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Speaker 1: eighth season before the years over. And history has shown

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Speaker 1: that the vast majority of running backs experience a severe

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Speaker 1: drop off in production. And not only that, Steve, do

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Speaker 1: we really have outside of Derrick Henry and maybe Dalvin

429
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Speaker 1: Cook true bell cow backs in this league anymore? All

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Speaker 1: the throwing that's done, they'll make a case for too.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll make a case for like them. You

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Speaker 1: know McCaffrey in Carolina. Yeah, he's played ten games over

433
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Speaker 1: the last two years. He's making sixteen sixteen million a year.

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Speaker 1: The guy I like the best out all of them

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Speaker 1: is Kamara from New Orleans. And you know, if you're

436
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Speaker 1: gonna have who Breeze throwing to you, okay, maybe you

437
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: do look pretty good, But I think running backs, I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, what are we talking about. Yeah, Derrick Henry's

439
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 1: a six four, two hundred fifty pound guy who can

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Speaker 1: run a sub four four when he busts loose, and

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Speaker 1: he's a physical run I mean he's all of that.

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Speaker 1: He's a different cat. I get that. That's it. That's

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Speaker 1: where the that's where the list stops. You can't say

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Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley. No, he's a good back, fast, physical, but

445
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Speaker 1: he's not as even he's even though he's a little

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Speaker 1: more versatile than Derrick Henry, he's not the back Derrick

447
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Speaker 1: Henry is for whatever reason, and he's now he's coming

448
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Speaker 1: off an injury. You just can't that that position takes

449
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: such a beating. Guys don't last, and when they get paid,

450
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Speaker 1: it's too easy to say, Man, I'm glad I got

451
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Speaker 1: paid because I can't do this anymore. And you can

452
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Speaker 1: tell that emotionally, they just check out. And you can't

453
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Speaker 1: play professor football if you're emotionally checked out. We've all

454
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: seen it a thousand times with these guys. You know,

455
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 1: if the guy check gets paid and checks out, people

456
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: start saying, well, you got paid. I mean it's a

457
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: it's a mantra, so you're nuts. I mean, this running

458
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Speaker 1: back thing we got, like all these guys from Arizona

459
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Speaker 1: are getting paid. Even that even seven million a year

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Speaker 1: for a number one guy is I think pushing it,

461
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Speaker 1: really pushing it. It's a two year deal for Mitchell

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Speaker 1: Trubisky in Pittsburgh. No money has been revealed as of

463
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Speaker 1: yet by some of the national reporters. The Bears, who

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Speaker 1: traded Khalil Mack to the Chargers late last week, have

465
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Speaker 1: now turned around and signed a free agent defensive tackle

466
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Speaker 1: or agreed to terms of a free agent defensive tackle.

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals DT Larry Ogunjobi is going to be signing

468
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Speaker 1: with the Bears come Wednesday. Three years, forty and a

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Speaker 1: half million, so about thirteen and a half a year

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Speaker 1: for Ogan Joby. The Bears cut Eddie Coleman, Eddie Goldman,

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Speaker 1: one of their defensive tackles on the roster, and presumably,

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Speaker 1: let's think about this over the weekend. You know, moving

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Speaker 1: on from Mac, you got a new GM, a new

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Speaker 1: head coach, Matt Eberflu's defensive minded guy. You move Mac

475
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Speaker 1: in a trade, and I have to believe they're saying

476
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Speaker 1: draft is deep in pass rushers, that's where we're going

477
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Speaker 1: in round one. I mean, Chicago's got to look for

478
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Speaker 1: a pass rusher around one after moving on for Mac.

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00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: I know they got a Keem Hicks and some other guys,

480
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: but Ogan job in the middle penetrating type defensive tackle

481
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: got hurt in the playoffs is past year, but played

482
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Speaker 1: very well for the Bengals defensive front. But thirteen and

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Speaker 1: a half million for Larry Ogan joby to go from

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati to Chicago. Let's go to the phones though at

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Speaker 1: eighth three five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty

486
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Speaker 1: two five fifty and waiting for us, there is licking

487
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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. What do you got for us? Are you there?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so, right, Well, we'll check back later.

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Speaker 1: Uh so, Yeah, the news is just going to keep

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Speaker 1: on coming, so we'll try to keep you apprized of

491
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Speaker 1: all the news around the league and if anything else

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Speaker 1: comes down the pike concerning the Bills today, although you know,

493
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Speaker 1: with limited cap space, like we said all last week,

494
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Speaker 1: we're not expecting the Bills to be active players in

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00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: the early stages of the market for the premium players.

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00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,479
Speaker 1: Uh you know, they might do you know, a small

497
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Speaker 1: deal here or there over the next couple of days,

498
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Speaker 1: but we were not envisioning any blockbuster moves here just

499
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: because their cap space doesn't afford them the ability to

500
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Speaker 1: do this being reported now, we have we touched I

501
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: did you say anything about the Seahawks. They they got

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Speaker 1: they signed con Quandre Digs. Now the Seahawks have thirty

503
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: million dollars a year tie up in just their safeties.

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00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: Nobody else was above twenty five million last season. Somebody

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Speaker 1: helped me? Can somebody help me make sense of this?

506
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: You got these teams thrown around money for running backs

507
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: like not even all. I know James Connor went to

508
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,479
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl last year. Nice running back. You know,

509
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds six million a year like Miami six million

510
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: a years. Not a ton terrible, But if he could,

511
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Speaker 1: in particular, if he takes snap a lot of snaps,

512
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Speaker 1: I get it, you can get a lot of value

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Speaker 1: out of that. I know Mike McDaniel is looking for

514
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Speaker 1: a specific back because he's gonna run the Shanahan off.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I get that, but I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, and I'll say this and people are

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Speaker 1: saying it too. I mean, all the people that are

518
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Speaker 1: signing right now, like even Trubisky, even people now are saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't preclude the Steelers from grabbing a

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Speaker 1: quarterback in this draft or signing another guy. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: Trubisky has had conversations with those guys about what their

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Speaker 1: plans are for the future. He just signed a two

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Speaker 1: year deal. It's not a five year deal, a two

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Speaker 1: year deal. So the Steelers might want Trubisky to be,

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Speaker 1: you know, the placeholder and then if he's good, then

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Speaker 1: you know, they they'll do something with the guy they draft.

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Speaker 1: But if they're going to do that, they're gonna and

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Speaker 1: Trubisky hits a home run, they must be willing to

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Speaker 1: waste whatever draft pick they pick a quarterback with because

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Speaker 1: it will be a waste. Yeah, So I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be busy, So be busy with us as

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Speaker 1: we continue to update you on the latest goings on

533
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Speaker 1: in the free agent market as the legal tampering window

534
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: opened at noon, and you better believe the phone lines

535
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: are burning up across the NFL as teams try to

536
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: make strategic moves to improve their rosters and do their

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Speaker 1: best trying not to overpay at the same time, although

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Speaker 1: in the early stages, best to luck to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you think about this, I mean, before we go

540
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Speaker 1: to break. The Buccaneers resigned their center Ryan Jensen for

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Speaker 1: three years thirty nine million. That was like a three

542
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Speaker 1: breath three exhales after Tom Brady said he's coming back

543
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: right and then so the Bills redo Mitch Morse's contract

544
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: for significantly less than that, significantly less than that, um

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Speaker 1: ogbuff to Miami for sixty five, James Conner twenty one million,

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Speaker 1: all these guys, I mean, I get it. It's why

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00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: is it, Brownie? It feels like the Bills do things

548
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: so much differently than some of these tea Yeah, in

549
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: a really good way. I can be responsible. I was

550
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Speaker 1: surprised at the deal they got Isaiah McKenzie to to sign,

551
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: because I thought that was beyond five. I thought, he

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Speaker 1: you know, for me, we all love Isaiah, so we

553
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: have an inflated probably opinion of him other than as

554
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: opposed to around the league. I thought he'd get that

555
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: in one year, not two, right out on the free

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Speaker 1: agent market. So we'll talk about that, We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: anything else that comes down the pike here in the

558
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Speaker 1: free agent market. As negotiating is going on, phone lines

559
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: are burning, agents are busy, gms are busy. We'll bring

560
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: it all to you here throughout the day as we're

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Speaker 1: with you till three on one. Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, while Mitchell Trubisky, now

563
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Speaker 1: headed to the Pittsburgh Steelers, released a statement on his

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Speaker 1: social media accounts saying, I am beyond excited and blessed

565
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Speaker 1: for the opportunity to be a part of the Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Steelers organization. I have tremendous respect for the Rooney family

567
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Speaker 1: and coach Tomlin. They have built one of the best

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Speaker 1: rosters in football and I can't wait to contribute and

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Speaker 1: help this team continue their success. That is Mitchell Trubisky,

570
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Speaker 1: former Bills backup quarterback, headed down the ninety to the

571
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Some other news, the Indianapolis Colts have announced

572
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Speaker 1: some coaching staff change. Is more of the assistant variety

573
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Speaker 1: beneath the coordinators, and probably the most interesting one is

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Speaker 1: Reggie Wayne is going to be the Colts receivers coach.

575
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: So hell of a former player now moving into coaching.

