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Speaker 1: Oh, a great time. I watch Steve past the Boks.

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Speaker 1: Time to time down. That's not for time. It's a

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Speaker 1: beautiful winter day here in Orchard Parking in Easter. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show. Welcome to one Bill's Live for Center

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Speaker 1: by Colaud of Health. I'm John Murphy, Steve to ask

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Speaker 1: her is with us as usual today and our producer

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris is on the line as well. Happy to

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Speaker 1: be here with you for the next three hours. Radio

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Speaker 1: only today because of staffing issues that will get cleared

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be cleared up, Steve. A nice somewhat moderately

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Speaker 1: heavy snowfall going on right now at my house in

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park, in yours as well, three and a half

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Speaker 1: miles down the road. Right. That's crashing me, that's crashing.

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Speaker 1: Amazing it is. I'm just checking the camera. Yep. It

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Speaker 1: is May eight, May eighth, and we're getting snow like heavy,

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Speaker 1: not heavy, moderately be snow right moderately. It's it's a

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Speaker 1: nice it's a dare I say, it's kind of a

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Speaker 1: tell you what if I see one flake of snow

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Speaker 1: Just one right now. It's melting as soon as it hits.

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Speaker 1: It showed. It's May eighth, after all. But it's snowing.

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Speaker 1: It is snowing here in West. It's snowing on the

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Speaker 1: day after the bill schedule comes out. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's ever happened before. Yeah, that's probably happened because

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Speaker 1: the schedule usually comes out a month ago. It's right right,

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Speaker 1: a great deal today, Steve. I mean I like it.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's fair, it's balanced, home and away balanced. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's balanced. I think it's eminently fair. You're you're overall

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Speaker 1: thoughts of this. I thought so too, And I thought

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Speaker 1: some of the things that you wish for yesterday were outlandish,

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Speaker 1: but it happened. I mean, they they go out west,

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Speaker 1: they go to Vegas in October, they go to Arizona

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Speaker 1: in November. They go to Denver in December, and then

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Speaker 1: they they're one stretch at December, at San Francisco on

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Speaker 1: December seventh, and then at Denver on December twentieth. It's

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Speaker 1: two weeks apart. All those West Coast games are spread

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Speaker 1: out over the entire season. That's amazing. No reason for

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Speaker 1: Arizona or anything like that. They start out with two

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Speaker 1: division games, the Jets and then Miami, then they go

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Speaker 1: to um They've got Los Angeles at home, then they

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Speaker 1: go to Vegas. I mean, yeah, it's a great schedule.

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Speaker 1: Here's what hit me about the schedule. You know, we're

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Speaker 1: still getting used to it. I look at it a

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Speaker 1: couple times a day now, But that stretch in December.

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Speaker 1: The month of December is just amazing. I don't know

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Speaker 1: don't know there's ever been a month like that in

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Speaker 1: Bill's history. Look, they play at San Francisco on Monday

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Speaker 1: Night Football December seventh, following week Sunday Night home for

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football against Pittsburgh. So those back to back

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Speaker 1: national games the following week. It could be moved to Saturday,

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Speaker 1: just as the Bills That New England game was moved

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Speaker 1: to Saturday. Right before Christmas. Last year, they play at Denver.

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Speaker 1: That would be a national game. Nothing else up against

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Speaker 1: the right day schedule. Five games either on that weekend,

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Speaker 1: us which you're Saturdays, which your Sunday. So they could

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Speaker 1: at New England. Four straight weeks where the Bills could

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Speaker 1: have a national game. They are America's team, Steve. People

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Speaker 1: team enough? Let's get somebody up. Here's a four week

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Speaker 1: space where the Bills could be a national game every week.

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Speaker 1: an interesting year. And because of all of this, and

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Speaker 1: any college football. How what are the possibilities that some

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Speaker 1: how much we welcome those. How cool those are having

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Speaker 1: a national televised game. Hey, the Bills going to Denver,

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Speaker 1: that's great. It's another thing, you know, I don't really

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Speaker 1: this schedule, right, I mean they play an earlier season game.

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Speaker 1: that's those games really draw a ton of eyeballs. But

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Speaker 1: this schedule, you can't say it this year, that's for sure. Man.

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Speaker 1: and their defense is going to be just as good

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Speaker 1: four primetime games, the most of the Bills have had

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Speaker 1: long ago. It was. Um. You mentioned this, and it's true.

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Speaker 1: first month. Bills do have some long trips. Last year

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Speaker 1: the air miles Chris Brown published this today and Chris

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Speaker 1: Bills had eighty seven hundred air miles. This year about

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand air miles. That total last year would have

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Speaker 1: had the Bills ranked twelfth in the NFL. But we

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Speaker 1: We knew that. What other things about the schedule, you know, Chris,

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Speaker 1: I give Chris Brown a big credit for this. Steve

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Speaker 1: how many times the Bills were forced to play a

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Speaker 1: they would they would host teams that had extra rest,

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Speaker 1: not a problem at all. This year. I think they

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Speaker 1: have eight days average rests between games, which is perfect. Really.

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Speaker 1: I mean seven is a week to week thing. Eight

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Speaker 1: out the window. Well, let me look at it this way.

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Speaker 1: Say this is all speculative, but say the Bill's first

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Speaker 1: four games, say they're not ready to play till October eleven.

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Speaker 1: It's mid October, So the first four games at versus

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Speaker 1: New York, at Miami, versus the Rams at Las Vegas

431
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Speaker 1: get moved. You could move Miami to November twenty second,

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Speaker 1: you move the Jets game the Rams game in Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas to the end of the season January, three weeks

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Speaker 1: in January. You have to move three instead of four

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Speaker 1: because of the bye week. I got you. Okay, Well

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Speaker 1: if that, if that happens, Okay, yeah, it comes in.

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Speaker 1: It does come down to venue availability and all that

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Speaker 1: yiggoty act. If you're talking about that, if you're talking

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Speaker 1: about Los Angeles, they've got another team that plays in

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Speaker 1: their stadium at the same time. But even though they're

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Speaker 1: the Rams would be on the road here in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Flow has no issues with their venue most really, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, not most. I mean, I guess there

444
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Speaker 1: is some problems with that. There's that's been speculated that NUE,

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Speaker 1: the Giants and Jets and the two LA teams, that's right, right,

446
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Speaker 1: And but then there's other venues that have other events

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Speaker 1: that are possible in them. In general, I don't know

448
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Speaker 1: what can I say that was That's always one of

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Speaker 1: the things that Mike North, the schedule maker, always says

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Speaker 1: when he comes on about problems with venue availability. I

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Speaker 1: guess there's some stadiums that like hard Rock in Miami,

452
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Speaker 1: San Francisco, Dallas Stadium that have events in there on

453
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Speaker 1: a regular basis, which I was unaware of. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But anyway, if it's if it's that

455
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Speaker 1: easy to do it, you know, if it comes up

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Speaker 1: to that, the point that needs to be made is,

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Speaker 1: you know, there was a lot of pre schedule release

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Speaker 1: speculation about um first four weeks would be your interconference opponents,

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Speaker 1: which is a simple way to you know, eliminate those games.

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Speaker 1: But the NFL doesn't want to eliminate any games, and

461
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Speaker 1: they've cracked a schedule to move people around if they

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Speaker 1: have to. Yeah, they can eliminate games if they have to.

463
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Speaker 1: But there's no, there's no nothing in this schedule makes

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Speaker 1: you think, well, that's really a fourteen game schedule, or

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Speaker 1: that's really a twelve game schedule, you know what I mean? Right,

466
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Speaker 1: that's right. A lot of people expected going in although

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Speaker 1: this tricky schedule that you know, could be only twelve

468
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Speaker 1: instead of sixteen or fourteen games and the other thing,

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Speaker 1: and you brought it up. They don't, They've said, I

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Speaker 1: believe them. They don't have any backup schedules. In other words,

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Speaker 1: if things go longer than they think and teams aren't

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Speaker 1: ready and nobody's ready to open up, they can't whip

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Speaker 1: out a twelve game schedule all of a sudden. They

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Speaker 1: don't have they're working with the schedule. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems crazy to me that they couldn't.

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Speaker 1: They got schedule makers. Why can't they just you know,

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Speaker 1: put those guys back in there and say, hey, eliminate

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Speaker 1: the two interconference games out of division. Well, now maybe

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Speaker 1: they could. It's not the schedule makers, it's it's fans.

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Speaker 1: Fans need some certainty when these games are When do

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Speaker 1: I book my flights that were right. When do I

482
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Speaker 1: book flights to Las Vegas? When do I book flights Arizona?

483
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Speaker 1: I get that date and keep that date open, then

484
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Speaker 1: people can make plans. I think that I get it.

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Speaker 1: I get it. But you know, in these uncertain times,

486
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Speaker 1: Murph and these uncharted waters, this new normal, you might

487
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Speaker 1: they they might pop it out there and say, listen,

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Speaker 1: instead of playing the Jets on September thirteenth, you're playing

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Speaker 1: in October twenty fifth. Uh, and then you're you know,

490
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Speaker 1: you're playing you know whatever. So I don't know, um

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Speaker 1: a lot, there's a lot to it. I'm just surprised

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Speaker 1: that the that they did give it some flexibility, but man,

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Speaker 1: there's not a lot. Well they I think they want

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Speaker 1: to keep those dates. They want people to make plans

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Speaker 1: if they can. I think that's the reason why we

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Speaker 1: should talk about the AFC East Division opponents, the Jets,

497
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Speaker 1: and you start you mentioned it. They get the Jets

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Speaker 1: done before midseason, right, Jets on September thirteenth to open

499
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Speaker 1: the season, and then uh, the Jets in week seven

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Speaker 1: at the at New York Jets. They'll be finished with

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Speaker 1: the Jet. On the other hand, the Miami Dolphins. They

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Speaker 1: play week two September twentieth, and they finished with them

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Speaker 1: Miami coming to Buffalo January third then has a nice

504
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Speaker 1: certain ring to it, doesn't. And then the Patriots. They

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Speaker 1: don't see the Patriots until November first, and they get

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Speaker 1: them again when they go to New England December twenty eighth.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of a back half of the schedule

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Speaker 1: thing Week sixteen year. Yeah, so the Jets in the

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Speaker 1: first half, the Patriots in the second half, the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: week two in week seventeen. Yeah, that's fine. I don't

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Speaker 1: mind that, I do think, and it's also worth noting

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Speaker 1: they have preserved, you know, last several years, they've kind

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Speaker 1: of made teams in the same division play each other.

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Speaker 1: The last two weeks. Well, the bill schedule is that, right,

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Speaker 1: They got at New England versus in Miami. So if

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Speaker 1: they're by the way, that game at New England Monday,

517
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Speaker 1: December twenty eighth, Monday Night Football, by the way, that

518
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Speaker 1: could be for everything, That could be for the division title.

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Speaker 1: That could be a hell of a game. Seed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I hope it is, man, I hope we beat them

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Speaker 1: two thousand to nothing. I hope it's for all the Marbles,

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Speaker 1: number one seed, home field advantage. Yeah yeah, and I hope, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there you go. It could be and that Miami game.

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Speaker 1: But then it stinks because then the Miami game maybe

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Speaker 1: meaningless and my my prediction of you know, eleven plus,

526
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Speaker 1: maybe you're gonna have a chance to make your prediction.

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Speaker 1: You can ratchet it up or down. We'll do that

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Speaker 1: before we'll see. But yeah, that's uh, those last two games,

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Speaker 1: that that New England game is gonna mean something. I

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Speaker 1: think the Miami game may mean something, although I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think the Miami game may be worthless to to

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Speaker 1: to the Bills by that time, particularly depending on that

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Speaker 1: New England game. You know, yeah, I do too. I

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Speaker 1: think that that sets up for you know, another meaningless

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Speaker 1: game in week seventeen at home against the Miami team. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. We're we're talking into the wind because

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Speaker 1: who knows this, we'll see that. We gotta let's get

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Speaker 1: through the first two months of the season with no

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Speaker 1: hiccups in the schedule, and then we'll be able to

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Speaker 1: forget about it and move on. We got a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk into the wind about the next two and

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Speaker 1: a half hours. The schedule is out and we're here

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Speaker 1: to talk to you about it. Let's get your take.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of the Buffalo bill schedule? Do

545
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Speaker 1: you like it? Is it fair? What's the toughest stretch

546
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Speaker 1: you think in the Buffalo Bill schedule? What games are

547
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Speaker 1: you looking forward to? Any road games you want to

548
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Speaker 1: travel to? Give us a call eight oh three oh

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Speaker 1: five fifty outside Buffalo toll free at one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Got Mike Clay from

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Speaker 1: ESPN coming on at one and Chris Brown from Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills dot Com coming up at two, and we'll take

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Speaker 1: a break right here. It's one Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Collatta Health Radio only today. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

555
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Speaker 1: We're starting today. We'll go five pretending by Collatt of Health,

556
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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker's it's still snowing Orchard Park so

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Speaker 1: that was not on schedule. What was at Stevie? All right?

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Speaker 1: I think Stevie just returned? What are you going? Slamming doors? S?

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Speaker 1: People are doing slamming doors? And yep, I thought I

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Speaker 1: was gonna be late and to get a sandwich though, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the schedule. Came out last night. You're

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Speaker 1: welcome to join us eight oh three five fifty toll

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

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Speaker 1: The Bills have their schedule. Everybody's got their schedule. A

565
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Speaker 1: lot of speculation over the last week or so about

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Speaker 1: you know, different playing Steve, about you know, what are

567
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Speaker 1: they gonna do with um the interconference games and maybe

568
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Speaker 1: you'd make those the first four weeks. All that reporting

569
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Speaker 1: was off the mark, clearly, because that's not what they've done.

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Speaker 1: I think they have managed to make themselves a flexible

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Speaker 1: schedule and not and managed to keep it, you know,

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Speaker 1: managed to do it in a way that keeps a

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Speaker 1: sixteen game schedule somewhat intact. And at this point I

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Speaker 1: would like to give credit to a guy who's been

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Speaker 1: on the show a couple of times, Mike North, NFL

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Speaker 1: vice President of NFL Broadcasting. Our producer Jay Harris, had

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Speaker 1: dialogue with him earlier this week, trying to get him

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Speaker 1: on the show. Jay, put up your mic there, Jay,

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Speaker 1: what did he say? He said he couldn't come on

580
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Speaker 1: the show, but maybe at some point he'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you off the record. At any rate, Look, he got

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Speaker 1: instructed from his bosses, the National Football League, Hey, make

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Speaker 1: a schedule that makes sense but keeps sixteen games in

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Speaker 1: tech And I think he did it, don't you think, Jay? Oh, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Yeah? Sorry, I had to finish

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Speaker 1: chewing You didn't want to hear me chewing peta chips

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Speaker 1: on the air. I just reached out to be Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I wish challenges that we get them on every week,

589
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Speaker 1: but there is there's challenges that are out of the

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Speaker 1: NFL's hands right So right now they're in the benefit

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Speaker 1: of having their off season, so they can go ahead

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Speaker 1: and plan for something months down the road and send

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Speaker 1: out the schedule as they would think it would happen

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Speaker 1: now if changes are going to happen, whether it's government

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Speaker 1: controlled and something happens with this virus. But he was

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Speaker 1: just saying, right now, I think there's too much up

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Speaker 1: in the air for the schedule to answer any concrete

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Speaker 1: questions for him to come on the show basically politely

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Speaker 1: decline exactly. But and I get it, I get it,

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Speaker 1: I understand. I mean, can you imagine the roads he'd

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Speaker 1: be taken down by us and the listeners. But the

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Speaker 1: point I trying to make is he's done. He and

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Speaker 1: his staff have done a great job of crafting the schedule.

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Speaker 1: That's not just simply well, here's four games weekn lop

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Speaker 1: off if we have to know, I mean, they did

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Speaker 1: the bye week thing to move that game. Two teams

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Speaker 1: with the same bye week can be moved to their

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Speaker 1: bye week if if their games in week two are canceled.

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Speaker 1: They've made it so, yeah, you can. You can shorten

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Speaker 1: up fourteen weeks, twelve weeks, whatever you want. But they've

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Speaker 1: also made it that you can get a sixteen game

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Speaker 1: schedule in pushed back a couple of games, eliminate the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, which nobody would cry about, and still have

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl played in February. I think it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's approaching genius there well and working off of

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Speaker 1: this schedule. And I'm not speaking for Michael North, but

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Speaker 1: maybe this isn't the only schedule. Maybe there's another one

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Speaker 1: that they have, and I'm sure they have. I read

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Speaker 1: a quote today where some I might have been Michael

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Speaker 1: North or somebody unequivocally said nope, this is the only

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Speaker 1: schedule we have, and then you work off this land

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Speaker 1: I don't know, well, yeah, I don't know. I just

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Speaker 1: maybe the only schedule they have. It might not be

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Speaker 1: the only schedule they're working on it if something happens,

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Speaker 1: and that's it. And this one is this is my point.

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Speaker 1: You guys are missing the point. This schedule is flexible

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Speaker 1: enough so that they don't have to have another schedule.

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Speaker 1: This con turned into a twelve game schedule if they

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Speaker 1: have to. Yeah, and that's good. I mean, I you're right, Murf.

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Speaker 1: They did a really nice job with it. There was

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Speaker 1: all kinds of speculation flying around. They made a week

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Speaker 1: two easily moved and it makes a lot of sense,

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Speaker 1: I think too. And I was going to ask you

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Speaker 1: that this right at the end of this last segment.

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Speaker 1: Think about August thirteenth through the seventeenth. That's the first

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Speaker 1: preseason game. And as what I've my experience and what

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Speaker 1: our experience has been in the past, the team needs

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Speaker 1: two weeks of training camp to get ready for that

639
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Speaker 1: first preseason game. Now, given the fact that they haven't

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Speaker 1: had any offseason on field activities yet and they may

641
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Speaker 1: not until training camp, those four preseason games now become

642
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Speaker 1: forget about that, Yarner. In the fourth preseason game, They're

643
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Speaker 1: probably gonna use these games hard, and like they've never

644
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Speaker 1: done it before. So you take the whole thing preseason

645
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Speaker 1: and all that starting two weeks before August thirteenth. I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: like SA, say, it's the first of August, and everybody

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Speaker 1: starts on that August thirteenth, I guess without looking, I'm

648
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Speaker 1: thinking it's a Thursday, right, yeah, right, So if everybody

649
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Speaker 1: starts on the fourteenth, they go August first, and two

650
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Speaker 1: weeks later they got their first preseason game and they

651
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Speaker 1: move on from them. That gives them till first of

652
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Speaker 1: August before anything needs to happen with the teams on site, practicing,

653
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Speaker 1: getting tested, being isolated, all of that stuff. So that's

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Speaker 1: three You know, if you go from May first two

655
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Speaker 1: weeks a week ago, you know it's May, June, July,

656
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Speaker 1: and it's three months before anything has to happen, and

657
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Speaker 1: that's gives them some leeway. But this schedule, you look

658
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Speaker 1: at the preseason and a whole different light, and a

659
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Speaker 1: year like this when everything might have been completely stopped

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Speaker 1: all the way up until the first of August, and

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Speaker 1: this I believe this is the last year that we'll

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Speaker 1: have a four game preseason, right. They're going to three

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Speaker 1: games next year, right. Twenty twenty one so I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody's gonna cry. By the way, if they lop

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Speaker 1: off a couple of preseason games, they can do that

666
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Speaker 1: pretty easily because there's, yeah, on the road of Baltimore,

667
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Speaker 1: the Bills. This is on the road of Baltimore, home

668
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Speaker 1: against Atlanta, home against Indy, on the road of Detroit.

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Speaker 1: So if you cut off two, you still get one home,

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Speaker 1: one on the road. And once again second three year,

671
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Speaker 1: the Bills will play the Detroit Lions in the final

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Speaker 1: preseason game. No, last year it wasn't the finale wasn't.

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Speaker 1: It was Minnesota at home. But the Lions typical preseason

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Speaker 1: opponents where the Bills are back. Nobody's nobody's gonna cry

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Speaker 1: about preseason football, right nobody, No, not at all. And

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Speaker 1: you're right, those are the ones, you say, you know what,

677
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Speaker 1: we're not playing that game, you know, Okay, right, nobody

678
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Speaker 1: cares and right, but it might be that you know,

679
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Speaker 1: they can spread them out, you know, move them around,

680
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Speaker 1: lop them off whatever and whatever. What do they want?

681
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Speaker 1: So those preseason games give by the league an extra

682
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Speaker 1: month before they have to actually tee it up and play. Yep,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's talk about it. Eight three fifty toll

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

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Speaker 1: Is their particular stretch of the schedule that you find

686
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Speaker 1: challenging for the Bills? I do December in particular. It's

687
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Speaker 1: amazing all those TV games is there? Do you have

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Speaker 1: an idea how many wins you did it? Don't, don't

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Speaker 1: deny it. We all did it. Went through the schedule

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Speaker 1: week by week and said win loss, win loss, win,

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Speaker 1: win win. Let's hear from you. Eight O three oh

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Will start with Jim and Orchard Park. Hello, Jim,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air, Hi fellows, how you doing great?

