that team. We know, you know, people know Jim

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Speaker 1: goes to these games. He's you know, he's part of

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Speaker 1: their own opinion, you know what I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: you're right, and I think the somebody's gonna get fired

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Speaker 1: is the you know, unfortunately, I think that's the right,

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Speaker 1: the knee jerk reaction, right, if it's a casual reaction,

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Speaker 1: you know, right, And that's you know, we have we

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Speaker 1: have we have the annual which coaches on the hot

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Speaker 1: seat before teams even play a game. People are debating

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Speaker 1: who's on the hot seat, as if you know, it's

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Speaker 1: like a game with any game. I don't know, you

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Speaker 1: play that game if you want. I don't find it

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Speaker 1: very we do it. I've been on Oliver Adam Gay saying,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, he's you know, I don't like the guy, right,

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And then you've got others that,

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Speaker 1: you know, all the us. You know, Cliff Kingsbury's not

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Speaker 1: on the hot seats, just his second year and he's

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Speaker 1: finally getting a team, right, you know, Brian Flores, he's

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Speaker 1: not on the hot seat, he's just getting his program started.

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Speaker 1: All these guys, you know, Vic Fangio, he's just you

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Speaker 1: just and we and we sometimes get lazy about making

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Speaker 1: those assessments about where their team should be. Right quite tony, Right,

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Speaker 1: you don't know for sure. As well as that people

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Speaker 1: that are into it. What do you think that Kelly

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Speaker 1: saying that, saying there's something wrong if the Bills don't

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Speaker 1: win the division this year? Give us a call eight

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

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Speaker 1: think of that. Sending a tweet vote the twitter poll

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Speaker 1: at one Bills Live or sending a tweet for the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. Do you agree with Kelly? What do you

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Speaker 1: think of him saying there's something wrong if the Bills

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Speaker 1: don't win the division? What do you think about the

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Speaker 1: governor saying let's reopen? Start the reopening process tomorrow. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna help pro sports teams. The governor wants to see

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. It's all for debate, up for discussion

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Speaker 1: today on the show, and we're gonna get to the

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Speaker 1: phone calls and the tweets when we return. Just getting

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Speaker 1: Rolling one does Live presented by Kalida Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Steves Hansker. A couple of things going

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Speaker 1: on today, A couple of interesting things to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo has announced that Western New York is going

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Speaker 1: to reopen tomorrow. They've reached all the metrics needed to reopen,

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Speaker 1: moving to phase one, and Cuomo said the state wants

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Speaker 1: to encourage major sports teams to reopen. He says, I

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Speaker 1: want to watch the Buffalo Bills. He said it today

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. In the news conference, Cuomo says sports can reopen,

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Speaker 1: the state is ready to help, but teams cannot involve fans.

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Speaker 1: He says the state is ready and willing to partner

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Speaker 1: with major sports teams that are interested in playing without fans.

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Speaker 1: Gotta be viewed as good news for the Buffalo Bills, right,

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Speaker 1: give us your thoughts eight oh three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: The NFL has said the team facilities are okay to

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Speaker 1: open starting tomorrow as well, So we'll see probably days

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Speaker 1: away from at least some of the Bills getting back

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Speaker 1: to work and not players are coaches yet not according

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Speaker 1: to the NFL. But that's got to be. That's got

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Speaker 1: to be coming down the pike. Yeah, I think Jim Kelly,

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Speaker 1: I wonder is it worth playing it one more time?

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Speaker 1: I think it is getting the Kelly's comments. He was

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Speaker 1: on CDs Sports Radio with Zach Gelb over the weekend

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Speaker 1: and Kelly kind of doubled down on the idea that

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Speaker 1: the Bills are the favorites in the AFC East. Here's

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Speaker 1: what he had to say. I mean, if they don't

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Speaker 1: and something drama and Tom Brady is not there to

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Speaker 1: block in anymore, so that to me is huge. I

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Speaker 1: definitely do think that the Bills are the team to beat,

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Speaker 1: even though you look at the Jets are getting better

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Speaker 1: And of course, Fellow Chest didn't have new ANYR radio play,

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Speaker 1: New England. But right now, there's no doubt that the

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Speaker 1: Bills are probably favored to win the AFC East. And

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Speaker 1: if they don't, then you must have some serious injuries

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Speaker 1: because they have all the ingredients to take to move

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Speaker 1: on in the playoffs. Okay, it brings up an interesting question,

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Speaker 1: what do you think the biggest challenge to the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: of thing. Because I still think those teams are pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm still the guy. I'm still the guy

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Speaker 1: that thinks New England's a pretty good football team. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a pretty good team. I don't think the

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Speaker 1: Jets in Miami are threats, but I do think New

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure better better than they were. I think

639
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna have, you know, a better season they did.

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00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: They closed out the last half of last year in

641
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: a big fashion. Um And of course Miami. I think

642
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: a lot of people were tipping their hat to Brian

643
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: Flores about what he got out of the roster he

644
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: had at the end of last season. Of certainly that

645
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: roster will be better this year. I think Miami's one

646
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: of those teams. Like I thought the Bills were last year, Murph.

647
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Speaker 1: I thought the Bills were gonna be tough to beat

648
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: coming down the stretch stretch, and they were. I mean,

649
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: they had their middle of the season was awesome for

650
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and even in the games they lost,

651
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, they lost three of the four games in

652
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: December they were tough to beat, and then the last

653
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: game against the Jets, they you know, they took it

654
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: out of gear completely. But I think Miami's kind of

655
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: one of those teams. I think we'd like to catch

656
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: them early. But it's not that it's not gonna be

657
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: like that. I don't think well. I think Kelly's comments

658
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: is something wrong if the Bills don't win the division,

659
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Speaker 1: give us a call eight h three h five fifty

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

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Speaker 1: fifty vote in the Twitter poll sixteen votes so far,

662
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Speaker 1: ninety percent of you say, yeah, he's right, something's wrong

663
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: if the Bills don't win the East. Okay, it's I

664
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be. That's the thing. What's it gonna be.

665
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: I don't like to think about injuries at all, and

666
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: I know that that's a factor. I'll tell you one thing, Steve,

667
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: I wrote a piece that's going up on the website

668
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: today or tomorrow, I'm not your which just went over

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00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: the roster position group by a position group. You know

670
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: what struck me. For the most part, Bills are fairly deep.

671
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: You know, they're deep at wide receiver. They're deep enough

672
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: at running back. I think they're deep at quarterback, really

673
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: deep on the offensive line, defensive line extremely deep, defensive

674
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: backs extremely The only place I might find fault with

675
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: the depth on the Buffalo roster would be linebackers. And oh,

676
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: by the way, you really only need two starting linebackers.

677
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: Did you need? How many games Lorenzo Alexander and linebacker

678
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: number three last year? The third of three, right with

679
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: Milano and Freman. You know how many games Lorenzo started

680
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: last year? Two? Not many? Yeah, no, I'm sorry seven

681
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: he started less than a half. He started less than

682
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: a half. The game played like what forty of the snaps?

683
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, or something like that. But I do

684
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: think they're a little light on linebackers, you know, with

685
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: aj Klein and Tyler Medekevich and Medeckevitch mostly special team

686
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: or the point is, yeah, injuries can be scary, and

687
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: for this Bill's team, they'd be scary at the wrong spots.

688
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: But they're pretty It's a pretty deep lineup Other than linebacker,

689
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: which I would say maybe the thinnest group position group

690
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Speaker 1: on the roster, They've got depth all across the board. Yeah,

691
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: I agree. Do they have the best players top to

692
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: bottom in the in the division. Um, I think you

693
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: might have the more proof and players. Yeah, I think

694
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: they do, you know, I think, And once again, you

695
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: know you talk yourself in circles, but it comes down

696
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: to how Josh can play, you know. Ye. If Josh

697
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: can play as good or better than he did a

698
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: year ago, they're going to continue to be really tough,

699
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: really tough. And when you talk about depth, I mean

700
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: that's the one position group and the Bills are not alone.

701
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 1: Any most NFL teams you can say this about if

702
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: they lose the starting quarterback for a significant time, things

703
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: changed dramatically. Not a knock on Matt Barkley or perhaps

704
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 1: Jake from even Davis Webb, but it'd be a different

705
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: team without Josh Hall, right, And it's rare that, Like

706
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,439
Speaker 1: you point to one team last year and say, wow,

707
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: that was you know, and that was the Tennessee Titans.

708
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: When they made the switch for Mariota to Tannehill. They

709
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: had a veteran, proven starting quarterback. For whatever right you

710
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: thought we thought of Ryan Tanna, we weren't that high

711
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: and him was still weren't. But the guy came in

712
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: with a fresh start and a new team and caught

713
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: lightning in a bottle and almost got those guys to

714
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Not too many teams, you don't really

715
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Speaker 1: count on that from your your backup quarterback. With the

716
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: point I would make is that if you do switch

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Speaker 1: from a quarterback like Josh Allen and go to a

718
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Speaker 1: guy like Matt Barkley, or any team goes from you know,

719
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: Drew Brees to the other guy, Chase Chase what's his name,

720
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Speaker 1: the guy the backup quarterback in New England that's got that,

721
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: not New England and New Orleans that's got that, um

722
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: I cannot remember his name, Taysom Hill. Taysom Hill. If

723
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Speaker 1: if you got to go from Drew Brees to Taysom Hill,

724
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: your offensive personality changes. If you'd go from any of

725
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: these starting quarterbacks to your backup, your offense is going

726
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: to have to be a completely different personality. That's hard

727
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: to do on the fly in the midst of a

728
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: regular season, but if you got the guys around him

729
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: that can do it, you know, the Bills might be

730
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: able to do with Matt Barkley, a guy who's you know,

731
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 1: certainly not going to be a stranger to the offense,

732
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: but he'll have different strengths than than Josh allen Wood,

733
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: and the defense will look different. They'll call different plays,

734
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: they'll install different types of plays for Matt Barkley. But

735
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: when you do it on the fly, it just takes

736
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: a while to adjust. But I still think it's a

737
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: roster good enough to win with that kind of switch

738
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: or that kind of injury. Hope it couldn't happen. Kelly

739
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: says there's something wrong if the Bills don't win the division.

740
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: React to that? What do you think about? You agree?

741
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 1: Do you agree with him? I don't know. I kin't

742
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: of agree. I'm reluctant to agree because I don't like

743
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: phrasing things like I don't like thinking of that like, wow,

744
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: they didn't win the division. Something went horribly wrong. That's

745
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: just kind of a I think it's backwards way of

746
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: looking at it. But maybe talk me out of it.

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00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: Give us a call eight O three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty

749
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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Do you agree with Jim Kelly State's

750
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: Western airt obling up tomorrow? What do you think of that?

751
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: Phone nine is wide open to talk about it. Let's

752
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,760
Speaker 1: go to the tweet sheet you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

753
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: the official Movers and the Buffalo Bills. Is there something wrong?

754
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: As Kelly said that the Bills don't win the division

755
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: this year, Pat says, I agree with Jim. The Bills

756
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: defense is one of the best in the NFL, and

757
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: with Brady out of the AFC picture, the Bills should

758
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: be able to win their division and compete for an

759
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: AFC championship. The offense is loaded with talent, and for

760
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: Josh the third year is the charm. I smell MVP

761
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: for him? Okay, okay, yeah, I love the enthusiasm. I

762
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: just I don't know MVP for Josh Allen. I mean,

763
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: that's a big jump up for him, but everything else,

764
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: I mean, you're right. The defense is as good as

765
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: it gets really in the NFL, has been for a

766
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: couple of years now. They've made a lot of additions.

767
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: The offense loaded with talent. I don't know. Is Josh

768
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: an MVP? Does he have to be an MVP if

769
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna win the division? I don't think so.

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00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: What do you think, Steve? Yeah? I mean, Josh is

771
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: certainly if they go to the AFC Championship and all

772
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: that there's nobody else is going to be the MVP

773
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: except your quarterback. That's just the way the game structured. Uh.

774
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: And if Josh takes a step forward, he may be

775
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: in a position to do that. But you gotta think

776
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: too something about the you're talking about v MVP for

777
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: the National Football League. I mean, it's a short list

778
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: of guys, right, and you start with Pat Mahomes, and

779
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: you start with Lamar Jackson and two guys who have

780
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: won it recently. He's still got guys like Aaron Rodgers

781
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: in the mix. Ben Roethlisberger's back in the mix, all

782
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, Drew Brees is gonna be in the mix.

783
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: Even Tom Brady going down to Tampa Bay 'll have

784
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: some uh, some sentimental hu you know, push to make

785
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: it seem like he is the you know, this guy

786
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter what team he's on, that kind of thing.

787
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: So for Josh to step into that conversation, I don't

788
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:47,959
Speaker 1: know that all those guys are Some of them will

789
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: take a step back, but certainly Josh is gonna have

790
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: to take a step forward. And that's where it begins. Uh.

791
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: And certainly the team is gonna have to play at

792
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: or exceed the expectations even we have for it. That

793
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: means listen here, Murph, Josh is not gonna be the

794
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: MVP of the league. If the offense scores twenty one

795
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: points a game, but they got to score thirty points

796
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: a game, twenty eight points a game. Is that realistic?

797
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that.

798
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: I think that sounds that now in May, after what

799
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,479
Speaker 1: we've seen last year, and even with Steph Diggs added

800
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: to the mix, to the offensive line being bolstered, maybe

801
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: even better than it was a year ago. Josh another

802
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: year in this system and he got some guys. You know,

803
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: I think that's a big ask, even here, even in May,

804
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: it's a big ask. So, I mean, I get it,

805
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: if the Bills do take a big step forward, you'd

806
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 1: like to see a guy like your quarterback be the MVP.

807
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: But I don't know if this is a team that's

808
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: built like that, to be very honest, to agree more

809
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, you got one you want to

810
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: read stars? Yeah, sure, from sipping the kool Lady, he says,

811
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: I totally agree with Jim Kelly. But the something wrong

812
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: I think he's talking about that could keep it from

813
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: happening is being hit with multiple injuries to keep very

814
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: key personnel. We've got a solid we've got solid depth

815
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: for a change, but losing too many key players could

816
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: really change the outcome. And that's the one thing that um,

817
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: it really is, you know, the unknown. That's the great

818
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: role of the dice in the NFL. I mean I

819
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: lived it for a long time and just it happens

820
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, when even when it happens to you,

821
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: it's like, how did that happen? You know what what

822
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: position going to get in or what happened? That's something

823
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: that you know, it made me, you know, lose a

824
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: bunch of games. Um, it's unexpected, even for the guys involved.

825
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's you can't anticipate it. Only in

826
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: the big picture can you anticipate it, Not in the

827
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Speaker 1: individuals of which it's going to happen to. It's a

828
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 1: huge role of the dice when you're talking about predicting

829
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Speaker 1: what happens in the NFL, particularly with injuries. It's uh

830
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: so that is something that could strike you. But think

831
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Speaker 1: about this too, Murph, and we've seen this, say all

832
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: our dreams come true in the regular season, the Bills

833
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: snap off at twelve and four or a thirteen and

834
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:01,720
Speaker 1: three year right then they got everything going on, and

835
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Speaker 1: they get into a postseason game like maybe they're the

836
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: one seed. They get a wait a week, they come in.

837
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: Another team gets in come like like this coming year's

838
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Some team that we don't know about yet

839
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: catches lightning in a bottle, wins their first game, comes

840
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: into Buffalo, and because of two plays in the entire game,

841
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: the Bills can't win that game. A wrong time, a

842
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: wrongly timed fumble, an injury at the wrong time where

843
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: you have to switch out a key like a Josh

844
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: Allen a key moment where he, you know, twists his

845
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: ankle or something, stepping over a pile or whatever. That's

846
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: that's the kind of margin of area you're talking about.

847
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: That's why we watch the games, why you watch the games,

848
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: and that's why teams like the Tennessee Titans, and that's

849
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,919
Speaker 1: why the Buffalo Bills. You just get in, just get

850
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: in the playoffs somehow, some way. All we gotta do

851
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: is win this game. We can worry about the division

852
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs next week. Let's win this one.

853
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: You know, and it happens. You know, teams do it

854
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: so all, you know, even if our hopes and dreams

855
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: all come to we put together this stellar team. Man

856
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: a couple of plays in a division around game, playoff game.

857
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: It's another salty, you know, another salty New Year's You

858
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: know nobody likes it so well. You know twenty twenty

859
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: one turns out to be even worse than twenty. Jim

860
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: Kelly right when he says something's wrong if the Bills

861
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: don't win the division, let us know what you think.

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Speaker 1: We'll take phone calls. We'll read more tweets on the

863
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: tweet sheet when we come back. One Bill's Live. We're

864
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: working from home today and it's radio only. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's reading Welcome Back. One goes Live. John Murphy,

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00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. It's a Monday afternoon, kind of a rainy,

867
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: cloudy day here in this neck of the woods. After

868
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 1: a good weekend. Steve, it was the last two episodes

869
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: of the Last Dance last night an ESPN, so I

870
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: had to force myself and I think I've seen most

871
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: of it. I know i've seen most of it. What

872
00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: am I talking about? But I really watched the last

873
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: two episodes and they were really good last night, I

874
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 1: have to say. And overall, I know we were talking

875
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: about it a week so ago. You know, it's too long,

876
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 1: it's too detailed. There's a lot of the same themes

877
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: over and over and again. But yes, tremendous insight into

878
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: kind of what made Michael Jordan tick. Two points about

879
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: yes last night's show. I think it was episode nine,

880
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: second to last episode when he's talking about a series

881
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: against Utah Jazz and Brian Russell was assigned to guard

882
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: and Brian Russell dog Michael Jordan before he retired. The

883
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: first time went and played baseball. He said, why didn't

884
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: you stay? I wanted to guard you. Michael Jordan said,

885
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: I put him on my list. He's dead solid. He

886
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: just he said, I put him on my list, and

887
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: he came out and he dropped like forty points on

888
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: the first time they played you get on his list

889
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's disrespect list. You're in trouble and Bryan Russell

890
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: was in trouble. The other thing was and yesterday's episodes

891
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: I can't remember, might have been the second one, the

892
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: tenth episode ten. Steve Kerr was a teammate of Michael

893
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 1: Jordan with the Bulls obviously now coach of the Golden

894
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: State Warriors. He's won championships in both places. He won

895
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: three straight with the Bulls, went somebody else and won

896
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: a fourth. He is an amazing backstory. He was a

897
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: good college player in not grade at Arizona. His father

898
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: was murdered in Lebanon, which I guess I vaguely recall.

899
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: I didn't know what I mean, it was assassinated yet, Yeah,

900
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: just an amazing story. And I want, I don't know,

901
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: I thought, I want to hear m about Steve Kerr

902
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: because I get Michael. You know, he's immense immensely and

903
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: intensely competitive, but Steve Kerr is kind of an amazing guy. Anyway,

904
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Speaker 1: those are my two takeaways from last night. It's a

905
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: really really good show last night, really good. Yeah. Yeah.

906
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Speaker 1: One of the things about it, we've talked about it

907
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: before is that it jumps around year to year. It

908
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: goes from eighty six to ninety six and then to

909
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: ninety three down to eighty seven. You know, after it

910
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: jumps around a lot, and it tells I think it

911
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:59,439
Speaker 1: did that in one way to touch base with all

912
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: the main characters in Michael's career as you know, as

913
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: a bull and all the six championships. And to do that,

914
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: they went back and told their backstories. So they would, uh,

915
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,280
Speaker 1: as they get to each championship or whatever, I guess

916
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: they they would go back and say, well, here's this

917
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: guy played this big role, here's his backstory. They would

918
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: jump back, catch you up to date on one guy

919
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: or one situation, and then and then bring it to

920
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,919
Speaker 1: its conclusion before they moved on. Um, that was kind

921
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: of hard to follow. But and I and I only

922
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Speaker 1: watched a couple of the episodes throughout the entire you know,

923
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Speaker 1: five weeks that it was on. Uh, but man, oh man,

924
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: it was really riveting when when you did watch it.

