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Speaker 1: Sex done Dot at all time. Here we go a

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Speaker 1: little Tuesday one Bill's Live on Tuesday. We're presented by

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Speaker 1: Klaida Health. We are radio only again today. John Murphy

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Speaker 1: at home, Steve Tasker at home, our producer Jay Harris

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Speaker 1: at home. Good afternoon, Fellas, Get afternoon, Steve brand new microphone. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's solid, Steve. That is we'll see if it works.

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Speaker 1: You look like a nineteen thirty four announcer on a

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Speaker 1: radio shows. It finally happened, Murph. I woke up this

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Speaker 1: morning and I could not remember what day it was.

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Speaker 1: Not even sitting there and thinking for a minute, I couldn't.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was Tuesday or Wednesday. I couldn't remember

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Speaker 1: which day it was, And uh, I just decided I would.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna. I didn't want to know until it

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Speaker 1: was actually told to me. So here you go. You

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Speaker 1: just told me it was too I did not know

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Speaker 1: what day it was. It's happened. I'm around the bend.

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Speaker 1: I did really get that. On Saturdays after a week

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Speaker 1: and what is today? What do I do today? Oh?

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Speaker 1: The same thing I did yesterday. I got you, Steve

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Speaker 1: that new microphone. Wow, that's impressive. A couple of nice

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Speaker 1: knobs On't you look like HB. Calton Born ready to

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Speaker 1: deliver the new You look like everarddar Morrow and lod

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Speaker 1: It's big man. Just say this is London for him?

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Speaker 1: Can I pop on the mic? Like? Yeah, you can't.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to do that. But you want to

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Speaker 1: do that? Is that a bad thing? Say this is London?

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Speaker 1: This is London. Oh man, you can go to work

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Speaker 1: right now. For CBS. That was great. How does my

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Speaker 1: mic sound the same? You're fine? Your mic sounds fine.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, I figured we're doing a radio show.

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Speaker 1: We got to sound good, right, So I've been working.

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Speaker 1: I was like, nah, I'm just gonna And then this

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Speaker 1: is thanks to our friends at Buffalo Advertising and uh,

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Speaker 1: they wanted it to sound nice and week and I

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Speaker 1: us studio quality. While I'm sitting in my office, so

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Speaker 1: I have Mike envy. I wish my big I'm kind

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Speaker 1: I do feel a little superior this. Maybe there's some

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Speaker 1: exer stays that I can do to make my mic bigger. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Your new Mike will be delivered in them Mike envy.

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Speaker 1: I've always wanted a big Mike. The girls like big

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Speaker 1: Mike phones. That's true. My wife was impressed with this

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Speaker 1: It's quite sizeable. Welcome, we should we should get on

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Speaker 1: with our day. I can't get over your microphone. I'm

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Speaker 1: to mute your picture. It's so big. It's great. It is.

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Speaker 1: It looks it wags a ton too, so like it's

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Speaker 1: It makes me feel so adding. It's a beautiful mic.

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Speaker 1: of topics. One is the schedule. NFL has announced that

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's website and on social media, and we

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Speaker 1: can speculate all we want. We know where they're playing,

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Speaker 1: The road games great? And of course the three division

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Speaker 1: go to Arizona, great time, great trip to the desert, Denver,

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Speaker 1: game if they send me. I have never been to Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Never been to Vegas. You and I are maybe the

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Speaker 1: to Vegas. Yeah. I've never felt cheated out of that either.

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Speaker 1: but we'll find out. Thursday, Thursday nine, seven thirty on

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Speaker 1: a measure of a team's relevance, how many primetime games

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Speaker 1: they get. They had no primetime games on the schedule

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Speaker 1: last year. They had the one game in Dallas Thanksgiving Day,

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Speaker 1: none last year. Zero, having made the playoffs two of

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Speaker 1: not like primetime games. I don't know the coaches like

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Speaker 1: Two is what you're looking for? Two primetime games on

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Speaker 1: two thirty, we'll talk any with Bill's cornerback, Levi Wallace.

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Speaker 1: He's got a fundraiser going on and he's raising money

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Speaker 1: by virtue of a Fortnite. You play Fortnite, Steve, I

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Speaker 1: do not. I do not. I do not myself, but

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Speaker 1: he's got a way that you can watch Tea and

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Speaker 1: a couple of teammates play Fortnite and raise money for

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Speaker 1: any Fortnite lessons from Levi Wallace. I don't really want

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Speaker 1: to know how to play Fortnite, but we do got

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Speaker 1: to get into the game a little bit, right. We

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Speaker 1: do got to figure out how he's going to raise

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Speaker 1: the money. He's got a game resversus Cancer, streaming his

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Speaker 1: Fortnite game with a couple of teammates, Jordan Poyer as

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Speaker 1: one of them. He's doing it today at three o'clock,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer and Jaquan Johnson a five hour long live

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Speaker 1: it seems to be a good way to provide spiritual report.

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Speaker 1: Some money being raised to go to the American Cancer

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Speaker 1: Bills starting corner, got some other stuff to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Two of the Bills drafting a corner. The guy we

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Speaker 1: coming up around two thirty today. Yeah, that'll be good.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's interesting. I'm gonna mention this to Levi

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Speaker 1: for charity, streaming his video game. Um, that was a

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Speaker 1: great idea. I mean, these guys, it's their hobbies something.

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Speaker 1: A lot of these guys use their free time to

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Speaker 1: Even now they're doing most of their learning on on

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Speaker 1: to raise money. That's yeah, everybody can do something, and

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Speaker 1: that's a it's a great way to just say hey,

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Speaker 1: I can do this, let's raise some money with it.

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Speaker 1: And Levi Wallace is gonna do it good for him,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's I think it's a marble, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's a you know, it's a signal to

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Speaker 1: all of us that maybe we could all do something

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Speaker 1: to help out everybody who's less fortunate than ourselves in

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Speaker 1: these times. Levi Wallace coming up around two thirty today

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Speaker 1: just before his Fortnite game with Jordan Poyer and Jaklon Johnson.

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Speaker 1: That'll be fun. That's the lineup for guests on our

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Speaker 1: show Today News. Not a whole lot. The New York

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Speaker 1: Jets have signed running back Frank Gore to a one

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Speaker 1: year deal, so the Bills are going to go up

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Speaker 1: against their former power running back Frank Gore. The Bills

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Speaker 1: upgrade essentially trading Uh, you know their draft pick for

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Speaker 1: Frank Gore? Did they upgrade? And you think, Steve, I

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Speaker 1: think I think they're gonna get more. But do think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get it more from the running game this

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Speaker 1: year because I don't think Frank Gore is the season

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Speaker 1: went along, had a lot to offer the Bills last year.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? I think you're probably right, but

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Speaker 1: we gotta see. We'll see. We haven't we haven't seen

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Speaker 1: Zach Moss run the football. Yet there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of things have to happen before they get

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Speaker 1: to that point. But certainly Frank Gore was a welcome

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Speaker 1: to addition. He helped us early in the season. We

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Speaker 1: Frank was a big part of that, particularly when Devin

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Speaker 1: Singletary was injured. So Frank Gore helped the Bills a

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Speaker 1: lot in a season where they made a big step

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Speaker 1: forward and got to the playoffs. Now he did fade

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Speaker 1: at the end, but Devin Singletary was healthy by then

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Speaker 1: and they had a running game that was that was effective.

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Speaker 1: So I'm yeah, Frank Gore was was a helpful player

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills. He was only here for one year,

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Speaker 1: but certainly he served the purpose that the Bills wanted

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Speaker 1: him to serve. And I think it's all reserve judgment

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Speaker 1: about how good the running game will be with or

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Speaker 1: without Frank Gore, and with Zach Moss instead, I would

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna get better. Zack Moss got a lot

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Speaker 1: took You've got fresher legs for sure, but we'll have

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Speaker 1: to see. I'm certain it's gonna get better. I'm certain

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get better. In fact, Mel Kuyper, coming up

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock, says Moss will be an instant impact

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Speaker 1: on the Bills run game. He talks about how the

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Speaker 1: Bills can use them near the goal line. Now, I

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Speaker 1: think if you're waking up in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: night and asking Bill's brain trust about Frank Gore last year,

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Speaker 1: they'd be just a slight disappointment. Yes he was a

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Speaker 1: good leader, Yes he helped out Devin Singletary. Yes he

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Speaker 1: was a rallying point for the team. But they didn't

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Speaker 1: I don't think they got the kind of production they

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Speaker 1: were looking for from Frank Gorelan Now, I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's a question, but I'll say this, Frank Gore showed

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Speaker 1: up every single week he was available, and that's the

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Speaker 1: best ability that player has. And Zack Moss needs to

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Speaker 1: do that. He's got to show up, and he's got

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Speaker 1: to be in shape. He's got to handle this off

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Speaker 1: season as difficult as it has been. And maybe I'm

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Speaker 1: coming off like an old player. Let's see what he

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Speaker 1: can do. He's got to prove it to me in

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Speaker 1: training camp and on the field, and he's got to

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Speaker 1: show up every week. That's what Frank Gore did. Now

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Speaker 1: you can say, hey, he wasn't a good runner in

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Speaker 1: the second half of the season all that, but he

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Speaker 1: was dependable and he didn't make his own yards, no question,

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Speaker 1: And there were probably a ton of better running backs

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Speaker 1: at that point of his career. But the guy was available.

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Speaker 1: And I want and I want Zach Moss and Devin

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Speaker 1: Singletary to line up for sixteen games this year. If

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Speaker 1: that happens, there is no doubt the Bills running game

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Speaker 1: is gonna be much much better and much more difficult

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Speaker 1: to defend. You sound skeptical pro Football's hard man. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not counting anything. I mean it's those guys. They

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Speaker 1: take a pounding, they take a beating. I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to get get their healthy and let's see let's line.

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Speaker 1: I am excited to see him line up though. Those

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna be able to play. I think Zach

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Speaker 1: Moss can go, and I think Devin Singletary is gonna

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Speaker 1: be really much better than he was a year ago.

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Speaker 1: I think the potential is always there for that, and

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see it. Happen, But I believe it

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Speaker 1: when I do see it, all right, I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. Frank or I don't know if if the

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Speaker 1: Bills will worry too much about Frank Gore signing that

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Speaker 1: one year deal with the Jets. But we'll see, all right.

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Speaker 1: Our twitter pull today and we need your response on

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Speaker 1: the telephone lines. The schedule comes out Thursday. How many

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Speaker 1: prime time games do you want to see for the Bills? One, two,

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Speaker 1: three or more? You want to see? Which nights you

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Speaker 1: want to see them on? Do you want them home?

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Speaker 1: We're away. All of that up for discussion today. Give

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Speaker 1: us a call eight oh three five fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: five fifty. We'll get to the tweet cheap. Maybe get

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Speaker 1: to your calls when we returned. It's one Bill's Line

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Speaker 1: joining us at one o'clock, Pete Prisco from CBS Sports

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Speaker 1: at two. Bill's cornerback. Levi Wallace going to join us

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Speaker 1: at around two thirty or so, John Murphy Steven Tasker

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Speaker 1: talking about the release of the schedule coming up Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how serious to take the schedule release

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Speaker 1: this year, Steve. It's I know, the NFL keeps saying

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Speaker 1: we're gonna play sixteen games, gonna do it in seventeen weeks.

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Speaker 1: They've said it over and over and over again. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I'm buying it yet, not that they're

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Speaker 1: they're acting with any deceit, but I just don't know

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Speaker 1: that that's realistic from everything I've read, you know, And

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Speaker 1: I don't think, yeah, they don't know either. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we just I think all of us believe there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be some adjustments made. How how great they are, how

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Speaker 1: drastic they are, nobody knows. But I just don't think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna go off without a hitch, you know. I

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Speaker 1: just don't think they're gonna show up in in August

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Speaker 1: or July, have training camp, go to the season, open

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Speaker 1: it up, you know, sell tickets, turn to loot. I

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Speaker 1: don't stilln't think that everything's gonna be opened up that much.

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Speaker 1: Yet it doesn't look like it. And so I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking the schedule with a grain of salt. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be looking for ways that they're when this comes

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Speaker 1: out them and say, Okay, what if they to lop

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Speaker 1: off the first two games of the season, what's that

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Speaker 1: look like? You know what if they lop off the

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Speaker 1: first four games of the season, what's that look like? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. We don't know what the landscape's gonna

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Speaker 1: look like in three months, and I have my doubts

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Speaker 1: as to whether everything's going to be totally back open yet.

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Speaker 1: The league schedule comes out Thursday night. How many primetime

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Speaker 1: games do you want for the Bills? What would you

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Speaker 1: five fifty phones open right now, Steve, did you see

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Speaker 1: the reports about the Miami Dolphins and the hard Rock Stadium?

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Speaker 1: Their team CEO Tom Garfinkel went on Good Morning America

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Speaker 1: yesterday and talked about a couple of the plans that

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Speaker 1: a league plan. They're talking about very derival times. They're

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Speaker 1: talking about exiting the stadium row by row after the game,

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Speaker 1: ordering food, pickups from the stands, and cutting down on

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Speaker 1: the tendencies are all some of the plans for social distancing.

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Speaker 1: Hard Rock Stadium can old sixty five thousand, and this

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Speaker 1: guy Garfinkel, CEO of the Dolphins, that it might be

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Speaker 1: close a fifteen thousand fan maximum the season to keep

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Speaker 1: Sometimes last year at the end of some of those

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Speaker 1: seventy three thousand seat place like Buffalo might go to

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Speaker 1: what ten to fifteen thousand, that'd be The interesting thing

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Speaker 1: one o'clock kickoff, what if you got your ticket or

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Speaker 1: what if they notified everybody with the ticket you need

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Speaker 1: to be here at eleven forty five, and then you

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Speaker 1: to avoid that crush of fans at the gates, right,

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Speaker 1: You're trying to have social distancing. You don't want everybody

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Speaker 1: like that being implemented. Yeah, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: An hour maybe an hour and a half. Yeah, entertain

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Speaker 1: That's crazy talk. You could not if it's costed your money.

636
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: Why would you do? Would you rather have six jugglers

637
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: or have six people paid to buy a ticket? Yeah?

638
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I mean, he's I don't

639
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: know what you're saying. Why not jugglers musicians? Something? I

640
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: mean I can see like a mini concert out of

641
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: the field during warmups. If you're getting fans in there

642
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: an hour and a half before you're certainly going to

643
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: have the space in the stands to put them. You

644
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: could put them on in the stand musicians in the stands.

645
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: Uh exiting the stadium. They're talking about you know you're

646
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: in charted waters, Murph, you're in section three. You wait

647
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: until that sex and has called to leave, so everybody's

648
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: not congregating on their way out of the stadium. This

649
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: is what the Dolphins are talking about doing. You know,

650
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: you wait, what are you laughing about it? I can

651
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: see how that would be put in place. It's crazy talk.

652
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: Why do that? Why wouldn't they do that? Come on,

653
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: why wouldn't they do that? What's so crazy about it?

654
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense they will. I think I

655
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: think it's a financial loser. For one, they tell people,

656
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: you sit in your section until we dismiss you from

657
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: the game. Twenty five thousand people in the stadium, and

658
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna spend the money for fifty thousand tickets to

659
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: entertain them and to make sure that they can't do

660
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: it this or you know, you're going to spend more

661
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: money on entertaining twenty five thousand people then you'll spend

662
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: on just on selling the tickets. Why don't you just

663
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: leave the stadium empty? Steve money Is I'm not gonna

664
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: say it's not an issue, but it's the NFL. They

665
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: can take a hit. Maybe, Look, we already know, we've

666
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: talked about it. What fifteen percent of league revenue, The

667
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: team's revenue comes from ticket sales, so that will be

668
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: the hit fifteen percent. Maybe that goes down to ten

669
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: percent and they can spend some money with a band

670
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: or something or some kind of entertainment. And what about

671
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: dismissing fans row by row, section by section, various like

672
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: a wedding. Yeah, exactly, wait until your section is called

673
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: you laugh. I can see it being done. How about

674
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: no more fans get well, yeah, the Dolphins about see it. Yeah,

675
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 1: you've got to believe every team's talked about it right

676
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: around the league. The Dolphins kind of leaked it out

677
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: on Good Morning in America yesterday. How about concessions, food pickups?

678
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: You order from your seat, You don't get up and

679
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: stand in the concourse to get your food. I mean

680
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: some sections to the stadium do that already, but they

681
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: might have to do that on a stadium wide basis.

682
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: That's what the Dolphins are talking about at hard Rock Stadium,

683
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: I will see be different. I will say this though, Murke,

684
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: and think about this. The secondary market to be one

685
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: of the twenty five thousand fans who can get in

686
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: well will skyrocket. And I know that there will be

687
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: there will be a number of Bills fans and a

688
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: whole demographic of Bills fans that will wear it as

689
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: a badge of honor that they were one of the

690
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand people. They'll keep their ticket, they'll want

691
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: to be there, they'll tailgate, they'll do everything they can

692
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: to be one of those twenty five thousand people who

693
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: are actually in the stadium for the game. That the

694
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: secondary market for those tickets will will skyrocket. To be

695
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: one of those people in there, I'll say that, what

696
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: do you do with tailgating? Do you and force social

697
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: distancing outside? I mean that's a big part of the

698
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills explore. You're gonna have to people want a

699
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,439
Speaker 1: gun together and hang out with their buddies and throw

700
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: football around and grow food and drink beer out on

701
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: the parking lot. I think you have to you have

702
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: to do something with that. You can't just let people

703
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: go crazy. Well, that's the crazy. But you can't crazy

704
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: with it finger quotes crazy right, Think about this, though,

705
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna that's where you're gonna have to spend a

706
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: ton of money on on what more people to go

707
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: out and make sure that people are standing six feet

708
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: apart while they party. That you know that takes away

709
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: from your bottom line. Well, why would you spend the

710
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: money on that? Because you might might not just want

711
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: to just wipe it all out and not spend any

712
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: money and what and not have fans at all? What

713
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: you're saying, because you're still gonna have you don't have

714
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: to have stadium mushers, you won't have to have security,

715
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: you won't have to have you won't have to have

716
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: insurance for fans, you know all that stuff. I mean,

717
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: think about it. You'd save a ton of overhead just

718
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: by emptying out the stadium. Now you're not gonna have

719
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: the ticket sales, I get it. But and you're not

720
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: gonna have the atmosphere that looks okay, even with reduced

721
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: fans would look better on TV than with no fans

722
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: and an empty stadium, wouldn't it. I'd be listen, it'd

723
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: be more compelling viewing if it was absolutely silent and vacant. Disagree.

724
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: Look like a scrimmage. It would look like a practice scrimmage.

725
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: It'd be hard to convince you're gonna look, it's gonna

726
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 1: work like that anyway. I mean, you think five thousand

727
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 1: people better than none spread out? They're not even gonna

728
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: make noise, don't make as much noise as twenty five

729
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: thousand can. Look, I know it's not ideal, but I'm

730
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: telling you this is what it might have to happen. Steven, Right,

731
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Murphy. You know what it is.

732
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: It's a math problem, It's all it is. It's a

733
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: math problem. If they can if they can make a

734
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: dollar with twenty five thousand people in the stadium or

735
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the fit, So it wouldn't be

736
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand in a sixty five thousand seat stadium.

737
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: Twenty five percent capacity is not twenty five thousand people. Right,

738
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: It's right, That's what I said. That's what the Dolphins.

739
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: So if sixteen thousand people, um, it's gonna be a

740
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: math problem. Price of the ticket versus how much they

741
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: have to pay to have ushers, concessionaires, security, and all

742
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: the other stuff that goes with it in place, and

743
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: it because, believe me, if they're gonna spread all those

744
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 1: people out, you have to cover. You can't just say, hey, okay,

745
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna gonna fill the lower boy, you can't do that.

746
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: They got to spread out through the entire seventy thousand stadiums.

747
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: So you're overhead for having all those twenty five thousand

748
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: people in the stadium is going to be the exact

749
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: same as when you have seventy five thousand people. They

750
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: overheads the exact same. So it becomes a math problem.

751
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: How much you make, how much you spend? And I

752
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: don't know why math is. I guarantee you they're doing

753
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: math right now. Every NFL team, including the Buffalo bill

754
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: you're twenty five percent of the capacity at New Airfield

755
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: is about eighteen thousand fans. If they let one person

756
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: for every four seats, it's about eighteen thousand fans. I'm

757
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: sure they have a mock up of what do we

758
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: do with eighteen thousand fans? Where do we put them?

759
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: How do we police them coming in and out? What

760
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: do we do with the concourse walkers, What do we

761
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: do with visits to the restroom? What do we do

762
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: with the tailgate. I guarantee you they're talking about those

763
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: those kind of eight shoes right now. Yeah, it's math.

764
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: It's how much do we make with eighteen thousand fans?

765
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 1: Not nearly as much as we make with seventy three,

766
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: But we got we gotta protect them, we gotta make

767
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: sure they're following the rules. I'm sure that's going on

768
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: right It is too. That's probably we're probably seeing what

769
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: the math comes out to. In the Miami Dolphins unct.

770
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: In the Miami Dolphins plan mock up plan, they say

771
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand seats. Well that's not no they did

772
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: or did they did not? Okay? They said sixteen thousand, okay,

773
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: sixteen It might be closings are fifteen thousand. This guy

774
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: garfin Call, CEO of the Dolphins, says it might be

775
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: closer to a fifteen thousand fan maximum the season to

776
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: adjust a social distancing and keep everybody saying, if it's

777
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: only fifteen thousand seats and that's what it's going to

778
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: be for the entire home schedule, what happens to those

779
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,959
Speaker 1: ticket prices? You know, well, I think the teams won't

780
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: be able to increase the ticket prices. But you're right

781
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 1: secondary market. Well, you think the bills are the Dolphins

782
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: would jack up ticket prices that they they'd be crucified

783
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: if they tried that. Yeah, they would. But you know

784
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: that by the same token here, I mean you have

785
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 1: to do there's a whole ripple effect here. Would you say, okay,

786
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: this year and sad and waiting circumstances, we're jacking up

787
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: the price of the tickets because only who says that

788
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: the Buffalo bills anybody? Because a team? Yeah, yeah, because

789
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: the appetite's going to be there. Now do it? You cannot.