576
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Speaker 1: So they had they had to get or they're going

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Speaker 1: to get a new defensive coordinator because Matt Eberflus took

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Speaker 1: over the Chicago Barris job and I can't remember if

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Speaker 1: they I don't know who they got to fill that

580
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: was an in house I think, I honestly Karon I

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Speaker 1: can't remember the defensive coordinator's name now either, but they

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Speaker 1: had to do that. They will have some new guys

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Speaker 1: on that side of the football. Interesting though, because oh

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Speaker 1: that's right, um, Interesting because Gus Bradley, Well, no, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's probably some cross pollination there. Frank was in San

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Speaker 1: Diego with Tim wizzen Hunt, Tim ken Ken wizzen Hunt,

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Speaker 1: as wizzen Hunt was the offensive coordinator, Frank was the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach, and I don't know that Gus Bradley was there.

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00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: They crossed over, but there's certainly some near misses there

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00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: on coaching staff moves. But Gus Bradley's got a really

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Speaker 1: good reputation as a defensive coordinator and a tremendous guy

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Speaker 1: as well, So I'm glad to see that happen. I'm

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Speaker 1: really interested in finding out that if Sands and what's

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Speaker 1: of what the Colts are going to do at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: But it's interesting that Reggie Wayne's gonna be their receivers coach.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I got on this is because Frank's

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Speaker 1: a better guy than I am, because when he came out,

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00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: he did not coach for about a decade and then

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00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: came back and got into coaching. He was forced to

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Speaker 1: start like at the bottom as a former player. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was a quality control coach and he was an

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Speaker 1: intern for the first part. Then the next year he

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Speaker 1: comes back, Okay, he can be quality control doing stuff,

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Speaker 1: watching stuff. Then he kind of he's a quality control again.

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Speaker 1: Then he finally got to be the assistant quarterbacks coach

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Speaker 1: or something like that, and he's what he moved up

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Speaker 1: through the ranks Reggie Wayne. I don't know what Reggie's

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Speaker 1: been doing lately. I don't know whether he's been coaching

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00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: somewhere or whatever. But for Frank to come in and

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Speaker 1: not make him do the same thing and work his

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Speaker 1: way up through the ranks to be a full assistant, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's he must have a lot of faith in him.

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00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: Or he got he got tapped on by the by

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Speaker 1: the owner and said, hey, you need to give it

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00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: to this guy. I don't know, maybe that happened, but

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Speaker 1: I would say Frank probably wouldn't do that. He'd make

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Speaker 1: the guy come down to the bottom. But he's not.

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Speaker 1: I've been gone that long. Who's that Reggie Wayne? No

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Speaker 1: long enough? Though apparently one of the higher quality free

620
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Speaker 1: agent guards on the market is going to sign with

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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Washington Pro Bowl guard Brandon Schurf intends

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Speaker 1: to sign with the Jaguars. That according to ESPNS Adam Schefter,

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Speaker 1: So Jacksonville investing in their offensive line. They already franchised

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Speaker 1: for the second straight year. They're starting left tackle Cam Robinson,

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Speaker 1: and now Brandon Schurff looks like he has headed down

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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville as well. So one person who is certainly

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Speaker 1: happy is Trevor Lawrence. As you know, he was probably

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Speaker 1: one of the top guards on the open market. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people had him right at the top of

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Speaker 1: the list, so it looks like he is going to

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Speaker 1: come off the list for that. Found it interesting, Steve

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Speaker 1: I saw that Cincinnati already got started on improving their

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Speaker 1: offensive line. They signed where they're going to sign guard

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Speaker 1: Alex Cappo away from the Tampa Bay Bucks to come

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Speaker 1: up to them and start on the interior there. And

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Speaker 1: then this Jarvis Landry news. You know, they much like

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Speaker 1: the Bills allowed Cole Beasley to seek out a trade,

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Speaker 1: the Browns did the same thing with Jarvis injury last week.

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Speaker 1: But now they have up and released him, so he's

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Speaker 1: out there and available. That Jarvis Landry and Cole Beasley.

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Speaker 1: One's twenty nine years old, one is thirty three years old. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's about the only difference to me. In fact, I

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00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: think Cole's probably got catches the ball better. A long

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Speaker 1: time ago. Jarvis Landry was a hundred cash guy. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's about four years in the rear view mirror. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: he has been catching it in Cleveland, So it's it's

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Speaker 1: a different world other than Miami. Yeah, So do you

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Speaker 1: think that, I mean, we're pretty late in the game.

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Speaker 1: One of the negotiating windows open. I think once a

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Speaker 1: team gives a player permission to seek a trade, isn't

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Speaker 1: that usually a signal to the rest of the league

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Speaker 1: that we're okay if he's not here. Yeah, And so

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Speaker 1: if a trade isn't consummated, that team's probably moving on

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00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: from the player anyway, right, And so most teams don't

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Speaker 1: bite on that unless they think so highly of the

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Speaker 1: player that they don't want to compete with thirty other

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Speaker 1: teams for that player's services or inherit the contract they

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Speaker 1: currently have. There's another one happening. And remember Ted Carriss,

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Speaker 1: who was with the Dolphins for that one year, came

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Speaker 1: back to the into the new England Patriots. He's getting

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Speaker 1: signed also by the Bengals to a three year, eighteen

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Speaker 1: million dollar Bengals busy with the old line, which they

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Speaker 1: knew they needed to improve after giving him more sacks

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Speaker 1: than any other team in football this past year as

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow had the tar knocked out of them, looking

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Speaker 1: to protect their number one asset. So after adding Alex Kappa,

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Speaker 1: a starting guard for Tampa Bay, they are now signing

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Speaker 1: another one in Ted Carriss, who can play guard or center,

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Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting to see where they have him

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Speaker 1: line up three years, eighteen million dollars. According to NFL

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Speaker 1: Networks Ian Rappaport, safeties are signing big money deals today.

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Speaker 1: First we had Quandre Diggs. Now we've got the Lions

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Speaker 1: resigning their safety Tracy Walker three years, twenty five million,

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Speaker 1: seventeen guaranteed. So the contracts just keep on coming here.

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, with Landry unsuccessful as a twenty nine

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Speaker 1: year old receiver to find a trade partner, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe it's going to be any easier for Cole Beasley, right,

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be harder, I would think, so I wonder

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Speaker 1: if and when the Bills decided to make a different

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Speaker 1: decision there. I'm not saying they will. I'm just because

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Speaker 1: you know, Brandon Bean did leave the door open for

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Speaker 1: Beasley to return. I mean, all these these signings are

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Speaker 1: happening really tight tight end. Jeff Swain, who's Titans. He's

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Speaker 1: resigning with the Titans, no terms available, and there's people

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Speaker 1: reporting now there could be as many as ten teams

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Speaker 1: in the interested in trading for Deshaun Watson. They're all

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Speaker 1: interested in getting an elite quarterback at his age. But

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Speaker 1: the Texans requirements are three one three one's that's as

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Speaker 1: a starting point. I would think, yeah, and that's that

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Speaker 1: hasn't changed since last year. And we just saw now

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Speaker 1: with his legal situation a lot clearer, there's no reason

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Speaker 1: for them to move off it. All right, I'll say,

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you this as well. We're already getting

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Speaker 1: stuff like because the Texans are looking at their guy,

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Speaker 1: Davis Mills at quarterback, and his starting resume is statistically

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Speaker 1: identical in every respect to to a tongue of Ioloa's

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and quarterback in terms of quarterback stats, absolutely identical.

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Speaker 1: Number of starts, number of wins, completion percentage, percentage, yards

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Speaker 1: per attempt, touchdowns, interceptions, every statistic is identical between Davis Mills,

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans ricky quarterback of a year ago, and

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Speaker 1: to a tongue of Ioloa, what the upside is for

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Speaker 1: both those guys who are wait and see. But you

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Speaker 1: know that's something that you know Houston's got to steal. Okay,

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Speaker 1: our guy's got enough side opening. Yeah, it's eye opening.

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Speaker 1: It is eye opening. You could argue that too, is

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Speaker 1: targets are better than what Davis Mills has in Houston,

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Speaker 1: which is basically Brandon Cooks and a bunch of guys. Right.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's got Jalen Waddle, a first round pick

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Speaker 1: who he played with in college. And he's got Mike

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Speaker 1: Kisiki who just got franchised by the team. Granted, you

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Speaker 1: know you didn't have Will Fuller at all last year,

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Speaker 1: but you know you still have Davante Parker. And I

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Speaker 1: know Preston Williams was hurt, but that's a tall target

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Speaker 1: as well. I mean, you could argue the two had better,

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Speaker 1: better weapons than Davis Mills, who was a rookie last year. Also,

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Speaker 1: and the stats are identical. It's pretty eye opening for sure,

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Speaker 1: so I'll have to see where that goes. And then

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Speaker 1: the only other thing going on is the Lions are

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Speaker 1: doing a doing their darndest to resign their own. They

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Speaker 1: signed their backup quarterback to a new deal, Tim Boyle.

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Speaker 1: Now they're signing their safety Tracy Walker, so they're trying

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Speaker 1: to keep what they had intact to a certain extent.

