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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

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Speaker 1: in the stratosphere of normalcy. Truer words were never spoken.

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Speaker 1: We are living in what months seven of COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 1: We are not in the stratosphere of normalcy. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Bills Drive, Steve, we are back back on the air,

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Speaker 1: back on television with our friends at MSGS Crayton person Brownie,

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Speaker 1: Yeah for you. You know you told me you hadn't

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Speaker 1: a full student body on campus. That's a greater risk

427
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Speaker 1: of playing that team. I don't want to do that.

428
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,679
Speaker 1: So you run into all as too many if thens

429
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 1: with college football because there's too many teams and there's

430
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Speaker 1: too many people involved, because you're talking about an entire

431
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Speaker 1: college campus and there's a kid walks into a cafeteria

432
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Speaker 1: on the quad. There's a level of expectation in the

433
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Speaker 1: pro level that is vastly different. Yeah, and there's a

434
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Speaker 1: level of accountability that's vastly different, and the testing is

435
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 1: regimented and it's uniform across the league. You've got these

436
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: guys virtually got him in a bubble out because I

437
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: remember too, and not for nothing. I know, I'm I'm

438
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: just talking about me and my personal experiences, but I

439
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,399
Speaker 1: also know there are other guys that I played with.

440
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: It is vastly this way on the teams that I

441
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Speaker 1: played on, and I've said it a bunch, they all

442
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 1: have a support network, you know. They have a support

443
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 1: system in place for their football season. Their wives, their kids,

444
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: their moms, their dads, their grandmas, whoever it is who

445
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: takes care of the house, takes care of the laundry,

446
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,879
Speaker 1: takes care of the meals at home, takes care of

447
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,479
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, groceries, whatever, all of that stuff, and

448
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,640
Speaker 1: the kids are saving there there when you get home,

449
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 1: and that support system props you up when you're away

450
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: from the building, so you don't have to go home

451
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: and mow the lawn and you don't have to you know,

452
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,920
Speaker 1: put the roof on your you know all this stuff

453
00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 1: that homeowners and guys do. So at the pro level,

454
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: that support system knows its function. In a college limb,

455
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: that support system is there to make sure you've got

456
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: a party to go to on Friday night. They make

457
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 1: sure to make sure that you know, on a Wednesday night,

458
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: we got a place to go and we can we

459
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Speaker 1: can hang out. You know what I mean. Different, It's

460
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: totally different. Now I'm not saying and I know we've

461
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: got rose colored glasses on. We're trying to get this

462
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: NFL thing and we're rooting for the NFL to happen.

463
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: And right now, in a day like today, when college

464
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Speaker 1: football pulls the plug, it looks like, yeah, so weigh

465
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Speaker 1: in on the tweet sheet for us, if you would.

466
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Speaker 1: What does a cancelation of college football this fall mean

467
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: to you? You got your choices there, so wagh in

468
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Speaker 1: for us. We'll hit up the tweet sheet brought to

469
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving System soon enough. We should also

470
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 1: mention that we are going to have several comments from

471
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Speaker 1: a bunch of Bills players. Two players were made available

472
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Speaker 1: to the media over the weekend. On Sunday, I sat

473
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Speaker 1: in on both of those, with Mitch Morse and with

474
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Speaker 1: new guard Brian Winters. So interesting comments from those guys.

475
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Speaker 1: We will get to those a little bit later in

476
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Speaker 1: the show, because this morning Ed Oliver was made available

477
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Speaker 1: to the media and his comments were eye opening as

478
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 1: he went into the details of his arrest back in May.

479
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: I believe it was when he was pulled over for

480
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Speaker 1: suspicion of DWI and the circumstances surrounding his arrest. We

481
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Speaker 1: all knew that ultimately all of his tests came back

482
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Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero blood test, zero, breathalyzer at the scene,

483
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Speaker 1: zero and then there was one other test that they

484
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Speaker 1: did that I can't even remember right now, and Ed

485
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: said that was zero as well, and that's why all

486
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: charges ultimately were dropped. But that thing dragged on for

487
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: a month. It didn't get resolved until like the end

488
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Speaker 1: of June. And I mean, some of the comments that

489
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Speaker 1: Ed laid out for us about the whole scenario really

490
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Speaker 1: makes you stop and think. And he has some compelling

491
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Speaker 1: comments too. So to lead this off, we just want

492
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 1: to start right from the top because Ed was asked

493
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Speaker 1: right at the beginning about the circumstances surrounding his arrest,

494
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Speaker 1: So we will get to that first and foremost when

495
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Speaker 1: we come back from break. We're going to step aside

496
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: right now so we can get all of this in

497
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Speaker 1: in its entirety and let you the listening and viewing

498
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Speaker 1: audience completely digest it along with Steve and I because

499
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: it really speaks, probably maybe even more now than it

500
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,479
Speaker 1: did back when it happened about some of these social

501
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: injustices that have been made front and center and for

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Speaker 1: good reason through the course of the spring and summer. Here.

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Speaker 1: So it's One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, back

504
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Speaker 1: on TV on MSG and with you on the radio

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Speaker 1: on WGR, brought to you by Kalida Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio the Senecas at One Bills Drive. Chris Brown,

507
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on One Bills Live, and

508
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: as promised, we're going to get right to Ed Oliver,

509
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: who addressed the media this morning on a zoom call

510
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: and was pretty revealing in terms of the details of

511
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: his arrest back in May. Obviously, he was found not guilty.

512
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,439
Speaker 1: All the charges were dropped after he tests zeros across

513
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: the board blood breathalyzer for suspicion of drunk driving, and

514
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: ultimately those charges were dropped. But there were a lot

515
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: of elements to his arrest that didn't sit well with Ed,

516
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: and he laid a lot of those out for the

517
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Speaker 1: Western New York media this morning. So let's listen now

518
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: to Ed Oliver and some of the things that crossed

519
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: his mind as those events were unfolding and now looking

520
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: back on it. Hey, John Scott from Spectrum News, good

521
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: to see if what's going on. I not too much.

522
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 1: My air conditioning hopefully just got fixed about fifteen minutes ago.

523
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: Or also, I'm going to be sweat and bullets here.

524
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: But you're not in the South. Why are you? No? No,

525
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 1: I'm just down the street. But it feels like condition

526
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: all right, guaranteed it'll toughen me up. I wanted to

527
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: ask you about your eventful offseason. I know I saw

528
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: your reaction when things got cleared. What was it like

529
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: for you remaining quiet, understanding your side of the story

530
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: and how things eventually played out. Uh? Like, like I

531
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: tell you this, like the first the first week or two,

532
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: it's on your mind heavy, Like, man, I wish they

533
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: just heard from giving my results because I had I

534
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: had got ah, I had got a blood test, like

535
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Speaker 1: right after I had got out. You know, I'm sort

536
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: you like that, and uh so I had already had

537
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: minds back, so I was just waiting on them. And

538
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: so you just waiting here waiting waiting. He wait then

539
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: at like a month pass like all right, I just

540
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: get it when I can get it. So if it

541
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Speaker 1: came out like two weeks probably after, I had a

542
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: lot more to say. But like when it did come out,

543
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: it was just like a nagging like whenever it come out,

544
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: I'd be free, I guess so, And like I think

545
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: one of the things that kind of like aggravated me

546
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: was that they answered me into the program and no reason,

547
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: you know, like Jugga Bruce program or whatever. And that's

548
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: when I like really got mad because you know what

549
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you get pulled oba test with us come

550
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: back with nothing they tried to enter into the program.

551
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: Is kind of like, you know, so that's a big inconvenience,

552
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: But it did it? How did how did that maybe

553
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: alter or shake up your focus or your time or

554
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: any part of your offseason that was focused on football.

555
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: Well you know, like like right around the time that happened.

556
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: It was right around the same time to like the

557
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: George Floyd and all of that was happening. So it's

558
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: just like like it really puts things into perspective, like

559
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: that could have been me. Like if I ain't just yes, sir, no,

560
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: sir h and just comply. Like all it took was

561
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: for me to move the wrong way, I do something

562
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: the wrong way, and that could have been me. So

563
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: it's just it was tough, bro so but after that,

564
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: I still worked out and everything. It's just it just

565
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: put it in perspective, like you gotta slow down, you gotta,

566
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: you gotta you know what I'm saying. You gotta watch

567
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: your surrounds and stuff like that, and and try to

568
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: keep yourself out of situation like that, because like life

569
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 1: is real and life come at you fast. Like I

570
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: was on my way to the house, I ain't expected

571
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: to get arrested, so like you never know, like you

572
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: could be doing anything and then life could just hit you.

573
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: So you just gotta be careful for a life pressure.

574
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Speaker 1: Thanks Like, hey, I's good to see amp over here

575
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: with w KBW kind of feeding off John's question, what

576
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: did you learn about yourself during this entire process, because

577
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure this was not how you were expected your

578
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: off season to go, and you're muted by the way

579
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: somehow you gotta oh, okay, I just learned. I'm just

580
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: learned that I was a resilient human, like you go

581
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: through stuff, and just I just knew in the back

582
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: of my mind, like it ain't gonna last forever. You

583
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: just gotta go through it, and you can. You can

584
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: get through whatever. Like and another thing I learned about myself,

585
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: like just because you're having a bad day or whatever,

586
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: it's always gonna be a light at the end of

587
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: the tunnel, Like my mom was telling me, Like you

588
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: live through one hundred percent of your worst days. So

589
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: like your worst day, you already have been through that.

590
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: So like there ain't no reason to just sit and

591
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: ponder on that you've already been through that. Good just

592
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: get through it. Just whatever they tell you to do,

593
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: you gotta go through it. I guarantee it's a light

594
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: at the end of the tunnel. Thanks. Hey, ed looking

595
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: back at your season last year, when you got a

596
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: chance to, you know, go back through all the games

597
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: this offseason, what did you learn about your rookie year

598
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: and what are you trying to work on for your

599
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: second year in the NFL. A lot of people have

600
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: dubbed you as someone who could have a breakout year

601
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: in your second year. When I'm talking about defensive tackles, H,

602
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: I learned a lot from our first year basically, like

603
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: how they block guys like me and stuff like that.

604
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: And I really learned a lot towards the end of

605
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: last year. So I'm just expecting to start off where

606
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: I left off last ye. If I can do that,

607
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: I'll be in great shape. And UH really got tremendous coaching.

608
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: So just learning and learning as much as I can

609
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: right now so I can go apply that to the field.

610
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: And what are your impressions of some of the new

611
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: defensive linement on this team? Clinton, Jefferson, Vernon Butler, Mario Addison,

612
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: how do you think they can help this group as

613
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: a whole? Well, Mario a season VET A guy can

614
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: learn a lot from Q. He a great pass Russia.

615
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: I think he would like top five or something de tackles,

616
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: rush winning percentas or something like that. So he a

617
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: great pass and I can definitely learn from him and

618
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: big Butler. Uh, he's just a great veteran presence too.

619
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Speaker 1: So I can learn from all those guys. All those

620
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: guys good players, good pickups. Uh, stuff we definitely needed

621
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: on the D line are not definitely needed, but great

622
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: to have. Think bro, hey had that Brown, WRFC and

623
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Speaker 1: Roger Man appreciate your time. Um, do you have any

624
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: idea if if you had zero drugs in your system,

625
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Speaker 1: how you got arrested in the first place, And what's

626
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: your take on that at this point? You know what?

627
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: Oh I have I was certain zero zero or anything.

628
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: So like, I'm not sure how you get arrested with

629
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: nothing in your system, but don't I don't honestly, I

630
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how I got arrested. Uh.

631
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that I say, like life

632
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: would hits you quick, Like even if you're innocent, you

633
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: can still go to jail for nothing. Yeah, it's just

634
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: you just gotta do what you gotta do. Bro, they

635
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: said you gotta go to jail. Don't resist, go to jail,

636
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: Like I said, the light of the end of the tunnel,

637
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: come back, zero zero zero, all right, let him go?

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00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: Uh drop all charges? Okay? Good? So did they just

639
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: tell you gotta go to jail. Yeah, well you gotta

640
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Speaker 1: go to jail that day. I mean, it's not right,

641
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. Can't fight five officers,

642
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: so mighty world, just go to jail. I ain't had

643
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: no choice. Yeah that was That'll give you all you

644
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: want to know, Brownie, I mean you want to talk

645
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 1: about I was listening to that live this morning, going

646
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: this is not right. This is zero zero on the scene,

647
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: he is, I mean, what all zeros and a live

648
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: breathalyzer just got taken out of the truck, blows up

649
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: all zeros on the breathalyzer and and later in the interview,

650
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 1: he explains that the officer that did the breathalyzer with

651
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: him said, yeah, well we still think you're intoxicated, so

652
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring you to jail. It's like five guys,

653
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: five tops on the scene, and it's like it's not good,

654
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: and you know. Ed also shared some information on how

655
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 1: things are in Montgomery County, Texas. They have what's called

656
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: a no refusal law, which basically means if the officer

657
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: says we're putting you under arrest, we're taking you in,

658
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: you cannot refuse, like resisting arrest is not even an

659
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: option according to county law in Montgomery County. And I

660
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: don't know if Ed knew about that after the fact

661
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: or knew it before, But holy cow, it's a good thing,

662
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: he complied, because I'm going to tell you right now,

663
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 1: we've seen too many videos across the country of situations

664
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: like this that went the wrong way really fast. Like

665
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: if he's not yes, sir, like he said yes, I'm

666
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: not yes, cirin, no cern and complying with everything they're

667
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: asking me to do. I mean, he said in himself,

668
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,439
Speaker 1: I could have been like George Florida, right, and there's

669
00:35:54,480 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: five guys there. You know it's you think it doesn't

670
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: You think that stuff doesn't happen. It happens all the time,

671
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,879
Speaker 1: all the time. But how lucky you think? You think?

672
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: You think Ed Oliver you've seen the video driving a

673
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: forty five thousand dollars truck with twenty five thousand dollars

674
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: worth of toys towing along the back. You think he's

675
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: just some guy. No, he's black. Yeah, But the problem

676
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: is too many times people will approach those vehicles. Because

677
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: I've heard three different NFL players say this. When I

678
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: get pulled over. I'm asked, whose car is this? Yeah,

679
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: because it can't be mind, it can't be yours, your

680
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: black guy. You can't afford this. That's the truth, yep.

681
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: I mean, how low's the bar got to be for

682
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: these guys? I don't know? And then and then to

683
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: have him blow zero zero and then he says, you're

684
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: still looking talk, you're still now? How about this for smarts?

685
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: And so Ed has to spend the night in jail.

686
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: He later goes on to talk about how they put

687
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: him in a jumpsuit. It had holes in it, you know,

688
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: like in the wrong places. You know, he gets stripped down,

689
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: he gets thrown in a jump suit like they wear

690
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: in a county jail, right, and it's got holes in

691
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: the wrong places. Let's just say, so, there's all this

692
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: stuff that's like, all that stuff mist me, totally mistreated.

693
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: Tell me that would not get under your skin. A

694
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: lot of people would have. Here's the thing kicked off

695
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: and done the wrong thing, and then it goes bad. Well,

696
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: here's the thing not too Look at my gammera county.

697
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: Nobody even knows who those cops are. Nobody cares, and listen,

698
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: you know what the next poor guy. The next poor

699
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: black guy that we pull over, he's if he's got

700
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 1: point one percent, yeah, he's gonna stay in jail. So Ed,

701
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: fortunately and probably his agent advised in this, Hey, as

702
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 1: soon as we get you out, we got to get

703
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: you to go take a blood test because alcohol stays

704
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: in your blood longer than it stays on your breath

705
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: in terms of measurable amounts. So whatever their blood test says, fine,

706
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: but as soon as we get you out in the morning,

707
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: we're taking you for another blood test to have our

708
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: own records, so they can't say, wow, this is what

709
00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 1: we have when we have something completely different because fabricating it.

710
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't want to bag on the police.

711
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: You know they don't have an easy job. Okay they don't.

712
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: I'm not going to deny that for a second, but

713
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: this situation just doesn't smell right um on many levels.

714
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: Right And so yeah, Fortunately for him, he went and

715
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: got a blood test, no no signs of any alcohol

716
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: in his system whatsoever. So they had that in their

717
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: back pocket after he got out. But then what about

718
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: the lag time here they just just left him in jail,

719
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: put it in they what are they? What are they

720
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: doing no, but I mean the lag time between the

721
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: case being finally dropped, like what other ed, what other

722
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: evidence do you need? Um? So it was very The

723
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: whole thing was perplexing at first when you know, we

724
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: first read the news reports, but then here to hear

725
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: Ed describe it, it's alarming. I mean, it is alarming, um.

726
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: And unfortunately this does happen too much, too often. And

727
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: all I can say is thank god was compliant from

728
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: soup to nuts here, because if he wasn't, we might

729
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: be reading a whole different story. Got shot. It's, uh,

730
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: they just shot him and you know what, they didn't listen,

731
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: and it's it's the way it is too. You saw

732
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: it with George Floyd, you saw it with You've seen

733
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: the list, the most recent list. It's you know, it's

734
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: just they you can't. There's no recourse for for policeman

735
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: behaving badly, right, And the biggest shame of it is

736
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: is there's probably it's probably still even now with all

737
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: of these videos, probably convincing the general public. Otherwise I

738
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: I will confidently say it is a vast minority of

739
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: police officers that are giving good cops a bad name.

740
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: And it's a shame that that happens, but that's what

741
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: makes the news. Well, it's also a bad apple. It's

742
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: also I mean lit and I don't want to it's

743
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: Montgomery County, and I'm getting the feeling from how this

744
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: was handled and the different like the same cops weren't

745
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: the ones putting him in a jumpsuit. It wasn't the

746
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: same cops putting him over you know like this. It

747
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: wasn't It wasn't the same cops. Yeah, it wasn't the

748
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: same cops who made it take a month for anything

749
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: to happen before this was dropped. It's a system. It's

750
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: a hole from from the point of the point of

751
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 1: service on the street all the way through the top

752
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: of the judge who finally had through probably reluctantly dropped

753
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: the charges on yet another guy that could a black

754
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: guy that could have taken off the street. I mean,

755
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: it's the whole thing, from the bottom to the top.

