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Speaker 1: Well, a good time. I'll Washton Tasper. What's Dome's domest

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a new week of One Bill's Live. Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker here with you along with Maddie Glab. We are

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Speaker 1: back on the air after being off the air all

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Speaker 1: last week for the holiday's Independence Day July fourth, and

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Speaker 1: all that dark ages in the National Football League. We're

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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing's going on, but actually a lot's going on now.

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Speaker 1: So Maddie Glab, how are you. It's good to see

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Speaker 1: you against been a while. I know I'm doing good.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to see your bright, shining, smiley face this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: We were off last week, which was nice to chill,

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Speaker 1: but I'm ready to get back on the radio and

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Speaker 1: talk some football today because, of course, lots has happened

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Speaker 1: over the last week. It's starting to try it's starting

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Speaker 1: and they're starting to have to make decisions and starting them,

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Speaker 1: you know, have to release plans and what they're gonna

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Speaker 1: look like, and all the things that are considering or

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Speaker 1: for that because it you know, Governor Cuomo has said

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Speaker 1: the NFL games in New York State. All right, well

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Speaker 1: we're the only football team that affects. So you know,

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Speaker 1: no Bills, No fans in the stands for Bill for

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Speaker 1: And so we did, you know, getting right off the

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Speaker 1: now grant and it's not carved in it's not carved

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Speaker 1: in stone. Right, this could change, yes, exactly amazing it

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Speaker 1: of people. Right, So we're not going to jump into

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Speaker 1: amount of power outages or internet outages, we thought you

431
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: got struck by lightning or something, because you just throws

432
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: up and then I didn't hear from you for ten minutes. Yeah.

433
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: I don't even want to get into my internet problems

434
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: in my house. By the way, it's like I live

435
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: in a phone booth, right and it's you know, it's

436
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: not connected to anything. It's I'm I hate myself plus

437
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: me being the tech savvy guy that I am. Totally Yeah,

438
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: finally I found the right hammer to hit the site

439
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: of the computer with and it seemed to pop right

440
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:26,880
Speaker 1: back on. I'm a I'm such a loser. No you're not.

441
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: I am. I am such this happens to me whatever? Yeah,

442
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: so you did you miss me? By the way, did

443
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: anybody like even like the fans were calling in, like,

444
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, stuff happened. Yeah, nobody called in. Ye crazy,

445
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: My ninety year old parents are listening. They didn't even

446
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 1: call in. They said, oh it's Steve again. It's it's

447
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: it's it's well, I'm gonna drop out because I don't

448
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: get paid extra for doing that extra work. So you

449
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: guys take it from here. Thank you for listening, hopefully

450
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: being on with us. That was to break or anything,

451
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: or do we did go to break? I could only

452
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,959
Speaker 1: do so much by myself, and then I was like,

453
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: you know what, We're just going to take a little

454
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: break here and reset. We had to make sure you

455
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: were alive, Steve. Hopefully I didn't drive away the fans,

456
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: But you guys take it from here. Rebuild them. Okay,

457
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: so let me catch you up. We were talking about

458
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We haven't gotten into any of the

459
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: responses yet, but Jay sent us an email with all

460
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: the info on it. But we were just talking about

461
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: home field advantage and the Twitter poll being something that

462
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: I am. I am pretty shocked by, Steve. So let

463
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 1: me just catch you up here. If no fans in

464
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: the stands holds up by the twenty twenty season start,

465
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,360
Speaker 1: what does that mean to you as a Bills fan?

466
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: So we have our options. A no big deal. If

467
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 1: I can't go, I'll just watched b It's a huge deal.

468
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: Going to games is a big part of my fandom.

469
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: See excited to take in games and a new innovative

470
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: boy or indeed other guess what is leading right now?

471
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: A no big deal? If I can go, I'll just watch.

472
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: Sixty percent of the votes. There's been four or thirty

473
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: one votes and sixty percent people say it's no big deal.

474
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 1: What that's amazing to me? Right? That's amazing. Do we

475
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: have a different call, all different view of it? Because

476
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: you you know, we're we're neck deep in it, man,

477
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: when the season's going on, we are in fully submersed

478
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 1: in whatever's going on with the team. You know who's injured,

479
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: who's not injured, who's playing well, who didn't get an opportunity,

480
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: who blew their opportunity? You know what guy played really

481
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: well in the last game, or how might displayer be

482
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: a fact? I mean, we're we're all in it, right,

483
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 1: And I think we take it for granted that all

484
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: those thousands upon thousands of people that show up at

485
00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: one Bill's Drive every every weekend or every home game

486
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 1: starting from Friday all the way through Monday, that that

487
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: is somehow the majority of everybody in Western New York.

488
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: And it's it's not. It's just a small percentage of

489
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: you know, even those thousands upon thousand people, just a

490
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: small percentage of every And I think a lot of people,

491
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: I guess most people. I guess, what's sixty percent of

492
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: the people at least in this book, in this poll,

493
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: just think. You know, I'm I like doing it my way.

494
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: I don't need to be there, you know. I like

495
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: being at my house or in my place where I

496
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: watch the games with the people that I watch them with,

497
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: just like the people like being in the stadium. I

498
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: guess there's a lot more of those people than there

499
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: are the diehard game day people who feel like they've

500
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: got to be there or the team's not gonna win

501
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: without them, which there are people like that, right, I

502
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: guess that that's my theory, and you're right, You're right,

503
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: there's there's probably more people out there rather than just

504
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: the seventy thousand that can fit in the stadium, that

505
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: feel I have to be here, right, And I maybe too.

506
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: We have a different view of how it's working these days,

507
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: and everybody knows, all right, yeah, okay, it's this pandemic things.

508
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: It's no big deal. I just ride this out, Okay,

509
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: one season? Fine, you know, by the same token, this

510
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: is a Bill's team. I mean, am I wrong? But

511
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: this is a Bills team that man feels way different

512
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: than any of the teams in the last twenty twenty

513
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: five years, right, This is this team's got it, you know,

514
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: they got it going on. And I want to see

515
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: these guys. I want to see these guys right up

516
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: close and personal and watch it and experience it and

517
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: ride the highs and lows with the team. Hopefully there's

518
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: a lot more highs than lows. I am totally with you.

519
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: I I just think this. This is a different season

520
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: for Buffalo, and unfortunately it happens, if you know, in

521
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: a pandemic. But whether that's a and I'm not saying

522
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: it is or isn't, but whether it's a plus, a

523
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: huge plus that it's a pandemic for some reason, or

524
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: whether it's a huge minus for some reason because of

525
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, no fans in the stands. I

526
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: think this is you know, this is a team that's

527
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: gonna be good. If they play games, Buffalo is gonna

528
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: be good. They're gonna be good. And that's that's what

529
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: I want to see. And and for me and you

530
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: and our our buddy Jay, we're you know, we're all

531
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: in this up to our eyeballs. So we I mean,

532
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: I think meat, we see thing. We have maybe a

533
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: scute sense of reality, right, Yeah, that's that's probably true.

534
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is what we kind of

535
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: breathe in and out all the time is is Bill stuff.

536
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: We we live with it. It's a part of our

537
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: everyday life. Even in the off season. We're here, we

538
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: are on the radio for three hours today talking about

539
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: the Bills. So it is something that is a part

540
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: of our everyday lives. But should we get into this

541
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, Yes, we should accept. Hold on, let me

542
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: just pull it up because I've been I've been out

543
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: of the out of the loop pier for a minute. Okay, yeah,

544
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: go ahead. So Tiffany says there's no innovation that can

545
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: replace the atmosphere of a home game, especially with this

546
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: year's exciting schedule, two major primetime games with a deep

547
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: and talented roster that has championship contender written all over it.

548
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful something breaks so we can attend games, Tiffany.

549
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: I am right there with you, girl. I mean, I

550
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,719
Speaker 1: don't think you can be more innovative and replace the

551
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: atmosphere of a home game. You just can't. I think

552
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: you can do some game some things to make it

553
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: more interesting, like sideline mics or micing up player, but

554
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: we've talked about that before and how tough that would

555
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: be and how much they would probably have to censor,

556
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: whether it's language or whether it's play calls and things

557
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: like that that no team wants to over the airwaves.

558
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's such an exciting schedule. You have the

559
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: two home primetime games, and you have a team that's

560
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: going to make the playoffs and has the ability to

561
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: go deep. And it would be so unfortunate if the

562
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: entire year is fanless, because I think the players really

563
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: love when it's packed, and they love what they can

564
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: get from those fans because there's calls that go in

565
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: favor of the Bills because of the noise that the

566
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: fans are making on the sideline. I completely believe thought,

567
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: and I think there is going to be some concession,

568
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: no question about, there's not going to be a packed stadium.

569
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's just not going to happen, not not

570
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: at least early in the season and probably not. You know,

571
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: we're sitting here, we've always heard about the second wave

572
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,479
Speaker 1: of the virus coming in the fall. Well, that's right

573
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: in the heart of the season. So I would imagine

574
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: that we're going to see some concession, Like right now,

575
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: as it stands, there not gonna see any fans in

576
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: the stands. And I have said, Maddie that the best

577
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: thing that could happen in that scenario is that you know,

578
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,479
Speaker 1: the they fast track is a vaccine or cure, whatever,

579
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: treatment protocol that keeps the virus from being lethal for anybody, whatever,

580
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: And they start saying, okay, now, you can have fans

581
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: and they do it after the regular season and during

582
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and the first home game that has fans

583
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: in the stands would be a home playoff game. That

584
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: would be awesome. And the fact that the lead that

585
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: season does extend into the twenty twenty one year gives

586
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: them kind of an outside chance to have some real

587
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: headway made on that front. And that would be worth

588
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: it to me to at the end of this season,

589
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: when your team has played well with no fans in

590
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: the stands, to get rewarded with a game with fans,

591
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, in the playoffs, and the fans that this

592
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: whole region would go, you know, the lid would come

593
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: off of it. It It would be awesome. So that's kind

594
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: of what I'm hoping for. I mean, I'll make some

595
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: concessions now in the preseason and the regular season with

596
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: fans and the attention and the hooplah that goes around it,

597
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: But man, when when the regular season goes, i mean,

598
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs hit, that's when you really kind of want

599
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: to maximize what your franchise is. And in Buffalo, it's

600
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: it's the fans as much as anything. Very true, I

601
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: completely agree, it would be awesome to see this place

602
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: packed for a playoff game, because I believe that we

603
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 1: will host a playoff game this season, so fans be

604
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: a part of it would be electric. If they can't

605
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:31,479
Speaker 1: be a part of the total total total bummer. I'll

606
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: be on the sidelines hopefully screaming for everybody who can't

607
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: be there. There's a tough, yeah, and there's a tough

608
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff that we got to get to

609
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: before we can get to the state the fans. Did

610
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: you read the article, you know the NFL and the

611
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: NFLPA you're talking about. You know how many guys they're

612
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: going to have on a string that they can pull

613
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: in when you know, like five guys go down with

614
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: a virus, you got to have five guys who can

615
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: come in and play. And it's a complicated game. They

616
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: got to know the terminology. You've got to have some

617
00:34:58,239 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: reps in the system before they can go out and

618
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: play the highest level. That that this you know that

619
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: the league commands UM. But by the same time and

620
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: also that the league put out it's um you know

621
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: it's uh COVID protocols about how it's gonna look and

622
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: it's a flow chart, right, So if you get these

623
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: guys tested right, right, So if if a guy gets

624
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: has symptoms or he gets in close contact with somebody

625
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: who does or is positive, you got one little flow

626
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: chart to go down and if it's not, if he doesn't,

627
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: then you keep going through this other protocol that you know,

628
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: where you keep testing on a on a rant, on

629
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: a basis of schedule sort of throughout the thing. And

630
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: that this is gonna be There's gonna be a ton

631
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: of tests going on with this thing, right, I mean,

632
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna get tested a couple of times

633
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: a week, it sounds like, right, yep. And what happens

634
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: if they don't get the results back in time. We're

635
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: watching this happen right now with the MLB. The nationals

636
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: and the astros aren't practicing today because they didn't get

637
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: their test back soon enough. They tested on Friday, but

638
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: they don't have those results by Monday. And I know

639
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: we can for the regular public, it's what three to

640
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 1: eight days or something like that to get test results back.

641
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: But I'm sure the MLB has a partnership with some

642
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: service that is saying we're going to get these tests

643
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Speaker 1: back to you within twenty four hours. And I do

644
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: know it's I understand it's a holiday weekend, but hey,

645
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: if if they can't get these results back, a lot

646
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: of these clubs aren't going to be practicing because you

647
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: don't know. If twelve people haven't, you can't You can't

648
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 1: put your team at risk like that. So that's another

649
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: interesting part of the conversation is, yes, there's all these

650
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: plans in place to test, test, test, to test more,

651
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: test here, test there, test test, test. Well, what if

652
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: you don't get these results back in time, that could

653
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: be detrimental to the whole thing falling off the rails. Yeah,

654
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: and then this flow chart with the protocols of the

655
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: league sent out. It's pretty interesting if you if you

656
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: get tested and then you got this flow chart, it

657
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: goes down. Okay, if it's negative, hey, you're back in.

658
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: You start testing a regularly like everybody else. If it's positive,

659
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: then there's two other places that can go. One if

660
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: you've got symptoms and one if you don't have symptoms.

661
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: If you've got like a fever, then you go into

662
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 1: that one where you gotta wait ten days and then

663
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: you've got to pass get tested during the ten days,

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00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: and then that if you have symptoms, you gotta wait.

665
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: If there's got to be three days seventy two hours

666
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: after those symptoms disappear, you have to wait, and you

667
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: have to get tested and you know, be positive, right,

668
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: I mean, be negative after you get that positive test

669
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Speaker 1: and you have those symptoms go away. If you're not symptomatic,

670
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: but you tested positive, you gotta wait ten days as well.

671
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: And that's after ten days you get a the positive

672
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: tests or five days after initial a positive test and

673
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: two consecutive negative tests, and you gotta have a day

674
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: between those two, right, So you get tested, then that

675
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: one comes up. Okay, now you're negative, and you gotta

676
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: wait another day, get another test, and that has to

677
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,479
Speaker 1: come back negative as well. And then once those come

678
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: then you can once the physician, you know, check your symptoms,

679
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: and then you can go back in and start practicing

680
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: and doing all that, and then you know, getting tested

681
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: on the schedule with everybody else. It's oh, I mean

682
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 1: that's it's complicated, right, yeah, And put that in with

683
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: you know, sixty to seventy I don't know, it's not

684
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: gonna be ninety guys, but sixty to eighty twenty something

685
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: year old guys who are single with active social lives

686
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: or whatever. However active they're gonna be. Um, you know,

687
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna be to the team to convince these guys

688
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: to stay indoors at night. Good luck, right, they're not.

689
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: You don't have control over these players after they leave

690
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: the building at night. And I believe those Yeah, I mean,

691
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: I think every single one of our guys on our

692
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: rosters great guys. But it's hard to control if they

693
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: choose to go out to dinner, if they choose to

694
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: see other people, or if they choose to go here,

695
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: go there. It's tough and I think we're all working

696
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: through this right now. Is do I go here? Do

697
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: I go there? Do I maybe subject myself to something

698
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: that I that I could then be at risk for

699
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,919
Speaker 1: getting COVID? I mean it's a decision that we make

700
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: every single day. Going to the grocery store is a risk.

701
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: So you can pick this up from something so innocent

702
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: as going to the grocery store and getting groceries. It's

703
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: it's going to be tough to do contact tracing for

704
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: seventy people in training camp too. Right. Plus here's the

705
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: thing you get, just this last thing before we go

706
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: to break. You can't yeah, you can keep these guys.