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Speaker 1: So they obviously feel like towards the end to the

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Speaker 1: year they were moving in the right direction. I will

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Speaker 1: I will give them credit. I mean, I thought they

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Speaker 1: played hard for Dan Campbell last year and his first

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Speaker 1: year as head coach. They got a long uphill climb, though,

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Speaker 1: and just resigning their own isn't going to be enough

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Speaker 1: to get the job done. Well, they're gonna gain any ground? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: How are you gonna get better if you're signing the

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Speaker 1: same guys unless they're young and they're upcoming. I get it, okay,

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Speaker 1: but they got to get better. And it starts for

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Speaker 1: me for the line, starts at quarterback, starts at all

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Speaker 1: of that, and you know, they've they've got a long

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Speaker 1: way to go, and they've got some and if they

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Speaker 1: want to get better fast, they got to make bolder

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Speaker 1: moves than resigning guys that that we're up on a

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Speaker 1: team that you know, you know certainly overperformed, but the

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Speaker 1: expectations were as low as any in the NFL. We

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Speaker 1: have to take a break here. More free agency news

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Speaker 1: and notes when we return, and maybe some phone calls

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Speaker 1: at eight O three five fifty. That's coming your way

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Speaker 1: next year. On One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: it's Buffalo Bills. Y. Yeah, all right, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. We're gonna jump right to the phones

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Speaker 1: and we'll lead off this segment with Steve and Amherst. Steve, well,

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Speaker 1: yeah for us, you're on One Bills Live. Hey, guys,

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00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me on it. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. So my call today Mostly I'm just excited

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Speaker 1: about free agency, of course, and I'm sure like most

751
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: Bills fans, their phones are hot and their batteries are

752
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: almost dead as they've been refreshing Twitter every five seconds

753
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: like I have. I will say this has been a

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00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: lot more exciting the past four or five years in

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00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: free agency because the Bills are Super Bowl contenders every year,

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00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 1: it seems now with Josh Allen playing the ways playing,

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00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: it makes the off season so much more fun. But

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00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: in regards to what you were talking about a couple

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00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 1: of segments ago with the running backs, I feel like

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00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: it's almost like clothing, right, Like they they're paying for

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00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: a name, they're paying for a brand name when they

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00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: can get something very similar, um, you know, for a

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00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: lot less in price. And I don't see a problem

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Speaker 1: still using Singletary next year. If they can get an

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Speaker 1: upgrade for a reasonable price, I'd say do it. But

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Speaker 1: I just I'm not super excited about you know, McCaffrey

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00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: or anyone who's going to cost us an arm and

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00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: a leg to put in a position that you can,

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Speaker 1: you know, put any running back behind a good line

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Speaker 1: and they'll have a decent productive season, especially in a

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Speaker 1: passing league. So um, that's pretty much all I got.

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Speaker 1: I'm just really excited for offseason for you know, free agency,

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00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: not like I used to be. And it's a it's

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00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to be a Bills fan and

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00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: I love the show and I'm you know, it keeps

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Speaker 1: me engaged all year long. So thanks for doing what

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Speaker 1: you get every Yeah, I'm glad you're enjoying. I'll say,

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Speaker 1: I like it. I like your analogy of It's like clothing.

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00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: You know, you can get a name brand or you

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00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: can get a discount version of the same thing, and

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00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: and look okay. And the thing is when you when

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Speaker 1: you got a quarterback and a culture like the Bills do,

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00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: it's like you got the hot body and whatever you

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00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: put on is gonna look great. You can put on

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00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: the discount You got a body like a runway. Right,

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00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:16,919
Speaker 1: when you put on that discount clothing, it still looks awesome. Right,

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00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: you don't need the name, right. So that's where we're at.

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Speaker 1: We got this culture. Yeah, we got this quarterback, we

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00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: got this roster, we got this culture. We got these

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00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: guys coming back, and you know, whatever they put on

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00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: in free agency is gonna fit really well because they're

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00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: rocking that hard body. And that's that's the way Bills

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00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,280
Speaker 1: are right now. And you know, certainly they could lose

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00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: some some parts of their wardrobe in this free agency,

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00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: but whatever they get in return is going to be

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00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: maximized because they they've got that core working running back.

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Speaker 1: It's a great analogy. Running Back is a position that

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Speaker 1: more often than not, gms do not want to invest

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Speaker 1: in with giant and second contracts. Many of those do

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00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: not provide a return on investment equal to the money spent.

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00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: And we're still at a point in this league where

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00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: gms keep making that mistake. There are exceptions. You know,

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00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: guy like Adrian Peterson, you know, was still wildly successful

804
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Speaker 1: as a running back till about age thirty one thirty two,

805
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: but that was after a major knee injury. But that

806
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: guy's a physical freak. Those guys are few and far between,

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00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: and the pounding of this game, even though it is

808
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 1: a safer game now, is still such where you're going

809
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,720
Speaker 1: to see a drop off in production in running backs,

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00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: especially after their age twenty eight season. So to go

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Speaker 1: sniffing anywhere near that with giant free agent money, I

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00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: just don't think it's the best way to go. You

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00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: can always draft a running back in the middle rounds

814
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: and hit on something good. I think people were mostly

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Speaker 1: happy with what Devin Singletary did for this team down

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00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 1: the stretch last season. The guy was a third round

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00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 1: draft choice. Would be forgotten, and think about this, It

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00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: took him a while to get there. No question. They

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Speaker 1: had Zach Moss there, they had Matt Breda there, they

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Speaker 1: had and they had Devin Singletary and those guys rotated

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Speaker 1: through a different part, particularly in the early part of

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Speaker 1: the season. They gave breed To a chance to come out,

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Speaker 1: Moss got some carries, and Devin Singletary didn't run as

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00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: well as he did later in the season. Now have that.

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00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: Having said that, part of the reason, and I'll say

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Speaker 1: it again, the offensive line the Buffalo Bills never got

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Speaker 1: settled until the last month and a half of the season.

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Speaker 1: It was the second half of the second game in

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Speaker 1: New England week sixteen before the offensive line got five

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00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: guys in there that lined up again, and then lined

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Speaker 1: up again the next week, and lined up again the

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00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: next week and sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen. They finally got

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00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: something going and that's when Devin Singletary took off. So

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Speaker 1: for me, it once again speaks to the value of

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Speaker 1: an offensive line rebuild. I would rather spend the money

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Speaker 1: in the assets on the offensive line up front to

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Speaker 1: help those guys behind it. Because Devin Singletary looked really,

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Speaker 1: really good at the end of last season when the

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00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 1: offensive line was playing better and getting it together. So

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00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: for me, that's the important part. It's the guy's up front.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a bunch of really good athletes. You

842
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: can hand the football too, and they'll run to daylight. Okay, great,

843
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: if there's no daylight, then what you're gonna do. So

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Speaker 1: to me, that's the difference. Last year, Devin Singletary was

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Speaker 1: the same guy he was in the beginning of the year.

846
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: What happened around him was very different and that's made

847
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: him look different. So that's I think that's where Brownie

848
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: and I are on this running back thing. And I'm

849
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,919
Speaker 1: not discounting Devin Singletary or his talent. I'm just saying

850
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: there's as it's harder to put five day guys together

851
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: up front than it is to find one running back,

852
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: and that's why teams struggle with it. They can't find

853
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: those five guys. We Eric Wood will come in here

854
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:53,479
Speaker 1: all the time say, listen, there's just not enough depth

855
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Every one of these teams got flaws

856
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: up front. You don't have enough guys, big heavy guys

857
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,479
Speaker 1: who can play offensive line to go around to thirty

858
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 1: two teams. You don't have one hundred and sixty guys

859
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: that are that big, that athletic and can play. So

860
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: some of these teams have flaws. So if you do

861
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: have those guys, you can get away with a fourth

862
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: round draft pick, fifth round draft pick, and have the

863
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: guy looked like a world beater. Let's go back to

864
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: the phones and we'll try a second time with licking

865
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. What do you got for us? Are you

866
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: there good? What do you got for us? So I

867
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: wanted to go back to us at the beginning when

868
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: I started listening around one about Tom Brady and how

869
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: he's coming back, and I think I lost respect for

870
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: him coming back only because I mean one of the

871
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: things he said was unfinished business, and it just blew

872
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: my mind. You know, he's he's just seven times Super

873
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: Bowl winner, best quarterback and you know, ever to do it,

874
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: and I almost lost respect for him for doing it

875
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: because it's almost it's almost annoying at this point, you

876
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like and he he has nothing

877
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: to prove to anybody in It boils my blood to

878
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: hear he's running back and unfinished business, Wi spinkes. There's

879
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 1: no sense to me at all. Yeah, I can only

880
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: guess that he's referencing the fact that he walked off

881
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 1: the field last year as a loser in the playoffs

882
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,479
Speaker 1: and his last game was a loss that probably didn't

883
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: sit well with him, and who knows, it may have

884
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: spurred him to come back. I don't know did he ever,

885
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember now if he ever even used

886
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: the word retire when he retired, he just talked about

887
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: stepping away from the field, spend time family. I'll say this,

888
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: he's Tom Brady is like a lot of pro athletes.

889
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: I played with a couple of them that were like this.