925
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: And I like when they do these documentaries at a

926
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Speaker 1: time when the principal characters can sit down and reflect. Uh.

927
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: It's a great technique that they've started. They've used in

928
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: documentaries where the actual guys sit down and say, well,

929
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: here's what I was thinking, and even get their feelings now,

930
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: how they've changed and how they've come full circle. I

931
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's really compelling to see because

932
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: we can all relate so much to have like me,

933
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: now you know the age that I'm at looking back

934
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Speaker 1: when I was thirty or twenty seven or thirty five

935
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:16,240
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be, and how I've changed

936
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: and how I have a much larger view of the

937
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: things that I was a part of back then. It's

938
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Speaker 1: it's really fun to hear those guys talk about those

939
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: teams that won so many championships in that way, it's

940
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: a really good show and a salute to everyone involved

941
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,399
Speaker 1: in a really good ten part series. On Michael Jordan

942
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: The Last Dance. All right, Phil Jackson too, had to

943
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: make your role to play last night. We'll get a

944
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: talk about that. All right, We got a break, and

945
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 1: then when we come back, Jason lock On Fara CBS

946
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: NFL Insider joins us live on the line, we'll talk

947
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: about that. It's One Bills Live presented by Kalaida Health.

948
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. He update from One Bills Live.

949
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo announced to any that Western New York is

950
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: on schedule to reopen tomorrow. The area has reached all

951
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: the metrics needed to reo and moving to phase one.

952
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: Cuomo said the state wants to encourage major sports teams

953
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: to reopen. He says, quote I want to watch the

954
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. His regular news conference today held in Buffalo,

955
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: Cuomo says Western York has met all seven criteria listed

956
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: for regions to open at least to Phase one, and

957
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: as far as Cuomo says, they can reopen, the state

958
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 1: is ready to help, but teams cannot involve fans. He

959
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: says the state is ready and willing to partner with

960
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: major sports teams that are interested in playing without fans.

961
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: The NFL says teams can reopen as soon as tomorrow.

962
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: They are allowed to reopen provided that no players are

963
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: allowed in the facility other than those currently undergoing treatment,

964
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Speaker 1: and that no members of the coaching staff are permitted

965
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: to return to the facility. It's all to ensure equity

966
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: among all thirty two teams. Teams are not allowed to

967
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: have more than fifty percent of staff at the facility,

968
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: and that number cannot exceed seventy five. The Bills have

969
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: announced the dates and times for their preseason schedule. They

970
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: open the preseason in Baltimore Friday, August fourteenth game against

971
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: the Ravens. They come home for two games Friday, August

972
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: twenty one against Atlanta, and then game three Saturday, August

973
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: twenty ninth against the Colts in the Orchard Park. They

974
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: close out the preseason at Detroit Thursday, September third. Bill's

975
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Speaker 1: defensive lineman Ed Oliver arrested Saturday night in his hometown

976
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: of Houston, charges of driving well intoxicated and unlawfully carrying

977
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: a weapon. Bill say they are aware of the situation.

978
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: They're gathering more informations, and the Giants told quarterback DeAndre

979
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: Baker to stay away from team meetings and focus on

980
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: his legal issues. Baker faces four counts of arm robbery,

981
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: the four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, an

982
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: incident that occurred last Wednesday in South Florida. He is

983
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,479
Speaker 1: out on Bob and there you go. That is the

984
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: update from One Bills Live. John Murphy and Steve Tasker

985
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: coming to you right now. We're going to be joined

986
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Speaker 1: by Jason lacon Fura of CBS Sports in a moment,

987
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: John and Steve that we're getting to talk with him

988
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: about a variety of topics. He's a contributor for NFL

989
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: Today and CBS Properties. Steve again the issue that started

990
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: their show off an hour ago, the governor saying that

991
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: sports teams can reopen. They can't have fans there, but

992
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: they can reopen, and that phase one of Western New

993
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: York's reopening comes tomorrow. These are good things. I mean,

994
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 1: do we have all the answers, No, but these are

995
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: good things, I think, right And once again it's another

996
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 1: I don't know, indication of how lucky the NFL has

997
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: been with the timing of this whole thing. We still

998
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: got a couple of months away before that to do

999
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: anything of note on the football field, and things have

1000
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: started to ease up so that, you know, days like this,

1001
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: you get more optimistic that, you know what, sixteen games

1002
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: in the postseason with an extra playoff team in there

1003
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: for the first time this year, it might happen without

1004
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: fans or not. It may it may happen for me

1005
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: right now, that's a that's a ray of sunshine for me,

1006
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of nice to think about that

1007
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: for the first time, we're taking a step towards tangibly

1008
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: getting to where we all want to be as far

1009
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Speaker 1: as football is concerned. Yep, Hey, I'm the line with

1010
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: us now. CBS Sports NFL insider Jason Laconford, a contributor

1011
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: to CBS and the NFL and CBS NFL Today and

1012
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: other shows. Jason, John Murphy's team chanskerre up there in Buffalo.

1013
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: Thanks coming on with us. No worries, man, How are

1014
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: you guys doing good? We're holding up. Got good news

1015
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: from the governor today. The area is going to reopen

1016
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: tomorrow and the bills are going to reopen soon even

1017
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Speaker 1: without players. I guess how long do you think the

1018
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: NFL will go without allowing players and coaches to return?

1019
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on that, Jason, Well, they've they've said that

1020
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Speaker 1: until it's equal for everybody, you know, They're until every state,

1021
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: every facility could open. They're not going to let teams

1022
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Speaker 1: have a competitive advantage by having football staff and players

1023
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,720
Speaker 1: and coaches in some places, Well, it can't be others.

1024
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to predict, you know what I mean,

1025
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: the next few months. I don't I don't know how

1026
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Speaker 1: to predict the next couple of hours for the last

1027
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: few months. So I don't know. It's you know, different

1028
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: states are responding differently with out any sort of coach

1029
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,720
Speaker 1: in federal response. I don't know that anybody can answer

1030
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: that question because it's going to be up to individual

1031
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: governors and individual mayors. I know here in Maryland where

1032
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: I live, the you know, the governor basically came out

1033
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: last Friday at five pm and said retail can open

1034
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:22,760
Speaker 1: at fifty percent percent capacity. But it's up to each

1035
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,439
Speaker 1: county and municipality to decide whether they want to stick

1036
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: with what they have going in terms of being closed,

1037
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Speaker 1: or whether they want to open up. So Maryland's not

1038
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: that big of a state. Depending you could drive ten

1039
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: minutes in either direction and either look like it's open

1040
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,919
Speaker 1: for business or look like it's completely shut down. So yeah,

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00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, guys, I don't know as

1042
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: I also don't know at this point what you're gaining,

1043
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: like by the time you scrub these buildings, even if

1044
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: you could open them all up at some point in June,

1045
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 1: like what like okay, why like to do six three

1046
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: weeks of OTAs or something like that, you know what

1047
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: I mean? And then the risk of bringing all those

1048
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Speaker 1: people together, and then certain guys are in states where

1049
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: airports are closed, and other guys are in states where

1050
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want. I just don't know

1051
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: what the risk reward in that calculation would be. To

1052
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: this point, you know, they've been incredibly lucky. Other than

1053
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: Sean Payton and Von Miller, there hasn't been a whole

1054
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: lot known in terms of people having it. And you're right,

1055
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: they've been able to operate business as usual, but they

1056
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 1: can't really sell those tickets yet. I'm not sure they're

1057
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: going to be able to sell any tickets this year.

1058
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Speaker 1: And I really don't get the rush to open these

1059
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: buildings up right now. But the one thing, Jason, I

1060
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: wonder if you agree with this, the NFL benefited and

1061
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: continues to benefit from really the pandemic occurring outside of

1062
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: regular season, but through free agency and through the draft

1063
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: at least the two major events of the soft season.

1064
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,760
Speaker 1: So far, the NFL has not had many false steps.

1065
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: Everything they've done this seems to have worked out pretty good.

1066
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: Would you agree, Well, yeah, I mean certainly it's I mean,

1067
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: they haven't lost any games because you know, it's just

1068
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: pure luck. Um. But the draft was what was awesome. Um.

1069
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 1: It was a great escape for a lot of people.

1070
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: And the way that those broadcast partners in the league

1071
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:14,479
Speaker 1: managed to pull that off was, um, was pretty special. Um.

1072
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: Your you know, free agency buying large wasn't affected by it.

1073
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: There were some contracts that fell through because guys couldn't

1074
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: have physicals. But buying large it was what it was.

1075
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: I just would be a little This thing is affecting

1076
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: people all over the world, I think to somehow insinuate

1077
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: or suggest or hope, um or believe that it's not

1078
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,280
Speaker 1: going to affect the NFL if you start bringing large

1079
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: groups of NFL related people together again, that that that

1080
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: part of the equation. I don't quite understand. Um I

1081
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: would I would think you would just tell everybody to

1082
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: stay home for as long as possible and then try

1083
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,439
Speaker 1: to have a normal training camp, you know what I mean,

1084
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: Like the idea of bringing marketing people and pr people

1085
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: back into a building when there's no football going on

1086
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,319
Speaker 1: and you can't really sell a whole lot right now,

1087
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: and you can't really market a whole lot right now.

1088
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: I know talking to my friends around the league, there's

1089
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: a lot of people who have trepidation saying, well, why

1090
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: can't I just keep zooming this for another couple months

1091
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,439
Speaker 1: until we get to the summer to see if there

1092
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: is a second wave or how the reopening of some

1093
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: of these states ends up impacting the numbers. Yeah, And

1094
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: it all comes down to really they're gonna have to

1095
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: be tested constantly, yeah, all throughout the season, and they're

1096
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: not set up for that yet. No, No, And that's

1097
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 1: why I don't I mean, the temperature gauges and the

1098
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: additional medical staff are going to have to be there,

1099
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: the degree to which these buildings are going to have

1100
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: to be scrubbed on a daily basis. I mean, they

1101
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: don't want you mean those look at the baseball regulations.

1102
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: They don't want anybody showering. There's gonna be a hundred

1103
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: guys at these training camps. Nobody's gonna be able to

1104
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: shower there, and then they're all gonna get shuttled sweaty

1105
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,240
Speaker 1: and nasty on buses, huddled up together. How many buses

1106
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: will there be to go back to the hotel where

1107
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: they're all quarantine? Fifty buses? Five guys on the bus.

1108
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: I mean, if we're talking, just start doing the math.

1109
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 1: How big these dudes are and everybody's supposed to be

1110
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: six feet away after they just rubbed up on each

1111
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: other for two hours in practice. I don't know, you know,

1112
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: this is this is a brand new territory for all

1113
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: of us, a different horizon. I hope they can pull

1114
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:28,720
Speaker 1: it off. But I just know. I mean, my wife

1115
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: went through a situation here and she went to the

1116
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,800
Speaker 1: hospital twice and got tested and she has all the

1117
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 1: symptoms and they're like, you have it, just doesn't show

1118
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 1: on the test. And she's like, well, how long could

1119
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 1: that go on? And they said fifty days. So this

1120
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: is Baltimore. I'm not like in the third world country,

1121
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: and we're at a hospital it's world renowned, and they're saying,

1122
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: with the testing we have available now, even though you

1123
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: keep showing negative, we're pretty sure you have it. And

1124
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,240
Speaker 1: it could be another fifty days that you'd still be negative,

1125
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: but you have it and you could spread it. So

1126
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: if that's just that's I mean. And so if that's

1127
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: a reality, and that's certainly our reality, I hope there's

1128
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:11,320
Speaker 1: all kinds of investor innovations in testing between now and July,

1129
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: but that would seem to me to be difficult to

1130
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,439
Speaker 1: have a bubble if there's that much variance, and when

1131
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: you test positive, go ahead. I was going to ask you, Jason.

1132
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: And the thing about that the NFL benefits from all

1133
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: this is they can take a cue from Major League Baseball,

1134
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 1: who's gonna try and play games with an open air

1135
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: stadium with fans. It would be the same kind of

1136
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: set up as an NFL game, just a different sport

1137
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: being played at an outdoor, um high volume crowd set up,

1138
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: you know, set up, but done without fans. So the

1139
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: NFL could sit back watch how hockey handles it, how

1140
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: the NBA handles it, how Major League Baseball handles it,

1141
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 1: and still have enough time to get ramped up. Particularly

1142
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: if there are no fans. It's much cheasier probably to

1143
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: make this game happen than with fans. For the teams.

1144
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 1: Do you think even if they are allowed to have

1145
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: maybe like a fifteen or twenty percent capacity stadium, maybe

1146
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 1: they just say, you know what, forget it. It'll be

1147
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: easier if we just don't do that. Let's just do

1148
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: it without fans and go. Or they just sit back

1149
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: wait for these other sports to take theirs and take

1150
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: their chances. Yeah. I mean, look, everybody has been studying

1151
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: what's going on in these different countries, the KBO in

1152
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: Germany with their leagues opening up, But I don't know

1153
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: how much of that apples to apples. If if a

1154
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: major team sports league gets off the ground here, absolutely

1155
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: everybody will be studying how they're testing, what what equipment

1156
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: they're using, how often they're testing, what all the protocols are.

1157
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: But I just look at the rules that are out

1158
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:50,919
Speaker 1: for baseball. They basically don't want anybody touching anybody else.

1159
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: They don't want high fives, they don't want any spinning,

1160
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: they don't want any chewing of any sort, no sunflower seeds.

1161
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: I mean, Steve, you've played in the game for a

1162
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: long time. How are you going to prevent that? Like, oh,

1163
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: I get it. Baseball players can't high five after a

1164
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: home run. Football there's a hundred collisions every play, Like

1165
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: that's the you know what I mean. Like it's just

1166
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: and when when doctor Fauci talked to Peter King, I

1167
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: guess a week ago and was like, well, yeah, this

1168
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: would be the perfect feature just for spreading it like

1169
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: all those contacts and every time a linebacker runs into

1170
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: a running back, like that's exactly how it would be spread.

1171
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: I just don't know how how you mitigate that, you

1172
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And so that's why I keep

1173
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: going back to testing. And if the testing is isn't

1174
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: completely ironclad, then I don't know how you create a

1175
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: bubble that would allow you to get through, you know,

1176
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: twenty weeks of you know, fifty guys on a roster

1177
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: and thirty teams and all those collisions and it not

1178
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: becoming a thing. But I hope, you know, I hope

1179
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: there is a way. I just I don't know enough

1180
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: about it. I don't know that anybody knows enough about

1181
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: it to project. But I certainly feel like that there's

1182
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to be um a lot of strategic forethought,

1183
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: and it would be it'll be a vast undertaking in

1184
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: my estimation, Yeah, it would have. It's hard to imagine

1185
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: a bubble big enough to hold all the players, all

1186
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: the coaches in the NFL, keep everybody in that bubbles

1187
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: isolated from everybody else, um, and if and keep testing

1188
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: them so if somebody does test positive, they're isolated for

1189
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and don't get infect anybody else.

1190
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: I mean that's um, well, how many equipment guys who

1191
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: If everybody's living at a hotel, somebody's got to clean

1192
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: those hotel rooms every day. Somebody's got to feed these guys.

1193
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: Somebody's got to be bringing the supply trucks in with

1194
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: food and different things. Somebody's got to clean the uniforms.

1195
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: Somebody's got to mow the grass, somebody's got to drive

1196
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: the buses, you know, like it is a vast undertaking

1197
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: to have an NFL team churning day in day out

1198
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: through a training camp setting, much less to regular season.

1199
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: Like you know, I know the Premier Lacrosse League is

1200
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 1: going to start. I talked to Paul Rabel, the commissioner.

1201
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: They're going to be able to play three weeks with

1202
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: an entire entire budget, I'm sorry, entire bubble, including the

1203
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: TV personnel to broadcast at of three hundred people. I

1204
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: don't think a single NFL team could construct a bubble

1205
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: of less than three hundred people. When you start adding

1206
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: in one hundred man rosters and twenty coaches and fifteen

1207
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: you know, trainers, and the equipment staff and the grounds crew,

1208
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: and then you start doing multiples of thirty of that.

1209
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: That sounds like a lot to me, but I don't know.

1210
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 1: I'm aligned with Jason lacom for a CBS Sports NFL insider. Jason,

1211
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: you have a post up today on CBS sports dot

1212
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: com where you rank all thirty two teams and identify

1213
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: eighteen says legitimate Lombardi contenders. The Buffalo Bills did not

1214
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: make that list. They are one of the best of

1215
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: the rest. Tell me the difference between legitimate Lombardi contenders

1216
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: and the best of the rest, in particular, why the

1217
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: Bills don't make the top level? Do you think, I

1218
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: would say the quarterback position, you know, And I think

1219
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 1: he'll continue to progress, and I think they're building a

1220
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: great nucleus around him and incubating him. But I just

1221
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: don't know that he's ready to slay the dragon three

1222
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: or four times in January or February against the best

1223
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 1: of the best. And that's what we generally get down

1224
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: to when you're talking about teams that I would legitimately

1225
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: take money on and bet on them winning a Super Bowl.

1226
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 1: And that's sort of how I went about this process.

1227
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: And I think that, I mean, I've been a big

1228
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: champion of what Brandon Bean and Seal McDermott have done

1229
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: there for years, and I think they've made monumental gains

1230
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 1: and they give them, you know, high marks a's for

1231
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: a lot of what they've done. I just don't think

1232
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: they're ready to win a super Bowl this year. I'm

1233
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: not saying it's not in their future. At some point

1234
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: but it's going to be hard in this offseason I

1235
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: think for a lot of younger players to do what

1236
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 1: they would normally do to get better. And you know,

1237
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: could this be the year where he makes a massive

1238
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: jump in terms of accuracy and consistency in a few

1239
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: things that he still has to work on. I mean

1240
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: he could, but this sort of virtual offseason isn't as

1241
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: conducive to that to any degree of what a normal

1242
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: offseason would be. Give us to your rundown of the

1243
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 1: AFC East. You know, we all know we've been talking.

1244
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: We talked about Tom Brady leaving the division for weeks

1245
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: before it actually happened, and now we'll continue to talk

1246
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,720
Speaker 1: about it. Also the Dolphins, and they had six thousand

1247
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 1: draft picks that they brought in this year with all

1248
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: the draft picks that they had, and of course the

1249
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: Jets are making steps towards protecting Sam Darnold. Give us

1250
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: your thoughts about the division. I think the Bills are

1251
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: in a great spot. I think the Bills are the

1252
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: best roster in the division. I think the Bills have

1253
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: what I think will be a huge competitive factor in

1254
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 1: this offseason because of how unusual it is. They've got

1255
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: continuity of quarterback, continuity of scheme, continuity of philosophy, continuity

1256
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: of coordinators and head coach. And New England still checks

1257
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: a lot of US boxes. But going from Tom Brady

1258
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 1: to Jared's did him. I'm sorry, that's a thing like

1259
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 1: that's that's that's going to be a you know, something

1260
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: for them to have to overcome. And then again, I

1261
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: don't like their roster nearly as much as I like Buffalo's.

1262
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo's got a lot of young, ascending players

1263
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 1: who feel like they're building something there and they're part

1264
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: of a movement. Miami is still further down in their rebuilding.

