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Speaker 1: Oh, good time, Steve Tasper sextime sextant textsto times. Now

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Speaker 1: we got something to talk about. Hello, they're welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Now we're good. Now we're guys. Have to

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Speaker 1: talk about Welcome to Orchard Park. A half second before

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Speaker 1: we come in the air, we came up with something

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Speaker 1: to talk about. That's right where we roll. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: on it today, sunny day. What do you think the

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Speaker 1: temperature is, Steve? But I think it's forty seven. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna look it up because we're finally I believe we've

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Speaker 1: to make sure that we coincide. Do you think it's

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Speaker 1: what I said? Forty seven? But it's forty three? I

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Speaker 1: got forty two online. Yeah, it's sunny and it's forty

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Speaker 1: you're gonna maybe get up near fifty. But don't you

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Speaker 1: think don't you feel like we prosily the threshold. We're

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Speaker 1: in the spring though, right, Yeah, I think we're on

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Speaker 1: the with it's a little snow on my lawn. We're

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Speaker 1: in the spring. Yeah, you know there's still snow like

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Speaker 1: under bushes and stuff like that, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: a but yeah, it was yesterday was a breath of

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Speaker 1: fresh air finally, and he kind of kind of breaking

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Speaker 1: them in the action there. All right, here's what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about. ReCore, you win in the air. If you've

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Speaker 1: watched the MSG video version of our show, you know

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Speaker 1: we start with a clip from Steve Taskers illustrious playing career,

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Speaker 1: and he makes a tackle. It was a famous tackle

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Speaker 1: on RAMS return specialist Vernon Turner, the returner, Vernon Turner.

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Speaker 1: Why was that such a big deal? I know it's

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Speaker 1: a big deal. I can't remember why it was. There

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Speaker 1: was some historic significance to that particular hit, or just

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Speaker 1: because of the hit you just sit No, I don't know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: just just because of the hit. It was the first

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Speaker 1: punt of that season, Okay, opening day, then the game

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Speaker 1: when lofton that's right, Okay, record that's right, seventeen thousandth

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Speaker 1: yard or something, right, And uh Andy, we're sitting here

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Speaker 1: and we we hear that same clip and you people

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Speaker 1: on the radio hear it, you know, Van Miller's voice saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: great tackle by Steve Tasker. Blah blah blah. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if we can there's a little video showed it again,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about here. It's Steve's hit, as he said,

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Speaker 1: first punt of the game, open, first part of the season,

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Speaker 1: opening day against the Rams. Against the Rams and ninety two.

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Speaker 1: Vernon Turner one of the better return men in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, get catches this punt. It's a punt, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Steve just drills him. You think that be a

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Speaker 1: look at the boys pulling that video up. Do you

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Speaker 1: would be a crown of the helmet everything. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: hurt too, kind of set the tone for we've listened

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Speaker 1: to it for the what he's got a hundredth time

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Speaker 1: doing the show. And you mentioned of Vernon Turner, and

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Speaker 1: I said, Vernon's a friend of mine. We're friendly. He

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Speaker 1: year or two before that, and uh, and I knew

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Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna fair catch it because I knew him,

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Speaker 1: and so I got, I timed it up, hit him

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Speaker 1: and then so later on is live now he wrote

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Speaker 1: in his autobiography is that hit a whole chapter, a

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Speaker 1: whole chapter. What did he say about it? Did you?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It was good. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was a nice hot day. Yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 1: It was really a hot September, like early September. That

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Speaker 1: might have been before they even started moving the opening

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Speaker 1: So it might have been you know, it might have

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Speaker 1: And in fact, he was in talks to have somebody

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a tradition. And now they moved it off

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Speaker 1: but they here's the thing. They start two weeks or

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Speaker 1: and here's here's the kicker. This is the one you

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Speaker 1: always poo poo, and this is a it's a brilliant idea.

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Speaker 1: This is a brilliant idea. Go ahead. I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: So the league, so the NFLPA that you just say no,

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Speaker 1: regular seasons. And my contention was no, no, no, you

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Speaker 1: So your season is the same, plus with more time

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Speaker 1: and I feel for the millennials, the younger people who

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Speaker 1: we can guess they'll be on the field in a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, but I don't think they'll be lining

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Speaker 1: up in positions in a couple of weeks. But they'll

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Speaker 1: be on the field for offseason conditioning, which is you know,

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Speaker 1: vanilla as it gets. But it's it's it's hard to

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Speaker 1: say that they have. You know, they made a ton

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Speaker 1: of signings here, most of them on the offensive side

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Speaker 1: of the ball. I'm just not at the point yet

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Speaker 1: where I can say fixed done, which is why I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't rule out, you know, saying that they've done enough

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Speaker 1: they don't have to worry about offense. My point about

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Speaker 1: it Dallas's offensive line back when Dak Prescott was a

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Speaker 1: rookie and Zeke Elliott was a rookie. That's a team

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Speaker 1: that went twelve and four with a rookie quarterback and

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Speaker 1: Zeke Elliot running the football behind an offensive line that

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Speaker 1: was dominant. And they lost both guards from that offensive line.

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Speaker 1: They have not been the same since. They have struggled

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Speaker 1: ever since. You can say which you want. People point

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Speaker 1: the finger at Dak Prescott and they point the finger

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Speaker 1: at Zeke Elliott and his suspensions and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I think the reason was the guys upfront, and I

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Speaker 1: think the Bills sense that that how important that is

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Speaker 1: as well. And I think they're making bold moves to

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Speaker 1: fix it. And it's interesting too. One of the reasons

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Speaker 1: you think, well, maybe it is it's got to be

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Speaker 1: an upgrade some of these guys. All these guys that

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Speaker 1: they've signed are guys that other teams wanted to play

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Speaker 1: for them. These aren't just guys that are on the

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Speaker 1: street midway through the season who didn't find a job

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Speaker 1: or got released from their team and haven't been picked

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Speaker 1: up yet. These are guys that are on the free

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Speaker 1: agent market that teams were actively wooing to come play

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Speaker 1: for them, and the Bills want out in some of

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Speaker 1: these cases. So it's they're getting some guys that can

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Speaker 1: really play, have some recent success, and really good credentials

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Speaker 1: to come in and take over at starting spot wherever

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Speaker 1: it may be across the board on offensive line of

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Speaker 1: the Bill. So it's fun to think that they've gotten better,

463
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Speaker 1: but to say that it's done, like our Twitter pool suggests,

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to do that yet. I think I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna see a couple more names, and I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna get in this draft at least one,

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Speaker 1: and I think one of those first two years at

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Speaker 1: nine or at forty, if they stay at those spots,

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills are going to pick one of

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Speaker 1: these guys an offensive lineman. Really I do with six

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Speaker 1: editions in free agent, I think they're gonna pick a

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman in an offensive lineman. You might be right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I don't know anything. But

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Speaker 1: that's today right here, sitting with you, we're having this

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll. That's my call. Twitter poll. Tomorrow, I can

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Speaker 1: change my mind. I'll say something else. But the rule,

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Speaker 1: there are no rule. There are the Bills done enough

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Speaker 1: to revafter offense? What do you think eight h three

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty or sending a tweet or voting

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Speaker 1: on Twitter poll? We take a call here Merritt in lockboard.

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Speaker 1: Hello Merritt, you're on the air. Hi, guys, thanks for

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Speaker 1: taking my call. I sincerely appreciate it. Sure. Reason for

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Speaker 1: my call is I just wanted to make a comment

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Speaker 1: on Steve Tasker's hit against the Saint Lewis back in

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Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, and I just wanted to give you

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Speaker 1: a view from the stand, so to speak. My wife

488
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Speaker 1: and I were there, and we were there for all

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Speaker 1: all the years that the Bills went to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and that you're in particular kind of the off season

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Speaker 1: was based around the facts, uh, or the question as

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Speaker 1: to whether the Bills handed in him again. And I remember, well,

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Speaker 1: beautiful day, nothing better than a day in Buffalo for football.

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Speaker 1: And during that punt there were only two people on

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Speaker 1: the field, Steve Tasker and the receiver for Saint Louis.

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Speaker 1: And when that was Los Angeles by the way, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was LA. Yeah, but go ahead, great, go ahead

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Speaker 1: mark uh. But when when when Tasker hit him, the

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Speaker 1: sound of that hit so great that it stopped everyone

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Speaker 1: from fearing as to whether the Bills can do it again.

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Speaker 1: And for myself and I think the other eighty thousand

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Speaker 1: in the stands that day, we knew that it was

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Speaker 1: gonna happen again. And it was a wonderful and terrific

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Speaker 1: And every time see it brings back to save memories

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Speaker 1: and loved it. Well, that's a great story. That's nice. Mary.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard that. I never really equated it with that,

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Speaker 1: but that's kind of nice. That's we see that every

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Speaker 1: day at the side of the show. But I think

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Speaker 1: we take it for grant. Mary is talking about two seves.

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Speaker 1: What at the point I was trying to make that

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Speaker 1: hit early in that game, that was a tone setter

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Speaker 1: on opening day. You said the first punt of the game, right,

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Speaker 1: first punt of the season, of the season, Like he said,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of questions going into that year.

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Speaker 1: We'd been to two Super Bowls and gotten our heads cape. Well,

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Speaker 1: we lost the first one closed and lost the second

517
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Speaker 1: one pretty to a really good team and double digit loss.

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Speaker 1: So it was some questions coming in. That hit kind

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Speaker 1: of I'm not saying that ended the season, not opening day,

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Speaker 1: but it did set a tone. You know, it was like, boom,

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Speaker 1: they're back there, they're back. The same group that went

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Speaker 1: to those two super Bowls is back to do it again. Look,

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Speaker 1: by the way, you when you watch the video again

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Speaker 1: on MSG, God bless Vernon Turner. He gets hit hard,

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Speaker 1: bounces right up and even as apprentice of mine to

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Speaker 1: turn around and take a look at you. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: was that who I thought it was? You know, that's

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Speaker 1: what's going through. Yeah, it was good, It was fun.

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Speaker 1: It was fun. I felt I think I felt that

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Speaker 1: hit worse than he did. I really. Yeah. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: very good tackle. I hit him with too high on

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Speaker 1: the top of my head and my head went down.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of dangerous. I should have had my

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Speaker 1: eyes up a little better. That hit was so good

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Speaker 1: and so definitive. They would definitely throw a flag on it. Today,

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Speaker 1: the way they officiate games, it just looks violent. They'd

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Speaker 1: be like, oh, something must have been wrong their flag. Well,

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Speaker 1: I hit him at the top of my helmet, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I did hit him low, like in the chest.

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Speaker 1: They didn't hit him high, so they would have thrown

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Speaker 1: a flag. They would have bound something I don't we

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Speaker 1: should ask, should ask Mike Perreri getting back here? Would

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Speaker 1: you throw Steve out of this game? Rolland here? I

544
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Speaker 1: want to know from you. I have The Bills don't

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Speaker 1: enough to revamp the offense. They signed yet another offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman today, Quentin Spain. There's six offensive lines signing over

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Speaker 1: the last five weeks. Have they done enough? Now? I'm

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Speaker 1: the offense. Give us a call. Let's discuss eighth three

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty. John Murphy was deep tasker. We're just getting

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Speaker 1: started in Chard Park. It's One Bill's Live from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive, and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. A goo

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Speaker 1: back to the show is One Bills Live. John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker from one Bills Drive here until three o'clock

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Speaker 1: today with a couple of good guests coming up. Jack Lawson,

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Speaker 1: Bills defensive end, going to join this at one o'clock,

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Speaker 1: two o'clock. Rick Genteel from the Seaton Hall Sports Pole Group.

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Speaker 1: They've done in a very interesting poll. We'll talk more

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Speaker 1: about that as the afternoon rolls along. Got a good

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Speaker 1: question on the Twitter poll. One we'd like to discuss

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Speaker 1: with you. So the Bills signed Quentin Spain, offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: forty eight starts in four years with the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: Now he's a Buffalo Bill. Six offensive linemen signed by

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Speaker 1: the Bills in free agency. Six fifteen free agents signed

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Speaker 1: in all by the Buffalo Bills. I believe that numbers right,

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Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen. Have they done enough to help the offense?

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Eight oh three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight five. I want to read you

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Speaker 1: this stuff. We've been talking about the AAF. We had

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Speaker 1: Andrew Brandton during the weeked and he talked about yesterday

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Speaker 1: when they started to suspend football operation. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: a big deal around the football landscape. When he got

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Speaker 1: this league that looked so good and we had some

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Speaker 1: things going for it. All of the sudden folds its

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Speaker 1: tents up. And this is from our friend, your friend,

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Speaker 1: my friend Bill Pollyan, former Buffalo Bill's GM and he's

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Speaker 1: the Alliance of American Football co founder along with Charlie Ebersol.

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Speaker 1: Here's what Bill Pollian had his statement from yesterday, and

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Speaker 1: he said, quote, I am extremely disappointed to learn Tom

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Speaker 1: Dundon has decided to suspend all football operations of the

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Speaker 1: Alliance of American Football. When mister Dundon took over, it

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Speaker 1: was the belief of my co founder, Charlie Ebersol and

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Speaker 1: myself that we would finish the season, pay our creditors,

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Speaker 1: and make the necessary adjustments to move forward in a

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Speaker 1: manner that made economic sense for all. I sincerely regret

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Speaker 1: that many that believed in this project will see their

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Speaker 1: hopes and efforts unrewarded. They gave their best, for which

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Speaker 1: I am deeply grateful. Unfortunately, mister Dundon has elected this

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Speaker 1: course of action. So there's it's not all sprinkles and

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Speaker 1: rainbows at the top of the AAF. Bill Polian's really

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Speaker 1: and I know Charlie Ebersolt is too. They are really

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Speaker 1: unhappy with Tom Dundon, because there's really no reason to

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Speaker 1: suspend operations other than the fact that he just didn't

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Speaker 1: get anything out of it, not that he didn't get

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Speaker 1: anything out of it, that he just decided to do

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Speaker 1: it on a whim. Nothing had significantly changed from the

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Speaker 1: time he pledged the two hundred and fifty million dollars

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Speaker 1: till the time he suspended operations. He gave it one

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Speaker 1: more week and then just did it. He just pulled

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Speaker 1: the plug. Nothing significantly had changed. And don't believe this stuff,

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Speaker 1: and I've done some checking as well, don't believe this

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Speaker 1: stuff about how the NFLPA was not cooperating with the

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Speaker 1: AAF to give them players. There's nothing about the fifty third,

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Speaker 1: fifty four, fifty sixth player on an NFL roster that

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Speaker 1: is going to make that league or break it from

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Speaker 1: a football Since the football was going to remain competitive

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Speaker 1: and it was going to continue to function the way

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Speaker 1: it has been. It's getting television raisings that rival the

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Speaker 1: other major sports in the league. Not the NFL, but

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Speaker 1: it was rivaling the NBA and the NHL in their ratings.

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Speaker 1: So I nothing has significantly changed. And the gentleman who

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Speaker 1: bought control of the league decided just to shut it down.

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Speaker 1: That I do not know. There's speculation that one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons he took took the league was to get

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Speaker 1: the technology they have branded for in game betting, for

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Speaker 1: the gambling. There's an app that went with the AAF

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Speaker 1: that the AF was using with technology and live streaming

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Speaker 1: of players in their positions that would allow gambling to

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Speaker 1: be very quick, very concise, and ongoing throughout a game.

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Speaker 1: That lured a lot of interest in the league and

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Speaker 1: I And there's speculation that this Tom Dundon saw that,

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Speaker 1: liked what it looked like and wanted to buy that

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Speaker 1: along with the league, and the league was secondary to

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Speaker 1: his desire to own that technology. So he had to

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Speaker 1: come in just two weeks into their first season, their

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Speaker 1: inaugural season, to bail them out. Right, they were in

627
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Speaker 1: danger of missing payroll, but they got that money and

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Speaker 1: then they didn't. They last until a week eight right,

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Speaker 1: two games. Well, he didn't he didn't spend all the

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Speaker 1: money he pledged. He spent a third of it. They

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Speaker 1: spent a third of it, maybe a littless than a

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Speaker 1: third of it, right, And and he went through what

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Speaker 1: the numbers I saw he went through about seventy million

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Speaker 1: dollars of it and the rest of it. They would

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Speaker 1: have gotten to the end of this season easily, and

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Speaker 1: now they're not. No, not and that's that's that's too bad.

637
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: There was a lot of high hopes for this league.

638
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: I think one of the things you and I were

639
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: talking about this one of the things about this league

640
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: that I noticed that I had taken for granted. It

641
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: was totally under the radar. One of the reasons the

642
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: NFL is the eight hundred pound gorilla is they are

643
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: constantly promoted on ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, Sports Network, this show, Radio,

644
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: sports radio across the country has programming completely dedicated to

645
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: and full of NFL content. They talk about it, they

646
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: put stories out about it, they put videos out about it,

647
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: they blog about it. Every platform in the in the

648
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: United States that does anything on sports touches and talks

649
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: about the NFL that did not happen with the AF.

650
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: NFL has starts. That's right. For whatever reason, the AAF

651
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: didn't get any of that free promotion. You didn't see

652
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: any of their stuff on Good Morning Football on ESPN,

653
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: Wake Up, on all the sports shows, a sports center.

654
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: You'd see maybe a blurb or something about it. They

655
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: did not get the constant commercializing of their product through

656
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: talking about it by sports programs, radio, TV, Internet, what

657
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: have you. So the league was basically four hours on today,

658
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: four hours on Sunday, boom done from Monday through Friday.

659
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: You got no extra attention given to the league and

660
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: so it kind of was all there. It got off

661
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: the radar. People didn't know, And I think that's one

662
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: of the things that I that surprised me when I

663
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: thought about it. It seems obvious, but you forget the NFL, man,

664
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:25,479
Speaker 1: it generates its own promotion. I mean, it's constantly at

665
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: the forefront of every television sports program, every sports broadcast,

666
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: every blog, every website has an NFL page, all of it,

667
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: all of it. And they don't pay for that. They

668
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: don't have to pay for any of that. Yeah, stars, Yeah,

669
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to think. I do think this.

670
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of our audience adopted the

671
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: Alliance of American Football. You know, did you ever get

672
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: that sense that Buffalo Bills fans, Buffalo sports fans were saying, oh,

673
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: who's on the Alliance tonight on the NFL network? Oh,

674
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: we got Arizona in Atlanta. I'm gonna watch that game. Yeah,

675
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: you know what I did nowhere near that. Now, I

676
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: watched it. You know what the mindset I watched it

677
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: with was I want somebody to grab my attention. Yeah,

678
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: see what you got? You know, nobody ever did, right? No,

679
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: I mean I watched early on the week or two

680
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: thinking who do I know? You know, who's who's playing,

681
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: who's coaching? That maybe passed through here or I know

682
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: a little bit, And there weren't very many, to be

683
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: honest with you. You know, the guys who are legitimate

684
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,719
Speaker 1: NFL prospects are in the NFL right now on rosters,

685
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, ninety man rosters. Here's the other important thing

686
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: is the XFL is coming and is Andrew Brandt pointed

687
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: out to us yesterday, the XFL seems to have a

688
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: better financial setup with one man, Vince McMahon controlling the

689
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: purse strings, they might be in it for a little

690
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: bit longer. Plus with your buddy Oliver Luck in charge,

691
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: right is he the commissioner? Yes, yeah, they might have

692
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: a better setup and maybe we'll be able to make

693
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: it work. But it's the only reason I bemoaned the

694
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: suspension to play for the Alliance is that the league,

695
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: the NFL needs a developmental league. They need a developmental forum.

696
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: That seemed to me like the best opportunity to have

697
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: a developmental league with the people involved, you know, Phil Savage,

698
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: Bill Polly and Steve Spurrier's coaching, Yeah, Mike Singletarry. They

699
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys, and that's Mike March, not

700
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: Mike McCarty. As we said yesterday. If they don't make it,

701
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: who does. Maybe the XFL does, just because it seems

702
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: like the financial structure will be set up better and

703
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: maybe they'll be better on TV. I don't know. It's

704
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: a great example of you don't see it all that often,

705
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: although it happens, I guess a lot in business, but

706
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: in sports, you don't see it. We're one guy at

707
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: the top makes a decision and it affects every The

708
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: whole thing comes crashing down, and it's whatever motivated Tom

709
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: Dundon to do this. You know, there's eight teams of

710
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: fifty guys, four hundred guys plus probably one hundred and

711
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: fifty coaches who are out done. The Alliance has been

712
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 1: around since February tenth. They started playing on February tenth,

713
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: so almost two months on this have we ever had

714
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: one caller, one tweeter raised any issue about the Alliance

715
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: of American Football. It's not on the radar, not on

716
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: anybody's radar, And I think that takes time, I think,

717
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: and it also takes a little help from you know,

718
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: the sports media and the NFL to say, hey, we

719
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 1: you know, we're looking at this and we think it's important,

720
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: and then have people blatch onto it that way. Yeah,

721
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: but there is a desperate need, I believe for developmental forum, look,

722
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: not just for players, but for officials, for rules, you know,

723
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: a place to test out rules changes. It was right

724
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: there for him, a close association with the NFL and

725
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: the Alliance that is now short circuited with the collapse

726
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: of the Alliance of American Football. It's a missed opportunity,

727
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: I feel, and as you pointed out, mostly because of

728
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 1: the guy with the money, Tom Dundon. Dundon, Yeah, decided

729
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: that he didn't want to throw all that money at

730
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: him during to fifty million was the announcement back in

731
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: late February. Pledged that didn't have to give it right away.

