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Speaker 1: a big limb to walk out on, though, Barry the

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Speaker 1: way he handled all that and did all of that, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, Clay. And then at the very and the

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Speaker 1: reason that that that rang a bell in my head

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Speaker 1: that that might be his angle that he's playing here

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Speaker 1: is at the very end of his address last night,

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Speaker 1: he tells the people listening, you know, we've done it

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Speaker 1: above board and the right way all the time. Time

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Speaker 1: he goes, we may not be able to do it

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Speaker 1: that way much longer because everybody else is starting to

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Speaker 1: do it this way and it's not going to change.

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Speaker 1: So it's almost like he's thrown out a warning, sounding

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Speaker 1: the alarm, whatever you want to say. But he's basically

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Speaker 1: asked Tuscaloosa their local businesses, you know, whoever form a collective,

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Speaker 1: get this thing organized, or we're gonna get left behind

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Speaker 1: and we're not gonna be doing a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: winning in the future. Right, that's exactly right. Now. Last

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Speaker 1: thing on this, Jimbo Fisher closed with the following quote,

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Speaker 1: you coach with people like Bobby Bowden and learn how

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Speaker 1: to do things. You coach with other people and learn

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Speaker 1: how not to do things. There is a reason I

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Speaker 1: didn't go back and work with him. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be associated with him. End quote. Yeah, he just

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Speaker 1: had dropped it right in. So that's uh, tell me

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Speaker 1: CBS isn't licking its chops for that game. Later this season,

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Speaker 1: there was a joke on Twitter that said the Texas

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Speaker 1: A and m Alabama game has been moved up to

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Speaker 1: this Saturday at twelve thirty. Why that is gonna be juice?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And then there's all those that listen

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Speaker 1: when Bama shows up with a chip on their shoulder,

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Speaker 1: they're hard to beat man, true, and I'm yeah, it'll be.

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Speaker 1: It would be interesting to see how Nick Saban would

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Speaker 1: spin this to his players, Well, it's us again, and

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Speaker 1: make up that's us against Still continue this narrative, not

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Speaker 1: us against that doesn't want to play by the rules.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna play by the rules and beat him anyway, Right,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna that's exactly He's always working an angle though. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's you know, he's a slickster for sure. And are

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Speaker 1: we surprised at all that this guy is tight with Belichick?

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Speaker 1: Two guys with Saban. Yeah, he was on Belichick's staff

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland way back in the day before he broke

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Speaker 1: off to go be his own top guy. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's a coincidence that both men have been

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Speaker 1: accused of similar things. Now, not a cowinkie dink now,

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Speaker 1: not a coincidence. We'll leave that there though, all right,

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Speaker 1: and take a break here, and when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll have more for you on the NFL landscape. We also,

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Speaker 1: an hour number two have NBC Sports Peter King coming

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Speaker 1: your way. We're gonna be talking to him a little

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Speaker 1: bit about NFL team valuations, something he covered in his

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Speaker 1: Football Morning in America column, as well as the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two NFL schedule at large. That's coming up an

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Speaker 1: hour number two. We break for now, back with more

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collat of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Taster with you. Our good

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Speaker 1: friend Steve Cynthia Freeland recently put a story together on

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Speaker 1: nfl dot com top eleven offenses in twenty twenty two. Again,

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Speaker 1: you know, she's crunching the numbers using her predictive analysis models, this, that,

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Speaker 1: and the other. So the number one offense predicted for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two is none other than your Buffalo Bills, Steve. Really,

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Speaker 1: they earned her highest forecast in wind total in the

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Speaker 1: AFC at eleven point six wins. And then you know

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Speaker 1: she went into all these different statistics like Josh Allen's

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Speaker 1: pressure evasion rate was second best in the NFL according

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Speaker 1: to next Gens stats, So we can extend plays this,

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Speaker 1: then and the other. Anyway, what was interesting to me

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Speaker 1: was the team that was listed number two behind the

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Speaker 1: Bills for most productive offense predictions for twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to throw a guess out there, because

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Speaker 1: it's not a team you would probably pick in your

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Speaker 1: first three guesses, I will say, Dallas. It's the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, because Herbert racked up the third most

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Speaker 1: yards under pressure last season. More than one thousand of

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Speaker 1: his passing yards one thousand of his five thousand came

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Speaker 1: up under pressure. Yeah, m fourth low is sack rate

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Speaker 1: in the league due to his escapability. I think he's

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Speaker 1: still underestimated as a mobile passer. Um, he's a good player. Man.

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Speaker 1: He's as close to Josh Allen without being Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: I've said that before. Yeah, I don't know that he's

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Speaker 1: he's not Josh Allen, but he might be the closest thing.

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Speaker 1: But he looks like him, and is built like him,

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Speaker 1: has an arm like him or at least close. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he's an athlete, right, Um, Yeah, they're different, though

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Speaker 1: they are a little different. I mean, we had we

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Speaker 1: had chargers jam Tom t Lesko on the show, who's

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Speaker 1: a Western New York native, and even he admitted that

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Speaker 1: he saw Josh and Justin next to each other in

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Speaker 1: the tunnel here in twenty twenty, and he said they're

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Speaker 1: the same height. But Josh is considerably bigger than Justin

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Speaker 1: by about thirty pounds. He's about thirty pounds thicker, yeah,

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Speaker 1: than Herbert is. And then his arm strength is just

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Speaker 1: a shade below Josh's. His mobility is right there, and

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Speaker 1: he can make some throws off platform two side, arm

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Speaker 1: moving going, and he can he can sling it. And

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Speaker 1: he's got a strong arm. He can throw it off

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Speaker 1: one foot falling away, you know, side arm, all of

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Speaker 1: that stuff, and do it really accurately. And so he's

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Speaker 1: got a lot going for him, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: I Justin Herbert is a is a really really good quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And much like much like the Bills, the Chargers got

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Speaker 1: an extra running back in the draft. They took Isaiah

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Speaker 1: Spiller in the fourth round. You know, Bills took James Cook.

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Speaker 1: They used up their offensive line. They made some key

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Speaker 1: free agent acquisitions in J. C. Jackson, the corner from

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Speaker 1: New England, Khalil mac via trade, Sebastian Joseph Day, the

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Speaker 1: defensive tackle from the Rams. You know why, I don't

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Speaker 1: really worry about Justin Herbert like carrying that team like

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Speaker 1: it's the Chargers man. Yeah, you don't have you You

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Speaker 1: have his little faith in the Charges as an organization,

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Speaker 1: as you do the Lions and the Bears. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: the same, even even the Cincinnati Bengals once in a

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Speaker 1: while every twenty twenty five years catch lightning in a

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Speaker 1: bottle like they did with Joe Burrow last year. It's

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Speaker 1: funny I mentioned them because they're listed as third right

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Speaker 1: in the most productive, and I don't Cynthia knows what

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Speaker 1: she's doing. I mean, she she's on our broad preseason

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Speaker 1: broadcast with us as our sideline reporters, and we you know,

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Speaker 1: we go out to you know, the crew goes out

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Speaker 1: to dinner and we're fire and analytics questions at her,

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Speaker 1: and she's she knows what she's doing, and her algorithms

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Speaker 1: are good and all that stuff. Uh. But the one

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Speaker 1: thing that becomes painfully evident when you're looking at these

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Speaker 1: teams that have this predictive good off predictively good offense,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert, you can dumb

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Speaker 1: it down pretty easily, right, doesn't it seem like that

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Speaker 1: me and go through jump through all the fiery hoops