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Speaker 1: Real good Welson. I've got two questions from you. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you can answer. I'm just curious if there was no

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Speaker 1: NFL season, what the NFL teams have to say the

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Speaker 1: Netflix spect the money for the if they got the

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Speaker 1: television rights. And the second question is if they played

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Speaker 1: it with no fans in the stadium, is there anything

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Speaker 1: such as a home field advantage with no fans in

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Speaker 1: the stadium. I'll hang up and listen to your answer. Okay,

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Speaker 1: two good questions, Jim, Yeah, of course, if there's no

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Speaker 1: NFL season, the network's not gonna say, well, you got

705
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Speaker 1: our money, you got us. No, they're gonna want they're

706
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Speaker 1: gonna want to be made whole. And that's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be good, Steve, won't be good for any of us,

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Speaker 1: you and me. And if there's no one that's right.

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Speaker 1: If if there's no NFL games or whatever, games don't happen,

710
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 1: there is a payback by the league. The league doesn't

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Speaker 1: get the money for those games, and they're pro rated.

712
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Speaker 1: Every game is worth a certain amount of money. Whatever

713
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Speaker 1: it is that the rights fees are astronomical, and those

714
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Speaker 1: start getting lopped off the bottom line of the National

715
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Speaker 1: Football League or loft off the income bracket at the

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Speaker 1: income column of the of the league. They start having

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Speaker 1: to give that money back if they haven't gotten it. Um,

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Speaker 1: if they you know so, Um, that's it. Uh, it's

719
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Speaker 1: that simple. And home field, well you you said it.

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Speaker 1: I mean the caller said, I if there's no fans

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Speaker 1: in the stands, what advantage is there to home field? Much? Travel? Yeah? Travel,

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Speaker 1: that's it, And that's about it. How difficult it is

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Speaker 1: for you to get there and play. That's the advantage

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Speaker 1: your opponent has h and it won't be happening. It

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Speaker 1: won't be and it will it might happen, Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: might happen or limited fans in the stands. Either way,

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Speaker 1: it would be bad. Um, it'll be bad if you know,

728
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Speaker 1: if there's no games, if the season is can't look

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Speaker 1: the schedule I think is indicative and the fact that

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Speaker 1: it's a sixteen game schedule that starts September tenth, it's

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Speaker 1: indicative of how determined the NFL is to get games

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Speaker 1: played this year. Don't you think, Steve, they really want

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Speaker 1: to have games this year? They really do. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: but they really want to. They really want to, and

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Speaker 1: they're doing They're pulling out all the stops to try

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Speaker 1: and make sure that they can get and they're putting

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Speaker 1: off all the major decisions, like they put this schedule

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Speaker 1: off a month or three weeks anyway, three and a

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Speaker 1: half weeks anyway. They're you know, they're making the schedule

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Speaker 1: flexible as you just describe that, maybe some of the

741
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Speaker 1: games could be moved and pushed back, but they are

742
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Speaker 1: they are hell bent on having some sort of season.

743
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Speaker 1: Unlike some of the other pro sports teams where this

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00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: timing could not have been worse. It probably could not

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00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: have been better for the league, depending on when they

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Speaker 1: can get pat we can get past you know, the

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Speaker 1: spike in coronavirus cases and how the curve works, and

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Speaker 1: how likely it is that they have a re a whatever,

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Speaker 1: a rerise of cases. Right, we're circles back like everybody's

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Speaker 1: afraid of. Yeah and yeah, believe me, if there's no

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Speaker 1: if there's no season, it will hurt people. Should it

752
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: would hurt us, I think in our staff, Steve, I mean,

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Speaker 1: look today I saw the report nationwide unemployments at seventeen

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00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: and a half percent. There's no NFL. There will be

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00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: people unemployed in the NFL, which hasn't really happened yet.

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00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: That would be a problem for all of us. And

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00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: you know we're not immune. I guess I'm trying the point.

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00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make NFL pushing ahead as much as

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00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: they can, Uh, not immune to what's going on in

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Speaker 1: the country. And it's it's a problem now. They have

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Speaker 1: they have. We've said it over and over again. They've

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Speaker 1: benefited from the timing of this. By the calendar, their

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00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: season was just over when this kind of thing kind

764
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Speaker 1: of hit, maybe a little bit before this really hit

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Speaker 1: and then now they've kind of had to watch all

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Speaker 1: the other sports leagues. They've watched it and they've ridded

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00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: it out, ridden it out with the rest of us.

768
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: They've shut down all their facilities, they've sequestered everybody and

769
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Speaker 1: stayed hands off. They've pushed back major decisions all the

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Speaker 1: way back. They've held their draft remotely. They are having

771
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Speaker 1: remote meetings and with all their teams, they're allowing their

772
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Speaker 1: coaching staff to do it all remotely. They've made some concessions,

773
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: no question, but they haven't really been you know, they

774
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: really don't have any skin in the game yet, right,

775
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: They haven't missed anything. So it's really gonna come become

776
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: more critical to the NFL as this as the calendar

777
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: rolls on, and more critical things to help having them

778
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: put on a season become jeopardized by the calendar. We're

779
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Speaker 1: gonna have to wait and see, and I think the

780
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: league is waiting and see, wait and see attitude as well.

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Speaker 1: Say call here from Bill and only end Hello Bill,

782
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: You're in the air, Hi, Steve tight On, Hey, question,

783
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: if the games are canceled where they can't have fans

784
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: in the stands, what effect does they have on the

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00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: salary cap text year, does that cut it down and

786
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: make it unaffordable to signalize these players? I hang up

787
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: and listen. Yeah, Steve, you got an answer from me.

788
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Speaker 1: It doesn't want It doesn't want to care what I think.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? It won't have any effect on

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Speaker 1: the salary cap. The salary cap is what it is now.

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00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: I may have an effect on the overall revenue of

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00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 1: the teams and the clubs in the NFL that could

793
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: affect it in some way, shape or form, but all

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00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: the shared revenues still go into one pot and they

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00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: get split, and it depends on the Only way it

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00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: will affect the league is if it affects the growth

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00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: of the league, if the league shrinks, the salary capital shrink.

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Speaker 1: If the league gets somehow some crazy benefit from the

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Speaker 1: way this has fallen and people are so enamored with

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Speaker 1: having live sports back that the NFL ratings go through

801
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: the roof the rights fees goes up, the income goes up,

802
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: and the salary cap goes up. So that's that's the

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Speaker 1: only way that this will have an effect on the

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Speaker 1: salary cap. I wonder, I wonder how much you didn't

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Speaker 1: ask what I think, but I wonder how much it

806
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: would affect the hell the salary cap, what about salaries?

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Speaker 1: They're not playing games. I wouldn't be surprised if they

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00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 1: went to the NFLPA and said, hey, we gotta do something.

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Speaker 1: We gotta make adjustments to everybody's salary. We can't pay

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars to people, tens of millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: of people, if we have no games to play right

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00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: the guaranteed money or you're talking about the guaranteed money

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00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: that's in contrast. Yeah, I mean, they're not paying anybody

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Speaker 1: if they don't play right. And if if they have

815
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Speaker 1: to cancel a game, that pay that game check probably

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00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: gets canceled too, without question. So yeah, if they don't play,

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00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: they don't get paid. That's the way it's always been

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And if they if they lop off

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00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: four games, that's twenty five percent of your paycheck for

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Speaker 1: the year. It's gone. You're not getting it all right,

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Speaker 1: Taking a break, and we're back with more phone calls.

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Speaker 1: We'll read something from the tweet sheep. What do you

823
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Speaker 1: think about the schedule? Give us a call eight O

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

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. It's one Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio might play from ESPN coming

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Speaker 1: up at one o'clock today, Chris Brown from Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Doom coming up at two. Your turn now. Phone lines

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Speaker 1: open eight o three five fifty, toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. What do you

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Speaker 1: think of the schedule? Toughest stretch, easiest stretch? You're going to?

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Speaker 1: Any road games? How many wins do you see there?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call to discuss. Take a call here

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Speaker 1: from Mike in Jamestown. Hello, Mike, you're on the air, Hi, gentlemen.

835
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Speaker 1: I was just given the Patriots, given the Patriots system

836
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: of cheating and doing all kinds of shady stuff. Why

837
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: do people seem to think it so far out of

838
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: the rum of possibility that they're not going to tank

839
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: to get Trevor Lawrence? I mean, honestly, I don't think

840
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: you can. He can. Belichick can look at the NFL

841
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: with a straight face and saying that they're really going

842
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: to try to win with Brian Hoyer and Jared Stidham.

843
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do if they win ten games

844
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: this year, they're not going to What are you gonna

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Speaker 1: do if the Patriots, I didn't say if you thought

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Speaker 1: they would, What are you gonna do if they win

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00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: ten games? If they win ten games, I'll eat my hat.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll win nine ers. You better start sautee

849
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: right now. The one thing beli he was on the

850
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: NFL network last night and he was asked if they're

851
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 1: going to be any additions right now. He's got Jared Stidham,

852
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer, and a couple of undrafted rookies, and he said,

853
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: you never know what's gonna happen down the road, so

854
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: he left the door open for adding a quarterback. I

855
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: don't know. And why, you know, why do they? Why

856
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: do people? I don't think it's I think are good

857
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: happened that they would tank. I think it'd probably be

858
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 1: more of a modified tank and maybe an undecipherable tank

859
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: that we wouldn't be able to identify as a tank

860
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: if they in flat do that way, I guess most

861
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: people feel. To answer your question that look, Belichick is

862
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: earned even though there's some shady conduct there, He's earning

863
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubts. Steve he knows how to coach,

864
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: he knows how to get a team ready to play.

865
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: He is won without Tom Brady in the past, so

866
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: most people feel like that could happen again. Maybe that's

867
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 1: the point of all this. He's gonna put that roster

868
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: together like this and have everybody to count them out.

869
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: They're done. Brady's gone on, and now he puts you know,

870
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 1: now he puts his puts both feet into the side

871
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: of the game that we're he achieved. Maybe he's got

872
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: this whole new system of cheating that's gonna allow him

873
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: to win. So now he's gonna come out and show

874
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: you that he can really coach without Tom Brady. They're

875
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: gonna win without him, And that's been the plan on

876
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: a long rather than may He's gonna win with nobody's

877
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 1: just to show you how good a coach he is.

878
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: Maybe that that seems to me more likely than and

879
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating obviously about the cheating stuff. I don't know good.

880
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying, maybe that's his plan.

881
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: Maybe he's gonna get everybody to think, man, they have

882
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 1: no shot, and then he's gonna, you know, show you

883
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: what kind of coach he really is right. That seems

884
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,240
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, that to me, that sounds more likely

885
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: than them tanking. Yeah, because that a tank would play

886
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: into all those people to say he can't coach without

887
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. He didn't want to go there. I don't

888
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: think he wants to go there. I agree, you know what,

889
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: last year and they when they win twelve games last year,

890
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: won the AMC East. They were pretty good last year

891
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 1: and Brady was not great. And I was reading I

892
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: think it was Mark Gone Buffalo News, who's really one

893
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: of the ablest writers in recent memory, but he wrote

894
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 1: about the last year. I didn't realize this the point

895
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make. Patriots had five defensive touchdowns last year?

896
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Five? That's a lot. They were

897
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: doing things, and they were playing great defense all year long,

898
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: but five defensive touchdowns. And Mark Gahn's point was that's

899
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 1: unlucky to happen again. It is, but still five defensive touchdowns.

900
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: That's how good they were on defense last year. The

901
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: defensive touchdown beat the Bills last year. Yeah, well teams, right,

902
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: if you count that as a you know, defense, Yeah,

903
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: I think that's counts right, as a defensive touchdown. I

904
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 1: don't know if they count that one or not, you know,

905
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: punt situation, but that's a lot. I mean, And again,

906
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: what does that say about battle chick? He finds a way,

907
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: and he'll find a way. I think to win nine

908
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: games this year and the Bills better be darn't yere

909
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: they win ten or eleven this year. I do think that,

910
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, I don't. I'm not in

911
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: line with all those people we've had on the show

912
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: say well, the division is Buffalo's to lose. Now, No,

913
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: it's never that easy for anybody. But I do think

914
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: the Bills should be favored to win the division and

915
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: they but they're gonna have to get by the Patriots somehow.

916
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: You agree, Yes, I think the Yeah, you know how

917
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: I feel. I think the Patriots are not going anywhere.

918
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: They're gonna be a handful. And you know the fact

919
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: that the Bills have this great roster and they were

920
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: owing two against the Patriots last year, they were owing

921
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: two the year before, and they were owing two the

922
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: year before that. Two of those years the Bills went

923
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: to the playoffs with pretty good teams. So there's no

924
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: reason to think the Patriots are going to curl up

925
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 1: in a ball and go away. Yeah, I don't think that.

926
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 1: All right, We got a break and then we're coming back.

927
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: Mike Clay, who works with the ESPN NFL analyst, big

928
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: fantasy football guy. He's got thoughts on the schedule. He's

929
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: got the Bills at eight and a half wins. We'll

930
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: talk to him about that when we return. It's One

931
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented back a lot of help radio only today,

932
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: working from home today. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Sports Update.

933
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: You got the update from One Bills Live. The Bills

934
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: schedulers out came out last night. They host Kansas City

935
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: week six and a Thursday night football matchup at New Airfield.

936
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: They go to San Francisco a little bit later on

937
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: week thirteen the matship of Kansas City October fifteen, the

938
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: first time the Bills and the Chiefs have met in

939
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: primetime since two thousand and three. Along with the Thursday

940
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: night Monday night primetime games against last year's two Super

941
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: Bowl participants, will have additional primetime games, one against Pittsburgh

942
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: week fourteen Sunday Night football and one at New England

943
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: in Week sixteen, So a lot of primetime appearances for

944
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: the Bills. In the schedule that came out last night,

945
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's new football life begins with the Tampa Bay

946
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: Buccaneers opening the regular season against Drew Brees and the

947
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. The game will put two of the

948
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: best players in NFL history. The Bucks and Saints play

949
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: at New Orleans the late Sunday National Window at four

950
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 1: twenty five pm. The NFL will stage Actennial Kickoff Classic Thursday,

951
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 1: September tenth at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. The Chiefs

952
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: will host the Dallas or the Houston Texans, a rematch

953
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: of the divisional playoff game from last year. NFL announced

954
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: its schedule yesterday in anticipation of playing a sixteen game

955
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,879
Speaker 1: to schedule over seventeen weeks. Commissioner Roger Goodell told teams

956
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: in a memo this week though adjustments will be made

957
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: if necessary. The Bills announced that rookie draft picks Isaiah Hodgens,

958
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: fourth round pick wide receiver, sixth round pick, rather kicker

959
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 1: Tyler Bass, and quarterback Dane Jackson have signed their rookie contracts.

960
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: Hodgens comes from Oregon State, second wide receiver drafted by

961
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: the Bills Tyler Bass second kicker chosen this year, and

962
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson, the bill seventh round pick out of Pittsburgh.

963
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: And the Bills with those seven picks in the draft

964
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: also went out today. They've come to terms with eight

965
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: more undrafted rookie free agent prospects, including offensive tackle Trey

966
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: Adams from the University of Washington forty fourth starts at

967
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: u W and then towards ACL in twenty seventeen head

968
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,479
Speaker 1: back surgery in twenty eighteen, also signed cornerback like round

969
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: of FIU, fullback Reggie Gillam of Toledo Garden, Mark cal

970
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: Harrell of Auburn, safety Garrett Taylor from Penn State, safety

971
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: Josh Thomas of Appalachian State, offensive tackle Brandon Walton from FAU,

972
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: and running back Antonio Williams from North Carolina. And there

973
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 1: you go. That is the update from one Bill's line.

974
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: John Murphy Steam Tanser coming to you from our homes

975
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: again today as we do radio only today on the

976
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: line with us now ESPN NFL Analysts, a fantasy football

977
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: expert from ESPN contributor to Sports Center Fantasy Football now

978
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: NFL Live on the line of this is Mike Clay

979
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: from ESPN Mike Genre, few team chaps were up here

980
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Thanks coming on with us today. We appreciate it. Yeah,

981
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 1: happy to be here, guys. That's going, Yeah, it's gone. Well,

982
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: what do you think of the schedule in general, the

983
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: whole schedule for the NFL? What did you make of it?

984
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: What takeaways you have from it? Mike, Well, I'll tell

985
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 1: you what I've We've known the opponents for a while,

986
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: so not a ton of change, right, Like, we just

987
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: know the order now. We already knew who had the

988
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: it's the easiest projected schedules, who had the toughest, that

989
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So all you kind of figure out

990
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: from here now is you know kind of maybe how

991
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: the schedules weighed for certain teams. And certainly the Bills

992
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: are an excellent example of that because if you look

993
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: at their they're slate. It's fairly easy. Again, no easy

994
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: and hard is a relative term when you're talking about

995
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: the NFL A relatively speaking before their Week eleven by

996
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: it's pretty light after that is certainly if you look

997
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: at the defenses they're going to face the Chargers, Niners, Dealers, Broncos,

998
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: Patriots from Week twelve to sixteen. That's really tough. That's

999
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: as tough as it gets. So those are the kind

1000
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,399
Speaker 1: of things you can kind of sort through. But again,

1001
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: we kind of already knew the opponent, so it's kind

1002
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,399
Speaker 1: of easy to sort through that before last night. Does

1003
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: this schedule give us any reason to promote some teams

1004
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: to maybe a little bit more favorable opinion of how

1005
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 1: their season is going to go, and demote others like saying, Wow,

1006
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: this team may not be as good as we thought

1007
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,879
Speaker 1: because their schedule and the way it falls is because

1008
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: we kind of, like you said, we knew knew the

1009
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 1: opponents going in. But is there anything about this schedule

1010
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:43,879
Speaker 1: and the and the way it falls for some team

1011
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: that will really hurt some and maybe really help others.

1012
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything too drastic, right for me

1013
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: at least personally, And maybe some others agree with or

1014
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: disagree with this, But for me, personally, it's all about

1015
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: the opposition, how good the teams are going to be,

1016
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: And I don't care guys about last year's record, right,

1017
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: that's just a terrible way to kind of sort through

1018
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: strength and schedule, But focus on how good teams are

1019
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,479
Speaker 1: right now? Right, don't treat the Bucks like a seven

1020
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: and nine team. We know they're they're probably better than

1021
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: that now, don't you know. And don't treat the Patriot

1022
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:17,399
Speaker 1: it's like a twelve and four team. Obviously they don't

1023
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: have Tom Brady anymore. So those kind of things are important,

1024
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: but it's the opponents obviously are variable we have to consider.

1025
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: And a way you can can kind of apply that

1026
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: is a team like the Culture, right, I have them

1027
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: with the easiest projected schedule, So if you're looking through,

1028
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,240
Speaker 1: hey who do I pick? Do I pick the Texans

1029
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: or the Titans or the Colts to in the FC South, Well,

1030
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: that light schedule so the Colts could push them over

1031
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: the top. Has to mention the quarterback upgrade they get

1032
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: too far as Buckner, you know, you've put all that

1033
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: together and suddenly you feel a little bit better about

1034
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: a team like the Colts perhaps getting the three or

1035
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: the four seed in the FC. And then on the

1036
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: other hand, if you're looking through at a team like

1037
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: the Falcons, I have them at the hardest schedule next season,

1038
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: so maybe you knock them out of as a as

1039
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: a legit wild card contender in the NFC. So those

1040
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: are the kind of things I'm looking at. Hey, Mike,

1041
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: let me dive into that a little bit deeper. Strength

1042
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: of schedule you say not based on last year's record.

1043
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: It's a two part question. What do you base it on?

1044
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: Number one? And number two? You've got the Bills with

1045
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: the eighth easiest schedule. Can you talk about both those

1046
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: and tell us why? Yeah? Absolutely, I mean, as mentioned

1047
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: most of the Bill I'll think that's the second one. First,

1048
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:24,320
Speaker 1: most of the Bills early and midn portion schedule is

1049
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: pretty light. And honestly, some of the teams they played

1050
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,280
Speaker 1: down the stretch that I mentioned, you know, aren't standouts

1051
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, right like the Chargers

1052
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 1: pretty week offensively we think this season, you know, and

1053
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: the Patriots very well could be the same. But all

1054
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: of those teams have dominant defenses. But earlier in the season,

1055
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: when you're playing two games against the Jets, they have

1056
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: two games against the Dolphins on the schedule. Obviously, those

1057
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: are two teams I expect to struggle again this season,

1058
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: even if they're a little bit better. And then, of

1059
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: course the Patriots, we don't expect to be quite as

1060
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: good as in years past, so playing six of their

1061
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: sixteen games against the division is a big reason why

1062
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: I like there slate and then I, you know, I

1063
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: guess I kind of just fORCH at it a little bit.

1064
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 1: How I figure that out? Right, I'm just going to

1065
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: evaluate every roster. I published something I call unit grades

1066
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 1: on social media and at ESPN where I go position

1067
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: by position for all thirty two teams, rank them and

1068
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: then sort them by positional value, and then it tells

1069
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: me who I think the best teams are based on

1070
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: my evaluations and from from first to thirty second. And

1071
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 1: that's how I kind of sort through then and apply

1072
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: the schedule and see how it shows up. So again,

1073
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough science. It's it's hard. Some

1074
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: of these teams are are gonna have major injuries. It's

1075
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: gonna knock them down. I'm gonna be wrong on some teams, obviously,

1076
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,240
Speaker 1: that's part of it. But usually it shows up pretty

1077
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 1: well by seasons and at least in the right vicinity.