707
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: Maybe these guys will be doing their best to you know,

708
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: stay sequestered and all of that stuff. But man, oh man,

709
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: you're not gonna tell their moms and girlfriends and sisters

710
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: and whoever, their brothers and their families not to see

711
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: them or come say hi to them. And they you know,

712
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: you got to watch them. They've got to watch who

713
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: they interact with. And some of these guys have fairly

714
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: large support circles, right, I mean you got I mean,

715
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Speaker 1: I know I did when I was playing. That was

716
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Speaker 1: my wife and I you know, we have four children

717
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: when I was playing, and then we have people will

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Speaker 1: help my wife with the kids. We you know, childcare,

719
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: and we have school teachers and stuff like that. And

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Speaker 1: either if somebody's coming in to watch the game from

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00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: out of town and my parents or my brothers and

722
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: their wives, well then they're in my house. They're staying

723
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: with us. Right. So it's all of these you know,

724
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Speaker 1: incilliary people who are really important to the players families.

725
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: They can't just say, hey, you know, sorry, bro, I'm

726
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to take a miss on going out and

727
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 1: getting a beer tonight. What's your mom? Right? She you

728
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: know you don't tell your mom, you know mom, you

729
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: know stay away. That's you know, guys won't be able

730
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: to tell them, won't be able to do it. And

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00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: uh and that's where the you know, you can't seal

732
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: up the bubble, right, I mean, there's you're not gonna

733
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: be able to get a seal and so there's always

734
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: gonna be a leaky bubble. That's that's our keyword for

735
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: the day, leaky bubble. All right, Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab,

736
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back. This is We've got uh ratio

737
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: for you coming up. This U Ben Lindsley from Ben

738
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: lindsay from Pro Football Talks coming up at one o'clock.

739
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: He'll be with us just at the top of the hour.

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00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab and One Bill's Drive from One

741
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive on One Bill's Live, presented by Kali to Health.

742
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back from One of

743
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: Bill's Lives. Steve Tasker Maddie Glab talking about the National

744
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: Football League, the upcoming season, the fact that there's not

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00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: gonna be at least today. The governor of New York

746
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: State has said there will not be fans allowed in

747
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: pro sports stadiums. That means the only NFL team that

748
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: is affected by that is we all know or the

749
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And we're asking you what your thoughts are.

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00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 1: Do you think it's a no big deal if you

751
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 1: can't go, I'll just watch from home? Sixty percent of

752
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: you think, yeah, that's I'll do that. I'll just sit

753
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: and watch from home. Be a huge deal because going

754
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: to games is a big part of my fandom. Almost

755
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: thirty twenty eight percent of you think, yeah, that's what

756
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: it is for me. Thirty percent of you almost and see,

757
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: I'm excited to take in the games in a new

758
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: innovative way. Only five percent of you are coming up

759
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: with something better. In fact, more people than that ten

760
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: percent of you think, you know what, I got a

761
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: different idea of what I think about no fans in

762
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: the stands. We got a tweet sheet going that will

763
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: let you chime in on as well if you want

764
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: to tweet at us or call us at a fifty

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00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: or one eight fifty two five fifty. Matty, do you

766
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: have another tweet from the tweet sheet? Yeah, we got

767
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: two more to get through. So Bob says that he

768
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: voted d which was other because home field advantage is

769
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: taken out of the equation and now visitors won't have

770
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: to work on silent counts and can communicate effectively. They

771
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: know how the fans affect their offensive game plan coming

772
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: to Buffalo for a game. So that's true. Yeah, but

773
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too, there are some places in

774
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 1: some ways the Bills are going to get a benefit

775
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: from this. Obviously not at home, but on the road

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00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: because nope, there's not going to be any There's not

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00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: going to be any challenges when the Bills travel either,

778
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: and because of that, it's like, no, okay on those games.

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00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: It's even better that there is aren't any fans. Altho.

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Speaker 1: I don't hear any other states saying they're not going

781
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: to be any fans in their stands. So if the

782
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,439
Speaker 1: Bills head out and go to a different state where

783
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: they're allowed fans, the Bills will get no advantage at

784
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: home from having a home field, and then whenever advantage

785
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: of other states are allowed to have, they'll have. I

786
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: think it's a huge deal for a team like the

787
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, who are coming to Buffalo this year.

788
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,720
Speaker 1: You kind of need you feel like you need everything

789
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: all guns. A blazing team like that comes in, but

790
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: on the same token if and they're not. But if

791
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: the Bills were headed to Kansas City, take it from me,

792
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: I've played in that stadium. That's a really difficult stadium

793
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: to play well in when the fans are there and

794
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: end loud, and they got a good team and they

795
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: got big expectations. One of the toughest places to play.

796
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Chiefs fans are will bellyate big time

797
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: if they're not allowed to go see their team because

798
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: they know they mean a win or two maybe a year,

799
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: even when they've got a good team. So there's a

800
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: lot going on with this, and I think maybe this

801
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: is a poll for a later time. How many how

802
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: many more adjustments are they're gonna mat This is just

803
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg, right, I mean, I are

804
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: already messing with rosters and stuff. Right, We're gonna have

805
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: news every single day. There's gonna be like a daily

806
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: briefing by Roger Goodell every morning at eight o'clock saying,

807
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: all right, here's the new protocol changes for today, just

808
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: like there have been with the Cuomo addressing New York

809
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: and the media once a week. I could see that

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00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,439
Speaker 1: being a regular thing for the NFL, because I would

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00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: assume that things are going to change so rapidly. We

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00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: all thought we were kind of in the clear in

813
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: a sense of us flattening the curve and it going

814
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: down and they're being less cases. And then we saw

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00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: it shoot back up, and we're now living in that

816
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: world where we're seeing a spike and we are one

817
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: of the only countries, or if the only country that

818
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: hasn't really flattened this curve yet. And hey, there was

819
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: just a holiday weekend this past weekend, and you gotta

820
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: believe those numbers are going to shet back up in

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00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: two weeks. And in two weeks where are we gonna

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00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: be at in two weeks. We're gonna be a week

823
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: away from training camp in two weeks. Yeah, it's funny,

824
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: we all think, and I rightfully so. In a lot

825
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: of ways, in the United States the best country ever, right,

826
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: I mean, we all believe that in at least in

827
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: some ways we're great at this flattening the curve. We stink, Yeah,

828
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 1: not terrible. It is so anti what we are, right. Uh, well,

829
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Speaker 1: I guess you gotta live with it. I guess that's

830
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 1: but we're trying. We're try harder in this in this race.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's all right. Coming up at

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Speaker 1: the top of the hour, Ben Lindsley, Pro Football Focus

833
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: senior rioter, he's got he put the Buffalo Bills in

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00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,919
Speaker 1: the top top ten of the NF of all around

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Speaker 1: the NFL, of having a best roster in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We're they put the Bills in the top ten. Ben Lindsley,

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Speaker 1: coming on Pro Football Focused, Steve Tasker Mattie glab on

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00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive presented by Klyda Health, and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radios that time welcome bower number two of

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, Steve Tasker, Maddie glab In. Maddie in

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Speaker 1: for the entire week this week. Happy to have her

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00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: back after the fourth of July weekend. We're pleased to

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Speaker 1: be joined on the line now by a senior writer

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Speaker 1: for Pro Football Focus, Ben Lindsay, Ben Steve Tasker, and

845
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: Maddie glab up here in Buffalo. We just we now

846
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: we lost him. We haven't got Ben on the line

847
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: just yet. Maddie would uh this Pro Football Focus put

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00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: Buffalo in the top ten roster. That's why we asked

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00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: Ben Lindsay to come on. Um, we kind of knew that,

850
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 1: but not really knowing exactly where other people would see.

851
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: How good Buffalo is. I ain't kind of figured if

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00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: you don't have the top roster in the entire NFL,

853
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: but we knew they were good. And now we're getting

854
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: some objective input from guys like Ben Lindsay about the

855
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: Bills may have a top ten roster. It's kind of

856
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,720
Speaker 1: nice to know that we're not just out here shouting

857
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: in the wind. Yeah. And he's also done a lot

858
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: of other articles that span the NFL but also have

859
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: the Bills included in them, so the wide Receiver Corps,

860
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: running backs, things like that. So do we have been

861
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: on with us? Yes, we do, Ben, Steve Tasker and

862
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab up here in Buffalo. Thanks for joining us.

863
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: How's the pandemic treating you and your family? Is everybody safe?

864
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: And well, everyone's safe. I'm just just bunkering down in

865
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: my apartment here and since Mattie, but everything's going okay.

866
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: That's good. We wanted to have you on. You did

867
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: do the I don't know if you just heard as

868
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: we were talking about your article about the thirty two teams,

869
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,280
Speaker 1: and it must be really difficult to kind of siphon

870
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: through the strengths and weaknesses of each roster and how

871
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: they stack up each other when they don't really have

872
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: those same strengths and weaknesses. How did you you know? What?

873
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: Where did you start? You're going to try and rank

874
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: all these rosters? Where do you start? Yeah? A lot

875
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,800
Speaker 1: of the early legwork just went into figuring out who's

876
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: probably going to start for each team. So I just

877
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: kind of went through and look, did some research on that,

878
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: and then just laid out the rosters next to each

879
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: other and got to help, got some help from a

880
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: couple of the other guys a PFF, and started playing

881
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: the teams in order. So you have the Bills being

882
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: seventh on the list. So let's let's start with the

883
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: Bills and then we'll talk about some of their teams

884
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: that made the top ten. Why do they deserve that

885
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: seventh ranking? What are some of their strengths that made

886
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: them deserving of number seven. I think one of the

887
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: more impressive things with the Bills roster is that there's

888
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: just not a ton of weaknesses from top to bottom.

889
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: There's not anywhere where there's a glaring hole someone that

890
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: shouldn't be starting that is. I think some of their

891
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: strengths is I would put the wide receiver corps up there.

892
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the better trios in the NFL,

893
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: adding instefon Diggs. Typically you think of that number one

894
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,280
Speaker 1: wide receiver as the Julio Jones type, big guy, physical,

895
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 1: but Diggs certainly qualifies as that. It really comes down

896
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: to creating separation now, and Diggs can do that, Brown

897
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: can do that deep, Cole Beasley in the short and

898
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 1: intermediate range. I think that's one of the more well

899
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 1: rounded groups in the NFL. And then they have a

900
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: lot of pieces the like in the secondary with the

901
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: safety duo and obviously Tavius White, and one of the

902
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: other things that made the Bills tick and made them

903
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: such a good a playoff team last year was their defense.

904
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,720
Speaker 1: And it's interesting to me because, yeah, there are certainly

905
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: fan favorites here in Buffalo, guys like Tremaine Edmonds and

906
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: Tordavious White, Matt Milano and poorer and hide back there,

907
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: but around the league, it's hard to point to the

908
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: Bills in defense and say this guy's an elite defensive player.

909
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: This guy is a guy who is at the top

910
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: of his position all the way around the league. Hard

911
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: to put a, you know, a pinpoint on a guy

912
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: like that on the Bill's defensive roster, and yet they

913
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: are as good a defense as there is in the league. Yeah.

914
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: The thing with defense that I've sort of found is

915
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: if you have it's better to have no weaknesses than

916
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 1: it is to have that that high end talent because

917
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: NFL teams are just going to take a part your

918
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: weaknesses no matter if you have a number one cornerback,

919
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: they'll just throw to the other guy. Same thing with

920
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: pass rushers. So I think the Bill's depth sort of

921
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 1: across the defense is what makes it so good. Their

922
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: defense is what makes them so talented. But what are

923
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: some things on the roster that you think can make

924
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: them even better maybe for next year get into that

925
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:52,359
Speaker 1: top three ranking among other teams in the NFL. Could

926
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: you point to any weaknesses that they need to work

927
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: on this season or in training camp to have a

928
00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: better twenty twenty season. I know this isn't a popular

929
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: sentiment in Buffalo, but I think the biggest weakness on

930
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 1: the team right now is Josh Allen just from even

931
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: if you go past our grading our accuracy, he's towards

932
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 1: the bottom of the league in completion percentage, yards per attempt,

933
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: passerating more traditional metrics too. So I think the Bills

934
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: have done a good job. They're offensive line is right

935
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: around league at average. I'd say I's already said how

936
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: I liked their wide receiving corps. I think they're putting

937
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: him in a position to have some success next year,

938
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: especially if they sort of lean into more how effective

939
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: he is as a runner. Using the quarterback in the

940
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: design run game gives you that extra blocker, which is

941
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 1: something not a lot of teams do, is something Alan

942
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: can do, especially in short yardage situations. So I think

943
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: him improving his accuracy taking another step in that third

944
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 1: season is the biggest thing for the Bills. We're talking

945
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: with Ben Lindsay Pro Football Focus. He's a senior writer

946
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: going down the Bills roster. The one thing you say

947
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: that you know it is about Josh Allen, and he'll

948
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: the team will probably go as far as he takes them,

949
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: but they have done what they can to build a

950
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: roster around him. As you said, I mean, this is

951
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: a roster without any real weaknesses, and they start. You

952
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: start with a young running back corps. Devin Singletarry was

953
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 1: I think more than just a pleasant surprise a year ago.

954
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: Very elusive run or change of direction. It's not a

955
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: home run kind of Barry Sanders, you know, Grant slam

956
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 1: home run with speed or anything like that. But he

957
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: does have a great change of direction, very elusive and

958
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: can play in the both run and the pass. And

959
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: they drafted also Zack Moss. Pretty intriguing one two punch

960
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: now for the Bills they go forward, They've got two

961
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: guys on their rookie deals who may be the bell

962
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: cow in the running game. Yeah. I like what the

963
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 1: Bills have done their running back. Both guys, they were

964
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 1: kind of similar coming out of college. Singletarry and Moss

965
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: both guys who don't have that high end speed, the

966
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: sort of wow plays, but they're elusive. They're hard to

967
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: bring down. Singletary at FAU forced a bunch of miss tackles,

968
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: so did Dak Moss at Utah. That was sort of

969
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: their calling card coming out of college, and it's something

970
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: that translates to the NFL. If you get make guys

971
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,240
Speaker 1: miss in college, that's not something that's just going to disappear.

972
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: So I like what the Bills have it running back

973
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: going in the next year. I want to get to

974
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: wide receivers too, and specifically bring up Dawson Knox. You

975
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: kind of already touched on Diggs and Beasley and John

976
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,919
Speaker 1: Brown and what they're able to do and how they're

977
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: able to separate in coverage and how Diggs will definitely

978
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: make the wide receiver cord better. But Dawson Knox is

979
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,879
Speaker 1: an intriguing player this season in year two. He had

980
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: some flashes in year one, but of course he struggled

981
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: with those drops. As a rookie. He walked on to

982
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: old myths, So it's not like he had too much

983
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: time at tight end in college, truly having the most

984
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: time when it comes to getting the ball thrown at

985
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: him in his rookie season, so works affecting him to

986
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: get better in year two. What do you think he

987
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:05,839
Speaker 1: can do and how do you think him he can

988
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: help in the wide receiver room in twenty twenty. I

989
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: know he's a tight end, but he will definitely help

990
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: with that group if he's able to fix those drops. Yeah.

991
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: I like I like Knox, his athleticism, his potential for

992
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: big plays there. Like you said, the biggest issue he

993
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: had last year were the drops, But that's something that

994
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: you can correct. It's not something that's particularly stable year

995
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: to year. And I think the other thing to think

996
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 1: of with tight ends is there's not that many who

997
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: come into the league as rookies and have great rookie seasons.

998
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 1: Even a guy like George Kittle, it took him until

999
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: his second year. Um it's a position where there's a

1000
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: pretty steep learning career coming from college to the NFL.

1001
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: So I think there's definitely a good chance that Knox

1002
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: improves next season with an off season under his bill. Ben.