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Speaker 1: you want. It's like, the guys are the best, you know,

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Speaker 1: the most accurate strong arm quarterback athletes. They're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: Fourth is Tampa Bay, Fifth is La Rams, six is

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, seventh is the Packers. Man e is the

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Speaker 1: cowboy I'm gonna get is this her? Ninth is the

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Speaker 1: Saints with Jamis Winston, which I found. Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: The thing about the Saints and about jamis Winston. You

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Speaker 1: watched Jamis play. He's got a live arm. People forget

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Speaker 1: he was the first pick of the draft because that

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Speaker 1: guy had some he had some tools. Um, not a

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Speaker 1: mobile guy, got a live arm, but he's a pocket

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Speaker 1: and that was one of the things. It was plus

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Speaker 1: for him then because it was like, this is a

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Speaker 1: guy that does it from the pocket, which is an

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Speaker 1: NFL kind of standard if ultimately you got to have

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Speaker 1: that guy. But Jamis has got a live arm. His

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Speaker 1: problem is he's sometimes you know, he draws his gun

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Speaker 1: and closes his eyes before he shoots it. You know, Um,

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Speaker 1: that's probably a bad analogy. But he's a scatter shot, right,

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Speaker 1: He's little too much of a of a I don't

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Speaker 1: care where it's going. I'm I'm slinging it kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: So um yeah, so Jais. But Jamis has got some tools.

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Speaker 1: So if he goes in there and goes into goes

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Speaker 1: back on the field. Because the Saints were playing extremely

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Speaker 1: well with him last year or better last year when

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Speaker 1: he before he got hurt, when he got help, he

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Speaker 1: was healthy. So uh yeah, I think Jamis is u

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Speaker 1: got a chance for that. But he's a bigger question

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Speaker 1: mark than any of those other jokers on that list.

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Speaker 1: Tenth was the Vikings, who Cynthia has predicted it still

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Speaker 1: go to the playoffs. Okay, trusting in Kevin O'Connell style,

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Speaker 1: We'll think about this. They're gonna get they may get

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Speaker 1: an extra win or two in the division. I don't listen.

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Speaker 1: I know that the Lions are the flavor of the month.

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Speaker 1: And Dan Campbell and all those guys are talking like

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Speaker 1: they're they're talking super Bowl, they want to watch Champion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're all talking like this is this, let's go. We're

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Speaker 1: if you're not gonna you're gonna do it all right.

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Speaker 1: Despite that, I think Green Bay's taking a step backward

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Speaker 1: this year. Vikings with Kirk Cousins are painfully consistent, which

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Speaker 1: should be enough this year. And the Bears and the

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Speaker 1: Lions are gonna be the Bears and the Lions as

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Speaker 1: they have been since time immemorial. Number eleven on the

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Speaker 1: list the Miami Dolphins. And now you're just getting crazy.

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what's in front of me. Here. Wait,

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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins are gonna be ahead like a Vegas

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Speaker 1: every Denver, she says, every offense comes down to the

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Speaker 1: performance of the QB, of course, but that feels especially

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Speaker 1: true for this Dolphins attack. McDaniel's resume, Miami's personnel additions

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Speaker 1: Toront Armstead, Tyreek Hill, numerous running backs, suggests a style

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Speaker 1: of play that marries strong rushing principles with exceptional speed

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Speaker 1: and space from the pass catchers, giving the quarterback more

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Speaker 1: time to make decisions in higher probability passing situations. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what I think. Are you gonna shout Poppycock? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna shout what I was. The first thing out

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Speaker 1: of my mouth was gonna be what about the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: Those guys they got Matt Ryan, they got the problem

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Speaker 1: is this, Miami's got some outstanding weapons. Yeah, the Colts

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Speaker 1: do not. They got John and Taylor, they got Matt Ryan,

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Speaker 1: and they got Michael Pittman. Guys, Michael Pittman's an above

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Speaker 1: average receive is okay. Yeah, and in this league, in

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Speaker 1: this league, above average is not good enough. It's not

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Speaker 1: good enough. So I can see why Indianapolis might fall away.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and you know Tennessee's and Baltimore's of the world,

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Speaker 1: they quite frankly, they run the ball too much to

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Speaker 1: be a good offense, or at least a prolific offense.

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Speaker 1: So well, we'll see, we'll see. I get it. Dude,

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Speaker 1: has got a lot of guys throw to What can

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Speaker 1: you say if you can design a dancin duck offense

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Speaker 1: and if you've got speed athletes, they can get yards

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Speaker 1: after the catch, I suppose you can make that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's so many questions around Cleveland with the Shawn Watson

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Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield. How many games playing right? Right? Yer,

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Speaker 1: one conspicuous absence is Arizona, Kyler Murray and those guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: why aren't they? I think people are down on the winder. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's and DeAndre Hopkins isn't playing for six games. He's

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Speaker 1: got suspended. Oh that's right. Yeah, that's a crusher. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't help. And I don't know why. Yeah, that's that

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Speaker 1: does have some carry over. I'm but man, they should

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Speaker 1: They were like eight weren't they last undefeated team last year? Yes,

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Speaker 1: and then they kind of fell off precipitously, Murray was

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Speaker 1: battling injuries at the end of the season. They had

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Speaker 1: other injuries elsewhere, including JJ Watt, who missed about half

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Speaker 1: the season as many people thought he might. You and me,

638
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: and it just it fizzled out, you know, right. They

639
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Speaker 1: made the playoffs, but they lost to the Rams right

640
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Speaker 1: in the first round, and that what happened. I think

641
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Speaker 1: that's what happened. Yeah, well they lost to the Rams

642
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Speaker 1: late in the season. I can't remember. I don't pay

643
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Speaker 1: nearly enough of the same attention to the end, Souncanny.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why that's always been that way, even

645
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Speaker 1: with like other pro sports like baseball. You know, growing

646
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: up a Yankees fan, I never paid attention all that

647
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: closely to the National League at all, Like I was

648
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Speaker 1: an American League guy, and you know, whatever happened over there,

649
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Speaker 1: I'll you know, I'll find out about it when we

650
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Speaker 1: get to the World Series kind of thing, you know

651
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Speaker 1: what I mean, the you know the thing it just came,

652
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Speaker 1: you know, the thing we were talking about with coach

653
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Speaker 1: Nick Saban. Yeah, oh there's more. Yea. Dion has responded

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Speaker 1: yes quickly on coach Prime, which is Dion Sanders, the

655
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Speaker 1: head coach of the of the Jackson State Jackson State.

656
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Speaker 1: He says, you best believe I will address that lie.

657
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: Coach Saban told Tomorrow, I was away and awakened by

658
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: my son, his sons Sanders that sent me the article

659
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Speaker 1: saying that we we paid Travis Hunter Junior a million

660
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: dollars to play at Jackson State Tigers football. We as

661
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: a people don't have to pay our people to play

662
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Speaker 1: with our people. So he's got something to say, he's

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Speaker 1: going to do it. This was thirteen hours ago. I

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Speaker 1: imagine he's probably popped off already. Do you think I

665
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Speaker 1: say popped off? Responded, I didn't mean that disrespectfully. I

666
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Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for Dion. I played with him,

667
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Speaker 1: has had numerous conversations with him, a guide, his lights

668
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Speaker 1: are on and those Jackson State is better for having

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Speaker 1: him as head coach. I love that guy. Do you

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Speaker 1: think that? I mean? Nick Saban is a smart enough

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Speaker 1: man to know that he was going to set off

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Speaker 1: a firestorm with these remarks, but he clearly felt it

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Speaker 1: was worth it in order to get the support for

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Speaker 1: his program through some kind of collective of their own,

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Speaker 1: because that's how the game's going to be played recruiting wise,

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Speaker 1: going forward. So he threw up the warning flare. He

677
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Speaker 1: shot the warning flare in the air, left league. This

678
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: thing's mushrooming. Now that the lawyer nil attorney Mike Caspino,

679
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Speaker 1: who having worked quote having worked with A and M.

