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Speaker 1: Oh a great time by Steve Kasper, Sus Doe, Sus

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Speaker 1: Downe t do time Welk from the one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: Steve Chasper, Chris Brown here on a Thursday afternoon. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining us. We're here till three o'clock, Brownie. Beautiful

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Speaker 1: weather outside. It's been spectacular day so far. A few

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Speaker 1: but we do know this, Um David Baker of the

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Speaker 1: big deal to me. I don't know what do you

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Speaker 1: here on time? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm yeah. No.

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Speaker 1: I it's in stark contrast to what we heard from Baker,

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Speaker 1: And so for a lot of people, it's it's tradition.

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Speaker 1: use of this and try to trails get some ad revenue.

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Speaker 1: Biggest concern with the shortened NFL preseason is a lack

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Speaker 1: of evaluation time for the coaches, less opportunity or for

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Speaker 1: the back of the roster players, or lesser state of

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Speaker 1: readiness for the guys who are going to start. This

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Speaker 1: from Tiffany off the tweet sheet, the tweet sheet brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

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Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. From Tiffany, she says, hopefully the

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Speaker 1: NFL will expand the practice squad for players on the

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Speaker 1: bubble that may see limited reps and game experience. Teams

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Speaker 1: are going to have to focus on their esta ablished

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Speaker 1: players preparing them for the regular season. I have faith

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Speaker 1: in our coaches to be ready to roll. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot. I you know, I'm gonna keep going back

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Speaker 1: to it. They're gonna need more players, Brownie. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: need more players. And I and I said this yesterday

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Speaker 1: and some of the things where the the ESPN poll

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Speaker 1: had ranked the Buffalo Bill's roster as seventh overall best

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Speaker 1: and they did even mention the depth. You think about it,

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Speaker 1: this year, you're gonna need a deep roster because if

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Speaker 1: the COVID virus sweeps through, backup is gonna be playing.

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Speaker 1: Backups are going to be playing a lot, and that

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Speaker 1: could be your That could be your real X factor

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Speaker 1: of your season coming going forward, at least for a

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Speaker 1: stretch of the season. Yeah, and they would. What that

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Speaker 1: would also do is alleviate the concern on the part

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Speaker 1: of coaches with for example, let's just take a rookie.

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Speaker 1: Let's take seventh round pick Dane Jackson. Okay, the guy

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Speaker 1: is clearly on the low rung of cornerback depth chart

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Speaker 1: coming in and maybe his first week after getting no OTAs,

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Speaker 1: no physical reps with his scheme, maybe he's having a

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Speaker 1: tough time that first week. And they come to the

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Speaker 1: end of a shortened training camp and a shortened preseason,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they've seen a couple of flashes from him,

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Speaker 1: but they just don't think he's ready yet. They don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about making a difficult decision. If you

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Speaker 1: expand the roster and the practice squad because you can

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Speaker 1: hold on to him and develop him through the practice

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Speaker 1: setting through the course of the year. That's part of

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Speaker 1: what the practice squad was designed for, to kind of

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Speaker 1: develop some guys that might not quite be NFL ready,

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Speaker 1: but that coaches have seen enough from to believe they'll

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Speaker 1: get there in time, you know, matter of when, not

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Speaker 1: if kind of deal and if you expand the rosters

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Speaker 1: that takes that concern on the part of coaches. Wait,

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Speaker 1: I mean we talked to Brian Dable on Monday, Steve

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Speaker 1: and you know, asked him to kind of spell out

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Speaker 1: for us what a challenge it's going to be for

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Speaker 1: them with to this point, no practice tape reps to

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Speaker 1: evaluate players because there were no OTAs in Mini camp

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Speaker 1: and then a shortened training camp and likely a shortened

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Speaker 1: preseason And that's a lot to jam in and a

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Speaker 1: short amount of time and still make really good calls

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Speaker 1: on who makes your fifty three man roster and who

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Speaker 1: does not. Yeah, and the fact that the coaching staff

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Speaker 1: probably hasn't met everybody in person, certainly hasn't seen everybody

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Speaker 1: in the same I don't even have met everybody, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's uh, Yeah, there's a lot on their plate

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Speaker 1: right here, no question. Let's take a break, and I

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Speaker 1: think Jerry and West Seneca hang on till after the break.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take your call. You can call us as well.

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Speaker 1: At eight three five fifty Steve Tasker Chris Brown here

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio, presented by Kalida Health. This is

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Love. Welcome back to one Little five Keef

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Speaker 1: after Chris Brown. We're here till three o'clock. We've got

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Speaker 1: a caller on the line. Jerry and West Seneca, you're here.

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Speaker 1: You're on with Chris and Steve. What's on your mind?

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Speaker 1: Thanks Settleman. Great to be here, Thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: One that's kind of obvious to me, but you know

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Speaker 1: they see it. No bad ideas, just ideas that are unexpressed.

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Speaker 1: What I was thinking about is Gerald Kelley back in

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Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties used to wear a full body suit

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Speaker 1: and it didn't seem to affect his play at all.

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Speaker 1: And I was just wondering that combined with a space

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Speaker 1: h helmet, I might take care of the safety of

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Speaker 1: the player as well as you know, the opponent too.

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Speaker 1: And Steve, you might be able to comment on that

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Speaker 1: was there any falloff in Kelly's play. No, so, no,

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Speaker 1: there was, and in fact it helped because it was

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Speaker 1: it was a thermal suit and we were playing in

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Speaker 1: cold weather. But yeah, the simple fact that it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's looking like it's more about wearing a mask than

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Speaker 1: it is about a body suit kind of thing really

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Speaker 1: is a problematic because you gotta breathe. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: the one he gotta breathe man. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: what they're I don't know if the medical experts have

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Speaker 1: already advised against any athlete participating in a heavy cardiovascular

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Speaker 1: activity from wearing a mask. They recommend against it for

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Speaker 1: obvious reasons. I do, Steve, tell me if you remember this,

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Speaker 1: don't you remember maybe back in the spring, you know,

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Speaker 1: when COVID really was starting to take a hold of

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Speaker 1: the country. I remember reading something about the NFL looking

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Speaker 1: into a face mask that could provide some measure of protection,

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Speaker 1: whether you fill all of the holes of the face

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Speaker 1: mask with some kind of barrier there, whether it's the

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Speaker 1: same thing that they use for visors, maybe they have

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Speaker 1: everybody wear visors and fill in all the holes of

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Speaker 1: the face mask. Do you remember reading something like that?

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Speaker 1: I seem to recall that they were touring around experimentations

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Speaker 1: with the equipment and a helmet that would have mask

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Speaker 1: that would serve like an in ninety five mask, you know.

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Speaker 1: But I don't haven't heard anything since, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know that anything's been adopted, or whether it turned out

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Speaker 1: to be unfeasible to get it done, or maybe guys

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Speaker 1: couldn't either breathe through it or couldn't see out of

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Speaker 1: it well enough. I gotta imagine just putting a visor on,

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Speaker 1: even a clear one, it's got to help a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't hurt. I don't think it's away and I'm

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Speaker 1: half of your face, you know, well right, it's covering well.

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Speaker 1: It is protecting you though, from having anything dispend stuff

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Speaker 1: dispensed on you, sprayed on you, knowing how stuff tends

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Speaker 1: to fly, especially in close quarters up on the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage. So I don't think it's something that should

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Speaker 1: be dismissed. They should probably be looking into it further,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they are. And you know, I remember reading

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Speaker 1: something about it back in April or May, and then

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything since. If I'm one of these guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm certainly wearing long sleeves even in the hottest weather, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, um, just keep it from just keep the

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Speaker 1: contact away from you. Yeah, I advisor, Yeah, advisor seems

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Speaker 1: um like an automatic to me. And you know, most

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Speaker 1: of a good number of well maybe with the exceptional linement,

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Speaker 1: but a good number of players wear gloves. So everybody

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Speaker 1: wears gloves, although you know, except for the quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the Senate. Yeah. Yeah, So I think they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to sanitize the football. Steve is there gonna be like

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Speaker 1: a designated you know, it's gonna be like golf. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a football washer. Well, the ball boy there

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Speaker 1: is gonna probably gonna have a bottle of a bottle

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Speaker 1: of alcohol, you know, alcohol and a sponge right rub

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Speaker 1: that thing down. So yeah, I have a junker a sanitize,

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Speaker 1: Like I'll be like a golf ball washer. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's the easy part of it, you know, Just toss

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Speaker 1: it over to the kid. He's got a mask on

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Speaker 1: and some gloves and he's got a big spray bottle. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's spraying it with spraying it with disinfectant. Soadam, this

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Speaker 1: one's ready, coach, you know, that's it. Um, yeah, maybe,

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Speaker 1: oh absolutely, they'll be doing that. But I think Jerry

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Speaker 1: brings up a decent point. You know, you're gonna probably

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Speaker 1: want to cover yourself head to toe. That will be

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Speaker 1: a little more challenging and the warmer weather NFL cities

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Speaker 1: early in the season. Um, but it's not going to

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Speaker 1: be a problem, you know, once you get to the

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Speaker 1: latter stage, just because guys are gonna be looking a

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Speaker 1: layer up in most cases anyway, maybe with the exception

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Speaker 1: of the lineman who tend to think it's hot no

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Speaker 1: matter what the temperature on the thermometer says, right, right,

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Speaker 1: But it's it's it's worth mentioning all kinds of stuff

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Speaker 1: going on. It's there's gonna be more social social justice protests,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be more changes in you know, gloves

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Speaker 1: and visors and long sleeves and the hot weather. Um,

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Speaker 1: maybe guys will have those, you know, those neck warmers

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Speaker 1: and pull those up over their mouths and knows while

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Speaker 1: they're playing and then take them off on the sideline

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Speaker 1: so they can get some breath or between plays. There'll

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Speaker 1: be all kinds of adjustments guys will try to make. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but who you know, who knows how this is going

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Speaker 1: to play out. This is we're still an uncharted territory. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's add back to the tweet sheet because there's a

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Speaker 1: guy here and I'm not sure. I'm wondering if this

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Speaker 1: is you, because it's from Steve and he tends to

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Speaker 1: agree with what you're talking about in terms of roster

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Speaker 1: sizes and link. Yeah, with the COVID nineteen threat, the

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Speaker 1: NFL is going to have to tweak its rules of

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Speaker 1: players moving from the practice squad to the active roster

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Speaker 1: and then back to the practice squad. They need to

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Speaker 1: do away with the waiver process for practice squad player

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Speaker 1: movement during this pandemic. That's from Steve, so he tends

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Speaker 1: to agree with you. You're gonna have to totally revamp

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Speaker 1: the roster size rules and player movement from the practice

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Speaker 1: squad up to the active roster and back down. Here's

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Speaker 1: the problem brown these practice squads. What it usually is,

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Speaker 1: if you're on the practice squad, you're a free agent

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Speaker 1: on playing and practicing for a team. Yeah, you can

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Speaker 1: sign with any other NFL club to their fifty three minutes.

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Speaker 1: So the Buffalo, for instance, the Buffalo Bills can call

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Speaker 1: up player A who's on the practice squad of the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals and said, hey, we'd like you to come

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Speaker 1: over here. Would you like to be on our practice squad?

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Speaker 1: And we want to activate you right away? And the

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Speaker 1: kid takes it because it's a huge pump jump and

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Speaker 1: pay for a couple of weeks and it's a you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a fresh start. So if it's now, if you've

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Speaker 1: got the COVID in that mix, you don't want players

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Speaker 1: jumping back and forth between teams, right, but you and

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Speaker 1: you may need players a larger number of players ready

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Speaker 1: to play if a bunch of guys get sick. So

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Speaker 1: I think that you really have to do everything differently

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Speaker 1: this season than you've ever had too before. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know if the NFL is nimble enough to do that.

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Speaker 1: So within the team, they're gonna have to loosen the restrictions.

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Speaker 1: But from team to team, right, they're gonna probably have

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Speaker 1: to tighten the restrictions them. Yeah, away can't be jumping,

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Speaker 1: you know, from Chicago and going to play for Carolina

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Speaker 1: the next week just because they're shorthanded. They should have

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Speaker 1: a roster large enough where they don't need to tap

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Speaker 1: into other teams rosters. And you do that by fattening

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Speaker 1: up the practice squad and then you know, eliminating the

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Speaker 1: regulations on calling a guy up or down. You just

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00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: you have free reign to pull somebody up or down

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Speaker 1: this year because you are dealing with unusual circumstances here

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Speaker 1: that are going to necessitate some major changes in terms

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Speaker 1: of roster flexibility. Steve Tasker, Chris brown here till three o'clock.

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Speaker 1: At one o'clock, we've got Andrew Brandt of the of

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Speaker 1: the more Ad Center for Sports Law at Villanova. He's

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Speaker 1: coming on with us. He ran the Green Bay Packers

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00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 1: for a decade as well. He's got some insights as

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Speaker 1: to what the league might be thinking at the highest

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Speaker 1: levels here here at home. Did you hear Brownie about

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo bill old fan who donated a kidney to

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Speaker 1: a Patriots fan? Yeah, that's that is about it. That's

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Speaker 1: about as altruistic as a as a Bills fan can

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Speaker 1: get him, right. Yeah, Well, good for them, that's nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess he he spotted a young woman online who

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Speaker 1: was in desperate need of a kidney. He didn't know

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Speaker 1: her from Adam, but he said her request and how

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Speaker 1: she wasn't doing very well. Kind of spoke to him,

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Speaker 1: and he essentially drove up to the New England area

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Speaker 1: of Boston area. And let's not forget this is this

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Speaker 1: is during a pandemic, and you're gonna go into a

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Speaker 1: hospital and have him open you up and take your

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Speaker 1: kidney out to give to this person you don't know, right, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. They didn't explain in the story how

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Speaker 1: they came to understand that the two of them were

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Speaker 1: a match, because you do have to worry about oregon

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Speaker 1: rejection and that kind of stuff. I'm not a doctor,

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Speaker 1: but I know that's always a consideration, right, And uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean it had a happy ending though. The woman

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Speaker 1: who was on daily dialysis due to that kidney failure

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Speaker 1: it was, was out hiking two weeks later. Yeah, that's great.

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Speaker 1: And then and obviously the fact that it's great for

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Speaker 1: the woman, it might be even better karma for the bills, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's kind a good karma. Huh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's something back for that. Maybe a last minute went

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Speaker 1: somewhere in the fall. I mean, that's a great gesture

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Speaker 1: by something for to a total stranger. Not everybody's willing

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Speaker 1: to do it, and I'm sure and you know, especially

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Speaker 1: during these times, right, and the Bills fans Patriots fans

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Speaker 1: is probably a small part of the picture because this

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Speaker 1: this girl was in serious need and and but to

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Speaker 1: have a guy just read it online saying, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: isn't they have one of my kidneys? Isn't that so

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Speaker 1: like a Bills fan? Though? I mean kind of is

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Speaker 1: whether it was the Andy Dalton stuff from a few

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Speaker 1: years back, you know, to you know, the efforts to

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Speaker 1: support ezrac Castro, you know, Poncho Bia. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just another feather in the cap of the generosity of

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Speaker 1: Bills fans. I mean, the guy gave an organ for

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Speaker 1: goodness sakes to a rival fan, right, that's big, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good for them. May not have done it for Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: but he did it for a n Brady fan. So

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Speaker 1: those of you haven't heard, the Hall of Fame game

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Speaker 1: is canceled. They're not going to have it this year.

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Speaker 1: Push everything. All the inductees are going back to next year.

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Speaker 1: We still don't know if they're going to allow fans

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Speaker 1: or what kind of fans are going to be allowed

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Speaker 1: in each of the stadiums around the league. And we doubt,

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Speaker 1: I kind of doubt this Brownie that they'll get one

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Speaker 1: all reaching, over all encompassing policy that will cover everything.