1003
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: You also you talk about and I want to we're

1004
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: bouncing around you'll offensive side of the ball, because you know,

1005
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: most of the changes or most of the improvements tend

1006
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,359
Speaker 1: to center around the roster and how they're building around

1007
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. On the other side of the ball, the

1008
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,959
Speaker 1: defense seems solid and you get to, you know, guys

1009
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: like Dawson Knox if they can take another step forward.

1010
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 1: They added Zach Moss, but the evaluation of all of

1011
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: these guys is what sets pro football focus aside. You

1012
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: guys kind of dig into the nuts and bolts of it.

1013
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: And you've also and you know, everybody's sitting around the

1014
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: league looks around and says, wow, they see all these

1015
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: great running backs. Why are they so good? You may

1016
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: make a case for some of these running backs have

1017
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: may have it a little easier than others. For instance,

1018
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: like a guy like Christian McCaffrey, who he gets a

1019
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: lot of yards before anybody's there to contact him. You know,

1020
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: these yards before contact, act yards, contact, make forced misshackles,

1021
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: all those go into the mix. If you do all

1022
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: of that. What are's maybe some under the radar running

1023
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: backs in the NFL that you see, aside from guys

1024
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: like Christian McCaffrey, who just hit a home run deal

1025
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: in a contract, you know, because he obviously for a

1026
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: while he was in the MVP race this last year,

1027
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: what are some of the under radar, under the radar

1028
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: running backs in the NFL. The I don't think he

1029
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: necessarily qualifies as under the radar anymore. But a guy

1030
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: who we've put out pieces this offseason saying he might

1031
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: be the best pure runner in the NFL is Nick Chubb.

1032
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: And that's not something that a lot of people are

1033
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: really saying, just because he's so hard to bring down.

1034
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: He's got power, he's got speed, and he's up there

1035
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: right with the top names in the league and yards

1036
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: after contact and for smith tackles in both twenty eighteen

1037
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: and twenty nineteen. I know they didn't play the whole

1038
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: year in twenty eighteen, but I think he's up there.

1039
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: Another young guy that is rising is Josh Jacobs, particularly

1040
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: if the Raiders use him more in the passing game.

1041
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: I think that's something he showed he could do at Alabama.

1042
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: He just didn't do a ton of it with them

1043
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: last year. But I think if they incorporate him more there,

1044
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: he already assumed. He was one of our highest grades

1045
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: runners last year as a rookie. So there are two

1046
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: guys out of call out you had treda vious. White

1047
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: ranked his third in your top corners in man coverage.

1048
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: His man coverage grade was seventy four point five, which

1049
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: was down a bit from ninety point one in twenty seventeen.

1050
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: The Bills may not have ran as much coverage as

1051
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: teams like the Patriots and the Ravens, but when they

1052
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: did run man, Trey White was lights out against number

1053
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: one wide receivers. When they were in a man coverage.

1054
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: Why did he get seventy four point five. What are

1055
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: some things that I guess he can do to up

1056
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: that grade or is it really just because the Bills

1057
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 1: didn't play too much man. Seventy four point five obviously

1058
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: doesn't look great when you're just looking at it, but

1059
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: like you said, it actually was third in terms of

1060
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: man coverage in our grading system just because those grades

1061
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: were a little bit depressed. Covering the top wide receivers

1062
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL one on one a difficult thing to do,

1063
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: So that's seventy four point five mark is actually good.

1064
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: I know the Bills didn't run a ton of man coverage,

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Speaker 1: but when they did, he was towards the top of

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Speaker 1: the league. I think. I think the thing with our

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Speaker 1: grades in comparison to just the raw productions that some

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00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: stuff like passer rating allowed, interceptions, completion rate aloud. It

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Speaker 1: takes into account plays that you might not sort of

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Speaker 1: recognize when you're watching the game, fifteen yards completions allowed

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00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: that don't really stick with you, whereas the statistics don't

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Speaker 1: really weigh that as heavily. Davis White, you know, he

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Speaker 1: was All Pro this last year and has seemed to

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Speaker 1: be playing at a high level ever since he stepped

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Speaker 1: on the field as a pro. And when you say

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Speaker 1: all Pro, I mean there's only two guys you know,

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Speaker 1: they are first team All pros around the entire National

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Speaker 1: Football League. Did he deserve it? I mean there were

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Speaker 1: there are other guys there. Certainly Steph Diggs or Stefan

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01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: Gilmore deserved it. Who is you know, a defensive Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year kind of a guy. But who else

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01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: is in the conversation with Davis White, step Steph Gilmore

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Speaker 1: and those kind of guys. Who's in that conversation at

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Speaker 1: corner and why? I think the one guy bring up

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Speaker 1: particularly last year was Richard Sherman. He's someone who was

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Speaker 1: at the top of the list when it came to

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Speaker 1: the yards yards per covered snap aloud, yards per target allowed.

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Speaker 1: I know he's playing in a heavy zone coverage scheme there, um,

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Speaker 1: but he was just as good as he was, sort

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Speaker 1: of getting back to those Seattle days. And then this

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Speaker 1: guy's like Marcus Peters, um, Marlon Humphrey a couple of

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Speaker 1: the other guys on that list. So I think Davis

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Speaker 1: White is right in that conversation too, just from a

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Speaker 1: pure production standpoint, he's allowed a passer rating below sixties

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Speaker 1: since entering the NFL. There that many guys who limit

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Speaker 1: production as well as he does. And if I were

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Speaker 1: starting a team, I honestly might take him first out

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Speaker 1: of any cornerbacks given Gilmore's age. You have Micah Hyde

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Speaker 1: as the most underrated player on the Bill's roster, somebody

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Speaker 1: that works in tandem with Trey White, being in that secondary,

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Speaker 1: being in that shut down secondary that the Bills have

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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde, Jordan Poyer. That safety tandem is hard to

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Speaker 1: touch when you're talking about opposing offenses. They like to

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Speaker 1: disguise things. They work very closely together. Their chemistry is unmatched.

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Speaker 1: They're able to do things that other safety duos can't

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Speaker 1: do just because they have such a great understanding for

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Speaker 1: each other and how they move on the field together.

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Speaker 1: Why do you believe Micah Hyde is the most underrated

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Speaker 1: player on the Bill's roster? If you go from anything

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Speaker 1: from our grades to sort of play he's made on

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01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 1: the ball, he's right up there at top five safety

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Speaker 1: in the NFL over the last since he joined Buffalo, basically,

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01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: and I don't think he gets that sort of credit

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Speaker 1: around the NFL. A lot of times for safeties, it's

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Speaker 1: the splash plays that you remember, particularly free safeties who

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01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: aren't around the ball a whole lot. But Buffalo has

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01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: done a great job of limiting e passes, which he

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01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: obviously plays a big role in, and he has made

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Speaker 1: the plays on the ball that you're looking for out

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Speaker 1: of that position. So I just think he's he's right

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Speaker 1: up there at the top of the conversation when you're

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Speaker 1: talking about the best safeties in the NFL. We're talking

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Speaker 1: with Ben and Lindsay Pro Football Focus. He's a senior

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Speaker 1: writer for them, And let's broaden our scope a little

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Speaker 1: bit to some around the National Football League. Josh Rosen

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Speaker 1: is in Miami and you talk about a forgotten guy.

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Speaker 1: They've got Ryan Fitzpatrick there playing quarterback. They drafted to

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Speaker 1: Josh Rosen on that roster. Does he well or does

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Speaker 1: he deserve another chance in the NFL? What do you

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Speaker 1: think his holds and what have you in the limited

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01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: reps he's gotten. What do you see from him? Josh Rosen,

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Speaker 1: who was, you know, a top fifteen pick in the

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Speaker 1: draft in the same year Darnold and Josh Allen were

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Speaker 1: picked and Baker Mayfield. What's the future hold for a

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Speaker 1: guy like Josh Rosen. Evaluating Rosen is kind of tough

1136
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: because he got thrown into a terrible situation his first

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Speaker 1: two years in the NFL. Right he got drafted by Arizona,

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Speaker 1: who had a terrible offensive line, not much to work

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01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: with a receiver, sort of crashed there, and then he

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Speaker 1: went to Miami where it was another similar situation. One

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01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 1: of the worst rosters in the NFL. So he hasn't

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01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: been surrounded by a whole lot of talent to work with.

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Speaker 1: But the thing I saw when I went back and

1144
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: looked at Rosen was even when he wasn't under pressure,

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01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 1: he was sitting there in a clean pocket. There's just

1146
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: too many, too many mistakes, too many balls thrown in

1147
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: harm's way, right over the middle of the field to

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01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: where you would be. I would be nerve is giving

1149
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:03,440
Speaker 1: up any sort of mid to high round draft pick

1150
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: in the trade to try to bring him in. He's

1151
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: worth a flyer for a team as a backup, I think,

1152
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: but he's not someone who I would be willing to

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01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 1: part with a whole lot to put in as my starter.

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Speaker 1: Ben Lindsley, thanks so much for joining. Ben Lindsay, I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for your writing on Pro Football Focus. We follow you

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01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: guys and appreciate it when you can give us some time. Thanks,

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01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you for having me on Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Focus. Senior writer Ben Lindsay, Steve Tasker, Maddie Glad.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back after this One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Clyde Health. A lot of stuff going on Football

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Speaker 1: Morning in America. Did an interview with Kim Bagoula. We're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about that after the bottom of the hour.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's radio service. Matic back. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: being with us here on One Bills Live. We had

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Speaker 1: all last week, uh last week off, so we're back

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Speaker 1: at it this week. This week Football Mourning in America.

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Speaker 1: Peter King is the guy at Football Mourning in America

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01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: and he's off till July twenty, so they're having guest

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01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:21,479
Speaker 1: columnists this week. They invited Kim Pagoula the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: to write an article and she can't. She did less

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01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: ten lessons that the pandemic has taught us. And she

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Speaker 1: as she always does, and she's really good at this.

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Speaker 1: She always she always gets personal with everything. You know,

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Speaker 1: she's really good about that. Um, she kind of more

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01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: so than any other owner you'll ever hear. She tells

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Speaker 1: you how it's been for her personally and what what

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01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 1: the problems have been or why it's so difficult for

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Speaker 1: sometimes and and I think it's really insightful to do it.

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Speaker 1: And she put ten pandemic lessons that we've all learned

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Speaker 1: or learned from this pandemic. Her being an owner, she

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01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 1: had a much bigger listen to things that she had

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01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 1: to learn than than the rest of us. Like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I learned I could, you know, do a radio show

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01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: with Skype and Jay Harris. Right, that's about all that

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01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: was the extent of my learning curve. Right. She's got

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01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 1: these things and some is pretty interesting, Maddie. And as

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Speaker 1: always she's it's amazing how genuine she is when she

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01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 1: writes articles like this. That's always the thing that strikes me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's always very open and honest, not just in articles,

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01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 1: I think, just in everyday life. I mean, whether you're

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Speaker 1: talking to her in a hallway or you know, when

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01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 1: we were catching up with her on Zoom for that

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01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 1: interview that we aired a couple of weeks ago, I mean,

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Speaker 1: she's pretty much willing to talk about and to answer anything,

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01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: and doesn't really shy away from any questions that anybody

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Speaker 1: poses to her. That's one thing that I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: and like about her is that she'll she'll talk about

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Speaker 1: whatever and be honest about it. So I read through

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Speaker 1: this art article this morning while I was having my coffee,

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01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 1: and it was it was good to read through. I mean,

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01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: it's things that you and I probably all know, we

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01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 1: both know on the inside, but it's also nice to

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Speaker 1: see them published here for the public's read. So should

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Speaker 1: we just go through one through ten and kind of

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Speaker 1: pick out some things that spoke to us? Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's funny to be The first one is really huge.

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Speaker 1: It's about diversity and about what she's learned about trying

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Speaker 1: to diversify the organization and and the things that she

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Speaker 1: had to learn. She openly, you know, acknowledges you know,

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Speaker 1: she's a Korean adopted from from her native land here

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Speaker 1: and grew up here in the United States, so she's

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Speaker 1: a minority herself, and she's pretty she's pretty open about that.

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Speaker 1: She knows that that she can tell that she has

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Speaker 1: treated in certain sense situations like a minority, and she

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01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 1: also and but even that has given has not made

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Speaker 1: her automatically able, even in her position where she is

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01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: now as a team owner, to just wave a magic

1219
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: one and have everything integrated and everybody's equal and stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's been a real challenging and it had and she

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Speaker 1: says point blank it's not enough just to try. You've

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01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 1: got to be successful. And those are challenges that are

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01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 1: still being sorted through by everybody, and including her. They're

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Speaker 1: pretty she's pretty forthright about how difficult it has been. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, she's the workplace, she's a member of

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Speaker 1: the Workplace Diversity Committee. In the NHL, she's the co

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Speaker 1: chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Senior Leadership counselor Counsel

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Speaker 1: with Commissioner Gary Bettman. And one thing that I pulled

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Speaker 1: out of this segment was her word deliberate. And she

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Speaker 1: said since recent events, however, the word that resonated with

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Speaker 1: me over the last month is deliberate. Was promptly was

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Speaker 1: promoting diversity and fighting racism a deliberate priority for me

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Speaker 1: as a leader of the organization. I'd have to say no,

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Speaker 1: and I'd have to acknowledge that I failed there. Day

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01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 1: to day demands, meetings, budgets, agenda's got in the way.

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Speaker 1: And so it's been a learning experience for me as

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01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 1: a minority woman to realize I have much further to go.

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Speaker 1: And this is something that Kim I also really appreciate

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Speaker 1: of her. She doesn't sugarcoat it and she doesn't make

1240
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: up excuses for herself. She's open and she's honest, and

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01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: she says this was not enough what I was doing

1242
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: for the Bills and the Sabers thought, you know, thought

1243
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:35,040
Speaker 1: I was pouring into these diversity committees. But obviously she

1244
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 1: said I wasn't being deliberate enough with this. And so

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Speaker 1: this segment goes into how she was on the Quarterback

1246
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: Coaching Summit which was a couple weeks ago, and she

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01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 1: interviewed Leslie Fraser and Pep Hamilton as if they were

1248
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Speaker 1: applying for a head coaching job. And the Quarterback Coaching

1249
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:03,560
Speaker 1: Summit is something that is put on to help NFL coaches,

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01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:09,720
Speaker 1: position coaches, college coaches and every everybody be aware of

1251
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 1: how these interviews go and things like that to help

1252
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Speaker 1: diversity in the NFL when it comes to head coach positions. Yeah,

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01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 1: it's It's very complicated, particularly when you're in the nitty

1254
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty of the everyday grind of the National

1255
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 1: Football League. And I'll never forget. I was doing games

1256
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: for CBS and and it was just after Jimmy Haslam

1257
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: and his family over took over the controlling ownership of

1258
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, and I was talking to him and

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01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:44,880
Speaker 1: he said, the amazing thing is he is. It figured

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 1: you know there'd be some sort of uh, you know,

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01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 1: orientation kind of thing or a little handbookers is nothing.

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Speaker 1: Now you say, here's your you know, here's your two

1263
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:59,599
Speaker 1: point four billion dollar little business. Good luck. They don't

1264
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: tell you how, who, what, when, where any They'd give

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01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 1: you nothing, no guidance, know anything. Certainly you can ask questions,

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01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 1: but who you gonna ask there's like thirty one other

1267
01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: guys who can ask questions to who may have an

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01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:16,479
Speaker 1: insight as to what it's like. And you know, you

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01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 1: have to learn on the fly. You have to learn

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01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:21,000
Speaker 1: as you go. You have to get dive into the numbers,

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01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 1: you have to dive into the personnel files. You have

1272
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 1: to dive into the mechanics of how it works, the

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01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: rules of why things are what they are, and you

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01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 1: got to you you kind of got to become a PhD.

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01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: And how an NFL team works, let alone how to

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01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 1: run it and then how to evaluate those people you

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01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 1: bring in inside of the building to help you win

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Speaker 1: football game. So it the amazing thing is and I

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01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: know Kim and Terry are doing it. It's a it's

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01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: a process you got to go through just to get

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Speaker 1: up to speed or how to run a multibillion dollar business. Certainly,

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01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: everybody wrongly so they think, well, guys, it's like Dan

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01:11:56,560 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 1: Schneider and guys like Jerry Richardson who owned the Caroline

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Speaker 1: and the Panthers, and m Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones, all

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01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:06,679
Speaker 1: these guys come from different they're you know, very wealthy

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01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:10,800
Speaker 1: men who made their fortunes in different businesses. And while

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01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 1: there are some common denominators, none of them are pro sports,

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01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,560
Speaker 1: and so they had to learn how to do it

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01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:22,800
Speaker 1: the way they do it in sports. Right, So all

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01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: of them have said that that it's it's a learning

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01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 1: curve that that you got to get your head around,

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01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 1: and it takes a lot of time to do it.

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Speaker 1: Uh and uh, you know, certainly, as you said, and

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01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,320
Speaker 1: as we've all noticed here in Western New York. Kim

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01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: and Terry are pretty pretty forthcoming with you know that

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Speaker 1: they're still working to get her right and UM and

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Speaker 1: I think it's just I just admire them for being

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01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: so you know, open and honest with you know, their

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01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: public statements about how difficult it's been. And number two

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Speaker 1: on the list of ten things she's learned during the

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01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:58,760
Speaker 1: pandemic has to do similarly with number one, and with

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01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:01,839
Speaker 1: the social injustice as we've been seeing in this country

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01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:05,639
Speaker 1: and fighting systemic racism. She opened up about the town

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01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:08,920
Speaker 1: hall that you and I and Jay got to be

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01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 1: a part of where coach Frazier and Laurenzo Alexander and

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01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: defensive end Jerry Hughes and director of player Development Marlon

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01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: Kerner and also a pastor in our community got to

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01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:28,759
Speaker 1: together and got to share their own experiences and share

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01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 1: times where where they've been the victim of of people

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01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:39,440
Speaker 1: who have been racist to them and have um targeted

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01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 1: them for for reasons that they shouldn't have been targeted.

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Speaker 1: UM And it was interesting to hear their their backgrounds,

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01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 1: where they come from their fight to to make it

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Speaker 1: into the NFL, whether it be as a coach, whether

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01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: it be as the director of player development or whether

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01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 1: it be as as a player. And Kim said in

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01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: in this portion of the article that you know, change

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01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 1: starts at home. It starts with our employees, it starts

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01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: with our players, it starts with our leadership here with

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01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. And she talked about Josh Norman and

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01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:18,439
Speaker 1: being really proud of him to come to Buffalo and

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01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 1: she hasn't even met him yet, he hasn't even really

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01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:25,240
Speaker 1: been here yet. And he came to the press conference

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01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:29,719
Speaker 1: that Mayor Byron Brown had where he announced police reform

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01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:34,600
Speaker 1: and just saying, you know, this individual somebody that we

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01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: want on our team because not only is he a

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01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:40,679
Speaker 1: good player, but he's a great person off the field.

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Speaker 1: And he's not even moved to Buffalo and here he

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01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:48,639
Speaker 1: is impacting the community already. And so that was nice

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01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: to read. Yeah, And I think all ten of these

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01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: items that she brings up or real, I think all

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01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: of us, And like you said, it is kind of

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01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:58,439
Speaker 1: her deal that she can get us all to kind

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01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 1: of relate to it, and the ten things she brings

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01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 1: are relatable. Um, the ninth thing on her list, the

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01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: thing they grabbed me too, is we found out we

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01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: can do things we didn't think were possible. And I've

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01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 1: had and I and I rub up against a lot

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01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 1: of people, not not so much during the pandemic, but

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01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: I do know a lot of people, and it's amazing

1341
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: their story after story after story about how we're doing

1342
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:26,680
Speaker 1: things in a completely new and different way, and some

1343
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 1: of those ways are better than they used to be. UM.

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01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 1: I've a good good friend of mine who recently retire

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01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: from a major business here. Um in Western you were

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01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 1: kind of a multinational business, and they had, you know,

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01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year before neither pandemic hit,

1348
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: they were talking about, you know, they're gonna expand their

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01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 1: office space. They're gonna put another two hundred thousand square

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01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 1: feet of office space. They're gonna, you know, do all

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01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:52,360
Speaker 1: the stuff's going on. And now after they have gotten

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01:15:52,479 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: so gotten so productive remotely with their workers, and their

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01:15:57,240 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: workers setting their own schedule and getting their work done

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01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 1: at home and not having to have an office so

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01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: to speak, where they got to show up nine to five,

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01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: five days a week, fifty weeks a year. They're being

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01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:14,680
Speaker 1: so productive. They're thinking. At the highest levels of these corporations,

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01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:17,680
Speaker 1: they're looking at each other going you know, maybe we

1359
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 1: should save the thirty five million dollars we were going

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01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 1: to spend on a new office building and not make

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Speaker 1: a new office building. Let's let people work from home,

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01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 1: or they can share an office, you know, one they

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01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:31,320
Speaker 1: can come in once or twice a week, and two

1364
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 1: people can share one office or one space if they

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01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:36,680
Speaker 1: need to. Or let's do it a different way. And

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01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:41,040
Speaker 1: it really has been and I think the NFL we

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01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: haven't seen the last of it. Mattie. I think we're

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01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 1: going to see some changes in the way the NFL

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01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: does business because of this pandemic that are gonna stick

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01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 1: for a while, I think, until they find a better

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01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:55,600
Speaker 1: way even than what they've done now. You know, I

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01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 1: think some of this remote off season, some of the

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01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:03,160
Speaker 1: zoom meetings. I think the technology and the trust they

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01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 1: were forced to have in their players is going to

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01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:09,880
Speaker 1: change the way they viewed the off season. And I

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01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 1: don't think that those changes are done happening yet, definitely.

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01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: And one thing that I also thought was interesting that

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01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 1: she talked about in the article was and this is

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01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:23,280
Speaker 1: just very simple, but I think it speaks to the

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Speaker 1: way that you know, an off season can happen from

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01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 1: here on out, and how unfortunately COVID nineteen has has

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01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:34,439
Speaker 1: produced some new ways to think in some new ways

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01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: to act and to go through an off season. And

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01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: in that Kim talked about her and Terry getting to

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01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: do a zoom call with the rookie class and that

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01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:46,640
Speaker 1: that's something they usually don't get to meet, you know,

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01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 1: every single one of these rookies until training camp begins,

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01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 1: and then they're they're saying, Hey, I'm I'm Kim and

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Speaker 1: I'm Terry, and they were able to, you know, do

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01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: a zoom call and beat every single rookie and draw

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01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 1: some similarities. There's a safety who went to Penn State.

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01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 1: Obviously Terry and Kim have a connection to Penn State.

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01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 1: That's where Terry went. Brandon Walton, another rookie I guess,

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01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: lives close to their offices in Florida, and they were

1395
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:17,720
Speaker 1: able to share a restaurant that they liked going to.

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Speaker 1: Another thing that I had no idea that this happened,

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01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:24,800
Speaker 1: but was really cool to read, was that John Feliciano,

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01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:28,719
Speaker 1: who was down in Miami with his pregnant wife Shannon,

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01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: wanted to get back to Buffalo to have the baby,

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01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:36,160
Speaker 1: but of course was nervous about flying commercially during the

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01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic, and that Kim was able to kind

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01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,719
Speaker 1: of play the role of a travel agent by hooking

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01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: them up with a private charter and so that they

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01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 1: could get back to Buffalo and have this baby safely.

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01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 1: So that was another awesome thing to read, and that

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01:18:55,280 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: this pandemic, while it separated us, it's also brought us

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01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:01,639
Speaker 1: closer together in different ways. Yeah, And I think it's

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01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:04,600
Speaker 1: it's it's been one of those things where people have

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01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 1: found different ways to help man. They've been offered opportunities

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01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have normally gotten. And you know, a contrary

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01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 1: to what we think about each other, sometimes sometimes we

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01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: come through in a big way for each other, right,

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01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:21,479
Speaker 1: And I think when you do that, you know, whether

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01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: it's something as cool and kind of it's kind of

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01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:27,680
Speaker 1: you know, big time as to you know, hook them

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01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 1: up with a charter jet. It's kind of cool to

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01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 1: know that John Feliciano and his wife they wanted to

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01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 1: be in Buffalo to have that baby, you know. And

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01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:38,559
Speaker 1: I know this too. There are a ton of guys,

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01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: a ton of kids that I know who were born

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01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:45,320
Speaker 1: in Buffalo because their parents were living and working in

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01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo as a Buffalo Bills, right. I mean, I've got

1423
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 1: god kid god sons who I know that they were

1424
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,760
Speaker 1: born in Buffalo, and I knew them as little kids

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01:19:54,760 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: and stuff. Now there they've got wives and kids to

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01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,200
Speaker 1: their own, and they're my god children, you know. And

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01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: they were here because their dad's a good buddy of mine,

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01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:04,599
Speaker 1: and and they were born here in Buffalo and now

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01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:08,000
Speaker 1: John Feliciano, and they want to do whatever they can,

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01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: everything they can to make sure their kids very born

1431
01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:14,960
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. A lot of that's pretty cool stuff. And

1432
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: when you get down to the root of it, this

1433
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 1: our article really gets it strikes at the heart of

1434
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:26,680
Speaker 1: what we all feel about Western New York too. To me,

1435
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 1: the tone that is set in this Football Morning in

1436
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:34,919
Speaker 1: America article that was that was written by Kim Pagoula

1437
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 1: as a guest writer columnist in place of Peter King

1438
01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 1: while he's on vacation. It gets to the heart of

1439
01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:44,760
Speaker 1: why Buffalo and buffalo Ians and Western New Yorkers have

1440
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 1: a sense of affection for each other that goes, you know,

1441
01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 1: beyond just living in the same region. It goes it

1442
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 1: goes to Bill's fandom, It goes to Sabers fandom. It

1443
01:20:53,400 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 1: goes to our fraternal or fraternity of people who live

1444
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:01,840
Speaker 1: here through the winters who don't go. You know, we

1445
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 1: don't all leave for Buffalo, you know, leave for the winter.

1446
01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 1: Some of us hang in here and all of us

1447
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: have at one point or another wintered in Buffalo. Right,

1448
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 1: even the people who now is older, you know, become snowbirds.

1449
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 1: They don't want to leave. Because this last week, well

1450
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: last week, this last six weeks have been spectacular with her.

1451
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:22,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a world class spring summer now

1452
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 1: starting at the beginning of May. And you know, it's

1453
01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:30,880
Speaker 1: just it's one of those things where you get people

1454
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:33,640
Speaker 1: who write about Buffalo and who are from Buffalo. You

1455
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:35,680
Speaker 1: get that sense from him, and I just I don't know,

1456
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:38,800
Speaker 1: it's really comforting me. Maybe reaching a little bit on that,

1457
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:42,320
Speaker 1: but because it's not what the article was about. But

1458
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 1: it certainly rings true to me when I read the

1459
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 1: people who grew up here in Buffalo sim that seemed

1460
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 1: to notice and value the same things in their lives,

1461
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: whether they're a billionaire owner or whether they're the guy

1462
01:21:57,320 --> 01:22:01,919
Speaker 1: working at the seven to eleven on you on Transit Avenue.

1463
01:22:02,160 --> 01:22:04,600
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, it's just fun for me

1464
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 1: and comforting for me to read an article like this

1465
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:10,160
Speaker 1: where you know, these ten reasons she gives rings so

1466
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: true to so many people, and we can we can

1467
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: kind of relate to them here in Western New York.

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01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. I don't know, Yeah, I agree.

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01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: And one thing that she did point out too that

1470
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean we're all sharing and we can all sympathize

1471
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: with is the uncertainty portion of it all. She kind

1472
01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:30,640
Speaker 1: of went into how they thought that they were in

1473
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: a good place for return to work protocol for some

1474
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:38,400
Speaker 1: staff and players and thinking that hey, training camp could

1475
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:42,960
Speaker 1: be in John Fisher in Rochester, and then like the

1476
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: day after or a couple of days after, maybe they

1477
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:48,600
Speaker 1: think they have this plan in place where hey, you

1478
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,120
Speaker 1: can do training camp where we usually do training camp.

1479
01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:54,799
Speaker 1: Then the NFL releases the protocol that says all training

1480
01:22:54,880 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: camps are going to be held at teams facility, and

1481
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 1: so that's a huge point where they had to pivot

1482
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 1: and say, oh, just kidding, like, no, we're not going

1483
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:07,000
Speaker 1: to do it at John Fisher, We're actually going to

1484
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:09,880
Speaker 1: be holding this in Buffalo and figuring out, you know,

1485
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Speaker 1: everything that needs to go into return to work protocol

1486
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:17,560
Speaker 1: in Buffalo instead of Rochester, and how it's going to be,

1487
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 1: how you can make Buffalo safe, and how you can

1488
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: change all of these protocols that you probably had in

1489
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:27,160
Speaker 1: place to have training camp in Rochester and then implement

1490
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: them into having training camp in Buffalo. So several things

1491
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 1: on that article. Steve Tasker along with Maddie Glab we're

1492
01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:38,760
Speaker 1: here till three o'clock. We've got no fans in the

1493
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:41,040
Speaker 1: stands today. They're saying no fans are going to be

1494
01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 1: in the stands in any professional sports competition in New

1495
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 1: York State, which is of course falls right in the

1496
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:50,320
Speaker 1: lap of Bills fans. No fans in the stands at

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01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 1: New Era of Field. The veteran players are scheduled to

1498
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:57,360
Speaker 1: report back for training camp on July twenty eighth. That's

1499
01:23:57,439 --> 01:24:00,439
Speaker 1: just in three or four weeks. The press and looks

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01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: like it's going to be changed a little bit. Who

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01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: knows what that's gonna look like. They're a team. There's

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01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:09,720
Speaker 1: a team in Washington that is thinking about changing its name.

1503
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 1: They're starting to talk about maybe it being the Washington

1504
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:18,040
Speaker 1: some things or others other than what they've been called

1505
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: for sixty years. We've also got What's for Lunch coming

1506
01:24:21,160 --> 01:24:23,680
Speaker 1: up as well. Steve Tasker, Matti Lab On One Bill's Live,

1507
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: presented by Kalidah Health And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1508
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker, Maddic Glab

1509
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 1: We're here till three o'clock. There's a lot going on

1510
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and one of the things that has

1511
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: grabbed a lot of attention, particularly in the social climate

1512
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: we're living in with social justice and a new light

1513
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:53,640
Speaker 1: being shined on the injustice is done to minorities in

1514
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 1: our country is happening in Washington, DC. The Washington Redskins

1515
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:03,360
Speaker 1: have long been under sure to consider changing the name

1516
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:07,280
Speaker 1: of the franchise because of Native Americans and what that

1517
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:10,360
Speaker 1: name means to them and has been afflicted upon them

1518
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:14,880
Speaker 1: because of that name in decades past, and now it

1519
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: seems to have gotten traction. Ron Rivera, the new head

1520
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 1: coach of the Washington Ridskins formerly the Carolina Panthers, has

1521
01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 1: had real discussions with Daniel Snyder. Now Daniel Snyders is

1522
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:28,520
Speaker 1: one of the guys who he's taking a lot of criticism,

1523
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:31,599
Speaker 1: no question about it. As asad as owner of the Redskins.

1524
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:33,800
Speaker 1: Not most of it, which was had to do with

1525
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:37,600
Speaker 1: how bad the team was, not about the name. But

1526
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:40,800
Speaker 1: he had come out, I think as about ten years

1527
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:43,640
Speaker 1: ago and said I will never change the name. For

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01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:47,680
Speaker 1: the way now not so much. He's talking to his

1529
01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:50,160
Speaker 1: head coach and saying, you know, maybe it is time.

1530
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:53,320
Speaker 1: And for one of the reasons this happened, Maddie, and

1531
01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:55,200
Speaker 1: I know you know this, but a push for a

1532
01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 1: new name existed for decades and I'm quoting an article

1533
01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:02,960
Speaker 1: here now from the NFL dot NFL dot com. It

1534
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,080
Speaker 1: hit a fever pitch this last week as a group

1535
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 1: of eighty seven investment firms and shareholders reportedly signed three

1536
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 1: separate letters to corporate partners of the Redskins. One was

1537
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 1: to Nike, one was to FedEx. Of course they play

1538
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:21,559
Speaker 1: in FedEx Field and PepsiCo, and they urge those three entities, Nike, FedEx,

1539
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:24,680
Speaker 1: and PepsiCo to terminate their relationships with Washington football team

1540
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 1: unless it changed its name. FedEx subsequently requested that the

1541
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 1: neat team do just that, change its name. Nike stopped

1542
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:38,479
Speaker 1: selling Redskins merchandise online, and the team's statement Friday came

1543
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:43,760
Speaker 1: to it's declaring it's considering a name change immediately, that

1544
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 1: which drew support from rodri Adell and from those three

1545
01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:53,799
Speaker 1: companies Nike, Pepsi and NFL and Nike Pepsi and FedEx. Also,

1546
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:56,760
Speaker 1: of course, the NFLPA executive director de Marie Smith was

1547
01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:59,320
Speaker 1: also on board with that. Do you think that's going

1548
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:03,760
Speaker 1: to gain track? Should Ron Revere was asked about repeatedly

1549
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 1: this past week, Mattie, I mean it has to. I

1550
01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 1: think this is a name that I think should have

1551
01:27:12,960 --> 01:27:15,120
Speaker 1: been changed a long time ago, and I think they

1552
01:27:15,240 --> 01:27:19,879
Speaker 1: have no option but to change it. Now. You have FedEx,

1553
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:22,720
Speaker 1: which is what your field is named after, Pepsi, and

1554
01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 1: Nike telling telling the Redskins that they are going to

1555
01:27:27,720 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 1: stop partnerships with them. Nike said they're going to stop

1556
01:27:31,200 --> 01:27:36,639
Speaker 1: selling Redskins merchandise online. I think when you have money

1557
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 1: that's now in this equation and people that are saying, no,

1558
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna step back from this. Until you

1559
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:46,760
Speaker 1: change your name, you have to act, and it would

1560
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:50,439
Speaker 1: be awesome to see them act before the season begins.

1561
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:52,639
Speaker 1: It would be nice for them to have a new

1562
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: name before Week one in twenty twenty and in a

1563
01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:58,680
Speaker 1: time like this, in a time like this where we're

1564
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:01,600
Speaker 1: in a pandemic, and yes there's a lot going on

1565
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:05,240
Speaker 1: to figure out training camp, but there are also quite

1566
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:08,560
Speaker 1: a few people who still are not at work and

1567
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 1: probably have time to give to creating a new name

1568
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:15,960
Speaker 1: and time to figure out how this can happen and

1569
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:19,559
Speaker 1: how they can get jerseys and all this stuff done

1570
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:23,160
Speaker 1: by week one. It's July sixth, week one is what

1571
01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 1: beginning of September they can figure it out by then

1572
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 1: there might need to be some rush to get some

1573
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:32,880
Speaker 1: stuff in, but there's no time like the present then

1574
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 1: to get this done. And think about this, you think, okay, yeah,

1575
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:40,640
Speaker 1: they're just it's all fluff and they're not really going

1576
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 1: to do anything. They're just saying they consider it now

1577
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:45,960
Speaker 1: whatever whatever, you know. But here's the thing. Ron Rivera

1578
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 1: said this. They wanted to do it in a positive way,

1579
01:28:49,240 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 1: and they have come up with a couple of names,

1580
01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:55,439
Speaker 1: and he said two of them he really liked the

1581
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:57,720
Speaker 1: head coach. And they're not divulging whatever they are. They're

1582
01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 1: not going to do that until they get a reveal

1583
01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:03,479
Speaker 1: them like, until they can cash in on it. Right,

1584
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 1: it's a big you know this big reveal party. Probably

1585
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,800
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see. But they've gone down the

1586
01:29:09,880 --> 01:29:12,320
Speaker 1: road that far as to actually pick a couple of

1587
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: alternative names that they would be interested in changing the

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01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 1: name to. Now here's my take on it, and I

1589
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: don't know anything about anything. We're a million miles away,

1590
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: but they would probably do it in such a ways

1591
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:25,160
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have to change the logo, right, they would

1592
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 1: make it in such a way as that it would

1593
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:31,360
Speaker 1: be the Washington Natives or UM whatever or the the

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01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: Washington Americans UM, something like that, right, and so that

1595
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:42,560
Speaker 1: they could keep the logo of the Native American profile

1596
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:46,519
Speaker 1: on there and do it and honor it rather than

1597
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:48,600
Speaker 1: and have, you know, have the name the way it

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01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 1: is now where it's it's not it's not honoring it,

1599
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I would think they

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01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:55,640
Speaker 1: would probably would not want to change the logo, but

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01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:58,320
Speaker 1: just keep the logo and change the name to something

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01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:03,560
Speaker 1: that's a positive more than a negative, right, right. But

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01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 1: I think if they're going to do that, they have

1604
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 1: to have long conversations with people who are Native Americans

1605
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:12,639
Speaker 1: and see if there's any way to keep that logo

1606
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:15,720
Speaker 1: and have a name that honors Native Americans, because even

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01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians have been under fire for their name,

1608
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:24,160
Speaker 1: and I saw a post this morning. I think it

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01:30:24,320 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 1: was somebody within the Organization of the Indians said yeah,

1610
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:29,640
Speaker 1: we should probably look into changing our name too. So

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01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:32,680
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if there's a way to honor the

1612
01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:36,240
Speaker 1: Native Americans without talking to them first and figuring out

1613
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:38,479
Speaker 1: is there a way we can keep a logo like

1614
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:43,320
Speaker 1: this that has been been labeled as not being honorable.

1615
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:46,439
Speaker 1: And to have a name like this and to honor

1616
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:49,280
Speaker 1: this community, you're gonna have to do a lot more

1617
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:52,360
Speaker 1: than I think just change a name to being honorable.

1618
01:30:52,439 --> 01:30:54,680
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to do a lot of partnership with

1619
01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:57,360
Speaker 1: that community and a lot of understanding what you have

1620
01:30:57,479 --> 01:31:01,040
Speaker 1: done for sixty years that has been not honorable. So

1621
01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:05,680
Speaker 1: they should have a voice in what it right leatly right?

1622
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:08,360
Speaker 1: I agree? I agree, Steve Tasker, maddiglab coming on at

1623
01:31:08,360 --> 01:31:10,680
Speaker 1: two o'clock. We've got a ton of stuff going on.

1624
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:13,280
Speaker 1: Preseason is going to be changed. No fans in the

1625
01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 1: stands at any any NFL game taking place in New

1626
01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 1: York State. Uh. For those of you who follow the

1627
01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:21,880
Speaker 1: New York Jets and New York Giants. You can still

1628
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:24,599
Speaker 1: have fans in your safe because you're not New York team. UM.

1629
01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:29,439
Speaker 1: The Bills, however, are affected by that. UM veterans are

1630
01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:31,800
Speaker 1: going to report to training camp July twenty eighth. They've

1631
01:31:31,840 --> 01:31:34,000
Speaker 1: put the protocols out for what that's gonna look like

1632
01:31:34,160 --> 01:31:36,639
Speaker 1: on a day to day basis with a positive negative tests.

1633
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:39,360
Speaker 1: All of that's coming down the pipe. We're getting closer

1634
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 1: to the season, Maddie and UM, we've got a long

1635
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:44,600
Speaker 1: way to get seems like we've got a lot of

1636
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:47,639
Speaker 1: stuff to get done before they can start. Steve Tasker,

1637
01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:49,880
Speaker 1: Maddie glab One Bills Live on Buffalo Bill's Radio. We'll

1638
01:31:49,920 --> 01:31:51,640
Speaker 1: be right back after the break. This is one. This

1639
01:31:51,800 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 1: is One Bills Lives That welcome back from one of

1640
01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Final hour of the show. Coming up, Steve

1641
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:23,400
Speaker 1: task with Maddie Glad Mattie's in for the entire week

1642
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:25,880
Speaker 1: here with us at one Bill's Live. We've got a

1643
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:28,680
Speaker 1: lot to talk about. The preseason is bearing down on us.

1644
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:31,320
Speaker 1: Don't know exactly what it's gonna look like yet. There's

1645
01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:35,120
Speaker 1: all kinds of uh speculation and some rumors, and some

1646
01:32:35,240 --> 01:32:38,240
Speaker 1: of it's probably founded. Some of it's probably unfounded that

1647
01:32:38,400 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 1: the preseason is going to look different. I think it's

1648
01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 1: gonna be compressed. They're they're talking. Anytime they kind of say, well,

1649
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: we're thinking about cutting the preseason. I'm thinking they're gonna

1650
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:48,080
Speaker 1: be almost down to two game. We don't know anything yet.

1651
01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 1: Nothing's been announced, and even what's been announced or been

1652
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 1: rumored about may change six times before it actually becomes law.

1653
01:32:55,360 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 1: But I really do think that the preseason is going

1654
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:02,680
Speaker 1: to look different. And I was thinking too that we

1655
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 1: had the preseason schedule all set. Uh, I don't think that. Yeah,

1656
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:12,000
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen like that. Right, we're gonna play

1657
01:33:12,040 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: what Minnesota, Atlanta, Carolina and Detroit. Right, that's not right?

1658
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:19,920
Speaker 1: Is that what it was? I'll bet you we don't

1659
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:23,040
Speaker 1: even play. I'll bet you we have all three of

1660
01:33:23,080 --> 01:33:26,800
Speaker 1: those teams. I don't. Here's the thing that's set, it's done.

1661
01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:33,679
Speaker 1: Colts Lions. There you go, Ravens Falcon's Colts Lions. Here's

1662
01:33:33,840 --> 01:33:37,519
Speaker 1: here's what happens in the previouseason. The team presidents or

1663
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:40,880
Speaker 1: the head coaches maybe just call each other and say, hey, listen,

1664
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:43,760
Speaker 1: you're not on our schedule this year. You run the

1665
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:45,920
Speaker 1: right kind of offense or defense that we're looking at.

1666
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:49,960
Speaker 1: Could you how about playing a preseason you know, against us,

1667
01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:51,280
Speaker 1: so we can get a look at that kind of

1668
01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:54,120
Speaker 1: scheme during the preseason and see how we do that

1669
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:55,680
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And they, yeah, that's good for us,

1670
01:33:55,680 --> 01:33:57,200
Speaker 1: because you we've got a got a bunch of teams

1671
01:33:57,240 --> 01:33:59,679
Speaker 1: that run your scheme on our schedule too. Let's play

1672
01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:02,840
Speaker 1: against each other in the preseason and that's it. That's

1673
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:04,960
Speaker 1: all there is to it, and that's the game. They say,

1674
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:07,800
Speaker 1: we'll do it on that the second weekend to the preseason.

1675
01:34:07,840 --> 01:34:11,360
Speaker 1: We'll decide on what day later, and uh, and that's fine, done,

1676
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:14,040
Speaker 1: and that's all there is to it. It's not like,

1677
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:16,759
Speaker 1: you know, the league has to get involved or anything

1678
01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:19,799
Speaker 1: like that. The preseason schedule of the teams to make privately.

1679
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:25,640
Speaker 1: So you could see the Bills calling you know, Atlanta

1680
01:34:26,040 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 1: or you know, Carolina or whoever it is, and just say, listen, hey,

1681
01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:32,720
Speaker 1: let's cancel our game because we've got a better look.

1682
01:34:32,720 --> 01:34:34,639
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a better game against this other team.

1683
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:37,920
Speaker 1: Because it's scheduled, syncs up or whatever whatever. So you

1684
01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:40,439
Speaker 1: could see even the teams that they're playing. It might not.

1685
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:43,880
Speaker 1: We might play teams that aren't even you know, on

1686
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:46,960
Speaker 1: the four team list that we're playing already. It may

1687
01:34:47,040 --> 01:34:48,760
Speaker 1: just it's not going to be so simple as they

1688
01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:51,679
Speaker 1: just throw those games out. They may change the opponents

1689
01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:53,800
Speaker 1: as well, because that's certainly on the table for all

1690
01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:56,320
Speaker 1: these clubs. That's that's the interesting part for me. It's

1691
01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:58,360
Speaker 1: just a kind of a well, it's like the Bills

1692
01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:01,320
Speaker 1: playing Detroit every year in the preseas. You know, mister

1693
01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:05,559
Speaker 1: Wilson Ralph had a relationship with the ownership of the Lions,

1694
01:35:06,240 --> 01:35:07,960
Speaker 1: and they just had a deal, said hey, we'll play

1695
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 1: every year, and they said okay, and that was it,

1696
01:35:10,680 --> 01:35:13,719
Speaker 1: you know, in the preseason finale. Sometimes it wasn't the finale,

1697
01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:16,759
Speaker 1: but usually the preseason finalees at Detroit or in Buffalo,

1698
01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:19,640
Speaker 1: and and it just happened like clockwork. And that was

1699
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: just a handshake deal with the Bills and the Detroit.

1700
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:27,000
Speaker 1: So it's really interesting to me how it's gonna look

1701
01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: they and I've heard and now it's being reported that

1702
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:33,600
Speaker 1: they're starting to talk Maddie about limiting the size of

1703
01:35:33,760 --> 01:35:36,479
Speaker 1: teams that come to training camp or the clubs will

1704
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:39,040
Speaker 1: do it voluntarily. They're not going to max out the

1705
01:35:39,160 --> 01:35:43,280
Speaker 1: ninety player limit, they're only gonna bring like eighty guys

1706
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:45,800
Speaker 1: because they're not going to have all that time to

1707
01:35:45,880 --> 01:35:49,200
Speaker 1: evaluate guys. They probably already got to handle on a

1708
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 1: little bit of who they think is gonna make it

1709
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:53,200
Speaker 1: or whatever, and who there's going to use as camp bodies,

1710
01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:54,800
Speaker 1: and they'll just say thanks anyway, but you know what,

1711
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:57,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to camp with fewer guys, and these

1712
01:35:57,200 --> 01:36:02,000
Speaker 1: guys will be turned loose before the season starts, right yeah.

1713
01:36:02,160 --> 01:36:06,439
Speaker 1: In this Albert Breer column for si dot Com is

1714
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:10,000
Speaker 1: MMQB column where he kind of runs through a lot

1715
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:12,400
Speaker 1: of these questions that are still up in the air

1716
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 1: in relation to preseason. One of the topics that he

1717
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:18,600
Speaker 1: talks about, he says the players want to follow the

1718
01:36:18,640 --> 01:36:22,360
Speaker 1: guidance of the NFL NFLPA Joint Committee for Health and Safety,

1719
01:36:22,720 --> 01:36:26,559
Speaker 1: which called for three week acclamation period before anyone even

1720
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:29,599
Speaker 1: puts a helmet on. That timeline would make playing any

1721
01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:34,280
Speaker 1: preseason games pretty difficult. Three weeks after July twenty eighth

1722
01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:38,479
Speaker 1: is August eighteenth, especially if you want teams to be

1723
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:42,240
Speaker 1: by themselves for two weeks leading into the opener. So

1724
01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:46,360
Speaker 1: the NFL and the NFLPA Committee for Health and Safety

1725
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:50,400
Speaker 1: is calling for this three week acclamation period, and if

1726
01:36:50,439 --> 01:36:52,479
Speaker 1: you were to do that and to start training camp

1727
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:56,880
Speaker 1: on July twenty eighth, there's really no time for preseason games.

1728
01:36:57,439 --> 01:37:00,840
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you want that two week period where

1729
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:04,439
Speaker 1: the teams can kind of just quarantine together before they

1730
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:07,880
Speaker 1: start week one. If this is how it's gonna work,

1731
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 1: there is going to be no preseason games. And one

1732
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:14,360
Speaker 1: of the questions that's also being posed is why are

1733
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:17,880
Speaker 1: we creating thirty two safe training camp zones and then

1734
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 1: mixing everyone for games that don't even count? Which is

1735
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:24,680
Speaker 1: a very fair point here. It makes sense to do

1736
01:37:24,840 --> 01:37:29,720
Speaker 1: preseason in terms of figuring out a roster and in

1737
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:33,040
Speaker 1: terms of you didn't even have these mini camps that

1738
01:37:33,160 --> 01:37:36,439
Speaker 1: we missed out on. But also there's a fair point

1739
01:37:36,560 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: to not even have a preseason because why are you

1740
01:37:39,520 --> 01:37:42,320
Speaker 1: creating all these all these safe havens for players in

1741
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:45,840
Speaker 1: thirty two different cities and then mixing them for games

1742
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:48,320
Speaker 1: that don't count on the roster and wins and losses?

1743
01:37:48,840 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? What are we gonna do

1744
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 1: if all this happens? No preseason training camp is like

1745
01:37:55,560 --> 01:37:57,479
Speaker 1: a rumor they get together and they're like, you know,

1746
01:37:57,520 --> 01:37:59,559
Speaker 1: they hang out for two weeks learning how to wash

1747
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 1: their hands ends, you know, right, so they you know,

1748
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:06,519
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. The season kicks off on

1749
01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 1: schedule and it goes like clockworth it clockwork. It's awesome.

1750
01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:13,800
Speaker 1: Games are close, they're tight, teams are getting better. They

1751
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:16,200
Speaker 1: change vastly over the course of the regular season because

1752
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:18,360
Speaker 1: they didn't get you know, they kind of grow into

1753
01:38:18,439 --> 01:38:22,560
Speaker 1: the season. The games are great. Playoffs come and you know,

1754
01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:25,200
Speaker 1: the fans get back in the stands late in the playoffs,

1755
01:38:25,240 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 1: maybe for the championship weekend, you know that kind of thing,

1756
01:38:28,280 --> 01:38:30,000
Speaker 1: and it just goes off without a hitch, and it

1757
01:38:30,040 --> 01:38:35,880
Speaker 1: couldn't have been better. Do they keep doing it? Do

1758
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:38,600
Speaker 1: they save the money? They say, yeah, you know what,

1759
01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:42,880
Speaker 1: this bringing these guys in and let's just bring them

1760
01:38:42,920 --> 01:38:45,680
Speaker 1: in for a week, you know, like, let's let's just

1761
01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:47,639
Speaker 1: bring them in for a couple of weeks before training

1762
01:38:47,680 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: camp starts. Training camp will be three weeks long, one

1763
01:38:52,320 --> 01:38:56,559
Speaker 1: week of practice, a game, another game, and then let's

1764
01:38:56,640 --> 01:38:59,680
Speaker 1: go start off that. Right, what if it all goes

1765
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:02,480
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's one of those things that the pandemic

1766
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:06,960
Speaker 1: made better. I hope that things go well. But I

1767
01:39:07,080 --> 01:39:10,479
Speaker 1: just I don't believe they will. I believe there's gonna

1768
01:39:10,479 --> 01:39:12,960
Speaker 1: have to be some hiccups because we've seen there already

1769
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:17,879
Speaker 1: is in the MLB, um the bubble system has just started.

1770
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:21,280
Speaker 1: For the NBA, they are a few practices into that.

1771
01:39:21,439 --> 01:39:24,599
Speaker 1: I just I just don't believe that it's all gonna

1772
01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:28,200
Speaker 1: go smoothly until there's a vaccine out there, and unfortunately

1773
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:32,599
Speaker 1: that's not a thing right now. So they're gonna try

1774
01:39:32,600 --> 01:39:35,920
Speaker 1: and be careful as they can be, but there's gonna

1775
01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:39,800
Speaker 1: be bumps in the road. Yeah. We as Americans, we

1776
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:44,439
Speaker 1: stink at groups discipline, right, I mean, we we're gonna

1777
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:46,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna blow this all right, We're just gonna if

1778
01:39:46,840 --> 01:39:49,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna stink it up, we're gonna let right, there's

1779
01:39:49,120 --> 01:39:51,280
Speaker 1: gonna be a spike in the fall in the middle

1780
01:39:51,280 --> 01:39:55,840
Speaker 1: of the football season, Like Hello, we're gonna get four

1781
01:39:55,960 --> 01:39:58,720
Speaker 1: weeks into this thing, and we're gonna have to completely

1782
01:39:58,840 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 1: shut it down because because it's gonna be spiking everywhere again,

1783
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:08,240
Speaker 1: because we can't we can't not share pumpkins, latte spice cups, right,

1784
01:40:08,280 --> 01:40:11,440
Speaker 1: I mean, We're we're gonna start throwing it around exactly,

1785
01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:18,240
Speaker 1: And guys, no, not everybody practiced safe social distancing this

1786
01:40:18,360 --> 01:40:22,439
Speaker 1: weekend for fourth of July, so you know, yeah, we

1787
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:25,559
Speaker 1: talked about this last week with Brownie to think about this, Matti. Yeah,

1788
01:40:25,560 --> 01:40:27,280
Speaker 1: so you're on it. You're an athlete, right, and you're

1789
01:40:27,320 --> 01:40:29,240
Speaker 1: on a softball team and me on a football team.

1790
01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:32,240
Speaker 1: So you got this locker room culture, right, and everybody's

1791
01:40:32,280 --> 01:40:34,840
Speaker 1: kind of in it together team atmosphere. We're doing great,

1792
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:37,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna win, got a good vibe going, having a

1793
01:40:37,880 --> 01:40:43,519
Speaker 1: great season. What happens when everybody in your little locker

1794
01:40:43,600 --> 01:40:48,120
Speaker 1: room family finds out you're the guy that got them

1795
01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:54,080
Speaker 1: all sick, You're the guy that burst the bubble. Oh gosh,

1796
01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:55,760
Speaker 1: what a You don't want to be you know, you

1797
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:59,360
Speaker 1: want it. That's like that old Southwest Airlines commercial. You

1798
01:40:59,400 --> 01:41:01,720
Speaker 1: want to get it way, you know, when you're the

1799
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:04,519
Speaker 1: guy that the test points to as being the guy

1800
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:07,160
Speaker 1: that popped the bubble and blew their chance for a

1801
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:11,880
Speaker 1: division title or whatever whatever, Oh my gosh, that would be.

1802
01:41:12,320 --> 01:41:14,880
Speaker 1: That would be the worst possible thing to do. And

1803
01:41:14,960 --> 01:41:18,800
Speaker 1: you're like that. Guys will feel pressured to be, you know,

1804
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:23,760
Speaker 1: not be that guy, right, Yeah, it would happened on

1805
01:41:23,800 --> 01:41:27,240
Speaker 1: your teams too, right, that would shake up a locker room,

1806
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:30,080
Speaker 1: that would shake up a team. But then there's the

1807
01:41:30,320 --> 01:41:32,800
Speaker 1: I mean, there's the element of not wanting to shake

1808
01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:34,840
Speaker 1: that up and not wanting to be the person that

1809
01:41:35,160 --> 01:41:39,240
Speaker 1: you know got tested. But got to be honest about

1810
01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:43,960
Speaker 1: all this stuff too. I hope that players, if they

1811
01:41:44,080 --> 01:41:48,000
Speaker 1: have symptoms, don't stay quiet about it, because that's how

1812
01:41:48,080 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 1: it could get spread and it could get bad on

1813
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:54,400
Speaker 1: a team, especially in position groups. That's one thing that

1814
01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:57,760
Speaker 1: I think I'm worried most about is it's not like

1815
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:02,320
Speaker 1: you're doing meetings with two wide receivers, two offensive linemen,

1816
01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:05,679
Speaker 1: two defensive players. Know all the wide receivers are together,

1817
01:42:05,720 --> 01:42:08,640
Speaker 1: all the offensive linemen are together, and if one of

1818
01:42:08,680 --> 01:42:11,400
Speaker 1: them gets it in the group, odds are more than

1819
01:42:11,479 --> 01:42:13,360
Speaker 1: one of them is going to end up getting in.

1820
01:42:13,520 --> 01:42:16,880
Speaker 1: And especially if it's during the season, Like, what if

1821
01:42:17,040 --> 01:42:22,280
Speaker 1: you have four offensive linemen that if tested positive, what

1822
01:42:22,400 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You maybe have enough to put

1823
01:42:24,520 --> 01:42:28,680
Speaker 1: five on the field. But this is when the conversation

1824
01:42:28,800 --> 01:42:33,960
Speaker 1: starts about making your practice squad bigger, making it sixteen players,

1825
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:36,720
Speaker 1: making it however many players you need to make it

1826
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:39,479
Speaker 1: to be able to get through a season where you

1827
01:42:39,600 --> 01:42:42,479
Speaker 1: could have chunks of position groups go down for two

1828
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:45,519
Speaker 1: weeks and you just have to keep playing. Yeah, what's

1829
01:42:45,560 --> 01:42:49,360
Speaker 1: the question. The question is what's the threshold? So what

1830
01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:52,439
Speaker 1: happens if you know a certain number or a certain

1831
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:58,320
Speaker 1: position group or certain guys you know, all come down

1832
01:42:58,439 --> 01:43:01,000
Speaker 1: with it? You know, when does the team go? You

1833
01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:05,679
Speaker 1: know what, we're we're totally out of it. We can't

1834
01:43:05,720 --> 01:43:09,080
Speaker 1: even play, or we got no quarterback to put on

1835
01:43:09,120 --> 01:43:11,439
Speaker 1: the we have no quarterback at all. We can't even

1836
01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:13,920
Speaker 1: field a guy. We don't have a guy left, or

1837
01:43:14,040 --> 01:43:16,400
Speaker 1: we don't have an offensive lineman left on our roster,

1838
01:43:16,560 --> 01:43:20,960
Speaker 1: not a single one, or we've got no wide receivers.

1839
01:43:21,040 --> 01:43:23,600
Speaker 1: You know, what are you gonna do? Or how about this?

1840
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:27,320
Speaker 1: The entire offensive coaching staff is now out of the building.

1841
01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 1: You know, just you know what, guys, let's just fold

1842
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:34,439
Speaker 1: our tent up and go home. You know what are

1843
01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:38,240
Speaker 1: you gonna do? That? That's the possibility now now we

1844
01:43:38,640 --> 01:43:40,240
Speaker 1: can watch I mean we just you know, the the

1845
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:44,320
Speaker 1: Champions League h and also you know you're you're getting

1846
01:43:44,400 --> 01:43:46,479
Speaker 1: we're gonna chance to see Major League Baseball do it?

1847
01:43:46,920 --> 01:43:49,240
Speaker 1: As you said, the NBA's just starting out, so we

1848
01:43:49,360 --> 01:43:51,680
Speaker 1: get a chance to see how those teams handled those

1849
01:43:51,880 --> 01:43:54,760
Speaker 1: But you know, baseball is not football, you know, if

1850
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:56,320
Speaker 1: the pitching and what are you gonna do the pitching?

1851
01:43:56,400 --> 01:43:59,080
Speaker 1: A couple of pitchers? Get it? You know? Or what

1852
01:44:00,000 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 1: you're pretty much social distance while you're playing a baseball game, Yeah,

1853
01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:06,960
Speaker 1: I got it, unless you get a single and you're

1854
01:44:06,960 --> 01:44:09,040
Speaker 1: standing there looking in the first basement's trying to hold

1855
01:44:09,080 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 1: you on the you know what I mean, And that's

1856
01:44:10,439 --> 01:44:12,800
Speaker 1: where you see it, right, nobody else is you know,

1857
01:44:12,840 --> 01:44:15,800
Speaker 1: everybody else is fine, and the dugout everybody's sitting on

1858
01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:18,200
Speaker 1: top of each other, and the dugouts spitting seeds on

1859
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:21,680
Speaker 1: each other as I'm dangerous, so all that stuff. But

1860
01:44:22,040 --> 01:44:26,600
Speaker 1: you know, football is not like baseball, and the positions

1861
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:28,960
Speaker 1: mean a lot more. I mean, you can't you know,

1862
01:44:29,160 --> 01:44:30,680
Speaker 1: right fielder can you know, you can go over and

1863
01:44:31,080 --> 01:44:32,560
Speaker 1: as long as he's standing in the right spot in

1864
01:44:32,640 --> 01:44:34,640
Speaker 1: left field, it's kind of the same thing, right or

1865
01:44:35,160 --> 01:44:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, in fielders kind of the same thing, although

1866
01:44:37,080 --> 01:44:40,000
Speaker 1: their intricacies in the positions. Of course, you can still

1867
01:44:40,080 --> 01:44:43,599
Speaker 1: line somebody up right. You can't line a line up

1868
01:44:43,720 --> 01:44:45,880
Speaker 1: a guy like me five nine one hundred and eighty

1869
01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:51,439
Speaker 1: two pounds. I can't play right guard, you know, so

1870
01:44:52,400 --> 01:44:57,400
Speaker 1: if you lose all those big heavy guys, your season goes. Now,

1871
01:44:57,560 --> 01:44:59,680
Speaker 1: certainly you could line a big heavy guy up out.

1872
01:45:00,160 --> 01:45:03,400
Speaker 1: Why you could do the other thing. You could have,

1873
01:45:03,720 --> 01:45:06,640
Speaker 1: you know, a roster, you know, an offensive you know,

1874
01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:10,920
Speaker 1: lineup of fifteen eleven guys and they're all three hundred

1875
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:14,600
Speaker 1: plus pounds, right, so you got you know, John Feliciano

1876
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:19,240
Speaker 1: lining up as a slot receiver. You know, uh, Mitch

1877
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 1: Morris has lined up as a wing back. That kind

1878
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 1: of stuff. You could do that at least the guy

1879
01:45:23,560 --> 01:45:25,719
Speaker 1: could take up a space, but when you get down inside,

1880
01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:27,880
Speaker 1: you know you can't do it the other way. So

1881
01:45:30,160 --> 01:45:33,719
Speaker 1: it's it's all these scenarios. Maybe none of them happened,

1882
01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:36,680
Speaker 1: maybe not a single one of them happened, But man,

1883
01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:40,080
Speaker 1: oh man, you gotta think something weird's gonna go on, right,

1884
01:45:40,479 --> 01:45:44,200
Speaker 1: Something that we've never seen before is gonna make This

1885
01:45:44,560 --> 01:45:47,280
Speaker 1: is gonna be the thing that we all remember about

1886
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:50,120
Speaker 1: this season coming up, right is something we don't even

1887
01:45:50,120 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 1: know what it's gonna look like. And then there's also

1888
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:56,000
Speaker 1: going to be players that we've seen this in the

1889
01:45:56,439 --> 01:45:59,320
Speaker 1: MLB in the NBA, there's gonna be players that want

1890
01:45:59,360 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 1: to opt out this year, and how do you tackle that?

1891
01:46:02,920 --> 01:46:05,759
Speaker 1: Do you pay those players? Do you pay those players

1892
01:46:05,880 --> 01:46:08,920
Speaker 1: some part of their salary? Do they not get paid

1893
01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:11,679
Speaker 1: for a whole year? I mean, they're opting out because

1894
01:46:11,720 --> 01:46:14,200
Speaker 1: of their health. And isn't that the most important thing

1895
01:46:14,439 --> 01:46:16,759
Speaker 1: in all of this. Not the money that these teams

1896
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:19,200
Speaker 1: are getting, not the money that the NFL is getting,

1897
01:46:19,280 --> 01:46:23,960
Speaker 1: not the money that ESPN, ABC, NBC is getting. I mean,

1898
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:26,800
Speaker 1: it's the health and wellness of these players. And if

1899
01:46:27,120 --> 01:46:30,479
Speaker 1: a player wants to opt out because they are worried

1900
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:33,680
Speaker 1: for their health and wellness, they should be able to

1901
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 1: do so. But there's no plans in place yet for

1902
01:46:37,439 --> 01:46:40,439
Speaker 1: that and for the option to be able to do

1903
01:46:40,560 --> 01:46:43,120
Speaker 1: that if you don't feel safe playing an entire season

1904
01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:47,640
Speaker 1: during a pandemic where there's no vaccine yet, right, And

1905
01:46:47,720 --> 01:46:49,040
Speaker 1: what's going to be what are they going to be

1906
01:46:49,080 --> 01:46:52,320
Speaker 1: the penalties if teams don't follow the protocols like everybody else's.

1907
01:46:52,360 --> 01:46:54,559
Speaker 1: Are they going to be penalties for those teams draft picks,

1908
01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:59,720
Speaker 1: lost games, forfeited fines, for players who blatantly or even

1909
01:47:00,200 --> 01:47:06,360
Speaker 1: blatantly or inadvertently you know, unintentionally break the protocols, you know,

1910
01:47:06,479 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: where they you know, they contaminate their locker room or

1911
01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:12,960
Speaker 1: themselves or their families. Are you gonna hold those guys

1912
01:47:13,040 --> 01:47:20,599
Speaker 1: accountable for being virus free? And if they do get

1913
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:22,240
Speaker 1: the virus, so, are you gonna go back and check

1914
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:24,360
Speaker 1: up to see if they did follow the protocols? And

1915
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:27,080
Speaker 1: if they did, why did the protocols fail? I mean,

1916
01:47:27,160 --> 01:47:30,679
Speaker 1: this seems like a you know, a huge detective novel

1917
01:47:30,800 --> 01:47:32,880
Speaker 1: trying to keep all these people virus free, and how

1918
01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 1: are you going to hold them accountable for making the attempt?

1919
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:38,200
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can do that, you know,

1920
01:47:38,479 --> 01:47:40,599
Speaker 1: I just don't know that you can do that. It's

1921
01:47:41,320 --> 01:47:45,639
Speaker 1: it's this is really really an interesting problem that none

1922
01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:49,759
Speaker 1: of us have faced before. And it's gonna be interesting

1923
01:47:49,840 --> 01:47:54,760
Speaker 1: to see how it gets overcome. The Premier League. I mean,

1924
01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:57,920
Speaker 1: we've seen it the Premier League. They had zero positive

1925
01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:01,160
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen test results and they tested twenty two hundred

1926
01:48:01,240 --> 01:48:04,679
Speaker 1: and fifty people and it was the eleventh round, eleventh

1927
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:10,080
Speaker 1: round of testing. Twenty two hundred and fifty people were tested,

1928
01:48:10,560 --> 01:48:16,479
Speaker 1: zero cases, zero um and it was the eleventh round

1929
01:48:17,160 --> 01:48:22,360
Speaker 1: of testing. That's pretty impressive. Right. I don't think any

1930
01:48:22,400 --> 01:48:30,680
Speaker 1: American We're not gonna do that. Although although if you

1931
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:34,719
Speaker 1: incentivize it, if it's a contest, you know we will compete.

1932
01:48:34,960 --> 01:48:37,680
Speaker 1: I know that. Uh maybe that's what you gotta do.

1933
01:48:37,800 --> 01:48:40,000
Speaker 1: You gotta say, Okay, it's got to make it a contest,

1934
01:48:40,080 --> 01:48:43,120
Speaker 1: because I listen, they have these guys. These leagues are

1935
01:48:43,160 --> 01:48:46,920
Speaker 1: built for that. Right. If you incentivize with draft picks,

1936
01:48:46,960 --> 01:48:49,160
Speaker 1: the team who has the least number of positive tests

1937
01:48:49,240 --> 01:48:51,800
Speaker 1: throughout the season, they will They'll work it, whin it.

1938
01:48:52,360 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 1: That'll be amazed. Can you imagine that too? The COVID pick.

1939
01:48:56,400 --> 01:49:00,040
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be the COVID pick? So we get like

1940
01:49:00,160 --> 01:49:02,200
Speaker 1: the first pick of the draft, you get, you get it.

1941
01:49:02,280 --> 01:49:05,479
Speaker 1: If your team has fewest COVID tests, you get the

1942
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:11,240
Speaker 1: first draft. Oh my gosh. That would would that would

1943
01:49:11,320 --> 01:49:15,519
Speaker 1: incentivize people to follow protocol and be safe about everything.

1944
01:49:15,920 --> 01:49:18,160
Speaker 1: That would be more That would be more interesting than

1945
01:49:18,200 --> 01:49:22,080
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, I think, oh totally. And then another

1946
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:25,120
Speaker 1: part of the conversation that's gonna have to be brought

1947
01:49:25,200 --> 01:49:29,080
Speaker 1: up in some of these um NFL NFLPA meetings is

1948
01:49:29,439 --> 01:49:33,400
Speaker 1: salary cap and the article that Albert Breer wrote. He said,

1949
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:39,000
Speaker 1: that these meetings have been pretty um, everybody's pretty much

1950
01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:42,160
Speaker 1: agreed upon things. It hasn't gotten two heated yet. And

1951
01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:45,160
Speaker 1: one reason why it probably hasn't gotten two heated yet

1952
01:49:45,280 --> 01:49:49,200
Speaker 1: is because salaries have not been really brought up yet.

1953
01:49:49,920 --> 01:49:53,760
Speaker 1: And the salary cap is a big part of this conversation.

1954
01:49:54,160 --> 01:49:56,960
Speaker 1: I mean, there's going to be a lot of lost

1955
01:49:57,080 --> 01:50:00,599
Speaker 1: revenue if there's no fans in the stands, and we're

1956
01:50:00,640 --> 01:50:03,320
Speaker 1: going to have to you poof the money doesn't come

1957
01:50:03,360 --> 01:50:05,400
Speaker 1: out of thin air to where you can up the

1958
01:50:05,479 --> 01:50:08,479
Speaker 1: salary cap next year, You're gonna have to borrow or

1959
01:50:08,560 --> 01:50:10,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to dip down for a year. And

1960
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:13,639
Speaker 1: if you borrow for years to come, then the salary

1961
01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:16,400
Speaker 1: cap is probably gonna stay even for the next few years.

1962
01:50:16,680 --> 01:50:20,120
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be tough for players who are looking

1963
01:50:20,160 --> 01:50:23,040
Speaker 1: for these big deals upcoming. I mean, you look at

1964
01:50:23,080 --> 01:50:24,800
Speaker 1: the bills, the roster, and you look at how many

1965
01:50:25,280 --> 01:50:30,760
Speaker 1: of our really foundational, important players that need new contracts

1966
01:50:30,840 --> 01:50:33,200
Speaker 1: coming up. Is that going to change it? Are we

1967
01:50:33,320 --> 01:50:34,840
Speaker 1: going to have to miss out on it on a

1968
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:36,600
Speaker 1: really great player that we want to keep on the

1969
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:39,360
Speaker 1: team because the salary cap is not what it was

1970
01:50:39,520 --> 01:50:42,800
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, that's exactly right, and that's that's gonna

1971
01:50:42,800 --> 01:50:44,600
Speaker 1: be something we're gonna have to work through too. But

1972
01:50:44,920 --> 01:50:47,559
Speaker 1: for the numbers for the league, I mean, sooner or later,

1973
01:50:47,600 --> 01:50:49,120
Speaker 1: I think the league will come out of it healthy.

1974
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:51,240
Speaker 1: But and for the salary cap and what it's going

1975
01:50:51,280 --> 01:50:53,080
Speaker 1: to be, I think that's for the accountants to figure out.

1976
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:56,000
Speaker 1: You know, you pay your good guys what the going

1977
01:50:56,120 --> 01:50:57,760
Speaker 1: rate is and if you got to fit them under

1978
01:50:57,760 --> 01:50:59,519
Speaker 1: the cap. That's all there is to it is. It's

1979
01:50:59,560 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 1: not going to be easy, but that's that's what you're

1980
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:04,000
Speaker 1: left doing. Steve Tasker Maddie Glab here on One Bill's Live,

1981
01:51:04,080 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 1: coming up NFL true false and what do we learned?

1982
01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:09,320
Speaker 1: Coming up at the bottom of the hour and in

1983
01:51:09,400 --> 01:51:11,559
Speaker 1: the next half hour One Bill's Live presented by Kwaia

1984
01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:23,600
Speaker 1: Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back in one of

1985
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:26,439
Speaker 1: Those Lives, Steve Tasker, Maddie glab If there's no fans

1986
01:51:26,479 --> 01:51:29,680
Speaker 1: in the stands this season, as per Andrew Cuomo, who

1987
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:32,800
Speaker 1: has the governor, has said that there will not be

1988
01:51:32,960 --> 01:51:36,479
Speaker 1: any fans in the stands for any pro sports team

1989
01:51:36,680 --> 01:51:38,880
Speaker 1: in New York State this season, What does that mean

1990
01:51:38,960 --> 01:51:41,120
Speaker 1: to you? As a Bills fan. Is it a no

1991
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:44,960
Speaker 1: big deal If I can't go, I'll just watch it home,

1992
01:51:45,960 --> 01:51:48,280
Speaker 1: or fifty sixty percent of you say that's the way

1993
01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:50,240
Speaker 1: it goes. If it's no big deal, I'll just watch

1994
01:51:50,280 --> 01:51:53,760
Speaker 1: it home. B Is it's a huge deal because you

1995
01:51:53,840 --> 01:51:55,880
Speaker 1: know that's a big part of my fandom. That twenty

1996
01:51:55,920 --> 01:51:58,960
Speaker 1: six percent of you say that's your thing. D have

1997
01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:01,800
Speaker 1: something else in my almost a nine percent of you

1998
01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:04,840
Speaker 1: have something else that you do it. And then five

1999
01:52:04,920 --> 01:52:07,120
Speaker 1: percent of you think, I'm excited to take the games in.

2000
01:52:07,200 --> 01:52:08,519
Speaker 1: I got a new way to do it. I mean,

2001
01:52:08,520 --> 01:52:10,439
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. It's a new thing. I'm gonna

2002
01:52:10,479 --> 01:52:12,519
Speaker 1: do it usually I go, but I'm gonna be nice

2003
01:52:12,560 --> 01:52:15,360
Speaker 1: doing it in a different way. That's the Twitter poll today,

2004
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:19,439
Speaker 1: and we also have Maddie a tweet sheet. The tweet

2005
01:52:19,479 --> 01:52:23,160
Speaker 1: sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, the official

2006
01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:26,040
Speaker 1: equipment moving of the Buffalo Bills. What's on the tweet

2007
01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:30,360
Speaker 1: sheet this hour? So Chris says that he's already bummed

2008
01:52:30,520 --> 01:52:33,320
Speaker 1: because for because of the new players on the team,

2009
01:52:33,600 --> 01:52:35,920
Speaker 1: they won't get to see what Buffalo is all about

2010
01:52:36,040 --> 01:52:38,439
Speaker 1: on game day. Says, I know this isn't the most

2011
01:52:38,520 --> 01:52:41,280
Speaker 1: flashy city, but game day in Orchard Park is what

2012
01:52:41,439 --> 01:52:44,519
Speaker 1: we bring to the table. Yeah, I mean it's a bummer.

2013
01:52:44,560 --> 01:52:46,559
Speaker 1: It's a bummer that these most of these guys aren't

2014
01:52:46,600 --> 01:52:51,560
Speaker 1: here yet because also Buffalo is it's best during the summertime,

2015
01:52:51,800 --> 01:52:54,960
Speaker 1: like in terms of going outside and getting to experience

2016
01:52:55,640 --> 01:52:59,679
Speaker 1: the city, the lake, whether it's getting on the water

2017
01:53:00,240 --> 01:53:04,360
Speaker 1: or you know anything, it's just better when it's nice

2018
01:53:04,400 --> 01:53:07,280
Speaker 1: and warm out. And we get this three month four

2019
01:53:07,360 --> 01:53:11,240
Speaker 1: month period of time where it is perfect weather and

2020
01:53:11,920 --> 01:53:14,240
Speaker 1: they can't experience that when they have some free time.

2021
01:53:14,280 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 1: Most of them are still wherever they are doing their

2022
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:20,200
Speaker 1: training at. And yeah, if these rookies come to this

2023
01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:23,680
Speaker 1: team and don't get to experience Orchard Park in a

2024
01:53:23,760 --> 01:53:28,080
Speaker 1: game day at New Airfield and it's full glory, that's

2025
01:53:28,200 --> 01:53:32,840
Speaker 1: gonna be a huge bummer and a letdown for these

2026
01:53:32,920 --> 01:53:36,320
Speaker 1: guys who who got to experience how awesome this fan

2027
01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:39,200
Speaker 1: base was when they got drafted to the team a

2028
01:53:39,280 --> 01:53:42,120
Speaker 1: couple months ago. Yeah, it is gonna and it's funny too.

2029
01:53:42,320 --> 01:53:44,000
Speaker 1: A game day in Orchard Park is what we bring

2030
01:53:44,040 --> 01:53:45,840
Speaker 1: to the table. You should have said bring to the

2031
01:53:45,920 --> 01:53:52,320
Speaker 1: folding table or the flaming table yes. Shot by Jay Harris,

2032
01:53:52,840 --> 01:53:54,720
Speaker 1: also on the tweet sheet from Courtesies. I don't go

2033
01:53:54,800 --> 01:53:58,080
Speaker 1: too many games due to the cost and it's a

2034
01:53:58,200 --> 01:54:00,439
Speaker 1: long way away, the distance, et cetera. But it is

2035
01:54:00,600 --> 01:54:03,040
Speaker 1: huge deal. It's a huge deal. No fans in the

2036
01:54:03,080 --> 01:54:06,880
Speaker 1: stands in NFL games, it's hard to even imagine. And

2037
01:54:06,920 --> 01:54:11,400
Speaker 1: I think that's true. And even preseason games in Buffalo,

2038
01:54:11,760 --> 01:54:13,920
Speaker 1: matt And they used to. They started about, oh guys,

2039
01:54:14,040 --> 01:54:17,719
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen years ago having Kid's Day in Orchard

2040
01:54:17,800 --> 01:54:22,960
Speaker 1: Park and it's sold out a couple of years in

2041
01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:25,160
Speaker 1: a row, right, So it's a sell out crowd even

2042
01:54:25,160 --> 01:54:28,440
Speaker 1: in a preseason game. And they do get a respectable

2043
01:54:28,479 --> 01:54:30,720
Speaker 1: crowd for preseason games in Orchard Park, although it's an

2044
01:54:30,800 --> 01:54:34,040
Speaker 1: enormous stadium, they still get a pretty fairly sizable crowd.

2045
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:36,880
Speaker 1: So you can get a sense of it, and it's

2046
01:54:37,040 --> 01:54:41,800
Speaker 1: it is low key, but I'm telling you, no fans

2047
01:54:41,880 --> 01:54:46,440
Speaker 1: at all is a different animal. It's a really different animal.

2048
01:54:46,560 --> 01:54:51,120
Speaker 1: And I just think it's hard to imagine the effect

2049
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:55,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna have, particularly in Orchard Park with that stadium

2050
01:54:57,240 --> 01:55:03,360
Speaker 1: empty kind of echoe, you know, um, it'll be it'

2051
01:55:03,520 --> 01:55:05,120
Speaker 1: It's it's just not going to be the same. And

2052
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:07,240
Speaker 1: I think they're you know, I think the other stadiums

2053
01:55:07,280 --> 01:55:09,640
Speaker 1: around in the country are going to be the same. Certainly,

2054
01:55:09,680 --> 01:55:12,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the game in a new way. And

2055
01:55:12,560 --> 01:55:20,200
Speaker 1: I know that the broadcast partners CBS, NBC, ESPN they're

2056
01:55:20,280 --> 01:55:23,960
Speaker 1: all gonna have and Fox, they're all gonna have different

2057
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:27,120
Speaker 1: and innovative ways to do the games differently because they're

2058
01:55:27,120 --> 01:55:29,200
Speaker 1: gonna have more freedom with no fans in the stands,

2059
01:55:29,240 --> 01:55:32,360
Speaker 1: who cares. They gonna have skycam and every camera they

2060
01:55:32,400 --> 01:55:35,000
Speaker 1: can put fans, they can put cameras at the best

2061
01:55:35,120 --> 01:55:37,400
Speaker 1: angles in the seats, they can put them right up

2062
01:55:37,400 --> 01:55:39,800
Speaker 1: in the bleachers, you know, and put cameras there so

2063
01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:42,640
Speaker 1: you'd have new angles to use. They wouldn't care if

2064
01:55:42,680 --> 01:55:44,560
Speaker 1: the cameras got on on screen or in They just

2065
01:55:44,640 --> 01:55:48,720
Speaker 1: put them on, you know. Um, it's gonna be innovative.

2066
01:55:48,760 --> 01:55:51,800
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a great idea, and I think, uh,

2067
01:55:52,160 --> 01:55:54,800
Speaker 1: the television partners are gonna rise up to it and

2068
01:55:55,200 --> 01:55:57,120
Speaker 1: give us something that we haven't seen before and making

2069
01:55:57,200 --> 01:55:59,040
Speaker 1: more interesting for all of us. That's that's the way

2070
01:55:59,080 --> 01:56:02,120
Speaker 1: I see this thing playing it out. Yeah, the what

2071
01:56:02,360 --> 01:56:05,360
Speaker 1: you just said, ties into the last one from Dina,

2072
01:56:05,880 --> 01:56:08,600
Speaker 1: hoping that new ways to watch will be available this season.

2073
01:56:08,720 --> 01:56:12,560
Speaker 1: Even if they aren't, I will be watching on HDTV

2074
01:56:12,960 --> 01:56:16,800
Speaker 1: from the comfort of my room. Totally. You would think,

2075
01:56:16,880 --> 01:56:19,400
Speaker 1: just like you said, these media partners are gonna have

2076
01:56:19,600 --> 01:56:23,760
Speaker 1: to step up and make it a different experience for

2077
01:56:23,880 --> 01:56:27,520
Speaker 1: your everyday fan who's watching from, you know, the comfort

2078
01:56:27,560 --> 01:56:29,520
Speaker 1: of their own home. If they're not able to go

2079
01:56:29,680 --> 01:56:32,240
Speaker 1: to games, You've got to you gotta up the yanties somehow.

2080
01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:37,240
Speaker 1: You gotta create an atmosphere where these fans maybe feel

2081
01:56:37,280 --> 01:56:41,480
Speaker 1: like they're actually at in the game. Mandy glab Steve Task,

2082
01:56:41,520 --> 01:56:43,400
Speaker 1: We're here till three o'clock. We've got it. Were you

2083
01:56:43,440 --> 01:56:48,080
Speaker 1: ready for NFL? True false? I am ready. I think

2084
01:56:48,080 --> 01:56:49,800
Speaker 1: we got just enough time maybe to squeeze it in

2085
01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:53,080
Speaker 1: here NFL true false. Brought to you by Yancey's Fancy Yancys,

2086
01:56:53,240 --> 01:56:56,880
Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and Cheese, New York without fans,

2087
01:56:57,040 --> 01:57:01,400
Speaker 1: artists and cheese. Uh, there we go, NFL true false.

2088
01:57:01,760 --> 01:57:03,680
Speaker 1: And this is the one that's been hanging around for

2089
01:57:03,720 --> 01:57:07,760
Speaker 1: a while. CBS Sports made their top ten safety tandems

2090
01:57:10,800 --> 01:57:15,240
Speaker 1: Hyde and Poyer didn't make it true. False. They should have.

2091
01:57:16,920 --> 01:57:20,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say true because I ride with my team.

2092
01:57:21,520 --> 01:57:25,600
Speaker 1: I'm outraged that they didn't make it. Yeah, what are

2093
01:57:25,640 --> 01:57:28,200
Speaker 1: they doing over there? That's my old company, you know, CBS.

2094
01:57:28,840 --> 01:57:31,200
Speaker 1: I wasn't CBS dot com sports guy. I was just

2095
01:57:31,320 --> 01:57:34,600
Speaker 1: you know, I said broadcasting. Come on, guys, Micah Hyde

2096
01:57:34,600 --> 01:57:38,920
Speaker 1: and Jordan Poyer on the like, maybe the best defense,

2097
01:57:39,080 --> 01:57:41,040
Speaker 1: one of the best, if not the best defense in

2098
01:57:41,120 --> 01:57:44,400
Speaker 1: the league, top three defense last year, top five over

2099
01:57:44,440 --> 01:57:46,920
Speaker 1: the last three years, all three of the last five years,

2100
01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:51,720
Speaker 1: three years. They come on, You're not gonna put those

2101
01:57:51,760 --> 01:57:55,480
Speaker 1: guys on the top ten safety tandem. Sometimes people forget

2102
01:57:55,560 --> 01:57:57,720
Speaker 1: about the Buffalo Bills, I think, and I think this

2103
01:57:57,840 --> 01:58:00,320
Speaker 1: is a classic case where people forget that the Bills

2104
01:58:00,360 --> 01:58:04,800
Speaker 1: have really talented defense and a really talented safety duo. Yeah,

2105
01:58:04,840 --> 01:58:07,640
Speaker 1: they should be in the conversation, and being left out

2106
01:58:07,680 --> 01:58:13,040
Speaker 1: of these conversations just motivates them more to kick butt

2107
01:58:13,360 --> 01:58:17,720
Speaker 1: this season. That's embarrassing. Not even forget about be in

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Speaker 1: the top tandem. They're not even a top ten. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's embarrassing. That's a malarkey. What are you doing? What

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Speaker 1: we both say? We both say true to that. They

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Speaker 1: should have made the CBS Sports Top ten Savior list.

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Speaker 1: All right, NFL true false Number two, The Browns have

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Speaker 1: the best starting five in the NFL. That's skill positions

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Speaker 1: running back, wide receiver, tight end, Chub Hunt, ob J,

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Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry, Austin Hooper. Now, when I first saw this

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Speaker 1: true false, I was like, But then I got to

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Speaker 1: look at their starters for skill positions, I was like, oh, dang,

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Speaker 1: they have they have some great players. I mean, Chubb

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Speaker 1: was great last year, they have Kareem Hunt. Now, Obj

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Speaker 1: not the best season last year, but you would think

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Speaker 1: this year can be better. Of same with Jarvis, Landry,

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Speaker 1: Austin Hooper. He's going to be a great tight end

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Speaker 1: in this league. He had a great year last year.

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Speaker 1: I think that was kind of his coming out year

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Speaker 1: of being recognized as a great tight end. I think

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Speaker 1: he's only going to get better. When I worked at Stanford,

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Speaker 1: he was on the team, and watching him playing some

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Speaker 1: of those games and catch some of those passes in

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Speaker 1: the red zone with how how tall and big he is,

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Speaker 1: is just like, oh my gosh, this person is a problem.

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Speaker 1: So it's great to have on your team. But when

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Speaker 1: he's on an opposing team, but not so great. I'm

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Speaker 1: I look at some of these other teams. So there's

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Speaker 1: five and it's Saints, Chiefs, Cowboys, Bucks. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: true on this one. Really. See, here's the thing, this

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Speaker 1: is different than the first one. Micah Hyde and Jordan

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Speaker 1: Poy Certainly they're good. They should be in the top ten.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm not even saying they're the best,

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Speaker 1: but they're you know, they're in the conversation for top

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Speaker 1: ten without question. Maybe in the conversation for the best.

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Speaker 1: When you say the Browns have the best best five,

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Speaker 1: that's different than saying they're in the top ten. Certainly

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Speaker 1: they're in the conversation for being really talented. They didn't

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Speaker 1: put it together last year for a number of different reasons.

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Speaker 1: I think. I think the consisus is around the country

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Speaker 1: that you know, Freddie Kitchens, their head coach last year,

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Speaker 1: was a little bit over his head and it was

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Speaker 1: a little too much for him at that point of

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Speaker 1: his career, and he got promoted a little bit too

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Speaker 1: quickly and he couldn't maintain the dable of attention he

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Speaker 1: had to the offense in his year as head coach,

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Speaker 1: as he did in the preceding year when he got

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Speaker 1: the most out of Baker Mayfield after the departure Hugh

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Speaker 1: Jackson and Greg Williams, and uh So, I having the

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Speaker 1: best to me is a subjective kind of thing. So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, I'm gonna say it's false. Certainly

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Speaker 1: they're great, no question about it. They didn't put it

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Speaker 1: together last year, but they've got some guys and they've

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Speaker 1: got some additions that look to be improvements. And in

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Speaker 1: a year just before the year when it looked like

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Speaker 1: they were gonna be really good, there's no reason to

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Speaker 1: think that talent isn't going to be there again. But

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Speaker 1: they you know, they still have to put it together.

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Speaker 1: So I'm but like you said, New Orleans, the Bucks,

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Speaker 1: all these teams that you can point to, Dallas and

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Speaker 1: of course Kansas City. Kansas City's got to be in

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Speaker 1: the in the in the equation there, So to say

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Speaker 1: the best time, maybe not, but certainly they're in a conversation.

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Speaker 1: But there's too many other really good players and really

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Speaker 1: good groups on other teams to say yeah, they're the

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Speaker 1: best and say yeah, I'm true orful. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: false just because of that top five, A maybe top ten, sure,

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Speaker 1: probably best. Yeah, let's play sixteen games and then we'll see. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I see. All right, here we go NFL

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Speaker 1: true false Number three. The Eagles must have Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: play a full season in twenty twenty. To me, Carson's

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Speaker 1: been strung. He got into the super Bowl first year.

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Speaker 1: If Nick Foles closed the deal and they win the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, then he comes back, he gets hurt again

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Speaker 1: in his that was after being hurt his rookie year.

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Speaker 1: Second year, he comes back and does it that. He

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Speaker 1: needs to put together a full season to prove he

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Speaker 1: can do it. He needs to. He needs to rise

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Speaker 1: up above certainly the NFL's of dangerous dangerous game, no question.

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Speaker 1: But I think I think the Eagles do have every

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Speaker 1: right to say, hey, this is job one this year.

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Speaker 1: You gotta be available for sixteen games because that going forward,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna need you, and you know, let the guys

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Speaker 1: around you take the beating. We need you to stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a really a priority for Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: this year to take all the snaps for his team.

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Speaker 1: So I'm saying, yeah, I'm gonna say true, I agree

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Speaker 1: with that. I think true. I think they need a

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Speaker 1: full season out of him, um. And I think if

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Speaker 1: if he can't give the team that, then then maybe

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Speaker 1: you're looking elsewhere, um for a starting quarterback. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I think he needs the entire season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do too. I think it's important for not just

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Speaker 1: for Carson to stay healthy and to strengthen, to lengthen

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Speaker 1: his career and kind of get up on top of

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Speaker 1: the physical aspects of the demands of the position. I

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Speaker 1: think for his career and for his legacy and for

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Speaker 1: the team going forward. If he can't make it through

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Speaker 1: a season, that's got to change and affect their decision

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Speaker 1: making process about that position. Right. Yeah, And that's why

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Speaker 1: that's why he needs to be there, all right, That's

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Speaker 1: that's NFL true false. Brought to you by Yancy's Fancy

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Speaker 1: New York's artist and Cheese. We're gonna take a break.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with What do we Learned? Right after

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Speaker 1: this one of Thills Live presented by Kalid to Health

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. What Have We Learned? Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skywards, the official construction equipment rental company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We had Pro Football focus senior writer

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Speaker 1: Ben lindsay on, and he ranked the Buffalo Bills as

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Speaker 1: the seventh over roster in the National Football League. Here's

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Speaker 1: what he said. I think one of the more impressive

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Speaker 1: things of the Bills roster is that there's just not

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Speaker 1: a ton of weaknesses from top to bottom. There's not

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Speaker 1: anywhere where there's a glaring hole someone that shouldn't be starting.

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Speaker 1: That is I think some of their strengths is I

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Speaker 1: would put the wide receiver corps up there. I think

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Speaker 1: it's one of the better trios in the NFL, adding

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Speaker 1: Instefon Diggs. Typically you think of that number one wide

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Speaker 1: receiver as the Julio Jones type, big guy, physical, but

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Speaker 1: Diggs certainly qualifies as that. It really comes down to

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Speaker 1: creating separation now and Diggs can do that, Brown can

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Speaker 1: do that deep, Cole Beasley in the short and intermediate range.

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the more well rounded groups

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And then they have a lot of

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Speaker 1: pieces to like in the secondary with the safety duo.

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Speaker 1: And obviously to Davis wife. That was Ben lindsay from

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, Mattie Good Show. Today Tomorrow, we've got

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Speaker 1: Tom Current from NBC Sports Boston. Coming on, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: ask him a little bit about more about what the

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Speaker 1: NFL's got in its plans for this preseason. And of

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Speaker 1: course he wrote a nice article in the Boston Globe

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Speaker 1: about about for NBC Sports in Boston, about the marriage

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Speaker 1: between our good friend Bill Belichick and Cam Newton, which

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Speaker 1: seems to be a marriage of convenience more than one

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Speaker 1: where either one of them really likes the other. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we really didn't get into talking about Cam Newton today,

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Speaker 1: but we'll get into that tomorrow because that's news that

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Speaker 1: hit us last week. And I've got to say, I

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Speaker 1: wasn't that surprised that he was going in the Patriot. No,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't here. I'll tell you this though, I was.

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Speaker 1: I played a lot of golf last week and the

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Speaker 1: week off, you know, and the guys that I play

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Speaker 1: with and around and have matches against, and you know,

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Speaker 1: just guys sitting around, you know, socially distanced chit chatting

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Speaker 1: about it. That's the one thing I got asked about.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what about Cam Newton going to the Patriots?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, Oh, it was that's awful, Ice Cannon.

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Speaker 1: We figured it would happen, though, right, yep. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just when the Buffalo Bills look look great to take

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Speaker 1: the AFC East, you have Cam Newton coming to the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: who could have a resurgence in his career. I mean, oh,

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Speaker 1: I know, right, gosh, now we gotta look at that guy.

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Speaker 1: And then he come out today. He came out to

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Speaker 1: Day said he's tired of being humble. I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: oh really you're tired of being humble? What a bad

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes you must have just spent. What are you

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Speaker 1: talking about? All right, okay, how don't want to get

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Speaker 1: into that. So Steve Tasker and Maddy Glab here with

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Speaker 1: you today. We started at noon, We'll be back at

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Speaker 1: noon tomorrow. We'll go until three o'clock. Thanks to Jay

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Speaker 1: Harrison Kelly Route for helping us get this on. Lots

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Speaker 1: of going on tomorrow, Like I said, Tom Kerrn from

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Speaker 1: Boston Sports coming on. We'll talk about the marriage between

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton and Bill Belichick as we get back as well.

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Speaker 1: This has been Buffalo Bills Live from not from the

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Speaker 1: Consenteca Studios from our homes will be back in the

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