756
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: That it took him a month to get to get

757
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: to this point. Come on, you're telling me it's just

758
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: a couple of bad cops. And and I give I

759
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: give credit to Ed. I give credit to his mom too,

760
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: because it was clear that Ed was frustrated by the

761
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,959
Speaker 1: whole process um and what he had to go through

762
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 1: when he was completely innocent. He said, to a certain extent,

763
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: I felt guilty until proven innocent rather than innocent until

764
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 1: proven guilty. And so he was asked, as you heard there,

765
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: you know, what did you learn about yourself? What did

766
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 1: he say? I learned I'm a resilient human. Yeah, and

767
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: holy cow, are you you got to be pretty resilient

768
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: to go through all of that garbage. Yeah, if you want,

769
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 1: If you're an innocent person, getting put in a jumpsuit

770
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: and thrown in jail will make you feel a little

771
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 1: guilty rather than be improved innocent. So very very very

772
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: eye opening comments from Ed today. Put into put into

773
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: prison after blowing zero point zero zero, that's a new one.

774
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: That's a new one. And unfortunately, you know, it's on

775
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: the list of just you know, issues that continue to

776
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: exist out there for the black community. It's unfortunate. But

777
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: the good news is Ed is fine. He came out

778
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: of it unscathed. Ultimately, I'm sure he felt like he

779
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 1: was violated, so that's still there and that's going to

780
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: be a memory that he has. But at least he

781
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: is healthy and well, and that's the main thing for Ed,

782
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: his family and you know, the people that love him.

783
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: So we got to step aside. But when we come back,

784
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: we'll have much more to cover with Bill's players like

785
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: Mitch Morse, new guard Brian Winters, and we'll discuss our

786
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: twitter poll and hear from your thoughts on the tweet

787
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,760
Speaker 1: sheet about the potential cancelation of college football this fall.

788
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: It's all coming up next on One Bill's Live, presented

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00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio back

790
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live. Chris Round, Steve Tasker with you

791
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: on the TV side again after a five month layoff.

792
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: Back on MSG. Good to be with you, and good

793
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: to be with as always our radio listeners on w

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00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: GR Here in the Seneca studios at One Bill's Drive,

795
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: we are set to discuss the top pick of the day,

796
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: which is what does a cancelation of college football this

797
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: fall mean to you? You can weigh in on the

798
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: tweet sheet right now. Still leading the way is I'm upset.

799
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: I love college football. And second right now is scouting

800
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: in the NFL Draft will be turned upside down, which

801
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: is something I do want to talk to you more

802
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: about Steve. But let's get to some of the answers

803
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,760
Speaker 1: or responses I should say from our listening and viewing audience.

804
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: First from Jeremy says, I don't watch college football myself,

805
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,720
Speaker 1: but this will have ripple effects for years in the NFL.

806
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: NFL scouts are going to have quite the challenge finding

807
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: good talent in the upcoming years. Steve, I'm telling you

808
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: right now, I don't even know how you do that.

809
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: The Senior bowls in January, you know, the East West

810
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: Shrine Game. These are like the ultimate college scouting bowl

811
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: games where you have all stars and some of the

812
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: better players in your senior class playing against one another,

813
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: top flight competition against top flight competition. I don't know

814
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: what's happening with the combine. If you got college's playing

815
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: football in the spring, that's not happening. Um, And who

816
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: knows if the draft can even happen at the proper time.

817
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: What if your bowl games are at the end of April, Yeah,

818
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Then? Yeah? That's that's rough. Particularly

819
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: and you know you'd have guys like you've had a

820
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: couple and a handful of guys opt out of the

821
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: bowl games that their their teams are playing. Um Bosa

822
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: did it from Ohio State? He had played what one

823
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: or two games? He just opted out the rest of

824
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: the season. As I'm sitting down and did Um. You

825
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: have to remember a guy like Trevor Lawrence, who is

826
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: is going to be the first player picked in the

827
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: draft this next coming year. Um, why would he have

828
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: anything more to prove to an NFL team? Justin fields

829
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: the Ohio State justin fields now and these guys probably

830
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: coming out, but he has no season right now, right,

831
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: And these are the guys who have said, yeah, well

832
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: I want to play. Um, There's got to be some

833
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: guys out there who would rather not play. Uh. But

834
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: it's it's the mentality of a of a competitor to

835
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: kind of want to take the field a little bit, right.

836
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys want to get on the field.

837
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: They know it's what they do. It's it's part of

838
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: their funds, part of their identity. And you feel for

839
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: them particularly. You know, kids in Big ten today had

840
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: their camp season completely canceled. What's gonna happen? They must

841
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: have a million questions about what their year is going

842
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: to look like and what their prospects are. Particularly the

843
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: few who think they can play in the pros. What's

844
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: going to happen to them in their careers? How's that

845
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: going to work? It's um. The mindset of these young

846
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: guys is, come on, man, I came to college to

847
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: play football. You know, if if it wouldn't have been

848
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: for football, I might not even come to the school.

849
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 1: And you know what I mean. So you know, it's

850
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a huge, huge tragedy, um

851
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: for these kids in relation to what they're doing, their

852
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: college experience, what they're going through and all the you know,

853
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: you only get to play college football once in your life.

854
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,479
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna read you a tweet from Joe Burrow,

855
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: who obviously was the first pick in the draft of

856
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals won the national title last year with

857
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: Lsu as the quarterback. He says, I feel for all

858
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: college leads right now. I hope their voices are heard

859
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: by the decision makers. If this happened a year ago,

860
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: I may be looking for a job right now. How

861
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: about that. And here's another thing. Steve and Judy Batista

862
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: tweeted this, and it was it was pretty enlightening. I guess,

863
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term off the top of

864
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: my head right now. She's saying, if this is how

865
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: it's going with college football, I wonder what the twenty

866
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: twenty one combine is going to look like. That is

867
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: the last event of this calendar year that was normal

868
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,919
Speaker 1: in my mind, that was really the last normal thing

869
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: that went off without some kind of adjustment due to

870
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: covid um. It's amazing. I mean, it really is. With it,

871
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 1: We're going to continue to find out how how far

872
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: we can be stretched with with our ability to do

873
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: things we want to do and still be safe about it,

874
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: and still be smart about it, and and and you know,

875
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,919
Speaker 1: be in combat with this virus like we all are.

876
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: And it's it's gonna stretch every I don't think we're

877
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: done with it yet. I mean, we're gonna to still

878
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: see some other things. I think the most you think

879
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: about it, Brown, I mean the most public for us anyway,

880
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: the pub most public thing of these professional sports, the NBA,

881
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: Major Baseball, NHL, now NFL trying to get it done

882
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: in the face of this virus. Yeah, that's just like

883
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: that's a professional sports. What about you know, the law industry,

884
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: the real estate industry, the medical industry of course, has

885
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: been hugely impacted the entertainment industry. No concerts at all, musicality,

886
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 1: amusement parks, hotels. I mean, they're sitting there like deserts.

887
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: And and here's here's the part of it that maybe

888
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: didn't deliver the message. A lot of these professional sports

889
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: got put on pause when this thing initially gripped the country.

890
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: Then these sports start to come back, and that sense

891
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: of normalcy, even though it's not normal to have hockey

892
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: in August or basketball in aug I think seeing those

893
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 1: things maybe even gave some people, not all people, but

894
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: maybe some people this sense of security, like, oh, we're

895
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: gonna be fine. Now we're good. We got guys playing basketball.

896
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: You know, they're not paying attention to the fact that

897
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,439
Speaker 1: they're in this restricted bubble environment. They're only coming into

898
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:22,280
Speaker 1: contact with the fewest people possible. And in a way,

899
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: you almost look at college football and ultimately what it

900
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: might be for this country is a wake up call

901
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: for the people that still don't get it. Oh you

902
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: don't get it, how's no college football? Grab you? Down

903
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: in Louisiana, down in Florida. In Georgia, kids walk the

904
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: school halls without a mask on and passing by each other.

905
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: Does it make does it grab you a little bit tighter? Now?

906
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: Do you get it? Now that you're not gonna have

907
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: college football? Maybe now you'll do what you're supposed to do. Right,

908
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: You've still got people down playing how serious the virus is,

909
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: just and poo pooing any sense of danger to themselves

910
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: or anybody else. I can't get there, I mean I

911
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:13,720
Speaker 1: can't get there. Yeah, it's this thing is so contagious,

912
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: and it grips every and it seems to grip everybody differently.

913
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: And certainly there's a one into the spectrum where people

914
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: go through it, get it and don't have and they

915
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: you could hardly tell that they had it. They couldn't

916
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: even tell. And then of course there's the other end

917
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: of it where you know. But that's all you know.

918
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: That's all the more reason that you should be vigilant.

919
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: We don't know everything about this, like so air on

920
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: the side of caution, don't throw caution into the wind.

921
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: And we all know too. It's not about you so

922
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,280
Speaker 1: much wearing the masks about everybody around you where you

923
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: you may or may not have it and not know it.

924
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: And same thing with the other person. So It's not

925
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 1: about us when you wear the mask. It's about making

926
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 1: sure that you're not one of those people who doesn't

927
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: feel it like you are, that bulletproof person who gets

928
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: it and doesn't know it and doesn't spread it around

929
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: like you know, with a handful of grass seed. You know.

930
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: So last one on the tweet sheet here, which is

931
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment

932
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:09,919
Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. From Jack. I love

933
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: college football. It's sad that it sounds like we won't

934
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: have any for my lazy fall saturdays. It'll be nice

935
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: if we get some NFL games to offset this, but

936
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: I feel bad for kids who worked so hard to

937
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: get to this point. It'll be a crazy draft season

938
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one with high potential for missus and busts. Yeah,

939
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 1: I mean some of that due diligence that you get

940
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: to do on college campuses as a scout. You know,

941
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: whether you're talking to the guy that cleans up the

942
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: locker room after the players are gone. And here's things

943
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: that most people don't hear. Right. You can get a

944
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: real feel for a player sometimes when their guard is

945
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: down and they're not giving you rehearsed answers. Those are

946
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: the little knooks and crannies where good NFL scouts go

947
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: to get a real read on a player, especially here

948
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: at one Bill's Drive, where what are they're always looking

949
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: for the Bill's DNA as they say they want people

950
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: that they know they're going to do the do the

951
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: right kind of work and put the right work in

952
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: on Tuesday in week seventeen that they were doing the

953
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: third day of training camp. And that's how you find

954
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: people like that by digging into those little areas on

955
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: college campuses. That's all off the table now if there's

956
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: no season, Yeah, it's about it most of us. I

957
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: know I would flunk the job interview if it was

958
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: his in depth as the NFL tries to get with

959
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: these players, finding out not just their resume and what

960
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: they can do, but who they are. That has become

961
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: the holy grail of NFL scouting. You can see what

962
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: the guy can do on tape, so you kind of

963
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: have an idea of what level of athlete he is

964
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: and all that, But when you go deeper, you can

965
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: find out if you're going to get a guy that

966
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: like comes from Mississippi Valley State and turns into Jerry

967
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: Rice because those guys, that's you can't see that on

968
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: film no, and that's what they want to find out.

969
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: And that's why you know, most of the guys like

970
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: us would flunk the interview eight oh three fifty two

971
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: five fifty. If you want to join us on the

972
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: potential cancelation of the college football season this fall and

973
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: what it means to you, either that or hit us

974
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: up on the tweet sheet. When Steve and I come back,

975
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: we will have that sound from the Bills players. We

976
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: mentioned Mitch Morse really excited about year three with Josh

977
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: Allen and the connection that those two have with their communication.

978
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: You can hear about that along with new guard Brian Winters,

979
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 1: who has some ties to Western New York that you

980
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: may not have known about. It's all coming your way

981
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: in the next hour here on One Bill's Live presented

982
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:55,280
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Adams Steve Tasker,

983
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: who has spent all over the fields, kind of unique.

984
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you.

985
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the scredit beer

986
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: of normalcy. Here back one build five hour number two.

987
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, Steve, I really do

988
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: have to say that, you know, when I am off

989
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: on a rant and out of control, I appreciate the

990
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: way you stoically and patiently wait for me to finish. Um.

991
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: I genuinely appreciate you letting me just get it all

992
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: off my chest, all in one fell swoop. It just

993
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: makes it easier, um, for everybody involved. So thank you

994
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: for that. Yeah, I never really noticed it until I

995
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: looked at that little clip there at the top of

996
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: the show. Now it's like Steve is just stoically waiting

997
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: to get it out. It's like therapy, you know. Just

998
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: you do feel better after it's done. Yeah, you do.

999
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: I will admit that you do. And by the way,

1000
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: that so we were back in the studio for the

1001
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:00,919
Speaker 1: first time in five months in one day, and neither

1002
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: of us could get our emails into And now I

1003
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: got mine mine. Oh mine's still not. We're doing the

1004
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: tweet sheet from our phones. That's right. So just like, hey,

1005
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: that little tidbit of information that nobody cares about her

1006
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: Like everything else the last five months, we had to adjust.

1007
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: We're experts at calling audibles at this point. Here we

1008
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: go but as we mentioned before the break, we have

1009
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: players to hear from on this bill's roster. As we know,

1010
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: we're getting closer and closer to real football. As a

1011
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,280
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I was checking with our media relations

1012
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,800
Speaker 1: department to make sure that I had the schedule correct

1013
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 1: as far as where the players are at this point

1014
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: in time, because right after the agreement was you know,

1015
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 1: signed off on by the players union and the league

1016
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: about how training camp was going to work. Um, there

1017
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: were three possible options based on when players were getting here.

1018
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: Rookies and first year players, injured players, veteran players. They

1019
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: were all coming in at different times, and that set

1020
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: up three different potential practice schedules in terms of when

1021
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: padded practice could begin and all of that stuff. So

1022
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: where they are now here on Monday is one of

1023
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: the last days of the strength and conditioning sessions. Tomorrow

1024
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: is the last day of those strength and conditioning sessions.

1025
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: Then Wednesday and Thursday start Phase two, which will be

1026
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: followed by no pads full speed practice on August fourteenth

1027
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: and August sixteenth, and then a week from today the

1028
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 1: pads go on. Steve. So we're getting closer, very close,

1029
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: and it's I'm getting to the point where, you know,

1030
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: the closer we get, and the fact that the Bills

1031
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 1: haven't had a positive test. You know, they just activated

1032
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:54,720
Speaker 1: Duke Williams. He had been on the list. They believe

1033
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,839
Speaker 1: he was the last of the five, right, so he

1034
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: was often Now he's back, and I would anticipate, particularly

1035
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: at this point of the season, that you know, they're

1036
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 1: gonna be able to go for a while without having

1037
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 1: a positive test. I'll bet you they can string this again,

1038
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be it. I mean, how long of

1039
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: a street can you go without somebody doing it? And

1040
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 1: then yea, and I told you this too early in

1041
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: that's shown. I really believe this. I think every team

1042
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: and maybe this one too, the Bills too. You're gonna

1043
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: have that point where you've been buttoned up for a

1044
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: while and maybe training camps over, maybe they've announced the

1045
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: final roster and some of these young guys actually made

1046
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: the roster that are and they you know, they kind

1047
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: of slip up a little bit and say, hey, let's

1048
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 1: go out to have a pop, you know, for celebrate,

1049
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: to celebrate my I'm on an NFL team, right Yeah,

1050
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: And then you'll get a little scare there, right, So

1051
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. It seems to me these teams will

1052
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: have a scare like that where and then all the

1053
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: veterans are going, hey, hey, we told you, you know,

1054
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: and the message is, guys, it's five months. It's just

1055
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 1: five months. Just take a break, put the rest of

1056
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: your life on pause for the next twenty weeks until

1057
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: we this thing going. Just we'll do it together. We're

1058
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: with you, We're in it together. Let's go just you know,

1059
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: let's do it. And that's what that's kind of what

1060
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 1: you gotta sell for something. We're gonna try. They're gonna

1061
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: try and win a championship in these next twenty weeks.

1062
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: And every time you think about maybe going off the

1063
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: off the wagon, or going over the wire to go

1064
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,919
Speaker 1: out and have a beer or whatever, think about that,

1065
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: you know, because we're on they're on a mission to

1066
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:28,479
Speaker 1: win a championship and that's something that's a lifetime achievement. Yeah,

1067
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: and it will happen over the next twenty weeks if

1068
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: we can stay disciplined. And one of the newest players

1069
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: to jump on board is Brian Winters, the guard who

1070
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: was released by the Jets a week ago. This past Sunday,

1071
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: he was released on August first or second, or August first, Sunday,

1072
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 1: August first, and we had the opportunity to speak with

1073
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: him the media did yesterday and I was on the call,

1074
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: uh listening in ask a question myself. But he was great. Um,

1075
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, known as kind of a no nonsense, blue collar,

1076
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: tough as nails kind of player. Um, but he had

1077
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: some interesting comments to offer and a little bit of

1078
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: information about some Western New York ties that he himself had.

1079
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,439
Speaker 1: So he's very excited about the fit here. So let's

1080
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 1: listen to Brian Winters about some of those Western New

1081
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: York ties that he has. I just I know what

1082
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: type of program it is. I know it's a hard nosed,

1083
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: blue collared area and that's the type of football I play.

1084
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: I'm excited for that, and uh, you know, it was

1085
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: just I just felt like it was fitting for me.

1086
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: I actually have a lot of family from the East

1087
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: Royal area, which is uh, which is wild. So it's

1088
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: it's it's a fit. It's always always has been. Yeah.

1089
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: So my aunt my uncle live in East Row and

1090
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: my my mom and my dad actually lived right here

1091
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park for eight years or so. Um. They

1092
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: lived at UM right down the road from the facility

1093
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 1: or in the stadium. They used to walk to games,

1094
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: so I got some history here. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah,

1095
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: I mean that was I was surprised to hear that. Um,

1096
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what that's got to be like as

1097
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: a player. Can you imagine that, Steve, like you're you

1098
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: know what I mean? That'd be like you your parents

1099
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: living down the street from Arrowhead or something. Yeah, I mean,

1100
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: and then you're playing for the Chiefs. Oh yeah, that's crazy. Yeah,

1101
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: I think that's just got to be the coolest feeling,

1102
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: you know, now that he's playing for this team. You

1103
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: know his aunt and uncles still live here, probably neighbors

1104
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: of yours. Who knows. Yeah, maybe maybe that was kind

1105
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: of a cool little tidbit that he revealed there, and

1106
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: not for nothing. Here's the thing, and here's why you

1107
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: get a guy like Brian Winters, and its huge because

1108
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: you look at his bio. He started nine games last

1109
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 1: year and he and he was a real warrior because

1110
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: he went with a sore shoulder and then it just

1111
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: got the best of it. We've seen guys, do you

1112
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: needed surgery? You got it out and he's played as

1113
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: long as you can then you get it fixed, and

1114
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: that's what he did. He started all sixteen games in

1115
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen thirteen games in seventeen thirteen games

1116
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: in sixteen, he saw all action in all sixteen games

1117
00:59:58,160 --> 00:59:59,919
Speaker 1: and started ten of him In two thousand and fift

1118
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: teen he appeared in as a rookie. He played in

1119
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: all sixteen games with twelve starts as a rookie in

1120
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, and he only appeared in six games in

1121
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. He played when he's on the field and active.