732
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: He didn't give it right away. And I understand Bill

733
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,439
Speaker 1: Polian's point two. And you know, you see all kinds

734
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: of reaction from players in the league and coaches in

735
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: the league, like, man, we had something good going on here.

736
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: We had a pretty good group, We had a pretty

737
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: good plan, We had pretty good we played some pretty

738
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: good games. We had decent crowds, not great, we had

739
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: decent television ratings. I think the feeling was among Poleon

740
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: and the people in the league, you know, we're taking

741
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: the first step here and we're gonna be okay. And

742
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: then the financial they kind of had the rug pulled

743
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: down from underneath it with the financial backing. Here's the

744
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: thing too, you had to think it was going to

745
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: get better because if that league was successful, dead guys

746
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: that came out, and then all of a sudden, you

747
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: started sprinkling those guys in this next summer and this

748
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: next fall, where you got, well, he's in the AAF

749
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: this last year, this guy was in the AF, that

750
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: guy was in the AF, and he's now you know

751
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, and then you get those guys

752
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: sprinkled in. It gets on their radar, people's radar, and

753
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: they okay, and then it becomes here comes another lap

754
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 1: and here we're gonna get them do it again. Okay,

755
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: so now this time I'm gonna watch a little bit

756
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 1: more there here again here it comes to Birmingham. Iron

757
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: I remember these guys. We'll see it. So it gets

758
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: more routine and more part of the count. The sports

759
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: cow people fitted in. One of the things too. We

760
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: spoke about Andrew Brant yesterday with the AF. They were

761
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: battling against one of the all time great NC Double

762
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 1: A men's basketball tournaments of all time in the ratings,

763
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 1: and they were one of the same time virtually, you know.

764
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: So it's hard to get people to watch your sport

765
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: in the AF when you got this nca basketball March

766
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: Madness thing going and it's off the charts fun. So

767
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: they were up against it in the ratings battle that

768
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: way over these last couple of weekends as well. So

769
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: that's another thing that was stacked against them unexpectedly. I

770
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: think rip the Alliance of American Football. I think we've

771
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: heard the last of them, But we'll see, we'll see

772
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: if they can resurrect maybe next year. Hey, if the

773
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 1: Bill's done enough to revamp their offense. That's the topic

774
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: of the day because the bill signed another offensive lineman,

775
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: number six over the last of five weeks or so,

776
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 1: sixteen signings since free agency began five or six weeks ago,

777
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: and the Bill's six free agent offensive lineman amazing. What

778
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: do you think if they've done enough to revamp the offense?

779
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: Let's hear from you eight three five fifty two three

780
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two fifty or on

781
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet Jeffrey Oman on the tweet sheet, have

782
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: the Bills done enough to revamp their offense? He says, no,

783
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: but that's what the draft is for. They're missing a

784
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: big body above the rim wide receiver, he says. I

785
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: like Hikim Butler, a young, do it all running back.

786
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: I like Hikeem's Iowa Stay teammate David Montgomery, another tight

787
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: end for the room Hawkinson Smith Steinberger, and a developmental

788
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: offensive tackle candidate. We told you they're talking to a

789
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: developmental candidate or watching a developmental offensive line candidate today

790
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: out west of Washington State and Dillard. But yeah, I

791
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,959
Speaker 1: think he makes good points. Steven look a big body

792
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: above the rim wide receiver that'd be great to add.

793
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: Is that guy in the draft? I don't know. And

794
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: do you want to spend number nine one. I'm knowing

795
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: that there'll be some development time for him. I don't

796
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: know about that either, but that would be a nice addition.

797
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: Young do it all running back. I think they can

798
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: get one in the later rounds on draft day, draft weekend,

799
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: another tight end for the room. Sure, they need a

800
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: rookie tight end to add to the three man mix

801
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: at tight end. Now, I think all of his needs

802
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: are accurate. Here's a call from John and to Wander. Hello, John,

803
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: you go ahead, you're on the air with this afternoon. Hi.

804
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: I agree with what you guys just said. Don't you

805
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: guys agree that a big, elite wide receiver, probably first round,

806
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: second round, will help a lot. And what about the

807
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,720
Speaker 1: running back? Isn't running back is still a huge concern

808
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: since McCoy haven't hasn't had a good year of the

809
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: past two seasons. Well, I don't know if. Here's the

810
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: thing about running backs, and you can call me crazy,

811
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: I think running backs I think they're easier to find

812
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: than most positions on the field. I think a running

813
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: back is a good running back, maybe even elite running

814
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,959
Speaker 1: back is easier to find than an elite cornerback. Maybe

815
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: even easier to find than an elite safety. I think

816
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 1: they're important, no question, But I think you can find

817
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: those guys. You look at Alvin Kamara, he's a fifth

818
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: round draft pick. There are athletes who play running back

819
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: available late in the draft that you can plug in

820
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: with us. And even if they're not on every down

821
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: running back, they have a skill set that you can

822
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,439
Speaker 1: use and put a real matchup problem on the field

823
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: against any defense you want. So I think, yeah, I

824
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: don't think it's any question a young running back who

825
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: has a certain skill set, whether it's a big bodied

826
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: banger or a receiver out of the backfield type of guy,

827
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: or maybe an all around type guy like Frank Goren

828
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: and Shady or But I think you can get one

829
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: of those guys in in those you know we've got

830
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: we've got two fours and two fifths, correct, yep, we've

831
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,439
Speaker 1: got two fours and two fifths. We've got a first, second, third,

832
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: two four, two fifths somewhere in there, maybe from seventy

833
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: four all the way down to maybe the one fifty

834
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: eight pick. We got seventy four, one twelve, one thirty one,

835
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 1: one forty seven, one fifty eight. So between those five picks,

836
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: you could grab a running back and that could really

837
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: be a difference maker at certain situations on the field.

838
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 1: So I don't think you want to spend that much capital,

839
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,320
Speaker 1: particularly not a number nine or number forty for a

840
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: running back in this draft. I don't think that guy's there,

841
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: Say Quon Barkley's not gonna be there. So I don't

842
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: think you need to do that in this draft. And

843
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: as for the big bodied, elite wide receiver, listen, even

844
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: if you draft, it's rare. I mean, Julio Jones did it.

845
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: He jumped in the league. Matt Ryan was there and

846
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Julio Jones was right away really good.

847
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: I don't know that aj Green was even that much

848
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Speaker 1: of a jump when he got there. I don't think

849
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Speaker 1: he was immediately effective. I have to go back and

850
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: check his numbers. But those guys are rare, and I

851
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: don't know that you're gonna be able to find a

852
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: big time wide receiver that's just gonna flip the switch

853
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be Odell Beckham, you know what I mean.

854
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a year maybe or maybe

855
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: the second half of his first year. I don't know.

856
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: But I'm all for trying to find him if you can,

857
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: if you think you've got the guy. I think the

858
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: caller's description of the Bills needed running back is is overstated. Look,

859
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: Shady he had a good year two years ago, eleven

860
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: yards about six touch I believe he was good. And

861
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: I think they've added six offensive linement that should help

862
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: Shady a lot this year, by the way, and they

863
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: do have Frank Gore who they've added. They do have

864
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,439
Speaker 1: Marcus Murphy coming back. They do have a Keith Ford

865
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: coming back who had some good moments. So do they

866
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: need should they draft in their ten if they keep ten,

867
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: should they draft a running back? Yeah? But like Steve,

868
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Speaker 1: I believe it's got to be down second half of

869
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Speaker 1: the draft at least, you know, past the third round

870
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: probably where you would get that running back. And that's

871
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: really all you need to invest to get a pretty

872
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: good running back. I'm counting on McCoy to have a

873
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: bounce back here. I'm counting on Gore to provide some

874
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: good moments in relief of Shady McCoy, and maybe they

875
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: get good work out of the others, you know, Keith

876
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 1: Ford or Marcus Murphy, and maybe they draft a rookie,

877
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: but I don't know that it's a desperate, crying need.

878
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: We gotta get a running back. We gotta get a

879
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: running back. I don't think that's a problem for them.

880
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: I really don't. In fact, you a call. We're coming

881
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: back with more. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

882
00:42:51,520 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, so it's one of those live.

883
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: It's John Murphy, was Steve Tasker. We're here until three.

884
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: We got Shack Lawson coming up at a couple of

885
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: minutes top of the hour, and coming up at two o'clock.

886
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: We're going to talk with the man behind the Seaton Hall.

887
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: Sports Bolt has got a lot of interesting ideas in there.

888
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: In the meantime, have the Bills done enough to revamp

889
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: their offense? What do you think? What do they need?

890
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: With all the free Agency's signed another one today, Guard

891
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: Quentin Spain is now a new Buffalo Bill. Maybe you

892
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: think they've done enough. Let's see Mitch in Pittsburgh. Hello Mitch,

893
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: how are things in Pittsburgh these days? Oh? The good man?

894
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: Thank you. I have a question for you guys, in

895
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: regard to DK Metcalf and his three cone drill. I

896
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: read an article the other day where his shuttle and

897
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: three comb reven flower than Tom Brady and for Steve,

898
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: how much of a red flag you think that it is?

899
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: As a former wide receiver, it is a little red flag.

900
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: And I've heard other people say that not only was

901
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: it a red flag, but at the pro day there

902
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: are two other receivers on Mississippi State who are more

903
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: viable NFL prospects than DK Metcalf day. Right, he did, Okay,

904
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if he I don't know how much

905
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: he improved or if he did, I don't remember. I

906
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: don't remember hearing that, But I know this, A lot

907
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: of people like the other two guys at Mississippi State

908
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: just as much as they like DK Metcalf. Now, they

909
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: didn't run the the eye popping forty yard dash time,

910
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: but they catch the ball better. They're more polished route runners.

911
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: Uh the rest of their drills and and uh agility

912
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: stuff were better. Uh So DK Metcalf, while he really

913
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: wild people at the combine and got on the radar

914
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: that way, he's a he's a very raw. I don't

915
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be one of those wide receivers who

916
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: like for Bills fans or like we just had in

917
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: the last segment, drafting this guy and all of a

918
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: sudden he is flipping the switch and he's gonna be

919
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: the guy. I think DK Metcalf. While he may turn

920
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: into a really good pro receiver, he's got a lot

921
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: of things to do before he gets to that point,

922
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: maybe more so than some of his own teammates there

923
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: at Mississippi State. At the risk of being called the

924
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf cheerleader, which I was right after the combine,

925
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: I don't really care what if you call him that.

926
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: You dismiss him too quickly. Steve a physical specimen like that,

927
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: had a guy with that size and that ability, that athleticism,

928
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: you can just write him off because he had a

929
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: bad three cone drill. And also, really he's young on

930
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: he's very young. He didn't play too much football, So

931
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna get better quick, I think, And

932
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not totally shutting him down. He's

933
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,320
Speaker 1: gonna be a professional football player, there's no question about it.

934
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Speaker 1: How much he contributes early in his career is really

935
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: the only question for me. That's all right, Yeah, you

936
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: don't necessarily draft guys for what is he gonna give

937
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: us next week? I think there's some goody's going to

938
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: give us down the road. Maybe DK Metcalf sticks around

939
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: for seven or eight years and is a Pro Bowl receiver.

940
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: He's got the physical athletic ability to at least let

941
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: that be part of the equation, exact lens of how

942
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: quickly he runs aroun on three cones sitting there in

943
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: the field. I get you. And here's the thing as well, Murph.

944
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: It all comes down to the other names on that

945
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: list we just showed on MSG. It all comes down

946
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: to how he compares with um, the other guys at

947
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: his position. You know, I keep saying Mississippi State. It's

948
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: old Miss um, not Mississippi State Um. So I apologize

949
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: to all the old miss people out there. But DK

950
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 1: Metcalf isn't being compared to guys in the National Football League.

951
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: He's being compared to other guys in this draft. That's

952
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: where the comparison has to be. And and what the

953
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: end game is going to be is where he ends

954
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: up in his career. Well ahead, what do you? Oh? Yeah? Um?

955
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: Just like as you say, like you know how you

956
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: can't teach speed? When you say, then you can't really

957
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 1: improve agility, and that's what the three cones shuttles hat,

958
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah? You can, you can, you know you can.

959
00:46:56,239 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 1: You can improve speed. You can teach speed. That's that's easy. Um.

960
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: What happens is there are certain things you gotta. Agility

961
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: is something that all football players need, uh dj dk

962
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: Metcalf needs to work on it, no question about it.

963
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: But that's one thing that he's and and it's interesting too.

964
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: You gotta wonder, like because we were we've been sitting

965
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: here while we've been talking and they're showing highlights on MSG.

966
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: He's running routes and catching the ball. He looks athletic

967
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 1: to me, it's not. It's not like this three cone

968
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 1: drill is like, oh wow, he can't do this or

969
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: he can't do that. You have to do the three

970
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: cone drill to see anything about this guy that says, wow,

971
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: what's wrong with him? And even then it's like, I

972
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: don't know, he looks okay, you know, yeah, he's a big, strong,

973
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: physical guy. Certainly there's some deficiencies. And then we had uh, Tony,

974
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: what was it yesterday? Yeah, Pauline, Yeah, Tony Pauline said, listen,

975
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: he's a straight line, take the top off a defense

976
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: kind of guy. He's not a route runner. Well, if

977
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a good progressive, you got to do

978
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: all of it. If he can't run routes or there

979
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: are certain parts of playing wide receiver that he's not

980
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: good at, that's going to be an issue. It's gonna

981
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: be an issue. I think people are again, that's the

982
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: season we're in. Right right, stock rises, stock falls at

983
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: the combine. Back in the final week of February, dk

984
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,720
Speaker 1: Metcalf was as hot as anyone right at the combine.

985
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: People talking about, oh my god, look at this guy.

986
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: He's unbelievable. Now that's flipped a little bit. Last week

987
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: it was Houston defensive tackle right who everybody was in

988
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: love with. This week, it'll be somebody at Oliver at Oliver.

989
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: Last week, so we have three weeks from tomorrow is

990
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: run one of the draft. I expect another couple of

991
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: names will be rising quickly and falling sharply as well

992
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: over the next three weeks. Sit tykes, folks, The Bills

993
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: are gonna get some players, ten of them maybe, and

994
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: some of them are gonna be really good. We'll take

995
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: a break when we come back, a former first round

996
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: pick for the Bills, is going to be on the

997
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: line with us. Jack Lawson check out with him how

998
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 1: his offseason is going. That's coming up when we return

999
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bills Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio,

1000
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: Hills Radio Network. Stories day update comes from One Bill's

1001
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 1: Drive to Bills staying active in free agency. They signed

1002
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: another one today, another offensive lineman. Bills have signed guard

1003
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: Quentin Spain, who just wrapped up four years with the

1004
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 1: Tennessee Pattins the first four years of his NFL career.

1005
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: Spain originally came into the league as an undrafted free

1006
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: agent from West Virginia, started forty eight of fifty career

1007
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: games he has played. Quintin Spain, six four three dirty pounds,

1008
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: agrees to terms with the Buffalo Bills, the product of

1009
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: West Virginia University. The Bills still looking at offensive lineman. Reportedly,

1010
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: Tony Pauline of NFL Draft Analyst says the Bills have

1011
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: their front office on hand at Washington State for the

1012
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: Pro day there today looking at offensive tackle Andre Dillard.

1013
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: Dillard I already met with the Saints and the Seahawks

1014
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: yesterday doing position grills. Today Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, edited

1015
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: the final year of his contract, has given a deadline

1016
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: of April fifteenth for a new deal from Seattle. According

1017
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Speaker 1: to ESPN, the two sides have had recent talks, Seahawks

1018
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: coach Pete Carroll said at the owner's meetings last week,

1019
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: but those thoughts are those talks are said to me

1020
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: not too far along. The Seattle Times the first to

1021
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: report Russell Wilson's request for a new deal, hoping to

1022
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: get it done by April fifteenth. A couple of mondays

1023
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 1: away the first day of Seattle's offseason program. This wife

1024
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, will undergo surgery to

1025
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: remove a tumor in her brain, she said today on Instagram.

1026
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: Kelly Stafford said she underwent an MRI on her brain

1027
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Speaker 1: at the recommendation of a Lions team doctor after suffering

1028
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Speaker 1: several bouts of vertigo back in January. Stafford said tests

1029
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Speaker 1: so she had a neuroma, which is of a nine

1030
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Speaker 1: tumor in her brain. And the Buffalo Savers now with

1031
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: two games left this season. They lost to Nashville three

1032
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: two last night at key Bank Center. Kyla Koso and

1033
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Speaker 1: Jeff Skinner scoring for Buffalo thirty eight goals. Now for

1034
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: Jeff Skinner, he ties Gilbert Pero and Ray Sheppard for

1035
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Speaker 1: third most ever scored by a first year Buffalo Saber.

1036
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night Sabers home Finale Fan appreciation Night. As the

1037
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Speaker 1: Sabers are home tomorrow, they'll have several fan giveaways and

1038
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: Sabers players will present their game Warren jerseys to select

1039
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,760
Speaker 1: season ticket holders after the game. And that's the update

1040
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Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive, John Murphy and Steve Tasker in

1041
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: our One Buffalo Studio Shack Lawson standybody to join this

1042
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: momentarily here to talk about what his offseason has been

1043
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: like in the meantime, our Twitter poll today and our

1044
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: question of the day with the addition of Quentin Spain

1045
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: to the roster, and I we're wondering if they done enough.

1046
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: Have the Bills absolutely done enough to beef up the

1047
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball? What do you think? Eight

1048
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Speaker 1: h three h five fifty toll free one eight eight

1049
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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty Give us a call

1050
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: and we'll discuss. They wanted to say, Steve, I took

1051
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: a brief walk during the break here at one o'clock.

1052
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: And I know we Monday two days ago we kind

1053
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: of took an unsolicited walk around the new player Performance

1054
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Speaker 1: Center in the new weight room. It's really coming along,

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00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 1: even in the last two days, Steve. They moved all

1056
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: kinds of equipment in there now. And there was a

1057
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: point about a month ago and I think you and

1058
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: I were saying, there's no way that thing's ready for

1059
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: April fifteenth when the players return. You know what, they're

1060
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: gonna make it. It's gonna be ready, and it is

1061
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: going to be. It's real and it's spectacul It got

1062
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: like three movie screens in their showing highlights and and

1063
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 1: sports center and all the stuff going on, and they're

1064
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:21,240
Speaker 1: they're the size. It's like it literally is like a cinema.

1065
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: There's three of them side by side in the room

1066
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 1: and there it's plus all the machines and the turf

1067
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: is in there and the windows and the all the

1068
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: equipment's getting moved in. Pretty cool, yes, pretty unbelievable. It

1069
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: gonna be great, and that's coming up April fifteenth when

1070
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: the players return. One of those players, the former first

1071
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: round track pick of the Bills, a defensive end Shaq Lawson,

1072
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: and he is on the line with us live right now.

1073
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: How about Jack at John Murphy and Steve Task are

1074
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: up there in Buffalo. How are you doing. How y'all

1075
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: doing that Buffalo? I know it's cold, it's a little cold,

1076
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: but it's sunny, yeah all year long? Right you can say, no,

1077
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: it's cold there in Buffalo. Sorry, YEA sunshine changes everything, though, Shack,

1078
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: it does. Hey, have you been following the progress on

1079
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: the new Player Performance Center, the new weight room, Shack,

1080
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: are you aware of what's what a weight you when

1081
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: you get up here in a week or two? Oh? Yeah, sir,

1082
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've seen I've seen a little part

1083
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: of suth it, but not before what it's gonna come

1084
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: out and look like. But I mean I've just been saying,

1085
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: look see how big it's supposed to be, and it

1086
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: looked like a college weight room. Yeah. Right, speaking, it's

1087
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: kind of speaking of sunshine. Stephen and I were walking

1088
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: around in there Monday this week, and when when it's

1089
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:32,760
Speaker 1: a nice sunny day the place is filled with sunshine,

1090
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: I would think that would help a kind of the

1091
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: atmosphere in the weight room. How Shack to have sun

1092
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 1: beaming through the windows and there's full floor to ceiling

1093
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: windows in there when you're kind of pounding out miles

1094
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: on the treadmill or whatever you do in there. Right.