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to leave it up to the

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Speaker 1: each state and to the local authorities to set up

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Speaker 1: that stadium the way it needs to be set up

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Speaker 1: and go from there. It'll be interesting to see how

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Speaker 1: that all works out as well. I'll tell you this though,

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Speaker 1: despite the fact that that game got canceled, it's still

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Speaker 1: yesterday came out that you know, John Harball is the

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Speaker 1: one that said, listen, these these hygienic protocols that they

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Speaker 1: have us doing to get back in the building to work,

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Speaker 1: they're humanly impossible. Well yeah, he was saying that in

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Speaker 1: terms of how it applies to running a practice, like

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Speaker 1: to run a football practice with all of these protocols,

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Speaker 1: that is humanly impossible because there's no way to social

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Speaker 1: distance in football unless you're playing flag right right. So

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Speaker 1: on a day when they're canceling games and things are

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Speaker 1: like going that, people are starting to have doubts. Gosh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the season is gonna happen. He

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Speaker 1: says he's confident the season is going to happen. So

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Speaker 1: that's there is that you got one guy at the

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Speaker 1: at least the head coaching level of the National Football

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Speaker 1: League still believes there's going to be a season and

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Speaker 1: despite the difficulties, they're gonna overcome those challenges. It will

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see. They got a long way to go, though. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what the NFL is facing now is essentially the four

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Speaker 1: hundred meter hurdles. You got a full of these hurdles

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Speaker 1: you gotta clear, and that you're not to start of

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Speaker 1: the season and you're not Edwin Moses in his prime

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Speaker 1: right now, so you know, yeah, there's a lot to do. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: right now, you're Chris Farley trying to make that first hurdle,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it's yeah, I got you, Okay, Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, We're here till three o'clock. At one o'clock,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Bryant, the host of the Business of Sports podcast,

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Speaker 1: come back and join us. You can call us at

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Also, if you answer

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Speaker 1: this question, what's the biggest concern for shortened preseasons at

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Speaker 1: less evaluation time for the coaches, less opportunity for the

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Speaker 1: back of the roster players or a lesser state of

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Speaker 1: readiness for the guys who are actually going to start

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Speaker 1: call us or tweet at us. This is One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Sea Tasker. Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: here coming up at one o'clock in Drew Bryant of

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Speaker 1: the Monday Morning Quarterback Weekly columnists. He's also the host

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Speaker 1: of the Business of Sports podcast and the director of

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Speaker 1: the Morad Center for Sports Law at Villanova. Also what

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Speaker 1: you're on the heels of the Hall of Fame game

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Speaker 1: being canceled today? What is your biggest concern with an

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Speaker 1: NFL preseason? With a shortened NFL preseason, is it a

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Speaker 1: less evaluation time for the coaches, be less opportunity for

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Speaker 1: the back of the roster players, see lesser state of

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Speaker 1: readiness for the starters, or something else on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet from Anthony. Every year undrafted rookies burst out and

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Speaker 1: are able to make a roster or secure a spot

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Speaker 1: on the practice squad. Without the reps of preseason, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be harder to evaluate those guys could be

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Speaker 1: real upgrades, but coaches will be making gut decisions without

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Speaker 1: reps to prove it. It's good take by Anthony, and

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Speaker 1: it is going to be a problem the coach. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a hard time. They got a ton of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Is the one left old in the bag? Aren't they now?

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Speaker 1: You know? Yes they are. It took you a second,

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Speaker 1: but you got there. Yes they are. There's question And

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Speaker 1: I will say this, Steve, It is a pretty balanced

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Speaker 1: poll right now, because right now leading the way is

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Speaker 1: lesser state of readiness with just over thirty four percent

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Speaker 1: of the vote, but just two percentage points behind is

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Speaker 1: the back end of the roster players not having enough

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Speaker 1: of an opportunity. And then even the third the third

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Speaker 1: choice here, it's got twenty five percent of the vote.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's the for the coaches, right Nobody cares

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Speaker 1: about the coach very third place. Yeah, and they're third,

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Speaker 1: they're in third place. But but I think it speaks

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Speaker 1: to the fact that all of these things are concerns,

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Speaker 1: legitimate concerns. Is one any greater than the other? You know,

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Speaker 1: I guess by a small margin. You know, having the

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Speaker 1: starters ready is the biggest concern, and I understand why

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Speaker 1: those are the guys are gonna be playing, right they

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Speaker 1: don't contract COVID themselves, so it's uh and we and

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable said it when we had him on the

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Speaker 1: show Monday, he said, you know, there there comes a

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Speaker 1: point in time where we're gonna have to get guys

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Speaker 1: out there, make sure they get enough reps so we

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Speaker 1: can get a look at him talking about the players

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Speaker 1: they don't know as well. Right, But you're also gonna

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Speaker 1: have to have a good chunk of time dedicated to

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Speaker 1: getting the guys that are actually gonna play ready, And

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Speaker 1: with a short short and preseason, that task becomes a

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Speaker 1: lot more difficult. And you know, I know you can

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Speaker 1: speak to this Steve that first preseason game after a

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Speaker 1: whole offseason and not playing live football. There's an adjustment

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Speaker 1: period in the early stages of the game, is it not.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, It's like it's like turn on a

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Speaker 1: rusty faucet a little bit. You know, you got to

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Speaker 1: catch up, your legs, got to catch up, your brain's

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Speaker 1: gotta catch up, right, right, So it's it's it always

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Speaker 1: happens too. Are you a fantasy player? Do you play

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Speaker 1: fantasy football? Yeah, a little bit. See I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't have one of one of these guys in eight

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Speaker 1: nine leagues. I play in one league and that's it, right,

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Speaker 1: So I, you know, I don't have time to do

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Speaker 1: I don't take time to do it because I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of like you or some of these other guys. Once

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Speaker 1: if I got into it, I would obsess over it,

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Speaker 1: so I kind of stay away from it. But from

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet from David, he says, it's other. It's

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Speaker 1: d it's less time for me to scout potential fantasy sleepers.

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Speaker 1: Oh lord, right those that's a yeah, you got it.

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Speaker 1: You're it's all about it's all about David apparently, and David. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: there you go. If we're asking David, I guess and

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Speaker 1: he gave us the answer eight three five fifty. If

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Speaker 1: you've got an answer to our trivia question, what's the

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Speaker 1: biggest concern with a shortened NFL preseason, or talk to

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Speaker 1: us about anything else you want, give us a call

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Speaker 1: at eight to three oh five fifty or one eighty

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty Steve Tasker Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: here till three o'clock coming up at the top of

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Speaker 1: the hour right after the break. The Monday Morning Quarterback

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Speaker 1: the Business of Sports podcast and the director of More

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Speaker 1: ad Centator for Sports Law at Villanova University. That's Andrew

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Speaker 1: Brant coming up right after break. This is Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown and One Bill is Live, brought to you

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Speaker 1: Green Time by Steve Tasker. Busts do to do at

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Speaker 1: all time? Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: for Sports Law Villanova, Andrew brand Andrew, Steve at Tasker

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Speaker 1: and Chris Brown here in Buffalo. Thanks for joining us. Hey, Stephens,

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Speaker 1: it's good to be with you. It's always busier for me,

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Speaker 1: at least one of the few that when they're no games,

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Speaker 1: that's when I get really busy. Yeah, I was gonna

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Speaker 1: ask it, and we ask all our how are you

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Speaker 1: doing during the pandemic? Is are things going okay? You

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Speaker 1: and your family? Well, yeah, we're doing fine. It's It's

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Speaker 1: a blessing and mixed blessing of course, to have my

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Speaker 1: son home, who's lived in New York, but he's been

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Speaker 1: I catch your vibe. It was the same for our

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Speaker 1: family as well. Your latest article and playing football in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, I've said that there seems to be almost

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Speaker 1: this this move by the NFL. They're gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta give players a chance to opt out of this.

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Speaker 1: They know they're gonna have positive tests. They know that

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a real issue with a

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Speaker 1: couple of thousand players and a couple of thousand support

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Speaker 1: staff and maybe thousands of fans, probably not that many fans,

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Speaker 1: but there's gonna be positive tests. There's gonna be some

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Speaker 1: times where teams have to come to a screeching halt

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Speaker 1: because maybe a large number of their players coaches have

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Speaker 1: the virus. Are they just are what kind of pr

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Speaker 1: hit will they take if they just plow ahead and

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Speaker 1: just go through a season and come what may with virus. Well,

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Speaker 1: they've been doing it so far, you know, unlike any

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Speaker 1: other league. They have just plowed ahead with free agency,

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Speaker 1: with the draft, the schedule release didn't even have major alterations.

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Speaker 1: As far as I know. They are saying we're going

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Speaker 1: to play, and not only play, but play with fans

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Speaker 1: as allowed. And that could mean full stadiums, that could

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Speaker 1: mean half stadiums, but we'll see. But I think now

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Speaker 1: they have to press pause a little bit because we

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00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: have spikes all over the country. As I've been noting,

853
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: we shut down sports on March eleventh with one, count them,

854
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: one positive test. Now we have hundreds of positive tests.

855
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: We have no vaccine on the horizon, we have no cure.

856
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: It's a highly transmissible disease, and we're starting up. So

857
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 1: it does seem to be counterintuitive, But the NFL has

858
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: the luxury of watching and observing the NBA, the NL, MLS, MLB, NHL.

859
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: You know what works on testing and treatment and tracing

860
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: what doesn't. But I think you, guys and everyone listening,

861
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,479
Speaker 1: can you realistically say that the sports I just talked

862
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: about are going to finish? And we know they're going

863
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: to start, but are they gonna finish? And if they

864
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: don't finish, my guess is at least one does not finish.

865
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: And if they don't, how does the NFL start when

866
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: others can't even finish. So those are gonna be tough

867
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: questions coming down the route. Well, and the question can

868
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: go even further, as you even pointed out in your

869
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: SI dot com column. You know, of all these sports

870
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: that we're talking about, nowhere is there a more close

871
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: contact then in football, where on every single play you

872
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: have at least ten linemen or nine or ten linemen,

873
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, going helmet to helmet, pad to pad, chest

874
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: to chest. We're not only talking sweat droplets getting swapped.

875
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: We're talking about guys grunting and you know, using all

876
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: the force that they have in them, there are going

877
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: to be droplets flying around out there. And it might

878
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: be the most risky sport to play under the circumstances

879
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: in light of the close proximity of so many players

880
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: at one time. Correct. Yeah, we're trying to find the

881
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: right word, and the only word I could come up

882
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,240
Speaker 1: with was intimacy, which sounds too I don't know sensual

883
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to you know, how do you say

884
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 1: the opposite of social distancing, The complete opposite of social

885
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: distancing is the game of football, and the you know,

886
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: every play ends with someone applying extreme pressure an extreme

887
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: force at the up close nature of contact with dropolet

888
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: exchange of course, and that's the problem. You can have

889
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: a hundred pages which they will about how far the

890
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: lockers are and how only one shower at a time,

891
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: and you know, meeting rooms separated. But they've got to

892
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 1: play football unless there's another way to play that someone

893
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: comes up with. So that's the problem. And we are

894
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: seeing positive cases where players are just living their lives.

895
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: They're not even playing football. And the other point is,

896
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: and Steve, you can comment on this too. I just

897
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: hear doctor Meyer, the NFLPA DUC saying, you know, we've

898
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: got an issue here because everyone thinks these guys are young,

899
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: strong and healthy. Well, we've got three pre existing condition

900
00:50:53,680 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: groups that are problematic, African American, high BMI and sleep abnea,

901
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: and all are shown to be highly susceptible to the disease.

902
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: And that's a big population of NFL players. That really

903
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: concerns me as well. Yeah, and if they do come

904
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: back to play, it's going to from what we've seen,

905
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: there are going to be times when on a day

906
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: or two days, or forty eight hours or twelve hours

907
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: before the game when they get tested and get the

908
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: results back. You may have double digit players come down

909
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: with positive tests, and your roster may not. In years past,

910
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: your roster would not be big enough to accommodate such

911
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: a loss of those players that short a time before

912
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 1: the game. Is the league nimble enough to just say, listen,

913
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: your training camp roster is your season roster. Keep everybody

914
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: there and in house so that you have enough bodies

915
00:51:55,920 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: to get through this season. I see coaches and pr

916
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: and personnel guys just really advocating about exactly what you're

917
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: talking about, four larger rosters. You know, we talk about

918
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: practice squad. Well, we know as practice squad are players

919
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: that can't play, are not allowed to play in games.

920
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 1: I think we've got to adjust that. I think when

921
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: we talk about a practice squad now we're talking about

922
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 1: the sort of the old time taxi squad where they're

923
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: ready when infections happen. I think that as almost has

924
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: to be the case the way we see the virus

925
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: right now. And I don't even know what that number

926
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 1: is now, you're allowed ten to fourteen, I believe on

927
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: the practice squad, maybe that goes to twenty. I don't know,

928
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: but I can see that being a real factor here,

929
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: and the real problem, the real problem, guys, is what

930
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 1: if you have exactly what you're talking about. The position

931
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: group goes down, so you hold out everyone who tests

932
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: a positive is out of the game. Okay, what if

933
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 1: you go into that game and you come out and

934
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: the other team or you guys have a lot of

935
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: positive tests. Like so basically the quarantining didn't work once

936
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: you went in the game. And now you're like scratching

937
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: your head, like, now what do we do because they're

938
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: gonna have false false positive. You're gonna have people that

939
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 1: don't test positive and are carrying the disease. It's crazy. Yeah,

940
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: and that would probably force them to push the schedule back,

941
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: which you know, I know they've put some elements into

942
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 1: this year's schedule to do that, including booking extra dates

943
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl in Tampa so they can push

944
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: it back as late as the end of February. But

945
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: there was something in your rite up that really caught

946
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: my eye because I think a lot of people are

947
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: under this false assumption Andrew that oh, somebody test positive,

948
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: quarantine and for fourteen days and then just bring him

949
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: back to the practice setting and it'll be good to go.

950
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: The next Sunday. But you pointed out what's been written

951
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: about von Miller, who is one of the known positive

952
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: cases out there, and that after recovering from the virus,

953
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: which probably took a couple of weeks in its own right,

954
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: he needed seventeen more days to get his win back

955
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:26,399
Speaker 1: essentially and still wasn't all the way back. I think

956
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: we have to remember this is a respiratory disease at

957
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: its core, and you could have a player that tests positive.

958
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: You might not see him for five or six weeks

959
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: on a football field again, right, Yeah, I mean you

960
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 1: and I read a lot of sports media, and yeah,

961
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: I would just sort of moved through it, move through it.

962
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: I read that article on von Miller and I just

963
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: did a complete double take. I'm like, what, von Miller

964
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 1: one of the healthiest specimens in the country and he's

965
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: having lung capacity issues seventeen days after quote unquote recovering

966
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 1: from the coronavirus. And that just struck me that, I mean,

967
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: maybe more than anything I've read about as Jackson. It's

968
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: just like, wait a minute, like you're right exactly what

969
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:26,240
Speaker 1: you said. Now, It's like, you know, if the Ezeke Elliott,

970
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: who seems fine. Of course the thing happened in October,

971
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: and so he's back in November tenth, and you're like, yeah,

972
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: we got Zeke. He's strong for the rest of the season.

973
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: And you're like, no, he's probably not. He's probably not

974
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: the Zeke Elliott you knew before the virus, at least

975
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: for a while. So that's scary. Yeah. We're talking with

976
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: Andrew Brant, Monday Morning Quarterback weekly columnists, also the host

977
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 1: of the Business of Sports podcast, the director of more

978
00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 1: Ed Center for Sports, Lad Villanova. How much is this

979
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: gonna What are the ripple effects? I mean, it just

980
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 1: seems it goes on and on and on. The salary

981
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: CAP's gonna shrink, players can't sign long term contracts, the

982
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: practice squad players are gonna be active roster or then

983
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: maybe not active roster. They're gonna have to tinker with that.

984
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a huge maybe need huge rosters the

985
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: practice squad. As it stands now, those guys are free

986
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 1: agents throughout the season, so you can switch to team

987
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: to team to team, and that absolutely changes the quarantine

988
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: rules for the NFL. The ripple effects of this virus,

989
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: I don't even we can name all those things I

990
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: just named, and there's probably one hundred and fifty more

991
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 1: that we can't even fathom yet. And when you start

992
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:48,800
Speaker 1: going down that road, Andrew, it seems virtually impossible to

993
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: envision a football season that resembles any type of normalcy. Well,

994
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 1: this is my overall point. I wrote about it. I've

995
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: been talking about it on a lot of podcasts and TV.