1122
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: He's on the field right, and he's on the field.

1123
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about toughness, and we saw John

1124
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 1: Feliciano play with a bad shoulder last year and have

1125
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: surgery to get that repaired, and then unfortunately, you know,

1126
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: he has the torn pack literally the day before he's

1127
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: supposed to report to camp and he's out indefinitely. Winners

1128
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 1: is a guy that plays her too. As you mentioned,

1129
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: with the shoulder, that wasn't just like a bad shoulder

1130
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: or like a stretched ac joint or something. The whole

1131
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: front of his shoulder capsule was compromised where it was

1132
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: dislocating during games. And he had even with a harness

1133
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: on and I'm just gonna say this, Linemen are nuts, man.

1134
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: I mean all that pushing and pulling and you've got

1135
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: a bad wing. I mean, oh my gosh. So here

1136
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna take it to another level. A couple of

1137
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: years ago, in Week two, Brian Winters had an abdominal

1138
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: tear in his abdominal wall. He played nine more games

1139
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 1: with it. Like, do you know the strain that your

1140
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 1: core goes through as alignment? I mean most of us don't,

1141
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: but I can imagine it with a three hundred pound

1142
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: man leaning it on me, wanting to throw me out

1143
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: of the way, and I'm trying to keep him from

1144
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 1: doing that, and I've got a torn abdominal muscle and

1145
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm doing that. Holy cow, that's an ouch. Yeah, And

1146
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 1: that's how I think about it. That's yeah. They're just

1147
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 1: wired differently, most most ball players are. You never really

1148
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: feel one hundred percent. There's always something you know going

1149
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: but you know, like everybody has aches and pains. For

1150
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: football players, that's a way of life and it's how

1151
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 1: you manage them. And some of those aches and pains

1152
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: are dislocated shoulders, you know, busted fingers, broken thumb, broken arm.

1153
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: I mean you can go down there. I mean when

1154
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: I played, my hands got broken at nine times, nine

1155
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: different times. I got a lot of I got some.

1156
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: I got a more football cards with my picture with

1157
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 1: a cast on than I do with just with gloves on.

1158
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 1: It's just a part of a life. And to hear

1159
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: about a guy the ad thing while I say, well,

1160
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: it's a pull, listen, think about it. Everything you gotta

1161
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 1: get into your stance, explode out of your stance. You

1162
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: gotta like reach with your shoulders and push your core

1163
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 1: for all of Yeah, it's it's all core work and

1164
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: and to go with us. And you see guys gets

1165
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 1: you know they're out for the season with a torn

1166
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: he played nine games with that, So it's that's insane.

1167
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: It's pretty nuts and um, and this is a guy

1168
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: who who's coming in, he's gonna problem, he's gonna compete

1169
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: for a starting job. And he's the guy who is

1170
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: a starting quality high level games seventy nine starts. Yeah,

1171
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a starting caliber player. He's gonna

1172
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: be writing that mix at that right, you're better with

1173
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: whoever else they've got there. Even if you're deep at

1174
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 1: a spot, you're always better when you get better players,

1175
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's any question the Bills got

1176
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: better when Brian Winters got on board. Now, and if

1177
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: even if John Feliciano was healthy, they're still better with

1178
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: Brian Winners now. As excited as he is to be

1179
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 1: playing here, and knowing his parents lived here for some time,

1180
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: his aunt and uncle's still living in East Aurora, he

1181
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: dreaded coming here to play when he was with the Jets,

1182
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: so let's hear his thoughts on that my whole career.

1183
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:24,919
Speaker 1: This is probably one of the toughest places to play,

1184
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: you know, obviously being a rival that it is and

1185
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: being in the conference, in the division, it's it's uh,

1186
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: there's always a place that I hated playing. You know.

1187
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: The fans are great, No, I'm kind of happy they're

1188
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 1: on our side now on my side, so I'm excited

1189
01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: for that. And uh yeah, I'm I'm eager. I am

1190
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: I am, I'm I'm excited to be able to strap

1191
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: up against my old team, and you know, like I said,

1192
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: I'm a Buffalo Bill now and I'm excited. So safe

1193
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 1: to say he's excited since he said it three times there, Yeah,

1194
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: about twenty seconds. It's really interesting. But yeah, I mean

1195
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 1: he uh, he didn't like playing here when he was

1196
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 1: playing for the wrong team. And here's another thing that

1197
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: we need to be mindful of also. I think a player,

1198
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: when they get released by another team, there's all the

1199
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: chips already there on the shoulder to kind of prove

1200
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 1: those people wrong. I am worth it. You should have

1201
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: kept me, this, that and the other. Right, there's incentive

1202
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: to win the starting right guard job for Brian Winters

1203
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,160
Speaker 1: because if you look at week one of the schedule,

1204
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: the Bills are playing his old team, the Jets. Oh

1205
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: is that right? Do you think that guy wants to

1206
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 1: be in the lineup week one? Holy Cats? And you

1207
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: know that is not lost on Sean McDermott either that.

1208
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 1: And think about this, you're looking Feliciano's out, he was

1209
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: the starting guards. There's really nobody that you have to

1210
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: plug in and say, okay, you're our guard and somebody's

1211
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: gonna have to beat you out like they did with

1212
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace last year with Kevin Johnson coming in. You know,

1213
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: they left Levi Wallace in there throughout all training camp

1214
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: and only started rotating them in. So it wasn't it

1215
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: wasn't like they just signed these guys off the street

1216
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: and plug him in because I think we think he's

1217
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: better than you. They got to prove it. So with

1218
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: John Feliciano being heard, they bring Brian Winners in, they

1219
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 1: have the right they can justify plugging him in right

1220
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 1: away at right guard, moving Cody forward out to right

1221
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 1: tackle and say okay, it's your job to lose, and

1222
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: here we go right. So he's got a real shot

1223
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 1: at getting enough reps to do that, and normally Steve

1224
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: I would say, I'm not sure that that's how McDermott

1225
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: would handle it, because how he has handled these so

1226
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 1: called vacant positions in the past is even if there

1227
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:37,919
Speaker 1: is a clear cut favorite in terms of ability, you know, football, IQ,

1228
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: whatever it is, he always kind of has a competition regardless.

1229
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 1: Let's let it play out. And you have other guys

1230
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: that are not slouches. Here we're talking Daryl Williams, who

1231
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: they signed from Carolina, whose best position is guard. You

1232
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: have to believe he's going to be lining up there.

1233
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 1: Some You've got Evan Bam who's a center and a guard.

1234
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: Whether he's part of this competition, I guess remains to

1235
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: be seen. And then you've got younger players, you know,

1236
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 1: you're talking to Mike Bucker, you know, guys like that.

1237
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: What do we expect to see, you know, next week,

1238
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 1: when hopefully we get a chance to watch practice and

1239
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:16,920
Speaker 1: kind of take it in and make our own assessments.

1240
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's different now because the run

1241
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 1: up to the season is different. I really wonder, Steve,

1242
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 1: how much these quote unquote open competitions that coach McDermott

1243
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:32,760
Speaker 1: usually likes to let unfold. I wonder if there's time

1244
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 1: to do that now, or if you just say, look,

1245
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 1: we think this is the best guy, Let's just get

1246
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 1: him in there and get him ready with the other four.

1247
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 1: We gotta get ready for the season. We can't let

1248
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: these competitions play out like we want them too, or

1249
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: like we had them in the past. What do you

1250
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: think about this? Do you think the time, the time

1251
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 1: constraints here maybe compromise that or do you think coach

1252
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 1: McDermott goes with regular competition like its it certainly compromises

1253
01:06:57,520 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 1: the time and the reps, no question. But I absolutely

1254
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 1: one thousand percent sure that Sean mcdermot's got a plan

1255
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: to overcome that. And you know what, I mean, he's say, listen,

1256
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: here's how we're gonna do it. Here's that's gonna work.

1257
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 1: But you got Darryl Williams, Evan Bam, Ryan Bates, Brian Winters.

1258
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 1: You've got guys there that are and and that's nothing

1259
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 1: to say nothing of Um, Quentin Spain, any of these

1260
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: and any of these tackles like Victor Silaco and Trey

1261
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: Adams and of course Darryl Williams, as you said, but

1262
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 1: any of the other guys that you know playtack like

1263
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, Tye and Secky, Brandon Walton, all these guys,

1264
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 1: every name out there. And here's the thing with offensive

1265
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:39,720
Speaker 1: lineman and I'm I ever played it, but I know this.

1266
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: I've seen every offensive lineman I know played more than

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Speaker 1: one position on the offensive line, every single guy I

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Speaker 1: ever played with, and they all have played different spots,

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Speaker 1: even Will Woolford did, Howard Ballard did. Uh. Jimmy Richards

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Speaker 1: the only guy I ever saw play one spot and

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Speaker 1: never moved. Even the other guys like John John played

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Speaker 1: a different position in college, right he was, Yeah, he

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01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:03,920
Speaker 1: was like a center in college. I think he was

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Speaker 1: an outline Trophy winner. I think Um and then you know,

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Speaker 1: all those guys, John Feena played garden tackle, Glenn Parker

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Speaker 1: pay played garden time. All these guys all played multiple positions.

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Speaker 1: And here's the thing. I would think that when they

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Speaker 1: line up all these players, versatility is paramount to them

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Speaker 1: making the team. So they're all gonna be welcoming an

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Speaker 1: opportunity more now than maybe ever. Right, They're gonna be

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Speaker 1: welcoming the opportunity, and maybe even if they don't welcome it,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be asked to say, listen, be ready. So

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Speaker 1: I think even these young players like Trey Adams is

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01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 1: six eight. You don't see six eight guards for whatever reason.

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01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 1: But man oh man, you can you get into a

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Speaker 1: COVID situation or in the season it's like, you know, hey, bro,

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01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 1: strap it up, move in three feet and get your

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Speaker 1: other hand on the ground, you know, and that kind

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Speaker 1: of thing. So um and the way it also worked there.

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Speaker 1: If they are committed to getting better, which I would

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01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: think Sean McDermott is, and as well as the rest

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01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:08,720
Speaker 1: of the coaches and the players, when they get a

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Speaker 1: lot of different players in there, if they've got better athletes,

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Speaker 1: guys who have better traits, they're gonna put the best

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Speaker 1: five guys on the field, no matter who lined up

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen last year. You know what I'm saying. So

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Speaker 1: I'm saying like Quentin Spain, Mitch Morris, Dion Dawkins and

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Speaker 1: all the other guys, Cody, all these other guys. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm granted, it would take a twenty mule team to

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Speaker 1: find a guy better than some of those guys at

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Speaker 1: their spot. Nevertheless, you got to earn it, and I

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01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 1: think this coaching staff makes no apologies for the fact

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01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 1: that guys like like Mitch Morris, like Deon Dawkins, like

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01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 1: Cody Ford, they gotta earn it, so they're gonna put five.

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01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: I think this offensive line, if they do it that way,

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Speaker 1: which they will, it's gonna be really good. I mean

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01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:52,439
Speaker 1: really good. And I think it's gonna make a big

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Speaker 1: difference in the way how effective this offense is this

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01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: year is compared to last year. The last comment that

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Speaker 1: we are going to play for you from Brian Winters

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01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 1: deals with these very time constraints that we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Winners is a veteran in this league, but he's got

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01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,760
Speaker 1: to get up to speed here and we got to

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01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:15,759
Speaker 1: remember this too. Steve, this longer waiting period to actually

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Speaker 1: get in the building. Winners. First day in the building

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Speaker 1: was Sunday, like he had to go through the testing protocol.

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01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: I mean yesterday physical off site. Yeah, as in yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So yes, he is a veteran. He's seen a lot

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Speaker 1: of schemes, He's been through a lot of terminology nobody,

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01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,120
Speaker 1: but he's only been with one club here in the league,

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Speaker 1: granted through a couple of coaching changes with the Jets.

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Speaker 1: So Breddy, this is everybody's rookie season with COVID. Yeah,

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01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 1: and that too. So here is Brian Winters on getting

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01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,799
Speaker 1: up to speed, something that he doesn't seem too concerned about,

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01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: although he is committed to putting the time in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: A lot of that's your players and learn your team mates.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like that's something I'm good at. And

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01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: I know how these people play. I've been watching them

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01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 1: for a long time, and you know, I just feel

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01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 1: like just the film study. You just got to look

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01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:13,400
Speaker 1: back at their film see how they handle different things,

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01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, and how I can be a help to

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Speaker 1: them and how I can fit in with their systems. So,

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01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 1: like you said, the reps are going to be limited,

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01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:23,759
Speaker 1: but a lot of it. I can just look over film,

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01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 1: and you know, being a veteran guy, I feel like

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01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 1: I should be fine. Yeah, So I mean he's And

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01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris addressed this as well with respect to Brian,

1339
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:34,680
Speaker 1: and again he'd only been with him for a day

1340
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 1: when he was talking to the media, right, but he said, yeah,

1341
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:40,920
Speaker 1: he'll he'll be quick on the uptake. And Winners even

1342
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:44,040
Speaker 1: said I talked to him more my first day here,

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01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 1: and I basically said to him, Hey, I'm gonna be

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01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:47,760
Speaker 1: asking you a a question. So I don't think I'm a

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01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:50,200
Speaker 1: weirdo or anything. I just I'm gonna be asking the

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01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 1: stuff that I need to know so I can get

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01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 1: this stuff down. And he's using the common practice that

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Speaker 1: a lot of players use when they get to a

1349
01:11:57,040 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: new team. He's using translation, you know, from his old

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01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: system and what they called it there, and he's applying

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Speaker 1: it to the new system and what they call it here.

1352
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:09,720
Speaker 1: But it was interesting to me, Steve. He commented about

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01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 1: how he'll be able to pick things up just by

1354
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 1: watching the team's game tape, like, how do these guys

1355
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:21,639
Speaker 1: handle this combination block? Oh, they do this when that happens, Okay,

1356
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: I can do that. I understand, bang bang bang done.

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01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:27,720
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't have to be walked through. You know,

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01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,120
Speaker 1: the blocking techniques and the pass off and you know,

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01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna reach here and help for a second and

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01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:34,879
Speaker 1: then I go here like he just sees it on film? Okay,

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01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: and that what do we call that? All right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can do that, no problem, right, Like that's what

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01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: a veteran brings you, right, that's right. And also given

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's played seventy nine games, his blocking

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01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 1: technique is such that he's gonna be able to handle

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01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:50,719
Speaker 1: whatever's thrown at him, you know, So he's not gonna

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01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: he's not gonna know you know, he's not gonna have

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01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:55,639
Speaker 1: to learn that. You know, you gotta step with your

1369
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 1: lead foot rather than your trail foot. You gotta you know,

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01:12:58,000 --> 01:12:59,879
Speaker 1: you gotta put your hands up high on the shoulder

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01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 1: this when you step here instead of coming across with

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01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: two hands. You gotta get your step to your right

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01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 1: with your right hand and jab the guy. And but

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01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:11,240
Speaker 1: you don't look at him. You look over here. And

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01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You got your eyes here,

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01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:15,559
Speaker 1: You are there, right, your hands are here, your step

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01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:17,679
Speaker 1: is here, but your eyes are over here. That kind

1378
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 1: of technique stuff is going to be very familiar with him,

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01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: not so much with young players, or not least to

1380
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:24,680
Speaker 1: the same level, so that kind of stuff, You're right,

1381
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: it's all about the language rather than the technique. And

1382
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:30,720
Speaker 1: for Winners, he said he was influenced to sign here

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01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: chiefly by offensive line coach Bobby Johnson, who he says

1384
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 1: is earning a lot of respect around the league for

1385
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: the job he's done here. Number one and number two,

1386
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 1: those two guys both share Mid American Conference roots. Bobby

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01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:47,719
Speaker 1: Johnson played his college football at Miami University in Ohio,

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01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:51,559
Speaker 1: and Brian Winners went to Kent State, So you know,

1389
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: two Ohio college football players that kind of probably struck

1390
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: up a good conversation on the phone rather quickly. So

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Speaker 1: kudos to coach Johnson for reeling this guy in because

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01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:02,400
Speaker 1: there was an interest elsewhere. We will take a break

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01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: when we come back, we will get to a little

1394
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 1: bit of what Mitch Morse had to say about Josh Allen,

1395
01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: among other things, and we will revisit the tweet sheet

1396
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 1: as we want to know from you what the potential

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01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 1: and what's looking likely to be a cancelation of the

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01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 1: fall college football season. Means to you weigh in on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet or even give us a call if

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Speaker 1: you want. Eight three five fifty one eighty eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty It's One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio back on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Jasker with you as

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Speaker 1: we are motoring through a Monday edition which is now

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Speaker 1: on radio and television. As done, we welcome our MSG

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01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: audience back in good to have you back with us.

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01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,760
Speaker 1: Excited to be back on the TV side of this simulcast.

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Speaker 1: No knock against our radio listeners. They carried us through

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Speaker 1: for the better part of the last five months, so

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Speaker 1: thanks for sticking with us, and it's a good welcome

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01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,559
Speaker 1: back for our television viewing audience. Glad to have you

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Speaker 1: with us here on a Monday as we are talking

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Speaker 1: Bill's football, and we just finished with some comments from

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01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 1: Brian Winters, the first time we heard from the Bill's

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01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 1: newest guard on the roster, who is going to be

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01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: right in the middle of that competition for John Feliciano

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Speaker 1: spot while he is out. One other quick thing that

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Speaker 1: I should mention with respect to John Feliciano. For those

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Speaker 1: that may not have seen his Instagram posts after he

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Speaker 1: had his surgery for the torn pectoral muscle, he said,

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01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: I'll see in week four, which is essentially Bills at Raiders.

