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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live presented by Calia Health.

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Speaker 2: All right, here we are on a Thursday, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 2: Steve Tasker with you One Bills Live. Is the show

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Speaker 2: schedule is out as most of you are aware unless

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Speaker 2: you've been living under a rock. And I would say

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Speaker 2: the theme early Steve is primetime games consecutively. The theme

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Speaker 2: late four o'clock games. There are three in the national window,

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Speaker 2: and then there's two others because they're on the West coast.

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Speaker 2: But I would say those are the general teams think early.

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Speaker 2: But there's there's some other stuff and we'll obviously dive

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Speaker 2: into all of that with you here today.

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Speaker 3: Three of the first four primetime games. For the first

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Speaker 3: six of primetime games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the over what we said it.

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Speaker 3: We set it at five and it's right at five

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Speaker 3: five primetime games so far. The last one week eighteen

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Speaker 3: is also TBD at the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: So we were right on the number, Brownie.

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Speaker 2: Right on the number, right on the numbers. A matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, we had predictions earlier in this week.

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Speaker 1: I was three of five, Yes I was. I was five.

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Speaker 1: And let me just go, Yeah, I can prove it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I believe you're not You're not one to to

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Speaker 2: self gloss very often.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Oh, so you had Bills versus Jets Week one home opener.

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Speaker 1: I did not have. I missed that one obviously.

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Speaker 2: You had Bills at Dolphins primetime early in the season,

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Speaker 2: Week two, Thursday night, Thank you very much, ding ding ding.

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Speaker 2: Bill's versus Chiefs four thirty late in the season. It

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Speaker 2: is late in the season, week eleven.

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Speaker 3: I think that is correct, and it counts. It is

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Speaker 3: late and yeah, and it's at a and it's four

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Speaker 3: to twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So and there's last one.

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Speaker 3: I had, Oh, Bill's forty nine Ers Monday Night or

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Speaker 3: Thursday night football at mid season, and the Bills play

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Speaker 3: the forty nine ers after the bye week Week thirteen,

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Speaker 3: eight twenty pm, which is December first, which is a.

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Speaker 1: Monday night, Sunday night Thursday. What is it? What's that?

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Speaker 3: What's the first of December that Thursday night? No, that's yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's Sunday night football in America. That is that's that's

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Speaker 3: a win either though it's not Monday night or Thursday

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Speaker 3: n I knew it would be a primetime game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a win.

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Speaker 3: So I got three those three right, But I said

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Speaker 3: Bill's adlines on Thanksgiving and tell us the good news, Brownie.

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Speaker 1: We get Thanksgiving. Yeah, no holidays, so yeah, no holiday games.

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Speaker 2: Looking at my list, I thought Bill's that Texans was

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Speaker 2: going to be the season opener on Sunday Night Football.

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Speaker 2: That was wrong. I had Bills at Jets week five

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Speaker 2: on Monday Night Football that was off by a week.

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Speaker 2: It's week six.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's a loss.

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Speaker 2: Come on, I get that one.

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Speaker 1: You can have that one. I'll give you that one.

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Speaker 2: I gave you primetime early in the season. That's not

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Speaker 2: a specific week.

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Speaker 3: Week two is I picked this specific weekend earlier in

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Speaker 3: the season.

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Speaker 4: You did.

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Speaker 1: You've tried to pick up a wee week and you

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Speaker 1: were off by a week.

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Speaker 2: Bill's versus Chiefs Week eleven.

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Speaker 1: Give you an asterix Bill's Chiefs Week eleven. Yes she did.

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Speaker 1: Oh you got that one. See there's Bills. I it's

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Speaker 1: a bulls eye.

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Speaker 2: And then I screwed up on Bill's at Raven Ravers

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Speaker 2: Monday Night Football, and then.

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Speaker 1: They got Baltimore early.

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Speaker 2: I picked Bill's Dolphins for Christmas Day and that didn't

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Speaker 2: happen either.

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Speaker 1: We did not get a Christmas Day game, which is nice.

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Speaker 2: I only got two out of five we got.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's well, they'll do better next time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I only got forty of my guess is correct. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was why I'm not a betting man, Steve.

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Speaker 3: I was tearing it up, the uh the yeah, you're

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Speaker 3: going down on week five and week eleven and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's that's trying a little bit too hard.

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Speaker 2: I was trying to lock it down and it didn't happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the yeah, And I think overall it I don't

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Speaker 1: This is a fair schedule. I think it's okay.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's fair.

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Speaker 3: It's very fair. We got a stretch early in the season.

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Speaker 3: We talk about this on Bills by the Numbers podcast

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Speaker 3: this week as well, that stretch of three away games

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Speaker 3: it's it's Baltimore, Houston, the Jets. Baltimore and Houston two

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Speaker 3: playoff teams, both of them are on the road, and

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Speaker 3: then the Jets are also on the road. And the Jets,

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Speaker 3: as most Bills fans know, the Jets are a tough

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Speaker 3: out for the Bills. They have been ever since Robert

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Speaker 3: Sola took over. It's they're hard out for the Bills,

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Speaker 3: and early in the season you'd think the Jets are

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Speaker 1: That's a tough game. So that's a tough stretch.

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Speaker 3: Two playoff teams and the Jets all on the road.

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Speaker 3: That's that's as rough as it gets. And then, of

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Speaker 3: course late in the season you knew we had the

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Speaker 3: first play schedule, so at some point you got to

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Speaker 3: play the Chiefs, you gotta play the Niners, Rams and

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Speaker 1: That's a tough stretch as well.

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Speaker 2: They only have so you got that three game road

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Speaker 2: trip from end of September to the middle of October. Ravens, Texans, Jets.

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Speaker 2: Bills only have two sets of back to back home games,

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Speaker 2: season Week eleven and thirteen Chiefs Niners and then Week

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Speaker 2: They have three road games in a row this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you come out of the you come out of

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be h.

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Speaker 3: It's a nice schedule, I guess, is what we're what

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Speaker 3: it's as good as it's gonna get as a first

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Speaker 3: after a Chiefs game and then headed into the forty

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Speaker 3: buy this his teams have been. He's undefeated out of

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Speaker 2: Francisco one of their toughest games on the schedule.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 2: Looking at some of the other quirks for other teams.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this with some of our callers yesterday

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people were swearing off Christmas Day

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Speaker 2: and that's exactly the fate of the four teams playing

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Speaker 2: on Christmas Day. Steelers to me have a huge beef

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Speaker 2: their final eight games. Okay, ready for this. The last

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Speaker 2: eight games of the season feature all six of their

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Speaker 2: battling playoff spots, plus the Eagles and Chiefs. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: rough Chiefs on Christmas.

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Speaker 1: It's a rough stretch.

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Speaker 2: And because they're playing on Christmas, they have three games

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a little unprecedented.

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Speaker 2: Now, their division rival Baltimore is in the same boat.

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Speaker 2: They're at the Giants December fifteenth, and they play Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: December twenty first, and four days later play Houston on Christmas.

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Speaker 2: So they too have three games in ten days. That

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Speaker 1: That's rough.

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Speaker 2: Houston and Kansas City, who are also playing on Christmas,

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Speaker 2: have the same run up with games on December fifteenth,

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Speaker 2: December twenty first, and then Christmas. Here's the good news

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Speaker 2: as far as the Bills are concerned. You got a

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Speaker 2: bunch of playoff contenders in there who at the end

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Speaker 2: of the season three games in ten.

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Speaker 1: Days they're gonna slip up. They're gonna be gas.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh. I mean

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Speaker 2: those are all AFC teams with a bear of a

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Speaker 1: That's tough. Yeah, yeah, it is. Glad it's not us. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, you know, we talk about it a

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Speaker 3: lot of the last four years or now it's the

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Speaker 3: fourth year the Bills have had a first play schedule.

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Speaker 3: A lot of you know, the three other teams in

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Speaker 3: and like the Chiefs and Baltimore, some these other teams,

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati at times. Although Cincinnati now has a fourth place

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Speaker 3: Every team had a winning record in that division. And

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Speaker 3: so it's being as good as that. To have a

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Speaker 3: winning record and then get a fourth place schedule. Cincinnati's

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Speaker 3: got to be sitting there thinking, Okay, this is this

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Speaker 3: is our year to get back to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: You know, we'll see.

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Speaker 3: But that's for them being in that division particularly and

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Speaker 3: you're watching Pittsburgh and Baltimore having to go through that

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Speaker 3: to be in a good spot if you're Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: The other team that's got an interesting quirk or the

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Speaker 2: forty nine Ers is the only team to face four

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Speaker 2: also faced four such opponents last year, so maybe it

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Speaker 2: they won the NFC. One of these games coming off

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Speaker 2: Here Niners coming here, you know, with the Niners coming

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Speaker 2: they did they ESPN the analytics guys there, they're the

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Speaker 2: ones that kind of broke it down. Worst net rest

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Speaker 2: differential since two thousand and two. The Niner schedule this

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Speaker 3: It's a shame we can't get somebody in here who

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Speaker 3: knows something about the schedule or has something to do

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Speaker 3: up in the organization to come in and talk to us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, someone's a little more plugged in than we.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, maybe we couldn't.

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Speaker 3: You'd think that, you'd think the head coach had stopped

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Speaker 3: by once in a while just to say hi.

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Speaker 2: Uh we we uh probably had doing some nice community work.

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Speaker 2: We will have it. Coach Jean McDermott in here momentarily.

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Speaker 2: He for those that don't know, he is spearheading a

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Speaker 2: of partners name Lee Wegmans and the food banks not

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Speaker 2: Chris collins Worth slide.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean you get you run into those

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Speaker 5: I can't believe that airplanes still allow penuts on planes.

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Speaker 5: And we're in an enclosed situation and people are you know, hey,

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Speaker 3: there's running through it, and then they're seeing it in

442
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Speaker 3: all of that stuff, how do you how many steps

443
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Speaker 3: do you go through trying to get these guys to

444
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Speaker 3: assimilate even the rudimentary if you know information about the

445
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 3: offense defense, I mean, you've got to really kind of

446
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 3: jump through some hoops to make sure, you know, ninety

447
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 3: guys get everything.

448
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, having a good schedule, right, that's important, so

449
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 5: that you know the way we try and shape it is.

450
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 5: We try and as much as we can shape meetings

451
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 5: the right way so that they can retain the information.

452
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 5: We go by three hours retention and then reps on

453
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 5: the practice field, and then recovery after practice. And if

454
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 5: they follow that type of pattern, it'll put them in

455
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 5: a position to know enough and to be in good

456
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 5: enough shape to perform. So the coaches do a phenomenal job.

457
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 5: The staff of walking through or using video to show

458
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 5: pictures previous seasons, maybe some college film, every different way

459
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 5: we can think of they can think of in particular

460
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 5: to facilitate the learning environment.

461
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 2: Steve, I mean, Steve I feel comfortable shares this opinion,

462
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 2: so I'll just speak for him and myself. Like, your

463
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 2: staff has been probably the best player development staff here,

464
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 2: probably since Marv Levy's staff, just in the way you're

465
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 2: able to help players get better and sometimes pretty quickly.

