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Speaker 1: what a day, huh, what a day? This Wednesday has

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Speaker 1: turned out to be. Good afternoon, and welcome to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Welcome to One Bill's Drive. New araor Field

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody. John Murphy and Steve Taster coming here

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Speaker 1: from Orchard Park, New York. A little bit of sunshine today,

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Speaker 1: no rain. That's a break with Steve. This is an

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Speaker 1: interesting day. I mean, it's not a red letter day.

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Speaker 1: It's not a huge day. But with the Sabers move,

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Speaker 1: invigorated today. I feel like, whoa, that's a wake up call.

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Speaker 1: It's like getting slapped in the bag. Couple, right, wake up.

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Speaker 1: We come in, start having a conversation about how we

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Speaker 1: guy we've had him on the show. Niche Meta tweeted out. Listen.

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Speaker 1: Jets CEO Christopher Johnson flat out told people in the

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Speaker 1: looking at two weeks ago. Last week we had rich

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown asked him, what about reports of a rift

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Speaker 1: I informed Mike mccagnan that he was being relieved of

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Speaker 1: search for our new general manager immediately. In the interim

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Speaker 1: coach Gaze will be the acting GM. Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: But that's amazing, right the Jets. Mike mccagnen hired the

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Speaker 1: Steve they really did with the friege and acquisitions. They

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Speaker 1: and it came clear the Gays did not want to

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Speaker 1: and of course they did. They went out and spend

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Speaker 1: a ton of money on Levion Bell. And I got,

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Speaker 1: as a football guy, on whatever our capacity, I am,

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Speaker 1: I agree with him. Running backs are not something he'd

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Speaker 1: blow your budget on. And it goes on and on,

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Speaker 1: and Meniche Meta goes He says, I've this is quoting

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Speaker 1: Meniche Meta from two. I've been fair to the Jets

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Speaker 1: during this rebuild, but there's no sugarcoating their decision to

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Speaker 1: fire Mike mccagnet. Today they have morphed into the circus

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Speaker 1: slash clown show. That so many people have painted them

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Speaker 1: as forever a complete and utter joke of a franchise,

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Speaker 1: and that Maniche Meta is the biggest Jet apologist of

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Speaker 1: all time, and he has jumped off their bandwagon this

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Speaker 1: morning with the firing of Mike mccagneto. Tomorrow. Yeah, it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: He's venting his spleeing today. We should probably wait until tomorrow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you might want to give him a day. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: just look, I hate I hate the Jets worse than

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Speaker 1: I hate the Patriots, and I think this is a

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Speaker 1: positive development for the Bills. That kind of turmoil, right,

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Speaker 1: it matters if you've got to and when you go

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Speaker 1: into a season and and things are and I know

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Speaker 1: we're four months away from a season here, but it

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Speaker 1: matters when a team has that kind of shake up, right,

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Speaker 1: that kind of turmoil likely, absolutely, absolutely it does. And

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Speaker 1: I don't listen, there's a difference between you know this, Murphy,

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Speaker 1: you because you and I go through it every morning.

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Speaker 1: We have health disagreements that are good for the show,

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Speaker 1: and that would be good for the team. You gotta

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Speaker 1: have You can't have everybody in the room thinking the

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Speaker 1: same thing, because then if everybody's thinking the same way,

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Speaker 1: nobody's thinking Yeah, you gotta have somebody that says, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, because what about this, And look at this,

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Speaker 1: you know, have some different ideas. If everybody in the

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Speaker 1: room thinks the same way, you're missing a lot. And

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Speaker 1: so there's a lot. There's such a thing as a

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Speaker 1: healthy disagreement, but this goes beyond that. I guess you know.

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Speaker 1: It's got unhealth, right, it got unhealthy today. So the

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Speaker 1: Jets fire their GM and it got us thinking about stability.

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Speaker 1: How much of a factor that is right now in

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Speaker 1: the division? Right, Bills, Dolphins, Jets, Patriots. The Bills and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots are the most stable setups in the AFC East. Right.

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Speaker 1: It takes us right to our Twitter poll today and

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Speaker 1: right to our topic of the day, one that we

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Speaker 1: really hope you get involved with and phone us up

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Speaker 1: or vote on Twitter or even sending a tweet on

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Speaker 1: Twitter our Twitter poll. What has been Buffalo Bills General

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Speaker 1: manager Brandon Bean's greatest accomplishment this offseason? He's been here

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Speaker 1: now going into his what second season as the GM

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Speaker 1: AM I right, yeah, second full seas second full season,

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Speaker 1: so he's been here for a couple of years. What's

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Speaker 1: been Brandon Bean's greatest accomplishment this offseason? He's done a lot.

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Speaker 1: Bills have been active this offseason, getting lots of credit

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Speaker 1: around the league for what they've done. You can call

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Speaker 1: on something, let us know what you think. Lines open

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Speaker 1: right now eight oh three oh five fifty or toll

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Speaker 1: You can vote in our Twitter poll at one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: You can send in a tweet we may read it

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Speaker 1: on the air. Biggest accomplishment of Brandon Bean's offseason this

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Speaker 1: year on Twitter? On the Twitter poll with more than

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Speaker 1: five hundred votes in already, it's kind of a one

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Speaker 1: sided vote. Seventy six percent of you say overhauling the

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Speaker 1: offensive line has been the biggest accomplishment this offseason. Sixteen

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Speaker 1: percent of you say getting the top two picks at

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Speaker 1: Oliver and Cody Ford has been the biggest accomplishment this offseason.

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Speaker 1: Five percent say adding talent to the wide receiver group.

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Speaker 1: Four percent have something else in mind. You know, as

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Speaker 1: I look at that Twitter poll, nothing against Cody Ford,

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Speaker 1: but the drafting of Oliver and who wasn't yesterday on

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Speaker 1: the show Ross Tucker, who mentioned what a coup that

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Speaker 1: was to get Oliver down there at nine when many

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Speaker 1: people thought he was a top three player. Drafting of Oliver,

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Speaker 1: I think stands on its own without putting Cody Forward

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Speaker 1: in there. Cody Forward was a projected first slash second rounder,

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Speaker 1: that's good. But drafting at Oliver, I think is a

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Speaker 1: good enough to kind of have a feeling what other

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Speaker 1: people were gonna do. Not that he knew that the

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Speaker 1: Giants were gonna surprise everybody and take a quarterback up

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Speaker 1: there at six, Not that he knew that what the

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Speaker 1: Raiders took Cleland Farrell right? Did they right? So he

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Speaker 1: didn't know that was gonna happen, But he bided his time,

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Speaker 1: waited till nine, and got at Oliver. I think that

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Speaker 1: was a big accomplishment overall in the offensive line, seventy

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Speaker 1: six percent say that's been his biggest accomplishment. I get that.

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Speaker 1: I understand that. I would probably vote with that as

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Speaker 1: the biggest accomplishment. What about you and mister Tassa, I

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Speaker 1: say that's the most important thing they've done, But I

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Speaker 1: think the offensive line was the biggest need heading out

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Speaker 1: of last year. It certainly at Oliver is an important player,

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Speaker 1: no question, But for me, it's about the offensive line

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Speaker 1: that they fixed, because certainly Kyle Williams departure hurts the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills defense and hurts their leadership, and it hurts

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Speaker 1: that core group of guys and hurts that vibe in

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Speaker 1: the locker room. But I think one player, aside from

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Speaker 1: maybe losing a franchise quarterback in his prime or something

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Speaker 1: like that, you can you can kind of make make

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Speaker 1: do with the guys that are left. Even if ed

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Speaker 1: Oliver didn't fall to the Bills and they get a

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Speaker 1: different guy, he would be even if he wasn't at

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Speaker 1: Oliver good, he'd be okay, and they wouldn't It wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be a hole left there. The offensive line absolutely positively

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Speaker 1: was priority won this offseason, and they spent a lot

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Speaker 1: of effort they've and who knows if they've got it

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Speaker 1: fixed or even now? Right, I ask you, you said

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Speaker 1: he's fixed the offensive line. Is it fixed? Right? That's

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Speaker 1: my That's a good point. There's no way to know

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Speaker 1: it's actually happened. But I think with the amount of

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Speaker 1: resources they put the guy that they brought in at

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Speaker 1: least the pedigrees of most of the guys they've brought

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Speaker 1: any including the draft pick the guys that have seen

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Speaker 1: him on film, they you would think, there's no doubt

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Speaker 1: that it's going to be better now, whether it's going

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Speaker 1: to be great or just good or okay or mediocre

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Speaker 1: however it shakes out. That was the most important thing,

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Speaker 1: much more so than any other single player outside the

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Speaker 1: quarterback position. So I would say probably offensive line for

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Speaker 1: me this last offseason. Plus it was one of the reason.

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Speaker 1: One of the reasons they were put in that position

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Speaker 1: is because they got their financial house. And that's the

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Speaker 1: other thing I was going to say, and it falls

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Speaker 1: between the cracks. It didn't just happen this past offseason,

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Speaker 1: but getting the Bills cap situation in order, maybe that

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Speaker 1: was the job of the first what season and a

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Speaker 1: half of Brando eighteen months? Yeah, yeah, So somehow it

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Speaker 1: should be included in this year. I think that might

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Speaker 1: be the number one accomplishment over his whole two year

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Speaker 1: tenures so far, getting the cap in order. The Bills

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Speaker 1: can deal with the salary keep they have money to

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Speaker 1: spend obviously on their draft picks, but they have money

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Speaker 1: to spend if they want on further free agency this

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Speaker 1: year and next year. That to me would be the

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Speaker 1: number one accomplishment of Brandon means entire tenure. But what

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Speaker 1: do you think? We got phone lines open eight o

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty, and we got the lines in

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Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll? What do you got their seeds?

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Speaker 1: This accomplishment of Brandon mean this offseason and from Tiffany

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Speaker 1: adding two young talented pieces to both lines, and the

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Speaker 1: way being worked the draft was impressive. Staying at nine

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Speaker 1: and getting Oliver without having a trade up to do.

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Speaker 1: It was quite savvy, and the move for Ford, the

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Speaker 1: guy they coveted, could be the steel of the draft.

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Speaker 1: It was patient and methodical. It was from Tiffany and

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Speaker 1: from John. He says, honestly, I like all the moves

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Speaker 1: that he has made, but overhauling the old line has

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Speaker 1: to be the best, because you're only going to be

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Speaker 1: as good as your worst player up there. And I

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Speaker 1: feel our worst player got a lot better with the

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Speaker 1: offensive line editions well their offensive It's like the five

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Speaker 1: guys are only as good as the worst of the

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Speaker 1: five guys, and he thinks all five of them got

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Speaker 1: a little better. The worst guy on that five line.

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Speaker 1: This line now is much better than the worst guy

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Speaker 1: or the best guy last year, or worst guy last

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Speaker 1: year something like that. Yeah, okay. And one more from

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet from Goss. I think everything he's done

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Speaker 1: is an accomplishment for a team that needed everything. He

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Speaker 1: did pretty good without breaking the bank. Agree one thing

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Speaker 1: about Brandon Bean, Steve, I want to ask you this

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Speaker 1: about perception and Brandon being among the fans before we

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Speaker 1: go to break here. Remember when Antonio Brown did not sign,

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Speaker 1: did not was not traded to the Bills the best

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Speaker 1: way to put it, and Brandon mean went to the

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Speaker 1: of Buffalo. I think in the perception arena, he endeared

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Speaker 1: himself with Bills fans. I mean, for people to say

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Speaker 1: I love everything he's done, I don't know if they

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Speaker 1: would have said that had Brandon knocked onto the podium

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Speaker 1: and spoke so passionately and so convincingly about how strongly

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Speaker 1: he felt about this team, this town, and how Maddie

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Speaker 1: was about people dissing Buffalo because there was a torrent

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Speaker 1: of that when the Antonio Brown deal didn't go through.

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Speaker 1: I think Brandon endeared himself to the fan base, and

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Speaker 1: he reaps the benefit of that in polls like this,

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Speaker 1: which is fine every Yeah, every franchise has a special

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Speaker 1: relationship with their fans and their city that they live in.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that is required in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: is the perception that you want to be here. Yeah, Pete,

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Speaker 1: we all people in Bove we take that seriously. We

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Speaker 1: don't want guys who don't like Buffalo. We don't want

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Speaker 1: guys who don't want to live here. We don't want

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Speaker 1: whether you're Marshawn Lynch and all of the who and

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Speaker 1: those of that, ilk Uh, Willis mcgahey, the left tackle

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Speaker 1: from Philadelphia, Peter Jason Peters, all these the great players,

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Speaker 1: they didn't want to be in Buffalo. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: we're pretty happy to kick those guys to the curb. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's part of the deal here. If you're gonna play

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Speaker 1: or coach or be an executive or a public executive

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Speaker 1: in one of these sports teams, you better like this town. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: They because we meet you, we hold it against them.

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Speaker 1: We hold it against him. And I think there's no

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Speaker 1: question Brandon Bean gets that. Sean McDermot get that, and

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Speaker 1: I think their affection for this town in this region

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Speaker 1: is genuine. Nope, don't get me wrong. I think that's genuine.

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Speaker 1: But that has to be in the job description for

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Speaker 1: these guys. Steve and I coming back with more in

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Speaker 1: a moment. One Bills Live from One Bill's Driving. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to the show. I

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Speaker 1: got the queue. I'm all right, I'm busy, just laying

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Speaker 1: out Welcome back to the show. A couple of minutes here.

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Speaker 1: We got Frank calling in at one o'clock, so we

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Speaker 1: want to have long here. But we're talking about the

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Speaker 1: Jets movement, about the Bills GM. What do you think

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Speaker 1: the best move that Bill's GM Brandon Bean has made

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Speaker 1: in this offseason. A couple of calls on this topic.

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Speaker 1: Greg calling from Georgia. Hello, Greg, go ahead, you're on

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Speaker 1: the ear. Hey, guys, how are you doing good it?

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Speaker 1: I hope the weather is as nice in Buffalo right

637
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Speaker 1: now as it is down here, but I won't rub

638
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Speaker 1: it in hope all you want to you can take

639
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Speaker 1: your hope. YEA. I'm sorry, Go ahead, Greg. I was

640
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Speaker 1: just gonna say, you know, in general, I think the

641
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Speaker 1: overriding theme of his success really was his patience. He

642
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Speaker 1: never jumped the gun. He had a plan and you know,

643
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: there were lots of temptations along the way, but he

644
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: never really uh you know, he didn't. He didn't sell

645
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Speaker 1: the farm to buy a cow. Um. He just stays

646
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Speaker 1: the course and it ended up working out great. Yeah.

647
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Speaker 1: I think. I think the fact that they could stay

648
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Speaker 1: disciplined in the heat of the moment in the draft room,

649
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: when you see all the tension and you see there's

650
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: thirty two rooms exactly like yours. They're all trying to

651
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: get an edge on all the others, and in the

652
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Speaker 1: lead up to it, in the in the preparation for it,

653
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Speaker 1: and to to have the discipline to say no to yourself,

654
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Speaker 1: say no, I'm not going to do that, even though

655
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Speaker 1: I probably could get it done if I wanted. Um,

656
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: you're right. I think the patients and the discipline and

657
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: the fact that they have this plan and they are

658
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Speaker 1: they are adhering to it is really really impressive. And

659
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Speaker 1: I think you're right that is one of the important

660
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Speaker 1: components of what they've been able to accomplish, if if

661
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: if they've accomplished anything except the fact that to get

662
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: all of our approval for everything they've done without having

663
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Speaker 1: any wins yet. You know what I'm saying, right, that's

664
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Speaker 1: really the only thing missing. It really is. And I

665
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: don't know that it's the thing. Yeah, but that's what

666
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Speaker 1: this is all leading to. And one of the things too,

667
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna have Frank reich on at the top

668
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Speaker 1: of the hour is that. And I've heard him preach it.

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Speaker 1: I've heard great coaches preach it everywhere. Just keep doing

670
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: the right things that the right way for the right reasons,

671
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Speaker 1: and getting getting the right people in the building and

672
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: working the right way and improving your process. The winning

673
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,239
Speaker 1: will result, that's the thing. Don't worry about winning. Just

674
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Speaker 1: do things the right way. It's an old John Wooden um.

675
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Speaker 1: Just play your best and always get better and winning

676
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Speaker 1: will be the result. Let's just do our thing and

677
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: the winning will be the result. That has been the

678
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Speaker 1: mantra in this building since Sean McDermott showed up, and

679
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: they have not wavered from that. So now for the

680
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Speaker 1: next what is it, three months? How many How far

681
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: away are we one hundred days to the opening day? Yeah,

682
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Speaker 1: I mean, just we gotta sit and wait. Now. We

683
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Speaker 1: have to be patient and disciplined. Yeah, Thanks for recall Greg.

684
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Gary on a cell phone. Hello, Gary,

685
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. I think the key to the

686
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Speaker 1: success of the team is based on being keeping McDermott

687
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Speaker 1: as the coach for third straight year. I don't remember

688
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: the last time we've had a coach for three years straight,

689
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 1: and I think their philosophies mashed together. And I'll just

690
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Speaker 1: say one of the things that the observation from the

691
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Speaker 1: Levian Bell and Adam Gay situation is that they haven't

692
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: even snapped the football yet and they're gonna be at

693
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: odds with each other because of the because of the

694
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Speaker 1: way that case and the general manager for the Chest

695
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: didn't not see eye to eye. So I think that's important.