1095
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sir, you get a great dream. You know,

1096
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: you can look up look at New air and field.

1097
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: Hopefully you can look at New air Field from the stadium, yep, facility.

1098
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: So I mean it would be a great view to

1099
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: have one of those and just look out, you know,

1100
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: get your mom right when you know you're on a

1101
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 1: trail mill for like ten or fifteen minutes. Jack classing

1102
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: down the line with his former Bills first round draft pick,

1103
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: getting set for his fourth season with the Bills. Shack,

1104
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,359
Speaker 1: tell us about your off season. What have you been

1105
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: doing this? Where are you now? You're in Arizona. Huh

1106
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: oh yeah, sir, I'm out hearing Scottsdale, Arizona UM joining

1107
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: this off season. You know, I've been out here majority

1108
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: of the off season, you know, try to get right

1109
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 1: and getting stronger, you know, develop my game, just come

1110
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 1: back and and and be a better player than I

1111
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: was in two doct eighteen. You've also done been doing

1112
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: some stuff off the field with in relationships to your

1113
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: friend CJ. Fuller. You've He was a good friend of

1114
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: yours who tragically passed away after an operation on a knee,

1115
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: after a knee injury, and you and some friends who

1116
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: put together a scholarship fund of football camp, all kinds

1117
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: of things in his memory. Talk a little bit about

1118
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: what you've been doing behind the scenes as far as c. J.

1119
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 1: Fuller and his legacy, you know, but you know that's

1120
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: my little brother. You know, we had a click, a

1121
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: great relationship. You know. He always looked up to me

1122
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 1: and things like that. And before he had it died,

1123
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: he told his aunt his name won, he won, his

1124
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: name to live forever. So we came up, they came

1125
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: the family came up with an idea to have a CJ.

1126
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: Fuller foundation in the scholarship and have a cap every year.

1127
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: And it was a great It turned out to be

1128
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,280
Speaker 1: a great count. We had two days, two days account

1129
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: We had a high school on Friday and little kids

1130
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: on Saturday. And we had a lot of players out there.

1131
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: We had majority of the Clemson football team that won

1132
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: a national championship. We had Ryan Shakes year down here

1133
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: from Pitchburgh. We had DJ Reader from the Houston, Texas

1134
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: So we had a lot of guys after supporting CJ.

1135
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: You know, and and that's what we continue to do

1136
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: every year, you know, continue to get more NFL guys

1137
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: to come back and and and be a part of

1138
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: the CJ full account. We had CJ. Spiller there too,

1139
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,720
Speaker 1: so he had a ton of guys that the attended

1140
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 1: account and it was it turned out to be a

1141
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 1: great outcome for the first year that for the first time.

1142
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 1: Having shed tell us a little more about c J. Fuller,

1143
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: he was a Clemson running back toward surgery and then

1144
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: what two weeks later, got a blood clot in his

1145
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 1: leg and he passed away from that. Is that how

1146
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: that ever happened. Yeah, that's definitely how that happened. Um,

1147
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know fully more details, but it

1148
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: was the case that happening or he had surgery on

1149
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:34,479
Speaker 1: his torn aho and then he had a blood clog

1150
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: and and that's how that happened. And that first time

1151
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: I heard of something that can happen like that from

1152
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: uh from ACL injury, you know, but it was it

1153
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: was just a tragic situation just like just no, there's

1154
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: no like he was so young and he still had

1155
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: much life ahead of him and just end of like that,

1156
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: you know. Um. But other than that, we you know,

1157
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 1: we we still gonna make his main live all through me,

1158
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: to his family and through everybody else because he was

1159
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: he was just a special person you though. He brought.

1160
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: He brought, he brought in your day up, the smile

1161
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: on his facial. Things like that story and the way

1162
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 1: you describe that camp with all those Clemson grates, that

1163
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: it reminds me of what I think I already knew

1164
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: about Clemson. It's a real family there, isn't it. I

1165
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: credit Coach Swinney with kind of putting that that atmosphere

1166
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: together down there at Clemson in South Carolina. I know

1167
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: I've talked to c J. Spiller about it over the

1168
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: years that everybody at Clemson, once you go there and

1169
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: once you get out of there, they all feel like

1170
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: they're part of one family. And you can see that

1171
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: with the c. J. Fuller camp, right, Oh yes, sir,

1172
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: you can see that. Man. You see all former players,

1173
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: current players and older players that played way before came

1174
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: back in and and came back for event like that.

1175
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: And that's what Coach Winning really preached. Man. It's as family.

1176
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: You know, it's more than bigg enough football because at

1177
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the football game gonna be

1178
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: taking for you. You're always gonna need your family. You know,

1179
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: you always can go back and call on a guy

1180
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: you had a great relationship and college. So I mean

1181
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: that's Sweeney preached that big you know, it's that's a

1182
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: big family, family atmosphere down there in Clemson. So I

1183
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: mean that they player pays. I mean it's a great

1184
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: thing because I mean, you know, you get some guys

1185
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: from different different colleges from and you know you don't

1186
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: never go back. I asked those guys how they spend

1187
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: so you never never they never talk about what their

1188
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: relationship they had with former players or current players there now,

1189
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: so he check the everage story. This is where I

1190
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: met coach Sweeney was it was CJ had been here

1191
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: a couple of years, so he's probably third year in

1192
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: the league, a couple of years out of Clemson. And

1193
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: I'm at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Al Alabama. You

1194
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: know what that's like. And all of a sudden on

1195
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: the sideline, up walk U. Upwalk CJ. Spiller, who I knew,

1196
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 1: and coach Debo Sweey, who I didn't know, and we

1197
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: got talking and CJ. Introduced me to coach and basically

1198
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: they decided that morning in South Carolina, all of our

1199
00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: guys are down there in Mobile, let's go see how

1200
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: they're doing. They after the car, the two of them

1201
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: and drove all the way from Clemson down to Mobile,

1202
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: which had to be a twelve hour maybe a ten

1203
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 1: hour drive. But I thought to myself, that's yeah, that's

1204
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: a unique situation where a coach and a former player

1205
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: say hey, let's go to Senior Bowl and see how

1206
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: our guys are doing. It just amazed me that day. Yeah,

1207
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: that's the that's that's that's what. That's what. That's what

1208
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: type of pression you get from swinging, you know, whatever

1209
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: you see on TV, that's the same guy. Like the

1210
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: dancing in the locker room and how that that's that's Sweeney. Yeah.

1211
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: He always do it. Like I mean, he's still continued

1212
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: to I feel like he tells me every every two weeks.

1213
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: You know, I still here from them, So I mean,

1214
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's great. You know, you can always

1215
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: go back to your coach college coaching. You know, there's

1216
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 1: still a family at the end of the day, even

1217
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: though even though I had left early, so you know,

1218
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:49,400
Speaker 1: at the end there still well, we're on the final

1219
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: phone with Shack loss and defensive end for the Buffalo Bills,

1220
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: drafted number nineteenth overall in twenty sixteen. I gotta I

1221
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: gotta congratulate you on your work with a CJ. Fuller's legacy,

1222
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: his scholarship fund, the football camp and all that you're

1223
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: doing off the field. You came out last year to

1224
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: training camp here in Buffalo and you seem like you'd

1225
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: really rededicate yourself. You wanted to prove that that you

1226
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: were going to be a different kind of player. How

1227
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: to talk to us a little bit? How about how

1228
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: last year went? Certainly the team, you know, they won

1229
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: fewer games than they did the year before, and it

1230
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: was disappointing on that respect. But talk a little bit

1231
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: about you personally. How did your newfound commitment in the

1232
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: preseason last year? How is how did it affect you

1233
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: during the season and how does it continue to stay

1234
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: with you? Oh? My momsel, just come out there and

1235
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: and and be the best I could be. You know,

1236
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: you know get when I'm out there on the field,

1237
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: just you know, dedicate I just more, I dedicate more

1238
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: up the field, you know, when my body taking care

1239
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: of stuff like that. But it was just a mindset

1240
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 1: I had, like I just want to be the best

1241
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 1: I could be in this year. I'm even going up,

1242
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: you know. I'm trying to go up from now man,

1243
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: you know, and just continue building off the season I

1244
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 1: had after last year and just continue to So what

1245
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: type of player are you? Know? Man, I'm looking forward

1246
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: this hang line. I'm ready to come back. I'm ready

1247
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: to come back, you know, getting ready for this two

1248
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen season. And you know it's gonna be a

1249
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: special season. Man. We got a lot of great We've

1250
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 1: got because a lot of great talent. You know, we

1251
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: have the new guys from free agent free agency. So

1252
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 1: I'm ready to get back to working. Man. It's it's

1253
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a special, especial year. Man, I can't wait.

1254
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: Check how much of it all are you motivated by?

1255
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 1: You know, your your rookie contract. Now you're going into

1256
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 1: your fourth year. Um, the Bills have yet to decide

1257
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: whether or not to sign you to the fifth year extension,

1258
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 1: which is their option. Do you care about that at all?

1259
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,919
Speaker 1: Would you rather have them, you know, exercise that fifth

1260
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 1: year option or would you rather make this the last

1261
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 1: year of your deal. No, I love to stay at Buffalo.

1262
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: You know it's standard fifth year as that would be great.

1263
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 1: I love that. You know, Buffalo gave me my first

1264
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,919
Speaker 1: opportunity to play in the NFL, you know, and less

1265
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: that's my second home. So I'll let's continue to be

1266
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I really hope they kick it up and

1267
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 1: so I continue being Buffalo. But man, I just enjoyed

1268
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: the fans, being around of fans and and and it's

1269
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: just a football town and you know, they all care

1270
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 1: about you, you know, So that's I mean, that's the

1271
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: great thing about it. Uh. I would not I mean

1272
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 1: a love state and leave. Yeah. And that's interesting too

1273
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 1: because you're one of those guys, a prominent player who

1274
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: was picked by a different coaching staff Rex Ryan and

1275
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: those guys, and you've seen the total transformation of the

1276
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: thing that they called. You know, the coach McDermot always

1277
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: calls the process, and every we always put our two fingers,

1278
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 1: you know, two fingers up in finger quotes and say

1279
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 1: the process, because that's what everybody talks about. You've been

1280
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: here from the very beginning of the entire thing. How

1281
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: how far along do you feel? How close do you

1282
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: feel the team is to getting it right where you

1283
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: all hope it will be. That's come. No, it's coming,

1284
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 1: coach McDonald, Tucher all last even our ex and meeting,

1285
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: it's coming. Man, This team is about to be so

1286
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: special and we're gonna we're gonna, We're gonna do it.

1287
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna turn a lot of heads in

1288
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: the NFL this year. This is because it's it's you know,

1289
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: our guys like to work card, you know, starting with

1290
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: our quarterback man he's he's a dog. You know, you

1291
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: got somebody leading a group like that and getting other

1292
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: players around him like eighty and all those guys. I mean,

1293
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 1: we we got a great team, man, um. And and

1294
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna show this shit. I strongly believe it's it's

1295
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna show this ship and we're gonna turn a

1296
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: lot of odds. Man, It's it's gonna be a special

1297
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: season for us. For real. Check what it's on your

1298
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: list of what you'd like to get done in your

1299
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:46,240
Speaker 1: fourth season. Do you look at at the numbers and

1300
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: say I need more sacks or yet four sacks last year?

1301
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: Six four sacks last year? I mean, is that something

1302
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 1: you look at and say that's what I'd like to

1303
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: accomplish in my fourth year. Oh yeah, but he and go.

1304
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: I want to cover this, man. I want to win

1305
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 1: che ship. I want to I want to play in

1306
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: my first playoff game. I know I was part of

1307
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 1: the Bills team that was in the playoffs, but I

1308
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: didn't get to play. But I want to play in

1309
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: my first playoff game and be a part of that

1310
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 1: win the championship. And then I want them sacks and

1311
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: I gotta you know, it's the country, Yes, my last ship,

1312
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:21,920
Speaker 1: so I really want to turn it up with the

1313
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: sack number this year. Be a more dependable guy in

1314
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: the third time he shack. There are plenty of we

1315
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: talked a minute ago about the Clemson family, plenty of

1316
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: Clemson products who are gonna have a big role to

1317
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: play in in the early part, most likely if this

1318
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: year's NFL draft. Do you know these guys, Christian Wilkins

1319
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: and Cleveland Farrell, Austin Bryant, those guys all could be

1320
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: pretty early draft picks, I would think coming up at

1321
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 1: the end of the month. Oh yeah, yeah, they will. Man.

1322
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: Those guys are like Kristen and Austin was like under

1323
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 1: me so they Austin was definitely my backup, but Christen

1324
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 1: was read I mean not Christen, but Cleve was red

1325
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: shirt at the time. But me and Kristina play alongside

1326
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 1: each other, so you know, I don't guys obviously something

1327
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 1: out job and said we might grab christ and that.

1328
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 1: I mean that would be great. Yeah, but uh but

1329
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 1: I'm good boys. Yeah, that's that's a special group like

1330
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: that's I mean as a group, that's probably as a

1331
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: group together, that's probably the best to come from. Closer check,

1332
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 1: what's your workout regiment been like the spring? I understand

1333
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: you did spend a little bit of time hiking around Camelback, right,

1334
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: Camelback Mountain. I played golf out there, but I've never

1335
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: hiked Camelback. I bet that's a little bit rugged out there.

1336
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:32,919
Speaker 1: Huh oh yeah, that a little rugged. Man. I I hike,

1337
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: you know, hike on my uh Now, I really don't

1338
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:38,160
Speaker 1: got no day out. I work out Monday this Saturday,

1339
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: so I usually hike when I don't have no leg day.

1340
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: I'm working out with Kep up there with um and

1341
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: and so he trained James Harrison. So I mean I

1342
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 1: came up here so I can get more stronger, and

1343
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 1: I feel like I got a lot stronger than I

1344
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 1: was this time last all season. But yeah, it's been

1345
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: my worktime routine, just going every day money to Saturday,

1346
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 1: and then I get a position work here two days

1347
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: after week. So let's basically bout it and join the

1348
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: sun and the desert. I'm like being around the desert. Yeah, yeah,

1349
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. Yeah. Actually I've hiked around Camelback. I was

1350
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 1: looking for golf balls that they hit into the rough

1351
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 1: out there, and some of them went pretty far into

1352
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: the rough. But it's great after Yeah, I don't go

1353
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 1: too far camera back, all right, I don't go too far.

1354
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: I'm surprised too that you got the top of Camelback.

1355
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 1: You ran into a couple of bills fans. Man, Yeah,

1356
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Well I ran here too. I ran into

1357
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: bills fans, but I ran into a lot of people

1358
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 1: thing like bills. I'm like, man, I don't want to

1359
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 1: do yeah, yeah, but I mean that was that was

1360
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 1: a fun trip I went on to. Eventually the camera

1361
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: people kept going walking up. Man, I had stopped. I

1362
01:06:54,200 --> 01:07:00,320
Speaker 1: want no more. Yeah, yeah, hey, so you'll be back here,

1363
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: I would think in a couple of weeks right for

1364
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 1: the I know it's voluntary and you don't have to

1365
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 1: report in with me, but you're coming back and in

1366
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks for the beginning of the offseason

1367
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 1: workout plan. Yes, so I'll beat on a first day.

1368
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: They're ready. Yeah, good stuff. That'd be great to have

1369
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: you here. Looking forward to a shock. Yes, sir, thank you,

1370
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:19,400
Speaker 1: Thank you, Shaq. Good to talk with you. Looking forward

1371
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 1: to seeing in a week or two. Thank you, you're true.

1372
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,439
Speaker 1: Thank you. Check Lawson, Bill's first round pick a couple

1373
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: of years ago, going into his fourth year out of Clemson.

1374
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: That's a strong bond those Clemson guys have. And he

1375
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: talked about the c. J. Fuller Foundation, a foundation uh

1376
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: named in honor of a former teammate running back to

1377
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 1: Clemson who passed away. And we're really tragic complication. Yeah,

1378
01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: it's a complication due to her knee surgery. And you

1379
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: know how you know in football knee surgeries, I mean

1380
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 1: they're pretty common, um, And to have somebody not you know,

1381
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks afterward because of a complication, lose

1382
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 1: his life. It was it was tragic, no question about it.

1383
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: Partically a young athlete like that who had so many

1384
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: friends and family and so many high hopes for the future.

1385
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 1: Really tragic. It's nice to see Shack Lawson coming in

1386
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: and for the foundation CJ. Fuller Foundation putting a football

1387
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 1: camp on and do some really cool stuff. I found

1388
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: myself over the last year or two see rooting for

1389
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson and he's been you know, last year especially,

1390
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: and then when McDermott and that crew got into their

1391
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: second year, a lot of people wrote off Shack Lawson like, well,

1392
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 1: he's he's from the old regime and they don't have

1393
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 1: anything tied up in him. And Shack did okay, played

1394
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:28,719
Speaker 1: fourteen games, started about a half dozen games, four sacks.

1395
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:30,640
Speaker 1: Can he get better? You bet? And I think it

1396
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: sounds like he's ready to get better this year. But

1397
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a very talented player coming into the

1398
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 1: league four years ago as a first rounder who I think,

1399
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 1: to be honest, and this is not a knockout, but

1400
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 1: I think he had some growing up to do when

1401
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:45,120
Speaker 1: he first came in here, and I think he's done that.

1402
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 1: I think you can hear it if you just listen

1403
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 1: to him now, Shack Lawson. You know just what he

1404
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 1: talks about, what the way he approaches his career. He

1405
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: sounds pretty serious about it. Look, he's a talented athlete

1406
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 1: who can probably be a bit of a difference maker

1407
01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: on a team that needs pass rush out right, we

1408
01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: talk about edge rusher on the list of Bill's needs

1409
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:04,560
Speaker 1: in the draft. Well, there's a guy who was a

1410
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: pretty good edge rusher at Clemson and has done a

1411
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 1: pretty good job kind of acclimating himself to the NFL.

1412
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:12,160
Speaker 1: Can't be easy coming in and having the coach gone

1413
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: after your first year, by the way, Yeah, that's right.

1414
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 1: And he has acclimated pretty well. And he tell by

1415
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: talking to him, and we've talking spoken to him a

1416
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 1: couple of times. He's all in. He wants to be

1417
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: as good as he can be. He's all in with

1418
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:24,840
Speaker 1: a culture fit. He wants to be that kind of

1419
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 1: guy that this team can can can count on. And

1420
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:29,240
Speaker 1: it's kind of come down to how he does it

1421
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: on the field. Certainly he had a role to play

1422
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:36,320
Speaker 1: this past year. And this is a league it's about defense.

1423
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 1: They used to say it's about running and stopping the run.

1424
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: It's not anymore. It's about getting after the passer and

1425
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 1: getting turnovers. And that's what Shack Lawson does. It's when

1426
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 1: he's pretty good at him and there's always a place

1427
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: for guys like that, and especially a guy who you know,

1428
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: his mindset is to get better and better and better,

1429
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: and that's where he's been. And he said it came

1430
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,280
Speaker 1: in self admittedly. Last remember we got him on the

1431
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 1: show at training camp. He said, I had, you know,

1432
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: I had to get rid of it. I had to

1433
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 1: start turned professional. I had to, you know, for the

1434
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 1: first time, really think about it. Because he remember he

1435
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 1: came in, he had a bad shoulder, couldn't play for

1436
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: the first half of the year. So that first year

1437
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 1: was kind of a wash, and then the second year

1438
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 1: then it didn't go well and they made the coaching change.

1439
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 1: You know, he had a lot of stuff to fight through.

