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Speaker 1: to the top of the list. I don't know about

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Speaker 1: youth that, but this doesn't pass the smell test for me,

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Speaker 1: to pass a lot of tests for me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine being a Texans fan right now. And

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Speaker 1: this is a franchise that, what two years ago, you know,

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Speaker 1: had a two touchdown lead in the Chiefs in the

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Speaker 1: first half of a playoff game on the road, you know,

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Speaker 1: and now they're you know, reduced to this. I think

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Speaker 1: a part of it too is, you know, you wonder

437
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Speaker 1: if there are enough legitimate head coaching candidates to go around. Man. No,

438
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Speaker 1: look that the Texans are a mess and this whole

439
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Speaker 1: thing is a disaster. But when you've got Mike McDaniel

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Speaker 1: being hired and having half of his staff dictated to him,

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Speaker 1: when you know Josh McCown is even getting interviews as

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Speaker 1: much as a farst as the Texans are, you know,

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Speaker 1: I can't think of a young coach that I've really

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Speaker 1: been impressed with the last couple of years, maybe short

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Speaker 1: of Brian Flores before all the fallout in Miami. Everything

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Speaker 1: that's been going on there, So I think this might

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Speaker 1: be a part of it. But I don't know what's

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Speaker 1: going on with the Texans. I mean, this is a

449
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Speaker 1: franchise that what they were run by at the Chaplain

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Speaker 1: team Chaplain what two years ago, less than that, So

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Speaker 1: maybe this is part for the course for them, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, um, well, like I said, I can't I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine, you know, being a Texans fan. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what's in the mind of those people, what's in

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Speaker 1: the mind of de Shaun Watson right now obviously has

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Speaker 1: his own issues. Um. I can't think of a sports

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Speaker 1: franchise anywhere that has deteriorated as fast and as precipitously

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Speaker 1: as the Texans have over the last twenty four months. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's I didn't I thought they had reached rock bottom.

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Speaker 1: They found a layer or two beneath that. Um and

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Speaker 1: and it's not done because and look, let me just

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Speaker 1: say and be clear about this. I have nothing against

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Speaker 1: Lovey Smith, the guys that accomplished coach in this league.

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Speaker 1: He's been a head coach of two different teams. As

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, if he does get the head

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Speaker 1: coaching job, I think he will be the only blackhead

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Speaker 1: coach to serve as head coach for three different NFL

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Speaker 1: franchises in a career. I know Romeo Cornell technically did

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Speaker 1: it as an interim for one before coaching two others,

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Speaker 1: but still if he is in fact hired as the

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Speaker 1: head coach, as many people believe he will, now they're

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Speaker 1: talking about Josh McCown possibly having a role on that

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Speaker 1: staff so they can groom him, you know, for a

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Speaker 1: future role as a head coach. Thus, like I'm hearing

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Speaker 1: those reports. If I'm Lovey Smith, I'm like, what now

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Speaker 1: you so you want me to be the head coach,

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Speaker 1: but now I'm going to be the next placeholder, just

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Speaker 1: like David Culley was for a year, Like what the

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Speaker 1: hell is that? And if you want to spend that further,

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Speaker 1: you know, the conversation we had thursday talking about the

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Speaker 1: Flora's lawsuit, and you know, in terms of the accusations

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Speaker 1: of racism and minority hiring practice and stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: the Texans have already been a team that's kind of

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Speaker 1: in the crosshairs of being suspicious of their hiring practices

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Speaker 1: and the way their organization is run. If you are

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Speaker 1: going to hire back to back minority coaches, one essentially

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Speaker 1: to be a placeholder in David Culley and have zero

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Speaker 1: chance to retain the job, and two to outright be

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Speaker 1: a placeholder so you can groom the white coach who's

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Speaker 1: never ever been a coach in the NFL to be

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Speaker 1: the head coach. I mean, I can't imagine the pr

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Speaker 1: people in the NFL headquarters are enjoying that idea at all,

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Speaker 1: you know, and look separate of that, it's terrible football practice.

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Speaker 1: But also it just takes a bad situation in Houston,

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Speaker 1: you know, held against an already very negative, negatively viewed

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Speaker 1: situation around the league, and you make it eighteen times worse. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's downright cringeworthy. It really is, Like you said,

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Speaker 1: what are the people in the NFL offices on Park

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Speaker 1: haven't you're doing. They're wincing right now. They're cringing as

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Speaker 1: to what might be afoot down there in Houston. And

501
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Speaker 1: then I saw that Raider's interim head coach Rich Bisacci

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Speaker 1: is gonna be the new special team's cordiner for the

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Speaker 1: coordinator for the Green Bay Packers. Good idea after they

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Speaker 1: got bounced out of the playoffs, doing large part to

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Speaker 1: their failures on special teams against the Niners in the

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Speaker 1: divisional playoff, and then Titans GM John Robinson Thad doubling

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Speaker 1: down on his commitment to Ryan Tannehill, reiterating that Tannehill

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Speaker 1: is their starting quarterback going forward. Something tells me his

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Speaker 1: cap figure might be the only reason that's the case,

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Speaker 1: because he's got a twenty eight million dollars cap hit

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Speaker 1: if they release him. We've seen stranger things happen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Eagles took a bigger cap hit than that to

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Speaker 1: move wins, So it's not out of the realm of possibility.

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Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people in Tennessee are like, ooh,

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Speaker 1: can we get Aaron Rodgers, Oh what about Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: because we certainly don't like the way Ryan Tannehill looked

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Speaker 1: when he threw three picks in the divisional playoff. I've

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Speaker 1: always kind of been a Tannehill fan slash slash apologist.

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Speaker 1: I guess yeah. I've liked him even when he played

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Speaker 1: for Miami. I thought I didn't get enough credit, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think you know we're watching him, you know, scoring

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Speaker 1: on the ground. I think he's underrated with what he

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Speaker 1: can do with his legs. Look, I'm not gonna sit

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Speaker 1: here and tell you he's a top ten quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. But this goes back to the old Doug

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Speaker 1: Whalley conversation about quarterback purgatory. You know, if you get

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Speaker 1: rid of Ryan Tannehill, who you're bringing in? Sure, if

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Speaker 1: you want to get Rogers or Russell Wilson. I mean,

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Speaker 1: who wouldn't endorse that? But I think the Titans this

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Speaker 1: year had one of the worst injury situations in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and we look at Mike Rabel. People walked up Mike

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Speaker 1: Vabel as a Coach of the Year candidate because of that. Well,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill, the quarterback, probably should get a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a boost in his opinion because of all the

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Speaker 1: he played with A J. Brown for three quarters of

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Speaker 1: the season. Julio Jones was irrelevant, Derek Henry miss half

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Speaker 1: the season. They were still the number one seed in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and weren't not for two deflected interceptions, you

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Speaker 1: know they would have made it at least the AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship game. And since Cincinnati won that game, you know

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna tell me Tennessee couldn't have won that

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Speaker 1: game too, So I know I'm reaching a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but look, I think Tannehill's fine. You're probably right, there's

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Speaker 1: a cap figure there why John Robinson's gonna say we

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Speaker 1: love him. But also, you know, unless you're gonna trade

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Speaker 1: for one of these you know, nomadic, incredibly town quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: I don't see how you get better than Ryan Tannehill

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Speaker 1: in Tennessee. And I don't think there's a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of guys in the NFL that would make them better, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's really where it ends. That's the bottom line.

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Speaker 1: You could do a lot worse than Ryan Tannehill. You know,

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Speaker 1: just ask the Denver Broncos or you know, the Carolina

553
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Speaker 1: Panthers and they'll be happy to tell you. So I

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Speaker 1: think John Robinson has just taken the bird in the

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Speaker 1: hand two in the bush approach here. I know what

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Speaker 1: I have right now. That doesn't mean I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: be looking for better, but I'll stick by this guy

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Speaker 1: now and if the landscape changes, well then you know,

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Speaker 1: I can cross that bridge when I get to it. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what else is he really going to say

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Speaker 1: at this point? So, so that's pretty much the look

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Speaker 1: around the league. NFL News and Notes We are talking

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00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: though about improving the Pro Bowl. How do we make

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Speaker 1: this thing better or at least more watchable. We understand

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are watching it already, but if

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Speaker 1: you have a suggestion, and I don't care, you could

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Speaker 1: be as creative as you want to be. You want

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Speaker 1: to have a dodgeball tournament instead, I'll sign up for it.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to watch NFL players play dodgeball for sixty minutes.

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Speaker 1: We saw some of it during the week with some

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Speaker 1: of the stuff they were doing in terms of the

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Speaker 1: recreational activities they were putting the players through. You can

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Speaker 1: sign me up for that, but you let us know

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Speaker 1: what's the best way to make the NFL Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: more interesting? Eight o three oh five fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty or you can hit

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Speaker 1: us up on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: We will take a break here, but be back with

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Speaker 1: your calls and your tweets next. You're on one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collata Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bills Live. First round, fad round

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Speaker 1: with you here on a Monday, and boy, you always

583
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Speaker 1: come across. We always talked Steve and Iowa's joke how

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Speaker 1: the internet is undefeated. There people's tracking stuff down or

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Speaker 1: doing something hilarious. And there's a there's an Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: beat reporter who just tweeted this out because it seemed

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Speaker 1: strange to him, saying that Kyler Murray has apparently scrubbed

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Speaker 1: all Arizona Cardinals references and photos from his Instagram account.

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Speaker 1: It probably does it mean anything, Who the heck knows,

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Speaker 1: but it certainly is strange. And the only reason that

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Speaker 1: this is probably going to cause at least some Cardinals

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Speaker 1: fans to shut her a little bit is because of

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Speaker 1: the fact that Kyler Murray was drafted by the oak

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Speaker 1: Oakland A's in baseball and is a pretty accomplished outfielder.