680
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: This is from Stuart Mandel and retweeted by our friend

681
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Speaker 1: of the show, Andrew Bryant. Mike Caspino having worked with

682
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Speaker 1: A and M's collective. Everything Jimbo Fisher said is one

683
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: hundred percent correct and true. He didn't violate any by

684
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Speaker 1: laws if you keep the collectives separate from the school.

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Speaker 1: A and M and their collective are just very good

686
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Speaker 1: at what they do. Yeah, there you go, and it

687
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,439
Speaker 1: is the wild West. The rules are loot fast and loose.

688
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: The NCAA has no power anymore. That's right. They're done. Yeah,

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00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: they're they're a shell um. Basically they hold a basketball

690
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Speaker 1: tournament every year and the football playoff and that's about it. Yep.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see what happens with that. There.

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Speaker 1: They're a staging company. That's really what they are. That's

693
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Speaker 1: exactly right. There's there an event planning company. That's what

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Speaker 1: they are. Planners. They're event planners. Nothing he has event planners.

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Speaker 1: But compared to what the NCAA previously was in its

696
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Speaker 1: previous iteration, it is a much different universe now on

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Speaker 1: the college landscape. We take a break here when we

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Speaker 1: come back. I don't know a whole lot about golfing rules,

699
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Speaker 1: but this one takes the cake, and I've got to

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Speaker 1: run it by our resident golfer here. Next, two players

701
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: got disqualified in a wild situation at the US Amateur

702
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Speaker 1: four Ball quarterfinals. Will tell you what it was and

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Speaker 1: get Steve's reaction. Next here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalai to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: as I said, I need your input on this. The

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Speaker 1: rules of golf have struck again. A pair of Cincinnati

707
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Speaker 1: men's golf teammates were disqualified during the quarterfinals of the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two US Amateur four Ball Championship this week

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Speaker 1: for an equipment violation non conforming putter grips. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: apparently this one guy had a club with two different

711
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: putter grips on the shaft, and the rule states that

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Speaker 1: the grips must be at least one and a half

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Speaker 1: inches apart. They were less than an inch apart. Now,

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Speaker 1: so he got disqualified. Their their tandem got disqualified. They

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Speaker 1: didn't go to the semi finals because of it. How

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Speaker 1: what kind of an advantage does it two putter grips

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Speaker 1: stuck together. Due that makes all the difference in the

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Speaker 1: world when you're putting. I don't get it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: advantage or not. It's just say, the rules are the rules, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and equipment is You can imagine in golf, your equipment

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Speaker 1: is vital and the standardized equipment means a lot. And

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Speaker 1: unfortunately it does change from time and time again. When

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Speaker 1: a company will come out with an innovation that is

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Speaker 1: a decided advantage um, sometimes the golf world rebels and says, no,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna use that. For instance, a long putter.

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Speaker 1: You can't. You can use a long putter, but you

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Speaker 1: can't rest it against your body. You have to hold

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Speaker 1: it with two hands away from you and make a

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00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 1: stroke with the clubs. It's considered an unfair advantage. It

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Speaker 1: makes bad some In some cases, some bad putters became

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Speaker 1: excellent putters because they could do that, and they were,

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Speaker 1: you know, guys winning majors who would before that couldn't

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Speaker 1: put well enough to win a major. So they changed

734
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Speaker 1: it um and force guys to play within the same rules. Now,

735
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Speaker 1: when you get to grips and things like that, that's

736
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Speaker 1: that's pretty much in the in the minutia of the game.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's no different than some of the other things,

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Speaker 1: you know, miss marking your ball, grounding your club, that

739
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Yeah, it's a minusia rule, no question

740
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Speaker 1: about it. But I having your equipment out of out

741
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 1: of compliance is really it's a no no, and it's

742
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Speaker 1: an easy gray. It's like having a guy in the

743
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Speaker 1: high where they pull the guy off the off the

744
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: ice and hockey and they got those things, they bend

745
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: of the sticks wrong. Now your your your paddles too big.

746
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,959
Speaker 1: You gotta you know you got it wrong, you taped

747
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: it wrong or whatever. So it's the same thing, same thing,

748
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: goalie pads, all of that stuff. Um and in golf, nothing,

749
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Speaker 1: no other sport is as dependent on equipment as golf

750
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Speaker 1: or virtually I just maybe maybe maybe auto racing. Okay, Right,

751
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Speaker 1: here's the thing that I struggle with. And maybe it's

752
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Speaker 1: just because I don't know enough about the nuances and

753
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Speaker 1: idiosyncrasies of golf. You see the NFL all the time

754
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: institute rules for a hard and fast reason. You know,

755
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: if someone has found a loophole, they'll close it, you know,

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Speaker 1: with a new rule or something. Right, Someone's got to

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00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: explain to me where the advantage and having two putter

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00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: grips connected or in their words, non conforming, and why

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00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,399
Speaker 1: they have to be an inch and a half apart um.

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00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: Does it allow you to put your hands together and

761
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: that makes it easier? I do not know. I do

762
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: not wonder. It seems meaningless and trivial on the surface.

763
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it stems from some larger issue with the putters.

764
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Speaker 1: I know that there are some putter grips that are

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Speaker 1: flatly illegal because of their shape um and the size

766
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Speaker 1: of the grip. I mean there used to be there.

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Speaker 1: There are reasons for it, and everybody has different preferences,

768
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Speaker 1: you know, the way the putter looks when you stand

769
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Speaker 1: over it, and the way it feels in your hand,

770
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Speaker 1: and how big. All of that is all personal preference.

771
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Speaker 1: But there are some guide not God, there are hard

772
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Speaker 1: and fast rules about certain things you can do with

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Speaker 1: your clubs and your putter grips and your club grips

774
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: that are just out of bounds, and there's reasons for it.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't even begin to be to say, I don't know,

776
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: but and they've probably like if it's like every other

777
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: sport evolved to the point where they are now through

778
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Speaker 1: a series of steps, and that one's to me, that

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00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: one's right up there. With pine tar. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can only have pine tar on a baseball bat up

781
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: so high on the bat. Yeah, it can't go past

782
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Speaker 1: the plate, which is about eighteen inches. Um, you know,

783
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Speaker 1: and I think I understand why that is, because if

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Speaker 1: you have pine tar way up the bat, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you make contact with the ball with pine tar, you

786
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: could argue you could pull the ball a little bit

787
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Speaker 1: better due to the stickiness and tackiness of the pine.

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Speaker 1: Well you can pint you sure, it's hard. And another

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Speaker 1: thing too, what happens if you get a patch of

790
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: pine tar on that ball? He goes to third basement,

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Speaker 1: he tries to throw it to first and because of

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Speaker 1: the sticks, it's an inaccurate it's an inaccurate throw. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I get all that. Sure, they all have

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Speaker 1: the reasons for the equipment of the week. You have

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Speaker 1: to look that one up and find out why that

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00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: one's in the rule book. But it's amazing too. I'll

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Speaker 1: give you another example. A young player was going to

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Speaker 1: qualify for another round of the US Open, and he

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Speaker 1: he hit a ball that was almost out of bounds.