1265
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Jets are. I don't like

1266
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: their roster. I don't like their schedule. They made a

1267
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 1: lot of moves at the offensive line position, they made

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01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,920
Speaker 1: a lot of volume. I don't know that they made anything,

1269
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: you know, other than the drafting one. I don't know

1270
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: they did anything that I think has got blue chip

1271
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 1: potential in terms of really, you know, altering the scope

1272
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: of that unit. I think they don't have much personnel

1273
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: on defense at all. I mean, anytime you can look

1274
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 1: at a roster and say there's only one guy who

1275
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: could make the case for a contract extension on the

1276
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 1: entire roster. Jamal Adams, You're probably not in the place

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01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: to win much yet, So yeah, I think the Bills

1278
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 1: will win that division. I think the Bills will compete

1279
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 1: among the best teams in the AFC. I just you know,

1280
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 1: when you're talking with Pat Mahomes, when you're talking Lamar Jackson,

1281
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: you know when you when you're talking some of these

1282
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna have to get through to

1283
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Speaker 1: win it all. I just you know, I can't put

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Speaker 1: them among the eight teams I think have the best

1285
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: shot to win a super Bowl. But I certainly think

1286
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: they'll be in the playoffs, and I certainly think they'll

1287
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: be a tough tougher out in the playoffs than they

1288
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 1: proved to be in the past. I want to answer

1289
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 1: Jason about your another post recent pose. They had the

1290
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: young Quarterback confidence rankings, and you obviously think a lot

1291
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 1: of Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray have them ranked ahead

1292
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen. But tell me this is going to

1293
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: be a stupid question, but other than the MVP Award,

1294
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: what do you think Lamar Jackson hands that say Josh

1295
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: Hallon does not have. I mean, he led the league

1296
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: in touchdown passes last year. He had one of the

1297
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: best red zone seasons in the his three of the league. Um.

1298
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: It was one of only four or five times in

1299
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:07,960
Speaker 1: NFL history I think where a guy um the difference

1300
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:11,479
Speaker 1: between his touchdown percentage and his interception percentage was greater

1301
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 1: than seven percent. I mean, he had he had a

1302
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: season for the ages. Um. I don't. I mean Josh

1303
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: just hasn't. He hadn't done that. I mean, I don't

1304
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: know how to put it. Um. You know, he hasn't

1305
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: developed that sort of go to cutthroat connection the way

1306
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: you know what Lamar is doing with a guy like

1307
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: Mirk Andrews in the red zone. Um. But certainly he

1308
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: looked He's doing some things that not many people have

1309
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: done in the history of the game with his legs,

1310
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: and he's improving with his arm. Um. But he turns

1311
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 1: the ball over more than Lamar. His decision making has

1312
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 1: improven to be UM. Yet what what you know Lamar's

1313
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: has been I don't think either one had the greatest

1314
01:05:55,320 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 1: supporting cast in the world last year. UM. But yeah,

1315
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 1: and you know a lot of people would say I've

1316
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,080
Speaker 1: got Josh higher than they think he should be. But

1317
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 1: I'm looking at I'm looking at the totality of what

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01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: he's asked to do, how willing the team is to

1319
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: sort of meet him halfway and sort of different things,

1320
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: to play to his skill sets and try to protect

1321
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 1: him from things he's still working on. And clearly there's

1322
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 1: a singular vision there with how they're bringing him along,

1323
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 1: which is a lot like um what Baltimore is doing

1324
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 1: with with Lamar Jackson. Um. Why do you think Josh

1325
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: Allen's so polarizing Jason Um because he was a top

1326
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: ten pick who when you when you look at how

1327
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 1: he's most effective to this point, a lot of it

1328
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: is involving the legs and not just the arm. Now,

1329
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: I think you have to look at everything in its totality,

1330
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: and when you do that, and you look at his

1331
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,840
Speaker 1: nose for the end zone when he's carrying the ball,

1332
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: his ability to sustain drives um when he takes off

1333
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 1: and run. He's a special runner. He's got some special

1334
01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 1: some special attributes he is. He going to be a

1335
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 1: guy who when you look at long term as completion percentage,

1336
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 1: his yards per attempt, and you looked at where he

1337
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: was drafted, and say, well, is he a top ten quarterback?

1338
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody will have to you know, everybody will

1339
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 1: have their own opinions on that. But I think that

1340
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 1: they know what he is right now and they're doing

1341
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: a great job of maximizing that. I think they'll continue

1342
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: to do a good job of maximizing that. And you

1343
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 1: couple that with bringing in the digs and having another

1344
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,880
Speaker 1: really good draft, and I think he's going to be

1345
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 1: positioned to be playing playoff football again. Jason, you you

1346
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 1: talked recently, I think on your your podcast, your radio

1347
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: show with Sean Payton. I'm curious. I haven't had a

1348
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 1: chance to talk to him, and I wonder he made

1349
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 1: the decision not to bother with this virtual offseason program

1350
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints. Did he talk about that?

1351
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: Did you think they're a waste of time? Or does

1352
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: he worry about just leaving his players to their own

1353
01:07:56,040 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 1: devices during these months? What do you think? Um? No,

1354
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: he basically is someone who has dealt with the coronavirus himself,

1355
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 1: and you know who has lived through that. He just

1356
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: felt like in this situation where right now, in a

1357
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: global pandemic where guys are trying to figure out you know,

1358
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 1: how am I gonna you know, what can my wife do?

1359
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 1: What can I do? What's going on where I live?

1360
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 1: What are the rules are we home schooling? How are

1361
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 1: how are my parents doing? How are my grandparents doing?

1362
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: And having a veteran team, and having a team that's

1363
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 1: been together for a while, by and large, that he

1364
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 1: didn't want to do anything else that that sort of

1365
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: created any more uncertainty about their climate. So he just said, look,

1366
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,840
Speaker 1: whatever the NFL decides, it doesn't matter. We're going to

1367
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 1: shut this building down for a while. The guys who

1368
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: need a playbook will get a playbook. Coaches will be

1369
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: available to talk to them at times when you want to.

1370
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: But don't worry about missing meetings, don't worry about missing

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01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:56,720
Speaker 1: a certain workout. I trust you, guys as men, to

1372
01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 1: do what you have to do for your families right now,

1373
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: to keep everybody your loved ones as healthy as can be,

1374
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 1: and to show up for training camp in the best

1375
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: shape you can possibly be in. And I totally get it.

1376
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,640
Speaker 1: I mean, these are voluntary things to begin with the

1377
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 1: OTAs you know. I mean, no one has to be

1378
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:15,840
Speaker 1: there anyway, per the CBA. So I thought it was

1379
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,840
Speaker 1: a really cool approach. It's one that having texted with

1380
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: some players on that team, I know that they really

1381
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: respected and it was sort of a sense that, hey man,

1382
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:26,639
Speaker 1: there's things going on right now that are way bigger

1383
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:28,840
Speaker 1: than football, and you know what, nobody's winning or losing

1384
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: a Lombardi in the middle of May anyway. So don't

1385
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,719
Speaker 1: worry about connecting flights, don't worry about having the book

1386
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: traveled to New Orleans, don't worry about when the trainers

1387
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 1: are going to be in the weight room. None of

1388
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:42,640
Speaker 1: that's happening. We'll see in training camp. Jason, thanks for

1389
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 1: coming on. It's great talking to you, catching up. Appreciate it,

1390
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Guys, thanks for having me. Man, have a

1391
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 1: good one. Thank you. Thanks Jason lock On for a

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Speaker 1: CBS Sports NFL Insider contributor to NFL Today in the

1393
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 1: NFL on CBS or Interesteam thoughts. Look, I'm not disputing

1394
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: Alexander Jackson had a better year than josh Avon last year,

1395
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: but I didn't want to hear somebody explain to me

1396
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:06,639
Speaker 1: exactly why Steve and I guess Jason handled that well

1397
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 1: right touchdown passes. I mean, they won more than the

1398
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 1: Bills and I guess long term, long term, I'm not

1399
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: convinced that Lamar Jackson is going to have a better

1400
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: NFL career than Josh Allen. Is that okay to say?

1401
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: Or does that sound crazy? Yeah? I mean there's no

1402
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:24,720
Speaker 1: question he did have a career year this year he had.

1403
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 1: He was an MVP of the league as a as

1404
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: a you know, second year guy, and he played really well.

1405
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 1: He had a tough offense to defend. Um It's interesting

1406
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 1: too that that offense that Baltimore ran was completely different

1407
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,880
Speaker 1: than anybody else in the National Football leagues. They ran

1408
01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 1: the ball a ton, and it was misdirection. It wasn't

1409
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: really a it could be a power run game, it

1410
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 1: was also a misdirection run game. It was a zone scheme.

1411
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: As a man, they it was so diverse in its

1412
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:58,639
Speaker 1: running scheme. It was really hard to defend. And and

1413
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 1: Lamar is a fourth guy who's big, hard to contain

1414
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands. So it's it's it's

1415
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:12,320
Speaker 1: easy after this last season to say Lamar Jackson's the MVP.

1416
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: There's no going back. I mean, Josh Allen shouldn't even

1417
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 1: be in the conversation, but I'm kind of with you. Murph,

1418
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: and not just because we're here in Buffalo, but Josh

1419
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 1: Allen seems more and he took a steady step forward

1420
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 1: last year, and he's built and has a style of

1421
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 1: play that is more conducive to the way the game

1422
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 1: is officiated and structured and and called. You know, I mean,

1423
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. I just think Josh

1424
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:43,960
Speaker 1: in a better position long term than Lamar Jackson. I

1425
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 1: think there's many questions, and not in regards to their ability,

1426
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 1: but in the way you defend them and the long

1427
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 1: term sustainability of the way they run their offense. I

1428
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 1: think there's more questions about Lamar than there are Josh.

1429
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:58,559
Speaker 1: Even though Lamar was the MVP last year. I don't

1430
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: know if they can keep playing foot all like that

1431
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. I agree, And and let me put it

1432
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 1: this way, comparing the two, and again I'm not discounting

1433
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,479
Speaker 1: what Josh or what Lamar Jackson did last year. I

1434
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:13,360
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen has a vastly greater upside than Lamar Jackson,

1435
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Josh has a ways to

1436
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 1: go to be really good, to be a super Bowl caliber,

1437
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 1: elite level quarterback, no question about that. But I think

1438
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 1: he could get there. I don't see Lamar Jackson getting

1439
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 1: much better than he was last year. They've got to

1440
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,599
Speaker 1: ask more of him in the passing game. Yeah right,

1441
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's capable. They've got they've got

1442
01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:36,840
Speaker 1: to get wide receivers who are wide receivers rather than blockers.

1443
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 1: I mean they even they said that in the offseason

1444
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: that we get guys who were gonna be blockers downfield

1445
01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: because they were going to run this kind of offense.

1446
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: Are how are they going to balance that? Because teams

1447
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 1: are going to force him to do it. You know,

1448
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:52,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna force him to put the ball in the

1449
01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 1: air like the way the Bills did on December eighth

1450
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:57,840
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, um, they're gonna have to overcome that.

1451
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: I think we'll see. I mean, there's no question, man, Baltimore.

1452
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: If you're Baltimore, I mean, you gotta be pretty pretty

1453
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 1: ecstatic with your young quarterback. He was the NBP of

1454
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 1: the league last year. But then two and say, Okay,

1455
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:12,519
Speaker 1: what's their offense gonna look like this year? Is it

1456
01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: gonna be able to score thirty points a game like

1457
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 1: it did last year? We'll see. I mean, I it's

1458
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:20,479
Speaker 1: it was really interesting, and I gotta tip my hat

1459
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: to John Harball. That's a bold move. They went all

1460
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 1: in with him and it and it served him well

1461
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,200
Speaker 1: in the regular season, but they were one and done

1462
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Yeah, I just I don't know what

1463
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:36,360
Speaker 1: to think about Baltimore. You know, I got a lot

1464
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: of faith in John Hardball, but he can only he

1465
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: can only coach the guys he's got, and I don't

1466
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 1: know if they could put the ball in the air

1467
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: enough to win consistently in the postseason. Maybe I'm crazy,

1468
01:13:46,479 --> 01:13:48,560
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. Maybe we're we probably are a

1469
01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: little bit clouded by the fact that we know these

1470
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:53,400
Speaker 1: Bills so much. We see the hard work Josh is

1471
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: putting in. We saw the big step forward he took

1472
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 1: this last year, and and he just got to know

1473
01:13:58,479 --> 01:14:00,439
Speaker 1: that he's gonna take a step forward this year in

1474
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:03,679
Speaker 1: some respects. Doesn't mean they're going automatically gonna win twelve games,

1475
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 1: but a step forward from where he was last year,

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Speaker 1: and he is going to be a pretty good quarterback

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Speaker 1: by anybody's standard. Yeah. All of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly

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Speaker 1: says something's wrong if the Bills don't win the division

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Speaker 1: this year. What do you think of that? You agree?

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

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

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Speaker 1: phone lines wide open. Western New York reopens begins to

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Speaker 1: reopen tomorrow, including sports teams. We'll talk about that when

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Speaker 1: we return as well. One goes Live, presented by Kalaida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome Back. One goes five.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy seemed tasker. I'm happy to talk with you

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Speaker 1: today about whatever's on your mind about the bill. Jim

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01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: Kelly thinks something's wrong if the Bills don't win the

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Speaker 1: division this year. What do you think of that? Eight

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. I don't know why I laugh

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Speaker 1: at that, Steven. It's not serious. I mean, it's not

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Speaker 1: definitely serious. I just find it funny that Kelly would

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01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 1: put that put that out there, you know, I just

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01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,920
Speaker 1: I can just imagine what Sean McDermott and Random Bean

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01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 1: thought when they when they got that right, when they

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Speaker 1: saw that. Oh great, thanks Jim, Yeah, well yeah, because yeah,

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Speaker 1: we said it. Talked about this earlier. Jim Kelly said,

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Speaker 1: everybody out in the in the real world, thinks Jim's

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Speaker 1: still part of the team, right, He's still taking snaps

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01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: kind of. He's part of the fixture here, He's part

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01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:31,120
Speaker 1: of the organization, part of the community. He knows he's

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01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,639
Speaker 1: tied with the he's tied in that kind of thing.

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01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 1: And uh so if he says it must be true, right,

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01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: And not that you and I disagree with him all

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01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 1: that much, but certainly from yeah, and like we had

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01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley on you know on Friday, you know, nothing

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01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,719
Speaker 1: on paper, nothing wins you on paper. Nothing on paper

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01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: wins you any games. And that's what Jim. You know,

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01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,120
Speaker 1: this is just you know, kind of a paper prediction.

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01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: And from what we see here in May, on paper, hey,

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01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,719
Speaker 1: the Bills do look pretty good. But when it comes

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01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 1: off the paper and gets on the field, you know,

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01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: so much can happen that derails your chances in the season.

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01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:10,599
Speaker 1: And it could happen at any time, at any point.

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01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 1: So it's fun to take a big picture in and say, hey,

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01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 1: something's wrong if the Bills don't have it. Love their roster,

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01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: love everything about them there, their quarterbacks getting better and

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01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:23,280
Speaker 1: yadda yad, all of that perfect. They haven't won a

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01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 1: game yet, and they may not. You know, right, they're

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01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:32,680
Speaker 1: gonna win some games, but you know they you know,

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01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 1: we don't know how many. And I just hope they're right.

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01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:38,439
Speaker 1: There might be they might not play any games. So

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01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:41,599
Speaker 1: there's a lot on the table here that that may

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01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 1: keep the Bills from doing, from winning the division and

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01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:48,800
Speaker 1: doing all the things we think they can. Uh. But man,

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01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: oh man, it's it's Jim, come out and say it.

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01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 1: It's It does carry some weight, I think for people

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01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 1: around the nation. Around the nation, phone lines open at

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01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 1: eight fifty and outside Buffalo one eight eight five fifty

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01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 1: two five fifty. Colin lenders Stone, what you think about

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Speaker 1: Kelly's response on Twitter? Eighty eight percent of you say, yeah,

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01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: if they don't win the division, something's wrong, okay. On

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01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:12,839
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet brought to you by Cargan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official moves of the Buffalo Bills from Tiffany, She says,

1536
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 1: when everything that has gone into the total overhauled the franchise,

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01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,639
Speaker 1: from the owner's front office, personnel, players, and the new

1538
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 1: training and recovery facilities, it is time to take advantage

1539
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,639
Speaker 1: of all the positive changes that have occurred and played

1540
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 1: championship quality football sounds like a manifesto, you know what

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01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:36,679
Speaker 1: I mean. It sounds like a mission statement that sounds

1542
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 1: like Governor Culoma opening them West New York. So it

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01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:42,719
Speaker 1: sounds like from Nick, he says, I think something would

1544
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:44,679
Speaker 1: be wrong, not because I think the Bills are perfect,

1545
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: but because if we don't win the division, that would

1546
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 1: mean that either the Jets, Dolphins, or Patriots did and

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01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 1: I can't see that from happening. I think you made

1548
01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 1: a good point earlier, Steve. Maybe the better question is

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01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 1: if they don't win the division, will it be because

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01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: of something untoward happening to the Bills, a tough loss,

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01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:04,160
Speaker 1: a tough injury, etc. Or would it be because you know,

1552
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: the Jets, Dolphins are Patriots surprises? Because clearly I think

1553
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:11,240
Speaker 1: every almost everyone lock On Forward did a few minutes ago,

1554
01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:13,680
Speaker 1: everyone would agree the Bills have it on paper, you

1555
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 1: just send it. They have a better team, they have

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01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:19,559
Speaker 1: a better roster, right Yeah, and they've got a coaching staff,

1557
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: even with a few tweaks this year, that has in

1558
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 1: its history here in Buffalo, gotten more out of this

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01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: roster than a lot of people thought was there to get.

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01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,240
Speaker 1: So you put a really good talented roster in front

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01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 1: of a coaching staff like that, there's every reason to

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01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:36,639
Speaker 1: believe the expectations are going to be high, and every

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01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 1: reason to believe you're gonna win a lot of games,

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01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 1: maybe even win a couple of games you shouldn't. So yeah,

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01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 1: there are a lot of reasons why all this seems

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01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:48,320
Speaker 1: to be coming together. They've they've had their house together

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01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: financially in order for the last eighteen months now, since

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01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: the end of twenty nineteen or towards the end of

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01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:57,120
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen regular season. They've got their financial house in order.

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01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 1: They've got their draft picks in a position now from

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01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:03,800
Speaker 1: the time that Sean McDermott took over until now, they've

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01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: got a handful of key draft picks that are ready,

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01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 1: have proven their worth and are really up for what

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01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 1: would seem deserving contract extensions. You've got a young quarterback

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01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:20,640
Speaker 1: who took a large step forward this last year and

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01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:24,439
Speaker 1: who has the work ethic and from our you know,

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01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: information gathering here on our show, when we've had guests

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01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 1: on and when we've done interviews, they have had eyes

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01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 1: on Josh and said he's working really hard, and he's

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01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: also shown some leadership skills and getting young guys in

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01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:41,640
Speaker 1: with him to throw and learn the offense, learn some

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01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:43,720
Speaker 1: terminology so we can get to know them. So there's

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01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff and a ton of confluence of

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01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:49,600
Speaker 1: things that have come together on this roster and in

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01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: this point for the Buffalo Bills to think, Wow, there's

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01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:58,439
Speaker 1: nothing left to do except to play and win, right, So,

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01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 1: I mean there's no hole in the roster, there's no

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01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:05,240
Speaker 1: uh one glaring place where they wow, you gotta fix this,

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01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 1: So you gotta do this or I wish this would

1590
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 1: not have happened. Uh, certainly have incidents with Ed Oliver

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01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Yeah, Okay, I get but that and

1592
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 1: that's a that's a hiccup. You know. At this point, um,

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01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:20,639
Speaker 1: this is a team that people are like sitting around

1594
01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 1: right now, going all right, let's go, you know, I mean,

1595
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:26,719
Speaker 1: there's nothing left to do except practice up and play

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01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 1: football because everything seems to be in place. Yep. Can

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01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:34,120
Speaker 1: I switch gears for a second year? Are this came up?

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01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:36,400
Speaker 1: I think yesterday? Maybe Saturday? Now you know what, Let

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01:20:36,439 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: me take a call first, because this is still on

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Speaker 1: the same topic. Nick is on the line in Buckledo.