790
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: Can hear me out? No pea can do that. Hear

791
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: me out. We're gonna jack up the prices. You don't

792
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: have to buy them, but you're still gonna be a

793
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: season ticket holder, even though you're not gonna be able

794
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: to go to the games because you know there's only

795
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,959
Speaker 1: twenty five or what's in eighteen thousand seats. We're gonna

796
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: jack up the prices, They're gonna make it available. You're

797
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: gonna stay a season ticket holder although you have no expenses.

798
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: You're not gonna buy tickets, and next year we'll go

799
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: back to where the way it used to be. Can't

800
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: do it. Why not? Fans would revolt. How can you

801
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: take advantage of this unusual and unprecedented circumstances to increase

802
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: your revenue. It's easy because it's heart If you're not

803
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: thinking about that's not the reason. That's not the reason

804
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: you're doing it. You're doing it to get more revenue.

805
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: That'd be stupid. No team could get away with it.

806
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: You're doing it to break even. You might have to

807
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: take a loss, Like everybody say, you might have to

808
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: take a loss. Everybody has taken a loss your team.

809
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: You might have to do that. Then all right, if

810
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: you're expecting you to take a loss, then there's not

811
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: gonna be any fans in the stands. We're gonna take

812
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 1: the loss that way. I mean, that's it. That's the

813
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: thing that's like you know spighting, you know, that's like

814
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 1: cutting off your nose. Well, we won't have anybody, yeah, yeah, yeah,

815
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: anybody in the stadium. Well, you're doing the same thing. No, yeah,

816
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,919
Speaker 1: you can't charge this extra because there's only fifteen thousand seas.

817
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: You cannot. You can charge extra if you want, well,

818
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: and people will buy them and people other people will

819
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: burn their tickets right on the one Bill's dry. That

820
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: would be that would never A team would never recover

821
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: from They can't get tickets anyway. They don't even have tickets.

822
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: They can't. Hello, Dave, you're on the air. UM love

823
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: the topic. I'm wondering if, since we have time to plan,

824
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: why couldn't you have season ticket holders or whoever has

825
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 1: tickets for a game get tested before they enter, and

826
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: then you would know that there's not really diseased to

827
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: be spread. You could It's I mean, the testing is

828
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: so spotty and so minimal now you'd really have to

829
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: ramp it up. And some My question, why why are

830
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: we wasting all our energy testing ticket buyers for a

831
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 1: football team. Aren't there more important than more people we

832
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: should be worried about police officers, nurses. Shouldn't we get

833
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: them tested first? That would be the objection I can see. Well,

834
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: here's the thing. It's it's a huge problem. You can't

835
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: get it done logistically. For instance, how are you going

836
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: to do it? Everybody files in, You're going to test

837
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: them on the way in all of a sudden, everybody

838
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: who tested and you had to sequester them while you're

839
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: waiting for the results, which is what five minutes then

840
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: you put them in. Okay, once they're in, they're in.

841
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: And then somebody who tests positive on the way in,

842
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: anybody who's come in contact with him, anybody around him

843
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: in line, anybody who's they're out. Who are you gonna

844
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: You can't just like sequester one person. I mean if

845
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Speaker 1: if he's if you test somebody positive who's trying to

846
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Speaker 1: come in the game, then what are you gonna do? Right?

847
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta turn him around and send him away.

848
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: And then anybody else who's been around him that has

849
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: to get tested as well. What if you get it's

850
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: you know what if you've been exposed to it um

851
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: and you know how long is how long is it

852
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: gonna be before you test positive, even though you've been

853
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: out there standing nextual the guy drinking beer with him?

854
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: You know, are you gonna test positive right away? Do

855
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: you let that guy in? That's I mean that And

856
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: you know plus twenty five thousand on the spot tests, Wow,

857
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's hard to see happening, you know,

858
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Speaker 1: plus the personnel it takes to test him. Well, he's

859
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: not talking about game day. You show up at eleven

860
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: for a test, dizzy, That would be unrealistic. Yeah, what

861
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: else are you gonna do it? Um? I don't know.

862
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Speaker 1: I got a couple of people on Twitter with interesting question,

863
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: Chris Rolex, So how do you decide who goes to

864
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: the games as a season taking older? They're still taking

865
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: our payments each month. They're gonna refund us. It's more.

866
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: There's more than fifteen thousand season ticket holders. You're right, Chris,

867
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Speaker 1: there's forty five fifty thousand. And Jeremiah ortiz Um tweets

868
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Speaker 1: in if they decide to allow a limited number of

869
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: fans in their stadium, how do they choose which fans

870
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,240
Speaker 1: to allow? Are there a few enough season ticket holders

871
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,240
Speaker 1: to do that? As we said, forty five fifty thousand

872
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: season ticket holders, here's good questions. I don't know. If

873
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: you go with seniority, they get first crack if they

874
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: want their tickets. I don't know if you rotated through

875
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: the entire season ticket base. Good questions, and it's probably

876
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: let's let's stick with our theme. Murph, it be money,

877
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: sweet holders, your predium, that's your theme. Well, you said

878
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: that the NFL won't leave a nickel on the table.

879
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: They're not gonna They're gonna tickets they're gonna let the

880
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: five thousand seat dollars. You're a theme. The NFL cannot

881
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: get away with jacking up ticket prices. No, no, no no.

882
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, oh, yeah you were, yeah you did, yes,

883
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: but this is a different time. I'm saying, if they

884
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna let them expense the people who have the

885
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: most expensive tickets in rights. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

886
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: Welcome back, one of those lives. Presenter back a load

887
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: of health, John Murphy, Steave Tasker. Let's take a call

888
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: Bernie in Connecticut. Hello, Bernie around the air. Hey, how's

889
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: it going, John, Steve Man, thank you, Thank you guys

890
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: so much, Producer, everybody you know who's working with you, guys,

891
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: you guys, you know, I understand you guys. Never take

892
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: any credit, man, I get it. You guys. Just keep

893
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: pushing along, you know. Just before I'm not proud, So

894
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Hey, So so check this out.

895
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: I I cannot agree you know with you guys both

896
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: you know, I love you guys. You know, arguments or

897
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: you know, disagreements. I think it's up to the fans.

898
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: All right, So May twentieth, that's our soft date right

899
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: at least here in Connecticut. Um, things are gonna be

900
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: open enough. So it comes down to what are you

901
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: willing to take in a way. Business has got to

902
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: keep running. You know, money makes the world go round.

903
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: And uh, I just I think that it's gonna come

904
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: down to where are we in a couple of months

905
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: and what are we willing to sacrifice as a whole?

906
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: And yeah, I agree, Bernie, and I think Steve it's

907
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: a good point. You know, we're talking about the fans

908
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: won't pay this, fans won't do that. Fans may just

909
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 1: want to take the year off. And if so, teams

910
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: might have to hold their season tickets for a year.

911
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of them are for a year. Really,

912
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: they're not gonna They're not gonna They're not gonna flush

913
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 1: the season ticket list. Right, the same the same teams

914
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: that you the same teams that you expect well jack

915
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: up ticket prices, will also hold the season tickets for

916
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: a year. You beat, Okay, that plus their money and

917
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: will they charge them the new will plus their money? Right,

918
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: they'll hold their money that they've already paid and put

919
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: it towards the twenty twenty one and then you know

920
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: what they could do is say, listen, your season tickets

921
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: are everybody's. We're not giving out season tickets this year

922
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: because there's too much uncertainty. What we will do is

923
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: open it up and take your own risks. Here's the

924
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: price of the tickets. Your season tickets are saved until

925
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one season where we can get a

926
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: better handle on this. But for right now, it's an

927
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: open seating and here you go. Nice. We'll see it

928
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,439
Speaker 1: might be right. We'll talk more about this. We're gonna

929
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: talk with mel kiper Junior coming up after the break.

930
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: Come on back for that one Goals Live presented by

931
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: Kalaida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Oh a great time.

932
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: I'll watch Steve Lasper to the Bastie backs down. That's

933
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: not Buffalo Time. Number two of what Goals Live. We're

934
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: presented by Kalada healths coming he from our home as

935
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: we always do. Now when joining us live on the

936
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: line right now. ESPN's NFL College Draft analyst melt kiper Junior.

937
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: He's been with ESPN since nineteen eighty four. He's the

938
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Speaker 1: hosts of their first draft podcast, How about Well, kyper Jummer.

939
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Speaker 1: If he's team task you're up here in Buffalo. Thanks

940
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: coming on with us today, John Steve. Great to be

941
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: with you. Guys. Hey, you get a draft two weeks

942
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: ago without your buddy Todd mcchay hit by the coronavirus himself.

943
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,439
Speaker 1: How is he doing and how much did you miss

944
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: him during the broadcast that weekend? Yeah, thankfully doing a

945
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: little better. I mean Todd had you know, prepared as

946
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: thoroughly as as ever and was ready to go. And

947
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: I had spoken to him, you know, that Saturday before

948
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: the draft, and he was making a little bit of progress.

949
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: But with this virus, as you know, you feel good

950
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: and you think you're coming back then to hit you again.

951
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: So I think that's what happened with Todd. But you know,

952
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: it's just a shame when you do all that work.

953
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: But hey, as long as he's healthy, he's getting healthy,

954
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: that's all you care about. And you get through it.

955
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: And it was a challenging draft for everybody just because

956
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: of you know, just staring at a camera and not

957
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: having that interaction on a set. But got through it.

958
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: The NFL, we got through it with no glitches and

959
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: no issues. And that's for that one year where we

960
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: had a you know, a lot more important things going

961
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,720
Speaker 1: on in this world than than preparing for a draft.

962
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: It did come off without any glitches. Yeah, for as

963
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: much as you guys worked hard at it and had

964
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: so much, this was an added burden although you did

965
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: it from home, there's still a lot going on. But

966
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: it seemed, as you mentioned, this draft broadcast went really smoothly.

967
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: Was there anything that you guys at the networks and

968
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: the broadcast partners learned that you might take going forward. See,

969
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I think you know just the

970
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: way you interacted. You know, we were forced to do

971
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: things with using names, which I always tend to do

972
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: when i'm talking anyway. Todd Todd Tide came about because

973
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: he told Frank caliend always say's my name? Weren't anybody

974
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: so Frank exaggerated to made the Todd Todd Todd thing.

975
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: So I always tend to do that anyway. But when

976
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, and you know this Steve as well as anybody,

977
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: when you're told, okay, throw it to somebody while you're talking,

978
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: you get to the end. Sometimes you forget because you're

979
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,879
Speaker 1: so wrapped up in what you're saying. Sometimes you say

980
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: a little too early and they don't pick up. So

981
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: the communication when you're at a set, eye contact had josh,

982
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: everything that you do to let somebody know, Hey, I

983
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: want to follow up. I have a different opinion, you know,

984
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: I want to argue this point a little stronger. Whatever

985
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: it Maybe we couldn't do that, so even Daniel jeremiasa

986
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: it was kind of like doing little speeches, many speeches.

987
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:06,800
Speaker 1: That's what we all kind of did. So it was

988
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: totally different. But hey, for one year, hopefully that's the

989
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: only year you have to do this. It was it

990
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: was something that worked, okay, but it's not the preferable

991
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: situation because obviously being at a set allows you opportunities

992
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: to do things more conversationally than we were allowed to do.

993
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: With mel kayper Junior, ESPN's NFL Draft extra it heyl

994
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: did you see or do you suspect and any picks

995
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: were made because not because but with teams not fully

996
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: knowing what they were getting into. Was that where teams

997
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: less willing to take risks? Do you think based on

998
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: the lack of pre draft visits the thirty visits they have,

999
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: did you see any evidence in that? Yeah? I did.

1000
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: I think two things happened I think the combined workout

1001
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: guys who didn't run well. Examples Xavier McKinney for six,

1002
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: three first round caliber player goes in the second round

1003
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 1: to the Giants. Cameron Danceler. Cameron Danceler was a first

1004
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: round caliber corner round four to six, four drops down

1005
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 1: the board third round. So I think the non combine

1006
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: guys as well that normally had Pro Days to turn

1007
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: heads and get attention didn't have that opportunity, so they

1008
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: were impacted by the guy like Luke Barkup had a

1009
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: great year at San Diego, stay the corner, you know,

1010
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: but he didn't get them invited to the Combine surprisingly,

1011
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: and the Pro Day didn't happen, So all of a sudden,

1012
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 1: there's Luke Barkus signing as an undrafted free ag instead

1013
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: of being a fifth round pick. Things like that happened.

1014
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: In terms of injuries, Jalen Johnson with the shoulder issue

1015
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: didn't get drafted, and normally he probably would have been

1016
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: a late one. Other corners got forced in there that

1017
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: may have been a little healthier. So again, I think

1018
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: the injured guys got hit a little hard. J F

1019
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: and Esa didn't run well at the Pro day, he

1020
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Speaker 1: ends up being the second round pick. A lot of

1021
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: people thought first round going into the whole draft process.

1022
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: I did as well, So I think those kind of

1023
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: guys got hurt by it more than anybody. And then

1024
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: of course the injured players as well with not having

1025
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: the medical rechecks. Well, the guys that were taken. What

1026
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: were your biggest takeaways? You know, I think teams more

1027
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: than when you go back. I gave a lot of bees,

1028
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: and you know, a couple of ones that the head

1029
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: scratcher was probably green Bay. The biggest head scratch was

1030
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: green Bay not taking a receiver when you had the

1031
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: Eagles take three and you saw what happy even Buffalo

1032
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: to bringing Stefan Diggs. Yet they still draft two receivers.

1033
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 1: The Raiders drafted three, Minnesota drafted to call. Everybody was

1034
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: drafted and taking advantage of the strength. And here's the

1035
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: team with the major need being wide receiver. You think

1036
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: Raron Rodgers there apparent you don't get him a receivers

1037
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: at the tight end. So again, I think that was

1038
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: the big surprise there. But everybody else, I mean, the overall,

1039
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: I think they solidified needs. They did pretty well. We'll

1040
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: see how it all comes together. Without obviously having this

1041
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: benefit of getting ready for the season in a normal way.

1042
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: How much impact if we do have a season with

1043
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: type of season, how much is this impacting these rookies

1044
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,439
Speaker 1: ability to be contributors their first year, Hey maw. Before

1045
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: we dig into the Bills draft, one more overview question

1046
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty NFL Draft. Do you think years

1047
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: from now people will look back on the twenty twenty

1048
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: draft and say that was a receiver draft. They talked

1049
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: pre draft about all the good receivers first round cabab

1050
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: or receivers lasting into the third. Are we going to

1051
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: look back on that and say that was for all

1052
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,959
Speaker 1: the good receivers came from that year? You would think,

1053
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Speaker 1: and I say that, you would think depending upon whether

1054
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: a kJ Hamler develops him with Denver into a consistent player,

1055
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: whether a Chase Claypool in Pittsburgh, you know, eliminates the drops.

1056
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 1: There are some things that have to come together. How

1057
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: quickly the bailer receiver Denzel Mimbs with the Jets merges

1058
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: in terms of route running and being precise and discipline,

1059
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: which at Baylor obviously run around do different things without

1060
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 1: the routree. So I mean all these receivers are something

1061
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: that with maybe four or five of the ones that

1062
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: went in the first three rounds that they have to

1063
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: come together with and really improve upon. But I think

1064
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: you're right. I think maybe the guys that we thought

1065
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 1: were the safest already get it should be that Jerry

1066
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: Judy should be a great player. And the question Denver

1067
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 1: rugs with the Raiders, you think about what you know,

1068
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: the guy like Justin Jefferson should be with Minnesota. All

1069
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: those guys should do very well. But guys I mentioned

1070
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: that maybe have a question or concerned. If they answer

1071
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: that positively, then we will look back to this draft

1072
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: as the year of the wide receiver. The Bills went

1073
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,720
Speaker 1: into this draft thinking they had a pretty solid ross anyway,

1074
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: and they were looking for some depth and some guys

1075
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: that could contribute, maybe not in major ways, but certainly consistently.

1076
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 1: That got Zack Moss in the third round, same place

1077
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: they drafted Devin Singletary the year before. Two third round

1078
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: running backs for the Buffalo Bills that look to be

1079
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: the one two punch for them. How do you see

1080
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: Zack Moss Devin Singletary working together. I love that pick

1081
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: and it's for the same reason. I think to get

1082
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: a productive guy has some versatility, obviously played a lot

1083
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: of football. You want guys to come in that can

1084
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: handle blitz, pick up and handle all the things you need.

1085
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,399
Speaker 1: I think in the third round at the eighty sixth

1086
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: pick a guy did most people in leg that I

1087
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 1: spoke to before the draft thought he would be a

1088
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 1: mid to late second round pick. To get in where

1089
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: they did. Devin had a great year, gave him a

1090
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: real spark, was a key element for that playoff run

1091
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: that the Bills had. So yeah, I think in getting

1092
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: into two receivers with size will help Josh. I mean

1093
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,240
Speaker 1: that that receiving corn now with John Brown, Diggs and Beasley.

1094
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: Then you add in and you got Isaiah McKenzie may

1095
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 1: play all these different guys and the two young kids.

1096
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: Then you get open even in the secondary. If Dane Jackson,

1097
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: who had I thought a pretty good year overall a

1098
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,720
Speaker 1: pit and then in Epanessa as you can kick inside,

1099
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: he's got that ability to play over the center guard,

1100
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: he can be outside inside threat um. You know, with

1101
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: that defensive front the way it is right now, and

1102
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: after getting Oliver the last year, so I thought they

1103
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: did fine. You factor Stefan digs into this whole thing

1104
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: because you have to put him in as part of

1105
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: this draft, and all of a sudden, this is a

1106
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: pretty good look at this roster. Um. Yeah, and I

1107
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: love Josh, you know, I feel abou Johnny Allen. Um,

1108
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: I gotta believe that this is gonna be a tough

1109
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: team to handle. This Bills team on paper looks like

1110
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,760
Speaker 1: a twelve win team to me. Okayper Junior from ESPN

1111
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: Live on the Line with the smell on the Bills,

1112
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: and you mentioned Zach Moss. You name him as an

1113
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: instant impact player. You think the Bills can use him

1114
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: in goal line situations pretty effectively. It needs to begin

1115
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: with huh I do? And I think that's the two

1116
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: positions that you could immediate return normally. Normally it's never perfect,

1117
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: but most nine out of ten, eight out of ten times,

1118
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: running backs give him the ball and let him go.

1119
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 1: It's the only position where you can be as good

1120
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: as a rookie as you will begin year four, year five.

1121
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: It's not better as a rookie as long as you can.

1122
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: If you can't, but if you can handle that, you're

1123
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: gonna get on the field. You can catch you can run,

1124
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: you don't fumble, and you block. That will get you

1125
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: on the field and you'll be over able to go

1126
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:09,879
Speaker 1: and go and go. And we saw it with Devin

1127
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,240
Speaker 1: if he didn't you know, he had the little issue

1128
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: early on with the minor injury, came back from and

1129
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: look how he sparked that team and he'd fit right in.

1130
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: He'd look like a rookie at any point in the season.

1131
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: He did not look like a rookie. So and then

1132
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,320
Speaker 1: same thing with a lot of these running back so

1133
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: I think that will be a ken. Also, the pass rushers,

1134
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: they step in normally and do a job right away.

1135
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: They put up secularly at that Max Crosby had ten sacks,

1136
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Jackson had ten and a half sacks.

1137
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: All these different guys that there were sack guys coming out,

1138
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 1: got the SAT numbers right away. Just pin your ears

1139
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: back and go after after the quarterback. So those are

1140
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 1: the two spots guys where you'd normally expect rookies to produce,

1141
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: and even this year you would expect even more when

1142
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough for other positions who need time.

1143
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: If we don't have the training camp, we don't have

1144
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: the preseason games. We don't have to build up to

1145
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: the season then and not the reps that you need.

1146
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, it may be more important

1147
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: to get the production out of those two positions because

1148
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:58,959
Speaker 1: you may not be getting it out of the other guys.

1149
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: This Bills draft, you mentioned the Green Bay Draft being

1150
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,240
Speaker 1: kind of a head scratcher taking Jordan Love. The Bills

1151
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: took a quarterback in Jake From. How do you see

1152
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 1: him fitting in? The Bills were in a position where

1153
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: they felt like they had enough players and enough and

1154
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: a strong enough roster just to take the best player available,

1155
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: and Jake From they took him. And what do you

1156
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,839
Speaker 1: think about that that pick given the fact that they

1157
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: think they found their their franchise quarterback already. Yeah, I

1158
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: think in terms of a backup, I think that's what

1159
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: you're looking at. And the guy that has the mindset

1160
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,839
Speaker 1: for it. He's a smart kid, great leader. Hitcat said

1161
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 1: he knows Josh Allen's the franchise and he'll come in,

1162
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 1: they'll assist. Josh will see things. He said. You say,

1163
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna be an extension of your offensive coordinator and

1164
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,280
Speaker 1: your quarterback coach. That's what he's gonna be. And obviously

1165
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: if Josha's hurting, Josh ken played a little reckless. That's

1166
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: the two areas that Josh has to improve one, and

1167
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: you know he will. He see, he knows what he

1168
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 1: needs to work. One. He made huge strides last year

1169
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: from the rookie year to a second year. If he

1170
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:55,839
Speaker 1: makes those same strides in year two to year three,

1171
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: good luck trying to deal with him. But the deep

1172
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 1: ball act you're seeing, just don't airmail it. Just give

1173
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: your guy a chance because you can get you draw flags.