1440
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 1: He's on his third different position coach, right, Yeah, I

1441
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 1: mean so yeah. Is he a perfect draft pick that

1442
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: exploded onto the scene. Absolutely not. But I do think

1443
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:29,400
Speaker 1: I can say with certainty that I've seen maturation in

1444
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:31,600
Speaker 1: him and improving in his game, and I look to

1445
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:35,360
Speaker 1: see more. He needs to show more, quite frankly, but people,

1446
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 1: I think we're all guilty of it. We write guys

1447
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 1: off when there's a coaching change. Well, he was their

1448
01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:42,559
Speaker 1: draft pick. This group won't care about him. I give

1449
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: this coaching staff and this person, I'll stay have credit saying, hey,

1450
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:47,160
Speaker 1: this is an asset we have here. We're not going

1451
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:48,640
Speaker 1: to toss him with a curb. Let's see what we

1452
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: can get out of here. And they don't toss guys

1453
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: in the curb just to toss him. There's got to

1454
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: be a reason. Shack Lawson has given him no reason

1455
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 1: at all to think he's not given everything he's got

1456
01:10:58,040 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 1: for the team. And that's the kind of guy they

1457
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 1: want first and form. Were you when you were twenty? Hello, Shack,

1458
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: when you Because I hesitated, he's twenty four, he'll be

1459
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: twenty five this June seventy. He's young. I shuddered to

1460
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:13,640
Speaker 1: remember what I was like at age twenty five in

1461
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:17,640
Speaker 1: terms of maturation and how I approached my profession. At

1462
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 1: age twenty five, let me think for you. I came

1463
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: out of college. I came out of college late. I

1464
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 1: was a fit. I had a fifth year red shirt,

1465
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 1: and I've stayed. You know, I wasn't like I was

1466
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:31,720
Speaker 1: a junior prospect coming out, and so I was out

1467
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 1: as a fifth year senior. I was gosh, I was

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Speaker 1: at least twenty three when they drafted me. So, yeah,

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01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:42,639
Speaker 1: it was so at age twenty five. You're two first

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01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: year with the Bills right right. Recently married or not married, newlywed? Yeah, yes,

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01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 1: you've grown up a lot. You grew up. I had

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Speaker 1: lots of Yeah, and I had I had a lot

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01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,200
Speaker 1: to learn, like everybody does, you know, And and it's

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01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 1: they're hard lessons and sometimes you're not good enough to

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01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 1: hang around long enough to learn them. He's sometimes like,

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01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 1: you know, we got a different guy. Just like you say.

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01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 1: They don't kick you to the curb for no reason,

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01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:07,679
Speaker 1: but there's a million reasons they will. Yeah, and you've

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01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:09,760
Speaker 1: you got to check a lot of boxes to stay

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01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: on an NFL roster. We'll see all that turns out.

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01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 1: I hope it turns out well for him. As I said,

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01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 1: I find myself rooting for Shack Lawson to hang in

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01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 1: there and get better and stick around. And he's half

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01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: so far. Let's see if he can make that happen

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01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 1: again this year. All right, Hey, the Bills have added

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01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,559
Speaker 1: what sixteen free agents, six of them on the offensive line,

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01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: fourteen of them on the offensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: Have they done enough for the offense. That's our topic

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Speaker 1: of the day. We're talking about it on Twitter. We

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01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:35,639
Speaker 1: will recheck the results of the Twitter poll in a moment,

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Speaker 1: read a few off the tweet tweet sheet, and we'll

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01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 1: take your phone calls on that very very topic. Have

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01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: the Bills done enough for their offense? What do you think?

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01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: Eight three, five fifty or tell three one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Steph and I coming

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Speaker 1: back one goes live from one Bill's Drive on Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. We are back on Bills Live here until three.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about a variety of sports topics. Coming up.

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Speaker 1: At two o'clock, we're gonna talk with Rick Genteel, who's

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Speaker 1: going to join us. He's the director of the Seaton

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Speaker 1: Hall Sports Pole. They've got an unbelievable pole about Bill Belichick.

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01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 1: Would you believe Patriots coach Bill Belichick only had a

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01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: twenty percent favorable rating in the poll? Steve, obviously the

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: pole was loaded question. If the poll were taking seven

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01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,600
Speaker 1: one six, let me come up with a punchline for

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01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 1: the question. The jokes right themselves. Rick Genteel will join

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01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 1: us at two o'clock. We just talked to Jack Lawson. Look,

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01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: the Bills have signed another offensive lineman, Quentin Spinning today.

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01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:47,240
Speaker 1: Is that enough for the offense? The Bill has done

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01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: enough to revamp their offense? What do you think? That's

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01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll and the results are interesting on Twitter.

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01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: I believe let me check, I haven't checked in a while.

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01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:00,559
Speaker 1: Almost a coin flip. Yeah, it's close. Ifs done enough

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01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: to revamp the offense? On Twitter? With the respondents in

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01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 1: so far, fifty one percent say no, they have not,

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01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 1: forty nine percent say yes they have. That's really close.

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01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:11,639
Speaker 1: That's as close as the Twitter pole gets. And we've

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01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 1: had twenty seven hundred votes cast so far. In the

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01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:17,680
Speaker 1: Twitter pole, some people think they've done enough. From the

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01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, Team any two tweets this sen if the

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01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,679
Speaker 1: Bills done enough to revamp their offense? Team any twenty

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01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:25,600
Speaker 1: two says people that have their mindset on needing a

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01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver are wrong. In my opinion, offensive

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01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,640
Speaker 1: line has been upgraded in a big way and by

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01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: far the most important thing they've done. This makes everyone better,

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01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 1: run game screens better pocket for Josh could use early

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01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 1: pick on ten end, but don't need one on wide receiver.

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01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 1: There's a lot to chew on their team any twenty two,

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01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: and I'd like a lot of what you've said. Here's

1530
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 1: and you know what I like mostly about that responsive

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01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: It sets up maybe a potential future Twitter poll or question. Anyway,

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01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:53,799
Speaker 1: what's the most important thing the Bills have done this offseason?

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01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 1: Team team an twenty two makes a good point. It

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01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: might be the six signings on the offensive line is

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01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:05,680
Speaker 1: to date. Anyway, we'll see what they do in a

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01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: couple of weeks in the draft might be the most important,

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01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: most significant thing they've done. They've done it without spending

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01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 1: a ton of money. They've got a variety of one

1539
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 1: year deals up front, but they have added six offensive linemen,

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01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: probably at least four of them, three or four of

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01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 1: them starters. Probably the most significant thing they've done in

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01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:24,360
Speaker 1: the offseason. Right, What am I missing? We were talking

1543
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 1: about it earlier as well off the air. What happens

1544
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: if you know this Jonah Williams falls to them at

1545
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 1: nine and they take this left tackle or maybe we

1546
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: were talking about this in the first segment of the show.

1547
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 1: So the Bills pick a left tackle, he comes in,

1548
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 1: plugs right in, and so now you've got Dion Dawkins.

1549
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 1: You throw him to right tackle, and you got this

1550
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: new left tackle, you got a new right tackle, and

1551
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:51,200
Speaker 1: the three guys on the interior roll, you got five

1552
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 1: different offensive linemen. Complete overhaul of the guys up front. Now,

1553
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: then it becomes when we touched on this yesterday too,

1554
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: are they going to get it together? You know? Yeah?

1555
01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:03,599
Speaker 1: Is the off season starting April fifteenth, and a couple

1556
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 1: of weeks, all the way through the preseason, a couple

1557
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 1: of preseason games, all the reps, and plus we don't

1558
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: even know who's going to emerge from this group. I mean,

1559
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 1: right now, it's just a herd of guys. We don't

1560
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:16,880
Speaker 1: even know who's gonna be, Who are the lead dog's

1561
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 1: gonna be, who's gonna line up? How are they going

1562
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: to decide on what the depth chart is? So we

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01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:22,680
Speaker 1: don't know how that's gonna happen. And they got to

1564
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:26,200
Speaker 1: sift through that themselves, and then they got to get there,

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01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:28,160
Speaker 1: pick those five and then give enough rips to get

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01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 1: it right. Oh, by the way, brand new offensive line

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01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:32,680
Speaker 1: coach who's never had the position to himself. He's been

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01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: an assistant offensive line coach with a new assistant Terry

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01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 1: heffern and Bobby Johnson. That factors into it too. Right,

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01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: right now we're saying we have no shot at right, No, no, no, no,

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01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:44,679
Speaker 1: But it's all new. It is new. They got a shot.

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01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:49,640
Speaker 1: They do. But and I think it's pretty obvious to

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01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 1: me and as I think about it, that's the most

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01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:54,320
Speaker 1: significant thing that's occurred in the off season so far.

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01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: The revamped offensive line maybe more important than anything they've done. Yeah,

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01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 1: John Brown, Cole Beasley, big moves. But we'll see what

1577
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:03,720
Speaker 1: they do in the draft. But what they've done on

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01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 1: the offensive line maybe the most significant move the Bills

1579
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 1: have made this offseason. Yeah, I agree. I think there's

1580
01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: no question that it was absolutely number one on their

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01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 1: priority list. And for good reason. They got this young

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01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 1: quarterback that I think there's I'm not going out on him.

1583
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 1: They loved this kid. I think this team thinks they

1584
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 1: got the guy that's going to be perfect for them

1585
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: going forward. They like his attitude, they like his persona,

1586
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 1: like his leadership, his athletic abilities, off the chart, off

1587
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 1: the charts. You know, you go back and you think, wow,

1588
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,719
Speaker 1: no matter what would happen. They were picked number seven

1589
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 1: in the draft and there was a couple of guys

1590
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 1: gone before they got to Josh, three guys gone before

1591
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 1: they got two three? How many guys? Was he the

1592
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: third one take? He was a third one taken? So

1593
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:47,719
Speaker 1: whatever happened with those first two, I think they're really

1594
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 1: happy about the guy they got and they are moving

1595
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:52,639
Speaker 1: forward with him. And they knew this offensive line thing

1596
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 1: is job one to protect this young quarterback. And they've gone.

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01:17:57,479 --> 01:17:59,640
Speaker 1: They've gone and done it, and I don't even know

1598
01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:02,040
Speaker 1: if they're done yet. Right, the Bill has done enough

1599
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:03,800
Speaker 1: to rebat the offense. What do you think A couple

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Speaker 1: of calls here Joe in Tanawanda, Hello, Joe, Welcome to

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01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 1: the show. Oh guys, Hi, I'm just so glad that

1602
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 1: we got Beasley because it gives Josh status. Is it

1603
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:19,599
Speaker 1: escape belt? Yeah? I was wondering on the running backs,

1604
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 1: since our running backs are kind of old. Um, does

1605
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 1: any other teams do they ever go back to the

1606
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:29,040
Speaker 1: old thunder and Lightning running backs, you know, like the

1607
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,400
Speaker 1: heavy guy and then you know thunder and Lightning. I

1608
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, they do that. A lot of teams do.

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01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 1: And that's that's a little bit of what the Bills

1610
01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 1: had last year with Ivory and Lashawn McCoy too. So yeah,

1611
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: that every every team in the NFL, now almost every team,

1612
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 1: A lot of them have a couple of guys that

1613
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: run through. They run through that they interchange with. There's

1614
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:54,919
Speaker 1: no question. It's running back by committee is almost uniform

1615
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:57,799
Speaker 1: throughout the National Football League. So yeah, that happens everywhere

1616
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,560
Speaker 1: it's called from. I gotta get try to get this

1617
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: name right? Is it Jack? Jack? Ski and Buffalo? Who

1618
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: is this right? I heard some scuttle but my cousin

1619
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: lives in New York City and he was heard that

1620
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:14,760
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan might be available. And what do you think

1621
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:17,240
Speaker 1: the Bills would might be interested in him? I don't

1622
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 1: think they'd be interested. I think they are better than

1623
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan. To be honest with you right now, what

1624
01:19:21,200 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 1: do you think I thought? I thought he had a

1625
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:27,360
Speaker 1: nice job for New England and about the same job

1626
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 1: there that he did here. He had the exact same

1627
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 1: numbers in New England he did here. He's a good

1628
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:33,599
Speaker 1: he's a good receiver, he's a good player. Yeah, might

1629
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:36,519
Speaker 1: go back to the Patriots, were told, But yeah, I

1630
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:38,639
Speaker 1: don't think the Bills are missing out much by missing

1631
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,640
Speaker 1: on Chris Hogan if they signed him. Okay, I got

1632
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 1: to find a spot for him. By the way, with

1633
01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 1: Beasley and John Brown coming in, and you want Foster

1634
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: to get a lot of reps, I don't know where

1635
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 1: where would Chris Hogan snaps come from. Well, they the

1636
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:52,560
Speaker 1: receivers we got an now are kind. There are a

1637
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 1: couple of them are on the small side, you know,

1638
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 1: and Hogan is too. Yeah, Hogan is not that big either.

1639
01:19:57,439 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 1: But I get it. But here's the thing. I get it.

1640
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,280
Speaker 1: You want you want to put more receivers out there,

1641
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: but Hogan is more of what they've got, and I

1642
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 1: think people are forgetting. You know, they're looking for this

1643
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: speed guy. You know, Robert Foster is really fast. Zay

1644
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: Jones was really pretty fast when he came out. Although

1645
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: he's more of an intermediate receiver threat, Robert Foster is

1646
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: as speedy of guys you'll need at any point in

1647
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 1: the season for a wide receiver, you've got somebody to

1648
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 1: take the top off. And he emerged last season after

1649
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:32,840
Speaker 1: after it took him a couple of months, no question,

1650
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 1: to get mature enough and ready enough for them to say, Okay,

1651
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:37,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna plug you into the thing. But when he

1652
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 1: got on the field, Josh Allen found him, so right,

1653
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: they've got those guys on the field now. Cole Beasley

1654
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 1: is good. You could say, yeah, they do need a

1655
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:50,960
Speaker 1: tight end maybe, but Tyler Croft from Cincinnati was a

1656
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 1: good player for them. I think he's gonna be a

1657
01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:56,639
Speaker 1: pleasant surprise for a lot of Bills fans. They need

1658
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 1: some more depth there, no question about it. Jake Fisher

1659
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:02,120
Speaker 1: is a tackle moving to tight end, no question. He

1660
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 1: is a question mark. So I think tight end is

1661
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:07,679
Speaker 1: a place where you could go. And of course running

1662
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: back depth, yeah, no problem. But I think I say

1663
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 1: no problem because you can find those guys late in

1664
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:16,400
Speaker 1: the draft, mid to late rounds of the draft that

1665
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 1: are really immediate contributors right now in an NFL roster.

1666
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:23,400
Speaker 1: So they're sitting in a good spot right now offensively,

1667
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,240
Speaker 1: no question. And that's the Twitter poll of the day.

1668
01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 1: Do you think they've done enough? I say no, they haven't,

1669
01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:31,640
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean to say they haven't done a

1670
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:34,679
Speaker 1: bunch already. And I think Murph and I agree it's

1671
01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:37,479
Speaker 1: obvious that offensive line was number one priority for this

1672
01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 1: club going into free agency. Here's a calling on the

1673
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 1: line from JT in West Seneca. Hello JT, Hey brothers,

1674
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Speaker 1: how are you doing good, good, good, Thank you Murphy

1675
01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: hilarious Hall of Famer. Of course, mister tester. I wonder

1676
01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: you know free ever put the infantry and you always

1677
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 1: send the troop, the heavy troops, and that's our offensive line.

1678
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: And how long you know the tank? To tell you

1679
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:04,800
Speaker 1: how long you know? Is this going to take the gel? Seriously?

1680
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:08,560
Speaker 1: I mean the chemistry of some sort and you know,

1681
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 1: every offensive one it becomes good, has been around for

1682
01:22:11,240 --> 01:22:13,680
Speaker 1: at least a couple of years, so I'll pick it

1683
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 1: off the your boys. But okay, how long. It's a

1684
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 1: good question, j that's the question. That is a really

1685
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 1: good question, because we were just talking. Now you're looking

1686
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 1: at four brand new offensive linemen, and good offensive lines

1687
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: play really well together as a unit. And these guys

1688
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: there's gonna be like nine strangers in the room on January.

1689
01:22:33,280 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: On April fifteenth when they start OTAs. None of these

1690
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 1: guys are going to know each other very well. It's

1691
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:40,439
Speaker 1: gonna be the first time they've met, and some of

1692
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: them are first time they've met. So you're right, that

1693
01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:50,000
Speaker 1: is the stumbling block right now. But not that we

1694
01:22:50,080 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: didn't know it, but last offseason it was ability was

1695
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:57,000
Speaker 1: the stumbling block, and that's a bigger stumbling block than chemistry.

1696
01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,720
Speaker 1: Here's the lineup, here's who was in there will be

1697
01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:01,519
Speaker 1: in the room. And they don't do a lot of

1698
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,240
Speaker 1: meeting I don't think starting April fifteenth, it's it's pretty

1699
01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: strictly conditioning stuff when they first got here for a

1700
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. They eventually get into meeting time and

1701
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: on field time as a whole unit. But Dion Dawkins

1702
01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: and the tackle side of it, Tian Secki as a tackle,

1703
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 1: Adrian Waddle as a tackle, Jeremiah Searles who was here

1704
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: last year, Connor McDermott who was here last year. They

1705
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:24,639
Speaker 1: will know each other. And the guards. Wyatt Teller returns

1706
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 1: for his second year of led Ducas still on the roster.

1707
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: Spencer long guard or interior guy. You'd think he would

1708
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 1: hang with the guards. Jose Feliciano, I'm sorry, John Feliciano

1709
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:38,360
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agent signing. He's will be with the guards.

1710
01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: Quentin Spain signed today forty eight starts in four years

1711
01:23:42,080 --> 01:23:45,920
Speaker 1: with Tennessee. Can't sneeze at that. Butcker returns and then

1712
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 1: Mitch Morrison Russell Boda in his center. So a group

1713
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: of six eight eleven fourteen offensive lineman who will be

1714
01:23:53,320 --> 01:23:56,439
Speaker 1: eligible to be here when the offseason conditioning program begins.

1715
01:23:56,840 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 1: And as far as returners from last year, you got

1716
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:05,519
Speaker 1: Searles du Teller Bodine, Butger mc dermott six of the

1717
01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:08,839
Speaker 1: what did I say? Fourteen? Six of the thirteen offensive

1718
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: linemen brand new faces. Fourteen offensive linemen, six of them

1719
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:15,800
Speaker 1: brand new. That's a lot or no, I'm sorry, six

1720
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:18,560
Speaker 1: of them and we're here last year. Let me readd that.

1721
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:22,240
Speaker 1: But the point is, as Steve said, they should have

1722
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:24,320
Speaker 1: a little name tex Hello, my name is right when

1723
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 1: they first get here in April fifteenth, I would think.

1724
01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 1: And another thing too, is that and this is going

1725
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:31,760
Speaker 1: to change as well. Think about this, murf. Not a

1726
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:34,600
Speaker 1: single one of those guys has not started NFL games, right,

1727
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:37,600
Speaker 1: all of them have. That's because there's no rookies in

1728
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:40,360
Speaker 1: that room yet. Right in a couple of weeks after that,

1729
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 1: you've got to think there's gonna be at least two

1730
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:45,080
Speaker 1: or three guys who have never played an NFL game

1731
01:24:45,120 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: before that are also going to be added into that.

1732
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 1: But they got fourteen the last year, they went to

1733
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: training camp with thirteen, So I don't know if there

1734
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 1: are gonna maybe they aren't gonna draft a guy, or

1735
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 1: maybe they get to the first three or four days

1736
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:01,599
Speaker 1: of this and they say, Jeremia Searles, thanks for stopping by,

1737
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 1: Butker your thanks for stopping by, Flat du cost, thanks

1738
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:06,240
Speaker 1: for stopping about. You know, they may pick some of

1739
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 1: these guys out release them two weeks shy the draft,

1740
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:11,080
Speaker 1: and so they can open up some roster spots because

1741
01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 1: they've look got so many numbers available for training can

1742
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:17,840
Speaker 1: they can get eighty five guys and that means your

1743
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:19,680
Speaker 1: offensive line. You can take a bunch of guys, but

1744
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 1: you can't take thirty. So by my account, they have thirteen.

1745
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm counting Fisher as a tight end, which I think

1746
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:29,679
Speaker 1: we should right right, I'm counting thirteen offensive lineman under

1747
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 1: contract right now before the draft. That's how many they

1748
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:34,519
Speaker 1: came to training camp with last year. And the draft

1749
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 1: is still coming with ten picks and they're at the

1750
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:43,000
Speaker 1: pro day today for an offensive offensive tackle candidates, right,

1751
01:25:43,240 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 1: I mean some of these, some of these guys and

1752
01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: I hate to say it now that you know when

1753
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it and you open your eyes to it,

1754
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:52,600
Speaker 1: these guys on this list some of them aren't going

1755
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:54,240
Speaker 1: to be here in a couple of weeks. That's right,

1756
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:56,120
Speaker 1: a break. What do you think if they've done enough

1757
01:25:56,120 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 1: for offense, We'll take the break, come back talk more

1758
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:01,280
Speaker 1: about this. You're welcome to join us. Eighty twenty three

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01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:04,320
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. It's

1760
01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:20,760
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Right.

1761
01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: Uh No, I used to get it from my father

1762
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 1: in law from or four. He got me the subscription. Oh,

1763
01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 1: we're talking. We're talking, Jay, we're talking here. Um, we

1764
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 1: have this thing. So we got it into this comp

1765
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:34,400
Speaker 1: Why did we have this? Oh the gift the hockey stick.

1766
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 1: So we're talking about the instigators and there and their

1767
01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:41,400
Speaker 1: social media following, and we started talking about paraphernalia everyway, giveaways.