1422
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, Man, I thought pectoral muscles

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01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:54,519
Speaker 1: were like a full season injury. This guy thinks he's

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01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:57,080
Speaker 1: coming back in week four and take and I'm just

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01:15:57,080 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. They said eight to ten, right, and

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01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:02,360
Speaker 1: they said that. Yeah, I've talked to Mongo enough to

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01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 1: know how that guy's wired. Like, yeah, who did he

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01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: play for Buffalo Oakland? Oh? Look at that? Yeah, I

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01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:13,400
Speaker 1: wonder what there's a significant set. So he's got that

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01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:18,080
Speaker 1: date marked on his calendar. And here's the thing. These

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01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:23,759
Speaker 1: guys are so like that Brownie. Definitely. Well, I covered

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01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 1: the end of your career here. I wasn't here for

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01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 1: the start of it. I was too young, um, which

1434
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:31,599
Speaker 1: I can't say as much about as many things anymore,

1435
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 1: but uh, yeah, yeah you were. You were a little

1436
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,839
Speaker 1: squirreling after games because you were still coming down from

1437
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:45,760
Speaker 1: game day ane. Yeah, we'll call it that, um. But

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01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:50,120
Speaker 1: in any event, what made it doubly interesting was we're

1439
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:53,120
Speaker 1: talking to Mitch Morris on the Zoom call on Sunday,

1440
01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:56,520
Speaker 1: and when we were talking to him about Brian Winters,

1441
01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: he mentions John Feliciano and how it's a tough loss,

1442
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:04,800
Speaker 1: h gritty, nasty, feisty player that gets everybody else juiced

1443
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 1: up on the line. That's nothing new. But then he said,

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01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 1: you know, we'll get him back in due course here.

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01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 1: So it's great that John thinks he's gonna get back

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01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:15,679
Speaker 1: in that amount of time. That's fantastic and the Bills

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01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,600
Speaker 1: will be better for it if he does. But the

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01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: but his teammates believe he's gonna be back too, Like

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01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: nobody is doubting John felicia I'll tell you this. So

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01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:29,120
Speaker 1: because of pectoral that's a serious injury for alignment. Guys

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01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:32,120
Speaker 1: are out. I mean J. J. Watt was out what

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01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 1: uh I want to say? It was ten weeks twelve

1453
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 1: weeks last year, so yeah, let me not for nothing.

1454
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:46,839
Speaker 1: But we had guy like Darryl Talley gets both elbows

1455
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 1: and both knees done and in an offseason and like

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01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:53,559
Speaker 1: bounces back like he's a super Bowl you know. I

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01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 1: mean that the guys are some guys. Threshold of pain

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01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: is a is a rumor yeah, you know. I mean,

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01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 1: he just didn't have one, and he played last year

1460
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Speaker 1: with a bad shoulder that required surgery at the end

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Speaker 1: of the year he played in twelve games like that,

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Speaker 1: so it's not like he can't. I think the biggest

1463
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Speaker 1: question is can he still be the effective player that

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01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: he is in that kind of condition, because you know,

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Speaker 1: as hard as he's going to go in his rehab,

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Speaker 1: he's still not going to have the same level of

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Speaker 1: strength that he would had he not obviously torn it

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Speaker 1: in the first place. So it's an interesting thing to

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on. I will be keeping my ear

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Speaker 1: to the ground here on John Feliciano's rehabilitation from pectoral

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Speaker 1: muscle surgery. And let me be the first to say,

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Speaker 1: I am not doubting the guy they call Mongo in

1473
01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 1: the locker room by any means. So good luck to

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Speaker 1: him in him bouncing back and getting on the field

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01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 1: again sooner rather than later. But in the interim, it's

1476
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 1: probably gonna be Brian Winters or Darryl Williams or somebody

1477
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: else who knows at that right guard position for the

1478
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:01,560
Speaker 1: starting lineup, and that person we'll be lining up to

1479
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: next to one Mitch Morse, who as I said, spoke

1480
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday with the media, and just a real articulate guy,

1481
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: gives thoughtful answers, you know, as a as a reporter

1482
01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:14,639
Speaker 1: or somebody who covers his team or someone who interviews

1483
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,680
Speaker 1: Mitch and wants answers. He really kind of goes the

1484
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 1: extra mile with some of what he will give you

1485
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 1: to paint the pictures. So he's always a pleasure to

1486
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 1: interview because you feel like he's given you his best

1487
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:29,719
Speaker 1: effort to give you the answers you're looking for. So

1488
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:33,000
Speaker 1: we'll start with where we finished in the last segment

1489
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 1: with Brian Winters. So here's Mitch addressing the addition of

1490
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 1: the veteran guard. With a guy like John getting hurt,

1491
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:45,360
Speaker 1: it's never a good time, right. But we all knew

1492
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:49,639
Speaker 1: that veterans being able to get a veteran in throughout

1493
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: the season or before season even in free agency was

1494
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 1: going to be a premium this year just because of

1495
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 1: the COVID situation, meeting times and not really getting into

1496
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 1: the building with guys until you know, few weeks ago.

1497
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:04,919
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, Brian's his body work is very impressive.

1498
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 1: He's put a lot of good games together. He's started

1499
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:10,000
Speaker 1: a lot of games, and um, I think he's hungry

1500
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 1: to be the best teammate he can be and be

1501
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: a good football player. And I think that's apparent even

1502
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: just one day. And he's a good dude, and it's

1503
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: excited to you know, we're excited to be with him.

1504
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate about John will get him back, and you know,

1505
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:26,200
Speaker 1: because John such a tremendous presence in the offensive line

1506
01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 1: room and he still is. But um, you know, uh, yeah,

1507
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,800
Speaker 1: it's it's not the most ideal, but having a guy

1508
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: like Brian command it's fantastic. Yeah, fantastic, And he astutely

1509
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:40,160
Speaker 1: mentions the value of a veteran coming in in this

1510
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:45,840
Speaker 1: late juncture perhaps carries even more value amidst COVID than

1511
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 1: it normally does. You talked about it too. You've got

1512
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:51,639
Speaker 1: guys that, um, you know what we're just we're talking

1513
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:55,960
Speaker 1: about what this roster's made up of. And not for nothing,

1514
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 1: but you always look for silver linings. So you've got

1515
01:20:59,840 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 1: the guys that they're coming in, think about how good

1516
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:07,240
Speaker 1: it is for a guy like a Brandon Walton from

1517
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic rookie from Florida Atlantic Guys like this, Uh,

1518
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:18,080
Speaker 1: the young offensive tackle right, Victor Sloco, Trey Adams. Victor

1519
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:20,679
Speaker 1: Sloco's got one year in, but it was the practice.

1520
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: But to come into this to this you know, Ryan

1521
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 1: Bates is still a rookie. But to come into this

1522
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 1: environment with all these guys and learn and watch how

1523
01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:35,800
Speaker 1: they do it, um, it could try if they're smart enough,

1524
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:39,600
Speaker 1: which they probably are, if they're smart enough to internalize

1525
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:42,920
Speaker 1: what they're what they're looking at and the environment they're in,

1526
01:21:43,479 --> 01:21:46,040
Speaker 1: it could turn into an extra three years on a

1527
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:48,000
Speaker 1: career that may not have gotten off the ground. Or

1528
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: it could you know, if you're gonna get a regular

1529
01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:52,240
Speaker 1: three and a half year career and it could turn

1530
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:54,559
Speaker 1: into a six or an eight year career where you

1531
01:21:54,640 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 1: actually change your future because you're in it. Um. That

1532
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: kind of environment breeds the transfer of knowledge and technique

1533
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 1: and lifestyle and mindset. Say, right, these young players that

1534
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: I was just talking to are really set up to

1535
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 1: be in a position to you know, take it all

1536
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:22,679
Speaker 1: in and it will help them in future years to say, listen,

1537
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: this is how they did it there and then they

1538
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 1: were really successful. I'm gonna do it that way. And

1539
01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 1: that's that's the kind of when when you get a

1540
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:31,759
Speaker 1: smart guy in here, no matter what he did in college,

1541
01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: if he's smart enough and tough enough, he's gonna learn

1542
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:37,600
Speaker 1: enough to hang around and survive. And this environment for

1543
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:42,400
Speaker 1: this offensive line with these guy Mitch Morrison and John Feliciano,

1544
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: Quentin Spain, Dion Dawkins, all of those guys, and plus

1545
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:50,639
Speaker 1: you know the guys who other guys who've been around,

1546
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 1: it's a great learning ground for the young players who

1547
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:55,639
Speaker 1: are actually gonna now. They may have they may struggle

1548
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:57,120
Speaker 1: to get on the field and make the roster, but

1549
01:22:57,120 --> 01:22:59,320
Speaker 1: if they're on the practice squad, or if they're you know,

1550
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:02,200
Speaker 1: part of that protected four guys just in case COVID

1551
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:04,560
Speaker 1: hits whatever, or if they're just on the roster and

1552
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,799
Speaker 1: don't get a play much in games, it's an environment

1553
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 1: that's going to really serve them well later in their

1554
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: career when they get a chance to develop, maybe even

1555
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,880
Speaker 1: at the end of this year, or maybe because of

1556
01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:15,800
Speaker 1: a COVID outbreak in the team this year, they're gonna

1557
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 1: have to get in there, but the environment they've been

1558
01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 1: prepared by makes them that much better. They're gonna personally

1559
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 1: benefit from this. And Mitch Morris, perhaps his most exciting

1560
01:23:25,880 --> 01:23:28,000
Speaker 1: comment and I say that because as soon as I

1561
01:23:28,040 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: heard it, I tweeted it were the ones that he

1562
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:37,160
Speaker 1: had regarding Josh Allen and entering year three. It's very

1563
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: clear that and Mitch will point this out in the

1564
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 1: comments you're about to hear from him. They didn't have

1565
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:45,720
Speaker 1: a lot of time on the field last summer. If

1566
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:48,760
Speaker 1: you recall, he had the surgery for core muscle. I

1567
01:23:48,760 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 1: believe in the spring during OTAs or maybe that was

1568
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. He had some injury in the spring that

1569
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:57,120
Speaker 1: he had to get addressed right after he signed. Then

1570
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:01,679
Speaker 1: Cole then he had well, but Mitch, Mitch had a problem.

1571
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: I want to say it was abdominal related, but I

1572
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: don't hold me to that. So he missed time in

1573
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:08,280
Speaker 1: the spring. Then he had in the concussion protocol for

1574
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:12,639
Speaker 1: almost all of training camp. I totally forgot. They had

1575
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:17,200
Speaker 1: six practices before they went in season game, five weeks

1576
01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 1: through training camp he had concussion protocol. So now here

1577
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 1: we are in year three after a season together. And

1578
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:24,639
Speaker 1: this is why it's one of the reasons why Mitch

1579
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 1: morrise is excited about working with Josh Allen, not only

1580
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 1: because there's more time between them together. Even in this

1581
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:35,200
Speaker 1: COVID offseason. But because of Josh's development entering year three,

1582
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 1: let's hear that. You know, it was not the most

1583
01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 1: ideal for me coming in going back to back, having

1584
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: surgery and then concussion and training camp. So yeah, we

1585
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:48,560
Speaker 1: didn't get to work that much. Maybe six practices I

1586
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:51,240
Speaker 1: met walk throughs and stuff, but before the first game

1587
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: last year, And not to make any excuses, there's stuff

1588
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 1: we can get better at, and I think Josh has

1589
01:24:56,600 --> 01:24:58,559
Speaker 1: come early into his own coming into year three. It's

1590
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: very cool to see the way he's taking command and

1591
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:05,640
Speaker 1: the communications chrisp it's clean, it's it's exciting, you know,

1592
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 1: the moxie he's got even in practice and attacking every

1593
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:11,600
Speaker 1: walkthrough rep like a game rep is the way you

1594
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:14,479
Speaker 1: get better and it's what just us too. I think

1595
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:17,759
Speaker 1: we weren't able to do much this offseason just because

1596
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 1: you know, we're in different parts of the country, different

1597
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 1: things going on in our lives. But it is something

1598
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 1: pretty cool to see just the way you know, the

1599
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:30,680
Speaker 1: communication is crisper. I don't know, I just harp on that,

1600
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:37,799
Speaker 1: but less is more sometimes and portraying information promptly and

1601
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 1: decisively is kind of something that I'm seeing right now

1602
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 1: just between us two, and it's something we can definitely

1603
01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:45,679
Speaker 1: grow on. But it's fun to see and it's it's

1604
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:49,960
Speaker 1: making our jobs a lot easier, So that's that's encouraging.

1605
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:53,320
Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't seen Josh here in this year

1606
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 1: three setting because no OTAs, no mini camp, and it

1607
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,280
Speaker 1: won't be until next week until we probably lay eyes

1608
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 1: on them. But his demeanor in the practice setting is

1609
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 1: at a different level now, and the fact that the

1610
01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 1: communication between those two is crisper, cleaner, more decisive, means

1611
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:14,120
Speaker 1: that communication gets up and down the line at the

1612
01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 1: proper time. And now maybe if you need to up

1613
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: the tempo, as Brian Dable likes to do. He changes

1614
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:22,080
Speaker 1: tempo you know from time to time, sometimes right in

1615
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:24,920
Speaker 1: the middle of a drive, right, you're more equipped to

1616
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:27,519
Speaker 1: execute it that much faster. And it's part of Mitch's

1617
01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:30,600
Speaker 1: job to spend stuff positive for the quarterback, for his

1618
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:32,840
Speaker 1: guy taking snaps, So you're going to get the best

1619
01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:36,679
Speaker 1: best case scenario. But the proof is actually in the pudding,

1620
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:43,080
Speaker 1: and it's I do get a sense of he's probably

1621
01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 1: telling the truth because he answered it the way he did.

1622
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:48,720
Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty of space for a player to

1623
01:26:48,880 --> 01:26:51,639
Speaker 1: talk about other things and answer a question in whatever

1624
01:26:51,760 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 1: way he feels like it, you know, without saying anything bad,

1625
01:26:54,920 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 1: and you can kind of you kind of get sift

1626
01:26:57,320 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 1: through the positive spin and that kind of stuff, to

1627
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: the point of him thinking that Josh has really improved,

1628
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: that things are going to be different this year. It's

1629
01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:08,360
Speaker 1: going to be a different atmosphere in the huddle. So

1630
01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 1: I think he has seen some things than John. Don't

1631
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 1: think his any question. He's seen a lot in Josh

1632
01:27:12,120 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: that makes him pretty optimistic about how Josh's going to

1633
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:16,560
Speaker 1: play and how the offensive line's going to play in

1634
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:18,640
Speaker 1: front of him and MITCHI even said himself, you know,

1635
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 1: last year, being the new guy on the scene with

1636
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:24,479
Speaker 1: a new line to weave together, I was thinking a

1637
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: lot and probably too much, he said, about what I

1638
01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:30,720
Speaker 1: had to do. He said, that's gone now also, so

1639
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:33,760
Speaker 1: I can more effectively communicate to everybody what they need

1640
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 1: to do, because they said there were times where I

1641
01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 1: wasn't quite sure what I had to do and I

1642
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:41,320
Speaker 1: went mute, and I can't do that as the center.

1643
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 1: So he's like, that's not going to be an issue

1644
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: this year for me because I know what I have

1645
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 1: to do on every play. Now I can be a

1646
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:51,719
Speaker 1: more effective communicator all the time. Pre snap is critical.

1647
01:27:51,920 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 1: Continuity is not a myth on this a real thing.

1648
01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:59,200
Speaker 1: It's a real thing, and that and every the continuity

1649
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 1: allows you to evolve into something better and more productive

1650
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 1: than you were before. But you can't get there unless

1651
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: everybody knows things about what they're talking about without having

1652
01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 1: to explain what they're talking about. And it seems like

1653
01:28:11,560 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 1: the Bills are getting there pretty quickly. All right, we

1654
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 1: gotta take a break, but when we come back, we'll

1655
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: hit up the tweet sheets. See what you guys are

1656
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:20,839
Speaker 1: saying about what the potential cancelation of the college football

1657
01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:24,120
Speaker 1: season is fall means to you. Let us know. Hit

1658
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 1: us up on that tweet sheet. We'll get back to

1659
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:27,599
Speaker 1: it when we come back. It's Chris Brown and Steve

1660
01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:29,680
Speaker 1: Tasker with you here on One Bill's Live, presented by

1661
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 1: Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Steve task or

1662
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:50,840
Speaker 1: Chris Brown here with you on One Bills Live. Coming

1663
01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:53,559
Speaker 1: up after the two o'clock break will be one Doug

1664
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 1: fer Our from USA Today, NFL writer for them and

1665
01:28:57,520 --> 01:29:01,679
Speaker 1: also covers college football, and he's got an interesting article

1666
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:06,839
Speaker 1: about how COVID nineteen will change the face of college football.

1667
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:09,120
Speaker 1: So we want to talk to him about that as

1668
01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:12,519
Speaker 1: we are anticipating some dominoes falling in the world of

1669
01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:16,040
Speaker 1: college football. Already, the Big Ten Conference has said yep,

1670
01:29:16,160 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: we're done for the fall, no football there, and the

1671
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:22,720
Speaker 1: Mid American Conference yesterday did the same thing. They were

1672
01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 1: the first FBS conference to cancel the football season in

1673
01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: the fall. And we're kind of waiting for the other

1674
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:32,080
Speaker 1: shoes to drop from the Power five conferences, like the

1675
01:29:32,080 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 1: Big twelve, the Pac twelve, the SEC in the ACC.

1676
01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:37,760
Speaker 1: So we'll see where all of that goes. But it

1677
01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:41,639
Speaker 1: looks like the wheels are all ready in motion for that.

1678
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 1: We wanted to get back to the tweet sheet, and

1679
01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:47,880
Speaker 1: I believe we were up to Tiffany there, which is

1680
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:51,360
Speaker 1: asking what does a cancelation of college football this fall

1681
01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 1: mean to you? And Tiffany says the draft process will

1682
01:29:54,960 --> 01:29:57,919
Speaker 1: be flipped upside down with no college football. In my opinion,

1683
01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:00,559
Speaker 1: it opens the door for the x FL in the

1684
01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:03,839
Speaker 1: future to become a developmental league for the NFL. Athletes

1685
01:30:03,880 --> 01:30:07,080
Speaker 1: may consider taking another route to play professional football. If

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01:30:07,120 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 1: colleges take away sports programs well While I partially agree

1687
01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:14,439
Speaker 1: that it could be an opportunity, there's no way colleges

1688
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:18,479
Speaker 1: are taking away football that is their cash count. I

1689
01:30:18,520 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 1: think they just put it on pause either for this

1690
01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:25,240
Speaker 1: calendar year or they try to find a way to

1691
01:30:25,280 --> 01:30:27,560
Speaker 1: make it happen in the spring. And with the money involved,

1692
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:31,559
Speaker 1: you gotta believe they're gonna try eight ways to Sunday

1693
01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:33,599
Speaker 1: to find a way to have football in the spring. Yeah,

1694
01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:36,439
Speaker 1: college football, for the most part, it's my understanding. And

1695
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:38,880
Speaker 1: I'm no, I don't I'm not an accountant. But the

1696
01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:41,320
Speaker 1: way I've from what I've read and what I understand,

1697
01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:45,280
Speaker 1: in most cases, even at the especially at the big

1698
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:50,360
Speaker 1: schools like Ohio State and you know Alabama and Clemson

1699
01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:55,880
Speaker 1: and you know LSU, the football program pays not only

1700
01:30:55,920 --> 01:30:58,280
Speaker 1: for the football program, but also pays for you know,

1701
01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 1: the soccer, the volley ball, the baseball program, the swimming program,

1702
01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, all of that stuff they all have. You know,

1703
01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:10,400
Speaker 1: their budgets are all covered by the intake of tickets

1704
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 1: and stuff from the football program. So if the football

1705
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:17,679
Speaker 1: goes away, it's not going to be just the football

1706
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:20,360
Speaker 1: going away. Yeah, It'll be a lot of other stuff.

1707
01:31:20,479 --> 01:31:22,559
Speaker 1: And then and then If that is the case, which

1708
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:26,880
Speaker 1: I really don't see happening, well, then yeah, XFL could

1709
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:28,920
Speaker 1: have a whole new landscape in which to work. And

1710
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:30,880
Speaker 1: I still think I want an answer. I wonder what

1711
01:31:30,920 --> 01:31:34,320
Speaker 1: it's going to look like if the college football season

1712
01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:38,320
Speaker 1: gets moved back to like say, for instance, they push

1713
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 1: their college season back to March, they start playing March

1714
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:47,800
Speaker 1: thirteenth or before St. Patrick's Day, you know, go through

1715
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:52,200
Speaker 1: March April, and may have bowl games in mid April,

1716
01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:56,960
Speaker 1: and that right there is your you know, is your

1717
01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:58,840
Speaker 1: college football season. And all of a sudden, people are

1718
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:00,759
Speaker 1: like I kind of like finishing in the nice weather

1719
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:03,160
Speaker 1: and stuff and the bowl games, and the bowl games

1720
01:32:03,240 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 1: like it because they can get people to come in

1721
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:07,680
Speaker 1: and you know that kind of bowl games up north. Right,

1722
01:32:07,760 --> 01:32:11,080
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, maybe that industry or that

1723
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 1: that calendar clock that we all have where says when

1724
01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:16,960
Speaker 1: the fall comes, football starts, maybe that gets moved to

1725
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: the spring for college football. And then you know, they

1726
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:21,920
Speaker 1: do it because they like it better for some reason.

1727
01:32:21,920 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 1: I don't know why that would be, but certainly anything

1728
01:32:24,280 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: is possible. At this point, Yeah are off, now, all

1729
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:32,120
Speaker 1: bets are off. It gives the colleges a chance when

1730
01:32:32,120 --> 01:32:35,360
Speaker 1: they start schooling the fall, the football team could practice

1731
01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:37,880
Speaker 1: for three or four months before they have a game

1732
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:40,120
Speaker 1: instead of just coming in and early in camp and

1733
01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:42,439
Speaker 1: all of that. They can give these kids their summers off,

1734
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:44,640
Speaker 1: spring and summers off. They wouldn't have to come in

1735
01:32:44,680 --> 01:32:47,719
Speaker 1: for all that stuff they do and the spring ball

1736
01:32:47,720 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 1: and all that. They could have fall ball, you know,

1737
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:53,720
Speaker 1: instead of Spring bowl, and it'd be practices and so

1738
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:56,960
Speaker 1: they get they'd be better, well more well schooled when

1739
01:32:56,960 --> 01:33:01,320
Speaker 1: the spring comes around. From KMG on the tweet, sheat

1740
01:33:02,760 --> 01:33:05,559
Speaker 1: they're taking option E, which I didn't know was listed.

1741
01:33:05,560 --> 01:33:07,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it is. I think it shows that

1742
01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:11,679
Speaker 1: schools are being responsible. If it's not safe for them

1743
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:14,680
Speaker 1: to be in classrooms or for spectators to be in

1744
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 1: the stands, it certainly isn't safe for them to be

1745
01:33:17,320 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 1: on a field tackling each other. And that is a

1746
01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 1: viewpoint that we probably haven't heard enough of, especially for

1747
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:32,120
Speaker 1: you know, college athletes. And I know that there have

1748
01:33:32,200 --> 01:33:34,000
Speaker 1: been some people out there in the twitter verse that

1749
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:39,360
Speaker 1: have tweeted as much and basically said, sometimes we need

1750
01:33:39,439 --> 01:33:43,719
Speaker 1: more sensible people to save us from ourselves. Everybody wants

1751
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:47,160
Speaker 1: football and that's great, And I'm talking about college football

1752
01:33:47,240 --> 01:33:51,799
Speaker 1: right now. Trevor Lawrence wants to play, you know, justin

1753
01:33:51,880 --> 01:33:56,360
Speaker 1: fields at Ohio State wants to play. Coaches want to coach.

1754
01:33:56,760 --> 01:34:00,639
Speaker 1: We get it. But I don't know if the way

1755
01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:07,320
Speaker 1: the college football and college sports in general is currently

1756
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:12,800
Speaker 1: constructed on campuses with in some cases tens of thousands

1757
01:34:12,800 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 1: of students, I don't know how that kind of construct

1758
01:34:19,640 --> 01:34:24,400
Speaker 1: works with COVID. I just think there are too many

1759
01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:31,720
Speaker 1: roadblocks in the way to effectively put together enough protocols

1760
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 1: to make it safe for college athletes. And you're talking

1761
01:34:34,160 --> 01:34:37,160
Speaker 1: about people's kids. I mean, that's what you're talking about. Yeah,

1762
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 1: and it's and it's telling too that when they cancel

1763
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:47,840
Speaker 1: the football season, they cancel everything. Yeah, soccer, hockey, it's

1764
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:50,479
Speaker 1: all gone because there's no money to write without football.

1765
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:52,200
Speaker 1: All Right, We got to take a break because coming

1766
01:34:52,240 --> 01:34:55,040
Speaker 1: up next, we've got one Doug for our from USA today,

1767
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 1: as he is going to talk to us about this

1768
01:34:57,880 --> 01:35:02,559
Speaker 1: very subject, how the cancel of college football has been

1769
01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:05,840
Speaker 1: completely changed by COVID nineteen. He just put a story

1770
01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:08,000
Speaker 1: up today. We'll get into that with him, along with

1771
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:11,880
Speaker 1: all the other layers that college football has on the

1772
01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:16,040
Speaker 1: college sports landscape in total knowing the revenue generator it is.

1773
01:35:16,040 --> 01:35:17,880
Speaker 1: We'll talk with Doug when we come back. It's One

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01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:21,639
Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's

1775
01:35:21,720 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 1: Radio at a Steve pastor who has been all over

1776
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:43,640
Speaker 1: the field. Kind of unique. He was kind of a

1777
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:50,200
Speaker 1: dual role player for you, Stave. Stave a blimp. We're

1778
01:35:50,240 --> 01:35:57,599
Speaker 1: not even in the stratoire of normalcy. All right here

1779
01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:00,439
Speaker 1: we are our number three one Bills Live. Christaud Steve

1780
01:36:00,479 --> 01:36:04,639
Speaker 1: Tasker with you and as promised, joining us on the line.

1781
01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:08,439
Speaker 1: Is an NFL writer for USA Today, but he also

1782
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:13,360
Speaker 1: covers college football as well, and he's got an interesting

1783
01:36:14,360 --> 01:36:16,160
Speaker 1: article up today that we did want to talk to

1784
01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 1: him about, especially with all of the reports coming down now,

1785
01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:21,800
Speaker 1: the latest from the Detroit Free Press about how the

1786
01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:24,719
Speaker 1: Big Ten is going to cancel their fall sports season

1787
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:28,360
Speaker 1: in its entirety football and everything else with it. But

1788
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:32,680
Speaker 1: he wrote a piece how COVID nineteen will change college

1789
01:36:32,720 --> 01:36:35,240
Speaker 1: football forever, and that was a good enough reason to

1790
01:36:35,280 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 1: get our good friend Doug Farrar on the line. Doug,

1791
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:40,519
Speaker 1: it's Chris and Steve. Thanks for joining us. As always,

1792
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:44,200
Speaker 1: we appreciate it. How you feeling good? My pleasure as always,

1793
01:36:44,240 --> 01:36:46,720
Speaker 1: guys were I'm in Lake Shelan right now, which is

1794
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:49,439
Speaker 1: a beautiful part of the middle part of Washington State,

1795
01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:53,599
Speaker 1: and we're heading back home after a nice little vacation

1796
01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:56,439
Speaker 1: and woke up at five through to this morning and

1797
01:36:56,479 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Oh yeah, Trevor Lawrence and Justin

1798
01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:01,160
Speaker 1: Fields tweeted out this day thing. Maybe I should write

1799
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:05,479
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, got the coffee and off we went. Yeah,

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01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:08,400
Speaker 1: And things have happened since then. As I mentioned, the

1801
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:11,959
Speaker 1: Detroit Free Press is reporting that it will be announced

1802
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:15,400
Speaker 1: on Tuesday that the Big Ten Conference is canceling their

1803
01:37:15,479 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 1: fall sports in its entirety. We know that a lot

1804
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:22,160
Speaker 1: of the Power five conferences are meeting with their respective

1805
01:37:22,160 --> 01:37:26,040
Speaker 1: boards and presidents, and other decisions will be coming down.

1806
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 1: The Mid American Conference, of which the University at Buffalo

1807
01:37:29,360 --> 01:37:32,320
Speaker 1: here is a part of, already canceled their twenty twenty season.

1808
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:37,840
Speaker 1: Is this just the beginning of the dominoes? I think

1809
01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 1: it has to be. I know there's been some talk

1810
01:37:41,400 --> 01:37:44,400
Speaker 1: about the SEC. Reason has to be a SEC and

1811
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:47,719
Speaker 1: maybe Michigan Michigan State like creating some sort of super

1812
01:37:47,720 --> 01:37:51,960
Speaker 1: conference and that's great, but you can't whoop the Verona

1813
01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:55,519
Speaker 1: with a super conference. That's not gonna happen. Yeah, and

1814
01:37:55,840 --> 01:37:58,840
Speaker 1: you know, a super cock. It's I guess easy enough

1815
01:37:58,880 --> 01:38:02,040
Speaker 1: to take school, you know, foster schools and create some

1816
01:38:02,160 --> 01:38:06,960
Speaker 1: sort of like twenty five teams quote unquote minor league

1817
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:09,599
Speaker 1: for college football, but you still don't have protocols in place,

1818
01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:13,720
Speaker 1: which is part of what the players are requesting. You know,

1819
01:38:14,479 --> 01:38:18,120
Speaker 1: it's it would be complicated enough in a quote unquote

1820
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:22,120
Speaker 1: perfect world to create a super confidence like this for

1821
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:28,880
Speaker 1: any other reason if you attach these particular complexities to it.

1822
01:38:29,479 --> 01:38:33,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you could have the SEC on steroids with

1823
01:38:33,479 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of new teams, and that could shut

1824
01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:38,280
Speaker 1: down in a week or two. In fact, I would

1825
01:38:38,320 --> 01:38:41,160
Speaker 1: expect it to, because you know, unless you're putting everyone

1826
01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:43,280
Speaker 1: in a bubble, which you would think they'd want to

1827
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:46,800
Speaker 1: do at that point. It really is kind of a

1828
01:38:46,840 --> 01:38:49,679
Speaker 1: ready fire a thing. And that's not just for football,

1829
01:38:49,760 --> 01:38:55,679
Speaker 1: it's for every industried administration. I mean, we're all trying

1830
01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:58,880
Speaker 1: to figure this out. I mean, you guys know, this

1831
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:02,200
Speaker 1: is how comfortable are you going to be going to

1832
01:39:02,280 --> 01:39:04,360
Speaker 1: a stadium right now? How comfortable are you're going to

1833
01:39:04,400 --> 01:39:06,639
Speaker 1: be in a press box right now. We're all having

1834
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 1: to think to stuff through. So it's incredibly complicated. I

1835
01:39:11,680 --> 01:39:15,599
Speaker 1: understand the desire to try and keep college football going,

1836
01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:19,520
Speaker 1: but they've had you know, as has been said repeatedly,

1837
01:39:19,960 --> 01:39:22,559
Speaker 1: they've had six months to figure this out, and they

1838
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:25,400
Speaker 1: can't even decide if they want to label student athletes

1839
01:39:25,479 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 1: as employees so they can protect them more comprehensively. So

1840
01:39:29,200 --> 01:39:31,840
Speaker 1: they're way behind the eight voluer doug in ten years

1841
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:34,600
Speaker 1: when people kind of maybe have forgotten about COVID and

1842
01:39:34,640 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 1: they get on with their lives and it's all behind us.

1843
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 1: What's going to remain changed about college football that may

1844
01:39:40,960 --> 01:39:45,360
Speaker 1: happen because of this pandemic. Well, the most fascinating thing

1845
01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:48,519
Speaker 1: about Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields and all these other

1846
01:39:48,720 --> 01:39:52,840
Speaker 1: prominent athletes tweeting at this we want to play with

1847
01:39:53,360 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 1: you the graphic design. Here are our requests. And I

1848
01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:58,840
Speaker 1: hear some people saying the players are making demands. They're

1849
01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:02,599
Speaker 1: not making demands, are making quests. They are doing the

1850
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:05,200
Speaker 1: opposite of strike the thing. We want to play, we

1851
01:40:05,200 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: want to do it safely. But the most fascinating thing

1852
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:11,360
Speaker 1: about this, and I read it on ESPN dot com.

1853
01:40:11,400 --> 01:40:14,200
Speaker 1: Dan Murphy did a great piece on it where this

1854
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:20,040
Speaker 1: all started yesterday evening when Stanford defensive lineman Dylan Bulls

1855
01:40:20,080 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 1: received a direct message on Twitter from Clemson running back

1856
01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 1: Darli Gary and Rencher who didn't know him, but you know, hey,

1857
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:30,360
Speaker 1: your Pac twelve activism is interesting to us. US meeting

1858
01:40:30,400 --> 01:40:34,479
Speaker 1: the Clemson football teams, and within an hour some of

1859
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:38,800
Speaker 1: the most prominent players from multiple conferences had gotten on

1860
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 1: a zoom meeting and one of the guys, defensive lineman

1861
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:46,880
Speaker 1: from Washington State, had some photoshop experience and they gave

1862
01:40:46,960 --> 01:40:49,599
Speaker 1: him like twenty minutes to draw this thing up. We're

1863
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:52,360
Speaker 1: going to do it. Put the five conference logos on there,

1864
01:40:52,720 --> 01:40:55,599
Speaker 1: say we want to play. We are united. Hashtag hashtag,

1865
01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:58,760
Speaker 1: here's what we would like to have happened. And that

1866
01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:03,080
Speaker 1: all happened within three to four hours, from nothing to

1867
01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:07,160
Speaker 1: a movement in three to four hours. And that's a

1868
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 1: long way of saying. The thing that will change, irrevocably

1869
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:15,880
Speaker 1: and permanently now is that the athletes know not only

1870
01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:18,000
Speaker 1: that they are united and that they have a voice,

1871
01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 1: but they know how to use it and they know

1872
01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:25,200
Speaker 1: how to bring it together specifically and quickly and potentially

1873
01:41:25,200 --> 01:41:28,479
Speaker 1: to affect great change. There's no putting the genie back

1874
01:41:28,479 --> 01:41:30,479
Speaker 1: in the bottle. There as much as coaches and ages

1875
01:41:30,560 --> 01:41:35,800
Speaker 1: have resisted the activism and the collective bargaining power and

1876
01:41:35,880 --> 01:41:40,240
Speaker 1: the potential unionization of college players whether there's a union

1877
01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:45,120
Speaker 1: or not, and federal courts have withheld players rights to

1878
01:41:45,200 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: do that among all colleges. And it's a lot more

1879
01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:52,400
Speaker 1: complicated than the professional sports for multiple reasons. But what

1880
01:41:52,640 --> 01:41:57,439
Speaker 1: is going to change forever, and this is pretty much

1881
01:41:57,680 --> 01:42:00,600
Speaker 1: the sum total of what I wrote about, is not

1882
01:42:00,760 --> 01:42:03,560
Speaker 1: players understand not only that they have a voice, but

1883
01:42:03,720 --> 01:42:07,040
Speaker 1: how to use it. And that is a remarkable see

1884
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:10,120
Speaker 1: change in a very short time. And as wonderful as

1885
01:42:10,200 --> 01:42:12,799
Speaker 1: that voice may be, as we're seeing from Trevor Lawrence

1886
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:16,880
Speaker 1: and Justin Fields on Twitter today, there's also a part

1887
01:42:16,920 --> 01:42:20,800
Speaker 1: of this, Doug, where you just say, yeah, I get it,

1888
01:42:20,840 --> 01:42:23,760
Speaker 1: you want to play, coaches, I get it, you want

1889
01:42:23,760 --> 01:42:26,240
Speaker 1: to coach. I know you guys want to have a season.

1890
01:42:27,040 --> 01:42:31,040
Speaker 1: But there's also an element of this where the greater

1891
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:34,360
Speaker 1: force of reason has to save these players almost from themselves.