1174
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,879
Speaker 1: When they come back and they stopped, the cornerback loses sight,

1175
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: he runs into all of a sudden, you got an

1176
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: easy fifty you know, you know, he make a play,

1177
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: You got a fifty yard completion. When you airmail it,

1178
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: you give your team no shot. You got no shot

1179
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: as a penalty. So Josh will see that and learn

1180
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: from that. And I'm sure they're they're coaching him up

1181
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,439
Speaker 1: on that. And then they being reckless and maybe turning

1182
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: it over, subjecting your body to some hits, not getting

1183
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: down quick enough. All those things will will he'll work one.

1184
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: But certainly having from available for that reason will help.

1185
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: And for Jake The thing that pushed him to the

1186
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: fifth was just the arm strength and showed up at

1187
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: the combine in games when his timing and his accuracy

1188
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: was where it needed to be because he knew then

1189
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: two years ago he had all those receivers, he was

1190
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: really good. He lost all those receivers this year and

1191
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: his numbers went down because he doesn't have that big arm.

1192
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: So I think getting us a guy that a lot

1193
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: of people thought it was a second round pick in

1194
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: the fifth round, to be a guy one play away

1195
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: from mebe being your guy. You know, can we go back?

1196
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: Remember Don Show was passing and I knew I happened

1197
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: to get no coach, got the no coach shoo a

1198
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: little bit. And remember in nineteen seventy two, that's seventeen

1199
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: no season, Bob Greasy got hurt, Earl Marl came in

1200
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: and the old moral struggled. Then Greasy came back and one.

1201
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: So again they having two quarterbacks, there's a solid folds

1202
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 1: meant to the Eagles in that Super Bowl. So having

1203
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: a jake from behind Josh Allen, I thought that was

1204
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: a heck of a pick. Yes, me and NFL draft

1205
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 1: analyst Mel Kayper Junior around the line when is hey, man,

1206
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: I want to and talk to You've already started to

1207
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: look at the twenty twenty one draft. Before we get

1208
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: to that, you've been doing this thirty six, thirty seven years.

1209
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: In general, our teams better now at drafting and they

1210
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 1: were when you started. I mean, there's so much more

1211
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: information involved, so much more video involved. Now, there's so

1212
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: much more science involved. I wonder you think in general,

1213
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: teams are better at the draft now than they were

1214
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: when you got started at this in mid eighties. No,

1215
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: I don't, and I think they were with the differences

1216
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,439
Speaker 1: the game. The game has changed so much where now

1217
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: you can have a guy maybe not emerge as recipient.

1218
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: You're playing four or five receivers. You're getting multiple backs involved,

1219
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: you're getting multiple dB offensive backs involved, You're getting all

1220
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: these situated guys rotating in pestra. You're getting everybody. So

1221
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: the bus factor is not what it was before Memember.

1222
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: Back in art day, you got a tight end, you

1223
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: had two wide receivers, you got a full back, yet

1224
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: a running back. You know, if you didn't make that,

1225
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: if you didn't make a move to get that starting job,

1226
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: you were considered a bust. You know, as a first

1227
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: round or second round, and now you're getting all these

1228
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: guys on the field somehow, some way, they're getting on

1229
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: the field just because of the nature of the game.

1230
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: It's changed so dramatically from what it was. And when

1231
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: I started in the nineteen seventy I've been doing it

1232
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: now forty two years, thirty's to my thirty eighth year

1233
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: coming up at ESPN, and it's changed dramatically. You have

1234
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: to adjust to the times, and the game now isn't

1235
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: even close to what it was. And it's like, it's

1236
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: sick of trying to compare a quarterback from the eighties

1237
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: though a quarterback now. You can't do it. The numbers aren't.

1238
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: These numbers now are gonna blow away those numbers from

1239
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: the eighth because twenty five passes in a game, it's

1240
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: twenty five pass in a quarter now. So it's a

1241
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: different ball game entirely. Guys, as you know, Steve, you've

1242
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: spent around it long, you know you've seen it, you

1243
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: know evolved. So I think now they're drafting the same

1244
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: as they did, except now you see a little bit

1245
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: more of a roster put the via the draft because

1246
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: you're getting you're finding ways to incorporate these guys who

1247
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: are back then if they say, you could very easily

1248
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: be considered a bust if you were the fifth receiver

1249
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: because you weren't getting on a field. Now you're getting

1250
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: on a field and you're doing a lot of different

1251
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: things in a reserve capacity that normally you wouldn't have

1252
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: been able to do way back in the seventies and

1253
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties. The Bills have built through the draft

1254
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: and also through some key free agents. They got a

1255
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: lot of guys sign to one year contracts, prove it deals,

1256
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: Brandon being Sean McDermott, have created a culture. They're starting

1257
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: to rise through the ranks of the NFL. They were

1258
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: in the playoffs two of the last three years. You've

1259
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: said that you think they're the favorite to win the

1260
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: AFC East. How strong is their roster and how hard

1261
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 1: is it going to be for some of these draft

1262
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: picks to actually get on the field for a team

1263
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Speaker 1: with a roster full of the guys that the Bills have.

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01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be. I think Moss will have

1265
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: a great opportunity. Vanessa obviously rotating in the receivers will

1266
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: have a tough time becos already have John Brown, Diggs

1267
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: and Beasley, and you've got guys that have already been

1268
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: proven entities behind it or have contributed, I should say.

1269
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: And then you have the second year guys. Singletary's going

1270
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: to his second year, thoughtson, Knox knows he's got to

1271
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 1: be more consistent. He had a couple of drops of

1272
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: catchable balls last year. So again, this roster is strong.

1273
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Speaker 1: This team. The thing that impresses me about the Bills

1274
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: is their chemistry. I don't think any team is the

1275
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 1: teammates are caring about the other teammates. It's not individuals

1276
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: on this team. They're all about the team being successful.

1277
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 1: And that's They got great leadership in that locker room.

1278
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 1: This is a team. When you watch them, it's it's

1279
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,919
Speaker 1: a together a football team as I've seen in a while.

1280
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: And see, if you've been around great teams, you got

1281
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: to have that. And I see it. Whether it's Josh

1282
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: or they got a lot of leaders. They got vocal leaders,

1283
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 1: they got quiet leaders, they got everything going. You watch

1284
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: them here, they think they care about one another. Uh

1285
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: there they said, it's not an end a bunch of individuals.

1286
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: So they got a mix. I mean Brandon Bean's done

1287
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: a great job getting the right mix of players and

1288
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: it led to a second year quarterback taking a team

1289
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. And they had that game looked like

1290
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: they had that game one had not been I thought

1291
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: for a couple a couple of questionable none calls, they

1292
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 1: would have won that game. So even with the things

1293
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: that went awry late. So it's a team that's built

1294
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: for now, it's built for the future. And like I said,

1295
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see if Josh can take those steps

1296
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 1: that he'd made last year to this year. And if

1297
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 1: he does, then he's gonna be one of the best

1298
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks in the NFL. He already's close to that now,

1299
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: he's one of the best. He will be one of

1300
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks in the league by year three if

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01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: he makes that jump up you know this year in

1302
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: terms of deep ball accuracy and just taking a little

1303
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: bit better care of the football at times. Hey, now,

1304
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: what did you make in the Patriots draft, And in particular,

1305
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: what did you make a Belichick's post draft admission. I

1306
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: guess that he might have been taking a quarterback. It

1307
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: wasn't his plan to go into it and not get

1308
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:35,919
Speaker 1: a quarterback. What did you make all that? I don't

1309
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 1: know what. I didn't get it. He said, it didn't hit,

1310
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: it didn't fall right. Well, you could have had Jacob

1311
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:43,439
Speaker 1: Beason in the fourth round. You took three third round picks,

1312
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: and I get that. Maybe he was waiting till the

1313
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: fifth and Josh Jacob went in the fourth, then he

1314
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: was and from he could have had in the sixty

1315
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 1: took one of the in the fifth. Excuse me, was

1316
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 1: a kicker. So he took the kicker at one fifty nine. Okay,

1317
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: you know from went at one sixty seven, so you

1318
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: take the kicker over from. You made three third round

1319
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: picks over Jacobison. So maybe they were wanted to wait

1320
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: an extra round but didn't work. They could have had

1321
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: Hurts in the second. Took the safety from Lenora Ryan,

1322
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: so it just I guess he was waiting an extra round.

1323
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: It didn't work out that way. So we'll see. I mean,

1324
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 1: obviously Jared Stidham seems to be a guy. They got

1325
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in and like we'll see. I said,

1326
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 1: taking care of the I say, going back to Josh

1327
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 1: taking care of the football, I thought it is the running.

1328
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 1: He did a great job cutting down on the interceptions,

1329
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: they get this intersty. He just eliminated interceptions now and

1330
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: those final eleven twelve games whatever it was. So again,

1331
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 1: will Stidham be that type of guy? Now? Will he'd

1332
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: be able to do for that team that obviously has

1333
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 1: talent leftover? This team isn't going to go away if

1334
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: Stidham can manage the game properly. He's got the arm. Uh,

1335
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: they know him, he knows them now. I don't think

1336
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 1: that drop off with with New England's gonna be dramatic. Guy.

1337
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: I don't think they go from from the best to

1338
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 1: the worst. I think this is gonna still gonna be

1339
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 1: a team you gotta be. You gotta figure out how

1340
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: to beat they These guys know how to win in Stidham.

1341
01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: It seems like they have an awful lot of confidence him.

1342
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: So for the Bills, Uh, you know New England Miami

1343
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: is gonna be building for the future. Then ready, Jets.

1344
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:05,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're ready yet, but you know

1345
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: they've got some personnel and they got the right people

1346
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: running the show there. I'll tell you what. Looking at

1347
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in this division, it's gonna be a tremendously

1348
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: competitive of four teams over the next x amount of

1349
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: years with Tua, Josh and Darnold and now whatever New

1350
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 1: England decides to stoo him as the guide. He's a

1351
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 1: young kid. He just came out of Auburn just a

1352
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. So what a division quarterback wise?

1353
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: This will end up being well, well, I hope you've

1354
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: had a chance to catch your breath after this last

1355
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: draft twenty twenty. Now, how long do you have before

1356
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,400
Speaker 1: you start grinding away on the twenty twenty one? What

1357
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: are your early thoughts? Well, already started without what the

1358
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: big board came out today, and you know that's the

1359
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 1: quarterbacks at the top. Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields are

1360
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: one in three and a kid out of North Dakota

1361
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 1: State trade lance like another quarterback at fifteen. But it's

1362
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 1: gonna be another great wide receiver group. John and Steve

1363
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 1: I got six receivers in the top twenty five, probably

1364
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 1: would have had eight in the top thirty two, So

1365
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 1: that's a lot of receivers. Again, It's be a good

1366
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: year for tight ends, gonna be a good year for dbs.

1367
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: The two corners weighed from Ohio State and cert Tan

1368
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 1: from Alabama up there high. Javon Howland, the safety from

1369
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: Margin's got nine career interceptions over the last two years,

1370
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 1: So there's a there's a lot of talent, but I

1371
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 1: think wide receiver is gonna be the big talk early

1372
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 1: on two Alabama kids this year or two Alabama kids

1373
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,440
Speaker 1: in the first round next year. Hey, now everybody knows

1374
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:23,919
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and Clemson, but you really we're talking about

1375
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: the North Dakota State quarterback three Lance on ESPN today.

1376
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about him? Yeah, he's got

1377
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: all the physical and athletic skills you want. He had,

1378
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: and now it's one year. That's why it's a little conservative.

1379
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: I put him in the middle of that twenty five.

1380
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 1: You know, I staid, I where can I should have

1381
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: put him a round fifteen. So be conservative with that

1382
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: because it's it's just one year. But the one year

1383
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 1: was spectacular. I mean, twenty eight touchdowns, zero interceptions. Now

1384
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 1: he's probably say, well, the level of competition, I don't

1385
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: care who you're playing against. To do that is amazing

1386
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 1: for a red shirt freshman, which is what he was

1387
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: now will be a third year sophomore. He rushed for

1388
01:05:57,440 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: a ton of yards with eleven hundred yards. He had

1389
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: a ton of rushing touchdowns. You watch him. I watched

1390
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: him in three four games and now the playoffs, he

1391
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 1: wasn't quite as good there. It was good, not great,

1392
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 1: but he was a great during the regular season. He

1393
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: can throw anybody make anything because any ball you'd even

1394
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: to complete, he can complete it. He has touched. He's

1395
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: a tremendous runner. He's a smart kid. Shows good instincts

1396
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: on the field in terms of when to move out

1397
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: of the pocket, when to stay in, when to throw

1398
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,080
Speaker 1: it away, all the little things, the nuances. He has

1399
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: that already. So I don't see any reason why he can't.

1400
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: With another year and you know, putting up those kind

1401
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 1: of numbers and his skill set, he's gonna be right there.

1402
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be as highly rate as Lawrence in fields,

1403
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: but he'll be the third guy. Tanner Morgan from Minnesota

1404
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: I liked as well, and he'll be interesting. How Jamie

1405
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: Newman moving from Georgia to Wake Forest, How he does

1406
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: you know in that one season with all that talent

1407
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 1: the Georgia Bulldogs have. I gotta ask you one last thing,

1408
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,480
Speaker 1: and it's about this last draft. What one player in

1409
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:53,320
Speaker 1: this draft do you think is going to be the

1410
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 1: guy from this draft? I mean this year. There may

1411
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: be guys that develop and become great players in the

1412
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 1: years to come, Like maybe Jill Borrow's not going to

1413
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 1: be great this year, but he certainly has it on

1414
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 1: the table to be a great quarterback. Who's going to

1415
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:07,919
Speaker 1: be the impact guy this year? Is it as easy

1416
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: as just saying Chase Young, I would think, and that's

1417
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 1: the pass rusher. I think also Clyde Edwards Hilaire, whoever, whatever,

1418
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: whoever the running back was that went to Kansas City

1419
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 1: was going to have big numbers. And we know as

1420
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: a running back, Clyde Edwards Hilaire fit them. Talk to

1421
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: some teams after the draft that had him as the

1422
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 1: number one running back. All those running backs and what

1423
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: in the second round should do very well. But I

1424
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: would think because of Andy Reid in Kansas City and

1425
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 1: mahomes At Clyde Edwards Hilaeric should be in position if

1426
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 1: he stays healthy to be offensive rookie of the Year

1427
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: and Chase Young with a pass rush ability he has

1428
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 1: for a team that needs it. Opposite Sweat who they

1429
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: drafted in the first round last year. They kneed Chase

1430
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,000
Speaker 1: young and that division with those quarterbacks with Wentz and

1431
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 1: Dak and now it emerging Daniel Jones. They need his pass.

1432
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:52,600
Speaker 1: So I would always go I always say the rookie

1433
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: is a year for me. I always give it to

1434
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 1: the pass rushers on defense and the running backs on offense.

1435
01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 1: Hey Man, thanks for this, and thanks for thirty thirty

1436
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 1: seven years of prognosticating the draft on ESPN. It's great work.

1437
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 1: We really appreciate it. Thank you, John Steve, I appreciate time.

1438
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 1: Thanks God. Thanks Piper Junior, ESPN NFL Draft Analysts, the

1439
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: host of the First Draft podcast on ESPN. He's been

1440
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:18,800
Speaker 1: with the ESPN for thirty seven years. Steve, it's a

1441
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 1: great run. Man. He had a great an. I asked him,

1442
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: you know how much things him changed in those thirty

1443
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 1: seven years. Do teens draft better now? And he said, no,

1444
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:30,640
Speaker 1: they don't. I mean, there's so much more information now

1445
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: and they don't draft better. That's amazing. Yeah, it's true

1446
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. The players don't change the value. What

1447
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 1: you find out more about him, but you also find

1448
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:42,560
Speaker 1: out more about other guys, and a lot of it

1449
01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: is good. Some of it's bad, but some of it's

1450
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 1: really good. And plus it's an art form too to

1451
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: a certain extent, right, Murph, I mean you got well,

1452
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: this guy will fit in better. He's not quite the athlete,

1453
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: but he'll fit better and reach his potential in art

1454
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 1: culture better than this other guy will, and he may

1455
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 1: hurt some other guys production. So let's bring this guy

1456
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:02,680
Speaker 1: instead of that. You know, there's a lot of it

1457
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:04,719
Speaker 1: is an art form like that to a certain extent,

1458
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 1: but it's also until they find out a way to

1459
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: get into people's minds and decipher what they find when

1460
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 1: they get there, it's going to be an inexact science.

1461
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 1: You know, one thing I guess I've learned in the

1462
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 1: last couple of years about the draft, and you never

1463
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 1: I never stopped learning about any of this stuff. But

1464
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: you may know this already, Steve. You probably do based

1465
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 1: on mel And But fits are more important than I

1466
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: used to give him credit for it. And by that

1467
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:35,599
Speaker 1: I mean the ability of a player to fit into

1468
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 1: a roster, to fit into a scheme, to fit into

1469
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,840
Speaker 1: a culture. It just seems like that's more important now

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Speaker 1: than it ever has been. And that's kind of what

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01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 1: the way the Bills have drafted the last couple of years,

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01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:47,679
Speaker 1: who fits our culture, who wants to work this hard,

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01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 1: who would be a good teammate here, and who fits

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01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: our scheme that years for years, I guess I looked

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01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 1: at the drafts are just an accumulation of talent. But

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01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 1: it's a lot more than that. And there's also a

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01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:00,680
Speaker 1: nuance too, because you think about in the Buffalo Bills

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01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 1: and the way they've built it over the last three

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01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 1: years and how well it has gone. One thing has

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01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: been that not only do they get guys that fit

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01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 1: their system, but once they get those guys into their system,

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01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 1: one of two things happen. One, they're gonna get those

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01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:16,639
Speaker 1: guys better, they're gonna get the most out of those guys.

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01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 1: And two, it's exactly what we spoke about with Don

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01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: Shula yesterday. They're only asking their guys to do what

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01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 1: they do best. Now they're they're trying to find guys

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01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 1: who do what they do best and fit into the system.

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01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 1: What they do best fits perfectly into the system the

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01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,679
Speaker 1: Bills want to run. But they also once those guys

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01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: get here, they develop them and they get them together

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01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 1: and they kind of, you know, let that I don't

1492
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: know what you call met let that magic happen where

1493
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:48,640
Speaker 1: the process and all the parts become greater than the

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01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: some of the parts. You know, the team becomes better

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01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 1: than it looks, even on paper, and this is a

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01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 1: pretty strong roster on paper. I was watching this Thanksgiving

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01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: Day game yesterday after we get off of the you know,

1498
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: the Bills in Dallas this year, and there were things

1499
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:06,959
Speaker 1: that the coaching staff was doing and there were nuances

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01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:09,240
Speaker 1: that brought back so much that I remember about how

1501
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 1: this team works when it plays, and about Sean McDermot

1502
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: and his coaching staff. This is a team that not

1503
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:16,679
Speaker 1: only gets better from the front part of the season

1504
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:19,439
Speaker 1: to the back part of the season, they played better

1505
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:22,559
Speaker 1: late in games, better than they do in the first

1506
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: part of games. Dallas came out, hit him in the mouth,

1507
01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 1: and then as the Bills made adjustments, got a lid

1508
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 1: on what they were doing and got a handle on

1509
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 1: what the Dallas Cowboys were doing. The Bills made huge

1510
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 1: adjustments that made big differences in that game. That turns

1511
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:40,080
Speaker 1: into a double digit win. And that was coaching. So

1512
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 1: not only do they get the most out of their

1513
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 1: players and get players that fit, the coaching staff holds

1514
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:48,519
Speaker 1: its end of the bargain up as well and gives

1515
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: them the best chance to be successful on a game

1516
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: day play by play scenario. So's there's a lot to

1517
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,759
Speaker 1: be excited about here. But you're right, Murph, the draft,

1518
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: in some way, it's always going to be the same,

1519
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: and now there's in some ways you wouldn't recognize it

1520
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 1: from where it was three decades ago. Yeah, the only

1521
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: a skeptic would your statement about they get better in

1522
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 1: games would look at the playoff game and see, really

1523
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:16,840
Speaker 1: what happened that day? Sixteen point league got away from

1524
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 1: gott I got an answer for that too, Sarah. They

1525
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:26,320
Speaker 1: called the exact perfect defense to have Deshaun Watson dead

1526
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: de rights with two unblocked defenders in the backfield that

1527
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: whacked him. And now if you're gonna make see a

1528
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 1: guy make a great play, that's not coaching. That's not

1529
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:37,679
Speaker 1: that you know your players need to play better. Okay,

1530
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:40,559
Speaker 1: you know the two guys that hit Deshaun Watson needed

1531
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: to make the tackle. But you've got to coordinator and

1532
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: a defensive system that got you to a point where

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01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: you had two three rushers on the quarterback in overtime

1534
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 1: at a critical point. Now, the guy made a phenomenal

1535
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: play and that's always gonna happen in football. But your

1536
01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:00,840
Speaker 1: coaching staff, this coaching staff was all over it. They

1537
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: had that thing wired, and they had their guys in

1538
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 1: the best position to win, and they got beat by

1539
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: a guy who made a phenomenal play, a great quarterback,

1540
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 1: more than one play right, right, And but it was

1541
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 1: plays like that though. This guy, Deshaun Watson, he turned,

1542
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: spins out and throws, you know, a pass to a

1543
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:19,600
Speaker 1: backup running back, a special teams guy. You know, you

1544
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 1: get a guy who makes a singular play and you

1545
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: get beat. M that's how close those games are at

1546
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 1: that level. But that coaching, our coaching staff, the Bills

1547
01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 1: coaching staff, they were on it, man, And that that

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01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 1: gives me a lot of optimism for what's going to

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01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 1: happen in the future. Um mel kyper Junior just joined us.