1078
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: So it's something that's that's a value, and there is

1079
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: there are stretches for every team. And you look at

1080
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo bill schedule, the five out the last six weeks,

1081
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 1: you've got them with some of the hard one of

1082
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 1: the hardest victories to obtain on this NFL schedule, the

1083
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: eleventh hardest win, that kind of thing. After they come

1084
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: out of their bye week, the Ram the Chargers, you

1085
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: think may be an okay team, but they go to

1086
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: San Francisco, they face Pittsburgh, they go to Denver, then

1087
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,320
Speaker 1: they face New England. Those are That's a stretch of

1088
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: games that is really for any team in the league

1089
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: other than those teams. That's gonna be a really defining

1090
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: stretch and it comes late in the year, which could

1091
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: make or break a Bill's playoff run. Absolutely agree, they're

1092
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: gonna have to check off a bunch of wins early

1093
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: in the season, So I'm with you. In fact, I

1094
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: have their their hardest and their second hardest games of

1095
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: the season in weeks thirteen and fifteen. Not to mention

1096
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: that's that's not even accounting Pittsburgh at home, but at

1097
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: San France and at Denver, as you mentioned, is really tough.

1098
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: Not to mention at New England they may not be

1099
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: quite as good as the years past, but going into

1100
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: New England and division rivalry, UH, not easy. Although I

1101
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: do have their highest win probability seventy five percent in

1102
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: Week seventeen against the Dolphins. So Monks are hanging in

1103
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: there for the division lead or perhaps a wildcard depending

1104
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: on how it shakes out that Week seventeen games could

1105
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: be could be quite helpful, but let's be honest, the

1106
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: guys are probably the favorite. They're the favorite in my

1107
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: estimation to win that division. It's all going to come

1108
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: down to mister Josh Allen. How will he progress in

1109
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:12,240
Speaker 1: its third season. You know, we've seen all around playmaking ability,

1110
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 1: we've seen rushing ability, and at times we've seen okay passing,

1111
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: but overall the passing has not been good enough. He's

1112
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: going to have to take a leap forward this season

1113
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,879
Speaker 1: to get them over the top. Live with Mike Clay,

1114
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: ESPN NFL Analyst, Mike, let's talk about UNI grades. You've

1115
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: got the Buffalo Bills kind of in the middle of

1116
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: your pack overall eighteenth in the league in your UNI grades,

1117
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: and kind of like last year, kind of like the

1118
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: last couple of years. They're very strong on defense, top

1119
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: ten defense, and not so strong on offense. The additions

1120
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: they made this offseason, a lot of them on offense,

1121
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: but you don't seem much improvement. There is that's fair

1122
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:47,280
Speaker 1: to say a little bit. A little bit, I'm probably

1123
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: I'm certainly higher on their offense, and I wasn't years passed,

1124
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: I mean yet to fund digs a wide receivers. That's

1125
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: important to kind of fill out that trio there. I'm

1126
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: a huge Zach Moss fan, you know. I love identify

1127
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: sleepers at the running back position. He was my guy

1128
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,760
Speaker 1: this year, so I think they got a great fine. Obviously,

1129
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary was terrific as a rookie. See, I have

1130
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: a good duo there. The offensive line is progressively getting better.

1131
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: I think it's more ordinary than a standout units there.

1132
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: But again, if if you kind of take quarterback out

1133
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: of the equation here across the entire league, because if

1134
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 1: you look at my unigrade, it's almost a quarter of

1135
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: the grade is just the quarterback, then the builds are

1136
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: going to jump up closer to a top ten roster

1137
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: all around. So I again, I still have questions about

1138
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: what Alan can do. And by the way, you have

1139
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: to keep one other thing in mind. This is really big.

1140
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: Injuries are a huge variable for teams, and you see

1141
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: it when teams kind of fall off or emerge it

1142
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: late in the season. A lot of times it's because

1143
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: they're healthier, they're not, And the Bills have been one

1144
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: of the healthiest teams, if not the healthiest team in

1145
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: the league over the past two seasons, and that's not

1146
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: really sustainable. I know they have a great system in place,

1147
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,839
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe they can they can stand out

1148
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: in certain areas in terms of health, but sustaining the

1149
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: health they have over the past two seasons through another

1150
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: season is a long shot. So they have to show

1151
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: that they can overcome overcome some injuries, especially on the

1152
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. All right, I agree with

1153
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: your injuries are a great unknown. But by the same

1154
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: token that Bills have done what they think they need

1155
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 1: to do to get over the hump. Last year they

1156
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: just couldn't score enough points. And this year the addition

1157
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: of Stefan Diggs. As you've mentioned, another guy that may

1158
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: help them be more consistent on the ground is Zach Moss.

1159
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: He may come in and how do you think he's

1160
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: going to intermingle with Devin Singletary and the run game

1161
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: of the Bills. How do you think that dynamic is

1162
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: going to affect the overall performance of the offense. I

1163
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: think it's gonna help. Like I said, I love Moss.

1164
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look last year, and there's two

1165
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: key stats that are starting learning the gaining popularity in

1166
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: running back evaluations. You're going to see more and more

1167
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: of them as time goes on because they're more predictive

1168
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: than others. And it's yards after contact for attempt and

1169
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: forcemith tackles, which is a stat you see primarily over

1170
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: at Pro Football Focus. But Moss was second in both

1171
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: categories last season in this class, and his numbers were

1172
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: almost the same excuse me in twenty eighteen as well.

1173
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: So that's why I really think he is a legit star.

1174
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: Despite that week forty time and again, Singletary was very

1175
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 1: efficient last season, so I think he'll see Moss kind

1176
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: of flight into sort of what Frank Gore was doing.

1177
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: He'll handle the goal line work and a chunk of

1178
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: the carries, but he'll do more. I think he'll be

1179
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: more effective than Core where a Singletary that could scale

1180
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: back his workload a little bit. He was really playing

1181
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: a lot down the stretch. Let him be more of

1182
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: a change of pace, explosive back and handle some passing

1183
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: down or a large chunk of the passing down duties

1184
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: as well, so that as an opportunity to be one

1185
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: of the best duos in the NFL at running back.

1186
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: I think it's probably an average group until we see it,

1187
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: but it really can be a great duo. Mike Clay

1188
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: our guests, Mike, I think it's worth mentioning that. As

1189
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: they said, eighteenth ranked Unigrade for the Buffalo Bills. But

1190
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: they really have a considerable edge over the rest of

1191
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: the afcast, don't they. You don't think the Patriots, the Jets,

1192
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: or the Dolphins are going to be that good. In fact,

1193
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: you think the Jets are taking a step back this year.

1194
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: Is that right? The Jets are pretty close where I

1195
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,919
Speaker 1: had him last year, right, I have them at twenty seven.

1196
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: Still a lot of weak spots there. Sam Donald hasn't

1197
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: emerged yet. Coaching a concern there. You know, we've seen

1198
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: a lot of players really exceed expectations away from the

1199
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: Adam Gates offense recently, and that's something we can't ignore.

1200
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: So maybe they'll get it turned around and Gates can

1201
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: get Sam Darnold pointed in the right direction this season.

1202
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: They have some breaks, but defensively, but yeah, definitely still

1203
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: think the Jets are a bottom tier team that Dolphins

1204
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: are better, but remember on paper, they were really, really

1205
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: poor last season. It was a full on rebuilding effort.

1206
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: It's going to take some time before they get to

1207
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: contender status. And then, of course, the Patriots maybe the

1208
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: biggest question mark in the NFL at the quarterback position.

1209
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 1: You know, they have a guy that has a handful

1210
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: of dropbacks in regular season games, so we have no idea.

1211
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: They also lost some of their key talent during the

1212
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: off season, so I do think right now that they

1213
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: a bottom tier team. And even if you factor in

1214
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and say, hey, he's the you know, the

1215
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: greatest coach ever, so we have to consider that that's fine.

1216
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: But still I think he gets them to about an

1217
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: eight and eight record. It's hard to go higher than

1218
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 1: that until we see what they have in Jared Stidham.

1219
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think I might seem lower than most

1220
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: on the Bills as as kind of a mid range team,

1221
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: but that's still the best in that division. And then

1222
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots, as you point out, I can't remember where

1223
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: I read this, but we can go with Jared Stidham.

1224
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: But we don't have much to go on except you

1225
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: point out the history is not kind of fourth round

1226
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: draft picks quarterback in the past. Right, That's exactly right.

1227
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: Actually posted a graphic on Twitter a few weeks ago

1228
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: go showing exactly that, right. I mean, it's not Austin

1229
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 1: that you're gonna find, you know what, Tom Brady, who

1230
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: everybody's comparing the situation too, or even a Kirk Cousins.

1231
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's those those Day three quarterbacks. There are

1232
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: even Day two quarterbacks. Guys are really really rare. It's

1233
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: really rare that they turn into even solid, let alone

1234
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: very good NFL quarterbacks. So you know, look, it's hard

1235
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: not to trust Belicheck me on the success he's out

1236
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, if we're looking at the subjectively,

1237
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: but it's field renely risky, and there's probably a much

1238
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: better chance that he's a bus than he's going to

1239
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: be a competent NFL starter. But who knows, you know,

1240
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 1: we're not in the room. We don't know if Belichick

1241
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: is seen. Obviously he is competent. So if these valuations

1242
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: for these division teams like to build like the AFC

1243
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: East overall, is they're all down these teams, the Bills

1244
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: seem to be the best of the group, but there's

1245
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: too many question marks across the board for you to

1246
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: rank them any higher. What about other divisions like perhaps

1247
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: the AFC South they've met, you know, with the Colts

1248
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: kind of looking like they've taken a step forward, are

1249
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: they Are they going to overtake the Tennessee Titans after

1250
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: the Titans great run this last offseason or this last

1251
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: playoff season. I think so for two reasons. One is

1252
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 1: the schedule, which I just laid out. They have the

1253
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 1: easiest schedule in the NFL by my metrics, whereas the

1254
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: rest of the division is quite further down down the chain.

1255
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:50,240
Speaker 1: And look, the Titans I think got a little worse

1256
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: in the off season. They lost some talent. The Texans

1257
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: same kind of thing, giving away DeAndre Hopkins, which is

1258
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: still one of them more head scratching trades in NFL history,

1259
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,439
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville the same thing. They're in a rebuild. They're

1260
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: going the wrong way. So I think the Colts are

1261
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 1: the best team. They upgraded at quarterback. They went about

1262
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers last season. I know he had some interception issues.

1263
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 1: He was still okay. He wasn't He wasn't a disaster

1264
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: by any means. They still think there's something to be

1265
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Speaker 1: said for him having something in the tank. They have

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Speaker 1: an elite offensive line. They bring in Defarrest Buckner, who

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Speaker 1: was arguably the best player on the NFC champion forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers last season. That guy is a superstar three

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Speaker 1: technique defensive tackle. There's just really a lot to like

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Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. Again, when you're

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Speaker 1: anchored by that old line, it's it's huge as well.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a big fan of the Colts. I like

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're my seventh ranked team right now,

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Speaker 1: so I have them taking the three seat in the

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Speaker 1: AFC With Mike Clay ESPN NFL analysts. One team that

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Speaker 1: you have ranked I think hiring the Bills anyway thirteenth

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Speaker 1: is the Denver Broncos. What do you think of the Broncos?

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Speaker 1: What do you think of Drew Locke? Never been impressed

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Speaker 1: with him through his limited place so far. Mike, what

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Speaker 1: do you think? Yeah, I thought he was okay late

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Speaker 1: last season, but it's a small sample, so he can't

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01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: get too excited. And then definitely this is going to

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01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 1: hinge in a big way on how good he is

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Speaker 1: this season. You can see if you're looking at the

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Speaker 1: grades that I actually gave Denver a pretty low quarterback

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Speaker 1: rating and still they come in thirteenth in the UNICH

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Speaker 1: grade because of primarily because of the defense. Right Vic

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Speaker 1: Fangio left the Bears took over the head coaches the

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Speaker 1: Broncos and immediately started the rebuild of that defense. And

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Speaker 1: it looks good. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me at

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Speaker 1: all if this was kind of like the twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: Bears all over again, right where they maybe don't get

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Speaker 1: great quarterback play, maybe they even get below average quarterback

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01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: play like the Bears did with True Biski, but the

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01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 1: defense it peaked. You know, the defense just shows up

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Speaker 1: and breaks out. And if you look at that unit,

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Speaker 1: they acquired Jerald Casey up front, you have Von Miller

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01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: and Bradley Chubb. You have Todd Devis, an unheralded AJ

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Speaker 1: Johnson who is an amazing fine by them last year.

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01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: They bring in a J boy at corner with Bryce Callahan.

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Speaker 1: They have Justin Simmons and Krean Jackson and safety. There's

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Speaker 1: talent all over the place on that defense. I think

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be one of the breakout units of the year.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I think the Broncos have a decent

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01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: chance to take a wild card in the FC. It's

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01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 1: interesting about the Broncos. You're right, it's hard to keep

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01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: track of defenders because you know, so many of the

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01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: headlines are guarded by the offensive guys. We forget those

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01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: talented guys landing out west. I got to ask you

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Speaker 1: as well about the Minnesota Vikings. That's a division in

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Speaker 1: the NFC North, particularly since the head scratching draft of

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers had, it looks like it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Aaron Rodgers and a bunch of guys taking on

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. How do you see the Vikings shaking out?

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Speaker 1: Are they ready to win that division? You know what,

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Speaker 1: this was one of the hardest ones for me to

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Speaker 1: figure out. I have the Packers, Vikings, and believe it

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Speaker 1: or not, Lions all very close in terms of roster grays.

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Speaker 1: I think Detroit was an underrated team last year and

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Speaker 1: they were showing it right. They were a five hundred

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Speaker 1: team before Matthew Stafford went down for the season. Then

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Speaker 1: they lost every two remaining game. They had injuries at

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Speaker 1: other positions as well, but you know, I specifically remember

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Speaker 1: them having the Chiefs, they were going to beat the

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01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 1: chief They that freaky ninety nine yard fumble over turn

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Speaker 1: touchdown or they would have won that game. So I

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Speaker 1: think the Lions actually got a little better this offseason

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Speaker 1: and are going to contend for that division, So can

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Speaker 1: keep them in mind as a sleeper this year. Packers, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't like the draft at all. They could. I

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01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: think they had a chance with a couple of hits

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Speaker 1: to really take control of that division and they didn't

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01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: do that. So in my estimation it is it is

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01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 1: wide open. And by the way, just a note on

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01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: the Vikings, still major question marks in the in the

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01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 1: secondary of corner right. They invested a lot of draft

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Speaker 1: picks there, but it's a complete overhaul, so they might

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01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 1: not be quite as dominant as they were in year's past,

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01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: especially with Everson Griffin and Linball Joseph gone as well,

1340
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: but nonethless, still a pretty good defense. Still mikes them

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Speaker 1: or they're gonna contend at least for that division. Mike

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Speaker 1: Clay ESPN NFL analyst. Mike is also a fantasy football

1343
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: expert and does a lot of fantasy football analysis for

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Speaker 1: ESPN Sports Center and NFL Live and late last time, Mike,

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01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: you posted a story about which which players, which teams

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01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 1: would benefit most, which fantasy players and teams would benefit

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Speaker 1: the most from the schedule, and announced yesterday. Can you

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01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 1: give us kind of a capsule summary. Uh? Yeah, from

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Speaker 1: a fantasy standpoint, the toughest defenses that'll be faced are

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Speaker 1: by the Bears. I actually may have that opposite. The

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Speaker 1: easiest slate is for the Bears in terms of for fantasy.

1352
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: So if you're thinking about like Alan Robinson, David Montgomery,

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01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: those kind of guys, they'll benefit the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: and Buccaneers. How about them with Tom Brady, Robert Gronkowski

1355
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 1: though that grew pretty easy slate as well. And then

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Speaker 1: on the other side, the Titans, Jets, and Raiders are

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Speaker 1: the the offenses that have the toughest schedule, So maybe

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Speaker 1: you're in a downgrade. Guys, maybe stay away from Derreck Henry.

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Speaker 1: He's probably going to come back to Earth a bit

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Speaker 1: this season. So those are the ones that kind of

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Speaker 1: jumped out. I did a kind of a full rundown,

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Speaker 1: so without going two into depth too in depth, that's

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Speaker 1: what I came across. What else can we expect as

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Speaker 1: a result of this? Schedule, certainly it's kind a little flexibility.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on maybe the teams could benefit

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Speaker 1: or not benefit from having maybe I don't know, if

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Speaker 1: you've gone back and looked at the front two or

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01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: three games, we've said that week two, everybody's playing a

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Speaker 1: team with the exact same BUYE week in case that

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Speaker 1: game has to be moved back, And what happens if

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Speaker 1: they lop off the first game of the schedule or

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Speaker 1: they're kind of ramifications that would help some teams and

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Speaker 1: hurt others. You're right, I have been really dug two

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Speaker 1: into weeks, you know, just the strength of weeks one

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Speaker 1: through three. So that's a tough question answer for sure.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 1: much else I can add on that. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just gonna I don't know what they're going to do.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, if they erase a couple of games

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Speaker 1: early on, will they just add them on at the

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Speaker 1: end that it won't matter, you know, It's really a

1382
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Speaker 1: tricky situation to kind of figure out right now. So

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Speaker 1: the best the best answer I can give is just

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Speaker 1: that I'm assuming the sixteen games will be played for

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Speaker 1: now and That's how I'm kind of evaluating the teams.

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Speaker 1: That's how we're all working, Mike. We're all closing their

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01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: eyes and open for the best. Right. That's exactly exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Hey might really approach Mike anytime. Fellas ESPN NFL analyst

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01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 1: Mike Clay does a lot of fantasy football for them.

1390
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: Contributor to Sports Center, Fantasy Football Now and NFL Live.

1391
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 1: Can read his stuff on ESPN. He makes a good

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01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 1: point about the Bills schedule after the bye week, Steve,

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01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 1: you know, after week eleven and now you're in the

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01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:28,600
Speaker 1: late November, the Bills, and it's mostly about their evaluation

1395
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 1: of the defenses. The Bills will go up again. So

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01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 1: they'll be home against the Los Angeles Chargers when they

1397
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 1: come out of the bye who they rank is the

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Speaker 1: sixth ranked NFL defense. Then they go to San Francisco

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01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: they rank is the fourth best NFL defense. Again, these

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Speaker 1: these can change. There's a lot still to come. Then

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01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 1: the Bills are home on the Sunday Night Football against

1402
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 1: the Steelers. They've got the Steelers. Let me find it here.

1403
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: Steelers are a top defense in the league. I believe

1404
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: they have them at I can't find it they're here,

1405
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:01,839
Speaker 1: so they're they are, oh, they're the number one defense,

1406
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,799
Speaker 1: and then they go to Denver to play the Broncos

1407
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: number three defense. And then they finished this stretch up

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Speaker 1: against the New England Patriots, who they've got ranked as

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01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:14,800
Speaker 1: the fourteenth rank defense. So take the Patriots out for

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Speaker 1: a second. There's one, two, three, four games where they're

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Speaker 1: playing the top six defenses according to their rankings in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So we talked a lot about that stretch

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Speaker 1: and how many night games there are, right San Francisco

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Speaker 1: Monday night, Pittsburgh Sunday night, maybe Denver Saturday, and New

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Speaker 1: England Monday night, not on other day night games. They're

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Speaker 1: tough opponents and really tough defenses in that stretch in December.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of where the meat of the bill schedule is.

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Speaker 1: It looks like anyway, right, yeah, And don't forget three

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Speaker 1: of those four games when you start with San Francisco

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Speaker 1: or on the road. They're at San Francisco, at Denver,

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01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:48,679
Speaker 1: and at New England. They do get to play Pittsburgh

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01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: at home on a Sunday night game, like you said,

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01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:53,640
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, three out of those four on

1424
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:56,600
Speaker 1: the road, that's a tough stretch to play those defenses

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01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: on the road in Denver, Mile High is a tough, yeah,

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01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: tough game to play. And of course New England and

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01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: San Francisco with maybe the most talented defensive roster in

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01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 1: the league, at least last year they were. So he's

1429
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 1: right that the last five to six weeks of the

1430
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:14,679
Speaker 1: regular season are going to be the real telling point

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01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 1: for the Bills. And you've you've made the point. Two

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01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 1: Bills didn't finish this season strong last year, lost three

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01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 1: out of the last four in December. Now certainly the

1434
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: last game. You can make a case that they didn't

1435
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 1: care if they want against the Jets and didn't play anybody. Still,

1436
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,720
Speaker 1: it remains to be seen. They've got to finish the

1437
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 1: season strong with wins, not just playing well and losing

1438
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 1: close game. They got a win, and that's a huge stretch,

1439
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 1: a huge stretch of games that are that are going

1440
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: to be crucial, no question. Let's get your take on

1441
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 1: the schedule. What do you think, what's the toughest stretch,

1442
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:49,680
Speaker 1: what's the easiest stretch? How many wins do you have? Got?

1443
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Speaker 1: Phone lines wide open eight o three five fifty and

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

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Speaker 1: We'll go to the tweet sheet. In a moment, we'll

1446
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: take your phone calls. In a moment, we'll talk about

1447
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: the bills schedule came out last night. Let's hear from

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Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Live, presented by Collat of Health. This

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01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Way through the Friday Show. Welcome back.