996
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: My point is, if it was really about health and

997
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: safety of our product, really about that top priority, number

998
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: one party, we wouldn't play. Let's be real, we would

999
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: not play football. We would just not not in twenty twenty.

1000
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: And I just want everyone to be honest about it,

1001
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: including the NFL. We're adults here, we get it, and

1002
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: just talk about the area. That is my expertise. It's

1003
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: the business. We understand. I understand more than anyone. You

1004
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: can't shut down a fifteen billion dollars business. You just can't.

1005
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: So we're going to play. But by playing, you're opening

1006
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: up a huge health risk. Two players, staff, coaches, and

1007
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: God forbid, older relatives. And so it's a stark thing

1008
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: for me to say, but it's the honest truth. We're

1009
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: playing through a pandemic, which means we are not prioritizing

1010
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: health and safety. We're just not And you know, coaches

1011
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: are telling their wives and kids stay home. I'll go,

1012
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'll go to the place of my team

1013
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: for four months, six months, you stay home. But they're

1014
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: not telling you. I mean, the players are there. I mean,

1015
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: it's like, it's really hard to fathom what we're doing

1016
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: here other than my point, which is we're not shutting

1017
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: down a fifteen billion dollar business. Andrew, I don't know

1018
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: if you saw the comments by Malcolm Jenkins today in

1019
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 1: a CNN interview. He was obviously asked about some of

1020
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: the social justice issues that are all over the country

1021
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 1: right now, and he's been an outspoken person on that,

1022
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: but he was also asked how comfortable he would feel

1023
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: playing the twenty twenty season, and he essentially said, I

1024
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: would as things currently stand right now, I would opt out.

1025
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: I would not play in twenty twenty. How much traction

1026
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: do you think that voice will merit among players? Are

1027
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: we talking five percent of the player pool, ten percent?

1028
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: Where do you think that could potentially go where players

1029
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: just say forget it, I'm out for twenty twenty. You know,

1030
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: because I'm kind of an independent and authoritative voice. I've

1031
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of dms from players asking that question,

1032
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 1: you know, can I opt out? And the real question,

1033
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 1: but the real question is not yes or no to that,

1034
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: it's if I do, will I get paid? And I

1035
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know the answer to that question.

1036
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: Obviously you can opt out. No one's gonna put you

1037
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: in handcuffs and bring it to the team facility. You

1038
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: can opt out. The question is we get paid? And

1039
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: Adam Silver was on ESPN with Mike Greenberg and he

1040
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: asked him that, and he seemed kind of receptive to

1041
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: it for basketball players that yes, they would make accommodations

1042
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: and get paid. I just don't know, because you can

1043
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: have a run of this stuff, like you tell me

1044
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: I can stay home and get paid. I think it's

1045
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: gonna be a tougher than that. I think that I

1046
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: talked about this in the article, these tue s therapeutic

1047
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: use exemptions that players get when they think adderall maybe

1048
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: that you know, maybe you show a doctor's note about

1049
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: a relative, or show doctor's note about the conditions we

1050
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: already heard about with abnea and BMI and whatever it

1051
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 1: may be. So I think that's coming, I really do.

1052
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:34,200
Speaker 1: Let me just be cynical for a minute and just

1053
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: say this. So if you've got guys like Malcolm Jenkins,

1054
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Drew Brees, name any star player you want,

1055
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: and a number of them opt out, or even some

1056
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: lesser players, even the fringe players who whose names we

1057
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: don't know, they opt out. Is could the league just

1058
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: kind of shrug its shoulders? Have the other have players

1059
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: sign a waiver saying that they'll take care of them

1060
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: through the COVID virus, will do everything we can whatever.

1061
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: But you understand the risks involved and you still want

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Speaker 1: to play. Isn't there a thousand guys behind each one

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Speaker 1: of those stars who would love to take that spot,

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Speaker 1: particularly for the money, and the league seems like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is the same league that when I was striking

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven, brought in scabbed players to play.

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Speaker 1: They're going to find bodies to put on the field

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Speaker 1: if they so desire. What kind of what kind of

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Speaker 1: ripple effect will that have? This is also the issue of,

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Speaker 1: like you said, stars, first rank and file, and we've

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Speaker 1: seen this in a concussion issue for fifteen years where

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Speaker 1: players that are not frontline players high concussion symptoms because

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Speaker 1: they don't want to go out and have their job

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Speaker 1: given to someone else. You're right. The stars have their contract,

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Speaker 1: have their security of being good players, and they'll be

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Speaker 1: the jobs. They'll be there. But the other ones want

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Speaker 1: I mentioned people reaching out to me. I think the

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Speaker 1: vast majority of players are going to do this and

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Speaker 1: do it understanding this is what they do, and there

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Speaker 1: are risks. There are obviously concussion risks. You know. I

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Speaker 1: was talking to Ross Tucker this week, and Ross it's like, well,

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Speaker 1: if it was about health and safety, you know, we

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have the sport, let alone the sport right now.

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Speaker 1: So you're right. I mean, this is you're going to

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Speaker 1: sort of see some has and have nots. If Malcolm

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Speaker 1: Jenkins doesn't play, there's probably still a job for him

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Speaker 1: when he comes back. Other players probably not so. Andrew

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Speaker 1: knowing negotiations as you do, since you've been a direct

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Speaker 1: part of them for many years in the league, and

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Speaker 1: all of the hurdles that have to be clear, just

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Speaker 1: in terms of agreeing on what training camp will look

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Speaker 1: like between the Players Association and the NFL, which we

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01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: really have been given no inkling as to how far

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Speaker 1: along they are in those discussions and in hammering out

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Speaker 1: what the protocols will be. Is five weeks a realistic

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Speaker 1: time to have all those ducks in a row so

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Speaker 1: coaches know what they can and cannot do when they're

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Speaker 1: on the practice field. I think they're just kind of

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Speaker 1: hoping and waiting. Hope is not a good plan. But

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Speaker 1: we're seeing spikes now around the country, which may not

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Speaker 1: be a bad thing for the NFL. They're probably thinking,

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Speaker 1: let's get these spikes out of the way so we're

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Speaker 1: not having spikes in August. But we've seen reports that

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Speaker 1: preseason games are at risk right now. Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: game's gone. I think the NFL is going to nibble

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Speaker 1: around the edges in any way they can. You know,

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Speaker 1: they've had no offseason workouts. They're probably going to have

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Speaker 1: some limited form of training camp, and if they have

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Speaker 1: to go without preseason games completely, sure, just don't affect

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Speaker 1: the big, the big, the big one, which is weeks

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Speaker 1: one through seventeen, And if there's a way to do that,

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Speaker 1: they'll definitely do it, you know, and then spend as

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Speaker 1: much time as they can preparing for when it really matters.

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Speaker 1: Understanding everyone's going to be competitively disadvantaged the same way,

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Speaker 1: we're talking with Andrew Branch, host of the Business of

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Speaker 1: Sports podcast. He ran the Green Bay Packers for a

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Speaker 1: decade and direct is the director of more D Center

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Speaker 1: for Sports lawd Villanova. During this pandemic, social justice protests

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Speaker 1: have gone on. That was the murder of George Floyd.

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Speaker 1: We've all seen that. And also something has happened in

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Speaker 1: the NFL that was pretty surprising to a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: It has almost been one hundred and eighty degree turnaround

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Speaker 1: from what it was in twenty sixteen when Colin Kaepernick

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Speaker 1: knelt during the anthem at a football game, and now

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Speaker 1: the league has almost come full one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: degrees and gotten on what seems to be the correct

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Speaker 1: side of history and this issue. Have you ever seen

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Speaker 1: the league change its rhetorical stance like they have with

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Speaker 1: the Colin Kaepernick protest? Yes and no. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: agree with what you're saying, but I also don't see

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Speaker 1: him anywhere close to being signed, which may be a

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Speaker 1: function of him not playing the last three years more

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Speaker 1: than social activism. Even though we're here about Goodell encouraging

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Speaker 1: teams to sign him, and teams start talking positively about

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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick. I think that's lip service about him specifically,

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Speaker 1: but about the issues. Yeah, I mean it's the same

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Speaker 1: issues he was talking about four years ago and here

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Speaker 1: we are again. So the league is getting very active

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Speaker 1: in these areas, which is a good thing. And I

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Speaker 1: think the way the country is right now, there's so

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Speaker 1: much more receptivity to kneeling at the end during the anthem,

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Speaker 1: and of course it's not about the AMP and any

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01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: kind of peaceful protest that will be much better received

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Speaker 1: by fans, by media, by owners. But my last point

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01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,720
Speaker 1: is on the owners. I haven't really seen I mean

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Speaker 1: maybe a couple like really strong statements from ownership like

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Speaker 1: we saw with Goodell video. So that seems to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit lacking in my mind, where owners aren't saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're all behind peaceful protest and we'll even support the

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Speaker 1: guys doing it on the field. So it is and

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Speaker 1: it isn't. I'm not sure the owners are all in

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Speaker 1: like Goodell purports to be the last one I had

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01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: for you. Andrew deals with some goings on in the

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Speaker 1: AFC East with Jamal Adams, the safety for the Jets,

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Speaker 1: who's already asking for a trade and contract demand. It

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01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 1: came out in the Daily News today that supposedly he's

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Speaker 1: had issues with the head coach, Adam Gasee, which is

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Speaker 1: partly what prompted this. But I don't know if your

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01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 1: timing could be worse or you're just simply tone deaf

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01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 1: to the situation. I mean, not only are we dealing

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Speaker 1: with a pandemic, but because of that and a lack

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01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:13,439
Speaker 1: of revenue, I think we're all expecting the salary cap

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01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: to be sharply lower, even if it is smoothed out

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Speaker 1: and you borrow from future years to kind of reduce

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Speaker 1: the hit there. I mean, is he just off his

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Speaker 1: rocker to begin this kind of put himself in this

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Speaker 1: kind of position? Who is that? Jamal Adams? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I don't understand exactly. He has no leverage away.

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Speaker 1: I look at it from being a team executive in

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Speaker 1: an agent point of view. Two years left on a

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Speaker 1: rookie contract and then franchise tags potentially after that. So

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Speaker 1: how do you make noise about a contract when the

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Speaker 1: team has two plus years of contract control. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: a great player, you know, that's the pure contract side,

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Speaker 1: no matter what year we're living in. But as you

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Speaker 1: talked about, There has not been one extension this offseason

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Speaker 1: except for McCaffrey. That's it. That's it. Now the kid,

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Speaker 1: the guy that came from San Francisco to Indie Buckner.

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Speaker 1: He got a huge deal, Yes, but that's it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: And I've never seen an offseason like this, and we

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01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: know why because we don't. As I've been talking about

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Speaker 1: for a month, we don't know what the twenty twenty

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01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: cap is going to look at like, let alone twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. And it's all gonna change, in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: We just saw it with baseball. It's gonna change in football.

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01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 1: And the Jets aren't doing a huge contract for Jamal

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Speaker 1: Adams for a lot of reasons, but not this year.

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Speaker 1: It's just not happening. I don't think we're gonna see

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Speaker 1: deals for Mahomes, for Watson, for Prescott, none of them.

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Speaker 1: Nothing's happening in twenty twenty. To where we are, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for taking some time for us. We

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01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: appreciate you up here in Buffalo and we enjoy having

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Speaker 1: you on every time we do. And is always take

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Speaker 1: care of. Andrew Brandt occasional columnist for Monday Morning Quarterback,

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01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 1: also the host of the Business of Sports podcast and

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Speaker 1: the director of the more Ed Center for Sports Law

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Speaker 1: at Villanova. Thanks for joining us, Andrew, Steve Tasker, Chris Brown.

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Speaker 1: We're here till three o'clock. We're going to take a break.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, We've got What's for Lunch, We've got NFL

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01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:31,599
Speaker 1: True Falls, so we've got a lot of other topics

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01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: that are coming down. Also, the Hall of Fame game

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01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 1: has been canceled. And what is the biggest impact of

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01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 1: a shortened preseason? Steve Tasker, Chris Brown or One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, brought to you by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health. Welcome back to One who Builds Live. Like

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Speaker 1: to thank Andrew brant Ford coming on last segment. He's

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Speaker 1: always informative, Brownie. He's got such a great view of

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01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 1: the entire league and he kind of has a handle

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Speaker 1: on because of it's his time running the Green Bay

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01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,080
Speaker 1: Packers and such a high level of the NFL. He

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01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 1: has such a great insight as to how things need

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01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 1: to work at that level. And he's right, you just

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01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 1: don't shut down a fifteen billion dollar industry, right And

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Speaker 1: that's why the league is plowing ahead. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we talked to Judy Batista, who's also pretty plugged in

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Speaker 1: yesterday on the show, and you know, she said, they're

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Speaker 1: plowing right ahead because there's no predicting which way this

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Speaker 1: virus is going to go. Things could get better, things

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01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: can get worse. You could get to November and things

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01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:42,000
Speaker 1: could be off the chain with a second wave. And

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Speaker 1: if you waited until mid October to start your season

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01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:46,479
Speaker 1: to get a better handle on it, well you just

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01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:48,560
Speaker 1: cost yourself six weeks that you could have used to

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Speaker 1: play games. So there's you could take whatever turn you want.

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Speaker 1: This is a very damned if you do. Damned if

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Speaker 1: you don't type situation right. Plus you don't know the future,

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Speaker 1: and it could be better than your anticipate as well.

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Speaker 1: You can't tell what's gonna happen. You've seen some bad

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01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: things happen, you've seen some pretty good, some steady progress

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01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:12,799
Speaker 1: in some places, and you got to think that, however

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01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:16,200
Speaker 1: this comes down, your team, your sport is gonna is

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01:11:16,280 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: gonna be somehow better than others have been. Now. I

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Speaker 1: think the the NFL, I think what's gonna happen, Brownie.

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Speaker 1: I think they're just gonna plow through it. And if

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Speaker 1: you start getting COVID cases. Those guys sit out, you're

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01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:30,160
Speaker 1: gonna have to bring new guys in. They're just gonna

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01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:33,639
Speaker 1: keep plowing through it. Yeah, And like you said, it's

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Speaker 1: not about player safety, no, but I think and it

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Speaker 1: was eye opening for Andrew, It was eye opening for

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Speaker 1: me reading it. But von Miller, who is as athletic

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Speaker 1: a specimen as you can find, comes down with COVID,

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01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 1: you know, on his own, just living his everyday life,

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01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:59,080
Speaker 1: needs upwards of two weeks to recover from the virus,

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01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 1: then needs an additional seventeen days to resume his own

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01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 1: personal offseason workout regimen, and is still winded thirty one

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Speaker 1: days after initially being diagnosed with the virus. There's gonna

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01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 1: be guys, Steve, that are going to test positive and

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01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna get hit hard by this thing. I mean,

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01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: this virus affects people differently across the board. So you

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01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:28,679
Speaker 1: may just happen to have a player that you need,

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01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: but he's got the virus and his body does not

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01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: react well to it, and he's missing. I mean, he

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01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 1: might as well be on ir right, you know, you're right,

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Speaker 1: You're right. I think there are gonna be players who say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what, not for me. I think it'll be

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01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 1: a lot of players that we know and have a

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01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 1: lot of good, you know, a lot of fond feelings

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01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 1: for on all these teams. They're just gonna say, you

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Speaker 1: know what, it's not for me. I got a wife

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Speaker 1: and kids. I don't want to I don't want to

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Speaker 1: leave them for four months. I don't want to sequester myself.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna opt out for whatever reasons. I

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01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: like Malcolm Jenkson said, I've got my grandparents that are vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to give them the virus M and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to leave him for four months. Okay,

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01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:15,439
Speaker 1: so you're out. I don't think there's any there's any

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Speaker 1: shame in it at all. But I do know this, brownie,

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Speaker 1: there's plenty guys standing in line who will take the

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Speaker 1: money and take the risk as well. Well. I know

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01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 1: I know one Bill's player was ready to get back

1271
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 1: to it right now, and that's Quentin Spain, who just

1272
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: tweeted about twenty minutes ago, I had a great offseason.