1550
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: The headline of his appearance on our show, Steve is

1551
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: going to be twelve winners, right, he says, the Bills,

1552
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: you think you're gonna win twelve games with him? But

1553
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:48,639
Speaker 1: I think, and by the way, I worry when when

1554
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: national experts put a number like that, that's a pretty

1555
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 1: big number for the Bills. He also said, Josh Allen's

1556
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 1: going to be one of the best quarterbacks in the league. Yeah,

1557
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: if he takes another jump like he did this last year,

1558
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 1: I'm like, even you and I are pumping the brakes

1559
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: on mel Kiper today. He was all over there. He

1560
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 1: loved the Bills, you know, he thought he thinks the

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01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: Bills are you know, are on it man. So we'll see.

1562
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,839
Speaker 1: But it's it's no question it didn't happen by accident.

1563
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,639
Speaker 1: Is not going to get there by accident. But there's

1564
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 1: a lot of people that do have a lot of

1565
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 1: high hopes for the Bill season, which yep, mel Kiper,

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01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,560
Speaker 1: junior es men, NFL graft analysts. We're gonna take a

1567
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: break here, we'll try if you'd like to talk about

1568
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: what mel Kuiper sent phone lines open eight oh three

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01:14:33,120 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: oh five fifty outside Buffalo toll three at one eight

1570
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty praps you'd like

1571
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:41,679
Speaker 1: to weigh in in our Twitter pole. The NFL schedule

1572
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:44,200
Speaker 1: comes out Thursday night. How many prime time games do

1573
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: you want to see for the Bills? One, two, three

1574
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 1: or more? Would you like to have him at home away?

1575
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 1: Would you like which night? Thursday Sunday Monday, give us

1576
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:56,160
Speaker 1: a call. Let's discuss It's one bills line presented by

1577
01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 1: Kalada Health Radio only today. This is Buffalo Bills Radio

1578
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:11,640
Speaker 1: of Health, John Murphy, Steve Tasker here until three. Got

1579
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 1: Pete Prisco from CBS Sports dot Com coming up at two,

1580
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 1: Bill's cornerback, Levi Wallace coming up at two thirty. Just

1581
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:20,240
Speaker 1: head mel kiper Junior on the phone. If you miss

1582
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: segments of our show, you know this, you can always

1583
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: Steve A. June Well know, you can always pick them

1584
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:27,679
Speaker 1: up later at Buffalo Bills dot Com. You can also

1585
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: get him on the bills amp, iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play. Steve,

1586
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 1: you knew that, right? How would I know that? Greg,

1587
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: Greg Mel whoever, whoever's on the line right now catering

1588
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 1: to me become a thing all across Oh, yes, right,

1589
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 1: I think it's become a thing. Yes, why, Yeah, it

1590
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 1: has become a thing. And I don't think Mel is

1591
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: aware of our thing, No, but he picked right. Cell

1592
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:55,680
Speaker 1: is definitely aware of it. Yes, he's doing it now

1593
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:58,800
Speaker 1: just to aggravate me. And it works every time. And

1594
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 1: you're used to it too, by the way, Aaron Jay,

1595
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 1: and I'm well aware of it. Yeah, and I'm you know, yes,

1596
01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 1: And now it's becoming where I put my two double

1597
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:11,640
Speaker 1: Nixon peace sign double up in the air right and

1598
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:15,040
Speaker 1: then the air with the peace sign, getting it onto

1599
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:18,520
Speaker 1: the helicopter after he's been after he's resigned the presidency.

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01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:22,759
Speaker 1: That's me. We got a good Twitter pull today. Schedule

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01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: comes out Thursday. How many primetime games do you want

1602
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 1: for the bills? On Twitter? Seven hundred votes in fifty

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01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 1: one percent of you say two? Two is all? I

1604
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 1: want two primetime games? Uh, thirty eight percent say three

1605
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 1: or more primetime games? Why not? Mel Kiper says they're

1606
01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:39,679
Speaker 1: gonna win. Twelve and eleven percent says to say one

1607
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 1: primetime game is enough? What do you think? Give us

1608
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: a call? Full Night's open eight oh three oh five

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01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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01:16:47,479 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: five fifty. How many primetime games? Maybe you want to

1611
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:51,559
Speaker 1: let us know you want them home? Do you want

1612
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: them away? You want them Thursday night? Sunday night. I

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01:16:55,520 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 1: haven't said what I want. Yeah, I guess chwooson enough

1614
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 1: chwoos enough for me. I like Sunday one o'clock. I

1615
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,280
Speaker 1: think it helps me get ready to do broadcast and

1616
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,680
Speaker 1: I think I think it helps the coaching staff and

1617
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 1: everybody's in the look. Every week's one o'clock Sunday can

1618
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 1: get a little old. But for the most part, two

1619
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 1: primetime games is enough, I think. And let's let's get

1620
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: them on Sunday night. They're running on Sunday football. What

1621
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 1: about giving them three or three or more than three

1622
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:25,280
Speaker 1: and their road games? No, thank you? No, yeah, no,

1623
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 1: that's that's a primetime road game becomes a hassle getting

1624
01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: ready for the next week's game. Uh, there's travel obviously

1625
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:35,799
Speaker 1: in a road game involved. That's a lot of downtime

1626
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:38,439
Speaker 1: in a hotel. No, this isn't about you, I'm talking

1627
01:17:38,479 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: about I'm talking about the team too. I mean, it

1628
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 1: puts the crunch on the next week, don't you think

1629
01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: you play? Say you play on the road on Monday night,

1630
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 1: and you got a game the following Sunday, typically you'll

1631
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 1: play at home after that. You get back, you know,

1632
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:55,799
Speaker 1: six in the morning on Tuesday. Let's say, and Tuesday's

1633
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 1: an off day and you're back practicing Wednesday, and it

1634
01:17:58,240 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 1: can take a toll on a team. No, two game

1635
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 1: is enough, I think, what do you think? What do

1636
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 1: you want? I can't two is plenty of man, maybe

1637
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 1: Thursday plus two, Thursday night plus two or Thursday night

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01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 1: plus one, Thursday plus one. Yeah, okay, I'd say it'd

1639
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:14,439
Speaker 1: be all right if it was a Sunday night game,

1640
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 1: particularly if you get a Sunday night game like the

1641
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:21,439
Speaker 1: New York the Jet game or the Patriot game, because those,

1642
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: you know, those are nothing. You'll be home at a

1643
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 1: reasonable hour if you're there on a on a Sunday

1644
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:29,040
Speaker 1: night game, because there's a short flight and you'll be back.

1645
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 1: You know, you'd set you back what six hours on

1646
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: the week, which is okay. And for me, the bigger

1647
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:36,920
Speaker 1: question for me is you got people like mel Kiper

1648
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:41,040
Speaker 1: coming on and predicting the Bills win twelve. If the

1649
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: Bills win twelve with the schedule they're about to play

1650
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 1: this season, man, there's no stopping them. I mean, they're

1651
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 1: they're they're a juggernaut winning twelve games on this schedule.

1652
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:55,599
Speaker 1: We don't know how they're gonna We don know how

1653
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 1: any of these teams are gonna be really, but man,

1654
01:18:57,880 --> 01:19:01,840
Speaker 1: oh man, twelve games playing those guys. Yeah, and you're right,

1655
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,559
Speaker 1: the schedule is a way to evaluate the team's chances, right,

1656
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 1: It's not just the talent accumulated in the draft or

1657
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:09,719
Speaker 1: free agency. The schedule plays into that. And I wonder

1658
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:12,720
Speaker 1: how much attention mal kiper Junior has paid to the

1659
01:19:12,760 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 1: Bill schedule. This year certainly a lot more difficult than

1660
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 1: last year. It would seem on paper at this point, right, Yes, yeah,

1661
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:20,679
Speaker 1: and that helped the Bills get I think the schedule

1662
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 1: helped them to get off to a fast start last year.

1663
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:24,559
Speaker 1: Certainly they didn't we didn't know the Jets were going

1664
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: to struggle like they did. I thought the Jets were

1665
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 1: going to be a really competitive and good football team,

1666
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 1: and they were at the end of the season, but

1667
01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 1: they struggled in the first half of the season. The

1668
01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:36,240
Speaker 1: Giants were not a great football team. The Bengals were

1669
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:37,840
Speaker 1: not a great football team. And there's a three and

1670
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 1: oh start for the Bills. Then they then they you know,

1671
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 1: they punched New England in the mouth, but couldn't win

1672
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,160
Speaker 1: that fight, you know, say, lose on a block punt

1673
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: to the New England Patriots at home. But then they

1674
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 1: can want they keep and they won some games. I mean,

1675
01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: they were nine and three after beating Dallas. They're good

1676
01:19:55,120 --> 01:20:00,640
Speaker 1: football team. And I think so that last start, and

1677
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,400
Speaker 1: it was helped by the schedule. And I'm not saying

1678
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:04,920
Speaker 1: they couldn't have beat any of the other teams that

1679
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 1: might have been on their schedule that were different, but

1680
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 1: certainly you think it's going to be more difficult this year.

1681
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 1: And we talked about it last year before the season started,

1682
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 1: how you and I thought they should get off to

1683
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 1: a fast start and they did. I want to see

1684
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: what the schedule looks like, to see what I kind

1685
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:22,599
Speaker 1: of start I think they can get off to this year,

1686
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: because this is a tougher schedule. Murph, that's a dollar. Yeah,

1687
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: I had a good point too, Sorry about that. Everything.

1688
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 1: To me, that's one of the most, maybe the most

1689
01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 1: important part of the schedule. We know who they're playing,

1690
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:39,600
Speaker 1: we know who they're playing home in a way, but

1691
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 1: how do they fall? Do you have the ability to

1692
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 1: get off to a fast start? Is there a December

1693
01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:47,240
Speaker 1: stretch where you're like, whoa, it can makes some ground

1694
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:49,200
Speaker 1: up here? Is there a four game stretch in the

1695
01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 1: middle of the season that looks manageable? Those are the

1696
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:54,080
Speaker 1: important things about the schedule, of least on Thursday, I think,

1697
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 1: what do you think I'm gonna go ahead? See plus

1698
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: home and away? Are you gonna get a bunch of

1699
01:20:57,880 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 1: home Like remember last year they were like they had

1700
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 1: two of their first eight on the road, right, or

1701
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 1: two of their first eight at home. Right. We had

1702
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:07,639
Speaker 1: a lot of home road games in the first third

1703
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: or first half of the season. Then we got a

1704
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:11,720
Speaker 1: ton of them late in the season. And I knew,

1705
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: and I told you this, and it may happen again

1706
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:18,560
Speaker 1: this year. The networks love late year December games in

1707
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:21,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo because they may get a big, snowy wreck of

1708
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:24,840
Speaker 1: a game and they love that on TV. So I

1709
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 1: think it's one of those things where maybe sometimes they

1710
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: get lucky and they get one, but I think that

1711
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:32,400
Speaker 1: does have something to say. I think they do like

1712
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:37,679
Speaker 1: late season games in Buffalo, particularly for a Buffalo team

1713
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:41,840
Speaker 1: that's good, you know what I mean. They love having

1714
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:45,200
Speaker 1: a gauntlet up where you're gonna go in face a

1715
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 1: really good team and all of a sudden, you're gonna

1716
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:50,840
Speaker 1: do it in three inches of snow with that crowd. Yeah,

1717
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:53,599
Speaker 1: that's a that's a masterpiece for TV people, and they

1718
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 1: try to set that up with the schedule sometimes. Bill

1719
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:59,640
Speaker 1: said two December home games last year and three the

1720
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: year for that. But you know it strikes me. The

1721
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 1: funny one of the funny things is here, Steve. You

1722
01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: can say all you want, Hey, let's play in December.

1723
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:09,360
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get snow. The Bills have moved games out

1724
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:11,240
Speaker 1: of town in November because of snow. You know what

1725
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 1: I mean. No, you can't say, oh, December, big chances snow.

1726
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:18,200
Speaker 1: You can say that in November two, I mean I wouldn't.

1727
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 1: You could go broke trying to guess what the weather's

1728
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 1: going to be in Buffalo at any point, let alone

1729
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:26,160
Speaker 1: November and December. That's right. How many? How many prime

1730
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: time games do you want? Give us a call? Eight

1731
01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 1: three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

1732
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:34,040
Speaker 1: two five fifty. Let's check the tweet cheat the Corgan

1733
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 1: Moving Systems tweet cheap brought here by Corgan Moving Systems.

1734
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:40,200
Speaker 1: The official movers are the Buffalo Bills. From Jack, He says,

1735
01:22:40,240 --> 01:22:44,040
Speaker 1: I fully expect Buffalo to be scheduled for four primetime games,

1736
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:46,600
Speaker 1: one on Monday night, one on Thursday night, one on

1737
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:49,720
Speaker 1: Sunday night, and one four twenty five pm National game.

1738
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 1: We're not talking, we're not counting those as prime time.

1739
01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,960
Speaker 1: Prime Time is a Nike game, a Nike game. He

1740
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,679
Speaker 1: goes on that Sunday night football game will fall after Halloween,

1741
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: so the Bills are not living up. So the Bills

1742
01:23:00,439 --> 01:23:02,640
Speaker 1: are not living up the expectations. The league can pull it.

1743
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 1: I bet Monday Night football and maybe Thursday Night Football

1744
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: will be home Sunday Night Football. I bet at Tennessee

1745
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:13,719
Speaker 1: or San Francisco. That's pretty specific, Jack a Buffalo anything

1746
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 1: you want to quip it with their no, I hear

1747
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:19,000
Speaker 1: that we don't know rights are right. I don't know.

1748
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 1: Four primetime games a ton for any team particularly, well

1749
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: not any team, but a team that's not in the

1750
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: NFC East. That's a lot. Everybody gets a Thursday night game,

1751
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: so there's one Sunday Night Football is the game of

1752
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:35,640
Speaker 1: the week. If we're If the Bills are gonna have

1753
01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:37,920
Speaker 1: a Sunday night football game, I think they'll get it

1754
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: in the last half of the season, and they'll have

1755
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 1: to be living up to their expectations if they want

1756
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: to get that game. Unflexed. But the league, I think

1757
01:23:48,960 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 1: the TV people in the primetime schedule does have some

1758
01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: flexibility nowadays. That gives them a little yea less urgency

1759
01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: to get it right. They can pick the matchups they

1760
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 1: want now, and then if they turn bad, they can

1761
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:05,760
Speaker 1: get a better one. So I don't think they put

1762
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:10,560
Speaker 1: as much urgency into this schedule at this time, the

1763
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:12,680
Speaker 1: TV people I'm talking about, as they would have in

1764
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 1: years past. There's an interesting new response on Twitter from

1765
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:17,639
Speaker 1: Tim on the tweet sheet, he says two or three

1766
01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 1: is cool. One early season game versus Patriots, the past

1767
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 1: the Torch game, two against the Chiefs, three on the

1768
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 1: road against the Raiders. You know, he's got a point

1769
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:31,479
Speaker 1: there about the Patriots matchup. That's how it would be sold.

1770
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 1: If it's September and the Bills and paid foots are

1771
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:36,760
Speaker 1: just getting off and it is the past, the Torch game,

1772
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: especially early in the season, I think, right early season,

1773
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 1: and it would and it would probably be in Foxborough, right,

1774
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 1: Why be the way to do it? I think, I

1775
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:46,760
Speaker 1: don't know, because if you're gonna beat him and you're

1776
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:48,799
Speaker 1: gonna pass the torch, you gotta do it in their stadium.

1777
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:51,519
Speaker 1: And I think because then otherwise it's like, well it's

1778
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: a home game, and you know, and I think people project,

1779
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: you know, home field advantages being the difference. But if

1780
01:24:57,240 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 1: if the Bills went into Foxborough beat the Patriots early

1781
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 1: in the season in their building. Um, that would be

1782
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 1: a big deal. It certainly would be a big deal

1783
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:09,360
Speaker 1: to Bills fans, and I think it would be a

1784
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 1: bigger past the torch statement than it would be if

1785
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: it happened in Buffalo. Be if there's a crowd there,

1786
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:16,840
Speaker 1: and Buffalo would be a great atmosphere for TV for

1787
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 1: a Patriots wind pots. Good point by you, Murph, as

1788
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,920
Speaker 1: you well know, you will know. And we got calls

1789
01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:26,760
Speaker 1: coming up. We got more time to tweet sheet when

1790
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:29,439
Speaker 1: we return one Goals Live presented by Collatta Health. This

1791
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio five presented by Collatta Health. I'm

1792
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: John Murphy with Steam tasker Jay Harris, our producer. Thanks

1793
01:25:43,240 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 1: for tuning in today, and we got a good topicaling

1794
01:25:46,120 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 1: about primetime football. How many games from prime time for

1795
01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:51,880
Speaker 1: the Bills this year? Schedule comes out Thursday. Let's get

1796
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:54,680
Speaker 1: to the phones and see what the see what our

1797
01:25:54,720 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: listeners say. Let's go to Mark in Buffalo. Hello, Mark,

1798
01:25:57,320 --> 01:26:03,280
Speaker 1: you around the air with us. I see two? Okay, two, yeah,

1799
01:26:03,320 --> 01:26:09,280
Speaker 1: it's very after can't hear you? Mark? Can you speak

1800
01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: up a little bit? Mark? Put the phone next to

1801
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 1: your mouth. I said, We hit two. We have a

1802
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 1: West Coast again, if they will be going into a

1803
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:24,680
Speaker 1: bye week after that, okay, if you're gonna go to

1804
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:26,679
Speaker 1: West Coast, you're right. If it's let's say, a Monday

1805
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:30,680
Speaker 1: night game on the West Coast coming back to Buffalo, yeah,

1806
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: that's a that's a big You lose almost a day

1807
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: of your preparation going into the next week. Plus you

1808
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:36,640
Speaker 1: got to give the players a day off. So he

1809
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: might have a point, Um, you need to go into

1810
01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 1: the bye week or maybe go into a Thursday night

1811
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:45,559
Speaker 1: game the week after the next weekend, or um, well

1812
01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:47,880
Speaker 1: I know that wouldn't yeah, um, yeah, you'd have to

1813
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 1: have a bye week. If it's a Thursday night game,

1814
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:53,760
Speaker 1: it's not such a big deal. Uh, But a West

1815
01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: Coast Monday night game or Sunday night game, that's hard

1816
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 1: to bounce back from. Need to buy a week after that,

1817
01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: that's what he's saying. And yeah, I don't know, that's hard.

1818
01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:06,120
Speaker 1: That's hard to make that happen if you're the schedule makers.

1819
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 1: As easy as it sounds. All right, thanks, let's go

1820
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 1: to Bruce and Tonawanda. Hello, Bruce, you're on the air. Yes,

1821
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:14,920
Speaker 1: I just want to say I think we should have

1822
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:21,040
Speaker 1: two primetime games Monday night against Kansas City and Thursday

1823
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:24,320
Speaker 1: night against Vegas. Now I'll hang up and listen to

1824
01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:26,519
Speaker 1: what you have to say. So one at home and

1825
01:27:26,600 --> 01:27:30,799
Speaker 1: one on the road. You're saying, right, yep, home against

1826
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:34,200
Speaker 1: Kansas City and on the road against the Vegas on

1827
01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:37,639
Speaker 1: a Thursday night in Vegas. I can see that everybody

1828
01:27:37,680 --> 01:27:39,160
Speaker 1: wants to go to Vegas though, right, I mean you

1829
01:27:39,240 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 1: want to have a night primetime game in Vegas. Think

1830
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: about this, if you're the if you're the powers that

1831
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: be in Las Vegas, right, Murph? Right? Do you want

1832
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:53,519
Speaker 1: you want a lot of NFL game? I mean they've

1833
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:55,600
Speaker 1: always wanted an NFL team because it brings tons of

1834
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 1: people of the city, correct, right, I mean it's all

1835
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:00,880
Speaker 1: about getting people in the doors of the casinos. So

1836
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:06,800
Speaker 1: do they want do they want primetime games for people

1837
01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: or do they want people in the casino so they

1838
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 1: can have people in the casino all day leading up

1839
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: to the game. Or do they want one one o'clock

1840
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:16,559
Speaker 1: game so they can have people in the casinos before

1841
01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 1: and after? You know what, I mean, what what do

1842
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:21,639
Speaker 1: the casino owners want? And you're don't know, I don't

1843
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 1: know I don't know. I don't know that much about casinos.

1844
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean, the time is it evenings? I probably is?

1845
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:30,640
Speaker 1: What do you think? I don't know how much of

1846
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:34,720
Speaker 1: a how much hold will the Las Vegas Raiders have

1847
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 1: on that market at least at the start, you know

1848
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:38,960
Speaker 1: what I mean? Will it just be another game in

1849
01:28:39,040 --> 01:28:41,960
Speaker 1: Las Vegas? Like, Oh, there's an NFL game around the corner. Oh, really, well,

1850
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 1: I got a big black jack game going on here.