1892
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:36,559
Speaker 1: Because Steve and I have been talking about this on

1893
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:41,679
Speaker 1: the show today, the college football construct just by virtue

1894
01:42:41,680 --> 01:42:45,360
Speaker 1: of being on campus with thousands of other students in

1895
01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:50,400
Speaker 1: the student body, and you know, clustering of large groups

1896
01:42:50,439 --> 01:42:53,280
Speaker 1: of people just a natural part of what the college

1897
01:42:53,320 --> 01:42:57,680
Speaker 1: experience is. It's completely different from pro football and what

1898
01:42:57,720 --> 01:43:01,720
Speaker 1: they're trying to orchestrate at the NFL level. Not to

1899
01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 1: mention the fact that, as you stayed in your own

1900
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:07,920
Speaker 1: right up, you're not talking about just logistics. You're talking

1901
01:43:07,960 --> 01:43:13,240
Speaker 1: about liability and God forbid mortality here. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,

1902
01:43:14,080 --> 01:43:17,599
Speaker 1: and you're dealing with this is not in all cases,

1903
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:19,120
Speaker 1: but I think it's fair to say that in some

1904
01:43:19,160 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 1: cases you have coaches and athletic directors who do not

1905
01:43:24,560 --> 01:43:28,759
Speaker 1: view these players as on an equal footing to them

1906
01:43:28,960 --> 01:43:33,120
Speaker 1: that they are. They're widget, they're kind of disposable, and

1907
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:37,880
Speaker 1: that's it's an ugly part of the discussion, but it's

1908
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:40,240
Speaker 1: a part that has to be discussed. And if you

1909
01:43:40,240 --> 01:43:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, when if you have an NFL Players Association,

1910
01:43:43,560 --> 01:43:47,400
Speaker 1: or if all professional sports have unions, to greater and

1911
01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:50,600
Speaker 1: lesser the reason of effectiveness, but they have unions. And

1912
01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:52,800
Speaker 1: you remember when King Culture and all those guys a

1913
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:57,120
Speaker 1: few years ago try to unionize and Pat Pat Fitzgerald

1914
01:43:57,120 --> 01:43:59,800
Speaker 1: and Gabbo Swiney and all those coaches said Nope, no way,

1915
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 1: not going to happen. And I think there is also

1916
01:44:03,400 --> 01:44:07,439
Speaker 1: the potential for Sky's getting Kaepernick. You know, if you

1917
01:44:07,479 --> 01:44:10,599
Speaker 1: are too much of an activist, will boot you off

1918
01:44:10,600 --> 01:44:13,400
Speaker 1: a team? We will, you know, we will let other

1919
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Speaker 1: coaches know so you can't transfer. You know, there's a

1920
01:44:16,640 --> 01:44:19,160
Speaker 1: lot going on here if we're if we're talking about

1921
01:44:19,280 --> 01:44:23,960
Speaker 1: just in the shorter term, in the face of an

1922
01:44:24,040 --> 01:44:29,320
Speaker 1: ever unfortunately, ever increasing pandemic, as you said, the complexities

1923
01:44:29,400 --> 01:44:33,280
Speaker 1: of the college game and the college experience and the

1924
01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:36,439
Speaker 1: potential for contagion clusters all over the place. Yeah, it's

1925
01:44:36,439 --> 01:44:39,799
Speaker 1: a completely different ball game. And as we have already discussed,

1926
01:44:39,840 --> 01:44:42,280
Speaker 1: they had six months to figure this out, and they

1927
01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:46,160
Speaker 1: were too busy tripping over themselves saying, well, are you know,

1928
01:44:46,600 --> 01:44:50,920
Speaker 1: are our players employees? Are they student slash athletes? What

1929
01:44:51,080 --> 01:44:53,640
Speaker 1: are they? They can't even figure out the design of

1930
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:57,639
Speaker 1: their own ethical standards, much less how to prevent kids

1931
01:44:57,680 --> 01:45:00,760
Speaker 1: from getting this. And I know that if you go

1932
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:03,000
Speaker 1: out on social media or in the general public, there's

1933
01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:04,760
Speaker 1: always going to be both sides of the argument. You're

1934
01:45:04,760 --> 01:45:08,320
Speaker 1: gonna have people who's saying there's it's it's lunacy to

1935
01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:11,800
Speaker 1: do away with college football. This isn't that serious. These

1936
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:14,080
Speaker 1: are young kids, They're gonna be fine. Let them, let

1937
01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:16,240
Speaker 1: them play through this pandemic. And then there's gonna be

1938
01:45:16,280 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: others on the other end of it to say and

1939
01:45:18,200 --> 01:45:21,120
Speaker 1: they should never even have considered it. But given the

1940
01:45:21,280 --> 01:45:24,439
Speaker 1: popularity and the prominence of college football and the NFL,

1941
01:45:24,920 --> 01:45:29,680
Speaker 1: do you think it's inevitable that well, perhaps not inevitable.

1942
01:45:29,680 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 1: Do you think it is likely that all the powers

1943
01:45:32,479 --> 01:45:36,040
Speaker 1: that be, the NFL, the NCAA, everybody comes to the

1944
01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:39,800
Speaker 1: realization that is ludicrous to play a sport and risk

1945
01:45:39,840 --> 01:45:42,920
Speaker 1: people's health for this, everything will be shut down. And

1946
01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:45,759
Speaker 1: because these two leagues, like college football and the NFL,

1947
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:48,559
Speaker 1: are so prominent, they're just unwilling to make that call.

1948
01:45:48,680 --> 01:45:51,479
Speaker 1: Do you think it's inevitable that nothing is going to happen,

1949
01:45:51,600 --> 01:45:54,280
Speaker 1: No football games are gonna happen at any level. Are

1950
01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 1: they gonna just shut it down and that's where we're

1951
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:59,600
Speaker 1: gonna get to or do you think there is a

1952
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:02,320
Speaker 1: possible way to get it done and get it done right? Well,

1953
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:04,200
Speaker 1: they're not going to should have done on their own volition.

1954
01:46:04,280 --> 01:46:07,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I was on an nflpa's conference call with

1955
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:12,080
Speaker 1: Demorris Smith and Georgia Tala and JC Tredder, who is

1956
01:46:12,120 --> 01:46:15,240
Speaker 1: the president of the NFLPA and also the Cleveland Browns Center.

1957
01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:18,080
Speaker 1: So as a center, he's really concerned because he's got

1958
01:46:18,080 --> 01:46:21,080
Speaker 1: guys all around him. And Treder said that he's already

1959
01:46:21,120 --> 01:46:24,080
Speaker 1: heard from NFL coaches who are saying, look, I can't

1960
01:46:24,120 --> 01:46:29,080
Speaker 1: coach my team and deal with the logistics of a coronavirus. Basically,

1961
01:46:29,120 --> 01:46:33,559
Speaker 1: there are NFL coaches who are sponsoring the idea of

1962
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:37,000
Speaker 1: herd Immunity's let's get everyone sick and see how sick

1963
01:46:37,080 --> 01:46:39,760
Speaker 1: they get and have everyone just get through it. And

1964
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:42,439
Speaker 1: you know, we're back to rubbing dirt on concussions here.

1965
01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:46,600
Speaker 1: And the problem is you have an NFL that, for

1966
01:46:46,640 --> 01:46:50,320
Speaker 1: the last hundred years has never played. The NFL has

1967
01:46:50,320 --> 01:46:53,120
Speaker 1: never taken player safety seriously except when has been forced to.

1968
01:46:53,600 --> 01:46:58,120
Speaker 1: Neither has the NCAA. So you've got sports and their

1969
01:46:59,040 --> 01:47:02,240
Speaker 1: designers and the people who keep them forwarded through in

1970
01:47:02,280 --> 01:47:06,000
Speaker 1: a business in an administrative sense that have never believed

1971
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:11,840
Speaker 1: that it was financially feasible or preferable to take player

1972
01:47:11,960 --> 01:47:15,320
Speaker 1: safety as seriously as it should be. I mean, Steve,

1973
01:47:15,080 --> 01:47:17,519
Speaker 1: you you lived this. You don't just know this, you

1974
01:47:17,640 --> 01:47:21,840
Speaker 1: lived it. Man. So to then expect the NFL and

1975
01:47:21,920 --> 01:47:27,320
Speaker 1: the NCAA to monitor themselves and say, oh, yeah, you know,

1976
01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 1: we got this, we'll take care of it. I don't

1977
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:32,240
Speaker 1: think it's going to happen. I would like to think

1978
01:47:32,360 --> 01:47:35,560
Speaker 1: it's not going to take somebody dying from COVID that

1979
01:47:35,680 --> 01:47:39,000
Speaker 1: they caught in a game for everything to be shut down.

1980
01:47:39,400 --> 01:47:43,240
Speaker 1: I really pray that doesn't happen. I don't think it's out.

1981
01:47:43,720 --> 01:47:45,720
Speaker 1: I don't think it's outside the real of possibility. And

1982
01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:48,679
Speaker 1: I don't think either the NCAA nor the NFL they're

1983
01:47:48,720 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 1: not gonna come to their senses and say, hey, let's

1984
01:47:52,840 --> 01:47:55,200
Speaker 1: do this. I mean, the NFL is already discussing, well,

1985
01:47:55,240 --> 01:47:57,559
Speaker 1: if college football doesn't go this year, can we play

1986
01:47:57,560 --> 01:47:59,679
Speaker 1: games on Saturday too make up some of that lost

1987
01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:03,080
Speaker 1: revenue that's already being discussed. That was being discussed. The

1988
01:48:03,200 --> 01:48:06,920
Speaker 1: second these decisions and all this news came down. The

1989
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:10,000
Speaker 1: NFL didn't say, WHOA, we better take a look at this.

1990
01:48:10,040 --> 01:48:12,479
Speaker 1: If the nca is considering shutting down. They were like, well,

1991
01:48:12,479 --> 01:48:16,080
Speaker 1: could we play games un centered too? That's that's the mindset.

1992
01:48:16,320 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 1: That's the mindset. That's what it always has been. And

1993
01:48:19,760 --> 01:48:23,920
Speaker 1: you know that's a series of separate discussions. But in

1994
01:48:23,960 --> 01:48:28,760
Speaker 1: the context of trying to manage player safety in a pandemic,

1995
01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:33,479
Speaker 1: I can think of few governing bodies that are worse

1996
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:36,679
Speaker 1: qualified to handle it than news too. Yeah, and that's

1997
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:39,360
Speaker 1: just set. Yeah it is. We're talking to Doug for

1998
01:48:39,439 --> 01:48:43,559
Speaker 1: our NFL writer for USA Today, and Doug, this may

1999
01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:45,880
Speaker 1: not be a completely fair question because there's no way

2000
01:48:45,920 --> 01:48:48,080
Speaker 1: for you to predict how well the country is going

2001
01:48:48,120 --> 01:48:51,720
Speaker 1: to behave in following protocols to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

2002
01:48:52,160 --> 01:48:56,080
Speaker 1: But what do you think the likelihood is that these

2003
01:48:56,160 --> 01:48:58,639
Speaker 1: college governing bodies can get their ducks in a row

2004
01:48:58,720 --> 01:49:04,080
Speaker 1: and maybe have foot ball in the spring. Well, I

2005
01:49:04,160 --> 01:49:07,640
Speaker 1: mean you at this point, you're just you're hoping for

2006
01:49:07,720 --> 01:49:11,479
Speaker 1: a vaccine. You're hoping against hope that there will be

2007
01:49:11,920 --> 01:49:15,559
Speaker 1: a more robust political response. Um, I think we can

2008
01:49:15,600 --> 01:49:19,040
Speaker 1: all punt on that one. So then you're saying, Okay,

2009
01:49:19,479 --> 01:49:23,080
Speaker 1: maybe there's a vaccine, maybe there's a new you know whatever.

2010
01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:25,479
Speaker 1: I don't want to get too into politics here, but

2011
01:49:26,120 --> 01:49:29,439
Speaker 1: there's no national policy you can say that right, we

2012
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:34,080
Speaker 1: can read my code. So anyway, as so, let's say

2013
01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:37,840
Speaker 1: they decide to have college football in the spring. Lets

2014
01:49:37,840 --> 01:49:40,200
Speaker 1: they did, they decided to start it after the Super

2015
01:49:40,240 --> 01:49:44,120
Speaker 1: Bowl if there's a super Bowl? M okay, so how

2016
01:49:44,120 --> 01:49:46,880
Speaker 1: long is the season? Are you gonna have players opt

2017
01:49:46,920 --> 01:49:50,160
Speaker 1: out because wins the draft? If I'm Trevor Lawrence, do

2018
01:49:50,160 --> 01:49:52,120
Speaker 1: you all want to break my leg in Game five

2019
01:49:52,280 --> 01:49:56,000
Speaker 1: and go from the first round of the fifth? Agents

2020
01:49:56,160 --> 01:50:00,200
Speaker 1: have said on Twitter and you know, do I this

2021
01:50:00,280 --> 01:50:05,440
Speaker 1: is an interesting construct. Let's say you're like a smaller

2022
01:50:05,479 --> 01:50:08,840
Speaker 1: to middle size agent or agency. You know, a fixed

2023
01:50:08,840 --> 01:50:11,800
Speaker 1: amount of money that you basically have to advance your

2024
01:50:11,920 --> 01:50:16,280
Speaker 1: clients to a draft prospect. And now that's gone from

2025
01:50:16,880 --> 01:50:19,720
Speaker 1: a six month period to a twelve month period. I

2026
01:50:19,840 --> 01:50:21,680
Speaker 1: know agents who aren't going to be able to afford that.

2027
01:50:22,640 --> 01:50:28,679
Speaker 1: So one sort of interesting side to this is that

2028
01:50:29,160 --> 01:50:33,040
Speaker 1: larger agencies could find themselves with more players simply because

2029
01:50:33,080 --> 01:50:37,560
Speaker 1: they have the ability to afford more and longer advances.

2030
01:50:37,800 --> 01:50:40,880
Speaker 1: And then the NFL and NFLPA would have to agree

2031
01:50:40,920 --> 01:50:43,599
Speaker 1: on delaying the draft of their spring football because there's

2032
01:50:43,640 --> 01:50:45,760
Speaker 1: no sense in having the draft when it usually is.

2033
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:51,679
Speaker 1: So then you have you know, if there is safe

2034
01:50:51,720 --> 01:50:55,479
Speaker 1: spring football, that's great. That means we're on the right

2035
01:50:55,520 --> 01:50:58,400
Speaker 1: side of this final and pretty much for the first time.

2036
01:50:59,320 --> 01:51:02,720
Speaker 1: But then you have a whole new series of complications.

2037
01:51:02,760 --> 01:51:06,000
Speaker 1: And if you follow the history of the NFL and

2038
01:51:06,080 --> 01:51:11,400
Speaker 1: the nflp agreeing on anything, it's a short history. So yeah,

2039
01:51:11,439 --> 01:51:15,519
Speaker 1: that's I think there are a number of reasons spring

2040
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:18,280
Speaker 1: football makes sense, and I also think it becomes a

2041
01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:23,040
Speaker 1: logistical nightmare that could I don't know if it would

2042
01:51:23,040 --> 01:51:27,839
Speaker 1: eliminate the twenty twenty one draft, but it could decrease

2043
01:51:27,880 --> 01:51:31,400
Speaker 1: its importance. They may have to have a supplementals draft

2044
01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:35,599
Speaker 1: later in the year, and then how does that How

2045
01:51:35,640 --> 01:51:38,400
Speaker 1: does that change next year's training camp and next year's

2046
01:51:38,439 --> 01:51:42,559
Speaker 1: preseason and rookie mining camps and rookie orientations. The whole

2047
01:51:42,560 --> 01:51:45,880
Speaker 1: thing is just a mess. You can't you can't take

2048
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:49,000
Speaker 1: something and put it six months six months ahead and say, hey,

2049
01:51:49,040 --> 01:51:52,519
Speaker 1: let's just retrofit it will be fine. So there's all

2050
01:51:52,560 --> 01:51:55,120
Speaker 1: sorts of decision makers having to deal with all sorts

2051
01:51:55,120 --> 01:51:58,360
Speaker 1: of things that they're really not prepared to deal with.

2052
01:51:58,640 --> 01:52:02,479
Speaker 1: And unless that changes in a fairly decent sized hurry,

2053
01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:04,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be a mess until further notice. I

2054
01:52:04,880 --> 01:52:08,519
Speaker 1: mean at this point, you know, and by the way,

2055
01:52:08,560 --> 01:52:10,320
Speaker 1: can I say that people who are saying that we

2056
01:52:10,920 --> 01:52:17,360
Speaker 1: as football media are rooting against players playing our jobs

2057
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:20,280
Speaker 1: are contingent on it too. We have people whose lives

2058
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:25,440
Speaker 1: are in our care as human beings, so the complications

2059
01:52:25,520 --> 01:52:27,960
Speaker 1: reach us too. They reach me as they reach you,

2060
01:52:28,080 --> 01:52:32,120
Speaker 1: as they reach thousands of members of the media. There

2061
01:52:32,240 --> 01:52:36,599
Speaker 1: is no talking point that sets this together in an

2062
01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:40,680
Speaker 1: organized fashion. There is no buzzword or hashtag that's going

2063
01:52:40,760 --> 01:52:42,519
Speaker 1: to make this makes sense. It's gonna take a lot

2064
01:52:42,520 --> 01:52:46,240
Speaker 1: of work and a lot of logic, and logic seems

2065
01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:49,679
Speaker 1: to be in painfully short supply right now, Dog, thanks

2066
01:52:49,800 --> 01:52:52,599
Speaker 1: very much for the time. We appreciate your insight on this.

2067
01:52:53,439 --> 01:52:55,720
Speaker 1: Always the pleasure, guys, Thank you. Thank Doug for our

2068
01:52:55,880 --> 01:52:59,400
Speaker 1: USA Today NFL writer with right up today. How COVID

2069
01:52:59,479 --> 01:53:04,600
Speaker 1: nineteen will change college football forever and some of the

2070
01:53:04,600 --> 01:53:08,000
Speaker 1: biggest changes may be coming in announcements tomorrow by the

2071
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:11,519
Speaker 1: Power five conferences. The Detroit Free Press is already reporting

2072
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 1: that the Big Ten Conference will announce tomorrow that they

2073
01:53:14,040 --> 01:53:17,720
Speaker 1: are canceling their fall sports season in its entirety. They

2074
01:53:17,800 --> 01:53:22,240
Speaker 1: reportedly voted twelve to two. Their university presidents voted twelve

2075
01:53:22,280 --> 01:53:26,519
Speaker 1: to two for no fall sports. Two of those votes

2076
01:53:26,920 --> 01:53:29,760
Speaker 1: for no fall sports were turned in by Michigan and

2077
01:53:29,840 --> 01:53:35,240
Speaker 1: Michigan State, whose school presidents are licensed physicians. So if

2078
01:53:35,240 --> 01:53:37,839
Speaker 1: that tells you anything, it's that the data is convinced

2079
01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:42,160
Speaker 1: them that it's just not sustainable in the current college construct. Yeah,

2080
01:53:42,200 --> 01:53:43,880
Speaker 1: we haven't seen the last of it either. I don't

2081
01:53:43,920 --> 01:53:46,360
Speaker 1: think Brownie, it's gonna the NFL is gonna bend and

2082
01:53:46,360 --> 01:53:49,639
Speaker 1: twist and gyrate and jump through all kinds of fiery

2083
01:53:49,640 --> 01:53:52,360
Speaker 1: hoops to get this season in. They're in a different

2084
01:53:52,439 --> 01:53:56,400
Speaker 1: legal position than these conferences are. They'll be able to

2085
01:53:56,400 --> 01:53:59,000
Speaker 1: push the envelope, and they have employees, so there's better

2086
01:53:59,040 --> 01:54:02,400
Speaker 1: protections for those employees that being the players right, they'll

2087
01:54:02,439 --> 01:54:04,600
Speaker 1: be able to push the envelope much further than the

2088
01:54:04,680 --> 01:54:08,960
Speaker 1: NCAA would would. And the question is this, And we

2089
01:54:09,040 --> 01:54:11,320
Speaker 1: had Andrew Brannon last week and he said this true.

2090
01:54:11,720 --> 01:54:17,439
Speaker 1: How bad is it going to get for a fifteen

2091
01:54:17,479 --> 01:54:21,120
Speaker 1: to seventeen billion dollar industry to pull the plug? And

2092
01:54:21,200 --> 01:54:25,240
Speaker 1: I would say, Brownie, between you and me, it's gonna

2093
01:54:25,240 --> 01:54:27,800
Speaker 1: have to get really bad before they say, now you

2094
01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:29,559
Speaker 1: know what. We just can't do it. It's it's not

2095
01:54:29,600 --> 01:54:33,520
Speaker 1: gonna be like the NBA where the one guy tested positive.

2096
01:54:33,720 --> 01:54:35,320
Speaker 1: They were on the field of those things and they

2097
01:54:35,360 --> 01:54:37,120
Speaker 1: just pulled the whole league pulled the plug in like

2098
01:54:37,160 --> 01:54:40,320
Speaker 1: two days. It's not gonna be like that. For the NFL.

2099
01:54:40,880 --> 01:54:45,240
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're they may say, Okay, that game's canceled

2100
01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:48,600
Speaker 1: this week or whatever, but everybody's going on and instead

2101
01:54:48,600 --> 01:54:52,200
Speaker 1: of Buffalo, instead of getting the Bills Jet game this week,

2102
01:54:52,400 --> 01:54:56,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna get Patriots Eagles. Sorry, here you go, and

2103
01:54:57,080 --> 01:54:58,560
Speaker 1: we can do That's the best we can do. But

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Speaker 1: it's happening. I think that the NFL. I don't think

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01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:06,920
Speaker 1: they worry about how bad they look. They're gonna get

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01:55:06,920 --> 01:55:10,560
Speaker 1: their product on the air and how bad and proof

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01:55:10,600 --> 01:55:13,520
Speaker 1: and proof of that, Steve is we're just hearing whispers

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01:55:13,600 --> 01:55:16,440
Speaker 1: about college football getting canceled. They're already talking to their

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01:55:16,440 --> 01:55:19,080
Speaker 1: network saying, hey, let's try to recoup some revenue. Let's

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01:55:19,120 --> 01:55:21,040
Speaker 1: put some games on Saturday. Oh yeah, they're not thinking

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01:55:21,040 --> 01:55:23,480
Speaker 1: about Wow, that's pretty seize make Maybe we should rethink

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01:55:23,520 --> 01:55:25,880
Speaker 1: what we're let's rethink what we're doing. We're thinking, let's

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Speaker 1: get the games on Saturday. And I get it too,

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01:55:28,560 --> 01:55:30,200
Speaker 1: you and I and we just had Doug fur on

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01:55:30,440 --> 01:55:32,080
Speaker 1: and you know, you can go back and listen to

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01:55:32,120 --> 01:55:33,600
Speaker 1: it on the podcast if you missed that part of

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01:55:33,600 --> 01:55:37,200
Speaker 1: the show. But here here's the thing. What's going on

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01:55:37,240 --> 01:55:40,680
Speaker 1: in college football and the and the vastness the college

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01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:45,160
Speaker 1: football is. Don't equate that with what the NFL is.

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Speaker 1: It's different, and we were just talking about at the

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01:55:47,600 --> 01:55:50,120
Speaker 1: top of the segment. It's very different. It's it's fundamentally

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01:55:50,160 --> 01:55:55,040
Speaker 1: different and sheer size, it's tremendously different. Yeah, there's hundreds

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01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:58,720
Speaker 1: of thousands of kids playing college football. There's two thousand

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01:55:58,760 --> 01:56:01,760
Speaker 1: playing pro football. And they have gotten money to make

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01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:05,360
Speaker 1: sure there's precautions throughout the week, they're testing, they're getting

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01:56:05,400 --> 01:56:08,680
Speaker 1: and there they've now they've got the Matt Stafford test positive,

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01:56:09,600 --> 01:56:14,000
Speaker 1: that false positive test protocol in place. They are wiring

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01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:16,200
Speaker 1: this thing up and they're spending money to do it.

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01:56:17,240 --> 01:56:20,120
Speaker 1: They're not gonna throw good money after bad money. I

2130
01:56:20,160 --> 01:56:22,560
Speaker 1: know that. So we'll see if if they're getting a

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01:56:22,560 --> 01:56:25,920
Speaker 1: return on this investment. You can bet it might get

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01:56:26,000 --> 01:56:31,040
Speaker 1: really ugly and this league will just plow through it. Yeah,

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01:56:31,320 --> 01:56:33,920
Speaker 1: play and listen the NFL players aren't that different from

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01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:36,000
Speaker 1: college players. College playerson, I want to play, I want

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01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:38,080
Speaker 1: to play. I want to play. You saw sixty three

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01:56:38,120 --> 01:56:41,840
Speaker 1: guys say I'm done. I'm not gonna play this year. Well,

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01:56:42,320 --> 01:56:46,800
Speaker 1: nineteen hundred plus players said I'm playing. Yeah, there's a

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01:56:46,800 --> 01:56:50,440
Speaker 1: lot of guys who want to play, so and it

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01:56:50,480 --> 01:56:52,400
Speaker 1: looks like at the very least they'll get to play

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01:56:52,440 --> 01:56:54,440
Speaker 1: at the start of this thing. Where it goes from there,

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01:56:54,480 --> 01:56:57,640
Speaker 1: I think as anybody's yes, but hopefully everybody does right

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01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:00,160
Speaker 1: by their teammates, does right by their coaching staff, and

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01:57:00,960 --> 01:57:03,560
Speaker 1: kind of reduces their exposure as much as possible so

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01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:06,200
Speaker 1: they can continue to play, not just start to play

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01:57:06,240 --> 01:57:09,120
Speaker 1: come early September, but continue to play at that. We

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01:57:09,200 --> 01:57:11,920
Speaker 1: do have to take a break, but when we come back,

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01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:14,680
Speaker 1: we'll talk about a couple of other interesting things Steve

2148
01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:18,640
Speaker 1: touchdown on already. There's a Matthew Stafford clause that has

2149
01:57:18,800 --> 01:57:22,920
Speaker 1: changed the testing process to try to work their way

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01:57:22,960 --> 01:57:30,320
Speaker 1: around false positives and NFL referees. We'll have the opt

2151
01:57:30,400 --> 01:57:32,840
Speaker 1: out option. We'll talk about both of those things, and

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01:57:32,960 --> 01:57:35,000
Speaker 1: maybe even a little NFL TRAE. One last thing before

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01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:37,480
Speaker 1: we hit the break field, Yates just tweeted this out.

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01:57:37,560 --> 01:57:42,080
Speaker 1: There's been eighteen thousand, five hundred and fourteen COVID tests

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01:57:42,080 --> 01:57:45,440
Speaker 1: in hockey over the past three weeks. They haven't had

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01:57:45,440 --> 01:57:48,640
Speaker 1: a single positive test in the bubble work. The bubble works,

2157
01:57:48,680 --> 01:57:51,520
Speaker 1: The bubble works. We'll just see how tight that bubble

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01:57:51,560 --> 01:57:53,760
Speaker 1: has to be when the NFL tries it back in

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01:57:53,840 --> 01:57:55,920
Speaker 1: a moment, Steve task You're Chris Brown with you here

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01:57:55,960 --> 01:57:58,480
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live as we head to the final

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Speaker 1: half hour of the show up next here on Buffalo

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01:58:00,960 --> 01:58:15,720
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. I got One Build Live Chris Brown, Steve

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01:58:15,760 --> 01:58:18,600
Speaker 1: Tasker with you final half hour of the program, and

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01:58:18,920 --> 01:58:22,840
Speaker 1: we discussed this actually during a commercial break, and Steve

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01:58:22,920 --> 01:58:25,280
Speaker 1: and I are like, you know what, our listening audience

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01:58:25,320 --> 01:58:27,520
Speaker 1: needs to hear this as well. Peter King covered it

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01:58:27,960 --> 01:58:30,840
Speaker 1: in his Football Morning in America column that comes out

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Speaker 1: every Monday, and you know, after reading it, I said,

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01:58:33,920 --> 01:58:36,560
Speaker 1: you know, fans need to know about this because this

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01:58:36,600 --> 01:58:40,000
Speaker 1: is going to come up where someone tests positive late

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01:58:40,040 --> 01:58:41,520
Speaker 1: in the week and then all of a sudden they're

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01:58:41,520 --> 01:58:43,000
Speaker 1: in the game Sunday and fans are gonna be like,

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01:58:43,040 --> 01:58:45,040
Speaker 1: oh's that guy playing? I thought he had a positive.

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Speaker 1: So here's the situation. I think by now most NFL

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01:58:48,960 --> 01:58:50,840
Speaker 1: fans that have kept their ear to the ground through

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01:58:50,880 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 1: the course of this unusual preseason, remember that Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 1: had a false positive recently and it caused a lot

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Speaker 1: of undue consternation. And essentially, his poor wife was like

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01:59:05,720 --> 01:59:08,040
Speaker 1: wearing a scarlet letter in the grocery store that week,

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01:59:08,080 --> 01:59:10,520
Speaker 1: even though she had a mask on, and you know,

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01:59:10,600 --> 01:59:13,320
Speaker 1: she was social distancing from other patrons. She was getting

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01:59:13,320 --> 01:59:16,600
Speaker 1: accosted at the grocery store because they're like, your husband's positive,

2183
01:59:16,680 --> 01:59:19,120
Speaker 1: so that means you're positive? How dare you be in public?

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01:59:19,200 --> 01:59:21,680
Speaker 1: This is and rear responsible, blah blah blah. And it

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01:59:21,720 --> 01:59:24,520
Speaker 1: turned out that Matthew Stafford wasn't positive, it was a

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01:59:24,560 --> 01:59:28,200
Speaker 1: false positive, and his family was all negative also, So

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01:59:28,240 --> 01:59:31,840
Speaker 1: the league, along with the union, instituted a rules change

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01:59:31,840 --> 01:59:35,160
Speaker 1: in testing that will incorporate what's called point of care

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01:59:35,320 --> 01:59:40,080
Speaker 1: instant testing in the NFL's testing regiment. So we all

2190
01:59:40,080 --> 01:59:43,280
Speaker 1: know that Stafford now had a false positive. So to

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01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:46,480
Speaker 1: try to combat the false positives that do come up

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Speaker 1: even with the league's testing system, which according to Peter

2193
01:59:49,840 --> 01:59:52,720
Speaker 1: King is ninety five percent accurate, what they're going to

2194
01:59:52,760 --> 01:59:56,600
Speaker 1: do now is if they have a player that over

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01:59:56,680 --> 01:59:58,960
Speaker 1: and over and over and over is testing negative for

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01:59:59,000 --> 02:00:00,840
Speaker 1: weeks on end Steve, and then all of a sudden

2197
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Speaker 1: a positive pops up. What they're going to do to

2198
02:00:04,680 --> 02:00:08,640
Speaker 1: try to rule out a false positive is when that

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02:00:08,720 --> 02:00:11,960
Speaker 1: positive result comes back that very day, they're going to

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Speaker 1: give them what's called a point of care instant test

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Speaker 1: and a regular test, you know with the nasal swap.

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Speaker 1: So that point of care instant test will provide results

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02:00:23,080 --> 02:00:27,440
Speaker 1: in fifteen to thirty minutes, and if that comes back negative,

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02:00:27,680 --> 02:00:30,720
Speaker 1: they then take a regular test. If they get the

2205
02:00:30,760 --> 02:00:34,280
Speaker 1: results the following day and that too is negative, they

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02:00:34,400 --> 02:00:36,920
Speaker 1: rule the positive a false positive. The player goes right

2207
02:00:36,920 --> 02:00:39,640
Speaker 1: back into the player pool practice, whatever the case might be.

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02:00:39,920 --> 02:00:43,480
Speaker 1: So if you have somebody testing positive on a Friday,

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Speaker 1: you give them this instant and they had been testing negative.

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Speaker 1: You give them this instant test, negative, they take the

2211
02:00:49,800 --> 02:00:54,000
Speaker 1: regular test, comes back Saturday negative. They're playing on Sunday.

2212
02:00:54,040 --> 02:00:57,000
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, and here's why they would automatically go

2213
02:00:57,040 --> 02:00:59,920
Speaker 1: to a and here's also why they wouldn't just give

2214
02:01:00,080 --> 02:01:03,880
Speaker 1: every guy who tests negative those two tests the next day.

2215
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:06,040
Speaker 1: One is because they say, well, I was we went

2216
02:01:06,040 --> 02:01:09,240
Speaker 1: out to dinner last night. Well, you gotta expose. They're

2217
02:01:09,240 --> 02:01:11,560
Speaker 1: not gonna automatic. Now, some teams may do it. They

2218
02:01:11,560 --> 02:01:13,160
Speaker 1: may spend the money and say, oh, we're gonna give

2219
02:01:13,160 --> 02:01:16,200
Speaker 1: you that double tests tests in the regular tests, so

2220
02:01:16,200 --> 02:01:18,320
Speaker 1: that maybe if you get it, If you got your

2221
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Speaker 1: team and you've been going weeks and nobody's tested positive,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, one guy tests positive, you're

2223
02:01:23,680 --> 02:01:26,600
Speaker 1: automatically gonna give him that point of test and then

2224
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Speaker 1: the other test too, because if he gets too negative,

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02:01:28,720 --> 02:01:32,440
Speaker 1: nobody else has to quarantine either. So that's that's the

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02:01:32,440 --> 02:01:34,480
Speaker 1: big thing. Now you send the guy home for twenty

2227
02:01:34,520 --> 02:01:38,360
Speaker 1: four hours, but at least you got a chance that

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02:01:39,000 --> 02:01:40,760
Speaker 1: this guy, this guy, and that guy don't have to

2229
02:01:40,840 --> 02:01:48,440
Speaker 1: quarantine two. Right, So not just because you test positive

2230
02:01:48,520 --> 02:01:52,120
Speaker 1: doesn't mean everybody's gonna get the next two tests, because

2231
02:01:52,760 --> 02:01:55,320
Speaker 1: because the guy might say, listen, I was exposed to somebody.

2232
02:01:55,360 --> 02:01:58,760
Speaker 1: So that is an added element to the testing procedure.

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Speaker 1: Makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I mean they're trying

2234
02:02:01,720 --> 02:02:05,800
Speaker 1: to rule it out because I think I think ownership,

2235
02:02:05,880 --> 02:02:10,640
Speaker 1: the league and even the players Association knows availability is

2236
02:02:10,640 --> 02:02:12,960
Speaker 1: going to be pretty important. Man. So if you have

2237
02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:15,840
Speaker 1: a false positive costing important players that you need on

2238
02:02:15,880 --> 02:02:19,040
Speaker 1: the field to win games. You're going to come up

2239
02:02:19,040 --> 02:02:20,960
Speaker 1: with a way to get around that, and this is

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Speaker 1: the way to get around the false positive issues that

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02:02:23,280 --> 02:02:25,880
Speaker 1: cropped up most notably for Matthew Stafford. I believe there

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02:02:25,920 --> 02:02:27,560
Speaker 1: was one other player that had a false positive in

2243
02:02:27,560 --> 02:02:29,440
Speaker 1: the league, but his name is escaping me right now.

2244
02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:33,480
Speaker 1: The other development we saw all of the drama last

2245
02:02:33,480 --> 02:02:36,720
Speaker 1: week with the deadline for the opt out for players

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02:02:36,760 --> 02:02:40,800
Speaker 1: being last Thursday at four pm. This Thursday is the

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02:02:40,840 --> 02:02:45,280
Speaker 1: opt out deadline for NFL game officials, who can opt

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02:02:45,320 --> 02:02:47,840
Speaker 1: out of the twenty twenty season in exchange for a

2249
02:02:47,920 --> 02:02:50,520
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars stipend and a guarantee that their jobs

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Speaker 1: will be protected next year. That's the preliminary agreement that

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02:02:54,920 --> 02:02:57,800
Speaker 1: was agreed upon on Sunday between the league and the

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02:02:57,880 --> 02:03:01,640
Speaker 1: NFL Referees Association in light of the pandemic and everything,

2253
02:03:01,720 --> 02:03:06,840
Speaker 1: so they're supposed to be the referees. Full membership is

2254
02:03:06,920 --> 02:03:10,960
Speaker 1: voting on this today. I'm anticipating it will be accepted

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Speaker 1: and then they all the officials across the league have

2256
02:03:14,960 --> 02:03:18,000
Speaker 1: until Thursday to choose whether or not to opt out.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, I don't think they're going to have

2258
02:03:20,280 --> 02:03:23,480
Speaker 1: a problem finding officials looking for work because it doesn't

2259
02:03:23,480 --> 02:03:25,280
Speaker 1: look like any college officials are going to be doing

2260
02:03:25,320 --> 02:03:29,120
Speaker 1: any games. Yeah, this and something like this could fundamentally

2261
02:03:29,200 --> 02:03:34,760
Speaker 1: change the NFL officiating ranks. For a long time, we

2262
02:03:34,840 --> 02:03:37,200
Speaker 1: have long been moving towards full time officials. They do

2263
02:03:37,280 --> 02:03:39,960
Speaker 1: have a number of officials that are full time. And

2264
02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:45,280
Speaker 1: now if the Big ten, SEC, PAC twelve, Mountain West Conference,

2265
02:03:45,520 --> 02:03:49,080
Speaker 1: the MAC, any of these Pro football conference or college

2266
02:03:49,080 --> 02:03:51,839
Speaker 1: football conferences that aren't going to have officials doing games,

2267
02:03:52,600 --> 02:03:54,440
Speaker 1: they're going to be looking for work and they'll they'll

2268
02:03:54,480 --> 02:03:56,560
Speaker 1: want to take that step up. And everybody want. All

2269
02:03:56,600 --> 02:03:58,920
Speaker 1: these guys want to work in the NFL because it

2270
02:03:58,960 --> 02:04:02,120
Speaker 1: pays well and and that there's benefits and all that stuff.