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01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 1: Can't wait till I put the pants back up. And

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01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: in the photo he left, he looks pretty fit. So

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01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna be guys, they're gonna play, no questions asked,

1276
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: let's roll, you know. So, yeah, and I gotta I

1277
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:49,120
Speaker 1: think we all have to get okay with that, which yeah,

1278
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:55,799
Speaker 1: I'm okay. Um. I just have a hard time thinking

1279
01:13:56,920 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 1: that these guys when push comes to shove, when Malcolm

1280
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 1: now certainly his if if if things that were just

1281
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 1: in a fair world, if you opt out, your contracts

1282
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:09,760
Speaker 1: should just be frozen and when you start planning and

1283
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 1: you should get that contract back with just you know,

1284
01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 1: whatever year it is. Uh, these contracts are not guaranteed,

1285
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: So I get it. Maybe you know that's the way

1286
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:23,719
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, that's the way the league works.

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01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 1: And and for me, that seems fair. If you're not

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01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: gonna play, you're not you don't get paid. You don't

1289
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:30,040
Speaker 1: get paid when you don't go to work, that kind

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01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 1: of stuff. I don't have a problem with that. Even

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01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,559
Speaker 1: as a player, I understood that, uh, and I knew

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01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:37,760
Speaker 1: the risks as well. But I was certainly willing to

1293
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: cash the checks. And that's that's the way it goes.

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01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:42,719
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this my I think my wife

1295
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 1: would vouch for this. If if if I needed to

1296
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:49,479
Speaker 1: go away for a few months, how many, baby, I

1297
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: love you, but we got I'm gonna do it. Um,

1298
01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: it's a it's a lifestyle Uh, it's a lifestyle choice.

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01:14:57,560 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: You got to be willing to sacrifice now for a

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01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: future and if when you're making the kind of money

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01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:03,880
Speaker 1: we're talking about. I know there's a guy like me

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01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:05,760
Speaker 1: who'd do it for a small number, and a lot

1303
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 1: of guys who would do it only for a big

1304
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: number on all everything in between. But guys do it

1305
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 1: in the military with far greater risk leaving their families.

1306
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: Other industries, you know, the oil industry, guys go off

1307
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:23,599
Speaker 1: and live on a rig for weeks at a time

1308
01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: without coming back to shore. Certainly, it's not the first

1309
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: time people have left their families for a job for

1310
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 1: extended period of time, and they're getting paid handsomely to

1311
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: do it. So I don't know that there's going to

1312
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 1: be that many guys who will be unwilling to take

1313
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: that risk, who are already under contract. But I know this,

1314
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 1: there are guys who aren't under contract who'd give anything

1315
01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 1: to take that risk for the money. Right, there's gonna

1316
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 1: be an endless supply guys who want to play in

1317
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. I don't think there's any question about that.

1318
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:57,640
Speaker 1: So it's not a matter of supply, it's probably a

1319
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:02,680
Speaker 1: matter of quality, and that could be compromised with enough

1320
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 1: positive tests. Also, today the Hall of Fame game was canceled,

1321
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:08,680
Speaker 1: and so where you came back now that the preseason

1322
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:11,840
Speaker 1: does seem to be threatened with a shortened preseason, what's

1323
01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:16,720
Speaker 1: the biggest concern with that? Is it lesser state of

1324
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:18,360
Speaker 1: readiness for the starters. You're not going to get a

1325
01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:20,759
Speaker 1: chance to see your starters play as much that thirty

1326
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 1: five percent of you say that's the majority of you say,

1327
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: that's what's I'm really worried about the guys that I'm

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01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: going to see playing the regular season. I want them

1329
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: as ready as possible. Some of you think, thirty two

1330
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: percent of you think not. It's less opportunity for the

1331
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,719
Speaker 1: guys that could possibly make the roster, the depth guys,

1332
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,200
Speaker 1: the guys that I want to root for, the underdogs.

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01:16:38,240 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 1: Thirty two percent of you say that's the biggest concern

1334
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 1: for me, and then twenty four percent of you say,

1335
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:45,719
Speaker 1: you know what, it's less evaluation time for the coaches.

1336
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 1: They need to be the guys that get it right.

1337
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest concern. They may not

1338
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:52,719
Speaker 1: get it right. Ten percent of you have another idea.

1339
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 1: You can give us a call at eight oh three

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01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:56,639
Speaker 1: oh five fifty or one eighty eight five fifty two

1341
01:16:56,720 --> 01:17:00,640
Speaker 1: five fifty as well. Brownie, you're ready. It's it's one

1342
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:02,640
Speaker 1: thirty in the afternoon, twenty two. You want to you

1343
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:06,040
Speaker 1: ready for some lunch? Well, I already ate mine, but

1344
01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:08,760
Speaker 1: I'm ready to discuss lunch. Here we go, what's for lunch?

1345
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:11,680
Speaker 1: This is where we pick a couple of things. We

1346
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 1: having a column A and a column being you pick

1347
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: one or the other, and to say which one you

1348
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 1: think is great and which one you will leave on

1349
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 1: the menu, and never order. You ready ready, as I'm

1350
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:23,920
Speaker 1: gonna be man first item on the menu. Who has

1351
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 1: the better post sac celebration Sean Merriman lights out or

1352
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 1: Tequio spikes? Okay, I'm I may very well be in

1353
01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:34,880
Speaker 1: the minority here, and you can tell me if you

1354
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: feel differently. When Sean Merriman celebrated after a sack, you

1355
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 1: know he's supposedly turning the light out, you know, lights out,

1356
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: Sean lights out Merriman or whatever. Right. I don't know

1357
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: about you, but every time I saw it. The only

1358
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:56,160
Speaker 1: thing I saw was the equivalent of a three year

1359
01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: old having a temper tantrum. That's what it looked like

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01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 1: to me. Whenever he did it. It was just so

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01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 1: bizarre to me. Um, So I never liked it. Yeah,

1362
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 1: and I Spikes is a is a more passionate player,

1363
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: and I liked his celebrations when he was here in Buffalo.

1364
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: After he made a big player or something. I think

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01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 1: he had like looked like swinging a sledge hammer and

1366
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 1: he would kick his leg out or something and then

1367
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 1: pump his fist. So he was always such a passionate player.

1368
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:26,960
Speaker 1: It just it oozed out of him. So I'm going

1369
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: with Spikes there. I gotta I gotta be honest with you.

1370
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:31,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what tequios. I didn't know that Tequio

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01:18:31,240 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 1: Spikes had a sack dance that he would actually pull

1372
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: out every time he had a sack. Yeah, I don't

1373
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: know that he had necessarily the same one every time,

1374
01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: but they were very similar in nature. He'd kind of

1375
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 1: kick a leg out and looked like he'd swing a

1376
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 1: big sledge hammer kind of thing. Um, and then he'd

1377
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,600
Speaker 1: pump his arm at the same like right after that

1378
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 1: so I was. I'm definitely a bigger fan of that

1379
01:18:55,000 --> 01:19:00,160
Speaker 1: than the Merriman won. I will not be. Choreography is

1380
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:01,600
Speaker 1: never a good thing for me. So I'll go with

1381
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:03,960
Speaker 1: Tequia Spikes being a little bit more off the cuff

1382
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 1: than than Sean Merriman. I'll go with you. I'll take

1383
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:09,640
Speaker 1: Tequia Spikes. Okay, who's the better broadcast team? Nance and

1384
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 1: Romo or Al Michael's Chris Collinsworth. Yeah, here's another problem

1385
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: for me. I like one and not the other. I

1386
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 1: like I like both play by play guys, right, Not

1387
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: over the moon about either of the color commentators. They're

1388
01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:30,880
Speaker 1: very different too. The two are very very different, very different.

1389
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 1: You know, Tony Romo had some luck in knowing what

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01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: was coming, and you know, started to become a soothsayer,

1391
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 1: which impressed a lot of people, and I understand why.

1392
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 1: I really wonder if that ability is going to wane

1393
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 1: with each passing year that he's out of the league. Um,

1394
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 1: when you're first removed from it, do you recognize everything

1395
01:19:55,560 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 1: because you ran it tens of thousands of times? U Right,

1396
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:04,760
Speaker 1: Schemes changed and he's further removed from it. I don't

1397
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 1: know he's gonna be as successful in telling you what's

1398
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:10,800
Speaker 1: coming interesting. So which one You're not gonna pick one? Um,

1399
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 1: I guess I'll pick Romo only because Colin's worth for

1400
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: me sometimes just relies on too many crutch phrases. Here's

1401
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,920
Speaker 1: a guy or yeah, it's like too many sentences start

1402
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: with that, And I don't know, it's maybe he's just

1403
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 1: been on too long and I've feeling tired of He's

1404
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 1: been a long time. He's been doing games since I

1405
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 1: was playing. Yeah, So I don't know. I probably would

1406
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: probably go Romo and Nance because of that. See, I

1407
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: like Jim Nance a friend of mine, So I'm gonna

1408
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 1: go with Nance and Romo. Al Michaels I like as well.

1409
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 1: When when I was playing and he was doing games money,

1410
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: we did a couple of Monday night games and I

1411
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 1: spoke with him and he was always great. I like.

1412
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:55,400
Speaker 1: I like both of them, Chris Colin there, and I

1413
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 1: like both analysts as well. I like all four of

1414
01:20:57,439 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 1: those guys. Let's just put that out there. Collinsworth is

1415
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: so knowledgeable though sometimes the last thing I want to

1416
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:06,680
Speaker 1: do is take a PhD course in football. Every time

1417
01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:10,800
Speaker 1: I watch a game, and he's a PhD He is

1418
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:16,600
Speaker 1: far beyond what John Madden used to do, where it

1419
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 1: was always it was football one oh one every day

1420
01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: with John Madden, with Chris Collinsworth. It's a doctorate in football.

1421
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:28,600
Speaker 1: He's got he's got the xs and os and the

1422
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 1: phrases and the he knows why they're doing this, why

1423
01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:34,679
Speaker 1: they're doing that, this, for that, that, for this. He's

1424
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 1: very up to date on the concepts. And it wears

1425
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:40,160
Speaker 1: me out. I just gotta tell you, it wears me out.

1426
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 1: The xs and os. I always feel like, oh wow, okay, yeah,

1427
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 1: I know, okay. But Romo, I always like the fact

1428
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: that he's got more energy, more having more fun, and

1429
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: I think that and that's more like I used to

1430
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: do games too. I'm kind of relaxed a little bit,

1431
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,400
Speaker 1: in the opposite of Chris Collinsworth. So I'd probably go

1432
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:00,880
Speaker 1: Romo and Nance as well. Those are my eyes. Okay,

1433
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:02,800
Speaker 1: we have time, all right? One more quick one? All right?

1434
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: You ready? Last one from What's for Lunch? Who would

1435
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,600
Speaker 1: you rather build your offense around? Ezekiel Elliott or se

1436
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley quon less drama, more about the game, more

1437
01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:17,400
Speaker 1: about being great, you know, better in the passing game, too.

1438
01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 1: I think yeah, And I think he's a strong, stronger

1439
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 1: player physically. I mean he's got legs like tree trunks.

1440
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:28,800
Speaker 1: He's just I was down on the field. What was

1441
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:30,960
Speaker 1: it last year? Did he play in that game against

1442
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:33,920
Speaker 1: the Pills last year? Yeah? He did, right, Yeah, I

1443
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:38,280
Speaker 1: remember seeing him pregame. He might have thirty two inch thighs.

1444
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 1: His thighs are like my waist. Right, It's just it's

1445
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 1: not of this world. Ridiculous. I'm kind of with you.

1446
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you. All right, we're gonna take it.

1447
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: But that was what's for lunch. Tequillo Spikes has a

1448
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:52,639
Speaker 1: better sacked inch than Sean Merriman. We both like brant

1449
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: Nance and Romo as well as Michael's and collins Worth.

1450
01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:59,320
Speaker 1: I'd order both those things on the menu if I could.

1451
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: We both like sae Quon Barkley over Ezekiel Elliott. That

1452
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 1: was What's for lunch. Steve Tasker Chris Brown here till

1453
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: three o'clock. Got more coming up this One Bill's Live

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01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health on One Bill's Live Stay with Us.

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01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve task Along with

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01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, we've been asking you guys all day about

1457
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:29,680
Speaker 1: the biggest concern with a shortened preseason. The Hall of

1458
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: Fame game was canceled today, so we got us to

1459
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 1: thinking about what a shortened preseason would look like and

1460
01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: how bit worried are you about certain things. Most of

1461
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: you have gotten back to us, and I don't know

1462
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 1: about thirty or it was at thirty five percent of Yeah,

1463
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: thirty five percent of you think that it is a

1464
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: lesser it's a lesser state of readiness for the starters.

1465
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:51,439
Speaker 1: It's going to mean the starters and the guys who

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01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 1: are actually going to play can't get as ready as

1467
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 1: we want them to be. Thirty three percent of you

1468
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,640
Speaker 1: think it's going to be less opportunity first, back of

1469
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: the end roster guys, those Cinderella stories that we love

1470
01:24:03,120 --> 01:24:06,360
Speaker 1: talking about. Thirty three percent if you think that's going

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01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 1: to be the biggest concern. And then twenty five percent

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01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 1: of you think less valuatation time for the coaches to

1473
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,680
Speaker 1: get it right about the overall roster. Give us a

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01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 1: call at eight h three oh five fifty or one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty. Well, the owners

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01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 1: are meeting Brownie today virtually all over the league and

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01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 1: some things are starting to trickle out about what they're

1478
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 1: talking about. Yes, first on the agenda apparently was voting,

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01:24:33,080 --> 01:24:36,640
Speaker 1: and it's apparently a major focus accordance in the elections,

1480
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: not if voting on league matters general election in the country. Yes,

1481
01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:43,799
Speaker 1: and this is part of some of the social justice

1482
01:24:43,840 --> 01:24:47,600
Speaker 1: initiatives that we're going to be discussed by the ownership

1483
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:51,680
Speaker 1: and really what is their first meeting since May, and

1484
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:55,920
Speaker 1: it's being reported that the goal is for everyone associated

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01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: with the NFL, players, coaches, execs, and staff to be

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01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 1: registered voters and to encourage others to do so. So

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01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 1: the NFL is apparently making the push to vote a

1488
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:13,679
Speaker 1: major priority with some of their social justice initiatives going forward.

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01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:18,759
Speaker 1: And apparently Commissioner Goodell is the one that was stressing

1490
01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: this because in his conversations with a lot of players

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01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:24,000
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks that was something that

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01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:28,320
Speaker 1: consistently came up in his conversations. So it looks like

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01:25:28,439 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 1: the NFL is going to be working with the players

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01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 1: Association and the Player's Coalition to focus on education, registration activation, right,

1495
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:43,680
Speaker 1: And and that's admirable, Yeah, it's admirable. It's it's you know,

1496
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: they're not splitting atoms. I guess it's not a heavy lift.

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01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:49,040
Speaker 1: But it's not a heavy lift. And I can get

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01:25:49,080 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 1: and everybody, you know, everybody can get behind that, right,

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01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 1: m Yeah, I think it's something that an entity the

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01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 1: size of the NFL can mobilize and really make a

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01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:03,160
Speaker 1: difference in boosting voting numbers, right right, And yeah, I'm

1502
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:05,519
Speaker 1: the more you know, the more people will vote, the better.

1503
01:26:05,680 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it's all about, right, So that's good.

1504
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 1: But that's obviously one of the first things have come out.

1505
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:14,519
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I think more substantial things. I

1506
01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: think we read articles here about some of the a

1507
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:22,680
Speaker 1: lot of league executives are begging the league to tell

1508
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 1: them what they're going to have to deal with with

1509
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:26,920
Speaker 1: fans in the stands or not fans in the stands

1510
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:31,320
Speaker 1: on game days. What other are the major concessions this

1511
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:33,439
Speaker 1: season is going to be that we may know about

1512
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 1: right now, And they're not getting any answers, at least

1513
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:40,559
Speaker 1: not until today. Yeah, And I think it's partly because

1514
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:44,800
Speaker 1: the NFL is not one hundred percent sure had to

1515
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 1: handle a virus whose community spread could be dramatically different

1516
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 1: in one area of the country as opposed to another.

1517
01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:57,759
Speaker 1: And so if a team in Minnesota, if the Vikings

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01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:01,080
Speaker 1: have a greater chance to host fifty percent capacity and

1519
01:27:01,280 --> 01:27:04,240
Speaker 1: earn ticket revenue, I don't know if the league wants

1520
01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:06,679
Speaker 1: to stand in the way of that with a uniform

1521
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:11,160
Speaker 1: directive that says no fans at all where, you know,

1522
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:13,719
Speaker 1: and maybe here in western New York where the numbers

1523
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:17,200
Speaker 1: are looking good so far, you know, fingers and toes

1524
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: crossed that the Bills maybe could have a reduced capacity

1525
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:24,640
Speaker 1: of fans, you know, if not at the beginning of

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01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 1: the season, maybe at some point mid season or even

1527
01:27:27,520 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, like you envisioned with

1528
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: playoff games being fully attended after a vaccine comes down

1529
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:36,320
Speaker 1: the pike. But I think the NFL is hesitant to

1530
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 1: lay down league wide edicts right now because they don't

1531
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:44,000
Speaker 1: know where one area of the country is going to

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01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 1: be in terms of community spread as opposed to another.

1533
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:49,719
Speaker 1: And so how do you lay down at uniform policy

1534
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:52,960
Speaker 1: at this point in time? Yes, right, and the league,

1535
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:55,720
Speaker 1: I mean fans are As it gets closer, more and

1536
01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: more people are gonna start asking questions about how do

1537
01:27:58,120 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 1: I get tickets? Can I get tickets? How am I

1538
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 1: going to watch? What's it gonna look like? And this

1539
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:06,879
Speaker 1: quoted in the article that we've been referencing from Yahoo Sports.

1540
01:28:07,479 --> 01:28:10,479
Speaker 1: It's quoted one of the NFL officials said, we already

1541
01:28:10,560 --> 01:28:12,640
Speaker 1: have a list of questions about dues and don't with

1542
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:16,200
Speaker 1: fans that would make you go insane. And we have

1543
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:20,160
Speaker 1: like two months to figure out in a health situation.

1544
01:28:20,400 --> 01:28:24,120
Speaker 1: What is that is changing every two weeks in some places?

1545
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:28,240
Speaker 1: He's right, you got a month or two months, and

1546
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: this landscape changes every two weeks. Hard to plan or

1547
01:28:33,240 --> 01:28:37,120
Speaker 1: getting long term plans in place when the atmosphere you're

1548
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:42,120
Speaker 1: trying to plan for is ever changing and unpredictable. Yeah,

1549
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 1: you're you're trying to hit a moving target here, and

1550
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:47,720
Speaker 1: that's just actually it's multiple moving targets when you think

1551
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, there's only four there's only four

1552
01:28:51,360 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 1: teams that play in the same stadiums. You know, you're

1553
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:56,639
Speaker 1: talking about the Jets and the Giants and the Chargers

1554
01:28:56,680 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 1: and the Rams, and then you've got, you know, the

1555
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:05,519
Speaker 1: other ones in all the twenty you know, the thirty

1556
01:29:05,680 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: what do you got there? Twenty eight remaining teams that

1557
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 1: are playing in all different parts of the country. The

1558
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: situation with the virus is going to be different everywhere

1559
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:19,120
Speaker 1: in every one of those places. So I just don't

1560
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 1: know how you comprehensively lay down a law even if

1561
01:29:25,479 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: you say no fans, because you know, these thirty two

1562
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,559
Speaker 1: owners are trying to find a way to recoup any

1563
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 1: revenue they can any way they can. So if they

1564
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 1: can have a hundred fans in the stands, right, they're

1565
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 1: gonna do it. So yeah, I mean that's I think

1566
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:45,760
Speaker 1: that's why they're just sitting here and lying in wait.

1567
01:29:46,400 --> 01:29:49,360
Speaker 1: The more pressing issue, at least as I see it,

1568
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:53,120
Speaker 1: and they are supposed to go over this is training

1569
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:57,160
Speaker 1: camp plans for reopening the facilities. There's got to be

1570
01:29:57,920 --> 01:30:01,280
Speaker 1: some nailed down stuff there so the coaches know what

1571
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:04,160
Speaker 1: they can and cannot do on the practice field, and

1572
01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 1: that's got to be negotiated with the union. And that's

1573
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 1: probably why it's taken this long. If you want to

1574
01:30:08,240 --> 01:30:10,080
Speaker 1: get in on our conversation at eight h three oh

1575
01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:12,960
Speaker 1: five fifty or one eight eight five fifty two five fifty,

1576
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:14,760
Speaker 1: you can call us and you can have tell us

1577
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 1: what you think about a shortened preseason or something that

1578
01:30:17,479 --> 01:30:19,639
Speaker 1: something else about new air field or how you think

1579
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:23,599
Speaker 1: this NFL season should go and what's the biggest concern

1580
01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:26,720
Speaker 1: with the shortened preseason? Call in, give us a ring

1581
01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 1: or tweet at us at one Bills Live. This is

1582
01:30:29,479 --> 01:30:32,280
Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio.

1583
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:43,679
Speaker 1: Oh a great time. I'll watch Steve flasperus Dome to Dome.

1584
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:57,720
Speaker 1: Do not time. Welcome back to our number three at

1585
01:30:57,720 --> 01:31:02,559
Speaker 1: Buffalo of Bills one Bills Live. It's a long afternoon.

1586
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:04,680
Speaker 1: Steve Tashmer, Chris Brown. We're here till three o'clock. We

1587
01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:07,200
Speaker 1: got this thing coming on. We're taking calls about at

1588
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:10,719
Speaker 1: eight three, five fifty about you know the biggest concern

1589
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:14,519
Speaker 1: phrase shortened preseason. We've got Dan from Virginia Beach on

1590
01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:16,599
Speaker 1: the line. Dan, you're on the air with Chris and Steve.

1591
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:20,240
Speaker 1: How are you doing today? Hey, guys? Um, Yeah, that's

1592
01:31:20,280 --> 01:31:22,920
Speaker 1: where the say, like, I agree with you, guys, Like

1593
01:31:24,080 --> 01:31:28,120
Speaker 1: I think that the player the people are gonna be

1594
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:30,280
Speaker 1: most affected by this. So the guys on the back

1595
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:33,920
Speaker 1: end of the roster and the coaches like these guys

1596
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:37,080
Speaker 1: are fighting for a spot and you know what's going

1597
01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:40,719
Speaker 1: to happen. And on top of that, I also agree

1598
01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:44,799
Speaker 1: with what you said, Like until the country becomes like whole,

1599
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:47,519
Speaker 1: you can't. You have to be on an even playing field.

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01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:51,400
Speaker 1: So when one state can do one thing and another

1601
01:31:51,439 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 1: state can do another thing, it's not gonna be fair

1602
01:31:54,040 --> 01:31:56,280
Speaker 1: for everybody. So what's when is that going to be

1603
01:31:56,400 --> 01:31:59,519
Speaker 1: all over with and done with? And one more thing

1604
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:04,479
Speaker 1: you had bereer on earlier, a fifteen billion dollar corporation.

1605
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:07,000
Speaker 1: I totally agree with that. You're you're not going to

1606
01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:09,160
Speaker 1: miss out on football. They're gonna find a way. But

1607
01:32:10,040 --> 01:32:11,840
Speaker 1: like you said, the Wally Pip thing, I loved it

1608
01:32:12,200 --> 01:32:14,080
Speaker 1: of next man up, Who's going to do it? So

1609
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:20,040
Speaker 1: somebody will? And I appreciate you guys. Thanks Dan and Brownie.

1610
01:32:20,080 --> 01:32:22,920
Speaker 1: He brings up a good point. Is it less of

1611
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:26,920
Speaker 1: an opportunity for players, certainly in training camp with an

1612
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:29,720
Speaker 1: abbreviated training camp, it might be less of an opportunity.

1613
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: But if they expand rosters and let them or let

1614
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:35,559
Speaker 1: them keep their entire training camp roster throughout the season

1615
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: and totally take the lid off off the rosters in

1616
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:41,519
Speaker 1: that respect, it might be a chance for guys to

1617
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 1: hang around in a year where they might not have

1618
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:45,960
Speaker 1: been able to make the roster and make a practice

1619
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 1: squad or whatever. It may be a better opportunity for

1620
01:32:48,320 --> 01:32:52,040
Speaker 1: guys going into next year. I think you could certainly

1621
01:32:52,120 --> 01:32:54,919
Speaker 1: make that argument if your respective team as an outbreak

1622
01:32:56,640 --> 01:33:00,240
Speaker 1: you and you manage to stay negative, because I means

1623
01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:03,760
Speaker 1: you're probably on the field that next week. Yeah, you

1624
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:06,320
Speaker 1: think about if if you're smart enough to get down

1625
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 1: that road and think about it, so follow every protocol

1626
01:33:10,200 --> 01:33:13,599
Speaker 1: you can possibly imagine. Put yourself in an igloo. Right,

1627
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:16,400
Speaker 1: you're living in a closet. Basically, you're you're you've got

1628
01:33:16,479 --> 01:33:18,599
Speaker 1: to You've got a single bed, mattress in a walk

1629
01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:21,200
Speaker 1: in closet. You close the door at night, and you're

1630
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 1: on your phone for entertainment. But you don't talk to anybody.

1631
01:33:24,760 --> 01:33:27,439
Speaker 1: You don't say hide anybody. You're washing your face with

1632
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:30,519
Speaker 1: soap and water and right, you've got your hands eighty

1633
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:33,439
Speaker 1: times a day. You're sleeping in a mask, the whole thing.

1634
01:33:34,240 --> 01:33:37,479
Speaker 1: Just so you're the guy, the last guy standing. Right,

1635
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:39,680
Speaker 1: you're the guy that's helping you get on the field. Right,

1636
01:33:39,880 --> 01:33:42,599
Speaker 1: just so you can get that chance. You know that's

1637
01:33:42,640 --> 01:33:44,519
Speaker 1: got to be in the back of guy's minds, Right,

1638
01:33:44,720 --> 01:33:47,800
Speaker 1: this is my chance. Man, These guys are awesome. I've

1639
01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:53,280
Speaker 1: got my seven months supply of masks, I've got twelve

1640
01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:58,920
Speaker 1: bottles of lightsol, I've got my my hand sanitizer jug.

1641
01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:03,080
Speaker 1: This virus is not getting strapped to his belt. You know,

1642
01:34:03,200 --> 01:34:07,320
Speaker 1: he's he's ready. That's right. Yeah, think about it. Though

1643
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:09,720
Speaker 1: we've talked, we've taken it for granted. That's why it's

1644
01:34:09,720 --> 01:34:12,720
Speaker 1: gonna be tough on rookies, no offseason, none of this.

1645
01:34:12,800 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 1: But by the same token, they may get an even

1646
01:34:14,880 --> 01:34:17,200
Speaker 1: longer look because they're gonna keep these guys. Maybe the

1647
01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:20,880
Speaker 1: league will say, listen, we need bodies. If these guys

1648
01:34:20,920 --> 01:34:22,920
Speaker 1: are willing to play, bring them in and let him

1649
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:25,640
Speaker 1: hang out throughout the season, just to be ready in

1650
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:29,680
Speaker 1: case we get a spike around the league and your

1651
01:34:29,720 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: team needs healthy bodies to get on the field. You know,

1652
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 1: let it keep them. Um. I think that's what I think.

1653
01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:36,800
Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna head towards. It's just gonna be

1654
01:34:37,160 --> 01:34:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, if you got all these guys signed for

1655
01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:43,519
Speaker 1: training camp, hang let him hang around. Just the salary

1656
01:34:43,560 --> 01:34:46,240
Speaker 1: cap comes off this year, all the contracts are frozen.

1657
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:48,200
Speaker 1: Nobody can you know, sign a deal if you cut

1658
01:34:48,240 --> 01:34:51,920
Speaker 1: a guy that that's making fifty thousand dollars a year.

1659
01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:53,560
Speaker 1: You got it. The only guy you can sign is

1660
01:34:53,600 --> 01:34:56,880
Speaker 1: one guy that makes fifty thousand dollars a year. Same

1661
01:34:57,000 --> 01:34:59,320
Speaker 1: thing for a guy that you cut for eight million bucks.

1662
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:03,519
Speaker 1: You can't exceed eight million bucks for one guy. Not

1663
01:35:04,080 --> 01:35:06,360
Speaker 1: You can't cut a guy making ten million and then

1664
01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:09,680
Speaker 1: bring in twenty guys making a half a million, you

1665
01:35:09,720 --> 01:35:13,560
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You freeze the rosters you can

1666
01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:16,160
Speaker 1: one for one with with that kind of thing, and

1667
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:19,320
Speaker 1: bring a guy in. He can quarantine for two weeks

1668
01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:21,719
Speaker 1: and you got him in two weeks. But the training

1669
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:24,880
Speaker 1: camp roster is what you got, you know, and let

1670
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:26,720
Speaker 1: it go. And I think that it may turn out

1671
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:30,000
Speaker 1: to be a great year to be a rookie, which

1672
01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:33,320
Speaker 1: is astounding to me that I'm saying it, But when

1673
01:35:33,360 --> 01:35:35,400
Speaker 1: you think of it in those terms, may be right

1674
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:39,360
Speaker 1: because of the concessions the league might be forced to make. Yeah,

1675
01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:42,080
Speaker 1: and not to kind of slow the role of what

1676
01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:45,439
Speaker 1: we're talking about, Steve. But there are reports now that

1677
01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:51,560
Speaker 1: multiple teams have legitimate interest in signing Colin Kaepernick, but

1678
01:35:51,720 --> 01:35:53,680
Speaker 1: they will want to work him out first. That's the

1679
01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 1: NFL network reporting that, So I don't know where that's

1680
01:35:58,240 --> 01:36:00,960
Speaker 1: seeping out of I don't think it's coming out of

1681
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:05,760
Speaker 1: the owner's meetings, but I think we know that there

1682
01:36:05,840 --> 01:36:07,840
Speaker 1: might be some impetus on the part of the league

1683
01:36:07,920 --> 01:36:11,560
Speaker 1: to make good on what was clearly a wrong. Is

1684
01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:18,280
Speaker 1: nobody wanted to take on all the media attention that

1685
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:22,080
Speaker 1: signing him would have brought three, four, even two years ago.

1686
01:36:24,360 --> 01:36:27,880
Speaker 1: But we are dealing in a new age with different

1687
01:36:27,960 --> 01:36:32,639
Speaker 1: understanding and hopefully better understanding, and well, it'd be interesting

1688
01:36:32,720 --> 01:36:34,679
Speaker 1: to see where that goes. Here's the thing. If Colin

1689
01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:37,720
Speaker 1: Kaepernick wants to play, I hope he finds a place

1690
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:40,920
Speaker 1: to play. Certainly it's a different landscape than when he

1691
01:36:41,040 --> 01:36:43,320
Speaker 1: left it. He was a starter for the San Francisco

1692
01:36:43,360 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: forty nine ers and opted out of a deal. It

1693
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:48,280
Speaker 1: was a twelve million dollars a year contract. He opted

1694
01:36:48,360 --> 01:36:50,519
Speaker 1: out of the last year of it and has been

1695
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:54,120
Speaker 1: on the street ever since. The workout down in Atlanta,

1696
01:36:54,240 --> 01:36:57,559
Speaker 1: I think was very telling. He didn't want to sign

1697
01:36:57,560 --> 01:36:59,400
Speaker 1: a waiver to work out for the NFL, and he

1698
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:03,240
Speaker 1: wanted to own the video. It doesn't Those are two

1699
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:08,160
Speaker 1: really strange things about that workout that just do not

1700
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:11,000
Speaker 1: make sense to me. I mean, you got to you

1701
01:37:11,080 --> 01:37:13,120
Speaker 1: gotta sign a waiver when you gotta sign a waiver

1702
01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:16,000
Speaker 1: when you play laser Tag, of course the league's gonna

1703
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:17,960
Speaker 1: make you sign a waiver. There's a part of me

1704
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:19,640
Speaker 1: that things he was trying to come up with an

1705
01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:21,640
Speaker 1: excuse to get out of it, because I think he

1706
01:37:21,760 --> 01:37:26,960
Speaker 1: thought the whole thing was foisted upon the league um,

1707
01:37:27,640 --> 01:37:31,160
Speaker 1: and that it wasn't there wasn't going to be legitimate interest.