1768
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:43,760
Speaker 1: I've got the only thing I've got that I do

1769
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: have the helmet that I got thrown out in we

1770
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,680
Speaker 1: were talking about this earlier in the week. Lightly used right,

1771
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:51,920
Speaker 1: lightly used, very polished. So and then I also have

1772
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:53,600
Speaker 1: the coolest thing I think I have. I think this

1773
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 1: is cool. We've been talking about it. You know, Sports

1774
01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: Illustrated everybody used to get it in the mail. Everybody.

1775
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 1: Everybody should get Sports lilliive amount. It's a big deal

1776
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Yeah, some

1777
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: people thought it was right, it happened to me. I

1778
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 1: got on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and you think, well,

1779
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 1: that's cool. I mean, you got you're on the cover, right,

1780
01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:15,840
Speaker 1: So there's a little what it was at the end

1781
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:17,360
Speaker 1: of the year we won the AFC East. It was

1782
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:20,000
Speaker 1: a Miami Dolphins game. We can find that, by the way,

1783
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:23,679
Speaker 1: and so right, so, so I was on this cover

1784
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,360
Speaker 1: and I you know, it came, you know, I got it.

1785
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 1: And so there's a thousands of them, right, But the

1786
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:32,560
Speaker 1: one I have is the one with my name and

1787
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:35,080
Speaker 1: my address on the lay where it was mailed to me,

1788
01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 1: printed on the on the magazine. You know what I

1789
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 1: mean that the mail stas it, right, So it's one

1790
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: of a kind. It's the guy on the cover me

1791
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 1: said to his house. Yeah, that's kind of cool. Right,

1792
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:49,040
Speaker 1: So when did you realize that that right away significance

1793
01:27:49,160 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 1: is trying in time to save it from the kids?

1794
01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:57,840
Speaker 1: Yeah right, right right, the kids? Yeah right, um, yeah,

1795
01:27:57,880 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: a quick story about kids dealing with perfect Oh yeah,

1796
01:28:00,439 --> 01:28:03,439
Speaker 1: absolutely true. Our buddy Bill Polian back in the Super

1797
01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:07,800
Speaker 1: Bowlery era, gave me a Super Bowl football right game

1798
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: used you know, yeah, one of the games. Yeah, okay,

1799
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 1: one of the game balls. And I brought it home,

1800
01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:13,760
Speaker 1: showed my boys who were little kids at the time,

1801
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:15,599
Speaker 1: and said, hey, this is one ball. We don't play

1802
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:17,599
Speaker 1: with this outside this when you keep this in the house,

1803
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 1: right everybody? Good? Yeah? Yeah, good, good good. Obviously he

1804
01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:24,120
Speaker 1: was January February. Snow melts in April May, this time

1805
01:28:24,120 --> 01:28:27,120
Speaker 1: of year. First thing it's out there, deflated, all the

1806
01:28:27,439 --> 01:28:30,360
Speaker 1: scutt lettering, scuff rubbed. I mean it didn't even last

1807
01:28:30,439 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 1: three months. There's a Super Bowl football right there. There's

1808
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: the collector's item. Yeah. How do we get on that?

1809
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: Oh we were talking about hockey stuff? Yeah yeah, yeah,

1810
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:42,559
Speaker 1: how do we talk about anything? This just comes up right,

1811
01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 1: here's a Jim in Jamestown. Hello, Jim, welcome to the show.

1812
01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 1: You're on the air with us. Hey, mister chasker. If

1813
01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: we're not in the Hall of Fame, he should be

1814
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:54,200
Speaker 1: by now. I appreciate thanks. Flocks ticking, Yeah, not gonna

1815
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 1: be here forever. How about that appeal? Could we do

1816
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: that postumus? Maybe if you don't feel good. A couple

1817
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:02,040
Speaker 1: of days in row, we say, hey, I got a statement. Um,

1818
01:29:03,400 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 1: he's moving ahead. Go ahead, Jim taking control of the show.

1819
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:13,680
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jim, go ahead, Jim. Yeah, can you hear me? Yes? Yes, no, yes,

1820
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: go ahead. I'm a dire Steelers fan. When you guys

1821
01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:20,960
Speaker 1: coming to Fitzfur, you think that'll be a close game?

1822
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:23,720
Speaker 1: I hope. So today, I think it's gonna be a

1823
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:25,519
Speaker 1: close game. Ask me when we get there, if it's

1824
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: if it's in October November, maybe we'll have a better idea.

1825
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, it looks close to me now, Jim, and

1826
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:31,880
Speaker 1: Jamestown is a Steelers fan. There are a lot of

1827
01:29:31,920 --> 01:29:34,760
Speaker 1: Steelers fans down there, isn't there Jim? Oh yeah, yeah.

1828
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:38,160
Speaker 1: Weird at of Buffalo fans too. I mean yeah, how

1829
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:40,880
Speaker 1: about Browns fans? You got Browns fans in jamesoun, Oh yeah,

1830
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 1: we got Browns fans. Yeah, probably more than you do

1831
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:46,599
Speaker 1: a year ago. Jim. Right, your thoughts on what's going

1832
01:29:46,680 --> 01:29:48,840
Speaker 1: on with the Steelers over the last few months. You still, uh,

1833
01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:53,200
Speaker 1: you're good with them. Um. One thing I'm kind of

1834
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:57,679
Speaker 1: questioning is how their defense is going to be this year? Yeah, yeah,

1835
01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:00,240
Speaker 1: because it goes to your question how the build will

1836
01:30:00,240 --> 01:30:01,920
Speaker 1: do down there. Look, I hope it's a I hope

1837
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 1: it's an important game that means something, and if it's

1838
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:06,080
Speaker 1: late in the year, I really hope that, and I

1839
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:08,160
Speaker 1: hope it's a good game. I think the Bills are

1840
01:30:08,200 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: approaching to answer your question, the Bills are approaching a

1841
01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:13,720
Speaker 1: point where they have to be able to compete and

1842
01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:16,360
Speaker 1: play a good game against some of the top level

1843
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:18,400
Speaker 1: teams in the AFC. I think the Steelers have a

1844
01:30:18,520 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 1: chance to be one of those teams. So yeah, I

1845
01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:21,639
Speaker 1: hope it's a good game. What do you think see

1846
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:23,639
Speaker 1: I too too. I mean that's what you always hope.

1847
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:25,560
Speaker 1: You hope it's you know, for a playoff spot or

1848
01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:29,120
Speaker 1: even better, I hope it's for seeding, whether you know

1849
01:30:29,240 --> 01:30:31,200
Speaker 1: the one or the two, or the two or the

1850
01:30:31,280 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 1: three seed. You know, so that would be nice. I

1851
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 1: don't think the Steelers can expect to take too much

1852
01:30:37,439 --> 01:30:39,599
Speaker 1: of a step back. I know, defensively, they may think

1853
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:41,680
Speaker 1: that things aren't going to go as well as they have,

1854
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:44,519
Speaker 1: but I think as long as Ben's playing quarterback for him,

1855
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:47,839
Speaker 1: he throws the ball really well. He's an extremely accurate

1856
01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:51,439
Speaker 1: and Juju Smith Schuster there they're going to be able

1857
01:30:51,439 --> 01:30:54,200
Speaker 1: to throw the football. Fine, I think they're gonna be

1858
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:57,200
Speaker 1: okay offensively. Defensively, you probably know better than I do.

1859
01:30:57,360 --> 01:30:59,240
Speaker 1: Jim was whether they're going to be able to pick

1860
01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:02,679
Speaker 1: it up. Jim, thanks, thanks for calling. Thanks for wishing

1861
01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:06,000
Speaker 1: Steve well on his trip to the Profima Hall of Fame.

1862
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:10,400
Speaker 1: We don't talk about got a break here, We're back

1863
01:31:10,439 --> 01:31:12,519
Speaker 1: with another hour ago. We're gonna talk about a sports

1864
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 1: poll conducted by Seaton Hall University about a variety of

1865
01:31:16,240 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 1: things like Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Your favorable rating

1866
01:31:19,479 --> 01:31:22,599
Speaker 1: for those two not even a blip on the screen

1867
01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:24,760
Speaker 1: here in Western New York. That's coming up next when

1868
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:26,680
Speaker 1: we return One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on

1869
01:31:26,720 --> 01:31:45,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radiofalo Hills Radio Network. Story stop date YEP.

1870
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:50,360
Speaker 1: That comes from One Bills Drive, and the Buffalo Bills

1871
01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:53,559
Speaker 1: have added yet another offensive lineman. Had enough yet, They've

1872
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:56,559
Speaker 1: added Quentin Spain, a twenty seven year old guard who

1873
01:31:56,600 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 1: played the first four years of his NFL career in

1874
01:31:58,920 --> 01:32:01,880
Speaker 1: Tennessee with the Titans. Started forty eight to fifty career

1875
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:05,280
Speaker 1: games with the Tennessee Titans. Clinton Spain sixty four three

1876
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:07,960
Speaker 1: hundred thirty three hundred thirty pounds in his fifth year

1877
01:32:08,280 --> 01:32:10,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Made his debut against the Bills back

1878
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 1: in Nashville in twenty fifteen. Now he has agreed to

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Speaker 1: terms with the Buffalo Bills. Clinton Spain the new lineman

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Speaker 1: signed by the Bills. Six offensive lineman signed by the

1881
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Speaker 1: Bills in this free agency period, and according to reports,

1882
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Speaker 1: they're looking at offensive lineman in their pro day today.

1883
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Speaker 1: Tony Pauline from NFL Draft Analysts say the Bills front

1884
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 1: office is on hand at Watchington States Pro Day today

1885
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Speaker 1: as everybody looks at offensive tackle Andre Dillard. Dillard met

1886
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Speaker 1: with the Saints and Seahawks yesterday. Russell Wilson has a

1887
01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: deadline in mind for Seattle Seahawks for a new contract.

1888
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 1: According to ESPN, Wilson, who's going into the final year

1889
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Speaker 1: of his deal, has given an April fifteen deadline for

1890
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Speaker 1: a new deal. That's just about a week and a

1891
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Speaker 1: half away. The two sides of ed recent talks, but

1892
01:32:52,520 --> 01:32:55,680
Speaker 1: the talk's not said to be going anywhere. The significance

1893
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Speaker 1: of April fifteenth is that's the first day of the

1894
01:32:57,840 --> 01:33:01,240
Speaker 1: Seahawks offseason program. He's a time Pro bowler, through for

1895
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Speaker 1: thirty five hundred yards and thirty five touchdowns last year.

1896
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson scheduled to make seventeen million this year, camp

1897
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Speaker 1: charge of twenty five point two million. Wants a new

1898
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Speaker 1: deal and he wants it in the next week and

1899
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Speaker 1: a half. The wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford

1900
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Speaker 1: is going to undergo surgery to remove a tumor in

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Speaker 1: her brain, she said in an Instagram post today. Kelly Stafford,

1902
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's wife, said she underwent an MRI on her

1903
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Speaker 1: brain at the recommendation of a team doctor and decided

1904
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Speaker 1: that she needs the tumor remove. Award on when that

1905
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:33,080
Speaker 1: benign tumor will be removed. And the Buffalo Savers lost

1906
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Speaker 1: their third to the last game of the year and

1907
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:37,559
Speaker 1: last night filled the Nashville three to two, and they'll

1908
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Speaker 1: finish up the season tomorrow night Fan Appreciation Night presented

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Speaker 1: by at Pro Sports tomorrow at the Keybank Center. That's

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Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy's team tasker

1911
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Speaker 1: in our One Buffalo studio. Thanks for tuning in. We're

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Speaker 1: talking a lot about the Bill's offseason. If they've done

1913
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Speaker 1: enough on offense, we will resume that discussion as the

1914
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Speaker 1: afternoon rolls along. But an interesting poll came across our

1915
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Speaker 1: desks last week from Seaton All University Sports Poll, and

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Speaker 1: the director of that agency is on the line with

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Speaker 1: us right now. Rick Genteel, longtime CBS Sports executive producer,

1918
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Speaker 1: the winner of ten Emmy Awards. Rick Genteel now runs

1919
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Speaker 1: a Seaton All Sports University poll. Rick John Murphy and

1920
01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:14,800
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker from CBS in studio with us here today.

1921
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: Did you guys ever work together? Rick? You know Steve,

1922
01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:20,120
Speaker 1: I don't think we ever worked together. I'm not sure

1923
01:34:20,240 --> 01:34:22,120
Speaker 1: which I don't think. So. I started a ninety eight

1924
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Speaker 1: at CBS when they got the NFL back, as I

1925
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 1: was the previous incarnation of the of the NFL. I

1926
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:33,519
Speaker 1: left after the ninety eight Olympics. Oh, after the ninety

1927
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Speaker 1: eight Olympics, I got you and you were so you

1928
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Speaker 1: were there for the four years during a hiatus from

1929
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Speaker 1: the NFL as well. Yes, fortunately I was executive producer

1930
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Speaker 1: for programming exactly. So, So how are things at Seaton

1931
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Speaker 1: Hall these days? Running with these polls? Are you liking

1932
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Speaker 1: the higher education? Yeah, I've been doing this now for

1933
01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:57,840
Speaker 1: I think it's twelve years and we've had some fun.

1934
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Speaker 1: You know, it was it was a slow grow process.

1935
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Speaker 1: But lately we've been doing really well, lots of social

1936
01:35:04,920 --> 01:35:08,960
Speaker 1: media pickup and you know, actually I think more and

1937
01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:12,720
Speaker 1: more interesting subjects. You know, I always say, people in

1938
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:15,280
Speaker 1: sports keep doing stupid things, we get a chance to

1939
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:18,599
Speaker 1: do some interesting poll it's perfect. Yeah, Rick Jinto, former

1940
01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:23,160
Speaker 1: CBS Sports executive producer, you want ten Emmy Awards and listen,

1941
01:35:23,200 --> 01:35:26,240
Speaker 1: that's that's a great accomplishment. And I think all of

1942
01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 1: this stuff really serves you well. And it's really what

1943
01:35:28,720 --> 01:35:31,760
Speaker 1: I think the kids in college really need to hear

1944
01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 1: from somebody who's actually got their hands dirty in the

1945
01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:37,800
Speaker 1: truck getting this stuff on the air. I mean, is

1946
01:35:37,880 --> 01:35:42,040
Speaker 1: that your most valuable asset? I guess it's yeah, a

1947
01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:45,840
Speaker 1: matter of experience. Having obviously been in media forever and

1948
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:50,240
Speaker 1: you know, and knowledge of sports, you kind of have

1949
01:35:50,360 --> 01:35:53,720
Speaker 1: a feel for what's interesting, what at least what you

1950
01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:57,680
Speaker 1: think is interesting. You know that I had to try

1951
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:01,080
Speaker 1: to class up to last year at Seaton Hall and Broadcasting,

1952
01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:04,880
Speaker 1: and my last class I asked my undergraduate students if

1953
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 1: how many watch sports on television. It's a class about

1954
01:36:08,240 --> 01:36:11,200
Speaker 1: thirty two kids. Not one person raised to his or

1955
01:36:11,280 --> 01:36:14,479
Speaker 1: her hand. What are you thinking about? What's going on there? Rick?

1956
01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:18,800
Speaker 1: They all watch on you know, on whatever. They watch

1957
01:36:19,080 --> 01:36:22,439
Speaker 1: highlights or they watch on their various devices. You know,

1958
01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:25,759
Speaker 1: everything is streamed and that, you know, it's like, what's

1959
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:28,680
Speaker 1: what's a television? So I kind of said, okay, I'm

1960
01:36:28,680 --> 01:36:30,880
Speaker 1: a dinosaur. I'm out of here. Yeah, right, I guess

1961
01:36:30,920 --> 01:36:32,479
Speaker 1: you know. It's funny about that, Rick, And I don't

1962
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: know how old you are. I know how old I am.

1963
01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I don't enjoy watching sports on really

1964
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:41,559
Speaker 1: anything but a television. It's it seems too small. Sometimes

1965
01:36:41,640 --> 01:36:43,960
Speaker 1: I can't watch a NFL game on a phone, on

1966
01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: a handheld phone or even a tablet sometimes seems a

1967
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:49,439
Speaker 1: little small. What happened in America that all of a

1968
01:36:49,479 --> 01:36:51,840
Speaker 1: sudden that's acceptable. I know it's andy, and I know

1969
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:54,559
Speaker 1: it's accessible, but it's just not the same good experience.

1970
01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:56,679
Speaker 1: I don't think not to watch on on a screen.

1971
01:36:56,760 --> 01:36:59,320
Speaker 1: The bigger the better. Well, you know, we spend most

1972
01:36:59,400 --> 01:37:02,479
Speaker 1: of our ears and television trying to get bigger screens

1973
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 1: and putting more stuff on the screen, and somehow we

1974
01:37:05,960 --> 01:37:08,720
Speaker 1: started to go in the opposite direction. Whether it's all

1975
01:37:08,800 --> 01:37:13,040
Speaker 1: the crawls and data and graphics that now occupy space

1976
01:37:13,120 --> 01:37:16,759
Speaker 1: where pictures should be. But I think people kids, mostly

1977
01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:21,040
Speaker 1: young people, you know, it's about mobility, and they don't

1978
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:23,960
Speaker 1: really sit and watch a three hour football game. They

1979
01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:26,720
Speaker 1: just don't. They don't. They sure as hell don't watch

1980
01:37:26,760 --> 01:37:30,880
Speaker 1: a baseball game for three three plus hours. And I

1981
01:37:30,960 --> 01:37:33,040
Speaker 1: think that's part of it. It's like, okay, I have

1982
01:37:33,160 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, let me see what's on. We're speaking with

1983
01:37:36,640 --> 01:37:39,800
Speaker 1: Rich Yet, a former sports executive producer for CBS, and

1984
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 1: you ran an interesting poll. One of the and i'll

1985
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 1: tell you this in Western New York here, one of

1986
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:47,080
Speaker 1: the reasons kids don't watch NFL football is because the

1987
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:50,479
Speaker 1: Patriots always seemed to be on. And you had an

1988
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:54,200
Speaker 1: interesting angle to the poll you put out. Is you

1989
01:37:54,280 --> 01:37:57,320
Speaker 1: call it patriot fatigue? Can you explain what that means

1990
01:37:57,400 --> 01:38:01,080
Speaker 1: and what your pole told us about that? It's really,

1991
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:03,800
Speaker 1: as I said before, it's you know, you're sort of

1992
01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:07,760
Speaker 1: trust your instincts about what's interesting. And when the when

1993
01:38:07,840 --> 01:38:12,160
Speaker 1: the Patriots won the championship game, my gut reaction, and

1994
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:15,559
Speaker 1: I try to always trust my gut was not again,

1995
01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:18,400
Speaker 1: and I thought, gee, I wonder how many people feel

1996
01:38:18,439 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 1: that way. Um, And it turns out, you know, we

1997
01:38:21,360 --> 01:38:25,680
Speaker 1: asked that question, um if basically, if you're tired of

1998
01:38:25,760 --> 01:38:28,920
Speaker 1: seeing the Patriots in the super Bowl, and forty six

1999
01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:32,679
Speaker 1: percent of the public said yes, which is pretty amazing.

2000
01:38:32,800 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 1: I think, you know, half the people. And even more interesting,

2001
01:38:36,800 --> 01:38:39,040
Speaker 1: when we asked those people who said they follow the

2002
01:38:39,160 --> 01:38:43,519
Speaker 1: NFL either closely or very closely. You know, let's say

2003
01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 1: NFL fans, right, sixty two percent of them said that

2004
01:38:47,400 --> 01:38:51,200
Speaker 1: they were tired of seeing the Patriots in the super Bowl. So, um,

2005
01:38:51,479 --> 01:38:56,000
Speaker 1: there certainly is Patriot fatigue. And yet you you come

2006
01:38:56,080 --> 01:38:58,920
Speaker 1: from the network background, where I guess we always assume

2007
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 1: that the network see yes, ESPN whomever want to have

2008
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:04,280
Speaker 1: the big names. They want to have the stars, and

2009
01:39:04,360 --> 01:39:07,439
Speaker 1: the Patriots provide those stars. Right, Why why would they?

2010
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:10,560
Speaker 1: Why do not fans respond to seeing Brady or belichicker?

2011
01:39:12,520 --> 01:39:15,559
Speaker 1: I think even though they say we're tired of seeing

2012
01:39:15,640 --> 01:39:19,559
Speaker 1: them in the game, people watch will watch the game.