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01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: It is One Bill's Live. John Murphy, Steve Tasker. At

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01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:19,680
Speaker 1: the end of a week. Steve, Now, these weeks are

1452
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 1: rocketing by don't you agree? Yes, I do agree. It's

1453
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not desponding or anything that it's Friday

1454
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: and I'm happy to have a weekend off. But man,

1455
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: these weeks go fast now, you know what I mean. Yeah,

1456
01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:34,200
Speaker 1: it's almost like you know how the days run together?

1457
01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:36,920
Speaker 1: Now the weeks are running together. Yeah, you know, I mean,

1458
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:41,560
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, it's Friday crazy. I don't know

1459
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: how now I don't want to listen, not to say

1460
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: that too much. It's a Friday and weeks gone on

1461
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 1: all that. But because we don't have a schedule to

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01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: look forward to next week, right, we don't have a

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01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 1: schedule release forwards you next week? What are we gonna

1464
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: look forward. What is our look forward to thing? Now,

1465
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:56,680
Speaker 1: it's not my job, man, that's our producer job. We

1466
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:58,479
Speaker 1: gotta hear out something we're gonna look forward to. We

1467
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:01,600
Speaker 1: knew we had the schedule release come in and we

1468
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: can see it, and we were looking forward to it.

1469
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: Now it's gone. We had the draft two weeks ago.

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01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: Now want we get to the are we gonna do?

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01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: Jay's the producer expecting to produce you what, Let's just

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01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:15,240
Speaker 1: go on vaca, right, I'm afraid to go on vacab

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01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:19,759
Speaker 1: go on an undetermined amount of time, never, never ending vacation.

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01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 1: I'm not ready for that yet. Give us a call.

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01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:25,639
Speaker 1: Turn into retirement. It's right, give us a call. Let's

1476
01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: discuss the schedule. We can look ahead to the schedule

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01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 1: eight oh three h five fifty toll free from outside

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01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: Buffalo one eight eight five fifty two fifty. I think, Steve,

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01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 1: and we'll get into some tweets here in a minute,

1480
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:39,799
Speaker 1: but I do think the release of the schedule in Buffalo,

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01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 1: maybe in particular, had a similar effect to the draft.

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01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 1: It kind of got sports fans, NFL fans looking ahead,

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01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 1: not wallowing in self pity or oh, I can't go

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01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: out I can't do this. I don't have a job.

1485
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 1: I might lose my job, you know, for at least

1486
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:56,080
Speaker 1: a couple hours. With the release of the schedule, just

1487
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: as the draft did it two weeks ago, it kind

1488
01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: of puts people in a better mood, I think, don't you. Yes,

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01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,640
Speaker 1: it does. And you know how, we had this the

1490
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 1: heated debate yesterday about how smart or readily available at whatever,

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01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: how smart or dumb it was to make plans for

1492
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:14,679
Speaker 1: these games like the Vegas trip, and I was saying

1493
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: it was that was not a debate, that was you

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01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: versus a caller. By the way, two you were taking

1495
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 1: the other side of it too, I mean, anyway, so

1496
01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:26,720
Speaker 1: we have this huge discussion, you and I about you

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 1: know how you're gonna make plans thinking perhaps these games

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01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 1: may not happen right, or may get moved or whatever.

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01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: And so we're having that and I'm I'm still of

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01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 1: the mind that, listen, you know what you're getting into,

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01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: and you're making a trip for a certain reason, and

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01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 1: that reason has a chance to change. You know what

1503
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:46,519
Speaker 1: you're getting into. That's my stance. So I'm I'm going

1504
01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 1: with all that. So then the schedule's about to come

1505
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 1: out and the five President's tech sloop gets in. Right,

1506
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 1: So Bruce, Jim Thurm and Andre Will Woolford can't hole

1507
01:13:56,560 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 1: or not can't hold my gosh, Corney's Bennett God rest

1508
01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:04,680
Speaker 1: his soul. Kent I miss him. Um, we still talk

1509
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 1: about him, but you know, so all these guys are

1510
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: chiming in, and sure enough the schedule comes out and

1511
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:13,560
Speaker 1: the first thing I hear Will Wolford is going to

1512
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:16,600
Speaker 1: Vegas Thursday through Monday of the Bills game so he

1513
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: can go to the Bills game. I'm like, dude, you're

1514
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:22,200
Speaker 1: killing me, making me look bad. So he's made his

1515
01:14:23,280 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 1: him he was tell him that was not smart? Well, no,

1516
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:29,679
Speaker 1: not really, but because he wasn't the only one. Thurman

1517
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 1: said the same thing, like I told you he's he's

1518
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: making his trip. He may go to Vegas because his

1519
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 1: he's got two kids without the day that's their birthday

1520
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: that day, so he may take the whole family to Vegas.

1521
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 1: Did you tell him Thurman wasn't smart that you were

1522
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 1: telling caller yesterday, I'm gonna wait until the game gets

1523
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: moved because I can. Then I can, I can. I

1524
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 1: told you so it is much better than to say,

1525
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 1: you know, you're taking a big risk. I don't know.

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01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: I get more. I don't know. Is that bad? Does

1527
01:14:57,080 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: that make me an evil person? No evil? But but

1528
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 1: so we just had that huge discussion and all my

1529
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:08,719
Speaker 1: best buds are like going, let's go. It's gonna be awesome,

1530
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 1: like you guys. Well, so look, I think people understand

1531
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: those games could be moved, but look, the NFL's moving forward.

1532
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: I think fans have the right to move forward and

1533
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:20,720
Speaker 1: not worry about whether it's smarter or not. They know

1534
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:23,320
Speaker 1: October fourth now at Las Vegas, it is week four

1535
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: in the season. They know what it is. If you

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01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:27,680
Speaker 1: want to get a deal on air fares, if you

1537
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,000
Speaker 1: want to get a deal on tickets, act quickly. That's

1538
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: what people are doing. That's what your friends are doing.

1539
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 1: If you want to pay more money to be more

1540
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 1: sure that the trip's actually going to happen, you know

1541
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:39,080
Speaker 1: you might, you have to wait to do it, and

1542
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: that's that's a you're that's what you do when you're

1543
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 1: even on vacation and all that too. So it's the

1544
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:46,680
Speaker 1: same thing here with the football season. But I think

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01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 1: two week four I would feel comfortable as soon as

1546
01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: the regular If you get closer and closer and things

1547
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 1: start to happen. Nothing's been moved, and I'd feel more

1548
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:57,759
Speaker 1: and more confident that, yeah, make those trip plans and stuff.

1549
01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 1: But from here three months out, three well actually four

1550
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 1: and a half months out, that's a long way to know,

1551
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 1: with a lot of uncertainties in between you and the trip.

1552
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 1: Did you see on Twitter? It might have been the

1553
01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:11,160
Speaker 1: same guy, but somebody sent you a picture of their

1554
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 1: travel plans to go to last he say, sent you

1555
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: a picture the airline ticket? Yeah yeah, John Bush, Yeah

1556
01:16:16,680 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: your face you guys, no hard he got no hard feelings.

1557
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 1: After my call yesterday. He made it good for him

1558
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:26,479
Speaker 1: and I hope it happens. He's about it. Yeah, right,

1559
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: So that was Dave dumb Yes, John John sing Bush.

1560
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: He was great. He took a gamble, he says, I

1561
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 1: took a gamble. I'm sure you remember my phone call.

1562
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: It was yesterday, Uh, just before we went off the

1563
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 1: air No hard feelings. And there's his tree. He's got

1564
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: his rental car. Uh, he's staying Uh. I don't know

1565
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: what hotel he's staying out, but he's all set up.

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01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:48,560
Speaker 1: He's he's right here. I'm gonna do it just to

1567
01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 1: show you. So there he is good for him? There, Hey,

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01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: I hope it happens, and I hope it goes off

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01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:56,560
Speaker 1: without a without a hitch, and I hope it's the

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01:16:56,600 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: trip of a lifetime, Dave, I really do, John, what's

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01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:03,799
Speaker 1: the toughest and the easiest threats this year's bill schedule?

1572
01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:05,639
Speaker 1: What do you think? Let's take a phone called Joe

1573
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:10,280
Speaker 1: in Toronto? How Joe around the air? How are you gentlemen? Great?

1574
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 1: I just want to listen. You know, if you look

1575
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 1: at Buffalo's opponents this year, they've all gotten better on paper,

1576
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: except for New England. So if the Bills win nine,

1577
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 1: maybe ten games, I think they win the division. That's

1578
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 1: just the way I look at it. I don't know

1579
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: how you guys feel about it. But the opponents have

1580
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: improved immensely, except for New England, of course. And you know,

1581
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: I think nine ten wins will be a really good

1582
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: season for the Buffalo Bills. Ten wins is always a

1583
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,439
Speaker 1: good season, all right. You know what Mike Clays and

1584
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's analytics based. And Mike Clays was

1585
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: our guest last half hour. But in his and I

1586
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: asked him a question, is you know he's got the

1587
01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:48,439
Speaker 1: Bills at eight and a half wins, all right, eighteenth

1588
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: ranked in terms of unich rates. That's a little bit

1589
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:52,720
Speaker 1: less than half. You know, six need to be right

1590
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: in the middle of the league. But and I asked

1591
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,600
Speaker 1: him this question, they are considerably above the rest of

1592
01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 1: the AFC East. Look, I think we got to come

1593
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 1: aroun the realization Steve that it looks like the AFC

1594
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,120
Speaker 1: East is not going to be a strong division this year.

1595
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 1: As Mike said, six Bills games are against AFC East teams. Look,

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01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 1: they can get four or five wins out of that

1597
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 1: at least, I would think, Right, yeah, you gotta think

1598
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:14,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna come out at least four and four and

1599
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: if they go three. Even if they go three and three,

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01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 1: you know, that'll may be a disappointment. I don't know.

1601
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 1: But still that's they went three and three last year

1602
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:28,920
Speaker 1: and won ten games, you know, so, uh, that's that's

1603
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: what it's going to be. That they're out out of division.

1604
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:33,920
Speaker 1: Opponent schedule is a little bit tougher than it was

1605
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:37,240
Speaker 1: a year ago, so you know, we'll see. But I

1606
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: don't know how you can think there's one team that

1607
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 1: got worse the team the division leader two teams that

1608
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 1: got better, although our friend Mike Clay thinks the Jets

1609
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 1: are taking a step backwards. Well, I don't know, maybe,

1610
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 1: but those two teams I think are thinking they're gonna

1611
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:59,320
Speaker 1: be better this year, particularly the way the Jets finished

1612
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:01,479
Speaker 1: the second half of last season. They won. They went

1613
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,160
Speaker 1: seven and two to finish last year correct or seven

1614
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:08,599
Speaker 1: and one. Yeah, So I don't know. I I it's

1615
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: that I'm just not really thinking they're gonna We're gonna

1616
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: skate to the division title. And I don't I'm not

1617
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 1: thinking the Patriots are gonna lay down either. I'm I'm

1618
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 1: adamant about that. I've been the guy that's been warning

1619
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:27,639
Speaker 1: everybody against throwing dirt on the grave of the Patriots

1620
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:30,800
Speaker 1: because Tom Brady's not there. Don't do it. Don't do it.

1621
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I'm I'm it's it's all up

1622
01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: in the air. The schedule is tough, but the Bills

1623
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 1: are much better. I think the Bills are better both

1624
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 1: defensively and offensively. I think they're markedly better, So they're

1625
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: gonna be I don't think there's too many teams on

1626
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,240
Speaker 1: the schedule that are looking at the Buffalo Bills and saying,

1627
01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: you know what, that's a win. You know, there may

1628
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:56,240
Speaker 1: be a couple of them, but there's not gonna be

1629
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:59,640
Speaker 1: ten of them. We'll see, and I do think to

1630
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: original point, the AMC East might be the best, one

1631
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 1: of the best things that Bills have gone for him.

1632
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 1: It's a down year in the AMC East. I think,

1633
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 1: I think that's that's pretty obvious. What is the toughest

1634
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 1: and easiest stretch in this year's bill schedule? Give us

1635
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 1: a call to discuss eight oh three five fifty toll

1636
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:17,840
Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight by fifty two five fifty.

1637
01:20:17,960 --> 01:20:19,600
Speaker 1: Let's go to the tweet sheet brought to you by

1638
01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 1: Cargan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills.

1639
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 1: Nick says, it is a tough schedule, but the very

1640
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 1: beginning of the schedules seems to be the easiest. At

1641
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: this point, I am confident we can beat anyone, but

1642
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 1: it would be nice to start the year with very

1643
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:34,599
Speaker 1: winnable games. We did that last year and that late

1644
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: the foundation for our success last season. He's right, I mean,

1645
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: you can. I don't think it's much of a leap

1646
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:42,960
Speaker 1: to see the Bills going you know, four and oz

1647
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:46,040
Speaker 1: to start the season, at least before you get to uh, Tennessee.

1648
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: I think I'm not saying those are easy wins, but

1649
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:51,599
Speaker 1: if they're four and oh, that would kind of make sense.

1650
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:56,479
Speaker 1: After those first four games. Steve, Yeah, you think you've

1651
01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:59,680
Speaker 1: got You think the Jets and the Dolphins you can

1652
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:01,519
Speaker 1: beat right out of the blocks. The Dolphins with so

1653
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: many new players, young players, first year players that are

1654
01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:06,720
Speaker 1: gonna go out there play significant roles, maybe you'd have

1655
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: an edge on those guys, just with some savvy and

1656
01:21:09,479 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: the veteran nature of our roster. The Jets, maybe with

1657
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:17,240
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, he can go in and say, listen, these

1658
01:21:17,320 --> 01:21:19,560
Speaker 1: guys beat us in week seventeen, let's go, you know,

1659
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 1: let's go make a statement about where we're headed this year.

1660
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 1: You know, opening day yere at home, the crowd is

1661
01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:26,560
Speaker 1: going to be on it. That's a tough win for

1662
01:21:26,640 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: the Jets if you're looking at it from the other side.

1663
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 1: So there's two and oh. The Rams we said they'll

1664
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:34,160
Speaker 1: be staying out east to come into Buffalo, playing in

1665
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo probably for the first time maybe anybody on their

1666
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:45,559
Speaker 1: rosters played here given them except for maybe what Robert Woods, right,

1667
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 1: So and then you go to Vegas the loss and

1668
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:52,240
Speaker 1: the Raiders, I don't know. I have a hard time

1669
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: seeing them being a team, although you know, I like

1670
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 1: Mike Mayock and the way he builds his roster. I

1671
01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 1: just don't know if the know what to think about

1672
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:04,800
Speaker 1: the Raiders. They're always talented, but they're never really they

1673
01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: haven't been a very good team very often. So, yeah,

1674
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 1: you took it at four. And oh maybe when you

1675
01:22:11,040 --> 01:22:13,160
Speaker 1: head to Tennessee, that'd be awesome if they are. That

1676
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 1: gives you a lot of confidence going down to Nashville.

1677
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 1: But all that stuff is just you know, us sitting

1678
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:22,559
Speaker 1: here from a million miles away. Yes, just talk, just talk,

1679
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 1: That's what we do for But that's what the schedule

1680
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:26,640
Speaker 1: looks like. It really does. Yeah, and by the way,

1681
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:28,599
Speaker 1: the game at Tennessee is not that they won their

1682
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 1: last year. It's not an impossible game, but it is

1683
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 1: you know, a team the Titans, who went deep into

1684
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:37,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year and who are decent. I'm not

1685
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:39,400
Speaker 1: saying they're world beaders, but they're decent. On the road.

1686
01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 1: The Bills beat him there last year on the road.

1687
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: The Bills, yea, and they played Markhams Mariota when he

1688
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 1: was there, and the Bills really were. I think that

1689
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: loss to Buffalo turned the corner for Tennessee. They said, listen,

1690
01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: we're not We're gonna live like this. We're not gonna

1691
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:57,640
Speaker 1: live with our our quarterback not being a playmaker. We're

1692
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 1: gonna put Tannehill in, ask him to do just enough,

1693
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:03,559
Speaker 1: and we're going to hand the ball to Derek Henry

1694
01:23:04,040 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: and we're gonna let him flex. So he did, and

1695
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:09,160
Speaker 1: they got on a run from that moment on and

1696
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 1: they were tough to beat from there on all the

1697
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: way to the championship game AFC Championship Games. So that

1698
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: game that lost to the Bills I think stuck in

1699
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:20,280
Speaker 1: their crawl last year. I think that really hurt Tennessee

1700
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: that they thought they could win that game and should have.

1701
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 1: And of course Duke Williams caught the winning touchdown pass

1702
01:23:25,880 --> 01:23:28,599
Speaker 1: to give the Bills to win. So yeah, I think

1703
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:30,920
Speaker 1: that game will stick in Tennessee's kral. You're gonna get

1704
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: a big swing from Tennessee. I think you have the

1705
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 1: tweet sheet in front of steam. Let's get back to

1706
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:37,720
Speaker 1: some more of the tweet sheet from cargantuving system. What

1707
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: do you got there? From Nick. He says, it's I

1708
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 1: read that one okay, from toughest and easiest stretch. How

1709
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:46,920
Speaker 1: many Bills wins for the twenty twenty season. From Andrew

1710
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: the Truck, the toughest stretch is Raiders Titans, Chiefs, two

1711
01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: teams from the AFC Championship game and the up and

1712
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:57,760
Speaker 1: coming Raiders. I predict ten and six. That's one way

1713
01:23:57,760 --> 01:23:59,639
Speaker 1: to look at it. We're thinking that, like the last

1714
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:01,720
Speaker 1: five four, the last five weeks of the season, we're

1715
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough stretch. But Raiders, Titans, Chiefs, and particular,

1716
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 1: the Titans are on a Sunday. The Chiefs are on

1717
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 1: a Thursday, short week to play the World champions. Although

1718
01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:13,599
Speaker 1: it's a night game, primetime game under the lights in Buffalo.

1719
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:16,280
Speaker 1: Both teams in a short week, both teams I have

1720
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:19,600
Speaker 1: a short week, no question. But you know that's a

1721
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: home field and particularly, and this is an old at

1722
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 1: Murphy've heard this, don't bet against an underdog team at

1723
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:33,439
Speaker 1: home on a night game in the NFL. Well home

1724
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:37,040
Speaker 1: dogs in general, home home dogs, home underdogs go a

1725
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:39,600
Speaker 1: long way in the NFL, and the Bills would be

1726
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,680
Speaker 1: will no doubt be an underdog to the Chiefs at

1727
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: home on Thursday night that early in the season. So

1728
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 1: I yeah, I'm that's a I'm looking forward to that.

1729
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:52,960
Speaker 1: I think that's the centerpiece of the entire schedule, that

1730
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:56,680
Speaker 1: Chiefs game on Thursday night. I think December is what

1731
01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:59,080
Speaker 1: jumps out to me. But I will say Andrew makes

1732
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 1: a good point to go on the road at Las Vegas,

1733
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 1: all right, to play the Raiders. Not very good last year,

1734
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:06,680
Speaker 1: but it's still a decent game. And then on the

1735
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:09,160
Speaker 1: road at Tennessee should be tough. And then home against

1736
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:12,719
Speaker 1: Kansas City. That is kind of a mini tough stretch.

1737
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: I think the real stretch is December at San Francisco,

1738
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: home against Pittsburgh, at Denver, at New England. But that's

1739
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:21,360
Speaker 1: you know, and that's good. They've got him a space out,

1740
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 1: by the way. That stretch starts in October, right, those

1741
01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 1: three first three games of October pretty tough. All right.

1742
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:29,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna break here and then we're coming back. One

1743
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:31,600
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by to a Lot of Health. This

1744
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome Back, One goes live, John

1745
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 1: Murphy's team Tasker. We got Chris Brown joining us at

1746
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 1: a little bit after two o'clock today, Chris brown from

1747
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com will join us and get his

1748
01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: take on the schedule. He's written a lot about it

1749
01:25:46,880 --> 01:25:48,639
Speaker 1: at Buffalo bills dot com. You'll be able to pone

1750
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:51,639
Speaker 1: in your comments and questions for Brownie John Murphy's team

1751
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:55,639
Speaker 1: tasker here Until three o'clock today, snow continues to fall.

1752
01:25:57,240 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 1: I have no comment about that. It's pretty amazing. I

1753
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 1: will say that, I'm not gonna whine about it, but

1754
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:06,519
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Yeah, not piling up. That's good now. And

1755
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:08,639
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this though, and I've I've been looking

1756
01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: at the daily forecasts. This midweek next week is when

1757
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 1: it finally I think, goes away for good and it

1758
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:17,879
Speaker 1: starts to get into the sixties, high sixties and seventies

1759
01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:20,479
Speaker 1: after that. If we've got another four or five days

1760
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 1: of this and then it all goes away, and it's

1761
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: gonna no, it's not gonna be bad. This is the

1762
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: worst day of the of the year. So it's gonna

1763
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 1: be the last worst day. You know what I'm saying.

1764
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:36,160
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. It's gonna get a little

1765
01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 1: better tomorrow, much better. On Sunday, we'll regress a little

1766
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 1: bit Monday Tuesday, then like mid next week, my camera

1767
01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:47,559
Speaker 1: is gonna be all over us about this. But that's

1768
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:50,000
Speaker 1: when the next week, midweek in May is gonna be

1769
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,840
Speaker 1: the uh the that's when it's gonna turn. It's gonna

1770
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:57,680
Speaker 1: be summertime. Okay, if you're gonna wait that long. Hey, um,

1771
01:26:57,800 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: we haven't talked much about this. I want to get

1772
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: from only a sense of who these undrafted free agents

1773
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 1: the Bills have officially signed, and they'll have some ideas

1774
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:07,680
Speaker 1: on that. But the Bills did signed the three of

1775
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:11,040
Speaker 1: their draft picks, Steve seventh rounder Dane Jackson agreed to

1776
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:15,519
Speaker 1: a contract, sixth rounder Isaiah Hodgens, and uh Tyler Bass.

1777
01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:19,240
Speaker 1: What was the sixth round? Fifth or six? Six? Yeah? Yeah,

1778
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 1: these are nowadays with the rookie wad scale rookie signing

1779
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 1: their formalities. That wasn't always the case, right. I remember

1780
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 1: some epic epic training camp battles, Bill Polian going off

1781
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:34,720
Speaker 1: on Shane Conlin's agent, And it used to be fun

1782
01:27:34,920 --> 01:27:38,240
Speaker 1: to watch rookies try to get contracts. Now, what's like, yeah, okay,

1783
01:27:38,240 --> 01:27:40,599
Speaker 1: he signed, and they're gonna sign. It's a much better

1784
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 1: This is a much better world. We live in than

1785
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:47,400
Speaker 1: one eye grew up in. And are you serious really? Yeah?

1786
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:49,599
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you got I mean you're didn't

1787
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 1: think of now guys, you know, guys were holding out

1788
01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 1: starting their career. Their whole first year's shot because they

1789
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:58,880
Speaker 1: show up like three weeks into the season, the whole

1790
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:01,240
Speaker 1: nine yards. It's just it couldn't have been it couldn't

1791
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:05,400
Speaker 1: be worse. And then they go in they sign this contract.

1792
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: It's life changing money, huge amounts of money right up front,

1793
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:10,719
Speaker 1: right off the top, just put it in your pocket,

1794
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: and they're never the same guy. They never live up

1795
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:17,519
Speaker 1: to their expectations nothing. So now it's a much better world.

1796
01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 1: These guys come in, they're highly motivated, they're signed on time,

1797
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: they get in on the preseason stuff, they get a

1798
01:28:22,479 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 1: chance to get their feet under them. And while they

1799
01:28:25,360 --> 01:28:28,640
Speaker 1: do get a good check and a little bit of

1800
01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:32,160
Speaker 1: life and life changing money, they feel like they got

1801
01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:33,880
Speaker 1: to earn it, and they feel like there's something on

1802
01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 1: the table for him. It's not just this one transaction

1803
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:39,880
Speaker 1: and that dictates their entire career, you know. So it's

1804
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 1: really really a much better world we live in now

1805
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:44,880
Speaker 1: than it was back in the day. I got you, Yeah,

1806
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 1: I can't disagree with that. Agents would tell you it's

1807
01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:51,759
Speaker 1: not fair, you know, And what other business do guys

1808
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:53,640
Speaker 1: have to wait to be paid? You know? And if

1809
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: I were an agent, i'd say that, but I'm not. Well,

1810
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:58,600
Speaker 1: I get it. I get that that's an argument, but

1811
01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 1: they only make that argument in retrospect of what it

1812
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 1: used to be like, you know, um, and in today's

1813
01:29:05,520 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 1: these guys are still signing you know, eight digit contracts.

1814
01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, they're they're fine, they're they're and

1815
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:15,960
Speaker 1: they're getting it. And they're all getting, if not all

1816
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:18,960
Speaker 1: the money their rookie contract, ninety percent of it. So

1817
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:23,680
Speaker 1: sparius the stuff about they're not getting paid, right, So

1818
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:25,720
Speaker 1: it's a much better way to do it these days.

1819
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:28,880
Speaker 1: And they then they get a chance to hit a

1820
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: home run and become you know, get a little bit

1821
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:34,800
Speaker 1: of maybe even generational wealth at this point. So yeah,

1822
01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: it's a much better world now in the contract and

1823
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:38,800
Speaker 1: all this is, you know, we're talking about the rest

1824
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 1: of us out here, You and me and everybody listening

1825
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:43,920
Speaker 1: to us, is like, good greed, Just give me one

1826
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:47,720
Speaker 1: of those, right, yeah, So we'll take the rookie deal,

1827
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 1: all right. Chris Brown standing by to join us after

1828
01:29:50,080 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Come on back for that

1829
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:54,360
Speaker 1: Brownie from Bill's dot Com coming up more scheduled talking

1830
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:56,840
Speaker 1: We return One Bill's Live, presented by a lot of

1831
01:29:56,960 --> 01:29:59,360
Speaker 1: health coming in from radio only from our homes. This

1832
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:06,599
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. The update from One Bills Live.

1833
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:08,680
Speaker 1: The schedule is out. The Buffalo Bills found out that

1834
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:11,880
Speaker 1: they have four count them four primetime games, including a

1835
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:14,920
Speaker 1: Thursday night football game at home Week six against the

1836
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:17,439
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. That also includes a Monday night game

1837
01:30:17,760 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 1: at San Francisco against the forty nine Ers. They play

1838
01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:23,360
Speaker 1: the Steelers on Sunday Night Football in Orchard Park, and

1839
01:30:23,560 --> 01:30:26,680
Speaker 1: they played the Patriots December twenty eighth in Foxborough on

1840
01:30:26,840 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. The schedule came out last night. The

1841
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:32,760
Speaker 1: Bills also played the Denver Broncos in Week fifteen. They

1842
01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:35,000
Speaker 1: don't know if the game will be Saturday, December nineteenth

1843
01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:38,280
Speaker 1: or Sunday December twentieth, the same situation as last year

1844
01:30:38,280 --> 01:30:40,960
Speaker 1: when they played at New England in Week sixteen. The

1845
01:30:41,080 --> 01:30:43,360
Speaker 1: game eventually last year has moved to Saturday. If it is,

1846
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 1: it's yet another nationally televised game for the Buffalo Bills.

1847
01:30:47,320 --> 01:30:50,719
Speaker 1: The NFL's entire schedule came out last night. Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

1848
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:53,120
Speaker 1: with new quarterback Tom Brady, opened up on the road

1849
01:30:53,160 --> 01:30:56,120
Speaker 1: against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. It's a four

1850
01:30:56,280 --> 01:30:59,920
Speaker 1: twenty five kickoff on September thirteenth, the annual kickoff class

1851
01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:02,920
Speaker 1: September tenth, Erahead Stadium in Kansas City, with the Super

1852
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:06,920
Speaker 1: Bowl champion Chiefs home against the Houston Texans. There's a

1853
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:09,960
Speaker 1: Christmas Day game two. The Minnesota Vikings play at the

1854
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:13,679
Speaker 1: Saints on Christmas Day, a Friday afternoon. Christmas Day schedule

1855
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:17,479
Speaker 1: a total of ten regular season games on a Friday

1856
01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 1: in NFL history. That's one of them Christmas Day, the

1857
01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:23,080
Speaker 1: Vikings and the Saints. Meantime, Roger Goodell says the league

1858
01:31:23,160 --> 01:31:25,360
Speaker 1: is treating the schedule just as it treats the start

1859
01:31:25,439 --> 01:31:28,160
Speaker 1: of free agency. He says, we're prepared to make adjustments

1860
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 1: as necessary. Bills announced that a number of their rookies

1861
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:34,960
Speaker 1: have agreed to contracts. Wide receiver Isaiah Hodgens, the sixth

1862
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:38,639
Speaker 1: round pick, kicker Tyler Bass, who was the Buffalo Bills

1863
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:43,200
Speaker 1: sixth round pick, and defensive back Dane Jackson from Pittsburgh.

1864
01:31:43,200 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 1: Their seventh round pick. Also reports the two others, quarterback

1865
01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:49,680
Speaker 1: Jake From in the fifth round and aj Epanessa defensivemen,

1866
01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:52,360
Speaker 1: have also agreed to terms. Those are just reports. And

1867
01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:55,120
Speaker 1: the Bills also announced that they have signed eight more

1868
01:31:55,240 --> 01:31:59,160
Speaker 1: undrafted free agents, the names that were announced or reported

1869
01:31:59,200 --> 01:32:03,320
Speaker 1: on shortly after the draft two weeks ago. There you go,

1870
01:32:03,439 --> 01:32:05,639
Speaker 1: that is the update from One Bill's Live. John Murphy,

1871
01:32:05,880 --> 01:32:08,160
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, whoop just in from the Bills. They have

1872
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:12,200
Speaker 1: signed three of them, aj Epenessa, Jake From, and Gabriel

1873
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 1: Davis fourth round pick. Who's that leave? Just Zach Moss, right, Steve,

1874
01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 1: He's the only one on signed. I believe, well, I

1875
01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:21,720
Speaker 1: think so. Yeah, So let's go to Chris Brown. Let's

1876
01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:23,720
Speaker 1: go to Chris Brown. Yeah he may know this. Hi, Chris,

1877
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:26,200
Speaker 1: Chris Brown builds Insider Buffleball bills dot Com. How you doing?

1878
01:32:26,760 --> 01:32:29,160
Speaker 1: You doing good? Yeah, Zach Moss is your only guy left.

1879
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm just saying to Steve before we went

1880
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:33,920
Speaker 1: to the breaks, Chris and we do want to talk

1881
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:37,680
Speaker 1: about schedule. But these rookie signings are pretty much perfunctory,

1882
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,040
Speaker 1: perfunctory issues these days, aren't they. I mean, you know,

1883
01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 1: that's much fun it used to be when people would

1884
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:48,120
Speaker 1: hold outled out. That's all I'm saying. Call holding out fun.

1885
01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:50,680
Speaker 1: It certainly wasn't fun for the gms when you know

1886
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:52,519
Speaker 1: you're a weekend to camp and you're still waiting for

1887
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:54,639
Speaker 1: your first round pick who you're counting on to probably

1888
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 1: feel a pretty important role, and he's not there. Um,

1889
01:32:58,520 --> 01:33:01,040
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody misses those day and I miss

1890
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:04,240
Speaker 1: seeing the veins in b. Paulian's neck kind of you know. Yeah.

1891
01:33:05,920 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 1: And the other thing too is you know, as a

1892
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 1: reporters selfishly, it's just one extra thing you got to

1893
01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:14,720
Speaker 1: keep tabs on every single day, waiting for you know,

1894
01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:17,479
Speaker 1: progress and negotiations as the guys showing up. Is he

1895
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:19,439
Speaker 1: not showing up? When's he getting to the airport? This,

1896
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:22,960
Speaker 1: then the other. So I don't mind that these rookie

1897
01:33:23,960 --> 01:33:27,280
Speaker 1: salaries are a thing of the past. I was telling Murph,

1898
01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:29,320
Speaker 1: I think it's a better world we live in because

1899
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:32,320
Speaker 1: it's more. It may be more structured and maybe more

1900
01:33:32,640 --> 01:33:34,680
Speaker 1: rubber stamp to get it done, but these guys are

1901
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:38,639
Speaker 1: still signing big contracts. They're still getting a lot of money.

1902
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:42,080
Speaker 1: It's it's rotated through their the life of their four

1903
01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:44,599
Speaker 1: year or five year deal with their first round draft picks,

1904
01:33:45,120 --> 01:33:47,200
Speaker 1: and it's just, you know, they get a chance to

1905
01:33:47,240 --> 01:33:50,160
Speaker 1: do the OTA's. They get signed quicker, they get signed earlier.

1906
01:33:50,240 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 1: Nobody holds out anymore, unless it's a veteran holds out

1907
01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:56,400
Speaker 1: like Jadeveon Clowney or somebody like that. None of these

1908
01:33:56,439 --> 01:34:00,320
Speaker 1: guys do that, and it makes them. It helps higher

1909
01:34:00,320 --> 01:34:03,040
Speaker 1: percentage of these draft picks get off to a better

1910
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 1: start to their career because they're involved, taking part, trying

1911
01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:09,040
Speaker 1: to earn their way along. And it's just a better

1912
01:34:09,120 --> 01:34:11,439
Speaker 1: atmosphere with it the way it is these days, correct,

1913
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:14,639
Speaker 1: don't you do? Do you agree with that? Yeah, because

1914
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:17,200
Speaker 1: it's a it's an easier on ramp for the rookies.

1915
01:34:17,280 --> 01:34:20,200
Speaker 1: You know, they get ingratiated with the team that much

1916
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:23,280
Speaker 1: quicker at training camp when you really I think most

1917
01:34:23,280 --> 01:34:26,559
Speaker 1: players would agree, start to bond and you know, come

1918
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 1: together as a football team when you're finally playing real

1919
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:32,960
Speaker 1: football with pads on nowadays. So yeah, I think it

1920
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:36,080
Speaker 1: just it caters to the whole team concept all the more.

1921
01:34:36,720 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 1: Rather than man, you know, this hotshot rookie you know

1922
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:42,439
Speaker 1: is holding out for more money and we're going to

1923
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:44,920
Speaker 1: need him for the regular season. You know, when does

1924
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:47,160
Speaker 1: that become more important than how much money he's stuffing

1925
01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:49,960
Speaker 1: in his pocket? So I could see you know, that's

1926
01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:53,240
Speaker 1: no longer an issue. Chris Brown Bills Insider Buffalo bills

1927
01:34:53,240 --> 01:34:54,960
Speaker 1: dot Com on the line with us. You're welcome to

1928
01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:56,800
Speaker 1: give us a call your thoughts on the schedule, on

1929
01:34:56,880 --> 01:34:59,320
Speaker 1: the signings, they will talk about some of the undrafteds

1930
01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:02,080
Speaker 1: who signed his Well eight o three five fifty outside

1931
01:35:02,080 --> 01:35:05,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Toll three and one eight five fifty two five fifty.

1932
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:08,320
Speaker 1: Have a coommeoter question for Brownie. He's with us for

1933
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:10,400
Speaker 1: the next several minutes, and now's the chance of phone

1934
01:35:10,439 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 1: it in. Well, let's focus on the schedule, Chris, you

1935
01:35:12,439 --> 01:35:15,800
Speaker 1: and Maddy glab did the schedule release streaming video last night?

1936
01:35:15,880 --> 01:35:19,320
Speaker 1: How did that go? It provides a sense of drama,

1937
01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:21,040
Speaker 1: doesn't it when you're the first one to announce a

1938
01:35:21,080 --> 01:35:24,000
Speaker 1: schedule like that. Yeah, I would agree with that to

1939
01:35:24,080 --> 01:35:26,640
Speaker 1: a certain extent. Although you know, I think it was

1940
01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:30,000
Speaker 1: going out on our social media channels as well. So

1941
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:32,360
Speaker 1: if somebody just wanted to print it out and or

1942
01:35:32,479 --> 01:35:34,760
Speaker 1: look at it on their phone and survey it in

1943
01:35:34,840 --> 01:35:36,720
Speaker 1: their own way. That was fine too, but we were

1944
01:35:36,760 --> 01:35:40,400
Speaker 1: trying to break everything down comprehensively for everybody and let

1945
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:43,519
Speaker 1: them know where the little intricacies or nuances of the

1946
01:35:43,560 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: schedule were, whether it was short rest after a certain

1947
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:50,679
Speaker 1: game here or a challenging stretch there, or how division

1948
01:35:50,760 --> 01:35:53,240
Speaker 1: games were coupled up, you know, So we tried to

1949
01:35:53,400 --> 01:35:55,599
Speaker 1: break it all down for everybody. Well, let me talk

1950
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:57,479
Speaker 1: about some of the issues of that schedule, and you

1951
01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:00,280
Speaker 1: mentioned a couple of them here, but overall, Chris, I think,

1952
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:03,080
Speaker 1: and I mentioned kudos to Mike North and his group

1953
01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:05,840
Speaker 1: at the NFL, not just for the bill schedule, but

1954
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:08,840
Speaker 1: I think the NFL has come up with a good

1955
01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:10,920
Speaker 1: plan here. You know, there's no blocks of games that

1956
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:13,920
Speaker 1: could be moved around like was speculated about the NFC

1957
01:36:14,160 --> 01:36:16,880
Speaker 1: that you know, the interconference games, Um they can you know,

1958
01:36:16,960 --> 01:36:19,000
Speaker 1: everybody in Week two plays a team that they have

1959
01:36:19,080 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 1: the same week as the buy so that game could

1960
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:23,200
Speaker 1: be moved to a bye week. Um they're not. They

1961
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it, but the league clearly

1962
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:28,120
Speaker 1: has a plan to back everything up, playing games regular

1963
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:31,640
Speaker 1: season games through January and pushing back playoffs a little bit.

1964
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:33,000
Speaker 1: I think it's a I think it's a pretty good

1965
01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:36,320
Speaker 1: schedule league wide, don't you. Yeah. I mean I didn't

1966
01:36:36,320 --> 01:36:38,760
Speaker 1: really look at too many of the other teams to

1967
01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:42,040
Speaker 1: this point. I was kind of suffering from Bill's myopia,

1968
01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:47,040
Speaker 1: as you might understand. But um, I'm just encouraged, at

1969
01:36:47,120 --> 01:36:50,479
Speaker 1: least from a Bill's perspective, knowing that, you know, they

1970
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:53,080
Speaker 1: had the NFC West and AFC West and an awful

1971
01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 1: lot of travel on their schedule that they the league

1972
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 1: did did pretty good by the Bills in my estimation,

1973
01:36:59,080 --> 01:37:01,599
Speaker 1: in terms of spreading out some of that travel. Well,

1974
01:37:01,640 --> 01:37:03,439
Speaker 1: you are on one Bill's live, so you don't really

1975
01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:06,640
Speaker 1: have to apologize for being myopic. I mean, we're I mean,

1976
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:08,680
Speaker 1: we're talking about we want to know what you think

1977
01:37:08,680 --> 01:37:11,479
Speaker 1: about the Bill's schedule, and you're right they Murph said

1978
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:14,080
Speaker 1: it the other day yesterday, he said, I hope you

1979
01:37:14,160 --> 01:37:16,559
Speaker 1: know these West Coast games all get spread out one around.

1980
01:37:16,600 --> 01:37:18,840
Speaker 1: I said, you're nuts, it's not gonna happen. They're gonna

1981
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:20,479
Speaker 1: have to go out and stay a week. They're gonna

1982
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:22,280
Speaker 1: go to Arizona, stay at a week, and then they're

1983
01:37:22,280 --> 01:37:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna go to La or they're gonna go to Denver.

1984
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:26,680
Speaker 1: They're gonna and he was right. They spread it out

1985
01:37:26,760 --> 01:37:30,200
Speaker 1: as about as much as they possibly could have all

1986
01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 1: the way along. I think the interesting part was, like

1987
01:37:34,320 --> 01:37:37,479
Speaker 1: everybody says, the fact that you're not chopping off the

1988
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:39,720
Speaker 1: first four weeks of this schedule and just getting off

1989
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:43,320
Speaker 1: scot free, it's not gonna be that easy. They did

1990
01:37:43,439 --> 01:37:46,800
Speaker 1: make some concessions perhaps with week two, but other than that,

1991
01:37:47,840 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: it's almost this is business as usual. And I think

1992
01:37:50,400 --> 01:37:53,599
Speaker 1: that's the most surprising thing for me about this schedule, right.

1993
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:56,240
Speaker 1: And you know, it was interesting because we had Brandon

1994
01:37:56,320 --> 01:37:59,439
Speaker 1: being on our streaming program last night and he said,

1995
01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: we did not make any requests to couple up any

1996
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:06,840
Speaker 1: of our West Coast trips, that their analytics department and

1997
01:38:06,920 --> 01:38:09,840
Speaker 1: their research tells them that you're best off to just

1998
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:12,960
Speaker 1: fly out and come on back. And it wouldn't surprise

1999
01:38:13,040 --> 01:38:14,479
Speaker 1: me if some of these teams that were in a

2000
01:38:14,560 --> 01:38:18,680
Speaker 1: similar boat thought about, you know, where we're going to

2001
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:22,120
Speaker 1: be with the whole COVID nineteen situation, and do you

2002
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:28,080
Speaker 1: really want your entire team in some hotel where maybe

2003
01:38:28,120 --> 01:38:35,360
Speaker 1: the surroundings and the atmosphere literally is not controlled as

2004
01:38:35,439 --> 01:38:38,400
Speaker 1: it might be if you have to kind of keep

2005
01:38:38,479 --> 01:38:43,679
Speaker 1: your players restricted in terms of exposure the outside world.

2006
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:48,280
Speaker 1: It becomes a much more difficult thing to accomplish if

2007
01:38:48,360 --> 01:38:50,800
Speaker 1: you're going to take the time to stay a week

2008
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:52,840
Speaker 1: out on the East Coast, for example. I know San

2009
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:57,360
Speaker 1: Francisco specifically requested to do that, and John Lynch was

2010
01:38:57,439 --> 01:39:00,479
Speaker 1: on NFL Network last night saying he's happy that they

2011
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:02,920
Speaker 1: have Jets Giants back to back. They're gonna stay out

2012
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:06,559
Speaker 1: on the East Coast. I don't know how how apt

2013
01:39:06,600 --> 01:39:10,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna be to want to do that, especially if

2014
01:39:10,240 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: you know there's another outbreak in the fall of the

2015
01:39:12,520 --> 01:39:16,800
Speaker 1: winter as summer. Speculating, you're You're exactly right, brownie. Think

2016
01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:21,040
Speaker 1: about it. You're putting your season and your team on

2017
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 1: the line in the hands of a hotel staff. How

2018
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:31,760
Speaker 1: many people are coming through there and right? That's to me,

2019
01:39:32,840 --> 01:39:36,800
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you that's at this point and

2020
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:39,120
Speaker 1: at this you know, in May, first week of May.