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Speaker 1: And the rule says that if you're gonna hit a provisionally,

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Speaker 1: hit a provisional ball so that if you can't find

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Speaker 1: the first one, you don't have to walk all the

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Speaker 1: way back to the te box and then play your

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Speaker 1: second ball. So you hit a provisional ball to make

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Speaker 1: sure that you have one in play in case the

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Speaker 1: first one is lost. Kid does it? They go out there,

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Speaker 1: they they I don't know if they found or didn't

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00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: find his first ball, but they play the holes. And

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00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: the guy said it you lose by a stroke at

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Speaker 1: the end because when you hit your provisional ball, you

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Speaker 1: didn't announce that it was a provisional ball. So because

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Speaker 1: he didn't announce it, he didn't say, this is my

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Speaker 1: provisional ball for the one that the first one maybe lost.

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Speaker 1: This is my provisional He didn't say those words. He

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Speaker 1: just teed up hit it. Yeah, it's pretty rough, and

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00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: he and that kept him from advanced singing the US

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Speaker 1: Open qualifying more reasons than not. Particularly, Yeah, it's particularly

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Speaker 1: excruciating when that happens. All right, we have to take

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Speaker 1: a break here. When we come back, we will hope

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Speaker 1: to be bringing you a press conference where Kim and

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Speaker 1: Terry Pogoula, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Bruce Smith, Therman Thomas,

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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly on the East Side where the tragic shooting

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Speaker 1: took place over the weekend. We understand they are addressing

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Speaker 1: the media, so if and when they do, we will

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Speaker 1: bring it to you hopefully after this break. Here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. As we told you

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Speaker 1: earlier in the show, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Terry and

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Speaker 1: Kim Pogoula, along with a few Bills legends like Bruce Smith,

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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly among others, along with other Bills along and

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Speaker 1: I on the Cities east Side today to pay their

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Speaker 1: respects to the ten victims of last weekend's tragic shooting

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Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Much like the Bills players yesterday, they

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Speaker 1: laid flowers at the memorials for the victims who lost

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Speaker 1: their lives. They are addressing the media now to outline

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Speaker 1: what they are doing to support the black community directly

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Speaker 1: impacted by this hate crime and what they'll be doing

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Speaker 1: going forward. Here is Terry and Kim Pagoula. After seeing

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Speaker 1: what I've seen today, the answer that question pretty easy.

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Speaker 1: That people are. They need to be uplifted after what happened,

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Speaker 1: and our presence I think accomplished some of that, and

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Speaker 1: it was so such a joy to see that people

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Speaker 1: actually smiling and the future for me to the message

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Speaker 1: to the people is things will get better, and I

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Speaker 1: really believe that. I think a lot of them feel

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Speaker 1: or mostly feel the same way we. Obviously we've weren't

847
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo when it happened, and the fact that

848
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: you know, you're reading about it, you're seeing reading the

849
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: news scene and on TV, but then actually like we

850
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: just had to be here to actually be you know

851
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: it physically here and and then and seeing it just

852
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: it hit you really hard. Um seeing those names, seeing

853
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: the location, just a lot of things going through your mind.

854
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: So I think it was really important for us to really,

855
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: you know, help absorb some of the pain to be here. Obviously,

856
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: the bills have been very well in the savers have

857
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: been building demandings and then organizations all throughout the city.

858
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 1: What has it been like to witness the response and

859
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: given what happened a couple of days ago, Hey, It's

860
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: really impressive how the people feel energized when when the

861
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 1: guys come around, especially some of some of these guys

862
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: behind me that don't play now, but it really energized.

863
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: You could see the people smile and gives them a

864
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 1: gives them a lot of sense of accomplishment that guys

865
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: will come out and and mingle with them and try

866
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: to pick their spirits up. This is UH, this is

867
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: I might want to say, I'm not asked this question,

868
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: but I am so proud of Buffalo for the reaction

869
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: that starting with UH, the initial press conference with with UH.

870
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: The I can't the mayor, the Catholic I can't remember

871
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: the priest's name and day and Darius Pigeon. Uh. There

872
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: was it was all about prayer and love and to me,

873
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: I'm I was sitting in Florida. I had a tear

874
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 1: in my eye too to see how we started down

875
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: the path of recovery with with prayer and let's pull

876
00:52:55,719 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: together and come out of this together. What's your message

877
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 1: to the people of Buffalo and to the victims families

878
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: and what they're going back right now again? Like Terry said,

879
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: you know it the response and how we respond as

880
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: it as you know, individually, as an organization, as a team,

881
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: and as a city. Um, you know, with a lot

882
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: of national attention on us and how we respond and

883
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: just showing, really showing everyone what Buffalo is about, who

884
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: the people of Buffalo about And as we said, it's

885
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 1: about lifting each other up, it's about love, it's about

886
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, that's how we move forward. And and I'm

887
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: looks really proud that, um, everyone that we've talked to, UM,

888
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: and the people that behind us and in front of us,

889
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 1: before us, that that's that's what we're really showing, and

890
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: that's really how we got it. We moved through. It

891
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: makes makes those the people we you know, we lay

892
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:54,320
Speaker 1: flowers on, and the names and just those ten victims,

893
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: it just it makes their lives a lot more meaningful.

894
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: And we have to remember that Commissioner, Well, was it

895
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,800
Speaker 1: important for you to come here to see it and

896
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: be here for an event like this today. Well, we

897
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: believe this is our community too, and I have a

898
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 1: personal connection to the communities because it really is my home.

899
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: But I think we wanted to make sure people here

900
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: knew they weren't alone, that we were all supportive of them,

901
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: and how proud we are the way they're responding. I

902
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: think they gave me the most comfortable was talking to

903
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: the individuals. You know, we all know we have a

904
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: tragic circumstance here, ten victims, but there are a lot

905
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: of other people here really hurting, and we just want

906
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: them to know that all of us are standing behind

907
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: them and we're all going to do whatever we can

908
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: to support them. Yesterday, there was such an emphasis from

909
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean from players about how yesterday was the first

910
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: step efforts will continue to keep supporting this community. What

911
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,399
Speaker 1: does that look like from an organizational standpoint of making

912
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: sure it's not just this week, right, And I've had

913
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: a lot of conversations with some of the residents here

914
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: in the community a few minutes ago, and that was

915
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: one of the things that really resounded with them. It's just,

916
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 1: you know, what happens when after the cameras leave, what

917
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: happens when it's not you know, the new top news

918
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 1: story of the week. And that's where I said, this

919
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: is where we want to listen to them and understand

920
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 1: what the true needs are. And with the goal in

921
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: mind of sustainability, how do we, you know, how do

922
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 1: we improve upon what we're doing? What's been done. How

923
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: do we prevent things things like that's how do we

924
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: change your behavior in the mind, but in a way

925
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: that really lasts and it's meaningful. Don't have the answer. Um,

926
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 1: I just you know, I just know that that you know,

927
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna as an organization, us personally, that we're gonna

928
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: listen and and have a lot of discussions with our

929
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: community leaders, UM, with the residents, you know, with with

930
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: our own eternal staff, our players, UM to truly understand

931
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: and put together plath that's gonna that to last. Kim,

932
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: what is the slogan choose love mean to you? As

933
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,919
Speaker 1: you see how a lot of insurance? Now, Yeah, it's

934
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: it's who we are. You know, it's um, Maddie, you

935
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: know that, you know, coach, whether it's a coach of

936
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: the team, US as an organization, you know that that's

937
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 1: what we are about. And we've we've shown it in

938
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: many different ways in good times and bad. And I

939
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: think it's just it's just a reminder that that's what

940
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 1: that's who we are, and that's what we want to represent.

941
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 1: And that's so much more important than than what what

942
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: actions that we saw last Saturday. Yeah, what was your

943
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: pressing of the team yesterday coming down embracing the community

944
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: the way they did yesterday, Well, it's awesome. I think

945
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: we realized, especially the players are played back in the

946
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,919
Speaker 1: olden days that when you understand this is our city too,

947
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: and the players nowadays they've been rallying never should day

948
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,919
Speaker 1: won since. Like Josh and the guys that have been here,

949
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: I'm problem. I mean, that's who we are, That's what

950
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: the city is all about. When you're talking about bills mafia,

951
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 1: here we are. I mean, we're all part of it.

952
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,280
Speaker 1: And these guys understand that we all got pulled together.

953
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 1: Or for you to be here today, uh man, it

954
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: was um it was something that I had to do.

955
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: I had to come and pay my respects Number one,

956
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: UM to the victims of this this horrific this horrific

957
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: rampage of killing, killing innocent African Americans, just going to

958
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: the grocery store, and number two to show support for

959
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: this community. This community is here for me. Some of

960
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: my best friends, best friends, I feel like they're brothers. Uh.

961
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: Police officers, state troopers, Ary White, um uh JT and

962
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 1: so many others. Uh it. I was just compelled to

963
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 1: go to the memorial site. And I cried like a baby.

964
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: I wept, but it was it was good. I needed

965
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: to have that moment so I could start this healing process.

966
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: And to be here today passing out food and with

967
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 1: my brother Thurman and Jim and the Bugoulas and Roger

968
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: and so many of the others, and then seeing the community.

969
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: I bet you this racist did not count on this

970
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: outpouring of love that's taking place right now, the strengthening

971
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 1: of this community that's going on right now, and we're

972
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: gonna build upon that. You guys, talk to a lot

973
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: of the people outside of the tops who were helping

974
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: hand out things and just kind of mingling with people,

975
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: and they're going through a lot too. Just like you said,

976
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: it was good to be there and have that moment.

977
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,439
Speaker 1: What was it like just being able to bring joy

978
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: to so many of those people. We talked to a

979
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: bunch of people and they said, just seen your presence.

980
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: They're talking to you guys for a couple of minutes.

981
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: It took their minds off of so many horrific things. Yeah,

982
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: this is probably the first time they smiled in days.

983
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: And and seeing that energy and seeing some type of

984
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: comfort from seeing whether it's my face or Gym's face

985
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: or Thurman's face, or Ed's face or so many of

986
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: the others. That's a part of the process of healing

987
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: and moving forward. There are some other issues that need

988
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: to be addressed regarding social media and and hate and

989
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: white supremacy and so forth. But right now, we got

990
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: to heal thisss community so we can move forward and

991
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: then we can tackle these greater issues that affects all

992
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: of us. Uh. You know, it's one thing to see

993
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: a horrific event like this take place and you don't

994
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 1: have any attachment to it, But this is in our

995
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 1: front yard. This this affects people that you've grown up

996
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: with and you've known for thirty years or more. And

997
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: that's where it hurts the most. It feels like somebody

998
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 1: just just rip the insides out of you, and it

999
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 1: hurts so bad. But we will, we will make this

1000
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: community stronger, hopefully put some more smiles on these folks

1001
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: faces and spend some time with them and let them

1002
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: know that we love them. When you see the stream

1003
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: of people coming to get groceries, do you get a

1004
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 1: sense that sort of the symbolic blow that you know

1005
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 1: it happened at this grocery store that we saw in

1006
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: it grow to and important to the community. Yeah, well

1007
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: that that the question you used just said, you just

1008
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: you just hit it right on the head. This community

1009
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: is a tough nick community. I was just talking to

1010
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: one of the pastors over there, and he was telling

1011
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: stories about a friend of mine by the name of

1012
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: Larry White, who was a Buffalo police officer, who who

1013
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: died a number of years ago. And we were laughing

1014
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: and and he was telling us the stories about how

1015
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: as a teenager, Larry White used to you know, mentor

1016
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: him and and and see him standing on the corner

1017
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 1: and would say, Bore, where are you going? You know,

1018
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: pick him up and put him in his car and

1019
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: take him home and turn the lights on, and and

1020
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: his parents would come out, what do you do this time?

1021
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: And you didn't do anything wrong? But Larry was just

1022
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: trying to be that that mentor and and and and

1023
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 1: try and do the things that are right for our

1024
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: youth and so forth, and and keep him on the

1025
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: right track and the path. And now he's a minister

1026
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: today doing the same thing. He's mentoring these young kids

1027
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: and sending a positive message. But for mean, this this

1028
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: is about love. I was taught to love that neighbor,

1029
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: Love that neighbor, not hate, not going to murderous rampage

1030
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: because of the color of someone's scan. That's not what

1031
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 1: we were about. And these platforms and these people that

1032
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 1: that that that want to spew hate and and do

1033
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: things like this, there's no place for them in our society,

1034
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: let alone killing someone because of the color of their scan.

1035
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: So all right, Bruce Smith with some pretty eloquent words

1036
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: there down on the east side where the Pagoula is,

1037
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: along with Commissioner Roger Goodell, Bruce and Jim Kelly, addressing

1038
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 1: the media about the current state of affairs in our country.

1039
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: We all can clearly do better. We'll take a break here.

1040
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: When we come back, we will have NBC Sports Peter

1041
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: King to discuss NFL team valuation. We'll be right back,

1042
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 1: all right, Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown,

1043
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Time for us to turn to

1044
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: NBC Sports columnist for the NFL, Peter King, who in

1045
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 1: his Football Morning in America column talked a great deal

1046
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 1: about the Broncos being up for sale and the NFL

1047
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: team valuations which are going up and up and up.

1048
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: And up. He also had some interesting notes on the

1049
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: NFL schedule for twenty twenty two. Here's Peter. All right, Peter,

1050
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 1: you got to an awful lot of different bases in

1051
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: your most recent Football Morning in America column. The one

1052
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: that probably intrigued me the most, although there were some

1053
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: laughs with some others, including the bill schedule release video.

1054
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a little bit. But the

1055
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: NFL team of evaluation, Steve and I were having a

1056
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 1: conversation on the show last week and He's like, oh, yeah,

1057
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 1: Broncos are gonna go for like five billion. I was like,

1058
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 1: five Is it gonna go that high? Because you know,

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01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: you know, we deal with foot buffalo myopia here, and

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01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 1: you know we remember that, you know, the Pagoula has

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01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: paid one point four just eight years ago, and I'm

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01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: thinking it's almost it's tripled. What the heck happened? Well,

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01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: that's the crazy thing about what has happened. I mean,

1064
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: it's probably my guess is from people I talked to,

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01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: is that the Broncos are going to go for about

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01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: four point five million. And what has happened in recent

1067
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: years is that there's almost been a perfect storm for

1068
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: the NFL it's the only it's the only sport that

1069
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: never has any real labor issues. I mean, when you

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01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: think about it, it's been since nineteen eighty seven that

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01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,240
Speaker 1: there was a job action, a real job action that

1072
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 1: costs regular season games. And so you know, you've got

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01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 1: you've got a labor force that's always going to be

1074
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: there that you don't have to worry about. That's one thing.

1075
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: And I think the second thing is that the NFL

1076
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: has just become omnipresent on the landscape right now and

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01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: all year round. And it's a weird thing when you

1078
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 1: think about it. You know, we all kind of make

1079
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 1: fun of I certainly do you know people spending three

1080
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 1: days on the schedule release, we know who everybody is playing.

1081
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: You know, I knew probably a month ago was most

1082
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: likely that the Bills are going to open the season

1083
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 1: at the Rams. But at the end of the day,

1084
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 1: what does it all really mean? Not a lot. But

1085
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 1: the NFL has figured out a way to make everything

1086
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 1: bigger than it really is. And that's one of the

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01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: reasons why you see the Carolina Panthers sell for two

1088
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: point two seven billion in twenty eighteen, and you see,

1089
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: you know, just four plus years later, the Broncos are

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01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: going to sell for double that, So it's crazy. Nobody

1091
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: really understands it deep down, but Mark Ginnis, who is

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01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 1: very plugged in. He's a lot of people call him

1093
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 1: the NFL's thirty third owner. He deals business wise with

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01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 1: almost every owner in the league. And he had a

1095
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: great line for me. He said, there's a reason why

1096
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 1: the property are the values of franchises are going up

1097
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: the way they are, and that's because there are very

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01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 1: very rich people in this country who can afford it

1099
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: and who will pay for it. And you know, one

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01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: of the bidders for the Broncos is worth sixty eight

1101
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: billion dollars, So what does he want to do with

1102
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: his life. Well, he's aggressively trying to buy an NFL franchise,

1103
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:09,480
Speaker 1: so you know, we'll see. But those are a few

1104
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: of the things that hit me when I started looking

1105
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 1: into it, right, and that's the first thing you have

1106
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 1: to look. If it's worth four point five billion, the

1107
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 1: list gets pretty short of those people who can afford

1108
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 1: it and those people who want it. You know, there's

1109
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: a lot of things you can do with that kind

1110
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: of money other than buy a sports franchise, and there

1111
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,920
Speaker 1: is something to be said about the omnipresence of the league.

1112
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 1: Certainly everybody across the you know, across this country. You

1113
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 1: can't go a day without turning on the TV and

1114
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 1: having something on about the National Football League, no matter

1115
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: what platform you're on, and it's just omnipresent. It never

1116
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: ceases to amaze me. Chris and I sit here every

1117
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: day year round talking about a sport that goes four

1118
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: months a year, and we got no shortage of things

1119
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 1: to talk about every day. How well? I mean, think

1120
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: about this pete that there used to be Friday night

1121
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: boxing and people thought but it was just too much,

1122
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: It got too much, and it was, you know everything,

1123
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 1: there always seems to be a point where it gets

1124
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: to be too much. What will happen if the NFL

1125
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 1: gets to be too much? I don't know that it can.

1126
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 1: You know, they're smart people who look at the NFL

1127
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 1: right now, and who look at the media deals and look,

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01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:35,240
Speaker 1: forty seven of the top fifty programs on television in

1129
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one were NFL games, So you know, with

1130
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,639
Speaker 1: that being as powerful as it is, and this year,

1131
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: every NFL franchise will clear will be given checks totaling

1132
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million dollars from the NFL media deals,

1133
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:59,639
Speaker 1: and it's only going up. It's projected that by ten

1134
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: years from now that'll be about three hundred and seventy

1135
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:10,960
Speaker 1: five million. So you know, there isn't really away. I mean,

1136
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 1: here's the crazy thing. Okay, So I've written about this

1137
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 1: a few times, but I want you to think about

1138
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 1: this is one example. So the NFL and Amazon, which

1139
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 1: is going to do Thursday night football, They're gonna do

1140
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: streaming this year and see how that works. But the

1141
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:39,759
Speaker 1: NFL and Amazon were discussing playing a game on Black Friday,

1142
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 1: which the NFL never has. They've always given the day

1143
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving to two things, shopping in college football, that's it.

1144
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:54,920
Speaker 1: So the NFL basically said, we'll wait a second, what

1145
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:57,720
Speaker 1: if we put a game on in the middle of

1146
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 1: the day, especially with Amazon, which that's honestly Black Friday

1147
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:10,760
Speaker 1: is Amazon Prime Super Bowl. Yeah, so they became very

1148
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: very close to doing it. But the reason they didn't

1149
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:17,640
Speaker 1: do it, quite honestly, is because on that Friday afternoon

1150
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 1: at two pm, there's a World Cup soccer game between

1151
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: England and the United States that'll have an audience of

1152
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:28,840
Speaker 1: twenty five million or so. The last thing the NFL

1153
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: wants to do is to put a game like that on,

1154
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 1: have a small audience, and kind of anger Fox in

1155
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 1: the process because they'd be taking away viewers from Fox's

1156
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 1: telecast of the World Cup. So but next year, there's

1157
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: going to be a game on Black Friday. You can

1158
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 1: bank on it. And I have heard that Amazon is

1159
01:10:56,720 --> 01:11:00,240
Speaker 1: going to be willing to pay as much for that

1160
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 1: single game on that day as ESPN and NBC paid

1161
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: this year for Wildcard playoff games. Uh, that's how lunatic

1162
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 1: this whole thing is. Had I had one more question

1163
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: on the NFL team valuation before we move on to

1164
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:21,240
Speaker 1: some other things. But you know the Broncos and what

1165
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:25,439
Speaker 1: we're hearing and seeing reports on among You know that

1166
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:29,480
Speaker 1: the league wants to stick the landing here and possibly

1167
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 1: improving the diversity of the ownership contingent. You know Magic

1168
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:39,759
Speaker 1: Johnson is part of a potential bidder in the process.

1169
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: But you also hear stuff like the air of the

1170
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:46,600
Speaker 1: Walmart Fortune wants to buy not only the Broncos, but

1171
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 1: build a brand spanking new stadium that rivals so far

1172
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 1: that Perk's ears up of owners. Does it not, so

1173
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 1: how do they how do they stick the landing on this.

1174
01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: There's no question the NFL would really like either a

1175
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:09,720
Speaker 1: black majority owner or a you know, a black minority

1176
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 1: owner in one of these groups to win. And we'll

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01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 1: see what they do. But usually at times like this,

1178
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 1: the NFL always follows the money. So I think you're

1179
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 1: talking about one of the Waltons now who's in the

1180
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 1: bidding for the team. He's the one who's worth sixty

1181
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 1: eight billion dollars. So you have to ask yourself if

1182
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 1: you're an owner in the NFL, yes, we do want

1183
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:46,719
Speaker 1: to get diversity in our ranks, but we also want

1184
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:50,759
Speaker 1: one of the richest men on the planet and certainly

1185
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 1: one of the six or eight richest men in the

1186
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:56,800
Speaker 1: United States. We'd love to have him in our little

1187
01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:01,160
Speaker 1: boys club. So we'll see what happens, Chris, But usually

1188
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 1: the NFL takes the most money. And what else has

1189
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: grabbed you this last thing with the schedule release the bills,

1190
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 1: We're sitting here at one Bill's Drive and we're having

1191
01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:15,640
Speaker 1: this conversation about how are we concerned that we're so

1192
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:17,840
Speaker 1: much a favorite to you know, to do so well

1193
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 1: this year, maybe even win the whole thing. It's it's

1194
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: a place that Bills fans haven't been for a long