1851
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:47,000
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving maybe for the locals. But that's the

1852
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:51,799
Speaker 1: thing is, they're thinking, and I think the Vegas powers

1853
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:54,640
Speaker 1: that be are hoping and planning on it, being like

1854
01:28:54,920 --> 01:28:59,200
Speaker 1: the La Chargers in the in the soccer stadium, They're

1855
01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 1: hoping all the out of town fans come for the

1856
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 1: Vegas game. They're hoping to get out of towners to

1857
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:06,400
Speaker 1: come in for the game, and then by that, you know,

1858
01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 1: they get you know, new people in the doors and

1859
01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:11,599
Speaker 1: trying to entice them not only to come and gamble,

1860
01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:13,439
Speaker 1: but also to come and stay and also maybe come

1861
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:16,559
Speaker 1: back when there's not a game, you know, all that stuff. Yeah,

1862
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:20,160
Speaker 1: So they I think that's what the big thought process

1863
01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 1: would be for casino owners, if if if that makes sense, yeah,

1864
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 1: I do think that. I think I'm sure they've done

1865
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:32,839
Speaker 1: the calculation. Yes, they want home fans and want home support,

1866
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:37,800
Speaker 1: but they are counting on, especially early, counting on NFL

1867
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 1: fans from all over the country, in particular fans from

1868
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:44,360
Speaker 1: the Raiders opponents right counting on them, and the Raiders

1869
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 1: will pull in some people too. I mean, yeah, yeah,

1870
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 1: it's a big city. But here's the thing. This year

1871
01:29:49,320 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 1: it could be different, see you. I mean, who's gonna

1872
01:29:51,360 --> 01:29:53,760
Speaker 1: Are people gonna be able to travel like they have been?

1873
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 1: I heard news last night. You know one of the

1874
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:01,559
Speaker 1: airlines is down to like percent of normal capacity. Now

1875
01:30:01,600 --> 01:30:03,720
Speaker 1: it will improve as a year goes along, but that's

1876
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: a pretty big hit. I mean, if people aren't in

1877
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:08,519
Speaker 1: the mood to travel in September, October, November, then the

1878
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:11,560
Speaker 1: Veggas Games could be in trouble. Right. I'm almost to

1879
01:30:11,600 --> 01:30:15,280
Speaker 1: the point where these these airlines are gonna maybe have

1880
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:18,200
Speaker 1: to get bailed out. I mean, they can't do it.

1881
01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:20,400
Speaker 1: They're not doing any business. And the flight and I've

1882
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:23,160
Speaker 1: heard people that have do our force, the fighter who

1883
01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: have flown it's like three people on the flight, you know,

1884
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Speaker 1: ye all right, we don't know that's the one thing

1885
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Speaker 1: we can say different. It doesn't stop us from time

1886
01:30:35,080 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 1: about it and stop us from filling three hours. We

1887
01:30:37,400 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: don't know. Um, the NFL schedule comes out Thursday. We

1888
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 1: don't know what it's gonna look like. We're speculating today. UM,

1889
01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:47,240
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins plan for possible reopen up their stadium,

1890
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Speaker 1: what we look like early in this season. We don't know.

1891
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Speaker 1: They don't really know if that's going to take place

1892
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Speaker 1: where we talked about it and coming up in the

1893
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:55,639
Speaker 1: next hour, we're gonna talk to Pete PRIs can't find

1894
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:58,759
Speaker 1: out what he doesn't know and leaving a Wallace quarterback

1895
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. We'll figure out what he doesn't know,

1896
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 1: and by three o'clock you will have a complete arsenal

1897
01:31:03,280 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 1: effects that you don't know and we don't know. That's

1898
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 1: basically the way we've done the show for the last

1899
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Speaker 1: couple of months. Or we'll continue on with another hour.

1900
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Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Line for Zenta by Kalada Hell. This

1901
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:22,280
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network Sports Update. The

1902
01:31:22,439 --> 01:31:25,040
Speaker 1: update from One Bills Line. The NFL schedule is coming

1903
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:27,519
Speaker 1: out two days away. The schedule will be released on

1904
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:30,719
Speaker 1: Thursday night, eight o'clock nationally on NFL Network. The Bills

1905
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:33,120
Speaker 1: and other teams get to have a preview starting a

1906
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:37,320
Speaker 1: seven thirty Thursday night. The twenty twenty schedule with times

1907
01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:40,600
Speaker 1: and dates. Thursday the first opportunity to look forward just

1908
01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:43,840
Speaker 1: when the league's biggest and best matchups will be played.

1909
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:47,120
Speaker 1: Frank Gore has resigned at as signed a contract with

1910
01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:48,960
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, a one year deal, according to

1911
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:52,360
Speaker 1: his agent. Frank Gore, the third leading rusher in NFL history.

1912
01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:56,120
Speaker 1: Fifteen season was with the Bills. He has fifteen thousand,

1913
01:31:56,200 --> 01:31:58,760
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty seven career rushing yards, third all

1914
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:01,600
Speaker 1: time a future All Famer. Frank Gore, He's played with

1915
01:32:01,640 --> 01:32:03,800
Speaker 1: the Niners, the Colts, and the Dolphins, bound the five

1916
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:05,960
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls, is now going to apply his trade with

1917
01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. Free agent running mcmarshawn Lynch says

1918
01:32:08,960 --> 01:32:11,400
Speaker 1: his agent has been in discussion with the Seattle Seahawks

1919
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:14,120
Speaker 1: about a return there. Lynch turned thirty four years old

1920
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:17,040
Speaker 1: in April. He unretired for the second time before Week

1921
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:20,679
Speaker 1: seventeen of last season to rejoin the Seahawks after injuries

1922
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:24,519
Speaker 1: hit their backfield. Played three games the regular season finale

1923
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: plus the wildcard and division rounds. Lynch carried the ball

1924
01:32:27,320 --> 01:32:30,759
Speaker 1: thirty times for sixty seven yards and scored four touchdowns.

1925
01:32:30,840 --> 01:32:32,920
Speaker 1: He has not played in fourteen months. He had not

1926
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:36,519
Speaker 1: played in fourteen months prior to that. Odell Buckham Junior

1927
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: says it's going to be one of his best seasons ever. Bigger,

1928
01:32:39,200 --> 01:32:41,799
Speaker 1: stronger and faster. This is my time, he says. Beckham

1929
01:32:41,880 --> 01:32:45,000
Speaker 1: underwent surgery back in January to address a hip and

1930
01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:47,040
Speaker 1: groin injury that slowed him throughout one of the worst

1931
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:49,720
Speaker 1: seasons in his career. He had a video in which

1932
01:32:49,760 --> 01:32:52,599
Speaker 1: he's went into detail about the injury that began last

1933
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:55,320
Speaker 1: summer and worsened and the Houston Techton planned to hire

1934
01:32:55,400 --> 01:33:00,240
Speaker 1: a facility hygiene coordinator. According to Sports Business Journalism, ploya

1935
01:33:00,280 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: will run coronavirus rise medigation throughout the Texans facility. He

1936
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:06,320
Speaker 1: is the first known case of a major un of

1937
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:10,840
Speaker 1: sports team hiring a dedicated industrial hygiene expert. Houston holding

1938
01:33:10,880 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 1: its virtual offseason program scheduled to go through May fifty.

1939
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:16,200
Speaker 1: Then there you go. That is the update one bills

1940
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Speaker 1: line presented by a Lot of health. Our number three here,

1941
01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:23,479
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker and we're practicing social distancing working

1942
01:33:23,560 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 1: from home radio coverage only on the line of US

1943
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:29,479
Speaker 1: lab right now. A long time NFL observer, he is

1944
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Speaker 1: a senior NFL writer for CBS Sports the host of

1945
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Speaker 1: the Picked six podcast. He's covered the NFL for three decades.

1946
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Speaker 1: Happy to have Pete Prisco on the line with us. Hello, Pete,

1947
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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker in Buffalo, thank you very much

1948
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:43,599
Speaker 1: for coming on. What's up, guys, How are you? We're

1949
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 1: doing well. We spent a lot of time yesterday on

1950
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 1: the show, Pete talking about the passing of Don Shulo,

1951
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 1: former Dolphins coach Hall of Fame coach. I understand you

1952
01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:54,720
Speaker 1: grew up in the Miami area, and I wonder how

1953
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:58,160
Speaker 1: much of an influence Shula and his Dolphin teams were

1954
01:33:58,240 --> 01:34:02,360
Speaker 1: on you and maybe on your career as it turns out, well,

1955
01:34:02,520 --> 01:34:06,080
Speaker 1: I moved to South Florida from outside of Philadelphia when

1956
01:34:06,120 --> 01:34:09,599
Speaker 1: we were in when nineteen seventy three, I was twelve

1957
01:34:09,800 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 1: and they had just had the perfect season, and so

1958
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 1: everybody loved the Dolphins, and I wasn't a big Dolphins fan,

1959
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:20,280
Speaker 1: so that was tough growing up. I grew up a

1960
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 1: Giants fan. But I came to respect them, and I

1961
01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:26,160
Speaker 1: can respect Don Shula and everything that he you know,

1962
01:34:26,400 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: believed in and the way he built that team and

1963
01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:30,559
Speaker 1: the way he coached that team. And it was funny

1964
01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:33,360
Speaker 1: because when I first got into the business after college,

1965
01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 1: I was doing some stuff down there and ended up,

1966
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:38,919
Speaker 1: you know, sitting and across the table from him at lunchtime.

1967
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:40,759
Speaker 1: And because that's how they used to do the interviews.

1968
01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 1: And you're sitting there and you're seeing that jutting jaw

1969
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:46,680
Speaker 1: and that you know, very imposing figure, and you're, you know,

1970
01:34:46,800 --> 01:34:48,599
Speaker 1: you just realized, God, this is a guy who watched

1971
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:51,200
Speaker 1: as a kid. And I mean, look, he couldn't have

1972
01:34:51,200 --> 01:34:54,200
Speaker 1: been more accommodating. He was always good with the media,

1973
01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:56,720
Speaker 1: and he was a demanding coach, and nothing but the

1974
01:34:57,280 --> 01:35:01,080
Speaker 1: utmost respect for Don Shula. You know, It's funny. Steve

1975
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:03,720
Speaker 1: and I were talking yesterday about it's hard for pro

1976
01:35:03,840 --> 01:35:07,479
Speaker 1: football fans or historians to link Don Shula to some

1977
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 1: major innovation in the game, and yet all he did

1978
01:35:10,439 --> 01:35:13,120
Speaker 1: was when and when in many different ways. Is that

1979
01:35:13,280 --> 01:35:16,360
Speaker 1: maybe his legacy, do you think, Pete? Well, yeah, and

1980
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:18,880
Speaker 1: I think a perfect example is when you look at,

1981
01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:22,559
Speaker 1: you know, the perfect season, Super Bowl, how Bob Greasy

1982
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:26,720
Speaker 1: threw eleven passes in that game, eleven And then he

1983
01:35:27,080 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: had Marino And instead of trying to fit Marino into

1984
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: what he wanted to do, he was smart enough to

1985
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:34,679
Speaker 1: realize he had to change the way he did things

1986
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:37,559
Speaker 1: and and he fit what he did and what Marino's

1987
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:40,080
Speaker 1: strengths were. And I think that's the greatness of Don Shula.

1988
01:35:40,080 --> 01:35:42,040
Speaker 1: And I think we've seen that kind of hand it down.

1989
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:44,400
Speaker 1: We've seen it with Belichick. Now you know the way

1990
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:47,000
Speaker 1: he's won early with Brady when they were running the

1991
01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 1: ball and playing good defense. Then he threw it all

1992
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 1: over the park when he Rady became better and he

1993
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,519
Speaker 1: had Randy Moss. And I think that's the greatness of

1994
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:56,400
Speaker 1: the game. And it's it's what it really separates the

1995
01:35:56,479 --> 01:36:00,680
Speaker 1: great coaches. You don't take your philosophy and try and

1996
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:03,160
Speaker 1: make the players fit to them. You fit what you

1997
01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:04,800
Speaker 1: could do to the players. And I think that's what

1998
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:07,519
Speaker 1: Don Shula is great. This is all about how do

1999
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:10,080
Speaker 1: you think Don Shoola will be remembered in regards to

2000
01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:14,760
Speaker 1: other great coaches like Vince Lombardi's, Belichick, George Hallis and

2001
01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:16,800
Speaker 1: the historical figures in the league. How do you think

2002
01:36:16,880 --> 01:36:20,960
Speaker 1: Don Shula fits in with that conversation. Oh, I think

2003
01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: he's in the top. You know, he coached for a

2004
01:36:25,120 --> 01:36:27,360
Speaker 1: long time and you know, one of the things too

2005
01:36:27,400 --> 01:36:29,680
Speaker 1: about him is he remember he suffered one of the

2006
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:33,400
Speaker 1: most devastating losses of all time as the seventeen point

2007
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:35,439
Speaker 1: favorite in the Super Bowl he lost to the Jets

2008
01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:38,240
Speaker 1: and then bounce back from that to build the Dolphins

2009
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:41,080
Speaker 1: into what they became, And that tells you he's very

2010
01:36:41,160 --> 01:36:44,760
Speaker 1: resilient as well. I think you know Belichick, Shola, you know,

2011
01:36:45,600 --> 01:36:48,160
Speaker 1: probably at the top of the list. Lombardi's there as well,

2012
01:36:48,600 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: Paul Brown, you know Walls, he's the guy that doesn't

2013
01:36:51,479 --> 01:36:53,280
Speaker 1: get to do he deserves his Joe Gibbs. He won

2014
01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:56,120
Speaker 1: three Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks. That's incredible and

2015
01:36:56,520 --> 01:36:59,880
Speaker 1: basically did it three different ways. So I think he's

2016
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:02,840
Speaker 1: in the conversations the greatest of all time. But I'd

2017
01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:05,840
Speaker 1: probably lean to Belichick because back then you didn't have

2018
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:08,920
Speaker 1: free agency. You know, Lombardi didn't have the free agency,

2019
01:37:09,560 --> 01:37:12,879
Speaker 1: Dolphins didn't, Chuck Nold didn't. Now you have free agency

2020
01:37:12,920 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 1: and winning the way they've won over the course of

2021
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:17,759
Speaker 1: this dynasty with free agency probably makes him the greatest

2022
01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:20,400
Speaker 1: coach of all time. Well, I have a Pete Priscio,

2023
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:23,200
Speaker 1: senior NFL writer for CBS Sports. Pete, we've been talking

2024
01:37:23,240 --> 01:37:26,040
Speaker 1: about the schedule all day. It comes out Thursday night.

2025
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: I wonder, are you we be thinking like, this is

2026
01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: the schedule, but let's wait a while, let's not get

2027
01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 1: too excited. Things might change. Is that the right way

2028
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:38,680
Speaker 1: to approach this? Do you think? Yeah? No, I think

2029
01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:40,040
Speaker 1: when we look at it, you got to look at

2030
01:37:40,120 --> 01:37:43,000
Speaker 1: how the first five weeks of the season are scheduled out.

2031
01:37:43,439 --> 01:37:44,960
Speaker 1: You know, somebody told me in the league a couple

2032
01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 1: weeks ago. If you see the team like you know,

2033
01:37:48,439 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 1: like Jacksonville plays the NFC North, if you see their

2034
01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:54,679
Speaker 1: first four games or four their first five games against

2035
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:58,519
Speaker 1: those teams, then the NFL is worried. If you see

2036
01:37:58,560 --> 01:38:01,519
Speaker 1: the you know, the schedule as normally is where you're

2037
01:38:01,560 --> 01:38:03,760
Speaker 1: mixing and matching them and you don't do it like that,

2038
01:38:04,200 --> 01:38:06,640
Speaker 1: then the NFL is that concern, which tells me that

2039
01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:09,960
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna play no matter what without fans in

2040
01:38:10,040 --> 01:38:12,439
Speaker 1: the stands and do it the TV way. So I

2041
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:14,760
Speaker 1: do think that that'll be a hint on Thursday night

2042
01:38:14,800 --> 01:38:20,000
Speaker 1: if you see you know what, teams playing opposite conference games,

2043
01:38:20,280 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 1: which they could lop off if they had to, and

2044
01:38:22,600 --> 01:38:24,479
Speaker 1: then just play the conference game. So I think that'll

2045
01:38:24,479 --> 01:38:26,479
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how that schedule comes out on Thursday.

2046
01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:30,920
Speaker 1: How flexible can the NFL really be with their with

2047
01:38:31,120 --> 01:38:34,640
Speaker 1: their how yeah, with their schedule? How how flexible can

2048
01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:37,840
Speaker 1: the NFL be, particularly given the broadcast rights and the

2049
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:43,120
Speaker 1: broadcast partners CBS, NBC, the NFL network. How flexible can

2050
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:46,320
Speaker 1: they be? Yeah, And that's a good question. I don't

2051
01:38:46,360 --> 01:38:47,920
Speaker 1: know if they can be. You know, I don't know

2052
01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:51,160
Speaker 1: what the buybacks are if you eliminated you know, four games,

2053
01:38:51,280 --> 01:38:54,320
Speaker 1: and how that would all work out. And so I

2054
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:57,479
Speaker 1: do think that, you know, I think they're more apt

2055
01:38:57,560 --> 01:39:00,040
Speaker 1: to play without fans and they work would be and

2056
01:39:00,200 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 1: move the games. And that's just me. That's my guess.

2057
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 1: If you had to play with without fans for a month,

2058
01:39:05,360 --> 01:39:07,599
Speaker 1: I think they would try and do that because the game,

2059
01:39:07,720 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 1: let's be honest, it's a TV game now, and for

2060
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:12,640
Speaker 1: the most part it's a TV game. Yeah, it's a

2061
01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:14,920
Speaker 1: great experience still to go to the game, but even

2062
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:16,560
Speaker 1: everybody knows when you go to the game, and you

2063
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:18,280
Speaker 1: guys call the games. When you go to games, you

2064
01:39:18,400 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 1: don't see it as well as you do it in TV.

2065
01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:22,439
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, you could have your binoculars in

2066
01:39:22,479 --> 01:39:24,760
Speaker 1: the press box or whatever, but you don't see it

2067
01:39:24,800 --> 01:39:26,320
Speaker 1: as well as you do on TV. So I think

2068
01:39:26,360 --> 01:39:29,800
Speaker 1: they could play on from a TV standpoint, and I

2069
01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 1: think they would play on from a TV standpoint without

2070
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:34,840
Speaker 1: fans in the stands. Do you think when you say

2071
01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:38,599
Speaker 1: move the games, you are you proposing or theorizing they

2072
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 1: may move the season back a month or six weeks

2073
01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:43,599
Speaker 1: and start it then and then have the Super Bowl

2074
01:39:43,640 --> 01:39:46,760
Speaker 1: and say, you know, early March. They could do that.

2075
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:49,439
Speaker 1: I also think there's a chance that you, like I said,

2076
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 1: you'd lop off those first four games if they're you know,

2077
01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:55,880
Speaker 1: non conference games, and you play twelve games, and then

2078
01:39:56,160 --> 01:39:58,000
Speaker 1: just play it out that way and then have a

2079
01:39:58,120 --> 01:40:01,200
Speaker 1: normal season, so you don't start, you know, in September,

2080
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:03,840
Speaker 1: you start in October, you lock those games off, and

2081
01:40:03,960 --> 01:40:05,559
Speaker 1: you go from there and play the Super Bowl at

2082
01:40:05,560 --> 01:40:08,439
Speaker 1: the normal week that its scheduled. So yeah, I think

2083
01:40:08,880 --> 01:40:10,800
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that play, but I think

2084
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 1: that one probably makes as much sense as anything if

2085
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:15,519
Speaker 1: you're going to change the schedule. But I think for

2086
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:18,160
Speaker 1: the most part, ideally, I think they'd play the schedule

2087
01:40:18,640 --> 01:40:21,280
Speaker 1: and if they can have camp and you know, just

2088
01:40:21,439 --> 01:40:24,799
Speaker 1: play the first month without sans Live with Pete Prisco,

2089
01:40:24,960 --> 01:40:28,519
Speaker 1: Senior NFL writer for CBS Sports. Pete, Steve and I

2090
01:40:28,640 --> 01:40:31,439
Speaker 1: had a lively discussion a couple hours ago about the

2091
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:34,519
Speaker 1: Dolphins plan and their CEO kind of talking about it

2092
01:40:34,600 --> 01:40:38,559
Speaker 1: on Good Morning America about the hard Rock stadium there,

2093
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:42,960
Speaker 1: setting it up for fifteen thousand, like twenty five percent capacity,

2094
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Speaker 1: having scheduled arrival times and not being leading the stadium

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01:40:47,240 --> 01:40:51,080
Speaker 1: until you're dismissed, so they don't congregate around the entryways

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01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:54,120
Speaker 1: and the exits and a different concession stands. Is a

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01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:56,400
Speaker 1: plan like that you think? Is that? Couldn't that work

2098
01:40:56,439 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 1: in the NFL? You know, to restrict capacity to twenty

2099
01:40:59,640 --> 01:41:04,080
Speaker 1: five of these stadiums in the beginning, I think you

2100
01:41:04,200 --> 01:41:06,720
Speaker 1: could work make it work that way. I definitely think

2101
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:09,040
Speaker 1: you could. Again, though we're talking about three months down

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Speaker 1: the road. We don't know how this thing is going

2103
01:41:10,680 --> 01:41:13,960
Speaker 1: to be playing out in two weeks, you know, we

2104
01:41:14,040 --> 01:41:17,160
Speaker 1: don't know how bad is it? Is it gone in

2105
01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:19,200
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks or is it going to come back.

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01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:21,600
Speaker 1: Nobody has any idea. You know, you could listen to

2107
01:41:22,120 --> 01:41:25,120
Speaker 1: every argument out there. This scientist says one thing, that

2108
01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:28,920
Speaker 1: scientist says another. So we don't know, and we know

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01:41:29,080 --> 01:41:31,320
Speaker 1: that people have died from it and it's a very

2110
01:41:31,400 --> 01:41:33,439
Speaker 1: serious thing, but we don't know how it's going to

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01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:34,880
Speaker 1: play out the rest of the way. So I think

2112
01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:36,880
Speaker 1: you put the schedule out and you hope for the

2113
01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:39,080
Speaker 1: best and it's not, then you have to have audibles

2114
01:41:39,120 --> 01:41:40,920
Speaker 1: in there, which is why I think how we see

2115
01:41:40,960 --> 01:41:43,639
Speaker 1: it on Thursday will be interesting if you see those

2116
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:47,479
Speaker 1: interconference games on the schedule early for all those teams.