2021
01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:42,000
Speaker 1: That's crazy talk. Have you ever been to the Greenbrier?

2022
01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:46,240
Speaker 1: Pretty good hotel, pretty good staff. No, I'm not talking

2023
01:39:46,240 --> 01:39:48,400
Speaker 1: about the service. I'm just talking about the people. Do

2024
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:50,760
Speaker 1: they stay at the hotel or do they go home

2025
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:54,479
Speaker 1: to their apartment with their numbers standpoint, I think it

2026
01:39:54,560 --> 01:39:57,200
Speaker 1: gets a little dicey. So yeah, and the Greenbriars a

2027
01:39:57,240 --> 01:40:00,920
Speaker 1: great hotel. They got what a staff of five hundred.

2028
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:03,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, are all those people getting tested, are

2029
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 1: all those people getting their temperatures taken? Are they washing

2030
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:11,120
Speaker 1: their hands and all that? You know, that's and not

2031
01:40:11,240 --> 01:40:13,320
Speaker 1: to you know, so that in May mid May, I

2032
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:15,920
Speaker 1: think that's a that's a huge leap, you know, to say,

2033
01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:19,920
Speaker 1: ah that the Motel six will be fine. We're good.

2034
01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:22,240
Speaker 1: We're gonna stay in a week and we're gonna be

2035
01:40:22,479 --> 01:40:24,519
Speaker 1: six We're gonna be sitting there, we're gonna have a

2036
01:40:24,600 --> 01:40:28,519
Speaker 1: free breakfast every morning, and we're gonna be good down

2037
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:31,519
Speaker 1: the corner. Yeah, right there you go. That's and our

2038
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:34,360
Speaker 1: whole season is gonna be just fine in the hands

2039
01:40:34,560 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 1: of the crew there at the Motel six. Steve Tasker

2040
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:40,720
Speaker 1: John Murphy with Chris brown Bills inside of Buffalo bills

2041
01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:43,519
Speaker 1: dot com. Your schedule question for Brownie are welcome eight

2042
01:40:43,600 --> 01:40:46,840
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty told free from outside Buffalo one

2043
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:49,880
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty Chris, Let's

2044
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:53,040
Speaker 1: talk about some of the I guess competitive considerations about

2045
01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:57,679
Speaker 1: the bill schedule. December is gonna be fun. It's gonna

2046
01:40:57,680 --> 01:41:00,200
Speaker 1: be i think on precedented in Bill's history, and it's

2047
01:41:00,240 --> 01:41:01,519
Speaker 1: going to be a bear. I mean, you got four

2048
01:41:01,600 --> 01:41:05,160
Speaker 1: straight weeks at San Francisco Monday night home against Pittsburgh,

2049
01:41:05,200 --> 01:41:08,240
Speaker 1: Sunday night at Denver, could be Saturday, that'll be National

2050
01:41:08,320 --> 01:41:11,360
Speaker 1: TV at New England Monday night, four straight weeks were

2051
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:14,759
Speaker 1: potentially the Bills will be on you know, every channel

2052
01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:17,160
Speaker 1: in America on TV, not to mention the quality of

2053
01:41:17,160 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 1: the competitions. Four weeks, Yeah, that really is a challenging

2054
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:26,479
Speaker 1: stretch run late in the season. So you're combining long

2055
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:32,680
Speaker 1: travel with short weeks and late in the year when

2056
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:36,400
Speaker 1: bodies are you know, getting a little sore the day

2057
01:41:36,600 --> 01:41:39,840
Speaker 1: or two after than they usually are. And just to

2058
01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:42,280
Speaker 1: paint the picture, you say, ah, travel, what's the big deal.

2059
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:46,559
Speaker 1: Last season, the Bills had the third fewest air miles

2060
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 1: traveled in the league just over eighty seven hundred for

2061
01:41:49,160 --> 01:41:54,519
Speaker 1: the entire season, okay, which was third fewest this year.

2062
01:41:56,000 --> 01:42:01,639
Speaker 1: In that stretch run basically between Week thirteen in Week sixteen,

2063
01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:03,640
Speaker 1: I'm not even counting the home game at the end

2064
01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:07,280
Speaker 1: against Miami, the Bills are going to travel eighty one

2065
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 1: hundred miles and play four games in twenty one days.

2066
01:42:14,120 --> 01:42:16,080
Speaker 1: That's a that's a tough road to home, guys, sure,

2067
01:42:16,240 --> 01:42:19,680
Speaker 1: especially at the end of the season against quality competition

2068
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:23,479
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Murph. So that really is when the

2069
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:26,960
Speaker 1: rubber meets the road. So the Bills really have to

2070
01:42:27,040 --> 01:42:30,160
Speaker 1: take advantage of the first ten eleven weeks of their

2071
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: season because it really gets down to brass tacks once

2072
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:37,400
Speaker 1: you get to week thirteen. It's not really though, the

2073
01:42:37,840 --> 01:42:39,760
Speaker 1: it's not really the frequency of the games. It's the

2074
01:42:39,880 --> 01:42:42,320
Speaker 1: travel that's a crusher. I mean, it's it's a one

2075
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:44,560
Speaker 1: game every weekend. So it's not like to have a

2076
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:47,120
Speaker 1: short weekend in ey those unless unless the Denver game

2077
01:42:47,160 --> 01:42:51,280
Speaker 1: gets moved to the Saturday. But your Monday, your Monday

2078
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:53,680
Speaker 1: night in San France, I mean you're not getting home

2079
01:42:53,840 --> 01:42:56,880
Speaker 1: till two seven in the morning. In the morning. Yeah,

2080
01:42:57,400 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 1: but that's the crusher though. It's in San France, Cisco.

2081
01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 1: You're playing the game at eleven fifteen at night, East

2082
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:11,320
Speaker 1: coast time. Then you fly home you're playing at eight fifteen, yeah, fifteen, Oh,

2083
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:14,639
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, eight fifteen East coast time, five fifteen West

2084
01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:17,320
Speaker 1: Coast time or four fifty whatever. The time changes. I'm public.

2085
01:43:17,400 --> 01:43:20,120
Speaker 1: Math is killing me. So you're playing it. You're playing

2086
01:43:20,160 --> 01:43:22,360
Speaker 1: the night game. You like you said, it's an overnight,

2087
01:43:22,520 --> 01:43:25,720
Speaker 1: nobody sleeps. You get up, you get what Tuesday off

2088
01:43:25,760 --> 01:43:28,840
Speaker 1: if you want, you come back in, and then the

2089
01:43:28,960 --> 01:43:31,640
Speaker 1: next game at Pittsburgh's the Monday night. You get an

2090
01:43:31,680 --> 01:43:33,400
Speaker 1: extra day. On the other end because it's a Monday

2091
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:36,040
Speaker 1: night game, it's Sunday night for Pittsburgh, so you don't

2092
01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:38,160
Speaker 1: get the extra night, right, I get you, but you

2093
01:43:38,240 --> 01:43:42,120
Speaker 1: get it right, You're right. But anyway, you're still playing

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01:43:42,240 --> 01:43:45,040
Speaker 1: four games in twenty one days. But the games the

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01:43:45,160 --> 01:43:47,160
Speaker 1: first game is one game and the last day is

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01:43:47,200 --> 01:43:49,479
Speaker 1: one game, and you get twenty one days, but twenty

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01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:52,680
Speaker 1: days between them to get It's not like it's that

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01:43:52,880 --> 01:43:56,000
Speaker 1: crazy of a schedule because of the frequency. The travel

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01:43:56,240 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 1: is the crusher, is my point, because you're going away,

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01:43:59,360 --> 01:44:03,160
Speaker 1: coming home under the bright lights again on a Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: and then you go to Denver, which is a long trip.

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Speaker 1: And then of course the New England game is a

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01:44:09,800 --> 01:44:12,280
Speaker 1: little bit. It's a routine because most of the players

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01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:15,160
Speaker 1: on this team will be have gone there multiple times before.

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01:44:15,200 --> 01:44:18,880
Speaker 1: Any veteran has. So the division games are a little

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01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:21,840
Speaker 1: bit more familiar. But man, oh man, the Denver trip

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01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:24,600
Speaker 1: and the San Francisco trip are crushers because of the

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01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:26,880
Speaker 1: time change and because of the fact they're probably both

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01:44:27,000 --> 01:44:31,439
Speaker 1: night games. There's not so much that there's a lot

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01:44:31,479 --> 01:44:34,200
Speaker 1: of games crushed into a few amounts of days. Well,

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01:44:34,280 --> 01:44:36,840
Speaker 1: think about those four games. Though Chris and I mentioned it,

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01:44:36,880 --> 01:44:39,679
Speaker 1: you didn't really address it, but I can't remember. I mean, again,

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Speaker 1: I'm anticipating, I guess hoping maybe that the Denver game

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01:44:43,360 --> 01:44:46,800
Speaker 1: is a Saturday. You have four straight nationally televised Bills games,

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01:44:46,880 --> 01:44:49,200
Speaker 1: four straight times when the Bills will be the only

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01:44:49,439 --> 01:44:52,559
Speaker 1: team on TV at that time. I can never remember.

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01:44:52,720 --> 01:44:55,759
Speaker 1: And all these people who wind about the league doesn't

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01:44:55,800 --> 01:44:58,799
Speaker 1: like us and they don't showcase us, Well, that argument

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01:44:58,920 --> 01:45:01,559
Speaker 1: is shot to hell with those four straight games. Well

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01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:04,400
Speaker 1: you're well, you're talking, so you're talking about the Denver

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01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:07,600
Speaker 1: game probably going to the majority of the country in

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01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:12,960
Speaker 1: the four o'clock window is expect Yeah, I think that's

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01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:17,880
Speaker 1: definitely a possibility and probably a likelihood if Denver kind

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01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:21,479
Speaker 1: of can become a player in the AFC West with

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01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 1: all that they've added to their roster here in the

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01:45:23,560 --> 01:45:26,840
Speaker 1: off season. Particularly the speed on the offensive side of

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01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:29,800
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, with Melvin Gordon and then the

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01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:32,759
Speaker 1: two draft choices at the receiver position and Jerry Judy

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01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:37,320
Speaker 1: and kJ Hammler. It's amazing to me how many teams

2130
01:45:37,400 --> 01:45:41,479
Speaker 1: have invested in flat out speed this offseason, particularly on

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01:45:41,560 --> 01:45:43,719
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. And Denver is certainly

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01:45:43,800 --> 01:45:46,000
Speaker 1: one of those teams because they've got to keep it

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01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:48,240
Speaker 1: haste with the Chiefs, which is arguably the fastest team

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01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:52,240
Speaker 1: in football. So, you know, you look at the slate

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01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:56,600
Speaker 1: that the Bills have and it's challenging. M Fortunately, the

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01:45:56,640 --> 01:45:58,720
Speaker 1: Bills are at a point in their roster development where

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01:45:58,720 --> 01:45:59,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to hang with a lot of

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01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:03,080
Speaker 1: these teams. But you know, you look at the division

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01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:07,000
Speaker 1: in the AFC East and the schedule that all these

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01:46:07,040 --> 01:46:09,720
Speaker 1: teams have to play ten wins is probably going to

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Speaker 1: get it done to be a division champion this year.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bills Insider Buffalo Bills dot Com. One more

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01:46:15,160 --> 01:46:18,160
Speaker 1: thing about the challenging stretches of the schedule, And I

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01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:20,960
Speaker 1: do believe that December, that month in December is going

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01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:23,280
Speaker 1: to be the toughest spark But was it a caller

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01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:26,000
Speaker 1: or somebody on somebody on Twitter last hour who pointed

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01:46:26,040 --> 01:46:29,839
Speaker 1: out the October fourth at Vegas, following week at Tennessee,

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01:46:29,920 --> 01:46:32,599
Speaker 1: and then home on Monday night against Kansas City. That's

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01:46:32,680 --> 01:46:35,160
Speaker 1: pretty tough stretch right there too. To go you know,

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01:46:35,439 --> 01:46:38,160
Speaker 1: out west to play Vegas, not West Coast, but out west.

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01:46:38,560 --> 01:46:40,920
Speaker 1: Then to go to Tennessee, which is better than they

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01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:42,280
Speaker 1: were a year ago in the Bills beat him there,

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01:46:42,280 --> 01:46:43,760
Speaker 1: and then they go home to play in Kansas City.

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01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:45,840
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a make or break stretch of

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01:46:45,880 --> 01:46:48,200
Speaker 1: the schedule like I do about December, but that could

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01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:50,800
Speaker 1: be an important stretch of schedule for Buffalo, I think, Chris,

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01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:52,800
Speaker 1: what do you think? Well? Yeah, I mean I think

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01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 1: a lot of people conveniently forget the Tennessee Titans made

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01:46:56,400 --> 01:47:00,479
Speaker 1: the AFC Title Game last year, and I think Bills

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01:47:00,520 --> 01:47:06,240
Speaker 1: fans may some anyway may dismiss it because the Bills

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01:47:06,280 --> 01:47:10,840
Speaker 1: beat Tennessee down in Tennessee. But I think some people

2162
01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:14,280
Speaker 1: may forget that Marcus Mariota was still the quarterback when

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01:47:14,320 --> 01:47:17,320
Speaker 1: the Bills beat them fourteen to seven, and that loss

2164
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:20,800
Speaker 1: probably got the wheels in motion to move on from

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01:47:20,840 --> 01:47:25,599
Speaker 1: Mariota and turned to Tannehill. And it's a tough place

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01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 1: to play. It's going to be a super physical game.

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01:47:30,160 --> 01:47:32,360
Speaker 1: They've got to hold Derek Henry in check much like

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01:47:32,439 --> 01:47:36,400
Speaker 1: they did the last time to their credit, but Tannehill

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01:47:36,479 --> 01:47:37,840
Speaker 1: is going to be able to make a few more

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01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:41,160
Speaker 1: plays down field than we ever saw Mariota make, as

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01:47:41,240 --> 01:47:44,000
Speaker 1: evidence by the second half of his twenty nineteen campaign.

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01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:47,280
Speaker 1: So I think that's a sneaky, tough game that's on

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01:47:47,400 --> 01:47:50,559
Speaker 1: the schedule there. And after you beat the tar out

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01:47:50,600 --> 01:47:52,519
Speaker 1: of one another and what's expected to be a very

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01:47:52,560 --> 01:47:55,000
Speaker 1: physical game with the Titans, you gotta come home and

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01:47:55,080 --> 01:47:58,240
Speaker 1: play the fastest team in football in Kansas City on

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Speaker 1: a short week. So you mix the travel with Las Vegas,

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01:48:02,520 --> 01:48:05,200
Speaker 1: the physical demands of the Tennessee game, and then the

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Speaker 1: speed you're gonna have to match against Kansas City. Yes,

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01:48:07,840 --> 01:48:10,760
Speaker 1: that is that's a tough three game trip. Yeah, and

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01:48:10,840 --> 01:48:13,080
Speaker 1: I know this too. Mike Vrabel will use the last

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01:48:13,200 --> 01:48:17,599
Speaker 1: year's loss to the Buffalo Bills as motivation when Buffalo

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01:48:17,720 --> 01:48:20,519
Speaker 1: shows up again this next year, because you think about

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01:48:20,600 --> 01:48:23,120
Speaker 1: what he'll He'll bend it anyway you want him to

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01:48:23,120 --> 01:48:25,679
Speaker 1: bend it. But he'll probably tell him listen, we wouldn't

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01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:27,160
Speaker 1: have had to go on the road all those games.

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01:48:27,160 --> 01:48:29,320
Speaker 1: Who wouldn't have had to play the wildcard round if

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01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 1: we'd have been able to beat this team last year.

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01:48:31,439 --> 01:48:32,840
Speaker 1: These are the guys that kept us out of the

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01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:36,000
Speaker 1: super Bowl. It's not the Chiefs. We did it to ourselves, right,

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01:48:36,120 --> 01:48:38,760
Speaker 1: So he'll use all of those stuff as motivation. My

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01:48:39,160 --> 01:48:43,760
Speaker 1: point is you're gonna get Tennessee's best game because you

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01:48:43,880 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 1: beat them in their joint last year, and last year

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01:48:47,120 --> 01:48:49,400
Speaker 1: could have been a window that was really important to them,

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01:48:49,439 --> 01:48:51,080
Speaker 1: and they're gonna start seeing it this, you know, in

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01:48:51,439 --> 01:48:54,240
Speaker 1: this coming season, they're gonna they're gonna miss that opportunity

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01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:55,720
Speaker 1: and they're gonna hold it out. They're gonna take it

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Speaker 1: out on the Bills week five or week six, and

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01:49:00,160 --> 01:49:02,639
Speaker 1: you're gonna get their best swing. That's a tough game.

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01:49:03,240 --> 01:49:05,519
Speaker 1: That's a really tough game in Tennessee. And then to

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Speaker 1: have it turn around and come back and play the

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Speaker 1: World Champions. Yeah, that's rough. Three of those four games

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01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:15,479
Speaker 1: at Vegas, at Tennessee, then at home, and then at

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01:49:15,600 --> 01:49:17,840
Speaker 1: New York. That's a tough stretch of the cent and

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01:49:17,960 --> 01:49:20,000
Speaker 1: and you know that's tough. It's kind of funny too,

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01:49:20,040 --> 01:49:22,600
Speaker 1: because they saw on social media that a lot of

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01:49:22,680 --> 01:49:25,599
Speaker 1: Bills fans are tweeting that, you know, that two week

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01:49:25,680 --> 01:49:28,320
Speaker 1: stretch between Vegas and Nashville is going to be the

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Speaker 1: toughest stretch for them and their respective livers, right, all

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01:49:32,640 --> 01:49:35,160
Speaker 1: the traveling you're gonna do, you know, knowing that a

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01:49:35,280 --> 01:49:38,360
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans are gonna hit Vegas and you know,

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01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:40,519
Speaker 1: we saw how many fans were in Nashville last year.

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01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:43,599
Speaker 1: You know, they said, that's that's the gauntlet for their livers.

2214
01:49:43,680 --> 01:49:47,519
Speaker 1: They're already predicting not a pretty rough week there. So

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01:49:47,960 --> 01:49:49,720
Speaker 1: we should come up with some award from Bills fans

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01:49:49,760 --> 01:49:52,400
Speaker 1: who go to both road to Vegas and then they

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01:49:52,479 --> 01:49:54,519
Speaker 1: go to Tennessee. Then they then if they are from

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01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:58,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo or if they're at large UH fans around the country.

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01:49:58,040 --> 01:49:59,920
Speaker 1: But if they're from Buffalo and they hit the Vegas trip,

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01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:03,760
Speaker 1: then they hit then they come home by way of Tennessee. Well,

2221
01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 1: then they got three days to recover before a home

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01:50:06,040 --> 01:50:08,559
Speaker 1: game night under the lights against the World champions. They're

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01:50:08,600 --> 01:50:13,600
Speaker 1: gonna be there for that. Yeah, there might be some.

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01:50:13,960 --> 01:50:17,200
Speaker 1: It's just dischallenging. We'll have to we'll have to have

2225
01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:22,280
Speaker 1: to chalk those up to COVID deaths or something too soon. Wow,

2226
01:50:22,360 --> 01:50:25,880
Speaker 1: those are gonna be that's gonna be a gauntlet of Yeah,

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01:50:26,160 --> 01:50:28,600
Speaker 1: Bills fans are gonna make or break their season in

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01:50:28,680 --> 01:50:31,000
Speaker 1: those three weeks. Right there, Chris Brown is with US

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01:50:31,040 --> 01:50:33,040
Speaker 1: Bills inside from Buffalo Bills dot Com. Hey, Chris, I

2230
01:50:33,120 --> 01:50:34,920
Speaker 1: want to give you credit a couple of years ago.

2231
01:50:35,280 --> 01:50:39,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if you were tasked with this assignment

2232
01:50:39,080 --> 01:50:40,160
Speaker 1: or if you just did it on your own, but

2233
01:50:40,240 --> 01:50:42,360
Speaker 1: you came up with a metric that showed that the

2234
01:50:42,479 --> 01:50:44,880
Speaker 1: Bills one year, I want to say twenty sixteen, maybe

2235
01:50:44,920 --> 01:50:48,800
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, the Bills played more teams that had extra

2236
01:50:48,920 --> 01:50:50,920
Speaker 1: rest between games and any other team, and it was

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01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:54,200
Speaker 1: kind of a trend. And since then and especially this year,

2238
01:50:54,640 --> 01:50:57,719
Speaker 1: it's again evident that that's been fixed by the NFL

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01:50:57,760 --> 01:51:00,240
Speaker 1: schedule makers, Right. I credit you for that, Chris. You

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01:51:00,280 --> 01:51:01,560
Speaker 1: were the first one who really brought that up a

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01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:03,640
Speaker 1: couple of years all. Yeah, And I did come up

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01:51:03,640 --> 01:51:06,960
Speaker 1: with it on my own, mainly because I was ticked off, Yeah,

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01:51:07,439 --> 01:51:11,880
Speaker 1: and how grossly ignored that part of the schedule was.

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01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:15,680
Speaker 1: And I had and I had a supporter at that

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01:51:15,840 --> 01:51:18,760
Speaker 1: time in the head coach who was Doug Moron, who

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01:51:18,920 --> 01:51:21,840
Speaker 1: was livid about it as well. And I think a

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01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:25,400
Speaker 1: lot of coaches are aware of the lack of rest

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01:51:25,600 --> 01:51:28,240
Speaker 1: and having to play on short weeks and what that

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01:51:28,360 --> 01:51:30,200
Speaker 1: can mean for you, especially if you have to play

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01:51:30,240 --> 01:51:32,600
Speaker 1: off a short week and go on the road. And

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01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:35,920
Speaker 1: I believe the Bills only have one such games that's

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01:51:35,960 --> 01:51:38,240
Speaker 1: like that, and none of them none of them involved

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01:51:38,280 --> 01:51:40,720
Speaker 1: division games, which was also a problem because that year,

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01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:44,240
Speaker 1: back in twenty fifteen or twenty fourteen, if memory serves,

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01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:48,400
Speaker 1: the Bills had six games on short rest, and I

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01:51:48,520 --> 01:51:50,120
Speaker 1: think three of them were on the road, and there

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01:51:50,240 --> 01:51:52,120
Speaker 1: was no other team in the league that had that many.

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01:51:52,400 --> 01:51:54,920
Speaker 1: The next closest team was Atlanta with four that year.

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01:51:55,800 --> 01:51:58,479
Speaker 1: But to have teams with three and four in six

2260
01:51:58,640 --> 01:52:01,439
Speaker 1: games like that and you have other teams with none

2261
01:52:02,200 --> 01:52:04,560
Speaker 1: was just insanity as I saw it. And didn't you

2262
01:52:04,680 --> 01:52:07,280
Speaker 1: also come up with the fact that it wasn't just

2263
01:52:07,400 --> 01:52:10,200
Speaker 1: the Bills. Their opponents frequently were coming off bye weeks

2264
01:52:10,320 --> 01:52:12,840
Speaker 1: or Thursday Night football, right, I mean it was it

2265
01:52:12,960 --> 01:52:17,000
Speaker 1: was double It was double trouble either and they were

2266
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:19,160
Speaker 1: coming off a short week and the opponent was coming

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01:52:19,200 --> 01:52:21,880
Speaker 1: off of bye, so the other team had ten days

2268
01:52:21,920 --> 01:52:26,040
Speaker 1: of rest and they had five. Yeah, and then there

2269
01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:28,439
Speaker 1: were instances where and there were six games, not that

2270
01:52:28,600 --> 01:52:30,920
Speaker 1: all had double trouble, but there were six games that year,

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01:52:31,760 --> 01:52:34,320
Speaker 1: three of which the Bills were coming off short rest,

2272
01:52:34,800 --> 01:52:37,280
Speaker 1: or three games in which their opponent was coming off

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01:52:37,320 --> 01:52:39,320
Speaker 1: of bye and had an extra week to prepare for them.

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01:52:39,680 --> 01:52:44,519
Speaker 1: And it just it just it sounded so uneven, grossly

2275
01:52:44,600 --> 01:52:48,240
Speaker 1: uneven in terms of competitive balance that yeah, I mean,

2276
01:52:48,560 --> 01:52:50,920
Speaker 1: and I had national people calling me left and right

2277
01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:54,760
Speaker 1: after I put that story up, you know, and even

2278
01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:57,479
Speaker 1: even former Bills player Ross Tucker was calling me and

2279
01:52:57,520 --> 01:52:59,080
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to me about it on his show.

2280
01:52:59,160 --> 01:53:02,840
Speaker 1: So hopefully it got some traction. And yeah, in subsequent

2281
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:05,519
Speaker 1: years it got better. It wasn't perfect, but I think

2282
01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:09,000
Speaker 1: now they've gotten to a place where they genuinely consider that. Now.

2283
01:53:09,160 --> 01:53:10,880
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean there aren't going to be teams that

2284
01:53:11,200 --> 01:53:13,719
Speaker 1: are victims of it. I want to say the Steelers

2285
01:53:13,800 --> 01:53:16,800
Speaker 1: have three such games like that this year, but there's

2286
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:19,920
Speaker 1: only two or three that are suffering from that, where

2287
01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:21,759
Speaker 1: in the past it used to be six or seven.

2288
01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:24,720
Speaker 1: So they've tried to even it out. So credit to

2289
01:53:24,880 --> 01:53:27,240
Speaker 1: Howard Katz and the team for that. I'm sure, Doug Moron,

2290
01:53:27,360 --> 01:53:33,800
Speaker 1: thank you for that, right, Yeah, yeah, I was thinking too.

2291
01:53:33,880 --> 01:53:36,240
Speaker 1: We're talking earlier about the last five weeks of the

2292
01:53:36,280 --> 01:53:38,320
Speaker 1: season where they go to San Francisco, and it's just

2293
01:53:38,400 --> 01:53:41,160
Speaker 1: like the first there's two stretches in this season where

2294
01:53:41,200 --> 01:53:43,519
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have three out of four games on

2295
01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:47,960
Speaker 1: the road at Miami home against Los Angeles, at Vegas,

2296
01:53:48,040 --> 01:53:52,040
Speaker 1: at Tennessee, and then later in the season it's at

2297
01:53:52,120 --> 01:53:55,320
Speaker 1: San Francisco home against Pittsburgh, at Denver at Miami or

2298
01:53:55,360 --> 01:53:57,640
Speaker 1: at New England. I'm sorry, And so there's two of those,

2299
01:53:57,680 --> 01:54:01,760
Speaker 1: but there's only one, which is from October fifteenth. They

2300
01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:03,880
Speaker 1: play Kansas City, go to New York, and then they're

2301
01:54:03,920 --> 01:54:06,559
Speaker 1: home against New England Seattle. There's only one stretch where

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01:54:06,600 --> 01:54:09,320
Speaker 1: they have three out of four at home, and that's

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01:54:09,360 --> 01:54:11,320
Speaker 1: really because of the bye week kind of thrown in

2304
01:54:11,439 --> 01:54:14,320
Speaker 1: between Arizona and Los Angeles, so they you know, they

2305
01:54:14,360 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 1: don't really get any stretches where they did in years

2306
01:54:17,160 --> 01:54:20,040
Speaker 1: past where they have three home games in a row. Right. Uh,

2307
01:54:20,160 --> 01:54:22,800
Speaker 1: there's one stretch all season where they have two home

2308
01:54:22,920 --> 01:54:26,120
Speaker 1: games in a row. That's at versus New England and

2309
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:30,479
Speaker 1: versus Seattle November first in November eight. It's it's almost

2310
01:54:30,520 --> 01:54:36,680
Speaker 1: like they're so their home games are scattered way far apart,

2311
01:54:37,320 --> 01:54:39,920
Speaker 1: and and the road games are I know, it's just

2312
01:54:40,040 --> 01:54:41,960
Speaker 1: eight and eight where there's home in a way, but

2313
01:54:42,080 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 1: man oh man, there's really no cluster of home games

2314
01:54:44,800 --> 01:54:46,400
Speaker 1: that you can say, Okay, this is a this is

2315
01:54:46,440 --> 01:54:48,280
Speaker 1: a good stretch for the Bills, except for the one,

2316
01:54:49,840 --> 01:54:52,400
Speaker 1: you know, last half October, first half of November, or

2317
01:54:52,440 --> 01:54:58,200
Speaker 1: first week in November. So I for me is it's

2318
01:54:58,280 --> 01:55:01,280
Speaker 1: really a last year. I told you Murph, and I

2319
01:55:01,360 --> 01:55:03,080
Speaker 1: said it before in the show Brownie, and I want

2320
01:55:03,120 --> 01:55:05,000
Speaker 1: to get your take last year. We love the schedule

2321
01:55:05,040 --> 01:55:07,560
Speaker 1: the Bills had thought the first half was pretty easy,

2322
01:55:08,520 --> 01:55:11,680
Speaker 1: ease them into it, and you know, the road to travel,

2323
01:55:11,760 --> 01:55:14,640
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. This year, I don't I don't

2324
01:55:14,680 --> 01:55:17,720
Speaker 1: have any complaints either us an outstanding schedule for the

2325
01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:20,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Yeah. I mean with the travel that was

2326
01:55:20,800 --> 01:55:26,840
Speaker 1: contained within the schedule, the caliber of opponents, I don't

2327
01:55:26,880 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: think the Bills have any gripes with how the league

2328
01:55:29,880 --> 01:55:33,080
Speaker 1: laid this out for them. The fans are happy because

2329
01:55:33,120 --> 01:55:37,520
Speaker 1: of the primetime exposure and you know, you only have

2330
01:55:37,680 --> 01:55:40,240
Speaker 1: one back to back home stretch there in New England Seattle.

2331
01:55:40,320 --> 01:55:43,600
Speaker 1: But you're pretty happy you have those two teams at home,

2332
01:55:44,600 --> 01:55:46,280
Speaker 1: especially in New England. You don't have to play on

2333
01:55:46,280 --> 01:55:49,360
Speaker 1: the road until later in the season. There are tough

2334
01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:52,120
Speaker 1: games on this schedule, but the way it's been spread

2335
01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:57,320
Speaker 1: out I think is relatively favorable all things considered. I'll

2336
01:55:57,320 --> 01:56:00,160
Speaker 1: tell you this too, Murph. You mentioned it. Three the

2337
01:56:00,280 --> 01:56:02,480
Speaker 1: last five home games, or maybe four out of the

2338
01:56:02,560 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: last five home games, Bills is gonna be on national TV,

2339
01:56:04,760 --> 01:56:06,760
Speaker 1: and if they're in the playoffs, they'll be on national

2340
01:56:06,800 --> 01:56:10,760
Speaker 1: TV again the next weekend. It stretches like that if

2341
01:56:10,840 --> 01:56:13,240
Speaker 1: the team plays well and they win a bunch of

2342
01:56:13,320 --> 01:56:16,160
Speaker 1: those games at the end of the season. And I

2343
01:56:16,640 --> 01:56:19,400
Speaker 1: kind of smiled at myself, but that's when I that's

2344
01:56:19,400 --> 01:56:23,240
Speaker 1: when the teams I played with, That's when Bruce, Jim Thurman,

2345
01:56:23,440 --> 01:56:26,560
Speaker 1: and Andre all started to become household names. You go

2346
01:56:26,680 --> 01:56:29,680
Speaker 1: through a stretch of national games like that, you play well,

2347
01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:33,400
Speaker 1: and that all those guys show up big all of

2348
01:56:33,440 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 1: a sudden, they don't. They don't just play in the

2349
01:56:35,720 --> 01:56:38,840
Speaker 1: National Football League. They those guys are you know, those

2350
01:56:38,880 --> 01:56:42,120
Speaker 1: guys are studs. And it happens because you get exposed

2351
01:56:42,200 --> 01:56:45,680
Speaker 1: like that and you play well in those spots, you

2352
01:56:45,760 --> 01:56:48,480
Speaker 1: play well, Yeah, that's the key. And I and I

2353
01:56:48,600 --> 01:56:50,600
Speaker 1: think that I was laughing because you know, I I

2354
01:56:50,680 --> 01:56:53,840
Speaker 1: tell people even today traveling with Bruce Jim Thurman, Andre

2355
01:56:54,120 --> 01:56:57,320
Speaker 1: it was like the Beatles, and you know, you get

2356
01:56:57,360 --> 01:57:01,720
Speaker 1: to where you have Josh, Devon and Cole and you know,

2357
01:57:01,760 --> 01:57:05,480
Speaker 1: the good the gang, whoever they may be, Termaine, it's

2358
01:57:05,560 --> 01:57:07,600
Speaker 1: gonna be the same thing. If you play well in

2359
01:57:07,720 --> 01:57:11,480
Speaker 1: those spots, people don't forget it. And that's it's gonna

2360
01:57:11,480 --> 01:57:13,320
Speaker 1: be fun to see him do it. Brownie, Can you

2361
01:57:13,360 --> 01:57:14,640
Speaker 1: stick for a few more minutes. I have a couple

2362
01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:17,680
Speaker 1: other questions for you about the undrafted freeation. Yo. All right,

2363
01:57:18,320 --> 01:57:20,800
Speaker 1: Chris Brown coming back with more One Bill's Live, presented

2364
01:57:20,840 --> 01:57:30,360
Speaker 1: by Collat of Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back.

2365
01:57:30,360 --> 01:57:32,200
Speaker 1: I got a few more minutes with Chris Brown, Bills

2366
01:57:32,240 --> 01:57:34,600
Speaker 1: inside of Buffalo bills dot Com. This is One Bills Live.

2367
01:57:34,680 --> 01:57:37,560
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tansker with Brownie. We're talking a lot

2368
01:57:37,560 --> 01:57:40,400
Speaker 1: about the schedule. Let me just change direction a little bit,

2369
01:57:40,520 --> 01:57:43,480
Speaker 1: Chris and ask you a little bit about the undrafted guys.

2370
01:57:43,840 --> 01:57:45,960
Speaker 1: The names came out right after the draft, but made

2371
01:57:46,000 --> 01:57:49,880
Speaker 1: official today the Bills announced that eight players undrafted are

2372
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:52,160
Speaker 1: now Buffalo Bills. I want to ask you to start

2373
01:57:52,200 --> 01:57:55,680
Speaker 1: anyway about one in particular, Trey Adams six eight, three

2374
01:57:55,800 --> 01:57:59,160
Speaker 1: hundred eleven pound offensive lineman from University of Washington. He's

2375
01:57:59,200 --> 01:58:01,200
Speaker 1: got an interesting story, will be an interesting guy to

2376
01:58:01,240 --> 01:58:04,240
Speaker 1: watch her we ever get a chance to watch preseason, right, Yeah,

2377
01:58:04,280 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a guy that was on track

2378
01:58:06,840 --> 01:58:10,280
Speaker 1: to be a really high draft choice and then injuries

2379
01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:14,560
Speaker 1: kind of derailed his playing career. He still managed to

2380
01:58:14,640 --> 01:58:16,840
Speaker 1: play in forty four games. The problem was he tears

2381
01:58:16,880 --> 01:58:20,120
Speaker 1: his ACL in twenty seventeen, miss is a good portion

2382
01:58:20,200 --> 01:58:22,880
Speaker 1: of the season there, and then in twenty eighteen he

2383
01:58:22,960 --> 01:58:26,600
Speaker 1: has back surgery. At anytime an offensive lineman at six

2384
01:58:26,680 --> 01:58:30,000
Speaker 1: foot eight as back surgery, it wouldn't shock me if

2385
01:58:30,160 --> 01:58:33,480
Speaker 1: a number of teams, you know, had an issue with that,

2386
01:58:34,840 --> 01:58:37,440
Speaker 1: And it's ultimately why I think he did go undrafted

2387
01:58:37,440 --> 01:58:39,600
Speaker 1: because of the risk factors involved there. But as an

2388
01:58:39,680 --> 01:58:43,280
Speaker 1: undrafted it's a worthwhile risk. And he did start all

2389
01:58:43,360 --> 01:58:46,880
Speaker 1: twelve games as a senior in twenty nineteen, so if

2390
01:58:46,920 --> 01:58:49,040
Speaker 1: he had to prove something, it's that he was recovered

2391
01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:51,480
Speaker 1: from back surgery, he could play, and I think he

2392
01:58:51,600 --> 01:58:53,560
Speaker 1: did that, so the Bills are going to give him

2393
01:58:53,560 --> 01:58:57,120
Speaker 1: an opportunity. Here one of three offensive linemen in the

2394
01:58:57,400 --> 01:59:00,720
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent signings. I don't know how much to

2395
01:59:00,760 --> 01:59:02,680
Speaker 1: read into that, Chris. Is it just who is available,

2396
01:59:02,720 --> 01:59:04,120
Speaker 1: do you think, or is it where they feel the

2397
01:59:04,240 --> 01:59:07,520
Speaker 1: need is or a little bit of both. Yeah, it's

2398
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:10,440
Speaker 1: probably a little bit of both. I think they have

2399
01:59:10,520 --> 01:59:12,880
Speaker 1: a lot of experienced linemen in the pipeline right now,

2400
01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:16,000
Speaker 1: and I think an injection of youth is probably something

2401
01:59:16,040 --> 01:59:19,120
Speaker 1: they're taking a stab at here. Yeah, I imagine there

2402
01:59:19,200 --> 01:59:22,280
Speaker 1: at least one of these days. Like they also signed

2403
01:59:22,320 --> 01:59:25,080
Speaker 1: Brandon Walton, who is offensive tackle from FAU. He's a

2404
01:59:25,120 --> 01:59:29,560
Speaker 1: teammate of Devin Singletary's two years ago. And you know,

2405
01:59:29,640 --> 01:59:31,880
Speaker 1: you just get the feeling that some of these guys

2406
01:59:31,920 --> 01:59:35,400
Speaker 1: are destined for the practice squad. They signed them probably

2407
01:59:35,480 --> 01:59:39,120
Speaker 1: knowing that they have some tangible, measurable qualities that make

2408
01:59:39,200 --> 01:59:41,840
Speaker 1: them possible NFL players that just need some experience or

2409
01:59:41,880 --> 01:59:45,200
Speaker 1: maybe some technical coaching, whatever, you can take your pick,

2410
01:59:45,720 --> 01:59:48,080
Speaker 1: but they just want to make sure they don't run

2411
01:59:48,120 --> 01:59:52,160
Speaker 1: out of offensive linemen during the regular season. They've been

2412
01:59:52,280 --> 01:59:54,360
Speaker 1: very lucky the last couple of years with the injuries,

2413
01:59:54,360 --> 01:59:56,160
Speaker 1: they've stayed very healthy. But you just got to know

2414
01:59:57,520 --> 01:59:59,960
Speaker 1: that that's one place they don't want to run short

2415
02:00:00,120 --> 02:00:03,280
Speaker 1: bodies and Chris I wouldn't say this. It's not just

2416
02:00:03,440 --> 02:00:05,360
Speaker 1: for the Bills, for every team. It's a tough year

2417
02:00:05,400 --> 02:00:07,320
Speaker 1: to try to make a team. I would think as

2418
02:00:07,320 --> 02:00:10,560
Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie free agent, right, I mean, there won't

2419
02:00:10,560 --> 02:00:13,040
Speaker 1: get much of a chance and offseason workouts and who

2420
02:00:13,080 --> 02:00:16,320
Speaker 1: knows about training camp. Yeah, you've got a truncated offseason.

2421
02:00:16,400 --> 02:00:19,600
Speaker 1: So that's roadblock number one. And then if you're here

2422
02:00:19,600 --> 02:00:21,840
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, roadblock number two is it's a pretty darn

2423
02:00:21,920 --> 02:00:25,000
Speaker 1: deep roster. I will tell you though, two players that

2424
02:00:25,080 --> 02:00:28,600
Speaker 1: I like the best on this entire list are Josh Thomas,

2425
02:00:28,720 --> 02:00:32,600
Speaker 1: the safety from apple Agian State, and Antonio Williams, the

2426
02:00:32,680 --> 02:00:35,720
Speaker 1: running back from North Carolina. So just to get people

2427
02:00:35,760 --> 02:00:38,840
Speaker 1: a quick overview on those two guys, Thomas was a

2428
02:00:38,920 --> 02:00:40,920
Speaker 1: guy that I noticed on tape when I was watching

2429
02:00:40,960 --> 02:00:43,680
Speaker 1: the linebacker. His teammate a Keem Davis Gaither who went

2430
02:00:43,720 --> 02:00:45,680
Speaker 1: early on Day three in the fourth round. I think

2431
02:00:45,680 --> 02:00:47,400
Speaker 1: he was a second or third pick off the board

2432
02:00:47,800 --> 02:00:50,920
Speaker 1: who was just a ridiculous athlete. And I'm watching Davis

2433
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:53,560
Speaker 1: Gaither and I'm like, who's this safety kid, And it's

2434
02:00:53,680 --> 02:00:56,520
Speaker 1: Josh Thomas. So he was a two year starter at

2435
02:00:56,600 --> 02:00:59,240
Speaker 1: safety and a two year captain, and he played free

2436
02:00:59,280 --> 02:01:01,720
Speaker 1: safety as a j and then strong safety as a

2437
02:01:01,840 --> 02:01:05,120
Speaker 1: senior and showed he could capably play both positions. So

2438
02:01:05,240 --> 02:01:08,360
Speaker 1: I think that interchangeable ability is going to be very

2439
02:01:08,400 --> 02:01:11,360
Speaker 1: attractive to the Bills. And I think he's gonna push

2440
02:01:11,960 --> 02:01:15,120
Speaker 1: some of the reserve players at that position, like Siran Neil,

2441
02:01:15,200 --> 02:01:18,240
Speaker 1: Dean Marlowe. This kid's gonna be pushing those guys for

2442
02:01:18,400 --> 02:01:21,120
Speaker 1: one of those reserve roles, maybe even Jaquan Johnson, the

2443
02:01:21,160 --> 02:01:23,360
Speaker 1: sixth round pick from last year. I think he's that

2444
02:01:23,520 --> 02:01:26,160
Speaker 1: good a player. I mean, he's a first team All

2445
02:01:26,280 --> 02:01:29,160
Speaker 1: Sun Belt Conference player as a senior last year for

2446
02:01:29,200 --> 02:01:32,320
Speaker 1: a very athletic app state team. And then Antonio Williams,

2447
02:01:32,360 --> 02:01:34,800
Speaker 1: the running back from North Carolina, he never got a

2448
02:01:34,920 --> 02:01:38,960
Speaker 1: chance to be a true full time starter, transferred from

2449
02:01:39,000 --> 02:01:41,720
Speaker 1: Ohio State because he couldn't get playing time there, played

2450
02:01:41,720 --> 02:01:44,320
Speaker 1: his last two years for the tar Heels. This guy

2451
02:01:44,440 --> 02:01:47,880
Speaker 1: has got broad shoulders, he's built like a square, but

2452
02:01:48,000 --> 02:01:50,080
Speaker 1: he's got four or five five speed, and he can

2453
02:01:50,120 --> 02:01:53,480
Speaker 1: shake linebackers and safeties in one on one situations. And

2454
02:01:53,760 --> 02:01:56,480
Speaker 1: he only played on the rotational basis, but he averaged

2455
02:01:56,480 --> 02:01:59,520
Speaker 1: almost six yards a carry, and he's smooth catching the

2456
02:01:59,520 --> 02:02:02,400
Speaker 1: ball out of the backfield. So those are two guys

2457
02:02:02,480 --> 02:02:04,360
Speaker 1: that I've really I'm really gonna have my eye on

2458
02:02:04,440 --> 02:02:06,440
Speaker 1: when we get the training camp. And the guys we've

2459
02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:09,600
Speaker 1: spoken about the offensive lineman, but this guy, the running back.