1708
01:37:31,840 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: I think he was very skeptical of it and the

1709
01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:38,600
Speaker 1: way it was all hastily thrown together. Well, and I

1710
01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:43,040
Speaker 1: wonder too why he wanted to own the video rights

1711
01:37:43,120 --> 01:37:44,680
Speaker 1: to that workout. Is he going to give that to

1712
01:37:44,840 --> 01:37:48,240
Speaker 1: Nike for a commercial, like for one of these when

1713
01:37:48,320 --> 01:37:52,880
Speaker 1: that was suspected? Right? Um, I don't know. It's those

1714
01:37:52,960 --> 01:37:59,640
Speaker 1: two things strike me as you know, a little weird. Um.

1715
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:01,719
Speaker 1: I don't know how bad he wants to play. If

1716
01:38:01,760 --> 01:38:04,479
Speaker 1: he does want to play, I listen, give the guy job.

1717
01:38:04,840 --> 01:38:07,160
Speaker 1: He can play. He's an athlete, he's got a live

1718
01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:11,800
Speaker 1: armu and he's and he's pretty intelligent guy as well,

1719
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:16,439
Speaker 1: So give him the chance. I hope he wants to play,

1720
01:38:16,439 --> 01:38:18,120
Speaker 1: and I know that if there's some there's some teams

1721
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:21,800
Speaker 1: out there. Let's let's face it. If he's if he's

1722
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:25,080
Speaker 1: willing to be a backup for a club, he's better

1723
01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:26,519
Speaker 1: than a lot of the guys that we're looking at

1724
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:30,200
Speaker 1: do a lot worse than Colin Kaepernick. Absolutely. I remember

1725
01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:33,160
Speaker 1: I went to the Senior Bowl to cover it in

1726
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:36,400
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, I want to say, and he

1727
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:40,040
Speaker 1: was down there, you know, university and avad a quarterback,

1728
01:38:40,160 --> 01:38:43,080
Speaker 1: and we were able to get a quick one on

1729
01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:46,960
Speaker 1: one interview with him for Buffalo Bills dot com. Uh.

1730
01:38:47,040 --> 01:38:49,400
Speaker 1: And he was gracious in the interview because he was

1731
01:38:49,520 --> 01:38:53,760
Speaker 1: literally three minutes from doing a network interview. I think

1732
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:57,400
Speaker 1: for ESPN, I said, hey, can I just walk down

1733
01:38:57,479 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: the sideline with you and talk to you on the

1734
01:38:59,080 --> 01:39:02,840
Speaker 1: move like our poor videographer I think it was Mike.

1735
01:39:02,920 --> 01:39:04,880
Speaker 1: He he had to walk and reverse the whole time

1736
01:39:04,960 --> 01:39:08,559
Speaker 1: just so we could get it. But he was great.

1737
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:12,800
Speaker 1: He was pretty good interview even back then. You know,

1738
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:18,000
Speaker 1: as a graduating senior, you're coming out of college, but

1739
01:39:18,320 --> 01:39:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, gracious and everything, and you know, I think

1740
01:39:21,200 --> 01:39:24,479
Speaker 1: this whole situation has hardened him a little bit, understandably so,

1741
01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:30,600
Speaker 1: but I tend to believe that he does have a

1742
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:34,160
Speaker 1: sense of redemption within him to show that he can

1743
01:39:34,200 --> 01:39:36,720
Speaker 1: still play this game. I think, what is he thirty one,

1744
01:39:37,439 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 1: which in quarterback terms is still very young, even for

1745
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:43,960
Speaker 1: a quarterback who runs around and gets yards with his legs.

1746
01:39:44,040 --> 01:39:48,600
Speaker 1: So right, it's gonna be interesting to see how that

1747
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:51,320
Speaker 1: unfolds because we're only five weeks out of training camp.

1748
01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:54,160
Speaker 1: But the thing is, he really hasn't missed a whole

1749
01:39:54,200 --> 01:39:56,720
Speaker 1: lot when you think about it, for whatever team he's

1750
01:39:56,760 --> 01:40:00,040
Speaker 1: gonna join, knowing that everybody's had a virtual offseason, and

1751
01:40:00,120 --> 01:40:02,600
Speaker 1: so I don't think he's nearly as far behind his

1752
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:04,960
Speaker 1: most quarterbacks would be coming in this time of year.

1753
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:08,599
Speaker 1: Well he's yeah, he's I get you. You mean signing

1754
01:40:08,640 --> 01:40:11,439
Speaker 1: the contract at this point in the calendar. Yeah, he

1755
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:15,120
Speaker 1: lighted the offseason that everybody's head. He's still he's still

1756
01:40:15,479 --> 01:40:17,679
Speaker 1: behind the eight Bowl by being out of the league

1757
01:40:17,720 --> 01:40:21,240
Speaker 1: since two thousand and seventeen, so totally that. Um, it's

1758
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:25,439
Speaker 1: it's different, but you know, he played at the highest level.

1759
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:28,320
Speaker 1: He quarterbacked the team to the Super Bowl. Uh, led

1760
01:40:28,360 --> 01:40:30,800
Speaker 1: a great comeback that fell just short in the second

1761
01:40:30,840 --> 01:40:34,800
Speaker 1: half of that blacked out of the Super Bowl. That

1762
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:37,800
Speaker 1: was where the lights went out. Um, the guy was

1763
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:42,760
Speaker 1: an athlete, and it was Yeah, I was if he

1764
01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:45,519
Speaker 1: wants to play, I hope he gets the chance, and

1765
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 1: I hope somebody gives him a job. There's that, So

1766
01:40:48,680 --> 01:40:52,880
Speaker 1: you're yeah, it's uh, that's I don't know if anything,

1767
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 1: and that's being reported. That's not coming out of the

1768
01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:59,000
Speaker 1: owner's meetings, right, Bronnie. That was just that is reporting that.

1769
01:40:59,160 --> 01:41:01,160
Speaker 1: So you wonder who was talking to who about that?

1770
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:05,800
Speaker 1: That's gauging that interest. Maybe it's right, Maybe it's It

1771
01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:07,920
Speaker 1: could have heck, it could just be his agent trying

1772
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:10,599
Speaker 1: to drum up some business. Who knows, and I get

1773
01:41:10,680 --> 01:41:12,639
Speaker 1: and if his agents trying to drum up business because

1774
01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 1: his Colin is saying, Hindson, I want to play, get

1775
01:41:15,080 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 1: me a job, and that's man. Has have things changed

1776
01:41:20,160 --> 01:41:22,559
Speaker 1: over the last four years and really over the last

1777
01:41:22,720 --> 01:41:27,160
Speaker 1: four months as to where we are with what Colin

1778
01:41:27,280 --> 01:41:29,880
Speaker 1: Kaepernick did in in relation to what the entire country

1779
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:33,120
Speaker 1: has been witnessing and taking part in the last three weeks. Hey,

1780
01:41:33,800 --> 01:41:36,400
Speaker 1: he looks like a genuine pioneer because he was right.

1781
01:41:36,800 --> 01:41:38,920
Speaker 1: He was trying to shed light on this subject four

1782
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:43,960
Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, and it turns out he we should

1783
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:47,120
Speaker 1: have listened a little better. Steve Tasker, Chris Brown, what's

1784
01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:49,880
Speaker 1: the biggest concern with a shortened NFL preseason? You can

1785
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:51,599
Speaker 1: give us a call. At eight O three oh five,

1786
01:41:51,800 --> 01:41:55,320
Speaker 1: fifty thirty five percent of you think it's option number

1787
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:58,320
Speaker 1: C on our pole, lesser state of readiness for the starters.

1788
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:00,240
Speaker 1: You don't think the starters can get ready with a

1789
01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:03,360
Speaker 1: shortened preseason. The third of you, I think it's less

1790
01:42:03,479 --> 01:42:05,559
Speaker 1: opportunity for the guys who are on the back end

1791
01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:07,840
Speaker 1: of the roster, the bubble players. They have less of

1792
01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:10,439
Speaker 1: a chance of making the team. And twenty three percent

1793
01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:13,080
Speaker 1: of you said, listen, it's less evaluation time for the coaches.

1794
01:42:13,080 --> 01:42:15,200
Speaker 1: They're the ones who really ultimately have to get it right.

1795
01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:17,760
Speaker 1: And I can see that a point as well. Nine

1796
01:42:17,800 --> 01:42:19,640
Speaker 1: percent of you have something else in mind. Give us

1797
01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:21,040
Speaker 1: a call and tell us what that is. At eight

1798
01:42:21,840 --> 01:42:26,639
Speaker 1: fifty Brownie Ton going on the Hall of Fame game

1799
01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:32,479
Speaker 1: getting getting canceled. That's to me. That kind of struck

1800
01:42:32,520 --> 01:42:35,320
Speaker 1: me today, and I know we're talking about it. I

1801
01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:38,560
Speaker 1: was bummed because that really does mean something's going to

1802
01:42:38,680 --> 01:42:40,720
Speaker 1: change with the NFL season. First of all, it's the

1803
01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:44,439
Speaker 1: ceremonial opening game of the season, in the tabs in

1804
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:46,960
Speaker 1: the preseason. But I feel for the city of Canton

1805
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:49,960
Speaker 1: on a daylight today. Yeah, I think it is an

1806
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:55,960
Speaker 1: exercise in buying time more than anything else. And this

1807
01:42:56,240 --> 01:43:00,880
Speaker 1: isn't major in terms of the revenue general rating landscape

1808
01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:03,240
Speaker 1: for the league. It certainly is for the Hall of

1809
01:43:03,320 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 1: Fame itself, you know, as you mentioned earlier in the show,

1810
01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:09,200
Speaker 1: it's a cash cow for them because of all the

1811
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:12,920
Speaker 1: people that descend upon Canon when you have an induction ceremony.

1812
01:43:13,800 --> 01:43:19,320
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's a seismic thing. It's it's notable,

1813
01:43:19,720 --> 01:43:23,360
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's seismic. And knowing that there's

1814
01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:25,439
Speaker 1: a strong likelihood that the preseason is going to be

1815
01:43:25,520 --> 01:43:28,519
Speaker 1: reduced from four to two games, I don't even think

1816
01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:34,439
Speaker 1: this was completely unexpected. I was expecting a contingency plan

1817
01:43:34,560 --> 01:43:37,519
Speaker 1: before just outright canceling it, but that all went by

1818
01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:39,720
Speaker 1: the board too. That's probably the most surprising part of

1819
01:43:39,760 --> 01:43:45,680
Speaker 1: the whole development. Should I was gonna say, I was

1820
01:43:45,760 --> 01:43:48,120
Speaker 1: just gonna say, I don't mean to shift gears on you,

1821
01:43:48,200 --> 01:43:51,160
Speaker 1: but we should talk a little Tremaine Endmonds here, because

1822
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:54,519
Speaker 1: it looks like he might be finally getting some league

1823
01:43:54,560 --> 01:43:57,240
Speaker 1: wide recognition. I mean, I know, he went to the

1824
01:43:57,280 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl as a first alternate last year and had

1825
01:44:00,760 --> 01:44:04,800
Speaker 1: a strong season in his age twenty one season. Still

1826
01:44:04,920 --> 01:44:09,960
Speaker 1: ridiculous to say it's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, But CBS Sports

1827
01:44:10,080 --> 01:44:15,519
Speaker 1: put together they're top ten linebackers in the NFL, and

1828
01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:21,519
Speaker 1: Tremaine cracked the top ten at number ten. Thirty one

1829
01:44:21,560 --> 01:44:23,759
Speaker 1: of thirty two possible games, he wrecked up two hundred

1830
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:27,040
Speaker 1: and thirty six combined tackles, fifteen tackles for loss, eleven

1831
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:32,000
Speaker 1: quarterback hits, three and a half sacks, twenty one passes defensed,

1832
01:44:32,520 --> 01:44:37,800
Speaker 1: three interceptions. He ranks twelfth in the league and during

1833
01:44:37,840 --> 01:44:42,160
Speaker 1: his time for combined tackles and for especially for a

1834
01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:44,479
Speaker 1: guy who was twenty and twenty one years of age

1835
01:44:44,479 --> 01:44:46,840
Speaker 1: in his first two seasons. So yeah, he's got a

1836
01:44:47,000 --> 01:44:49,960
Speaker 1: huge upside and he's starting to crack into the top

1837
01:44:50,040 --> 01:44:52,519
Speaker 1: ten of best in middle linebackers in the league and

1838
01:44:52,600 --> 01:44:55,880
Speaker 1: good from you know what, the most impressive stat of

1839
01:44:55,960 --> 01:44:58,599
Speaker 1: all of those that you just listed is passes defense.

1840
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:02,200
Speaker 1: Twenty one pass break ups. Yeah, I mean, there aren't

1841
01:45:02,240 --> 01:45:04,400
Speaker 1: defensive backs in the league with that many in their

1842
01:45:04,479 --> 01:45:08,519
Speaker 1: first two NFL seasons twenty one. Yeah, I think it

1843
01:45:08,640 --> 01:45:11,519
Speaker 1: just speaks to his length and to his ability to

1844
01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:14,760
Speaker 1: cover ground. But that's what I want to say. He

1845
01:45:14,920 --> 01:45:17,439
Speaker 1: was second on the team in pass breakups last season,

1846
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:20,840
Speaker 1: behind Trudavious White. Yeah, well you get you get him

1847
01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:23,200
Speaker 1: player and Edmonds might have been the top three if

1848
01:45:23,600 --> 01:45:25,880
Speaker 1: memory serves, I'll go chess. He get credit for a

1849
01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:27,720
Speaker 1: past defense when he bats it down to the line

1850
01:45:27,720 --> 01:45:31,680
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Uh, yeah, I believe it. He does right, Yes,

1851
01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:34,840
Speaker 1: And that's where some of them came. But I do

1852
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:38,879
Speaker 1: remember some of them happened in Yeah, he's in coverage,

1853
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:41,559
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what, when he spreads his arms out.

1854
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:45,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's like trying to throw it around a bat.

1855
01:45:45,240 --> 01:45:48,840
Speaker 1: You know, it looks like yeah, he's like he's like, yeah,

1856
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:50,960
Speaker 1: it's like trying to throw it through a hand glider.

1857
01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:54,639
Speaker 1: You know. The guy's so big and and he's got

1858
01:45:54,680 --> 01:45:57,240
Speaker 1: all these abilities plus in knives. You've spoken to him.

1859
01:45:57,280 --> 01:46:00,120
Speaker 1: I've spoken to him and at times at length. What

1860
01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:03,280
Speaker 1: a phenomenal leader and guy he is. I was just

1861
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:05,320
Speaker 1: one of those guys that just so thrilled to have

1862
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:10,720
Speaker 1: on the football team. I know you played against his dad. Yeah,

1863
01:46:11,760 --> 01:46:13,840
Speaker 1: his dad was just to him at all, is see

1864
01:46:13,960 --> 01:46:17,320
Speaker 1: like the same type of person. Yeah, we put Yes.

1865
01:46:17,520 --> 01:46:21,080
Speaker 1: Pharrell Edmonds is a tremendous guy. And in fact, he

1866
01:46:21,240 --> 01:46:23,519
Speaker 1: was down in Carolina last year when we went down

1867
01:46:23,600 --> 01:46:25,200
Speaker 1: to practice for a few days and I saw him.

1868
01:46:25,200 --> 01:46:27,880
Speaker 1: He was sitting under under an awning with his family,

1869
01:46:27,920 --> 01:46:30,479
Speaker 1: and I recognized him immediately, and I went over and

1870
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:33,560
Speaker 1: said hello to him. I forgot he stood up to

1871
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:37,560
Speaker 1: say hello, and he couldn't have been nicer, and he was.

1872
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:43,360
Speaker 1: He is immense. Tremaine's dad is bigger than Tremaine because

1873
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:48,120
Speaker 1: he's bigger and heavier, right, but he's he's enormous. He's enormous,

1874
01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:52,439
Speaker 1: and Tremaine kind of built along the same lines as

1875
01:46:52,479 --> 01:46:54,960
Speaker 1: his dad. And his dad played obviously tight end, not

1876
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:58,240
Speaker 1: middle linebacker, and was a tight end in the Pro Bowl.