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01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:53,000
Speaker 1: What did you think of the draft, Pete in terms

2118
01:41:53,080 --> 01:41:55,360
Speaker 1: of the entire draft, I thought they did a great Yeah,

2119
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,840
Speaker 1: the virtual nature of it, the new the way they

2120
01:41:57,920 --> 01:41:59,760
Speaker 1: had to broadcast it, the way it was carried out.

2121
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:02,559
Speaker 1: And also what were your impressions of the players picked

2122
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:05,360
Speaker 1: and how they were picked. Yeah, you know, Steve, I

2123
01:42:05,479 --> 01:42:07,439
Speaker 1: think the draft virtual draft. Member. There was all the

2124
01:42:07,479 --> 01:42:09,360
Speaker 1: reports coming out, all it's going to be a disaster. No,

2125
01:42:09,640 --> 01:42:11,639
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was easy. It was smooth and talking

2126
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:14,400
Speaker 1: to a lot of the GMS and personnel guys. They

2127
01:42:14,520 --> 01:42:17,320
Speaker 1: loved it and they you know what else they found out.

2128
01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:19,200
Speaker 1: They found out they don't got to sit in the

2129
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:21,200
Speaker 1: office all day and fake like they're working just to

2130
01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:23,360
Speaker 1: make it look good. And we know that's gone on

2131
01:42:23,439 --> 01:42:25,519
Speaker 1: in the NFL for years. You know, guys fit at

2132
01:42:25,520 --> 01:42:27,479
Speaker 1: the computer and June it's just because it makes it

2133
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:30,000
Speaker 1: look good. They're playing Folowtaire. You can go home and

2134
01:42:30,120 --> 01:42:32,320
Speaker 1: get work done and go spend time with your family,

2135
01:42:32,640 --> 01:42:34,559
Speaker 1: take it dinner, break, then go back in and watch

2136
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:37,240
Speaker 1: tape again. Guys I talked to this year said they

2137
01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:40,799
Speaker 1: watched more tape than they ever watched leading into the draft,

2138
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:43,080
Speaker 1: which is why I think this year's draft is gonna

2139
01:42:43,160 --> 01:42:44,880
Speaker 1: end up being one of the better ones. It's not

2140
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:49,280
Speaker 1: all the paralysis by analysis. You're actually watching the tape.

2141
01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:51,640
Speaker 1: You're relying on your scouts to go out and do

2142
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:55,719
Speaker 1: the work. You're not relying on thirty you know, thirty

2143
01:42:55,880 --> 01:42:59,000
Speaker 1: in house interviews where the guys are all coached up

2144
01:42:59,040 --> 01:43:01,479
Speaker 1: and faked. So I think this is gonna end up

2145
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:02,960
Speaker 1: being a really good draft. I didn't like what some

2146
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:05,720
Speaker 1: teams did. I didn't like what Green Bay did at all.

2147
01:43:05,800 --> 01:43:07,559
Speaker 1: By the way, I thought they had a horrible draft.

2148
01:43:07,880 --> 01:43:10,000
Speaker 1: I don't like to eat pick in Jalen Hurts in

2149
01:43:10,120 --> 01:43:13,639
Speaker 1: the second round, but I thought Baltimore had a great draft.

2150
01:43:13,720 --> 01:43:15,639
Speaker 1: I think Minnesota had a really good draft. I think

2151
01:43:15,640 --> 01:43:19,400
Speaker 1: Arizona when you when you include Hopkins as part of

2152
01:43:19,439 --> 01:43:21,640
Speaker 1: that draft, they had a good draft. So I think

2153
01:43:21,680 --> 01:43:23,360
Speaker 1: there were a lot of good drafts. I thought there

2154
01:43:23,360 --> 01:43:25,120
Speaker 1: were some bad ones, but I thought the whole process

2155
01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:28,360
Speaker 1: was outstanding, and it's gonna make guys reevaluate where they

2156
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:32,320
Speaker 1: are from a working standpoint. I wonder, Pete, And that

2157
01:43:32,600 --> 01:43:36,679
Speaker 1: takes me to this question, what elements of this year's

2158
01:43:36,760 --> 01:43:39,599
Speaker 1: draft will carry over? Do you think everybody raved about

2159
01:43:39,640 --> 01:43:42,439
Speaker 1: the low key family nature. The NFL doesn't want to

2160
01:43:42,479 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 1: throw away the glitz and glamor of its draft, but

2161
01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:48,800
Speaker 1: maybe they can incorporate some elements of that draft. Huh yeah,

2162
01:43:49,200 --> 01:43:51,000
Speaker 1: I think you know, you'll you'll you'll see a little

2163
01:43:51,000 --> 01:43:53,040
Speaker 1: bit the pieces of it. Spend the time at the family.

2164
01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 1: You know, they went to the kids' houses. That was fun.

2165
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:57,960
Speaker 1: You know. It wasn't like there's three or four of

2166
01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: your people there. They went to their houses. I thought

2167
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:02,360
Speaker 1: that was very good. I think, you know, one of

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01:44:02,400 --> 01:44:04,000
Speaker 1: the things that's going to be incorporated. I think by

2169
01:44:04,040 --> 01:44:05,840
Speaker 1: a lot of guys I talked to, they're gonna work

2170
01:44:05,920 --> 01:44:08,960
Speaker 1: from home a little bit more now, you know, maybe

2171
01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:11,400
Speaker 1: take a day or two at this, you know, leading

2172
01:44:11,400 --> 01:44:13,040
Speaker 1: into the draft, to go work at home so you

2173
01:44:13,160 --> 01:44:16,760
Speaker 1: can maybe go to your kids, you know, keyball game

2174
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:19,400
Speaker 1: if they're playing well. You know, it's all about spending

2175
01:44:19,439 --> 01:44:21,439
Speaker 1: more time with the family. And I think that's a

2176
01:44:21,479 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: good thing. You can you know, you get to a

2177
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:24,759
Speaker 1: point of no return when you're sitting in the office

2178
01:44:24,800 --> 01:44:26,320
Speaker 1: and you need to get out of there. Well, now

2179
01:44:26,360 --> 01:44:29,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna be at home. And I think that's a

2180
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:31,519
Speaker 1: good thing for the NFL. And one of the things

2181
01:44:31,600 --> 01:44:35,040
Speaker 1: that happens is teams like Buffalo who are rebuilding and

2182
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:38,040
Speaker 1: have built a pretty good roster over the last three years,

2183
01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:39,960
Speaker 1: been in those playoffs two of the last three years,

2184
01:44:40,000 --> 01:44:41,599
Speaker 1: and they seem to be a team on the rise.

2185
01:44:42,200 --> 01:44:44,280
Speaker 1: What good is it if they're going to build a

2186
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:46,080
Speaker 1: roster like this in a season may not have I

2187
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:48,200
Speaker 1: thought it's one of them great ironies of sports. The

2188
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:52,040
Speaker 1: Bills fans wait this long and then perhaps for no season.

2189
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:55,160
Speaker 1: But by the same token, the Bills have built a

2190
01:44:55,240 --> 01:44:58,240
Speaker 1: really good roster, and they've got a young quarterback who

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01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: they think can take another step and if he how

2192
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:04,040
Speaker 1: good could this team be? Pete Oh, I just did

2193
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:06,320
Speaker 1: power rank because I have him fifth, and people think

2194
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 1: I'm over hyping him. I was one of the few

2195
01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:09,960
Speaker 1: guys that was on this team a year ago. I

2196
01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:12,519
Speaker 1: thought they would be a playoff team last year, and

2197
01:45:12,640 --> 01:45:14,400
Speaker 1: I said, even if Tom Brady had come back, I

2198
01:45:14,439 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 1: thought they would be a division winner this year. I

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01:45:16,760 --> 01:45:20,000
Speaker 1: love what they've done. I'm a big believer in Brandon

2200
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:22,760
Speaker 1: Bean and Sean McDermott. I think they're they're building this

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01:45:22,880 --> 01:45:25,320
Speaker 1: thing the right way. I know it's all on Josh

2202
01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:27,720
Speaker 1: Allen now, but you look at that roster. I mean,

2203
01:45:27,800 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: getting Diggs is a big deal for that team. I

2204
01:45:30,560 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 1: think he'll be a guy that could catch, you know,

2205
01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:36,040
Speaker 1: seventy passes and being effective down the field, threat to

2206
01:45:36,160 --> 01:45:39,559
Speaker 1: go with John Brown. I think the offensive line should

2207
01:45:39,560 --> 01:45:41,559
Speaker 1: be better. I think with some more experience, I think

2208
01:45:41,600 --> 01:45:44,360
Speaker 1: Cody Ford has to play better, but I think we can.

2209
01:45:44,960 --> 01:45:48,320
Speaker 1: I think when you look at the defense, bam too

2210
01:45:48,439 --> 01:45:50,960
Speaker 1: deep across the board in that front seven. I mean,

2211
01:45:51,320 --> 01:45:53,600
Speaker 1: you know you had Addison, you have Jefferson, you have

2212
01:45:53,760 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 1: Butler and then you had Epinessa in the draft. I

2213
01:45:56,520 --> 01:45:59,160
Speaker 1: mean across the board, you could put those guys in

2214
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:00,880
Speaker 1: there and rotate him in and out and not really

2215
01:46:00,920 --> 01:46:02,720
Speaker 1: get hurt that much. And I think that's a big

2216
01:46:02,800 --> 01:46:05,160
Speaker 1: part of what they want to do on defense. I love,

2217
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:08,400
Speaker 1: you know, the linebackers are good players, and I think

2218
01:46:08,439 --> 01:46:11,800
Speaker 1: adding Norman if he's hungry and fisty and can push,

2219
01:46:11,960 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 1: you know, Levi Wallace and they can push each other,

2220
01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:17,120
Speaker 1: I think that makes that position better. So across the

2221
01:46:17,240 --> 01:46:19,720
Speaker 1: board they have talent. And I think it all goes

2222
01:46:19,760 --> 01:46:22,680
Speaker 1: back to Josh Allen. Can he take the strides? And

2223
01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:24,360
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in him. I think you will.

2224
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:27,719
Speaker 1: What do you think he has to do, Josh Allen

2225
01:46:27,800 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 1: this next year? Get through his reads faster, and by

2226
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:34,200
Speaker 1: that he can't put his foot in the ground. Go

2227
01:46:34,320 --> 01:46:37,000
Speaker 1: to read one and then get out of there. He's

2228
01:46:37,000 --> 01:46:38,960
Speaker 1: got to put his foot in the ground, go read one,

2229
01:46:39,200 --> 01:46:41,720
Speaker 1: read two, read three. Checked out a lot safer than

2230
01:46:41,800 --> 01:46:43,840
Speaker 1: running around. And he's a great athlete. It's nice to

2231
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 1: be moving around, but when you move around, move around

2232
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:48,320
Speaker 1: the throw more than to move around the run. And

2233
01:46:48,400 --> 01:46:50,040
Speaker 1: I think that's the next step for him. I think

2234
01:46:50,080 --> 01:46:52,960
Speaker 1: he can do it, but that's what he has to

2235
01:46:53,040 --> 01:46:56,000
Speaker 1: do this year to become a more effective quarterback. I'm

2236
01:46:56,000 --> 01:46:57,880
Speaker 1: a big believer in Josh Allen. I loved him when

2237
01:46:57,880 --> 01:47:00,559
Speaker 1: he came out. I know this completion percentage isn't great.

2238
01:47:00,880 --> 01:47:02,679
Speaker 1: There's a lot of drops on that team, and Dawson

2239
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:05,759
Speaker 1: Knox dropped a bunch of balls last year. Receivers dropped passes.

2240
01:47:06,040 --> 01:47:08,360
Speaker 1: He's got to be more accurate, but more so than anything,

2241
01:47:08,720 --> 01:47:13,840
Speaker 1: one to two, three, checkdown, not one and run. Pete

2242
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:16,720
Speaker 1: Prisco our guest senior NFL writer, CBS Sports. He does

2243
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:19,960
Speaker 1: have the CBS Sports Power Rankings out. He does have

2244
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:23,040
Speaker 1: the Bills ranked fifth in the NFL. Here comes the Bills,

2245
01:47:23,080 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 1: he says, I'm curious, is that a projected record on

2246
01:47:28,040 --> 01:47:30,000
Speaker 1: the right hand side of the column? You think they'll

2247
01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 1: win ten games this year? Pete? Is that what you're saying? No,

2248
01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:35,000
Speaker 1: that's as the projected record. I think there would. I

2249
01:47:35,040 --> 01:47:38,360
Speaker 1: think they would eleven game this year. I think look,

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01:47:38,439 --> 01:47:40,600
Speaker 1: I think when you look at that division, Dolphins are

2251
01:47:40,720 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 1: to rebuild a mode. Yeah, they're moving in the right direction.

2252
01:47:43,040 --> 01:47:44,679
Speaker 1: I think they're a year away. How do they handle

2253
01:47:44,720 --> 01:47:48,120
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation. The Jets have a lot of holes

2254
01:47:48,160 --> 01:47:50,920
Speaker 1: on their roster, and Sam Darnold hasn't played as well

2255
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:53,080
Speaker 1: as Josh Allen, Let's be honest about it. And then

2256
01:47:53,120 --> 01:47:55,760
Speaker 1: what are the Patriots doing? Is Stidham the long term

2257
01:47:55,800 --> 01:47:58,680
Speaker 1: answer to be determined as sure looks like he is.

2258
01:47:58,800 --> 01:48:00,720
Speaker 1: But that's a tough st that you waste. Rim So,

2259
01:48:01,200 --> 01:48:02,960
Speaker 1: I think they're the best team in the division and

2260
01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 1: right now, and I think they're going to be a

2261
01:48:05,640 --> 01:48:10,360
Speaker 1: really feisty, tough defensive team. And and and if Alan can,

2262
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:13,240
Speaker 1: you know, throw the ball a little bit better, which

2263
01:48:13,280 --> 01:48:15,360
Speaker 1: I think he can, I think they're gonna be really good. They,

2264
01:48:15,520 --> 01:48:17,599
Speaker 1: by the way, in the playoffs, as much as I'd

2265
01:48:17,600 --> 01:48:19,840
Speaker 1: like seeing him throw the ball around you, you know,

2266
01:48:19,920 --> 01:48:22,439
Speaker 1: in that overtime, might have tried to run the ball

2267
01:48:22,479 --> 01:48:24,240
Speaker 1: a little bit in overtime. That might have worked a

2268
01:48:24,280 --> 01:48:29,320
Speaker 1: little bit better. Yeah, And I gotta let's talk about

2269
01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:31,559
Speaker 1: the free agents the Bills signed. You you mentioned Stefan

2270
01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:33,840
Speaker 1: Diggs who they traded for. They also tried to replace

2271
01:48:33,960 --> 01:48:36,400
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips and Shack Last and they did it with

2272
01:48:36,840 --> 01:48:40,800
Speaker 1: Mario Addison. They did it with Vernon Butler, and they

2273
01:48:40,800 --> 01:48:43,360
Speaker 1: also did it with Quintin Jefferson. What do you make

2274
01:48:43,400 --> 01:48:45,720
Speaker 1: of those that you mentioned that the Bills are too

2275
01:48:45,840 --> 01:48:48,160
Speaker 1: deep all the way across the board on their front flour.

2276
01:48:48,920 --> 01:48:50,599
Speaker 1: What do you think about the free agents they signed

2277
01:48:50,680 --> 01:48:53,800
Speaker 1: up there? See, Addison is a good pass brusher and

2278
01:48:53,840 --> 01:48:55,760
Speaker 1: he's gonna give you that. He's thirty. He's getting up

2279
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:57,080
Speaker 1: of the years, so I don't know how the years

2280
01:48:57,080 --> 01:48:59,280
Speaker 1: you'll get out of him. But he could still influence

2281
01:48:59,360 --> 01:49:01,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback because you know, down defensive end. I think

2282
01:49:01,840 --> 01:49:04,799
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. I think Jefferson's a sneaky signing.

2283
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:07,240
Speaker 1: Guys made some good plays for them out in Seattle.

2284
01:49:07,360 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 1: Tough player. You know, some people thought they overpaid for

2285
01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:12,559
Speaker 1: Vernon Butler, but you know it was a high draft pick.

2286
01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:15,360
Speaker 1: Has it quite lived up to the expectations yet, but

2287
01:49:15,439 --> 01:49:17,720
Speaker 1: has a ton of talent. And I think Epines is

2288
01:49:17,760 --> 01:49:20,479
Speaker 1: a sneaky speel on their part. You know, it doesn't

2289
01:49:20,520 --> 01:49:23,439
Speaker 1: test well. It doesn't you know when you put him

2290
01:49:23,479 --> 01:49:26,280
Speaker 1: on the tape, though he plays hard. Look, Austin Jackson

2291
01:49:26,400 --> 01:49:29,840
Speaker 1: was the first round pick by the Dolphins. Epinessa abused

2292
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:31,519
Speaker 1: him in the Bowl game. You know, at two and

2293
01:49:31,560 --> 01:49:34,439
Speaker 1: a half sacks and threw them around. I think epiness

2294
01:49:34,560 --> 01:49:37,280
Speaker 1: is a sneaky draft pick for them. They feed on

2295
01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:39,960
Speaker 1: the power rankings. A pretty steep drop by the Green

2296
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:42,640
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. You said they really didn't do much to

2297
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:45,000
Speaker 1: help out Aaron Rodgers in the draft a couple of

2298
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:48,240
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Hard that's the main reason why they dropped. Yeah,

2299
01:49:48,360 --> 01:49:50,360
Speaker 1: I don't think they helped him at at all. You know,

2300
01:49:50,479 --> 01:49:53,240
Speaker 1: they used the draft for the future and not for

2301
01:49:53,320 --> 01:49:55,760
Speaker 1: the now, which is a major mistake when you're in

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01:49:55,880 --> 01:49:58,679
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game and you have him as your quarterback.

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01:49:59,120 --> 01:50:01,920
Speaker 1: You know, they trade to get George Love. Bad move.

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01:50:02,280 --> 01:50:05,000
Speaker 1: They drafted you know, aj Dillon in the second round

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01:50:05,080 --> 01:50:07,759
Speaker 1: when they have you know, Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams.

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01:50:07,880 --> 01:50:11,479
Speaker 1: Bad move. They needed another wide receiver, They needed to

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01:50:11,520 --> 01:50:13,160
Speaker 1: get help on the defensive side of the ball where

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01:50:13,160 --> 01:50:15,479
Speaker 1: they had problems stopping them round a year ago. And

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01:50:15,600 --> 01:50:18,000
Speaker 1: when you look at it, you know you got a

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01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:20,400
Speaker 1: small window with Aaron Rodgers. Why wouldn't you try and

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01:50:21,120 --> 01:50:24,160
Speaker 1: improve the chances of winning with that window rather than

2312
01:50:24,280 --> 01:50:27,160
Speaker 1: looking to the future. I didn't like their draft. I

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01:50:27,320 --> 01:50:29,599
Speaker 1: loved what they did last offseason. So if I'm gonna

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01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:31,519
Speaker 1: be true to him. I gave them great grades for

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01:50:31,600 --> 01:50:34,519
Speaker 1: what they did last offseason. I give him bad grades

2316
01:50:34,560 --> 01:50:37,400
Speaker 1: for what they did this offseason. One of the things

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01:50:37,479 --> 01:50:39,360
Speaker 1: we heard coming out of the drafts of the Patriots

2318
01:50:39,400 --> 01:50:41,599
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily part of their plan not to get

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01:50:41,640 --> 01:50:44,160
Speaker 1: a quarterback. So does that say something about how they

2320
01:50:44,280 --> 01:50:47,960
Speaker 1: really feel about Jared Stidham or are they okay with

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01:50:48,360 --> 01:50:51,400
Speaker 1: hitting in the season with him as their quarterback? Or

2322
01:50:51,439 --> 01:50:54,840
Speaker 1: are they tanking for Trevor? How about that scenario? You

2323
01:50:54,920 --> 01:50:57,080
Speaker 1: know somebody in the league. Somebody in the league actually

2324
01:50:57,120 --> 01:50:58,600
Speaker 1: threw that out to me and they said, how about this?

2325
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:00,479
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, let me listen to it. And

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01:51:00,640 --> 01:51:04,639
Speaker 1: they said, they tank for Trevor and by that they

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01:51:04,760 --> 01:51:07,880
Speaker 1: placed it him. If he's really good, then they hit again.