1195
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:26,800
Speaker 1: long time. And as you look around the league, though, yeah,

1196
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: they are sitting in a pretty good spot. And what

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01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: do you make of the Bills being the favorite to

1198
01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl? How that goes the schedule release,

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01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:38,760
Speaker 1: you know, and everything else. That's this week's story in

1200
01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:42,799
Speaker 1: the NFL. You know, when I looked at the schedule,

1201
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 1: the first thing I thought of was, this is the

1202
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 1: lot of the Buffalo Bills now. The first game is

1203
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 1: the first game of the season, the nationally televised game

1204
01:13:57,360 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: obviously on Thursday night that the NFL wants to get

1205
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 1: a huge rating in and it comes against the Super

1206
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:11,559
Speaker 1: Bowl champion. The second game is a home opener, also

1207
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 1: on national television, you know, on Monday Night football on

1208
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: National TV. And in this game they're playing the the

1209
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:28,280
Speaker 1: number one seed in the AFC last year. So you know,

1210
01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: that basically is what the lot of the Buffalo Bills

1211
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: is right now. And and look, you know, nobody's gonna

1212
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 1: feel sorry for him in any way, and who you know,

1213
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 1: they could have the best record in football this year,

1214
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a challenge almost every step

1215
01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 1: of the way, not only with a difficult schedule in

1216
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: terms of the opponents on there, but there's also a

1217
01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: bunch of difficult little little things that you see. I mean,

1218
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: number one, short week road game early on Thursday on Thanksgiving,

1219
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:13,919
Speaker 1: and hey, you know, throw a parade. It's against the Lions.

1220
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:18,080
Speaker 1: But still having said that, it's a it's still a

1221
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 1: you know, a short week road game, and you know

1222
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 1: at a time of the season when you've got a

1223
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: lot of players licking their wounds. After that, you know

1224
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 1: you've got you know, the dreaded arch rival Patriots twice

1225
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:40,760
Speaker 1: in the last month plus of the season, starting on

1226
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:44,240
Speaker 1: December first. So this is this is going to be

1227
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: a tough schedule. You knew that when you saw the

1228
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:52,640
Speaker 1: opponents on it. But it's also a schedule that I

1229
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 1: think the NFL essentially has looked now looks at the

1230
01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills as one of the four or five or

1231
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 1: six teams that they wanted to feature more than any

1232
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 1: teams in the league. I know that you went into

1233
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 1: a very detailed description of how the Chargers schedule release

1234
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: video came to be, and they did a fantastic job.

1235
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:21,880
Speaker 1: And that's like a professional anime production house that kind

1236
01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 1: of weaved all that together. And it's the Chargers in

1237
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:25,960
Speaker 1: house staff, which was amazing and they did a great

1238
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 1: job and I'll be the first to salute them. You

1239
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:29,920
Speaker 1: did tip your hat a little bit to the bill

1240
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: schedule release video, which you know, it's not easy to

1241
01:16:33,160 --> 01:16:38,559
Speaker 1: get the franchise quarterback of your team to participate, let

1242
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 1: alone a handful of other players. What appealed to you

1243
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: the most just the fact that there was zero rhyme

1244
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: or reason to any of it. I just love the

1245
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 1: fact that the video in essence poked fun at everything

1246
01:16:55,080 --> 01:17:00,439
Speaker 1: about all of these videos. And I think when when

1247
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 1: you look at what exactly happened in this video, the

1248
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 1: thing that appealed to me the most is that, you know,

1249
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen just shows up at the end of this

1250
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 1: of all these players just doing normal things, Dawson Knox

1251
01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: eating Buffalo wings and Isaiah McKenzie doing whatever he's doing,

1252
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen comes in on this weird little what

1253
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:35,080
Speaker 1: looked to me like a little toy sheep dog or something,

1254
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 1: and he enters the room and he goes, what does

1255
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,840
Speaker 1: it all mean? Well, let me break it down for you.

1256
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing, and here's our schedule. And the last scene

1257
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 1: of the deal is putting the schedule up. And I

1258
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 1: loved it because all of these schedule videos, you know,

1259
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to say they take themselves so seriously,

1260
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: but looking how much time and I assume some money

1261
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:09,360
Speaker 1: is spent on getting Peyton Manning and Russell Wilson in

1262
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: Denver and all this stuff. It's just and by Josh

1263
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 1: Allen being there and this big stars saying this all

1264
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 1: doesn't mean crap. You know, I got a great kick

1265
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 1: out of it. Yeah, it was pretty good. I know that.

1266
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 1: You know, you kind of go through the schedule with

1267
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 1: a fine tooth comb. And I've just got to say,

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Speaker 1: from our perspective, when the Bills have five standalone games

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Speaker 1: in prime time and then another one on Thanksgiving, as

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Speaker 1: you already mentioned, that can be pretty tricky for teams

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Speaker 1: getting the proper rest. And I know you dive into

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Speaker 1: that a lot with your column every time the schedule

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Speaker 1: comes out. And I know there's a couple of teams

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Speaker 1: that are a little bit behind the eight ball, Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: I believe, if I remember right as one of those teams.

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Speaker 1: But the Bills really only have that one game on

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01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:05,599
Speaker 1: short rest being the Thanksgiving game, because even that division

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01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots next week, you still have a

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Speaker 1: week before you play them in the Thursday Amazon games.

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Speaker 1: So I think the league did an awful lot of

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Speaker 1: favors to the Bills, including three division games at home

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Speaker 1: the last five weeks of the season. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: one of the things that that if I were the Bills,

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Speaker 1: one of the things I would like about this schedule

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Speaker 1: is that you know the Bills in really if you

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Speaker 1: look at and I might be coming up wrong on this,

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Speaker 1: but you guys will correct me. The last six games

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Speaker 1: of the season all are likely in potentially in clement weather,

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Speaker 1: and including all three division games now Jets and the Patriots,

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01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: big deal. But if I'm the Bills, every year that

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Speaker 1: I see Miami on the schedule after say December tenth,

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Speaker 1: I love it because if you see Miami on the schedule,

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Speaker 1: then just think of the last few times Miami has

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Speaker 1: come to Western New York in cold weather. It has

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01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 1: not been pretty for the Dolphins, and and so and

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Speaker 1: the other. The other part of this schedule that I

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Speaker 1: think is really kind of cool is how when you

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Speaker 1: look at I mean, if if if I were to

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Speaker 1: look at this schedule kind of logically, I would see

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Speaker 1: three very physical games in a row, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and

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01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:47,920
Speaker 1: Kansas City on the road, you know, in a in

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01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:53,640
Speaker 1: a nationally televised doubleheader game, then the bye week, and

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01:20:53,880 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 1: then you know, home against Green Bay on Sunday night football.