890
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: He Thurman was like this, where they would construe everything

891
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: as motivation. They would you know, the joke always goes,

892
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: we were at Super Bowl twenty six, I believe twenty six,

893
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: and or maybe no, it was Super Bowl twenty five,

894
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: and we were waiting to go into the big room

895
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: where there's a We're in a conference room. Our team

896
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:02,919
Speaker 1: was in there at a little a bunch of tables

897
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: and stuff. She's sitting around waiting and then when the

898
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: time came, we would move into another bigger room with

899
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: circular tables for everybody to sit down and do interviews

900
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: with all the immedia media day article comes out in

901
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Tribune or whatever. Thurman Thomas is the

902
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: best all around running back in the National Football League.

903
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: Thurman was hot, So why do I gotta be the

904
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: best all around running back? Why can't I be the

905
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: best running back? He he stormed out, got fined for

906
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: not doing media day and the week of the Super

907
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: Bowl because he was hot about being called the best

908
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 1: all around running back. See, guys, John's a lot like

909
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: Jordan Ever watching him in the Last Dance If you

910
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: ever watched the Last Dance here, yeah, yeah, yeah, where

911
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: it was like the smallest one I took that personally

912
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: took that person took that personally, right. Holy man, these

913
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: guys jump through hoops. So when Tom Brady says I

914
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: got unfinished business, you know he want to go out

915
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:06,240
Speaker 1: like you would be shocked. And now it's comical, not shocking,

916
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: It's comical what these guys do in their mind to

917
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: bend whatever happens into motivation as an insult to their

918
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 1: manhood or an insult to their career, or an insult

919
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: to them as a professional. They'll turn even a compliment

920
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: into some sort of disrespect. Brady's no different because I

921
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: got unfinish business. I don't want I don't want to

922
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: go out like that. If if you think he would quit,

923
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: if the Tampa Bay would have won the Super Bowl.

924
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: They got two in a row. You don't think he

925
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:36,959
Speaker 1: would have said, you know what, we got unfinished business.

926
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: Let's keep going. We're gonna run this run. And I

927
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 1: don't want to quit now while we're winning all these games.

928
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: Now he comes back because he says, ah, we lost

929
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: that last game. Let's go back and let's let's fix it.

930
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: There's no end to it. Yeah, and I can. And

931
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:54,760
Speaker 1: I've said this behind the scenes a lot. It rarely

932
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: ends well for the great ones in art in the

933
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: game they played too long they played. It's such a

934
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: challenge to get ready to play football emotionally, spiritually, professionally

935
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: and nuts and bolts, the training, the sacrifice, the pain,

936
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: everything it's it's costs you everything to get on the

937
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,479
Speaker 1: national football on the field in the National Football League.

938
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: You've got to do it. And you overcome challenge after

939
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: challenge you and you beat down obstacle after obstacle. So

940
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: at the end of it, a guy like Tom Brady

941
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: has beaten down so many obstacles and overcomes so many challenges.

942
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: It just his second nature to him. And this is

943
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: just one more. And so when somebody sits there and

944
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: tells you brods it's time to hang in out. When

945
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 1: your wife tells you, your brother, your doctor tells you,

946
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: you know what is You're just you just become one

947
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: more challenge. They're gonna overcome. You just become one more obstacle.

948
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you think so, watch me. And then that's

949
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,840
Speaker 1: why you get a guy like like a Willie Mays

950
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: falling down in the outfield. That's why you get on

951
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,399
Speaker 1: my dad's worst memories. Willie Mays was his favorite player

952
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: growing up. He still has nightmares about watching him trip

953
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: over himself in the outfield field Mets in the early

954
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 1: seventies because he played way too long, is it? Yeah?

955
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 1: These guys hang on like Ben Roethlisberger. He made it,

956
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: but he couldn't throw the little rickety rickety um Steve Young.

957
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: He wanted to come back and play, and they said

958
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: you you, if you sneeze hard, you're gonna get a concussion.

959
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: You have to walk away. And guys don't listen to it.

960
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: They say, listen, I'm I'll show you Tom. You know

961
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: it rarely ends with Joe Montana. They carried him off

962
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:33,240
Speaker 1: the field uncon like virtually unconscious. In Buffalo in Rich Stadium,

963
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly last game he did, they carried him off.

964
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 1: It rarely ends well for guys of Tom Brady's caliber

965
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: because they just don't know how to say no, I've

966
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: had enough. We have to take a break here. When

967
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: we come back. The Jets have jumped into the free

968
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 1: agent pool. We'll let you know what they've done to

969
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 1: improve their offensive line in front of Zach Wilson. That's

970
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: coming up next, along with some phone calls you one

971
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio, sixty million dollars for Charlie bag of donuts.

972
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: Well close at a Steve Tasker who has been all

973
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: over the field, kind of unique. He was kind of

974
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,760
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you. Steve a lily, Steve

975
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strated bere of normalcy,

976
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: all right. Free agent fever is well under way, wheeling

977
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: and dealing across the NFL landscape. The Jets have jumped

978
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: into the free agent pool, and they've chosen to fortify

979
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: their offensive line. They're signing veteran free agent Guard Lake

980
00:55:52,760 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: and Tomlinson. Three years, forty million dollars for a guard.

981
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,399
Speaker 1: I understand why Tomlinson was attractive to them. You've got

982
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: Micha Lafleur, the offensive coordinator in New York, and he

983
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: comes off to Kyle Shanahan coaching tree there, presumably running

984
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: many of the same blocking schemes. So you have a

985
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: veteran coming in the door that knows what's going to

986
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: be asked of him. He'll presumably compete to start opposite

987
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: Elijah Vera Tucker there for one of their first round

988
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: picks from last year, who starts at the right guard position.

989
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: So trying to fortify the line in front of Zach Wilson.

990
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense. It's just an awfully steve

991
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: price to pay for a guard. Talking upwards a thirteen

992
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: million a year, a lot of money. The Bills just

993
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: released Darryl Williams. He's making less than that because it

994
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: was paid like a tackle. Yeah, and I get he

995
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: was making eighty year, the Caps going the Caps going up,

996
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: I get it, but it's not going up this year.

997
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: It's two o eight this year, twenty seven million guarands.

998
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 1: He's supposed to go to twenty maybe two thirty next year.

999
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: He's got more guaranteed money than Daryl Williams got as

1000
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: a tackle last year for total contract value. That's and

1001
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: I listen. I understand too. I agree, agree with. I

1002
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: agree with the philosophy of offensive line. Defensive line our

1003
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: first and foremost as your priority. And you know quarterback

1004
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: is your number one priority. You get that guy. It's

1005
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: offensive line than defensive line. That's where it all begins.

1006
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: Up front, the closer you are to the ball right

1007
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: before it's snapped. Those guys have to be really really big,

1008
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: stout and athletic. That's where it starts. You gotta have

1009
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: guys who are genetically different on a number of different levels,

1010
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: and that's where it starts. So I get the philosophy,

1011
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: But the economics of the league say, that's a lot

1012
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: of money to pay for a guard. I don't care

1013
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: if the cap is two e eight. Yeah, And I

1014
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: mean it's not like Legan Thomlinson's a nice player. Is

1015
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 1: he a world beater? I don't know. It seems like

1016
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: world beater money to me. I'll say, what though, when

1017
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: a guy and I see this too, when when a

1018
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: coach goes to another team and you know this guy

1019
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: come and a guy on his old team comes available.

1020
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: They ask him and he says, yeah, I like him.

1021
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: What about this guy compared what about Lake and Tomlinson

1022
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: compared to Ted Carress. Right, Ted Carriss just signed three

1023
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 1: years for eighteen million. Is that is he twice the

1024
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: player more than twice the player Ted Carresses. I don't think.

1025
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't think so. Right,

1026
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about. You got a guy that

1027
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: goes to three years, eighteen million, and he was with

1028
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: the Patriots last year. And then you get a guy

1029
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 1: who's on a playoff team, no question about the forty

1030
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: nine ers, who's who ran the scheme, and he gets

1031
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: that you're paying thirteen and a half be here. Yeah,

1032
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: like you started playing twelve million dollars over three years

1033
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: more to this guy. As we often say, that's the Jets.

1034
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: It seems like a jetsy thing to do. In another

1035
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 1: AFC East development that I'm kind of chuckling about, Matthew Judon,

1036
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: who signed in free agency last year at this time

1037
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: big deal with the New England Patriots, who were throwing

1038
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: money around like it was going out of style last offseason,

1039
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: is now trying to his darndest to recruit NFL free

1040
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: agents to the Patriots. He added Alan Robinson, the wide

1041
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: receiver from Chicago. Alan Robinson, what are you doing? And

1042
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: then proceeded to tweet at Bobby Wagner, who was released

1043
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:35,919
Speaker 1: by the Seahawks last week, call me, he says, who

1044
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: knows how successful Judon is as a recruiter? Apparently not

1045
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 1: all that successful with his former teammate Ted Carris, who,

1046
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: instead of playing with Mac Jones and that offense, went

1047
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati to play with Joe Burrow. Kind Of hard

1048
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: to blame him, right, you know what I mean? And

1049
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: it's it's always fun to watch it, and sometimes it

1050
00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: gets to where you see kind of a general consensus,

1051
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: but there's always we forget, there's always the personal side

1052
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: to this. They got like Ted Carress, I mean, I'm block.

1053
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: I've been in New England. I got a chance to

1054
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: see what it was like playing for a year in Miami. Gosh,

1055
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 1: it was good for this reason and that reason. But

1056
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: you know, in New England it was this and this.

1057
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna go to it. I'm gonna I'm

1058
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: taking the money, I'm going I'm leaving again. I gotta go.

1059
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: Um and my family and my wife. I don't even

1060
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: know if Ted Carress is married or whatever, but all

1061
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: of that, I played with his uncle Ted Carress at

1062
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: Northwestern so many years ago, a couple of decades ago. Um,

1063
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: it's like you forget these guys are human beings. And

1064
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: they say they just tell their agent. I don't care

1065
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: what that team offers. I don't want to play over there. Yeah,

1066
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: as seriously cross him off the list. And that's it's

1067
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: not the absolute hundred percent business like way to do it.

1068
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: But these guys are players and I, and I say

1069
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: it again, their commodities. When they and I've done this,

1070
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: you think about sitting in a locker room, strap it

1071
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: up and going out and putting your heart and soul

1072
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: and everything you have on the line for that team.

1073
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: And you're sitting there in your house in the off

1074
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: season going, I can't do it for those guys. I

1075
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: don't want to do it. And you don't even know

1076
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: that you know that much about them. Yeah, And I

1077
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: don't want to pick up and move everybody down there.

1078
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to do you tell you,

1079
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: tell them they're off, don't put them on the list.

1080
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: You stick with this team, this team, and this team.

1081
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to those others. You just

1082
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: that's how you get because you're a human being. You

1083
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: got other considerations. And that's the thing that it's the

1084
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: it's the beauty, and I don't know how to say,

1085
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: it's the grotesque glory of the NFL when you're sitting

1086
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: in that locker room and you're nauseous because you're gonna

1087
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 1: about to go into a fight and you got to

1088
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: play well, and you got guys dependent on you, and

1089
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: you put the pressure is a ton right on top

1090
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: of your head and it's all play based on there

1091
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 1: by you. That adds a level of consideration. When you

1092
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 1: really want to play for somebody, you've got to want

1093
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: to play for them. Yeah, that's why these guys, you know,

1094
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: get these teams. That's why you know, that's why Megatron

1095
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: quits early, That's why Barry Sanders quits early. That's why

1096
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: these guys say forget it, I am And that's why

1097
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer says, I will never play another down for

1098
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 1: you now I'm done. You get to the point those

1099
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:26,439
Speaker 1: are guys that you know at athletic because forget about

1100
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: guys down inside who getting their head beat in. That

1101
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 1: is just the glorious, ugly nature of this sport that

1102
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,919
Speaker 1: we watch. It's it demands everything, and so these guys

1103
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: will really get to a chance at this point where

1104
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: all these free agents are signed, and they're going, man,

1105
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 1: I'll do it for the money, but I you know

1106
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 1: what I mean, I'll do it here. I ain't gonna

1107
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: do it there. I don't want to. I want any

1108
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: part of that. Everybody's chasing rings and if they think

1109
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: they got a quarterback, they can get them there, probably

1110
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: more likely to sign there. That's why people want to

1111
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: come to Buffalo so bad. If you want all my

1112
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: emotions and my spirit and you want you want me

1113
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: to pour my soul out for this franchise, I want

1114
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: a chance to win. Yeah, And that franchise doesn't seem

1115
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: like they're in it to win it. That franchise doesn't

1116
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: seem like you're in it to win it. That one's

1117
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 1: not in a position to win it. I'll take that one. Yeah.

1118
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: That's that's if they have that many, if they have

1119
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: that choice. Yeah, we're gonna get back to the phones

1120
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: in a second. We want to remind you or let

1121
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: you know that coming up in about ten fifteen minutes,

1122
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie is going to be addressing the Western New

1123
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: York media. We're going to carry that press conference live

1124
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live as soon as it's up

1125
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 1: and running, so be sure to stay tuned for that.

1126
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: But we want to go back to the phones and

1127
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 1: we go to Dan in cheek to waga, Dan, what

1128
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live. Yeah, Hi, guys,

1129
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,720
Speaker 1: I gotta proposed trade football falo let a rip. I'd

1130
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: like to see him give it, hey, yeah, go ahead.

1131
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 1: I'd like to see him and give up. Oh. I'd

1132
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: like to see the Bills give up a second and

1133
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: fourth round pick to Seattle for the Lockett and Noah

1134
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 1: font I don't think you're bringing nearly enough to the table.

1135
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 1: Why don't you throwing a bag of footballs too? I

1136
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: don't think that's happened. I'll throw in McKenzie then. Yeah.

1137
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,640
Speaker 1: I still don't know if that's gonna make it work.

1138
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you're Tyler Lockett's like one of the leading

1139
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 1: receivers in the league, UM and no offense, a former

1140
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 1: first round pick at tight end like and it's still

1141
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:28,919
Speaker 1: on his rookie contract. I just don't see that being

1142
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 1: nearly enough um to get it done. Not to mention

1143
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: the fact that the Bills are not in a position

1144
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 1: to inherit Tyler Lockett's contract. Yeah, Dan, would you if

1145
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: you were the Seahawks, would you make that deal? Well,

1146
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:43,680
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are a tire fighter right now. I mean,

1147
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: they need to totally rebuild, so they need draft picks bad. Well,

1148
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean the time, at the time they're good again,

1149
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett's going to be too old. Well, what if

1150
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: they're able to trade for a quarterback? Like, what if?

1151
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: What if they can get a quarterback in there? I mean,

1152
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 1: it might change the conversation dramatically. I think we're all

1153
01:04:59,840 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 1: a assuming they're rebuilding, But until they fill the quarterback spot,

1154
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: I don't know that we can definitively say that just yet.

1155
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: And at seventy one years old, I'm finding it hard

1156
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 1: to believe that Pete Carroll's ready to take on a

1157
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 1: three or four year rebuilding effort. It's just I'm not

1158
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,480
Speaker 1: buying it yet, I guess, is what I'm saying. Man,

1159
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate the trade offer, right Tyler. Tyler Lockett and

1160
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: No A Fan are two really good weapons offensively, and

1161
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 1: you're giving them second draft picks four, two and a four.

1162
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 1: You're gonna throw in m and you want to throw

1163
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 1: in Isaiah McKenzie, who's who would help them? And I

1164
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 1: don't think if you could get it. I'll say this,

1165
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: if you could get that done, I'd make the deal

1166
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 1: if you could do it, if you could work it

1167
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: financial shawks. Yeah, I wouldn't do it if I'm the Seahawks,

1168
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: but if you if the Bills can get them to

1169
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 1: take say yes, okay, and particularly without as a McKenzie

1170
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 1: thrown in a two and a four for fant and

1171
01:05:56,560 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 1: lock it. Of course, absolutely, but you're not gonna get

1172
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: it done. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I just don't see it. Um.

1173
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 1: I just think Tyler Lockett is too much. There's too much,

1174
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: too much of a I'd be interested. I really don't know.

1175
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: I guess like conversation that you and i'd have here

1176
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 1: on the air, how does that happen? So, say, for instance,

1177
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean calls up the GM and see I don't

1178
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: even remember it. She calls up Pete Carroll and says, hey, Pete,

1179
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 1: we're looking to wed. We'd like to get Tyner Lockett

1180
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: and no a fan. We're looking for a tight end

1181
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: and a number one wide out. What do you think

1182
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: if we look at our draft the picks we have

1183
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 1: coming up. I can't give you a one, but tell

1184
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: us what else would kind of float you for those

1185
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: two guys, And see what he says. Yeah, Um, I'm

1186
01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: pretty sure he's not gonna say it too. To four

1187
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:07,040
Speaker 1: he might say A two, three, four and five plus,

1188
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 1: you know. And there's no sense in them trading him

1189
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 1: because they'd be upside down on the cap with dead money.

1190
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got they just signed him to an

1191
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 1: extension lock it, yeah, like a year or two ago,

1192
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 1: and yeah, it just doesn't work for them. They'd be

1193
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 1: upside down in dead cap money if they moved him now,

1194
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 1: because he's still got three more years left on his contract. Yeah,

1195
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: but you think his money's relatively affordable this year, so Dan,

1196
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: I will take that part of it back. But what

1197
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 1: he's still got left is pretty sizeable, and the dead

1198
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 1: cap hit for the for the Seahawks is prohibitive for them.

1199
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Speaker 1: The dead cap wouldn't bother him this year because they'd

1200
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 1: be getting two picks instead of players like cripples their cap.

1201
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: They just did a whole bunch of work to get

1202
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: to create some cap room, and they'd essentially be erasing

1203
01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 1: it by moving lock it in a trade terms of

1204
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 1: the dead cap hit that I'm looking at here on

1205
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: over thecap dot com. So yeah, I just don't think

1206
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 1: it's a feasible thing. I mean, I appreciate the creativity,

1207
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 1: but I just don't see that happening for them. Eight

1208
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty

1209
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:18,880
Speaker 1: two five fifty as lineman seemed to be carrying the

1210
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:22,719
Speaker 1: day here in the early going, although we did see

1211
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 1: that the Patriots are going to bring back special team's

1212
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 1: ace Matthew Slater for another season. I think he's got

1213
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 1: he's up to eight Pro Bowls now, I think I

1214
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:37,640
Speaker 1: think it's nine? Is it nine? Okay? Ben Jones, the

1215
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: Titans center, is going to resign there for a two

1216
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 1: year deal. That's fourteen million dollars for him, seven million

1217
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 1: per for the starting center there for the Titans. And

1218
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:52,679
Speaker 1: then we've got some other players getting close to deals here.

1219
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: Let me see. Oh yeah, we've got um Jamarco Jones,

1220
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 1: who's a former Seattle offensive lineman. He's going to be

1221
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 1: signing a small deal to go to the Titan as

1222
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: presumably as a depth player that's going to compete for

1223
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:08,759
Speaker 1: a starting job. So a linemen are signing here early today.

1224
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:11,840
Speaker 1: There's been a run on lineman, not all at the

1225
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: top of the you know league in terms of quality

1226
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:20,560
Speaker 1: of the free agent pool, but signing nonetheless. So Braxton

1227
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: Barrios looks like he's going to resign with the Jets.

1228
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 1: He's not going to hit the market. Two year deal,

1229
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: twelve million dollars, seven million, fully guaranteed. How would you

1230
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: compare Braxton Barrios to Isaiah McKenzie. Both are return men,

1231
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 1: both playing the slot. Braxton Barrios is twenty six. Isaiah

1232
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 1: McKenzie turns twenty seven next month. Barrios is a bigger body, right,

1233
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: little thicker thicker. Here's the thing, and here's the thing

1234
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: about Isam mckins. I know there's a little bit of

1235
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: unknown about isa MCKENSI because he had a limited role.

1236
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 1: He's been a return man mostly for the Buffalo Bills.

1237
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 1: And I was looking at the statistics. Let me pop

1238
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: him back up here if I can find him. He

1239
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: had he only had like nine rushes last year, so

1240
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:10,679
Speaker 1: we always talk about you know, him being well, right

1241
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 1: he had here it is mackenzie had nine rushes for

1242
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 1: forty seven yards five point two average long of ten

1243
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:19,240
Speaker 1: and you always think about him being part of that.

1244
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying burials is any better. McKenzie had

1245
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: twenty receptions for one hundred and seventy eight yards long

1246
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 1: of twenty nine and most of those catches were in

1247
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:30,559
Speaker 1: those you know, couple of games at the end of

1248
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 1: the season. But here's the thing about Isaiah. For instance,

1249
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 1: if i Isaiah McKenzie was Isaiah Hodgins and it was

1250
01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: his first year on the field and he had that

1251
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: kind of year that he had and the flashes that

1252
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,599
Speaker 1: he had as a you know, as a young player,

1253
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 1: if he had those flashes last year, if we hadn't

1254
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: seen him as a return man for all these years,

1255
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 1: people would be jumping up and down to get Isaiah

1256
01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 1: McKenzie on the field in offense more and more and

1257
01:10:58,200 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: more because of the way he did when he got

1258
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: it chance last year. He produced and he's still a

1259
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 1: young player. I'm sure the Bills have told him say, listen,

1260
01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you a chance to get on the

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Speaker 1: field and offense this year if you want it, and

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Speaker 1: he's jumping at the chance. The game he put together

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01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 1: up in New England was phenomenal. Yeah, and he also

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01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: did it later later on as well, and he did

1265
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:20,759
Speaker 1: it in week seventeen and twenty twenty when he showed

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01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: up forgets the Miami Dolphins and had three touchdowns. So

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01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 1: I think if you look at Isaiah McKenzie and put

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01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 1: him as like a young guy coming out and he's

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01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 1: only twenty six right now, I would be twenty seven

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01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:33,639
Speaker 1: if you put head as a young player, like, Wow,

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01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: I'm excited about his upside, let's go. So that's where

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01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm at. I'm at with Isaiah. Break time here for us.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we will hear from one Isaiah

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01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: McKenzie as he will be addressing the Western New York

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01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: media in the wake of his new two year deal

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01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 1: to stay with the Buffalo Bills. That's coming your way

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Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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

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Speaker 1: Bills by Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. We're waiting

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01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: to join the press conference that Isaiah mackenzie will be

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01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 1: having with the Western New York media as he answers

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01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:20,440
Speaker 1: questions in the wake of his new two year contract

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01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: with the Bills. And I think he's up and ready

1284
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: now So let's go to Isaiah. So you told us

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01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,479
Speaker 1: last year that you know, you would have gotten paid

1286
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: in candy to stay with the Buffalo Bills for another year,

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01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: and now you signed a two year deal. So what

1288
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:35,320
Speaker 1: went into that decision as opposed to, you know, trying

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01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:38,280
Speaker 1: to test the free agent market. Um, it wasn't enough

1290
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 1: to candy and no. Oh Um, I really wanted to

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01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: be here, I said, and said the agent talk and

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01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 1: being and all the people were were involved. They got

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01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 1: it done. You know, I was excited about it. So

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01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It didn't. It didn't taken much for me

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01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:57,760
Speaker 1: to come back. You know, I just I really liked

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01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 1: being here. I really liked being on this team, the

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01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 1: locker room, the guys, coaches have, you know, everybody, you know,

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01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: an organization being here. So it didn't it wasn't at all.

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Speaker 1: Thanks man, appreciate it. Congrats Hey Isaiah stal how are you, buddy?

1300
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:19,559
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the new deal. Um, this is the second

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01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 1: year in a row. You had to do this obviously,

1302
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 1: as Matt just alluded to, but now you don't have

1303
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 1: to necessarily a little more stability. It's really kind of

1304
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 1: maybe the first time you've had a little stability, a

1305
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 1: little more financial security in life. But just how does

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01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:31,719
Speaker 1: that make you feel at this point of your career

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01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:34,599
Speaker 1: to work to this point to get all that, Um,

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01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: feel good? You know. I just you know, like you said,

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01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 1: I worked through it, grinded through it, and you know,

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01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: now I'm here, I'm saying, I get some security, some stability,

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01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: and I'm excited and I just want to keep it,

1312
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: you know, keep it going. Take you one day at

1313
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 1: a time, or practice at a time, one game at

1314
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 1: a time, and this once the football games. And then

1315
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 1: just looking back on last year, you had some ups

1316
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 1: and downs. Obviously, we know you know everything happened. Did

1317
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 1: you have to separate yourself from that at all to

1318
01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 1: kind of know that you wanted to be back there?

1319
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: Was that? Was it something you always wanted? You have

1320
01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 1: to kind of like get detached and kind of let

1321
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:08,639
Speaker 1: the emotion subside a little bit before making all these decisions. Um, No,

1322
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 1: for me, it's you know, it is what it is.

1323
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:13,680
Speaker 1: That's what I said. You know, it is what it is.

1324
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:16,720
Speaker 1: It happened, you know, with a good or bad, It

1325
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:19,360
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me. I'm gonna keep the same personality,

1326
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,160
Speaker 1: the same faith and everything. And like I said, I

1327
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 1: believe in this team. I believe in the coach of staff,

1328
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:26,800
Speaker 1: and whatever happened last years behind us, and you know,

1329
01:14:26,840 --> 01:14:28,360
Speaker 1: this year is a new year and I plan on

1330
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 1: going going in and helping the team win. Thanks man,

1331
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:36,040
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing you out there again. Thank what's

1332
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: up Isaiah? Congratulations? Hey Maddie very about to get married

1333
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 1: yep in July. But we're talking about you right now. Um,

1334
01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:48,080
Speaker 1: what was what was the feedback from your teammates? Like

1335
01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: Josh called me today and that was a weird conversation,

1336
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 1: but um, no kidding. Josh called me. He was excited Diggs.

1337
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:57,680
Speaker 1: I actually talked to Diggs for the first time in

1338
01:14:57,720 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: like a couple of months. You know, it's hard to

1339
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: get to him. He's always in the air or something. Um,

1340
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: you talked to Gabe and Isaiah, you know, my two

1341
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: best friends. Uh. But everybody was excited, you know, I

1342
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:09,720
Speaker 1: was excited. You know, all the guys put from me,

1343
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, Chad Hall, she was a coach, he called me.

1344
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 1: You know, everybody you know said there that's what they

1345
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: had to say. And I was pretty excited for us.

1346
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 1: I mean, all these people reaching out to you. You

1347
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 1: are very well liked in the locker room and on

1348
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 1: this team. How do you view how your role has

1349
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: grown in the locker room from your first season with

1350
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 1: the Bills And where do you see it now? Because

1351
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:33,639
Speaker 1: on the outside looking in, it looks like you play

1352
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 1: a pretty big role in the locker in the locker

1353
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: room on this team. UM, I would say I have

1354
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: now I probably have to amp it up a notch,

1355
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:45,560
Speaker 1: you know, and just started show people, you know, the

1356
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, lead by z by example on off the field,

1357
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 1: but you know in the locker room. UM, I just

1358
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 1: gotta keep what I keep doing what I'm doing, you

1359
01:15:52,479 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Keep everybody here's a pie, you know,

1360
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:58,760
Speaker 1: do my job and just make everybody happy when they

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01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 1: come inside. So that's my job. Awesome, congratulations, should say

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01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: I can gut fund the deal. Um, you touched a

1363
01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:10,759
Speaker 1: bit on your role moving forward. But since we're still

1364
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 1: kind of waiting to see what the wide receiver room

1365
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: will look like next year, there could be some changing parts.

1366
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:18,360
Speaker 1: What will it mean just to add some stability to

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01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: that group with you coming back? Um, just what will

1368
01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 1: it mean since this wide receiver room might change a

1369
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:30,720
Speaker 1: good bit, how can you add some stability to the group. Um,

1370
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:33,000
Speaker 1: like I said, just doing my job. You know, I'm saying,

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01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 1: we got a great receiver corps, you know, and you know,

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01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:38,560
Speaker 1: whatever happens with you know, between the receiver corps, I

1373
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 1: feel like we still have stability. You got Diggs and

1374
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 1: myself got Dave Davis, you know, and everything like that.

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01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:48,600
Speaker 1: I don't know the b situation, but you know I

1376
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: feel like we still you know, have not still have

1377
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 1: our guys. We're still gonna go go out there, you know,

1378
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 1: play hard and you know, do a lot of good things.

1379
01:16:57,240 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 1: You know, from what I saw these last two years,

1380
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 1: we got a chance and with just win the ball,

1381
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:10,640
Speaker 1: you know, anything to happen. Yeah, Isaiah, congratulations on the

1382
01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: new deal. Um, you know, when we start projecting some

1383
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:17,680
Speaker 1: of this stuff going into the offseason, I mean your

1384
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:22,000
Speaker 1: two starts or the last two seasons were just superstar performances.

1385
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: We wrote about it at the time, We talked to

1386
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:26,599
Speaker 1: you about it at the time. Was there any piece

1387
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 1: of you that maybe wanted to go to free agency

1388
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 1: just to see what teams you know, would offer you

1389
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 1: and and take me to that process, because I get

1390
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: wanted to be here, but like this is two years

1391
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:38,640
Speaker 1: in a row where you kind of don't want to

1392
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:43,880
Speaker 1: see what your market value is and just about being here. Maybe, UM,

1393
01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:47,959
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a good question. Um for me, Um,

1394
01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: I would say I love being here. No, it's for

1395
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 1: me in my life as all the reasons been about loyalty.

1396
01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: You know, I've had the same trainer since ninth grade.

1397
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 1: I've had the same uh friends since five years old.

1398
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 1: For me, it is a by loyds. You know, I've

1399
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 1: been in the buffalo. Bills have been lowered to me

1400
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 1: and I want to stay mower to them. And I

1401
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:09,840
Speaker 1: feel like, like I said before, we have a a

1402
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 1: lot of great things going on here. You know what

1403
01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We just started the ball and it can happen.

1404
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:16,080
Speaker 1: Great receiver corps, great coaches, and I just feel like

1405
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:18,719
Speaker 1: this is the place I want to be, what I'm saying.

1406
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 1: And if we could get it done before, if we

1407
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 1: got we got it done before a free agency, and

1408
01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 1: that's all I wanted. You know, I don't want to

1409
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 1: I don't want to be anywhere else and I want

1410
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 1: to be here. So I'm glad we can make that happen.

1411
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 1: You're usually I remember that video that you put out

1412
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 1: the bills put out a couple of years ago when

1413
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 1: you face time a bunch of people and then kind

1414
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 1: of hung up on them or had some funny things

1415
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 1: to say. What was the funniest thing that somebody said

1416
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 1: to you after you sign your deal? Oh? Oh, Dickson said, uh,

1417
01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:50,600
Speaker 1: send me two hundred dollars because I had something to

1418
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: do with it. And I was like, yeah, I was.

1419
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,160
Speaker 1: I was like, now I can send you two hundred.

1420
01:18:57,479 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago I probably couldn't, but now

1421
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 1: I can send you too. But uh, yeah, that's probably

1422
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:03,679
Speaker 1: the funniest thing. I haven't got all the phone calls yet,

1423
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: but I think Isaiah Hodgens said, I hope him a

1424
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 1: pair of shoes all of a sudden. I hope people

1425
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: money for some reason, but whatever. And final one for

1426
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: me is, you know, obviously Brian goes to New York, Uh,

1427
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: Shay Tierney, a couple other offensive coaches of Bobby Johnson.

1428
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:24,800
Speaker 1: How much do you guys anticipate things changing and what

1429
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 1: are your early impressions of what this offense is gonna

1430
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 1: look like with Ken Dorsey now as the offensive coordinator. Um,

1431
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:33,400
Speaker 1: I feel like Dave, you know, he said a good

1432
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: foundation saying on office side of the ball and um

1433
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 1: with Ken Dorsey, you know, being office coordinator. I don't

1434
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 1: think that's gonna change. You know, still got Josh, still

1435
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:42,759
Speaker 1: got our guys, and I'm probably gonna add more pieces

1436
01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 1: and things like that. But we only can get better

1437
01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: from here, you know, And that's all we want to

1438
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:48,639
Speaker 1: do is get better. And uh, Ken dorse is gonna

1439
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: do a great job, you know with the offense. I'm

1440
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:52,559
Speaker 1: believing him. I'm pretty sure everybody else believes him, and

1441
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: you know we can't and I don't think we're gonna

1442
01:19:55,040 --> 01:20:03,680
Speaker 1: scoop bet. Thanks gonna, Isaiah, congrats, but thank you. Yes,

1443
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:07,760
Speaker 1: a good afternoon, Isaiah. George Radney challenge of Community News.

1444
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: How are you doing this afternoon? I'm doing well. At

1445
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 1: yourself pretty well, pretty well. Congratulations on the new deal.

1446
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 1: The questions, how do you feel the thing's gonna happen

1447
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:21,000
Speaker 1: coming back into camp, coming into training camp or mini camp,

1448
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 1: when everybody gets back together, how do you feel how

1449
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:26,240
Speaker 1: do you feel about going about getting rid of that

1450
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 1: bad taste in your mouth from the last time you

1451
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: guys were together and walked off that field, went into

1452
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 1: the locker room. I'm sure it's very intense in that

1453
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: locker room after that, the way everything went down in

1454
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:40,439
Speaker 1: Kansas City. What's your ideas on that? Um, I feel

1455
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:42,719
Speaker 1: like we just gonna go, you know, go to practice

1456
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 1: and you know, do what you need to do to

1457
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,880
Speaker 1: get back in that situation, and you know, handle the

1458
01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:50,640
Speaker 1: situation right way like you know, like we're supposed to. Um,

1459
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:52,560
Speaker 1: it's a long it's a long rule. You know, we

1460
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: got one practice at the time. I'm saying, one game

1461
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 1: at the time, and after that playoffs and trying to

1462
01:20:57,720 --> 01:20:59,600
Speaker 1: get to the big stage. But I feel like, you know,

1463
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 1: it takes day at the time. But you know, if

1464
01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 1: we're in that situation never again. I'm saying, I'm pretty

1465
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: sure you know what to do and then everything thing's

1466
01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: gonna going for us to share. Yeah, you're watching the

1467
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:12,960
Speaker 1: rest of the playoffs after that or even the Super Bowl.

1468
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:15,760
Speaker 1: I know you probably was saying, Man, to beat both

1469
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:19,760
Speaker 1: of these teams. Man, I can't believe this. I want

1470
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:21,960
Speaker 1: to see you. That was going through my mom sitting

1471
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 1: on the couch and I'm like, man, super bowls coming, barn.

1472
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:27,240
Speaker 1: You know, I'm pretty sure a lot of people like

1473
01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 1: to see Josh, but no, UM, you know I'm saying congratulations,

1474
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: you know the rams, but I feel like, man, I'm said,

1475
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:36,320
Speaker 1: we should have been in it, but at the same

1476
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 1: time he wasn't, So we just got to get there.

1477
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 1: Two of these shows. Last question for you when they

1478
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 1: suck with you or I don't know if the build,

1479
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 1: how this whole process goes about you see your role

1480
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:51,960
Speaker 1: expanding this coming season. Um, I'm just gonna do my

1481
01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 1: job and take advantage of my opportunities and whatever. Like

1482
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:56,559
Speaker 1: I said, whatever opportunities to come my way, I'm take

1483
01:21:56,560 --> 01:21:58,840
Speaker 1: advantage of it and I'm just doing what I gotta

1484
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: do to help the team. So that's why I'm at

1485
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:03,880
Speaker 1: with it. All right, Hey, I appreciate your time and

1486
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,120
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing you this upcoming train. Can

1487
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:12,880
Speaker 1: hey little dirty Mokey Arkins or Fortsporths Scenarai or something.

1488
01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 1: My guy, what's going on? I'm chilling? How you doing? Hey?

1489
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 1: I see you like the candy in Buffalo. Man, congratulations,

1490
01:22:19,120 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 1: I'm sticking around for two more years. You shouldn't really

1491
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:23,960
Speaker 1: thank you. So while I just tell us a little

1492
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 1: bit about what we shall expect from you these next

1493
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: two years. Um, coming in doing my job, I'm saying

1494
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:35,080
Speaker 1: performing well at a high level. Um, take advantage of opportunities.

1495
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:36,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, big, You know the things

1496
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: I like that last year being better at this year

1497
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:41,840
Speaker 1: and she's coming in doing my job. I feel like

1498
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: last year I had some ups and downs, as some

1499
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: great plays, as a bad place, mobile place. But at

1500
01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:50,080
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you saying, you know, overcame

1501
01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: the school sports are good about and I feel like

1502
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:54,840
Speaker 1: I can learn from those situations I was in. And

1503
01:22:55,120 --> 01:22:57,680
Speaker 1: you know now that it happened again and I'm just

1504
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:00,920
Speaker 1: seeing my football games. Yeah, it was balling as of late.

1505
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:02,639
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, take it back to that New

1506
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:04,800
Speaker 1: England game where you know you're pretty much racked off

1507
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 1: some great numbers and you know you kind of was

1508
01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:10,599
Speaker 1: extinct after that. Do you, Um, have Ken Dorsey told

1509
01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: you about any type of role or how he's gonna

1510
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:16,599
Speaker 1: use you this season? Um? I suppose to him briefly,

1511
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:18,800
Speaker 1: but I we haven't you know, spoke about that. But

1512
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you know, things are falling place, and

1513
01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm gonna just take advantage of opportunities

1514
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: when I get them, you know, whatever opportunity as I

1515
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,240
Speaker 1: do get what I'm saying I'm take advantage of those

1516
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:31,599
Speaker 1: as well. But UM, other than that, Nah, we haven't

1517
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 1: talked about it, but I'm pretty sure we'll get into

1518
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:40,759
Speaker 1: it soon. So Um, after after losing the divisional playoff game, UM,

1519
01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:42,720
Speaker 1: what what what is it? What do you take from

1520
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 1: that game? Uh, you know to learn from going into

1521
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 1: this season. Um, every second counts. Uh, every situation matters.

1522
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:55,519
Speaker 1: You know we've we've been do that. You know, we

1523
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: practiced them all the time, and you know we speak

1524
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:00,840
Speaker 1: on all the time. Every every matters of the second,

1525
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 1: matters of the situation matters. And from that game, we

1526
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 1: just got to play to the to the whistle blows,

1527
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:08,800
Speaker 1: to the last wiston blows. C sesar on the club.

1528
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:11,519
Speaker 1: And I'm appreciate we learned from that and this shouldn't

1529
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: gonna you know, try to do the same thing going

1530
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 1: to the situation and you know, you know you got

1531
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 1: a positive side. Absolutely, man, congrats and uh, good to

1532
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 1: see you work next two years here. You appreciate sounds good.

1533
01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 1: Those are all the questions we have, thanks to Zaying.

1534
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 1: All right, that's Isaiah McKenzie addressing the media in the

1535
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: wake of his new two year contract with the Buffalo

1536
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:38,720
Speaker 1: Bills back in the fold, and we heard him there

1537
01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 1: basically saying that he doesn't have the details as to

1538
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: exactly how he's going to be used. And while you

1539
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: have to believe he you know, spoke to Ken Dorsey

1540
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:53,360
Speaker 1: and coach McDermott just about what the future holds for

1541
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 1: him on this roster, I don't know that they can

1542
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:59,760
Speaker 1: give clearly defined answers. They know what he can do

1543
01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 1: with in the scope of the offense. That's why they

1544
01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:03,880
Speaker 1: were interested in resigning him, Steve, But at the same time,

1545
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 1: they don't know what other pieces are going to be

1546
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 1: here in the span of a couple of months, So

1547
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:12,680
Speaker 1: it would almost be kind of foolhardy to promise him

1548
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:16,320
Speaker 1: anything when the circumstances could very well change. Perfect example

1549
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 1: is the Cole Beasley situation exactly, And it's but you

1550
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:24,519
Speaker 1: do know this, and coaches are like this and have

1551
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: been like this for the history of the game. They

1552
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: like guys they can depend on. They like known commodities,

1553
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:37,680
Speaker 1: particularly known commodities with upside, like Isaiah McKenzie. They know

1554
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:39,960
Speaker 1: he can come up and show up in a game huge,

1555
01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:42,479
Speaker 1: like he has done on a couple of occasions for

1556
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:45,400
Speaker 1: the Bills. He's versatile. He can take the ball on

1557
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: a handoff out of the backfield, he can return punts,

1558
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 1: and he can play slot receiver. The guys can do

1559
01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 1: some things athletically because of his speed and his ability

1560
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 1: to catch the ball and run route. So they know

1561
01:25:58,080 --> 01:26:00,519
Speaker 1: that about him. Now, whatever else happens around them, that

1562
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 1: at least they have a baseline and the floor of

1563
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 1: their roster at slottery is not going to go below

1564
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie. And they've won games with him at slot.

1565
01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:10,760
Speaker 1: So if anything happens that Isaiah McKenzie's not on the

1566
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 1: field for them, it's because they got better, not worse.

1567
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 1: So it's a great starting point. And you look at

1568
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:18,040
Speaker 1: you and I've been talking Braxton Burrios, the slot receiver

1569
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:20,639
Speaker 1: for the New York Jets, just signed a twelve million

1570
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 1: dollars deal. Seven million of it is guaranteed you for

1571
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: a two year deal, I believe. And we had New

1572
01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 1: Bills news also and it's Isaiah McKenzie signed for four

1573
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:34,639
Speaker 1: million over two years, not twelve four over two years.

1574
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 1: And I like Isaiah McKenzie. I mean, Burials is a

1575
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:41,360
Speaker 1: nice player too. No question. Bills have an addition. They

1576
01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:46,400
Speaker 1: have signed veteran guard Roger Saffold to a one year deal.

1577
01:26:47,520 --> 01:26:49,640
Speaker 1: And you say, well, how did they sign him? He

1578
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: was released by the Titans last week, so he was

1579
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:55,519
Speaker 1: available to sign on the dotted line as early as

1580
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:59,200
Speaker 1: today because or even last week for that matter, because

1581
01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:02,160
Speaker 1: he's a free agent. He got released by the team

1582
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:05,400
Speaker 1: he was on, and he's able to sign even before

1583
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 1: signings become official for players who were under contract until

1584
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:14,639
Speaker 1: four pm on Wednesday. And so Saffold in the fold

1585
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:17,439
Speaker 1: with the Bills. And there is a connection to the

1586
01:27:17,439 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: coaching staff here because Saffold played for two seasons with

1587
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: the La Rams under Bill's new offensive line coach Aaron

1588
01:27:25,280 --> 01:27:28,679
Speaker 1: Cromer in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, and actually earned

1589
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: second team All Pro honors in twenty seventeen. Because of that,

1590
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:34,439
Speaker 1: we have to take a break here, but when we

1591
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 1: come back, we'll wrap up our thoughts on that. The

1592
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 1: newest edition for the Bills offensive lineman Roger Saffold, formerly

1593
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: of the Titans, now a Bill signing a one year

1594
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 1: deal back in a moment here on one Bill's Live.

1595
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, all right, welcome back. Bill's pretty busy here

1596
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,479
Speaker 1: over the weekend. And through the early stages of the

1597
01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:06,760
Speaker 1: legal negotiating window. They've got a new player in the

1598
01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:10,000
Speaker 1: fold in Roger Saffold. No pun intended. They're sorry about that.

1599
01:28:11,120 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: Veteran offensive lineman who's thirty three years old, signed a

1600
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 1: one year deal and plays the guard position, has for

1601
01:28:18,800 --> 01:28:22,720
Speaker 1: a long time and has familiar familiarity with offensive line

1602
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:27,280
Speaker 1: coach Aaron Cromer. We just heard from Isaiah McKenzie who

1603
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:30,519
Speaker 1: just addressed the media, So we hope to have both

1604
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 1: of those gentlemen on the show tomorrow. So that's exciting.

1605
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 1: We look forward to tomorrow show. Steve quickly in thirty seconds.

1606
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 1: The biggest benefits for an offensive lineman coming to a

1607
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:45,000
Speaker 1: new team but working with a position coach he is

1608
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:48,839
Speaker 1: wholly familiar with. It'll be a much faster assimilation process

1609
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 1: of the verbiage. He'll be able to relate some things

1610
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:53,240
Speaker 1: back and tell him where it came from, where it's going.

1611
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:59,280
Speaker 1: Cromer's new here, too, new back here, but he'll have

1612
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 1: an understand him. They'll have a relationship and it'll be fast.

1613
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:03,559
Speaker 1: It'll be much easier for the guy to get back.

1614
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 1: He'll know the blocking techniques he likes to you and

1615
01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 1: he'll be able to. In fact, the new guy may

1616
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:10,320
Speaker 1: be able to teach the old guys that have been

1617
01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:12,240
Speaker 1: here exactly what the new guy and the new head

1618
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 1: coach or the new offensive line coach wants from them.

1619
01:29:14,240 --> 01:29:17,160
Speaker 1: It'll it'll make the transition better on all sides. We'll

1620
01:29:17,200 --> 01:29:19,360
Speaker 1: have those guys here on the show tomorrow. We'll see

1621
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 1: at one