466
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,199
Speaker 2: It's no secret your roster's turned over and it's younger,

467
00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,440
Speaker 2: which can be a good thing. How do you feel

468
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,360
Speaker 2: your player development has to be depend I mean it's

469
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 2: you depend upon it every year, but with younger, more

470
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 2: inexperienced players, do you feel you have to lean into

471
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 2: your player development even more?

472
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 5: Leading up to September, teach, teach, teach right and number

473
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Speaker 5: one show show the players you care about them generally

474
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 5: and authentically care about them, because that's a huge piece

475
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 5: of it. Right soon thereafter it's how can we get

476
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 5: them up to speed? But we need to make sure

477
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 5: we crawl before we walk, because we can't just assume, hey,

478
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:32,679
Speaker 5: one day, one rep, they got it.

479
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 6: No, let's go back and make sure.

480
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 5: So that's what this spring to this point has been

481
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 5: used for, is to hey, let's just start slow.

482
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 6: Never assume they know it.

483
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 5: Continue to reteach, continue to reteach, and then in training camp.

484
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 5: We'll move at a quicker pace, but right now it's

485
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 5: make sure they understand the foundation.

486
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Speaker 6: A number of.

487
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Speaker 5: New players, some new coaches, so there's a you know,

488
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 5: there's a there's we're in transition, right so we've got

489
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,719
Speaker 5: to continue to and to your point, you know, I'll

490
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 5: credit the staff. I mean not not a lot of

491
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 5: players have left here and gone on to play better elsewhere.

492
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, and there's been a couple

493
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 5: that have, but the job that our staff has done,

494
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 5: not just the coaching staff, but but the entire building

495
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 5: on developing our players. Usually you see players come here

496
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 5: and whether they're coming from college or another pro program

497
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 5: and play their best right here in Buffalo, which says

498
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Speaker 5: a lot about who we are.

499
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Speaker 3: So you've had a new couple of coordinators at least

500
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 3: from last training camp anyway. And then you've also you know,

501
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 3: turn over on the field and one of the and

502
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 3: the game still evolving. Now you've you've made a new

503
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 3: hire this offseason that I think you're maybe the first

504
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 3: of if it's kind of John Perry, the former official,

505
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 3: What were the conversations like for him, how you know,

506
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 3: where does he know what contributions are we looking for

507
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 3: from John Perry and why now.

508
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 5: Well, we actually had this role last season, Steve, it

509
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 5: wasn't as maybe public knowledge as it is with John

510
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 5: John well decorated head official, head referee, and so the

511
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 5: the idea of the vision this year was with John

512
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 5: and his experience level and sitting in a similar seat

513
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 5: a little bit lately last couple of years with the network,

514
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 5: you know, it was almost a no brainer really, and

515
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 5: so he was actually the first person we had reached

516
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 5: out to initially about the job that that we had

517
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 5: filled last season, and then when he became available this year,

518
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 5: we felt like it was it was an easy transition

519
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 5: for us. So really the vision is to continue to

520
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 5: get better in every area that we can possibly get

521
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 5: better in, which includes knowing the rules and taking full

522
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 5: advantage of the rules, and then with challenges replays week

523
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 5: to week, changes and things that are emphasized on the

524
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 5: on the field, on the playing field, and I just

525
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 5: think it's it's becoming more and more apparent that that

526
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 5: I think more and more people are gonna have someone

527
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 5: like John on their staff to not only help on

528
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 5: game day, but to also help during the week.

529
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Speaker 2: And speaking of changes, one thing that your coaching staff

530
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 2: is undertaking on the special team side, is a band

531
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 2: a brand new kickoff play. This is pretty unique. I

532
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: mean it's it's one thing to see little subtle changes

533
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 2: in the rule book. This is a big one. Like

534
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: is it almost like starting from scratch there? Because it's

535
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 2: no longer it's more like a line of scrimmage play

536
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: than it is a kicking team play. So you got

537
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 2: to you're literally starting from square one, right, I mean almost.

538
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 6: Maybe square zero?

539
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, No, it's it's a new play, and I

540
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 5: don't think anybody really knows what at the end of

541
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,959
Speaker 5: the day it's going to exactly look like or However,

542
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 5: there's an opportunity here for for teams, for us in

543
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 5: this case, to uh do as good of a job

544
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 5: as we can. Coach Smiley, Coach Harky are special teams

545
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 5: coaches to vet it, to spin it around, vet it again,

546
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 5: and we're going to have to actually practice the play

547
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 5: in practice full speed so that we can see and

548
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 5: find some of the advantages or some of the pitfalls

549
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 5: that could.

550
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Speaker 1: Be one of the advantages of the new played It's not.

551
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you couldn't.

552
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Speaker 3: I've never in my entire never seen it or heard

553
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 3: about a kickoff kickoff return being practiced full speed at

554
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 3: the pro level, Right, you never practice it's so just

555
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 3: too dangerous, too dangerous. Now if it's not that dangerous,

556
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 3: I say, not that finger quotes not that dangerous because

557
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 3: I'm not doing it. You might be able to do

558
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 3: that at a little bit higher pace in practice to

559
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 3: get a better feel for just because of the fact

560
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 3: that the reason it's in is because there won't be

561
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 3: guys running one hundred miles an hour in opposite directions

562
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 3: and not avoiding each other.

563
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 5: Right, the collisions that you could only do in real

564
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 5: game situations that you couldn't do in practice, Now those

565
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 5: collisions are less, I would hope, And that's being the

566
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 5: some of the goal of the of the new rule

567
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 5: and the new approach here. I think more than anything,

568
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 5: a lot of research. There will be more research. There'll

569
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 5: be I think the challenge is going to be you're

570
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 5: not going to see people really showing their hand in

571
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 5: the preseason so that the advantage will be Hey, first

572
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 5: four weeks weeks of the season, you know who's who's

573
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 5: ahead of the game.

574
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Speaker 2: It's almost a race to cram code. Right.

575
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 5: The Kentucky derby of the kickoff.

576
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 2: I mean to show up as secretariat coaches that even

577
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: have been in the game as long as you have.

578
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 2: It's like it's a very like brand new, unique situation.

579
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: I find it fascinating and I'm eager to see all

580
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: you guys matching wits on weekends. It's going to be

581
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 2: really interesting.

582
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 5: There's a lot of there's a lot of layers on it,

583
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 5: right through the rules and whatnot.

584
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 3: It's going to appear to me, it's gonna it's gonna

585
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 3: appear like late in the late in the play that's

586
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 3: already begun and you're catching it like halfway through the film,

587
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, not much, not as much velocity,

588
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 3: but still a lot of space and.

589
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: A lot of options, a lot of unknowns.

590
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I think you're going to see the I

591
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 5: think you're going to see naturally the kickoff the field

592
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 5: position improve right coming off of these plays. And we'll

593
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 5: see how how much it improves. But I think it's

594
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 5: going to improve, certainly.

595
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Speaker 1: All that's really last year.

596
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 3: That's really the bottom line, right, where's their starting point

597
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 3: going to be after you kick it? And what can

598
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 3: you do to maximize it?

599
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 2: I mean that's it, Coach stuff Man, thanks for the time,

600
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Speaker 2: appreciate it. Good luck as the Allergen Friendly food Drive

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Speaker 2: with Wegmans goes through May eighteenth, We're looking for a

602
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603
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605
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Speaker 2: local food banks across western and Central New York. Coach,

606
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 2: appreciate the time as always. Good luck out there on

607
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 2: the field in the coming weeks with OTA's in Mini Camp.

608
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: Thank you.

609
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 2: That's Bill's head coach Sean McDermot joining us. Will take

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Speaker 2: a break, be back with more on the schedule next

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills Radio. All Right, good conversation there with Bill's

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00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 2: You can also find an audio version down at the

616
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: bottom of the homepage at Buffalo Bills dot com. Usually

617
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 2: around a half hour to forty minutes after the show

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Speaker 2: is in the books round three thirty three forty five.

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Speaker 2: It's usually up there Yeah, I'm just I'm fascinated by

620
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 2: what these coaching staffs are undertaking with a new kickoff.

621
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 2: It is a brand new play in the special teams

622
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 2: phase of the game, and it is quite literally a

623
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Speaker 2: race to crack the code first before anybody else, because

624
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 2: it would give you a meaningful advantage in a league

625
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 2: where the margins are narrow.

626
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, from.

627
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 3: The top team in the leagues to the bottom is

628
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 3: two percent of the total. And there's thirty two teams

629
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 3: in that two percent. And like Marv lev used to say,

630
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 3: that is only two percent between the top and the bottom.

631
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 3: But that's one hundred percent of the difference that kickoff

632
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 3: plays in that two percent.

633
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and here's the thing too, now, and I want

634
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: to get back to you don't want to be on that.

635
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 3: Nobody wants to be the team or be a fan

636
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 3: of the team that gets caught looking like you didn't

637
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 3: think it through. And take some heart in this. The

638
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 3: guys who put this in, they're all special teams guys,

639
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 3: I mean the league.

640
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 2: They consulted coaches on shaping.

641
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 3: Absolutely, so they put it in knowing that the race

642
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 3: was to beat it, you know, somehow do something. So

643
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 3: they built in safeguards with formations alignment where the kick

644
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 3: has to land where it can land, all that landing zones,

645
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 3: all of that is in there to make it extremely difficult.

646
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 3: Now there are still places, you know, there's still places

647
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 3: for things.

648
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: To happen and go wrong.

649
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 3: But it was because of a mistake, not an oversight,

650
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 3: you know, It's just a guy makes a mistake, a

651
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: mental mistake. So and I have said this a ton

652
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 3: over the course since I finished my career, special teams

653
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 3: has become more about exploiting a mistake than it has

654
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 3: been about making a superlative play. Nowadays, it's more about

655
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 3: taking advantage of a guy dropping a ball or fumbling

656
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 3: the football or somebody completely whiffing on a block for

657
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 3: something to happen. Not so much so that a guy

658
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 3: beat a guy just made a great play and just

659
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 3: and went the distance or made a tackle or blocked

660
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 3: to kick or whatever whatever. It's about somebody making a mistake.

661
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 3: And I think this play is a little bit down

662
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 3: that line. You're gonna have to make an egregious mistake

663
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 3: to get caught, you know, with your pants down, so

664
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 3: to speak.

665
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 2: Right, So, yeah, I just I'm fascinated by it because

666
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 2: it has added a completely unknown element to quite literally

667
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 2: how games are gonna start. Right the start of games,

668
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: it's gonna look completely different than what we're used to seeing.

669
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 2: I know, it's only one play and we might only

670
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 2: see it five six times a game, maybe eight.

671
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: We're like, it's gonna change things.

672
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 3: We're like six or seven years away from there being

673
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 3: an entire generation of football fans that don't know what

674
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 3: it is to chase to get a running start for

675
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 3: a kickoff.

676
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah now, I don't know, or run for a kickoff

677
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 2: from your own half of the field, right right, it's

678
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 2: only the kicker doing that.

679
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's it changes fast. Most of the changes

680
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 3: have been for the benefit of the players and their safety,

681
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 3: and I think the league has to this point has

682
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 3: done an outstanding job of keeping the competitive nature of

683
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 3: the game in it.

684
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: It's always and it.

685
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 3: It should be and it always probably will be a

686
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 3: very physical game, despite what old timers like me say

687
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 3: about it, you know the old you know, back in

688
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 3: my day, we usually you know, play uphill both ways,

689
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 3: you know that kind of that kind of stuff.

690
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: I don't really buy that.

691
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 3: I have said before, the game was absolutely one hundred

692
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 3: percent of unadulterated brutality. Back in the nineteen sixties and seventies,

693
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 3: it was almost I don't know how guys played at all,

694
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 3: let alone played have a long career. That's where the

695
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 3: game started having those those careers of like three years

696
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 3: was the average career length. It was an absolute bar

697
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 3: fight on Sunday afternoon.

698
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: Now it's.

699
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 3: Safe because they've outlawed all the stuff that used to

700
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 3: get guys, you know, laid up laid up, so it's

701
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 3: you can say what you want. It's still an incredibly

702
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 3: physical game, and it's incredibly more safe for the guys

703
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 3: who play it, and that means we get to see

704
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 3: the best players more often because they're not in a

705
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 3: hospital zone.

706
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a small news ite, and we know

707
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 2: a lot of people have been asking about Micah Hyde.

708
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 2: He's got his charity softball event here in Buffalo this weekend.

709
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 2: He just spoke at his press conference for the event.

710
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 2: He was asked about his playing future and he said

711
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 2: he is still undecided, but this is new. He said.

712
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 2: If he does come back and play, it's the Bills

713
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 2: or retire. He has no interest in going to any

714
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: other team, So for him, that's where it sits for

715
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: him right now, still no decision, but if he does

716
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: play again, it's the Bills or nobody. That's where Micah

717
00:36:59,080 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 2: Hyde is at.

718
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 3: Well, that makes a lot of sense. I like where

719
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 3: his head's at. Yeah, you know, I mean, I get it.

720
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 3: You could chase money. He could chase the money if

721
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 3: he wanted to. He's had a fantastic career here in Buffalo.

722
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 3: He and Jordan, it would be awesome. It'd be fitting

723
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 3: that they both played their last season together as well,

724
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 3: even though Poe is down in Miami.

725
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 2: That's gonna be weird.

726
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, that's uh yeah, you wish. Yeah, you

727
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 3: just have nothing but fond even even even Jordan Poor

728
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 3: are going out of Miami, have nothing but fond feelings

729
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 3: for the guy. These, these two guys really, more so

730
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 3: than any two other guys together, typify.

731
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: The end of the drought.

732
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they were the first two guys signed it

733
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 3: Germany signed his free agent.

734
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: We're like, and remember I remember it vividly. It's like

735
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: they signed who. Well, I had signed two safeties.

736
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 2: I'll I'll be the first two mane. I had heard

737
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 2: of Micah Hyde, Oh I had not name. I had

738
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: not heard of Jordan.

739
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 3: I knew Poyer's name. I didn't know Hyde's name. I

740
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 3: I'm just the opposite. And I was I was like, okay, whatever,

741
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 3: it seems like a lot of money for guys you

742
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 3: know that aren't star players. And Poyer was just like

743
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 3: a backup and all this, And of course now seven

744
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 3: or eight years later, we're like, wow, how much we

745
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 3: love those guys.

746
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard hard to see good things like that

747
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 2: come to that, but it did.

748
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: That is that is such a fun thing to think.

749
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: Those two guys are so fun to think about my

750
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: career here, you know I could do. It was great, man,

751
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: it's great.

752
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: We will get back to the topic at hand, which

753
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 2: is the bill's twenty twenty four schedule. Like to know

754
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 2: what your biggest takeaways are from that schedule after perusing it,

755
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 2: looking at it up and down. Maybe there's a road

756
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: trip you got in mind. Maybe there's a stretch of

757
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 2: the schedule that has you a little nervous. Maybe there's

758
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 2: a stretch of this schedule where you see the bills dominating.

759
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 2: So you let us know at eight h three oh

760
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 2: five fifty one, eight eight five fifty two five fifty

761
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 2: the number to get on board, and we'll go to

762
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: the phones now and we'll go to Mark and West Seneca.

763
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 2: What do you got first, Mark, you're all one Bill's live.

764
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, Uh, running the risk of being that old guy.

765
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 7: Get off my long guy. And I don't mean to

766
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 7: be a a w downer about this, but I admit

767
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 7: I had personally a love hate relationship with the NFL.

768
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 7: I love the game, I love the players, coaches. I

769
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 7: even love a lot of the media, including you guys,

770
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 7: not all of them, but but you guys, But you

771
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 7: guys have had a little bit of conversation about how

772
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 7: the NFL and Steve, I'm you got to point at

773
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 7: you for this, and rightly so. You have a lot

774
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 7: of good points about it. That the NFL does a

775
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 7: good job about players safety and all these things that

776
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 7: they do according you know, the kickoff rule and all

777
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff. But where my hate comes in

778
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 7: is then the owners, and I put this solely on

779
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 7: the owners turn around and make a schedule and insist

780
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 7: on having a game on a Wednesday on Christmas in

781
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 7: the name of making money and putting revenue in front

782
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 7: in front of everything, and then put four teams in

783
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 7: a position to play three games and ten days with

784
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 7: a total death ear on what that could do safety

785
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 7: wise for those players, And I think that is abhorrent

786
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 7: that the media does not point that out more often.

787
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 7: And there are so many examples, and I always go

788
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 7: to the owners, nobody else. It's their league. They make

789
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 7: these decisions, how often they put money before anything else,

790
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 7: and that even includes players safety. There is absolutely no

791
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 7: reason why four teams should have to play three games

792
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 7: in ten days in such a physical game and then

793
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 7: hope fully come out of it with no injuries. You

794
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 7: know it's not going to happen. You know there's going

795
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 7: to be injuries. There's going to be injuries.

796
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 3: Go ahead, well, Mark, you can say that about any

797
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 3: NFL team in any game, even if they have a

798
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 3: month between games.

799
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: There's no injuries. And I'll say this thing too.

800
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 3: The rest the statistics say this that when they started

801
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 3: doing this on Thursday night and giving teams four days

802
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 3: instead of seven days rest and started playing on Thursday night,

803
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 3: there's the same argument was made that you're making was

804
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 3: made then, and the statistics just don't bear it out.

805
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 3: The Thursday night games have no higher greater risk percentage

806
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 3: than games held on with seven days rest for injury

807
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 3: for injuries. Now, I'll say this, I don't know about

808
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 3: three games in eleven days or ten days. That's that's different.

809
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 3: We don't know how any stats on that. And I

810
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 3: will say this too, there's no defending it. You could

811
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 3: have you you're right, Wednesday, Christmas Day, on a Wednesday,

812
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 3: and they're playing on it.

813
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: Come on, that's that's you. You didn't just step over

814
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: the line. You erased it. I mean you think absolutely

815
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: erased the game, erased the line.

816
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 2: Think about how your body felt when you get it

817
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:18,959
Speaker 2: in week fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen. And now you're being told,

818
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,479
Speaker 2: instead of playing three games in twenty one, you're gonna

819
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 2: do that in half the amount of time game.

820
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: Here's the thing too, and I'll say this too. This

821
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: the league.

822
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 3: The league did something accomplished an absolutely gargantuan feat four

823
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 3: years ago during twenty twenty, when they held an entire

824
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 3: NFL season during a pandemic. And you say what you

825
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 3: want about the pandemic, doesn't matter, but there were so

826
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 3: many hoops to jump through for this league to do

827
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 3: it and get it done. No fans and that don't

828
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 3: forget they didn't sell a ticket no fans in the stands, nothing,

829
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 3: and they got all of their programming on and that

830
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 3: taught them a little bit about how far they could

831
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 3: push this and how fluid they could keep it and

832
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 3: still make it work. It was an unbelievable accomplishment by

833
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 3: the NFL to put an entire season on during the pandemic.

834
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 3: So having gone through that, everybody who was here in

835
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 3: twenty twenty is still kind of around, and I think

836
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 3: it empowered the league to make moves like this Wednesday game.

837
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 3: You know what, We had games on every every night

838
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 3: of the week during twenty twenty. We postponed them at

839
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 3: a moment's notice. These teams were moved around, and the

840
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 3: Bills were victims of it on occasion, and it cost them,

841
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 3: no question, But the league proved that they could do

842
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 3: stuff like that and it would work. And I think

843
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 3: that empowered them that at this point in time, having

844
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 3: won like two games or one game on a Wednesday

845
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 3: for that kind of money. And I'll say this too,

846
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 3: I didn't hear a peep out of the players Union.

847
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 3: I haven't heard a peep.

848
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 1: Out of them.

849
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 3: Maybe they did say something, I'm not aware of it.

850
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 3: So you can bet everybody's like, you know what, shrug

851
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 3: the shoulders. Take the money, take the money, play the game,

852
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 3: let's go, and.

853
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 2: The numbers will come out. It's twenty twenty. Flix paid

854
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 2: for those two games, and wouldn't be wouldn't be crazy

855
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 2: to think upwards of five hundred million dollars is the

856
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 2: asking price for those two games.

857
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty proved they can do stuff like this and

858
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 3: make it work. So I think that empowered them a

859
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 3: little bit.

860
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 2: Break time for us, So Mark, sorry, we had to

861
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 2: let you go. We're up against the break. We'll take

862
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 2: a break here, take more of your phone calls when

863
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 2: we return. On One Bill's Live, presented by Colle Out

864
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 2: of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right back here

865
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 2: On a Thursday. On One Bill's Live, Chris Brown Steve

866
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 2: tasked me with you, asking you for your biggest takeaways

867
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 2: from the Bills twenty twenty four regular season schedule, which,

868
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 2: as you know, came out last night. If you want

869
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 2: some little tidbits, you can go to the website Buffalo

870
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: Bills dot com for some nuggets on the schedule that

871
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 2: you may not have thought of. But in the meantime,

872
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 2: we get back to the phones at eight h three

873
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 2: oh five fifty and to Dave and Maryland, we go,

874
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 2: what's up Dave, Hey.

875
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 8: Guys, how are you good?

876
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 6: Hey?

877
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 8: I'm just wondering with the new.

878
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 3: Kickoff rules, will then eliminate on side kicks totally?

879
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 2: No, because the way the rule is set up now,

880
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 2: if you want to attempt an onside kick, obviously you

881
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 2: have to line up back where you used.

882
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: To the old fashioned way, but you have.

883
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 2: To declare it to the official before the obvious kickoff

884
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 2: because they require the team to line up in two

885
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 2: different places. And I'm trying to remember all the details.

886
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 2: I want to say, it's got to be the fourth quarter,

887
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 2: or you have to be behind. You have to be

888
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 2: behind on the scoreboard.

889
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: You can only door twice.

890
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it still exists, but very limited fashion.

891
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you can go tell declare

892
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:04,919
Speaker 3: it's going to be an on side kick and then

893
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 3: not onside it. I mean there might be the kick

894
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 3: has to do something like it can't land so far

895
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,240
Speaker 3: down the field, or it has to bounce or whatever.

896
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 3: So you can't like say I'm gonna do an on

897
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 3: side kick and then not kick it on side, because

898
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 3: that would be a player safety issue, so at all

899
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 3: of that has yet to be determined. I have not

900
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 3: heard how that works when the when a team declares

901
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 3: are going to kick an on side kick, that's yeah,

902
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 3: you know, that's part of this new kickoff regimen that

903
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,959
Speaker 3: just hasn't been made clear yet.

904
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 2: I think you'll rarely see it. On side kick success

905
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 2: rate was amongst the lowest percent success rate that it

906
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 2: has been because you can no longer run up to

907
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:52,720
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage to camp bang.

908
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 3: Guys out of the way they want.

909
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 2: They wanted it and they spread the players out back.

910
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: In the day. I think they got one out of

911
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:05,280
Speaker 1: every ten on sides, which they could live with. Then

912
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: it got to be like.

913
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 2: You know, success rates down below five percent.

914
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 3: Right, it's like three out of every hundred. So it

915
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 3: dropped almost to negligible. So if the team didn't have

916
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 3: a chance, and the league does want there to be

917
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 3: a chance of desperation opportunity for a team to still

918
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 3: win a game.

919
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 2: That's why I think there might be more and more

920
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 2: attraction for the fourth and fifteen play in future years.

921
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: I think, yeah years, yes, not the yet. I'm all

922
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: for it.

923
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 3: And that's even speaking as a special teams player, you know, yeah,

924
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 3: put the offense back out there. Particularly you think about

925
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 3: it at the end of a game, when the you

926
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 3: know you're desperate to come back, your offense goes out

927
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 3: there because being bang, we did it, we scored awesome.

928
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,399
Speaker 3: Well that they keep that momentum on the next play.

929
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 3: Let's go fourth and fifteen, Let's go again, and just

930
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 3: keep it kind of rolling as an offense because you've

931
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 3: got that momentum. Now the other team is is gripping

932
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 3: a little bit because they're like, oh my gosh, we

933
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 3: may lose this thing. Now we do have to defend

934
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 3: this play, right, that kind of thing. So I think

935
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 3: that becomes more of a probability, an acceptable probability for

936
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 3: fans on both sides.

937
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 2: Let's squeeze Kevin and Hamburg in here before the break.

938
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 2: What do you got for is Kevin?

939
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, how you doing banks? And are taking my call?

940
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,439
Speaker 4: I didn't the schedule. It's pretty good. It's not too bad.

941
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 4: I means as good as ever good. I guess you

942
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 4: know you get what you get. I guess right, yeah, yeah,

943
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 4: but I willingly I don't my kids. I wish the

944
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 4: Chiefs because there are our biggest nemesis besides our division rivals,

945
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 4: the team that keeps knocking us out of the playoffs.

946
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 4: I wish that game would have been a little bit earlier,

947
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 4: because you know, like say where the Dolphin game is

948
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 4: the first Dolphin game, then if none of our bodies

949
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 4: are either team are bruised, they can really go ahead

950
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 4: and no matter what, no excuses, none, none whatsoever or

951
00:48:55,239 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 4: not that they make excuses. Really anyway, nobody can be saying, oh, guys,

952
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 4: you can't do this and you can't do thees hobbling

953
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 4: around even there's no big injuries. I would like to

954
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 4: see the Chiefs game be a little earlier, then you

955
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 4: can really gone at it even more, you know, instead

956
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,760
Speaker 4: of Week elevens. That's what I would have done personally.

957
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 4: Had the Chiefs game like where the Dolphin first game is,

958
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 4: or even with a Jacksonville game or even the first.

959
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 2: Game, Yeah, that would have been a heck of a

960
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 2: leadoff for sure. Wow, I get what you're saying. And

961
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 2: it's probably because of some recency bias too, because people

962
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 2: still remember the divisional playoff Bills are playing that game

963
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 2: without Gabe Davis, Terrell Bernard and hobbling around Rasuell Douglas

964
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 2: essentially playing on one leg. That's tough. And don't forget

965
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 2: No Milano, Notredavius White, who were out for the season essentially.

966
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,919
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's nice to have all your horses. It's

967
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 2: just very rare that you've got them all. Even at

968
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 2: the beginning of the season. Guys have training camp preseason

969
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 2: injuries and it costs him the opener the first couple

970
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 2: of weeks of the season. So so yeah, I mean,

971
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 2: there are always going to be injuries. It's just a

972
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 2: natural born fact of the game. Even in its safest state,

973
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 2: which I think people would say that's the case now.

974
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 2: It's a lot safer now than it was then, but

975
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 2: it doesn't completely eliminate the chance for injury, and it's

976
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 2: always going to be there for every team, right, So

977
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 2: we have to take a break here. When we come back,

978
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 2: we're going to replay an interview that Maddy Glavin myself

979
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 2: did on our live streaming schedule reaction show last night

980
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 2: as the schedule was released, because we caught up with

981
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 2: Mike North from the NFL office. He is one of

982
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 2: the chief schedule constructors and we asked him some interesting

983
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,720
Speaker 2: questions about how they came to decide on the bills

984
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 2: on Monday Night Football, Sunday Night Football. And what about

985
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 2: those two conference champions they're facing with a bye week

986
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 2: sandwiched in between. It's the second year in a row

987
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 2: they're doing that. What the heck happened there? We'll find

988
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 2: out next year. On One Bill's Live presented by Colaida Health,

989
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

990
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:44,359
Speaker 1: This this One Bill's Live presented by Callida Health.

991
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 2: All right, our number two here on a Thursday. Chris Brown,

992
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 2: Steve Tasker with you. Last night when the schedule was released,

993
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 2: Maddie Glabb and myself did a schedule reaction stream that

994
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 2: was on the Bill's YouTube channel, and we were fortunate

995
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 2: enough to get NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning Mike

996
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 2: North on with us to explain some of the decisions

997
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 2: that were made with respect to the bill schedule. Specifically,

998
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 2: we thought we would replay those comments for you as

999
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 2: Mike was very informative as he usually is. So here

1000
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 2: is Mike North with myself and Maddy Glab.

1001
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 9: Mike, thanks for being on with us. We know it's

1002
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 9: been a busy time for you guys as you crunch

1003
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 9: the teams, crunch the numbers, get the schedule ready to go.

1004
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 9: It's a beauty for the Bills. A lot of primetime games. Again,

1005
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 9: for this Buffalo team, you land at the number five.

1006
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 9: Tell me how you landed on five for the Bills

1007
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 9: They had seven last season.

1008
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,919
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we talk about primetime games. You also

1009
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 8: have to remember the way we look at it is

1010
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 8: we think about those four to twenty five Eastern Time

1011
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 8: doubleheader games. Those are basically primetime appearances as well. So

1012
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 8: any of those four to twenty five games that land

1013
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 8: on CBS or Fox in a big window, you know,

1014
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 8: those are still nationally televised games as well. So a

1015
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 8: team like Buffalo, you know, is going to be top

1016
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 8: of everybody's wish list. You know, all the network partners

1017
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 8: are coming in banging on the door. So you know,

1018
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 8: could we get to two Sunday nights? Can we get

1019
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 8: to two Monday nights? Can we get to two Amazons?

1020
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 8: Can CBS and Fox each get a couple of double

1021
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 8: header games? Might we use them on Thanksgiving?

1022
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: Again?

1023
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 8: As you ventured to Detroit again, there were a lot

1024
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 8: of opportunities to get really a lot of Buffalo Bills

1025
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 8: games in the national television windows. You know, you also

1026
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 8: have to think about the opponents. As you look at

1027
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 8: every team schedule, there's games that just kind of jump

1028
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 8: off the page at you to make you think, this

1029
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 8: one's got to be in primetime, this one's got to

1030
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 8: be in a national window. I think, honestly, maybe one

1031
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 8: of the upsets, if you will, of this schedule is

1032
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 8: that we didn't actually end up using the Buffalo Houston

1033
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 8: game in a national window. I shouldn't say that it's

1034
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 8: going to be in a one o'clock CBS window, where,

1035
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 8: depending on what those teams are playing for, what the

1036
00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 8: maps look like like, it may well still end up

1037
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 8: being in sixty five to seventy seventy five percent of

1038
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 8: the country for CBS that day. So it's not always

1039
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 8: about hey, can you use all these assets as wisely

1040
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 8: as possible for your primetime partners. Sometimes you got to

1041
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 8: keep some of those CBS and Fox Sunday afternoon windows

1042
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 8: having their fair share of Buffalo too, So a lot

1043
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 8: of national television. Please keep your quarterback healthy, please stay relevant,

1044
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 8: and please have playoff implications for your games down the stretch.

1045
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and speaking of that, Mike, it's hard not to

1046
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:32,280
Speaker 2: notice the Monday night game week six bills at Jets.

1047
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 2: It's like a MetLife Monday Night reducts. You waited until

1048
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 2: week six this time because unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond

1049
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 2: networks control, beyond your guys control, it landed with a

1050
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 2: thud as Aaron Rodgers only lasted four plays into the game.

1051
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 2: I mean, it ended up being an exciting game, but

1052
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 2: still in all was this almost like a makeup to ESPN?

1053
00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 8: Well, look, ESPN has some contract actual rights in their

1054
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 8: deal with the National Football League in terms of which

1055
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 8: teams they are going to get multiple appearances of. And look,

1056
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 8: just the way the math works, there's so many windows

1057
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 8: now between the ESPN and ABC Monday night games, the

1058
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 8: ESPN Plus game now move into a Monday Night. There's

1059
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 8: an awful lot of teams that are going to find

1060
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 8: themselves with multiple Monday Nights. But I hope I'm not

1061
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 8: telling a secret here. But the ESPN it used their

1062
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 8: power to require the National Football League to deliver to

1063
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 8: Buffalo games for the Monday Night football package. So as

1064
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 8: ESPN looked across the entire National Football League and said,

1065
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 8: which of these teams we want to make sure we're

1066
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 8: guaranteed multiple appearances of the Buffalo Bills are on that list.

1067
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 8: So as you think about how ESPN values the Buffalo Bills,

1068
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 8: then it becomes a question of, all right, well, which

1069
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 8: of the Buffalo Bills games make the most sense, Like

1070
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 8: we talked about earlier for prime time, for National and

1071
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 8: certainly for Monday Night. And yeah, I think there's probably

1072
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 8: a little bit of you know, we owe you on

1073
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 8: with ESPN in terms of Aaron Rodgers getting hurt last year.