2460
02:02:10,320 --> 02:02:13,800
Speaker 1: You talk about guys who may be the undrafted rookie

2461
02:02:13,880 --> 02:02:17,040
Speaker 1: free agents who've got a shot at making it. Running

2462
02:02:17,080 --> 02:02:18,760
Speaker 1: back might be the spot to do it, just because

2463
02:02:18,760 --> 02:02:20,240
Speaker 1: of the fact they're going to carry three guys who

2464
02:02:20,280 --> 02:02:21,800
Speaker 1: can carry the rock. And if this guy from North

2465
02:02:21,840 --> 02:02:25,720
Speaker 1: Carolina can come come out of the backfield, this Antonio Williams,

2466
02:02:25,720 --> 02:02:27,800
Speaker 1: if he can come out of the backfield, if he

2467
02:02:27,880 --> 02:02:30,240
Speaker 1: can make catches, if he's big enough, if he picks

2468
02:02:30,320 --> 02:02:31,920
Speaker 1: up on the pass pro if he can do that,

2469
02:02:34,080 --> 02:02:36,560
Speaker 1: He's got a feel. His agents and he himself have

2470
02:02:36,680 --> 02:02:38,200
Speaker 1: got to feel, and so do the Bills feel like

2471
02:02:38,240 --> 02:02:40,160
Speaker 1: this guy's got a chance to really make the squad

2472
02:02:40,680 --> 02:02:43,720
Speaker 1: because we're looking for guys who are playmakers around our

2473
02:02:43,840 --> 02:02:46,920
Speaker 1: young quarterback right, And I think he's gonna push T J. Eldon,

2474
02:02:47,080 --> 02:02:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, for that three job. And I think he's

2475
02:02:51,120 --> 02:02:53,600
Speaker 1: got the capability of doing it. He go watch his tape.

2476
02:02:53,600 --> 02:02:57,440
Speaker 1: I think he'll be impressed with him. Second effort fight

2477
02:02:57,520 --> 02:03:00,879
Speaker 1: for extra artist kind of guy. It has more athletic

2478
02:03:00,960 --> 02:03:05,360
Speaker 1: ability than his body frame might indicate. He's not all

2479
02:03:05,440 --> 02:03:09,320
Speaker 1: that different quite frankly from Zach Moss, just in terms

2480
02:03:09,360 --> 02:03:12,960
Speaker 1: of build, but athletic ability to go with it. That

2481
02:03:13,200 --> 02:03:16,960
Speaker 1: may you know, that may fool you because you look

2482
02:03:17,000 --> 02:03:18,920
Speaker 1: at him and you're like, ah, North South guy. Look

2483
02:03:18,920 --> 02:03:21,640
Speaker 1: at this guy's shoulders. He's real broad shouldered. He's gonna

2484
02:03:21,680 --> 02:03:24,240
Speaker 1: lower the boom on safeties. But then it's like you

2485
02:03:24,280 --> 02:03:27,640
Speaker 1: see him leaping over a linebacker. You see him, you know,

2486
02:03:27,840 --> 02:03:30,920
Speaker 1: dodging a safety, you know, at the second level, You're like, oh,

2487
02:03:31,000 --> 02:03:33,120
Speaker 1: all right, he's got a little bit more than that.

2488
02:03:33,280 --> 02:03:35,680
Speaker 1: So and no One. He came from Ohio State as

2489
02:03:35,680 --> 02:03:38,120
Speaker 1: a transfer. I mean, you know, he was a highly

2490
02:03:38,200 --> 02:03:40,880
Speaker 1: ranked prospect coming out of high school. So yeah, I

2491
02:03:40,920 --> 02:03:43,560
Speaker 1: think he's got a shot. Chris Brown is with US

2492
02:03:43,600 --> 02:03:45,720
Speaker 1: Bills inside of Buffalo Bills. Dot Com before we let

2493
02:03:45,760 --> 02:03:47,880
Speaker 1: you go, Chris, I'm not looking for definitive answers here,

2494
02:03:47,880 --> 02:03:50,880
Speaker 1: because no one has answers, but your gut feeling about

2495
02:03:50,960 --> 02:03:54,200
Speaker 1: this NFL schedule. The schedule came out last night, and

2496
02:03:54,360 --> 02:03:57,040
Speaker 1: just this NFL season. I'm sure you get it all

2497
02:03:57,080 --> 02:03:59,000
Speaker 1: the time. Well, we're not. None of us are out

2498
02:03:59,040 --> 02:04:01,680
Speaker 1: in the public anymore. People are wondering is there gonna

2499
02:04:01,680 --> 02:04:03,320
Speaker 1: be a season? What's it gonna look like? Do you

2500
02:04:03,400 --> 02:04:06,720
Speaker 1: have any gut feeling on how that question could be answered? Oh?

2501
02:04:06,840 --> 02:04:09,480
Speaker 1: Not really. I mean, we don't even know what we're

2502
02:04:09,480 --> 02:04:12,360
Speaker 1: doing two weeks from now, so to project four months

2503
02:04:12,400 --> 02:04:15,280
Speaker 1: into the future I think would be foolhardy, although we

2504
02:04:15,360 --> 02:04:18,520
Speaker 1: have certain politicians that like doing that. So I just

2505
02:04:19,080 --> 02:04:22,040
Speaker 1: I just think that I just think that we got

2506
02:04:22,120 --> 02:04:23,800
Speaker 1: to take it a day at a time, as painful

2507
02:04:23,840 --> 02:04:26,080
Speaker 1: as that might be. I mean, I know that a

2508
02:04:26,200 --> 02:04:31,880
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans basically plan September through December around

2509
02:04:32,280 --> 02:04:35,520
Speaker 1: the Bills schedule, and so I get the frustration, Believe me,

2510
02:04:35,640 --> 02:04:40,000
Speaker 1: I do, But we all are living in this together

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Speaker 1: right now, and we just got to kind of slowly

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Speaker 1: make our way through it and really hope that we

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Speaker 1: get a football season with all that it offers by

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Speaker 1: the time we get to September. But for now, we're

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02:04:52,880 --> 02:04:54,600
Speaker 1: just going to have to wait and see. Yeah, the

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02:04:54,760 --> 02:04:57,280
Speaker 1: NFL has gotten off Scott free, not Scott free. They've

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Speaker 1: had a virtual draft, they've had free agency, they done

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Speaker 1: every they've done everything just about on schedule Brownie, that

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Speaker 1: that they've wanted to do. And I was telling Murph earlier,

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Speaker 1: it's my contention that you get you look at the

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02:05:07,920 --> 02:05:12,959
Speaker 1: schedule and the preseason schedule that starts August thirteenth, maybe fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: fifteenth or sixteenth that weekend. If everything's shut down all

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02:05:18,000 --> 02:05:21,280
Speaker 1: the way until then, that's three months from now before

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02:05:21,960 --> 02:05:25,440
Speaker 1: or you know, if you start with August first, it's

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02:05:25,480 --> 02:05:28,080
Speaker 1: two and two months and three weeks away from now,

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02:05:28,280 --> 02:05:31,520
Speaker 1: three months before the league would really have to start

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Speaker 1: full gear, two weeks before the first preseason game. And

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Speaker 1: if they wanted to lop off two preseason games, that'd

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Speaker 1: give you almost, you know, over, you know, three and

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02:05:40,320 --> 02:05:43,280
Speaker 1: a half months before you have to make any decisions,

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02:05:43,360 --> 02:05:45,840
Speaker 1: have anything concrete football going on. I think the league

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02:05:45,880 --> 02:05:49,320
Speaker 1: still has plenty of time to have a chance to

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02:05:49,600 --> 02:05:53,120
Speaker 1: This schedule may happen just the way it's it's written.

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02:05:53,360 --> 02:05:55,880
Speaker 1: And I look, guys, if they were able to pull

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02:05:55,920 --> 02:06:00,160
Speaker 1: out a twenty eleven season coming off that lockout where

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02:06:00,200 --> 02:06:04,880
Speaker 1: there was zero contact between coaches and players and they

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02:06:04,920 --> 02:06:06,680
Speaker 1: were able to get a season up and running with

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Speaker 1: what amounted to, you know, a shortened training camp and

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02:06:12,000 --> 02:06:16,320
Speaker 1: a grossly abbreviated offseason, knowing that the vast majority of

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02:06:16,360 --> 02:06:21,120
Speaker 1: these teams are doing things together, granted on an online basis,

2541
02:06:21,640 --> 02:06:24,040
Speaker 1: but they got everybody kind of all lined up doing

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02:06:24,120 --> 02:06:26,960
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to be doing on their own and

2543
02:06:27,120 --> 02:06:29,600
Speaker 1: checking in with strength and conditioning coaches and the like.

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02:06:30,640 --> 02:06:32,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta believe they're going to be able

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02:06:32,280 --> 02:06:35,720
Speaker 1: to make it work, even if they can't do it

2546
02:06:35,880 --> 02:06:41,360
Speaker 1: as one solitary group until you know, early August. Yeah, yeah,

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02:06:41,800 --> 02:06:45,400
Speaker 1: they need two weeks before their first preseason game, basically

2548
02:06:45,840 --> 02:06:48,840
Speaker 1: in my opinion, two weeks maybe even maybe like ten

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02:06:48,960 --> 02:06:52,280
Speaker 1: days to get up and line them up and go. Now. Team,

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02:06:52,360 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 1: And how about this, brownie, we've been talking about how

2551
02:06:54,880 --> 02:06:57,240
Speaker 1: the continuity You've even mentioned it to the continuity that

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02:06:57,320 --> 02:07:01,680
Speaker 1: the Bills have same same defensive coordinators, offensive coordinators, same systems,

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02:07:01,960 --> 02:07:04,640
Speaker 1: same head coach, same core players. That's really going to

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02:07:04,720 --> 02:07:08,520
Speaker 1: serve them to benefit them going forward. Unfortunately, not a

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02:07:08,640 --> 02:07:12,600
Speaker 1: single one of the Buffalo's opponents this season has a

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02:07:12,680 --> 02:07:15,520
Speaker 1: new head coach. They're all going into their second year

2557
02:07:15,720 --> 02:07:18,480
Speaker 1: or more. So they're not going to get any added

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02:07:18,520 --> 02:07:20,800
Speaker 1: benefit that other teams may not have unless there's a

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02:07:20,840 --> 02:07:25,240
Speaker 1: coordinator in there, like Miami's offensive coordinator. But man, oh man,

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02:07:25,360 --> 02:07:26,840
Speaker 1: you'd think in a year where it's going to be

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02:07:27,040 --> 02:07:30,680
Speaker 1: really helpful the Bills to have some continuity, they may

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02:07:30,760 --> 02:07:33,040
Speaker 1: not get the benefit we thought they might, right. I

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02:07:33,120 --> 02:07:35,600
Speaker 1: think they'll get a benefit from a personnel perspective, though

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02:07:35,640 --> 02:07:37,400
Speaker 1: you look at Miami, what do they have twenty five

2565
02:07:37,520 --> 02:07:40,640
Speaker 1: twenty six new players? At least have fun blending all

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02:07:40,680 --> 02:07:43,000
Speaker 1: that together on the field in Week two when the

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02:07:43,080 --> 02:07:45,080
Speaker 1: Bills come down there. I mean, I just don't think

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02:07:45,600 --> 02:07:48,440
Speaker 1: a lot of these teams that made wholesale changes personnel

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02:07:48,520 --> 02:07:52,000
Speaker 1: wise similar to what the Bills did last year are

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02:07:52,080 --> 02:07:55,440
Speaker 1: going to be able to be you know, humming along

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02:07:55,520 --> 02:07:57,960
Speaker 1: there in week one, two, three, four, five, or six.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's think about it. Buffalos offense really didn't

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02:08:00,920 --> 02:08:05,680
Speaker 1: gain consistent traction and got consistent played from their offensive

2574
02:08:05,760 --> 02:08:08,960
Speaker 1: line until about Week seven. If you think back to it.

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02:08:10,040 --> 02:08:12,280
Speaker 1: You know, where they were playing and consistently winning the

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02:08:12,320 --> 02:08:14,640
Speaker 1: battle at the line of scrimmage. That's with a full

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02:08:14,800 --> 02:08:17,400
Speaker 1: off season on the field. You got some of these

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02:08:17,480 --> 02:08:21,000
Speaker 1: other teams that have completely retooled their offensive lines, retooled

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02:08:21,000 --> 02:08:24,120
Speaker 1: their front seven on defense. Miami's an example of that.

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02:08:24,520 --> 02:08:28,040
Speaker 1: The Jets with their offensive line. I mean, you don't

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02:08:28,080 --> 02:08:31,760
Speaker 1: have OTAs or mini camp and you're just relying on

2582
02:08:31,880 --> 02:08:34,640
Speaker 1: ten days at training camp. You're gonna need half the

2583
02:08:34,720 --> 02:08:36,640
Speaker 1: season to get all your ducks in a row and

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02:08:36,960 --> 02:08:40,040
Speaker 1: operating as one in unison. I mean, it's there will

2585
02:08:40,120 --> 02:08:42,480
Speaker 1: be an advantage there. Yeah, you can connect as many

2586
02:08:42,520 --> 02:08:45,000
Speaker 1: dots as you want. But in the Bill's offensive line

2587
02:08:45,120 --> 02:08:48,720
Speaker 1: came together really and it coincided right about the time

2588
02:08:48,760 --> 02:08:52,000
Speaker 1: when Josh stopped turning it over. You remember, Josh was

2589
02:08:52,040 --> 02:08:54,480
Speaker 1: turning over on a regular basis through the first five

2590
02:08:54,600 --> 02:08:57,200
Speaker 1: six weeks of the season. The offensive line starts to

2591
02:08:57,280 --> 02:09:01,040
Speaker 1: play better, and all of a sudden, he stops turning

2592
02:09:01,040 --> 02:09:03,400
Speaker 1: it over. The offensive lines playing better, and and you know,

2593
02:09:03,520 --> 02:09:06,560
Speaker 1: the seasons continues to go well for him, and Josh

2594
02:09:06,640 --> 02:09:08,720
Speaker 1: turned it around. A little bit of that had to

2595
02:09:08,760 --> 02:09:11,160
Speaker 1: do with the offensive line. You're right, it's not as

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02:09:11,280 --> 02:09:13,040
Speaker 1: much and it's Miami. It's not so much about the

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02:09:13,120 --> 02:09:15,640
Speaker 1: defense or the offensive coordinator change, and they got a

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02:09:15,680 --> 02:09:18,400
Speaker 1: ton of new face as you're right, Um. But the

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02:09:18,520 --> 02:09:21,160
Speaker 1: rest of the schedule, there's a lot of continuity down

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02:09:21,480 --> 02:09:24,960
Speaker 1: down the list of what the Bills are going to face, UM,

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02:09:26,520 --> 02:09:30,280
Speaker 1: with the exception of their own division, UM in New

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02:09:30,320 --> 02:09:32,120
Speaker 1: England and Miami and in a little bit of New

2603
02:09:32,200 --> 02:09:36,240
Speaker 1: York Jets with their offensive line. The builders pieces too, right,

2604
02:09:36,360 --> 02:09:38,919
Speaker 1: I mean those there's the old teams that are rebuilding.

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02:09:39,040 --> 02:09:41,960
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I just wish the Bills were

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02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:43,920
Speaker 1: playing some teams that has some new head coaches so

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02:09:43,960 --> 02:09:48,000
Speaker 1: they could benefit from all the continuity they've got. Hey, Chris,

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02:09:48,120 --> 02:09:50,120
Speaker 1: thanks for this. Glad you're healthy, Glad your family is

2609
02:09:50,160 --> 02:09:52,760
Speaker 1: doing well. And stay in touch please, all right, being

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Speaker 1: well the guys, Chris Cown Bills Inside or Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: dot Com. We got a break and we're back One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Colloid of Health. This is Falo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, So what have we learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show and brought to you about Skyworks, the official

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Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company and the Buffalo bills. We had

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Speaker 1: ESPN NFL analysts Mike Clay on the show earlier today

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02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:23,440
Speaker 1: and he talked about the bill schedule. He says, it

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Speaker 1: gets particularly tough after the bye week, after the Week

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Speaker 1: eleven bye week. Here's Mike Clay, They're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: check off a bunch of wins early in the season,

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Speaker 1: So I'm with you. In fact, there their hardest and

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Speaker 1: their second hardest games of the season in Week thirteen

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Speaker 1: and fifteen. Not to mention that's that's not even accounting

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02:10:40,480 --> 02:10:43,400
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh at home, but at San Frandon at Denver, as

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, is really tough. Not to mention at New

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Speaker 1: England they may not be quite as good as in

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02:10:47,800 --> 02:10:50,120
Speaker 1: years past, but going into New England a division rivalry

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02:10:50,800 --> 02:10:53,480
Speaker 1: not easy. Although I do have their highest wind probability

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Speaker 1: seventy five percent in Week seventeen against the Dolphins, so

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02:10:56,440 --> 02:10:59,080
Speaker 1: a bunks are hanging in there for the division lead

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02:10:59,280 --> 02:11:01,680
Speaker 1: or perhaps wild card depending on how it shaked out

2632
02:11:02,360 --> 02:11:05,160
Speaker 1: that Week seventeen games to be could be quite helpful.

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Speaker 1: But let's be honest, the guys they're probably the favorite.

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Speaker 1: They're the favorite in my estimation to win that division. Interesting,

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Speaker 1: Mike Clay interesting to talk to him. See, I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't agree with everything he said. I do think

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Speaker 1: one thing he pointed out was the difficult defenses the

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Speaker 1: Bills will play after Week eleven. The Chargers defense is good.

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02:11:24,960 --> 02:11:29,320
Speaker 1: San Francisco's defense is great, Pittsburgh's defense number one, Denver's

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Speaker 1: defense is good. It's not just primetime games. It's not

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Speaker 1: just a couple in a row on the road tough defenses,

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Speaker 1: which could give the Bill some problems in that December

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Speaker 1: stretch there. Yeah, And also there's always stretches of the

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Speaker 1: season that that look more difficult than others. You know,

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Speaker 1: you've got a majority of games on the road in

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Speaker 1: a certain strategy and no you know, home games that

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02:11:47,080 --> 02:11:49,920
Speaker 1: kind of thing, plus how the proponent opponents line up.

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Speaker 1: And certainly those are true of this schedule, just like

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Speaker 1: every other schedule the Bills I've ever had. But when

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Speaker 1: you're gonna pinpoint it, he's right. Five of the last

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02:11:58,080 --> 02:12:00,480
Speaker 1: six weeks so that sea this season coming up are

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02:12:00,520 --> 02:12:03,680
Speaker 1: going to be really against great defenses. And three of

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02:12:03,720 --> 02:12:06,600
Speaker 1: those games out of four are gonna be on the road.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough stretch. But we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of football to play before we get there. Did

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Speaker 1: the schedule release have the effect that I talked about yesterday?

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02:12:13,680 --> 02:12:15,360
Speaker 1: I remember I always said it's like a cold slap

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Speaker 1: in the face. I think it did a little bit right.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I liked it. I thought it was wow.

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Speaker 1: It couldn't have been better. I thought that the schedule

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02:12:22,680 --> 02:12:26,520
Speaker 1: sets up really well for Buffalo, and I think the

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Speaker 1: fact that we've got all those primetime games says that

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Speaker 1: you and I just haven't been sitting here in Buffalo

2664
02:12:30,560 --> 02:12:32,840
Speaker 1: howling into the win. I think people really I think

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02:12:32,880 --> 02:12:35,360
Speaker 1: people really like our team and this roster and have

2666
02:12:35,440 --> 02:12:37,360
Speaker 1: a big, high expectation. It's not just you and me.

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Speaker 1: All right, We'll start howling into the win again on

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Speaker 1: Monday at twelve noon. Have a great weekend. Everybody joined

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