1877
01:46:58,280 --> 01:47:00,519
Speaker 1: I played with his dad and against He's played for

1878
01:47:00,560 --> 01:47:02,800
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, so I played against him obviously, but then

1879
01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:05,880
Speaker 1: played with him in three Pro Bowls, So it was

1880
01:47:06,280 --> 01:47:09,680
Speaker 1: his dad was a tremendous player and a just a

1881
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:14,320
Speaker 1: huge dude. But yeah, and just like Tremaine, just a wonderful,

1882
01:47:14,360 --> 01:47:16,400
Speaker 1: wonderful human being. It was fun to see him again

1883
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:21,040
Speaker 1: down in those joint practices. In Carolina, So yeah, and

1884
01:47:21,320 --> 01:47:24,680
Speaker 1: it's nice. And the scary thing too, is if you

1885
01:47:24,760 --> 01:47:30,040
Speaker 1: think about Tremaine, who's just turned twenty two, I don't

1886
01:47:30,080 --> 01:47:34,560
Speaker 1: even think he's filled out his frame physically yet. I

1887
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:38,000
Speaker 1: mean he's still kind of long and lean when you

1888
01:47:38,080 --> 01:47:42,479
Speaker 1: think about it. I mean when he's full on man

1889
01:47:42,680 --> 01:47:46,160
Speaker 1: strength and filled out his frame physically, I mean, holy cow,

1890
01:47:46,400 --> 01:47:49,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I think he's playing at

1891
01:47:49,920 --> 01:47:51,599
Speaker 1: the way they want him at. You know what I mean.

1892
01:47:51,760 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 1: I think they're You don't you don't see guys built

1893
01:47:56,040 --> 01:48:00,200
Speaker 1: like you know, those big, thick, heavy guys like you know,

1894
01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:03,840
Speaker 1: James Harrison playing middle linebacker anymore. These guys got to

1895
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:05,639
Speaker 1: cover too much space, you know, they got to cover

1896
01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:10,639
Speaker 1: too much ground. He's he's he looks thin almost until

1897
01:48:10,640 --> 01:48:14,240
Speaker 1: you realize he's two hundred and fifty pounds. And uh,

1898
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:17,640
Speaker 1: but I think he's playing right at the way they

1899
01:48:17,720 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 1: want him at. Um. Certainly you'd hear about it if

1900
01:48:20,320 --> 01:48:21,920
Speaker 1: they thought he was a little heavier, a little light.

1901
01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:25,559
Speaker 1: But as long as he can run, and I think

1902
01:48:25,640 --> 01:48:27,840
Speaker 1: that's the key to his game. Because he's so big,

1903
01:48:27,920 --> 01:48:30,519
Speaker 1: he's got to keep the wheels working otherwise he comes

1904
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:33,800
Speaker 1: he becomes you know, a street lamp. You know, he

1905
01:48:33,880 --> 01:48:37,559
Speaker 1: can't move, but when he can, but if he can run,

1906
01:48:38,080 --> 01:48:41,599
Speaker 1: he's a weapon that that's you know, that's incredibly versatile

1907
01:48:41,840 --> 01:48:44,760
Speaker 1: for the defense, you know, because he can come up,

1908
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:47,120
Speaker 1: step up to the passer and knock it down or

1909
01:48:47,240 --> 01:48:52,960
Speaker 1: drop back. I'm actually still trying to find defensive stats here.

1910
01:48:53,479 --> 01:48:57,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here we go. I got it. So last season,

1911
01:48:57,160 --> 01:49:00,280
Speaker 1: Tredavious White first on the team and pass break ups

1912
01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:06,519
Speaker 1: with seventeen, and Tremaine was tied for second on the

1913
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:12,320
Speaker 1: team in pass breakups with one to three other defensive teammates.

1914
01:49:12,840 --> 01:49:14,840
Speaker 1: You want to try to guess who the other three are. So,

1915
01:49:15,400 --> 01:49:21,360
Speaker 1: so it's White seventeen pass breakups, Tremaine Edmonds and these

1916
01:49:21,439 --> 01:49:24,600
Speaker 1: three other players on defense all tied for second with

1917
01:49:24,880 --> 01:49:28,080
Speaker 1: nine pass Right, here we go. Here's my guess. Poyer

1918
01:49:28,560 --> 01:49:32,280
Speaker 1: is my first guest? Is my right? Nope? All right?

1919
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:42,360
Speaker 1: Um Wallace? Yes, okay, Levi Wallace, I will say, um,

1920
01:49:43,040 --> 01:49:50,880
Speaker 1: slot corner, Um, Taron Johnson, Taron Johnson, Nope, hide, no,

1921
01:49:51,320 --> 01:49:56,400
Speaker 1: my god, really, it is just it's the linebackers. Matt

1922
01:49:56,520 --> 01:50:01,439
Speaker 1: Milano nine. Yeah, that makes sense, okay, and then Tremaine

1923
01:50:01,520 --> 01:50:05,200
Speaker 1: and Lorenzo. Oh, there you go. Now, Lorenzo does bat

1924
01:50:05,280 --> 01:50:07,400
Speaker 1: down a lot of passes, so I would tend to

1925
01:50:07,479 --> 01:50:09,640
Speaker 1: think most of his stuff was at the line. But

1926
01:50:09,840 --> 01:50:12,080
Speaker 1: you know, Mulano and Edmonds are in coverage all the

1927
01:50:12,200 --> 01:50:15,240
Speaker 1: time in that you know Nickel package that they run

1928
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:18,040
Speaker 1: seventy to seventy five percent of the time they're on

1929
01:50:18,080 --> 01:50:22,120
Speaker 1: the field. All right, but that's impressive. Second on the team.

1930
01:50:22,160 --> 01:50:24,360
Speaker 1: And pass breakups in your lives pretty good. But in

1931
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:27,360
Speaker 1: this deference, it's gonna happen. All right, We're gonna take

1932
01:50:27,400 --> 01:50:29,840
Speaker 1: a breaks. Chief Tasker Chris Brown here, One Bills Live.

1933
01:50:29,880 --> 01:50:32,040
Speaker 1: We'll be taking your calls after the break and NFL

1934
01:50:32,160 --> 01:50:35,519
Speaker 1: true false coming up, One Bills Live presented by Kalida

1935
01:50:35,600 --> 01:50:44,439
Speaker 1: Health And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back at

1936
01:50:44,439 --> 01:50:47,760
Speaker 1: One Bills Lives. Keep task along with Chris Brown. We've

1937
01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:50,599
Speaker 1: got a caller on the line, Deb in Hamburg. Deb

1938
01:50:50,680 --> 01:50:52,479
Speaker 1: You're on the air with Steve Tasker, Chris Brown and

1939
01:50:52,600 --> 01:50:56,360
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. What's on your mind? Oh? Hi, yes,

1940
01:50:58,920 --> 01:51:02,400
Speaker 1: let's see right, Yes, I am okay, What's I'm sure?

1941
01:51:02,400 --> 01:51:04,720
Speaker 1: I couldn't die? I was still listening to you know

1942
01:51:04,920 --> 01:51:08,240
Speaker 1: the recording. Okay, I didn't know you came. Hi. Hello, Chris.

1943
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:12,960
Speaker 1: I worked for the Bills and it's my own job.

1944
01:51:13,080 --> 01:51:16,639
Speaker 1: And they have seen both of you, Seve, especially when

1945
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:20,320
Speaker 1: you were did the August preseason games, and Chris have

1946
01:51:20,439 --> 01:51:24,559
Speaker 1: seen you and a Funday afternoon probably when I'm punched out. Um,

1947
01:51:25,560 --> 01:51:27,920
Speaker 1: I you know what do everything going on? I've been

1948
01:51:28,040 --> 01:51:32,400
Speaker 1: praying for more things every day. I think I've come

1949
01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:34,920
Speaker 1: for myself. I think I've just come to tell myself

1950
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:38,439
Speaker 1: and my family that I didn't work this last season.

1951
01:51:38,560 --> 01:51:42,160
Speaker 1: I have an optical situation going on. Has an ended yet,

1952
01:51:42,640 --> 01:51:44,639
Speaker 1: and then they think if they make an official there's

1953
01:51:44,680 --> 01:51:47,320
Speaker 1: no fans. I don't know. I think I just be easier,

1954
01:51:47,479 --> 01:51:49,200
Speaker 1: you know. And I know I hear you guys every

1955
01:51:49,280 --> 01:51:52,880
Speaker 1: day listening, you know, just weighing things out. I'll me

1956
01:51:52,960 --> 01:51:55,439
Speaker 1: say this to both see huh. I've been listening to

1957
01:51:55,560 --> 01:51:58,080
Speaker 1: this radio station for the last ten eleven months, from

1958
01:51:58,520 --> 01:52:00,920
Speaker 1: Howard and Jeremy and then they all come toon and

1959
01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:04,320
Speaker 1: An Instigators, Steve, you and Murph. I've been listening. But

1960
01:52:04,800 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 1: can I say this because you just um said it again.

1961
01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:11,719
Speaker 1: You guys have the two phone numbers. Oh my gosh,

1962
01:52:12,400 --> 01:52:16,560
Speaker 1: they're said so many times I've got them memorize. And

1963
01:52:16,880 --> 01:52:19,720
Speaker 1: I know Howard did I think yesterday morning where he

1964
01:52:19,840 --> 01:52:21,840
Speaker 1: went and said it? And then I guess there's like

1965
01:52:21,880 --> 01:52:26,120
Speaker 1: a baton ne comportion on the recording, Saser, I missus Lincoln,

1966
01:52:26,240 --> 01:52:29,800
Speaker 1: if maybe something could you know, I'll help out easy,

1967
01:52:29,920 --> 01:52:32,240
Speaker 1: or by just letting the recording so you wouldn't have

1968
01:52:32,320 --> 01:52:36,760
Speaker 1: to who's your breath or something? Dad, We appreciate it.

1969
01:52:38,680 --> 01:52:41,400
Speaker 1: I'm glad you learned the numbers because sometimes I still

1970
01:52:41,439 --> 01:52:43,680
Speaker 1: have to read them. But if it got you to

1971
01:52:43,800 --> 01:52:46,639
Speaker 1: call deb, it was all worth it. It was all

1972
01:52:46,720 --> 01:52:48,840
Speaker 1: worth it. Anything else you got on your mind, And

1973
01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:50,800
Speaker 1: I'm glad you worked for the for the team as well,

1974
01:52:50,840 --> 01:52:52,320
Speaker 1: and I hope you have a chance to come in

1975
01:52:52,400 --> 01:52:55,120
Speaker 1: and do something for this season, at least a playoff game.

1976
01:52:55,200 --> 01:52:58,880
Speaker 1: Maybe what else is on your mind? I've never been prejudice. Okay,

1977
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:00,760
Speaker 1: can I ask false you this and then I'll be

1978
01:53:00,840 --> 01:53:03,680
Speaker 1: done because I gotta get I gotta get going. Yeah, yeah,

1979
01:53:03,800 --> 01:53:05,720
Speaker 1: I know you probably have things to do, right, what

1980
01:53:06,840 --> 01:53:11,800
Speaker 1: go ahead? You sound so far away? I am, Oh, Well,

1981
01:53:11,920 --> 01:53:15,760
Speaker 1: we're through a skypeline. You know, we're we're both broadcasting

1982
01:53:15,880 --> 01:53:18,120
Speaker 1: from home. It's a different universe we're living in here,

1983
01:53:18,240 --> 01:53:22,040
Speaker 1: deb We're all just trying to get by day by day, right, Okay, yes,

1984
01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:24,559
Speaker 1: oh I'm getting too. But right now with everything canceled,

1985
01:53:25,240 --> 01:53:27,760
Speaker 1: it's it's getting you know, it's just getting mad, you know, man,

1986
01:53:27,840 --> 01:53:30,160
Speaker 1: I mean there's going to be football. I've been going

1987
01:53:30,240 --> 01:53:32,920
Speaker 1: with my family since Sanda Marshall's to the Northtown. I've

1988
01:53:32,920 --> 01:53:36,000
Speaker 1: been with them. Haven't been anybody else's home, nobody's been

1989
01:53:36,040 --> 01:53:39,400
Speaker 1: in my car. Good for you stores when I can,

1990
01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:41,720
Speaker 1: and I have to go to lay out because I'm

1991
01:53:41,880 --> 01:53:44,320
Speaker 1: on a blood center every day. So I live right

1992
01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:46,240
Speaker 1: up a camp road and I just go right straight

1993
01:53:46,280 --> 01:53:48,280
Speaker 1: down the way, all right. But I was wanting as

1994
01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:50,800
Speaker 1: faulty of one thing and I'll be done. Okay, what

1995
01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:53,680
Speaker 1: is it? Um? I was told it was the end

1996
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:57,120
Speaker 1: of tenure before this whole thing started, and because even

1997
01:53:57,160 --> 01:53:59,760
Speaker 1: though I didn't work, I had the letters them for

1998
01:53:59,840 --> 01:54:02,719
Speaker 1: the appreciation for the workers, and it was the last

1999
01:54:02,800 --> 01:54:05,760
Speaker 1: Tuesday of January. Well you buy any can't say, or

2000
01:54:05,920 --> 01:54:08,720
Speaker 1: for signing autographs because one of the girls said, did

2001
01:54:08,720 --> 01:54:09,920
Speaker 1: you were there? And I'm like, oh my gosh, I

2002
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:14,240
Speaker 1: missed you. Uh if if I was, if somebody said,

2003
01:54:14,280 --> 01:54:16,639
Speaker 1: I was there. I was there, Um sign an at

2004
01:54:16,800 --> 01:54:18,840
Speaker 1: it seems it rings a bell, but I can't remember.

2005
01:54:19,280 --> 01:54:20,880
Speaker 1: That would have been the last time I ever signed

2006
01:54:20,880 --> 01:54:23,280
Speaker 1: an autograph because not that many people want it. Yeah,

2007
01:54:23,320 --> 01:54:27,000
Speaker 1: you're challenging Steve's memory here. Yeah, they bring the alumni

2008
01:54:27,080 --> 01:54:30,760
Speaker 1: back when with our appreciation for the workers. Okay, all right,

2009
01:54:30,880 --> 01:54:34,040
Speaker 1: thank you. LOOKA said I'm missing Thanks Debt. I think

2010
01:54:34,120 --> 01:54:37,280
Speaker 1: she's right. I think I was scheduled to be there,

2011
01:54:37,520 --> 01:54:40,040
Speaker 1: and I think I actually was there for a minute.

2012
01:54:40,120 --> 01:54:44,080
Speaker 1: So there you go. There. You can't sign him for everybody, Brownie.

2013
01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:47,120
Speaker 1: All three people want my autograph. I can't catch them all.

2014
01:54:47,320 --> 01:54:51,040
Speaker 1: Your writer's cramp. Really busy man, but busy man, but

2015
01:54:51,360 --> 01:54:55,080
Speaker 1: not as busy as deb who had multiple places to

2016
01:54:55,200 --> 01:54:57,680
Speaker 1: go and things to do. I'm glad, she said, had

2017
01:54:57,800 --> 01:54:59,880
Speaker 1: enough time to give us a call there. Well, she's

2018
01:55:00,240 --> 01:55:02,120
Speaker 1: she hasn't she won't let anybody in her car, she

2019
01:55:02,200 --> 01:55:04,400
Speaker 1: won't go out, she hasn't gone anywhere, and yeah, but

2020
01:55:04,480 --> 01:55:05,960
Speaker 1: she still has a lot to kind of like me,

2021
01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:08,480
Speaker 1: you don't leave the house. She's been waiting four months

2022
01:55:08,560 --> 01:55:11,040
Speaker 1: to do all these things, and now she's decided it

2023
01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:13,400
Speaker 1: is the time to venture out. The time. Now is

2024
01:55:13,440 --> 01:55:15,920
Speaker 1: the time and apparently time to make the call to

2025
01:55:16,160 --> 01:55:18,040
Speaker 1: to hit us up. So it was very good to

2026
01:55:18,120 --> 01:55:20,720
Speaker 1: hear from her. Perfect. Yeah, that's yeah. There you go,

2027
01:55:23,440 --> 01:55:25,960
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown here one bills Live. You can

2028
01:55:26,000 --> 01:55:27,800
Speaker 1: give us a call and tell us what your list

2029
01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:29,680
Speaker 1: of to do things is two at eight oh three

2030
01:55:29,720 --> 01:55:32,240
Speaker 1: oh five fifty or one eight eight five fifty two

2031
01:55:32,320 --> 01:55:34,480
Speaker 1: five fifty. I said the numbers again for debb in

2032
01:55:34,560 --> 01:55:37,040
Speaker 1: case you go, Hey, she was a show shaker for sure.

2033
01:55:37,800 --> 01:55:42,120
Speaker 1: Well you know it got her to call. Yeah, and

2034
01:55:42,280 --> 01:55:45,240
Speaker 1: now and now it's time for true false Steve, all right,

2035
01:55:46,040 --> 01:55:47,840
Speaker 1: if you're you're, if you really want to do it,

2036
01:55:48,000 --> 01:55:50,520
Speaker 1: and I'm ready, it's true false brought to you by

2037
01:55:50,640 --> 01:55:56,000
Speaker 1: Yancey's fancy New York's artisan cheese. Here we go NFL

2038
01:55:56,080 --> 01:55:58,240
Speaker 1: True false. First thing, Brownie, and I want you to

2039
01:55:58,280 --> 01:56:00,840
Speaker 1: give me your I don't put it on. I want

2040
01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:03,920
Speaker 1: gut reaction. Then explain it to me. If stadiums don't open,

2041
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:08,320
Speaker 1: we will see a higher level of fan congregations outside

2042
01:56:08,560 --> 01:56:13,880
Speaker 1: true or false. I want to say true. What about

2043
01:56:13,920 --> 01:56:17,360
Speaker 1: in Buffalo? We're talking about in Buffalo? First? Yeah? I

2044
01:56:17,440 --> 01:56:21,600
Speaker 1: think so? Um, not not a higher level of fan

2045
01:56:21,720 --> 01:56:26,320
Speaker 1: congregations outside. No, but there will be fans outside the

2046
01:56:26,320 --> 01:56:30,120
Speaker 1: state in Yeah, maybe not higher in Buffalo, but some

2047
01:56:30,240 --> 01:56:34,360
Speaker 1: other places. Yeah, they will. And then that opens up

2048
01:56:34,400 --> 01:56:39,000
Speaker 1: a whole other set of responsibilities for stadium ops people.

2049
01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna have to be roping off areas

2050
01:56:42,640 --> 01:56:47,120
Speaker 1: of the parking lot to ensure social distancing from presumably

2051
01:56:47,200 --> 01:56:49,280
Speaker 1: one tailgate party to any They won't have the they

2052
01:56:49,320 --> 01:56:53,440
Speaker 1: won't have the parking lots open. Maybe not, but again,

2053
01:56:53,760 --> 01:56:59,120
Speaker 1: let's not forget about potential recouping of revenue that's lost.

2054
01:56:59,800 --> 01:57:02,160
Speaker 1: You can charge somebody twenty dollars to park in the

2055
01:57:02,240 --> 01:57:04,720
Speaker 1: lot and tailgate before the game and watch the game

2056
01:57:04,760 --> 01:57:07,200
Speaker 1: on their television, and you're parking lot and pay you money.

2057
01:57:07,880 --> 01:57:09,840
Speaker 1: Are you gonna turn that away if you could do

2058
01:57:09,960 --> 01:57:14,440
Speaker 1: it responsibly amidst the pandemic, Brownie, you're brilliant. You've saved

2059
01:57:14,480 --> 01:57:17,440
Speaker 1: the season. I'm just throwing it out there. We're gonna

2060
01:57:17,560 --> 01:57:20,640
Speaker 1: have watch parties outside the stadium and charge admission to that.

2061
01:57:20,880 --> 01:57:23,960
Speaker 1: You can stay my speed on your own starts for parking. Right. Yeah,

2062
01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:26,560
Speaker 1: that's a good point. Yeah, there you go. You're I'm

2063
01:57:26,560 --> 01:57:28,880
Speaker 1: gonna say I'm gonna say false. I don't think more

2064
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:31,120
Speaker 1: people will show up, but you'll get some people outside

2065
01:57:31,160 --> 01:57:35,320
Speaker 1: the stadium saying, hey, the die Hearts, here's NFL true false.

2066
01:57:35,480 --> 01:57:40,800
Speaker 1: Number two. The Seattle Seahawks mascot Blitz is the best

2067
01:57:40,960 --> 01:57:45,280
Speaker 1: mascot in the NFL. What is Blitz? What's he looked like? Well,

2068
01:57:45,320 --> 01:57:48,760
Speaker 1: he's a Seahawk, He's a bird. I'm pretty sure that's

2069
01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:52,240
Speaker 1: the best. That's the best mascot. That guy that runs

2070
01:57:52,280 --> 01:57:57,240
Speaker 1: around that stadium, Well, I don't know absolutely. I'm just

2071
01:57:57,320 --> 01:57:58,960
Speaker 1: gonna tell you there aren't a lot of good ones.

2072
01:57:59,720 --> 01:58:03,440
Speaker 1: Just the La Chargers thing. No, it's like a human

2073
01:58:03,640 --> 01:58:08,320
Speaker 1: version of a lightning bolt. He looks ridiculous. Oh my god.

2074
01:58:08,520 --> 01:58:10,080
Speaker 1: What about you know the you know the one I've

2075
01:58:10,080 --> 01:58:12,360
Speaker 1: seen that does that's actually pretty good is Jackson B.

2076
01:58:12,520 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 1: De Ville. Oh yeah, you like the cat he jumps

2077
01:58:16,040 --> 01:58:20,160
Speaker 1: off the light pole. Well he for acrobatic and entertainment value, Yeah,

2078
01:58:20,200 --> 01:58:22,800
Speaker 1: he is definitely up there. That I was strictly talking

2079
01:58:22,840 --> 01:58:27,839
Speaker 1: about looks and authenticity. Like the Raiders have this helmet

2080
01:58:27,920 --> 01:58:32,560
Speaker 1: head guy that doesn't have a torso the Raid. The

2081
01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:36,240
Speaker 1: Raiders have a whole section of mascots. Well, the Black hole.

2082
01:58:36,720 --> 01:58:39,760
Speaker 1: We're talking about the official one here. Yeah, I think

2083
01:58:39,800 --> 01:58:42,160
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Bucks could do better. They're pirates, a

2084
01:58:42,200 --> 01:58:49,520
Speaker 1: little uh in authentic. Yeah, the Titans have some some

2085
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:54,800
Speaker 1: kind of why would blitz or why would blitz the

2086
01:58:54,920 --> 01:58:58,640
Speaker 1: Seahawks be considered the best? Who? J? J? Harris? Did

2087
01:58:58,680 --> 01:59:00,080
Speaker 1: you put that on there? There are a lot a

2088
01:59:00,160 --> 01:59:04,720
Speaker 1: bird mask was stake to consider let's say false, Yeah

2089
01:59:04,800 --> 01:59:07,320
Speaker 1: to subjective? Yeah, you know the one that I like?

2090
01:59:08,160 --> 01:59:12,320
Speaker 1: I like the uh. I like the Steelers guy Steely mcbeam.

2091
01:59:14,120 --> 01:59:19,680
Speaker 1: He's got that big Yeah, he's got that that big

2092
01:59:19,800 --> 01:59:22,840
Speaker 1: pronounced chin, you know, like the old like the old

2093
01:59:22,920 --> 01:59:25,560
Speaker 1: action figures you used to have as a kid, you know,

2094
01:59:25,680 --> 01:59:28,320
Speaker 1: the big pronounced jaw. And you know he's got a

2095
01:59:29,040 --> 01:59:31,760
Speaker 1: got a hammer and Billy Buffalo went went through a

2096
01:59:31,840 --> 01:59:33,800
Speaker 1: makeover about two and a half years ago. He looks

2097
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Speaker 1: a lot better now, Yeah, a lot better now. I'm

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboy mascot. I'm not a fan of rowdy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he looks too happy, like he's hopped up on too

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Speaker 1: much soda or something. Um, what just teams, he's kitty?

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Speaker 1: What teams do not have mascots? The Giants, well, the

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Speaker 1: Browns have two. Now Browns got a dog, real dog dog.

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Speaker 1: And then they got that elf, Brownie Wealth. Have you

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Speaker 1: seen it? No relation to me? Brownie the Elf. They

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Speaker 1: went back in history and I guess they found out

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Speaker 1: that back in the forties or something, they had an

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Speaker 1: elf as an unofficial mascot or something. But I mean

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Speaker 1: he looks right out of the Seven Dwarfs Snow White movie. Kay,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. And then the Saints have a dog,

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Speaker 1: uh named Gumbo. That's kind of clever. I guess that's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. I got that. But what's the what's the

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Speaker 1: Browns dog name? Uh? What the heck is name? Called

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Speaker 1: Bruiser or Chomps Chomps? Okay, but I would say the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks one is pretty sharp. Billy Buffalo, by the way,

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Speaker 1: was ranked seventh. Yeah, yeah, I think that's that's probably

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Speaker 1: about right. Um. I think the Houston Texans one is

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Toro the Yeah, yeah, I get it. Toro

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Speaker 1: the Bull, he's pretty good. Have you seen. I think

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Speaker 1: it's always neat because it is a kind of I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at Blitz right now. He not does look pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I will give it to them. Yeah, not to lift

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Speaker 1: the veil off too much. But the mascot industry is

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Speaker 1: a little bit close knit. And you know they have

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Speaker 1: these mascot teams. Yeah, convention in these games like where

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Speaker 1: you're in a halftime, all the mascots in the NFL

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Speaker 1: show up in like Arizona and they have a game

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Speaker 1: against you know, some group for charity or whatever. Those are.

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Speaker 1: Those are always fun. I like those. Yeah. I have

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Speaker 1: an embarrassing mascot story that I can tell it a

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Speaker 1: later time when I was doing an internship. Write that

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Speaker 1: down chamber at the double as a mascot. That's for

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's two o'clock two o'clock segment. Have fun with that.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna give me a whole half hour, possible

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Speaker 1: half hour. That's great. But I'm looking at Blitz. He

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Speaker 1: looks sharp, so I will say true. All right, I

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Speaker 1: just I'm gonna say false, just because I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: Blitz and I was I've done Seahawk games. He is

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Speaker 1: does not stick. I'll tell you this, um is it?

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Speaker 1: It's the guy in the costume, right. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: it's saying that the look of the mascot is the best,

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Speaker 1: well his and I think you go to Seahawk game

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Speaker 1: they've got a seahawk that they released from the top

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Speaker 1: of the stadium. Yeah, I've seen that. That's pretty impressive,

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Speaker 1: even though it's not a seahawk because it's a fictitious bird.

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Speaker 1: But yes, there you go, all right, our last one

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Speaker 1: NFL true false. The Steelers backup quarterback is the biggest

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Speaker 1: whole roster hole in the National Football League. The Steelers

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Speaker 1: backup quarterback. They've got like three of them, don't they. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph and Devlin Hodges. Um, you got Paxton Lynch

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Speaker 1: who was signed in the off season, but there's no

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Speaker 1: guarantee he makes the roster. And they got JT. Barrett

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Speaker 1: there too. Um. When you have four, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like the old saying when they used to say,

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Speaker 1: if you have two starting quarterbacks, you don't have one, right.

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Speaker 1: I think the same holds for backup quarterback. If you

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Speaker 1: have four, it's because you're not sure you have the

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Speaker 1: right backup. Right. Who's they got flooding? JT. Barrett, Mason Rudolphin.

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Speaker 1: Who's the last guy. Who's the guy I'm forgetting? Oh,

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Speaker 1: Duck Dodges, Duck Dodgery, Yeah, Duck Codges. Yeah, So I

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Speaker 1: think they're they're flooding the pool with candidates because they're hoping,

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Speaker 1: like heck, somebody rises to the top there. But the

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Speaker 1: question is is it the biggest roster hole in the

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Speaker 1: NFL because they've got four I'm saying true, Yes, it

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Speaker 1: might be right, because that's one of those things where

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Speaker 1: it's not like offensive lineman, you bring in twenty five

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Speaker 1: of them. You know you got five good ones. Quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you could bring in four of them and you ain't

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Speaker 1: got any because you don't like any of them. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's right, It's n NFL True Falls. Brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Yancey's Fancy New York's artist and Geez coming back.

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Speaker 1: What do we learn? This is Buffalo Bills Radio presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health and this is One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: What we learned brought to you by Skywarks, the official

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Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We had

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Speaker 1: Andrew Brandt on the Today's program. We asked him about

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Speaker 1: the NFL's push to start the season on time. Here's

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Speaker 1: what he said. Now, they have to press pause a

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Speaker 1: little bit because we have spikes all over the country.

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Speaker 1: As I've been noting, we shut down Sports on March eleventh,

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Speaker 1: with one, count them, one positive test. Now we have

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Speaker 1: hundreds of positive tests. We have no vaccine on the horizon,

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Speaker 1: we have no cure. It's a highly transmissible disease and

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Speaker 1: we're starting up. So it does seem to be counterintuitive,

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Speaker 1: But the NFL has the luxury of watching and observing

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Speaker 1: the NBA, the nl MLS, MLB, NHL. You know what

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Speaker 1: works on testing and treatment and tracing what doesn't. But

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Speaker 1: I think you, guys and everyone listening, can you realistically

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Speaker 1: say that the sports I just talked about are gonna finish?

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Speaker 1: We know they're gonna start, but are they inna finish?

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Speaker 1: And if they don't finish, my guess is at least

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Speaker 1: one does not finish. And if they don't, how does

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Speaker 1: the NFL start when others can't even finish? That was

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Speaker 1: Andrew brand a Monday Morning Quarterback, a weekly columnists. Occasionally,

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Speaker 1: he also hosts the Business of Sports podcast, and he's

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Speaker 1: the director of the Moored Center for Sports Law at Villanova.

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Speaker 1: A lot of questions coming down the pike, Brownie, and

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Speaker 1: the league's gonna keep pushing forward. You know what just

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Speaker 1: occurred to me, The question that should be asked, one

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Speaker 1: reason the league's pushing forward with all guns blazing and

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Speaker 1: although there's nothing going on right now, is that the

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Speaker 1: government hasn't told them they can't. There's no there's no

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Speaker 1: law or anything or no policy government national policy, there's

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Speaker 1: no national policy. There's nobody telling them they cannot go forward.

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Speaker 1: So they're gonna go forward, right And where it goes

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Speaker 1: from here, I think is going to be largely based

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Speaker 1: on a how the negotiations with the players union goes on,

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Speaker 1: what training camp is going to look like, what is

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Speaker 1: permissible in terms of practice contact, all of that stuff, because,

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Speaker 1: as Andrew Brand said himself, football is the polar opposite

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Speaker 1: of social distancing. I mean, you got bodies colliding on

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Speaker 1: every single play a multiple number of times. Every play

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Speaker 1: ends with either a tackle or somebody going out of

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Speaker 1: bounds or into an end zone. So on two thirds

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Speaker 1: to three quarters of every play, one person is taking

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Speaker 1: down another person. There's no there's no way to escape exposure.

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Speaker 1: There's absolutely no way. And it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: repeat of the NBA where all of a sudden, one

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Speaker 1: guy gets it and then these guys got on his

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Speaker 1: team and three of the guys on another team got

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Speaker 1: and and it just breaks out fast and it goes wide.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see how they try

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Speaker 1: to contain it once they've got positive tests right and there.

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Speaker 1: The testing also is something that they have to talk

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Speaker 1: about too. Is it going to be every single day?

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Speaker 1: Is it going to be three days a week? Are

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Speaker 1: they going to do you know, the saliva sample, the

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Speaker 1: nasal sample, what what blood draw? What are they doing?

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Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll talk about it more tomorrow. Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: We've got Tasker's teammate, Brown's gonna come up with one

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Speaker 1: of my former teammates. All guests, it is with some

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Speaker 1: clues and the obl mail bag as well. This has

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Speaker 1: been One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health. This

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