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01:51:07,960 --> 01:51:10,400
Speaker 1: They got another Tom Brady. If they don't, then they're

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01:51:10,439 --> 01:51:12,680
Speaker 1: going to be awful and they could end up with

2330
01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:16,280
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Belichick coaches another three or four years, win

2331
01:51:16,400 --> 01:51:19,559
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl with Trevor Lawrence, then retires and then

2332
01:51:19,600 --> 01:51:21,720
Speaker 1: he hands it over to his son, Steve Belichick to

2333
01:51:21,800 --> 01:51:24,120
Speaker 1: take over with Trevor Lawrence as his quarterback. How about

2334
01:51:24,120 --> 01:51:27,920
Speaker 1: that's the name. That's pretty wild if you one more

2335
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:29,240
Speaker 1: team to ask you about, and they're on the bill

2336
01:51:29,280 --> 01:51:32,280
Speaker 1: schedule this year, the Arizona Cardinals. They come up five spots,

2337
01:51:32,360 --> 01:51:36,240
Speaker 1: a really big jump in the CBS Sports Power rankings,

2338
01:51:36,560 --> 01:51:38,839
Speaker 1: mostly because of the draft or the trade for Hopkins,

2339
01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:41,720
Speaker 1: or the combination of all that. You think. I love

2340
01:51:41,840 --> 01:51:44,000
Speaker 1: what they've done this offseason. I think they've had a

2341
01:51:44,120 --> 01:51:46,599
Speaker 1: great offseason. I think the trade of Hopkins is big

2342
01:51:46,680 --> 01:51:49,320
Speaker 1: for the young quarterback, There's no question about that. I

2343
01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:52,320
Speaker 1: think you would had plenty of that offense. They do

2344
01:51:52,439 --> 01:51:54,519
Speaker 1: have some young receivers with speed, by the way, you

2345
01:51:54,560 --> 01:51:57,280
Speaker 1: know Isabella, they really like he, you know, he got

2346
01:51:57,360 --> 01:51:59,840
Speaker 1: hurt early last year. I think Christian Kirk is going

2347
01:51:59,880 --> 01:52:02,519
Speaker 1: to be a beneficiary of that. You know, Larry Fitzgerald

2348
01:52:02,520 --> 01:52:05,200
Speaker 1: will do his you know, eighty catches, ninety catches for

2349
01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:07,760
Speaker 1: you know, ten yards of catch, but he's still a

2350
01:52:07,880 --> 01:52:11,000
Speaker 1: productive player. I like drafted the tackle Josh Jones in

2351
01:52:11,080 --> 01:52:13,120
Speaker 1: the in the third round. He's gonna start at white

2352
01:52:13,160 --> 01:52:15,360
Speaker 1: tackle from what I hear. And then you go to

2353
01:52:15,479 --> 01:52:19,160
Speaker 1: the defense. You know they took they added Phillips from Buffalo.

2354
01:52:19,560 --> 01:52:22,800
Speaker 1: They drafted two big bodied guys, uh you know, to

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01:52:22,920 --> 01:52:27,080
Speaker 1: play behind him. Uh. They also drafted Isaiah Simmons. Uh.

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01:52:27,200 --> 01:52:30,240
Speaker 1: And then they signed a couple of linebackers who Jordan

2357
01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:33,320
Speaker 1: Hicks from Philly and uh Devanre Campbell actually three and

2358
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:35,720
Speaker 1: then they uh they got the Canard kids. So they

2359
01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:38,680
Speaker 1: got a lot of improvement on defense. And I think

2360
01:52:38,720 --> 01:52:40,960
Speaker 1: that's gonna show up. And I'm you know, look, I

2361
01:52:41,160 --> 01:52:43,479
Speaker 1: like what I saw from Kyler Murray last year. I'm

2362
01:52:43,479 --> 01:52:45,280
Speaker 1: a little surprised, to be honest with you, I didn't

2363
01:52:45,280 --> 01:52:47,559
Speaker 1: think he'd be as good as he is. But after

2364
01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:50,320
Speaker 1: going out there and spending some time with him last summer, UH,

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01:52:50,439 --> 01:52:52,320
Speaker 1: talk to him about, you know, his love for the game.

2366
01:52:52,400 --> 01:52:54,880
Speaker 1: You could see that he's one of those gym rats. Uh.

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01:52:55,040 --> 01:52:57,640
Speaker 1: He's he's impressive. They got they have a lot of

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01:52:57,720 --> 01:53:01,640
Speaker 1: talent on that season. Hey, Pete, thanks very much coming on,

2369
01:53:01,760 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: but let's hope we have a full season and a

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01:53:03,760 --> 01:53:06,560
Speaker 1: fun season to talk about. Thank you very much. You

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01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:10,519
Speaker 1: got a guy, Take care, Thanks Pete. Pete Prisco, senior

2372
01:53:10,640 --> 01:53:13,679
Speaker 1: NFL writer for CBS Sports. On the line, the Bills

2373
01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:17,759
Speaker 1: have climbed into the top five in the Power rankings,

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01:53:18,080 --> 01:53:20,200
Speaker 1: which means nothing, Steve, but they gets your attention a

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01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:23,479
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, but well are we Are you not

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01:53:23,520 --> 01:53:25,559
Speaker 1: gonna have to pump the brakes on all these people. Oh,

2377
01:53:25,640 --> 01:53:28,800
Speaker 1: I've been pumping for a while. I start pump breaks

2378
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:33,400
Speaker 1: with you to start and then right right, even you've

2379
01:53:33,439 --> 01:53:36,120
Speaker 1: never said twelve before, have you? I didn't say twelve

2380
01:53:36,800 --> 01:53:41,320
Speaker 1: mel Kiper did? Mel Kiper said twelve? Pete Prisco says eleven? Uh?

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01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:44,160
Speaker 1: And we're not gonna I'm not gonna make an official

2382
01:53:44,840 --> 01:53:47,640
Speaker 1: hold me to a prediction until the week before they

2383
01:53:47,760 --> 01:53:50,559
Speaker 1: kick off. But it's gonna be ten or eleven this year.

2384
01:53:50,600 --> 01:53:53,280
Speaker 1: Don't you think at least wins for the Bills. I

2385
01:53:53,400 --> 01:53:55,200
Speaker 1: think it'll I think will be disappointed if they're not.

2386
01:53:55,280 --> 01:53:58,200
Speaker 1: If they win nine, yeah, yeah, I think ten wins

2387
01:53:58,240 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 1: are plus. This is what you want. But I mean,

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01:54:01,520 --> 01:54:03,040
Speaker 1: then what are we gonna do, Murph? If it's a

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01:54:03,080 --> 01:54:05,320
Speaker 1: twelve game season or fourteen game season, we're going to

2390
01:54:05,400 --> 01:54:08,400
Speaker 1: reevaluate all of this right Uh? Yeah, And we're gonna

2391
01:54:08,400 --> 01:54:10,599
Speaker 1: have to see who's left on that twelve or fourteen

2392
01:54:10,680 --> 01:54:13,519
Speaker 1: game set up, right Yeah. I mean that's maybe some

2393
01:54:13,600 --> 01:54:16,040
Speaker 1: of those tough games will be erased, right they take

2394
01:54:16,120 --> 01:54:19,040
Speaker 1: they take Kansas City off our schedule, they'll take San

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01:54:19,120 --> 01:54:22,200
Speaker 1: Francisco off our schedule and go fourteen games. It becomes

2396
01:54:22,200 --> 01:54:24,800
Speaker 1: a little bit different right here. It does. Yeah, yeah,

2397
01:54:25,120 --> 01:54:28,000
Speaker 1: it's it's an interesting scenario and interesting possibilities that are

2398
01:54:28,040 --> 01:54:30,519
Speaker 1: all over the board. I don't know whether they'll just

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01:54:31,080 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: throw this entire It seems too difficult. But if they're

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01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:37,480
Speaker 1: gonna do it, why not If they say, okay, I

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01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:39,960
Speaker 1: want you to have a fourteen game schedule ready, in

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01:54:40,040 --> 01:54:43,320
Speaker 1: a twelve game schedule ready under these parameters, here's the

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01:54:43,360 --> 01:54:46,800
Speaker 1: sixteen game schedule do Thursday. Now, start to work on

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01:54:47,080 --> 01:54:51,200
Speaker 1: this schedule with fourteen games and take out the out.

2405
01:54:51,360 --> 01:54:53,520
Speaker 1: You know this, you know, you know how we play.

2406
01:54:53,760 --> 01:54:57,360
Speaker 1: You play out a conference of a full division out

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01:54:57,400 --> 01:55:00,320
Speaker 1: of conference. Then you play. Then you play the second

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01:55:00,360 --> 01:55:05,240
Speaker 1: place schedule of the second place team's in conference on

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01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:07,640
Speaker 1: a different division. Right. So if you say, okay, take

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01:55:07,680 --> 01:55:11,200
Speaker 1: out the take out the two AFC teams first, So

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01:55:11,640 --> 01:55:14,640
Speaker 1: the Bills will not play Tennessee or Pittsburgh, but they'll

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01:55:14,680 --> 01:55:20,680
Speaker 1: still play the af the NFC West. Right. Or you

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01:55:20,800 --> 01:55:24,280
Speaker 1: say you're gonna take the worst, You're gonna keep the

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01:55:24,360 --> 01:55:28,880
Speaker 1: worst of the Pittsburgh Tennessee choice, because the Bills are

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01:55:28,960 --> 01:55:32,000
Speaker 1: second place in the division, and you're gonna take out

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01:55:32,480 --> 01:55:35,880
Speaker 1: the first place team of the NFC West, and those

2417
01:55:35,920 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 1: are the two games you lose for a fourteen game schedule,

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01:55:38,520 --> 01:55:40,560
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So they could, they could

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01:55:40,920 --> 01:55:43,480
Speaker 1: work the schedule however they want to work it, and

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01:55:43,560 --> 01:55:45,920
Speaker 1: they'll just tell they're scheduling people. I know it's easy

2421
01:55:45,960 --> 01:55:47,720
Speaker 1: for me to say this when when it's not me

2422
01:55:47,840 --> 01:55:51,400
Speaker 1: doing it, but say, listen, I want a fourteen game schedule,

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01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:55,600
Speaker 1: and it's totally reworked I want and under these parameters,

2424
01:55:55,640 --> 01:55:57,840
Speaker 1: you take one AFC opponent out, and you take one

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01:55:57,920 --> 01:56:01,560
Speaker 1: NFC opponent out, get a whole new schedule going, and

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01:56:01,680 --> 01:56:04,000
Speaker 1: again you do the same thing for a twelve game schedule.

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01:56:04,040 --> 01:56:05,920
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So it's a lot of work,

2428
01:56:06,040 --> 01:56:08,400
Speaker 1: no question, but the parameters are there there, and all

2429
01:56:08,400 --> 01:56:11,120
Speaker 1: you gotta do is starting throwing these teams on the

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01:56:11,720 --> 01:56:14,800
Speaker 1: grid and see where they fall. NFL schedules scheduled to

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01:56:14,960 --> 01:56:17,360
Speaker 1: be released Thursday. Maybe how many prime time games do

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01:56:17,400 --> 01:56:19,560
Speaker 1: you want to see? For the Bills? Got eight hundred

2433
01:56:19,640 --> 01:56:21,840
Speaker 1: votes in on the Twitter poll. Fifty percent of you

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01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:25,320
Speaker 1: half you want to thirty nine percent say three or more,

2435
01:56:25,560 --> 01:56:28,040
Speaker 1: eleven percent say just one. We can talk more about

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01:56:28,080 --> 01:56:29,920
Speaker 1: that in the next half hour of the show. Levi

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01:56:30,040 --> 01:56:32,840
Speaker 1: Wallace coming up next Bill's Quarterback. When we return one

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01:56:32,920 --> 01:56:36,120
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Colt of Health from our homes

2439
01:56:36,160 --> 01:56:39,200
Speaker 1: again today and radio coverage only. This is Buffalo Bills

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01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 1: Radio Welcome Back. One goes Live presented by claud of

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01:56:50,800 --> 01:56:52,920
Speaker 1: Health jos Be see a task her here until three

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01:56:52,960 --> 01:56:55,000
Speaker 1: o'clock today, we talked about a lot of the schedule

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01:56:55,040 --> 01:56:56,960
Speaker 1: and everything else. Today I want to talk a little

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01:56:56,960 --> 01:57:01,200
Speaker 1: bit about initiative by one of the Bills enders, Levi Wallace,

2445
01:57:01,280 --> 01:57:03,320
Speaker 1: going into its third gear with the Buffalo Bills. Got

2446
01:57:03,400 --> 01:57:05,800
Speaker 1: a thing coming up at three o'clock today. It is

2447
01:57:05,880 --> 01:57:09,720
Speaker 1: the Gamers Versus Cancer event coming up at three o'clock

2448
01:57:09,760 --> 01:57:11,960
Speaker 1: today on Twitch. Levi is on the line with us.

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01:57:12,000 --> 01:57:13,880
Speaker 1: Hello Levi, John Murphy and Steve Task were up there

2450
01:57:13,880 --> 01:57:16,320
Speaker 1: in Arch Park. How are you doing? Now? What I'm saying?

2451
01:57:16,360 --> 01:57:18,000
Speaker 1: How you guys doing? How are you doing? See good?

2452
01:57:18,200 --> 01:57:22,320
Speaker 1: Are you? Guys? Were great? Gamers Versus Cancer today at

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01:57:22,360 --> 01:57:24,240
Speaker 1: three o'clock? How does this work? Levi? What do you

2454
01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:27,760
Speaker 1: got playing? Uh? You know what? You have to tune

2455
01:57:27,800 --> 01:57:29,880
Speaker 1: in to find out. We're excited. I've have a couple

2456
01:57:29,880 --> 01:57:32,280
Speaker 1: of teammates. I have a couple of teammates joining me

2457
01:57:32,680 --> 01:57:35,680
Speaker 1: UM during the sport where I'm playing Fortnite for a

2458
01:57:35,720 --> 01:57:38,920
Speaker 1: few hours, UM to be able to raise awareness and

2459
01:57:39,080 --> 01:57:44,720
Speaker 1: donations UM for ACS Man Cancer Society. UM. So yeah,

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01:57:44,720 --> 01:57:47,800
Speaker 1: I have player joining me a little bit Kwon, j

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01:57:47,880 --> 01:57:51,000
Speaker 1: Quan Johnson and some form Alabama teammates as well. So

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01:57:51,680 --> 01:57:53,280
Speaker 1: they'll be able to see me, they'll be able to

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01:57:53,480 --> 01:57:56,680
Speaker 1: have a donate page. UM, they'll hear all our conversations.

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01:57:56,760 --> 01:57:58,720
Speaker 1: They'll be able to talk to me as well or

2465
01:57:58,760 --> 01:58:01,320
Speaker 1: ask anybody other or anyone else that I'm playing with

2466
01:58:01,480 --> 01:58:03,520
Speaker 1: questions as well. So it should be the time. Here's

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01:58:03,880 --> 01:58:07,040
Speaker 1: here's the crucial question, LEVI for two old guys like

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01:58:07,160 --> 01:58:11,280
Speaker 1: murphing me. What is the object of Fortnite? What's the game? Like?

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01:58:11,360 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 1: What's it about? Uh? So, it's like basically a hundred

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01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:19,440
Speaker 1: people dropped on an island and you have to be

2471
01:58:19,520 --> 01:58:23,760
Speaker 1: the last one standing. So you team up with some

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01:58:23,880 --> 01:58:26,480
Speaker 1: guys and you have to be the last last man

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01:58:26,600 --> 01:58:28,880
Speaker 1: on the island. So I mean, and you know what,

2474
01:58:29,120 --> 01:58:31,520
Speaker 1: I'm not that great, but I'm not that bad either.

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01:58:32,480 --> 01:58:34,320
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of kids a lot younger than

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01:58:34,400 --> 01:58:39,200
Speaker 1: either are exceptionally good. So it makes it fun and competitors. Uh,

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01:58:39,600 --> 01:58:42,720
Speaker 1: people will be able to watch and participate by making

2478
01:58:42,840 --> 01:58:46,640
Speaker 1: donations right to the American Cancer Society. Why the American

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01:58:46,720 --> 01:58:49,800
Speaker 1: Cancer Society, LEVI, what why are you connected with them

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01:58:49,840 --> 01:58:53,840
Speaker 1: in this endeavor? My firstman year, I lost my aunt

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01:58:53,920 --> 01:58:57,960
Speaker 1: to breast cancer. Um, the closest aunt I have, UM

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01:58:59,360 --> 01:59:03,920
Speaker 1: my granddad. He passed away from U prosday cancer when

2483
01:59:03,960 --> 01:59:06,480
Speaker 1: I was really young. I also lost another unt to

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01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:10,640
Speaker 1: cancer as well, So um, I've lost certain a lot

2485
01:59:10,680 --> 01:59:13,360
Speaker 1: of family members of cancers, as I think we all

2486
01:59:13,400 --> 01:59:16,440
Speaker 1: have been affected by it. So m it was near

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01:59:16,520 --> 01:59:18,840
Speaker 1: and did in my heart for a long time, along

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01:59:18,920 --> 01:59:23,160
Speaker 1: with als. So I just wanted to reach out to

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01:59:23,200 --> 01:59:24,640
Speaker 1: them and see if there's anyway that I could help.

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01:59:24,680 --> 01:59:26,640
Speaker 1: And then they came up with this idea and I

2491
01:59:26,760 --> 01:59:30,560
Speaker 1: played Fortnite anyway, so it was it was a great combination. Right,

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01:59:31,160 --> 01:59:33,840
Speaker 1: how many of your Alabama teammates will be with you tonight?

2493
01:59:33,920 --> 01:59:38,680
Speaker 1: And who were they? Uh? Two? So I got Jimmie

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01:59:38,720 --> 01:59:43,120
Speaker 1: Mosley who's now with the Cardinals, and Christian Miller who's

2495
01:59:43,160 --> 01:59:47,600
Speaker 1: with the Panthers. So yeah, those two guys, did you

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01:59:47,680 --> 01:59:49,920
Speaker 1: play this in college? Or how long have you been

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01:59:49,960 --> 01:59:52,320
Speaker 1: playing Fortnite? You said you're good but not You're not great,

2498
01:59:52,360 --> 01:59:54,480
Speaker 1: but not that bad. How long have you been playing

2499
01:59:54,560 --> 01:59:57,920
Speaker 1: this game? I played it towards the end of college,

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01:59:57,960 --> 01:59:59,600
Speaker 1: I think right around the time when it came out.

2501
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:01,360
Speaker 1: Brother was trying to get me the player for the

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02:00:01,440 --> 02:00:04,360
Speaker 1: longest and I played it one time and then the

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02:00:04,440 --> 02:00:07,000
Speaker 1: next thing you know, he's coming home from classes and

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02:00:07,640 --> 02:00:10,240
Speaker 1: I'm in his room playing the game. So I've been

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02:00:10,320 --> 02:00:13,800
Speaker 1: playing for a few years. Now. We're with you, Bill's

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02:00:13,880 --> 02:00:16,920
Speaker 1: Quarterback Kids Gamers Versus Cancer event is about twenty minutes

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02:00:16,960 --> 02:00:18,760
Speaker 1: away now, and I want to ask you what something

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02:00:18,800 --> 02:00:23,080
Speaker 1: you did earlier this spring basically on Instagram put your

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Speaker 1: cell phone number out there and invited fans and anybody

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02:00:25,880 --> 02:00:28,240
Speaker 1: really to call in just to chat. What were you

2511
02:00:28,320 --> 02:00:29,880
Speaker 1: thinking about with it and how did that go over?

2512
02:00:29,960 --> 02:00:34,360
Speaker 1: How many calls did you get? Um? I did it

2513
02:00:34,480 --> 02:00:36,600
Speaker 1: just simply just to connect with people, you know, just

2514
02:00:36,720 --> 02:00:39,680
Speaker 1: to remind people that they're not alone. I'm in my

2515
02:00:39,760 --> 02:00:43,280
Speaker 1: house by myself, and it's easy just to go to

2516
02:00:43,800 --> 02:00:45,200
Speaker 1: a place that you don't want to go to. So

2517
02:00:45,680 --> 02:00:47,320
Speaker 1: once we tal out to Bill's mafia. We have the

2518
02:00:47,400 --> 02:00:49,680
Speaker 1: best fans. They support us, so I not support them

2519
02:00:50,760 --> 02:00:53,640
Speaker 1: and then talk to people everywhere else. I think the

2520
02:00:53,720 --> 02:00:57,480
Speaker 1: furthest I talked to someone was Hawaii, which was great,

2521
02:00:58,600 --> 02:01:00,760
Speaker 1: and you know Bill SAMs are everywhere, so that was

2522
02:01:00,880 --> 02:01:03,960
Speaker 1: built and unique. As far as the number of calls,

2523
02:01:04,040 --> 02:01:11,000
Speaker 1: I got maybe a thousand calls and messages easily. UM,

2524
02:01:12,200 --> 02:01:14,000
Speaker 1: So it was good. I heard a lot of stories,

2525
02:01:14,440 --> 02:01:16,880
Speaker 1: pray for a lot of people, UM and really just

2526
02:01:17,560 --> 02:01:20,000
Speaker 1: connected with them anyways they wanted to, and told them

2527
02:01:20,040 --> 02:01:22,840
Speaker 1: that I was supporting them, just just like they support me.

2528
02:01:22,960 --> 02:01:25,680
Speaker 1: So any calls stand out or how you mentioned the

2529
02:01:25,760 --> 02:01:28,640
Speaker 1: one from Hawaii, Any calls because of their content stand

2530
02:01:28,720 --> 02:01:31,320
Speaker 1: out to you that have affected you that maybe you

2531
02:01:32,080 --> 02:01:35,920
Speaker 1: had more than one conversation with. Yeah, I mean there's

2532
02:01:35,960 --> 02:01:38,160
Speaker 1: there's plenty of uh. You know. I talked to some

2533
02:01:38,360 --> 02:01:41,560
Speaker 1: people who had are going through camp. They do have

2534
02:01:41,680 --> 02:01:44,640
Speaker 1: CAMPA right now or just got out of chemo, UM

2535
02:01:44,800 --> 02:01:48,120
Speaker 1: and their extra isolated, you know, with having the chance

2536
02:01:48,200 --> 02:01:52,480
Speaker 1: of UM catching the coronavirus. So you know, those those

2537
02:01:52,520 --> 02:01:54,680
Speaker 1: touch them in a different way. UM. Talk to some

2538
02:01:54,760 --> 02:01:58,000
Speaker 1: people who are across country away from their families, UM

2539
02:01:59,680 --> 02:02:02,960
Speaker 1: and and that was hard for them and some people

2540
02:02:03,440 --> 02:02:06,520
Speaker 1: who had people directly passed away from the virus. So

2541
02:02:07,400 --> 02:02:09,360
Speaker 1: I did my best to try to connect with everyone

2542
02:02:09,640 --> 02:02:12,440
Speaker 1: and tight for them. We're on the Line Live with

2543
02:02:12,520 --> 02:02:15,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Corner Levin Wallace Leeve. Yeah. Just before we let

2544
02:02:15,760 --> 02:02:18,520
Speaker 1: you go, just a question about how things have changed.

2545
02:02:18,560 --> 02:02:20,920
Speaker 1: Two years ago. You were an undrafted rookie free agent

2546
02:02:20,920 --> 02:02:23,000
Speaker 1: out of Alabama coming up to try to make the

2547
02:02:23,040 --> 02:02:25,480
Speaker 1: Buffalo roster. Can you imagine trying to do that as

2548
02:02:25,520 --> 02:02:29,839
Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie this year without contact, without a offseason

2549
02:02:29,960 --> 02:02:32,160
Speaker 1: rookie program in the building. I mean you you you

2550
02:02:32,320 --> 02:02:35,200
Speaker 1: took advantage of the opportunities presented you a couple of

2551
02:02:35,280 --> 02:02:37,000
Speaker 1: years ago as a rookie to make a good impression,

2552
02:02:37,040 --> 02:02:42,240
Speaker 1: didn't you. Yeah. I mean it's a little different this offseason, UM,

2553
02:02:42,680 --> 02:02:44,880
Speaker 1: And I've reached out to all the rookies and welcome

2554
02:02:44,880 --> 02:02:47,720
Speaker 1: to the team as much as I can. And I

2555
02:02:47,760 --> 02:02:53,960
Speaker 1: think they have the rookie UM training camp coming coming soon.

2556
02:02:54,680 --> 02:02:58,360
Speaker 1: I think it starts Monday. Yeah, yeah, and then they'd

2557
02:02:58,400 --> 02:03:00,640
Speaker 1: be able to dive in with us and you the

2558
02:03:00,760 --> 02:03:02,600
Speaker 1: regular the other guys that have been on the team

2559
02:03:02,600 --> 02:03:05,240
Speaker 1: for a little bit. Sou a little different, But I

2560
02:03:05,320 --> 02:03:07,520
Speaker 1: don't think it should be holding back And think with

2561
02:03:07,560 --> 02:03:09,400
Speaker 1: a group of guys that we have, which is an

2562
02:03:09,440 --> 02:03:13,280
Speaker 1: outstanding group of men, um, we're welcoming them. You know.

2563
02:03:13,720 --> 02:03:15,640
Speaker 1: Does it seem strange to you to be one of

2564
02:03:15,680 --> 02:03:17,680
Speaker 1: the veteran guys now one of the guys who have

2565
02:03:17,840 --> 02:03:19,800
Speaker 1: been a path that you know and all these drafted

2566
02:03:19,880 --> 02:03:22,680
Speaker 1: guys have come in. Although I know it's a virtual

2567
02:03:22,800 --> 02:03:25,160
Speaker 1: world that you're living in now and that communication isn't

2568
02:03:25,240 --> 02:03:28,000
Speaker 1: wasn't what it was when you came in. But is

2569
02:03:28,080 --> 02:03:31,520
Speaker 1: it strange for you to be now a guy who

2570
02:03:31,560 --> 02:03:33,920
Speaker 1: can set an example and maybe mentor a young rookie

2571
02:03:34,080 --> 02:03:37,000
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent as to how to navigate these waters,

2572
02:03:37,080 --> 02:03:40,920
Speaker 1: even though this is a strange offseason. Yeah, I mean

2573
02:03:41,120 --> 02:03:44,320
Speaker 1: time flies, you know, and I remember my rookie years

2574
02:03:44,440 --> 02:03:46,920
Speaker 1: like it was just yesterday. That's what it feels like. Um.

2575
02:03:47,400 --> 02:03:50,240
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do everything that I can to help

2576
02:03:50,280 --> 02:03:52,320
Speaker 1: with the process and those guys. Even though it is

2577
02:03:52,360 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 1: a little bit different, It does so a little weird

2578
02:03:56,440 --> 02:03:59,240
Speaker 1: that I am now a quote unquote that even though

2579
02:03:59,280 --> 02:04:02,560
Speaker 1: it's just my third years. So yeah, and even in

2580
02:04:02,640 --> 02:04:04,960
Speaker 1: your three leave getting set to you know, when you

2581
02:04:05,040 --> 02:04:07,320
Speaker 1: finally do get back to work. Every year, you've had

2582
02:04:07,360 --> 02:04:10,080
Speaker 1: to work hard to win your spot on the team,

2583
02:04:10,120 --> 02:04:12,520
Speaker 1: to win a starting spot last year, right, and it

2584
02:04:12,520 --> 02:04:14,520
Speaker 1: won't be any different this year. They've gone out and

2585
02:04:14,600 --> 02:04:18,040
Speaker 1: grabbed Josh Norman, a veteran guy. They've drafted a cornerback.

2586
02:04:18,120 --> 02:04:20,280
Speaker 1: I mean the competition is always there, at least in

2587
02:04:20,320 --> 02:04:23,160
Speaker 1: your first three years in the league. Huh yeah, I

2588
02:04:23,240 --> 02:04:26,280
Speaker 1: mean that's that's football. I mean if there's not competition,

2589
02:04:26,360 --> 02:04:29,760
Speaker 1: then then there's no sports. So I'm excited. Josh has

2590
02:04:29,760 --> 02:04:32,640
Speaker 1: been a great asset already and having the group um

2591
02:04:33,160 --> 02:04:35,240
Speaker 1: look forwards learning a lot from him in his experience

2592
02:04:35,280 --> 02:04:38,520
Speaker 1: as well, So it'll be good. What's the next step

2593
02:04:38,600 --> 02:04:43,040
Speaker 1: this offseason for the team, UM, not too sure. You know,

2594
02:04:43,120 --> 02:04:47,680
Speaker 1: we're doing the virtual offseason meetings right now, um, which

2595
02:04:47,720 --> 02:04:50,840
Speaker 1: have been good. Like you said, the rookies are coming

2596
02:04:50,880 --> 02:04:52,960
Speaker 1: in and then we'll pick back up with that. So

2597
02:04:53,560 --> 02:04:55,760
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the schedule holds, but I know

2598
02:04:55,840 --> 02:04:57,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna ahead of it as best as we can

2599
02:04:57,600 --> 02:05:00,360
Speaker 1: for the bills. So leave at three o'clock, talk about

2600
02:05:00,360 --> 02:05:02,880
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes a well twenty minutes away. The Gamers Versus

2601
02:05:02,960 --> 02:05:05,840
Speaker 1: Cancer event on Twitch three o'clock and should go for

2602
02:05:05,960 --> 02:05:09,600
Speaker 1: several hours with you and Jordan Poyer and Jaquan Johnson,

2603
02:05:09,680 --> 02:05:12,520
Speaker 1: some MA Alabama teammates. How can people tune in? Where

2604
02:05:12,560 --> 02:05:14,800
Speaker 1: can you see this? Just go on Twitter? Twitch or what?

2605
02:05:14,920 --> 02:05:17,680
Speaker 1: How do they get it? How do they get involved? Yeah?

2606
02:05:17,760 --> 02:05:23,240
Speaker 1: So the links on my all my social media Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, um,

2607
02:05:23,320 --> 02:05:25,960
Speaker 1: they'll be able to click on there and via Twitch,

2608
02:05:26,280 --> 02:05:30,440
Speaker 1: and you also tex for zero six four nine the

2609
02:05:30,520 --> 02:05:33,200
Speaker 1: word Levi. You'll be able to see the link on

2610
02:05:33,280 --> 02:05:35,280
Speaker 1: there and be able to donate to the Marion Cancer

2611
02:05:35,400 --> 02:05:38,240
Speaker 1: Society as well. Okay, we're setting out a link on

2612
02:05:38,320 --> 02:05:41,240
Speaker 1: our Twitter page as well. Will there be uh introductory

2613
02:05:41,760 --> 02:05:44,040
Speaker 1: Fortnite lessons for guys like Steve and I anything like

2614
02:05:44,160 --> 02:05:49,200
Speaker 1: that Fortnite one on one? You know, I'm actually trying

2615
02:05:49,240 --> 02:05:51,120
Speaker 1: to practice right now. I need to practice before I

2616
02:05:51,400 --> 02:05:54,560
Speaker 1: jump on and embarrass myself, so I might need to

2617
02:05:54,600 --> 02:05:58,920
Speaker 1: take that course myself. LEVI best wishes. Thanks for doing this,

2618
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:01,600
Speaker 1: and you're a reminder that everybody can do something including

2619
02:06:01,640 --> 02:06:04,800
Speaker 1: play video games for the cause of cancer. Congratulations and

2620
02:06:04,880 --> 02:06:06,760
Speaker 1: I and I give you a lot of credit for

2621
02:06:06,880 --> 02:06:10,160
Speaker 1: pulling this off. I'll appreciate that. Thank you, guys, have

2622
02:06:10,240 --> 02:06:14,280
Speaker 1: a great day. Thanks Levi Wallace, buffal those quarterbacks starting

2623
02:06:14,360 --> 02:06:17,000
Speaker 1: cornerback last year. I went into his third year. Yet

2624
02:06:17,080 --> 02:06:19,400
Speaker 1: there's competition, but he said that's the nature of the game.

2625
02:06:19,680 --> 02:06:22,280
Speaker 1: He started all sixteen games last year for the Bills.

2626
02:06:23,000 --> 02:06:24,640
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it past him to do it against

2627
02:06:24,640 --> 02:06:26,480
Speaker 1: Steve I gotta I gotta say it. Well, the Bills

2628
02:06:26,560 --> 02:06:32,200
Speaker 1: got Kevin who was it that that was right behind

2629
02:06:32,320 --> 02:06:36,760
Speaker 1: him last year? Kevin Johnson they brought in who was

2630
02:06:36,760 --> 02:06:39,280
Speaker 1: a first round draft pick from the Houston Texans who

2631
02:06:39,400 --> 02:06:41,160
Speaker 1: came in so you know, he had some physical gifts,

2632
02:06:41,200 --> 02:06:44,320
Speaker 1: and Levi Wallace held him off. Now he's they're bringing

2633
02:06:44,360 --> 02:06:47,320
Speaker 1: in Josh Norman and E. J. Gaines back, guys who

2634
02:06:47,400 --> 02:06:49,600
Speaker 1: have played in this defensive system. They're bringing them back

2635
02:06:49,640 --> 02:06:51,160
Speaker 1: to see if they can do it, and we'll see

2636
02:06:51,200 --> 02:06:52,840
Speaker 1: if he can. I wouldn't be surprised if he holds

2637
02:06:52,880 --> 02:06:56,800
Speaker 1: them off as well. Yeah, it's just guys like Levi

2638
02:06:56,960 --> 02:07:00,720
Speaker 1: Wallace have a knack for surviving and for doing what

2639
02:07:00,800 --> 02:07:03,200
Speaker 1: it takes to stay on the team and to be

2640
02:07:03,360 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 1: a contributor. And the Bills are lucky to have him.

2641
02:07:06,200 --> 02:07:08,360
Speaker 1: They feel lucky to have him. He was a great

2642
02:07:08,440 --> 02:07:11,840
Speaker 1: signing when he came over, uh from out of Alabama,

2643
02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:15,480
Speaker 1: and man, oh man, he's just stuck around and good

2644
02:07:15,520 --> 02:07:18,400
Speaker 1: for him. It's he's been a real, real great story

2645
02:07:18,480 --> 02:07:20,600
Speaker 1: for the Bill's roster over the last couple of seasons. Yeah,

2646
02:07:20,600 --> 02:07:22,080
Speaker 1: I root for him. I do. I root for him.

2647
02:07:22,400 --> 02:07:26,520
Speaker 1: This year, you know I did get Yeah, it's been

2648
02:07:26,600 --> 02:07:28,640
Speaker 1: great on our show. He's been on a bunch of times. Yep,

2649
02:07:28,880 --> 02:07:31,840
Speaker 1: good man, and he's getting after the three o'clock today,

2650
02:07:31,840 --> 02:07:35,160
Speaker 1: he's brushing up on his fortnite prowess because at three

2651
02:07:35,160 --> 02:07:39,640
Speaker 1: o'clock today, UH Gamers Versus Cancer, Levi Wallace, Jordan Poyer

2652
02:07:39,640 --> 02:07:42,480
Speaker 1: will get involved, the Jaquan Johnson will get involved, some

2653
02:07:42,600 --> 02:07:45,760
Speaker 1: of his Alabama teammates. And if you're looking for information,

2654
02:07:46,160 --> 02:07:48,680
Speaker 1: if you go to One Bills Live on Twitter. We

2655
02:07:49,640 --> 02:07:53,080
Speaker 1: sent out the link for Levi Wallace. He'll tell you

2656
02:07:53,160 --> 02:07:55,520
Speaker 1: exactly how to join out. You can donate to fight cancer.

2657
02:07:55,960 --> 02:07:59,800
Speaker 1: UH Gamers Versus Cancer. Proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.

2658
02:08:00,080 --> 02:08:01,320
Speaker 1: All Right, we got a break here and then we're

2659
02:08:01,360 --> 02:08:04,000
Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This is

2660
02:08:04,080 --> 02:08:16,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All Right, what have we learned? It

2661
02:08:16,320 --> 02:08:19,120
Speaker 1: is brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment

2662
02:08:19,160 --> 02:08:21,920
Speaker 1: rental company, and the Buffalo Bills. Mel kiper Junior on

2663
02:08:21,960 --> 02:08:23,800
Speaker 1: the show at one o'clock today. I think he's still

2664
02:08:23,880 --> 02:08:28,000
Speaker 1: talking about as fast as he can't digging bread and

2665
02:08:28,040 --> 02:08:31,920
Speaker 1: drugging a breath. Yet he was amazing among He thinks

2666
02:08:31,960 --> 02:08:34,720
Speaker 1: that Bills are gonna win twelve. He thinks Josh Allen

2667
02:08:34,840 --> 02:08:36,480
Speaker 1: is scheduled to be a good quarterback, one of the

2668
02:08:36,520 --> 02:08:40,040
Speaker 1: best in the league. And he thinks Zach Moss, Buffalo's

2669
02:08:40,080 --> 02:08:42,480
Speaker 1: third round draft pick, will be an instant impact player.

2670
02:08:42,560 --> 02:08:45,440
Speaker 1: Here's mel kiper so two positions that you could immediate

2671
02:08:45,520 --> 02:08:49,560
Speaker 1: return normally. Normally it's never perfect, but most nine out

2672
02:08:49,600 --> 02:08:51,480
Speaker 1: of ten, eight out of ten times running backs give

2673
02:08:51,520 --> 02:08:53,080
Speaker 1: him the ball and let him go. It's the only

2674
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:54,880
Speaker 1: position where you can be as good as a rookie

2675
02:08:54,920 --> 02:08:56,600
Speaker 1: as you will be in year four, year five, if

2676
02:08:56,640 --> 02:08:58,800
Speaker 1: not better as a rookie, and long as you can block,

2677
02:08:58,840 --> 02:09:00,480
Speaker 1: if you can't believe you can, and all that you're

2678
02:09:00,480 --> 02:09:02,120
Speaker 1: gonna get on the field. You can catch, you can run,

2679
02:09:02,200 --> 02:09:04,760
Speaker 1: you don't fumble, and you block that will get you

2680
02:09:04,840 --> 02:09:06,240
Speaker 1: on the field and you'll be over able to go

2681
02:09:06,440 --> 02:09:08,440
Speaker 1: and go and go, and we saw it with Devin

2682
02:09:08,480 --> 02:09:09,760
Speaker 1: if he then, you know, he had the little issue

2683
02:09:09,800 --> 02:09:11,960
Speaker 1: early on with the minor injury, came back from a local,

2684
02:09:12,080 --> 02:09:14,040
Speaker 1: he sparked that team, and he's fit right in. He'd

2685
02:09:14,040 --> 02:09:15,760
Speaker 1: looked like a rookie at any point in the season,

2686
02:09:15,800 --> 02:09:17,320
Speaker 1: he did not look like a rookie. So and that

2687
02:09:17,440 --> 02:09:18,840
Speaker 1: same thing with a lot of these running back So

2688
02:09:21,120 --> 02:09:24,840
Speaker 1: that's Melk Piper Junior talking about the Bills and Zack

2689
02:09:24,920 --> 02:09:29,320
Speaker 1: Moss also today, earlier this hour, Pete Prisco, senior NFL

2690
02:09:29,400 --> 02:09:32,400
Speaker 1: writer for CBS sports dot Com. He has the Bills

2691
02:09:32,480 --> 02:09:36,480
Speaker 1: now up to number five on CBS Sports offseason power rankings.

2692
02:09:36,560 --> 02:09:39,120
Speaker 1: Here's what Prisco said about that. Look, I think when

2693
02:09:39,160 --> 02:09:42,160
Speaker 1: you look at that division, Dolphins are rebuild a mode. Yeah,

2694
02:09:42,160 --> 02:09:43,800
Speaker 1: they're moving in the right direction. I think they're a

2695
02:09:43,880 --> 02:09:46,480
Speaker 1: year away. How do they handle the quarterback situation? The

2696
02:09:46,640 --> 02:09:49,440
Speaker 1: Jets have a lot of holes on their roster and

2697
02:09:49,600 --> 02:09:52,200
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold hasn't played as well as Josh Allen, Let's

2698
02:09:52,200 --> 02:09:54,440
Speaker 1: be honest about it. And then what are the Patriots doing?

2699
02:09:54,960 --> 02:09:58,000
Speaker 1: Is Stidham the long term answer to be determined? It

2700
02:09:58,040 --> 02:10:00,480
Speaker 1: sure looks like he is. But that's a tough situation.

2701
02:10:00,680 --> 02:10:02,720
Speaker 1: Rim So, I think they're the best team in the

2702
02:10:02,800 --> 02:10:05,520
Speaker 1: division and right now. And I think they're going to

2703
02:10:05,560 --> 02:10:09,760
Speaker 1: be a really feisty, tough defensive team. And and and

2704
02:10:09,920 --> 02:10:12,120
Speaker 1: if Alan can you know, throw the ball a little

2705
02:10:12,160 --> 02:10:14,800
Speaker 1: bit better, which I think you can, I think they're

2706
02:10:14,800 --> 02:10:17,200
Speaker 1: gonna be really good. They by the way, in the playoffs,

2707
02:10:17,280 --> 02:10:18,760
Speaker 1: as much as I'd like to seeing him throw the

2708
02:10:18,800 --> 02:10:21,720
Speaker 1: ball around, you know, you know, in that overtime, might

2709
02:10:21,800 --> 02:10:23,839
Speaker 1: have tried to run the ball a little bit in overtime.

2710
02:10:23,920 --> 02:10:27,040
Speaker 1: I might have worked a little bit better. Pete Prisco

2711
02:10:27,160 --> 02:10:30,440
Speaker 1: of CBA Sports two guests today, Steve, both national guys.

2712
02:10:30,760 --> 02:10:33,480
Speaker 1: Both of them encourage you to tap the brakes a

2713
02:10:33,520 --> 02:10:35,200
Speaker 1: little bit, right They want you you felt like you

2714
02:10:35,280 --> 02:10:37,120
Speaker 1: needed to tap the brakes after the year. In those

2715
02:10:37,200 --> 02:10:40,040
Speaker 1: two yeah, melt Khyber tune your twelve wins for the Bills.

2716
02:10:40,080 --> 02:10:42,760
Speaker 1: And Pete Prisco's thinks they're gonna win eleven. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's you know, it may you know, let's

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Speaker 1: just we don't even know how many games are going

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Speaker 1: to be in the season yet. Let's just tap the

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Speaker 1: brakes a little bit as to what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: But they are very high on the roster, very high

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Speaker 1: on the Bills, and like all of it, they say exponentially,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be way better. Every little increment that Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen plays better, it's going to have an exponential effect

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Speaker 1: on the rest of the team. And I agree with

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Speaker 1: him that in that regard. Our Twitter poll today deals

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Speaker 1: with the schedule and the schedules coming out Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: not too far away. We asked our listeners how many

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Speaker 1: prime time games you want to see for the Bills

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Speaker 1: this season? Fifty percent half of you, of eight hundred

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Speaker 1: forty vote, fifty percent say you want to see two,

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Speaker 1: forty percent say you want to see three or more,

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Speaker 1: and only ten percent say one is enough. Interesting Steve,

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Speaker 1: when we also got into home away that sort of thing,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of good discussion today, I thought, huh yeah,

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Speaker 1: and there's still a lot of We had a great

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Speaker 1: debate you and I about how they would work having

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Speaker 1: few fans in, you know, just letting one out of

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Speaker 1: every four fans into the stadium, if they could keep

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Speaker 1: the social distancing apart, and how it would work with

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Speaker 1: the teams and the expenses and if it would actually

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Speaker 1: really happen. I'm I'm in the camp that says that's

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Speaker 1: never gonna happen with just twenty five percent of the

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Speaker 1: fans in the stadium. I think they'll play with no

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Speaker 1: fans before they try and logistically work that. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I agree with that, but we'll talk more

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Speaker 1: about that. We got time to talk about a production assistance.

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Speaker 1: Kelly Brood, j j Rito, Kevin Cargis, James Robol, Our

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Speaker 1: board ops Brayton Wilson and Joe Debiance and our producer

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris. Steve. Have a good evening. We'll talk again

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon. Good stuff, Murph talked to you then,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and me back tomorrow at noon with one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Line presented by Klina Health Radio Only tomorrow. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio.