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Speaker 1: The One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. All Right,

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Speaker 1: welcome into a Friday edition of One Bill's Live. Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown Maddy Glab with you here, rolling into the weekend

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Speaker 1: before we head out to Indianapolis for the NFL Combine

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Speaker 1: next week. And you know there's some there'll be plenty

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Speaker 1: of news coming out of Indianapolis next week, not just

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Speaker 1: and we'll be there to cover for you completely wall

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Speaker 1: to wall. So we look forward to bringing that to

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Speaker 1: you and bringing the show to you from out there

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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday next week. And there is some major

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Speaker 1: league news concerning this year's salary cap. It was projected

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Speaker 1: four league year, and Ian Rapaport, along with a bunch

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Speaker 1: figure out, and it is significantly higher. Two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty five point four million per club will be the

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Speaker 1: salary cap for this year, an unprecedented thirty million dollar

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Speaker 1: increase from one year to the next, and there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of reasons for this number one, it's the repayment

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Speaker 1: of all the amounts that were advanced by the clubs

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Speaker 1: and deferred because of COVID, as well as an extraordinary

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Speaker 1: increase in media revenue. Those media deals that were signed

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Speaker 1: last year. A lot of that money has now come

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Speaker 1: know many the bills the bills are over the cap,

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Speaker 1: it's less of a daunting task for Brandon bean and

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Speaker 1: you know his salary cap crunchers to you know, navigate

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna put my feet up now.

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Speaker 3: I feel good about it, I know, Brandon, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: all good whatever, No, I know, Brandon Bean Bean has

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Speaker 3: having to to do some wiggle room work around some

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Speaker 3: of the draft, which is just a couple of short

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Speaker 3: i got faith in Brandon Bean and it'll be really

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Speaker 3: interesting to see and hear if we hear anything about

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Speaker 3: because that's when we start to hear some of that stuff,

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Speaker 3: and it'll be great to start to see that puzzle

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Speaker 1: Yeah, every NFL agent the league is going to be

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Speaker 1: to start talking to general managers, layout parameters for clients

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Speaker 1: whose contracts are expiring next month. So you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of business to be done there away from

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Speaker 1: everything that happens at Lucas Oil Stadium with the player

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Speaker 1: center and in the interview rooms for each of the

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Speaker 1: that this It makes it easier for everybody. Let's not

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Speaker 1: Yeah, elsewhere around the NFL. And we'll do that now

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Speaker 1: around the NFL. Brought to you by Kalide a Healthy

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Speaker 1: official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills. And there is

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Speaker 1: some Bills related news because former Bills draft choice mattter

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Speaker 1: Their punter Tommy Townsend is set to become a free agent,

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Speaker 3: he'll have to compete for a spot. It's not like

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Speaker 3: he's just given one. We'll see what happens throughout the

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Speaker 1: of the offseason training camp preseason for Matt Ariza NFC

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Speaker 1: South News. After leading the Bucks to the Divisional round

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Speaker 1: what the structure is though, Maddie, I mean, the guy

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're playing in in a division where

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Speaker 2: It seemed like it worked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bucks have other business to take care of. There

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Speaker 2: It's only right.

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Speaker 3: And we know Josh Allen as a competitor, as a

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Speaker 3: he would be totally willing to rework his contract in

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Speaker 4: The first question is for you, Chris, where is the

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know that the Wall of Fame is

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Speaker 1: going to exist in some way, shape or form in

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Speaker 1: the new stadium. I don't know how that's going to

440
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Speaker 1: look where that's going to reside in the new building.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, hall of Fame would be cool because then

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Speaker 1: that becomes, much like it is in Green Bay, a

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Speaker 1: year round tourist attraction, because whether the Bills are playing

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Speaker 1: games or not, whether it's in season or out of season,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's open for people to tour. That would

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Speaker 1: be a cool thing if it's part of the plans,

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Speaker 1: but I honestly don't know if it is. So sorry,

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Speaker 1: I don't have an answer on that one. Maddie, and

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Speaker 1: I'll do some digging and see if we can get

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Speaker 1: some answers on that, on the plans for the new

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Speaker 1: stadium going up in twenty twenty six. Let's move along

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Speaker 1: to Carl in Arondecoit. What do you got? Carl got

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Speaker 1: to do? What you got for us?

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Speaker 4: Sir?

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Speaker 7: I was calling to talk to Maddy about the Bears

456
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Speaker 7: a little bits specks and now they're increased Kemp money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they got a lot of money to

458
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Speaker 1: spend they do.

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Speaker 2: What do you think they should do with that number

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Speaker 2: one pick?

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Speaker 7: With that number one pick, it's pretty wrapped up with Caleb.

462
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Speaker 7: I can see him doing fairly well, not real great

463
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Speaker 7: next year, but more than competent, you know. And I

464
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Speaker 7: think they'll get a pretty good deal for the quarterback. Now.

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Speaker 7: They should get like a tour or of five.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, trade up, get a tour or five.

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Speaker 7: That would be ideal for them, because then they'll be

468
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Speaker 7: really loaded. I think they're gonna be the Houston Texans

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Speaker 7: up next year.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, that'd be fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: When I talk to my family members, I think they

473
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Speaker 3: all understand that, hey, the Bears need to do something

474
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Speaker 3: with that number one pick. They need to keep it.

475
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Speaker 3: They need to draft a quarterback. But in the same

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Speaker 3: conversation and the same sentences. But we love Justin Field

477
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Speaker 3: so much. We love what he did for the Bears.

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Speaker 3: We don't think he was given the the right talent

479
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Speaker 3: around him, or the right coaching, the right offense, the

480
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Speaker 3: right system. We believe if he had the right people

481
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Speaker 3: around him, he could truly blossom into a really talented quarterback.

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Speaker 3: And if he goes elsewhere, I can't wait to see

483
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Speaker 3: what his career becomes, because I think the traits are there.

484
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Speaker 3: I think he's shown things within his first few seasons

485
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Speaker 3: in the NFL. Can he become amongst one of the best,

486
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Speaker 3: like we talk about with Patrick mahomes and and Josh

487
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Speaker 3: Allen and Joe Burrow. I don't know a lot of

488
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Speaker 3: people say Justin Field should have shown that by now.

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Speaker 3: If he is going to be one of the best,

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Speaker 3: you usually show that, maybe not in your first year,

491
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Speaker 3: but in your two year three you start to show

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Speaker 3: what you're truly gonna become. And I don't know if

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Speaker 3: we've seen enough from him. But I don't know if

494
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Speaker 3: that's all on him, if that's on the system that

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Speaker 3: he was in, if that's the roster.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the roster was kind of a mess, right. I mean,

497
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Speaker 1: they had a lot of holes and Ryan Poles. The

498
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Speaker 1: new GM has done a good job of filling some

499
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Speaker 1: of those. And he's gone through a coaching change already, right,

500
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Speaker 1: he's been there. It's going to be his fourth year

501
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Speaker 1: coming up. So yeah, there was a coaching change two

502
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Speaker 1: years ago when Naggie got fired. They brought in Eberflus,

503
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Speaker 1: So he's had an offensive system change. And this stuff

504
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Speaker 1: is what compromises the development of a potential franchise quarterback.

505
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Speaker 1: We've seen the Jets do it time and again. The

506
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Speaker 1: Bills were floundering in that area for a while where

507
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Speaker 1: they drafted quarterbacks in the first round, but they were

508
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Speaker 1: cycling through head coaches and offensive systems, and it stunts

509
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Speaker 1: the growth of potential franchise caliber quarterbacks. I still think

510
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Speaker 1: there is ceiling for fields to reach, but I'm there's

511
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Speaker 1: growing sentiment that it's not going to be in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: We know that the Falcons have been mentioned as a

513
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Speaker 1: possible destination for him. He is a Georgia native born

514
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Speaker 1: and raised in Kennesaw, Georgia. That would probably be a

515
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Speaker 1: very happy homecoming for him. The question is what is

516
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Speaker 1: the cost? And you would think that the Bears, who

517
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Speaker 1: are still trying to kind of build that roster out,

518
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Speaker 1: would be looking for draft capital chiefly, and they could

519
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Speaker 1: probably get a lot from the Falcons for that. So

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Speaker 1: you got the one pick, the nine pick, and then

521
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Speaker 1: you could get a whole lot more by trading justin

522
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Speaker 1: fields that might be too good to pass up, especially

523
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Speaker 1: knowing you have Caleb Williams sitting in your lap.

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Speaker 3: You have a rookie quarterback coming on to the team.

525
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Speaker 3: You've got money to spend. What are you going to

526
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Speaker 3: do in the off season? Build around him through the draft,

527
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Speaker 3: and build around him through free agency. Lift a quarterback

528
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Speaker 3: up to where they have everything they need, all the

529
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Speaker 3: tools in their toolbox to succeed, because that first year.

530
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Speaker 2: Is not easy. It was amazing to see what CJ.

531
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Speaker 2: Stroud was able to.

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Speaker 1: Do, and you know, it's a shame to me. It's

533
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Speaker 1: just an example of bad timing for fields. He got

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Speaker 1: there when the roster. He got there when the roster

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Speaker 1: was barren, not lacking in talent on both sides of

536
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Speaker 1: the ball. And that's a very hard thing for a

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Speaker 1: quarterback to lift up by himself. And then you have

538
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Speaker 1: a coaching change and a system change, and that just

539
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Speaker 1: makes the job all the harder. So it's just bad

540
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Speaker 1: timing for when he got there to when the Bears

541
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Speaker 1: may actually be competitive relevant in the league, it may

542
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Speaker 1: come without him on board. Might be Caleb Williams, who

543
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: might have the best timing of all of them, certainly

544
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: better timing than justin Field tet. We got to take

545
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Speaker 1: a break here. When we come back, we'll get to

546
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Speaker 1: some of your phone calls, but we also have to

547
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Speaker 1: work our way through the mock draftwatch the latest installment

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Speaker 1: courtesy of Maddie and Buffalo Bills dot Com. When we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live, presented by Colt of Health,

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

551
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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Here on a OBL Friday fan mail bag.

552
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Speaker 1: We're also gonna have mock Draft watch here shortly and

553
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Speaker 1: coming up in the second hour of the show, we're

554
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Speaker 1: gonna check in with our good friend Mike Reese, who

555
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Speaker 1: covers the Patriots FREESPN dot com kind of get the

556
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Speaker 1: four to one one on what they're looking at. You

557
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Speaker 1: want to talk about a team with cap space. With

558
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Speaker 1: this new cap number, they're gonna have over like eighty

559
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Speaker 1: million dollars to spend, so the Patriots are gonna try

560
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Speaker 1: real quick to catch up to the retch rest of

561
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Speaker 1: the AFC. East will check in with Mike on that

562
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Speaker 1: in the second hour of the show. Speaking of Mike's

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Speaker 1: we go back to the phones and Mike in East Aurora,

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Speaker 1: what do you got for us, Mike? I want to,

565
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Speaker 1: I want to.

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry, hey, guy and Maddy. I want to talk

567
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 8: about the Bears a little bit as well. Okay, I believe,

568
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Speaker 8: I really believe that they should trade their number one

569
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Speaker 8: and stock up next two years so that they can

570
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Speaker 8: become a juggernaut in the UH in the NFC, because

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Speaker 8: I kind of like them. I mean, they're not my

572
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Speaker 8: they're not my favorite teams, but I do like Justin Fields.

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Speaker 8: I think that Justin Fields, uh has probably not been

574
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Speaker 8: coached properly, and uh, I think if he's coached properly,

575
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Speaker 8: you're gonna you're gonna see him as the top maybe

576
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Speaker 8: five or six quarterback in the NFL over the next

577
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Speaker 8: couple of years. But I think, I really think they

578
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Speaker 8: should stock up on three number ones, three number two's,

579
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Speaker 8: a couple number three and get themselves, uh, get themselves

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Speaker 8: ready for the next three years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it depends on which team they're talking

582
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Speaker 1: turkey with, which is gonna hint, you know, determine what

583
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Speaker 1: the draft compensation would be. If they're talking to a

584
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: team picking down at twenty, well yeah, yeah, they could

585
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Speaker 1: get a package similar to what you're describing, Mike. If

586
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: they're talking to a team that's picking at eight, they're

587
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: not getting that kind of a haul for pick number one.

588
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be that extensive. As extensive I should say.

589
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: But Maddy and I were just talking about this during

590
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Speaker 1: the break, and there's two big reasons why it makes

591
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: sense to move justin fields. Number One, if you believe

592
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: that in your evaluation of Caleb Williams that his ceiling

593
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: is higher and you think he's going to be a

594
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Speaker 1: better professional player than justin fields, you move fields. End

595
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Speaker 1: of conversation. But there's a second reason, Maddie. The money too, right.

596
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just hard to not think about the money

597
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 3: that you save or the money that you push down

598
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Speaker 3: the road when you're drafting a quarterback. Yes, if you're

599
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Speaker 3: drafting a quarterback in the top of the first round,

600
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Speaker 3: in the first round in general, you're gonna pay that

601
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Speaker 3: player more but still, you're gonna have to think about

602
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 3: extending Justin Field soon enough, and I don't think he

603
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 3: would play for a small penny. One thing that I

604
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 3: thought about is like, Okay, if you don't see what

605
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Speaker 3: you want from Justin Fields in year four and you're

606
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Speaker 3: thinking about the extension, and would he play on a

607
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 3: prove it shorter deal? And I think the answer would

608
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Speaker 3: be no, because there's so there are so many teams

609
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Speaker 3: every single year looking for quarterbacks, and I think one

610
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 3: team would pay him the money that he deserves. So

611
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Speaker 3: I don't think that the Bears could keep him for

612
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 3: a smaller deal when it comes time for a contract extension.

613
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Speaker 3: And if you're going to be able to draft a

614
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Speaker 3: guy who you think has higher potential could turn into

615
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Speaker 3: a better quarterback than the guy you currently have, why

616
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Speaker 3: wouldn't you want to do that knowing that you're not

617
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Speaker 3: going to have to pay that player for several years.

618
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Speaker 3: It's two big things that I don't think you can

619
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Speaker 3: avoid when talking about being at that number one spot

620
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Speaker 3: and potentially drafting a quarterback. As much as I love

621
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Speaker 3: Justin Fields, as much as I think he was given

622
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Speaker 3: the short end of the stick in Chicago when it

623
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Speaker 3: comes to the roster build and the coaching.

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Speaker 2: I still think he can't.

625
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Speaker 3: Avoid drafting a quarterback at that number one stuff spot.

626
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Speaker 1: If you draft Caleb Williams and trade Justin fields, you

627
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Speaker 1: essentially reset the clock on paying a rookie quarterback, which

628
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: allows you to then spend more money elsewhere on your

629
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: roster to make it better, which is what you want

630
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: to do if you're drafting a young quarterback anyway. So

631
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Speaker 1: the combination of what you can get in a trade

632
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Speaker 1: of fields in terms of draft capital, maybe a player

633
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Speaker 1: or two, and then getting Caleb Williams on a rookie contract,

634
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Speaker 1: cost controlled contract for five years counting the fifth year option,

635
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Speaker 1: it seems like too good an opportunity to pass up.

636
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Speaker 1: And again, you've got to believe in the player that

637
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Speaker 1: you're drafting, too. But even if you think he could

638
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: be just as good as Justin Fields or slightly better,

639
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Speaker 1: I think you do it because of all those other

640
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Speaker 1: reasons that are baked into it as well. Let's go

641
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Speaker 1: to Mike and all the next what's up, Mike.

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, how you're doing good. I just wanted to

643
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Speaker 9: throw this out you real quick, so I know you're

644
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Speaker 9: going to bring up the mox drafting, and but one

645
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Speaker 9: of the mocks I saw had for our succond round

646
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 9: pick had the defensive end Braylan. I think it's Braylan

647
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 9: Trice out of Washington for us to take in the

648
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Speaker 9: second round. I think he's awesome. I don't know what

649
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Speaker 9: I wanted to see if you guys know what you

650
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 9: guys know about him and and what you think about that,

651
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 9: and then obviously the first round or receiver. But you know,

652
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Speaker 9: I heard a podcast today that was saying that they

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Speaker 9: think the Bills should you know, give up their first

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Speaker 9: next year because they looked at the history of where

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Speaker 9: where we most likely to pick next year, you know,

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Speaker 9: twenty eight and then last like twenty years they named

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Speaker 9: everyone off and they were like no names for the

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Speaker 9: most part, and and try to go get one of

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Speaker 9: these big name guys. I mean, what do you guys

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Speaker 9: think about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I get it you look at a history,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think you can treat draft history in

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Speaker 1: a vacuum. Classes are different every year. I think there's

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Speaker 1: just too many variables from one year to the next

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Speaker 1: to just outright say nah, look at the history. At

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Speaker 1: twenty eight, we shouldn't pick there. And I think the

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Speaker 1: other thing that almost renders that moot, Randon Bean rarely

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Speaker 1: sits where he started when round one comes around. He's

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Speaker 1: usually moving up a couple of spots, and he's done

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Speaker 1: that in different rounds as well. Like, who's to say

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Speaker 1: they sit at sixty, maybe they move up and get somebody.

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Speaker 1: As far as the edge rushing class, it's a pretty

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Speaker 1: good class and the Bills stand a pretty likely chance

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Speaker 1: of needing to reinvest there. You know, Ajpins is probably

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Speaker 1: gonna command some pretty good money on the open market,

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Speaker 1: money that might be out of Buffalo's price range with

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Speaker 1: their cap situation, along with some of their defensive tackles

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Speaker 1: as well. I mean, Daikwon Jones is in a lock

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Speaker 1: to come back here even though they want him back,

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Speaker 1: he might be too much in demand on the open market.

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Speaker 1: So they may have to draft two to three defensive

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Speaker 1: linemen before this draft is over. Fortunately, the Bills have

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Speaker 1: ten picks to work with, but you're either going to

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Speaker 1: need to draft two defensive tackles and one edge rusher

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Speaker 1: or two edge rushers in a defensive tackle depending on

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Speaker 1: how well you fill the holes in free agency. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we said it yesterday, Matt. He got eight of the

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Speaker 1: twelve defensive linemen from this fifty three man roster are

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Speaker 1: going to be unrestricted free agents when we get to

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Speaker 1: the next March, when we get to March next month.

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Speaker 1: As for Braylan Trice, good edge prospect. I think some

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Speaker 1: people consider him just a little bit raw, like polished

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Speaker 1: pass rush techniques, not fantastic. But he is a playmaker,

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Speaker 1: so and he is projected somewhere in that second round,

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Speaker 1: so the value probably fits what you're talking about, Mike.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you had it. Did you have

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Speaker 1: anything else on Raylan?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: But I was going to say, I see this team

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Speaker 3: leaning into the defensive line and free agency, but I

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Speaker 3: also see them doing that through the draft too.

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Speaker 2: I don't think.

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Speaker 3: Because of the holes that live on this defensive line

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Speaker 3: now with guys who are free agents, maybe we get

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Speaker 3: a couple players back, Maybe we get a day day

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Speaker 3: Kwon Jones back. That would be incredible. I love him

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Speaker 3: for this defensive line, but I do think they have

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Speaker 3: to dip into the defensive line in the NFL draft

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 2: Just knowing the.

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Speaker 3: Guys that we have under contract, and you're always going

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Speaker 3: to want to keep building and keep dipping into the

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Speaker 3: youth there because that is a group and a position group,

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Speaker 3: defensive tackle, defensive end. They command some money too, right.

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Speaker 1: And again cost control by investing in the draft. But

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Speaker 1: with so many holes to fill just from a sheer

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Speaker 1: numbers perspective on the defensive line, the Bills are going

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Speaker 1: to have to take a shotgun approach to filling all

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Speaker 1: the holes. That means they're gonna have to use free agency,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to use the draft. They're probably gonna

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Speaker 1: have to even take some undrafted players and sign them

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Speaker 1: as well and see if somebody surprises them and can

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Speaker 1: make the roster. But let's shift gears now and go

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Speaker 1: to the latest installment of our mock draft watch. Is

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Speaker 1: this two point zero?