2013
01:39:19,880 --> 01:39:23,000
Speaker 1: You know, generally speaking, you're not a fan of one

2014
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:24,880
Speaker 1: of the two teams, right, I mean that's just the

2015
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:27,679
Speaker 1: way it is, right. So, so generally speaking, you watch

2016
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:29,800
Speaker 1: the super Bowl because it's the Super Bowl, not because

2017
01:39:29,960 --> 01:39:33,400
Speaker 1: necessarily you're rooting for one of the teams. It's it's

2018
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Speaker 1: it's a positive thing for the networks in any game

2019
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Speaker 1: to put up a team that people either like or

2020
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Speaker 1: like to hate. You know, the Yankees, the older days,

2021
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:49,840
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. People get tired of that kind of

2022
01:39:49,960 --> 01:39:53,880
Speaker 1: success for the most part, and you know they're they'll

2023
01:39:53,920 --> 01:39:57,120
Speaker 1: tune in to see them lose, and that's as good

2024
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Speaker 1: a viewer as somebody tuning in to see them win.

2025
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Speaker 1: The network. Well, you asked a number of questions on

2026
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Speaker 1: this poll. You did it between January twenty eighth and

2027
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Speaker 1: thirtieth of this last of this seat of this year,

2028
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Speaker 1: this calendar year. You asked about Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.

2029
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Speaker 1: You also asked a little bit about legalized sports betting, replay,

2030
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:20,040
Speaker 1: review of the overtime rules. What was there anything or

2031
01:40:20,200 --> 01:40:24,600
Speaker 1: what was the most surprising return the surprising result of

2032
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Speaker 1: any of those questions that you asked on your poll? Well,

2033
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Speaker 1: I was surprised, you know, even even with the Patriots

2034
01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:36,880
Speaker 1: um lack of popularity, let's say, or again being a

2035
01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:41,800
Speaker 1: team people like to hate that the the we ask

2036
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Speaker 1: if your opinion of Tom Brady is favorable or unfavorable,

2037
01:40:46,080 --> 01:40:49,320
Speaker 1: and it was. It was only only twenty four percent,

2038
01:40:50,360 --> 01:40:53,719
Speaker 1: so one out of four people think favorably of Tom Brady.

2039
01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:59,080
Speaker 1: Um Rick. I was looking at those numbers on Brady

2040
01:40:59,160 --> 01:41:01,280
Speaker 1: from your poll, and it's interesting that you marked the

2041
01:41:01,400 --> 01:41:06,080
Speaker 1: time when the deflat Gate scandal began February twenty fifteen

2042
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:10,080
Speaker 1: as really the beginning of the end of Brady's favorability rating.

2043
01:41:10,240 --> 01:41:12,320
Speaker 1: Is am I simplifying it too much? There? No, No,

2044
01:41:12,479 --> 01:41:17,200
Speaker 1: that's exactly right in the big way. He h. He

2045
01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:20,000
Speaker 1: was a very popular guy, not as popular ever as

2046
01:41:20,080 --> 01:41:24,160
Speaker 1: Teyton Manning whenever we did these studies, but it also

2047
01:41:24,200 --> 01:41:29,439
Speaker 1: always very very favorable. And even right before, like between

2048
01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:34,120
Speaker 1: the the the actual deflating of the footballs, if you will,

2049
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:37,799
Speaker 1: and when he was punished for it, he was still popular.

2050
01:41:38,160 --> 01:41:41,960
Speaker 1: But once it was sort of at least announced that

2051
01:41:42,080 --> 01:41:44,960
Speaker 1: he was involved in impossible cheating, you know, I know,

2052
01:41:45,040 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 1: the people in New England are gonna yelled scream, but

2053
01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 1: that his popularity really hit the hit the deck and

2054
01:41:51,360 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: and it's kind of stayed there. Huh. And you found

2055
01:41:54,320 --> 01:41:59,000
Speaker 1: similar result in uh Bill Belichick's favorability rating. Nobody ever

2056
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:04,599
Speaker 1: liked Bill belis he never, He never was. It wasn't

2057
01:42:04,640 --> 01:42:06,680
Speaker 1: like he was up high and then he dropped. He

2058
01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:09,800
Speaker 1: was always And I don't really like the guy. Rick.

2059
01:42:09,880 --> 01:42:13,080
Speaker 1: We've been having this conversation about the the overtime rules

2060
01:42:13,120 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 1: and also about the legal about the review, the replay

2061
01:42:16,439 --> 01:42:21,479
Speaker 1: for review, and you said that most people would prefer

2062
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:26,879
Speaker 1: or be okay with having the ability to review judgment

2063
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:30,439
Speaker 1: calls by officials. I thought that was I thought that

2064
01:42:30,560 --> 01:42:33,559
Speaker 1: was really interesting and surprising that so many people would

2065
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:41,559
Speaker 1: open up the challenge system to allow reviews of judgment calls.

2066
01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:45,760
Speaker 1: Don't you people not realize how slippery slope that is? Yeah?

2067
01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:47,880
Speaker 1: I think the answer to that question is no. I

2068
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:50,479
Speaker 1: don't think they do realize. Keep in mind the timing

2069
01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 1: right after in both championship games, um, there were there

2070
01:42:56,120 --> 01:43:01,000
Speaker 1: were missed calls let's say no or non calls, and

2071
01:43:01,520 --> 01:43:05,080
Speaker 1: very controversial a lot of publicity. We ask The question

2072
01:43:05,200 --> 01:43:07,760
Speaker 1: we asked is do you think replay reviews should be

2073
01:43:07,800 --> 01:43:12,800
Speaker 1: allowed for judgment calls like pass interference? And an absolutely

2074
01:43:12,920 --> 01:43:17,880
Speaker 1: overwhelming eighty two percent of people said yes. And you

2075
01:43:17,960 --> 01:43:21,679
Speaker 1: know that normally you get numbers like even the Patriot

2076
01:43:21,760 --> 01:43:25,200
Speaker 1: question forty six percent, forty eight percent eighty two percent

2077
01:43:25,520 --> 01:43:28,679
Speaker 1: that that makes you sort of say, wow, something's up here. Yeah,

2078
01:43:29,720 --> 01:43:33,120
Speaker 1: and you know, it was very much eye opening. And

2079
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:35,960
Speaker 1: you also asked the question at the same time, I

2080
01:43:36,120 --> 01:43:40,120
Speaker 1: presume about overtime and whether both teams need possession and overtime.

2081
01:43:40,160 --> 01:43:41,479
Speaker 1: Tell us what you found there, if you would writ

2082
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:44,439
Speaker 1: well there, The question specifically was do you think both

2083
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:48,360
Speaker 1: teams you know, we go through an explanation explaining the

2084
01:43:48,439 --> 01:43:51,040
Speaker 1: rules because you never know, you get you get you know,

2085
01:43:51,720 --> 01:43:54,600
Speaker 1: somebody in Iowa who's never seen a football game. Not

2086
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 1: that people in Iowa don't like football games because you

2087
01:43:57,040 --> 01:44:01,439
Speaker 1: never know who you're going to get cousins, I like

2088
01:44:01,600 --> 01:44:04,600
Speaker 1: Iowa anyway, The question we actually asked is do you

2089
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:07,080
Speaker 1: think both teams should have a chance to possess the

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01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:10,200
Speaker 1: ball at least once in the overtime period or should

2091
01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:13,640
Speaker 1: the rule remain as is? Fifty six percent felt that

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01:44:13,760 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 1: both teams should possess the ball at least once, you know, yeah,

2093
01:44:18,040 --> 01:44:20,519
Speaker 1: which is not surprising. You know again, you know, I

2094
01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:24,240
Speaker 1: think people are to some degree familiar with the college system,

2095
01:44:25,680 --> 01:44:27,600
Speaker 1: whether they like it or not, They're aware of the

2096
01:44:27,680 --> 01:44:30,120
Speaker 1: fact that at least both teams have an equal chance.

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01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:35,680
Speaker 1: So I wasn't surprised by that genteel on the land

2098
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:38,080
Speaker 1: with as director of the Seton Hall University Sports Poll,

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01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:40,840
Speaker 1: they're just out with some interesting numbers, and you've found

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01:44:40,880 --> 01:44:45,640
Speaker 1: some interesting things about March Madness, right, NCAA Basketball Championship

2101
01:44:45,680 --> 01:44:48,240
Speaker 1: and how people watch the tournament these days. What did

2102
01:44:48,280 --> 01:44:51,559
Speaker 1: you find, rit Well, that was kind of a fun one.

2103
01:44:53,880 --> 01:44:57,120
Speaker 1: Nearly forty percent of viewers will be watching thirty eight

2104
01:44:57,880 --> 01:45:02,520
Speaker 1: will be watching the NCAA Basketball tournament man either completely

2105
01:45:03,240 --> 01:45:08,160
Speaker 1: entirely or partially online. Huh. And that's you know, I

2106
01:45:08,280 --> 01:45:10,920
Speaker 1: guess in this day and age, maybe that's not even surprising.

2107
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:14,240
Speaker 1: But as I said, you know, a dinosaur like me. Wow,

2108
01:45:15,479 --> 01:45:19,479
Speaker 1: people watching, you know, watching these games online? Is that

2109
01:45:19,600 --> 01:45:22,040
Speaker 1: a function of the daytime games? In the rounds one

2110
01:45:22,120 --> 01:45:24,360
Speaker 1: and two? Do you think? I think partially? And I

2111
01:45:24,479 --> 01:45:26,479
Speaker 1: also think it's the fact that there's four It could

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01:45:26,520 --> 01:45:30,400
Speaker 1: be four games on simultaneously. M and you know, you

2113
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:33,000
Speaker 1: watch television. You might even have two. I have two

2114
01:45:33,040 --> 01:45:37,439
Speaker 1: televisions that I watched constantly. Um, but then the third

2115
01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:39,880
Speaker 1: game is on. You want to see it, turn on

2116
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 1: your computer and there it is. I guess it's a

2117
01:45:42,800 --> 01:45:46,360
Speaker 1: I think it's partially a function of the amount of

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01:45:46,439 --> 01:45:49,240
Speaker 1: games that are taking place, the fact that it's in

2119
01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:51,439
Speaker 1: the after, you know, for the first two days. Certainly

2120
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:55,479
Speaker 1: it's on during working hours starting at noon. And I

2121
01:45:55,600 --> 01:45:59,599
Speaker 1: think it's partially that old thing about court cutting. Kids.

2122
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:02,559
Speaker 1: Are us not watching TV that much anymore? Ye Rick,

2123
01:46:02,680 --> 01:46:04,240
Speaker 1: let me ask you may not be able to answer this,

2124
01:46:04,320 --> 01:46:07,760
Speaker 1: And I think it's just a philosophical question. And I

2125
01:46:07,840 --> 01:46:10,800
Speaker 1: think more and more people who go to the actual game,

2126
01:46:10,880 --> 01:46:14,160
Speaker 1: particularly these NCAA games. You go to these games and

2127
01:46:14,240 --> 01:46:16,320
Speaker 1: you watch the game right in front of you, but

2128
01:46:16,560 --> 01:46:19,120
Speaker 1: during timeouts and during breaks in the action, you can

2129
01:46:19,200 --> 01:46:23,719
Speaker 1: see almost every single person in the stands are looking

2130
01:46:23,760 --> 01:46:26,360
Speaker 1: at their phone. Maybe they're also watching the other games

2131
01:46:26,439 --> 01:46:29,240
Speaker 1: as well. Do you do you think it's possible? And

2132
01:46:29,400 --> 01:46:32,880
Speaker 1: how accurately can they quantify Can it be quantified as

2133
01:46:32,880 --> 01:46:35,160
Speaker 1: to how many people are doing what at any given moment.

2134
01:46:36,479 --> 01:46:39,920
Speaker 1: It's you know, the ratings people like the Nielsen people

2135
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:43,400
Speaker 1: and whatnot. They are working on all sorts of different

2136
01:46:43,479 --> 01:46:47,320
Speaker 1: ways of measuring out of home viewing now and including

2137
01:46:47,439 --> 01:46:50,559
Speaker 1: it's easier to track if people are watching online because

2138
01:46:50,600 --> 01:46:55,520
Speaker 1: that's sort of automatically recorded somewhere in the in the ethosphere.

2139
01:46:56,120 --> 01:46:59,519
Speaker 1: But even the TV ratings people are now trying to

2140
01:46:59,680 --> 01:47:03,640
Speaker 1: keep track of, you know, the two events in television

2141
01:47:03,720 --> 01:47:07,439
Speaker 1: sports television where the rating is suspect or the Super

2142
01:47:07,479 --> 01:47:10,360
Speaker 1: Bowl and the NCAA Basketball tournament, because people tend to

2143
01:47:10,479 --> 01:47:14,920
Speaker 1: watch in groups, right the super Bowl, you know, people

2144
01:47:14,960 --> 01:47:17,920
Speaker 1: aren't sitting home alone. Generally everybody goes to a party

2145
01:47:18,040 --> 01:47:20,680
Speaker 1: or whatever. Right, And that's all of a sudden, we've

2146
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:22,880
Speaker 1: now got a group of people, and that house gets

2147
01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:27,920
Speaker 1: credit for a viewer, you know, or a household. The

2148
01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:32,639
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament, people are watching on campuses, in bars. If

2149
01:47:32,680 --> 01:47:35,120
Speaker 1: you've ever gone to Vegas during the NCAA tournament, it's

2150
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:40,439
Speaker 1: unbelievable how many people are there watching. And the ratings

2151
01:47:40,520 --> 01:47:43,599
Speaker 1: people are only recently starting to be able with any

2152
01:47:43,680 --> 01:47:46,719
Speaker 1: degree of accuracy, been able to measure out of home viewing.

2153
01:47:47,840 --> 01:47:50,320
Speaker 1: You're in a good position to perhaps answer this question

2154
01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:54,240
Speaker 1: that longtime executive producer at CBA Sports ten Emmy Awards,

2155
01:47:54,280 --> 01:47:57,799
Speaker 1: and now you're doing research into the way audiences follow

2156
01:47:57,880 --> 01:48:00,880
Speaker 1: sports television, whether it's football as you send, NFL or

2157
01:48:01,320 --> 01:48:05,280
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament. What is the future of sports television

2158
01:48:05,320 --> 01:48:08,120
Speaker 1: do you think, especially in relation to a pay per view,

2159
01:48:08,200 --> 01:48:10,640
Speaker 1: and you know, the NFL has kind of dipped its

2160
01:48:10,680 --> 01:48:13,240
Speaker 1: toe into the waters of a streaming video and a

2161
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:15,880
Speaker 1: couple of different streaming video options over the last few years.

2162
01:48:16,160 --> 01:48:17,960
Speaker 1: There's going to be a television contract coming up in

2163
01:48:18,000 --> 01:48:20,160
Speaker 1: the next couple of years. Where does it go from here,

2164
01:48:20,280 --> 01:48:23,679
Speaker 1: especially for an NFL which has really built its fortune,

2165
01:48:23,880 --> 01:48:28,800
Speaker 1: built it's it's it's whole being around network television on

2166
01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:31,160
Speaker 1: a regular basis at a regular scheduled time. Where do

2167
01:48:31,200 --> 01:48:33,360
Speaker 1: you see this going in ten years? Well, I think

2168
01:48:33,439 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: the direction is clear, which is direct to consumer. How

2169
01:48:37,439 --> 01:48:40,040
Speaker 1: long that takes is really anybody's guests. I mean, we

2170
01:48:40,160 --> 01:48:43,880
Speaker 1: were we were talking about the demise of television twenty

2171
01:48:43,920 --> 01:48:47,840
Speaker 1: five years ago. But you know, right visa too much.

2172
01:48:47,960 --> 01:48:50,680
Speaker 1: Nobody can do this anymore, and somehow everybody's figured out

2173
01:48:50,720 --> 01:48:53,160
Speaker 1: a way to do it. But I do think the

2174
01:48:53,280 --> 01:48:56,200
Speaker 1: future is indirect to consumer, over the top or whatever,

2175
01:48:56,720 --> 01:49:01,639
Speaker 1: where the league's will will retain their rights to their games,

2176
01:49:02,680 --> 01:49:05,200
Speaker 1: produce them, and distribute them. If you want to get

2177
01:49:05,280 --> 01:49:08,720
Speaker 1: the NFL, you'll pay for some service you know that

2178
01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:11,439
Speaker 1: gets you. I have direct TV, I get I get

2179
01:49:11,520 --> 01:49:14,960
Speaker 1: their their out of market package right there you know,

2180
01:49:15,080 --> 01:49:17,760
Speaker 1: I pay whatever I pay and I can watch any

2181
01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:20,240
Speaker 1: game I want. Well, I think eventually that's going to

2182
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:23,799
Speaker 1: be the model. I'm not just for the NFL, for everybody,

2183
01:49:24,160 --> 01:49:27,360
Speaker 1: you know. I think the Southeastern Conference will will offer

2184
01:49:27,400 --> 01:49:29,400
Speaker 1: a package to a viewer. You can get all all

2185
01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:33,960
Speaker 1: SEC games, ye, and you'll get them directly from the source.

2186
01:49:34,080 --> 01:49:37,599
Speaker 1: The source theoretically being the you know, the the rights holder,

2187
01:49:38,120 --> 01:49:44,240
Speaker 1: the conference, the league. M I certainly think that's the direction.

2188
01:49:44,400 --> 01:49:46,640
Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, the wild card is

2189
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:48,720
Speaker 1: how long does it take to get there? Does the

2190
01:49:48,880 --> 01:49:53,240
Speaker 1: NFL go to another round of network contracts for ten years,

2191
01:49:53,320 --> 01:49:56,519
Speaker 1: twelve years, eight years, four years, whatever for for you know,

2192
01:49:56,800 --> 01:50:00,760
Speaker 1: unbelievable amounts of money? And so does say okay, you guys,

2193
01:50:00,840 --> 01:50:03,519
Speaker 1: knock yourself out, you produce it, you air it, will

2194
01:50:03,560 --> 01:50:06,280
Speaker 1: take the rights fee. Or does the league just create

2195
01:50:06,439 --> 01:50:11,800
Speaker 1: its own broadcast operation keep all the advertising revenue go

2196
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:14,920
Speaker 1: directly to the consumer, taking that money instead of a

2197
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: rights fee from a broadcaster. I really do see that

2198
01:50:18,520 --> 01:50:20,800
Speaker 1: as the way to go. Yeah, it would be a

2199
01:50:20,920 --> 01:50:23,799
Speaker 1: massive I think the thing that has the chilling effect

2200
01:50:23,800 --> 01:50:25,840
Speaker 1: on the league is it'ld be a massive undertaking to

2201
01:50:25,960 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: air and produce and produce you two fifty six games. Yeah,

2202
01:50:30,479 --> 01:50:34,880
Speaker 1: it's a huge I mean, look, you're producing what on

2203
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:38,280
Speaker 1: a Sunday, you might be producing fourteen games, I don't know,

2204
01:50:38,360 --> 01:50:42,839
Speaker 1: fifteen games, twelve games, and then you've got your national broadcast.

2205
01:50:43,160 --> 01:50:47,040
Speaker 1: But all those guys who are producing football now you

2206
01:50:47,120 --> 01:50:49,280
Speaker 1: know they're going to be producing games for the NFL.

2207
01:50:49,400 --> 01:50:51,920
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter sure whether they're doing it for CBS or

2208
01:50:52,040 --> 01:50:55,639
Speaker 1: NBC whatever. Those trucks. The networks don't own those those

2209
01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:59,559
Speaker 1: mobile units anymore, generally speaking, they rent them from some packager.

2210
01:51:00,320 --> 01:51:03,000
Speaker 1: So all that equipment is there, and it's just a

2211
01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:05,439
Speaker 1: matter of somebody at the NFL saying, Okay, here's what

2212
01:51:05,479 --> 01:51:07,760
Speaker 1: we're going to do, and you know somebody will be

2213
01:51:07,840 --> 01:51:11,920
Speaker 1: executive producer. Hell, maybe I'll make a comeback Rick. Any

2214
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:17,080
Speaker 1: involvement of fire, remember you remember your friends, Any involvement

2215
01:51:17,400 --> 01:51:20,360
Speaker 1: in that scenario you talk about with the federal government

2216
01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:24,000
Speaker 1: get involved. You know, there's like a longstanding historic interest

2217
01:51:24,080 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 1: in Congress in what the NFL provides for television viewers. Yes, absolutely,

2218
01:51:29,200 --> 01:51:32,040
Speaker 1: it's a great point, and there's always been you know,

2219
01:51:32,120 --> 01:51:35,479
Speaker 1: there's always been concerned not just by the NFL, by

2220
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:38,120
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, for instance, with the World Series, the

2221
01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:43,040
Speaker 1: International Olympic Committee, everybody's always been concerned about not making

2222
01:51:43,200 --> 01:51:48,360
Speaker 1: these events available on the broadest possible distribution platform. Yeah.

2223
01:51:49,160 --> 01:51:52,480
Speaker 1: So so, yes, that's going to be an issue. Baseball

2224
01:51:52,520 --> 01:51:56,559
Speaker 1: has been always been protective of that for the fear

2225
01:51:56,680 --> 01:52:00,679
Speaker 1: that they'll lift the you know, their their there an't

2226
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:04,080
Speaker 1: trust protection right, um so so yeah, that's going to

2227
01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:06,640
Speaker 1: be an issue. But I do think that if they

2228
01:52:06,760 --> 01:52:10,360
Speaker 1: make it available, if you're not paying for cable. You know,

2229
01:52:10,479 --> 01:52:14,040
Speaker 1: now nobody gets TV for free, right, You're paying for something,

2230
01:52:14,120 --> 01:52:17,479
Speaker 1: whether it's whether it's cable or whether it's internet or whatever.

2231
01:52:19,200 --> 01:52:21,720
Speaker 1: I think the way around it is to say, look,

2232
01:52:21,760 --> 01:52:24,839
Speaker 1: they're no longer paying the cable bill. What we're asking

2233
01:52:25,120 --> 01:52:28,680
Speaker 1: that we're basically offering them an alcart service. Yeah, you

2234
01:52:28,760 --> 01:52:32,040
Speaker 1: don't have to pay for the entertainment or the House

2235
01:52:32,120 --> 01:52:36,400
Speaker 1: and Garden Network. If you're not interested you know, by

2236
01:52:36,479 --> 01:52:39,920
Speaker 1: the SEC, by the NFL, by the ACC, by Big

2237
01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:43,240
Speaker 1: East Basketball, by you know what I mean, just make

2238
01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:47,400
Speaker 1: whatever available on an alcart basis. Yeah, last question for you, Rick,

2239
01:52:47,520 --> 01:52:50,640
Speaker 1: what's the point of Seaton Halls University Sports Poll. What

2240
01:52:50,760 --> 01:52:52,240
Speaker 1: are you guys looking for when you do this poll.

2241
01:52:52,280 --> 01:52:55,560
Speaker 1: It's an annual poll, right, yeah, it's well, we do

2242
01:52:55,720 --> 01:53:00,240
Speaker 1: seventy year actually seven. It's gotten multiple purposes. One the

2243
01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:03,439
Speaker 1: most obvious is to is to get you guys interested

2244
01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:06,760
Speaker 1: to get the brand name of Seton Hall University out

2245
01:53:06,800 --> 01:53:10,000
Speaker 1: there on a sort of as national level as you can.

2246
01:53:10,520 --> 01:53:14,840
Speaker 1: You know, it's a small school in South Orange, New Jersey. UM.

2247
01:53:14,880 --> 01:53:16,960
Speaker 1: And the only two things that really give it any

2248
01:53:17,000 --> 01:53:20,400
Speaker 1: kind of national recognition or this poll and the basketball,

2249
01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:23,439
Speaker 1: the men's basketball team. Yeah, so that was that was

2250
01:53:23,560 --> 01:53:26,800
Speaker 1: a you know, one of the original reasons. And it

2251
01:53:26,960 --> 01:53:30,200
Speaker 1: also gives this is all run by students. Students do

2252
01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:33,519
Speaker 1: all the question asking, they take part in the in

2253
01:53:33,600 --> 01:53:36,360
Speaker 1: the preparation of the questionnaire, they take part in the

2254
01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:39,720
Speaker 1: analysis of the results. So it's very much hands on

2255
01:53:39,920 --> 01:53:43,439
Speaker 1: kind of learning. UM. And you know, it's just it's

2256
01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:47,760
Speaker 1: it's really taking taking something into some sort of into

2257
01:53:47,840 --> 01:53:51,800
Speaker 1: into a real life situation as opposed to just being

2258
01:53:51,840 --> 01:53:53,920
Speaker 1: in a classroom. Yeah, well you make it now. When

2259
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:56,439
Speaker 1: I think of Eaton Hall, I think of Bill Raftery, PJ.

2260
01:53:56,560 --> 01:53:59,680
Speaker 1: Colissimo and Rick fent Tale. Right there you go that

2261
01:53:59,760 --> 01:54:03,600
Speaker 1: they thanks Rick, appreciate it. Thanks Rick good talking to you.

2262
01:54:03,760 --> 01:54:06,240
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Rick gen Teel, director of the Seaton

2263
01:54:06,439 --> 01:54:10,040
Speaker 1: University Sports bull, former CBS Sports Executive producer and winner

2264
01:54:10,080 --> 01:54:14,559
Speaker 1: of ten Emmy Awards. Some interesting stuff. I I admit, Steve.

2265
01:54:14,840 --> 01:54:17,320
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a cable guy. I watched games on cable,

2266
01:54:17,400 --> 01:54:19,120
Speaker 1: but I know that there's a there's a whole new

2267
01:54:19,160 --> 01:54:21,120
Speaker 1: world out there of how to get access to games,

2268
01:54:21,479 --> 01:54:23,400
Speaker 1: and I'm not familiar with it, but i know it's

2269
01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:25,519
Speaker 1: coming and I'm really interested in what it looks like

2270
01:54:25,640 --> 01:54:27,519
Speaker 1: ten years from now. You know, what the landscape looks like.

2271
01:54:27,600 --> 01:54:30,280
Speaker 1: How do we watch the NFL in five to ten years? Next?

2272
01:54:30,360 --> 01:54:34,080
Speaker 1: Contact my, my, You know, five kids are all they're

2273
01:54:34,080 --> 01:54:35,800
Speaker 1: all adults, one of the last ones in college. But

2274
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:39,040
Speaker 1: their habits and the way they do things in their

2275
01:54:39,280 --> 01:54:42,960
Speaker 1: everyday to day life concerning how they intake media, yeah,

2276
01:54:43,320 --> 01:54:47,600
Speaker 1: is completely foreign to me. Yeah. They don't have cable TV,

2277
01:54:47,720 --> 01:54:51,320
Speaker 1: they don't have satellite TV. They just they got computer TV, right,

2278
01:54:51,480 --> 01:54:54,960
Speaker 1: I mean it just it comes over the internet. Yeah,

2279
01:54:55,880 --> 01:54:57,760
Speaker 1: they don't have a house phone. They don't have a

2280
01:54:57,800 --> 01:55:00,680
Speaker 1: phone in their house. What's wrong with them? I know

2281
01:55:01,200 --> 01:55:04,120
Speaker 1: where he up, right, because everybody's got a phone and

2282
01:55:04,240 --> 01:55:05,760
Speaker 1: they both got They have two phones in the house.

2283
01:55:05,800 --> 01:55:08,880
Speaker 1: It's her cell phone, his cell phone. And pretty soon

2284
01:55:09,360 --> 01:55:11,640
Speaker 1: when my granddaughter gets to be about thirteen or I

2285
01:55:11,680 --> 01:55:16,200
Speaker 1: don't know, eight, whatever the wherever the politically correct ages

2286
01:55:16,280 --> 01:55:18,400
Speaker 1: for a kid to have a phone, now they'll have

2287
01:55:18,560 --> 01:55:20,840
Speaker 1: three phones in the house. I have my granddaughter's gonna

2288
01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:23,080
Speaker 1: get a phone, you know, I mean my grandson level phone.

2289
01:55:23,080 --> 01:55:25,080
Speaker 1: They have five phones in the house, but no phone

2290
01:55:25,240 --> 01:55:28,800
Speaker 1: dedicated strictly to their residence, like on the wall, like

2291
01:55:28,880 --> 01:55:30,120
Speaker 1: back in the old day, remember when they had a

2292
01:55:31,400 --> 01:55:34,440
Speaker 1: lot right with a long court and you look at

2293
01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:37,680
Speaker 1: now you have a phone. You have one of these

2294
01:55:37,760 --> 01:55:41,600
Speaker 1: phones with the rotary dial. They don't know how to

2295
01:55:41,680 --> 01:55:45,040
Speaker 1: work it. They don't how to dial. They don't have

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Speaker 1: to actually dial a number. We don't even answer the

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Speaker 1: phone in our house. Oh we don't either. But that's

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Speaker 1: and I see it. I mean I see how things

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01:55:52,000 --> 01:55:53,840
Speaker 1: have changed. I mean, you answer it now you get

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01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:56,560
Speaker 1: a robot, but you know on the other end calling you.

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Speaker 1: But everything's different for them, and they don't you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't have cable packages. They go skinny what are

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01:56:02,320 --> 01:56:04,960
Speaker 1: they called skinny bundle or whatever. Yeah, yeah, they just

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01:56:05,040 --> 01:56:07,000
Speaker 1: pick what they want. And they buy that, and it's

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01:56:07,320 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 1: presto chango, there they go. If we just chased away

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Speaker 1: whatever hope we have of having any millennial viewers or

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01:56:12,440 --> 01:56:15,720
Speaker 1: listeners to this show. We're old guys, they are, kind

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Speaker 1: of but we're open to learning. I don't have a problem.

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Speaker 1: I love hearing about how I don't know why and

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Speaker 1: why they do the things they do. But you brought

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Speaker 1: up a good point in that interview for you and me,

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Speaker 1: old guys like bro. I told you I've got a base.

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Speaker 1: I've got a man cave in the basement. I've got

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Speaker 1: this projector screen for the TV. And my screen is

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01:56:36,600 --> 01:56:41,720
Speaker 1: as big as the wall, right, it's awesome. And everybody's

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01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:44,440
Speaker 1: walking around with these like two inch phones. They're watching

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Speaker 1: everything they want. What are you doing? What do you watch?

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Speaker 1: Look at this? Look at look at my thing? Yeah right,

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Speaker 1: I mean look at my screen. Of course. Then I

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Speaker 1: told you too, it's in the basement, so I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't go down there anymore because it's too much

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01:56:54,080 --> 01:56:58,520
Speaker 1: the water on flight. I'm so lazy. I got this

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Speaker 1: huge screen. I don't go down there because you know.

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01:57:01,400 --> 01:57:04,600
Speaker 1: Then you got a holler? What got a holler? What

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Speaker 1: did you say? Yeah, Hey, if you're coming down here,

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Speaker 1: bring me a beer. Right, Yeah, I'm so I'm so bad.

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Speaker 1: We thank Rick Jenteele from Seaton Old for joining us

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Speaker 1: for talking about this. We're gonna get back to our

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Speaker 1: topic of the day, The Bills with another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Offense to Day, adding offensive lineman Quentin Spain to

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Speaker 1: the roster, a guy who's been a starter for four

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Speaker 1: years Tennessee Titans. So now the toll is six offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: four ride receivers, two tight ends, two running backs. Have

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Speaker 1: they done enough to revamp their offense? What do you think?

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Speaker 1: That's our Twitter poll and it's close. Got about thirty

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Speaker 1: one hundred votes in so far on Twitter. Fifty one

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Speaker 1: percent of you say more, We need more. They have

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Speaker 1: not done enough. Forty nine percent of you say yes,

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Speaker 1: they've done enough. Let's hear from you. Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eighth three five fifty and toll free from outside

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Speaker 1: Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Back to that topic plus NFL true and false when

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Speaker 1: we return One Bill's Live brought to you by Kalidah

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Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. John Murphy was Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: here until three o'clock today. We got a good show tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: I know too, And we're not done today, but I

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Speaker 1: know we got some good guests counting up to tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I just can't remember who it is. Oh, Steve Palazolo

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Speaker 1: from Pro Football Focus about the draft. Steve Palazoo is

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Speaker 1: a six eight guy. Yeah, yeah, he's as tall as

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Speaker 1: a He's the tallest guy I've ever worked with. Well, well,

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Speaker 1: he comes to the seminar CBS sence. Yeah, he's good

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01:58:38,320 --> 01:58:39,760
Speaker 1: and he knows the stuff. He'll be all over the

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Speaker 1: three for he literally he's nice. He's like six ten. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's like really tall. Really yeah. Adam Shine has had

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Speaker 1: a lot of good things to say and write about

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Speaker 1: the bills. He does his own little talk show somewhere

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01:58:51,520 --> 01:58:53,360
Speaker 1: in New York, and he had a little time to shine,

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Speaker 1: time to shock. I'm just fine. He'll be on the

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Speaker 1: show with the tomorrow as well. Good show. And the

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Speaker 1: bill has done enough to revamp the offense. We showed

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Speaker 1: you the Twitter full results. It's split about fifty fifty.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? We got phone lines wide open?

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Speaker 1: If you'd like to weigh in on the telephone line

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

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. They signed another

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman today, Quentin Spain. What do you think have

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Speaker 1: they done enough to revamp the offense? Tiffany Daniels, frequent

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Speaker 1: tweet communicant, says a young running back at it at

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Speaker 1: some point during the draft would be nice. You can

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Speaker 1: grab Bryce Love in the later rounds. I think they

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Speaker 1: still need a playmaking tight end. No offense is a

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Speaker 1: nifty route runner who would be a nice piece to

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Speaker 1: a developing offense. Yeah, okay, sipping the kool a tweets

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Speaker 1: and the moves on offense have made a solid and

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Speaker 1: given a solid depth, something we have not had a

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Speaker 1: long time. Injuries are inevitable. Now we have solid depth

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Speaker 1: to plug in. We still need to draft in a

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Speaker 1: few eras areas, but the success of the offense will

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Speaker 1: ultimately be in number seventeens hands. I don't think anyone

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Speaker 1: disputes that. The question is and we talked about this

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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier in the show here today, Steve,

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Speaker 1: are we relying too much on this group that they've signed,

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Speaker 1: These offen of linemen that they've signed you know, guys,

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Speaker 1: why are they here? That's a good question to ask, right,

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Speaker 1: Why why are these offensive linemen here? Why Mitch Morse

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Speaker 1: is here? I mean, it's gonna sound bad, but it's

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Speaker 1: it's for the money, right, It's for the money. Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morse came because they paid him well. Spencer Long came

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Speaker 1: here after one year where the Jets had a little

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Speaker 1: bit of an injury issue with the Jets, but he's okay.

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Speaker 1: So Ty and Secki came here. You would think to

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Speaker 1: get some playing time after being, as you said, one

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Speaker 1: of the most prominent swing tackles. Maybe he wants to

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Speaker 1: be every down tackle. You would think that would be

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Speaker 1: motivate for him. Adrian Waddle, why is he here after

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Speaker 1: leaving the Super Bowl champion Patriots? John Feliciano, Quentin Spain.

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Speaker 1: I think before we annoint this group the six new

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Speaker 1: offensive linemen is great, dominant, everything, every problem is solved.

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Speaker 1: Let's wait and see first of all, where they line up,

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Speaker 1: and then let's see how they play. Because every one

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Speaker 1: of them has and I don't mean this in a

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Speaker 1: negative sense, but every one of them has a bit

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Speaker 1: of an issue like why are you here? Why did

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Speaker 1: you leave New England. Why did you leave Washington? Why

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Speaker 1: why did you leave the Oakland Raiders? Right? Wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: ask that question? Or no? They're a little bit of it.

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Speaker 1: And I think that when you look back at it,

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Speaker 1: like the Kansas City Chiefs, they just couldn't keep him.

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Speaker 1: They had guys using up there, you know, the transition tag,

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Speaker 1: the franchise tags, they were all used up. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he's the highest paid center in the NFL. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's why, that's why he's here. He was the best

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Speaker 1: guy available. Everybody had their heart set on this parad

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Speaker 1: At Matt paradis from Denver. He's thirty thirty one. This

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Speaker 1: guy's twenty six. I mean this. You know Mitch Moore

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Speaker 1: and I you know, I met him. He's enormous. So

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Speaker 1: he's a big, strong athletic. They loved him at the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and they wish they could have signed him, but

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Speaker 1: they didn't have the money or in the wherewithal to

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Speaker 1: get that done financially where they're sitting. So you know,

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Speaker 1: he became a free agent and we we lured him here.

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Speaker 1: He's probably the crown jewel of the entire free agent

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Speaker 1: market for the Bills, and and and good for them

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Speaker 1: to do it. But I and I've said this too.

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Speaker 1: I said there's a couple of segments ago. I don't

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Speaker 1: think the Bills are done, and I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: done with y'all offensive line. They got thirteen guys under

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Speaker 1: contract right now, and you listen to them. I don't

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Speaker 1: think all those guys are gonna make into training camp

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Speaker 1: because I think they're gonna draft a couple of guys

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Speaker 1: on the offensive line in this draft, at least one,

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Speaker 1: maybe two. I don't think they're finished with this. I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna get these guys in here in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks and the guy and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: get in a pecking order, and they're gonna go from

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Speaker 1: top to bottom, and those bottom couple three guys, two

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Speaker 1: or three guys are gonna go away, and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: draft some guys that hopefully plug in higher on that

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Speaker 1: totem pole, on that pecking order. That's the way it works.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think they're done yet with that specific position,

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. I think I don't disagree with you.

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Speaker 1: I would think it'll take a little longer than maybe

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Speaker 1: what you say. It just the early stages Phase one

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Speaker 1: of the offseason program is really rudimentary stuff. They're not

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Speaker 1: doing football at all, though if we see them out there,

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Speaker 1: they'll be out there doing conditioning drills, and so I

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Speaker 1: don't know if they're ready to make decisions on who's in,

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Speaker 1: who's out, who plays where in the first three weeks

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Speaker 1: of this offseason program. Listen, every day out there for

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Speaker 1: these OTAs Murph is a pro day. It's like a

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Speaker 1: college pro day. They're out there running them through agility drills.

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Speaker 1: They're doing it. Get them to do stuff. And don't

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Speaker 1: forget this offensive line that the Bills fielded last year

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Speaker 1: universally when we had guests on our show and we

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Speaker 1: talked to them out when you go out and about

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Speaker 1: and talk to other teams and get the evaluation from

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Speaker 1: afar from the Bills offensive line, they were unathletic. They

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Speaker 1: were big, but they were unathletic. They didn't move well

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Speaker 1: enough down inside. They're gonna find they can find that

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02:03:31,760 --> 02:03:34,120
Speaker 1: out in jim shorts and T shirts out here, so

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Speaker 1: and I think they will. I think they're gonna evaluate

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Speaker 1: these guys hard, and I think it's gonna I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a survival of the fittest with all

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Speaker 1: these guys, particularly with the draft on the horizon, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna some of these guys are still at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of this pecking order that you can look at right now.

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Speaker 1: Some of these guys are fighting for their jobs here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, let alone in the NFL. Yeah, what do

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Speaker 1: you think? Give us a call? We got phone lines

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Speaker 1: open eighth three five fifty and toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. All right, time now

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Speaker 1: for NFL True or false? It has brought to you

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02:04:05,280 --> 02:04:08,760
Speaker 1: by Yancy's Fancy New York's artists in cheese. We talk

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02:04:08,800 --> 02:04:11,320
Speaker 1: about this in um well in the updates at the

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Speaker 1: top of the hour one or two o'clock. Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: has given the Seahawks a deadline of April fifteenth. What

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Speaker 1: are we talking about eleven days away? Today's twelve days

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02:04:20,160 --> 02:04:23,720
Speaker 1: away for a new contract? Sign him now true or false?

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02:04:23,760 --> 02:04:26,480
Speaker 1: The Seahawks should take Russell wilson advice and sign him

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02:04:26,520 --> 02:04:29,160
Speaker 1: now true or false? Let's say false. What's you know?

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02:04:29,480 --> 02:04:32,440
Speaker 1: He's under contract? What's the rush? I don't blame Seattle

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02:04:32,520 --> 02:04:34,560
Speaker 1: for taking their time. It's a major deal. Sure they

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02:04:34,600 --> 02:04:35,760
Speaker 1: want to keep him. You would think they want to

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Speaker 1: keep him, But I don't know if i'd rush into

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Speaker 1: anything false. Yeah, I don't know what the ramifications are,

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Speaker 1: and I don't say you'd be better to sign me

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Speaker 1: before April fifteenth. I don't know what the or else

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Speaker 1: is in that. You know what's he means? Is he

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Speaker 1: going to sit out? Certainly? I think there's no question

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02:04:50,600 --> 02:04:53,040
Speaker 1: the Seahawks need him to be competitive. They've got to

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02:04:53,120 --> 02:04:56,160
Speaker 1: sign him. He's important to them. He's a starting quarterback,

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02:04:56,240 --> 02:04:58,120
Speaker 1: He's won a Super Bowl, and he had a chance

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02:04:58,160 --> 02:05:01,240
Speaker 1: to win a second super Bowl. He's he's the guy

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02:05:01,320 --> 02:05:03,240
Speaker 1: they need, so they've got to keep him in the fold.

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Speaker 1: Whatever that takes, I think they should do. There's also

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02:05:06,480 --> 02:05:08,920
Speaker 1: some rumblings that their deal that they've been talking about

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Speaker 1: is getting very close to being done, so I think

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Speaker 1: it will get done. I think it's a good idea

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Speaker 1: to put a deadline on it and maybe if if

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02:05:16,760 --> 02:05:18,320
Speaker 1: it comes that just put it on the back burner

2503
02:05:18,400 --> 02:05:20,160
Speaker 1: for you know, for the season, and come back to

2504
02:05:20,280 --> 02:05:23,400
Speaker 1: it in January. But no, I think yes, I'd say true,

2505
02:05:23,840 --> 02:05:25,920
Speaker 1: they should take Rid Wilson's advice, let's get it, get

2506
02:05:25,960 --> 02:05:27,960
Speaker 1: a deal done now and settle it were you ever

2507
02:05:28,160 --> 02:05:31,480
Speaker 1: in position in your NFL career? Steve to um not

2508
02:05:31,600 --> 02:05:34,080
Speaker 1: to dictate so much, but just to say, I need

2509
02:05:34,160 --> 02:05:35,840
Speaker 1: a contract, Let's do it now. I don't want to

2510
02:05:35,840 --> 02:05:37,640
Speaker 1: worry about it once the season starts. I mean, did

2511
02:05:37,640 --> 02:05:38,880
Speaker 1: you ever have that? The only thing I did was

2512
02:05:38,920 --> 02:05:40,800
Speaker 1: I didn't want to take part in a mini camp

2513
02:05:41,520 --> 02:05:43,480
Speaker 1: while I didn't well, I didn't have a contract. My

2514
02:05:43,560 --> 02:05:46,120
Speaker 1: contract was up, and so I stood there and just watched.

2515
02:05:46,120 --> 02:05:48,360
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't participate, but I was there, but

2516
02:05:48,440 --> 02:05:50,080
Speaker 1: I didn't take party. I didn't want to twist an

2517
02:05:50,120 --> 02:05:52,160
Speaker 1: ankle or snap an ankle or blow a knee or

2518
02:05:52,200 --> 02:05:55,320
Speaker 1: something just by you know, fooling around. So that's the

2519
02:05:55,400 --> 02:05:56,960
Speaker 1: only thing I ever did. But they got a deal done,

2520
02:05:57,000 --> 02:05:58,320
Speaker 1: and I was, you know, I was never in a

2521
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:01,080
Speaker 1: piece of leverage like any quarterback has ever been. And

2522
02:06:01,120 --> 02:06:03,160
Speaker 1: there was no hard feelings about that, right Marv looking

2523
02:06:03,160 --> 02:06:05,120
Speaker 1: at he saying, what are you doing? Tax? They thought no,

2524
02:06:05,240 --> 02:06:06,920
Speaker 1: They thought it was smart. They knew yeah, and it

2525
02:06:07,080 --> 02:06:08,520
Speaker 1: was not a I was, you know, I was. It

2526
02:06:08,640 --> 02:06:11,320
Speaker 1: was not like they were running kickoff every practice either.

2527
02:06:11,400 --> 02:06:15,040
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you would have been standing around anyways, exactly,

2528
02:06:16,200 --> 02:06:19,400
Speaker 1: I got it. Oh, oh, Steve didn't participate in this

2529
02:06:19,520 --> 02:06:23,840
Speaker 1: mini caamp. Oh my gosh, what what? What? Yeah? NFL

2530
02:06:23,920 --> 02:06:26,360
Speaker 1: two or false? Part two? NFL coaches should get more

2531
02:06:26,760 --> 02:06:30,360
Speaker 1: offseason time with their players. I guess true? Do you

2532
02:06:30,520 --> 02:06:34,440
Speaker 1: absolutely true? They make they make the money, they give them,

2533
02:06:34,480 --> 02:06:36,560
Speaker 1: the money they pay for their time. There's no reason

2534
02:06:36,640 --> 02:06:40,480
Speaker 1: that they couldn't have and I think they should just say, listen,

2535
02:06:40,520 --> 02:06:42,080
Speaker 1: you have them all the time, you have year round

2536
02:06:42,160 --> 02:06:45,360
Speaker 1: if you want um, and then leave it up to

2537
02:06:45,440 --> 02:06:48,880
Speaker 1: the teams to dictate how much free time these guys get.

2538
02:06:49,080 --> 02:06:50,480
Speaker 1: And if it gets to the point where this team

2539
02:06:50,560 --> 02:06:52,400
Speaker 1: does it one way and this team does in another way,

2540
02:06:52,560 --> 02:06:55,640
Speaker 1: they become more attractive to different free agents. If the

2541
02:06:55,680 --> 02:06:58,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills give guys three months off in the off

2542
02:06:58,120 --> 02:07:00,960
Speaker 1: season and the Jacksonville Jaguar are keeping them in there

2543
02:07:01,000 --> 02:07:03,440
Speaker 1: five days a week throughout the year, guys are gonna

2544
02:07:03,480 --> 02:07:06,280
Speaker 1: come and play in Buffalo. I think it adds a

2545
02:07:06,400 --> 02:07:10,040
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty and a degree of consideration for the

2546
02:07:10,160 --> 02:07:12,720
Speaker 1: welfare of the players that the clubs should be responsible for.

2547
02:07:13,080 --> 02:07:14,760
Speaker 1: They can come in and grind it out twelve months

2548
02:07:14,760 --> 02:07:16,720
Speaker 1: a year, fine, but they're gonna lose a lot of

2549
02:07:16,720 --> 02:07:18,959
Speaker 1: players because of it, so they should get more offseasons.

2550
02:07:18,960 --> 02:07:21,280
Speaker 1: They can't have as much as they want. Well, what's

2551
02:07:21,320 --> 02:07:23,840
Speaker 1: the motivation if if you said, if it chases people away,

2552
02:07:24,600 --> 02:07:26,280
Speaker 1: they don't have to use it, and they say, hey

2553
02:07:26,360 --> 02:07:28,080
Speaker 1: you can. Hey, well we can have you, but we're

2554
02:07:28,080 --> 02:07:29,840
Speaker 1: gonna give you three days. Now, We're gonna give you

2555
02:07:29,920 --> 02:07:31,440
Speaker 1: two weeks off and gonna bring you back for a week.

2556
02:07:31,520 --> 02:07:32,760
Speaker 1: Then you're gonna give you a month of you know

2557
02:07:32,840 --> 02:07:34,440
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. They can they can have a

2558
02:07:34,640 --> 02:07:38,080
Speaker 1: they can tailor their schedule to make a player friendly

2559
02:07:38,160 --> 02:07:40,280
Speaker 1: and it'd be a more and be an incentive to

2560
02:07:40,720 --> 02:07:42,640
Speaker 1: for free agents. Yeah, I'm gonna go false on this.

2561
02:07:42,800 --> 02:07:45,840
Speaker 1: They got enough time. Um, you know, all of us

2562
02:07:45,960 --> 02:07:48,320
Speaker 1: remember how it was just you know what ten years

2563
02:07:48,360 --> 02:07:50,839
Speaker 1: ago when they him even this amount of time. I remember,

2564
02:07:51,200 --> 02:07:56,560
Speaker 1: actually there were abuses before this last CBA. I remember

2565
02:07:56,680 --> 02:07:59,400
Speaker 1: talking to then Bill's cornerback, Tory Vincent, about this, and

2566
02:07:59,520 --> 02:08:01,840
Speaker 1: he was he was upset. He was in here in

2567
02:08:01,920 --> 02:08:06,400
Speaker 1: the early spring doing workouts, even so called voluntary workouts.

2568
02:08:06,440 --> 02:08:08,040
Speaker 1: He was upset. He said, you know, first of all,

2569
02:08:08,040 --> 02:08:10,680
Speaker 1: it's not voluntary. We're expected to be here. In second,

2570
02:08:11,000 --> 02:08:12,680
Speaker 1: we don't need to be here now he's talking about

2571
02:08:12,720 --> 02:08:15,240
Speaker 1: this time of year April and May they did abuse

2572
02:08:15,320 --> 02:08:17,760
Speaker 1: it when they got more opportunities to do what teams

2573
02:08:17,840 --> 02:08:20,520
Speaker 1: did that and you don't need it now. Maybe for rookies,

2574
02:08:20,520 --> 02:08:23,040
Speaker 1: I would make an exception. I would make an exception

2575
02:08:23,080 --> 02:08:25,160
Speaker 1: for rookies. Draft him, bring him in, keep them and

2576
02:08:25,280 --> 02:08:27,080
Speaker 1: the Bills and many teams do that, keep them here

2577
02:08:27,120 --> 02:08:30,080
Speaker 1: for most of the time between the draft and training camp.

2578
02:08:30,120 --> 02:08:33,040
Speaker 1: But there's also then you're I think, if you're gonna

2579
02:08:33,080 --> 02:08:35,360
Speaker 1: make it for some and not for others rookies, whatever,

2580
02:08:35,400 --> 02:08:37,080
Speaker 1: what if you got a guy that's playing moving from

2581
02:08:37,120 --> 02:08:38,840
Speaker 1: left tackle to right tackle, or if I got a

2582
02:08:38,840 --> 02:08:40,920
Speaker 1: guy from moving from tight end to or quarterback to

2583
02:08:41,000 --> 02:08:44,400
Speaker 1: tight end, or switching positions, going from inside to outside linebacker,

2584
02:08:44,720 --> 02:08:46,640
Speaker 1: they would benefit greatly from that. I think. I think

2585
02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:49,280
Speaker 1: there's a lot of exceptions to that that open it up.

2586
02:08:49,440 --> 02:08:51,200
Speaker 1: Just let the teams have them whatever they want and

2587
02:08:52,120 --> 02:08:53,920
Speaker 1: if so, if a player wants to, if he's a

2588
02:08:53,960 --> 02:08:56,400
Speaker 1: free agent, he says, I'll come to your team, but

2589
02:08:56,480 --> 02:08:58,839
Speaker 1: I want it written in my contract. I get January

2590
02:08:58,920 --> 02:09:01,480
Speaker 1: February and March completely day off. That kind of thing.

2591
02:09:01,840 --> 02:09:03,600
Speaker 1: Put it back on him. I just think you should

2592
02:09:03,640 --> 02:09:06,320
Speaker 1: open it up. I think they're a time in history

2593
02:09:06,360 --> 02:09:09,680
Speaker 1: where people teams are too smart to wear these guys

2594
02:09:09,720 --> 02:09:12,600
Speaker 1: out in January, February, and March when they don't play

2595
02:09:12,640 --> 02:09:14,800
Speaker 1: a meaningful game until September. I'm not sure that every

2596
02:09:14,800 --> 02:09:17,280
Speaker 1: team is that smart. I think some coaches might take

2597
02:09:17,280 --> 02:09:20,960
Speaker 1: advantage what they can. It's they can give him a

2598
02:09:20,960 --> 02:09:23,560
Speaker 1: shovel and let him dig their grave. NFL True or

2599
02:09:23,560 --> 02:09:26,400
Speaker 1: False Part three. This is interesting. Josh Rosen is the

2600
02:09:26,600 --> 02:09:29,680
Speaker 1: NFL's biggest bargain. Look. We talked with Tony Pauline of

2601
02:09:29,760 --> 02:09:32,880
Speaker 1: the Draft Analyst yesterday. He said Rosen would be at

2602
02:09:32,960 --> 02:09:35,640
Speaker 1: worst the number two quarterback ranked in this year's quarterback

2603
02:09:35,720 --> 02:09:38,120
Speaker 1: this year's quarterback class. You can get Josh Rosen for

2604
02:09:38,160 --> 02:09:41,120
Speaker 1: a second rounder this year, after he was what was

2605
02:09:41,160 --> 02:09:43,800
Speaker 1: the tenth in the first round last year. You can

2606
02:09:43,840 --> 02:09:45,920
Speaker 1: get him now for a second round after he didn't

2607
02:09:45,960 --> 02:09:48,440
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't embarrass himself last year. He played

2608
02:09:48,440 --> 02:09:50,840
Speaker 1: on a horrible team, but didn't embarrass himself. He's got

2609
02:09:50,920 --> 02:09:53,360
Speaker 1: the same skill set he had coming out of UCLA.

2610
02:09:53,680 --> 02:09:56,280
Speaker 1: You can get him for anything less than a first rounder. Now, Yeah,

2611
02:09:56,360 --> 02:09:59,360
Speaker 1: that's a bargain, Absolutely true. He is the NFL's biggest

2612
02:09:59,400 --> 02:10:02,120
Speaker 1: bargain right now. It depends what is a second what

2613
02:10:02,240 --> 02:10:05,360
Speaker 1: we're talking about. He's not worth two ones, He's not.

2614
02:10:05,640 --> 02:10:09,280
Speaker 1: He might be worth what a starting corner what It

2615
02:10:09,320 --> 02:10:11,400
Speaker 1: depends on what the price is. But I'll tell you this,

2616
02:10:12,000 --> 02:10:14,800
Speaker 1: he's the most valuable commodity that seems to be available.

2617
02:10:15,240 --> 02:10:17,320
Speaker 1: Whatever his price is, you got to check it out.

2618
02:10:17,320 --> 02:10:19,480
Speaker 1: If you're a team that even has a whisper of

2619
02:10:19,600 --> 02:10:22,960
Speaker 1: a quarterback need over the next twelve to twenty four months,

2620
02:10:23,560 --> 02:10:26,640
Speaker 1: that's the guy. Because you're right, he is one of

2621
02:10:26,680 --> 02:10:28,880
Speaker 1: the top quarterback prospect here, would be one of the

2622
02:10:28,920 --> 02:10:32,080
Speaker 1: top quarterback prospects, if not the top two in this draft,

2623
02:10:32,360 --> 02:10:36,720
Speaker 1: and he was one of them last year. Yeah, I agree.

2624
02:10:36,760 --> 02:10:40,160
Speaker 1: He's one of the hottest commodities on the market available

2625
02:10:40,200 --> 02:10:42,480
Speaker 1: for trade right now. All right, there you go. NFL

2626
02:10:42,520 --> 02:10:44,760
Speaker 1: True or False Leader is brought to you by Yancey's

2627
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Speaker 1: back at a moment One Bill's Live from One Bill's

2629
02:10:49,200 --> 02:11:07,920
Speaker 1: Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Well, here we go. What

2630
02:11:08,000 --> 02:11:10,680
Speaker 1: have we learned from today's show? Presented by Advanced Align

2631
02:11:10,720 --> 02:11:14,000
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02:11:14,080 --> 02:11:16,880
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02:11:16,960 --> 02:11:19,320
Speaker 1: theater provider of the Buffalo Bills. Jack Lawson was on

2634
02:11:19,400 --> 02:11:22,960
Speaker 1: the show today, sounds good, getting ready to come back

2635
02:11:23,000 --> 02:11:24,320
Speaker 1: here in the next week or two to get ready

2636
02:11:24,360 --> 02:11:27,480
Speaker 1: for the offseason conditioning program. Jack Lawson had these thoughts

2637
02:11:27,720 --> 02:11:32,400
Speaker 1: about the Bills twenty nineteen season coming up this year.

2638
02:11:32,840 --> 02:11:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm even going up, you know, I'm trying to go

2639
02:11:35,400 --> 02:11:38,360
Speaker 1: up from now and you know, and just continued building

2640
02:11:38,400 --> 02:11:41,400
Speaker 1: off the season I had after last year and just

2641
02:11:41,600 --> 02:11:45,840
Speaker 1: continue to show what type of playing. And I'm looking

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02:11:45,880 --> 02:11:48,840
Speaker 1: forward this hangline. I'm ready to come back. I'm ready

2643
02:11:48,880 --> 02:11:51,360
Speaker 1: to come back, you know, get ready for this two

2644
02:11:51,440 --> 02:11:54,840
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen season. And you know it's going to be

2645
02:11:54,920 --> 02:11:57,120
Speaker 1: a special season. Then we got a lot of great

2646
02:11:57,640 --> 02:11:59,320
Speaker 1: We've got because it was a lot of great County.

2647
02:11:59,560 --> 02:12:03,040
Speaker 1: We have the new gospel free agent free agency. So

2648
02:12:03,240 --> 02:12:05,720
Speaker 1: I'm ready to get back to working man. It's it's

2649
02:12:05,720 --> 02:12:09,000
Speaker 1: going to be a special especially you man. Jack Lawson

2650
02:12:09,120 --> 02:12:12,720
Speaker 1: talking about his thoughts about the twenty nineteen season coming up.

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02:12:12,720 --> 02:12:16,400
Speaker 1: We had Rick gen teelon longtime CBS executive producer, CBS

2652
02:12:16,440 --> 02:12:19,640
Speaker 1: Sports executive producer now director of the Seaton All University

2653
02:12:19,760 --> 02:12:22,160
Speaker 1: Sports Poll. Well, he asked him, Rick, what's the purpose

2654
02:12:22,200 --> 02:12:24,120
Speaker 1: of the Seaton All Sports Poll. Here's what he said.

2655
02:12:26,480 --> 02:12:29,200
Speaker 1: It's gotten multiple purposes. One of the most obvious is

2656
02:12:29,280 --> 02:12:32,640
Speaker 1: to is to get you guys interested, to get the

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02:12:32,960 --> 02:12:35,440
Speaker 1: brand name of Seton Hall University out there on a

2658
02:12:35,720 --> 02:12:38,800
Speaker 1: sort of as national level as you can. Um and

2659
02:12:38,920 --> 02:12:41,040
Speaker 1: the only two things that really give it any kind

2660
02:12:41,080 --> 02:12:44,360
Speaker 1: of national recognition or this poll and the basketball the

2661
02:12:44,400 --> 02:12:47,480
Speaker 1: men's basketball team. Yeah, so that was that was a

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02:12:47,880 --> 02:12:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, one of the original reasons. And it also

2663
02:12:51,200 --> 02:12:54,360
Speaker 1: gives this is all run by students. Students do all

2664
02:12:54,400 --> 02:12:57,520
Speaker 1: the question asking, they take part in the in the

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02:12:57,600 --> 02:13:01,080
Speaker 1: preparation of the questionnaire, they take in the analysis of

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02:13:01,160 --> 02:13:04,440
Speaker 1: the results. So it's very much hands on kind of learning.

2667
02:13:05,280 --> 02:13:07,160
Speaker 1: A good chat with Rick Genteel about some of the

2668
02:13:07,240 --> 02:13:09,840
Speaker 1: issues some of the findings of the Seaton Hall Poll.

2669
02:13:10,040 --> 02:13:12,040
Speaker 1: It's it takes a long time to get into that

2670
02:13:12,240 --> 02:13:15,200
Speaker 1: seat of an executive producer to a network like CBS,

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02:13:15,280 --> 02:13:18,120
Speaker 1: particularly back in the day before nineteen ninety four, when

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02:13:18,680 --> 02:13:21,640
Speaker 1: you know, the first go round, when CBS had had

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02:13:21,840 --> 02:13:25,840
Speaker 1: thirty eight straight years of NFL football, and he you know,

2674
02:13:25,920 --> 02:13:29,480
Speaker 1: it's an apprenticeship industry where you start from the bottom

2675
02:13:29,480 --> 02:13:30,600
Speaker 1: of you work your way all the way to that

2676
02:13:30,680 --> 02:13:32,440
Speaker 1: top seat. And he was there one ten. Emmy's what

2677
02:13:32,960 --> 02:13:35,000
Speaker 1: you could tell from the answers he gave. He had

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02:13:35,040 --> 02:13:36,920
Speaker 1: a depth of knowledge that really served him well at

2679
02:13:36,920 --> 02:13:39,400
Speaker 1: Seaton Hall. There's nothing we learned from today's show. Steve

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Speaker 1: talked about one of his collectible items at home, a

2681
02:13:42,240 --> 02:13:44,720
Speaker 1: sports illustrated cover that he was on back in nineteen

2682
02:13:44,840 --> 02:13:47,680
Speaker 1: ninety five, and he has the one with his mailing

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02:13:47,760 --> 02:13:50,400
Speaker 1: label on there. That's the cover from December of ninety five,

2684
02:13:50,680 --> 02:13:53,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Stampede. Steve's on the cover of side, which is cool.

2685
02:13:53,560 --> 02:13:55,840
Speaker 1: But you've got the one mailed to your house. Yeah,

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02:13:56,080 --> 02:13:58,840
Speaker 1: that's it's our old house. But yeah, it's pretty neat.

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02:13:59,280 --> 02:14:04,360
Speaker 1: I thought that's yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't. I would. I

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02:14:04,400 --> 02:14:06,560
Speaker 1: would take college tuition to get that out of my hands.

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Speaker 1: Production assistant George Blasteff, Coltonick Thomas Homolder, Kelly Rude, j J. Turito,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cargis, James robel Our, producer Jay Harris. We're back

2691
02:14:16,000 --> 02:14:18,840
Speaker 1: tomorrow twelve noon. Join us Won't You One goes live

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