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Speaker 1: And I remember this from about week ten or eleven

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Speaker 1: this season. He came to a postgame press conference with

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Speaker 1: an Oakland A's hat on one time, and I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: to myself, Kyler, what about optics here, Bud? Like I

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Speaker 1: think it was after a loss too, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: thinking to myself, what are you doing? Like you're you're

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Speaker 1: you got drafted by that team in Major League Baseball?

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Speaker 1: You swore your allegiance to the Cardinals, and now you're

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Speaker 1: wearing this hat. And look, and I'm probably making a

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Speaker 1: mountain out of a mole hill here and all in

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Speaker 1: all instances, this probably means nothing, but it certainly raises

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Speaker 1: it's probably gonna raise some eyebrows among the fan base

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Speaker 1: in Arizona, like what's afoot here? It's probably nothing. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why you'd want to play for anybody but

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury, who was his college coach. Um, I know

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Speaker 1: they kind of faded each of the last two years.

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Speaker 1: But it's certainly it's gonna lead to some speculation down

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Speaker 1: there in the desert. Well, this is the last year

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Speaker 1: coming up at twenty two of his four year you're

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Speaker 1: rookie deal. Obviously there's the fifth year option, which if

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals haven't activated already, I'm sure they will. Um.

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Speaker 1: So it couldn't me be a contract ploy and negotiation ploy.

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Speaker 1: And and look this is if I had five bucks

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Speaker 1: for every time a player scrubbed their teams uh information

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Speaker 1: and logo off their Instagram, I wouldn't have to sit

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Speaker 1: here and talk to you for the afternoon. Um. This

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Speaker 1: is not this is not a brand new thing. Um,

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Speaker 1: and you're right, it probably is a you know, not

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Speaker 1: gonna turn out to be a big deal. But look,

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Speaker 1: if it was, if it was the Bills and Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen did this, you and I would be spending weeks

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Speaker 1: talking about you know what it can mean, what what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen next. It'll be a thing for sure, you know.

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Speaker 1: And it's not it's not nothing. You know that you

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Speaker 1: don't have to do that. Um. But my guess off

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Speaker 1: the top of my head is that it's a contract

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Speaker 1: issue slash negotiations slash ploy and you know, eventually everything

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Speaker 1: we worked out, because if you are going to extend him,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is the year you would want to

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Speaker 1: do it. You know, this is this is the the

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Speaker 1: offseason where that will probably have discussion, will probably get going.

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Speaker 1: So um but hey, you know what, we're getting close

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Speaker 1: to that part of the year in the NFL right

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Speaker 1: where anything that is even borderline discussable becomes the most

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Speaker 1: important thing ever. Um, you know, one more and then

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Speaker 1: we got six months of this, so everybody, buck lynn,

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Speaker 1: it's just the beginning, right And I would say, you know, okay,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna if it is a negotiating tactic, in

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Speaker 1: you know, pursuit of a long term deal to kind

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00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: of bypass the fifty year option much the way you

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Speaker 1: know Josh Allen did. You're probably waiting to see what

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson gets because the odds are he's the next

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Speaker 1: guy that's going to get a deal. I you know,

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Speaker 1: despite Lamar Jackson's detractors, I do think that Baltimore is

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Speaker 1: committed to him wholeheartedly and is ready to give him

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Speaker 1: a giant, you know, second contract, and I would anticipate

651
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: he's probably first on the list here. So while Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray might be doing that as a negotiating tactic, I

653
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: don't know if he wants to rush into that right away,

654
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Speaker 1: especially if you want to eventually get more than the

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00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: guy's last year got. Lamar jackson deal is only going

656
00:33:58,240 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: to help you in that vein as I see it.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I guess we'll I think you're

658
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: probably right there. I think waiting for Lamar Jackson's deal

659
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: first makes makes sense from Kyler's point of view. You know,

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Speaker 1: Lamar's a former MVP. Uh, Kyler Murray's what played and

661
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: didn't really play well in one playoff game. Lamar Jackson's

662
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: you know, one playoff game has been the playoff game,

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Speaker 1: so you would think his contract would be better. And

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Speaker 1: if you're Kyler, you're probably better off waiting for him

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00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: to sign. It doesn't mean, though, that if you're Kyler,

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Speaker 1: and I would imagine his agent at some point has

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00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: already open. Hey, you know, in additial negotiation, if we're

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00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: gonna sign long term, I think we want to you know,

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Speaker 1: what would you offer. It's out of the realm for

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals to come back with something that's so low

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00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: from Kyler's point of view that he's like, ah, you know,

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00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: bleep it. I'm gonna go I'm done with this team.

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00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get rid of my Instagram and like you said,

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00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: let's let's get my baseball glow back on. See how

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00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: that might work. Yeah, uh, it's It's something that's I'm

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00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: going to keep an eye on for sure, just to

677
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 1: kind of see where it goes. He'll probably just say, oh,

678
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: it's nothing. I was just sprucing up my Instagram page

679
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: and wanting to try something different. We want to get

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, which is brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the

682
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. As we were asking you with our Twitter

683
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 1: conversation today, what's the best way to make the NFL

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl more interesting? Jeremy leads us off and says,

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Speaker 1: although not the apex of the season, it's a week

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00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: of football. I wish I could watch, but refuse. Let

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Speaker 1: the guys play like they did back in the day.

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00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: Also move it past the Super Bowl and back to

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Speaker 1: Hawaii so guys actually show up. Well, I mean, there

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Speaker 1: is a financial incentive to show up. These guys all

691
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: get paid extra money to play in this game. That's

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Speaker 1: how you get him to show up. Hawaii would be nice.

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Speaker 1: I had Eric Wood on with me on Friday thed

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Speaker 1: and you know, the one time that he did go

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Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl, it was still in Hawaii, and

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Speaker 1: he said that is a major attraction factor for the

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Speaker 1: players to participate because of the hangout factor. You know.

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Speaker 1: He said, some guys you know went to the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember where he said it was. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: was Orlando and the weather wasn't good, or maybe it

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00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: was somewhere else one year and he basically said, what

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00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: we did in Hawaii was you go to practice. You know,

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00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: you do your little bit of media and then you

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00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: come back to the hotel and you hang around the

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00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: pool all afternoon, you know, swim up bar, the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: You know. I don't have to get into details if

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Speaker 1: we think we have an idea of where it all

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00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: goes when they're out in Hawaii, and that's just not

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00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: on the table when you don't have an outdoor venue

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00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: that you know where the weather's nice in January and

711
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: you can or February and you can make it work.

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00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 1: So while I think Hawaii might be welcomed with open

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Speaker 1: arms by just about anybody involved with the Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: player or coach, I just to get the guys to

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Speaker 1: play like they did back in the day, I think

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00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: that's already dead and gone. Couldn't agree more. You know

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Speaker 1: that the idea that that game they we're gonna be

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00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: a real game again is is now imaginary. It's not

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00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 1: coming back, you know. And I've heard the same stories

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00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: as you about Hawaii and why that's fun. I'd like

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00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: to see Hawaii versus Vegas. I think this was the

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Speaker 1: first time the Pro Bowl was in Vegas, so there's

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Speaker 1: certainly an attraction to Las Vegas that might make it worthwhile,

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Speaker 1: you know, in terms of the idea about moving it

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00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: back to after the Super Bowl. I know a lot

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00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: of these guys, you know, this is their offseason, their

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00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: vacation time. You know, I think it probably makes more

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00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: sense to put it closer to the regular season, so

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00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 1: you're not forcing a guy to you know, cut into

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00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: that time. I don't know if it really makes that

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Speaker 1: much of a difference, but I mean, the big thing

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00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: that people need to digest about the Pro Bowls, that's

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Speaker 1: never again going to be anything close to a real game.

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00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: It will always be of the four sports, the game

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00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 1: that is the most distant from the game you'd see

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00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: during the regular season, simply for the injury factor. I mean, look,

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00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: I don't want to see Stefon Diggs go hard against

738
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: Treybon Diggs and you know, blow a knee, or I

739
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: don't want to see you know, Dion Dawkins having to

740
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: deal with Chandler Jones or whoever and tearing a pectorial muscles.

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00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: No one cares. You know that it's just not worth it.

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00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: You think about memories of All Star games, one are

743
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: the things we remember most about any All Star game? Well,

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00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 1: Number one's probably Pete Rose and Ray Foster eighty five

745
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: years ago and then Sean Taylor and Brian Morman. You

746
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: know that the hits and the physicalness that no one

747
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: wants see anymore. Do you remember any all star game

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00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: in any sport, the finish, anything that happened, Who scored,

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00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 1: what number of points? I mean, I don't think people care,

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00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: you know, So why get bent out of shape about

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00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: what the game is like? Now? Just you know, let

752
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: the guys have their week off. If you want to

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00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: watch it, go ahead. There's seven or eight other million

754
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: people like you, and the NFL are happy to have

755
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: all of you. And if you don't want to watch

756
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: watch golf, you know, and you know, move on their lives.

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00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 1: You know. I guess we want to get into, you know,

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00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: better ideas. I'll go back to what I said about,

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00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: let's just make it super fun, make it like the

760
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: Globetrotters version of football. But you know, the idea that

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00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: this is ever gonna be a real game or anything

762
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: even close to a real game, is never gonna happen,

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00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: and for many good reasons in my opinion. Yeah, Like

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00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: I know, the latest iteration of the Globetrotters, they have

765
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: like a four point circle dots on the floor where

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00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: if the guy shoots from there, it's a four pointer

767
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: and it's like a country mile from the basket. Make

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00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: the back three yards of the end zone. You know,

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00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: a ten point play instead of a six point you know,

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00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: something like that, or that touchdown right there that we're

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00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: watching with our MSG viewers counts as ten points instead

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00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: of six. Like, do some of that stuff to make

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00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: it a little more gimmicky, and you know, maybe the

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00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: defense is better to prevent a ten point play from

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00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: a six point play. I don't know. You think about

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00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: it sometimes that and it's like, well, you know, the league,

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00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: with as much as they push the flag football game

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00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: with the youth, what have you played flag with these guys.

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00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 1: I'd love to see lineman trying to grab as off

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00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: running backs. I don't know. I'll go back to what

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00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: I said about, you know, the main thing that anyone

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00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: wants to see with their players is not to see

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00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: their guy get hurt. I think, you know, so even

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00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: if you play someone's talking about play seven on seven,

785
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: which is essentially the same thing either way, you still

786
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: got the receivers and the d backs in that scenario

787
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: allegedly going hard, you know, or the other idea I

788
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: heard was let's make it a winner take all and

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00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 1: the prize is like a gazillion dollars, you know which, Ay,

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00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: I'll go back to my argument about not wanting guys

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00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: get hurt, but b that has a little feel of

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00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: Roman emperors and the gladiators and then a little off

793
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: putting from that point of view about let's just give

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00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: him a truck load of money and make them beat

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00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: them out each other up for our entertainment. You know,

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00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:32,919
Speaker 1: I have no need for that. I mean I get

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00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: eighteen weeks of that plus playoffs. I'm cool, you know.

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00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: I just I think that the best way try and

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00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: make it as fun as possible. You know, you talk

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00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 1: about the ten point touchdown. I love that. How about

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00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: you know, put a microphone on, like I said Stefan Diggs.

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00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: I mean, have him talk trash on, you know, as

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00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: he's running a play or even you know, bring some

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00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 1: fan down and say, all right, you know, trying defense

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00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs. Then he runs into like seven moves and

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00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: does the thing that makes us all have our eyeballs

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00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: pop out of her head during training camp. And just

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00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: just make it as fun as possible. You want to

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00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: do the whole confetti popping out of the water bucket

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00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: thing with the referee. Sure, I'm down with all of that,

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00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, because you can't make it a game anymore.

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00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: It's a farcet. So almost lean into the first make

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00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: it as farst funny as possible. Yeah, I was thinking

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00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: of another thing. You take the Arena League, narrower field

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00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: goal posts, so you put like a net behind it

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00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: with you know, those two lines down the netting. The

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00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: guy hits it dead center in the middle. You know,

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00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: maybe it's four points instead of three. You know, kind

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00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: of do that kind of thing you just gotta and

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00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: then you know your final score is ninety to eighty seven.

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00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: You've turned it into either an arena game or an

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00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 1: NBA game. For lack of I just I get, I get.

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00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: I get tired of reading the people who are I

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00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: hate the Pro Bowl. It's terrible. Oh of course it is.

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00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: You know, what, what do you want it to be?

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00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: So let's let's try and make it as fun as possible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we gotta take a break here. Fad and I back

828
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: with more, including an interesting plan by Twitter at the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl with Sofi Stadium. We'll tell you what that

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Speaker 1: is when we return. Here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown fed Brown with

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00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: you here on a Monday, and with the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: now six days away. Twitter, who has done some pretty

835
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: interesting things the last couple of Super Bowls. They dropped

836
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: confetti that had fans tweets on it a couple of

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00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: years ago in Miami at Super Bowl fifty four, and

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Speaker 1: then last year they had the thank you messages for

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00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: first responders, frontline workers, you know, amidst COVID. This year

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Speaker 1: with Sofi Stadium, though, they're going to the roof. They're

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00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: going to the roof of the stadium, which really isn't

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00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: a roof. It's like a skin that's stretched with you know,

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00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: steel cables. It's almost like a floating roof of sorts.

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Speaker 1: But it has led projection capabilities up there. And so

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Speaker 1: if you go to the Twitter handle at Twitter Sports,

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00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 1: Twitter's asking you to tweet your wildest Super Bowl fifty

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00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: six prediction in six words or less, and they're basically

848
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: telling fans some of the wildest, funniest or craziest predictions

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00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: will appear on the Sofi stadium roof, and so one

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00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: might ask, well, who the hell's going to see it

851
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: up there, because it's going up to the sky, not

852
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: like down into the stadium. And I did not know

853
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: this that, but apparently the stadium is directly in the

854
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 1: takeoff and landing path of airplanes going to LAX, So

855
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: I guess you get that. Yeah, I mean it's a

856
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: great idea. You know, I think it's gonna be super fun.

857
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: People are watching an MSG can see it what it

858
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: looks like. I mean, it will, you know, and I

859
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: would imagine that at some point during the broadcast, you know,

860
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: that will be something that will be shown or promoted.

861
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a good chance that the one hundred

862
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 1: and whatever million viewers that will watch the super Bowl

863
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: might see one of your tweets if it's creative enough.

864
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: And you know, Twitter has long been the place that

865
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: people come to discourse discuss sports events. I mean, look,

866
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: I'll be honest in one of the fun things I

867
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: like to do, you know, if I'm just chilling at

868
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 1: home watching a game, is to fire up Twitter and

869
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: see if aything else is talking about it. It's fun

870
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: to have that conversation, you know, within the game. So

871
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: you know, Twitter's kind of controlled the social media world

872
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: when it comes to sports events, and there's just another reason,

873
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: another way they can do it. So I love it.

874
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: I was a little surprised that, you know, you pointed

875
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: out that it's going to be on top of the

876
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: roof and not inside the roof. Yeah. Now, there's a

877
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: story I read where they said that they'll probably put

878
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: some tweets on inside the stadium anyway. But my first

879
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: initial reaction was someone tweets like Stafford's gonna be terrible

880
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: and having Matt Stafford look up and the roof inside,

881
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: having this giant picture of a tweet where it says

882
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: Stafford's gonna be terrible, and how funny that would have

883
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: been the idea. Yeah, the screeners are going to be

884
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: critical to the success within this campaign. Here's the funny thing.

885
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: So I'm like, well, how many people are actually gonna

886
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: see this, like conceivably you know, all these tweets? What

887
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: is what is the audience that made them feel it's

888
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: worthwhile to put it on the roof. And I read

889
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: in the Sports Business Journal, because of the stadium's location,

890
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 1: the estimates are eighty thousand to one hundred thousand people

891
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: could fly over the venue on an average game day.

892
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: I know LAX is a busy airport, but that is

893
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: a much larger number than I would have guessed. I mean,

894
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: that's more than it's gonna be sitting in the stadium,

895
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: you know, And I know you know, you and I

896
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: are sports people immersed in that world. But who the

897
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: heck plan the flight for the evening of Super Bowl Sunday?

898
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't like have a different day. I mean,

899
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: what travel plant? Where do you need to be that

900
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: you have to be in the air between noon and

901
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: midnight on Super Bowl Sunday? I mean, why why would

902
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: anybody ever? You know? Again, you know, I always got

903
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: to go back to there's actually more people in the

904
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: world or in America that don't watch Super Bowl than do,

905
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: at least according to the TV ratings. But regardless, you know,

906
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine being on a flight then. But hey,

907
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 1: if a sports business journal says it they are really

908
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: smart and do a lot of great stuff in this

909
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: area of sports, it must be ture, right. And and

910
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: the other thing I was thinking too was can you

911
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: picture the boardroom creative session here, like just talking about

912
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: what they want to do, like, all right, we look,

913
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: we got this association with the Super Bowl, so that's covered.

914
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: How are we gonna how are we gonna maximize our

915
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: exposure here? And I could just totally see somebody sitting

916
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 1: there going, well, I can put it on the roof,

917
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: that's all. And then somebody said, wait, wait a second,

918
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: hold on, wait, let's think about that. That might be

919
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: something like I gotta believe it was a joke first,

920
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: and then they actually sat and thought about and said, well,

921
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: hold on a minute, there might be a way to

922
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: use that, and and here we are. That's I guarantee

923
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 1: you that probably happened. Somebody cracked a joke and then

924
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: it turned up being the actual idea that they're gonna

925
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 1: put into practice on Sunday night. Now. The only thing

926
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: is so the game. I'm wondering how this is gonna

927
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: work though, Thad, because now I'm thinking the game is

928
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: like three thirty kickoff Pacific time, right, like give or take.

929
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: So you still got a good two hours of daylight,

930
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: if not more. Yeah, so you're you're looking at half time.

931
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm assuming the lights are perhaps bred enough. It's

932
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: an led board. Maybe you can see it at night. Yeah,

933
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: during the day, I should say, let me hold on,

934
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 1: I'll look up Las Vegas sunset for you quick. Well

935
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: la yeah sold? So yeah, I mean, I know it

936
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 1: got dark here around five. It's getting dark here around

937
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: five thirty or so, and yeah, five thirty tonight. So

938
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 1: I mean that the game is going to be in

939
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: the third quarter before the sun goes down. Yeah, So

940
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: I'm wondering. So they thought about the roof, but I

941
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: don't know if they thought about the daylight. Um, I'm

942
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 1: gonna look. I thought that board meeting, I'm gonna turn

943
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: it around the other way. I think it went, Hey,

944
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: we've got this roof that we can put signs on.

945
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: What should we do with it? Let's put tweets on there? Okay, great, done, lunch?

946
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: You know that kind of things like forgot forgot about

947
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: when the sun goes down? Yeah, that's that. Yeah, I'm

948
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: just thinking of that now. And I don't know if

949
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: they thought of it. But I don't know. Maybe the

950
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: LEDs work to where they're still visible. But I mean,

951
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: if it's a sunny day, I don't know if you're

952
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're seeing that out of an airplane.

953
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: I never thought we'd get to this point where social

954
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: media is catering to people flying by five hundred miles

955
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: an hour on an airplane by hoping they look out

956
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: the window. This isn't even jump in the shark like.

957
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: We are in real uncharted territory here, like to a

958
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: degree I never anticipated, but here we are. And I'm

959
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: not even interested in the football anymore. I just want

960
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: to know if this is going to be visible during

961
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Yeah, I want to know how this

962
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: is gonna work that. Now I'm intrigued. So yeah, I'll

963
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: be trying to get the lowdown on that. I'm sure

964
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: it'll be covered somewhere in the four hour pregame show,

965
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: so I'm not worried about that at all. All Right,

966
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: we gotta take a break here because when we come

967
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: back second hour of the show, we'll be joined by

968
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals radio color analyst Dave Lapham, who is going

969
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: to give us the update on the Bengals as I

970
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: believe they're set to travel later today to head out

971
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 1: to LA and get ready for the rest of Super

972
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: Bowl a week. Dave Lapham joining us next here on

973
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health it's Buffalo Bills

974
00:49:54,200 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: Radio Adam Steve Castor, who has been all over the

975
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: field unique. He was kind of a dual role player

976
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: for you a blimp. We're not even in the credit

977
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: Beard of normalcy. Every mc chris could send him to

978
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Four years ago he was a senior

979
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: in high school and tiny Fort Payne, Alabama. Now the

980
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: Bengal Super Bowl. Chances rest on his right foot to

981
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: kick his up. Yeah, yeah, good coffin nails. Bam, bam bam.

982
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: That is unbafflievable. The Cincinnati Bengals come from behind on

983
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 1: the road. Unbelievable, Dan, it is no fluke. It is

984
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: a fact. The Cincinnati Bengals are headed to Super Bowl

985
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: fifty six. All right, one very excited Dave Lappham was

986
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: on the call there the bam bam bam was all.

987
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: You were you making the same sounds when you were

988
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: going to Super Bowl sixteen? I mean you were on

989
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: the field then. No, I can't can't say that I

990
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: was making those same sounds before. That's that's forty years ago.

991
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: I don't know where time went. It's crazy, but yeah,

992
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: we had a big celebration this year brought a lot

993
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: of players back from that Super Bowl sixteen team celebrating

994
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: the fortieth year anniversary boom, they go to Super Bowl

995
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: fifty six. It's unbelievable, it really is. Yeah. We're talking

996
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: with Dave Lappa, Bengals radio color analyst, hosted in the

997
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: Trenches podcast and former Bengals oh lineman for about ten

998
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: seasons with them, and as I said, I went to

999
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixteen with them. So so, Dave, you know,

1000
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: the euphoria I have to imagine is still through the

1001
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: roof in Cincinnati. I know they're doing a pep rally

1002
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,439
Speaker 1: tonight before the team has kind of a send off

1003
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: to LA. So what would you say is the vibe

1004
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: if you've had any opportunity to kind of talk to

1005
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: any of the players or at least be around them

1006
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: as they prepare to head out to LA. Well, because

1007
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: the COVID protocols, the contact with the players isn't like

1008
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: it has been in the past. But I have had

1009
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: some contact with players, and comparing it to the to

1010
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: the two Super Bowl appearances in the eighties, super Bowl

1011
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: sixteen and Super Bowl twenty three and eighty nine, social media,

1012
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: I mean that's the difference. The community was off the hook.

1013
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: I mean they were they're upside down on their heads,

1014
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: you know, enjoy about the Bengals going to the Super Bowl.

1015
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: But now with social media, the interaction, the connection between

1016
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,919
Speaker 1: players and fans is exponentially greater. You know, it's it's

1017
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: just it's amazing. And and because of that, I mean,

1018
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: the fan base in the entire Tri state area is

1019
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: going crazy, no doubt, Dave. You know, I don't know

1020
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: how much how optimistic you were at the beginning of

1021
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs that Cincinnati could get this fire. I think

1022
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:15,320
Speaker 1: we all thought it was possible. Joe Burrows, you know,

1023
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: showing he can be that type of quarterback. But when

1024
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,439
Speaker 1: you look back at the three games, is there one

1025
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: thing or maybe one trend or a change or something

1026
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 1: he didn't expect that you look back on and after

1027
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: having this week to kind of digest it and said,

1028
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: you know, that was the thing we didn't expect, or

1029
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: that was the thing that changed in the postseason that

1030
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: allowed Cincinnati to make it all the way to the

1031
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Well, the first thing that comes to mind

1032
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: is turnovers. You know, they've they've they have six interceptions

1033
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: by six different players in three football games. They have

1034
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 1: seven takeaways and three football games and they've only turned

1035
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: it over once. So you know they're plus six and

1036
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: that that wasn't a trend. They weren't. They were just

1037
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: even on the season there, you know, it wasn't It

1038
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: was an even steven scenario. So for them to be

1039
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: hot in the takeaway department at the right time, I

1040
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: think is a big key in their success. And overall,

1041
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: I think the defense is the story. You know, after

1042
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: watching these guys, you know, performing the playoffs, defense does

1043
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: win your championships. I mean the first two games when

1044
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,399
Speaker 1: when they played the Raiders and the Titans, they held

1045
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: those two teams combined to thirty five points seventeen and

1046
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: a half points per. That's gonna win your games in

1047
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know. And then against Kansas City, hot

1048
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: nights through butter first three drives, touchdown, fourth drive, make

1049
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: a big play with five seconds to go in the

1050
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: half second and one at the one yard line, or

1051
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 1: it would have been twenty eight to three. They would

1052
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: have scored every possession. Then in the second half, three points,

1053
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: fifty yards passing by Mahomes, He'll shut out, no no catches,

1054
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 1: no yard, unbelievable. They made a lot of defensive changes.

1055
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: Rush three, drop eight, maybe rush four, max drop seven.

1056
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: Mahomes was he didn't know what he was looking at.

1057
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: He was holding the football. They pressured him. I mean,

1058
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: it was an amazing juxtaposition. It was a tale of

1059
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: two halves, you know. And they beat the Chiefs twice

1060
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: in the month of January. They beat him in the

1061
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: regular season to Clints in the division. They held them

1062
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: the three points in the second half. They beat him

1063
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: in the championship game, held the three points in the

1064
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: second half, six points on ten drives in the second

1065
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: half of those two football games against Mahomes and the Chiefs.

1066
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Defense is a story, yeah, and it's crazy

1067
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 1: to think about that because Bills fans will remember in

1068
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season, the Week five matchup between these

1069
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,800
Speaker 1: two teams, which was played here in Buffalo. Leslie Frasier,

1070
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator for the Bills, took a very similar

1071
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: approach in that game that the Bengals did in the

1072
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:44,280
Speaker 1: second half in the AFC title game, daring the Chiefs

1073
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,919
Speaker 1: to run the football. Now, the difference was the Chiefs

1074
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: did run the football in that game, and for some reason,

1075
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 1: they really didn't do a whole lot of that. In

1076
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: the AFC title game, they kept putting in Mahomes hands

1077
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: to throw it, you know, with eight men dropping into coverage,

1078
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: and it stunned me with the lead that they didn't

1079
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: turn to the run game more in the second half

1080
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: of that football game. How's surprised? Were you very very surprised?

1081
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 1: You know, I thought that, you know, you had Joe

1082
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: Barrow out playing Mahomes basically, and more importantly, had Zach

1083
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: Taylor out coaching Andy Reid. You know, I mean seriously,

1084
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: when you look at the head coaches, and they're not

1085
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: just the head coaches. Every coach is involved in making

1086
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 1: adjustments or not making adjustments that affect the outcome of

1087
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: the football game. But the Bengals made adjustments and the

1088
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: Chiefs made no adjustments to the adjustments. And it was

1089
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: stunning because that staff, you know, has got a lot

1090
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: of I mean, Spagnola just he uh, you know, he

1091
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: did his thing with the Bengals offense, not not really,

1092
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 1: I thought he hammeled his side of it. But man,

1093
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and Eric the enemy, they made no adjustments

1094
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: to what the Bengals were doing in the second half,

1095
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,439
Speaker 1: which absolutely flabbergasted me. And you know, I thought, really

1096
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to Buffalo. I mean Buffalo

1097
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: number one in the league yards allowed as allowed passing yards.

1098
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:05,879
Speaker 1: You know, I mean that that defensive football team was outstanding.

1099
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: And uh, you know when when they when they drove

1100
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: in thirteen seconds? Uh you know how many how much

1101
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: time was used up in overtime? When when McPherson hit

1102
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: that field goal thirteen seconds? How about that thirteen seconds

1103
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: in he kicks the field goal. So I mean thirteen

1104
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: was the lucky and unlucky number I guess for both

1105
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: franchises in the playoffs. Yeah, And I want to talk

1106
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 1: a little more about Zach Taylor and in the job

1107
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: he's done this year. I saw ustat today that the

1108
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: Bengals were number one in the league in third quarter

1109
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: point differential. Now I know that because the Bengals plus

1110
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 1: one forty five and the third quarter of the Super

1111
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: Bowl is looking very attractive to me. But it also

1112
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: I think indicates a team that's you know, um having

1113
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: a realization or an ability to adjust at halftime and

1114
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: come out and figure things out in the third quarter.

1115
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: You know. Taking that stat maybe as a particular but

1116
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: just the general job Taylor's done because this year two wins,

1117
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 1: four wins. He hasn't coached in a big game, and

1118
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, he's winning a bunch of them.

1119
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: Six twenty five and one in those first two seasons,

1120
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: two and fourteen in the first year. And it was

1121
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: a good year to go two and fourteen in hindsight,

1122
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: in retrospect, because he got Joe Burrow and that's the

1123
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: he's the franchise. I mean, he's the strongest, stirs the drink,

1124
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. And then four eleven and

1125
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: one and you get Jamar Chase with the fifth pick

1126
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: in the draft. So it worked out. They get a

1127
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: couple of Bayou Bengals and become Cincinnati Bengals and the

1128
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,959
Speaker 1: rest is history. Yeah, but it's it's incredible. The Bengals.

1129
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: The number of times they scored in the final two

1130
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: minutes of the first half and then followed up was

1131
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: scoring on their first possession of the third quarter was unbelievable.

1132
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: I mean, they're in the top five in the NFL

1133
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: in both categories. So they would always finish strong, going

1134
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: with some momentum, make some adjustments, come out even stronger

1135
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: in the second half and they did that, you know,

1136
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: a bunch of football games during the course of the season.

1137
00:58:57,240 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think, you know, you've got to give

1138
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: everybody credit. I mean, this football team, they built the

1139
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: defense through free agency. They got seven new starters through

1140
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: free agency, spent one hundred and twenty five million two

1141
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: years in a row on their defense and free agency,

1142
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: and they went to teams you know that had winning

1143
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: traditions at Dallas, New Orleans Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers. They're getting

1144
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: a free agents from those franchises that those players had

1145
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: an understanding of what it took. And then they built

1146
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: the offense through the draft. And we talked about you know,

1147
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: borrow Jamar Chase Tee Higgins was an early second round pick.

1148
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 1: He was the first pick of the second round. It's

1149
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 1: like a late first round pick. So you know, they

1150
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: put their bat on the ball. They had the first

1151
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: pick in every round and the fifth pick in every

1152
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: round and back to back draft, so you're gonna usually

1153
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: put your bat in the ball, and they did. And

1154
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: then Dave, I don't have the numbers in front of me.

1155
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: I know, from a statistical standpoint, rushing yards per game

1156
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 1: was not exactly super productive. For this team during the

1157
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: course of the season. I mean, they ranked twenty third

1158
00:59:56,080 --> 01:00:01,439
Speaker 1: in rushing. That didn't keep Taylor from calling the run though.

1159
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: The one that stood stood out to me in the

1160
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: Chiefs game was I think they ran all seventeen times

1161
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: on first and ten in that football game, even though

1162
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: they were down on the scoreboard, weren't tremendously successful. My

1163
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: question to you is, knowing Zach Taylor as well as

1164
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: you do, has that been a byproduct of his approach

1165
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: all season long? Or is it in response maybe a

1166
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: little bit too back the defense off a little bit

1167
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: knowing their pass protection can be suspect. Yeah, I think

1168
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: it's a combination. And I think coming off of that

1169
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: Tennessee game where they got sacked nine times, actually was eleven.

1170
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: One sack was negated by penalty, one sack was negated

1171
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: by time out, but he got hit and taken on

1172
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: the ground eleven times. So they really against the Chiefs,

1173
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: they wanted to have a modicum of some sort of

1174
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,439
Speaker 1: successful running game, you know, to make the Chiefs back

1175
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: off a little bit in respect to run some in

1176
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: the pass rush. And they're gonna have to do that

1177
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: in the championship game too. In the Super Bowl against

1178
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: the Ramps. There's no doubt. But you know, Joe Mixon

1179
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: is talented obviously, and they can use him out of

1180
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: the backfield and they screen to him, they check it

1181
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: down to him. It's like an extension of their running game,

1182
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: you know. And somaj p Ryan busting the screen for

1183
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: a forty one yard touchdown, so they got the ball

1184
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: out of The adjustment they made was to run it,

1185
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: particularly in the early downs, to get the ball out

1186
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 1: of Joe Barrow's hands real quickly two and a half

1187
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: seconds or less. You know, the screen game draws a

1188
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 1: little bit of running game play acts and pass some

1189
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: instead of just you know, shotgown or dropped back to

1190
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: pass where they can tee off and they have to

1191
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: at least respect to run some. But in order to

1192
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: have your play acts and pass be effective, you have

1193
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: to have some kind of you know, success in your

1194
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: running game or they won't even totally disregard it, you know,

1195
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean kind of you know, duvetailing off that question.

1196
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 1: You know, all the concerns that since then he had

1197
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 1: in the first three playoff games. You know, Max Crosby

1198
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: is big for the Raiders. The nine sacks of the Titans.

1199
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: Chris Jones spent half that game with Joe Burrow in

1200
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 1: his pocket. Basically, you know, none of those teams had

1201
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald and Von Miller, you know, so is the

1202
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: need to be successful in all of that, you know,

1203
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 1: the number one concern going into this game and being

1204
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 1: able to deal with the fact that you've got two

1205
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: of the NFL's all time best pass rushers going up

1206
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: against an offensive line that's been really not good at

1207
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, protecting the quarterback bingo. I think that's the

1208
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: biggest key to the game, you know, I think I

1209
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: think games are one and lost in the trenches, you know,

1210
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: I mean at every level. And you've got a team

1211
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: that gave up fifty five sacks. The Bengals gave up

1212
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: fifty five amongst the league leaders, I think it was thirtieth.

1213
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 1: You have a team that accumulated fifty tied for third

1214
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: most in the NFL, the Rams. I mean, like you said,

1215
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: von Miller, no active player has more sacks than Von Miller.

1216
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: He's number one, So you know, he was MVP of

1217
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: super Bow fifty. He's got skins on the wall. Aaron Donald,

1218
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: I think's the best player in the NFL. Maybe never mind,

1219
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: it's just at his position. Six one over two eighty

1220
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: runs sub four seven. That's a that's a freak. That's

1221
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: a marsh It's not a human being, you know. And

1222
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: so and then you know, let's remember they got Floyd two.

1223
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: This dude is good. Nine and a half sacks. They

1224
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: got three guys they have nine and a half sacks

1225
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: and more. So, yeah, it's gonna be that's gonna be

1226
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 1: a big, big deal. You know. The Bengals have pressure

1227
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: the quarterback real well this year, and the Rams they

1228
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: protect their quarterback pretty well. So I think protection, pressure

1229
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: on both sides of it are going to be a big,

1230
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: big factor in this football game, you know. I mean,

1231
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: like I said, the Rams have fifty sacks, that's third

1232
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 1: most in the NFL. They have nineteen interceptions, tied for

1233
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 1: third most. That goes hand in hand, you know, because

1234
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 1: you got pressure and a quarterback store it before he

1235
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,080
Speaker 1: wants to do or whatever. And they only allowed seventeen

1236
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: touchdown passes second feust to Buffalo who only allowed twelve.

1237
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: And that's two years in a row. The Rams have

1238
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: only given up seventeen touchdown passes and the regular season.

1239
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: That's outstanding. So it all it's all based on the

1240
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: pressure that that defensive line you know, puts on, puts

1241
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: on the opposing quarterback, making them uncomfortable. Talking with Dave Lapham,

1242
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 1: Bengals radio color analysts hit out to the Super Bowl

1243
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: in LA later this week, and Dave, you know, we

1244
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: hear and we listened to coach McDermott here in Buffalo

1245
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: talk about the culture that he worked so hard to build,

1246
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 1: and you know, we're seeing this team reap the benefits

1247
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,560
Speaker 1: of that. He's not afraid to use the word love

1248
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 1: and these guys do a lot of loving on each other.

1249
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 1: It's a tight, tight group and when the going gets tough,

1250
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: it has paid dividends for this football team. There's no

1251
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: question about it. I'm curious to know how Zach Taylor

1252
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,959
Speaker 1: has built, you know, the culture there in his three

1253
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: seasons as head coach. That's you sit on a huge

1254
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: factor in this on this about this football team. There's

1255
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 1: no jerk factor in the locker room, you know. I mean,

1256
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a it's a great place to be. Uh.

1257
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: These guys really respect each other, love each other, Like

1258
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: you said, I mean, they want to be around each

1259
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: other not just at the at the facility or at practice,

1260
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 1: on the locker room whatever. They go to dinner with

1261
01:04:56,960 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: each other. Position groups will go to dinner every week,

1262
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, gather up and they'll have meetings on their own.

1263
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: The defensive backs come in and meet before anybody else

1264
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: is in the building and as a group, you know,

1265
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: are trying to digest even more information. So this football

1266
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: team is very very tight, very close. And when they

1267
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: put it together, one of the things that they really

1268
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: graded heavily was what kind of a person leader is

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01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 1: this player? They signed and drafted a lot of captains

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01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 1: of high school teams, of college teams. You know, they

1271
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: signed high quality, high five or guys. You know. So

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01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: I think it's paying off, I really do, I think,

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01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 1: and that it's to me. It's shown up in games.

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01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: They've had to come from behind on a lot of

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01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: football games. I mean, in the NFC Championship game, they're

1276
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 1: down twenty one to three against the Chiefs at Paul

1277
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: Brown Stadium on January second, they're down fourteen nothing, twenty

1278
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: one seven fourteen win the game both times. So that

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01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: character I think shows itself in resiliency. You know, never

1280
01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 1: say die, not going to give up on this. We're

1281
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 1: going to figure this out. We're gonna come back and

1282
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: win this football game. And a lot of teams, you know,

1283
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 1: don't have that, and I think this football team has

1284
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: it in space. Even though we talked about that, you

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01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: were in Super Bowl sixteen with the Bengals when they

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01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 1: took on the forty nine ers. How much different is

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01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 1: the week in the hoopla and the festivity in the

1288
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I'm assuming you've been to one or two since,

1289
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 1: And how much of a factor is that going to

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01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: be for a Bengals team that's in general relatively new

1291
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 1: to the whole stage. Yeah, I think I think that

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01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: this one's going to be interesting in that regard. And

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01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 1: by the way, you have Super Bowl sixteen. I mean

1294
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 1: we have one media day. You know, there's no radio row.

1295
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: There was none of that kind of stuff. I mean,

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01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 1: I ruined with Kenny Anderson. We found this pizza place

1297
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: to have picnic tables and maybe get a pizza and

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01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,960
Speaker 1: a couple of our you know, pictures of beer with

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01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: guys at night. It was great. You know, everybody left

1300
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 1: us alone. It was awesome. But you know, it's it's

1301
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:54,640
Speaker 1: a lot different now. I mean it's a big show now,

1302
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: I think I think the pregame programming started two days ago.

1303
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 1: You know, it's the build up. The build up for

1304
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: a game is just unbelievable. Um. But you know when

1305
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: you when you look at it compared compared to uh,

1306
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 1: what they what they have going on now, it's night

1307
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: and day. And the thing that for the second year

1308
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 1: in a row, the home team, uh is I mean

1309
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 1: a team is playing at their home statement, you know,

1310
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay the first first time last year and

1311
01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 1: they wanted La Ram's doing it this year. That's huge.

1312
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,400
Speaker 1: I mean, the guys are staying in their homes, they're

1313
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: sleeping in their own bed, They're going to the same

1314
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 1: hotel they go to it for every home game, you know.

1315
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's all all the stuff that you have

1316
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: to do in terms of tickets and taking care of

1317
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 1: your family and friends, flights, hotel rooms. These guys don't

1318
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: have to worry about any of that stuff. That's a

1319
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,919
Speaker 1: that's a factor. I think that's a that's a big deal.

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01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:47,000
Speaker 1: I don't think the crowd noise is going to be

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01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: as bad as the Bengals have been faced on the

1322
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: road in the last couple of playoff games, I mean,

1323
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: Kansas City or you can't even hear yourself think this

1324
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,919
Speaker 1: is a corporate event. The NFL pays back their advertisers,

1325
01:07:57,920 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 1: and it's a corporate event. They get all the tickets.

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01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's going to be crazy that way.

1327
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 1: But leading up to the super Bowl and all the

1328
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 1: all the things that you have to you know, worry

1329
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: about and burn energy over, you know, it's like the

1330
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: Rams have no concern in that regarding the Bengals. Got

1331
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 1: a ton, man, I think it's a factor. Yeah, Well,

1332
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: enjoy yourself out there, Dave, and we'll probably I don't know,

1333
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody's rooting for the Bengals. The

1334
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: Bills fans are a little jealous if you're watching them

1335
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 1: kind of zoom right through in their first appearance in

1336
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: the playoffs in a while, right to the big game.

1337
01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:31,600
Speaker 1: Bills fans are still smarting a little bit, as you

1338
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: might imagine. But enjoy it out there and we'll be

1339
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 1: watching for sure. Yeah. I'll tell you one thing that

1340
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 1: I think this team understands is there's no guarantee you're

1341
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: going back, So take advantage of the opportunity, you know,

1342
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 1: enjoy it, play loose, you know, have fun all those things,

1343
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:54,959
Speaker 1: because man, it's hard to get there, I mean really hard. Yeah,

1344
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 1: thanks again, Dave, We appreciate it. That's all right, guys.

1345
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: Bengals radio teller analyst Day Lapham joining us here on

1346
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. We'll be back with more when we returned.

1347
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: We'll see in a second. All right, welcome back to

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01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Fad Brown with you. And

1349
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 1: while we were talking to Dave Lapham from the Bengals

1350
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: Radio network about the Super Bowl, there was some Bills

1351
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: news that came down a transaction as defensive tackle Elie

1352
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:38,760
Speaker 1: Ankou was signed to a reserve futures contract. And you know,

1353
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:42,599
Speaker 1: I gotta say that he played in six games down

1354
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 1: the stretch and he was kind of a space eating

1355
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 1: presence in there. I think he offered them more than

1356
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:52,719
Speaker 1: maybe even they anticipated. I agree. I think he played

1357
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 1: pretty well considering you know, you kind of felt like

1358
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:57,280
Speaker 1: a practice squad body that was being called up because

1359
01:09:58,200 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: you know, Justin Zimmer had been gone for the year,

1360
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:02,600
Speaker 1: Star Lotule was in the lineup late. I think he

1361
01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: was pretty solid. Um. I think this is a guy

1362
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: that could be in a position to compete for a

1363
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 1: roster spot next year. I mean, keep in mind, you know,

1364
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 1: the Bill's need for inside guys, the way they play

1365
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: their D line, they're going to rotate them, you know.

1366
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:16,599
Speaker 1: So Harrison Phillips is good, at Oliver is good obviously

1367
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: after that, you know, I think Star is probably back

1368
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 1: and fine, but un Ank how is gonna have a

1369
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 1: good shot to be one of those four guys next season. Yeah,

1370
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:31,719
Speaker 1: so not just you're you know, under the radar reserve

1371
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:36,160
Speaker 1: future signing correct. I think he's he's firmly on the

1372
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:39,920
Speaker 1: radar um and I think he will compete. As you said,

1373
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 1: I just I think you're looking for a stand your

1374
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:47,080
Speaker 1: ground kind of player to just stand in there and grind,

1375
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:50,639
Speaker 1: hopefully gobble up two people to let your three technique

1376
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:54,320
Speaker 1: next to him kind of eat. And I think he showed,

1377
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:57,599
Speaker 1: at least on a rotational basis, an ability to be

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01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:00,120
Speaker 1: effective in that kind of a role for them, And

1379
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,519
Speaker 1: even when the ball came his way, he made some

1380
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: plays in the run front. So yeah, I mean, I

1381
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: think I think that's a guy that's going to have

1382
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 1: at least a look at it, and it will be

1383
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:12,559
Speaker 1: on him to kind of prove he deserves to be

1384
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 1: one of those top four, and I think worst case scenario,

1385
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 1: you know, he's back on the practice squad again, and

1386
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 1: you could do a lot worse than him for a

1387
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,240
Speaker 1: practice squad call up during the year. We'll have to

1388
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:24,599
Speaker 1: see if if they keep those practice squad rules. Don't

1389
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 1: you think based on the roster flexibility that the expanded

1390
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: practice squad and practice squad call up rules gave the

1391
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 1: coaches and the front office, they're going to be pounding

1392
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: the table to continue those whether COVID, whether we're in

1393
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 1: a much better place with COVID or not come the fall. Well,

1394
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 1: of course, I mean you get more control over more players,

1395
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:51,599
Speaker 1: expanded practice squad and the opportunity to use more guys

1396
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 1: without having to expose them to waivers immediately after being

1397
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,160
Speaker 1: called to the active rosters. So, you know, from a

1398
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: league in team point of view, or maybe mostly from

1399
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:01,759
Speaker 1: a team point of view, I'm sure they love those rules.

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01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: You know. The question is there's the Players Association like

1401
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:07,160
Speaker 1: the idea that teams can use guys, especially young guys

1402
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: trying to make a name for themselves as still practice

1403
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: squad players, but also play them on game day as

1404
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: a part of the active roster without having to then

1405
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:18,680
Speaker 1: sign them and pay them like active roster players. I

1406
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 1: think in the long run it probably works out better

1407
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 1: for the league as a whole. Obviously, the teams love it.

1408
01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: I think it's fine for the players because I think

1409
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: it gives them, gives teams more flexibility to put these

1410
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: guys into game situations and get them looks that way,

1411
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:34,200
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe you know, you force them into

1412
01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 1: deciding whether or not you want to keep that guy

1413
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: in your active roster. So I think there's a good

1414
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:40,880
Speaker 1: chance that maybe not one hundred percent of the expanded

1415
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: and freewheeling practice squad rules remain, but I think it's

1416
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 1: going to look a whole lot different than it was

1417
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen in terms of what you can do

1418
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:50,719
Speaker 1: and who you can keep and who you can elevate

1419
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 1: up and down. Yeah, I mean, I think from a

1420
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:58,200
Speaker 1: players Association perspective, it's positive because it's more jobs for

1421
01:12:58,320 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 1: more of your rank and file members. And I mean

1422
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,840
Speaker 1: it's not you know, fifty three man roster money, but

1423
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:09,559
Speaker 1: it's still an opportunity nonetheless to be in the NFL

1424
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:14,760
Speaker 1: environment develop against legitimate NFL talent, you know, in the

1425
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,639
Speaker 1: practice setting. I'm talking about mainly, And if I remember right,

1426
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 1: the practice squad is supposed to go up to fourteen

1427
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 1: players this year anyway. In the new CBA it had

1428
01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 1: been twelve, and then it was expanded to sixteen under

1429
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:32,519
Speaker 1: the COVID rules. But I think in twenty twenty two,

1430
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: if I remember right, it's supposed to go up to

1431
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:39,840
Speaker 1: fourteen automatically anyway, So what the heck's two more players? Right? Yeah,

1432
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 1: I think you're right, And there were expanded rules. There

1433
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:45,719
Speaker 1: was also the rule about having, you know, practice squad guys.

1434
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 1: There was the old rule about if you had had

1435
01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 1: two accrued NFL season, you're no longer eligible for the

1436
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: practice squad. Now you're gonna be able to have a

1437
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: couple of spots that are basically you could have a

1438
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 1: guy that could make a career out of being a

1439
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: practice squad player now. And those things were all you know,

1440
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: COVID separates. So yeah, those were happening, you know, to

1441
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 1: begin with. And you know, we'll go go back to

1442
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:06,559
Speaker 1: the original point. I think there are some concerns from

1443
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:09,559
Speaker 1: the players Association point of view about a team being

1444
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 1: able to prevent a guy from being on an active roster,

1445
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 1: but separate of those, The rest of this seems to

1446
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 1: be really good for the team, at least moderately good,

1447
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 1: like you said, for the rank and file player, So

1448
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 1: why not keep doing it? Yeah, now that you're saying that,

1449
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 1: now you're making me think that if there's one going

1450
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 1: to pick that the Players Association will have, it'll be

1451
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 1: that four player protected rule on the practice squad. They'll

1452
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: probably push back on that, knowing it could potentially cost

1453
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: four players every week from getting on an active roster

1454
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:41,599
Speaker 1: somewhere else. So that might be one of the tweaks

1455
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 1: going forward, if there are any or who knows, maybe

1456
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:49,720
Speaker 1: in some strange world will be free and rid of

1457
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 1: COVID at least as we know it, and we can

1458
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: have a normal NFL season. That would be nice for sure,

1459
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 1: So cross your fingers and on that. We did want

1460
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:05,599
Speaker 1: to get back to the tweet sheet with your thoughts

1461
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 1: on the best way to make the NFL Pro Bowl

1462
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 1: more interesting. We didn't necessarily say better, just interesting. So

1463
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 1: Jack says, give the whole NFL a bye week the

1464
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 1: first or second week of December, move the game to

1465
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:25,640
Speaker 1: then in season, and give a monetary incentive to the

1466
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: winning team that is never gonna fly. That is never

1467
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: gonna fly. They're never gonna compose players. You want to

1468
01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:35,599
Speaker 1: risk a playoff birth because you're a guy got hurt

1469
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 1: in a Pro Bowl. I mean you want to see

1470
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 1: You think a lot of guys out the out of

1471
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:41,120
Speaker 1: this Pro Bowl. I mean that Probow would be played,

1472
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 1: it might as well be the practice squad Pro Bowl,

1473
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,559
Speaker 1: because that's the only people would show up for the game. Yeah, yeah, right,

1474
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:50,040
Speaker 1: Dinah says, instead of a game, just to have the

1475
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 1: skills competition for all players. I will say that that

1476
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: draws the interest of fans. We saw. I mean the

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01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 1: NHL's doing it. They were in the same place they

1478
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: were in Vegas last weekend obviously, and people I think

1479
01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 1: people tune in for that because it's a different way

1480
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 1: to assess the true ability, you know, of these highly

1481
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:14,640
Speaker 1: talented professional athletes. And I told you I'm signing up

1482
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: for dodgeball. I mean, I'll do it. I'm with you.

1483
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty viable alternative. You know, I

1484
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: wonder if the NFL is worried about if you take

1485
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:28,080
Speaker 1: away the game and you do this, can you do

1486
01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:30,479
Speaker 1: this for three hours so that you sustain in the

1487
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: amount of commercial freight. You're already selling you know, A

1488
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: and B. You know, would it be when you don't

1489
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: have a game anymore? You know, are people less likely

1490
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 1: to watch? Remember, you know what there wasn't over under yesterday?

1491
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 1: There was a line I think the AFC is a

1492
01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: favorite or something. So you take away those things, you know,

1493
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna reduce some interest in it. But you know

1494
01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: this idea, you know works fine for me. I think

1495
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: you're still gonna, like you said, showcase what these guys

1496
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 1: can do. You're doing an environment where no one's gonna

1497
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:59,719
Speaker 1: be probably get seriously injured. I think guys are gonna

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01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 1: have fun. I think a will draw eyeball, so I'd

1499
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 1: open this one. Yeah, now you got me thinking about

1500
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 1: about odds on who's the last man standing in Dodgeballs

1501
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 1: un I'm picturing the war chest getting rolled out at

1502
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 1: the end of Dodgeball in the movie Oh my God, Pirates.

1503
01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm thinking everything now, this is getting out of it.

1504
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 1: As long as Vince Vaughan and can play Let's follow me. Yeah,

1505
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:29,599
Speaker 1: Kimberly says, just do away with it. It can't be fixed. Well,

1506
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: that's a little that's a little negative Nancy there, Running

1507
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 1: man says, you would have to find a way to

1508
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:40,599
Speaker 1: have a Pro Bowl that doesn't actually include a football game.

1509
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:43,640
Speaker 1: Professional football is not a pickup sport where you can

1510
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:46,360
Speaker 1: randomly throw a bunch of people together to risk injury

1511
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 1: for a meaningless exhibition. Um, that's why I suggested flag football,

1512
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 1: but that did kind of point out you'd still have

1513
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:56,719
Speaker 1: people kind of going hard, you know, to catch people,

1514
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,560
Speaker 1: to avoid people, and so the risk of injury is

1515
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 1: is always there. So I don't know the debt's necessarily

1516
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: a solution either. Jen says, with the play style of

1517
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: yesterday's game, you may as well go with no pads,

1518
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: no helmets, and two hand touch but to make it

1519
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 1: more interesting, extra points and extra money to charities for

1520
01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 1: every touchdown made on a trick play. Now that's going

1521
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: down the path that might have some merit here. Sure

1522
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 1: more trick plays should have been a rule for the

1523
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:32,680
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl a long time ago. In fact, like every

1524
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 1: place should be a trick play. Yeah, I mean, if

1525
01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:37,479
Speaker 1: the quarterback throws a pass, that's a bad play. Someone

1526
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 1: not named the quarterback should be throwing every pass in

1527
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,599
Speaker 1: the game or something along those lines. I mean, like

1528
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: I said, lean into the fun part of this. It's

1529
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: no longer running Man says you need to have a

1530
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: Pro Ball doesn't actually include a football game. We already

1531
01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:50,920
Speaker 1: have that. That's what we've been doing for the last

1532
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 1: few years. It's not a football game. So any fun

1533
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 1: idea is open and welcome. I really like your idea

1534
01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 1: about ten point touchdowns for a certain point of the

1535
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:01,720
Speaker 1: end zone, or that are completed at certain points in

1536
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: the end zone. Any of those stuff. Any of those

1537
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: things are fine with me. Yeah. Now I'm thinking we

1538
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: should also have we should reinstitute punting, but only offensive

1539
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 1: or defensive lineman can field punts. That should be I

1540
01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 1: like that. That should be another one that is put

1541
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl. That is entertainment value. If you've

1542
01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:23,599
Speaker 1: never seen it before, it is entertainment value on another level.

1543
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:27,720
Speaker 1: Oh yes, and eligible receivers. There's no everybody's eligible. All

1544
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:29,600
Speaker 1: eleven guys are good every play. I'm fine with that.

1545
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: I mean, we already had Stefan Digg's playing d back

1546
01:19:32,520 --> 01:19:35,599
Speaker 1: right yesterday, So I mean Dion Dawkins at tight end

1547
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: next year. Miles Garrett, you know running, you know, sweeps

1548
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:42,360
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. All these things are fair game.

1549
01:19:42,479 --> 01:19:44,639
Speaker 1: I mean the punters didn't do anything actually right, put

1550
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 1: them on the field for something that whatever we want

1551
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: to do, the more fun, the more unique, the more different,

1552
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 1: probably the better off we're gonna be with this thing. Yeah,

1553
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: Rick says, make the two worst teams play in a game.

1554
01:19:57,560 --> 01:20:00,800
Speaker 1: Winning team gets the number one pick. Now, while this

1555
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:05,479
Speaker 1: sounds like blood sport to fans, I gotta think. I'm

1556
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 1: thinking about, you know, the Jaguars, and who's got the

1557
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 1: number two pick this year? So it's the Jags and

1558
01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: with somebody Detroit. Yeah, so the Jags and the Lions.

1559
01:20:17,960 --> 01:20:20,599
Speaker 1: While fans probably view the oh, they're gonna be at

1560
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 1: each other's throats to get the number one pick, look

1561
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:26,920
Speaker 1: at the incentive. And I'm thinking if I'm one of

1562
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:31,320
Speaker 1: the players on the Jaguars, you know, especially if like

1563
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not going to draft a quarterback over

1564
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: after taking Trevor Lawrence last year. But if you have

1565
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 1: like a thirty two year old quarterback on the worst

1566
01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:42,679
Speaker 1: football team in the league and the number one pick

1567
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 1: is like some sure fire quarterback prospect, is that guy

1568
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 1: really working hard to win that game? I don't know

1569
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:52,360
Speaker 1: what it is. No, because you're drafting his replacement. I

1570
01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:54,679
Speaker 1: mean by set the NFL record for interceptions and a half,

1571
01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it would it would get messy

1572
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:00,600
Speaker 1: in a hurry for that reason. And there's just not

1573
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:03,200
Speaker 1: I don't think there's enough incentive in the world for

1574
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 1: you'd have to make it the winning team gets the

1575
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 1: number one pick and you know, gets to own Massachusetts

1576
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, that'd be about the only

1577
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:15,400
Speaker 1: thing you'd do to properly incentivize that kind of game. Yeah,

1578
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: Bob Kraft probably thinks he does already, Yes, but that's

1579
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 1: neither here nor there. Christopher on the tweet sheet says,

1580
01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: half game between AFC East, AFC West, Comma, AFC North,

1581
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 1: AFC South, etc. Etc. Winners of each face off until

1582
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 1: one AFC and one NFC division is left, then play

1583
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:43,680
Speaker 1: for a winner. So are we talking like, so you

1584
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: play half a game between so I basically the four

1585
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:51,640
Speaker 1: divisions in the AFC each have to play half the

1586
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 1: game like an all star team from each division. Is

1587
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,080
Speaker 1: that what he's saying? This is kind of like the

1588
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: hockey idea where they kind of take an all star

1589
01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: team of divisions and they have a little round robin

1590
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 1: and play it that way. So I would I would

1591
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: imagine you play fifteen minutes AFCAS versus West winners, and

1592
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 1: you move on. You do the whole thing. I mean,

1593
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 1: it has some interest because you might have some in

1594
01:22:11,040 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: some division pride, I guess, but you'd also have like

1595
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: three quarters of your Pro Bowl. Patrick Mahomes is on

1596
01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 1: the sideline because the AFC West is not playing, or

1597
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:24,400
Speaker 1: if he gets eliminated early, you know, when you're down

1598
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: to Kirk Cousins against Mac Jones. I mean, you know

1599
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: that that's not ideal television viewing. So I think it

1600
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:35,679
Speaker 1: works for hockey because the game moves a little faster

1601
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:37,560
Speaker 1: from you know, do you can play short games? I

1602
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: think easier. They also, I'm pretty sure, do it without

1603
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,040
Speaker 1: a full roster around the ice. And they they played

1604
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: three on three or four and four or something. So um, again,

1605
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 1: there's no bad idea with this, because the bad idea

1606
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 1: is what we all saw yesterday. So I just don't

1607
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:54,360
Speaker 1: think you get enough interest and functionality out of this

1608
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: idea to make it work. Yeah, and I'm I'm kind

1609
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: of wondering too because some other people were tweet in

1610
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:04,439
Speaker 1: about incentivizing the outcome of the Pro Bowl, you know,

1611
01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:07,720
Speaker 1: like Major League Baseball does that, you know, with their

1612
01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 1: All Star Game, what is it the home the home

1613
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 1: team for the World Series. So you know they don't

1614
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:14,720
Speaker 1: do that anymore though that that was the they did

1615
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 1: it about five years ago. But yeah, yeah, they phase

1616
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 1: that out. And I don't know how you would apply

1617
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:22,599
Speaker 1: that to the Super Bowl, which is technically a neutral

1618
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:25,760
Speaker 1: sight game. Anyway, the only thing I'm thinking of is

1619
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 1: you give the winning conference the choice at the start

1620
01:23:30,479 --> 01:23:32,920
Speaker 1: of the game. In other words, eliminate the coin toss.

1621
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: They get the choice because you know, the RAMS get

1622
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 1: the choice because the NFC won the Pro Bowl. But

1623
01:23:39,479 --> 01:23:43,000
Speaker 1: how hard is the all the NFC players not playing

1624
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,800
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl gonna work for the Rams, Like,

1625
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if that even works. Well. You do

1626
01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: it for the next year. So you could also if

1627
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 1: you wanted to do that, you could do um, you know,

1628
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: we do have seventeen game schedule right now. You could

1629
01:23:57,439 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 1: say the winning conference gets to have the extra game

1630
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 1: at the NFL wanted to do the rotating thing with that,

1631
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 1: but you could say, okay, all you guys are playing

1632
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:09,640
Speaker 1: in this game. You know, if you win, you all

1633
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 1: get to have an extra game at home next year.

1634
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: You know, that might be a thing. Yeah, or you

1635
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:18,200
Speaker 1: get to play to not play in London. Um, now

1636
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: that would be blood sport. Brownie. Now you got an idea. No,

1637
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 1: I like no, not see, I like that idea. So yeah,

1638
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,240
Speaker 1: I mean eventually it might get to a place where

1639
01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: they say, wow, this is not fair. This should be alternating.

1640
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:34,920
Speaker 1: That's what the original rule intended. So why are you

1641
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:38,760
Speaker 1: incentivizing that? But that would get player I think that

1642
01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 1: would get players motivated. I mean you think about I'd

1643
01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 1: say it would get owners motivated, you know, for the

1644
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 1: be able to have that extra gate at home every year. Yeah,

1645
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 1: so it's yeah, it's an incentive for owners because you know,

1646
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: you take you're taking sixty percent of the gate instead

1647
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:58,400
Speaker 1: of forty percent. Um, So there's that. And you know

1648
01:24:58,439 --> 01:25:01,799
Speaker 1: all your advertisers and spot cochers are benefiting as well.

1649
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:05,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, that would be high stakes stuff. I just

1650
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:09,160
Speaker 1: wonder will players that you know, I know a lot

1651
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: of Bills players would be all about getting an extra

1652
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: home game because they know what the atmosphere is like

1653
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:17,680
Speaker 1: here and they know that's beneficial to them. I just

1654
01:25:17,760 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 1: wonder if that's universal, um across the conference. I guess

1655
01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 1: I think I think that what Dave Laptain just pointed

1656
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:28,680
Speaker 1: out with the Rams this week sleeping on their own bed.

1657
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:31,160
Speaker 1: I mean, even if you don't have the same you know,

1658
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: fan benefit from being home, you don't have to be

1659
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: on a plane for one extra week out of the year.

1660
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: So and the other thing too about it. You know,

1661
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: the one thing I thought of as you were talking

1662
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 1: is that, well, you know, a buch of these guys

1663
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 1: might be on different teams next year. Well, most of

1664
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 1: them probably won't be, because these are the good players,

1665
01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:48,440
Speaker 1: you know, the ones that have the long term contracts,

1666
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: and we'll be coming back. So a lot of these guys,

1667
01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:53,840
Speaker 1: eighty nine percent of them are legitly playing to be

1668
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: home for an extra game the next year. In this scenario, yeah,

1669
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,280
Speaker 1: we do have to step aside here, but we'll be

1670
01:25:59,439 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 1: bringing you some less than surprising news out of the

1671
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 1: Houston Texans camp as they've finally settled on a head coach.

1672
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:09,719
Speaker 1: We'll find out who that is, and with this being

1673
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 1: Fed's last appearance this week, we'll get his thoughts on

1674
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl prediction that's coming up next here on

1675
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:17,120
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. There's anybody collid to help, It's Buffalo

1676
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio, all right, welcome back. To no one's surprise.

1677
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:34,720
Speaker 1: It looks as though Lovey Smith is gonna be the

1678
01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:37,679
Speaker 1: next head coach of the Houston Texans, so the third

1679
01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 1: franchise he will lead his head coach, having previously coached

1680
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: the Bears and the Bucks. Fat at his time. For

1681
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:47,800
Speaker 1: your Super Bowl prediction, and I am not looking for

1682
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,240
Speaker 1: anything on the money line or the spread. I just

1683
01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 1: want an outright winner from you, So let us have it.

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01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:56,519
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Yeah, you know, I

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01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:58,439
Speaker 1: really think the Rams should win this game. You know,

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01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:00,680
Speaker 1: we talked about it with Dave Lapham the Bengals of

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01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:02,640
Speaker 1: all kinds of protection issues, and now they've got the

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01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 1: deal with Aaron Donald and von Miller and Floyd and

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01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 1: all the guys that they have, you know on that

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01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:10,160
Speaker 1: Rams front. Four. You know, the Rams are the team

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01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:13,320
Speaker 1: with maybe probably the better skill talent. I think the

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01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: Bengals have a great group receivers, but you know, Cooper

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01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:19,240
Speaker 1: Cup had an incredible year at receiver, so they should

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01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 1: win the game. But the Chiefs should have probably won

1695
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:23,320
Speaker 1: their game, and I think the Titans probably should have

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01:27:23,320 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 1: won their game as well against the Bengals, and Cincinnati

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01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 1: found a way in both of those. I think the

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01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 1: Bengals defense is underrated. I know they were terrible earlier

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01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:33,800
Speaker 1: in the year, but you know it's not just deflected interceptions.

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01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:36,280
Speaker 1: You know, they've got Trey Hendrickson who's been he was

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01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 1: a double did in sack guys and edge rusher this year.

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01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:41,920
Speaker 1: Bates the safety is a high level, you know, guy

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01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: at the back at the third level of the Cincinnati defense.

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01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:48,240
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ride the magic. I think they continue

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01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:50,479
Speaker 1: to get it done, find a way. I go Bengals

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01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:54,160
Speaker 1: twenty four twenty three. I do like the under best.

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01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet Cincinnati. I probably will bet the under.

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01:27:57,640 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: I think it remains a pretty low scoring game, and

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01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:02,360
Speaker 1: I think it will be. Look the last six playoff

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01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 1: games were five of them were decided in the last

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01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:07,160
Speaker 1: play and the other one went to the last minute.

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01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:09,680
Speaker 1: I think we make it seven and seven for the

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01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,960
Speaker 1: great playoff finish for the NFL. Yeah, I'll sign up

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01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: for a tight game. I'm always a fan of those

1715
01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 1: because I lived through a lot of blowouts, as I

1716
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 1: know you did in the eighties with teams like you know,

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01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, the old Alway teams getting blown out

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01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 1: in those Super Bowls the Patriots against the eighty five Bears.

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01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:28,120
Speaker 1: There were a lot of bad ones. I'll take a

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01:28:28,120 --> 01:28:31,880
Speaker 1: tight game any day of the week. Last thing a

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01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:34,719
Speaker 1: good suggestion laid on the tweet sheet from good Burr.

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01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 1: Turn it into a Young Stars game AFC versus NFC

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01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 1: first and second year players only they'll be more likely

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01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:43,400
Speaker 1: to play harder and help shine a light on the

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01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:45,320
Speaker 1: young talent in the league. The NBA does that with

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01:28:45,400 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 1: a Young Stars Game, I think, preceding the actual All

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01:28:48,479 --> 01:28:52,799
Speaker 1: Star Game. Anniversary to mention twenty nine years ago today,

1728
01:28:53,040 --> 01:28:57,640
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker was named MVP of the Pro Bowl. How

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01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:01,120
Speaker 1: about that? So Steve will be joining us tomorrow. But Dad,

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01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 1: thanks very much for helping us out, not only today

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01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 1: but last Thursday as well. We appreciate it. We will

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01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:08,640
Speaker 1: catch up with you later in the offseason. Good on

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01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:11,559
Speaker 1: you for helping us out, man, appreciate it. Love having

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01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: love beyond guys. Thanks again. All right, we will be

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01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:18,080
Speaker 1: back on Tuesday. Steve Tasker will be alongside me. We

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Speaker 1: will see you at one pm.