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01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 1: I think the bye week, even though it's a little

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01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,759
Speaker 1: early and might be a little earlier than they preferred,

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01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: the bye week comes after physical games and before a

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01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:15,080
Speaker 1: game that will be one of the hardest games of

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01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:20,160
Speaker 1: the year. So I would agree with you that, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you look at it, they don't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of disadvantages as far as you know, the short weeks

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Speaker 1: and all that go. And look, I'll say one other

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Speaker 1: thing I have always thought, and I think about it

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01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:39,720
Speaker 1: now more than ever, that playing the first game of

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Speaker 1: the season on Thursday night is a tremendous advantage to

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01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:49,360
Speaker 1: the two teams that play it. Why because you're coming

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01:21:49,439 --> 01:21:52,240
Speaker 1: off the final week of the preseason when there are

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01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 1: no games, So you're coming off a basically a bye

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01:21:56,920 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: week at the end of training camp anyway. And look,

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01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 1: most players are not going to play in that game anyway,

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01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:07,720
Speaker 1: but you're coming off that bye week and then what

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01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:11,479
Speaker 1: they do is they you play a little bit earlier

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01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: than everybody else, but then you've got eleven days before

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01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:19,640
Speaker 1: the next game. And it's just to me, it's a

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01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: huge advantage in terms of rest for the first part

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01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:29,280
Speaker 1: of the schedule of your season. And so that to me,

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01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:31,800
Speaker 1: when I look at the Bills, I think it's a

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01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: huge advantage to play that first game of the year,

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01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:38,280
Speaker 1: even though it's gonna be tough and look win or lose.

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01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a weird thing that I just

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01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: don't think it's that big a deal. The Bills are

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01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:47,400
Speaker 1: going to be really, really good, and whatever happens in

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01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 1: arguably your toughest game of the year at the Super

1333
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 1: Bowl Champs opening day, you know, the Super Bowl Champs

1334
01:22:56,479 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: all REVVD up, high powered offense, blah blah blah. You know,

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01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 1: even if you lose that game, I almost shrug my shoulders.

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01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:08,519
Speaker 1: You know, they're still gonna win the division and they

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01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: still have a good chance at winning home field. So

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Speaker 1: I think looking at their schedule, there's a lot of

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01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:18,559
Speaker 1: good little easter eggs in there. Yeah. I mean, that's

1340
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:20,240
Speaker 1: their longest road trip of the season. They get it

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01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:21,680
Speaker 1: out of the way in the first week and they

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01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 1: have nine days of rest before they have to play

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01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 1: on a Monday night at home. Yeah it's great. Yeah, yeah, Pete.

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Speaker 1: Last one I've got for you a little bit more

1345
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:30,680
Speaker 1: about the schedule. How long will it be? And we've

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Speaker 1: talked about it at length about you know, the seventeen

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01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 1: game schedule. I mean, it's a little bit quirky. Sooner

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01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: or later the eighteenth game will come in. It'll drop

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01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 1: to two preseason games. What is the next and aside

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01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 1: from that, what is the next big flex? You mentioned

1351
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:50,439
Speaker 1: Black Friday. The league's can probably expand into that finger

1352
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 1: quote holiday to put a game in there. What's the

1353
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,920
Speaker 1: next big flex for the league schedule wise? I mean,

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01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: the eighteen game seems inevitable to me and maybe some others.

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01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:04,800
Speaker 1: Eighteen games might be inevitable, but it's not coming anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: And I get in this argument with Mike Florio all

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01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:13,680
Speaker 1: the time about eighteen games. If I were whoever is

1358
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 1: running the NFLPA at the time, if I were them,

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01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: this would be my beachhead. No eighteenth game will strike

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01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 1: rather than giving in eighteenth game. And what has happened

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01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:28,719
Speaker 1: in the past is that because players are not willing

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01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 1: to go on strike. Then they usually give in and

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01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: give in to things like a seventeenth game. I just

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Speaker 1: I think it's a league that talks about injury protection

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01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 1: all the time. To be thinking about an eighteenth game

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01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:50,679
Speaker 1: is absolutely absurd. But I'll tell you what I think

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01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 1: is one of the next big things because now that

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Speaker 1: streaming is happening, and there's gonna be a lot of

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01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 1: people in every audience who we're going to say, I'm

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01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 1: not getting Amazon Prime, I'm not paying whatever it is,

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01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:08,840
Speaker 1: nine or ten bucks a month. I'm just not doing it.

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Speaker 1: And I understand that, and good for you. If you

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01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:16,920
Speaker 1: won't do it, that's fine. But the NFL has got

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01:25:17,040 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: to start looking at how young people today watch television.

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Speaker 1: I've got two daughters. They're both in their thirties. They

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01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:30,200
Speaker 1: haven't at cable for years. They watch television a different

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01:25:30,240 --> 01:25:33,680
Speaker 1: way than I do. I have a cable package. I

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01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:36,479
Speaker 1: keep wondering why do I pay so much for cable

1379
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:39,360
Speaker 1: TV when I don't watch it very much? So that

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Speaker 1: might change in the near future. So that's one thing.

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Speaker 1: I think streaming is here to stay. The other thing,

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01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 1: and I wrote about this a little bit, I think

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01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 1: we are going to see the advent of the nine

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01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: thirty am window get better and better and better. And

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01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 1: this year alone, in the nine thirty am window, you've

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01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:07,719
Speaker 1: got one very good game New Orleans against Minnesota. That's

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01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 1: a you know, a primetime quality game. So that's one

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01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:18,919
Speaker 1: of the games. You've got Tom Brady playing in Germany

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01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 1: in the first game ever in that country. And then

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01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:25,879
Speaker 1: you've got Aaron Rodgers with the first Green Bay Packers

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01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:30,760
Speaker 1: game ever overseas, playing in London. All those games nine

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01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:35,679
Speaker 1: thirty am Eastern, and I'm telling you the NFL wants

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01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 1: to establish a beachhead for at least three or four

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01:26:41,560 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 1: very big games every year in that window, to try

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01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:51,439
Speaker 1: to make that another window that people will say, oh,

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01:26:52,120 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 1: these four or five six games a year or whatever.

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01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:56,759
Speaker 1: It ends up. I got to get up really early

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01:26:56,840 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 1: and I got to watch football, So I think you're

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01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 1: going to see that grow in popularity as well. Yeah,

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01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:05,920
Speaker 1: and the Bills are likely to be in that nine

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01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,720
Speaker 1: thirty slot next year because next year will mark the

1402
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:11,519
Speaker 1: eighth year you have to travel over for one overseas

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01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: game once every eight years. The Bills will be at

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01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 1: that mark in twenty twenty three, so they will have

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01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:19,280
Speaker 1: an international game next year. Peter, thanks for the time.

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Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate the insight and the overview of

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01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 1: the NFL that you provide. Thanks much. We'll catch up

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Speaker 1: with you soon. Hey, thanks a lot for having me. Guys,

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01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:30,479
Speaker 1: have a great day. Take care now. All right, that's

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01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:33,559
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Peter King joining us. We'll take a break.

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01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:35,560
Speaker 1: Steven I had a close up shop next here on

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01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:51,000
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live stay tuned, so we've only seen salvo

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01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:54,679
Speaker 1: one and salvo two between Jimbo Fisher and Nick Saban

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01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,840
Speaker 1: on the College Landscape A and m A. D Ross b.

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01:27:57,880 --> 01:28:01,439
Speaker 1: York tells SI Now that Nick Saban's comments violate SEC

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01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: sportsmanship by laws, and he's been in contact with the

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01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:09,200
Speaker 1: SEC Commissioner, Greg Sankey about it. He calls the comments

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01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 1: a personal attack. Meanwhile, and the best tweet of the day,

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01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:19,479
Speaker 1: somebody tweets the SEC has sportsmanship by laws and Rule ten,

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01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:22,880
Speaker 1: Section five, Paragraph two. Coaches and administrators shall refrain from

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01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:26,519
Speaker 1: public criticism of member institutions, their staffs, or players. Coaches

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01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 1: and administrators shall also refrain from making public statements and

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01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: accusations with regard to infractions concerning member institutions and their personnel.

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01:28:35,840 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 1: Sounds like a violation to me. We'll see you tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at one