1074
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,760
Speaker 8: So that Bill's Jets game was likely headed for Monday

1075
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 8: Night Football, maybe almost from day one. But where in

1076
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 8: the season was it going to fall Very easily could

1077
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 8: have fallen, you know, in Week one, it could have

1078
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 8: fallen down there in Week seventeen. I think it's Bills

1079
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 8: Jets way down at the bottom of the schedule too, right, Yeah,

1080
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 8: it's in week seventeen. That could have been the Monday

1081
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 8: Night game that week. The interesting thing for us is

1082
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,280
Speaker 8: we were thinking about whether to play Bills Jets Monday

1083
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,720
Speaker 8: Night of week one. That would have taken the Bills

1084
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 8: out of the Thursday night game in week two. And

1085
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 8: one of the things our friends at Amazon had really

1086
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,720
Speaker 8: kind of pointed to was given the way that Miami

1087
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 8: Buffalo series ended last year for Game two seventy two.

1088
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 8: You know, can we Amazon have a shot at Buffalo

1089
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 8: Miami as our Week two game is our first game,

1090
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 8: the one we're going to promote to throughout the summer.

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Speaker 8: You put the Bills Jets in Monday night of Week one.

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00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 8: That takes the Bills out because we're not going to

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00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 8: do a Monday to Thursday, so all trying to figure

1094
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 8: out how all the pieces move around and fit together

1095
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 8: was the absolute best way to utilize Jets Bills. We

1096
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 8: probably thought it was headed for a Monday at some point,

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00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,839
Speaker 8: but rather than do it in week one again, which

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00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 8: would have cost us Bill's Dolphins for Week two for Amazon,

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Speaker 8: let's put the Bills in a one o'clock window on

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00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 8: Sunday so that we could use them for Miami Buffalo

1101
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 8: in Week two on Amazon, save Bills Jets for later,

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Speaker 8: And that's why you find it in October.

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00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 9: The Bills are playing the Patriots twice in the last

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00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 9: three weeks of the season. They won't get to see

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00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 9: them until Week sixteen, and then they'll see them again

1106
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 9: in week eighteen for a TBD matchup, depending on if

1107
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 9: that one gets flexed. We know last year, the Bills

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00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 9: Dolphins game at the end of the regular season was

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00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 9: a win and in game for the Buffalo Bills. Also

1110
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 9: win and win the AFC East game for the Bills.

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00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 9: Why did you slate these games at the end of

1112
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 9: the year, the Bills seeing the Patriots twice to finish

1113
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 9: out the regular season.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, not intentional. I don't think we ever set out

1115
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 8: to play any division series only two weeks of heart.

1116
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 8: But I think we've had this conversation before. I don't

1117
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 8: want to use the word legacy because he's still here

1118
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 8: and I hope he never leaves. But when Howard Katz

1119
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 8: was running the scheduling process, I would say his legacy

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00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 8: would be loading up the back end of our schedule

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00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 8: with division games. The more division games you can have

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00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 8: near the end of the season, the less likely you

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00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 8: are to have teams who have clinched mathematically playoff spots

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00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 8: or division titles. And how many times have we seen,

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00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 8: you know, down the stretch, particularly in Week eighteen there

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00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 8: where you see a team with everything to play for

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00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 8: against a division opponent with quote unquote nothing to play for.

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Speaker 8: You know, I think back just a couple of years

1129
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 8: ago to Lions Packers in Lambeau Green Bay needed it.

1130
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 8: Lions were out, and the Lions went and beat him.

1131
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 8: Think about last year where what was it? It was Jacksonville

1132
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 8: winning in to win the division in Tennessee knocked him

1133
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 8: off in Week eighteen. You play a division game down

1134
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 8: the stretch, throw out the records. Those games are still

1135
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 8: going to matter. And England's a bit of a wildcard

1136
00:58:57,880 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 8: for us this year. They were obviously a top brand

1137
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 8: for twenty years and a dynasty. I'm sure Bills fans

1138
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 8: and Jets fans and Dolphins fans aren't horrified by their

1139
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 8: recent struggles, but you know they're getting better. Obviously, they

1140
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 8: drafted a young quarterback. They're certainly interesting.

1141
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: Again.

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00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 8: It takes a long time to kind of work your

1143
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 8: way into that national consciousness as a national brand. It

1144
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 8: also takes a long time to kind of fall out

1145
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 8: of it. So I don't think fans have given up

1146
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 8: on New England just yet. And certainly if their record

1147
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 8: isn't what they had hoped it was going to be

1148
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 8: by the time to get to the week sixteen, seventeen eighteen, hey,

1149
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 8: if they can't make the playoffs, about the best thing

1150
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 8: that could happen to them then is to try to

1151
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 8: ruin the Bills season, So you know those games are

1152
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 8: gonna have relevance regardless of everybody's records.

1153
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 2: Last one for you, Mike, this, you know, when you're

1154
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 2: playing a first play schedule like the Bills are as

1155
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 2: four time division champs, this is going to happen. But

1156
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 2: second season in a row, they have games against the

1157
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 2: defending conference title winners separated by a bye week. Last

1158
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 2: year it was Eagles bye week Chiefs. This year it's

1159
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 2: Chiefs bye week Niners, and it's almost at the exact

1160
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 2: same time of the season. I know that probably doesn't

1161
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 2: enter into all of your schedule makers consciousness when you

1162
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 2: guys are trying to fit this thing together. We realize

1163
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 2: it's a one thousand piece puzzle, but I found that

1164
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 2: pretty interesting. Defending conference champs back to back with Mercifully,

1165
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 2: you guys put a bye week in between there each

1166
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 2: of the last two years.

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Speaker 8: That's interesting. The bye week has become something of a

1168
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 8: I don't know if conundrum's the right word, but you know,

1169
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 8: I've been doing this long enough to remember when playing

1170
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 8: a team coming off of their bye week, particularly if

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01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 8: you were the road team and you were traveling to

1172
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 8: the team who was fully rested was a real competitive disadvantage.

1173
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 8: It was something like, what road teams win forty five

1174
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 8: percent of the time, something like that. If you were

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Speaker 8: the road team and you were traveling to a team

1176
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 8: coming off thereby, that win percentage dropped to like thirty

1177
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Speaker 8: eight percent or something like that. It was like a

1178
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 8: twenty percent impact, and we really started to pay a

1179
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 8: lot of attention to, Hey, you know, how many times

1180
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 8: in a year can you do that to a team

1181
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 8: and really put them into what, at least the data

1182
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 8: and the stats say, is a competitively unfair situation. Lately,

1183
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 8: I think it's kind of gone the other way, and

1184
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 8: it might have something to do, you know, you talk

1185
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 8: to your football people. It might have something to do

1186
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 8: with the CBA in the way it works now with

1187
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 8: the players where you hit your buye week, and I

1188
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 8: think you have to give the players four days off

1189
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 8: or something like that, so you almost kind of get

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01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 8: out of your rhythm when you hit your bye week.

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01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 8: Yes you get healthy, yes you get rested, but then

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01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 8: you come out and you got to ramp it back

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01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 8: up again, and you might be playing somebody who's still

1194
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 8: in their routine, their Sunday to Sunday to Sunday routine.

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01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 8: And I may not have this exactly right, but there

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01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 8: was something like where Andy Reid, for whatever it was

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01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 8: ten or twelve years in a row, won his game

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01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 8: coming out of his bye week and everybody thought he

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Speaker 8: cracked the code. I'm pretty sure the Chiefs lost their

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01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 8: game last year coming off their bye week, So you know,

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01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 8: it's a bit of a new wrinkle for us all,

1202
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Speaker 8: just really trying to figure out it's a long season.

1203
01:01:58,360 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 8: Is the bye week the best thing you can have

1204
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 8: up to you is the Thursday game? The best thing

1205
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 8: can happen to you, you get like that mini buy. Can

1206
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 8: we separate your Thursday game from your bye week so

1207
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 8: that you get kind of two rest periods. We've got

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01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 8: a lot more teams in the league now playing multiple

1209
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 8: short weeks, so you're gonna get too mini buyes and

1210
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Speaker 8: a full buy. You don't want those all bunched up together.

1211
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Speaker 8: You get completely out of you rhythm. But you don't

1212
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 8: want to spread out too much or all to be

1213
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 8: finished in the first eight weeks, or none of them

1214
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 8: to happen until week twelve. So trying to figure out

1215
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 8: the right cadence over a long season. I can assure

1216
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 8: you it was not intentional in the schedule makers part

1217
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 8: to stand which the Bills buy in consecutive years with

1218
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Speaker 8: the two defending conference channel.

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Speaker 2: I think they're happy to have the buy facing two

1220
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Speaker 2: teams at that caliber. They're probably happy to have it.

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01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 8: If it happens again next year, you've definitely got a

1222
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 8: conspiracy theory.

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01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 9: Oh too funny. A million questions is probably what you

1224
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 9: guys had to run through to figure out this schedule.

1225
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: Not just the Bills, but you had.

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Speaker 9: Thirty one other teams to figure out as well. Mike,

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Speaker 9: thank you so much for the time. Excited to see

1228
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 9: this twenty twenty four season kick offensive, Absolute pleasure.

1229
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 8: Thanks for having me.

1230
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Speaker 2: All right. So that's NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning

1231
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 2: Mike North on with Maddi Glabb and myself last night

1232
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 2: on the live stream after the schedule was released. You

1233
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 2: can catch that interview if you want to see it again,

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01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 2: on the Bills YouTube channel, where the schedule reaction show

1235
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:24,440
Speaker 2: lives right now. But he had some interesting comments on

1236
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 2: the decisions. Maybe the most noteworthy was how ESPN weighed

1237
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 2: in heavily on Hey, that's hey, we want multiple games

1238
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 2: of the Bills. Please, it's in our contract. Make it happen.

1239
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's flattering.

1240
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 3: But you and I are sitting here listening to that interview,

1241
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 3: and there's just no doubt Josh is much watched must

1242
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 3: watch TV. He's got a good he's had a good

1243
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 3: team behind him. He's got a great coaching staff.

1244
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 1: They are in it.

1245
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 3: They're winning playoff games every year, and Josh is the

1246
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 3: guy snapping off fifty two yard runs against playoff teams.

1247
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 3: He's the one who's jumping over people. He's the one

1248
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 3: who's and he's also the one who throws three picks

1249
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 3: on opening night. You know, he's one of those guys. Man,

1250
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 3: he's at fourth turn, he's got to go. You know,

1251
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:13,080
Speaker 3: people go crazy over this guy. You got to watch him,

1252
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 3: and he elevates the people around him. You know, one game,

1253
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 3: he's throwing nine thousand balls to Steph Diggs. In the

1254
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 3: next game, Get next game, Gabe Davis catches four tds.

1255
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 3: You know, it's just get stuff like that. It's just

1256
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 3: must watch TV. And nobody else has got a guy

1257
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 3: like that. And yeah, Mahomes wins a lot of games,

1258
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 3: but many you can't take your eyes off Josh when

1259
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 3: he plays. And that's not just us, That's not just us,

1260
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 3: as Bills people taught saying that, you guys, people know that.

1261
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 3: Bills fans know that. I mean that every team Buffalo

1262
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 3: plays this year has got the Buffalo game circled on

1263
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 3: their calendar, whether they whether the Bills won the Super

1264
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 3: Bowl or not. They are a team that is a

1265
01:04:59,360 --> 01:04:59,959
Speaker 3: measuring staf.

1266
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:02,959
Speaker 2: I thought we should take a little bit of time

1267
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 2: to at least perus the schedules of the Jets and

1268
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, two teams deemed to be the biggest threats

1269
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 2: to the Bills in the division. No offense to the Patriots,

1270
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 2: but they got work to do. Jets have a tough

1271
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 2: Week one opener on the road in primetime against San Francisco,

1272
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 2: but after that their schedule gets relatively easy. Here are

1273
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 2: the teams and quarterbacks they face in weeks two through five.

1274
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 2: Titans and Will Levis, Patriots and Jacoby Brissaid or Drake

1275
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 2: may Broncos Bo Knicks, Jared Stidham or Zach Wilson have

1276
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:42,360
Speaker 2: fun with that tilta Whirl Viking, Sam Darnold or JJ McCarthy.

1277
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 2: I mean that Jets defense against that lineup. I mean,

1278
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 2: I need to score thirteen points a game.

1279
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 3: Well, here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna and it's gonna

1280
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 3: be built like this. The Bills, whatever their offense is doing,

1281
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 3: they're going up against the number one defense in the league.

1282
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 3: The Jets will have the number one. And put this

1283
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 3: on the white board. The Jets are going to have

1284
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 3: the number one defense in the league going into Week

1285
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 3: five because they're going to play Drake May vote the

1286
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 3: three stooges at quarterback every week.

1287
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 2: Three rookies away.

1288
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 1: Yeah. So when the Bills face the Jets in Week

1289
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 1: six Monday Night Football, they're going to be facing the

1290
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: number one defense and it's going to be a measuring

1291
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 1: stick for the Bills offense as much as it is

1292
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: for the Jet defense. That's how it's going to be built.

1293
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:26,640
Speaker 1: October fourteenth.

1294
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 2: Now, the one interesting thing, at least as it pertains

1295
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 2: to the Bills, is the Jets game against the Vikings

1296
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 2: is overseas and then they have to come all the

1297
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 2: way back stateside and play the Bills up here next

1298
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 2: the next week. So be interesting to see if there

1299
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 2: are some lingering effects.

1300
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: That trapped their luggage gets lost.

1301
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:52,919
Speaker 2: For the back of the schedule for the Jets, it's

1302
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 2: a little tougher home against Seattle at Miami at Jacksonville

1303
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 2: home against the Rams, at Buffalo homing against Miami. That's

1304
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 2: a strong finish there.

1305
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:06,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dolphins twice, Jags, Rams and Bills. Yeah, that's tough.

1306
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 3: And the Seahawks too. That's that you get picked me. No,

1307
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,919
Speaker 3: they do, but they do get the Seahawks at home, yes,

1308
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:14,720
Speaker 3: and that's a tough That's a tough trip for the

1309
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:20,959
Speaker 3: Seahawks at one pm. Yeah, that's listen. The Jets aren't

1310
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 3: getting off easy, that's for sure.

1311
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 2: For Miami, it's relatively the same easy in the first half,

1312
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 2: aside from the two meetings with the Bills. Back into

1313
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 2: the schedule, though, they've got at green Bay home against

1314
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 2: the Jets, at Houston, home against San Fran at Cleveland

1315
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 2: at Jets. That's a tough stretch run there.

1316
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 1: You can just see a repeat of this last season.

1317
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna say it.

1318
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins have a three game lead with five

1319
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: to play and lose by one, you know, I mean,

1320
01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: they're just.

1321
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 2: I mean that at Packers get and Jets twice at

1322
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 2: Texans Niners at Browns. Like you're playing in Cleveland on

1323
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 2: December twenty ninth, you know, like, and then you're playing.

1324
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 3: In New York in the new year, playing it, you know,

1325
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 3: I get it, playing at home in December against San

1326
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 3: Francisco on grass, San Listen, San Francisco is gonna be

1327
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 3: humming about that time they got green.

1328
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 2: I mean they know each other's schemes pretty well, you know.

1329
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 2: Coming off this.

1330
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:35,400
Speaker 3: That's six games that are really tough. The Packers, the

1331
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:38,599
Speaker 3: Jets twice, Texans, Niners, and Browns.

1332
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: Wow.

1333
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:43,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a that's a rough stretch down at

1334
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 2: the end there.

1335
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:46,600
Speaker 3: That is a really rough stretch that may be as

1336
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 3: rough as stretches from this end of the schedule. Now,

1337
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 3: everything changes as the season takes off, of course we

1338
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 3: all know. But from this end of the schedule, that

1339
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 3: looks like a tough finish, right, so really tough.

1340
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 2: That's why I wanted to take a look at what

1341
01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 2: the Dolphins had in front of them and what the

1342
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:04,280
Speaker 2: Jets were looking at in terms of their schedule. So yeah,

1343
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:08,760
Speaker 2: it's gonna be very telling, you know, at the end

1344
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:12,160
Speaker 2: of the season, because that's where their schedules get tough.

1345
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 2: I think we've confirmed Buffalo home against Kansas City, bye

1346
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:19,879
Speaker 2: week home against the Niners, at the Rams, at the Lions.

1347
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:23,640
Speaker 2: That's a tough stretch, right, So that's you know, in

1348
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 2: the back third of the schedule as well.

1349
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:27,760
Speaker 3: So yeah, and then you look at look at what

1350
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 3: New England's got coming up for them. They open up

1351
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:34,599
Speaker 3: at Cincinnati, and you can bet Cincinnati is I mean,

1352
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow may may have gotten to that point of

1353
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 3: the season opening day with them never breaking a sweat

1354
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 3: because they're going to keep him healthy as they can

1355
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 3: possibly keep him.

1356
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 2: Yeah. But the Jets, the Patriots have three road games

1357
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 2: in the first four weeks at Cincinnati, at Jets, at

1358
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 2: San fran Woo woo.

1359
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they go Miami Houston Jacksonville. That's San Francisco,

1360
01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:03,520
Speaker 3: My Miami Houston Jacksonville.

1361
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:07,880
Speaker 2: That's gonna be tough. Yeah, that is gonna be tough

1362
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 2: for that.

1363
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 3: Then they get then they go you know, they go

1364
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:12,959
Speaker 3: to they go Jets, and then they go Titans Bears.

1365
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:15,559
Speaker 3: Okayek a little bit of a break there, but.

1366
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: Mm mmmm.

1367
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 3: They've got their bye week in week fourteen, one of

1368
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 3: the latest bie weeks in the league.

1369
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:29,560
Speaker 1: In Week fourteen. Then they go Arizona Buffalo La Buffalo.

1370
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 2: Have fun with that. Speaking of the Bills, there was

1371
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 2: a transaction this morning with their roster. They signed veteran

1372
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 2: safety d Delaney. It's a five year veteran who spent

1373
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 2: the last three seasons with Tampa Bay. They were at

1374
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 2: the roster limit of ninety though, so to make room

1375
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 2: for him on the roster, the Bills released wide receiver

1376
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:52,120
Speaker 2: Quintes Siphas, who just got here after the draft, so

1377
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:56,320
Speaker 2: not long for the roster. As Quintes Cepha says, they

1378
01:10:56,320 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 2: had another safety. Do you take anything, Steve from the

1379
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 2: fact that Delaney and Mike Edwards, who spent last year

1380
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 2: in KC, both come from the Tampa Bay system under

1381
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 2: Todd Bowles.

1382
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 3: Maybe, well, I'll say this, at the very least, that's

1383
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 3: the system they've seen him play in, UH and whether

1384
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 3: they like the scheme or not, he's been able to

1385
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 3: show them enough of what he can do. I mean,

1386
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 3: we're watching a highlight now. He's just in deep cover,

1387
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 3: two breaks on a bad throw and picks it off.

1388
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 3: Same thing here, he's playing against Jalen Hurts, and he

1389
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 3: comes from the center of the field and picks that

1390
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 3: one off.

1391
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: As well, right at the goal line. It's a great play.

1392
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 3: He's certainly got some range if you and I'll say

1393
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:47,719
Speaker 3: this too, Jalen Hurts gets that picked off.

1394
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 1: That's a toa throw. He's got a lot of arc

1395
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: on it. Balls in the air a long time and

1396
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: Delaney just has time to get over there. I mean,

1397
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: you know guys can't do that with Josh. The ball

1398
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: gets there too fast.

1399
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:07,280
Speaker 2: We heard earlier in the week about the Jared Goff

1400
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:10,200
Speaker 2: contract extension that's going to pay him fifty three million

1401
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:14,559
Speaker 2: a year, four years, two hundred twelve million dollars. Did

1402
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:18,440
Speaker 2: you see what the signing bonus number was. It's a record.

1403
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 2: Oh oh, it is a all time record.

1404
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:24,640
Speaker 1: Signing bonus said nine figures.

1405
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:29,800
Speaker 2: Seventy three million dollars to sign his name. Me.

1406
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 3: I'll say this too, most ever I've had a signing bonus.

1407
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 3: I had a couple of those.

1408
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 1: In my day.

1409
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:36,360
Speaker 2: They weren't that big though.

1410
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 3: No, But I'll say this. The check comes and it clears,

1411
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 3: and it's got every cent of it. It's every cent

1412
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:48,680
Speaker 3: of that money. It's unbelievable. You look at it and

1413
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, I mean I got the biggest one.

1414
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 3: I ever got was split into two for wow, and

1415
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 3: so they could do it, put it in the.

1416
01:12:58,200 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 2: Next couldn't fill the zero.

1417
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 3: They said, check was all right if we did first

1418
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 3: some of it till next spring. I'm like, yeah, sure,

1419
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 3: go ahead. Even so, I guess I got two big

1420
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 3: fat checks.

1421
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 1: And it's.

1422
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:13,439
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. It's like winning the lottery. It really is,

1423
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 3: I believe, because your life doesn't change. You just go

1424
01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 3: in and sign the contract. Okay, here we go, and

1425
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 3: you just keep practicing, keep playing, keep doing all this stuff,

1426
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:21,040
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden they.

1427
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:25,639
Speaker 2: Hear, what shit, honey, look at this.

1428
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: You know this. Can you imagine a seventy five million dollars? Now,

1429
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: they do take taxes out of it, but this got

1430
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,440
Speaker 1: fifty it's like sixty.

1431
01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:38,760
Speaker 3: Million, right, yeah, give or take fifty between fifty and

1432
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 3: sixty million after taxes. Dude, here's the real acid test.

1433
01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 3: Is it easier or harder to get up and go

1434
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 3: work out the next morning depends on what kind of

1435
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:02,639
Speaker 3: person you are, right.

1436
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it should be. It should be the

1437
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:07,599
Speaker 2: same as it always is. You can't and that's why,

1438
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 2: you know, that's why they vet all these guys in

1439
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 2: the pre draft process to make sure they can get

1440
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 2: a read on your personality. Money is going to.

1441
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:17,880
Speaker 1: Change, that is the question.

1442
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,679
Speaker 3: That is the question these teams got to answer when

1443
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 3: we give him that check. Is like, I'll never forget

1444
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 3: Peyton Manning signed his first big deal, his extension after

1445
01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 3: his rookie deal, and they said, what do you get?

1446
01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 3: You know what happens after you signed this big country

1447
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 3: He goes, I'm gonna earn it, every cent of it.

1448
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,120
Speaker 1: That's you know, those are different cats when they talk

1449
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 1: like that and they really mean it.

1450
01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 3: You know, some of these guys don't give they could

1451
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:44,639
Speaker 3: never give you that answer. They're They're like, well, I'm

1452
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 3: gonna do this, I'm gonna do that, and my life

1453
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:46,680
Speaker 3: is gonna change.

1454
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that.

1455
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 3: They're talking about what they're gonna do with it, because

1456
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:51,719
Speaker 3: that's what it was about.

1457
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:54,920
Speaker 1: It's said, you got to be a different cat. Though.

1458
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money.

1459
01:14:56,720 --> 01:15:04,559
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, life changing money. ESPN's Jeremy Fowler just issued

1460
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,599
Speaker 2: a little bit of a backstory on the bill's signing

1461
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:12,799
Speaker 2: of Marquez Valdez Scantling this week. He said that Josh

1462
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 2: Allen had him over to his house for dinner Monday

1463
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 2: night as part of the receiver's free agent visit. According

1464
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:24,160
Speaker 2: to Jeremy Fowler, the two hit it off and MVS

1465
01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 2: decided that night he wanted to be a bill. Wasn't

1466
01:15:30,439 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 2: that nice. We'll see what comes of it, But yes,

1467
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 2: I mean that the timing tracks. I mean he had

1468
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:43,120
Speaker 2: his visit Monday evening and then signed Tuesday, So all

1469
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 2: that tracks, I guess in terms of the timeline. I

1470
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 2: wonder what they had for dinner, Steve, what do you

1471
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:48,719
Speaker 2: think they had for dinner?

1472
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:50,880
Speaker 1: Good question? I don't know.

1473
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:51,560
Speaker 2: Barbecue.

1474
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: It's going to be like you know, yeah.

1475
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 3: That's going to be the meal of choice for free

1476
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:05,360
Speaker 3: agents now. Interesting though, and a and a great move

1477
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 3: by Josh. I mean that's we've all we've we've heard

1478
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:10,800
Speaker 3: rumblings of we saw it with we saw it with

1479
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:12,880
Speaker 3: Steph when he first signed. We saw it with all

1480
01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 3: these we hear about it with all these other guys

1481
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:18,719
Speaker 3: about how Josh is you know this, you know, goofy

1482
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 3: guy who Pete guys love.

1483
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,679
Speaker 1: You know, he's just all about it. And I think

1484
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 1: that strikes to cord with a lot of guys, and

1485
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 1: plus having a guy having him over to his house.

1486
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 4: Is.

1487
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:27,679
Speaker 1: I think it's big.

1488
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 3: I mean it's a genuine gesture and it's and to

1489
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 3: get to know the other guys in the room socially

1490
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:34,679
Speaker 3: before you ever go into a meeting.

1491
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:35,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty cool.

1492
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting the size quotient that has been added

1493
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 2: to the Bills receiver room. You know, with some of

1494
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:45,800
Speaker 2: the recent additions. I mean not just Keon Coleman, you

1495
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,559
Speaker 2: know it's six three and change, but now you got

1496
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 2: Marquez velde Is Scantling who's six ' four, Mac Collins,

1497
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 2: who's a legit sixty four almost sixty five. You still

1498
01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:57,879
Speaker 2: have Justin Shorter on this roster who's six Tyrol Shavers

1499
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 2: is six ' four. So there's there's some size that's

1500
01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 2: suddenly on this roster where you know, size was not

1501
01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 2: necessarily in plentiful supply last year.

1502
01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, they got Yeah, they made.

1503
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:16,760
Speaker 2: Brian Thompson six, Xavier Johnson six to one. He's the

1504
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 2: undrafted rookie they signed out of Ohio State.

1505
01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 3: Khalil's six foot yeah, Samuel's five to eleven. Then you

1506
01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:26,599
Speaker 3: got like guys like Andy Isabella and ca kJ Hammler,

1507
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,519
Speaker 3: they're the five nine guys. Mac Hollins sixty four plus

1508
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 3: as you said, Chase Claypool is sixty four.

1509
01:17:32,479 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: You know that's yeah.

1510
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:36,240
Speaker 3: I mean there's got some bigger bodies all of a sudden,

1511
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:41,080
Speaker 3: I'm noticing something, right, I mean so yeah.

1512
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,720
Speaker 2: And you wonder if and and Chase Claypool, Yeah, we

1513
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:48,280
Speaker 2: didn't even mention him the uh and this is something

1514
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 2: we'll pick up on the other side of the break here.

1515
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 2: Does all that size serve as an indication as to

1516
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:57,800
Speaker 2: what could be coming with respect to the ground game?

1517
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 2: Need bigger guys blocking on the edges.

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01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:03,760
Speaker 3: Or I'm a little bit of stretch. I'm all about

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01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 3: guys working hard at it. But I would say no,

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01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 3: I say it has to do with a matchup with

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01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 3: the DBS that they're gonna face.

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01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 2: Okay.

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01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:14,679
Speaker 3: I think it has more to do with the passing

1524
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 3: game than it does. The grund has to I mean

1525
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 3: the ground game, yeah, okay, but they're not gonna Yeah,

1526
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:25,200
Speaker 3: if you're signing wide receivers because they're good run blockers

1527
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 3: and not good receivers, you got problems. And we heard

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01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:33,559
Speaker 3: that a couple of years ago when Baltimore did that

1529
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 3: because of you know, Lamar and then they ended up

1530
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:40,439
Speaker 3: you know what happened. They ended up changing offensive coordinators

1531
01:18:40,439 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 3: and everything got all discombobulated. Now you know they had

1532
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:45,559
Speaker 3: to go back the other way, and now they you know,

1533
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:49,000
Speaker 3: he was MVP again last year. So I'm no, you

1534
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 3: don't sign receivers, big receivers so they can block better

1535
01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 3: than the run game. You've signed receivers because it's a

1536
01:18:55,479 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 3: matchup and they can play wide receiver.

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01:18:58,120 --> 01:18:59,600
Speaker 1: The block the run blocking.

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01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:02,560
Speaker 3: You know, that's a that's a coaching aspect and a

1539
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:04,639
Speaker 3: desire aspect. You get the right guys that are gonna

1540
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 3: be fine. I'm you don't recruit receivers.

1541
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 2: We I'm not saying that's the number one reason, but

1542
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:14,679
Speaker 2: I know, but I think it's a factor in some cases.

1543
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:16,320
Speaker 2: In all case, I think it's I don't think Mark

1544
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 2: has validis scaleing. He's gonna be blocking for anybody anytime soon.

1545
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 2: He's gonna be down the field, right But yeah, Matt

1546
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:23,759
Speaker 2: Collins might be though they're blocked.

1547
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 1: They block when they're supposed to, and they and they

1548
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 1: and they'll do it well. We they won't be in there.

1549
01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 2: We have to take a break. We'll continue this discussion

1550
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:33,640
Speaker 2: when we return and get some of your thoughts on

1551
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 2: the tweet sheet on your Takeaways from the Bills twenty

1552
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 2: twenty four schedule next year on One Bill's Live, Stay

1553
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:50,280
Speaker 2: with us your biggest Takeaways from the Bills twenty twenty

1554
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 2: four schedule. They got released last night at eight o'clock.

1555
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 2: We're gonna spin it over to the tweet sheet now

1556
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 2: brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, the official equipment

1557
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 2: moving company in the Buffalo Bills, and just leads us

1558
01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 2: off there. She says, nine games on National TV primetime

1559
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:09,400
Speaker 2: or four PM. The Bills are definitely not rebuilding in

1560
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,200
Speaker 2: the NFL knows it Go Bills.

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01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: I agree with her.

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01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:16,920
Speaker 2: Do we find let me ask you this, Steve, do

1563
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:19,599
Speaker 2: we find some measure of irony in the fact that

1564
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:25,520
Speaker 2: the networks that have talk shows all throughout the day,

1565
01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 2: what was one of the biggest prevailing narratives is the

1566
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 2: Bills championship window closing, right, That's a prevailing narrative for

1567
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 2: the better part of the last year. We put a

1568
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 2: moratorium on it on this show because I'm tired of

1569
01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 2: hearing it. And what are the networks that air those

1570
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:47,440
Speaker 2: shows doing. We want the Bills. We want the Bills

1571
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 2: on our schedule. Please, are no we're protecting that game.

1572
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 1: Yep, that's right.

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01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 2: I mean talk about talking out of both sides of

1574
01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:56,639
Speaker 2: your mouth.

1575
01:20:56,920 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I go off on a ramp once

1576
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 3: in a while because I you know, I'm a huge

1577
01:21:01,240 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 3: believer in this group, you know, being McDermott, Josh, all

1578
01:21:06,479 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 3: of them, Cook, Kinkaid, Knox, Shakir, go down the list.

1579
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:17,680
Speaker 3: The offensive line. Offensively, this team is gonna be a wagon. Defensively,

1580
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 3: this group at the top, the defensive staff with Bobby

1581
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:26,640
Speaker 3: Babbage and McDermott, they're gonna get it together. And I

1582
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:30,280
Speaker 3: just so, I'm this team is gonna roll again.

1583
01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 2: Now.

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01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:32,800
Speaker 1: They got a tough schedule, no question about it.

1585
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:35,160
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying they're going they're going seventeen to oh,

1586
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:37,200
Speaker 3: but they're gonna win a ton of games.

1587
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:38,600
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in the tournament at the end of

1588
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: the season.

1589
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:40,840
Speaker 2: And you heard what Coach said in the first hour

1590
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 2: of the show when he joined us here in studio.

1591
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:47,600
Speaker 2: As far as Joe Brady and Bobby Babbage are concerned,

1592
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 2: he's very impressed with what he's seen from them from

1593
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 2: a leadership perspective. With their respective staffs on the offensive

1594
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 2: and defensive sides, of the ball, so off to a

1595
01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:58,719
Speaker 2: good start. Yeah, I know we're not calling plays yet

1596
01:21:58,880 --> 01:21:59,479
Speaker 2: on game day.

1597
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 3: I just yeah, I'm I'm here with I'm with jess here.

1598
01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:05,479
Speaker 3: I'm I think this team is just gonna just keep

1599
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 3: it on, keep on keeping on. I think you're gonna

1600
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:09,439
Speaker 3: have to pull out all the stops and get a

1601
01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 3: couple of breaks to beat this team.

1602
01:22:11,240 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 1: And it's not gonna change. There's gonna be some teams

1603
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:13,439
Speaker 1: to do it.

1604
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:16,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Josh will throw a bad interception at the

1605
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 3: wrong time because he's you know, he's being himself. But

1606
01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:21,800
Speaker 3: I still don't think Josh turns it over too much.

1607
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:25,880
Speaker 3: He's still a handful to defend. And I think teams

1608
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 3: are gonna find that out again this year, so we'll see.

1609
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:30,599
Speaker 3: I'm but I'm with jess here.

1610
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 1: I'm you know, the team, the people who watch this game, No,

1611
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:36,960
Speaker 1: this is a team you have to watch.

1612
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 2: Tom on the tweet sheet plays off of. I don't

1613
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 2: know if you saw some of these comments going around

1614
01:22:44,479 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 2: last night after the schedule came out because people married

1615
01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:54,360
Speaker 2: the chief schedule with Taylor Swift's concert schedule. Tom is

1616
01:22:54,439 --> 01:22:59,240
Speaker 2: on board, and he says so coincidental that Taylor Swift

1617
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 2: is playing until Rono when we play Kansas City at home.

1618
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:05,439
Speaker 2: Come on, man, what so he apparently doesn't want to

1619
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 2: see her in the stadium again.

1620
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 1: I was amazing.

1621
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:12,720
Speaker 2: She's got every right to come to a game as

1622
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:13,360
Speaker 2: the next person.

1623
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 1: Mayhem, man, bring it on, let's go Steve.

1624
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:18,600
Speaker 2: On the tweet, she says, I am glad that we

1625
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:21,799
Speaker 2: have some tough games early with all the new faces,

1626
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:25,040
Speaker 2: we will be less predictable and more difficult for teams

1627
01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 2: to plan for some big time. Changes can make you better.

1628
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:30,559
Speaker 2: Change can be good.

1629
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 3: It happened, It happened on this in this squad. You know,

1630
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:35,680
Speaker 3: thirty years ago when I was here, they made some

1631
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:38,600
Speaker 3: changes and got rid of some really quality players in

1632
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 3: order to let some other players emerge. And you know,

1633
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 3: they went to four straight Super Bowls doing it. There's

1634
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 3: nothing that says change is involuntary. So we'll see how

1635
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 3: We'll see how it works out.

1636
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 2: Let's jump on the phones. Go to Donnie in Tonawanda.

1637
01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:56,360
Speaker 2: What do you got for us? Donnie?

1638
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:58,559
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, can you hear me?

1639
01:23:58,720 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1640
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, awesome. I just want to say, like you,

1641
01:24:03,200 --> 01:24:06,840
Speaker 10: as long as we have Josh Allen, there's no counting

1642
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 10: us out. He is superman in my mind, best football

1643
01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 10: player in the league far non. I don't care what

1644
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:18,680
Speaker 10: anybody says. And I called yesterday and you guys, you know,

1645
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 10: you put a little point out there for me. As

1646
01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 10: far as Jacksonville and Buffalo being a marquee game, it's

1647
01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:27,600
Speaker 10: more of a marquee game for Buffalo fans than it

1648
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 10: is for the league. And I get that now, and

1649
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 10: I'm gonna let you guys ride with that, thank you.

1650
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll say this, there are some teams that

1651
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:40,559
Speaker 3: give Buffalo problems. This this group, the Jets Jacksonville are

1652
01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 3: two of them. I'm trying to think of others who

1653
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 3: are who are big problems perennially, Like you know, I

1654
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,799
Speaker 3: think that might be the top two. Jacksonville I had Chiefs,

1655
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:53,559
Speaker 3: of course in the playoffs, but in the regular season.

1656
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 1: You know, and I'll say this too. I heard this.

1657
01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:58,680
Speaker 3: Nobody has beaten Pat Mahomes Andy Reid more than the

1658
01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 3: Bills have in their tenure together. We've got more wins

1659
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 3: any other team against those guys.

1660
01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:04,920
Speaker 6: Uh.

1661
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:07,320
Speaker 3: Certainly, they keep on winning, keeping on and everybody is

1662
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:08,840
Speaker 3: tired of saying it, but they're really good.

1663
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:13,040
Speaker 2: They're not just Buffalo's problem. Everybody else is too.

1664
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 3: And I'll say this, yeah, but you're right, it is. Uh,

1665
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 3: it's it's hard to win, and the Chiefs make it hard.

1666
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 3: And this marquet that if you're looking for teams that

1667
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 3: do give the Bills a problem, Jacksonville's got to be

1668
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 3: one of them. And Donnie's got a thing he hates that.

1669
01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 3: He he wants a piece of Jacksonville. And he called

1670
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 3: us yesterday and we're like, I don't know, right, I

1671
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 3: don't know if we like we We were like, I'm

1672
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 3: not be.

1673
01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:41,160
Speaker 2: Able to let Donnie got a stadium for that one, right,

1674
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 2: A little.

1675
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:45,839
Speaker 1: Worried about Donny. Yes, Donnie has got a grudge against

1676
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:47,160
Speaker 1: the Jaguars.

1677
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:48,080
Speaker 2: Which somebody's got to keep him in his seat.

1678
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:49,960
Speaker 1: That's fine, do it.

1679
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 2: Uh. Collins says they will be tested early and later on,

1680
01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:57,080
Speaker 2: but have a nice home stretch for the last three weeks. Yeah.

1681
01:25:57,120 --> 01:25:59,400
Speaker 2: Two of the last three weeks, which are all division games,

1682
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:01,760
Speaker 2: are at home. So that is a plus in terms

1683
01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 2: of home field advantage. Jeremy says, looks like the schedule

1684
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:07,040
Speaker 2: makers aren't sleeping on the Bills as much as the

1685
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 2: talking heads are.

1686
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 1: That was my point earlier yeah. I mean right, come

1687
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 1: on listen. Here here's the thing too. You're right.

1688
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:21,679
Speaker 3: The talking heads, like the guys on ESPN, like Nick

1689
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 3: Wright and all these guys, and Steven A and go

1690
01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 3: down the list, mad Dog, all these guys that are

1691
01:26:28,160 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 3: on there, even our friend Daniel Rovski, all those guys,

1692
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:36,640
Speaker 3: they they want content and they know Josh gives it

1693
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 3: to him.

1694
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:38,000
Speaker 1: He's jumping over.

1695
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 3: He's either gonna kill it and throw for three point

1696
01:26:41,560 --> 01:26:45,640
Speaker 3: fifty nine and four touchdowns, or he's gonna throw for

1697
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:48,200
Speaker 3: a buck ten and four pay you know that kind

1698
01:26:48,280 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 3: of thing, and that get that's now having said that,

1699
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 3: the way it works in these networks, those guys aren't

1700
01:26:55,040 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 3: making those calls.

1701
01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:56,479
Speaker 2: They're not.

1702
01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:58,839
Speaker 1: They don't make the calls. You know who makes the calls.

1703
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,680
Speaker 3: The guys at the very hip top, who are who

1704
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:04,760
Speaker 3: are negotiating the billion dollar deals for the rights, are saying,

1705
01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:07,639
Speaker 3: you've got to give me something I can watch and

1706
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:10,000
Speaker 3: that and that, and Mike North said that, they're jumping

1707
01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:12,360
Speaker 3: on the table going, nah, yo, you got to give

1708
01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 3: me buffalo.

1709
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:14,879
Speaker 1: You got to give me buffalo.

1710
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 3: That's that's the team that gets numbers, and that's who

1711
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 3: makes those calls It's not the talking heads or the

1712
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:23,559
Speaker 3: pundits or any of that stuff. It's the guys who

1713
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:27,120
Speaker 3: look at the numbers. And I'm telling you, we all

1714
01:27:27,160 --> 01:27:28,800
Speaker 3: know this is Bills fans because he's our guy and

1715
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 3: all that, but other teams fee those same way.

1716
01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 1: You got to watch that guy play. You have got

1717
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 1: to go. You have got to get to a TV.

1718
01:27:35,280 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 2: If he's on the TV, we have to step aside.

1719
01:27:38,479 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 2: Here some final thoughts on the tweets sheet when we

1720
01:27:40,360 --> 01:28:00,880
Speaker 2: come back on One Bill's Live, Stay tuned. Final thoughts

1721
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:02,600
Speaker 2: on the tweets sheet here, as we're asking you for

1722
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:05,280
Speaker 2: your takeaways from the Bills twenty twenty four schedule release.

1723
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:08,839
Speaker 2: Things you like, things you didn't like, things you reacted

1724
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:11,320
Speaker 2: to based on the primetime and four o'clock games that

1725
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 2: the Bill's got and Junior says, tough schedule, no matter

1726
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:17,719
Speaker 2: how it was laid out, But weeks two through six

1727
01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:20,679
Speaker 2: and eleven to fifteen are tough. Yeah. Those are the gauntlets, yep,

1728
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:25,599
Speaker 2: for sure, particularly that NFC stretch after the bye home

1729
01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:28,439
Speaker 2: against the Niners at the Rams at the Lions. All

1730
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 2: three of those teams are playoff teams from last year.

1731
01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 2: Two of them met in the NFC title game. Yeah,

1732
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:35,519
Speaker 2: that's a tough one.

1733
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 3: Followed by the World Championship and the World champions and

1734
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 3: the bye week. I mean it's a good thing.

1735
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: You know.

1736
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 3: It's nice that the Bills get that bye week right

1737
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:44,479
Speaker 3: there at week twelve before they hit that gallallet.

1738
01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:46,000
Speaker 1: But they got to play the Chiefs right before that.

1739
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:50,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you know, then they host San France,

1740
01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 3: so they get a couple of weeks they have like

1741
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:55,000
Speaker 3: three weeks at home or four weeks at home, because

1742
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:57,840
Speaker 3: the last home game is the tenth of November. Week

1743
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 3: ten eleven their home, the bye their home. San Francisco

1744
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 3: their home, so that's gonna be a nice stretch there.

1745
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:06,240
Speaker 3: And then they can go too straight at the Rams

1746
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:10,160
Speaker 3: and at Detroit. So they mitigated as much as they could.

1747
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:12,519
Speaker 3: I mean, I know they we said it's a fair schedule,

1748
01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:14,720
Speaker 3: but you got you gotta play them. I mean, you

1749
01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 3: gotta play those games that were you gonna sprinkle them in.

1750
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 3: Is hard, But I thought the league for the Bills,

1751
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:20,639
Speaker 3: I don't think there's too much to complain about.

1752
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:25,000
Speaker 2: Actually, John has a personal note here. I love that

1753
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:28,559
Speaker 2: out of our seven one o'clock games, five of them

1754
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 2: are at Home Yeah, which I know. There's a lot

1755
01:29:30,960 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 2: of Bills fans that love one o'clock home games. You're

1756
01:29:33,080 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 2: gonna get your fair share of them. This series plenty

1757
01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:37,760
Speaker 2: more to digest on the schedule. We'll get to more

1758
01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:40,040
Speaker 2: of it tomorrow. Steve and I will see you at

1759
01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 2: our usual time one pm. Thanks for listening, We'll see

1760
01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:43,400
Speaker 2: you tomorrow.