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Speaker 2: This is two.

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Speaker 1: Two point oh? I know we had done at least one.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't remember if we had done it.

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Speaker 2: Two oh wow, So this is two point.

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Speaker 1: H and I guess we should start here, Maddie. Where

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Speaker 1: have we seen any shifting of any kind in terms

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Speaker 1: of positional preference for the Bills at pick twenty eight?

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Speaker 3: So in the first mock draft watch that we released,

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Speaker 3: it was wide receiver heavy, but you did see a

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Speaker 3: couple different position groups pop up here and there, not

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Speaker 3: enough to to trounce the wide receivers that have been

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Speaker 3: mocked to the Bills at number twenty eight. And we're

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Speaker 3: seeing that even more now with the second mock draft

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Speaker 3: that's gonna be released tomorrow morning. It's not out yet,

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Speaker 3: coming out tomorrow morning. We tracked twenty two mock drafts,

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Speaker 3: so bigger volume this time around, so a lot to

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Speaker 3: scroll through.

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Speaker 2: And of those twenty two nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Freaking wide receivers are mocked to the Bills at number

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Speaker 3: twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I think we're just gonna see this continue.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're gonna get some answers in free agency

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Speaker 3: and maybe we'll see even more wide receivers mocked to

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Speaker 3: the Bills at number twenty eight. The other position groups

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Speaker 3: two edge rushers and one center. Where the two other

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Speaker 3: position groups that made up I don't have Draft watch

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Speaker 3: two point zero.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that we've ever seen it. This lopside

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Speaker 1: is in all the years you've been doing this, right,

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Speaker 1: that's as lopsided as I've ever seen it.

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Speaker 3: For one position when we really needed a cornerback in

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Speaker 3: Kyrie draft, we did see similar numbers, but not this bad,

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Speaker 3: not this bad wide receiver down the list and I

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Speaker 3: track them in a spreadsheet and it's just funny to

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Speaker 3: look at because it is all wide receivers so far.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I am happy that Brian Thomas is a very

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Speaker 1: popular pick. He is my favorite receiver that I think

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Speaker 1: has even a shred of a chance to get to Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: But my fear is he's gonna run really fast at

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Speaker 1: the combine, and that's gonna end that conversation precipitously. I

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Speaker 1: do like Troy Franklin too. He's a field stretcher. I

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Speaker 1: just like his separation ability. And he's also not only

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Speaker 1: lined up outside. He's shown some ability to run some

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Speaker 1: inside routes too, so I like the diversity of his

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Speaker 1: route running experience. You know, you get a lot of

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Speaker 1: these college kids, and some of the guys that line

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Speaker 1: up outside they run three routes, They run a go

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Speaker 1: a post in a corner, and they don't run anything

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Speaker 1: else for the rest of their college career. They diversified

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Speaker 1: Franklin's route running at Oregon, which encourages me. I think

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Speaker 1: that makes him more NFL ready. But the Bills need

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Speaker 1: speed outside. I don't think there's any question about it.

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Speaker 1: They haven't had it since John Brown left, and it's

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Speaker 1: I think it's hurt their offense because it doesn't strike

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Speaker 1: fear in an opposing defense that play the cover two

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Speaker 1: shell and it's game over. Keon Coleman, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you feel about him, but Keon Coleman, for me,

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Speaker 1: I worry about how much of a sure thing he is.

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Speaker 1: I know they're all projections. It's an inexact science, but

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Speaker 1: Keon Coleman, it's one year of production at Florida State,

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Speaker 1: so the body of work isn't great, and that worries

787
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Speaker 1: me a little bit because one year wonders kind of

788
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Speaker 1: make the hair on the back of my next stand

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Speaker 1: up in a bad way, not a good way. And

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Speaker 1: he's not known as a separator. This is a physical player,

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Speaker 1: great in contested situations. I don't know if that's what

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Speaker 1: the Bills ideally need. I think they need a separator,

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Speaker 1: a guy that separates early in the down from the

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Speaker 1: defender and is a clear target for Josh, And they

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Speaker 1: need a field stretcher. To me, Franklin does both of

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Speaker 1: those things better than Keon Coleman. So while Coleman might

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Speaker 1: be ranked higher than Franklin on a lot of big

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Speaker 1: boards that we see. That's for the whole league, for

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Speaker 1: what fits the Bills, I think Franklin might be a

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Speaker 1: better fit than Coleman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, keon Coleman, I mean, he had six hundred and

802
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Speaker 3: fifty of receiving yards last year, eleven touchdowns average thirteen

803
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Speaker 3: yards per catch. But when you dig into the numbers

804
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Speaker 3: before that twenty twenty three season he transferred to Florida State,

805
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Speaker 3: was with Michigan before that for two seasons. He had

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Speaker 3: a productive sophomore season, but his freshman year he only

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Speaker 3: had fifty receiving yards and still played in I want

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Speaker 3: to say, eleven or twelve games, So you're really looking

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Speaker 3: at two years of work that he put together, which

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Speaker 3: could be a positive, could be a negative.

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Speaker 2: I feel like in the NFL you want to see

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Speaker 2: guys who.

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Speaker 3: Have a little bit more work, of more games to

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Speaker 3: look at, more than just two years of here's what

815
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Speaker 3: I put on film, Here's what I can offer the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I guess the upside of that is, hey, you've got

817
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Speaker 3: really fresh legs, But the downside of that is, are

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Speaker 3: you polished enough to play within an NFL system? To

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Speaker 3: go up against some of the best NFL defenses, some

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Speaker 3: of the best defenders that you've ever faced. I think

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Speaker 3: he's got great hands. He's got the ability to make

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Speaker 3: one handed catches. I watched some of his highlights and

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Speaker 3: you see a few of those one handed grabs. So

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Speaker 3: he's a great contested catch receiver. He's good going up

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Speaker 3: against big body defenders. I think he's smooth in the

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Speaker 3: way that he moves. You don't always see that with

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Speaker 3: a big lanky guy. I especially with these six four

828
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Speaker 3: wide receivers. He's six four two fifteen. Smoothness doesn't always

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Speaker 3: come with somebody who's six ' four and a little

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Speaker 3: bit more lanky. It might be a little bit harder

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Speaker 3: to move in and out of things. He looks really

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Speaker 3: smooth when he has the football in his hands. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: when I looked at the separation on film, Troy Franklin

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Speaker 3: and Brian Thomas are two receivers who a lot of

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Speaker 3: separation when you're watching their film. Especially Troy Franklin, because

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Speaker 3: of his speed, is like four feet ahead of every

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Speaker 3: single defender when you watch the tape. He is so quick.

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Speaker 3: I love the way he plays. He played in thirty

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Speaker 3: eight games started in UH. Troy Franklin played in forty games,

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Speaker 3: six three, one eighty seven. His breakout season was his

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Speaker 3: junior year. Oh my gosh, thirteen hundred receiving yards broke

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Speaker 3: a lot of records at Oregon. I had the most

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Speaker 3: receiving yards in a single season and the most receiving

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Speaker 3: touchdowns in a single season by an Oregon Duck, and

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Speaker 3: then had the most career receiving touchdowns in program history

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Speaker 3: with twenty five in his three seasons.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He is quick, quick, quick, And you talk about size

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Speaker 3: and smoothness and size and speed. It's also hard to

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Speaker 3: blend size and speed together because when you have a

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Speaker 3: six to three body on you, when you're six '

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Speaker 3: four whatever he's going to measure out to be, it's

853
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Speaker 3: not always easy to be as quick as some of

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Speaker 3: these slot receivers, which is what we saw a lot

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Speaker 3: of in last year's draft class. These slot guys were

856
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Speaker 3: quick and tiny. Well, he's quick and big, and I

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Speaker 3: want to see separator like that on the Bills offense.

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Speaker 3: You talked about John Brown, and I just I think

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Speaker 3: about John Brown and Cole Beasley playing together and how

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Speaker 3: easy it was for Josh Allen to dink and dunk

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Speaker 3: his way down the field. You had Cole Beasley right

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Speaker 3: there in the flat. You had John Brown down the

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Speaker 3: field for those big plays that the offense did a

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Speaker 3: great job with. And I think we're ranked like top five,

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Speaker 3: top ten during those couple seasons that John Brown was

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Speaker 3: on the roster. But I would love to see something

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Speaker 3: like that again. He's a smooth player, He's got some

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Speaker 3: nice moves to him. I think he's a great route runner.

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Speaker 3: He does a great job of tracking the ball. Speaking

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Speaker 3: of Troy Franklin, so I'm a fan of Troy Franklin.

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Speaker 3: I also love Brian Thomas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is mock Draft Watch two point zero. Stay

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Speaker 1: tuned to Buffalo Bills dot com for future additions as

874
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Speaker 1: we inch our way closer to the draft at the

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Speaker 1: end of April. Got to take a break here, Maddy

876
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Speaker 1: and I back to answer more of your questions at

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Speaker 1: eighth three oh five fifty and we got Mike Reese,

878
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Speaker 1: who covers the Patriots, coming up an hour number two

879
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: to see what's on there to do list this offseason.

880
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Speaker 1: Plenty more coming your way here on one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned all right back here on one Bill's Live.

882
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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Maddy glab with you on a Friday obl

883
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Speaker 1: Friday fan mailbag. So let's get to a couple of

884
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Speaker 1: phone calls and we go to Selly in Buffalo next.

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Speaker 1: What's up, Selly?

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Speaker 11: Hello Brownie, Hey Maddie, how are you good? So coach

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Speaker 11: mcdermot's been added to the rules committee. Correct, competition committee, Yes, oh,

888
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Speaker 11: competition committee, all right, and they'll review rules changes and

889
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Speaker 11: things like that.

890
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Speaker 1: So you're not wrong in calling it that. It's just

891
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Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know what they actually call it,

892
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Speaker 1: that's all.

893
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Speaker 11: So I had a suggestion slash thought that I wanted

894
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Speaker 11: to share and see what you guys thought. And my

895
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Speaker 11: example is Bill's Patriots twenty nineteen when Josh got nailed

896
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Speaker 11: on the head to head hit when he was running

897
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Speaker 11: and he actually got concussed in out of the game,

898
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Speaker 11: and there was a personal foul called on the Patriots player,

899
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Speaker 11: but also fifteen yards behind the play, there was a

900
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Speaker 11: hold on the Bills one of the offensive lineman. I

901
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Speaker 11: can't remember who it was, but the rest called offsetting penalties.

902
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Speaker 11: And I just think personal fouls on sportsman like conduct,

903
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Speaker 11: unnecessary roughness, outweighs, offside or a hole, and I just

904
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Speaker 11: think that needs to be reviewed whether or not that

905
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Speaker 11: should be offsetting. I think the personal fouls outweigh and

906
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Speaker 11: they should probably be upheld, And I just was curious

907
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Speaker 11: to your thoughts on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting thought because under the letter of

909
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Speaker 1: the law, they don't technically offset because one is a

910
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Speaker 1: fifteen yard penalty and one is a ten yard penalty.

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Speaker 1: So I understand where you're coming from from that standpoint,

912
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Speaker 1: and not all of them are that. I know last

913
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Speaker 1: year they increased the tripping penalty from a ten yard

914
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Speaker 1: penalty to a fifteen yarder. So if I suppose if

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Speaker 1: you had a personal foul over here on this side

916
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Speaker 1: and a tripping penalty on this side, those would offset

917
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Speaker 1: because they equal the same amount of penalty yardage. I

918
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Speaker 1: don't know how you would. I'm trying to think of

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Speaker 1: a uniform way to adjudicate that to determine whether they

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Speaker 1: do offset or in certain cases, when you have two

921
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Speaker 1: penalties on the same play, one for each team, they

922
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Speaker 1: don't offset and you have to kind of split the

923
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Speaker 1: difference or figure out some way to do that. But

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Speaker 1: guess what, Maddie, we have Sean McDermott on the show

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Speaker 1: next week, we can ask him about this and see

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Speaker 1: what he thinks. Since he is a new member of

927
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Speaker 1: the competition, I think we got to balance this off him.

928
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Speaker 1: I going to write that down right now for Sully

929
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Speaker 1: and we'll ask him that for next week and see

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Speaker 1: what he thinks and see if there's a way around that.

931
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Speaker 1: So thanks for submitting question. That was a good one.

932
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Speaker 1: Let's move along to Tom and Lackawana before the break here.

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Speaker 1: What do you got Tom?

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Speaker 5: Hey, how's it going? Real quick? Maybe? I know you

935
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Speaker 5: got a guest coming up, so you may not be

936
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Speaker 5: able to answer all of it fully, But I've got

937
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Speaker 5: two areas injuries and injury settlement and how that works

938
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Speaker 5: for like, for instance, Trey White, if he already we've

939
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Speaker 5: negotiatd negotiated his contract and some of it's paid up

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Speaker 5: his bonus earlier and all that other stuff, I would

941
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Speaker 5: imagine that's still chargeable against you. Who can the bills?

942
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Speaker 5: Both sides have to agree on the injury settlement and

943
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Speaker 5: then he may not be back to October or whatever.

944
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Speaker 5: Do you have to wait for him to be healthy

945
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Speaker 5: if you try to resign him, and are you allowed

946
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Speaker 5: to resign him? And then the other thing is how

947
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Speaker 5: to avoidable years and contracts work.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so part one. I know if you do an

949
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Speaker 1: injury settlement during the year, that player can't come back

950
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Speaker 1: to you a team until in allotted amount of time.

951
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Speaker 1: And I don't remember off the top of my head.

952
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Speaker 1: It used to be they could not come back and

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Speaker 1: play for you the rest of that season, and the

954
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Speaker 1: reason why was they were trying to prevent teams from

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Speaker 1: taking advantage of using that as a loophole to move

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Speaker 1: somebody off the roster who's not healthy and then bring

957
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Speaker 1: them back as soon as possible. If you're going to

958
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Speaker 1: reach an injury settlement with a player, they can't come

959
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Speaker 1: back to you at all in that season. But that

960
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Speaker 1: has since changed. I don't remember the exact language, but

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Speaker 1: I think they can come back very very late in

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Speaker 1: the year, with like two games left in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: How that would work or function in the off season

964
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Speaker 1: if the Bills decide to do that, I'm not one

965
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Speaker 1: hundred percent sure, but I know during the season it's

966
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Speaker 1: usually the case they cannot come right back to the team.

967
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Speaker 1: When they are healthy. They can play for thirty one

968
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Speaker 1: other teams if somebody else wants their services. And I

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Speaker 1: know you asked also Tom about would they be able

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Speaker 1: to re sign him before he's healthy. That's you usually unlikely.

971
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Speaker 1: Teams usually want the player to pass a physical, make

972
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Speaker 1: sure they're healthy before they sign the player, even somebody

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Speaker 1: with a long history with them, like a Tradavious White

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Speaker 1: for example.

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Speaker 3: Injury settlement rules with being resigned, it says a player

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Speaker 3: cannot be resigned by that team until after the term

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Speaker 3: of the injury settlement, which is the number of weeks

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Speaker 3: used to calculate the injury settlement plus three additional weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the new letter of the law, three

980
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Speaker 1: additional weeks after the full term of the injury. So

981
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Speaker 1: there is still a window for another team to kind

982
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Speaker 1: of swoop in, because I don't think that would apply

983
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Speaker 1: to any of the other thirty one teams because they

984
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Speaker 1: did not reach the injury settlement with that player. So

985
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 1: it used to be you could never come back to

986
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: that team for the rest of that year, but they've

987
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: obviously amended that. As Maddie explained last thing with voidable years,

988
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 1: it's simply, for lack of a better description, fake years

989
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: on a contract to spread out signing bonus. But the

990
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Speaker 1: player does not have a base salary for those years,

991
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: they still become a free agent when the contract voids.

992
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: It's a gimmick to help teams spread out signing bonuses.

993
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: They just tack on two voidable years at the end

994
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: of the deal to spread the money out further. I

995
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: think there are some limitations to that, but that's in

996
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: essence what voidable years do. Gotta take a break here

997
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: because when we come back, our number two begins with

998
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Speaker 1: ESPN dot Com reporter Mike Reats, who's covered the Patriots

999
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,839
Speaker 1: for well about a quarter century. Now it's a new

1000
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: age up there in New England. We'll get the four

1001
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: to one one from him next here on One Bill's Live.

1002
00:52:35,520 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: Stay tuned The One Bills Live, presented by Calllida Health.

1003
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,720
Speaker 1: All Right, welcome to Hour number two on a Friday.

1004
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Maddy lab with you, and please to bring

1005
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: in now to broaden our discussion as we talk a

1006
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: little AFC East. Here a guy that's covered the Patriots

1007
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 1: for a long long time, ESPN NFL Nation Patriots reporter

1008
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: Mike Reese joining us on the program. Mike, thanks for

1009
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: joining us here, especially in the off season, because we

1010
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: do enough of this during the season, So thanks for

1011
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: giving us a little bit of time. I want to

1012
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 1: start right at the top of the food chain for

1013
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots organization now, because you often don't hear or

1014
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: at least during the Belichick are you almost never heard

1015
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: of the front office people doing a lot of the

1016
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: work behind the scene. But you know, Elliott Wolf is

1017
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: a guy that's been there for a little while and now,

1018
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: from what we understand, is going to for all intents

1019
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: and purposes, serve as the general manager. What do what

1020
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: do we need to know about him and his roster

1021
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: building philosophy. I guess I should ask.

1022
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Speaker 6: Chris and Maddie Great to be with you. It's never

1023
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 6: off season. I love that. I love that you're always

1024
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:29,399
Speaker 6: on and that we're always talking football three sixty five,

1025
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:33,919
Speaker 6: twenty four seven. So you're right on with Elliott. At

1026
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 6: the combine next week, I know everyone's heading out to Indianapolis,

1027
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 6: Elliot Wolf is going to be doing the interview for

1028
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 6: the Patriots, so he's going to be the voice that

1029
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 6: everyone hears. So I think it's reflective of the leadership

1030
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 6: role that he's taking in the front office. And just

1031
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 6: like big picture, they're transitioning away from the model of

1032
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 6: the head coach, Bill Belichick having final say, and it's

1033
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 6: going to be a more collaborative setup with Girodmeo the

1034
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 6: new head coach and Elliott Wolf leading the front office

1035
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 6: and sort of merging those two things together. So a

1036
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 6: little bit more of that. And Elliot's the son of

1037
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 6: Ron Wolf, the Pro Football Hall of Famer, longtime Packers executive,

1038
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 6: you know. And I've actually been learning more about Elliott

1039
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 6: through those who work with Ron, you know, because that's

1040
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 6: how Elliott came up through the ranks under his dad

1041
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 6: in Green Bay.

1042
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Speaker 3: So we'll see what Elliott looks like in his first

1043
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 3: draft coming up in a few months, and we'll see

1044
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 3: him at the combine and kind of what it looks

1045
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 3: like to merge him and drowd Mayo together when it

1046
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 3: comes to drafting and free agency and all those things.

1047
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 3: But you wrote a great article on ESPN dot com

1048
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 3: about what the Patriots should do with that number three pick.

1049
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 3: Do you go after a quarterback? Do you go after

1050
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 3: a wide receiver? Do you go after a quarterback? And

1051
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 3: free agency is Mac does Mac Jones maybe still have

1052
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 3: a future with the Patriots. You kind of went through

1053
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 3: every thing, but let's start with that number three pick.

1054
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 3: What are you hearing about what the Patriots may do

1055
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 3: with it? What do you think the Patriots should do

1056
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 3: with it?

1057
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 12: Oh Man, Maddie.

1058
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 6: So Alex van Pelt, who, of course Bill's fans know

1059
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:17,760
Speaker 6: from his time as a player there and a coach,

1060
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 6: we talked to him the new offensive coordinator on Wednesday,

1061
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 6: and specific to the quarterback position, he said, everything's on

1062
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Speaker 6: the table. And so like the hard part, Maddie for

1063
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 6: me is at number three, you hope that you're never

1064
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Speaker 6: up there again. And so I do understand people that say, like,

1065
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 6: you gotta go take the quarterback because there's no guarantee

1066
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Speaker 6: that there's going to be a quarterback wherever you're picking

1067
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Speaker 6: next year. That being said, like I'm so conflicted, Maddie,

1068
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Speaker 6: Like if you ask me what I think they should

1069
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Speaker 6: do with it, Like if you what I tell you today,

1070
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Speaker 6: I might change my opinion tomorrow. So it's probably a

1071
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Speaker 6: good thing I'm not running the team, right. It's you

1072
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 6: see the US at quarterback, like, so you know all

1073
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Speaker 6: these years like twenty twenty one when they had you know,

1074
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Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence one that looks okay, Zack Wilson number two

1075
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Speaker 6: that didn't work out.

1076
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Speaker 13: Trey Lance number three, that didn't work out, Justin Field's

1077
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Speaker 13: number eleven. They might replace him with Caleb Williams this year,

1078
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Speaker 13: Mac Jones at fifteen. So to me today, I'm almost

1079
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Speaker 13: of the mindset of like, built the team and then

1080
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Speaker 13: go get the quarterback. But then I stopped myself, Maddie,

1081
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 13: and I say, well, wait a minute. Everyone's saying, maybe

1082
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Speaker 13: Drake May could be another Josh Allen, like, don't you

1083
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 13: have to go for Drake May?

1084
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 6: So, my goodness, I don't know.

1085
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 12: You just go back and forth, You just spin your wheels.

1086
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: Right, And there is something to be said, though, Mike,

1087
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: for what you brought up, which was, you know, you

1088
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 1: got to build the team before you drop a quarterback

1089
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: in there, because look at what happened to Justin Fields.

1090
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: There was no offensive structure or roster to speak of

1091
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: in Chicago, and Justin Fields got his head caved in

1092
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: like that whole first year and it probably set him back.

1093
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: It led to a coaching change. You had a new

1094
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: offensive system coming in for him, and we all know

1095
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: how that stunts a young quarterback's growth. And that's why

1096
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: the Bears are where they are now. Fortunately they have

1097
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: the first pick, and Caleb Williams looks like a sure

1098
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: thing as you can get. So I think there is

1099
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: an argument to be made because New England's offensive roster

1100
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: is nothing to write home about right now. The defense

1101
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: is probably the stronger part of their club. They got

1102
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:35,439
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do on the offensive side

1103
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: of the ball. Could you could if the quarterback is

1104
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: not in the cards for them at three, could you

1105
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: see them moving out of that spot to try to

1106
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: get more draft capital to refurbish the offensive side of

1107
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 1: the ball even further kind of fast tracking.

1108
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 6: I could see it. Yeah, I could see it. Chris

1109
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 6: and Maddie referenced the article on ESPN that was one

1110
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 6: of the scenarios that we looked at. You know, Miami

1111
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 6: in that twenty twenty one draft was at number three

1112
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 6: and the forty nine ers had that conviction of, you know,

1113
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 6: we want to go up for Trey Lance and they

1114
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 6: gave up. So Miami moved back to twelve and they

1115
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 6: got a first round pick the next year, a first

1116
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 6: round pick the year after that, and a third round pick.

1117
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 6: And Chris, your point is so spot on this offensive

1118
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 6: roster for the Patriots, they are not one player away

1119
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 6: and so you could make the case that that would

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00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 6: be a great trade for the Patriots just based on

1121
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 6: all their needs. But then you stop yourself and you say, well,

1122
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 6: it's a great trade unless you're moving away from a

1123
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 6: pick that could be another Josh Allen or I'll put

1124
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 6: Justin Herbert in there, not to compare them, but you know,

1125
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 6: or I mean Patrick Mahomes, I know that that's so rare.

1126
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 6: So I think that's what you're always balancing here with

1127
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 6: all these scenarios. And to your point, like what if

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00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 6: I heard from the Patriots Literally, I think it's so

1129
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 6: early for them right now. I don't think they're talking

1130
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 6: draft strategy like that at this point. They're just trying

1131
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 6: to correctly evaluate not just the players in the draft,

1132
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 6: but the players on their own roster so they can

1133
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 6: feel like they can go ahead and make what they

1134
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 6: feel like is the best decision when that time comes.

1135
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you talk about evaluating, I mean you're taking

1136
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 3: in all this information on these quarterbacks, and when you're

1137
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 3: at number three, it's an interesting spot to be in,

1138
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 3: especially in a quarterback heavy first round of this draft,

1139
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 3: when we could see one, two, three be quarterbacks and

1140
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 3: maybe a couple others taken at the end of the

1141
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 3: first round as well. But when you're sitting in that

1142
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 3: number three spot, you have to really fall in love

1143
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 3: with the guy that you think is going to be

1144
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:48,479
Speaker 3: available at number three, because it's not like you're gonna

1145
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 3: fall in love with Caleb Williams and be like, yeah,

1146
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 3: he's gonna be available at number three. No, he's probably

1147
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 3: gonna go at number one. And so when you're at

1148
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 3: number three, you don't want to be backed into a

1149
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 3: corner to where you feel like, well, I have to

1150
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 3: take a quarterback, but I'm not in love with this guy.

1151
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 3: So it's a tough thing to deal with, and it's

1152
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 3: conversations that you probably need to be having with your

1153
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 3: scouting staff and your coaching staff to figure out, Hey,

1154
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 3: if there's a quarterback on the board at number three,

1155
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 3: do we love him enough to take him?

1156
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,919
Speaker 6: And Maddie, that's right on. I was talking with one

1157
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 6: general manager earlier this week and just said, what do

1158
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 6: you think of the position the Patriots are in? And

1159
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 6: the opinion of this general manager was actually, sort of

1160
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 6: like the spot they're in because you can sit there

1161
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 6: and let whatever you know falls to you. You know,

1162
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 6: the quarterback right, because you're right, Caleb Williams. One, let's

1163
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,959
Speaker 6: just say, and then it's either Jaden Daniels or Drake

1164
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 6: May And unless you feel like so convicted on one

1165
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 6: of those two that you want to try to trade up,

1166
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 6: sit there whoever falls to you. You then almost the

1167
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 6: decisions made for you, like you're either convicted on that

1168
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 6: quarterback or you're not, and then you either take the

1169
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 6: next best available player Marvin Harrison, junior receiver, Joe All

1170
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 6: offensive tackle Notre Dame, or you trade down. Like we

1171
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 6: talked about, so the general manager perspective that I spoke

1172
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 6: with was almost like, the way you're positioned, it makes

1173
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 6: the choice a little bit simplified for you from this

1174
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 6: general manager's perspective.

1175
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 1: Cab space, Mike, we talked about how the offense kind

1176
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: of needs an overhaul in terms of refortifiing the quality

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01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: of the personnel on that side of the ball. Prior

1178
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: to today's announcement, they were already looking at about seventy

1179
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: million in cab space to work with. Now it's about

1180
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: eighty two to eighty three million in cab space. Bob

1181
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: Kraft may not be thrilled to hear that there's more

1182
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: money to spend, But what do we anticipate? I realized

1183
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: there isn't much of a history on Elliot Wolf's leanings

1184
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: to go on here in terms of free agent spending.

1185
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: But knowing the holes that they have to fill on

1186
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, coupled with the cap

1187
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: space they have at their disposal, do you think they

1188
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 1: try to make a couple of big splashes and then

1189
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: go budgetary the rest of the way. Do you have

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01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 1: a hunch on what the approach and free agency might be.

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01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 6: I do, and I think they want to get back

1192
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 6: to draft, develop, resign, that's the best model. I actually

1193
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 6: use Matt Mulano as the classic example of this Stith

1194
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 6: round pick Buffalo, bring them in, develop them in your system,

1195
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 6: love what you see, resign them like that's the way

1196
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 6: to do it, right, And I think that's what Brandon,

1197
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 6: in my opinion and Sean have done a great job

1198
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 6: at from my view from Foxborough, Massachusetts. So that's what

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01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 6: they want to do. And so with all that cap space,

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01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 6: head coach Drameo has said they're ready to burn some cash,

1201
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 6: which I thought was hilarious and just in terms of

1202
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 6: how he is about their willingness to spend. They actually have,

1203
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 6: you know, players that as as dire as their talent

1204
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 6: situation looks in certain areas like safety, Kyle Duggar like

1205
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 6: like he's a free agent, like re sign him. Micah

1206
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 6: Wenthu maybe their best offensive lineman, he's a free agent,

1207
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 6: you have to resign him. And the Josh Ucha one

1208
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 6: of their best pass rushers, got to resign them. So

1209
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 6: they have a lot of actually internal free agents that

1210
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 6: are important that that I think that's where it starts.

1211
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 6: And then however that unfolds, will see him spend, you

1212
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,000
Speaker 6: know a little bit, and maybe even extend a guy

1213
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 6: who's a year away, Christian Barmore, defensive tackle, to just

1214
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 6: try to start to get ahead of that and set

1215
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 6: a little bit of a statement, a little bit of

1216
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 6: a tone as to how they want to proceed business

1217
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 6: wise going forward.

1218
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of some of those free agents on defense

1219
01:04:57,800 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 3: that the Patriots could resign, I mean, they had a

1220
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 3: four in thirteen season last year, but their defense was

1221
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 3: still competitive at times. If they decide to re sign

1222
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 3: some of those guys who are free agents, do you

1223
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 3: think and of course build through the draft and free agency,

1224
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 3: do you think that type of defense that Bill Belichick

1225
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 3: ran that everybody knew year after year, even if they

1226
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 3: didn't have the most talented offense, you knew they were

1227
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 3: still going to bring it on defense. Do you feel

1228
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 3: like that's gonna continue with Grodmeyo, knowing what he did

1229
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 3: during his days in New England.

1230
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna go yes and no, Maddie, And here's

1231
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 6: here's my yes and no. So yes, it'll continue in

1232
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 6: this sense. The new defensive coordinator is DeMarcus Covington. He

1233
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 6: was their defensive line coach over the last four years,

1234
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 6: and we talked to him on Wednesday and he said,

1235
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 6: scheme wise, like, it's gonna look similar to what we've seen.

1236
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:52,160
Speaker 6: So I think they have their talent as sound is solid,

1237
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:55,520
Speaker 6: they're going to keep adding to it, tweaking it, and

1238
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 6: so I think they're gonna run the same scheme. So

1239
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 6: in that sense, yes, And here's where I say, know

1240
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:06,560
Speaker 6: Bill Belichick, it's like the brilliance of what he does

1241
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 6: to scheme wise defensively. And I actually I think Sean

1242
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 6: would be awesome if he would ever talk about this,

1243
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 6: like the different plans that the Patriots would come up

1244
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 6: for with when they're playing the Bills and Josh Allen.

1245
01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:25,400
Speaker 12: That's been such a focus for them here the last

1246
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 12: call it, you know, a handful of years as the

1247
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 12: Bills have risen up to be the class of the

1248
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 12: AFC East, and they might still be able to do

1249
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 12: that in New England with Jirabmeo the head coach who

1250
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 12: was the linebackers coach. But I leave it a little

1251
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 12: bit of I don't want to say it's the definitive

1252
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 12: thing because I feel like the brain power that you're

1253
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 12: losing with Bill Belichick not being here is something that

1254
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 12: I don't discount as being a factor going forward.

1255
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: Getting back real quick to the Dugger situation, Mike once again,

1256
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: and the safety market is going to be flush with

1257
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 1: a slew of starting players. Last year we saw a

1258
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: very depressed safety market economically, almost to the point where

1259
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: it's like the running back position of defense. I know

1260
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: there have been reports out there that Kyle Duggar could

1261
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 1: be a franchise tag candidate, but in a market that

1262
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 1: we anticipate is going to be so flush with starting

1263
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 1: caliber talent at the safety position, I'd like to believe

1264
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: that the Patriots could find a way to a long

1265
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 1: term extension for Dugger and avoid the tag completely, especially

1266
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: with so much other starting caliber talent out there at

1267
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 1: the position.

1268
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 6: Chris, I know I said this the last time I

1269
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 6: was on, but like just the fact that you pop

1270
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:47,960
Speaker 6: up a graphic like this with all the free agents

1271
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 6: like this is unbelievable. Great stuff. I know for real,

1272
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 6: it's great stuff. Because I was about to mention Winfield

1273
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 6: and you know McKinney, and it's right there on the screen.

1274
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 6: It's unreal to me. I agree with you. I think

1275
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:07,439
Speaker 6: the issue to me is twofold number one. He's been here,

1276
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 6: Dougar has been here for four years and you haven't

1277
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 6: had an extension yet. So if you're Douger, you sort

1278
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 6: of owe it to yourself to go out on the market.

1279
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 6: And now if you're the Patriots, you sort of lose

1280
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 6: a little leverage. If that happens. You're relying on him

1281
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:25,679
Speaker 6: to keep talking with you and to want to come back.

1282
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 6: And that's why I think the tag is just I

1283
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 6: don't know if they're going to tag him, but that's

1284
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,799
Speaker 6: why I think they would consider the tag at seventeen million,

1285
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:38,440
Speaker 6: just from a leverage standpoint, it just keeps the Patriots

1286
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:41,360
Speaker 6: a little bit, gives them a little more control because

1287
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 6: I don't believe they would want to lose Kyle Dugger,

1288
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 6: a very valuable piece to the defense. The other piece

1289
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 6: of this, and I learned this from listening to Daniel

1290
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 6: Jeremiah on his NFL media draft conference call yesterday. The

1291
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:57,719
Speaker 6: draft is not considered deep at safety. So I wonder

1292
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 6: how much that thought is married up with the free

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Speaker 6: agent market. If teams know they am might not be

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Speaker 6: able to get a safety in the draft that we

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01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 6: feel great about, maybe that ups the level of compensation

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Speaker 6: we see in the safety market, veteran veteran market.

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Speaker 1: So just to be clear, you kind of see the

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Speaker 1: tag for the Patriots as a potential placeholder to buy

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Speaker 1: them more time to get to an extension.

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Speaker 6: That's right, Chris, And I think one other thing, and

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Speaker 6: this is the reality of where they are in New

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Speaker 6: England right now. And I would actually be curious both

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Speaker 6: of yours your opinion of this specific to maybe the

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01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 6: way it was in the past in Buffalo. The Patriots

1305
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 6: might have to pay a little more, you know, right now,

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01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 6: just based on there where they are, you know, as

1307
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 6: a franchise New England. For some players, it's cold, you know,

1308
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 6: like cost of living here is a little higher. So

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01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 6: I don't know if you would agree with this With

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01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,559
Speaker 6: like Buffalo, before Josh got there, those were some lean

1311
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 6: years in Orchard Park, and maybe there was a feeling

1312
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 6: that we got to pay a little more, yeah, to

1313
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 6: just get players in and retain them. Do you do

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01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 6: you think that's a fair point that I'm making.

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Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely no. The bill, the bills when they you know,

1316
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 1: they didn't have a franchise. Quarterback coaches were getting cycled

1317
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,360
Speaker 1: through like every two years, and they had to overpay

1318
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: for people, sometimes grossly so and that doesn't come without

1319
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:27,719
Speaker 1: mistakes too. I mean, I still remember the Derek Dockery contract.

1320
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,839
Speaker 1: They sign a guard from Washington to like a fifty

1321
01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 1: million dollar deal is the biggest contract in team history

1322
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:38,679
Speaker 1: for a guard. It was insane, and two years later

1323
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: he's not even on the roster. Mario Williams they got

1324
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:43,720
Speaker 1: to come here in twenty thirteen, but they had to

1325
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: give him ninety six million dollars to come here, and

1326
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: it still took three days where they basically held him

1327
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 1: hostage in Buffalo to finish the deal. So yes, I

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01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 1: think you're totally on the mark with that devoid of

1329
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback right now, new coaching staff, and you

1330
01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: know a last place finish or not not the where

1331
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:08,719
Speaker 1: the Jets behind you? Guys, I can't remember last place finish. Yeah,

1332
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 1: I think you gotta you gotta pony up the money

1333
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 1: to kind of make up for not knowing what the

1334
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: future holds.

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Speaker 2: And in terms of in terms of weather too.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, even with Buffalo, we have the quarterback,

1337
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 3: we have the team, but still you gotta sell people

1338
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:25,680
Speaker 3: on hey, do you want to actually live here? Do

1339
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 3: you want to live in a place where it's easy?

1340
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 3: We have we have winter for a while, but it's easier,

1341
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:33,560
Speaker 3: but it's still it's still something that's like, hey, we

1342
01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 3: got palm trees.

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Speaker 2: Come on in and Josh Allen.

1344
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys do have us beat on state tax

1345
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: though in Massachusetts there so you got us beat in

1346
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 1: that department. Mike, do you think that the Patriots will

1347
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: be I mean, I know you mentioned the Gerad Mayo

1348
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: burn money to burn comment. Do you do you get

1349
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 1: the sense that they'll try to be active, like right

1350
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: the bell for one or two players to kind of

1351
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 1: make a splash and show people they're serious and maybe

1352
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 1: convince other free agents. Oh, they signed that guy on

1353
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 1: day one. Maybe that is a place I should consider more.

1354
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Speaker 6: That would not surprise me, Chris. I think you remember

1355
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 6: twenty twenty one, the year coming out of the COVID

1356
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:25,360
Speaker 6: year they spent like crazy. That was the Matthew Judon,

1357
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 6: Devon Godchaw Hunter, Henry John hus Smith. It was at

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01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 6: the time. I think they spent one hundred and sixty

1359
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 6: three million and guaranteed money in unrestricted free agency. So

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Speaker 6: I could see him maybe not going to that extreme,

1361
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:45,280
Speaker 6: but one or two players to just get get one

1362
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 6: on the board, per se. But what they really want

1363
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 6: to do is draft, get back to better drafting, and

1364
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 6: then developing and re signing. So I don't see them

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01:12:56,040 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 6: being like the same volume as twenty twenty one. Depending

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01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 6: on how it goes with their own free agents. I

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01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 6: certainly could see him being active in the veteran free

1368
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 6: agent market players from other teams.

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Speaker 1: There will be something to watch. They got money to

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01:13:10,479 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 1: spend for sure, especially with this new camp ceiling. Holy cow, Mike,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the time appreciated. As always, We'll catch up

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Speaker 1: with you down the line here in the offseason.

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01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 6: Look forward to and tell Steve Tasker that I was

1374
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,759
Speaker 6: asking for him. He helped me out with a great

1375
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:28,599
Speaker 6: story about Alex Van Pelt. You know that I wrote

1376
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks ago. And just appreciate all you

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01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 6: out there. I just I love the connection we have

1378
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:33,759
Speaker 6: over the years.

1379
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 12: Just like twenty five years we've been talking ball.

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01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, the next time you see the next time you

1381
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:41,679
Speaker 1: see avp telling Chris Brown said, helloone, he was great

1382
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,720
Speaker 1: with us. Missed that guy. He's a great dude. You're

1383
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,679
Speaker 1: gonna love him definitely.

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01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:48,840
Speaker 6: And Maddie, great talking with you. And look forward to

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Speaker 6: the next time too.

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Speaker 1: All right, take care, Mike. That's Mike Reese from ESPN

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01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 1: dot com, NFL writer for the New England Patriots. I'm

1388
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 1: gonna have to text him because there's a really there's

1389
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: like a perfect built in story for a Patriots reporter.

1390
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 1: Because Alex Van Pelt's first game as offensive coordinator for

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01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: the Bills, he had one week to prepare. The head

1392
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: coach fired the offensive coordinator a week before the season, right,

1393
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:20,520
Speaker 1: and Alex Van Pelt, who only had play calling experience

1394
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 1: in NFL Europe as a coordinator, had to prepare for

1395
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots in two thousand and nine, on Monday,

1396
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:32,439
Speaker 1: Night football season opener, and you want to know what

1397
01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:36,280
Speaker 1: he called a fantastic game. The Bills were up twenty

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01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 1: four to thirteen, like late third quarter, and then the

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01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 1: bottom fell out. It's a one score game. And then

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01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 1: Liotis McKelvin fumbled a kickoff return for the Bills. It

1401
01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 1: went to the Patriots. They marched it in won the

1402
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 1: game twenty five twenty four. Wow, heartbreaker. But it's a

1403
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,599
Speaker 1: really good story. I don't read that, so I gotta

1404
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:57,840
Speaker 1: tell him about that and tell him to do a

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01:14:57,840 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 1: story on that next time he talks to him. Got

1406
01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 1: to take a break here. When we come back, we'll

1407
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,760
Speaker 1: get on the tweet sheet to find out what your

1408
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:07,599
Speaker 1: questions are in the OBL Friday fan mail bag there

1409
01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:09,640
Speaker 1: and do our best to answer them here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's.

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Speaker 10: Raady All right back here on One Bill's Live on

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01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 10: a Friday, Chris Brown, Maddy Glab with you, and we're

1413
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:30,559
Speaker 10: gonna crack open the OBL Friday fan mail.

1414
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Speaker 1: Bag on the tweet sheet, which is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Coregan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

1416
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:38,559
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and ED has The first question says,

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01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:41,719
Speaker 1: was there any attempt by the Bills to sign mad

1418
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: Riza or was that chapter already closed? We don't know.

1419
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the nuts and bolts of it. I

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01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 1: don't know if they had kept in contact with him,

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01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: had any plans to bring him back. I do know

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01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:04,559
Speaker 1: that Sam Martin's under contract for next season, so they

1423
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: don't necessarily have a hole at the position. I suppose

1424
01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 1: you could argue that Ariza would presumably save them money

1425
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 1: on the salary cap. Trying to remember if Risa is

1426
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:18,680
Speaker 1: entering the last or if Sam Martin is entering the

1427
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: last year of his dealer, if he has another year

1428
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 1: left on that contract, I think I have a sheet here.

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01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 1: I can check in just a second. But I know

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01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: he's under contract for twenty twenty four, so.

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01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 3: He's under contract for the next two years.

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01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, two years left, Okay, so he's got two years

1433
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 1: left on his deal. Not to say that you can't

1434
01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 1: move on from a player if you think you can

1435
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: do better. I think we also have to consider this

1436
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 1: from Matt Riza's point of view. Things got pretty lousy

1437
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:52,320
Speaker 1: here when all that stuff was going down, when he

1438
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:54,680
Speaker 1: was in a Bill's uniform, he got ugly. I mean,

1439
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: I remember taking phone calls here that were not pretty either.

1440
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he was presumed guilty before he was declared innocent.

1441
01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 1: And look, I'm not making light of the charges. Very

1442
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: serious charges to be taken seriously, but you gotta let

1443
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: the courts and the case proceed through the courts, and

1444
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: it was proven that he was in fact innocent, so

1445
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 1: much so that the charges were even dropped in the

1446
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: civil suit. He was proven innocent in the criminal case

1447
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:29,679
Speaker 1: and the charge he was removed from the names listed

1448
01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 1: in the civil case because of his innocence. So it's

1449
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: a shame that it turned out the way it did.

1450
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 1: But if you're mad Riza, as much as you want

1451
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,719
Speaker 1: an NFL opportunity, you may not want to go back

1452
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 1: to where all the mess started, if that makes sense,

1453
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.

1454
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 3: Yep, memories attached to that maybe not the best, maybe

1455
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 3: not the happiest because of what happened here while he

1456
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 3: was going through everything. I would probably want a fresh start,

1457
01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:59,240
Speaker 3: and I don't think anybody, I don't think anybody would

1458
01:17:59,240 --> 01:18:01,760
Speaker 3: say otherwise. Feel like people would understand that, I want

1459
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:06,480
Speaker 3: to say. Brandon Bean was asked a similar question this offseason,

1460
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 3: and I think the answer he gave was like, Hey,

1461
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,240
Speaker 3: Sam Martin's on her contract right now, so we're not

1462
01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 3: looking at punters. We don't need that position group. So

1463
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:18,600
Speaker 3: he basically said that's we're not thinking about resigning or

1464
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 3: bringing matt Riza back because we're good at that spot

1465
01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:22,240
Speaker 3: right now.

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01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: Right And there's a secondary component to that also, which

1467
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: is the kicking operation. And for the first time in

1468
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: like three years, Tyler Bass finally had the same snapper

1469
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:35,640
Speaker 1: and holder from one year to the next, which was

1470
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 1: twenty two to twenty three. Now, Tyler Bass didn't have

1471
01:18:39,479 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: his best season this year, but I think they want

1472
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:45,639
Speaker 1: to maintain the continuity of that operation as well going

1473
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: forward and try to get it right and sound for

1474
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:51,639
Speaker 1: next season. Jeffrey asks in the mail bag, if Trey

1475
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 1: White is a possible cut casualty, does he have to

1476
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 1: pass a physical prior to anything happening, perhaps hines two.

1477
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 1: The answer to that is no, because in the off

1478
01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 1: season you can release a player failed physical. That is

1479
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 1: an option, So they do not have to wait until

1480
01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,599
Speaker 1: Trey White can pass a physical to release him if

1481
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: they choose to go down that road. And that is

1482
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:18,760
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Maddie. That is one thing that

1483
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: really sucks in this whole equation with Trudevius White, because

1484
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 1: the prognosis for his recovery is bad timing. It does

1485
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 1: not line up with when this organization has to make

1486
01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 1: fiscal decisions on their salary cap and their budgeting for

1487
01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 1: the upcoming year. He's probably not going to be ready

1488
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: before the start of the regular season. Ye and at

1489
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:45,920
Speaker 1: that cap figure, it just doesn't compute for what is

1490
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: considered good business in the NFL in this salary cap area.

1491
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: It's really a shame that the timing is so lousy

1492
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: and they may have to get to that point.

1493
01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 2: I will say a lot of the guys are gone.

1494
01:19:57,400 --> 01:19:59,679
Speaker 3: I mean almost every single player who's on this team

1495
01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 3: last ser is out where he lives in the off season, traveling,

1496
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 3: going on vacations.

1497
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:08,920
Speaker 2: One of the few still.

1498
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:11,679
Speaker 3: In here, Trey White, is working hard to get better,

1499
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 3: to get healthier, to recover. So this man has been

1500
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,719
Speaker 3: in this building while a lot of people are out

1501
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 3: kicking their feet up, relaxing.

1502
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 1: He's working hard. I mean, he's doing his best. But

1503
01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 1: as we know, Achilles injuries, yes take time, a lot

1504
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 1: of time, and unfortunately time is not what Brandon, being

1505
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: in the personnel department have right now, knowing that the

1506
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:35,639
Speaker 1: team has to be in cap compliance in about two

1507
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:38,519
Speaker 1: and a half weeks. So it's just really unfortunate the

1508
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: way it's all kind of played out. Nahim Hines, it

1509
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:46,719
Speaker 1: is a non football injury, so I believe they could

1510
01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: put him on a non football injury list since he

1511
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:52,400
Speaker 1: is under contract, if they wanted to do that, and

1512
01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 1: they wouldn't take up a roster spot, but I think

1513
01:20:56,160 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 1: he could fall under the failed physical designation as well.

1514
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 1: Nick asks when will they start making contract adjustments? If

1515
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 1: there is so much to do, how come they haven't

1516
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: started yet? Do they have to wait until the league

1517
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:13,559
Speaker 1: year begins. I saw the Seahawks and rework Geno Smith

1518
01:21:13,640 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: just wondering why moves haven't been made yet if they

1519
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: can be made, Well, it's called negotiation. They don't just say, hey,

1520
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,760
Speaker 1: here's what we're doing, take it or leave it. They

1521
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:28,760
Speaker 1: negotiate with the agent. Now, there are certain pathways to

1522
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:32,120
Speaker 1: the negotiation that fits what Buffalo would like, and in

1523
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: most restructures it's beneficial to the player because it puts

1524
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:38,679
Speaker 1: money in their pocket right now. So there usually isn't

1525
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:43,120
Speaker 1: much impedance in trying to get that stuff done. Where

1526
01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:45,920
Speaker 1: it does become more complicated is in the area of

1527
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 1: asking a player to take a pay cut. Now you're

1528
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: talking negotiations that are going to take some time. I

1529
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: don't know how the bills are going to divvy all

1530
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:57,400
Speaker 1: of the work they have to do up in terms

1531
01:21:57,439 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: of who's going to be a pay cut, who's going

1532
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:01,640
Speaker 1: to be a restructure, who's going to be an extension.

1533
01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: Extensions take time. I know Brandon Bean when he's at

1534
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 1: press conferences. I remember when he talked about the Dion

1535
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 1: Dawkins extension, the Tredevious White extension. He was talking about

1536
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:18,760
Speaker 1: how they were taking weeks. Extensions take longer, so they

1537
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:22,600
Speaker 1: probably started those sooner. And then you get to the

1538
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 1: restructures because those usually don't take as long, and play

1539
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 1: releases don't take as long either, because we just saw

1540
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:30,799
Speaker 1: that in Miami right many.