2271
02:04:02,280 --> 02:04:07,960
Speaker 1: So and not for I hate to chuckle about it,

2272
02:04:08,000 --> 02:04:10,360
Speaker 1: but there's some officials that are long in the tooth

2273
02:04:10,880 --> 02:04:14,280
Speaker 1: in the NFL ranks. Yeah, it's not just a young

2274
02:04:14,360 --> 02:04:18,520
Speaker 1: man's game. It could be that this would be an

2275
02:04:18,520 --> 02:04:22,720
Speaker 1: impetus toward making the NFL officials all full time and

2276
02:04:22,760 --> 02:04:25,280
Speaker 1: you get a young a rash of young officials in there,

2277
02:04:25,280 --> 02:04:27,760
Speaker 1: get a year under their belt when officiating is the

2278
02:04:27,840 --> 02:04:31,560
Speaker 1: last thing on anybody's mind. Get some guys some experience,

2279
02:04:32,360 --> 02:04:35,040
Speaker 1: get them on full time, and from this point on,

2280
02:04:35,120 --> 02:04:37,160
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic, because they got exposed to so

2281
02:04:37,200 --> 02:04:39,520
Speaker 1: many new officials got their feet wet. Now we got

2282
02:04:39,520 --> 02:04:42,280
Speaker 1: a chance to maybe expand the full time officiating in

2283
02:04:42,280 --> 02:04:44,840
Speaker 1: the NFL. Now, the guys that do opt out their

2284
02:04:44,920 --> 02:04:47,680
Speaker 1: jobs are protected for twenty twenty one, but beyond that,

2285
02:04:47,800 --> 02:04:50,360
Speaker 1: who knows, And they will need bodies to replace the

2286
02:04:50,360 --> 02:04:53,640
Speaker 1: people who opt out for twenty twenty. So yeah, it

2287
02:04:53,960 --> 02:04:58,240
Speaker 1: could expand the pool and it could change things going forward.

2288
02:04:58,600 --> 02:05:02,080
Speaker 1: If they elect two refere and officiate this year. They'll

2289
02:05:02,120 --> 02:05:05,480
Speaker 1: be tested twice a week during game weeks. For a

2290
02:05:05,600 --> 02:05:09,440
Speaker 1: Sunday game, officials will be tested on Thursday at home

2291
02:05:09,840 --> 02:05:11,800
Speaker 1: and then on Saturday at the sight of the game.

2292
02:05:12,240 --> 02:05:15,960
Speaker 1: So any official who test positive during the season will

2293
02:05:16,000 --> 02:05:18,840
Speaker 1: receive salary, medical, other benefits, the YadA, YadA, YadA. But

2294
02:05:18,880 --> 02:05:21,160
Speaker 1: a thirty thousand dollars stipend, that's pretty dang good. That's

2295
02:05:21,200 --> 02:05:23,720
Speaker 1: better than most anybody in the regular work in world's

2296
02:05:23,720 --> 02:05:27,280
Speaker 1: getting right now, that's right. And also they'll probably as

2297
02:05:27,320 --> 02:05:30,440
Speaker 1: a matter of course, have a few extra guys on

2298
02:05:30,480 --> 02:05:32,960
Speaker 1: hand in the game. So if you get three game

2299
02:05:32,960 --> 02:05:35,200
Speaker 1: officials who test positive of all of a sudden, you

2300
02:05:35,240 --> 02:05:37,480
Speaker 1: don't have to officiate a game with five officials instead

2301
02:05:37,520 --> 02:05:39,760
Speaker 1: of the regular seven or four official with it, you

2302
02:05:39,760 --> 02:05:42,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They'll have some extra bodies on hand.

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02:05:42,480 --> 02:05:44,600
Speaker 1: They always have an alternate. They've got the guy in

2304
02:05:44,600 --> 02:05:47,640
Speaker 1: the booth, they've got some other people. They've got you know,

2305
02:05:47,720 --> 02:05:49,560
Speaker 1: they've got people who are available to come out and

2306
02:05:49,840 --> 02:05:52,320
Speaker 1: call the game. Yeah, eight oh three h five fifty

2307
02:05:52,360 --> 02:05:54,000
Speaker 1: to jump in, and we do have a call on

2308
02:05:54,040 --> 02:05:56,720
Speaker 1: the line. We have Mike joining us. Mike, what do

2309
02:05:56,720 --> 02:05:59,200
Speaker 1: you have for us here? As we're discussing everything that's

2310
02:05:59,440 --> 02:06:06,680
Speaker 1: pretty much COVID related in football. It's a fantastic day.

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02:06:06,880 --> 02:06:11,720
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Oh, thank you. We missed you guys. I

2312
02:06:11,760 --> 02:06:16,600
Speaker 1: was going crazy without you. Um hey, um, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to I wanted to asked Steve and then makes

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Speaker 1: a comment about this year's season and see what you

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Speaker 1: guys think. Um, what's the status of Steve's Hall of

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02:06:26,200 --> 02:06:31,080
Speaker 1: Fame status? Unchanged? Yeah, we didn't even have an induction ceremony.

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02:06:31,120 --> 02:06:34,560
Speaker 1: That got mixed. Yeah, my status is unchanged. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: asking Mike. Well, it's the biggest injustice in the history

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Speaker 1: of the NFL. I don't know about that. I'll be

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Speaker 1: happy when we get in, Brothren, you're gonna try and

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Speaker 1: make it and maybe I can have a beer with

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Speaker 1: all you guys. Well, yeah, i'll buy if I listen,

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Speaker 1: if I get in, i'll buy. Believe me. Yeah, oh,

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Speaker 1: you're definitely buy it. If that happens, you are, yes, Okay,

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Speaker 1: You'll be like a rookie in a position room. What

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Speaker 1: what else is our Okay? Um I think the bills

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02:07:04,960 --> 02:07:09,440
Speaker 1: are stacked. I think they're loaded. Um I think they're

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Speaker 1: going to dominate. Um I had this feeling before, always

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Speaker 1: talk about COVID nineteen. But I wouldn't be at all

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02:07:17,560 --> 02:07:21,400
Speaker 1: surprised if they play close to a perfect game and

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02:07:21,560 --> 02:07:25,920
Speaker 1: maybe not just on one occasion, but two or three occasions. UM.

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02:07:26,600 --> 02:07:29,960
Speaker 1: I feel bad for John Feliciano. He was my hero

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02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:33,960
Speaker 1: last year. I'm an old offensive lineman. But um, I

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02:07:34,040 --> 02:07:39,040
Speaker 1: see they have signed some talented guys, guys that have experience,

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02:07:39,120 --> 02:07:44,760
Speaker 1: and guys that um that uh you know, went undrafted.

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02:07:45,280 --> 02:07:52,120
Speaker 1: UM I am so excited about um Stefan Diggs. Um

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02:07:53,160 --> 02:07:55,320
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be one of the best

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02:07:55,320 --> 02:07:59,640
Speaker 1: talents we've ever had at that wide receiver position. And

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02:08:00,480 --> 02:08:05,560
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see another year of Devin Singletary.

2340
02:08:05,960 --> 02:08:08,480
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see the rookie Zach Moss. I

2341
02:08:08,520 --> 02:08:11,880
Speaker 1: think he's going to be a beast and I'm looking

2342
02:08:11,960 --> 02:08:17,160
Speaker 1: forward to awesome Dawson kicking some real buck this year.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, guys? And I'll let you get back. Yeah,

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02:08:20,400 --> 02:08:22,400
Speaker 1: thanks for the call, Mike. We appreciate it. Mike. Good

2345
02:08:22,440 --> 02:08:24,920
Speaker 1: to be back to help you fill your day here. Yeah,

2346
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Speaker 1: it is. And you're right, there's a lot of reasons

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Speaker 1: to be optimistic about this team. They've got a lot

2348
02:08:28,880 --> 02:08:30,680
Speaker 1: of continuity. They've got a lot of guys who seemed

2349
02:08:30,720 --> 02:08:32,920
Speaker 1: to be on the uptick at the end of last year.

2350
02:08:33,160 --> 02:08:34,960
Speaker 1: It's a team that was good enough to get into

2351
02:08:35,000 --> 02:08:40,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year, and they've got The big thing

2352
02:08:40,760 --> 02:08:43,680
Speaker 1: about it is is Josh Allen. How big a step

2353
02:08:43,680 --> 02:08:45,280
Speaker 1: forward is he gonna take? Is he gonna take a

2354
02:08:45,280 --> 02:08:47,720
Speaker 1: step forward? Is he gonna finish the season like he

2355
02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:49,800
Speaker 1: did in the last eight games last year? If he

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02:08:49,880 --> 02:08:52,880
Speaker 1: does that, this is gonna be a pretty good team,

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02:08:53,000 --> 02:08:54,560
Speaker 1: really good team. I think they're gonna be a good

2358
02:08:54,560 --> 02:08:57,320
Speaker 1: team regardless If Josh Allen takes a step forward like

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02:08:57,400 --> 02:09:00,680
Speaker 1: he did last year, this team is gonna be very,

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02:09:01,000 --> 02:09:03,160
Speaker 1: very good, and it's gonna be a team that's gonna

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02:09:03,160 --> 02:09:05,280
Speaker 1: be hard to beat for anybody, no matter. I don't

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02:09:05,280 --> 02:09:07,160
Speaker 1: care how tough their schedule is. The Bills are going

2363
02:09:07,200 --> 02:09:09,919
Speaker 1: to be one of the teams on everybody else's schedule.

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02:09:10,360 --> 02:09:12,800
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a real headache for the teams and

2365
02:09:12,840 --> 02:09:14,800
Speaker 1: their fans to get their mind around. This is a

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02:09:14,800 --> 02:09:16,920
Speaker 1: team is gonna be hard to beat. But it does

2367
02:09:16,960 --> 02:09:18,960
Speaker 1: come down to how well Josh plays week to week.

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02:09:19,320 --> 02:09:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. I imagine he'll have awesome weeks and

2369
02:09:22,440 --> 02:09:25,640
Speaker 1: up and down weeks, but I'm telling you we've seen

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02:09:25,720 --> 02:09:29,840
Speaker 1: it from the get go. He gets better. He gets better.

2371
02:09:30,080 --> 02:09:35,200
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, he gets better and trends up every game

2372
02:09:35,280 --> 02:09:38,320
Speaker 1: every week of his career. He has been on an

2373
02:09:38,360 --> 02:09:40,760
Speaker 1: uptick from the day he started on week two of

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02:09:40,800 --> 02:09:44,520
Speaker 1: two eighteen. And Mike, I know you're disappointed about the

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02:09:44,600 --> 02:09:47,040
Speaker 1: loss of Feliciano, but I can tell you that Brian

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02:09:47,080 --> 02:09:50,400
Speaker 1: Winters is cut from the same cloth. This is a

2377
02:09:50,480 --> 02:09:53,919
Speaker 1: nose to the grindstone blue collar worker in the trenches.

2378
02:09:55,360 --> 02:09:59,040
Speaker 1: I just try to refresh my memory of the type

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02:09:59,040 --> 02:10:00,960
Speaker 1: of player that he was, and looked at some Jets

2380
02:10:01,000 --> 02:10:04,240
Speaker 1: games over the weekend, and this is a guy who,

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02:10:04,360 --> 02:10:08,520
Speaker 1: much like Feliciano, goes looking for extra work. So you know,

2382
02:10:08,560 --> 02:10:11,680
Speaker 1: you execute your blocking assignment that guy's on the ground.

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02:10:11,920 --> 02:10:13,840
Speaker 1: He's not staring at that guy on the ground. He's

2384
02:10:13,840 --> 02:10:15,600
Speaker 1: going to look to put somebody else on their back.

2385
02:10:15,680 --> 02:10:17,920
Speaker 1: That's the kind of offensive lineman Brian Winters is, and

2386
02:10:17,960 --> 02:10:20,880
Speaker 1: it is why Brandon Bean struck as quickly as he

2387
02:10:20,920 --> 02:10:23,200
Speaker 1: did to get on the horn with his agent once

2388
02:10:23,240 --> 02:10:25,160
Speaker 1: he got cut by the Jets and said, Hey, by

2389
02:10:25,200 --> 02:10:27,160
Speaker 1: the way, we'd like to get you in here. What

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02:10:27,200 --> 02:10:30,120
Speaker 1: do you say. So not to say that they're not

2391
02:10:30,160 --> 02:10:32,880
Speaker 1: gonna miss John Feliciano, but they got a pretty good

2392
02:10:32,880 --> 02:10:36,040
Speaker 1: guy in reserve here to plug in in the event

2393
02:10:36,120 --> 02:10:39,000
Speaker 1: that you know Feliciano is out for the foreseeable future,

2394
02:10:39,000 --> 02:10:42,960
Speaker 1: which he is. That's your point, Mike, I agree. There's

2395
02:10:42,960 --> 02:10:44,920
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons to be confident on a lot

2396
02:10:44,960 --> 02:10:46,920
Speaker 1: of reasons to be optimistic about the way this team

2397
02:10:46,960 --> 02:10:49,760
Speaker 1: looks both last year on the field, this year in

2398
02:10:49,760 --> 02:10:52,240
Speaker 1: the offseason, all the things we've heard, and there's nothing

2399
02:10:52,560 --> 02:10:58,960
Speaker 1: to be unoptimistic about except for a pandemic that's going on. Yeah,

2400
02:10:58,960 --> 02:11:01,360
Speaker 1: we don't know how that's going to affect everything. And

2401
02:11:01,760 --> 02:11:04,600
Speaker 1: until we find that out, I think the rest of

2402
02:11:04,640 --> 02:11:06,440
Speaker 1: the country is going to sleep on this team too.

2403
02:11:06,840 --> 02:11:09,400
Speaker 1: I think they kind of pushed the Bills off to

2404
02:11:09,440 --> 02:11:11,360
Speaker 1: the side, not knowing and not following them. They know

2405
02:11:11,440 --> 02:11:14,200
Speaker 1: they were good last year and all that, but I'm

2406
02:11:14,200 --> 02:11:15,800
Speaker 1: telling you what, this is going to be a really,

2407
02:11:15,840 --> 02:11:18,400
Speaker 1: really good football team in my opinion. All Right, we

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02:11:18,640 --> 02:11:20,280
Speaker 1: do have to take a break, but we've got one

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Speaker 1: more segment to cover. As we find out from today's

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Speaker 1: program what we have learned, we'll bring that to you

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Speaker 1: on the other side. Here it's One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio time

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Speaker 1: for what have we learned from today's show? Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of

2415
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Earlier this hour, we had one Doug Ferrar,

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Speaker 1: the NFL writer for US Say Today, who put together

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Speaker 1: a story about how the COVID nineteen pandemic will change

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02:12:05,280 --> 02:12:08,600
Speaker 1: college football forever. And we're already anticipating some dominoes will

2419
02:12:08,640 --> 02:12:10,960
Speaker 1: be falling with the Power Five Conference is likely to

2420
02:12:11,000 --> 02:12:15,839
Speaker 1: announce that there will be no fall sports, including college football,

2421
02:12:16,320 --> 02:12:22,560
Speaker 1: for twenty so Doug was asked about how NCAA football

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02:12:22,640 --> 02:12:28,880
Speaker 1: players specifically across the country are now coming together. The

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Speaker 1: thing that will change, irrevocably and permanently now is that

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02:12:33,320 --> 02:12:37,840
Speaker 1: the athletes know not only that they are united and

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02:12:37,880 --> 02:12:39,480
Speaker 1: that they have a voice, but they know how to

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02:12:39,680 --> 02:12:41,880
Speaker 1: use it, and they know how to bring it together

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Speaker 1: specifically and quickly and potentially to affect great change. There's

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02:12:48,160 --> 02:12:50,000
Speaker 1: no putting the genie back in the bottle there. As

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02:12:50,080 --> 02:12:54,400
Speaker 1: much as coaches and ages have resisted the activism and

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02:12:54,480 --> 02:12:58,720
Speaker 1: the collective bargaining power and the potential unionization of college

2431
02:12:58,760 --> 02:13:03,800
Speaker 1: players whether there's a union or not, and federal courts

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02:13:03,840 --> 02:13:08,160
Speaker 1: have withheld players right to do that among all colleges.

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Speaker 1: And it's a lot more complicated than the professional sports

2434
02:13:10,680 --> 02:13:16,040
Speaker 1: for multiple reasons. But what is going to change forever?

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Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna change a lot, it will, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And even when everything gets back to normal, it's gonna

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02:13:22,560 --> 02:13:25,320
Speaker 1: be different. Yeah. And I don't know that. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how different, but certainly it's a perfect excuse

2439
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Speaker 1: and a perfect opportunity to revamp a system that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, including probably you and me, think is

2441
02:13:35,560 --> 02:13:39,919
Speaker 1: a little bit busted. Not in every way, but certainly

2442
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Speaker 1: it's it could be improved upon. Great to be back

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02:13:42,920 --> 02:13:45,440
Speaker 1: in studio with Steve. Great to be back on MSG

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Speaker 1: and see everybody again. We hope you enjoyed today's program.

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Speaker 1: Back tomorrow with more bills sound from players like John

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02:13:51,000 --> 02:13:53,560
Speaker 1: Brown and Jerry Hughes. For Steve Tasker, I'm Chris Brown.

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Speaker 1: This has been One Bill's Live, presented by Collid of

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