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Speaker 1: This the One Bill's Live, presented by Calllida Health.

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Speaker 2: All Right, how's everybody doing on this Friday? Chris Brown,

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Speaker 2: Mandy Glad with you here on One Bill's Live. Back

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Speaker 2: in the Saddle. Good to be back, Happy to be back,

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Speaker 2: got a little to some much needed time on. But

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Speaker 2: I'm glad I got it.

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Speaker 3: How was the time?

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Speaker 2: I so refreshed? It was great, great, went on a

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Speaker 2: nice trip with the missus and I had a blast.

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Speaker 2: Saw tons of nature in Central America. Was unbelievable trip.

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Speaker 2: So really happy that we did it. Long overdue, so

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Speaker 2: but still good to be back. Lot's going on. I

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Speaker 2: was keeping track of it as best I cout it

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Speaker 2: on my phone. It's like you're used to. I mean

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Speaker 2: you and I kind of keep track of the goings on,

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Speaker 2: not just with the pills but obviously league wide, so

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Speaker 2: you know who's available, who signs.

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Speaker 4: Where, and who's going where, who's leaving what team.

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Speaker 2: When you got to do that on just your phone,

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Speaker 2: that is just not the future of laptops is safe.

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Speaker 2: Because to me, and I don't know, maybe this is

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Speaker 2: just my generation talking here, I need a bigger screen

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Speaker 2: and I need it in front of me. I need

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Speaker 2: my tabs and you know, for my page formatting and everything,

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Speaker 2: and when I got to do it in one big

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Speaker 2: long list in notes on my phone, not conducive to

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Speaker 5: This story, and let alone just a week like this,

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Speaker 5: it is so hard to keep up with every transaction,

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Speaker 5: every move that's made, because sure, you see the big

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Speaker 5: name start to pop up in the negotiating window and

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Speaker 5: we get to a day like today where the first

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Speaker 5: wave is kind of overea, but things are still happening,

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Speaker 5: and it's it's not easy to keep track of everything

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Speaker 5: because there's so many players that are looking for new

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Speaker 2: Right, and yeah, you're right, it will slow to kind

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Speaker 2: of a trickle now, and then there'll be a second

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Speaker 2: wave that comes in. But even that second wave will

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Speaker 2: not match all the money that got handed out over

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Speaker 2: this last week or so. It really has been kind

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Speaker 2: of a and we'll get to it in just a

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Speaker 2: little bit when we go around the NFL where like

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Speaker 2: we're over a couple of billion dollars in contract money

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Speaker 2: that's been handed out in the span of less a week.

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Speaker 2: It's bananas. I mean, we knew that the money was

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Speaker 2: going to be there for players with the cap going

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Speaker 2: up as much as it did. But you're just looking

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Speaker 2: at you know, safeties making fifteen million a year and like,

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Speaker 2: it's just I don't know. I'm I always say like, ah,

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Speaker 2: we're just sensitive to the amount of money. It won't

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Speaker 2: be as big a And then you see some of

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Speaker 2: the contracts and you're still just stupefied by it.

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Speaker 5: And then you hear Josh Allen saying, well, what's five

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Speaker 5: more million to me? When you talk about big time contracts,

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Speaker 5: five more million? It won't impact what I can already

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Speaker 5: do with my life right now.

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Speaker 2: And he's not wrong, he is. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: I'm not seeing five million in my life.

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Speaker 5: So you know, we were playing the game in the office,

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Speaker 5: like to us, what is the equivalent of five million dollars?

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Speaker 5: And I think we landed at five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably. Yeah, that's where we all live, the

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Speaker 2: regular people. But you know it's good for them. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, we know why they're the one percenters. They're

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Speaker 2: going to make, you know, upper echelon money, especially at

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Speaker 2: the quarterback position. But I was just really stunned by

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Speaker 2: some of the free agent deals, particularly at the safety position.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you expect pass rushers to get crazy money

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Speaker 2: and even corners, receivers, et cetera. You know, the top

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Speaker 2: at where the safety market went only because and Steve

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Speaker 2: and I have talked about this before, as we were

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Speaker 2: getting closer and closer to free agency. The last few years,

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Speaker 2: you've seen upwards of like eighteen to twenty starters at

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Speaker 2: And we did see that the last couple of years.

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Speaker 2: You remember Jordan Poyerden did nearly the money he thought

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Speaker 2: there were certainly other examples, but it's right back to

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Speaker 2: people just throwing money at safeties. And look, I'm not

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Speaker 2: diminishing the position at all. It's just historically it hasn't

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Speaker 2: value as corner or defensive end or left tackle. Even

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Speaker 2: defensive tackle has commanded big money. And boy, it's a

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Speaker 2: good year to be a defensive tackle, because even though

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Speaker 2: there's a strong defensive tackle class in the draft, with

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Speaker 2: what the Eagles did last year, I think it's only

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Speaker 2: prompted more teams to spend more willingly at that position.

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Speaker 2: That's one of the takeaways I came away with from

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Speaker 2: this first week of free agency. I don't know about you,

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Speaker 2: like what your main takeaways.

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Speaker 3: Were, but well, I want to flip it back to you.

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Speaker 5: We haven't gotten to speak to you yet since free

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Speaker 5: agency started. Is there biggest surprise for you, whether it's

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Speaker 5: a player going to a team, whether that be here

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Speaker 5: or the NFL at large, that you didn't expect to see,

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Speaker 5: Whether it was the type of deal that this player did,

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Speaker 5: or just the fact that I didn't see this player

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Speaker 5: going in this place.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the DK Metcalf trade caught me a

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Speaker 2: little bit. That's not a typical Steelers move. Steelers usually

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Speaker 2: build in the draft, resign their own, But in this

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Speaker 2: quarterback abyss that they've been living in since Roethlisberger retired,

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Speaker 2: I feel like this is a move that you don't

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Speaker 2: often see the Steelers make. They're very methodical with all

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Speaker 2: their moves. They do it in stages and they stay competitive.

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Speaker 2: They've lost in the first round of the playoffs. What

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Speaker 2: is it's six years in a row? Now, I think

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Speaker 2: it's five or six years in a row. They've lost

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Speaker 2: in their wild card playoff round. It speaks of desperation

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Speaker 2: to me, and for that reason, and from what I've

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Speaker 2: known the Steelers organization to be for decades, that one

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Speaker 2: surprised me a little bit. It's a good move, It

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Speaker 2: unquestionably makes them better, but from a historical standpoint as

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Speaker 2: to what the Steelers have been for eons, to me,

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Speaker 2: it's not the kind of move usually see from them

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Speaker 2: because they're usually in such a good place they don't

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Speaker 2: have to make it a drastic move like that, And

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Speaker 2: so that surprised me. I would say that's the one

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Speaker 2: that surprised me the most, maybe just because of the

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Speaker 2: reasons I laid out. Yeah, no other one I think

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Speaker 2: had as much shock value for me as that. I

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Speaker 2: understand the move, but the organization that made the move,

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Speaker 2: I think was what was shocking about it.

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Speaker 5: So the Steelers are still without a quarterback, So what's

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Speaker 5: your exactly?

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Speaker 2: Which made it even more surprising, not that DK Metcalf

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Speaker 5: To say in it but what's your pulse check on

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Speaker 5: the quarterback situation that's still yet to be determined on

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Speaker 5: what the Steelers are going to do, what the Giants

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Speaker 5: are going to do, and what's left out there while

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Speaker 5: the world wighs for Aaron Rodgers to decide what he

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Speaker 2: I don't think the Steelers have a good.

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Speaker 4: Option.

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Speaker 2: They have options. I don't like any of them as

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Speaker 2: far as the Steelers are concerned, whether it's Rogers or

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Speaker 2: anybody else. And even the draft class, like are you

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Speaker 2: are you going to make another drastic move and then

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Speaker 2: go up the board, because the last time they took

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Speaker 2: a swing at a quarterback in the first round, it

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Speaker 2: was Kenny Pickett, right, Kenny Yeah, Kenny Pickett Yeah, And

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Speaker 2: that didn't work out. So and it's not a strong

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Speaker 2: worked out. So I'm really puzzled as to where I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if the Steelers are like, Okay, what

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Speaker 2: are we doing now at quarterback? Like I don't think

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Speaker 2: they want to run back Russ Wilson, who's touring other

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Speaker 2: places right now, but man, beggars can't be choosers, so

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Speaker 2: they may land on Rogers.

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Speaker 4: But I know you and I.

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Speaker 2: Were talking about before we came on the air, like,

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Speaker 2: is Rogers personality wise a fit with Tomlin? Yeah? I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I don't see that working well at all

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Speaker 2: because Rogers is this free Iowa Oscar spirit and Tomlin,

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Speaker 2: I don't see how those puzzle pieces fit. But he's

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Speaker 2: probably your best veteran option right now. And that's not

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Speaker 2: saying much because I think Rogers is a shell of himself. Man.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's a little strong. He's not nearly what he

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Speaker 2: used to be. They got a major hole to fill

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Speaker 2: and they've really struggled to fill it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if we get to the draft at the

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Speaker 2: end of April and it's not Rogers and it's somebody

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Speaker 2: else for the Steelers, how desperate do they get to

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Speaker 2: ensure they land a quarterback that they even remotely like

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Speaker 2: in this class? That to me is they're a fascinating

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Speaker 5: A quarterback and to be and I know, okay, it's

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Speaker 5: the first wave of free agency is just about over.

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Speaker 5: The draft is still more than a month away. But

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Speaker 5: to be the Steelers and the Giants right now in

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Speaker 5: a year where the quarterback class does not look great,

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And the Giants, look, they made their own bed

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Speaker 2: and now they're lying in it. And look, I love

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Speaker 2: Combine a couple of weeks ago and got a chance

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Speaker 2: to talk with him for a couple of minutes, you know,

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Speaker 2: and he feels good about everything. But that uncertainty has

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Speaker 2: got a weigh on you. And I don't care how

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Speaker 2: much you want to fake it. You don't have a quarterback,

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Speaker 2: you're not gonna win. And I still maintain that, even

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Speaker 2: when they did sign Daniel Jones to that extension, which

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Speaker 2: I was not in favor of, they should have drafted

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Speaker 2: one anyway, and that was a good class that year,

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Speaker 2: and they didn't for whatever reason, and that's why they

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Speaker 2: a season in which he threw fifteen touchdown passes. I

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Speaker 2: know he ran for seven as well, but okay, you

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Speaker 2: sign him to a contract which they were able to

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Speaker 2: get relatively fair value at forty million a year, but like,

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Speaker 2: were you convinced it was gonna work, Like, I know,

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Speaker 2: you're making a commitment there, but they had an out

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Speaker 2: they're ready to pull the ripcord if they need to.

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Speaker 2: So draft one to have in the pipeline, so you're

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Speaker 2: not stuck, with all due respect Tommy DeVito. So I

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Speaker 2: don't know, Tommy DeVito's the only guy under contract a

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Speaker 2: quarterback on their roster right now. Like that, I'd be

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Speaker 2: shaking in a corner, like how is Joe Shane not

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Speaker 2: truck And.

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Speaker 3: You guys are there coaching for their jobs right now.

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Speaker 2: And they do have a high pick, so that's you

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Speaker 2: know that Maybe that's maybe like, look, you got a

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Speaker 2: high pick, we're going to get somebody we like, and

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Speaker 2: There is some breaking Bills news, however, this coming from

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Speaker 5: At corner Yes, he played fifty two games for the Bills,

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Speaker 2: What do you got first day? You're on one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Hey Chris, Hey Maddy, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 7: I was very excited about the news uh lait yesterday

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Speaker 7: a lot of different things and that he's the type

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Yeah, no problem. So yeah, reports out there it's

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, Maddy, but I saw this

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Speaker 2: That's what it said to me, because to Dave's point,

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Speaker 2: Mac Collins, big physical guy, six y three two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifteen two hundred twenty pounds, So you know, he's

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Speaker 2: a capable blocker at the receiver position in the run game,

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Speaker 2: and he can do some stuff at receiver in terms

441
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Speaker 2: of yards after the catch, which we saw Mac Collins

442
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Speaker 2: due to some degree last season as well. So to me,

443
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Speaker 2: this is a signing that makes up for the loss

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Speaker 2: of Mac Collins to New England.

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Speaker 3: That makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 5: Laviskus Channault was a wide receiver coming out of Colorado

447
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Speaker 5: that I really loved his tape and was so excited

448
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Speaker 5: to see what he could do in the NFL. I

449
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 5: remember being at the combine asking him, would you want

450
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Speaker 5: to catch balls from Josh Allen and he was like, yes,

451
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Speaker 5: I would love to be a receiver for a quarterback

452
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Speaker 5: like that. And sure enough, here he is five years

453
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Speaker 5: later into his NFL career. Six years later, I should

454
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Speaker 5: say now, but he's been on five different teams, which

455
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Speaker 5: is crazy, or four fifth with the Bills. I think

456
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Speaker 5: his wild as a player as young as he is.

457
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Speaker 5: But when you turn on the tape for somebody like him,

458
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Speaker 5: like you said, the versatility pops off the page. I

459
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Speaker 5: like that he has returnability too. I think that's definitely

460
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Speaker 5: going to help this team. You wonder if Brandon Codrington

461
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Speaker 5: and him are Levisko Chanolt are gonna be the guys

462
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Speaker 5: and Ty Johnson kind of moves on from that role

463
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Speaker 5: and he he has great yak ability. This offense was

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Speaker 5: top ten in yards after catch last season. They ranked

465
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Speaker 5: eighth in the NFL, and I think he can definitely

466
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Speaker 5: bring that to Buffalo's offense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And if you look at what the Bills have subtracted

469
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Speaker 2: and what they've added at the receiver position this offseason,

470
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Speaker 2: at least to this point, Amari Cooper a free agent

471
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Speaker 2: out there to be had by anybody. We know Mac

472
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Speaker 2: Hollins is in New England. And you've essentially replaced those

473
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Speaker 2: players with Josh Palmer and then Leviscus Channa. If you

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Speaker 2: know the reports prove accurate and you know the Bills

475
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Speaker 2: confirmed the signing.

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Speaker 4: Are they drafting one now?

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Speaker 2: Maybe one maybe, and probably not early in the draft

478
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Speaker 2: because you've essentially filled out your receiving corps. And let's

479
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Speaker 2: not forget you still have Jalen Virgil, Tyrrell Shavers and

480
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Speaker 2: kJ hamler as signed as a reserve future free agents

481
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Speaker 2: who got call ups at different times of the year

482
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Speaker 2: last season. So you have your three you know, practice

483
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Speaker 2: quote unquote practice squad. I don't want to assume they're

484
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Speaker 2: going to be practice squad. Maybe one of those guys

485
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Speaker 2: does crack the roster this year, but you have your

486
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Speaker 2: three practice squad guys from last year under contract, and

487
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Speaker 2: then you have Shakir along with Keon Coleman along with

488
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Speaker 2: Curtis Samuel and then the two new guys, Palmer and Chaneau.

489
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Speaker 3: Like that's that's five. Yeah, so if you want to carry,

490
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Speaker 3: Yeah for guessing that.

491
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Speaker 2: So, I mean you're pretty tight in terms of spots. Now,

492
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're not going to add receivers. Usually

493
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Speaker 2: a carry eleven or twelve into training camp, but you

494
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Speaker 2: get my point, Like, yes, it seems like a lot

495
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Speaker 2: of the t's have been crossed and eyes have been

496
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Speaker 2: dotted at the receiver position already and we're only a

497
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Speaker 2: week into free agency. I just think they've dramatically reduced

498
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Speaker 2: the thought of perhaps looking for a receiver in the draft,

499
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Speaker 2: not saying it won't happen, because we know Brandon Bean

500
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Speaker 2: likes to just go BPA, best player, you're available, but

501
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Speaker 2: I think it's certainly reduced the need, which I think

502
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Speaker 2: a lot of people thought, oh, you know what, it'd

503
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Speaker 2: be nice if.

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Speaker 4: We had one more guy.

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Speaker 2: I think that's been reduced considerably with some of the

506
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Speaker 2: acquisitions here in the first week of free agency at

507
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Speaker 2: the position. Let's go to Tom on the west side. Now,

508
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Speaker 2: what do you got for his time? You're on one

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live.

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Speaker 8: Good afternoon kids. I agree with the last caller bringing

511
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Speaker 8: him l Visca back. He could replace I can't remember

512
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Speaker 8: the guy that got his knee wrecked. Yeah, yeah, Jimes,

513
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 8: he could take his place. I see that, and I'm

514
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 8: glad Dan Jackson is coming back. I was sad when

515
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Speaker 8: he left and it's better than bring him back. Ron Darby. Okay,

516
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Speaker 8: so now not my question. Do teams have to spend

517
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Speaker 8: a certain percentage of the cap on the current team

518
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Speaker 8: or can they lowball it like New England seem to

519
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Speaker 8: do and go rock bottom to get to the top

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Speaker 8: of the draft, because it seems like one of the

521
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Speaker 8: major sports. Has you got to fund a minimum on

522
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Speaker 8: the cap? I'll listen to your answer.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, Yeah, sure thing, Tom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a cap floor, and the reason why

525
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Speaker 2: is because you have to spend to a certain amount.

526
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Speaker 2: There's an agreement with the union to do that, so

527
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Speaker 2: you have to meet a certain threshold. Spending wise, it's

528
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Speaker 2: not necessarily what you see a team's cap commitments because

529
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Speaker 2: as we know, money's amortized year over year. But yes,

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Speaker 2: to answer your question, there is a cap floor that

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Speaker 2: you have to hit. There's a minimum spending amount.

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Speaker 4: To answer your question. So that's kind of how it is.

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Speaker 2: We have to take a break here because when we

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Speaker 2: come back, Maddie will be sitting alongside one of the

535
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Speaker 2: newest Buffalo Bills defensive end Joey Bosa.

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Speaker 4: Will be here in studio with her. Next we'll bring

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Speaker 4: that to you.

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Speaker 2: Here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 9: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio here supposed to slaps it out

540
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Speaker 9: to the ground.

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Speaker 1: Joey Bosa handled to knocking away on my horse and

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Speaker 1: he's taken down.

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Speaker 9: Someone has to win quickly, and of course it's gonna

544
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Speaker 9: be Posa and he's it dropped by Posa, thrown to

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Speaker 9: the grounds.

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Speaker 1: Joe's had a huge shack by Joey's Bosha.

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Speaker 2: Here comes He's got Joey Composa.

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Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back into One Bill's Live. I'm Maddi glab

549
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Speaker 5: and I have one of our newest Bills joining us.

550
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 5: It's pass rusher Joey Bosa, who joins the Bills on

551
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Speaker 5: a one year deal.

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Speaker 3: Joey, why Buffalo?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was just answering that question. It just all

554
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Speaker 6: fit for me and kind of my goals right now

555
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Speaker 6: in my career. You know, I'm reaching those later years.

556
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Speaker 6: And it's been nine great years. I was fortunate enough

557
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Speaker 6: to be in the same place for nine years, but

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Speaker 6: I'm just ready ready to experience something different. And this

559
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 6: is about as far across the coasts as he could

560
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Speaker 6: possibly go. So, you know, just talking to the coaches,

561
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Speaker 6: talking to the GM and everybody, they were just really great,

562
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Speaker 6: and you know, they thought highly of me, and it

563
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Speaker 6: felt like, you know, they really wanted me here and

564
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Speaker 6: thought that I would be a piece that could really

565
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Speaker 6: help win and obviously won a lot of games here

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Speaker 6: in the past, and they just need to get over

567
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Speaker 6: that one game, that one hump, and hopefully get to

568
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Speaker 6: the championship. And you know, that's what everybody's after and

569
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Speaker 6: nine years one playoff win. I'm looking to win some

570
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Speaker 6: games and I think there's obviously a really great chance

571
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Speaker 6: to do that here.

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Speaker 5: It seems like winning is very important to you. Why

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Speaker 5: do you believe you can help this team win and

574
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Speaker 5: get over that hump?

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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I mean, I want to get

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Speaker 6: back to my old form and show that it's still

577
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Speaker 6: in me. And I know if I'm playing at a

578
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Speaker 6: really high level, then it helps me, it helps the team,

579
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Speaker 6: and to be around guys that love to win, especially

580
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Speaker 6: like Josh that I haven't met yet. We've been texting

581
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Speaker 6: a little bit, but just to be around guys like that,

582
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Speaker 6: it's infectious, and you know, he carries people with him,

583
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Speaker 6: and when other people are playing well and thriving, it's

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Speaker 6: easy for you to do the same. I've had some

585
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Speaker 6: really really good years individually, but I'd love to, you know,

586
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Speaker 6: mesh those two together and win games and play well

587
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Speaker 6: at the same time, which is the best best thing,

588
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Speaker 6: you know, winning games, after being a part of winning

589
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Speaker 6: is there's really no better feelings. So I'd love to

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Speaker 6: contribute any way I can, whether that's on third down

591
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 6: or however whenever they need me, however many plays. You know,

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Speaker 6: I'm feeling good, I'm feeling healthy, and I just want to,

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Speaker 6: you know, get back into my old form and prove

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Speaker 6: to myself and to everybody that still have a lot

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Speaker 6: to give and win some games. While I'm at.

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Speaker 5: Seventy two sacks in one hundred and seven games. You

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00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 5: are a quarterback hunter and you're great against the run.

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Speaker 5: What is your biggest strength as a pass rusher?

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Speaker 6: I think I you know, I I bring a lot

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Speaker 6: of tools to the table, really like using my hands.

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Speaker 6: Obviously learned a lot in college from Larry Johnson and

602
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Speaker 6: kind of carried that into the league. And yeah, I'm

603
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Speaker 6: just adding adding different moves and stuff to the toolbox

604
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Speaker 6: to be able to mix up on these tackles and

605
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 6: throw out a bunch of different moves and keep them guessing,

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Speaker 6: be able to rush on either side. But yeah, I

607
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Speaker 6: just unfortunately dealing with some injuries. You know, that's how

608
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Speaker 6: you stay sharp is throughout the season as you play games,

609
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Speaker 6: being able to practice and hone your skills as the

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Speaker 6: season goes on. I feel like I've missed out on

611
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Speaker 6: quite a bit of that. So I'm just excited to

612
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Speaker 6: get healthy, feel good, and be able to just improve

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Speaker 6: as the year goes on.

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Speaker 5: Do you have a move that's your favorite that's just

615
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Speaker 5: like the Joey Bosa special.

616
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Speaker 6: I think I'm known for my swipes with my hands,

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Speaker 6: which haven't I don't know if I've gotten a sack

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Speaker 6: with one of those and sometime. But you know, there's

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Speaker 6: a million different ways to be to tackle. And that's

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Speaker 6: the best part about past rushing is it's a dance

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Speaker 6: between you and the alignment. And I know we have

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Speaker 6: some great players here so I'll be able to you know, iron,

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Speaker 6: iron sharpens iron and be able to get some great

624
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 6: practice against them and camp and all that. But yeah,

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00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 6: get back to swiping a little bit. Yeah, and uh,

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Speaker 6: I'm just excited to play and just looking forward to,

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Speaker 6: you know, having one of my best years yet.

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Speaker 5: We hope you're doing a lot of dancing here in Buffalo.

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Speaker 5: In terms of getting after the quarterback, you mentioned being

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Speaker 5: a part of this unit and missing some time in

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Speaker 5: seasons past, but you you ended last year healthy. How

632
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 5: are you feeling right now as as an athlete.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm feeling great. You know, I'm not not training

634
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 6: super hard right now. I think that's important for me

635
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 6: at my old age of twenty nine. It's click dog

636
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 6: ears so so nine time seven. So yeah, I'm taking

637
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 6: it easy. I'm treating my body right. I'm I'm doing

638
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 6: things to stay fresh, stay loose, eating well. Thanks to Amanda.

639
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 6: She feeds me, feeds me very well. Shout out of me,

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00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 6: shadow of Amanda. But yeah, I'm starting to starting to

641
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Speaker 6: pick it up in the weight room and training again.

642
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Speaker 6: But I think finding that happy medium where you can

643
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Speaker 6: you can get after it and prepare without going overboard

644
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Speaker 6: and being able to be ready when the time is right.

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Speaker 6: So I've learned a lot over the years, and no

646
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Speaker 6: one to push it, no one not to And I'm

647
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 6: feeling really good.

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Speaker 3: You've been in.

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Speaker 5: This building for a few hours now, You've gotten to

650
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Speaker 5: meet a bunch of people, You've gotten.

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Speaker 3: To see the facilities.

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Speaker 5: What's the sense that you're getting of this place right now?

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Speaker 5: That's your new home?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Great, I mean everybody, it's the one Everybody has the

656
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 6: same goal, whether that's a training room, equipment room, head, coach, GM,

657
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 6: we all want to win. And even you know guys

658
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 6: walking down the street. It seems like everybody in Buffalo

659
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 6: wants wants one thing, and they care about their team.

660
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 6: And I'm excited to get back into a place like that.

661
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 6: That's kind of how it felt back at Ohio State.

662
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 6: You know, everywhere you want it was go Bucks, Go Bucks.

663
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 6: So got to get used to saying go Bills and

664
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 6: all that. It's definitely new for me. I haven't had

665
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 6: to switch it up in a while now, But yeah,

666
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 6: I think it's infectious and I'm excited to be a

667
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 6: part of it.

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00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 5: This team, the Bills have won lots of games over

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Speaker 5: the last several seasons.

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Speaker 3: They're right there.

671
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Speaker 5: How cool is it to get to play for a

672
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 5: team who every year they're right there, so close to

673
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 5: a chance at the super Bowl.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's definitely a huge reason that I'm here.

675
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 6: Hopefully I keep that rolling. I want to be good

676
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 6: luck and help this team, and I know they're they're

677
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 6: really close, and I think they're due to them saying there,

678
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 6: but it's we're we're due now, I guess too. I mean,

679
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 6: I have a lot to prove and need to prove

680
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 6: myself to really become part of this team and prove

681
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 6: myself to my teammates. But yeah, it's it's just exciting

682
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 6: to talk about a super Bowl and really feel like

683
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 6: it's a it's a huge possibility and that you can

684
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 6: do it. I know it's really early and and you

685
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,919
Speaker 6: haven't even had my first day here really, but I'm

686
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 6: just really looking forward to it and I'm gonna do

687
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 6: everything I can to prepare this offseason and be in

688
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 6: a great spot when when the time comes.

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Speaker 5: The guy leading the charge is an MVP quarterback named

690
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Speaker 5: josh Alan. What have your conversations with him been like

691
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 5: so far?

692
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 6: It's it's been good, he texted me early right before

693
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 6: I agreed agreed to come here, just to ask him

694
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 6: a few questions, and he just sounds like a really

695
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 6: down to earth guy, really great leader. We were talking

696
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 6: about our golf game a little bit, okay, which is exciting.

697
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,439
Speaker 6: He could maybe show me a few things, but yeah,

698
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 6: just it's it's easy when you got a guy like

699
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 6: that on on offense, you know, leading, leading the way.

700
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Speaker 6: So I'm excited to be able to watch him on

701
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 6: sitting on the sideline, but also compete against them every

702
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 6: day and practice is going to be fun. I got

703
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 6: to make sure I stay away from him though.

704
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,439
Speaker 5: One of the defensive lines mantra is rush is one

705
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 5: you get to work alongside with several special players at Oliver,

706
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 5: Greg Russo, Larry Ogunjobi is a new player in this

707
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 5: building as well. Michael Hoy, why are you excited to

708
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 5: join a unit like the one that Buffalo has.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that was another big part of my

710
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 6: decision is the guys around me. I haven't really communicated

711
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 6: with a lot of them yet, but just through watching

712
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 6: film and stuff, I know it's a great group and

713
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 6: we'll have a great rotation and we'll be able to

714
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 6: keep each other fresh. And be ready to go in

715
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 6: that fourth quarter and be able to feed off of

716
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 6: each other. Obviously, filling in for a guy like von

717
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 6: Miller is gonna be a huge, big shoes to fill.

718
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 6: But I see him talk about this place and it's

719
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 6: all good things. So I'm excited to get to know

720
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Speaker 6: the coaches more in the scheme and obviously the guys

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Speaker 6: which I will and Ota is coming up. But like

722
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Speaker 6: I said, it was a big part of my decision

723
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Speaker 6: to know that I'm going to have a good group

724
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Speaker 6: of guys around me that we could all compliment each other.

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00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 5: Well, football is a big part of your life, but

726
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 5: there's also a person beyond the football field.

727
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 3: What is Joey Bosa as a person?

728
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Speaker 6: I think what you see is what you get. Yeah,

729
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 6: I have been Florida, so we like being in the sun.

730
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 6: I've been, Like I mentioned, I've been golfing a lot

731
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 6: of Amanda's probably sick of hearing it because it's I

732
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 6: keep getting sidetracked and talking golf with every other every

733
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 6: other guy in the facility. So I've been playing a

734
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 6: lot of golf. But you know, I don't have many

735
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 6: years left and for now, football is the main thing

736
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 6: and that's my main focus. Soone once the season gets rolling,

737
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 6: I'm pretty boring, and it's training in football, which I

738
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 6: think this town is perfect for that. Yeah, we're all

739
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 6: about football, and we're all we all have that one

740
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 6: track mine that we want to win and no distractions

741
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 6: and all that. But you know, I think it's important

742
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 6: to have a good balance, you know, going out to

743
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,959
Speaker 6: dinner with the guys and enjoying yourself so you don't

744
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 6: just drag yourself or drive yourself crazy. But yeah, having

745
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 6: that balance. You know, we spend time on the boat,

746
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 6: spend time golfing. Uh she's a great cook. We like

747
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 6: going we like going to dinners and all that, but

748
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 6: pretty generic stuff. Get on the video games every now

749
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 6: and again. But uh yeah, I think football. Football takes

750
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 6: up most of the time for now.

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00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 3: Well, the food is great here.

752
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 5: Speaking of food, Buffalo is known for their buffalo wings

753
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 5: chicken wings as we call them.

754
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 2: Don't call them buffalo wings.

755
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 5: Here because people will look at you and be like,

756
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 5: you're not You're not a buffalo guy.

757
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 3: Just wings or chicken wings. Have you had them yet?

758
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 5: If not, how pumped are you to get what everybody says?

759
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 3: Or you know, the best chicken wings you can get.

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00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 6: We've got some time before my flight. I think you're

761
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 6: my last stop right now, so maybe I will go

762
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 6: get some wings so I can be dying on my

763
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 6: plane flight home, just like you.

764
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Speaker 3: Spicy some spicy winks.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: No, I I was telling some people I my dad

767
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 6: played for the Dolphins, and it was I can't remember

768
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 6: what year, probably two thousand and maybe ninety something now,

769
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 6: probably two thousand and two or something. They had a

770
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 6: reunion here and it was a flag football match between

771
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 6: the old Dolphins guys and the old Bills guys. So

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00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 6: I was out here. I definitely had some wings. Then.

773
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 6: I can't remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, so

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Speaker 6: I definitely can't remember.

775
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 3: We're not going to hold against you.

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00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I definitely have had them. But now I'm

777
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 6: a little My food taste has gotten a little a

778
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,439
Speaker 6: little better now, so I'll be I'll be a little

779
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 6: better judge.

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Speaker 5: Now, all right, We're gonna check back in later when

781
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 5: you finally had some wings. Joey, thank you so much

782
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 5: for the time. We're so excited to have you here

783
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 5: in Buffalo. Can't wait till you guys come back here

784
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 5: in April and all the fun begins.

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Speaker 1: Go Bill's Go Bill.

786
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 3: All right, that was Joey Bosa.

787
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Speaker 5: We're gonna take a break here on One Bill's Live

788
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Speaker 5: orpresented by Clydehealth on Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right back here on One Bill's Live on a Friday.

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00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 2: Obl Friday fan mail bag is open. Send any of

791
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 2: your questions about the Bills, free agency, the draft, whatever's

792
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,720
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793
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,239
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Speaker 2: oh five point fifty one eighty eight five point fifty two,

795
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Speaker 2: five point fifty and we've got a caller waiting there now.

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Speaker 2: So we go to Judy in Buffalo. What do you

797
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 2: got for his Judy? Or you know.

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Speaker 11: I haven't heard too much lately about James Cook what

799
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 11: his demands are. But as far as I'm concerned, James

800
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Speaker 11: Cook to be very thankful that he had a stellar

801
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 11: offensive line in front of him, a more than stellar quarterback.

802
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 11: And if he thinks he's going to do that well

803
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 11: with any other team, he is mistaken. So I think

804
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 11: the Bills need to draw back and take a look

805
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 11: at what they have. I think Ray Davis may be

806
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 11: an emerging running back that we need, and they can

807
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 11: use their draft twices to get a running back to

808
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 11: replace him, and they need to use their draft twices

809
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,760
Speaker 11: to score up their defense because that is the only

810
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 11: thing we're lacking at this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, good points, Judy. I think what we

812
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 2: all have to remember, James is under contract. He's still

813
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: got a year left on his rookie deal. Would he

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00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 2: like a new one that pays him a lot more money? Absolutely,

815
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Speaker 2: And I think the Bills understand that. And here's the

816
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 2: tricky thing, and I think we all kind of thought

817
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,720
Speaker 2: this as we saw different players on the roster getting

818
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 2: re signed, including a guy from his fellow draft class

819
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 2: in Terrell Bernard, you know, to rel Bernard in the

820
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 2: year or no, he's going into yeah, in the final

821
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: year of his rookie deal, much like James Cook was.

822
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 2: He signs a multi year extension. Greg Russeau headed into

823
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 2: his fifty year option year signed to a long term extension.

824
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 2: James has not been. And there's only so much of

825
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 2: that money to go around, and it kind of makes

826
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 2: you wonder, you know, is he a guy that gets

827
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Speaker 2: put on the back burner until maybe August when the

828
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 2: Bills are known to have signed players to extension, Spencer

829
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 2: Brown the latest example last August. Sure that could happen

830
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 2: depending on how money is moved around, but he was

831
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Speaker 2: vocal publicly then retracted it. Brandon Bean talked to us

832
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Speaker 2: at the combine and essentially said, hey, we're we're talking

833
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 2: to his people. We'd prefer that it's not out there

834
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Speaker 2: in the public, which I think is part of the

835
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 2: reason why James pulled back from it and retracted a

836
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 2: lot of that stuff publicly.

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Speaker 4: But did that put a.

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00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 2: Stumbling block in the path of where they would both

839
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Speaker 2: like to get.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that.

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00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is deal's got done for other

842
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 2: guys on the roster who are in a similar boat.

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00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 5: In terms of thinking about the Buffalo Bills, how beneficial

844
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 5: do you think it is to get the deal done

845
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 5: this offseason rather than waiting for James to go through

846
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,439
Speaker 5: another season where he could pop off in another year

847
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 5: and then the asking price gets even higher.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I think there's another layer to that as well.

849
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 2: But to address your question, sure, sooner rather than later

850
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 2: usually proves to be more beneficial for the club, because

851
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 2: if you believe the player is going to do everything

852
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: you think think he can he should duplicate a lot

853
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 2: of what he did last year. Maybe he doesn't have

854
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 2: sixteen rushing touchdowns because that's a rare year, but I

855
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,959
Speaker 2: think you can expect anything and everything that he did

856
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 2: from a rushing and receiving perspective, maybe even more if

857
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 2: he gets in on the field a little bit more

858
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 2: on third downs going forward. So yeah, I just think

859
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:30,240
Speaker 2: once we saw the Barkley extension, it changed the market.

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Speaker 3: Is that the other layer that you're talking about.

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Speaker 2: I think that's part of the problem because we knew

862
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Speaker 2: what James tweeted out, which was fifteen million a year,

863
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 2: and I thought that was nuts. Now with the Barkley contract,

864
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 2: it's not nuts anymore because Barkley's getting twenty and I

865
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 2: didn't see James in Barkley's on his tier. Barkley's better,

866
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 2: and there might be a couple of others that you

867
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Speaker 2: would put on that tier as well. But if Barkley's

868
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 2: now getting twenty, now the bar has been raised for

869
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 2: the guys on the second tier like James, and now

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00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 2: fifteen a year isn't outlandish anymore. And I don't know

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00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 2: if the Bills want to pay fifteen a year to

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00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 2: anybody at the running back position.

873
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 5: Okay, taking this a step further, this draft class, everybody

874
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 5: has been saying defensive tackle, running back.

875
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 3: There are great running backs in the runners draft class.

876
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 5: Do you see Buffalo selecting a running back in this

877
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 5: year's draft, Not saying that it's going to be James

878
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 5: Cook's replacement, but just because this draft class is so

879
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 5: good at that position.

880
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think because so here, let's take another

881
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: look at everything that has happened right in free agency

882
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 2: for Buffalo. Okay, so you have all of the extensions,

883
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 2: Josh Allen, Greg Russo, Terrell Bernard, Khalil Shakir. These are

884
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 2: all of those players, with the exception of Josh entering

885
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 2: the final year of their contract and got extensions. I

886
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 2: think James is a guy they want to keep in

887
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 2: the fold also. But out of all of those positions,

888
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 2: middle linebacker you could probably make an argument for it.

889
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 2: But I guess my point is it's hard to find

890
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 2: a quality pass rusher. Greg Russo has improven, he's an

891
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 2: elite pass rusher yet, but he's a very good one. Yes,

892
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 2: Khalil Shakir is not a thirty million dollar receiver, but

893
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 2: he's a reliable one. Upon whom Josh depends maybe more

894
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 2: than anyone else on the roster.

895
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 4: Right now, that has value.

896
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 2: And then Bernard's value is rooted in his captaincy and

897
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 2: leadership in addition to his playmaking ability, and I think

898
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 2: that's why he was prioritized. James unfortunately plays at a

899
00:49:53,320 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 2: position that historically has a short shelf life, and I

900
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 2: can argue, of all of those positions, is most easily replaceable.

901
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 2: I'm still concerned that the Bills do not have an

902
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 2: elite playmaker at a skill position on offense besides James Cook.

903
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 2: Josh is the quarterback, He's elite, but at the skill

904
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 2: positions receiver, tight end, running back, Cook is your best player,

905
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 2: and he's not signed to an extension, So what is

906
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 2: your plan beyond that if he's not signed long term.

907
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 2: I don't think that's yet to manifest itself. Maybe more

908
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 2: clues are provided in the draft, but right now, he

909
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 2: is your best playmaker on offense, your most elite weapon,

910
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,919
Speaker 2: your home run threat on every single play, and right

911
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 2: now you don't have another guy that's proven to be

912
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 2: every bit as good as.

913
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,280
Speaker 4: He is at that on offense.

914
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 2: That's my concern, and part of the reason is probably

915
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 2: My concern is I don't know what the plan is

916
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 2: because I'm not in the room with Brandon Bean in

917
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 2: his personnel department and the coaching staff.

918
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:15,760
Speaker 4: I'm sure they.

919
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 2: Have a plan, but when we don't, when we're not

920
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 2: privy to it, it sparks a little bit of concern.

921
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, James is going to be here,

922
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 2: presumably this year, although who knows. The Bills could hypothetically

923
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 2: get a running back in round two, or maybe they

924
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 2: trade up and get a pick in round three, draft

925
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 2: a running back they really like, and then somebody could

926
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: get moved on Day three of the draft. Stevie Johnson

927
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 2: got traded at the end of the draft one year.

928
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not out of the realm with possibility.

929
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I know anything. I'm just saying there

930
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: are options there to both sign James to an extension

931
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 2: to address the position in another way, I'm just surveying

932
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 2: all the options that the Bills will have at their disposal.

933
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 2: They're all out there right now.

934
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,240
Speaker 4: Now, so we'll have to wait and see.

935
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 2: I think he became a back burner topic once all

936
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 2: those other guys got signed to extensions that were already

937
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 2: on the roster and with the wave of a free

938
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 2: agency that we've seen, we have to take a break here,

939
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 2: but we come back. Good friend of the show and

940
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 2: Friday guests most of the time is back. Senior producer

941
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 2: from NFL Films, Greg Cosel, gonna join us and we're

942
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 2: gonna run through some of the free agent ads and

943
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 2: see what his thoughts are on those players based on

944
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 2: what he's seen from them on film from the last

945
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 2: regular season. Greg Cosell. Next here on One Bill's.

946
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Speaker 1: Live, The One Bills Live presented by Calllida.

947
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 2: Help all right, Here we are on a Friday, second

948
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 2: hour the show. Chris Brown, Matti lab with you and

949
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 2: joined now by a frequent visitor on Fridays, especially during

950
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 2: the regular season. He's a weekly guest, but he's even

951
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 2: carves out time for us in the offseason, especially as

952
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,359
Speaker 2: we lead up to the draft. We're going to talk

953
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 2: a little free agency with the senior producer from NFL Films,

954
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 2: Greg Cosell. As the Bills had a relatively busy first week.

955
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 2: They spent the run up to free agencies signing some

956
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 2: of their young core players to extensions and then got

957
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 2: kind of busy on both sides of the ball and

958
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 2: free agency here in week number one, Greg, thanks for

959
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 2: joining us, first of all, and second, I want to

960
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 2: start kind of on the defensive side of the ball.

961
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 2: That's where more of the signings took place, and I

962
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 2: guess we'll start with the headliner, Joey Bosa. We know

963
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 2: he's been compromised, his effectiveness has been compromised on the

964
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 2: field by injury the last few years. But just in

965
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 2: terms of pure skill set, where do you come down

966
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 2: on Joey Bosa?

967
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 10: I think pure skill set, he's still a really good

968
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 10: edge pass rusher. He's a really good run defender. The

969
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 10: issue is you mentioned Brownie has been injuries and obviously

970
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 10: availability is critical critical factor, as we all know every

971
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 10: coach would tell you that. My sense is though that

972
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 10: with this particular team, with Rousseau, who they re signed

973
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 10: with epinessa still there that you're probably not looking for

974
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 10: him to play fifty or sixty snaps a game, and

975
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 10: hopefully the durability factor can be massaged a bit, because

976
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 10: he certainly can be a factor as an edge pass rusher.

977
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 10: We spoke about the fact last year a number of

978
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 10: times that that was an area that they needed They

979
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 10: needed that one guy, and Rousseau's a really nice player.

980
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 10: I'm not sure he'd be viewed as as, you know,

981
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 10: the guy that you're dominant h pass rusher, although he

982
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 10: has those moments. So I think that to me, it's

983
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 10: a really good signing given who else they have, because

984
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,439
Speaker 10: you're I would assume, and I don't know what Sean

985
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 10: McDermott has said, if anything, at all up to this point,

986
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 10: but I would assume they don't anticipate playing him sixty

987
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 10: sixty five snaps a game.

988
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, we haven't heard from Sean McDermott yet, but that's

989
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 5: what Steve Tasker and I have been saying on the

990
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 5: show all week, is that we kind of see him

991
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 5: stepping into not being von Miller but playing similar snaps

992
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 5: and that hey, we're going to use it here when

993
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 5: you need when we need you right now. Another defensive

994
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 5: player that the Bills haven't signed yet but agreed to

995
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 5: terms is Michael Hoyt on a three year deal. And

996
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,400
Speaker 5: this is a type of defensive lineman who has played

997
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 5: edge rusher, linebacker, slot corner.

998
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,359
Speaker 3: He lines up everywhere.

999
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 5: How does his versatility help elevate Buffalo's defense?

1000
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 10: I love Michael Hoyt. I mean, I've obviously been watching

1001
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 10: the Rams for years, and you nailed it, Matt. He

1002
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 10: lines up everywhere. He's an incredibly intelligent player. He's one

1003
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 10: of those guys that is a little bit better athlete

1004
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 10: than people might think. He's really really disciplined and how

1005
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,240
Speaker 10: he plays. He's terrific at setting things up for others.

1006
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 10: He understands his role, but yet he can make plays

1007
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 10: on his own. Actually, when I saw that signing, which

1008
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 10: I think happened before Bosa or I always announced before Bosa,

1009
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 10: I guess, as you said, it's not official. Some of

1010
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 10: these are not officially signed yet, but I think it

1011
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 10: was announced before Bosa. Memory serves me correctly, And I

1012
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 10: just thought to myself, that is a really, really good signing.

1013
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 10: This is the kind of player you want on your defense,

1014
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 10: not just because he's so versatile and how he can align,

1015
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 10: but because he's such an intelligent, smart, savvy player.

1016
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and as Steve says, all the time, smart players

1017
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 2: play a long time in this league. My question about

1018
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 2: hoy centers around his pass rushing skills, because people kind

1019
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 2: of just automatically assume, oh, you know, he'll probably be

1020
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 2: like at Oliver's rotational backup at the three technique, and

1021
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 2: he does a lot more than that. What do you

1022
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,920
Speaker 2: see from his pass rush skill set? How would you

1023
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 2: describe him in that way?

1024
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 10: I mean, he's not a dominant task rush as although

1025
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 10: he can rush the quarterback, but he can also play

1026
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 10: off the ball. It's going to be really interesting. And

1027
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 10: obviously they have a plan or they would not have

1028
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 10: signed him. So we don't know what that plan is.

1029
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 10: They're not going to make a big announcement about it,

1030
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 10: but I'm curious to see how they choose to deploy

1031
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 10: him within the context of the defense. You know, don't forget,

1032
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 10: you know, hoy, it's close to two hundred and seventy pounds.

1033
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 10: They were, they're light at linebacker in there nickel with

1034
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 10: Milano and Bernard. You could see some changes in their nickel.

1035
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 10: You could just see some changes in how they deployed personnel. Obviously,

1036
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 10: we don't know that. They certainly, as I said, have

1037
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 10: a plan. You don't make a signing like that without

1038
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 10: having a sense of what you're going to do Brownie,

1039
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 10: But I think that remains to be seen. I don't

1040
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:13,959
Speaker 10: think he's going to be used as an edge pass

1041
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 10: rusher or you know, as his number one thing or

1042
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 10: as an inside pass rusher, as his only thing. I

1043
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 10: think you're going to see him be deployed in the

1044
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 10: way he was with the Rams. And that's one reason

1045
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 10: you sign him, because he can do all those.

1046
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 2: Things, right, which is and that's why I was asking

1047
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 2: if you could shed some light on his pass rushing

1048
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 2: skill set only because we've seen in previous years both

1049
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 2: Bernard and Milano used as blitzers in sub packages, and

1050
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 2: I could see Hoyt being utilized that way to maybe

1051
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 2: take some of that workload off of those two linebackers

1052
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 2: with all the snaps that they log. So in that

1053
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 2: kind of a role what as a blitzer I guess

1054
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 2: for lack of a better term, in a sub package.

1055
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 2: How how effective is he in that kind of way?

1056
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's good at that, I mean, and he's also

1057
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 10: really good. Look, one of the things we saw a

1058
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 10: ton with the Rams this year, in particular when they

1059
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 10: had the rookie lineman, and it wouldn't surprise me. Look,

1060
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 10: you know every year you tweak certain things. Okay, you

1061
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 10: play a certain way, but you tweak one of the

1062
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 10: things the Rams did really really well a year ago

1063
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 10: is line up on what we call loaded fronts, where

1064
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 10: they'd have three defensive linemen to one side of the

1065
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 10: center and then they'd have a wide nine pass rusher

1066
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 10: on the other side, and Michael Hoyt would kind of

1067
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 10: be the guy that was sort of a stand up

1068
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 10: three technique, jumping in and out opposite the load. He

1069
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 10: would he would try to engage the guard so the

1070
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 10: guard couldn't help with stunts on the other side. He's

1071
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 10: really good at those little nuances, those little details that

1072
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 10: help others make plays in addition to himself at times.

1073
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 10: So again we don't know because it's obviously March and

1074
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 10: no one needs to say anything, but I wouldn't be

1075
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 10: surpris to see a few tweaks and adjustments in how

1076
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 10: they play, you know, out of their nickel in the

1077
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 10: pure pass situations.

1078
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 5: Sean McDermott said at the combine, you know, we always

1079
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 5: need to be evolving as a defense. We want to

1080
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 5: be five years ahead of what offenses are doing. And

1081
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 5: you see offenses now catching up to how defenses.

1082
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 3: Have played over the last five years.

1083
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 5: You see running backs being used a little bit more now,

1084
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 5: and maybe this Michael Hoyt signing like you said, his

1085
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 5: versatility is a way that Buffalo's defense can evolve. Another

1086
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 5: defensive lineman that has agreed to terms with the Buffalo Bills,

1087
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 5: not officially signed yet, is a defensive tackle, Larry Ogin Joby,

1088
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 5: and the defensive tackle room for Buffalo saw several players

1089
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 5: hit free agency in Quentin Jefferson, Austin Johnson as well

1090
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 5: as Jordan Phillips. So there's a need there for defensive tackle.

1091
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 5: What does Ogin Joby bring to the table.

1092
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 10: Ogunjoby's your classic rotational D tackle. He's probably a base

1093
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 10: defense D tackle, but he's a really solidalid player. He's

1094
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 10: just you know, he's one of those guys you want

1095
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 10: in your gtackle rule. He's not going to play sixty

1096
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 10: five snaps a game. He's not a pass rusher. They

1097
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 10: didn't sign him for that, Maddie. They signed him to

1098
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 10: be a rotational player within the context of who they have.

1099
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 10: They still have Jones and Oliver Dwayne Carter is going

1100
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 10: into his second season, so you know, he's there as

1101
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 10: a rotational player and he's always been very, very good

1102
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 10: in that role. He's just one of those guys, you know,

1103
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 10: those kinds of players No one really thinks about or

1104
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 10: talks about because they don't necessarily record sacks, but they're

1105
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 10: critical for every defense.

1106
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, on the offensive side of the ball, you know,

1107
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 2: we see Josh Palmer. Yeah, and look we've got there

1108
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 2: is speed on that at that position, Curtis Samuel, although

1109
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 2: he's not used down the field all that much, Palmer

1110
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 2: would seem to represent field stretching. Is he good enough

1111
01:01:59,120 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 2: to still do that?

1112
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 4: You know?

1113
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 10: Brownie Palmer is one of those guys that I just again,

1114
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 10: I'm not you know, I wasn't out there, I think

1115
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 10: earlier this week, if I'm not mistaken, you guys spoke

1116
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 10: to Tom Telesco, who was the GM at the time.

1117
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 10: I was actually out there the year they drafted Palmer

1118
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 10: in when they were still in Costa Mesa as their facility,

1119
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 10: and talked to Tom te LESCo because I love Josh

1120
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 10: Palmer coming out of Tennessee, and I thought he could

1121
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 10: be a really, really good NFL receiver about six one,

1122
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 10: two ten. I remember when they played Alabama when he

1123
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 10: was at Tennessee and he ran by Patrick Sutan twice

1124
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,919
Speaker 10: and he has vertical speed. And again, without being there,

1125
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 10: I certainly can't speak to the reasons why it hasn't happened.

1126
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 10: But you're dealing with a guy that has a lot

1127
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 10: of traits, and he does have vertical ability, so maybe

1128
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 10: he just needed to change of scenery. I don't know

1129
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 10: the answer. I'm not going to sit here and say

1130
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 10: he's going to catch ninety balls for fourteen hundred yards.

1131
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 10: Who knows. But this guy traits and they were evident

1132
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 10: from when he came out of Tennessee. They've been evident

1133
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 10: at times when he's been with the Chargers. I don't

1134
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 10: have a brilliant answer as to why it hasn't happened,

1135
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 10: But you know, as I said, maybe a change of

1136
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 10: scene or he brings out those traits.

1137
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 5: And I love that they're getting a player who's just

1138
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 5: entering his fifth NFL season in Joshua Palmer.

1139
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 3: It's not like this guy's in year nine or ten.

1140
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 3: You're getting a guy.

1141
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 5: Who you can still help develop in ways and if

1142
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 5: you can get that out of him, how does a

1143
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 5: receiver like Palmer, who has a lot of upsider had

1144
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 5: a lot of upside coming out of the draft, how

1145
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 5: can he help elevate Buffalo's offense as a whole.

1146
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 10: Well, you're hoping for the vertical element because they did

1147
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 10: not really have a vertical element this past year, and

1148
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:49,080
Speaker 10: they were pretty condensed, and I think Joe Brady played

1149
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 10: that way intentionally, and of course that helped limit the

1150
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 10: turnovers with Josh only throwing six interceptions. But you know,

1151
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 10: when you have a quarterback like Josh, you do want

1152
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 10: to have a vertical dimension in your past game because

1153
01:03:59,920 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 10: he can make those throws and Keon Coleman is not

1154
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 10: really that guy. He can make some contested catches, but

1155
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 10: he's not the kind of speed guy that's going to

1156
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 10: get on top of the defense. Palmer can do that,

1157
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 10: So I think that just elevates your pass game because

1158
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 10: it makes it mad. He just you have to defend

1159
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 10: it differently as a defense. So again, you know, I'm

1160
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 10: sure they didn't pay a ton. I don't follow that

1161
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 10: the money because the money becomes the money. It's just

1162
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 10: what it is. That's what free agency is about. It's

1163
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 10: about guys getting a lot of money. So I don't

1164
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 10: worry about the money numbers. But you know, I just

1165
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 10: think it's it's a guy who has really higher level

1166
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 10: trades that just for whatever reason not been able to

1167
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 10: come out yet. And he does have vertical ability, and

1168
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 10: now when you look at Palmer, we know what Shakira is.

1169
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 10: Hopefully Keon Coleman's development continues, maybe Samuel becomes a little

1170
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 10: bit of a movable chess piece within the context of

1171
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 10: the offense. So you're just looking for dimensions. You want

1172
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 10: to make sure your offense has every dimension and so

1173
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 10: that you can win multiple ways any given Sunday.

1174
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 2: And at least on paper it would appear, you know,

1175
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 2: with the Palmer edition. You know the reports of Leviscus

1176
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 2: Cheno also entering the fold that they can threaten all

1177
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 2: three levels of a defense with the receiving core that

1178
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 2: you have.

1179
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 10: Me, Yeah, Brownie, that's what you want to be able

1180
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 10: to do. Just like I said, you don't want to

1181
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 10: be in a situation. Look, we know the Run game's

1182
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 10: been a lot better. We know that Josh Allen can

1183
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 10: make special plays at any time. But just when you

1184
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 10: talk philosophically about putting together an offense, you want to

1185
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 10: feel that you can attack just like you said, and

1186
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 10: you're right, all three dimensions, and you want to feel

1187
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 10: that you can win multiple ways depending on how a

1188
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 10: game goes, because you never know how a game goes.

1189
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 10: You know, every team goes in with a plan, but

1190
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:53,920
Speaker 10: good coaches always have Plan B and Plans C, and

1191
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 10: sometimes Plan A for whatever reason, doesn't work, and you

1192
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,959
Speaker 10: need to be able to do any number of differ

1193
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 10: diferent things depending on how a specific Sunday plays out.

1194
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then adding to Buffalo's defense, they did add

1195
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,320
Speaker 5: to their dB room in safety Derek Forrest. Now this

1196
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:13,520
Speaker 5: is also a younger player who in twenty twenty two

1197
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 5: had a standout season with four interceptions.

1198
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:18,240
Speaker 3: He played a lot.

1199
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 5: During that season, and talking to him yesterday, he said,

1200
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 5: you know, I think I fell off there because I

1201
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 5: wasn't playing as much. Hopefully I get to do the

1202
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 5: same in Buffalo. He knows he's going to be competing

1203
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 5: for a role here in Buffalo. How do you evaluate

1204
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 5: his tape?

1205
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 10: Yeah, I remember him in twenty twenty two. He was

1206
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 10: a good player for Washington that year. He played both

1207
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 10: on the back end. He played up in the box

1208
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 10: a bit. I remember doing them when he came out

1209
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 10: of the University of Cincinnati. He always struck me as

1210
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 10: he's not the best athlete on the field, but he's

1211
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 10: a savvy player. He's an aware player that to me

1212
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,919
Speaker 10: was the strength of his game, He understood his role,

1213
01:06:56,960 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 10: his responsibility. He played with discipline. You know, obviously you're

1214
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 10: always looking for a guy who's a great athlete. There's

1215
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:06,200
Speaker 10: not that many of them at the safety position. But

1216
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,919
Speaker 10: we'll see how the safety position shakes out. I mean,

1217
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 10: as we speak today, they still have rap In Hamlin,

1218
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 10: correct In Hamlin resign on one year deal. Yeah, and

1219
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 10: so is rap still under contract?

1220
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 11: Yes?

1221
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:19,919
Speaker 3: And then you got col Bishop.

1222
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 10: Wrap Hamlin Bishop, and they have Wrap Hamlin, Bishop and Forrest.

1223
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 10: So they've got a nice four man competition for the

1224
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:29,280
Speaker 10: safety position. And we'll see how that shakes out. We

1225
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 10: don't know how it's going to shake out right now.

1226
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 10: Obviously they felt they wanted to bring another safety into

1227
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 10: the mix. And Forrest, you know, he was a starter

1228
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 10: for the for Washington in twenty twenty two, so he

1229
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 10: played a lot of snaps.

1230
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 2: Right and taking this just a hair further, Greg, you know,

1231
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 2: getting back to the conversation about trends and changing your defense,

1232
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 2: big Nickel seems to be something that's going to be

1233
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 2: on the uptick even more this coming season as defenses

1234
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 2: try to battle the advent of the resurgence of the

1235
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 2: run game and bigger players running at small nickel corners,

1236
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 2: there's a need to be bigger in the nickel package.

1237
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 2: Where might Forrest factor in there, because I know earlier

1238
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 2: in his career there were times where he did play

1239
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 2: closer to the line of scrimmage as well.

1240
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, Forest factors in there. Bishop would factor in there.

1241
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 10: I mean, I think they are now equipped to do

1242
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 10: just what you said, Brownie, And that's a great point.

1243
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 10: More and more teams do play big nickel with three

1244
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 10: safeties as opposed to having the smaller nickel linebacker. As

1245
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:39,680
Speaker 10: good as Tron Johnson's been, and he's been phenomenal in

1246
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 10: his career, and he's a very good run defender, by

1247
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 10: the way, but the fact is he's not as big

1248
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:48,280
Speaker 10: as a safety. So you know, I think that one

1249
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:50,879
Speaker 10: of those guys, it could be Bishop, it could be Forrest.

1250
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,599
Speaker 10: You know, they could easily be there in a big

1251
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 10: nickel look. And that's and you're right about the run game.

1252
01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:59,519
Speaker 10: We'll see if that continues to be a trend. We

1253
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:01,719
Speaker 10: saw the game come back to the league a little

1254
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 10: bit last year in twenty twenty four. We'll see if

1255
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 10: that continues in twenty twenty five.

1256
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 5: So, Greg, we're through this first wave of free agency,

1257
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 5: Buffalo got in the mix right away with some of

1258
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 5: these players. As we talk about these new additions to

1259
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 5: Buffalo's roster, what do you learn about what the Bills

1260
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 5: are going to look like in twenty twenty five.

1261
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 10: Well, the changes, I mean, with the exception of really Palmer,

1262
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 10: which I as we discussed, was important, most of the

1263
01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:32,840
Speaker 10: changes occurred out here on defense. And I think we

1264
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:35,679
Speaker 10: had spoken about that. You know, I remember Brownie speaking

1265
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 10: with you about the fact that that was the side

1266
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 10: of the ball that they needed to make some changes.

1267
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 10: And obviously, you know, I wasn't saying anything out of school.

1268
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 10: The tape tells you that and they know it too,

1269
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:49,120
Speaker 10: So that's where they did. They focus their attention, and

1270
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 10: you know, that's where I think ideally the difference will be. So,

1271
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 10: you know, offensively, look, the offensive line is the same,

1272
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 10: the backs are the same, obviously, the quarterbacks the same.

1273
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 10: So you know, offensively, you're probably you'll see some tweaks,

1274
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 10: I'm sure, because Palmer will necessitate some, but the offense

1275
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 10: essentially is going to be the same from a personnel perspective.

1276
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:16,640
Speaker 10: It's the defense that needed some tweaks and adjustments and

1277
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:19,719
Speaker 10: some minor, some more major, and I think you're gonna

1278
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 10: see that.

1279
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 2: And then the last one Greg before we let you go. Obviously,

1280
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 2: the Bills did some work before free agency in signing

1281
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 2: some young core players to extensions. Obviously Josh was the

1282
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 2: big one, but you also got Rousseau in the fold

1283
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:38,280
Speaker 2: long term, to Rellbertard in the fold long term. Khalil

1284
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 2: Shakir was done during Combine week when we had a

1285
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 2: chance to talk to you. Which one of those kind

1286
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 2: of excites you the most in terms of where that

1287
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 2: player could take his career.

1288
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:54,800
Speaker 10: Oh, boy, that's a hard one. I'm only gonna answer

1289
01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 10: the answer I'm gonna give you. It doesn't mean I

1290
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 10: don't think the other guy's a good player. So I

1291
01:10:58,400 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 10: don't want fans listening to think, oh, you don't like

1292
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 10: this guy, because you know you get that a lot.

1293
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:05,759
Speaker 10: But as you guys know, I was always a big

1294
01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 10: fan of Shakir based on his college tape because for me,

1295
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 10: it's not personal. I don't know these players, so I'm

1296
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Speaker 10: just watching tape and I remember watching him at Boise

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Speaker 10: and really thinking that this guy could be a really

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Speaker 10: good pro. He was an inside outside player at Boise. Obviously,

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Speaker 10: settled into mostly being a slot guy with the Bills.

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Speaker 10: But I just think Shakiir in the context of this

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Speaker 10: offense and the connection he's developed with Josh Allen. You know, again,

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Speaker 10: I'm not going to sit here and throw out numbers.

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01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:35,840
Speaker 10: Who knows what you know, that doesn't mean anything to me.

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Speaker 10: You know, if he catches seventy balls, he's the same

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Speaker 10: receiver as if he catches ninety balls. It doesn't mean

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01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 10: he's a different receiver. But I really like Khalil Shakir

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Speaker 10: and I think that he's a really important part of

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Speaker 10: this offense.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Greg, thanks for the inside. As always, we'll

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Speaker 2: catch up with the next Friday. We'll probably swing swing

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Speaker 2: our pendulum back towards the draft class a little bit

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Speaker 2: here and maybe tackle another position with you.

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Speaker 10: Well, I've only done about two hundred guys, Brown. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: you need to get some work done in the intrums.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll see if you can get to two

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Speaker 2: twenty by next Friday. Good luck.

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Speaker 10: All right, sounds good.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 4: That's great.

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Speaker 2: CoA Stale joining us senior producer from NFL Films.

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Speaker 4: And where he works is very.

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Speaker 2: Apropos NFL Films because that's all the man.

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Speaker 4: Does is watch film.

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Speaker 2: Cray goes to work, watches film, comes home, spends time

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Speaker 2: with his wife, goes to bed, gets up, does it

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Speaker 2: all over again. One guy, his wife is a saint.

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Speaker 4: By the way.

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Speaker 2: It was funny. I was talking to him at the

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Speaker 2: combine about that and he's like, oh, no, she's great.

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Speaker 2: She just says, you know, you go do your thing.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I said, I hope you realize how

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Speaker 2: good you've got because I mean, man, okay, good on

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Speaker 2: her because.

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Speaker 4: She's probably off doing whatever the hell she wants to.

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Speaker 3: She's grinding tape two out.

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Speaker 2: No she's not. She's doing something a lot more many

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Speaker 2: of us would find a lot more enjoyable, because I

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Speaker 2: gotta tell you, Like I we try to watch as

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Speaker 2: much as we can to be prepared for the draft

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Speaker 2: as best as we can. But I gotta tell you, Mandy,

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Speaker 2: when I'm on like player number twenty in a session

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Speaker 2: where I'm like, oh, let me just see if i

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Speaker 2: can knock these twenty players out, and I'm on like

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Speaker 2: player eighteen or player nineteen, and I'm just like.

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Speaker 3: You stop watching.

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01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:25,920
Speaker 2: What how do these guys do this? My eyes just

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01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 2: start to glaze over and I'm just like, who are

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Speaker 2: we watching again? Sometimes I might even do a little

1350
01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 2: head bobbing, yeah, because it's just like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: who are we watching again? How many minutes.

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Speaker 4: Did I just mess?

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01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:39,360
Speaker 2: How many snaps did I not get?

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it. It's a labor of love,

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Speaker 2: for sure, and Greg loves it, so we tap into

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Speaker 2: it to your benefit. So hope you enjoy his insight

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Speaker 2: each and every week. We are going to step aside,

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Speaker 2: take a break here. When we come back, we're going

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Speaker 2: to see some of the questions you have in the

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Speaker 2: mail bag on the tweet sheet and bring those to

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Speaker 2: you next Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right back here on One

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live. Here on a Friday, Chris Brown Matty Lab

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Speaker 2: with you, and there is Bill's news. Happened during the break,

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Speaker 2: as the Bills have announced that they have agreed to

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Speaker 2: terms with cornerback Dane Jackson and free agent guard Kendrick Green,

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Speaker 2: who spent his first two or three years of his

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Speaker 2: career with the Houston Texans. So two additional players now

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Speaker 2: in the fold four Buffalo, both of those players agreeing

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Speaker 2: to terms on one year deals respectively. I think a

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Speaker 2: lot of people are excited about seeing Dane Jackson coming

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Speaker 2: back to the team because they know what he is.

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Speaker 2: He's a valuable piece at corner and a guy that

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Speaker 2: can also help this team on special teams. So I

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Speaker 2: think going forward that's a plus. Corner is a positional

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01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 2: need that's no secret to anybody. And I don't think this,

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Speaker 2: you know, crosses that position off of the needs list necessarily,

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Speaker 2: but it certainly you know, reduces the urgency.

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Speaker 4: So to speak.

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Speaker 5: For Dane Jackson, I know a lot of us were

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01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 5: sad to see him go, but it was like, go

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Speaker 5: spread your wings, see what you can do elsewhere in

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01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 5: the NFL paid, get paid, and comes back to us,

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Speaker 5: which I love. I think it makes so so much

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01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 5: sense for Buffalo and for Jackson to do a move

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Speaker 5: like this because there's an opening right now at cornerback.

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Speaker 5: You've got Christian Benford, Rsull Douglas is a free agent,

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Speaker 5: kyr Elam was traded to the Cowboys, so you have

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Speaker 5: an opening right now, and it's great to see that

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Speaker 5: maybe it's going to be somebody who can step in

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Speaker 5: and help fill that void. I don't think they're done

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Speaker 5: at that cornerback position. Like we said, maybe it's something

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Speaker 5: they had draft in the draft. Maybe there's somebody out

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Speaker 5: there in free agency that they're still interested in. And

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Speaker 5: then the Kendrick Green piece of this, it's depth to

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Speaker 5: your offensive line room. And it's a young player too.

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Speaker 5: This guy's entering his fourth NFL season, has nineteen starts

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Speaker 5: under his belt and has played in thirty five games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean a former third round pick of the Steelers,

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Speaker 2: so he's bounced around a little bit. He's largely been

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Speaker 2: a backup player, but to Maddie's point, he does have

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Speaker 2: starts in his career.

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Speaker 4: I can't figure out the.

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Speaker 2: Houston Texans, that's my That's the biggest takeaway from this

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Speaker 2: whole thing. And I'm not just saying that because Kendrick

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Speaker 2: Green has agreed to terms with the Bills. But the

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Speaker 2: Houston Texans had problems with their offensive line as it

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Speaker 2: previously existed in the twenty twenty four season, and it

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Speaker 2: led to a step back. I think in CJ. Stroud's development,

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Speaker 2: he had a sophomore slump season after an unbelievable rookie

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Speaker 2: year and they've done nothing but dismantle the line completely.

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Speaker 2: And look, I get it if you're not happy with

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01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:12,599
Speaker 2: the results. Makes some changes, but they tore it down

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Speaker 2: to the studs, like to the studs, and this is

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Speaker 2: not a draft that's considered to be strong at offensive tackle.

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Speaker 2: It's better at garden center. But I think you're gonna

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Speaker 2: be asking an awful lot of whoever you plug back

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Speaker 2: in there on the offensive line, and then to fit

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Speaker 2: it all together and make it sing under a new coordinator.

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Speaker 2: By the way, at the same time, that's a lot

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Speaker 2: to pull off in one off season and expect to

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Speaker 2: be better than you were last year. I don't feel

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Speaker 2: like Demico Ryans and Nick Cassario know what they're undertaking

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Speaker 2: here in one off season.

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Speaker 5: And like we talked about earlier, the Chicago Bears adding

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Speaker 5: to their offensive line some big time names like Joe Tooney,

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Speaker 5: and you see the Chiefs lock up a left tackle,

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Speaker 5: and you see the Ravens re sign one of their own.

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Speaker 5: And then you talked about the teams who then lost

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Speaker 5: some pieces to other teams. A lot of teams then

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Speaker 5: added reinforcements to that roster. What have the Houston Texans

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Speaker 5: done a lot of those names in the pool of

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Speaker 5: offensive linemen that were available are no longer available for

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Speaker 5: teams who still need offensive linemen.

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Speaker 2: Right and you think about the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 4: They're four deep at offensive tackle.

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Speaker 2: Like guys that all can play like you've seen them

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Speaker 2: play at the NFL level. You know they can play

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Speaker 2: at the NFL level. And I think the Texans are

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01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:50,320
Speaker 2: hard pressed to say they have two right now. Look,

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Speaker 2: the offseason is a long and drawn out process, and

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01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:57,480
Speaker 2: a lot of us focus on March and free agency

1444
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:01,800
Speaker 2: April with the draft, and don't pay close don't think

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Speaker 2: as much of May, June July, because many of us

1446
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 2: are of the opinion that the quality of what is

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01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:12,520
Speaker 2: still out there and available drops off considerably.

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Speaker 4: And I will.

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Speaker 2: Maintain that opinion, although sometimes you can find some diamonds

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01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 2: in the rough. We've seen Brandon Bean do that, you know,

1451
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 2: signing Leonard Floyd a couple of years ago in June.

1452
01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 2: So there are exceptions, but the vast majority of what's

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Speaker 2: available in June and July, save a June first cut

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01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:34,240
Speaker 2: or something like that, or somebody that's got to be

1455
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 2: tossed overboard because some other player becomes available that a

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01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 2: team didn't anticipate. Those are few and far between. I'm

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Speaker 2: really surprised at Houston's approach with their offensive line dismantling

1458
01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 2: in the hopes of being better next fall. I just

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01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 2: think they've left themselves too many holes to fill. I

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01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:02,080
Speaker 2: guess that's the best way to explain it. But I

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Speaker 2: think Kendrick Green again nice depth piece for an offensive

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01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 2: line that's already set and has young backups in the

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Speaker 2: pipeline already. Whether you want to talk about Ryan Vandermark,

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Speaker 2: Tyland Grabil, Cedric van pran Grainger, you know you've got

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Speaker 2: a lot of depth. I mean, with Kendrick Green coming

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Speaker 2: into the fold, let's just hypothetically say he does make

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Speaker 2: the team as the ninth or tenth offensive lineman. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you're going like ten deep right now, and the backup

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Speaker 2: offensive line for the Bills is a line that some

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Speaker 2: teams like the Texans perhaps would kill.

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Speaker 5: To have yea to start, and maybe Brandon Bean is

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Speaker 5: adding people to the roster to then hey, I'm looking

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01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,200
Speaker 5: down the line to teams who are going to be

1474
01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 5: desperate for an offensive lineman and flip somebody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know, we saw Tyland Grabil as a

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01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 2: rook right out of training camp, earn the swing tackle roll,

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Speaker 2: beat out Ryan Vandermark for that spot, and then Grabil

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Speaker 2: has a core muscle injury, misses the majority of the season,

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01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 2: and fortunately you have Vandermark to plug into the swing

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01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 2: tackle role in the event that.

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Speaker 4: He would be needed.

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01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:19,680
Speaker 2: He wasn't really needed much. I think Dion Dawkins might

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01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 2: have missed a start last year and that was it.

1484
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 2: So the Bill's offensive line uncommonly healthy for two straight seasons.

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01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 2: The law of averages the way this league works, would

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01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 2: say that's going to catch up to them. So having

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01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:38,679
Speaker 2: the depth makes a lot of sense. Prepare for the worst,

1488
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:41,120
Speaker 2: hope for the best kind of thing at every position

1489
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 2: on your roster in football, but most notably at offensive line.

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01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 2: The Bills are really doing a nice job. Oh and

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01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 2: Alec Anderson. I didn't even think to mention who's back

1492
01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 2: under contract as well. So uncommonly deep at offensive line,

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01:21:55,479 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 2: and as we hear coach say it, Brandon Bean echoes

1494
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:02,759
Speaker 2: it it all arts upfront and on offense, the Bills

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01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 2: are have an embarrassment of riches at offensive line. I

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01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:10,120
Speaker 2: think they'd like to duplicate that now on the defensive side.

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01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 2: Of the ball and that's the work that still has

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01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 2: to be done. They've done some things, but I think

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Speaker 2: we all agree they've got to do a little bit more.

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Speaker 5: Brownie would We just talked to Greg co Sell about

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01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 5: all the additions that Buffalo has added to their roster

1502
01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 5: and free agency. We haven't asked you yet, what's the

1503
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 5: one edition that you're most excited about to this roster.

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01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:32,639
Speaker 2: Let me think and run them all through my head

1505
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 2: real quick. I like the Palmer ad because, to Greg's point,

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01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:41,680
Speaker 2: I think it's a guy with elite physical traits. We

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01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:46,080
Speaker 2: haven't seen it from him in at the NFL level

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Speaker 2: on a consistent basis, week after week after week after week.

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Speaker 2: I mean, even after we saw proven veteran players like

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Speaker 2: Mike Williams and.

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Speaker 4: Keenan Allen. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I was struggling and you help me.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: When we saw those two guys leave the Chargers, you say, Okay,

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01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 2: here's a chance for Palmer to assume a larger role,

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01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:15,559
Speaker 2: and that didn't manifest itself. And I think that's why

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01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 2: the Chargers didn't make extraordinary efforts to retain him. Does

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01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:21,919
Speaker 2: a change of scenery help him?

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01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 4: You know?

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01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:24,960
Speaker 2: The Bills felt Kyrie Elam needed to change the scenery.

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01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 2: Go to Dallas see if you can, you know, resuscitate

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01:23:28,360 --> 01:23:33,000
Speaker 2: your career. There can Joshua Palmer coming to the Bills

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01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 2: augment his career and make it greater than what it's

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01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:40,439
Speaker 2: been in LA. It remains to be seen. Maybe playing

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01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 2: closer to home. Being an Ontario native, you know, we

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01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:46,360
Speaker 2: see a bump from him.

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Speaker 4: So I'm intrigued to.

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01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 2: See what he can be for Buffalo. The Bosa deal

1529
01:23:54,439 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 2: intrigues me because I think you mid it. I think

1530
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 2: Brandon Bean effectively mitigate the risk by doing a one

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01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:05,519
Speaker 2: year deal. We know the injury history. Okay, one year deal,

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01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:08,720
Speaker 2: make it happen, and if he can, the Bills are

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01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 2: better for it.

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01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 4: So I would say those two as far as name.

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01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 2: You agreed to terms that the Leaviscus Chaneau thing is

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01:24:18,320 --> 01:24:21,720
Speaker 2: interesting just because of all that he can do on

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01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 2: a football field. That's what's intriguing about him. Where they

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01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:30,599
Speaker 2: decide to utilize him is what's interesting to me. I

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01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:33,559
Speaker 2: think there's a part of me that I don't think

1540
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 2: the Bills are done on the defensive side of the

1541
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:40,000
Speaker 2: ball per se in free agency, but I think the

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01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:47,679
Speaker 2: biggest skill player improvements on that side of the ball

1543
01:24:48,439 --> 01:24:52,960
Speaker 2: I think are going to come in the draft. It's

1544
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:57,400
Speaker 2: a strong defensive tackle class, it's considered an above average

1545
01:24:57,439 --> 01:25:01,280
Speaker 2: pass rushing class, and it's a good cornerback class. I

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01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:05,640
Speaker 2: think all of those things point me to the draft

1547
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:10,559
Speaker 2: in terms of the strongest editions to come for defense

1548
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 2: for Buffalo are gonna happen there. Even though the Bills

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01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:15,680
Speaker 2: are picking laden.

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01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 5: Rounds and they have amo to move around, right, got

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01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:21,040
Speaker 5: three picks in the fifth round, you.

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01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 2: Got two in the fourth. Yeah, I mean you can

1553
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:26,360
Speaker 2: use a four and a five to get back into

1554
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:28,640
Speaker 2: the third and you still have a four and two

1555
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 2: five's left, you know what I mean. So there's there's

1556
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:34,400
Speaker 2: uncommon I think Brandon Bean has some of his best

1557
01:25:34,439 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 2: maneuverability that he's had. And where do the Bills under

1558
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:41,959
Speaker 2: Brandon Bean historically do best through.

1559
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:42,519
Speaker 4: The middle rounds?

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01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:44,880
Speaker 2: I mean, you think about all of their middle round

1561
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 2: picks between round three and five. I mean, just run

1562
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 2: down the list. You know, Dawson Knox, Tarren Johnson, Matt Mulano,

1563
01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:56,759
Speaker 2: Khalil Shakir like these are all third to fifth round

1564
01:25:56,800 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 2: guys and their core players on this football team. I

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01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:03,719
Speaker 2: don't think that's gonna change, especially in a draft where

1566
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 2: they're saying the meat and potatoes of this draft is

1567
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 2: between pick twenty and pick eighty, and I wouldn't be

1568
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 2: surprised if he tries to get more picks in that range.

1569
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 2: And he can do that with two fours and three fives,

1570
01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 2: So that's what's exciting. Gotta take a break here, we'll

1571
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 2: see if we can squeeze a question or two from

1572
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:23,639
Speaker 2: the Obel Friday fan mail bag when we come back

1573
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,280
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Speaker 7: All right.

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Speaker 2: Back here on One Bill's Live. Want to dip into

1577
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 2: the obl Friday fan mail bag and tweet sheet mail

1578
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:50,880
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1579
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 2: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Question one comes from

1580
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 2: d Colts, who says, of the corners and DT's left

1581
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 2: on the market, what are the best and what are

1582
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:03,200
Speaker 2: the most likely options? Or do you think at this

1583
01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:07,040
Speaker 2: point we wait for the draft? Well, one of those

1584
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 2: was already answered Dan Jackson agreeing to terms today, and

1585
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:14,599
Speaker 2: I would anticipate that cornerback signings if there is another

1586
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:18,559
Speaker 2: one would be of that variety Tier two, tier three

1587
01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 2: players that are not going to break the bank for

1588
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 2: the Bills. It's a high priced position as we know,

1589
01:27:25,280 --> 01:27:26,800
Speaker 2: at the top of the market. I don't think the

1590
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:29,320
Speaker 2: Bills are going to live there. So the listed number

1591
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 2: of names of the best remaining players at corner would

1592
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:34,400
Speaker 2: be fruitless at this point because it's too much money

1593
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 2: and I think defensive tackles. A similar conversation we saw

1594
01:27:37,920 --> 01:27:43,280
Speaker 2: Michael Hoyt Larry Ogunjobi reportedly agreed to terms. That's where

1595
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:45,719
Speaker 2: the Bills are going to live at those two positions.

1596
01:27:46,080 --> 01:27:47,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see Buffalo.

1597
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 5: The next big swing for Buffalo being in the draft

1598
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:53,639
Speaker 5: with who they're taking in the first round, second round,

1599
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 5: and beyond.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 2: Jason asked what's going on with Amari Cooper. I think,

1602
01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:01,640
Speaker 2: as far as the Bills are concerned, nothing much. I

1603
01:28:01,640 --> 01:28:04,680
Speaker 2: think the Bills have taken their swings at receiver in

1604
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 2: the free agent market. Look, we don't know what Amari

1605
01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 2: Cooper is thinks he's value is on.

1606
01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 4: The open market.

1607
01:28:12,400 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 2: Maybe it's too rich for Buffalo's blood, because remember they

1608
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:18,880
Speaker 2: got Amari Cooper at a bargain rate seven hundred K

1609
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 2: for the rest of the season this past year. It

1610
01:28:22,160 --> 01:28:24,680
Speaker 2: wasn't wildly productive. I think if it was, we'd be

1611
01:28:24,720 --> 01:28:28,679
Speaker 2: having a different conversation. Because it wasn't. The Bills pivoted

1612
01:28:28,960 --> 01:28:32,120
Speaker 2: when Joshua Palmer and, according to reports, have agreed to

1613
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 2: terms with Laviskas Chaneau. Granted it's a one year deal,

1614
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 2: and as we said at the beginning of the show,

1615
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:39,920
Speaker 2: the receiver room is pretty full right now.

1616
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:42,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've got five guys there right now, and you

1617
01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:45,080
Speaker 5: have a couple players who are on the practice squad who,

1618
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:48,280
Speaker 5: if they have good enough mini camps training camps, could

1619
01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 5: be elevations to the active roster.

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01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 2: So that's kind of I don't think much is going

1621
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:55,120
Speaker 2: to happen with Amari Cooper unless he comes back at

1622
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:57,560
Speaker 2: a bargain basement rate similar to what happened in the

1623
01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:00,720
Speaker 2: second half of the season. Tom Quick, do you see

1624
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:02,879
Speaker 2: the Bills adding a wide receiver in the draft, possibly

1625
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:05,559
Speaker 2: with one of our first three picks if the Chaneaut

1626
01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:08,120
Speaker 2: contract comes to fruition. I don't know if it's going

1627
01:29:08,200 --> 01:29:10,600
Speaker 2: to be with one of the top three picks. I

1628
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,360
Speaker 2: think it's more of a Day three type signing just

1629
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:15,719
Speaker 2: for depth purposes. And then you see what that player

1630
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 2: can become.

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01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:19,600
Speaker 5: My heart still says, go defense at the top of

1632
01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 5: the draft. We're good on offense right now, Let's see

1633
01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:25,479
Speaker 5: if we can get some really great players on defense.

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01:29:25,560 --> 01:29:28,400
Speaker 2: Wouldn't shock me if Buffalo's first four picks are defense,

1635
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:30,000
Speaker 2: all defense. All right.

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01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:31,080
Speaker 4: That's it for us today.

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01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Monday with plenty more, including any

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Speaker 2: free agent news that might come down the Pike State too.