1541
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 3: Yep, Emanuel Ogba was released by the Dolphins today and

1542
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:36,720
Speaker 3: Chris was talking about it earlier in the show, so

1543
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 3: we're already starting to see some of this. The combine

1544
01:22:40,240 --> 01:22:42,200
Speaker 3: is a time where a lot of this news starts

1545
01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:45,599
Speaker 3: to come out to since NFL gms are all together

1546
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:50,000
Speaker 3: in one building along with scouts and coaching staff members.

1547
01:22:50,320 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 3: So I would expect we will start hearing some things

1548
01:22:54,120 --> 01:22:56,720
Speaker 3: within the next week. How much I'm not sure, but

1549
01:22:57,160 --> 01:22:59,600
Speaker 3: I mean free agency is right around the corner, so

1550
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 3: we're not going to have to wait too much longer

1551
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:02,639
Speaker 3: on all this stuff, right.

1552
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: And you can't not be under the cap at the

1553
01:23:05,040 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 1: start of the league year, so the deadline is sitting there.

1554
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:10,200
Speaker 1: If you are not cap compliant, you can get fined

1555
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:14,639
Speaker 1: five million dollars as an organization. So don't worry about

1556
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:16,599
Speaker 1: them getting the work done or that they haven't gotten

1557
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: the work done yet. It will get done because it

1558
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: has to get done. End of Sporty. Aaron asks, Justin

1559
01:23:24,439 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 1: Shorter is bigger and had less drops in his college career.

1560
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 1: Based on training camp in the preseason last year, do

1561
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:34,760
Speaker 1: you think he can be a straight up replacement for Gabe.

1562
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm ready to say that, because

1563
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: we haven't seen enough of him at the NFL level.

1564
01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:43,719
Speaker 1: I know people will say, well, Gabe was a fourth

1565
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:45,800
Speaker 1: round pick, Justin Shorter was a fifth round pick. That's

1566
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: pretty close, so they'll probably be the same person. I

1567
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:53,559
Speaker 1: don't know that you can definitively say that, and Shorter,

1568
01:23:54,439 --> 01:23:56,719
Speaker 1: you're saying he had less drops I'm assuming than Gabe

1569
01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:59,360
Speaker 1: had at the NFL level. It's two different levels of football.

1570
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,360
Speaker 1: I don't think we shoul forget that. I think there

1571
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 1: were some encouraging signs from Justin Shorter, but you know,

1572
01:24:06,160 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 1: the injury put him on ir and he never saw

1573
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: the field. So I think he's going to be part

1574
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 1: of the equation this spring and this summer, and he'll

1575
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 1: have every opportunity to prove that he deserves a spot

1576
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: on the roster. But I don't think that's going to

1577
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:22,960
Speaker 1: preclude them Maddie from adding at the receiver position with

1578
01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 1: high draft capital and free agents.

1579
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say I could see him competing

1580
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:30,240
Speaker 3: for that spot. I'm not sure how it's gonna look

1581
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 3: once we're looking at the final roster, once all cuts

1582
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 3: are made, and once the guys take the field for

1583
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:40,559
Speaker 3: the first week of the season in September. But I

1584
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 3: mean he could sure that could happen depending on how

1585
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 3: he does in training camp and in offseason workouts. But yeah,

1586
01:24:47,479 --> 01:24:49,679
Speaker 3: you look at the draft, you look at this wide

1587
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:52,720
Speaker 3: receiver draft class and how deep it is, and the

1588
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:55,599
Speaker 3: more we talk about how deep this class is. The

1589
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 3: more that I think you should draft multiple receivers in

1590
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:02,320
Speaker 3: this class because it goes beyond the first round. When

1591
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:05,600
Speaker 3: you're listening to draft analysts and experts talk about this

1592
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:08,800
Speaker 3: position group in this draft class is like, hey, there's

1593
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:11,400
Speaker 3: some great talent in the first round that you can grab,

1594
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:16,000
Speaker 3: but it goes beyond rounds rounds, rounds one, goes into

1595
01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 3: rounds two. In rounds three, where you can still get

1596
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 3: these big X receivers, You're gonna see quite a bit

1597
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 3: of that in the second round two. So I'm thinking,

1598
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 3: you know, if this is one of the best wide

1599
01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 3: receiver classes that a lot of people can remember to date,

1600
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 3: take multiple, Please take multiple.

1601
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:33,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm all for them taking two in the

1602
01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:36,120
Speaker 1: first three rounds. I wouldn't even shy away from that

1603
01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:40,000
Speaker 1: for a second. So I think that's I don't think

1604
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 1: it's out of the realm of possibility if the value

1605
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: is right. I mean, we've seen Brandon Bean in his

1606
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:47,640
Speaker 1: time as general manager for the Bills, go back to

1607
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 1: back on position groups before. I mean he went Greg Russo,

1608
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:56,600
Speaker 1: Boogie Bashim, he went Spencer Brown, Tommy Doyle. Yeah, that

1609
01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:58,680
Speaker 1: was all in the same draft. He went back to

1610
01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:02,559
Speaker 1: back positions twice in the same draft. So to think

1611
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 1: that it's not out of the realm of possibility that

1612
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:08,599
Speaker 1: he goes receiver receiver, I'd sign up for it provided

1613
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:10,120
Speaker 1: the values right. And he's not going to do it

1614
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:12,760
Speaker 1: unless the value is right, because Brandon Bean isn't in

1615
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 1: the business of reaching. Gotta take a break here, got

1616
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:18,960
Speaker 1: one more segment to go, and we'll get to a

1617
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:20,920
Speaker 1: couple of more of these questions here on the obl

1618
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 1: Friday fan mail Bag when we return here on One

1619
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:25,639
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1620
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:40,880
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back here on One Bill's Live Friday edition.

1621
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 1: We've got time for a couple of more questions from

1622
01:26:44,439 --> 01:26:46,559
Speaker 1: the obel Friday fan mail bag. What we do want

1623
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:48,400
Speaker 1: to remind you The Buffalo Bill's coverage of the twenty

1624
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:52,839
Speaker 1: twenty four NFL Combine is presented by Ticketmaster, the official

1625
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 1: ticket marketplace the NFL. Mandy Glabb and myself taking the

1626
01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:59,480
Speaker 1: show on the road. Full coverage all week from Indianapolis

1627
01:26:59,479 --> 01:27:01,880
Speaker 1: here from head coach Sean McDermot, GM, Brandon Being and

1628
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:06,400
Speaker 1: other draft analysts as we prepare for the upcoming NFL

1629
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:10,080
Speaker 1: Draft and quite frankly, free agency. Sometimes we have more

1630
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 1: free agency news at the NFL Combine than we do

1631
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:16,920
Speaker 1: draft news. But we'll have draft news as well, and

1632
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 1: we'll have a covered wolf to wall for you here

1633
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:22,559
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live starting on Monday from Indy. So yeah,

1634
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: we'll be making the drive out there on Sunday, So

1635
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:28,080
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. Should be a news filled week

1636
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:28,639
Speaker 1: for sure.

1637
01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 3: Can't wait. We'll be talking to a lot of cool

1638
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:33,599
Speaker 3: people who probably have a lot to say about what

1639
01:27:33,640 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 3: the Bills should do in free agency and the draft.

1640
01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, people are gonna have their opinions. I'm not

1641
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 1: worried about it. James in the mail bag asks, in

1642
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 1: the next two seasons or less, is Dawson Knox on

1643
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:51,360
Speaker 1: this team. I think that's tough to predict two years out.

1644
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:54,720
Speaker 1: I think he's say, you know, for the interim. I

1645
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: do think he's a candidate for the Bills to go

1646
01:27:57,560 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 1: to and ask him to restructure his contract. He has

1647
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 1: a very fat cap figure. I think it's over fourteen

1648
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: million dollars, and you can make the argument that he's

1649
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:09,799
Speaker 1: not even the number one tight end on the roster

1650
01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 1: going forward. So and I would think he would be

1651
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:18,280
Speaker 1: amenable to that, so get some cap relief from a

1652
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:21,439
Speaker 1: number that's too high. I think they value Dawson Knox

1653
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:26,360
Speaker 1: on this roster. I think he's got Bill's DNA, if

1654
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:29,680
Speaker 1: you will. He's the right kind of person to have

1655
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:31,400
Speaker 1: on your roster and in your locker room and as

1656
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:34,720
Speaker 1: a teammate. So we'd have to see. We'll have to

1657
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:37,599
Speaker 1: see where the cap looks, what it looks like next year,

1658
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:39,960
Speaker 1: because if it goes up just as much as it

1659
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:43,400
Speaker 1: did this year, although I'm not anticipating that, you know,

1660
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 1: maybe there is room to keep somebody like him on

1661
01:28:45,280 --> 01:28:46,800
Speaker 1: the roster even on a restructured deal.

1662
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 3: And also, what is Dawson Knox going to look like

1663
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,320
Speaker 3: in a Joe Brady offense? Maybe he has a little

1664
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:53,720
Speaker 3: bit of a new role under a new offensive coordinator.

1665
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:56,719
Speaker 3: So I'll be looking forward to seeing what Dawson Knox

1666
01:28:56,760 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 3: does this upcoming season with the new OC last question.

1667
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:02,559
Speaker 1: Uestion, real quick, how will the new cap limits help us? Now?

1668
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:04,600
Speaker 1: Where do the Bills have wiggle room now? Compared to

1669
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 1: other clubs? They just have thirteen more million dollars in

1670
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: room to work with, just like everybody else, So it

1671
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: eases the burden, but there is a burden nonetheless to

1672
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:16,000
Speaker 1: get CAP compliant. They're somewhere between thirty seven to forty

1673
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:20,720
Speaker 1: two million over instead of fifty five over, so it's

1674
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 1: a better situation, but still a hill to climb for sure.

1675
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 2: So not like the Patriots.

1676
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: And we'll find out more about just what the Bills

1677
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:30,640
Speaker 1: intend to do when we talk to Brandon b and

1678
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:34,280
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott next week when our Combine coverage begins. Maddie,

1679
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:36,479
Speaker 1: thanks for helping this week. We'll see an indie next week,

1680
01:29:36,520 --> 01:29:44,160
Speaker 1: starting at one on Monday,