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01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:43,080
Speaker 1: Hello Nick, Thanks coming up, Hi, Murph, how are you doing?

1602
01:20:43,320 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 1: I will see anything negative about the build around Murph

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01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 1: because Murph will just cut you off and blast you. Yeah,

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01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 1: that's what I do. You're right, Nick, And I'm about

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01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 1: ready to cut you off, Murph. I think I think

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01:20:56,880 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: we're only gonna go as fires this coaching staff, far

1607
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:03,160
Speaker 1: as they've improved. I mean, we had the Houston game.

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01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 1: We were pressured pretty seriously. We didn't go to a

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01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: screen game. And okay, so they said, maybe we don't

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01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 1: have the guards to poll to alleviate that pressure. I

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01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 1: hope they've seen the game film and maybe they're gonna

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01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:19,760
Speaker 1: improve on something like that. But they didn't upgrade the

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01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: guard position in the in the off season, so I

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01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 1: don't know what that bold swore us. And uh, you know,

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01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: I like the Bill's chances. They should win the division. Hey,

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01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 1: we can win the division and eight night we got

1617
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 1: to get a home playoff game. That's number one. And uh,

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01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 1: there's something else that I forgot to say. But let

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01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: me ask you this, Nick. Would you rather hear me

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01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: cut you off first or blast you? Would you like

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01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: to be around for the glass? And I thinketing say

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01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:52,640
Speaker 1: anything that bad, Nick. They did bring it now as

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01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,400
Speaker 1: far as not you know, not upgrading the yard. They

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01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 1: did bring in some competition for the offensive line, There's

1625
01:21:56,760 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 1: no question about it. They've got that. They signed a

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01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:03,080
Speaker 1: bunch of up of three free agent veterans and they've

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01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: got some guys. I think they're deeper now with quality

1628
01:22:06,320 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 1: depth than they were a year ago, even after they

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01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 1: cut down to their regular fifty three man roster, not

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01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:15,719
Speaker 1: just the thirteen or fifteen guys they brought into training

1631
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:17,720
Speaker 1: camp last year. I think at the top of their

1632
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:20,719
Speaker 1: roster now they're they're much deeper and have much better

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01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:24,559
Speaker 1: competition at the guards and the tackles than they did

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01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 1: a year ago too. So I think you can bet

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01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,320
Speaker 1: to the five guys that are gonna take the field

1636
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:31,720
Speaker 1: for the Bills or are gonna be as good as

1637
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:33,640
Speaker 1: they need to be to do everything they want to

1638
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: do as an offense, and I cut them off or

1639
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 1: blast them yet or no, Nick hung up. There's a

1640
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:44,320
Speaker 1: couple of you know, the offensive line is a lot

1641
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 1: the same. All five starters are back. Um, they have

1642
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 1: some pretty valuable backups and Secci a Spencer Long, Ryan Bates.

1643
01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:53,599
Speaker 1: I think a couple of additions and you know, Evan

1644
01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:56,720
Speaker 1: Bam comes on, he's played in the league before. He's

1645
01:22:56,760 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 1: kind of an interior offensive lineman. Darryl Williams more of

1646
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:02,559
Speaker 1: a tackle has been added, right, he's a veteran free agent,

1647
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 1: and the undrafted rookie Trey Adams. I think I'll have

1648
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 1: something to say. I wouldn't be surprise that he's at

1649
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: least a practice one guy. So I don't know if

1650
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 1: that's a blast nic, but I do think they have

1651
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:13,639
Speaker 1: Addam a little bit anyway to the offensive line, don't

1652
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:17,559
Speaker 1: you think, Steve, Yeah, absolutely, I mean they're gonna Brandon

1653
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 1: Walton has come in, They've got uh, let's see Trey

1654
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 1: Adams that you mentioned, and then they've got the free

1655
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:28,200
Speaker 1: agents that Darryl Williams is a really good tackle, and

1656
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:31,479
Speaker 1: of course in Secky really played well while he was

1657
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 1: in there last year and just wasn't healthy enough all

1658
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:36,680
Speaker 1: the time with his knee to stay on the field enough.

1659
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:40,759
Speaker 1: So I think they know that they need a high

1660
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: quality tackles. And I think for you and I, in

1661
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,599
Speaker 1: a perfect world, you and I both I think maybe

1662
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to speak for you, but I'm thinking

1663
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:50,719
Speaker 1: we're of the mind that Cody Ford's a better guard

1664
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:53,000
Speaker 1: than he is a tackle. I think he'd be a

1665
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:56,800
Speaker 1: very good guard, a good tackle, but a really good guard,

1666
01:23:56,800 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 1: if not a great offensive guard. And that changes the

1667
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:03,760
Speaker 1: dynamic upfront, particularly if you've got a guy at right

1668
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 1: tackle outside of him that can really go lin Seki

1669
01:24:06,280 --> 01:24:09,960
Speaker 1: can when he's healthy. When they did that, they scored

1670
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: on a much significantly higher percentage of their drives when

1671
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: Ford was at guard and then Secki was at tackle.

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01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the exclusive reason why they

1673
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: did that, Certainly there's probably more than one, but that

1674
01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:26,000
Speaker 1: seemed to be some a common denominator for the drives

1675
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: on which they scored was when in Secki was at

1676
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 1: tackle Cody Ford was at guard. Don't think that didn't

1677
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:33,800
Speaker 1: go unnoticed by the coaching staff. They brought in some

1678
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 1: competition for this offensive line. They're trying to hit it

1679
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:39,719
Speaker 1: on all cylinders and get better all over. That includes

1680
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:41,640
Speaker 1: that those guys up front. I think it's the right

1681
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:44,559
Speaker 1: thing to do. All right, A great care. Then we're back.

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Speaker 1: One bill side presented by Collid to Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome. It's one bill five Good News

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Speaker 1: to the Governor promo putting the putting Western New York

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Speaker 1: fairly on the first step towards getting kind of back

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Speaker 1: to normal, he said. Western America on scheduled to reopen tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: He said the state wants to encourage major sports teams

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Speaker 1: that reopened. The governor said, quote, I want to watch

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. It's funny you didn't say that about

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Speaker 1: the Yankees of the mat Steve, I thought that there

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Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, and who knows. I mean, the Bills

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Speaker 1: might be a week or even longer away from getting

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Speaker 1: people back together, but yeah, that could happen. Well, at

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Speaker 1: least around the rights, they're in head in the right direction,

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Speaker 1: and that's the good news. Hey, this came up Steve

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. An interesting proposal, controversial. I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we all know the NFL has failed kind

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Speaker 1: of miserably and encouraging teams to hire minorities for head

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Speaker 1: coaching positions and for general manager positions. Right I think

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Speaker 1: there's only two general managers minority general managers right now

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Speaker 1: and a handful of coaches, four or five. So during

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Speaker 1: the meetings the NFL meetings would start tomorrow, owners reported

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Speaker 1: they are going to vote on some proposals. A team

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Speaker 1: that hires a minority for a manager's job will have

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Speaker 1: their third round draft position improved by ten spots in

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Speaker 1: the draft. The following year, the teams under this plan,

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Speaker 1: the teams that hire our minority as a head coach

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Speaker 1: will have their third round draft position improved by six spots.

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Speaker 1: In other words, if you hire a minority for a coach,

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Speaker 1: you GM you get a little bit better draft pick.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they got a problem they're trying to deal with. I

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Speaker 1: get that, and they have the Rooney Rule, which really

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Speaker 1: hasn't worked that well. To encourage teams to hire they

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Speaker 1: certainly have to interview minorities. This seems to me, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Do you want to incentive I mean, do

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Speaker 1: you want to be the general manager minority general manager hired?

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Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick talked about it today. I was reading you

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Speaker 1: want to be the general manager walking into a team,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's wondering, will I wonder if they hired that

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Speaker 1: guy because we got a better draft pick out of it.

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Speaker 1: I think that would almost put you in an immediate disadvantage. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I yes, I agree. I don't know whose idea this

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Speaker 1: was where it came from. I think it was Troy

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Speaker 1: Vincent and Roger Goodell. I think, yeah I would, I would,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they did this, um, And maybe there's just

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Speaker 1: maybe this is a signal. As you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: difficult problem to overcome. I think you should ask guys

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Speaker 1: like Tony Dungee and Mike Tomlin. Um, God rest his

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Speaker 1: soul if you still around Dennis Green, former head coaches

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Speaker 1: who had to go through this process. Um, and not

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Speaker 1: just not just African American head coaches, but all of them.

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Speaker 1: Ask them why it's happened, to find out why it's

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Speaker 1: not happening, uh, and overcome it. Don't just like slap us.

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Speaker 1: You know, this seems to me like a political solution,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Murph not Yeah, it's artificial.

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Speaker 1: There's got to be a way to overcome it. And

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Speaker 1: if it's racism and nothing but racism, you gotta attack

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Speaker 1: it like that. Don't try and put a band aid

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Speaker 1: on it, right. Um. You gotta go after it in

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Speaker 1: a way that makes sense and ask the guys that

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Speaker 1: are involved how they would make it better and why,

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Speaker 1: and come up and come up with these teams. You know,

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Speaker 1: you got to come up with solid reasons why you're

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Speaker 1: not hiring this guy or that guy or whatever, not

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Speaker 1: that this guy is any more qualified than one of

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Speaker 1: the guys they did take, because I believe that there

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Speaker 1: are a number of great quality guys out there, white

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Speaker 1: and black, so you know, have them come up with

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Speaker 1: some solid help them, you know, make them justify their

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Speaker 1: hires a little bit at least. But this seems like, uh,

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Speaker 1: and I get it is a problem because I know

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of quality guys out there who

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Speaker 1: deserve a shot. I just maybe, is it the process,

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Speaker 1: is it whatever? And I'm not just gonna sit here

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Speaker 1: and say, oh, it's blatant absolute racism. I just don't

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Speaker 1: think the system set up for it in the right way.

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Speaker 1: I think the system needs to be fixed somehow, some way,

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Speaker 1: And I think you need to go with the guys

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Speaker 1: who have have benefited from it and have not been

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Speaker 1: been held back by it, find out the reasons why

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Speaker 1: both of those aren't trying to come up with a

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Speaker 1: plan that makes a little more sense rather than just incentivizing, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, a hire. Yeah, I don't know. I just uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm kind of with you. Does that

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Speaker 1: hamstring the guy as soon as you hire him, as

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Speaker 1: he set up to fail. Then, um, I mean the

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Speaker 1: perception will be yeah, and it's crazy to think, but

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Speaker 1: you know, the perception will be, oh, we we're drafting

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Speaker 1: tenth in the third round now instead of sixteen because

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Speaker 1: we hired this guy, you know, general manager of ten spot,

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Speaker 1: a coach six spots. Yeah. Then the draft picks involved too.

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Speaker 1: How does that draft pick and who he had gotten

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Speaker 1: instead of who he could have gotten? You know, it's

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Speaker 1: like it's a riffle effect. Yeah. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's a good idea, but I know that it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a good idea to discuss this and and focus

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Speaker 1: on the plan. That's a good idea. Focus on a

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Speaker 1: solution is a good idea. And I think that the

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Speaker 1: fact that the league's willing to attack it and do

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Speaker 1: it publicly and come up with solutions publicly. Um. I

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Speaker 1: like the fact that they're willing to acknowledge it. Um,

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Speaker 1: but do something smart about it, you know, come up

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Speaker 1: and ask the guys involved, ask the guys that have

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Speaker 1: benefited and not benefited from it. Let's come up with

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Speaker 1: a plan that makes some sense. This one, to me, doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It's just a signal that they're trying to do something

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Speaker 1: and they're they're kind of at a loss, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's I think that's as telling as anything. Yep, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got a break here and we come back. Matt

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Speaker 1: money Smith, the play by play voice of the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers. They play the Bills, as you know, this season,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about them. We're going through

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Speaker 1: the list of teams the Bills will match up against

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Speaker 1: this year, and the Chargers are coming to Buffalo on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: November twenty ninths, just after Thanksgiving. Matt Smith, play by

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Speaker 1: play voice of the Chargers on the LA Chargers. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, One Bill's Life presented back a lot

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Speaker 1: of health radio, only today this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: The update from One Bill's Life. Governor Combo announced today

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Speaker 1: that Western New York is on scheduled to reopen tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Western New York has reached all the metrics needed to

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Speaker 1: reopen moving phase one and as far as sports are concerned,

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Speaker 1: Cuomo says he wants to encourage major sports teams to reopen. Says,

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Speaker 1: I want to watch the Buffalo Bills. Cuomo says the

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Speaker 1: state is ready to help, but teams cannot involve fans.

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Speaker 1: The state ready to ready and willing to partner with

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Speaker 1: major sports teams that are interested in playing without fans.

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Speaker 1: The NFL says team facilities are permitted to begin reopening

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Speaker 1: starting as soon as tomorrow, provided they meet certain criteria

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Speaker 1: including governing, state and local regulations. Staff only, no coaches,

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Speaker 1: no players in the first initial beginning of the reopening

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Speaker 1: of NFL teams. Dates and times for Buffalo's preseason schedule

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Speaker 1: are out now. The Bills open the preseason in Baltimore Friday,

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Speaker 1: August fourteenth at seven thirty pm. Then they come home

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Speaker 1: the following Friday night against Atlanta seven o'clock. Third preseason

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Speaker 1: game also in Orchard Park Saturday, August twenty ninth against

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Speaker 1: the Colts a four o'clock kickoff, and they close out

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Speaker 1: the preseason at Detroit Thursday, September third. Bill's defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: Ed Oliver was arrested Saturday night in his hometown in

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Speaker 1: Houston charges of driving well intoxicated and unlaw awfully carrying

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Speaker 1: a weapon. Both charges are misdemeanors. The twenty two year

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Speaker 1: old had an open beer between his legs. He was

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Speaker 1: determined to be impaired after a field sobriety tests. Bill saved.

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Speaker 1: They are aware of the situation and gathering some more information.

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton released by the Carolina Panthers a couple of

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Speaker 1: months ago. The Chargers why they viewed as a good

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Speaker 1: fifth for the star quarterback, but they didn't sign him,

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Speaker 1: and Chargers coach Anthony Lynn acknowledged in a recent interview

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Speaker 1: with CBS Sports Radio that Los Angeles absolutely considered it.

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Speaker 1: We did take a look at it. They decided to

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Speaker 1: stick with their quarterbacks, and there you go. That is

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Speaker 1: the updates from One Bills John Murphy Steve Tasker presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalada Health Hour number three on Sunday, November twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Chargers will be here to play the

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Speaker 1: Bills one o'clock kickoff Yeah at New Airfield. Joining us

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Speaker 1: on the line, the play by play voice are the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: He's a host of Petrison Money Show in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Also works with NFL Network of Fantasy Football analyst Met

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Speaker 1: Money Smith on the line with us, Hello, Matt, John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker up there in Buffalo. Thanks coming, Oh you

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Speaker 1: got it. Good to talk again. John Hay, Steve how

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Speaker 1: are you doing? Really well? Thanks for coming on. It's

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Speaker 1: good talking to you too. Hey. By the way, First

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Speaker 1: things first, what do you think of the new unis

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Speaker 1: for the Chargers? I love them, you know what. It

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Speaker 1: might have been Buffalo, but I repeatedly not and this

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Speaker 1: is not me trying to take credit or anything like that,

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Speaker 1: but John Spanos, who's the VP of football ops, and

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Speaker 1: I would, would you know, go out for a couple

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Speaker 1: of pops regularly on the road, and he and I

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Speaker 1: had many a conversation about the uniforms and how they

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Speaker 1: were going to do a you know, a relaunch when

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Speaker 1: they moved into the new stadium, and uh, and I

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Speaker 1: was very adamant. Is I really did kind of some

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Speaker 1: of my earliest football memories were of those spouts teams

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Speaker 1: pushed hard for the yellow pants, so that was kind

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Speaker 1: of my big push on him. I think everything else

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Speaker 1: was his doing, but I think they would great to

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Speaker 1: light people. Thomiside. I love the numbers. As a play

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Speaker 1: by play guy John on the side of the helmet,

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Speaker 1: we love that, right, that's right, Yes, more numbers, bigger numbers, please,

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Speaker 1: hey man, you know it's funny. The Chargers traditionally win

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Speaker 1: praise for their their uniform, right, I'm in there always

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Speaker 1: everybody's favorite top five favorite NFL uniforms, including the Chargers

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Speaker 1: over the years. Right, it didn't seem that way, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: especially the Powder Blues. And you know last year they

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Speaker 1: let it be known that that would be their main uniform,

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Speaker 1: that you know, the Navies would be an alternate, that

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Speaker 1: the All Whites would be an alternate. So I think

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Speaker 1: once they kind of did that last year, I think

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Speaker 1: we sort of knew that this was going to be

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Speaker 1: the direction that they went in, but to kind of

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Speaker 1: look and I think it just kind of we were

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Speaker 1: going to continue the uniform talk. I mean, look, the

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Speaker 1: Bills have great uniforms, the Chargers do. I think you

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Speaker 1: look at what the Rams did, and it's the opposite, Right.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers just said, hey, we've had some of the

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Speaker 1: best uniforms in any sport in our history. Why would

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Speaker 1: we do anything radical to change those for the sake

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Speaker 1: of moving into a new building. And I think the

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Speaker 1: same could have been said about the Rams. You know,

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Speaker 1: those are some of the most iconic, great looking uniforms

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Speaker 1: in football history. And they did decide, you know, they

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Speaker 1: decided to kind of do a relaunch a redo, and

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Speaker 1: it was not met with the same sort of celebration

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Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles. Yep. Matt money Smith played I

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Speaker 1: played voice of the Chargers on the line of this

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Speaker 1: man you mentioned it, then he mentioned it too. The

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01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: move to Sofi Stadium is everything. I know everything's not

1891
01:35:04,400 --> 01:35:07,240
Speaker 1: on schedule with the pandemic and the quarantine, but as

1892
01:35:07,320 --> 01:35:10,120
Speaker 1: far as stadium construction and the Chargers getting ready to

1893
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:12,400
Speaker 1: play there, do you think everything is on schedule in

1894
01:35:12,120 --> 01:35:15,559
Speaker 1: that In that regard, I think so, John. I think

1895
01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:18,240
Speaker 1: it just kind of depends. There was a pretty big

1896
01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:20,840
Speaker 1: push kind of led by the La Times about a

1897
01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:24,040
Speaker 1: month to five weeks ago, where they were really keeping

1898
01:35:24,120 --> 01:35:27,320
Speaker 1: tabs on workers that were tests and positive it might

1899
01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:29,640
Speaker 1: just be a huge spread and outbreak and are we

1900
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,120
Speaker 1: being irresponsible trying to get this thing open in time,

1901
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:35,120
Speaker 1: you know for the Rams and Cowboys on Sunday, the

1902
01:35:35,160 --> 01:35:38,479
Speaker 1: thirteenth of September, and that seems to have subsided. I think,

1903
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:40,280
Speaker 1: to kind of get all that under control, they make

1904
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:42,640
Speaker 1: sure the workers were you know, taking care of and

1905
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:45,720
Speaker 1: taking care of themselves, and it now appears as though

1906
01:35:45,760 --> 01:35:47,920
Speaker 1: it is back on track. I have not heard anything

1907
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:50,840
Speaker 1: contrary to that it was supposed to open in July

1908
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,080
Speaker 1: with a concert with the Taylor Swift I think three

1909
01:35:53,160 --> 01:35:55,799
Speaker 1: or four of her concerts, but that's now been shelved.

1910
01:35:55,840 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 1: So now it looks like they're kind of pulling toward

1911
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 1: that thirteenth date. And I have not heard that there's

1912
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:03,200
Speaker 1: any issue with it. If it stands right now, well,

1913
01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 1: we've reached a little bit of a milestone matt here

1914
01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: in western New York. The governor is going to let

1915
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:12,280
Speaker 1: us open up a little bit. It has been mentioned

1916
01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:15,559
Speaker 1: in the past that some NFFL teams are going, notably

1917
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:18,800
Speaker 1: the ones in your state California, are thinking about moving

1918
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 1: out of state for the time being, or at least

1919
01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:22,160
Speaker 1: to a place where they can start to do some

1920
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:24,680
Speaker 1: football activities. If it looks like the season is going

1921
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:27,240
Speaker 1: to start on schedule and the state may not be open.

1922
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:32,640
Speaker 1: What have you heard about the Chargers, Rams, Raiders, Niners,

1923
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:35,720
Speaker 1: all of those teams? What about them and where their

1924
01:36:36,240 --> 01:36:40,040
Speaker 1: locations where they might practice play if if California is

1925
01:36:40,080 --> 01:36:42,120
Speaker 1: not open to if and the arrest of the NFL

1926
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:45,559
Speaker 1: is yeah, I'll tell you, Steve, it's it's been tough,

1927
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, it really has here in California to figure

1928
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:49,760
Speaker 1: it out, and you know, we you know, I'm one

1929
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:53,040
Speaker 1: who's just I'm not the expert, follow the advice in

1930
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:54,840
Speaker 1: the direction of the experts in order to try to

1931
01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:57,480
Speaker 1: get through this as best and as healthy and responsibly

1932
01:36:57,520 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 1: as we can. But you know there's certain parts. I mean,

1933
01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, just speaking to where I live. I live

1934
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:04,200
Speaker 1: in a town called Seal Beach. Our beach is closed

1935
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:07,280
Speaker 1: if I go two hundred yards to the south, surfside

1936
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:09,439
Speaker 1: and Sunset Beach are open. If I go two hundred

1937
01:37:09,479 --> 01:37:11,920
Speaker 1: yards does in the north, Long Beach is open. So

1938
01:37:11,960 --> 01:37:13,760
Speaker 1: it's it's things like that that I think have a

1939
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:17,760
Speaker 1: lot of folks confused. Stores are now open for pick up,

1940
01:37:17,840 --> 01:37:20,120
Speaker 1: there's other places where you can go in and maintain

1941
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:23,519
Speaker 1: some social distancing. So kind of my position was, I

1942
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:26,760
Speaker 1: don't think Roger Goodell puts that memo out saying that

1943
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 1: teams can return to facilities if he hasn't had some

1944
01:37:29,360 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: sort of conversation with the governor or this state, Gavin Newsom,

1945
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:34,559
Speaker 1: who has been probably one of them more if not

1946
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:37,200
Speaker 1: the most conservative when it comes to kind of you know,

1947
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:41,480
Speaker 1: his reticence to open things up. So I would imagine

1948
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,600
Speaker 1: he had some sort of discussions with the governor to

1949
01:37:44,640 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 1: see is this going to be viable, can we do

1950
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 1: this responsibly, and will you be willing to sign off

1951
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:52,000
Speaker 1: on it, because I just don't think it looks good

1952
01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:55,040
Speaker 1: for anyone, for the NFL, for the state of California,

1953
01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:57,840
Speaker 1: or for that matter, for Nevado or Arizona, if that's

1954
01:37:57,840 --> 01:38:00,000
Speaker 1: where they would end up having to go to practice,

1955
01:38:00,040 --> 01:38:02,479
Speaker 1: to have these three teams from California, you know, forty

1956
01:38:02,520 --> 01:38:05,120
Speaker 1: nine Ers, the Rams and the Chargers, you know, doing

1957
01:38:05,280 --> 01:38:07,320
Speaker 1: what everybody else is doing it, but just you know,

1958
01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:09,280
Speaker 1: doing it two or three hundred miles from here. It's

1959
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:10,680
Speaker 1: just that to me, that doesn't make a whole lot

1960
01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:14,000
Speaker 1: of stent. That doesn't look right, either makes the NFL

1961
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:17,200
Speaker 1: look irresponsible or makes you know, California look like they're

1962
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:18,759
Speaker 1: not in a step with the rest of the country.

1963
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:22,280
Speaker 1: So I'm guessing they've probably already had that conversation before

1964
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:25,360
Speaker 1: saying they're going to open these things up. That Smith's

1965
01:38:25,360 --> 01:38:27,200
Speaker 1: our guests. You see him on the NFL network. He's

1966
01:38:27,240 --> 01:38:30,439
Speaker 1: also the play by play voice of the Los Angeles Chargers. Hey, Matt,

1967
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:32,760
Speaker 1: we had it in our update a minute ago, But

1968
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn again over the weekend doubled down on this

1969
01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:38,720
Speaker 1: quarterback group. Bright He kind of said, yeah, we talked

1970
01:38:38,720 --> 01:38:41,519
Speaker 1: about Cam Newton, but we're staying with our group, Tyrod Taylor,

1971
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:44,640
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert and another guy Easton Stick. What about that

1972
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 1: quarterback group And how long do you anticipate Tyrod Taylor

1973
01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:51,840
Speaker 1: will we'll hold off the challenge of Justin Herbert. Well,

1974
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:54,559
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you guys probably had you know, a number

1975
01:38:54,560 --> 01:38:57,240
Speaker 1: of conversations with with coach about about Tyrod and how

1976
01:38:57,280 --> 01:38:59,400
Speaker 1: much he likes them and how much he believes in them.

1977
01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:01,760
Speaker 1: And I think what you're going to see this year,

1978
01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 1: and I think it plays to the current circumstances. Right,

1979
01:39:05,320 --> 01:39:07,479
Speaker 1: here's a guy who was in the system last year,

1980
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:10,640
Speaker 1: who was with the coaches last year, and had the

1981
01:39:10,760 --> 01:39:13,479
Speaker 1: level of comfort and knowledge of the system and the

1982
01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:17,200
Speaker 1: players around him. So I think, you know, shifting to

1983
01:39:17,439 --> 01:39:19,880
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, who's got to learn a playbook and personnel

1984
01:39:19,960 --> 01:39:23,000
Speaker 1: and you know, all that sort of stuff doesn't really work,

1985
01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 1: especially when you consider, you know, his injury history and

1986
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:27,840
Speaker 1: whether or not he's physically right. I think that was

1987
01:39:27,880 --> 01:39:29,840
Speaker 1: a bit of a hurdle. Um. Now that's being stead

1988
01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 1: they were They were willing to go Tom Brady. They,

1989
01:39:32,120 --> 01:39:34,439
Speaker 1: you know, from what I understand, made a bigger oper

1990
01:39:34,520 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 1: than Tampa did to try to get Tom Brady out here.

1991
01:39:37,520 --> 01:39:40,480
Speaker 1: So I think it's sort of what are my options

1992
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:43,120
Speaker 1: is kind of how this quarterback group has been put together.

1993
01:39:43,240 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 1: Right when the option was Tom Brady, if you would

1994
01:39:45,040 --> 01:39:47,360
Speaker 1: have said yes, well then you know that that means

1995
01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:49,400
Speaker 1: you move on from Tyrod and you probably don't draft

1996
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:52,040
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert but instead an offensive tackle there at six.

1997
01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:55,559
Speaker 1: When he said no, I think to me it became

1998
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:57,320
Speaker 1: kind of obvious that it was going to be a

1999
01:39:57,400 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 1: quarterback at six and Tyrod as your bridge um and

2000
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:03,719
Speaker 1: and coaches said, you know repeatedly, he wants to change

2001
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:05,720
Speaker 1: up the running scheme. He wants to get back to

2002
01:40:05,760 --> 01:40:07,040
Speaker 1: that either you know, I don't know if you want

2003
01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:09,120
Speaker 1: to call it wide or outside zone that you know

2004
01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:11,519
Speaker 1: he was he was in under Alex Gibbs, they'd runner

2005
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:13,559
Speaker 1: a new old line coach. They strengthened the right side

2006
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:16,320
Speaker 1: of that line, and they got a strong belief in

2007
01:40:16,600 --> 01:40:19,120
Speaker 1: an offense that could be built around you know, Austin Ekeler,

2008
01:40:19,200 --> 01:40:22,080
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson, and in Josh Kelly their fourth round pick,

2009
01:40:22,120 --> 01:40:24,639
Speaker 1: and that kind of being the centerpiece of what they

2010
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:27,759
Speaker 1: want to do offensively and lean on that really good

2011
01:40:27,880 --> 01:40:30,720
Speaker 1: you know, from front to back defense to keep these

2012
01:40:30,720 --> 01:40:32,360
Speaker 1: things tight and maybe win a bunch of one score

2013
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:35,800
Speaker 1: games this year. Yeah, your offense seems to be built

2014
01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:39,799
Speaker 1: around those guys that you'll you also have a eckler

2015
01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:42,719
Speaker 1: out there. Mike Williams exercise fifty year option. Keenan Allen

2016
01:40:42,800 --> 01:40:46,400
Speaker 1: had a nice twenty nineteen. Who how does their receivering

2017
01:40:46,439 --> 01:40:49,360
Speaker 1: corps you know, shake out behind Keenan Allen, Mike Williams

2018
01:40:49,400 --> 01:40:52,160
Speaker 1: and the like. Well, I think the big ones he's

2019
01:40:52,160 --> 01:40:54,360
Speaker 1: gonna be Hunter Henry, you know, if he can stay healthy.

2020
01:40:54,439 --> 01:40:56,040
Speaker 1: He says, a big a matchup at that you know,

2021
01:40:56,080 --> 01:40:58,559
Speaker 1: matchup nightmare at that position. Is any of the guys

2022
01:40:58,640 --> 01:41:00,640
Speaker 1: you know he likes. You know, I think he's more

2023
01:41:00,680 --> 01:41:02,760
Speaker 1: of a and I know it's his high praise, but

2024
01:41:02,840 --> 01:41:05,000
Speaker 1: I think just to speak to what his skills that is,

2025
01:41:05,040 --> 01:41:07,160
Speaker 1: he's more of a George Kittle than a Travis Kelsey.

2026
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:08,680
Speaker 1: You know. He likes to get on that end and

2027
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:11,240
Speaker 1: he likes to rock you up in the blocking um

2028
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:14,120
Speaker 1: sort of part of his game. Um, he's got soft hands,

2029
01:41:14,160 --> 01:41:17,200
Speaker 1: he runs great routes. He's a superb athlete. I think

2030
01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:18,960
Speaker 1: he saw two years ago when he was healthy, you

2031
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 1: saw those touchdown catches and red zone targets for him.

2032
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 1: He was a favorite of Philip Rivers, and I think

2033
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:26,360
Speaker 1: that'll certainly make life a lot easier run on tyro.

2034
01:41:26,479 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 1: The one thing they're missing, um and they you know,

2035
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:32,080
Speaker 1: they got Jennings in free agency from from Tennessee. They

2036
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:34,760
Speaker 1: drafted Joe Read out of out of Virginia, who's you know,

2037
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:38,000
Speaker 1: got four four speed, But they're kind of missing that

2038
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:41,400
Speaker 1: that speed receiver. Um. There's a there's a lot of talent.

2039
01:41:41,520 --> 01:41:43,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Keenan's in the conversation is the

2040
01:41:43,680 --> 01:41:46,599
Speaker 1: best route runner in the league. Mike Williams has good

2041
01:41:46,640 --> 01:41:49,000
Speaker 1: speed and he's great with fifty fifty balls. But you know,

2042
01:41:49,240 --> 01:41:50,960
Speaker 1: you always here kind of a scouts. They built that

2043
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:53,320
Speaker 1: basketball team, and it looks like maybe they're missing that

2044
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:57,200
Speaker 1: that point guard, um, that that kind of speedy receiver. M.

2045
01:41:57,360 --> 01:41:59,360
Speaker 1: But but you know, up Hunter Henry's there and you

2046
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:02,240
Speaker 1: get all those boss to Eckler from the backfield. I

2047
01:42:02,240 --> 01:42:04,680
Speaker 1: think it's a pretty darn good, well rounded unit. If

2048
01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:06,640
Speaker 1: if one of those other guys that they picked up

2049
01:42:06,640 --> 01:42:08,479
Speaker 1: this offseason. Being a rookie, ye or one of the

2050
01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:10,600
Speaker 1: free agents can kind of give you that take the

2051
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:13,639
Speaker 1: top off the defense sort of speed that you need

2052
01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:17,200
Speaker 1: to open things up. Matt Smith, our guests play by

2053
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:19,439
Speaker 1: play voice of the Chargers, and talking about, I mean

2054
01:42:19,479 --> 01:42:22,040
Speaker 1: one piece of the offense that is gone from the

2055
01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:25,719
Speaker 1: Chargers now. Matt is of course running back Melvin Gordon.

2056
01:42:25,760 --> 01:42:29,240
Speaker 1: I wondered just your thoughts on his departure signing with

2057
01:42:29,280 --> 01:42:32,080
Speaker 1: the Denver Brocos. Did he did he overplay his hand?

2058
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:36,200
Speaker 1: Did he misplay his ability to help the Charges or

2059
01:42:36,240 --> 01:42:39,120
Speaker 1: anybody else in the NFL? Do you think I do?

2060
01:42:39,800 --> 01:42:41,080
Speaker 1: And I think he would tell you that. And I

2061
01:42:41,080 --> 01:42:43,240
Speaker 1: had in Melvin's a great guy, you know, he was

2062
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:44,960
Speaker 1: one of the players that I would talk to you

2063
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:48,000
Speaker 1: regularly on the road. Got to know his family very well.

2064
01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:51,760
Speaker 1: Just a great guy, great family, team player, believe it

2065
01:42:51,840 --> 01:42:53,599
Speaker 1: or not. In light of that, right, and I think

2066
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:55,960
Speaker 1: he just got that advice and he said as much.

2067
01:42:56,920 --> 01:42:58,800
Speaker 1: The Chargers, you know, when they made that offer to

2068
01:42:58,880 --> 01:43:01,599
Speaker 1: him prior to the twenty nineteen season, they offered him

2069
01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:03,840
Speaker 1: more than they had wanted to because they thought they

2070
01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:05,639
Speaker 1: were going to, you know, make a super Bowl run

2071
01:43:05,680 --> 01:43:07,519
Speaker 1: and they're like, all right, we'll give him an extra

2072
01:43:07,520 --> 01:43:10,240
Speaker 1: million or so dollars here than what we think the

2073
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:12,640
Speaker 1: market would bear. And when he turned him down, I

2074
01:43:12,640 --> 01:43:14,639
Speaker 1: think it really caught him flatfoot. They did not see

2075
01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:18,599
Speaker 1: that coming, and obviously he didn't get anywhere near that number.

2076
01:43:19,160 --> 01:43:22,120
Speaker 1: The Broncos, I thought, gave him more than perhaps the

2077
01:43:22,479 --> 01:43:25,759
Speaker 1: you know, anybody else out there would have. But especially

2078
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:27,519
Speaker 1: when you saw what Austin Eckler was able to do

2079
01:43:27,560 --> 01:43:29,679
Speaker 1: with Justin Jackson out there when those two were healthy,

2080
01:43:29,720 --> 01:43:31,160
Speaker 1: I mean, the running game was better than it had

2081
01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:34,040
Speaker 1: been at any point since I had been with the

2082
01:43:34,080 --> 01:43:35,960
Speaker 1: team when they moved to Los Angeles. So I think,

2083
01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:39,320
Speaker 1: kind of looking at that, their belief in Eckler as

2084
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 1: as not necessarily a running back, but a weapon, and

2085
01:43:42,600 --> 01:43:44,360
Speaker 1: that seemed to be you know, whenever we would get

2086
01:43:44,360 --> 01:43:46,559
Speaker 1: on the field and talk to some coaches or scouts,

2087
01:43:47,240 --> 01:43:49,400
Speaker 1: the one name that came up, probably more than any other,

2088
01:43:49,600 --> 01:43:52,080
Speaker 1: just you know, what a matchup nightmare that guy is.

2089
01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:54,160
Speaker 1: His ability to work out of the slot, he can

2090
01:43:54,240 --> 01:43:57,280
Speaker 1: work outside from the backfield. He is tough as nails

2091
01:43:57,400 --> 01:43:59,479
Speaker 1: in between the tackles, even though he's got you know,

2092
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:03,120
Speaker 1: a shorter stature. He's probably, pound for pound, the strongest

2093
01:44:03,120 --> 01:44:05,599
Speaker 1: guy in the team. So I think you combine that with,

2094
01:44:06,120 --> 01:44:07,519
Speaker 1: you know, the knowledge that they were gonna have to

2095
01:44:07,560 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 1: pay him. If Eckler hit the open market, he would

2096
01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:11,400
Speaker 1: have probably got more than what they gave him. So

2097
01:44:12,280 --> 01:44:14,120
Speaker 1: I think that was destined to half. And I wish nothing,

2098
01:44:14,240 --> 01:44:15,559
Speaker 1: you know, And I think most people with the Chargers

2099
01:44:15,560 --> 01:44:17,519
Speaker 1: would say they wish nothing but the best for Melbourne

2100
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:19,679
Speaker 1: obviously except for the two games they played the Chargers.

2101
01:44:19,720 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, just unfortunately for him, I think, you know,

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01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:24,840
Speaker 1: taking that deal from the Bolts would have been best

2103
01:44:24,880 --> 01:44:28,519
Speaker 1: for both sides going into last season. You're head coach,

2104
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:31,920
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn's entering his fourth years at that Spody also

2105
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:34,680
Speaker 1: just signed an extension that takes him through twenty twenty one.

2106
01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:38,640
Speaker 1: What's the what's the general consensus about Anthony Lynn, his

2107
01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:41,400
Speaker 1: tenure in San Diego, how or in LA, how it's gone,

2108
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:43,280
Speaker 1: and what the future holds for him, how kind of

2109
01:44:43,360 --> 01:44:45,960
Speaker 1: leadership Murph and I had dealings with him when he

2110
01:44:45,960 --> 01:44:48,720
Speaker 1: was the offensive coordinator here in Buffalo. Have we got

2111
01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:51,439
Speaker 1: loads of respect for the guy? How's he received out

2112
01:44:51,479 --> 01:44:55,160
Speaker 1: in LA? Yeah, Steve, I think that's the keyword. Respect.

2113
01:44:55,160 --> 01:44:57,080
Speaker 1: The players respect the heck out of him. You know,

2114
01:44:57,200 --> 01:44:58,720
Speaker 1: he's he's a guy that had to fight for a

2115
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:01,400
Speaker 1: roster spot, a guy that two Super Bowls as a player,

2116
01:45:01,479 --> 01:45:04,559
Speaker 1: that's been you know, working under some legendary coaches from

2117
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:07,800
Speaker 1: from Bill Parcels to you know, being a head coach

2118
01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:10,160
Speaker 1: now and having a staff like he has with Gus

2119
01:45:10,240 --> 01:45:12,599
Speaker 1: Bradley and some of the folks that he's comfortable bringing

2120
01:45:12,640 --> 01:45:14,519
Speaker 1: in because he's comfortable with who he is, that that

2121
01:45:14,600 --> 01:45:17,160
Speaker 1: he doesn't feel challenged from guys that were former head coaches,

2122
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:20,640
Speaker 1: Ken wizzen Hunt, you know, on his staff. Um, I

2123
01:45:20,680 --> 01:45:23,280
Speaker 1: think the big question is if the team stays healthy.

2124
01:45:23,720 --> 01:45:26,840
Speaker 1: You know, the front office and ownership believes this is

2125
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:30,160
Speaker 1: a super Bowl caliber roster or at least a roster

2126
01:45:30,400 --> 01:45:33,960
Speaker 1: that should be able to challenge for the division. Even

2127
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:37,320
Speaker 1: with you know, Tarata at quarterback. I think they still

2128
01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:40,599
Speaker 1: believe that that the that the talent they have on defense, UM,

2129
01:45:40,840 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 1: the division in which they play with you know, the

2130
01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:45,680
Speaker 1: struggles that the Raiders have had on defense or with

2131
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:48,000
Speaker 1: Derek Carr just not being able to score points, that

2132
01:45:48,200 --> 01:45:50,400
Speaker 1: that you know, the Broncos are going to be starting

2133
01:45:50,400 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's got five starts under his belt. Uh,

2134
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:54,720
Speaker 1: you know you got to go after the Chiefs, no

2135
01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:56,320
Speaker 1: question about it. But I think they look at their

2136
01:45:56,320 --> 01:45:58,439
Speaker 1: schedule and feel like, if we're healthy, we ought to

2137
01:45:58,439 --> 01:46:01,280
Speaker 1: win ten games. So I think coach knows that. He

2138
01:46:01,280 --> 01:46:04,720
Speaker 1: knows it's a results oriented business. He's never been one

2139
01:46:04,760 --> 01:46:07,200
Speaker 1: to shy away from that. But I think the best

2140
01:46:07,240 --> 01:46:09,240
Speaker 1: way I could put it, Steve, is they want it

2141
01:46:09,240 --> 01:46:11,479
Speaker 1: to work. You know, they would love for Anthony Lynn

2142
01:46:11,520 --> 01:46:13,479
Speaker 1: to be their head coach for a long time because

2143
01:46:13,479 --> 01:46:16,599
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of respect for him, for his character,

2144
01:46:16,840 --> 01:46:20,160
Speaker 1: and the players certainly seem to really like playing for him.

2145
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:23,880
Speaker 1: You know. It's interesting. Met and Steve and I sometimes

2146
01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:28,080
Speaker 1: would disagree about the spanos leadership of the Chargers, But

2147
01:46:28,320 --> 01:46:30,200
Speaker 1: the one thing I really like is that they give

2148
01:46:30,240 --> 01:46:32,799
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn a long time to set up a program.

2149
01:46:32,880 --> 01:46:35,160
Speaker 1: They've given Tom talesco a time. There doesn't seem to

2150
01:46:35,240 --> 01:46:38,720
Speaker 1: be and look, they've been in as much turmoil at

2151
01:46:38,760 --> 01:46:41,160
Speaker 1: least in terms of moving and playing different spots. They've

2152
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:44,360
Speaker 1: been in as much transition state as anybody in the NFL.

2153
01:46:44,479 --> 01:46:46,880
Speaker 1: But the ownership seems to give people a chance to

2154
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:50,840
Speaker 1: prove their worth or not. Don't you agree? Yeah, no doubt, John,

2155
01:46:50,840 --> 01:46:53,000
Speaker 1: And I think it's interesting. You know that some people

2156
01:46:53,040 --> 01:46:55,680
Speaker 1: see that as a positive. Others say, well, maybe it's

2157
01:46:55,680 --> 01:46:57,320
Speaker 1: because they're too cheap and they don't want to buy

2158
01:46:57,320 --> 01:46:59,880
Speaker 1: out these contracts. You know that that other You know

2159
01:47:00,080 --> 01:47:02,439
Speaker 1: that other teams are willing to just say, all right, whatever,

2160
01:47:02,479 --> 01:47:04,120
Speaker 1: I'll eat the sixty million bucks and go out and

2161
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:06,679
Speaker 1: get somebody else. So it's really you know, what side

2162
01:47:06,680 --> 01:47:09,240
Speaker 1: of the coin do do you land on? And I

2163
01:47:09,280 --> 01:47:11,200
Speaker 1: am one who believes in consistency. You were able to

2164
01:47:11,240 --> 01:47:13,200
Speaker 1: see what coach was was able to do at the

2165
01:47:13,280 --> 01:47:14,679
Speaker 1: end of his first year. I mean, there's a team

2166
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:17,479
Speaker 1: that starts out zero and four and they're alive in

2167
01:47:17,520 --> 01:47:20,439
Speaker 1: week seventeen. Had a ball bounced the other way, and

2168
01:47:20,600 --> 01:47:23,439
Speaker 1: you know, in the Ravens game or in that Titans game,

2169
01:47:23,520 --> 01:47:25,519
Speaker 1: then you know they end up maybe getting into the

2170
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:27,680
Speaker 1: playoffs instead of the Bills, and they're one of those

2171
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 1: teams that nobody wants to face because of how quickly

2172
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:31,960
Speaker 1: they had managed to turn it around. It become quite

2173
01:47:31,960 --> 01:47:35,439
Speaker 1: the dominant force, especially defensively. The following year, the guy

2174
01:47:35,439 --> 01:47:37,800
Speaker 1: goes twelve and four, and I think you look at

2175
01:47:37,880 --> 01:47:39,920
Speaker 1: last year and I think that's, you know, maybe one

2176
01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:42,040
Speaker 1: of the signals. And I do think this is kind

2177
01:47:42,040 --> 01:47:44,200
Speaker 1: of one of the good things about the Spanos and

2178
01:47:44,280 --> 01:47:47,200
Speaker 1: Tom Talesco. When it come to Anthony lynn Is, they're

2179
01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:49,200
Speaker 1: letting it half his shot. He's like, hey, look, I

2180
01:47:49,240 --> 01:47:51,360
Speaker 1: think if I don't have to Phillip and look, it

2181
01:47:51,400 --> 01:47:55,200
Speaker 1: wasn't all Phillip's rivers fault. The twenty interceptions. Especially of

2182
01:47:55,240 --> 01:47:57,800
Speaker 1: those twenty, I think thirteen came in the red zone.

2183
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:00,680
Speaker 1: Of those thirteen, I think six them came with the

2184
01:48:00,680 --> 01:48:02,920
Speaker 1: game on the line, in one score games in the

2185
01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:06,800
Speaker 1: red zone. So you know that he said he can't

2186
01:48:06,840 --> 01:48:09,120
Speaker 1: have that. And you know, there's one thing about to

2187
01:48:09,200 --> 01:48:11,120
Speaker 1: Rod Taylor, It's that you don't turn the ball overnight.

2188
01:48:11,160 --> 01:48:13,080
Speaker 1: I'd take a lot of chances. But at the same

2189
01:48:13,120 --> 01:48:14,840
Speaker 1: time he believes, you know, if I would have had

2190
01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:17,080
Speaker 1: this guy in here instead of Philip, and to again,

2191
01:48:17,080 --> 01:48:18,800
Speaker 1: I know I'm making a long answer, longer year. But

2192
01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:22,040
Speaker 1: to Anthony's credit, you know, he understood what he inherited

2193
01:48:22,080 --> 01:48:23,880
Speaker 1: with Philip. He wasn't going to bench him, you know,

2194
01:48:23,960 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 1: six games in or seven games in with all those

2195
01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:28,160
Speaker 1: turnovers because it's just you can't do that, not to

2196
01:48:28,200 --> 01:48:29,880
Speaker 1: that guy and what he's meant to the franchise, and

2197
01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:32,000
Speaker 1: it could have cost him his job. So I think

2198
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:34,360
Speaker 1: a combination of all those things, you know, speaks to

2199
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:37,040
Speaker 1: their commitment to him. They're willingness to give a guy

2200
01:48:37,040 --> 01:48:39,040
Speaker 1: a chance they believe in instead of just you know,

2201
01:48:39,400 --> 01:48:42,519
Speaker 1: quick hook onto the next guy, blame the coach. And

2202
01:48:42,920 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 1: you know your fans are okay with that, Matt. You've

2203
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:50,400
Speaker 1: been calling the Chargers play by play for a while.

2204
01:48:50,439 --> 01:48:52,560
Speaker 1: What's it going to be like to call the Chargers

2205
01:48:52,600 --> 01:48:55,040
Speaker 1: without Philip Rivers taking snaps? And what did he mean

2206
01:48:55,040 --> 01:48:58,439
Speaker 1: to that franchise during his time there? Not a ton Steve,

2207
01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:00,840
Speaker 1: he's you know, face of the franchise right, just as

2208
01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:03,639
Speaker 1: as great a guy. Um, everybody on that team loved

2209
01:49:03,680 --> 01:49:06,759
Speaker 1: him to a to a man, I mean, just willing

2210
01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:08,960
Speaker 1: to hang out in the card games. Um. You know,

2211
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:11,040
Speaker 1: even there's a guy who's got nine kids at home

2212
01:49:11,240 --> 01:49:14,040
Speaker 1: and yet he's still you know, kind of drinking beers

2213
01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:16,920
Speaker 1: after games and getting to know everybody. And you know,

2214
01:49:16,960 --> 01:49:20,240
Speaker 1: even though he's fifteen, you know, ten fifteen years a

2215
01:49:20,360 --> 01:49:23,640
Speaker 1: senior to some of these guys, just still engaged absolutely

2216
01:49:23,680 --> 01:49:26,760
Speaker 1: loves the game of football. Um and and it's infectious,

2217
01:49:26,960 --> 01:49:29,640
Speaker 1: you know. And in so infectious, it's funny. Steed like

2218
01:49:29,640 --> 01:49:33,120
Speaker 1: when you interview guys, especially the young players, you'll hear

2219
01:49:33,200 --> 01:49:36,240
Speaker 1: him using the shocks and the gall darns and the goalies.

2220
01:49:36,760 --> 01:49:38,679
Speaker 1: That's just the way still have talks and they would

2221
01:49:38,720 --> 01:49:42,040
Speaker 1: take those cues from him as their leader. For having

2222
01:49:42,080 --> 01:49:44,559
Speaker 1: an interview with with Eckler and his rookie year. Toward

2223
01:49:44,600 --> 01:49:45,840
Speaker 1: the end, he had a game, he had a big

2224
01:49:45,880 --> 01:49:48,960
Speaker 1: game in Jacksonville with a with a critical fumble towards

2225
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:52,040
Speaker 1: the end of game that they ended up losing, and

2226
01:49:52,040 --> 01:49:55,439
Speaker 1: and just to hear the number of shucks and gosh darns,

2227
01:49:55,680 --> 01:49:57,479
Speaker 1: I was like, have you always talked like that? And

2228
01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:00,360
Speaker 1: he just started laughing. He's like, no, that's that, Phillip.

2229
01:50:00,479 --> 01:50:03,120
Speaker 1: And so I think, you know, I think you lose that,

2230
01:50:03,240 --> 01:50:06,960
Speaker 1: you lose part of your identity. While at the same time,

2231
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:09,200
Speaker 1: I think they're excited. I think, and you guys, you know,

2232
01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 1: you know, to Rob and how much his teammates respect

2233
01:50:12,600 --> 01:50:15,840
Speaker 1: him and appreciate him, I think they're excited. I think

2234
01:50:15,840 --> 01:50:18,920
Speaker 1: they're really excited about him in a narrow football where

2235
01:50:18,920 --> 01:50:21,240
Speaker 1: and you know it well enough with Josh Allen, you

2236
01:50:21,240 --> 01:50:23,320
Speaker 1: know that quarterback's got to be mobile, and you know,

2237
01:50:23,360 --> 01:50:26,680
Speaker 1: it seems like that's kind of what's working now, and that's, um,

2238
01:50:26,720 --> 01:50:30,120
Speaker 1: I think something they're really excited about. It is going

2239
01:50:30,160 --> 01:50:32,120
Speaker 1: to be a big change to go from Philip Rivers

2240
01:50:32,120 --> 01:50:34,880
Speaker 1: to Tyrod Taylor. But I'll tell you from us, Murph

2241
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:37,280
Speaker 1: and I both, I mean, there's not too much to

2242
01:50:37,400 --> 01:50:40,400
Speaker 1: dislike at all about Tyrod Taylor. And he might be

2243
01:50:40,479 --> 01:50:43,479
Speaker 1: once in a while be frustrated by him, but he's

2244
01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:45,600
Speaker 1: a great guy. You're right, and there's a lot to

2245
01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:49,920
Speaker 1: like about Tyrod and it'll be fun for us here

2246
01:50:49,960 --> 01:50:51,960
Speaker 1: in Western New York to watch him get another shot

2247
01:50:52,000 --> 01:50:53,880
Speaker 1: with the Chargers, no matter how long it lasts, and

2248
01:50:53,880 --> 01:50:56,519
Speaker 1: whether he's a bridge guy or whether he's like Ryan

2249
01:50:56,600 --> 01:50:59,360
Speaker 1: Tannehill last year in Tennessee, whether he catches lightning in

2250
01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 1: a bottle. Um, you're gonna be happy he's on your team.

2251
01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:06,280
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. Yeah. You know, I think if it

2252
01:51:06,360 --> 01:51:08,240
Speaker 1: were up to them, Steve, and by them, I mean

2253
01:51:08,320 --> 01:51:11,719
Speaker 1: you know, Tom Talsco, Anthony Lynn, you know, Kat Hamilton

2254
01:51:11,760 --> 01:51:14,320
Speaker 1: and Shane Steyke in the whole bunch, they hope that

2255
01:51:14,439 --> 01:51:16,439
Speaker 1: that Herbert doesn't take a snap this year. I think

2256
01:51:16,439 --> 01:51:19,639
Speaker 1: that would be that's what they would prefer. Um. They're

2257
01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:21,639
Speaker 1: they're not. They're not in a hurry to dust off

2258
01:51:21,680 --> 01:51:24,680
Speaker 1: their shiny new toy, especially considering the offense from which

2259
01:51:24,720 --> 01:51:27,360
Speaker 1: he came. A couple of the you know, the Knox

2260
01:51:27,400 --> 01:51:29,479
Speaker 1: on Herbert coming out just you know, just being a

2261
01:51:29,520 --> 01:51:33,400
Speaker 1: quarterback and having that touch and anticipation and understanding offense.

2262
01:51:33,439 --> 01:51:35,240
Speaker 1: You know, the guy took every snap out of shotgun.

2263
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:37,880
Speaker 1: A lot of times it was one read um at

2264
01:51:37,880 --> 01:51:40,800
Speaker 1: the post half of field. Um and and let him

2265
01:51:40,880 --> 01:51:42,760
Speaker 1: learn and let him just kind of sit back there

2266
01:51:42,800 --> 01:51:45,439
Speaker 1: and take it all in. And he's certainly a bright guy.

2267
01:51:45,479 --> 01:51:47,719
Speaker 1: You're talking about, you know, big number on the Wonderlick,

2268
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:50,120
Speaker 1: an academic All American in back to back years of

2269
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:53,080
Speaker 1: Borow students of biology. So he's certainly got the brain.

2270
01:51:53,160 --> 01:51:55,439
Speaker 1: And man, you see him, and he's just a shy

2271
01:51:55,439 --> 01:51:58,439
Speaker 1: and human being. So you can be excited about that.

2272
01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:01,559
Speaker 1: Um if Ra does what a lot of people think

2273
01:52:01,600 --> 01:52:04,120
Speaker 1: he's capable of doing, taking care of that football, running

2274
01:52:04,160 --> 01:52:05,640
Speaker 1: the heck out of the ball, making a play here

2275
01:52:05,720 --> 01:52:07,360
Speaker 1: or there with those you know that great cast of

2276
01:52:07,439 --> 01:52:10,720
Speaker 1: wide receivers. They would be totally content trying to win

2277
01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:14,040
Speaker 1: double digit games, get into the postseason with Tyrod back there,

2278
01:52:14,080 --> 01:52:17,839
Speaker 1: and then figure it out next year. Hey man, I'm

2279
01:52:17,880 --> 01:52:21,439
Speaker 1: certain that you've already started to daydream about Sunday, November

2280
01:52:21,439 --> 01:52:24,720
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, Sunday after Thanksgiving, Orchard Park, New York. It'll

2281
01:52:24,760 --> 01:52:27,000
Speaker 1: probably be a nice warm twenty five degrees and a

2282
01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:30,000
Speaker 1: little bit of snow in the air. That'll be fine, right, Yeah,

2283
01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:32,240
Speaker 1: it's funny, John. You know, the last time we were there,

2284
01:52:32,280 --> 01:52:34,599
Speaker 1: when we saw you, I think it was like maybe

2285
01:52:34,600 --> 01:52:36,920
Speaker 1: the hottest day on record on that data street here.

2286
01:52:37,040 --> 01:52:39,400
Speaker 1: It was like mid September, but it was like eighty

2287
01:52:39,439 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 1: degrees on that field. It was crazy how warm it was. So,

2288
01:52:44,760 --> 01:52:48,320
Speaker 1: you know, is someone who lives in perpetual seventy degrees

2289
01:52:48,400 --> 01:52:50,960
Speaker 1: with a slight breeze, you know, twelve months a year.

2290
01:52:51,040 --> 01:52:52,840
Speaker 1: Not that I'm bragging or anything. I do like getting

2291
01:52:52,880 --> 01:52:55,960
Speaker 1: some weather. When we hit the road and I was,

2292
01:52:56,080 --> 01:52:57,600
Speaker 1: you know, prior to all this happened, and it was

2293
01:52:57,680 --> 01:52:59,280
Speaker 1: one of the days I circled, you know, the last

2294
01:52:59,280 --> 01:53:01,240
Speaker 1: time I was there at Niagara Falls. This year, I

2295
01:53:01,240 --> 01:53:03,360
Speaker 1: want to remember to bring many might get my passport

2296
01:53:03,400 --> 01:53:05,479
Speaker 1: so I can do the Canadian side at Niagara Falls.

2297
01:53:05,479 --> 01:53:07,439
Speaker 1: I mean, we we had a really good time. We

2298
01:53:07,520 --> 01:53:09,640
Speaker 1: met some great people. I ended up going to a

2299
01:53:09,680 --> 01:53:11,719
Speaker 1: couple of the you know, the wing joints in the bars,

2300
01:53:11,760 --> 01:53:13,960
Speaker 1: and everyone could not have been more friendly out there.

2301
01:53:14,560 --> 01:53:16,360
Speaker 1: So it's certainly a spot that I circle. I just

2302
01:53:16,400 --> 01:53:17,800
Speaker 1: hope I get to come there. You know, we'll see

2303
01:53:17,800 --> 01:53:20,240
Speaker 1: whether or not we're part of the group that gets

2304
01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:22,120
Speaker 1: to travel if we're gonna be calling these games on

2305
01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:24,559
Speaker 1: monitors like some have suggested where we're going to be

2306
01:53:24,600 --> 01:53:27,120
Speaker 1: doing so, Look, I would I would be if I

2307
01:53:27,160 --> 01:53:30,080
Speaker 1: were able to experience twenty five degrees and a windshield

2308
01:53:30,120 --> 01:53:32,120
Speaker 1: ten below that a bunch of so I think that

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Speaker 1: would mean that things are going pretty darned well for

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01:53:34,240 --> 01:53:38,040
Speaker 1: us here in the country, right, Thanks Matt, that's great. Thanks,

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01:53:38,080 --> 01:53:39,840
Speaker 1: So we hope we do cross paths with you this fall.

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01:53:39,920 --> 01:53:41,920
Speaker 1: Good luck with the Chargers, and thanks for coming on

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01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:45,320
Speaker 1: you got it anytime, guys. Appreciate trying to take care Steve.

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01:53:45,880 --> 01:53:48,479
Speaker 1: Thanks Matt money Smiths played bad played voice of the

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01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:51,559
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers, the host of Petros and Money Show

2316
01:53:51,600 --> 01:53:53,920
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and you see him on NFL Network

2317
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:56,040
Speaker 1: does a lot of fantasy work on NFL Network as

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01:53:56,040 --> 01:53:59,000
Speaker 1: an analysts there. Um, yeah, he brought that up. I

2319
01:53:59,040 --> 01:54:00,559
Speaker 1: didn't mean want to think of that. But there's a

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01:54:00,640 --> 01:54:04,280
Speaker 1: chance that, you know, the broadcasters stay Home Steve TV

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01:54:04,400 --> 01:54:06,679
Speaker 1: and radio stay Home do the game off a monitor.

2322
01:54:06,720 --> 01:54:10,000
Speaker 1: That would be Wow. I've had nightmares about that. Wow.

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01:54:10,040 --> 01:54:11,519
Speaker 1: I don't know if, I don't know if I can

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01:54:11,560 --> 01:54:15,000
Speaker 1: handle that. I did one of those one time from

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01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:18,840
Speaker 1: the monitor. Did a television broadcast of an NFL Europe game.

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01:54:18,880 --> 01:54:24,680
Speaker 1: The game was being played in Many, Frankfurt something like that,

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01:54:24,800 --> 01:54:27,799
Speaker 1: and it was and I did. I went to Jersey,

2328
01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:31,840
Speaker 1: sat next to sat next to h play by play

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01:54:31,880 --> 01:54:34,360
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure. I don't think it was Bob

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01:54:34,400 --> 01:54:37,400
Speaker 1: Popa might have been. But we did the game, Uh,

2331
01:54:37,840 --> 01:54:41,880
Speaker 1: sitting in a studio watching a TV and uh, yeah,

2332
01:54:42,280 --> 01:54:45,280
Speaker 1: that's not really the optimum, no way to do it.

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01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:48,040
Speaker 1: It can be done, you know. In fact, that's how

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01:54:48,080 --> 01:54:50,040
Speaker 1: we do practice games. That's how Eric wouldn't I did

2335
01:54:50,080 --> 01:54:51,800
Speaker 1: our practice games last year. We did three or four

2336
01:54:51,840 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 1: of them, watching a TV broadcast from the twenty eighteen season,

2337
01:54:55,040 --> 01:54:57,200
Speaker 1: turned the sound down and did our practice game. So

2338
01:54:57,240 --> 01:54:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, it can be done, but it will miss.

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01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:01,880
Speaker 1: We'll miss a lot. We'll see that all gets sorted out.

2340
01:55:02,040 --> 01:55:03,520
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna take a break and then we're back.

2341
01:55:03,560 --> 01:55:05,720
Speaker 1: Give us a call eight oh three five fifty toll

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

2343
01:55:09,720 --> 01:55:13,160
Speaker 1: promise I won't cut you off for rip India. Talk

2344
01:55:13,200 --> 01:55:15,960
Speaker 1: about Hall of Fame quarterback Kelly and his comment that

2345
01:55:16,160 --> 01:55:19,280
Speaker 1: something's wrong if the Bills don't win the division this year.

2346
01:55:19,400 --> 01:55:22,080
Speaker 1: It's One Bills Line presented by Kellida Health. This is

2347
01:55:22,160 --> 01:55:33,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills radioing back One Bills Live, John Murphy and

2348
01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:37,480
Speaker 1: Steve Tesker, presented by Callida Health. So our topic of

2349
01:55:37,520 --> 01:55:39,440
Speaker 1: the day, the Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly had

2350
01:55:39,440 --> 01:55:41,720
Speaker 1: an interesting comment. He was on the CBS Radio over

2351
01:55:41,720 --> 01:55:43,879
Speaker 1: the weekend. I wonder I'm going to ask our producer

2352
01:55:43,960 --> 01:55:46,600
Speaker 1: to play this once more, one more time if we can.

2353
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:51,720
Speaker 1: Kelly says, if the Bills don't win the AFC East

2354
01:55:51,840 --> 01:55:54,480
Speaker 1: this year, there should be an investigation. Though he didn't

2355
01:55:54,480 --> 01:55:56,560
Speaker 1: say that, but it was on the Zach Geld Show

2356
01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:59,080
Speaker 1: on CBS Sports Radio, and here's what he said about

2357
01:55:59,080 --> 01:56:01,880
Speaker 1: the Bills and how they should really be favored to

2358
01:56:01,880 --> 01:56:09,160
Speaker 1: win the AFC East. Here is Jim Kelley or not Kelly.

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01:56:09,240 --> 01:56:11,600
Speaker 1: That's basically what he said. Something's wrong if the Bills

2360
01:56:11,640 --> 01:56:14,880
Speaker 1: do not win the AFC East this year. Um, what

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01:56:14,920 --> 01:56:16,320
Speaker 1: do you think of that? Do you agree? Give us

2362
01:56:16,320 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 1: a call? Eight h three five fifty toll free one

2363
01:56:18,840 --> 01:56:21,960
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty on Twitter, five

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01:56:22,080 --> 01:56:25,200
Speaker 1: hundred forty votes in eighty eight percent. Yeah, I agree

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01:56:25,240 --> 01:56:28,120
Speaker 1: with that, which is a lot I got. I don't

2366
01:56:28,160 --> 01:56:31,160
Speaker 1: think it's it's an interesting question. We were I was

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01:56:31,240 --> 01:56:34,240
Speaker 1: laughing about it. It makes me laugh, Steve. Yeah, you know,

2368
01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:36,920
Speaker 1: like it's a fore gone conclusion, is what it may.

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01:56:36,960 --> 01:56:40,560
Speaker 1: It sounds like, and all of us know the way way,

2370
01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:45,640
Speaker 1: a whole lot's got to happen before the Bills when

2371
01:56:45,760 --> 01:56:49,600
Speaker 1: the AFC East, A lot of football and a lot

2372
01:56:49,680 --> 01:56:51,560
Speaker 1: of places we got to go just to get on

2373
01:56:51,640 --> 01:56:56,200
Speaker 1: the field to play football. That seemed answer. That's a

2374
01:56:56,320 --> 01:57:00,920
Speaker 1: long way away, right, are you talk about you know,

2375
01:57:01,080 --> 01:57:05,440
Speaker 1: offseason predictions. This seems like it's in another you know,

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01:57:06,360 --> 01:57:10,760
Speaker 1: like another era, you know by January, right, I mean

2377
01:57:10,800 --> 01:57:13,960
Speaker 1: it's it's twenty It feels like it's twenty five years away,

2378
01:57:14,040 --> 01:57:15,920
Speaker 1: Like we just planted this oak tree that we're gonna

2379
01:57:15,960 --> 01:57:19,840
Speaker 1: have a you know, kind of have I mean, oh,

2380
01:57:20,360 --> 01:57:22,600
Speaker 1: it just seems like it's so far away and so

2381
01:57:22,760 --> 01:57:24,360
Speaker 1: much has got to happen, and this is like it's

2382
01:57:24,480 --> 01:57:26,360
Speaker 1: a gym making it sound like maybe it's a fore

2383
01:57:26,440 --> 01:57:28,320
Speaker 1: gone conclusion, and yeah, I just don't think it is.

2384
01:57:28,640 --> 01:57:30,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's happened so fast. You know, the Bills

2385
01:57:30,600 --> 01:57:32,960
Speaker 1: have gone from kind of also rans in the AFC

2386
01:57:33,080 --> 01:57:37,240
Speaker 1: East for decades for most for most of the memory

2387
01:57:37,240 --> 01:57:40,480
Speaker 1: of most Bills fans can never imagine a world where

2388
01:57:40,520 --> 01:57:44,080
Speaker 1: the Bills would be favorites. Kelly. This goes beyond saying

2389
01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:47,000
Speaker 1: somebody's a favorite. He says something's wrong if the Bills

2390
01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:49,440
Speaker 1: don't win the division. That that's a little bit stronger

2391
01:57:49,480 --> 01:57:51,800
Speaker 1: than saying the Bills are favorites when the AFCAS isn't

2392
01:57:51,800 --> 01:57:54,720
Speaker 1: it right? It is, Yeah, And I think I don't

2393
01:57:54,720 --> 01:57:56,680
Speaker 1: know whether it's something is wrong or something will have

2394
01:57:56,800 --> 01:58:00,400
Speaker 1: gone wrong, you know what I mean. Either way, it

2395
01:58:00,520 --> 01:58:02,400
Speaker 1: certainly looks like they're in a position. There's certain they

2396
01:58:02,440 --> 01:58:04,760
Speaker 1: were in the position to compete for it. Last year.

2397
01:58:06,760 --> 01:58:08,840
Speaker 1: They gave New England all they can handle last year,

2398
01:58:09,720 --> 01:58:12,080
Speaker 1: could not find a way to beat those guys. And

2399
01:58:12,480 --> 01:58:15,680
Speaker 1: that's as frustrating as as I've been about that rivalry

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01:58:15,800 --> 01:58:18,840
Speaker 1: for a long time. You feel like you've got the players,

2401
01:58:18,920 --> 01:58:24,000
Speaker 1: you just couldn't put it together. But I still think

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01:58:24,040 --> 01:58:26,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a competitive division. I still think there's

2403
01:58:26,760 --> 01:58:30,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a couple three, three teams for maybe all

2404
01:58:30,120 --> 01:58:32,080
Speaker 1: four of them, that are going to do really well

2405
01:58:32,120 --> 01:58:37,960
Speaker 1: outside the division. Even with a schedule that that we've got,

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01:58:38,120 --> 01:58:39,640
Speaker 1: you know that. I just think it's going to be

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01:58:39,720 --> 01:58:43,080
Speaker 1: really rough, a rough season for I don't know. I

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01:58:43,280 --> 01:58:45,600
Speaker 1: just think it's gonna be a competitive division. Yeah, that's all.

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01:58:45,920 --> 01:58:47,480
Speaker 1: That's what the NFL is all about. Let's say we

2410
01:58:47,520 --> 01:58:50,720
Speaker 1: can try this again. Here's what Kelly said on CBS Sports.

2411
01:58:51,120 --> 01:58:53,360
Speaker 1: Here's what he said over the weekend about the Bills

2412
01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:56,040
Speaker 1: and their chances to win the AFC East. I think

2413
01:58:56,160 --> 01:58:58,920
Speaker 1: Tom of sports is getting older, but you still can play.

2414
01:58:59,120 --> 01:59:01,680
Speaker 1: And I tried to talk them into retire like two

2415
01:59:01,800 --> 01:59:03,640
Speaker 1: three years ago, but just wren't listening to me. I

2416
01:59:03,680 --> 01:59:06,200
Speaker 1: don't know why. But now that Brady's got in it,

2417
01:59:06,440 --> 01:59:09,080
Speaker 1: I definitely do think that the Bills are the team

2418
01:59:09,160 --> 01:59:11,360
Speaker 1: to beat, even though if you look at the Jets

2419
01:59:11,400 --> 01:59:14,120
Speaker 1: are getting better Miami with two of coming in, I

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01:59:14,200 --> 01:59:16,840
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be better. And of course Pellichets didn't

2421
01:59:16,840 --> 01:59:18,800
Speaker 1: have new any the radio play, so we'll see what

2422
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:22,080
Speaker 1: happens at the quarterback position in New England. But right now,

2423
01:59:22,320 --> 01:59:25,080
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that the Bills are probably favored to

2424
01:59:25,160 --> 01:59:27,200
Speaker 1: win the AFC East, and if they don't, then they

2425
01:59:27,320 --> 01:59:30,000
Speaker 1: must have some serious injuries because they have all the

2426
01:59:30,320 --> 01:59:34,400
Speaker 1: ingredients to take to move on in the playoffs. A little.

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01:59:34,400 --> 01:59:36,280
Speaker 1: I don't mind the pressure, but there's a little pressure

2428
01:59:36,280 --> 01:59:37,800
Speaker 1: associated with that. What do you think? What do you

2429
01:59:37,880 --> 01:59:40,320
Speaker 1: think of Kelly's saying that you can vote in the

2430
01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:41,960
Speaker 1: twitter poll. You can give us a call of course

2431
01:59:42,000 --> 01:59:45,720
Speaker 1: at eight oh three five fifty, or you can participate

2432
01:59:45,760 --> 01:59:48,320
Speaker 1: on the tweet cheet Joe says this on the tweet

2433
01:59:48,360 --> 01:59:50,440
Speaker 1: cheat brought to you by Carrigan Moving Systems. The official

2434
01:59:50,480 --> 01:59:52,600
Speaker 1: moves on the Buffalo Bills. Hell, yes, we should win

2435
01:59:52,640 --> 01:59:55,360
Speaker 1: the AFC East, even if the wingman had time, Brady.

2436
01:59:55,440 --> 01:59:57,840
Speaker 1: We gave them two close games last year. Our defense

2437
01:59:57,960 --> 01:59:59,800
Speaker 1: is one of the best in the league. Our offense

2438
02:00:00,080 --> 02:00:03,320
Speaker 1: was upgraded this year. Go Bills. Seems like that's the

2439
02:00:03,680 --> 02:00:05,880
Speaker 1: prevailing sentiments here, and I think, Yeah, what is it

2440
02:00:05,920 --> 02:00:11,040
Speaker 1: an eighty seven? Bert also chimes in on the tweet sheet.

2441
02:00:11,040 --> 02:00:13,280
Speaker 1: I believe with the continuity the team and the coaching staff,

2442
02:00:13,320 --> 02:00:16,480
Speaker 1: the Bills will continue to take big steps forward. Pair

2443
02:00:16,600 --> 02:00:20,240
Speaker 1: that with the teams in our division, Pat's losing Brady

2444
02:00:20,280 --> 02:00:23,960
Speaker 1: amongst other players, Miami building from quite a few draft picks,

2445
02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:28,839
Speaker 1: and the Jets struggling. Bills AFC champions not AFCAST champions,

2446
02:00:28,880 --> 02:00:32,320
Speaker 1: he says, Bills AFC champions. H Bert calling for a

2447
02:00:32,360 --> 02:00:36,680
Speaker 1: Super Bowl appearance. That's big, Um, but there's no doubt

2448
02:00:36,840 --> 02:00:40,120
Speaker 1: I'm for all teams, not just the Bills. Murph. Let's

2449
02:00:40,920 --> 02:00:45,640
Speaker 1: put it in perspective. Everybody's pretty optimistic in mid May. Yeah,

2450
02:00:45,680 --> 02:00:47,920
Speaker 1: and Bert, they're putting the Bills in the super Bowl.

2451
02:00:48,160 --> 02:00:49,480
Speaker 1: That would have to I don't know. I'm gonna go

2452
02:00:49,480 --> 02:00:51,360
Speaker 1: out on a limb and say that's on the optimistic

2453
02:00:51,560 --> 02:00:54,920
Speaker 1: end of the spect Yeah. You know what's entitating about

2454
02:00:54,920 --> 02:00:59,080
Speaker 1: the schedule? Um, it won't take long. Two weeks into

2455
02:00:59,120 --> 02:01:02,120
Speaker 1: the schedule. Let's say schedule starts and they's played on

2456
02:01:02,360 --> 02:01:05,720
Speaker 1: time and on schedule September thirteenth at the Jet, September twentieth,

2457
02:01:06,120 --> 02:01:09,240
Speaker 1: or September twirteenth against the Jet September twenty at Miami.

2458
02:01:09,600 --> 02:01:12,000
Speaker 1: Two weeks into it, we'll have a pretty good sense

2459
02:01:12,040 --> 02:01:14,400
Speaker 1: of where they stand, don't you think in the division. Yes,

2460
02:01:14,440 --> 02:01:17,360
Speaker 1: you still got the Patriots coming up round about November

2461
02:01:17,440 --> 02:01:19,040
Speaker 1: first and then at the end of the year. But

2462
02:01:19,480 --> 02:01:21,840
Speaker 1: at least I'll have two games, two division games to

2463
02:01:21,920 --> 02:01:25,000
Speaker 1: start and you can think of yourself, Okay, the Jets

2464
02:01:25,080 --> 02:01:27,360
Speaker 1: gave us, you know, a pretty good battle Miami, a

2465
02:01:27,400 --> 02:01:29,320
Speaker 1: little bit of a battle. But they let's say they

2466
02:01:29,360 --> 02:01:32,320
Speaker 1: went in both. I think that'll be a great start

2467
02:01:32,360 --> 02:01:35,360
Speaker 1: to a division title. To win those two. Obviously, Yeah,

2468
02:01:35,720 --> 02:01:37,160
Speaker 1: if they could get off to the same kind of

2469
02:01:37,200 --> 02:01:41,600
Speaker 1: start they did last year, it would be awesome. They

2470
02:01:41,680 --> 02:01:43,560
Speaker 1: got off to a really good start last year. And

2471
02:01:43,680 --> 02:01:46,440
Speaker 1: I think, and you know this, murphin from my days

2472
02:01:46,480 --> 02:01:48,200
Speaker 1: of playing, when you get off to a fast start,

2473
02:01:48,280 --> 02:01:52,440
Speaker 1: it tends to snowball. You tend confidence breed success. And

2474
02:01:52,680 --> 02:01:55,320
Speaker 1: when these guys go out and have some success and

2475
02:01:55,480 --> 02:01:58,600
Speaker 1: get some wins, even if they're ugly wins, man, oh man,

2476
02:01:58,680 --> 02:02:01,480
Speaker 1: it catapultia. And I think that's that would really be

2477
02:02:01,600 --> 02:02:04,080
Speaker 1: a missing and maybe not a missing ingredient, but a

2478
02:02:04,160 --> 02:02:07,839
Speaker 1: key ingredient. Towards the Bills ended up in the playoffs

2479
02:02:07,880 --> 02:02:10,600
Speaker 1: and winning a playoff game for the first time in

2480
02:02:10,680 --> 02:02:12,800
Speaker 1: a long time. A couple of phone calls on this topic.

2481
02:02:12,960 --> 02:02:15,200
Speaker 1: Let's go to Quincy and Buffalo. Hello, Quincy, you're on

2482
02:02:15,240 --> 02:02:20,040
Speaker 1: the air. How are we doing, guys? Good, good, good good.

2483
02:02:20,600 --> 02:02:23,040
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to say I don't think it's

2484
02:02:23,040 --> 02:02:25,600
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion that the Bills will win the AFCAST.

2485
02:02:25,600 --> 02:02:27,800
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, I'm a Bills enthusiast like

2486
02:02:27,920 --> 02:02:29,920
Speaker 1: the rest of us, But because a couple of things

2487
02:02:29,960 --> 02:02:32,720
Speaker 1: to consider here. One, Bill Belichick is probably still the

2488
02:02:32,760 --> 02:02:34,880
Speaker 1: greatest coach of all time. I've seen reports that they're

2489
02:02:34,920 --> 02:02:36,800
Speaker 1: talking about the Steadham guy and all this stuff. So

2490
02:02:36,960 --> 02:02:39,000
Speaker 1: you never know what you're gonna get with the Pads.

2491
02:02:39,480 --> 02:02:41,240
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen them win with guys like Matt

2492
02:02:41,320 --> 02:02:43,120
Speaker 1: Castle going ten and six that year, so you just

2493
02:02:43,240 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 1: don't know. Secondly, we don't know what kind of offseason

2494
02:02:46,320 --> 02:02:48,440
Speaker 1: we're going to have with the coronavirus or if any

2495
02:02:48,600 --> 02:02:50,480
Speaker 1: or when guys are going to be able to see

2496
02:02:50,520 --> 02:02:52,680
Speaker 1: their coaches. I know that they're you know, meeting you

2497
02:02:52,760 --> 02:02:55,560
Speaker 1: know digitally, if you will, but we don't know what

2498
02:02:55,720 --> 02:02:57,640
Speaker 1: kind of off season they will have, so guys like

2499
02:02:57,760 --> 02:02:59,800
Speaker 1: aj F Pinessa who could probably come in and be

2500
02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:02,240
Speaker 1: an impact right away, it may take longer for him

2501
02:03:02,320 --> 02:03:04,960
Speaker 1: or even Stefan Diggs. You know, in his scenario, we

2502
02:03:05,000 --> 02:03:06,720
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of offseason is going to happen.

2503
02:03:06,760 --> 02:03:08,240
Speaker 1: How long he's go it's gonna take for him to

2504
02:03:08,280 --> 02:03:10,640
Speaker 1: pick up the playbook and know any changes that they

2505
02:03:10,680 --> 02:03:13,200
Speaker 1: planned on make into scheme or you know, just adding

2506
02:03:13,280 --> 02:03:15,960
Speaker 1: on to what they already do, well, that's going to

2507
02:03:16,000 --> 02:03:18,120
Speaker 1: be an adjustment because there's not going to be much

2508
02:03:18,120 --> 02:03:19,720
Speaker 1: of an off season to really go off of here.

2509
02:03:20,240 --> 02:03:23,120
Speaker 1: So that's that's my main reasons why I think it'll

2510
02:03:23,120 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 1: be a little bit more difficult than people think it is.

2511
02:03:25,320 --> 02:03:27,800
Speaker 1: Just to win the AFC the East this year. Yeah,

2512
02:03:27,800 --> 02:03:29,320
Speaker 1: I like the way you put that, Quintin. It is

2513
02:03:29,360 --> 02:03:31,840
Speaker 1: not a foregun conclusion. There's no question about that. And

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02:03:31,920 --> 02:03:33,600
Speaker 1: see if I think Quinine, we're ex up a big

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Speaker 1: point about the you know, the quarantine we're in and

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02:03:36,440 --> 02:03:39,480
Speaker 1: the uncertainty about this offseason and teams aren't working out yet,

2517
02:03:39,800 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: and look we're guessing. We say, well, the Bills have continuity,

2518
02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:47,080
Speaker 1: so they'll be all set. Well, that's what the idea is.

2519
02:03:47,280 --> 02:03:48,880
Speaker 1: But you don't know, you know, you don't know how

2520
02:03:48,920 --> 02:03:50,640
Speaker 1: this quarantine's gonna go. I mean, the Bills had a

2521
02:03:50,680 --> 02:03:53,800
Speaker 1: guy charge with Dui over the weekend, you know, I mean,

2522
02:03:54,000 --> 02:03:57,400
Speaker 1: if who knows what could happen while they're out right now?

2523
02:03:57,480 --> 02:03:59,560
Speaker 1: And I just think all of us when we say, yeah,

2524
02:03:59,640 --> 02:04:02,600
Speaker 1: well they continuity that should help, or not installing new systems.

2525
02:04:02,640 --> 02:04:05,040
Speaker 1: They have the same coaches, seems like they would work,

2526
02:04:05,120 --> 02:04:06,920
Speaker 1: but we don't know. I think Quinsy makes a good point.

2527
02:04:06,960 --> 02:04:09,840
Speaker 1: There's just too many variables here, that's right. And even

2528
02:04:09,920 --> 02:04:12,600
Speaker 1: the guys, He's right that Bill Belichick is still another

2529
02:04:12,640 --> 02:04:15,080
Speaker 1: head coach in this division. He's still you know, he

2530
02:04:15,160 --> 02:04:18,560
Speaker 1: didn't forget how to coach. They're gonna be competitive. There's

2531
02:04:18,560 --> 02:04:20,640
Speaker 1: still a lot of question marks about how good Miami

2532
02:04:20,720 --> 02:04:22,520
Speaker 1: can be and how good the Jets are gonna be.

2533
02:04:22,680 --> 02:04:24,600
Speaker 1: They both both those teams will tell you they think

2534
02:04:24,600 --> 02:04:30,800
Speaker 1: they've gotten better. And and there's all the hesitation and

2535
02:04:31,040 --> 02:04:34,440
Speaker 1: question marks and ignorance we have about how this is

2536
02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:37,800
Speaker 1: gonna turn out with the virus, whether the off season's

2537
02:04:37,840 --> 02:04:40,840
Speaker 1: gonna be a thing or whether it's gonna be not

2538
02:04:41,040 --> 02:04:43,120
Speaker 1: a thing. You know whether it's gonna they're gonna play

2539
02:04:43,160 --> 02:04:45,200
Speaker 1: practice games, Are gonna have a chance to practice and

2540
02:04:45,560 --> 02:04:47,880
Speaker 1: get some football into the belts, or is everybody gonna

2541
02:04:47,920 --> 02:04:50,960
Speaker 1: be kind of, you know, feeling their way through the

2542
02:04:51,040 --> 02:04:53,000
Speaker 1: first four weeks of the season and get off to

2543
02:04:53,080 --> 02:04:56,160
Speaker 1: a bad start or a lucky start, or you know,

2544
02:04:56,520 --> 02:04:59,360
Speaker 1: an injury riddled start because they just haven't had a

2545
02:04:59,440 --> 02:05:01,960
Speaker 1: chance to get properly ready. Are they going to play

2546
02:05:01,960 --> 02:05:04,200
Speaker 1: in front of empty stadiums? I mean that's a little

2547
02:05:04,240 --> 02:05:06,040
Speaker 1: bit of a factor, right, you can't discount it as

2548
02:05:06,080 --> 02:05:09,560
Speaker 1: a factor, right for the Bills everybody else? That's right,

2549
02:05:09,920 --> 02:05:14,200
Speaker 1: And how that affects teams will will vary. Recall from

2550
02:05:14,280 --> 02:05:18,000
Speaker 1: TJ in Toronto. Oh TJ, you're on the air with us, Yeah,

2551
02:05:18,040 --> 02:05:21,800
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Good? Good? Good? No, listen, I

2552
02:05:21,960 --> 02:05:24,200
Speaker 1: don't think the Bill is going to win the AFC, right,

2553
02:05:24,680 --> 02:05:28,680
Speaker 1: I can be anything. My last sellar that Floy is

2554
02:05:28,680 --> 02:05:30,320
Speaker 1: going to be the coach of the air and Miami

2555
02:05:30,440 --> 02:05:33,760
Speaker 1: will win the division. Alan is a good guy, is

2556
02:05:33,800 --> 02:05:37,560
Speaker 1: a good player, but isn't that very yet? Alan two

2557
02:05:37,640 --> 02:05:40,920
Speaker 1: more years ago to be a very good quarterback. So

2558
02:05:41,200 --> 02:05:47,000
Speaker 1: I don't see to go winning that Miami is I mean,

2559
02:05:48,760 --> 02:05:51,880
Speaker 1: Manklin is a question mark. We don't know what Mills

2560
02:05:51,920 --> 02:05:54,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, but I hope to be able to

2561
02:05:54,560 --> 02:05:57,600
Speaker 1: do good. But they will not pass Miami. Okay, thank you,

2562
02:05:57,920 --> 02:05:59,480
Speaker 1: all right, Thanks c J. What do you think of

2563
02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:02,920
Speaker 1: that strong endors I don't know. Yeah, I get he

2564
02:06:03,120 --> 02:06:06,320
Speaker 1: think he gives Miami log and I do too. I

2565
02:06:06,360 --> 02:06:07,760
Speaker 1: think Brian Flora has got a lot out of a

2566
02:06:07,800 --> 02:06:10,960
Speaker 1: bad roster last season. Took him a while to come around.

2567
02:06:10,960 --> 02:06:12,720
Speaker 1: They'll have a little bit, probably a little bit faster

2568
02:06:12,840 --> 02:06:15,080
Speaker 1: start with the guys that are held over. They've got

2569
02:06:15,120 --> 02:06:19,280
Speaker 1: a lot of new additions. Um, if you're gonna put

2570
02:06:19,680 --> 02:06:26,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick in a conversation ahead of Josh Shallen, I'd

2571
02:06:26,080 --> 02:06:29,760
Speaker 1: have I'd be willing to have that debate. I would

2572
02:06:30,080 --> 02:06:31,960
Speaker 1: be willing to have debate, particularly if you put two

2573
02:06:31,960 --> 02:06:35,839
Speaker 1: a tag offlaw in that conversation. So if he's gonna

2574
02:06:36,360 --> 02:06:38,360
Speaker 1: say that it's gonna be two or three years before

2575
02:06:38,440 --> 02:06:41,640
Speaker 1: two years before Josh Allen becomes elite, Um, well, how

2576
02:06:41,680 --> 02:06:46,000
Speaker 1: long is it gonna be before TUA becomes elite? And

2577
02:06:46,800 --> 02:06:52,400
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is not elite? So if that's his basis

2578
02:06:52,520 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 1: for saying that, and I don't think I agree. I

2579
02:06:54,960 --> 02:06:57,200
Speaker 1: do think Miami Dolphins are gonna be a good football

2580
02:06:57,240 --> 02:06:59,200
Speaker 1: team this year, a much more competitive football team than

2581
02:06:59,240 --> 02:07:01,800
Speaker 1: they were last year. And I think they will give

2582
02:07:01,840 --> 02:07:04,880
Speaker 1: the Bills some problems. But I still like the Bill's

2583
02:07:04,960 --> 02:07:08,360
Speaker 1: roster better. That's all I can say. And got a quarterback,

2584
02:07:08,440 --> 02:07:10,040
Speaker 1: so we got a break and then we're coming back.

2585
02:07:10,080 --> 02:07:12,920
Speaker 1: One Bill's Side presented by Klada Health. This is Buffalo

2586
02:07:13,000 --> 02:07:28,640
Speaker 1: Bills Radio, Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company, and

2587
02:07:28,640 --> 02:07:32,560
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We had Jason lackanfora on from CBS Sports.

2588
02:07:32,800 --> 02:07:34,880
Speaker 1: You talked about the AFC East and what he sees

2589
02:07:34,880 --> 02:07:38,440
Speaker 1: happening between the Bills and the New England Patriots. I

2590
02:07:38,600 --> 02:07:40,240
Speaker 1: think the Bills are in a great spot. I think

2591
02:07:40,280 --> 02:07:42,880
Speaker 1: the Bills are the best roster in the division. I

2592
02:07:43,000 --> 02:07:46,240
Speaker 1: think the Bills have what I think will be a

2593
02:07:46,360 --> 02:07:49,920
Speaker 1: huge competitive factor in this offseason because of how unusual

2594
02:07:49,920 --> 02:07:54,160
Speaker 1: it is. They've got continuity of quarterback, continuity of scheme,

2595
02:07:54,360 --> 02:07:59,240
Speaker 1: continuity of philosophy, continuity of coordinators and head coach. And

2596
02:07:59,320 --> 02:08:01,160
Speaker 1: New England still checks a lot of those boxes. But

2597
02:08:01,440 --> 02:08:03,920
Speaker 1: going from Tom Brady to Jared Stidham, I'm sorry. That's

2598
02:08:03,920 --> 02:08:06,920
Speaker 1: a thing, like that's uh, that's that's going to be

2599
02:08:07,080 --> 02:08:10,680
Speaker 1: a you know, something for them to have to overcome.

2600
02:08:10,760 --> 02:08:13,720
Speaker 1: And then again, I don't like their roster nearly as

2601
02:08:13,800 --> 02:08:16,240
Speaker 1: much as I like Buffalo. I think Buffalo's got a

2602
02:08:16,320 --> 02:08:19,480
Speaker 1: lot of young, ascending players who feel like they're building

2603
02:08:19,560 --> 02:08:23,760
Speaker 1: something there and they're a part of a movement. Interesting.

2604
02:08:24,080 --> 02:08:26,040
Speaker 1: I like, I'll get to you to talk about you

2605
02:08:26,200 --> 02:08:27,640
Speaker 1: this about the Stephen him, and I like how he

2606
02:08:27,720 --> 02:08:30,520
Speaker 1: says going from Tom Brady to Jared Stidham is a thing.

2607
02:08:30,680 --> 02:08:33,600
Speaker 1: That's a thing, that's a real thing. It's a thing.

2608
02:08:34,080 --> 02:08:35,920
Speaker 1: We had Matt Smith on the voice of the uh

2609
02:08:36,360 --> 02:08:38,960
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers and he said he had good thing

2610
02:08:39,000 --> 02:08:41,480
Speaker 1: to say about Anthony Lynn, the former Bills assistant coach

2611
02:08:41,760 --> 02:08:44,200
Speaker 1: the Chargers head coach. Here's what Matt Smith said. The

2612
02:08:44,280 --> 02:08:46,240
Speaker 1: players respect the heck out of him. You know, he

2613
02:08:46,600 --> 02:08:48,480
Speaker 1: he's a guy to have to fight for a roster spot,

2614
02:08:48,520 --> 02:08:50,440
Speaker 1: a guy that won two Super Bowls as a player,

2615
02:08:50,520 --> 02:08:53,560
Speaker 1: that's been you know, working under some legendary coaches from

2616
02:08:53,680 --> 02:08:56,840
Speaker 1: from Bill Parcels to you know, being a head coach

2617
02:08:56,920 --> 02:08:59,160
Speaker 1: now and having a staff like he has with Gus

2618
02:08:59,280 --> 02:09:01,760
Speaker 1: Bradley some of the folks that he's comfortable bringing in

2619
02:09:01,840 --> 02:09:03,720
Speaker 1: because he's comfortable with who he is, that that he

2620
02:09:03,760 --> 02:09:06,200
Speaker 1: doesn't feel challenged from guys that were former head coaches

2621
02:09:06,520 --> 02:09:09,640
Speaker 1: Ken Whizz and Hunt, you know, on his staff. I

2622
02:09:09,720 --> 02:09:12,280
Speaker 1: think the big question is if the team stays healthy.

2623
02:09:12,800 --> 02:09:15,880
Speaker 1: You know, the front office and ownership believes this is

2624
02:09:15,920 --> 02:09:19,160
Speaker 1: a super Bowl caliber roster, or at least a roster

2625
02:09:19,440 --> 02:09:22,960
Speaker 1: that should be able to challenge for the division, even

2626
02:09:23,040 --> 02:09:26,360
Speaker 1: with you know, Thorat at quarterback. I think they still

2627
02:09:26,400 --> 02:09:31,240
Speaker 1: believe that. Interesting. Um, that's a thing though that's kind

2628
02:09:31,240 --> 02:09:33,360
Speaker 1: of a low key way to put the drop off.

2629
02:09:33,640 --> 02:09:35,840
Speaker 1: It is a drop off and it will have an effect.

2630
02:09:36,120 --> 02:09:38,840
Speaker 1: And I do understand that that Belichick is a great

2631
02:09:38,840 --> 02:09:41,640
Speaker 1: coach and they'll have them doing something else, but without

2632
02:09:41,720 --> 02:09:43,960
Speaker 1: Tom Brady covering up all those mistakes. Come on, See

2633
02:09:43,960 --> 02:09:47,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna make a difference. Yeah. I just think it's

2634
02:09:47,400 --> 02:09:51,040
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what kind of thing Jared's

2635
02:09:51,040 --> 02:09:53,839
Speaker 1: did him turns into. With Bill Belichick and Josh McDaniel's

2636
02:09:53,840 --> 02:09:57,640
Speaker 1: coaching him, those guys will have a plan and they'll

2637
02:09:57,680 --> 02:10:00,840
Speaker 1: execute it. What Jared's did him has to give as

2638
02:10:00,880 --> 02:10:02,800
Speaker 1: a quarterback they're going to get out of him. I

2639
02:10:02,880 --> 02:10:05,080
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be a stiff, and I

2640
02:10:05,120 --> 02:10:07,560
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna be totally inept out there. I

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02:10:07,640 --> 02:10:10,040
Speaker 1: think he's going to be a competitive ballplayer. And the

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02:10:10,160 --> 02:10:12,600
Speaker 1: low and the bar from where Tom Brady was last

2643
02:10:12,680 --> 02:10:16,040
Speaker 1: year is significantly lower than it was four years ago,

2644
02:10:16,120 --> 02:10:19,320
Speaker 1: five years ago when Tom Brady was really it was

2645
02:10:19,520 --> 02:10:21,880
Speaker 1: physically well and doing well and a young guy and

2646
02:10:21,960 --> 02:10:24,120
Speaker 1: all of that, all the other stuff. You know, the

2647
02:10:24,240 --> 02:10:26,840
Speaker 1: bar's lower from where Tom Brady was statistically last year.

2648
02:10:27,000 --> 02:10:32,600
Speaker 1: Although even given the off year offensively that the Patriots had,

2649
02:10:33,200 --> 02:10:36,880
Speaker 1: they won't twelve games. That bar has not changed. And

2650
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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if Charchs did him and

2651
02:10:39,400 --> 02:10:42,080
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and Josh McDaniels can get that team back

2652
02:10:42,120 --> 02:10:46,720
Speaker 1: to that level. Yep, Jim Kelly's comments the Bills, if

2653
02:10:46,720 --> 02:10:49,800
Speaker 1: they don't win the AFC East, something's something went wrong.

2654
02:10:50,000 --> 02:10:52,440
Speaker 1: Eight ninety percent or eighty eight ninety percent who agree

2655
02:10:52,480 --> 02:10:54,440
Speaker 1: with him. That was interesting and the best news of

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Speaker 1: the day. Governor poem Oground eleven thirty today announced that

2657
02:10:57,640 --> 02:10:59,800
Speaker 1: Western New York starts to reopen tomorrow, and it's only

2658
02:10:59,840 --> 02:11:02,600
Speaker 1: a start. The Governor also said he's a Bills fan

2659
02:11:02,680 --> 02:11:05,160
Speaker 1: and wants to watch a Buffalo Bills play. The NFL

2660
02:11:05,280 --> 02:11:08,360
Speaker 1: has cleared its team to reopen facilities tomorrow to some staff.

2661
02:11:08,760 --> 02:11:12,240
Speaker 1: Coaches and non rehabbing players not allowed. And the Bills.

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02:11:12,560 --> 02:11:14,520
Speaker 1: You know, it's phase one. The Bill's got to wait

2663
02:11:14,560 --> 02:11:17,120
Speaker 1: a while before staff can return. But at least it's

2664
02:11:17,120 --> 02:11:19,360
Speaker 1: a first step down the right road. Steve, I'm excited

2665
02:11:19,360 --> 02:11:21,560
Speaker 1: about that, right. Yeah, there's a little light at the

2666
02:11:21,680 --> 02:11:23,800
Speaker 1: end of the tunnel, or at least the back end

2667
02:11:23,880 --> 02:11:26,040
Speaker 1: of the tunnel is darkened behind us. We have to

2668
02:11:26,160 --> 02:11:33,000
Speaker 1: go forward, right, So yeah, it's it's fun, it's liberating

2669
02:11:33,040 --> 02:11:34,640
Speaker 1: a little bit to think about it. It puts a

2670
02:11:34,680 --> 02:11:36,960
Speaker 1: whole new perspective on what may happen and what's the

2671
02:11:37,000 --> 02:11:40,360
Speaker 1: possibilities are. What happening instead of same old, same old.

2672
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Speaker 1: Finally a day that's not like Groundhog Day, right, that's

2673
02:11:43,640 --> 02:11:45,800
Speaker 1: something a little different has happened. It's a step in

2674
02:11:45,840 --> 02:11:48,040
Speaker 1: the right direction. We know that for sure. All right,

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02:11:48,280 --> 02:11:50,240
Speaker 1: thanks for tuning in today. We're right back at it

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02:11:50,360 --> 02:11:53,360
Speaker 1: tomorrow starting at twelve noon until three pm. I want

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Speaker 1: to thank our production assistance, Kelly Rude, jj Turto Kevin cart,

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Speaker 1: James Robel, our board ops, Brayton Wilson, and Joe Via

2679
02:12:00,760 --> 02:12:03,080
Speaker 1: our producer Jay Harris. Do you have a good day today, Steve?

2680
02:12:03,120 --> 02:12:06,720
Speaker 1: You okay, okay, right, really good? No, no, little rainy.

2681
02:12:06,840 --> 02:12:09,200
Speaker 1: But tomorrow the week's gonna be a great week of weather.

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02:12:10,080 --> 02:12:13,440
Speaker 1: Springs hit. And the weekend this last weekend, yesterday and

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02:12:13,440 --> 02:12:16,400
Speaker 1: the day before. We're awesome and uh and know, hey,

2684
02:12:16,800 --> 02:12:19,080
Speaker 1: it's good to be back being us again, Murph, I

2685
02:12:19,120 --> 02:12:21,960
Speaker 1: gotta say we're coming back. We are coming back, slowly,

2686
02:12:22,040 --> 02:12:24,360
Speaker 1: but surely. We'll see tomorrow at twelve noon with One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalid of Health Radio. Only tomorrow again.

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