696
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Speaker 1: It's great to see that for the third day year,

697
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have the same coach in the same philosophy. Yeah,

698
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Speaker 1: I hear you, Chan Chan Gailey was here for three

699
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Speaker 1: straight years and his last year was twenty and twelve,

700
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Speaker 1: So yeah, you can't keep obviously circulating through coaches. I

701
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Speaker 1: don't know, I will say this in all honestly, I

702
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: don't know if coach hiring firing is within the purview

703
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Speaker 1: of what Brandon being does. Certainly is a strong voice

704
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Speaker 1: in the football department, among the strongest. But I don't

705
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Speaker 1: know if Brandon Bean could unilaterally Steve say I want

706
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Speaker 1: a new coach. I don't think he can. Right, Yeah,

707
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna right. I agree, Okay, I agree. We

708
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Speaker 1: got a new coach coming up. At one o'clock. Frank

709
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Speaker 1: Right is going to join us, the head coach of

710
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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts, coming to town this weekend for his

711
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Speaker 1: Call to Courage Breakfast. We'll be back with Frank when

712
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Speaker 1: we return. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on

713
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network Sports Team. The update

714
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The news today centers on the

715
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers, though the Sabers have hired Ralph Krueger as

716
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Speaker 1: their next head coach. Fifty nine years old, he coached

717
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Speaker 1: the Edmonton Oilers during the lockout shortened season in two

718
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: twelve two thirteen. Krueger has vast coaching experience. He was

719
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 1: the head coach of Switzerland's national team to three Olympic

720
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Speaker 1: Games two thousand and two, two thousand and six, two

721
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Speaker 1: thousand and ten. He returns to the NHL after spending

722
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Speaker 1: the last five years as chairman of soccer's Southampton Football

723
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Speaker 1: Club of the English Premier League. He's a native of Canada,

724
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: played professionally in Germany back in the late seventies and

725
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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. Ralph Krueger replaces Phil Housley, who was

726
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: fired back in April. The Sabers now with an eight

727
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: year playoff droute, trying to end it with the naming

728
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Speaker 1: of their new head coach, Ralph Krueger. Stanley Cup Hockey

729
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: tonight one game out west at his Game three of

730
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Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals San Jose at Saint Louis, series

731
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Speaker 1: tied at one win apiece. They'll face off tonight at

732
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Speaker 1: eight o'clock. From the NFL, the Jets have fired general

733
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Speaker 1: manager Mike mccagan in a stunning move. Coach Adam Gays

734
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Speaker 1: will be the interim general manager while an immediate search

735
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Speaker 1: is underway or replacement. The Jets also fired their vice

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Speaker 1: president of player personnel. There were reports of internal discord

737
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Speaker 1: in the Jets organization. ESPN reported the draft during the

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Speaker 1: draft that friction developed between mccagan and Gays because of

739
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Speaker 1: disagreements over free agency personnel. The Jets denied the rift

740
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: had developed in the relationship between the two, but it

741
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Speaker 1: is out there now. Mike mccagan, general manager of the Jets,

742
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Speaker 1: fired by the team today. Stephen Guskowski has a new

743
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: contract with the New England Patriots. Despite reports that he

744
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 1: had considered signing elsewhere, he decided to stay with the Patriots,

745
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Speaker 1: the perennial Super Bowl contenders, Stephen Guskowski staying on fourth

746
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Speaker 1: round pick for the Patriots back in two thousand and six.

747
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: Quarterback McCoy is back with the Washington Redskins for OTA's

748
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: recovering from his fractured fibula and the recovery going well.

749
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Speaker 1: Expected to participate during their OTAs. Dick Eversol selected as

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Speaker 1: the recipient of the Pete Roselle Radio Television Award. Eversaw

751
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: once described as the most powerful figure ever in sports TV.

752
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Speaker 1: Longtime head of NBC Sports, Dick Eversol is the Pete

753
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Speaker 1: Roselle Award winner from the Pro Foot Hall of Fame.

754
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: And that's the update from one bills. I have you

755
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: ever come across, uh Dick Eversol? Uh? No, neither of

756
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: I know guys like I crossed paths with like guys

757
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: like Frank Jerkanian, and I've obviously worked with guys like

758
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 1: Lance Barrow and those guys. But uh no, I never

759
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: never crossed paths with him. Negotiated two broadcast contracts for

760
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: NBC in the NFL, um AFC Games, two Super Bowls,

761
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: rights to Olympics obviously, Um yeah, that's pretty cool. Vand

762
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: won that award, you know, Van Miller won. He was

763
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Speaker 1: the first local broadcaster ever in the history of the

764
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 1: award to win it. It It was always given to national gays.

765
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Speaker 1: And I was too, I was. I was so out

766
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: of him, that was too. He was whole hilarious. He's

767
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: unbelievably funny. Believe hey, Frank, Break's gonna join us in

768
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: a moment here on the show, head coach of the

769
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Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. Uh. He's coming to town this weekend for

770
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Speaker 1: his annual Call to Courage Awards. Breakfast Steve and I

771
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,959
Speaker 1: will be there part of a I guess I'm the

772
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Speaker 1: leader of the panel discussion about the uh, the state

773
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Speaker 1: of the NFL. Right, you me trying to think who

774
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: else will be there? Sean McDermott will be part of

775
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: that discussion. A bunch of us, Right, that's gonna be fun. See,

776
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: it's topics you can't well you can't get tickets anymore.

777
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: It's been so low, but it is gonna be fun.

778
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm sitting down with Frank and Linda. I'm gonna interview

779
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: them for people because of their their relationships. I've been

780
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: friends with them both for well since none of us

781
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: had kids, and now we've got eight kids between us

782
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: and all that, so then grandkids too. So um, I've

783
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: known them for a long long time. They're really wonderful couple. Um.

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Speaker 1: She has been uh as big a part of their

785
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: Frank success, as he will tell you that as he

786
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: has um and she's uh, Linda I'm talking about it

787
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: has been as They've been great together. It's been fun

788
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: to watch, you know, and keep track of their lives.

789
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: As you know, we all go our different ways after

790
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: we retired from from football and left the Buffalo Bills.

791
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 1: But Frank doing obviously great things with the Indianapolis Colts.

792
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys as us in the locker

793
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: room and you knew this, murphew. How many times did

794
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: guys tell you someday Frank was going to be a

795
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: head coach? Yeah, I mean it was constant all the time.

796
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 1: But can I was just thinking about this you know what,

797
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,479
Speaker 1: I thought, maybe that's not going to happen. When Frank

798
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,919
Speaker 1: left the Bills left football right. He played a little

799
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: bit after he lived here and then went and I

800
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: understand why he did it now in retrospect, but he

801
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: went and ran that school right in Carolina, took himself

802
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: right out of coaching. I thought, well, I guess he's

803
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: not gonna coach for ten years. Yeah, it was, it was,

804
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: It was not. He was a seminary student. He went

805
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 1: into the ministry for a decade and then came back

806
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: to football, and you know what that's like. And he

807
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: started at the bottom. I mean just he knew some

808
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 1: people obviously, and you know, guys like Bill Polian and

809
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: players and coaches that he'd worked with, and four we're

810
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: still in the league. It took him a year, two

811
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Speaker 1: years maybe to get even oh to come in. He

812
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: came in for like one training camp, was there for

813
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and that was it. And then

814
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: the next year they came back and they said, okay,

815
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: can come back to training camp. So he did it

816
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: again and then they said, okay you can. We'll give

817
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: you you know you can. You can hang around as

818
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: a folly control guy. And that's where he started, and

819
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Speaker 1: that was with Tony Dungee and Bill Polly and the

820
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Speaker 1: staff at the Colts. And it took a long time

821
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Speaker 1: to get back into it and start to work through it.

822
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: He waited his turn. Now, Yeah, we were talking about this,

823
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk with Frank about it. He's going to

824
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Speaker 1: join us any minute now. Last season, the Colts weren't

825
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: started out in trouble, right. They were one in five,

826
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Speaker 1: They had one win. They had lost to the Jets

827
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Speaker 1: the week before. They played the Bills in mid October.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills game was October twenty. They were

829
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Speaker 1: one in five going into that game. The Bills weren't

830
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: much better. I recall that day thinking the Bills got

831
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: a chance here, they can beat this Indianapolis team. It

832
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 1: was a blowout. Colts hammered the Bills that day and

833
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: they took off after that. They won nine of their

834
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: last ten games, went to the playoffs, beat Houston in

835
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs, lost at Kansas City. But what a run

836
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Speaker 1: they had at the end of the year. Nine out

837
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Speaker 1: of ten, nine and one in the last ten games

838
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: of the year. That was amazing. Yeah, and it was,

839
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: and it's funny too. And you give Frank credit obviously,

840
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: and Andrew luck and stuff. But the thing that people

841
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: from the outside and most other teams noticed about the

842
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: Annapolis Colts that a rookie left guard who was a

843
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: beast in his first you know years as a pro.

844
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: He was all pro, and their offensive line was dominant.

845
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: That was one of the things that they had in

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00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: Indianapolis that a lot of teams did not have. And

847
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: that came together, like you know, first six weeks of

848
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: the year, it looked pretty iffy, but then all of

849
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: the sudden things took took shape and they, like you said,

850
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: they had finished nine and one got to the playoffs.

851
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: That was quite a turnaround here. And talked to Frank

852
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: in a moment. He's coming back this weekend for the

853
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: Call to Courage Awards breakfast. They will honor Andy Dalton,

854
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals. He used the Call

855
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: to Courage Award winner. And we will have this panel

856
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: discussion you and me, Steve along with Josh Reid from

857
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: Channel four, and we've got Matt Barkley builds backup quarterback.

858
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley's part of our panel discussion looking forward to

859
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: that looking forward to reconnecting with Frank, and he joins

860
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: us on the line right now. Former Bills quarterback Frank

861
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: Raike fourteen seasons in the NFL, most of that time

862
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills, and now going into a second

863
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: year as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. Happy to

864
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: have Frank Raich on the line. Frank, John Murphy and

865
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker upper in Buffalo. How are you. We're looking

866
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: forward to seeing you this weekend. Hey, guys, good to

867
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: be on the phone with you, and look forward to

868
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: seeing you in a few days. Thanks for carving now

869
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: some time. I know you guys are busy with OTAs

870
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: or these or the conditioning things. How's that going. How's

871
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: things going in the first few, first few weeks of

872
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: your go around in two nineteen. Yeah, it's good, you know,

873
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting to next week, which is you know,

874
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: phase three or OTAs where we can compete against one another.

875
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: But these first couple of weeks, as he said Steve,

876
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: are a lot of conditioning, a lot of introduction in

877
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: the classroom to our schemes, and so looking forward to

878
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: starting competing next week. Frank, we were Stephen, are just

879
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: talking about the Colts and your two twenty eighteen season

880
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: and that game the Bills in the Colts October twentieth,

881
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 1: I believe it was last year. The Bills were kind

882
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: of scuffling along. You guys came in one and five,

883
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: you just lost to the Jets, hammered the Bills, and

884
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: then took off like a rocket after that. How much

885
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 1: what went on that week that got you guys going

886
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: so well for the rest of the year. Yeah, that

887
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: game really turned out to be a turnaround for us,

888
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: defining moment, and you know, I'm really started with what

889
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: we did up front and how we ran the ball.

890
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: You know, we went in against a Bills defense that

891
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: was among the best in the NFL, and they were

892
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: I think at the time ranked number one against the run,

893
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: and you know, we just went in there and you know,

894
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 1: we were one in five and had gotten a slow

895
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: start and had not run the ball successfully. And I

896
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: just think it was a determination that, hey, we're going

897
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: to get this thing turned around, and we got to

898
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: turn it around from upfront, and the guys up front

899
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: did a great job that really defined your team. We

900
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: spoke I spoke about just before you came on that

901
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: your offensive line really was the hallmark of that team

902
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: and its success later on with your young your young

903
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: left guard that you had drafted. The offensive line was

904
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: really the difference I think when you were struggling early

905
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 1: and when you got it together later on. Is that right?

906
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: It is right? And you know, early on we had

907
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,439
Speaker 1: a bunch of injuries. You know, we didn't have either

908
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: of our starting right or even either of our starting tackles.

909
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: Um you know, we had some other injuries. So it

910
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: was that Buffalo game that was the other thing that

911
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: was key. That was really the first time we kind

912
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: of got our five starters and you know, working together,

913
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: and it showed. Frank, there are fans, there are people,

914
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: maybe even some meeting people who who don't want to

915
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: hear that. They say, it's a passing league. It doesn't

916
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: matter if you can run the ball. In your mind

917
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: and your your fertile offensive mind. What role does a

918
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: good running game play do you think in today's NFL? Yeah, well,

919
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked me that because I, like you said,

920
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: I mean, people think it's a passing league, and in

921
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 1: many respects it is. But I really firmly believe that

922
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: you have to be able to run the football. I mean,

923
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 1: if you look at the stats of the teams who win,

924
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: and the teams, yeah, sure they've got great quarterbacks and

925
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: they can throw the ball, but usually it's teams that

926
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: are in the top ten in rushing, you know, that

927
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: are in it towards the end. There's exceptions to that,

928
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: but not many. And you know, if you look at

929
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: our team last year, they'll from that Buffalo game on

930
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: the last ten games of the year, you know, we

931
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: were ranked I think if you just look at those

932
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: ten weeks, very high in the run game, and that's

933
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: why we won nine to ten games. So it sets

934
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: up a lot of other things that dick pace the tempo.

935
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 1: There's just something about imposing your will on another team

936
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: physically by running the football that I think really helps

937
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: your team. Well, I know, it's May mid May, so

938
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: everybody feels really good about what they've done in the

939
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: offseason because everybody's full of hope. But you've done some

940
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 1: things that really raise some eyebrows. You got justin Houston

941
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: from the Chiefs, added Devin Funcious in free agency as

942
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. You drafted Paris Campbell. I mean, this

943
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: is you've really got to feel optimistic about not only

944
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: bouncing back and getting into the playoffs last year after

945
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: a slow start, but also maybe using last year's playoff

946
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: run as a springboard even better things going forward with

947
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: these new additions. Yeah, I think one of the biggest

948
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: challenges we have as managing expectations. You know, last year,

949
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 1: nobody was expecting anything, so it wasn't hard to manage expectations.

950
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: It was a let's rally around each other and believe

951
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: in each other. And so you know, this year, we

952
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: got to do the same thing. We got to keep

953
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: the same mindset and the mindset that worked for us

954
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: last year, and that is really our mantra is just

955
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: you know, believing the people and believing the process. You know,

956
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: get a little bit better every day. We don't focus

957
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: on results. We focus on getting better every day. We

958
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: know the results will come, and so we can't allow

959
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 1: all the talk of the media about hey, this Colts team,

960
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, they finished the year strong, we're gonna they're

961
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,919
Speaker 1: gonna be in it at the end. We just got

962
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: to block all that stuff out, just focus on the

963
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: day to day process and just keep getting better. Frank,

964
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: last year, you got a lot out of your second

965
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: round pick, the linebacker Darius Leonard. I believe it was

966
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: the defensive Rookie of the year right this year, your

967
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: second round here a pretty good player too. I've I've

968
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: been a fan of Rockiet scene since I saw him

969
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,959
Speaker 1: out at the Senior Bowl in in February. This guy's

970
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: a really good player. You get another defensive rookie of

971
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: the year. Yeah, we're really excited about getting Rock. I mean,

972
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 1: he just this guy's a warrior, you know, and as

973
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: a corner, just got this tough mental mindset, you know,

974
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: physically a tough guy. Really fits the style of defense

975
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: and the kind of attitude we want to play. He's

976
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: got great character, He's a leader, this guy, just like

977
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: Darius did last year. So you know, we're expecting him

978
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: to come in and make a big impact and you know,

979
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,720
Speaker 1: just get to learn the system and slowly work himself

980
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: in and you know, and then we had a couple

981
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: other you know, our feaser said, we were you know,

982
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: he was of course our first pick in the second round,

983
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: you know, but then we you know, we got Ben

984
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: Vanago as well in Paris Campbell. All three of those

985
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: guys in the second round who we expect to come

986
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: in and make a major contribution. One of the things

987
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: that that when you took over the job at head

988
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: coach of the Colts, the one thing he did not

989
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: have to worry about, which is unusual for a new

990
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: head coach, is what who's going to be taking snaps?

991
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck came back. He was injured a couple of

992
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: years ago. He came back in a big way this

993
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: last year. What does he mean as a leader? How

994
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: what kind of leader is he? I mean, I've sat

995
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: down spoken with him in production meetings and I've got

996
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: nothing but love and respect for the guy. Tell us

997
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 1: a little bit about your perception as a head coach

998
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: who has to work with him every day. Well, you know,

999
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 1: I remember before I got here. You know, I've followed

1000
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: his career since he got here to Indianapolis, and I

1001
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: was just always taken it back about how how fierce

1002
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: of a competitor he was and at the same time

1003
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: a really humble guy. And you know, having a chance

1004
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: to work with him, I get to see, I get

1005
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: to see that that's that's who he is. That's the

1006
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: real deal. This guy's a really, really fierce, fierce competitor.

1007
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,959
Speaker 1: He really works hard at getting better all the time.

1008
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,919
Speaker 1: He loves loves to compete, but yet he's a humble guy.

1009
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: You know, he wants to get better. He bleeds he

1010
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: can get better. He's it's not just about him, it's

1011
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: about the team. And so that's just contagious. It's fun

1012
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: to be with and work with, and it really sets

1013
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 1: the tone for our team. Frank, when you talk about

1014
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: setting the tone, Uh, you know, Sean McDermott has been

1015
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: here for a couple of years now and he's a

1016
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: big proponent of culture and establishing the culture. Have you

1017
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: been able to do that already in India after just

1018
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: one season going into your second year there, you know,

1019
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: I really feel like we've made some great strides there,

1020
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: you know, and really the culture really had just been

1021
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: in this mindset of toughness. You know, our definition of toughness.

1022
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: You know, we post on the wall in the locker

1023
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: room and that's Uh, it's a relentless pursuit to get

1024
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: better every day. It's an obsession defend. And so that's

1025
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: really the kind of cornerstone of what we want our

1026
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: culture to be about. About guys who love the process,

1027
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: guys who love working together, you know, figuring out ways

1028
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: to get themselves better and get their teammates better. And

1029
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: you know that doesn't happen just from the head coach

1030
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: talking about at the meeting. That happens from the guys

1031
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: in the locker room, you know, believing it. And you're

1032
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: veteran leaders, and even you're young leaders, you know, them

1033
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 1: believing it, taking ownership of it. And our players have

1034
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: done that. Frank, you're coming into town this Friday night.

1035
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 1: We're gonna have at casual dinner on Friday night. You've

1036
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,240
Speaker 1: got the Call to Courage breakfast on Saturday, May eighteenth,

1037
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: that's going to be downtown with the Higher Regency. You've

1038
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: done this for a long time and think's the eighteenth annual.

1039
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing this week? How is this year

1040
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: going to be different or better? We'll tell you what.

1041
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: It's amazing every year. You know, I can't even Linda

1042
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 1: and I my wife, Linda and I be sick. I

1043
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: I can't believe this is the eighteenth year. When we

1044
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: started this, you know, with Fred Rains and Ministry of

1045
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: Athletes and Action, we thought, hey, let's do it. Maybe

1046
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: maybe we can if we're if we're fortunate, and maybe

1047
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: we can get three or five years and now this

1048
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: is your eighteen and we're really excited. You know, this

1049
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: year the winner is Andy Dalton and obviously you know

1050
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: the impact that he's had on the Buffalo community and

1051
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: really the impact that the Buffalo community has had on

1052
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: the Andy Dalton Foundation is it's really a cool story.

1053
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: So to hear a little bit, I think it'll be

1054
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: fun for you know, the people of Buffalo to get

1055
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: the chance to hear what makes Andy Dalton tick. And

1056
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure he'll get a chance to say

1057
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: thank you again for the support that he's gotten from

1058
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 1: the Buffalo community in this foundation. And uh, and we'll

1059
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: get to hear a little bit of the backstory to

1060
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: that whole you know, that whole thing where he throw

1061
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: that touchdown passing the Bills made the playoffs. Yeah, he's

1062
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: a hero here. He'll get a warm response if he

1063
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: doesn't say a word now exactly. I always tell people

1064
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: that speech and Andy, you'll give it this year. But

1065
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: over the years, from Curtis Martin to land Year's speech,

1066
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it really is a highlight to hear some

1067
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: of the stories behind some of these great performers that

1068
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: people watch on TV and nobody in the NFL and

1069
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: the story, the stories they tell are always amazing. Frank,

1070
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: that's really the highlighted and one of the highlights of

1071
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: the breakfast, Roe really is. And that's like what Steve

1072
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: was saying, like, Hey, how's it going to be better?

1073
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: And that's what we say. That's what we say every year.

1074
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what we're gonna do. How are we

1075
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: going to top that? And then somehow the next year

1076
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: comes around and each one I can honestly say, we've

1077
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: had eighteen years and everyone has been very unique and

1078
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: special and it's in its own way, even though the program,

1079
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: you know, we change the program up a little bit

1080
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: from time to time, but it really is the people

1081
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: involved that make it work so well. And when the

1082
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: award winner in this case Andy Dalton gets up to

1083
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: give the acceptance speech, they just always have such an

1084
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: inspiring perspective that I think everyone walks out of their

1085
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: uplifted and feeling, you know what, this was worth the

1086
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: time to invest in coming here this point. Marios was

1087
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: great last year. Well, look the word is out Frank

1088
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: that I was talking to Joe Chief of this morning.

1089
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: The breakfast is sold out again, so I don't have

1090
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: to sell any tickets. That's good. Right, Well, I'll tell

1091
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: you what. It's amazing the support that we've gotten over

1092
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: the years. It's incredible. You know, every year we're getting

1093
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: over seven hundred people or you know, however many it fills,

1094
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: and it's it's really it's it's incredible. And you know,

1095
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: we really worked hard. You know, Fred Rains and his

1096
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: and his board, they really worked hard at trying to

1097
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: put on a good event. To hide it always does

1098
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: a great job for us. And then you know the

1099
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: people that come in are just quality and so thankfully

1100
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: we've been able to build on that. It's gonna be

1101
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: a great ye. It's fan. I look forward to seeing

1102
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 1: you this weekend, Frank, and tell Linda warmest regards look

1103
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: forward to seeing her as well. On congratulations on the

1104
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: eighteenth year that called a Courage Award Breakfast. Thank you Steve.

1105
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: Thanks Mark. We'll see you this weekend. Thank you, Frank.

1106
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: Great head coach Indianapolis Colts has called a Courage Awards

1107
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 1: Breakfast eighteenth annual coming up this Saturday at the High

1108
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: Regency in towntown with Andy Dalton. This year is called

1109
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: a Courage Award Winner. Steve and I will be there

1110
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: part of the UH and what else you gotta interview

1111
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: Frank and Linda. I've had a little interview, ye live

1112
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: interview with those two are just about, you know, their

1113
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,879
Speaker 1: journey together. And there's gonna be a panel discussion state

1114
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: of the NFL. It's gonna be who's gonna be like me?

1115
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: You mean Josh Reed from Channel four and Barkley, Matt Barkley. Yeah,

1116
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: interesting two NFL head coaches. They're listening to us. Yeah,

1117
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be on. They're gotta be up there, right.

1118
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll work again. I don't think that

1119
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: they are. I'll check. They should take you and I

1120
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: out and put a Frank and I know Ron and

1121
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,399
Speaker 1: Frank will be there. It'll be a great, great day.

1122
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 1: It always is, I'll tell you what. And I don't

1123
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: know a great year, right. They won nine of their

1124
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 1: last ten last year, advanced to the playoffs, beat the Texans,

1125
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 1: lost to Kansas City. Just you know, you think about

1126
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: the bills struggles again. Everything is mirrored through the bills

1127
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: here or funneled through the bills. That's what happens when

1128
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: you don't have the Patriots sitting on top of your

1129
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: division for the last decade and a half. You know

1130
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 1: what I mean, you can you can make a playoff.

1131
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,399
Speaker 1: You know you can. You can have a good run

1132
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: like that and make the playoffs. Exactly what I'm saying

1133
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: is they don't have the Patriots in that division. So

1134
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: the Texans can win, the Colts can win, the Jaguars

1135
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: can win the division. From time to time. It's I know,

1136
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: a different team has won the NFC East every year

1137
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 1: for the past twelve years. Yeah, you know, they are

1138
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: some unbelievable They've traded, They've traded division titles in the

1139
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,760
Speaker 1: NFC East for over a decade. We got a Buffalo

1140
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: Bill stay, anybody to join us here on the show.

1141
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips, Bills, a second year defensive lineman, say, anybody

1142
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: to join us in studio, come on back for that.

1143
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: We're rolling along here today One Bills Live from One

1144
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio with the ninety

1145
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: six pick in the two thy eighteen NFL Draft, Our

1146
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, Selitt, Harrison Phillips defensive tackles Stanford. Yeah, that's

1147
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: just what it looked like a year ago at the

1148
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: Draft twenty eighteen when Fred Jackson and Andre Reid called

1149
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 1: a Poncho Bia to announce the Bill's third round selection.

1150
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 1: It was Harrison Phillips, defensive tackle from Stanford. He became

1151
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: close with Poncho and Harrison is in studio with the

1152
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: Slave right now. Good afternoon, Harrison. How are you. I'm

1153
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: doing well? How are you good? My condolences, I know,

1154
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 1: Stephen Ifield for you. You developed not just that relationship,

1155
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: but a really strong personal bond with Ezra cast Road,

1156
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: didn't you. Yeah. Absolutely fantastic individual, so amazing for our

1157
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: organization in our community, but just a great person and

1158
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,760
Speaker 1: a great father. And I'm very happy to have grown

1159
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: a good friendship with him through just the year that

1160
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 1: I had known him. At the draft last year, I

1161
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: assume you were watching that Friday night, and what did

1162
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: you think when this guy steps up to and calls

1163
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,959
Speaker 1: your name? Did you think this is bizarre? This is insane? Well,

1164
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, you know I was on the phone

1165
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: with the Bills at the time, and you know, it

1166
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: was all emotional and I was crying and all these

1167
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: dreams came true of mine. But it was just my

1168
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: family there, my mom and dad, sister and girlfriend and um,

1169
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:07,959
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm kind of on the phone listening

1170
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: to what's going on. But I see this big elaborate

1171
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: thing happening, So I'm kind of listening, kind of watching.

1172
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: They kind of hang up, um, and so I get

1173
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: to watch it, and it was kind of, you know,

1174
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: my coming out opportunity into the NFL. Ezra got to

1175
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: do that for me, um, and and make my introduction

1176
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: into the NFL for all my friends and family and

1177
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: supporters along the way, other people in my village that

1178
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: you know, helped raise me. Um. They got to see

1179
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: my dreams be accomplished by him doing it for me

1180
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: and he's it was. It was incredible, and um, you know,

1181
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: I feel like I got to have a heck of

1182
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: a career. Uh. You know, great introductions you got here.

1183
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: You first met him as a training camp last year,

1184
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: and then of course, you like the rest of us,

1185
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: you kind of walked through until the tragedy happened yesterday.

1186
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: And um when when he passed, Um, you're in a

1187
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: head down for the for the funeral and all that.

1188
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: And interestingly enough too, he you live here, I mean

1189
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: you you hadn't having left here this offseason? Is it?

1190
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: How has that been for you? Yeah? I mean for

1191
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: the whole OTAs. Obviously, I've been here, came back a

1192
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: little early. I was in Omaha for a little bit

1193
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: and trained a couple of weeks at Stanford. But the

1194
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: most part I've been around and just really embracing the city,

1195
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: you know, through this off sea and I was able

1196
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: to build a pretty good relationship with Jim Kelly and

1197
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: so getting involved with some of the stuff that he has.

1198
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: Most importantly, I was networking through some of the Optimists

1199
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: and Rotaries and some of our sponsors here for the

1200
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills that I put on a camp here last weekend,

1201
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: a playmaker's camp for kids with down Center of Natzism

1202
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: special needs and it's all some inner city kids from

1203
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: East Buffalo. So I was busy with that. But uh,

1204
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: you know, just the longer I'd be here, you know,

1205
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: the longer I'm here, the more blessed I feel that

1206
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: this is the place that I ended up because we

1207
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: got a fantastic community up here. Can I get you

1208
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: back to punch will be for a second. The first

1209
00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: time you did meet him was a camp right right?

1210
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: And was he had been diagnosed? Was he sick? Did

1211
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: we know he was sick? Then? Yeah? Yeah, so he

1212
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: shows up at Saint John Fisher College. Um, did you

1213
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: know he was coming? Yep, okay, yep. We had been

1214
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: in contact after the pick right away, I think within

1215
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: two or three days. Um, we started messaging each other

1216
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: and swapped information, and um I had known the day

1217
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 1: he was going to come to training camp. I was like, Hey,

1218
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna link up and we got to hang out,

1219
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: talk for a while then. But it really wasn't until

1220
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: the season came that our bond really grew. You know,

1221
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: training camp, I'm fresher, yeah, yeah, real, real focus on

1222
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: being a rookie. But as the season went, our relationship

1223
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: obviously grew, and it was a lot of just you know,

1224
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: text messages here and there, how's your week going, you

1225
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: know how it was chem out. He was really good

1226
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: on social media, updating and everybody how his journey was going.

1227
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: And then you know, after the season, I even had

1228
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: more time on my hand, and obviously it was getting worse,

1229
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: so made those phone calls and facetimes a little more often.

1230
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: The apex of his relationship with this the particular team

1231
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: last year was happened in the Jet game as a

1232
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: week t Yeah, we mend member game weekend when he

1233
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: came in and and Sean McDermott had him speak to

1234
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: the team the night before the game with the Jets,

1235
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: and this this was a dark time in the season

1236
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: last year. You know, this was the fourth starting quarterback

1237
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: you'd had. You know, Matt was coming out. You know,

1238
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: you kind of had to rally around him. Um. The

1239
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: speech he gave the next day, Murph Murphys said it

1240
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Guys really credited that speech with

1241
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: really being an inspiration for that team and the big win. Yeah,

1242
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: I think it's it came at such a crucial point

1243
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: in our season. And you know, I had told him

1244
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,439
Speaker 1: on the phone the other day. You know, he's done

1245
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 1: so much regardless of the outcome of what he was fighting,

1246
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: he's a catalyst for our organization, in the future of

1247
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: our organization. UM. And when we came in and last

1248
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: year as rookies and we studied the grades who have

1249
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: been here before us, and we saw the banners that

1250
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: are hanging and and you know understood what that was about.

1251
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: Poncho's the start of this whole movement with us too.

1252
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: You know, coach has been coming up on year three.

1253
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,880
Speaker 1: UM and uh, right after that speech, the guys are

1254
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: all right and Poncho or we got the wrist bands,

1255
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: some of us got these nice snazzy T shirts, you know,

1256
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: but um no, Yeah, a lot of the guys bought

1257
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: it and really learned more about the whole story. To

1258
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: some of them, you know, who didn't really follow the

1259
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: draft too much or just who's the super fan? When

1260
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 1: they actually got to hear him speaking and the type

1261
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: of person and fan that he is, everyone just grew

1262
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: such more admiration and respect. You know, you knew him, well,

1263
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: I didn't know him at all, but the one thing

1264
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: I did detect was he has he had a tremendous

1265
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Speaker 1: sense of humor, right, yeah, and he knew who he

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Speaker 1: was and what his role was and what that crazy

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Speaker 1: costume meant. He got it. Yeah, absolutely, And uh, you

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Speaker 1: know two cool things about Ponchos you know. Number one,

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Speaker 1: you know, he just chose to follow the bills. You know,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't he didn't have a grandpa or uncle or something. Yeah,

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01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: he liked the red, white and blue, and he chose

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Speaker 1: to rock with the bills and then stayed with us

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01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: through thick and thin, seventeen years, no playoff run, and

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Speaker 1: he stood by us the whole time and that was

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01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,640
Speaker 1: just so welcome. You see. That's what you know, bills

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01:01:57,640 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 1: fans and Bills Mafia is all about, is you know,

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01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: there to be there with you the whole time. And

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01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: the second interesting thing about him, which you know, he

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01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 1: was a mortician and uh so you know he's comfortable

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01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,439
Speaker 1: with death and we've had many conversations about it. But

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Speaker 1: his angle of why he became a mortician was so

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01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 1: interesting to me is you know, like when my grandmother

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01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: passed away, the mortician made her as beautiful as you know,

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01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: as I remember her. This is a dead, decaying body,

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01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: but they can make it just like Grandma looked for me.

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01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:26,919
Speaker 1: And so he found passion in that, finding the fact

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01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,720
Speaker 1: that when someone's bearing their father, their mother, or their daughter,

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01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: their son, whoever it may be, they're as close to

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01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 1: the how how they want to be remembered for the

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01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: rest of their life. And that's why he did it.

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01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: It's so well and put so much you know, energy

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01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: and effort into it. I just love that. It was interesting.

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Speaker 1: One pointed thing about this he made the selection at

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01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 1: the draft was you heard right at the beginning of

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01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: this segmentum he booked your relationship with him, book into

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Speaker 1: your rookie season. Yeah, and now turned the page and

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01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: now you move on into your second lap and you're

1298
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: you're here at your OTAs we're here. You know this

1299
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: is a twelve you know, it's like a twelve month

1300
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 1: loop for you. Now you've you're now a veteran. How

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01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: yeah right, careful feels saying that out there, but not

1302
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: a wily veterans just say, you know, um, it's different

1303
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 1: this year. What do you notice now in your second goal?

1304
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: Right now that it's just begun, you come back and

1305
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: you see these new draft picks coming and think, oh

1306
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: my gosh, that I get that right. It's different now, yeah,

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01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 1: absolutely it's different. And you know it's so much more comfortable,

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01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 1: and so you're able to focus your attention on on

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01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: solely yourself and how can you aid the team better?

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01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: Last year, the wheels are spinning. Where am I supposed

1311
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 1: to live? Wait? Where's the meeting room? The cafeteria? Launch,

1312
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: There's so much going on that the wheels are just

1313
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: constantly spinning. Well, now that you kind of you know,

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01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: things are consistent. I know my way around, I know

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01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 1: the people, you know, I know everything I need to

1316
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: do now I can just have a sole focus on

1317
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: what can Harrison Phillips do to contribute to the twenty

1318
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Speaker 1: nineteen Buffalo Bills. What can you do? What's your plan?

1319
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: Well that was coming, Yeah, I kind of set it

1320
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: up for but you know, right now, I'm focusing on

1321
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: working on my explosiveness. Um, It's one of the areas

1322
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: I felt like I lacked a little bit last year

1323
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 1: was getting off on the ball, and I felt like

1324
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: I was pretty stout in the run game. But I

1325
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: want to prove myself as a pass rusher and on

1326
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: the only way to get out there on third down

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Speaker 1: is to prove that through these OTA's training camp the preseason,

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01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: and so it just really earned that right to get

1329
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 1: as many snaps as I can. And then now, you know,

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Speaker 1: a really cool thing is I'm so grateful and so

1331
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: thankful to the person Kyle Williams was to me and

1332
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Speaker 1: what he got a mentor and and you know, bring

1333
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 1: me along and all the things that he taught me.

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01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons that Coach McDermott and

1335
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: Brandon being drafted me was for some of those reasons

1336
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Speaker 1: of who Kyle Williams was off the field as well.

1337
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: And so now I have the opportunity to lead these

1338
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 1: new guys we have in our room the same way

1339
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: that Kyle was leading me and bringing me along last year.

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01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: You end up as a number two overall defense. We

1341
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 1: had this question on our pole yesterday. Couldn't the Bills

1342
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 1: or you know, will the Bills be a top five defense? Again?

1343
01:04:56,960 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: What are the likelihood of what? And what are the

1344
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: goals are you guys set for yourselves? I mean, I

1345
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: think absolutely we don't want to fall back anyway, So

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01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 1: you know, top five. Obviously, we have all of our

1347
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: standards in the areas that that we feel are the

1348
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: most important to winning games. Third down, turnover, you know,

1349
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: things like that that we're really going to be focusing on.

1350
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, we don't want to regress in any way.

1351
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 1: So you know, our goal is to be number one,

1352
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,120
Speaker 1: as it should be in all facets of of life

1353
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 1: and just in our what five weeks now we are

1354
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: through OTAs and I think that, uh, we're really starting

1355
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: a strong foundation to accomplish that. These five weeks no contact,

1356
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: no pads will be pads for a while. How how

1357
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 1: can you show what you have and what you have

1358
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: to offer? You know, especially as a as alignment, How

1359
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: can you show what you have in these workouts are

1360
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, I just want to come up

1361
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: to work every day and show that I care about

1362
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing. And I'm listening to everything they're saying me,

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01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 1: all the coaching points you know established, I know the

1364
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: playbook in and out when we do our walkthroughs, don't

1365
01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: blow any assignments in any way. And then you know

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01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: we still get to go after and run and break

1367
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: a sweat out there for hitting bags, sleds, whatever it is,

1368
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: do it with intent and purpose, be precise with you know,

1369
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: hand placement moving well, and and you know, just go

1370
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:12,200
Speaker 1: as fast as you can. Ball as the walls even

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01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 1: time for dodgeball today, even I we're keeping an eye

1372
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Speaker 1: on that. Well, yeah, that turns into the firestorm, doesn't.

1373
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: I mean that the intensity goes right through the roof.

1374
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 1: Yet it just like yeah, as soon as it blows,

1375
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: it's everybody's happy, go lucky. Then the whistle blows and

1376
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 1: it's like cool, it's a competitor, so fun. How did

1377
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: you do? Who won? We went four and three or

1378
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 1: three and four, um, middle of the road. We had

1379
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: some you know, controversial calls it's pretty tough without having

1380
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: film review on every everybody, or you know, I might

1381
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:46,919
Speaker 1: have been guilty as some of that. If you're not cheating,

1382
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 1: you're not trying type of thing. But no, it was

1383
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:52,840
Speaker 1: a good day and that's what the strength staff has

1384
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 1: told us. We've been working real hard for for five weeks. Here,

1385
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: get a little fun in there today. Arison, you mentioned

1386
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:01,919
Speaker 1: you tried to follow Kyle Williams example off the field too,

1387
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 1: and you've I didn't realize this. You and Steve said

1388
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: a minute ago, you've been here all off season. Huh,

1389
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: you didn't go home to Nebraska. I went home for

1390
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: a while when I went to Stanford for a little bit, um,

1391
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: but I came back early and doing community stuff for

1392
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: the most part. Right, yeah, what kind of stuff? What

1393
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: do you like doing? Um? You know, I've I've worked

1394
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: a lot with born Hava, which is uh preschool for

1395
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 1: kids with downside a NATSIS. I've done a lot of

1396
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:26,000
Speaker 1: stuff with them. Um, gone up to Oshi Children's Hospital three,

1397
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:29,360
Speaker 1: four or five times now since i've been back. Um,

1398
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 1: and just realizing we have so much time in the day, um,

1399
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, not in season, and I worked my entire

1400
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: life to have the platform I have now, and I

1401
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 1: just want to, you know, pay it back and pay

1402
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 1: it forward. So you've seen the you've started to be

1403
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:43,760
Speaker 1: here in the off season, You've seen this place and

1404
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 1: the transformation. Um, how much does that change your desire

1405
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:49,919
Speaker 1: to even stay here in the office. I mean it's

1406
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 1: like wow, you know, yeah, they they're convenient, exactly. They

1407
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 1: did a great thing. It's it's really hard to leave

1408
01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: here at you know, we get done at noon, and

1409
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 1: it's hard to leave here right at noon. Like there's

1410
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 1: so many different whether it's massage, aart norma tech, massage, chairs,

1411
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:09,919
Speaker 1: lightbed therapy, saunas, steam rooms. We want to get sleep.

1412
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:12,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what six of those words meant, but

1413
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard to leave. I have not I'm

1414
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 1: not a big nap guy. I'm not. We are. We'd

1415
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 1: like to different our mid to late fifties. Would you

1416
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 1: like a scouting report we have? Yeah, you guys try

1417
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: to sleep. Pods are key, Harrison. Thanks, we again. We

1418
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: I want to express condulges. I know you lost a

1419
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 1: good friend. You're going down for the funeral whenever it

1420
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,600
Speaker 1: is the next few days, and we'll probably have I

1421
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 1: would I'm sure you'll have encouraging words for for Ezra's family, right,

1422
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: I mean on behalf of the Buffalo Bills. I would think,

1423
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 1: right because this team feels this, don't Yeah. Yeah. A

1424
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: lot of guys have been coming up to me knowing

1425
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 1: that I've been calling checking in about it every night

1426
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, um and so every day

1427
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 1: handful of people are coming up asking what's the newest updates,

1428
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:54,840
Speaker 1: what's the newest updates? Sam, Thank you for this, Thanks

1429
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 1: for coming in, Thank you guys for having Harrison Phillips

1430
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 1: going into a second year Bills defensive tackle, Steve and

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01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: I coming back One Bills from One Bill's Drive on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. It's

1433
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: been an interesting show. I like this show. Seven. We

1434
01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: still have more to go. Chris Brown's gonna come in

1435
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: here at two o'clock straighten to sound on what's going

1436
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 1: on with the Bill's voluntary offseason conditioning A couple of

1437
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 1: days away from the OTAs, which people laugh into it.

1438
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:32,679
Speaker 1: What are you guys talking about? These these these means

1439
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 1: something designations OTAs that means something that means you can

1440
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 1: get seven on seven, nine on seven, eleven on eleven,

1441
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: and it'll look a little more like football starting next week.

1442
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, you mentally, you take a huge step forward

1443
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 1: in your preparation, your ability to walk through stuff, and

1444
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:54,599
Speaker 1: you start to play a little bit of football something.

1445
01:09:54,680 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: It starts to look like football instead of a bunch

1446
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:59,599
Speaker 1: of guys standing around the field walking around like cows.

1447
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 1: You know. I'm I mean basically they're kind of walk

1448
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: them through everything. And now now they can yeah, right,

1449
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 1: so now they can move around and start to like, oh,

1450
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 1: I you know, I see what this means here, Now

1451
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 1: what happened, you know, And then you can get a

1452
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 1: feel for what it's gonna when this when the ball

1453
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: is snapped and you're doing this full speed, you get

1454
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 1: a feel for who can really do it, you know,

1455
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 1: and you get to the spot where they're supposed to be.

1456
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: Who can really turn their hips and run with this guy?

1457
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 1: And who can you know, who can really live up to,

1458
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 1: you know, what they're supposed to be doing out there.

1459
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 1: And that's it's a big step forward mentally for the

1460
01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: players in their ability to understand all the stuff that

1461
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 1: they want him to do. Because when you got to

1462
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 1: put your body in it, you got that and that's

1463
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 1: a big step. It's a big step that's coming up

1464
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: next Monday. We'll talk to Chris Brown about that coming

1465
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 1: up at two. You can phone in. Then you can

1466
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: chime in on our Twitter poll. What's been Bills General

1467
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 1: manager Brandon means greatest accomplishment this offseason? Not in his

1468
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 1: two year tenure. He is a little bit more than

1469
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 1: two years into the job, going into his second season. Here,

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Speaker 1: what's been his greatest accompliment this offseason? On Twitter? We've

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Speaker 1: got almost eight hundred votes in most of you, Seventy

1472
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: six percent say overhauling the offensive line is his greatest accomplishment.

1473
01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: Fifteen percent say drafting at Oliver and Cody Ford, five

1474
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 1: percent say adding talent to the wide receiver group, four

1475
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 1: percent say something else. Think outside the box. If you

1476
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: want to give us something that we might not be

1477
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 1: thinking of here, give us a call eight oh three

1478
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:25,280
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

1479
01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: two five fifty voting or Twitter poll or sending a

1480
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 1: tweet on the tweets You got another tweet or two

1481
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 1: from Lee says, I say other, here's one you ask

1482
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 1: former for other because I think overall he's done a

1483
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 1: phenomenal job, he has the salary cap under control, He's

1484
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: made some good moves. I'm more excited this year than

1485
01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 1: I've been in a long time, He's saying, and totally

1486
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: he's just totally enamored with Brandon Bean. Doug says this,

1487
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: I'm being a little old school here, but I'm saying

1488
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,559
Speaker 1: other as well. I'm going with the O line and

1489
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 1: QB room coaching changes. We got coaches that better fit

1490
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,880
Speaker 1: our regime and went out and draft and signed players

1491
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:03,720
Speaker 1: that fit our coach's strengths. I bet you both O

1492
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:07,120
Speaker 1: line play and QB play will improve. That's a good one.

1493
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 1: Although I feel compelled to make I think, don't you

1494
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: think those are Sean McDermott's moves hiring Bobby Johnson and

1495
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey. Yeah those are, Yeah, not that the coaching

1496
01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:19,880
Speaker 1: moves are are certainly Sean McDermott moves. Jeremiah on the

1497
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: tweet sheet Brandon Bean's biggest accomplishments this offseason, Jeremiah says,

1498
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:27,600
Speaker 1: overhauling the offensive line. While I love the addition of

1499
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: Oliver and I'm sure he'll make a huge difference. They

1500
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:32,599
Speaker 1: were already top five in defense last year, but since

1501
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: the old line was so bad they couldn't score points.

1502
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: Josh needed a better O line, and they went and

1503
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 1: got him one. They got numbers, they got players. They

1504
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 1: got Mitch Morris, who's gonna start and play well, I believe.

1505
01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 1: And they got you know, a couple of buns are

1506
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: long in Spain. They got Cody ford h Some of

1507
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 1: these guys wondered what their role might be. Do they

1508
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: have enough? It's gonna be interesting. There's a ton of them.

1509
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:58,200
Speaker 1: And we got the list up right now. There's what

1510
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: is that sixteen guys? How many guys is that? Yeah,

1511
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: there's sixty sixteen guys. Seven and you know this guy's

1512
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 1: like fifth round draft pick last year, wyatte Teller, he's

1513
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:10,439
Speaker 1: kind of he's down the list. I mean, Jeremiah Searles, li,

1514
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 1: Adrian Waddle, Quentin Spain, Joe Feliciano tie and second, I mean,

1515
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:16,639
Speaker 1: you gotta read up that list a long way before

1516
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:19,000
Speaker 1: you find a second guy who's actually even here last year.

1517
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: And he got to go up to Dion Dawkins. Um,

1518
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:25,800
Speaker 1: that's it, uh, Connor mc. You have four guys out

1519
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:30,440
Speaker 1: of sixteen that we're here last year, Teller Ducas McDermott

1520
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 1: and Dawkins. Nobody else was out Jeremiah Searles. There's five

1521
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 1: seven guys here last year, right, who were who? Bodine one,

1522
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:43,759
Speaker 1: Buttger two Ducats three Butler and oh Bodine and Butler four,

1523
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: Dawkins five, McDermott six, Searles seven. Less than half of

1524
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 1: those guys we're here last year, less than half of

1525
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 1: the sixteen we're here. And I'll bet you some of

1526
01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: those guys won't be here this year, right. I mean,

1527
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:56,200
Speaker 1: that's what the odds say because of the way the

1528
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: line performed last year. That is an overhaul. Yeah, that

1529
01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 1: is a big overhaul. Because he Mitch Morrise is the

1530
01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: highest paid offensive center in the National Football League. He

1531
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: ain't going anywhere, right, No. Spencer Long was the first

1532
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:15,600
Speaker 1: guy they signed. They signed him immediately after he was

1533
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 1: released by the Jets, and he was released by the

1534
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 1: Jets by a new head coach who didn't have anything

1535
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:20,599
Speaker 1: invested him in, a GM who was trying to make

1536
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:22,839
Speaker 1: his head coach happy at the time before he was fired,

1537
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,720
Speaker 1: and Spencer Long had had a couple of instances last

1538
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: year where he looked awful because he was a center

1539
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 1: trying to snap the ball and had like four or

1540
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 1: five bad snaps in a row because he had a

1541
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:38,280
Speaker 1: busted hand. So he the Jets franchise soured on him

1542
01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 1: for that and that alone, and so he was picked

1543
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 1: up immediately the moment he became available. So those two

1544
01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 1: guys aren't going anywhere. Dion Dawkins left tackle from a

1545
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 1: year ago who has played well at in this league

1546
01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 1: and the past, He's not going anywhere either. So that

1547
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:57,960
Speaker 1: leaves you with the you know, two other spots, and

1548
01:14:58,040 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: you got a high draft pick, a second rounder Cody Ford,

1549
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:06,479
Speaker 1: that moves in to take one of those. So it's yeah,

1550
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a completely revamped offensive line. Yep. Hey, um,

1551
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,680
Speaker 1: let's talk about this. Steve, did you I'm sure you

1552
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: did not watch last night the NBA Draft lottery. I

1553
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: saw it on the guide and I was like, I was,

1554
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: I hadn't you know I got the new TV systems.

1555
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I was winging through that. So I

1556
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:25,680
Speaker 1: did not stop. I did. I watched fifteen minutes. All

1557
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:29,599
Speaker 1: it took. The New Orleans Pelicans went into last night's

1558
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: draft lottery with the seventh spot and they got number one.

1559
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,599
Speaker 1: They're gonna get Zion Williams. They had like a six

1560
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 1: percent chance, six percent chance of getting the first pick.

1561
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:41,040
Speaker 1: They got it. The Grizzlies had a six percent chance

1562
01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 1: they're picking second. The Knicks had a fourteen percent chances.

1563
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 1: Is it's a weighted lottery, so the Knicks and the

1564
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 1: Calves and Phoenix all had fourteen percent the highest, the

1565
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 1: best chance of getting number one. Nicks finished third, Cavaliers

1566
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 1: finished fifth, Sun finished six, Lakers with a two percent

1567
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:01,840
Speaker 1: chance of getting the first pick finished fourth. Here's the thing.

1568
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:04,559
Speaker 1: It was drama, and it was only ten fifteen minutes.

1569
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: So that's fine. And I think I'd like to see

1570
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 1: it in every sport, including the NFL. I really would.

1571
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 1: I think a lottery, Yeah, but I don't know. Man,

1572
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: it immediately eliminates any suspicion of tanking, and I'd think

1573
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 1: back to the argument that you weren't here, I argument

1574
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:24,320
Speaker 1: I had with Joe Piscalia about did the Bill's tank

1575
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:26,760
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago or were they trying to tank,

1576
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 1: trying to lose. If you got a lottery with weighted,

1577
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:32,680
Speaker 1: weighted picks like this, where you really don't you know,

1578
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:34,600
Speaker 1: you don't know how it's going to turn out. You

1579
01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:36,680
Speaker 1: got a better chance if you finish, you know the

1580
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: lower you finish, but you don't have a guarantee chance.

1581
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:41,040
Speaker 1: No one ever mentioned a tank again. I'd like it.

1582
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 1: I liked it. I thought it was pretty decent drama.

1583
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: Somebody pointed out what they should do is have the

1584
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 1: draft lottery and then immediately go to the draft. That

1585
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,880
Speaker 1: would be fun if you went into draft day not

1586
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 1: knowing if you had the first pick, but you could.

1587
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: Can you imagine, here's a lottery, here's how we finished

1588
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 1: one through whatever, seven or eight, and then go ahead

1589
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,639
Speaker 1: start drafting. That would be a lot of fun. But yeah,

1590
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 1: I would like to see the lottery in every sport,

1591
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 1: including hockey, so we never have to well there is

1592
01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 1: a bit of a lottery there now, so you never

1593
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: have to suffer through the what the Sabers did a

1594
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: couple of years ago with tanking, right, or even the

1595
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,639
Speaker 1: suspicion of tanking, A lottery, A draft lottery would remove

1596
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 1: I mean Frank's team, the Colts were suspected of tanking

1597
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,320
Speaker 1: the year year they got Andrew Loutton and Peyton Manning

1598
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: was out. Yeah, I just yeah, pulled in all their

1599
01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 1: saying I would love to see draft lottery in the

1600
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:30,880
Speaker 1: NFL and every sport. I don't think so. Not, I

1601
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: don't think so. I think it's unnecessary in the NFL

1602
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: because in this sport it's a little different. Though. Teams

1603
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 1: are so big, fifty three guys on a roster, forty

1604
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:41,200
Speaker 1: five active on game day, there's really only one guy

1605
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 1: on the field any given year that is a guy

1606
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: worthy of trying to get and that would be some quarterback,

1607
01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: some franchise quarterback. We've seen a lot of guys who

1608
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 1: were camp miss candidates come out and flame out very quickly.

1609
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 1: We had this thing twenty thirteen. There isn't even a

1610
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,120
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league that's would have been worth taken

1611
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:02,679
Speaker 1: in two thousand and thirteen. The best guy in that class,

1612
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 1: Gino Smith, isn't hired yet by anybody. And one of

1613
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 1: the guys in that league, the one that's the best,

1614
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 1: is our guy here, Matt Barkley, who won a game

1615
01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 1: last week year for the Bills against the Jets. So

1616
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 1: it's not really as prevalent, and it wouldn't be as

1617
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:23,440
Speaker 1: beneficial or prevalent in the NFL because those generational players

1618
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 1: really come along once in a generation. They don't come

1619
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: along every three or four or five years, every fifteen years,

1620
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: Why is there a suspicion that the Dolphins are tanking

1621
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: this year? Everybody? Armando Selgaro and several others have said

1622
01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:37,840
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are tanking for who? But look, if you

1623
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:40,439
Speaker 1: have a lottery, you never have this question raised again. Well,

1624
01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: here's the thing the Dolphin. You can say what you

1625
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 1: want about the Dolphins. There's no question they're rebuilding. But

1626
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: you can make the count case for that. If a

1627
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: team's does some things that like if they get rid

1628
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,839
Speaker 1: of a good player because of his contract, that's still

1629
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: considered a rebuild because they've got to get the financial

1630
01:18:57,280 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 1: house in order, so you can. It depends on the

1631
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: degree of you want to call it. If you're going

1632
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: to rebuild, that virtually is tanking. Every time you're trying

1633
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 1: to rebuild, every time you need a quarterback, every time

1634
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,559
Speaker 1: you take a step back to move forward, that's tanking. No,

1635
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 1: I think tanking is only if you deliberately lose. If

1636
01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:19,840
Speaker 1: you prefer to lose, you can without Well, teams have

1637
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:22,719
Speaker 1: done it well, n they've done it in the NHL

1638
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:24,600
Speaker 1: pretty close to home here. I'll tell you what I

1639
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,040
Speaker 1: never They've never done it. In the NFL, I would

1640
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: make that case because I'll tell you why, mainly because

1641
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:36,120
Speaker 1: there you don't gain anything by it. And and I

1642
01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 1: know this too, it doesn't fly in the locker room.

1643
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get a team to do that. Uh.

1644
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: And it's just there's just no way. Here's the thing

1645
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 1: and the point I was gonna try and make it.

1646
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:50,439
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get in sidetracked. You can call it tanking.

1647
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:54,800
Speaker 1: It's not tanking, it's rebuilding. There, they would do things

1648
01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: differently if they had a choice. They got a guy

1649
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 1: who's not producing and he's overpaid, you gotta get rid

1650
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 1: of him. You got to get money for that. And

1651
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 1: because of the structure of things, it takes a year

1652
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:06,760
Speaker 1: to get that off your books because of the dead

1653
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: money that it costs you. There are times when you

1654
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 1: do make moves that are gonna get you better, but

1655
01:20:13,040 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 1: maybe not get you better for this season. That is

1656
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 1: not tanking to me. You had the Bills being accused

1657
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 1: of tanking two years ago and they went to the playoffs.

1658
01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:26,559
Speaker 1: So I just don't think in this sport, the one

1659
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 1: we cover, that that is an issue. So I don't

1660
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 1: think they need a draft lottery there to keep teams

1661
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 1: from doing that. They've got teams. Now you're talking about

1662
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 1: this quarterback from Clemson coming out we all were enamored

1663
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: with after they won the National championship against Alabama as

1664
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 1: a freshman. They're thinking, Wow, this guy's you know, if

1665
01:20:42,520 --> 01:20:45,599
Speaker 1: he could, he should turn pro now and he can't

1666
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: do that in the NFL. But you know, our team's

1667
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:51,879
Speaker 1: gonna tank for this guy. You know what, I wouldn't

1668
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:56,520
Speaker 1: because Ryan Leaf was a can't miss two. There were

1669
01:20:56,760 --> 01:21:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, Andrew Luck hasn't won many playoff games and

1670
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 1: he is a shoe in right. I would love a

1671
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 1: lottery the NFL. Remove the suspicion you'd never talk about

1672
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: it again, you'd never hear it. Well, you're you're talking

1673
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 1: on both sides your mouth. No not. I would love

1674
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: at the tank in hockey they got a lottery. Well,

1675
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 1: they tank in the NBA, they've got a lottery. They

1676
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: tanked a couple of years ago when there was no lottery.

1677
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:21,400
Speaker 1: The NHL. They've changed that now and I think tanking

1678
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 1: is probably less of a strategy now. The Sixers tank again.

1679
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: There's a lottery the Sixers. It's been a lottery for

1680
01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:32,680
Speaker 1: fifteen years. Twenty years Patrick Ewing, the GM that was

1681
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 1: standing up for the Knicks was a lottery pick, and

1682
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about how they rigged it

1683
01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 1: so he would go to New York. That was the first. Yeah,

1684
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it would benefit the NFL just to

1685
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:45,280
Speaker 1: remove the it does suspicion, to remove the suspicion of tanking,

1686
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: which is there though it is there, but it doesn't.

1687
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 1: It doesn't does remove it. It does remove it, Yes,

1688
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:53,839
Speaker 1: it does. I just listed five teams that were tanking

1689
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 1: in a in a league in an era that they

1690
01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: have a lottery The seventh, the team with the seventh

1691
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: best chance of getting the number one pick, got it

1692
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,800
Speaker 1: last night in the That's the crazy thing about it.

1693
01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 1: It's it's good I think, man, don't lose deliberately. That's

1694
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:10,360
Speaker 1: what I'm trying. Don't even have the suspicion of losing deliberately.

1695
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: Would do well. Here's there's a difference between losing deliberately

1696
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 1: and taking a step back in order to get better

1697
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: down there. That's a rebuild. Tanking is not a rebuild, right,

1698
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 1: That's right, all right. So that's that's the issue that

1699
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,160
Speaker 1: you really need to address. I know we're arguing semantics here,

1700
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:29,240
Speaker 1: and I don't want to get but what's the difference

1701
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: between a tank and a rebuild? Losing deliberately is the

1702
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: line when you cross that line your tanking. Well, here's

1703
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:37,240
Speaker 1: the thing too, there's no coaches or players that are

1704
01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:40,599
Speaker 1: in on the tank. They're trying, they're trying hard to win.

1705
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 1: I hope you're right. I'm not. Oh, I'm absolutely all right.

1706
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely right. I think they should have a draft lottery.

1707
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:49,680
Speaker 1: Steve says, no, we're gonna break here. We're coming back.

1708
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, we'll get his thoughts on this. Chris Brown

1709
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 1: builds inside or Buffalo bills dot Com when we return

1710
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio,

1711
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: Hill Suadio Network. Sports team update from One Bill Drive,

1712
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:13,719
Speaker 1: the big sports news and Buffalo comes from the Buffalo Sabers.

1713
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:16,559
Speaker 1: They've hired Ralph Krueger as their new head coach, trying

1714
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: to end an eight year playoff drout. The team made

1715
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:21,679
Speaker 1: the announcement today. Ralph Krueger's fifty nine years old coach

1716
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:24,840
Speaker 1: the Edmonton Oilers back in the Lockhouse season twenty twelve

1717
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:28,759
Speaker 1: through two thirteen, fired by the team after the Oilers

1718
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,519
Speaker 1: finished with nineteen wins, twenty two losses and seven ties

1719
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: that year. He does have vast coaching experience. He was

1720
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: the national head coach of Switzerland's team in three Olympic Games.

1721
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: Krueger returns to the NHL. He spent the last five

1722
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:44,600
Speaker 1: years as chairman of soccer's Southampton Football Club of the

1723
01:23:44,640 --> 01:23:48,440
Speaker 1: English Premier League. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, played hockey professionally

1724
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: in Germany for a while. Ralph Krueger, the brand new

1725
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 1: head coach of the Buffalo Sabers, announced today stand a

1726
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:57,400
Speaker 1: Cup playoff action. Tonight. San Jose Saint Louis will play

1727
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: Game three of the Western Conference Finals. That series tied

1728
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:02,599
Speaker 1: at one win apiece. They'll face up at eight o'clock

1729
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 1: tonight in Saint Louis. Now Football News. The Jets, in

1730
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 1: a surprise move, fired general manager Mike mccagnen. Coach Adam

1731
01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: Gase will be the interim general manager while they begin

1732
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 1: an immediate search for a replacement. The Jets also fired

1733
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:18,800
Speaker 1: their vice president of player personel Brian Heimerdinger. Shacob comes

1734
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 1: after several reports of internal friction between the two. Adam

1735
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: Gase and Mike mccagnen, they had been denied. Both men

1736
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 1: denied that a rift had developing their relationship, but Christopher Johnson,

1737
01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 1: the Jets CEO, reportedly was so concerned about the relationship

1738
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:36,559
Speaker 1: between the two that he began spending more time at

1739
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:40,759
Speaker 1: the Jets facility to monitor their situation. Patriots had resigned

1740
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 1: kicker Stephen Gaskowsky. Gaskowski, a fourth round pick in two

1741
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 1: thousand and six, immediately replaced the potential Hall of Famer

1742
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 1: Adam Vina Terry. Back in two thousand and six, Goskowsky

1743
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 1: signs a contract extension win New England quarterback Colton McCoy

1744
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:57,400
Speaker 1: back with the Washington Redskins for their OTAs he recovers

1745
01:24:57,439 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: from his fractured fibula. And it's going well so far.

1746
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: The Bison's host Gwinette Tonight the Stripers six oh five,

1747
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: First Bitch Downtown at Sailing Field. And that's the update

1748
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 1: from one Bill's Drive, John Murphy's team Tasker, begin our

1749
01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:12,400
Speaker 1: number three and beginning with our buddy Chris Brown Bill's

1750
01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 1: Inside or Buffalo Bills dot Com. Chris is here for

1751
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: one reason and one reason only. He wore that shirt

1752
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 1: today at the morning meeting here at One Bills Drive,

1753
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:23,160
Speaker 1: and we said, yes, you're you're a guest Bill Staff

1754
01:25:24,320 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 1: Cardinal mistake. You regret that wardrobe choice this morning, Chris.

1755
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:29,719
Speaker 1: It's a night shirt. It looks great. You like the shirt?

1756
01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:31,840
Speaker 1: Why wasted in the folks in here? You know where

1757
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:33,360
Speaker 1: the shirt you're gonna you can be on the show.

1758
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 1: How about that? That's great? Thank you? Did you check

1759
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:39,639
Speaker 1: out did you check out the Dodgeball? I did check

1760
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 1: out Dodgeball? That is listen, Dodgeball the movie doesn't have

1761
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 1: much on Dodgeball at One Bill's Drive. I'll say that

1762
01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:49,160
Speaker 1: right now. The only thing they've got on Dodgeball here

1763
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 1: at One Bill's Drive are the outfits. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1764
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:54,080
Speaker 1: that's true. They they are dressed kind of you just

1765
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:56,400
Speaker 1: in invest and stuff. I was laughing because I was

1766
01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: walking through and guys are getting put out, you know,

1767
01:26:00,439 --> 01:26:04,599
Speaker 1: and they are hot about getting put out, arguing and arguing.

1768
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 1: But it's screaming, oh my, and it's loud. I mean,

1769
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 1: but it's smart though, isn't it. I mean, on the

1770
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 1: part of the strength and conditioning staff. And they had

1771
01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: a scavenger hunt going on today too or something. We

1772
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: had guys running through the halls today looking yeah, looking

1773
01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:19,800
Speaker 1: for stuff upstairs and down. I think it was an

1774
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:23,599
Speaker 1: exercise to help all of the rookies. It was, it

1775
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 1: was almost all rookies. It was an exercise to help

1776
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:28,839
Speaker 1: the rookies get a lay of the land in the building.

1777
01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 1: Because I heard them screaming, where's the sports science guy,

1778
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:34,599
Speaker 1: where's the sports like they're running through so now they

1779
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: know where to go when they have to see the

1780
01:26:36,240 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 1: sports science guy. So it was kind of a fun

1781
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: way to get them acclimated to what you were eligible for.

1782
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:44,840
Speaker 1: The scavenger hunt, right, wasn't the corporate scavenger that's something different.

1783
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 1: This was just in the building, separate. This was just

1784
01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 1: in the building with the uh the coaches put the

1785
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,240
Speaker 1: rookies through the pace. It was funny because they were

1786
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 1: in like groups of twos and threes and they're running

1787
01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:55,720
Speaker 1: through the halls. I mean, if you didn't watch, you

1788
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 1: were gonna get run over. I mean they were. They

1789
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:00,280
Speaker 1: were competitive. But it's smart And they read them saying

1790
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:03,719
Speaker 1: it's smart is because you get guys that are alpha males,

1791
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 1: you know, pretty much their whole life, and then you

1792
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:09,400
Speaker 1: put him in that kind of a competitive setting. You know,

1793
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna get the best, You're gonna get

1794
01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:15,519
Speaker 1: the best efforts. Yeah. But as we were saying when

1795
01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: we were off air, the undrafted tackle from Northwestern Steve

1796
01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 1: to me, I didn't know when he was signed. They

1797
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 1: had a rookie dodgeball matchup at the end and he

1798
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:31,920
Speaker 1: was pegging people, just taking people out, like he took

1799
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:34,599
Speaker 1: out the last two guys to win for the win.

1800
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: Very nice. It was big. He got mobbed at the end.

1801
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:40,320
Speaker 1: Go you Northwestern, there you go. That's good. What are

1802
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:42,679
Speaker 1: we what are we getting out of these uh, these

1803
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:47,679
Speaker 1: this exercises these days. Are we getting anything out of this? Brownie? Yeah?

1804
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:51,080
Speaker 1: I mean I think you're getting it's team building, it's camaraderie,

1805
01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 1: you know. Um. I think they purposely in most cases

1806
01:27:55,640 --> 01:28:00,839
Speaker 1: with these games of sorts. Um, they mix young players

1807
01:28:00,840 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 1: and old players on purpose. They mix players from opposite

1808
01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:07,719
Speaker 1: sides of the ball on purpose. They mix position groups

1809
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:10,479
Speaker 1: on purpose, just like they do in the locker room.

1810
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no rhyme or reason to how that

1811
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:15,599
Speaker 1: locker rooms laid out. It's it's all mumbo jumbo on purpose.

1812
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 1: Because they're trying to put people with guys they probably

1813
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 1: normally wouldn't hang out with. So there is connectivity throughout

1814
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 1: that locker room no matter which side of the ball

1815
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:28,559
Speaker 1: you're on. You can't say that about previous coaching regimes

1816
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:31,599
Speaker 1: and how they laid locker rooms out. And I mean,

1817
01:28:32,040 --> 01:28:35,679
Speaker 1: we know coach McDermott and his staff are a thorough bunch,

1818
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:38,080
Speaker 1: you know, very methodical and everything that they do, and

1819
01:28:38,160 --> 01:28:40,960
Speaker 1: it's down to who's sitting were in the locker room? Yeah, right, Well,

1820
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 1: the one thing that strikes me and we are now

1821
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: into what offseason three under Sean McDermott, right, and you

1822
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 1: can see the pattern that he's developed and the kind

1823
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:52,640
Speaker 1: of as you mentioned, the team building exercises that he incorporates,

1824
01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's a dodgeball or the bike competition

1825
01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:58,519
Speaker 1: the other day, the stationary bike competition. He's got a

1826
01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:01,120
Speaker 1: plan for this offseason about what he wants to do,

1827
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:03,800
Speaker 1: how he wants his players to interact with each other,

1828
01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:06,600
Speaker 1: how he wants him to think all this. By the way,

1829
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:09,640
Speaker 1: are the elements of the famous process really right? And

1830
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:12,000
Speaker 1: it's less of a lift now in year three than

1831
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 1: it was in year one because you have guys who

1832
01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:16,680
Speaker 1: have been here who can kind of pass along the

1833
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:20,960
Speaker 1: messaging without any reminders. I mean, even those veteran players

1834
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: that were on this roster two years ago probably needed

1835
01:29:24,640 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 1: to have the message reinforced to them so they could

1836
01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:31,760
Speaker 1: pass it along. That message has already been indoctrinated in

1837
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:35,600
Speaker 1: players like Micah Hi Jordan, player Lorenzo Alexander. You know,

1838
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 1: these guys have already gotten the message, and now they

1839
01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:41,040
Speaker 1: insert themselves and pass it along when they see a

1840
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:43,680
Speaker 1: guy needs to be reminded, Hey, we don't do it

1841
01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 1: that way. Here, we do it this way. All this

1842
01:29:46,720 --> 01:29:49,200
Speaker 1: is built there, designed to get this team better. And

1843
01:29:49,240 --> 01:29:51,559
Speaker 1: we had this question on our show yesterday about getting

1844
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:54,120
Speaker 1: not just getting better, but not regressing defense. They were

1845
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:56,920
Speaker 1: number two in the league last year at yards allowed,

1846
01:29:56,920 --> 01:29:59,559
Speaker 1: and we had this big question about can they repeat that.

1847
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,559
Speaker 1: I think they can be a top five defense again

1848
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 1: this year because largely they stayed intact personnel wise, except

1849
01:30:08,200 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 1: maybe at Oliver I. At the end of last season,

1850
01:30:12,680 --> 01:30:15,839
Speaker 1: I did a story on these very subjects. How likely

1851
01:30:16,360 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: are they to repeat and watch? You know so most

1852
01:30:21,280 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 1: of the time. So most of the time, Well, I

1853
01:30:24,479 --> 01:30:27,679
Speaker 1: do have other things to do. You've got a life, well,

1854
01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:32,719
Speaker 1: work right, number one. But the point there was most

1855
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: teams that were in the top five would stay there,

1856
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 1: barring huge turnover year over year, at least for two years,

1857
01:30:40,439 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 1: sometimes three. And I think Seattle was the gold standard.

1858
01:30:43,160 --> 01:30:45,160
Speaker 1: They were up there for five straight years. The first

1859
01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:47,040
Speaker 1: team that was mentioned on it was up there for

1860
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: three years is when I came who was Denver had

1861
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:51,600
Speaker 1: a stretch where they went three years. Pittsburgh had a

1862
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:54,240
Speaker 1: stretch for three or four years. Minnesota had a stretch

1863
01:30:54,280 --> 01:30:58,080
Speaker 1: for three or four. Yeah, and as you said, as

1864
01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:01,879
Speaker 1: you said, ten of the eleven incumbent starters are returning

1865
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:05,080
Speaker 1: to the defensive unit, along with a host of rotational

1866
01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:10,240
Speaker 1: guys too, defensive line, etc. So with that kind of continuity,

1867
01:31:11,120 --> 01:31:14,800
Speaker 1: logic would say, and you can argue that you know

1868
01:31:14,840 --> 01:31:18,000
Speaker 1: you didn't lose a whole lot with Kyle Williams leaving

1869
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:21,040
Speaker 1: the roster, knowing you have a top ten draft choice

1870
01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 1: replacing him. I think odds are you should be able

1871
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:28,280
Speaker 1: to repeat if all things are equal, and let's not

1872
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,320
Speaker 1: rule out two. The defense was number two in the

1873
01:31:31,400 --> 01:31:34,519
Speaker 1: league with a horrible special teams unit and a twenty

1874
01:31:34,600 --> 01:31:38,240
Speaker 1: ninth ranked offense, so you're expecting those two units to

1875
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:42,040
Speaker 1: be better. So that should cater to making the task

1876
01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:45,240
Speaker 1: a little bit easier on defense to stay up there

1877
01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:47,679
Speaker 1: in the top five because they're not being handed short fields,

1878
01:31:47,840 --> 01:31:50,200
Speaker 1: they're not dealing with extra possessions for the opponent because

1879
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:53,160
Speaker 1: the turnovers and stupid stuff on special well, some of that, though,

1880
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:58,719
Speaker 1: played into them having a statistically good year because teams

1881
01:31:58,880 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 1: weren't forced to score a lot of points against him.

1882
01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:03,800
Speaker 1: Teams weren't taking a lot of risks. Their turnovers were

1883
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Speaker 1: way down than they were the year before because teams

1884
01:32:06,240 --> 01:32:08,559
Speaker 1: didn't have to run these risky there were never under

1885
01:32:08,600 --> 01:32:11,200
Speaker 1: any desperation playing against the Buffalo Bills. They never really

1886
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 1: got those turnovers. And this is a defense that you know,

1887
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: was handed some short fields. They didn't even if they

1888
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:21,200
Speaker 1: gave up points, they didn't give up yards. So in

1889
01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 1: some respects, statistically it was a little bit skewed in

1890
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:29,000
Speaker 1: the defense's favor because they were poor. But like you said,

1891
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:31,479
Speaker 1: when you talk about wins and losses, I think certainly

1892
01:32:31,800 --> 01:32:34,519
Speaker 1: playing more roll rounded, complimentary football is going to go

1893
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 1: light years towards helping them win more games. So I

1894
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Speaker 1: would say, yeah, they got a good chance with Chris

1895
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 1: Brown Bills inside Buffalo Bills dot Com if you have comments, questions,

1896
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Speaker 1: give us a call. Chrystell talk to you eight oh

1897
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Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight five fifty

1898
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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Help us settle an argument we had

1899
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Speaker 1: just before he came on here, Chris, the NBA Draft

1900
01:32:52,880 --> 01:32:54,760
Speaker 1: lottery was last night. I mentioned how I'd look to

1901
01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:57,839
Speaker 1: see that across the board all major professional sports, including

1902
01:32:57,880 --> 01:33:01,160
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft lottery, and ever remove the you can

1903
01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:05,559
Speaker 1: forever remove this suspicion of any kind of a tank

1904
01:33:05,600 --> 01:33:09,160
Speaker 1: to get a better draft position your thoughts, Draft Lottery, NFL.

1905
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Speaker 1: I understand the premise, but I think I was too

1906
01:33:11,320 --> 01:33:13,840
Speaker 1: close to it last night being a Nick fan. So

1907
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm ready for a lottery. Um, you know,

1908
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:23,200
Speaker 1: I just the thing that killed me was the other

1909
01:33:23,240 --> 01:33:26,240
Speaker 1: two teams that had the best chance of getting the

1910
01:33:26,240 --> 01:33:28,360
Speaker 1: top pick along with the next where the Sons and

1911
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:30,679
Speaker 1: the Calves, And they were both out before we even

1912
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Speaker 1: got to pick five. So I thought we were in

1913
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Speaker 1: like Flynn in all right, and it didn't have a

1914
01:33:37,479 --> 01:33:40,519
Speaker 1: So it's too I'm too close to home on the moors.

1915
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Speaker 1: Point is that it would remove teams right they go right.

1916
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing we came down to this at the

1917
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Speaker 1: end of our discussion. It removes the thing about tanking.

1918
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Speaker 1: It goes from tanking to rebuilding. Tanking is deliberately losing

1919
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Speaker 1: to get a pick. Rebuilding is what everybody tries to

1920
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Speaker 1: do every year. Or here's rebuild. Yeah, I'll play Devil's

1921
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:02,680
Speaker 1: advocate here for a second. In my mind, if an

1922
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:07,559
Speaker 1: organization wants to blow it up and believes that's the

1923
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: best way, whether they get the first pick, the third pick,

1924
01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 1: the fourth pick, I think they're gonna do it. If

1925
01:34:15,080 --> 01:34:18,519
Speaker 1: they think that's the best way to revamp everything. You know,

1926
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:22,639
Speaker 1: they're gonna play young guys, lose games to make sure

1927
01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:24,559
Speaker 1: that they're at least in the top four or the

1928
01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:27,880
Speaker 1: top three or whatever the lottery system will allow. They'll

1929
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 1: look at the best case scenario in the lottery system

1930
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Speaker 1: and say, is it's still worth it to kind of

1931
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Speaker 1: not do well and you know, play young guys, get

1932
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Speaker 1: them experience. I think if a team believes they can

1933
01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:44,639
Speaker 1: benefit more by being somewhere in the top three by

1934
01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 1: qualifying for the lottery, there are still teams that are

1935
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Speaker 1: probably gonna take that route. Is it. I don't think

1936
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to completely eradicate tank? Is the

1937
01:34:53,120 --> 01:34:56,160
Speaker 1: problem really particularly even the NFL? We've seen We've seen

1938
01:34:56,160 --> 01:34:58,719
Speaker 1: it through the seventeen year drought that happened so long ago,

1939
01:34:58,880 --> 01:35:01,840
Speaker 1: not so long ago. But is it too easy in

1940
01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:05,360
Speaker 1: the NFL to be medium? You know what I mean?

1941
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,639
Speaker 1: The Bills did a good job of it for twelve years. Everybody,

1942
01:35:08,680 --> 01:35:10,519
Speaker 1: I mean Miami, I mean, you can middle it really

1943
01:35:10,520 --> 01:35:17,080
Speaker 1: easy six and ten, two, nine and seven? Right? Is

1944
01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:22,280
Speaker 1: it too easy? I mean you can, most teams should be.

1945
01:35:22,520 --> 01:35:26,960
Speaker 1: I would say that that's of the league can go

1946
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Speaker 1: somewhere between six and ten and eight and eight. Right,

1947
01:35:30,240 --> 01:35:34,360
Speaker 1: think about that, you know, is it too easy? What

1948
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Speaker 1: do you I mean, what do you mean easy? Like

1949
01:35:36,080 --> 01:35:38,320
Speaker 1: you can just show up and win six games? I

1950
01:35:38,320 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 1: don't know if I listen, what kind of a dumpster fire?

1951
01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:42,400
Speaker 1: Are you to go four and twelve? That was the

1952
01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:45,719
Speaker 1: Raiders last year, right, They traded away the best defensive

1953
01:35:45,720 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 1: player in the league, away the best best offensive player

1954
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 1: that you know, and they go four And that was

1955
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Speaker 1: a dumpster fire. And they're four and they won four games,

1956
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Speaker 1: not zero games, not one game? How hard was it

1957
01:35:58,800 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 1: for the How hard was it for the Lions? Go? Oh?

1958
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:08,040
Speaker 1: In sixteen probe because you got you got. I mean

1959
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:11,040
Speaker 1: that's a special kind of suck. I mean it really is.

1960
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Speaker 1: It is the Dolphins going one in fifteen and the

1961
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Speaker 1: game they wins in over time, Cowboys went one in

1962
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Speaker 1: fifteen and Aikman's rookie year. Yeah, I mean that it's

1963
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:29,000
Speaker 1: you got to. You gotta work suck that bad. You

1964
01:36:29,080 --> 01:36:31,360
Speaker 1: gotta make a lot of bad choices, and yet you

1965
01:36:31,360 --> 01:36:35,320
Speaker 1: can suck that bad and with the lottery, you would

1966
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Speaker 1: never be suspected for deliberately trying to suck that bad.

1967
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Speaker 1: I don't think right, but because your chances would be

1968
01:36:40,240 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 1: enhanced by if you think you can completely, your chances

1969
01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:45,519
Speaker 1: would be enhanced by only a couple percent. Here's the thing.

1970
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:49,519
Speaker 1: Do you really care how you're perceived, whether it's two

1971
01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 1: or not. You should you always an organization? Yeah, I

1972
01:36:52,520 --> 01:36:55,080
Speaker 1: think you should care. Yeah, I just don't know how

1973
01:36:55,080 --> 01:36:58,000
Speaker 1: to create a system where you can completely eradicated. I

1974
01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:00,960
Speaker 1: agree completely, But I think you would remove a lot

1975
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,760
Speaker 1: of suspicion. Yes, you know why? So that's better. The

1976
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:06,680
Speaker 1: draft puts on a better face for the league, is

1977
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:09,360
Speaker 1: your point? You're kind of thinking out of it from

1978
01:37:09,400 --> 01:37:11,880
Speaker 1: a league difference puts a better face on the league.

1979
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:16,360
Speaker 1: Here's how you do it. Ping pong balls, thirty two

1980
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:18,479
Speaker 1: ping pong balls. And that's the draft every year, and

1981
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 1: it pops up and that you don't even know you're

1982
01:37:20,479 --> 01:37:22,360
Speaker 1: gonna get one of the top thirty two guys and

1983
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:24,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots getting number one overall, and you're okay with it.

1984
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Speaker 1: I'm not. She's a yeah, yeah, why not they keep

1985
01:37:27,320 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 1: him first and keep You're tending to establish parody and

1986
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:34,280
Speaker 1: keep it keep the Cleveland Browns from tanking. What I'm

1987
01:37:34,320 --> 01:37:37,679
Speaker 1: not saying it's the only strategy. I'm saying it would

1988
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:40,880
Speaker 1: make it better. That would never only because the league

1989
01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:44,599
Speaker 1: strives repair on purpose, and so that kind of flies

1990
01:37:44,640 --> 01:37:46,840
Speaker 1: in the face of that. Good teams are penalized. I

1991
01:37:46,840 --> 01:37:48,560
Speaker 1: get it. Chris Brown is with US Bills inside of

1992
01:37:48,560 --> 01:37:51,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot Com. Gonna switch gears on you, Chris.

1993
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:52,760
Speaker 1: That's why we like having you in here. What is

1994
01:37:52,840 --> 01:37:55,120
Speaker 1: Lee Smith bring to the Buffalo Bills? Why would they

1995
01:37:55,160 --> 01:37:57,040
Speaker 1: sign him to a three year contract? I believe it's

1996
01:37:57,040 --> 01:37:59,400
Speaker 1: spend report. Yeah, I think the commitment surprised me a

1997
01:37:59,439 --> 01:38:03,640
Speaker 1: little bit. Um and for decent money and good on

1998
01:38:03,800 --> 01:38:07,439
Speaker 1: leave for pulling that off. It didn't surprise. Here's the

1999
01:38:07,479 --> 01:38:11,640
Speaker 1: thing there is people say, well, you know, when he

2000
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: was here, he'd get I've looked at some of the

2001
01:38:14,200 --> 01:38:20,080
Speaker 1: criticism that people were knocking for him for penalties and everything. Um,

2002
01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:22,880
Speaker 1: what you have to know is this league is all

2003
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 1: about what have you done for me lately? And who

2004
01:38:28,120 --> 01:38:31,960
Speaker 1: had who? Saw Lee Smith every day in practice, every

2005
01:38:32,040 --> 01:38:34,599
Speaker 1: day in games for the better part of the last

2006
01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:40,040
Speaker 1: three years offensive line coach Bobby Johnson, and you have

2007
01:38:40,200 --> 01:38:43,960
Speaker 1: to believe that he was consulted heavily on this edition

2008
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:46,639
Speaker 1: with what they need to do in the run game.

2009
01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:49,920
Speaker 1: Bobby Johnson was probably asked if you could have a

2010
01:38:49,960 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 1: tight end to add as an extra blocker on your

2011
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:57,920
Speaker 1: offensive line. Who who do you want? And he said,

2012
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:00,320
Speaker 1: and I'll guarantee you Lee Smith was the first name

2013
01:39:00,320 --> 01:39:03,880
Speaker 1: out of his mouth. And that carries weight because you're

2014
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:06,400
Speaker 1: not talking about running out and catching passes. You're talking

2015
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:08,840
Speaker 1: about lining up and crunching the guy in front of you.

2016
01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:12,160
Speaker 1: And Lee has some nasty to his game. I mean,

2017
01:39:12,240 --> 01:39:14,679
Speaker 1: I know you guys had him on set, big country,

2018
01:39:14,840 --> 01:39:17,720
Speaker 1: nice guy, you know, get you some moonshine, you know,

2019
01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 1: behind closed doors. But but this is a guy who

2020
01:39:21,880 --> 01:39:24,479
Speaker 1: when he steps on the field is a whole different.

2021
01:39:24,600 --> 01:39:28,280
Speaker 1: Break's gonna come off that ball and crack you. And

2022
01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:30,960
Speaker 1: you look at the attitude that they want to bring

2023
01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:34,240
Speaker 1: to this offensive line. To win more of those weekly

2024
01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:37,440
Speaker 1: battles at the line of scrimmage, you didn't need some attitude.

2025
01:39:38,000 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 1: And that's why Feliciano is here. That's why quinnin Spain

2026
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:44,040
Speaker 1: is here, That's why Lee Smith is here. Those are

2027
01:39:44,040 --> 01:39:47,920
Speaker 1: attitude guys that are gonna change the complexion of this

2028
01:39:48,080 --> 01:39:53,760
Speaker 1: offensive line from from a nastiness edge whatever you want

2029
01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:56,760
Speaker 1: to call at standpoint. Here's why I didn't surprise me

2030
01:39:56,800 --> 01:40:00,120
Speaker 1: that they gave him that the extra mind they I've

2031
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 1: got him guaranteed money into his second year, this three

2032
01:40:02,280 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 1: year deal. And that comes down to the kind of

2033
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 1: guy he is in the locker room, the guy they've been.

2034
01:40:08,080 --> 01:40:10,200
Speaker 1: He's been here before. There's probably people still in this

2035
01:40:10,240 --> 01:40:13,440
Speaker 1: building who understand who know him from the first runaround

2036
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:15,559
Speaker 1: that he was here. There's only one guy on the

2037
01:40:15,560 --> 01:40:19,960
Speaker 1: team and that's Jerry Hughes. But his reputation for being

2038
01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: the exact kind of guy they need with his skill set,

2039
01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:26,759
Speaker 1: also the culture fit in the room is the reason

2040
01:40:26,840 --> 01:40:28,760
Speaker 1: they know that he's not going to go in there.

2041
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:31,639
Speaker 1: He's been that way for now since twenty ten, right,

2042
01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like almost a decade. He's not gonna change.

2043
01:40:35,200 --> 01:40:38,639
Speaker 1: That's why there's they're fine with him. They know him

2044
01:40:38,680 --> 01:40:41,599
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. He's exactly the kind of guy they

2045
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:43,080
Speaker 1: wanted the room. That's why they gave him a second

2046
01:40:43,080 --> 01:40:44,800
Speaker 1: because this is this is a regime that's all about

2047
01:40:44,920 --> 01:40:46,960
Speaker 1: one year deal is proven and you heard it on

2048
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:48,960
Speaker 1: the show yesterday when he told you guys, you know

2049
01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:51,160
Speaker 1: he's ready to pay it forward kind of school up

2050
01:40:51,200 --> 01:40:55,080
Speaker 1: some of the younger players. So, I mean, I think

2051
01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:58,599
Speaker 1: he knows as a thirty one year old tight end

2052
01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:00,280
Speaker 1: in this league who has been around for the better

2053
01:41:00,320 --> 01:41:03,600
Speaker 1: part of ten years, it's it's time to invest in

2054
01:41:03,640 --> 01:41:05,760
Speaker 1: the guys that are also going to be on this

2055
01:41:05,880 --> 01:41:09,080
Speaker 1: roster and make them better too. And that's that I

2056
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:11,600
Speaker 1: need a leader in every room. Thing that coach McDermott

2057
01:41:11,600 --> 01:41:14,400
Speaker 1: talks about. He's going to be that in that room. Yeah,

2058
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:16,000
Speaker 1: Chris Brown was with us all right. Let me get

2059
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,519
Speaker 1: you in on today's Twitter poll. Chris, you're kind of

2060
01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:20,639
Speaker 1: like he's kind of like the third in designing boat,

2061
01:41:20,760 --> 01:41:23,080
Speaker 1: isn't he? For us? He likes sort as fun as

2062
01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:28,439
Speaker 1: he agrees with me. Today's Twitter poll, and that's our

2063
01:41:28,479 --> 01:41:30,600
Speaker 1: new Twitter poll. How often does Chris Brown agree with

2064
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:33,920
Speaker 1: Steve Tasks Today's Twitter poll? Brandon not often enough? Brandon Bean.

2065
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Speaker 1: And we'll talk about the Jets of the moment here

2066
01:41:36,360 --> 01:41:39,320
Speaker 1: with Chris. But Brandon being the Bills GM has been

2067
01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:42,280
Speaker 1: his biggest accomplishment this offseason. What do you think? Let

2068
01:41:42,560 --> 01:41:45,280
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll most responded and seventy six percent say

2069
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:49,240
Speaker 1: overhauling the offensive line, fifteen percent say drafting Oliver and

2070
01:41:49,280 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 1: forward first and second round, five percent say adding talent

2071
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 1: to the wide receiver group, four percent say something else.

2072
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:59,280
Speaker 1: The biggest accomplishment this offseason for a Brandon Bean, what

2073
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 1: do you think it is? Yeah, I mean, I think

2074
01:42:01,560 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 1: you have to side with the majority here. It was

2075
01:42:03,320 --> 01:42:06,960
Speaker 1: the most glaring problem for this team last year. The

2076
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 1: receiving corps was a close second in terms of problems

2077
01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:15,639
Speaker 1: that had to be addressed, and he did it with volume.

2078
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 1: And I think volume is a good thing in that

2079
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:21,719
Speaker 1: particular case, because you knew you had three free agents

2080
01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:24,880
Speaker 1: who were walking out the door, all of whom started

2081
01:42:24,880 --> 01:42:27,559
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. Ryan Groy, John Miller,

2082
01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:31,640
Speaker 1: Jordan Mills. They were not coming back, so whatever you

2083
01:42:31,680 --> 01:42:34,040
Speaker 1: wanted to add, you also had to account for three

2084
01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:37,240
Speaker 1: departures that you were probably planning on because they probably

2085
01:42:37,240 --> 01:42:39,960
Speaker 1: didn't have an interest in bringing them back into the fold.

2086
01:42:40,080 --> 01:42:43,680
Speaker 1: So you had to attack this from a numbers standpoint,

2087
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:47,000
Speaker 1: a volume standpoint, and obviously to a certain degree of

2088
01:42:47,040 --> 01:42:50,599
Speaker 1: quality standpoint. They made a giant investment in Mitch Morse,

2089
01:42:50,920 --> 01:42:55,360
Speaker 1: but then they kind of went, you know, value value

2090
01:42:55,400 --> 01:42:58,599
Speaker 1: with the rest, and that's not a bad thing. I mean,

2091
01:42:58,640 --> 01:43:02,280
Speaker 1: I think I think the return on investment with Tie

2092
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:05,320
Speaker 1: and Secky could be very good. I think the return

2093
01:43:05,360 --> 01:43:08,040
Speaker 1: on investment for John Feliciano could even be good. This

2094
01:43:08,080 --> 01:43:11,640
Speaker 1: is a guy who only Bobby Johnson really knows what

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01:43:11,720 --> 01:43:14,360
Speaker 1: he's capable of. There's very little game film out there

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Speaker 1: on Feliciano because he was playing behind Pro bowlers out there,

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01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:22,759
Speaker 1: Gabe Jackson and h Osamele. So, I mean, he's playing

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01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 1: behind Pro bowl guys. You know, does that mean he

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01:43:26,080 --> 01:43:27,960
Speaker 1: can't play well? No, it just means he's not quite

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01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:30,479
Speaker 1: as good as those Pro bowlers. But it's turned out

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01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:32,160
Speaker 1: on the field. If you're a if you're a half

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01:43:32,160 --> 01:43:34,680
Speaker 1: step removed from a pro Bowl guard, you'll be able

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01:43:34,720 --> 01:43:37,000
Speaker 1: to start here. You may have a chance to start here.

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01:43:37,920 --> 01:43:41,519
Speaker 1: So you know, I think guys like that, uh, you know,

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01:43:41,560 --> 01:43:45,240
Speaker 1: the attitude we talked about, and then guys that are

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01:43:45,360 --> 01:43:48,720
Speaker 1: hungry for a starting opportunity. Somebody like a Tie and

2107
01:43:48,800 --> 01:43:51,880
Speaker 1: Secky who got to the league the hard way and

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01:43:52,040 --> 01:43:54,920
Speaker 1: is ready to really battle for a starting role after

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Speaker 1: putting some good film out there last year. So yeah,

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01:43:57,760 --> 01:44:00,360
Speaker 1: I mean to me, it's it's the line and yeah,

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Speaker 1: it all has to be blended together now, which is

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Speaker 1: probably job number one here as they begin OTA's next week,

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01:44:08,320 --> 01:44:10,760
Speaker 1: and it may not come together right away, knowing how

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01:44:10,760 --> 01:44:13,400
Speaker 1: long before you can put pads on, and it may

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Speaker 1: take till week four, week five before it's really humming. Um,

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01:44:17,360 --> 01:44:22,360
Speaker 1: but that's that's easily being's best best job. We've made this.

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01:44:22,479 --> 01:44:25,120
Speaker 1: We've made this um you know, point a couple of

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Speaker 1: times over the course of the show that it all

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01:44:28,600 --> 01:44:31,120
Speaker 1: they've done a lot of really great things that it

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01:44:31,200 --> 01:44:33,759
Speaker 1: seems even even the people that call in and tweet

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01:44:33,800 --> 01:44:36,200
Speaker 1: at us. I mean, there's the occasional person that has

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01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 1: some problems with what they've done, but for the most part,

2123
01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:40,000
Speaker 1: even a round the league people are going wild. Buffalo's

2124
01:44:40,000 --> 01:44:41,800
Speaker 1: really got a plan. You can see it. It makes

2125
01:44:41,840 --> 01:44:47,479
Speaker 1: logical sense. They've made some great signings. They gotta win, right,

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01:44:47,520 --> 01:44:49,880
Speaker 1: And we've seen a lot of teams over the years.

2127
01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:54,479
Speaker 1: Washington's probably the most glaring example. They would spend far

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01:44:54,600 --> 01:44:58,800
Speaker 1: more freely in free agency. That's their history, and a

2129
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:02,800
Speaker 1: lot of those blends for them didn't work, not at all.

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01:45:02,800 --> 01:45:04,240
Speaker 1: You know, whether you want to, you can run down

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Speaker 1: the list. Albert Haynesworth over one hundred million dollars. Haynesworth,

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01:45:08,400 --> 01:45:12,040
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith, Dion Sanders had that team way back in

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01:45:12,080 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 1: the late early nineties, late nineties. They stacked it. I mean,

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01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:18,880
Speaker 1: they spent all kinds of many to get those guys

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Speaker 1: in trying to buy a Super Bowl and it wasn't

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01:45:20,360 --> 01:45:24,320
Speaker 1: even close. Right, So what's the second layer of the people?

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01:45:24,360 --> 01:45:27,840
Speaker 1: You add? The second layer is making sure what do

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01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:30,120
Speaker 1: we hear being in mcdermotts say all the time they

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01:45:30,160 --> 01:45:34,120
Speaker 1: fit our DNA, that they match up with the way

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01:45:34,160 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 1: we operate around here on a daily basis. I mean

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01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:39,519
Speaker 1: we've said a time and again they want players. They

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01:45:39,560 --> 01:45:41,360
Speaker 1: don't have to wonder what they're going to get from

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01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 1: that guy when his body's hurting for a practice on

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01:45:44,000 --> 01:45:46,439
Speaker 1: Thursday in week sixteen. They want to know they're going

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01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:49,040
Speaker 1: to get the same effort there, even though they might

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01:45:49,080 --> 01:45:50,960
Speaker 1: be dragging their body out there that they got in

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01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:55,280
Speaker 1: Week two, and they feel on the whole they've acquired

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Speaker 1: those kinds of players, Chris. Before I let you go,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask about another general manager in the NFL.

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01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:05,000
Speaker 1: A general manager who drafts Sam Darnold, Jamal Adams, Leonard Williams,

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01:46:05,360 --> 01:46:09,320
Speaker 1: uh signs Levon Bell, and Jamison Crowder is a free

2152
01:46:09,320 --> 01:46:13,080
Speaker 1: agency this year drafts Quinnon Williams. I mentioned him this year. Um,

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Speaker 1: Mike mccagnan made a lot of moves, right, Levion Bell,

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01:46:17,640 --> 01:46:21,200
Speaker 1: he made a lot of moves. C J. Mosley, we

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01:46:21,200 --> 01:46:23,400
Speaker 1: were talking about best off season on the show You

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01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:25,719
Speaker 1: you were here last week, right, and we were talking

2157
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:27,840
Speaker 1: to Rich some Meani about this. We asked him, like,

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01:46:28,040 --> 01:46:30,840
Speaker 1: is mccagnan gonna get bounced? That's where we heard during

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Speaker 1: the draft, Right, Why did he get bounced? I just

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01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:36,439
Speaker 1: think there's there's a there's a headbutting going on between

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Speaker 1: him and Gas. There was a power struggle, And I

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01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:43,920
Speaker 1: believe me, I grew up watching this franchise failed time

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01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:48,799
Speaker 1: and again. It would not surprise me in the least

2164
01:46:49,439 --> 01:46:54,200
Speaker 1: if the Jets hierarchy, the ownership looked at it and said, well,

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01:46:54,960 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 1: we just hired the coach. We can't fire that guy.

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01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:01,479
Speaker 1: He hasn't coached a game yet. Mccagan's been here for

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01:47:01,520 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 1: three years. These guys can't agree. The coach wants personnel control,

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01:47:05,800 --> 01:47:10,599
Speaker 1: let's just fire mccagnon. I could see it going that

2169
01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:16,240
Speaker 1: way because I'm telling you right now, the Jets live

2170
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:19,240
Speaker 1: up to your last name and the law attached to it,

2171
01:47:19,840 --> 01:47:22,880
Speaker 1: maybe more than any other NFL franchise. The only thing

2172
01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:25,080
Speaker 1: you have to tweak is you say, if there is

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01:47:25,120 --> 01:47:28,320
Speaker 1: a way to screw this up, the Jets will find it.

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01:47:28,600 --> 01:47:30,880
Speaker 1: They will find a way to screw something up. And

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01:47:31,240 --> 01:47:33,920
Speaker 1: you know, they've built a pretty good defense here in

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01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:36,040
Speaker 1: the off season. They have a you know, they have

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Speaker 1: an all world running back who I don't think is

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Speaker 1: going to have quite the same production that he had

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh because his line is in as good in

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Speaker 1: New York. But and now he's now he's rich. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what is what was mccagnan on? This is

2182
01:47:50,320 --> 01:47:52,760
Speaker 1: his This was his second coach, right because he only

2183
01:47:52,840 --> 01:47:55,880
Speaker 1: hired Bulls, so he's only on his second head coach.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little surprised that they didn't at least

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01:48:01,880 --> 01:48:06,800
Speaker 1: see how the gas experiment would go. But it's very

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01:48:06,840 --> 01:48:11,559
Speaker 1: clear to me there are some personnel differences here that

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01:48:11,760 --> 01:48:18,320
Speaker 1: clearly Gays and mcagnen could not iron out. We had

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Speaker 1: heard all these reports. Yeah, who wanted Bell, who didn't

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Speaker 1: want Bell? Who wanted to pay Mosley eighty five million?

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01:48:24,720 --> 01:48:27,600
Speaker 1: Who didn't want to pay Mosley eighty five million? You know,

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01:48:27,840 --> 01:48:31,280
Speaker 1: here's the spooky eyes. Probably didn't want Mosley. No, and

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01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:33,559
Speaker 1: he didn't want Bell either. It's it's interesting because think

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01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:35,519
Speaker 1: about this. Now this is all coming out. Now they've

2194
01:48:35,560 --> 01:48:38,439
Speaker 1: got to justify what the issues were. And they've said, well,

2195
01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:41,400
Speaker 1: Adam Gase didn't want to sign Levon Bell. Now he's

2196
01:48:41,439 --> 01:48:44,320
Speaker 1: got to coach him. Now he's got to get coaching.

2197
01:48:44,360 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 1: This guy's making this guaranteed thirty five million bucks over

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Speaker 1: the next four years, showing up for voluntary practice or anything.

2199
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Speaker 1: And now he finds out the guy who's coaching him

2200
01:48:51,439 --> 01:48:55,639
Speaker 1: didn't want him, and C. J. Mosley is gonna walk

2201
01:48:55,680 --> 01:48:57,679
Speaker 1: in there making eighty five million with a head coach

2202
01:48:57,880 --> 01:49:02,280
Speaker 1: that didn't want to pay him. I wonder if if

2203
01:49:02,640 --> 01:49:04,479
Speaker 1: if you're trying to figure this out. Look, the Jets

2204
01:49:04,479 --> 01:49:07,479
Speaker 1: of at a losing season three straight years, which puts

2205
01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:10,439
Speaker 1: pressure on mcagnet, right, fix this, turn this around. No

2206
01:49:10,600 --> 01:49:13,360
Speaker 1: such pressure exists on the head coach you just got there.

2207
01:49:13,560 --> 01:49:16,320
Speaker 1: So these moves you talk about Levy on Bell some

2208
01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:19,080
Speaker 1: of the other free agent signings, those are made by

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01:49:19,120 --> 01:49:21,679
Speaker 1: a guy who says, I gotta win now. The coach

2210
01:49:21,800 --> 01:49:23,559
Speaker 1: is like, I don't have to win now, right, these

2211
01:49:23,600 --> 01:49:25,960
Speaker 1: aren't the competing interests. But here's what I don't I

2212
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:28,240
Speaker 1: told you I didn't want these guys. Yeah, Oh my gosh,

2213
01:49:28,280 --> 01:49:31,719
Speaker 1: How does Adam Gaze get that kind of juice? That's

2214
01:49:31,720 --> 01:49:34,559
Speaker 1: what stuns me. Well, here's the other thing. How did

2215
01:49:34,600 --> 01:49:37,240
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze get this job in the first Exactly who

2216
01:49:37,320 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 1: did he win over? He won over ownership after they

2217
01:49:42,080 --> 01:49:45,920
Speaker 1: got a personal phone call and an endorsement from from

2218
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:53,480
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. I'm telling you I've seen this happen dozens

2219
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:58,519
Speaker 1: of times. One call over. This is a franchise that

2220
01:49:58,680 --> 01:50:02,800
Speaker 1: drafted a fullback in the first round, Roger Vick. Do

2221
01:50:02,880 --> 01:50:05,840
Speaker 1: we remember that full back? I just don't know how

2222
01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:11,240
Speaker 1: full back. How get that kind of authority after you know,

2223
01:50:11,280 --> 01:50:14,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't tearning it up at Miami, He really wasn't.

2224
01:50:14,120 --> 01:50:18,040
Speaker 1: I I shuddered to think how he got that kind

2225
01:50:18,120 --> 01:50:20,240
Speaker 1: of clout. I don't even how you look at the

2226
01:50:20,240 --> 01:50:22,840
Speaker 1: guy and take him seriously, Like I'm I'm waiting for

2227
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:24,920
Speaker 1: him to like cast a spell on me or something.

2228
01:50:25,320 --> 01:50:29,080
Speaker 1: His voodoo eyes and stuff. He's scared the fact that

2229
01:50:29,120 --> 01:50:31,160
Speaker 1: he wears jeans and wears his cap backwards. He says,

2230
01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:33,200
Speaker 1: that's where he gets his Well, you could work for

2231
01:50:33,240 --> 01:50:36,040
Speaker 1: the Jets. Look at that, the credentials you put stock

2232
01:50:36,120 --> 01:50:38,880
Speaker 1: to people. I mean, we'll get you in the front office.

2233
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:42,080
Speaker 1: That would be gold. You would Jets. You'd be Jets

2234
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:45,000
Speaker 1: with a capital Jay would be on the ring to

2235
01:50:45,120 --> 01:50:48,160
Speaker 1: laugh at the Jets here. Well, well that's well, hey,

2236
01:50:47,880 --> 01:50:51,000
Speaker 1: this is the thing, this is the thing. This is

2237
01:50:51,040 --> 01:50:53,120
Speaker 1: all good for the Bills. I know you got the

2238
01:50:53,160 --> 01:50:56,000
Speaker 1: Dolphins in full blown rebuild moment. I know you got

2239
01:50:56,080 --> 01:50:58,200
Speaker 1: the Jets who are right now are a tire fire

2240
01:50:58,240 --> 01:51:01,559
Speaker 1: on the turnpike, and you know you still got New

2241
01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:04,679
Speaker 1: England to deal with. But it's all good for the Bills.

2242
01:51:05,479 --> 01:51:09,360
Speaker 1: Stability Dember ninth, last year. That still haunts me. How

2243
01:51:09,400 --> 01:51:12,240
Speaker 1: do you lose to that bad Jets team? Wigibility entire

2244
01:51:12,280 --> 01:51:17,000
Speaker 1: fire mode last December? They were yeah, stability, stability. The

2245
01:51:18,320 --> 01:51:20,880
Speaker 1: Bills have stability. I'm not saying that the Jets can't

2246
01:51:20,880 --> 01:51:24,920
Speaker 1: beat the Bills. What I'm saying is these kinds of things,

2247
01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:28,519
Speaker 1: these kinds of disruptions, do not help. They do not

2248
01:51:28,640 --> 01:51:32,960
Speaker 1: help your cause. And it can translate to the field

2249
01:51:33,040 --> 01:51:36,800
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes not all the time. But you know how

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01:51:36,800 --> 01:51:39,760
Speaker 1: the New York media works. I mean, oh, there's the

2251
01:51:39,800 --> 01:51:43,640
Speaker 1: Sharks are already smelling blood. O Tas are going to

2252
01:51:43,720 --> 01:51:47,200
Speaker 1: be interesting there for all the wrong reasons. Levion Bell

2253
01:51:47,280 --> 01:51:49,160
Speaker 1: is gonna have a lot of answers questions to answer

2254
01:51:49,200 --> 01:51:51,000
Speaker 1: because they want to say, hey it, so is Gase,

2255
01:51:51,200 --> 01:51:53,639
Speaker 1: so is Gase, and also and he's not that good

2256
01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:57,440
Speaker 1: in front of the media. It's always been my observation

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01:51:57,479 --> 01:51:59,559
Speaker 1: as a player who opposed the Jets and played him

2258
01:51:59,560 --> 01:52:04,840
Speaker 1: twice a year for over a decade. Jets fans, I

2259
01:52:04,840 --> 01:52:07,479
Speaker 1: gotta be honest. Jets fans to me, have always been

2260
01:52:07,520 --> 01:52:10,160
Speaker 1: their happiest when they have good reason to boo their

2261
01:52:10,160 --> 01:52:13,599
Speaker 1: own team. That's their wheelhouse, because there they are wheel

2262
01:52:13,680 --> 01:52:16,240
Speaker 1: that's their wheelhouse. That's just because they're accustomed to it.

2263
01:52:16,600 --> 01:52:19,080
Speaker 1: That may be they can just you know, rewind and

2264
01:52:19,160 --> 01:52:23,920
Speaker 1: hit play again. And also and there, and when you

2265
01:52:23,920 --> 01:52:27,920
Speaker 1: talk about the Jets like that, I mean, listen, there's

2266
01:52:27,920 --> 01:52:30,639
Speaker 1: a lot going on over there, and there's a lot.

2267
01:52:31,479 --> 01:52:33,679
Speaker 1: This is the thing too. They're still the same team

2268
01:52:33,680 --> 01:52:36,679
Speaker 1: they were yesterday. I mean, this roster is pretty much set.

2269
01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:38,680
Speaker 1: They're like the Bills. They've got like eighty five ninety guys.

2270
01:52:38,720 --> 01:52:41,280
Speaker 1: They're gonna turn about. Their core guys are there, so

2271
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:43,479
Speaker 1: if they're gonna play good, they can still play good.

2272
01:52:44,479 --> 01:52:46,320
Speaker 1: They can still got a team that they are on

2273
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:48,679
Speaker 1: track to play well. If so, if mcagney hadn't gotten

2274
01:52:48,680 --> 01:52:51,360
Speaker 1: fired today, they're still that team. They're media guys who

2275
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:53,760
Speaker 1: were reporting on them. I told them if this, they

2276
01:52:53,800 --> 01:52:56,839
Speaker 1: had the Jets well above this franchise, the Bills franchise.

2277
01:52:57,320 --> 01:52:59,439
Speaker 1: Those guys in New York thought the Jets were way

2278
01:52:59,479 --> 01:53:02,600
Speaker 1: ahead of the Hills. One media guy had an interesting

2279
01:53:02,680 --> 01:53:05,040
Speaker 1: take on what went down today. Our buddy Kevin Clark,

2280
01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:07,439
Speaker 1: used to cover the NFL for a Wall Street Journal,

2281
01:53:08,080 --> 01:53:10,839
Speaker 1: posted on Twitter this, when you drink a ton of coffee,

2282
01:53:11,080 --> 01:53:14,480
Speaker 1: it doesn't help you get fired a picture of mcagnet

2283
01:53:14,520 --> 01:53:18,320
Speaker 1: and his desk was the Jets with about twenty five

2284
01:53:18,360 --> 01:53:21,320
Speaker 1: cups of Dunk of Donuts coffee on the desk. Yeah,

2285
01:53:21,320 --> 01:53:24,400
Speaker 1: that's that's probably Hope, that's their sponsor. There's a lesson

2286
01:53:24,400 --> 01:53:29,559
Speaker 1: there for you, mister caffeine Steve, you've had that much

2287
01:53:29,560 --> 01:53:33,599
Speaker 1: coffee today? No, not today? And Brownie, but sometimes if

2288
01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:37,160
Speaker 1: I start drinking water though, everything in moderation, see Brownie.

2289
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:40,000
Speaker 1: Thanks for this. You'll be careful with your shirt choices.

2290
01:53:40,040 --> 01:53:42,639
Speaker 1: I'm sure in the future, right shirt, that's for sure.

2291
01:53:42,640 --> 01:53:44,839
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. Chris Brown Bills Insider Buffalo.

2292
01:53:44,840 --> 01:53:47,080
Speaker 1: What's on the website? What do you got coming up? Well,

2293
01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:49,320
Speaker 1: we had the feature on Jiquan, you know, in his

2294
01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:51,639
Speaker 1: relationship with Ed. I know that both of those guys

2295
01:53:51,640 --> 01:53:53,599
Speaker 1: were on your show to talk about that, but Chiquan

2296
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:55,280
Speaker 1: gave me a little bit more on that. So that's

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01:53:55,320 --> 01:53:57,920
Speaker 1: up on the website now. Should have a feature on

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01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:01,000
Speaker 1: David Sills, the undrafted receiver for West Virginia coming up

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Speaker 1: later in the week. By the way, we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: to his coach to college coach Lane Kiffin on the

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Speaker 1: show tomorrow. That is, Oh, I'm sorry you're talking about

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about David Sills. You're talking about Devin Singles.

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Speaker 1: But Lane Kiffin was the guy who gave David Sills

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01:54:14,560 --> 01:54:17,880
Speaker 1: scholarship at age thirteen and then wasn't there to honor it,

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Speaker 1: you know, eight years later, but yeah, for five years later.

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Speaker 1: So that's coming up, Chris. Thanks Chris Brown. Bills inside

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Speaker 1: of Buffalo bills dot Com. Stephen I coming back one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bills Drive on Buffalo Bills. Ready,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to the show, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. Thanks

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Speaker 1: again to Chris Brown, who roree the wrong shirt today,

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Speaker 1: got him right on the show. That's that's a lesson

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Speaker 1: for anybody. If you at home, have one of those

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live shirts and if you walk on by,

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01:54:51,040 --> 01:54:53,360
Speaker 1: chances are we'll get you on the show. I know

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Speaker 1: who has those shirts. Did you get any I mean

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Speaker 1: I've got did get any des full of them? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I know. Did you give any of your kids? Because

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Speaker 1: I don't think I gave any of my two sons,

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01:55:02,760 --> 01:55:04,680
Speaker 1: but if they show up, I'm gonna given to anybody

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Speaker 1: won't wear them right. Thanks for tuning in today. We

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Speaker 1: had an interesting Twitter poll that continues up to the

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01:55:10,840 --> 01:55:12,560
Speaker 1: top of the arm. We'll recap that in a moment.

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01:55:12,720 --> 01:55:15,040
Speaker 1: A lot of good discussion about the Jets. We meant

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01:55:15,080 --> 01:55:17,880
Speaker 1: to do this yesterday and it got biased. Yesterday was

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Speaker 1: Frank Gore's thirty sixth birthday. Cool right, thirty six years old. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing, and Field Yates from ESPN posted this

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01:55:25,640 --> 01:55:28,960
Speaker 1: on Twitter yesterday. Franc Or turns thirty six. After tearing

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01:55:29,080 --> 01:55:32,360
Speaker 1: his ACL twice in college, some wondered if he'd hold

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01:55:32,440 --> 01:55:36,120
Speaker 1: up in the NFL. Now, Frank Gore has an NFL

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Speaker 1: record fourteen straight seasons with six hundred and more rushing yards,

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01:55:40,120 --> 01:55:43,160
Speaker 1: fourteen straight seasons with six hundred and more rushing yards,

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Speaker 1: an NFL record fourteen straight seasons with one hundred twenty

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01:55:47,240 --> 01:55:50,360
Speaker 1: five or more carries. Franc Core has started one hundred

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Speaker 1: ninety five of his last one hundred ninety six games.

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01:55:54,240 --> 01:55:58,400
Speaker 1: Franc Core has one hundred twelve consecutive games played, longest

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01:55:58,520 --> 01:56:02,000
Speaker 1: active streak among NFL running backs. Field Yates made that

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01:56:02,080 --> 01:56:04,120
Speaker 1: point and we just wanted We meant to do it

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01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:07,160
Speaker 1: yesterday because he turned thirty six yesterday. That's an amazing

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Speaker 1: career that has all the makings of a Hall of

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01:56:09,240 --> 01:56:14,160
Speaker 1: Fame career right there, Steve. He deserves, he deserves to

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Speaker 1: be pointed out. The guy's an incredible player. At fourteen thousand,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and forty eight rushing yards in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League, fourteen thousand, seven hundred and forty eight, with

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Speaker 1: a career average of four point four per carry, He's

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01:56:30,040 --> 01:56:36,080
Speaker 1: got seventy seven rushing touchdowns eighteen receiving touchdowns. He has

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01:56:36,160 --> 01:56:40,040
Speaker 1: put together an unbelievable career, started in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: five all the way now to the current time, fourteen seasons.

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Speaker 1: It's and he's a Buffalo bill. Yeah, we gotta get

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Speaker 1: him on the show. I don't know if it's going

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01:56:48,600 --> 01:56:50,920
Speaker 1: to happen because we're kind of it's been hinted that

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01:56:51,000 --> 01:56:53,880
Speaker 1: he's not a big media guy, that maybe he won't

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01:56:53,920 --> 01:56:55,640
Speaker 1: do this show or do a whole lot with the media.

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01:56:55,720 --> 01:56:57,680
Speaker 1: But all I can think about was all of that

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01:56:57,800 --> 01:57:00,360
Speaker 1: production we just talked about, and the shot of him

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01:57:00,720 --> 01:57:03,080
Speaker 1: coming back here right when he was signed, walking down

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01:57:03,120 --> 01:57:06,000
Speaker 1: the hallway up in the executive offices with a helmet

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01:57:06,080 --> 01:57:09,880
Speaker 1: on right street clothes in a helmet. Clearly, this guy

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01:57:10,280 --> 01:57:12,520
Speaker 1: has something to offer this team. We'll see what it is.

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01:57:12,640 --> 01:57:14,480
Speaker 1: We'll see what his role will be. You know, people

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01:57:14,920 --> 01:57:16,960
Speaker 1: kind of stay awake. Some people stay awake at night

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01:57:17,000 --> 01:57:18,920
Speaker 1: and say, how's he going to fit in with mccoya.

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01:57:18,960 --> 01:57:20,320
Speaker 1: How are they going to work that out? I don't know.

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01:57:20,800 --> 01:57:23,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. But when you look at that record

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Speaker 1: of production, including last year, and it's fourteen straight seasons now,

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Speaker 1: with all those carries and all that yardage, and you

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Speaker 1: look at this kind of approach to the game, walking

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01:57:31,600 --> 01:57:33,480
Speaker 1: around the hallways with a helmet, you gotta think this

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01:57:33,560 --> 01:57:36,720
Speaker 1: guy has something, maybe something major to offer this roster

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Speaker 1: this year. Yep Adam Gaze had interactions with him before

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Speaker 1: he became head coach of the Dolphins, and last year

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01:57:44,680 --> 01:57:46,720
Speaker 1: Gays said, that's a guy we've got to have on

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Speaker 1: our team. He brought him in and he had one

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty six rushing attempts last year for the Dolphins.

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01:57:51,880 --> 01:57:54,320
Speaker 1: How many one hundred and fifty six attempts last year

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Speaker 1: for the Dolphin seven hundred and twenty yards four point

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01:57:56,480 --> 01:57:59,520
Speaker 1: six average last year for the Dolphins. He was a

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Speaker 1: guy at him Gaze And you know, now the head coach,

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01:58:02,080 --> 01:58:04,680
Speaker 1: Interim GM of the Jets said we got to have

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Speaker 1: this guy in our building and I would say this, Murphy,

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Speaker 1: and this is what we used to say, you know

2381
01:58:11,160 --> 01:58:15,040
Speaker 1: when when we were playing. When you talk about your team,

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01:58:15,080 --> 01:58:17,040
Speaker 1: and in this case we're talking about the Buffalo Bills,

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01:58:18,040 --> 01:58:20,280
Speaker 1: are you better with him or without him? And I

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01:58:20,400 --> 01:58:23,680
Speaker 1: got to say, one hundred percent, my opinion is we're

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01:58:23,720 --> 01:58:26,320
Speaker 1: better with him on our team on shore without him. Um,

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01:58:26,720 --> 01:58:29,160
Speaker 1: he's a plus, A big plus. He's a He's an

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Speaker 1: incredibly hard worker. All the guys we talked to last year,

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01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, because it last year was kind of do

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01:58:33,440 --> 01:58:34,760
Speaker 1: you think, Wow, how long is he gonna hang in

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01:58:34,800 --> 01:58:36,520
Speaker 1: here at Miami? How are they gonna use him enough?

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01:58:36,520 --> 01:58:38,160
Speaker 1: And stuff? And then he started carrying the ball all

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01:58:38,200 --> 01:58:40,640
Speaker 1: the time and we started talking to people and all

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01:58:40,680 --> 01:58:42,480
Speaker 1: the players we spoke to were like, man, I can't.

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01:58:42,560 --> 01:58:46,920
Speaker 1: The guy's unbelieving. He works so hard. He never leaves

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01:58:46,960 --> 01:58:49,360
Speaker 1: the building. He's always at practice for you know, he's

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Speaker 1: that that. He could go on and on about how

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01:58:51,200 --> 01:58:54,400
Speaker 1: committed he is uh to being the best and to

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Speaker 1: continue to be the best. So for all of those reasons,

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Speaker 1: for all those reasons, yeah, he's I gotta You're better

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01:59:00,600 --> 01:59:02,120
Speaker 1: with him without him, That's all there is to it.

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01:59:02,120 --> 01:59:04,240
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out what makes this guy tick because

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01:59:04,280 --> 01:59:07,480
Speaker 1: that's an amazing record of production at age thirty six.

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01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:09,160
Speaker 1: Now we gotta get him on the show. Steep, can

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01:59:09,200 --> 01:59:12,760
Speaker 1: you can you handle that? I will, all right, I'll try.

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Speaker 1: Ten years in San Francisco, three years in Indianapolis, and

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01:59:18,920 --> 01:59:22,240
Speaker 1: last year was the first time since nineteen, since two

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Speaker 1: thousand and five, since his rookie season, that he carried

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01:59:24,240 --> 01:59:27,840
Speaker 1: the ball less than two hundred times. He is a workhorse. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he is a working on his horse. I'm assigning you

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Speaker 1: to that. Okay, all right, We're coming back with more

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Life from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. What have we learned from today's show? You

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Speaker 1: ask here? It is? What are we learned? Presented by

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Speaker 1: with the finest and security home theater he preferred Alarment

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Speaker 1: home theater brighter the Buffalo Bills. We had Frank greg

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Speaker 1: on the show. Perhaps you heard of him, former Bills quarterback,

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Speaker 1: the second year head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, coming

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02:00:09,040 --> 02:00:11,400
Speaker 1: back to Buffalo this weekend, or his call to Courage

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Speaker 1: Awards breakfast on Saturday morning, Frank greg talked about his

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Speaker 1: Cults team entering the upcoming twenty nineteen season with much

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Speaker 1: higher expectations than they had a year ago. Here's what

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Speaker 1: he said. You know, this year, we got to do

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Speaker 1: the same thing. We got to keep the same mindset

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Speaker 1: and the mindset that worked for us last year. And

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Speaker 1: that is really our mantra is just you know, believing

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Speaker 1: the people and believing the process. You know, get a

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Speaker 1: little bit better every day. We don't focus on results.

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Speaker 1: We focus on getting better every day. We know the

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Speaker 1: results will come, and so we can allow all the

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Speaker 1: talk of the media about hey, this Colts team, you

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Speaker 1: know they finished the year strong. We're gonna They're gonna

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Speaker 1: be in it at the end. We just got to

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Speaker 1: block all that stuff out, just focus on the day

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Speaker 1: to day process and just keep getting better. Steve and I, look,

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Speaker 1: we're connecting with Frank this weekend. It is called a

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Speaker 1: Courage Awards breakfast. We had Harrison Phillips in studio with us,

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Speaker 1: Bill's second year defensive tackle. Became pretty good friends with

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Speaker 1: the Lake Poncho bi Ezra Castro, the Bills superfan who

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Speaker 1: passed away yesterday. Harrison said he is headed for Texas

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Speaker 1: later this week for the services the funeral services for

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Speaker 1: his buddy Pacho Biya, and he remembered Pancho's speech to

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Speaker 1: the Bills before they went against the Jets last November

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Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Here's what he said about that. It

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02:01:29,840 --> 02:01:32,680
Speaker 1: came at such a crucial point in our season. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I had told him on the phone the

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Speaker 1: other day. You know, he's done so much regardless of

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Speaker 1: the outcome of what he was fighting. He's a catalyst

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02:01:41,480 --> 02:01:44,440
Speaker 1: for our organization, in the future of our organization. And

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02:01:44,840 --> 02:01:47,680
Speaker 1: we came in and last year as rookies, and we

2451
02:01:47,760 --> 02:01:49,440
Speaker 1: studied the grades who have been here before us, and

2452
02:01:49,480 --> 02:01:51,880
Speaker 1: we saw the banners that are hanging, and you know,

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02:01:52,200 --> 02:01:54,800
Speaker 1: understood what that was about. Pancho's the start of this

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Speaker 1: whole movement with us too. You know, Coach has been

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Speaker 1: coming up on year three. And right after that speech,

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02:02:01,240 --> 02:02:03,280
Speaker 1: the guys were all right in Poncho power. We got

2457
02:02:03,320 --> 02:02:06,280
Speaker 1: the wristbands. Alone's got these nice snazzy T shirts, you know,

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02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:09,480
Speaker 1: but no, yeah, a lot of the guys bought in

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Speaker 1: it and really learned more about the whole story. Harrison

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Speaker 1: Phillips on Poncho be an important, important figure to many

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Speaker 1: here at One Bills Drive, including many players, including the

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Speaker 1: general manager, Brandon Mean. We talked about Brandon a lot today.

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Speaker 1: He was the topic of our Twitter poll which dealt

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02:02:24,560 --> 02:02:27,040
Speaker 1: with his last year, and we asked you on Twitter

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Speaker 1: and on the phones, what do you think Brandon Means's

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Speaker 1: biggest accomplishment was over the last year as general manager

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. The responses very one sided, because

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Speaker 1: surprised me a little bit. Seventy five percent of you

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Speaker 1: said overhauling the offensive line was Brandon Bean's greatest accomplishment

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Speaker 1: this offseason. Sixteen percent say the draft and especially the

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Speaker 1: top two at Oliver and Cody Ford. Five percent had

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Speaker 1: something else in mind. Four percent said Alan adding talent

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Speaker 1: to the wide receiver group. Yeah, I would agree offensive line,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't think seventy five. I thought people would

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Speaker 1: be a little bit more widespread on this. Answers to Yeah,

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Speaker 1: perhaps we should have said both drafts that he's had here,

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Speaker 1: or covered the entire draft and not just those top

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Speaker 1: two guys. I don't know, but I all of it's important.

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Speaker 1: We know that. And then a day when the Bills

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Speaker 1: given you know, they seemed the most stable franchise of

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Speaker 1: you know, the two standard the Jets, the Bills, the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: For the first time in a long time, the Bills

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Speaker 1: seem wow, they seem rock solid comparison right. Jets fired

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Speaker 1: their general manager today, Mike mccagdum. They named their head

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Speaker 1: coach Adam Gaze, who just arrived there a couple of

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Speaker 1: months ago, named him the interim GM. Very interesting. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk more about that tomorrow. We're gonna talk with Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton on the show here tomorrow. We're gonna talk with

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin tomorrow on the show as well. Production assistants

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Speaker 1: George Blast, Jeff Colt, Nick Thomas, Honalder, Kelly Rude, j

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Speaker 1: j Arno, Kevin Carcass, James Robot, Our producer Jay Harris.

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Speaker 1: Good show tomorrow again, twelve noon, One Bill's Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio