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Speaker 1: These one Bills Live, presented by Called Light of Health,

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Speaker 1: Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Everybody. Well, it's good Friday edition

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Speaker 1: of One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, both of

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Speaker 1: both probably both of Irish descent, Right, you think you

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Speaker 1: are Tasker? Sounds Irish to me, Steve. I've got to

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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit of a mud I think. To

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Speaker 1: be honest, I gotta believe you've got a little emerald dial. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think I do. I saw a tombstone

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Speaker 1: of a Tasker in Stratford upon Avon. Well, then it's

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Speaker 1: settled and it's gotta be right. Welcome, Welcome to the Ireland.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, British Britain. It's not quite it's you know,

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Speaker 1: I am a quarter Irish quarter. Yeah, but I've got

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Speaker 1: I know I've got family in London dairy over there,

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Speaker 1: London dairy. Oh yeah, Okay, that's one of the id's been.

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Speaker 1: My dad's been ardently working the genealogy website now that

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Speaker 1: he's you know, a retired man, and he is pounding

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Speaker 1: it like nobody's business. Here's eigning stuff out. Well, here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, because the breakdown of my family half Italian

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Speaker 1: mom's side, Dad's side is split down the middle, Irish

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Speaker 1: and Swiss, so he his demeanor kind of falls on

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Speaker 1: the Swiss side a little bit more. He's very, very

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Speaker 1: neutral in most situations. But here's the thing, here's the

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Speaker 1: thing that he's discovered, uh and trying to track down

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Speaker 1: the genealogy stuff. The Swiss meticulous oh yeah, record keeping right,

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Speaker 1: like he's got that. He's got the Swiss side of

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Speaker 1: our family. Back to the sixteen hundreds over there in Lucerne, Switzerland,

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Speaker 1: which didn't they have one of the Olympics there recently?

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Speaker 1: I think they did one of them. Anyway, in Ireland,

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Speaker 1: tap focused, it's a mess. Oh yeah, there is, like

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Speaker 1: you can't find it, there's any six different surnames over there. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's not only that, it's like stuff's misspelled, dates are wrong,

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Speaker 1: papers are lost. So he's been down like rabbit holes,

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Speaker 1: wormholes everything for Ireland, right, and it has been like

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Speaker 1: poland teeth just to get anything that you have a

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Speaker 1: shred of evidence might be in fact accurate. Meanwhile, Switzerland

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Speaker 1: completely different animal. We're like back to the sixteen hundreds

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Speaker 1: over there. I'm pretty sure I'm golden retriever fifteen percent

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Speaker 1: German shepherd. You know that kind of thing, German shepherd.

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Speaker 1: Yeah the hell does that? Me? Standard poodle in there somewhere,

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Speaker 1: labor labordoo, labordoodle, I've got. I'm all of that. So

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Speaker 1: I have no idea. I have no idea. So we

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Speaker 1: didn't really get a chance to discuss this. Yesterday me

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Speaker 1: coming back off vacation, Steve. So I was down on

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Speaker 1: the Caribbean, soaking up some much needed sun for some

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Speaker 1: vitamin D. My love Lily, wife and I, a couple

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Speaker 1: of our friends, and great week all the way around.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pose to you this question, Okay, on a

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Speaker 1: Caribbean island, if you go there as a Western New Yorker, Right,

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Speaker 1: give me the overunder. I'm there for seven days. Give

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Speaker 1: me the overunder for the number of bills fans that

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Speaker 1: I should run into on a Caribbean island in March.

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Speaker 1: Give me the over under kind of a all right,

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Speaker 1: So I'll just say a fair number. You want me

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Speaker 1: to give it to you, like per day? No, No,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm there for a week. What's the over under

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Speaker 1: on how many bills fans I ran into? Over under?

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Speaker 1: I'll say I'll say one a day, seven it wasn't

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Speaker 1: that many. Um it was four four is the answer.

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Speaker 1: Met some nice people from Lockport, people from Amhurst. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: People lived two blocks away from you. And I think

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Speaker 1: there was another guy in Hamburg or something. It's just like,

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Speaker 1: how does this happen? Yeah, I mean we're all trying

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Speaker 1: to do the same thing. This time. You were just

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Speaker 1: That didn't shock me, but this one did. So we're

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Speaker 1: the usual jovial island guy. Who guy doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: of giving you little tips. And then finally he says,

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Speaker 1: big guy, like, big dude, Like, my hand disappeared in

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Speaker 1: his and he's shaking my hand. I was like, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at him, dumbfounder, like, why does he have to

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Speaker 1: I just needed to shake the hand of a member

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Speaker 1: of the Bills Mafia, like in a full blown island

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Speaker 1: accent too, Like I'm just like this guy, like you

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Speaker 1: like the Bills Mafias for a real man. And I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you, you guys out of a heck of

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Speaker 1: a group, you know. And I was just like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, it was cool, right, nice. Bill Moffia is

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Speaker 1: like worldly. It's crazy, it is. It is worldly. That's

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Speaker 1: so it's everywhere. I'm the same way. I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: the same way whenever when I go out play and

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Speaker 1: anywhere and you wear the logo and very you get

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Speaker 1: shout out. It was a shout out. It was pretty cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just to see that, uh, you know, in a far

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Speaker 1: of my favorite hats is an actually a Bill's hat

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Speaker 1: that that's uh Saint Patrick's day. I got it's green. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: thing I did in the spirit of the day being green.

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Speaker 1: My wife and I were snorkeling, and you expect to

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Speaker 1: And uh, we swam with him, like behind him, over

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Speaker 1: a good trip. We got some good relaxation thanks to

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Speaker 1: funny too because you could get everybody out there You're

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Speaker 1: gonna and everybody has it you know, get vacation days, right,

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Speaker 1: Speaking of free agency bills news of the day, Isaiah

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars bonus in his existing contract. That was

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Speaker 1: something the Bills did not want to undertake. And by

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Speaker 1: releasing Isaiah McKenzie, the Bills save over two million dollars

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Speaker 1: but over two million dollars on the cap saved by

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Speaker 1: parting ways with Isaiah McKenzie. And I think we really

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Speaker 1: surmised that his days could be numbered when they signed

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Speaker 1: free agent wide receiver Deonte Hardy because Hardy is a

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Speaker 1: he's younger. Yeah, he makes those He actually makes Isaiah

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Speaker 1: McKenzie look like a big dude, but same guy sort

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Speaker 1: have a couple of exceptions on your roster body type wise,

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Speaker 1: tight end. I don't care, I don't know. I don't

422
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Speaker 1: gave Davis is a roll. I'll just say this. The

423
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: tight end class is very talented. There's guys coming out.

424
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Speaker 1: There's no rookie tight end who's gonna come in and

425
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Speaker 1: give you what you're asking for. This it's too hard

426
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: to transition to me. Okay, they may they may grow

427
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 1: into it, but they're not gonna come out and be

428
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Speaker 1: Kelsey Kittle or even in the passing game. They're not

429
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Speaker 1: even gonna be gesticky. They're not. They're not gonna do that.

430
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Speaker 1: They just won't. They'd be good. They'll have some moments,

431
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be up and down. Like every every

432
00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 1: young player is the highest name name wise on the

433
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: wide receiver free agent listen that's still out there would

434
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Speaker 1: be like an Adam Feelin who's thirty five. Yeah, ob

435
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: J's out there, I get it. His price tag is

436
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: through the roof app you can't afford him. Mikole Hardman, Okay,

437
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Speaker 1: I'll listen. DJ Clark and Marvin Jones, you know, yeah,

438
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Speaker 1: DJ Chark, I'm sorry. Yeah, Jones is getting up there

439
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 1: in age right, same thing. Jarvis Landry, Okay, you know

440
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: he's now, he's bouncing around. Why there's a reason if

441
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: you're and this wide receiver class is just Okay, not

442
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: as good as the last two by far. It's or

443
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Speaker 1: the last maybe three. Um, there's just not guys out

444
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 1: there who Do you think there's a supply problem this year?

445
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: This year? Yeah, and I'm saying this you there's no

446
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: question with James Cook and with Shakier Little Shakir, you're

447
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: not really sure that they're going to take a big

448
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: step forward. You think they might, You've seen flashes of it.

449
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: There's no way those guys. I think they'll give him

450
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,679
Speaker 1: a lot more. I wish they had played more sooner.

451
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: Do you think Gabe Davis played better in his first

452
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: two years than he did last year? I think all

453
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: the numbers are pretty comparable. I know that in his

454
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 1: rookie season he had thirty five receptions and he had

455
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Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, could have had ten. We keep We talked

456
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,439
Speaker 1: about that a lot about how back then he was

457
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: the four single coverage all the time, an afterthought in

458
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Speaker 1: the offense because they had John Brown, Cole Beasley and

459
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: Stefan dis So he was the fourth receiver getting the

460
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: other team's fourth corner every week. He should score seven

461
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: to ten touchdowns. You want some guy, If you want

462
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Speaker 1: a guy who's got some measurables. I mean you're talking

463
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Speaker 1: about guys like you go all the way down the list,

464
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: like Nelson Agelore and nikkil Harry, the guys from New England.

465
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: I mean they got Nelson are Nick the Bills last

466
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: year in the game to Harry, they went to him.

467
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: There was a stretch there in a drive there where

468
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: he was all over him and was really the only

469
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: bright spot in their entire game plan against the Bills.

470
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: So you're looking for a guy who actually flashed against

471
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: the Bills. Nelson Agelo is the guy. Nikkil Harry I

472
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: don't know what his I mean, he was a number

473
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: one draft pick because he had measurables and he's you've

474
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: never seen him in the NFL. He's not even on

475
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots, right, He's both those guys. Both those guys,

476
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: Um they're out there, um you know, I mean yeah,

477
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: I mean, Cole Beasley's on this thing. Sammy Watkins is

478
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: out there, Oh my gosh, t Y Hilton. Yeah. Look,

479
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: I mean who number two is a little bit pie

480
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Speaker 1: in the sky. Because not only is it are to

481
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: find those guys because they're usually snapped up pretty quickly,

482
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: there's also a price tag involved for anybody that's proven

483
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: to be that Julio Jones is out there. Yeah, I

484
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: don't want him his body, he's used up. The other

485
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: part of this is the bigger back discussion. And you

486
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: and I notice that a certain big back was just

487
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: cut in Tampa Bay today. Leonard Fournette was cut by

488
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He would certainly fit the model

489
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: of a bigger back. He's huge. Yeah, it's a little

490
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: too huge. Maybe sometimes might camp huge. Last he might

491
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: be a little chubby at times. But if you sit

492
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: down with him, if you bring him in for a visit,

493
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: you bring Leonard Fournette in for a visit, and he

494
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Speaker 1: convinces you that he wants to start, and he wants

495
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: to come up and play, and he wants to play. Well,

496
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: I'll say this, that guy's a grown man. I watched

497
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: him his rookie season. He had the rookie season when

498
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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville went to the championship game against tent Pittsburgh

499
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: back in two thousand, was of fifteen, sixteen seventeen. That

500
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Speaker 1: guy was unbelievable that season. His rookie season at LSU.

501
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: He was big, fast, agile, and he ran with some

502
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Speaker 1: nasty so if he can, if you can resurrect that

503
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Speaker 1: in Leonard Fournette, that's a guy that goes and when

504
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,479
Speaker 1: he runs, he runs hard, he knows how to finish,

505
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Speaker 1: and he could probably be affordable. He's big, probably be affordable.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm a I'm all about that. I've seen

507
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Speaker 1: the guy play and at a high level and he's

508
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: you know, he's still in his mid late twenties, right,

509
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: so keep your eyes open for bigger backs that not

510
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: only are on the market right now, but come available

511
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: much the way Leonard Fournette became available today. Bucks also

512
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: cut tight end Cameron Brake, so that's another player out

513
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: there there that will likely draw some interest. In speaking

514
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: of tight ends, Mike Gisicki is no longer a Miami Dolphin.

515
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: He's a New England Patriot as the Patriots perhaps try

516
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Speaker 1: to resurrect a double passing combo with the tight end

517
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Speaker 1: position with Gisicki and Hunter Henry. They traded John Hu

518
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Speaker 1: Smith to Atlanta earlier this week, so looking for more

519
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: of a pass catching option that John H. Smith never

520
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Speaker 1: turned into in New England after they signed him to

521
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: that monster deal to get him away from Tennessee. He's interesting. Interesting,

522
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: it's an interesting player, super smart Harvard guy can do everything.

523
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: Helps you in the short intermediate game, big red zone target.

524
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: You do a lot worse than Cameron Brad. Yeah, we

525
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: have to take a break here. We want to remind

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Speaker 1: you it is obl fran Friday mail bag. Any question

527
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: you have about the Bills free agency, the league at large,

528
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: let it fly, Steve and I'll do our best to

529
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: answer those and when we come back, an update on

530
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Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin and his desire to continue his football playing career.

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Speaker 1: We'll bring that to you next here on One Bills

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

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Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brownste's tasker with

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Speaker 1: you on this Saint Patrick's Day Friday. Aaron go brah

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Speaker 1: and that the phrase we use. I think so. But

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Speaker 1: we wanted to talk about Damar Hamlin. So the update

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Speaker 1: that Brandon Bean provided on Damar Hamlin. First, he said

538
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: he visited with him a short time ago and that

539
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: Damar has every intention to resume his playing career. He

540
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: has already cleared several hurdles in terms of the number

541
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Speaker 1: of specialists with whom he has consulted about his future playing,

542
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Speaker 1: but Bean said he believes he has one more specialist

543
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: that he has to meet with, But all indications to

544
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Speaker 1: this point are Hamlin will be able to resume his

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00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: playing career. He said. It's I don't want to misquote

546
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: Brandon because I don't want to put words in his mouth,

547
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: but he said it's trending in the right direction. So

548
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: there have been no real roadblocks to his return to

549
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: the field. So that's an encouraging thing, especially knowing the

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Speaker 1: status of the safety position. Steve, it's a little bit

551
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: better now because you have Payer back in the fold,

552
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: you have Cam Lewis back in the fold. You know

553
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: Micah hides here. So that's three right there. If Christian

554
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: Benford is transition to safety, that's four, and then Hamlin

555
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: would make five provided he gets the necessary clearance to

556
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: play again this coming season. Yeah he is. And what's

557
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: a story that would be? Oh, I mean all eyeballs

558
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: would be on that. Oh my god. Sure, I mean

559
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: even if he only plays on special teams, can you

560
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: imagine it make coming up making his first tackle? Oh

561
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:11,239
Speaker 1: my gosh. So yeah, yeah, Hey, if the doc and

562
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I know a lot of people. When

563
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: you really start to think about what that means and

564
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: what it would be like to see him out there

565
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: playing and have and being his teammate and playing alongside

566
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: him and playing against him, you're kind of like, Wow,

567
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: what what a long way that has been for him

568
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: to come back. But I'll say this about you know

569
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: people saying, well, I would never play, I think it's

570
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: too too dangerous or whatever. When you're sitting there and

571
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: the doctors say give you the clearance and go ahead,

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00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: most guys are gonna go back out there. They're gonna

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00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: go back out They're gonna play again. And it'll certainly

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00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: obviously depend on how DeMar feels and all of that,

575
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: but most guys will say, may I'm gonna go play.

576
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: Think about how many times we've seen players go to

577
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: a different doctor to give him the okay because one

578
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: doctor says I don't think it's a good idea. He'll

579
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: go find somebody that tells him it's a good idea. Yeah.

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00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: Second opinion, if you've got all these doctors lined up,

581
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: the specialists, and they've all given him the green light

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Speaker 1: forever at whatever level they have given him the green light,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you he's going to be out there. The

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Speaker 1: other good news concerning Damar Hamlin is he made the

585
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Speaker 1: top twenty five list in the league for performance based pay.

586
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: This is an initiative that the league put into play

587
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: for players who on their rookie deals outperform their rookie

588
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: contract based on playing time, production, a number of different factors,

589
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: snap count, yeah, etcet. And Damar in the past season

590
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Speaker 1: ranked twenty first in performance based pay. How big was

591
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Speaker 1: his raise? Now? Damar got a bump of six hundred

592
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Speaker 1: and fifty two thousand dollars in cha change. So good

593
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: for him, let me tell you. And that opportunity obviously

594
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: was born out of Micah Hides season ending neck injury,

595
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: which afforded him the opportunity to start play every week

596
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: and rack up snaps, tackles, all kinds of production. And

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00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: so he was rewarded with six hundred and fifty two

598
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in additional performance based pay. So good for him.

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00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: That was good to see. And I'll say this for

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Speaker 1: those of you who are wondering, that is exactly what

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Speaker 1: it sounds like the way I understand it. He got

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00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 1: six hundred what six hundred and some thousands fifty two. Folks,

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00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: that's a check. Just you get it in the mail. Yeah,

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00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: and it's I'd be nice to get in there. Think

605
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: about opening up a check. I get happy when I

606
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: get a five dollars rebate. Right, that makes six hundred

607
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: and fifty two. That makes your tax refund look like nothing.

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Speaker 1: Six hundred and fifty two thousand dollars you And it's

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00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: a check you getting out. They may have they'll have

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00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: with holding out of it and whatever that is. But

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00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: you're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a check take home. Hey,

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Speaker 1: are gonna here you go? Thanks, thanks for stopping by.

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00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: Nice year, dude. It is awesome. Yeah, it is awesome.

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Speaker 1: I gotta check like that one time in my career.

615
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: Certainly not like that, but like that. That's cool. It

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Speaker 1: was really cool. I will never really cool. I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: That is like, let me say, that is a good day.

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Speaker 1: That is a good trip to the mailbox. Man. You

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Speaker 1: go down, Oh okay, guy, what is it? Open that up?

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Speaker 1: Nice honey. We're having misteak tonight out to dinner, that is.

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Speaker 1: And there ain't no there ain't no. Hey, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: you know, here's a here's a little bit now louit. No,

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Speaker 1: it is a clunk's lump sum big clunker right on

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Speaker 1: your desk. Poof. I love it. It is the best. Oh,

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00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,959
Speaker 1: that was kind of cool to see that, Like there's

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Speaker 1: there's hunt lots of guys get it. A ton of

627
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: guys get it. The list I saw was the like

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00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: the top twenty five, so you know there's a ton

629
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Speaker 1: of them out there. Yeah. Number one on the list

630
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: was Marcus Epps, the Philadelphia Eagles safety who just signed

631
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: somewhere else in free agency. Oh no, he resigned with them.

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Speaker 1: He was drafted the sixth round. Yeah, out of Wyoming. Right,

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Speaker 1: and there's like there's of the top twenty five, he

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Speaker 1: made eight eighty in chain eight eighty. That is a

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Speaker 1: big that is a fat number. So eight eight of

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Speaker 1: the top twenty five guys. Four of them were undrafted,

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Speaker 1: rookie free age, undrafted free agents, undrafted Yeah to Sean Gibson,

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Speaker 1: Kator Coohu, Kahles hearts Field and the last oneund of

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Speaker 1: the top twenty friend Jake Brendall. All those guys got

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Speaker 1: big checks. And I love that program because you guys

641
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: come in, well they earned it, some of it. They

642
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Speaker 1: probably earn more than that if you go by complete value,

643
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: because this is just a like they so far out

644
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: earned it that even the league feels bad about it,

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Speaker 1: all right, right, but I mean much like Damar Hamlin.

646
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Speaker 1: The only reason Kator Coohu was on the field as

647
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Speaker 1: the nickel corner for the Dolphins is because Nick Needham

648
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: got hurt and a bunch of other guys got hurt

649
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Speaker 1: in their secondary. Oh let's try Kator Coohu. And then

650
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: they found out, oh, you know what, this kid can

651
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: actually play, and they left him in there, right, you know.

652
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Speaker 1: So what's the result for him? He gets an extra

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and five thousand dollars in his rookie year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's I love that program. That is that is such

655
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: a good thing. It is such a good thing. Young players,

656
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: undrafted guys come in and they just they signed for

657
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: whatever they can get, and then they come in, by

658
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: happenstance or or merit, they end up playing and helping

659
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: the team. Yeah, man scooch him some cash. I love that.

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Speaker 1: As we say, it is OBL fan mail Bag Friday,

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Speaker 1: your phone calls welcome in eight three fifty one, fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty or on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Any questions you have about the Bills, free agency, the

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Speaker 1: league at large, the draft letter rip. We lead off

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Speaker 1: with Ron in Lackawana today. What do you got for us? Ron?

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Speaker 1: You're on one Bills Live. Welcome back, Chris, Thank you

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00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: great to have you back. Appreciate that. Okay, Um, I

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00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: love what you're saying about Leonard Fournette. That would be

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00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: a great great pick up in at H I love

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Speaker 1: Dailien Harris. No we're gonna cut him last week. I

671
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: would love to see him in our backfield. I think

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Speaker 1: the two games against the woman he would have I

673
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: think that would be a big plus for it. And

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00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: d gave Shark. I've always had my mind on the escape.

675
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: I remember he was there was high host for him.

676
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: I wouldn't look to see him with a quarterback like

677
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: Josh Young somebody's never had. And another thing I'd like

678
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Speaker 1: to say, one more thing is as far as Oliver goes,

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00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: if you can get something back for him, I would

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Speaker 1: like to see that. Maybe if they could do it

681
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: with Boogie and on another ten pounds to move him inside.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to hang up and I listened to what

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Speaker 1: you say thank you all right, Thanks, Ron, I appreciate

684
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Speaker 1: the phone call. Damien Harris has been a Bills killer.

685
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: The only time I didn't kill the Bills was in

686
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: last year's playoff game where they pretty much neutralized him.

687
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: But that guy was averaging like a touchdown and game

688
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: against the Bills. He kills them when he's healthy. The

689
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: problem is he's had some health issues. He's also I

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Speaker 1: don't know. You tell me, Steve, I guess he qualifies

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Speaker 1: as a big back fifteen. He's right on the fringe there.

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00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: He's like five eleven two fifteen. And the way he's

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Speaker 1: put together, he doesn't look like a truck, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. He's a little bigger, but yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: not that. He's not a big thing and run like.

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Speaker 1: He's good size. He's good size. He wouldn't count as

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Speaker 1: big to me. I think two twenty two, twenty five.

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Speaker 1: That's when you get up there. I think that's getting that.

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00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: I think it's a two thirty guy something like that. Yeah,

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00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: I mean, the bigger the better. I'm I keep telling you, man,

701
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: make you know he wanted Justin Zimmer as the full

702
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: Give me my boy, Justin Zimmer the ball in the backfield,

703
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: bro Sleeve. He can scoot, you know, and you know

704
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: handing the ball. Um. If you want a big back,

705
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: go big and worry about the speed and the agility

706
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: and the pass catching stuff later. Every one of these

707
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: guys on every NFL team, every year, for all time,

708
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: grew up carrying the ball when they were a kid.

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00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: I mean they all did. Every kid. Every player was

710
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 1: a running back or quarterback at some point in their career.

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00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: Get the kid, give them the ball. Damn. I'm telling you,

712
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: Justin Zimmer is a missed opportunity. I'm just gonna I

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00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: don't know if I'll die on that hill, but I

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00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: might die on that hill. Wow. I think those I

715
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: think the ability for players to be versatile athletes is

716
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: an underrated quality. And for all the versatility that coaches

717
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: and not just the Bills, but coaches around the league

718
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: talk about, I know that there are big, strong, fast

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00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: athletes out there who, because of their because of the

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00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: position designation at the front of their name, never even

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00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: get considered to do anything else, and they should be,

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Speaker 1: you know whatever. So DJ Chark is an interesting the

723
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: Big Bame. We already mentioned it in the previous segment.

724
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 1: Ron and Lackawana likes him too. His one giant season

725
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: of production came in a year where he was the

726
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: number one wide out. It came in Jacksonville twenty nineteen.

727
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew was his starting quarterback. He was the number

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Speaker 1: one option in that passing game, which, by the way,

729
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: for those that don't remember, was the Doug Morone offense,

730
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,720
Speaker 1: which was rooted in a ground game. Seventy three catches,

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00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: one thousand and eight yards, eight touchdowns, and he made

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl that year on a six and ten

733
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Speaker 1: football team. That's hard to do after that, though, it's

734
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: been kind of a mixed bag. Injured in twenty twenty one,

735
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: his last year in Jacksonville, only played in four games,

736
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: and then last year in Detroit on a one year deal,

737
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 1: starts ten games, thirty receptions, five hundred two yards, three touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He was kind of their four, their three or their

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00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: four in their offense. He's a six four guy, just

740
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: but he's right at two hundred pounds, so he's slender.

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Speaker 1: He's you know, and he came out of LSU. He

742
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Speaker 1: was around you know, he's got some measurables. Yeah, it's

743
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: he came out the same years as Josh did So's

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00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: he's kind of he's young enough, right, Yeah, I'm I

745
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: hear you. An LSU guy came out of that program

746
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: that they they turn out a lot of really good wideouts,

747
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: particularly in that time frame, so I'm he's intriguing to me.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break here when we come back.

749
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Speaker 1: More of your phone calls from the obil Friday fan

750
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: mail bag and coming up in the second hour of

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00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: the show on St. Patrick's Day. What better to have

752
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: the native Irishman himself one Sam Monson from Pro Football Focus.

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00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: We'll be joining us an hour number two. Plenty more

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Speaker 1: coming your way next here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: here we are One Bills Live on Saint Patrick's Day Friday.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about a dangerous day, Bro, Saint

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Speaker 1: Patrick's Day on a Friday. Whoa, it's people started the

759
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: weekend last night. Yeah right, I don't know about you.

760
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: There were like no cars on the road coming into

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00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: work today. I think people called it early. I'm done,

762
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: yeah that It was yeah, cold and rainy day today

763
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, winding up for the which is not good.

764
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: That's gonna keep more people inside and they're gonna throw

765
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: even more back. So so yeah, exactly, stay off the roads,

766
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: Stay off the roads. Responsible. Let's go back to the

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00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: phones and we go on this OBL fan mail bag

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Speaker 1: Friday to Marie and Amhurst. Next, what do you got

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00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: for us? Marie? Thank, I's good happening all afternoon. So

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Speaker 1: I have a question before I act, before I say

771
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: the rest. First question is if the Bills don't make

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00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: it to the Super Bowl this season, what do you

773
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 1: see happening with this team in terms of personnel, well,

774
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: players too. Do you see it, like I mean, I

775
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: get it a major overhaul if they go too and

776
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 1: fourteen don't make it the Super Bowl, Yeah, it's gonna

777
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: be an overhaul if they go. If they go fifteen

778
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: and two get to the eight championship game or go

779
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: to the or go to the championship game and lose

780
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: on a bad call, that's different. Yeah, it is different.

781
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: And look, I think, and Steve has said this several times,

782
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: the Bills have a roster that's good enough to get

783
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: to the ultimate game and win it. A big problem

784
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: the last couple of years has been not playing their

785
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: best on that day. In the playoffs this past season.

786
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: I've said it before. I'm convinced that they were not

787
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: in the right mental headspace to play a divisional playoff

788
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: game against the team they just played three weeks prior,

789
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: where the Damar Hamlin incident happened. Their emotional investment was elsewhere.

790
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: It was not in a football game. They were out

791
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: of gas, had nothing to give, didn't play their best.

792
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: They lost to the Bengals the year before, They probably

793
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: did play well enough to win, but there were other

794
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: circumstances that probably cost them the victory there. And then

795
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,399
Speaker 1: the year before that they play the Chiefs. They didn't

796
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,760
Speaker 1: play their best on that day, and the Chiefs played

797
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: the best game of the season of their season that year,

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00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: that game, and that's how you know they went back.

799
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 1: What they do? They lose in the AFC, No, they

800
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: lost in the divisional rounds by they lost the AFC

801
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: championship game, Yeah to Cincinnati. Yes, so oh no, that

802
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 1: was last year. It doesn't matter. The Chiefs played their

803
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: best game of the year in the AFC title game

804
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: against the Bills in twenty twenty and went to the

805
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and then you know what happened after that,

806
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, for my money, as long as the roster,

807
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: for the most part, the core remains relatively intact. This

808
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: team is good enough to go all the way. You

809
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: got to make some tweaks to it. This offseason. They've

810
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: got some cap situation to resolve and still keep the

811
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 1: roster competitive in what has become a full blown arms

812
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,919
Speaker 1: race in the AFC, let alone the AFC East. Here's

813
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: here's the thing. We all remember, all of us are

814
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: old enough to remember that the seventeen years the Bills

815
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: could not, for the life of them make the playoffs.

816
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: So you get Randon being in here, you get Sean

817
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: McDermott in here, and they start doing things differently, and

818
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, and Josh has something to do

819
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: with that, no question, Digs whatever, they all have something

820
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: to do with it. They're gonna keep on doing exactly

821
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: what got them to the point where they're one of

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00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 1: the best teams in the league. Every year. They're gonna

823
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: keep doing exactly that. Now, if that means they rotate

824
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: guys in and out, they're gonna have. You know, last

825
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: year they had a ton of guys or we were

826
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Speaker 1: worried because there's gonna be like ten or thirteen guys

827
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: washed out of the out of the team. They're gonna

828
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Speaker 1: have to replace them. Well, they did replace them, and

829
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: they had a new offensive coordinator and a new offensive

830
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: line coach and they still were number two in the

831
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Speaker 1: league and scoring. And they're doing all last stiff. So

832
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: this year it's gonna be that they're gonna come in

833
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: and they're gonna continue to do things that make them

834
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Speaker 1: a contender. So it doesn't mean they're gonna do the

835
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Speaker 1: exact same thing they did and they're gonna get the

836
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Speaker 1: same results because they're gonna be out of the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and everybody's gonna start. You know, No, you run your

838
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: program the way it keeps the same way that the

839
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Speaker 1: Alabama Crimson Tie and the LSU Tigers and Clemson and

840
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Speaker 1: Georgia run their college programs. You run it at the

841
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: level that it takes to get there every year and

842
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: to be right there. So that's what they're gonna do,

843
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,760
Speaker 1: and they're gonna continue to do that, and they're gonna

844
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: they do it better than other teams do. That's why

845
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: they're a contender. They just they do it better. And

846
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 1: that's what they're gonna keep doing. They're gonna keep bringing

847
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 1: in really good players and coaching them up. We've got

848
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Speaker 1: to take a break here, but when we return in

849
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Speaker 1: our number two, we'll be joined by Pro Football Focus

850
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: NFL analysts Sam Monson, who will be joining us, going

851
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: to recap some of the top moves from around the

852
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: NFL in this first wave of free agency. Sam Monson,

853
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: come on your way next year. On One Bills Live

854
00:49:41,120 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. These one

855
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Called Light of Health. Here an

856
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: hour number two on a Friday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

857
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 1: with you one Bills Live and please be joined now

858
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: by NFL analysts for Pro Football Focus one, Sam Monson.

859
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,879
Speaker 1: Happy Saint Patrick's Day, Sam, How you doing doing well?

860
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: How about you guys? We're doing all right. The first

861
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: wave of free agency, Sam is kind of passed over

862
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: us here, and you know we're a little more than

863
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: a week through in terms of when people started making

864
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: phone calls and such. And uh, I know you put

865
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: something together on Pro Football Focus about most improved position

866
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: groups and a former Bill is right there on the

867
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: list with some of your assessments there, Why don't you

868
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: just kind of shed some light on that if you could. Yeah,

869
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: Chicago's linebacker corps. Obviously Tremaine Edmonds one of the prizes

870
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: of free agency in terms of the contract, but also

871
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: you know how many boxes he ticks as a sort

872
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: of top tier free agent, young in his prime, coming

873
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: off a career year, with incredible size, speed, range, all

874
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: those kinds of things, the perfect type of signing. And

875
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: they added t J. Edwards, a guy from the Philadelphia

876
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: Eagles who saw almost the opposite type of player, marginal

877
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: physical tools, a guy that's had to do with the

878
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: hard way coming up as an undrafted free agent, but

879
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: has played at an incredibly high level as well. The

880
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,399
Speaker 1: Bear is adding two of those guys to one unit,

881
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,439
Speaker 1: I think is pretty exceptional for them. And we see

882
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: we've been talking a lot, particularly in the AFC, about

883
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: it kind of being an arms race where Kansas City

884
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: has kind of set the standard. You kind of got

885
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 1: to score with them, Cincinnati with the three big wide

886
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: receivers that they have, and Buffalo also being number two

887
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: in the league and scoring. I mean, you got to

888
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: you kind of kind of light it up. Do you

889
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: see any trends in free agency that speak to that? Yeah,

890
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: I mean not necessarily when it comes to free agency.

891
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: You know, I don't see any particular positions being supercharged

892
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: because of that kind of trend, But you're right. The

893
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: AFC generally has continued what they did last season of

894
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: this arms race, and more and more teams really loading

895
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: up to try and contend. Look what Miami has done

896
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: trading for Jalen Ramsey and now arguably having two number

897
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: one wide receivers and two number one cornerbacks. The Bengals

898
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: have continued what they did a year ago to keep

899
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: working on that offensive line and sort of follow the

900
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: Kansas City mold of making sure that their star quarterback

901
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 1: has the platform to work for as much as humanly possible,

902
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: having been burned by that right at the start. So

903
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 1: I think that's the right way of characterizing it. More

904
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: and more of these super teams appear to be manifesting

905
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: in the AFC. If the Jets get Aaron Rodgers as well,

906
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: that's another team that could be contending. It's starting to

907
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: look like the halves and the have nots in terms

908
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: of just the conference. Almost all of these contending teams

909
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: are in the AFC. And I know that with Sean

910
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: Payton in Denver, Now they're throwing an awful lot of

911
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: money around here in the early going, particularly on the

912
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: offensive line with McGlinchey and Powers. Now they're from San

913
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 1: fran In Baltimore, respectively, but they're also, you know, spending

914
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,479
Speaker 1: some money on defense. I mean, Zach Allen goes there

915
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: on a three year deal. Al Singleton, they're able to

916
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: keep in the fold on the defensive side of the ball.

917
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: I know p Ryan was a smaller signing, but it's

918
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: pretty clear to me that Walton Penner group that now

919
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: owns the Broncos promised Sean Payton that money would not

920
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: be a problem. It doesn't appear to be at all.

921
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: I mean, they're throwing it all over the place, right

922
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: And I think it's also sort of suggesting that, you know,

923
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: this approach that the Saints have had to the salary

924
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: cap for years, kind of max out the credit card,

925
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: pay it off at the last possible minute, and do

926
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: it all over again. That might have been a Sean

927
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: Payton driven approach, and all of a sudden, Denver is

928
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,760
Speaker 1: potentially going to be taking that route with the salary

929
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: cap and with spending as well, with their owners that

930
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: are perfectly prepared to put some money behind things. So yeah,

931
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: this might be the case for Denver for a while

932
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 1: to just spend like crazy and deal with the salary

933
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: cap implications down the line. Yeah, we've seen too. The

934
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: flavor of the year, flavor of the month, kind of

935
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: the year was the Detroit lines. They were on hard knocks.

936
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: They took a big step forward offensively, their defense struggle,

937
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: but yet in this free agency period they took some

938
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: steps to getting better in the back end of their defense. Yeah.

939
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: I really like the moves they've made it in particular cornerback.

940
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 1: I kind of love almost step by step. The Lions

941
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: have done this rebuild project in a really smart way,

942
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 1: which isn't to say that they've made every pick right.

943
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: You know, they've missed a bunch of players, and rather

944
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: than let that derail the entire project, they've tried to

945
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 1: come up with a way of fixing it and sort

946
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 1: of retro fitting positions that have struggled at so that

947
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: they don't have to go into the draft and desperately

948
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 1: chase need with that first round pick. So they bring

949
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: in Cam Sutton, They bring in Emmanuel Moseley, a pair

950
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: of cornerbacks. Sutton has played well both in the slot

951
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: and out wide, and Mosley, you know, I think is

952
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: a little bit maligned, but for his entire NFL career

953
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: has been pretty solid. So they now know that the

954
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: worst case scenario is they go into the season with

955
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: those two guys playing a lot of snaps and they're fine.

956
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: You know, they no longer have to chase and figure out,

957
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: can we take a cornerback as high as our top

958
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: first round draft pick, and they can really go after

959
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: best player available. So I think that's the sort of

960
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 1: smart way of playing free agency, which is getting to

961
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: the point of the draft where you don't have a

962
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: glaring hole that has to be filled with one of

963
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: your first picks. Looking at the AFC East Sam, the

964
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: Patriots new they needed an influx of playmaking talent. They

965
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: throw John Hu Smith over the overboard, who was a

966
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: colossal disappointment as a free agent ad He gets traded

967
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: to Atlanta for a song. And while they have added

968
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: some name recognizable playmakers in the form of Juju Smith,

969
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: Schuster and Mike GISICKI, I guess I'm struggling to find

970
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: the diversity that they're going to bring to an offense

971
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: that already lost Jacobe Myers to me, Smith Schuster is

972
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: kind of a wash there, and I don't know that

973
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: Gasicki is putting you over the top, although it makes

974
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: for an intriguing combination with Hunter. Henry. Yeah, I think

975
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, really, the point is that the Patriots,

976
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't think, have made enough big moves to contend

977
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,840
Speaker 1: in this arms race that is the AFC, with the

978
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: Jets adding Aaron Rodgers potentially and Miami adding a number

979
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: one corner another one, and you know, all these teams

980
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: that are really swinging for the fences just to compete

981
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: with Buffalo and Cincinnati in Kansas City. The Patriots are

982
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: sitting there kind of doing business as usual, and look,

983
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: Patriots beat guys. Patriots reporters will say this was not

984
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: a good free agent group. This was not a ton

985
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: of clear impact playmakers just sitting there on the shelf

986
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: waiting to be picked up by teams like New England.

987
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 1: And that's true. But that's when you need to get creative,

988
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: you know, that's when you need to go and find

989
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: somebody by trade. And maybe you could prize te Higgins

990
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: away from Cincinnati with the right trade off or whatever

991
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: it is. You know, there's ways of doing this. But

992
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots haven't. They've just gone, Okay, we'll let you

993
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: Kobe Myers walk, We're replace them with Juju and we'll

994
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: bring in Mike Kasecki. And there's still the draft to come,

995
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: and that's what we're gonna do. And it's fine, it's

996
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: not you know, they're not bad moves, but it's difficult

997
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: to see how that propels them into the same conversation

998
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: as the teams we expect to be at the sharp

999
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: end of the AFC playoffs, you know, come nine months.

1000
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: Sign That's really what they have done, really throughout Bill

1001
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: Belichick's tenure. I mean, they sign a running back, a

1002
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: wide receiver, in a tight end. They got some wow

1003
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: sounds great, except it's James Robinson, It's Juju, Smith's Shust

1004
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: Schuster and Mike GISICKI all of them have some limitations

1005
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: and they're not like, you know, they're not signing you know,

1006
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: se Quon Barkley. You know, they're signing James Robinson, who's

1007
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: a nice back, but not a difference maker. Then they

1008
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: signed James Frent the guard Calvin Anderson, Riley Reef. They

1009
00:58:56,120 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: ought two offensive tackles. Just yeah, the right positions, certainly

1010
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: positions that they could have used last year. Places where

1011
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: you're looking to upgrade for what they looked like a

1012
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: year ago, but not household, game breaking, difference making signings.

1013
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: And these are the kinds of moves that we're seen

1014
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: as genius. When you had Tom Brady and the nucleus

1015
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: of the championship team sitting there waiting to win it

1016
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: all and you just needed some guys to come in

1017
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: and fill the gaps and make everything come together, that

1018
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: was perfect. But that isn't there anymore. Like this is

1019
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: not the nucleus of the championship caliber team. Mac Jones

1020
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 1: is not Tom Brady, Like, these are not the moves

1021
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: that are catapulting this team forward. And the other element

1022
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: is I don't think it's the same AFC landscape that

1023
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: it was when they were, you know, in their heyday

1024
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: and they were the favorite every single year. I mean

1025
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: just in the division, Like this is a very different

1026
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 1: landscape to the or to the AFC East throughout most

1027
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: of the time New England was the primary team there.

1028
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 1: You know, all three of the other teams look like

1029
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: they are going to be trying to contend this season.

1030
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: That I don't think ever happened during the time that

1031
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots were at their best. What do we make

1032
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:15,439
Speaker 1: of how much better the Miami defense truly is. There's

1033
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: going to be a scheme change there with Fangio in,

1034
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: we know that, and then Ramsey is a big name acquisition,

1035
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: but he's entering his age thirty season. Xavien Howard is

1036
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: no spring chicken either and dealt with a groin injury

1037
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: for much of last season. Didn't look like himself at

1038
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: all in many aspects or through many stretches of the

1039
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two campaign. They wanted to get faster at linebacker,

1040
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: so I understand why Land and Roberts isn't brought back.

1041
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: David Long is a nice player, but I don't know

1042
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: that he's an elite free agent acquisition. I feel like

1043
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: the Dolphins might have bigger names, but they're older, and

1044
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: I don't know that they're demonstrably better defensively. You tell me,

1045
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 1: maybe Vic Fangio can get more out of them than

1046
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: you know, the previous guy Boyer. Yeah, I mean, I

1047
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: think going to Vic Fangio is a huge thing here,

1048
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: like that cannot be overstated, the kind of impact that

1049
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: he can have on this defense. He's one of the

1050
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: best defensive minds in the game. He's also running the

1051
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: defense that everybody is sort of pivoting towards in today's NFL.

1052
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: And I also think the players that they have, by

1053
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: and large are better scheme fits for his defense than

1054
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: they were for the old one. Jalen Ramsey because of

1055
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: his size, because of his physicality, we think of him

1056
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 1: as this kind of number one press cover corner, this

1057
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 1: outside guy that plays pure man coverage. But he's always

1058
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: been a better player in zone than he has been

1059
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: in man to man coverage, and I think he could

1060
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 1: actually thrive in this defense. They'll have the choice whether

1061
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: to keep him inside in that kind of Charles Woodson

1062
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: Green Bay role that if they ran the last year

1063
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: or so with the Rams, or to move him back

1064
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: as a true perimeter woundery corner. But either way, playing

1065
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 1: that much so and I think plays to his strengths.

1066
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,040
Speaker 1: Xavi and Howard the same thing. He's at his best

1067
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: when he's got his eyes on the quarterback and can

1068
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: make plays on the football, and then the rest of

1069
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: that defense is already certainly upfront, they're very strong. I

1070
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: think they can get better given how much youth is

1071
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: there as well. I think you're right, they might have

1072
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: a shelf life, you know, given the age of those

1073
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: two corners, but I think for a couple of years

1074
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: that team could be very, very good on defense. Okay, Well,

1075
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 1: the last team in the AFC East we have to

1076
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: talk about is the New York Jets, and there's only

1077
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: one story. It's you know, when when the Aaron Rodgers

1078
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: trade happens, if it happens, And my question to you is,

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01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: what are we looking at? Are we looking at a

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01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: first round and a first rounder? And some players the

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01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: Jets would send to green Bay? Two first rounders? Are

1082
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: they asking for? You know, what are they asking for

1083
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: that doesn't have this deal already done? Honestly, I'd be

1084
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: surprised if the trade was anything more than a first

1085
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: rounder one of them. And I'm not even sure they're

1086
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 1: getting the first rounder. I think that might be the

1087
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: hold up right now is that Green Bay is holding

1088
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: out for at least pick number thirteen overall, and the

1089
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: Jets don't want to give them that. It's such a

1090
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 1: fascinating conversation because nobody has any leverage, like everybody needs

1091
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 1: this deal to happen. That the Jets if they don't

1092
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: get Aaron Rodgers, have no quarterback, they have nothing at

1093
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: the position and no real options to turn to, and

1094
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 1: the Packers have basically openly said they want rid of him,

1095
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 1: and Rogers has said he expects to be playing for

1096
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 1: the Jets. So neither side has any kind of leverage

1097
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: in this deal, which makes for a fascinating negotiation of

1098
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: who is going to blink first? How could it be?

1099
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 1: I mean, could it be possible now because the Jets

1100
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 1: do have some space, that they make a play, an

1101
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 1: eleventh hour play for Lamar Jackson instead. I mean, I

1102
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:58,479
Speaker 1: think that that probably has to be the move if

1103
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: this collapses. You know, I don't think they're going to

1104
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: pivot from Aaron Rodgers to Lamar Jackson if there's a

1105
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: way of avoiding it. But if somehow this whole thing

1106
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:09,959
Speaker 1: falls apart and Rogers retires or Rogers ends up staying

1107
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: in Green Bay, I think that has to be their

1108
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: move is pivot to Lamar Jackson, try and construct a

1109
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: deal that Baltimore won't match, and try and get that done,

1110
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: and then the last swing of the fence is probably

1111
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: going to be doing something crazy in the first round

1112
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: of the draft and moving up to try and target

1113
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: one of these quarterbacks. But these are not you know,

1114
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:33,080
Speaker 1: ideal scenarios for the Jets if this doesn't come true, right,

1115
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I just can't imagine the pressure on Joe

1116
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: Douglas in that front office when you got the guy

1117
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: splashed across New York's tabloid papers in a Jets uniform,

1118
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, or in a jet plane as Tom Cruise

1119
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 1: in top gun. I mean, it's just the New York

1120
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: media pressure, and he would probably dismiss it out of hand.

1121
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: But you've got a fan base that is now expecting

1122
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 1: this to take place, and if it doesn't, I mean,

1123
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a holy war in New York. Yeah, no,

1124
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 1: it's true. But the only thing he has going in

1125
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: his favor is that the Packers need this to happen

1126
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: as well. You know, they have to get rid of

1127
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: him this offseason if it's going to be anything other

1128
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: than catastrophic for their salary camp situation. It gets extremely

1129
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 1: painful for them if he retires as well rather than

1130
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: is traded away. So everybody needs this to happen. It's

1131
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: just a case of agreeing on what it's going to

1132
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 1: cost to make it. Make it work. What is now

1133
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: that we've talked about, how has got to work in

1134
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: both these clubs? And what is the absolute worst case scenario?

1135
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: Is it Rogers retiring? Is it that trade not happening,

1136
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 1: Rogers going back to Green Bay and then they got

1137
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: to deal with it. What's the worst possible scenario when

1138
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 1: everything called the Packers? Yeah, for the Packers, I think

1139
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario is probably Rogers returning to Green

1140
01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: Bay unhappily and Base making their life miserable for an

1141
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: extended period of time. I'm sorry, I'm sorry to be laughing,

1142
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: but you're right, man, It's just it's it's beyond awkward. Yeah,

1143
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 1: And you know, they his contract becomes an absolute nightmare

1144
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 1: for them if they don't get rid of him this year.

1145
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: If he lasts into next season, that contract becomes an

1146
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: absolute torpedo for their entire entire salary cap. Even if

1147
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: they tried to trade him away next year and successfully

1148
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:28,720
Speaker 1: did it, like this is the year they have to

1149
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 1: move on from him if it's going to happen. So

1150
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: him deciding, oh you could, you wouldn't make this happen

1151
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,280
Speaker 1: for me? Well, I'm gonna come back. I'm going to

1152
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 1: be unhappy about it. I'm gonna make everybody's life miserable,

1153
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna force you to eat this contract going forward.

1154
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 1: I think that's the worst case scenario for them and

1155
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 1: for the Jets. Wouldn't it be that the Packers don't budge,

1156
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: the Jets don't budge. It gets all the way to September,

1157
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:55,919
Speaker 1: which is kind of the demart line of demarcation, and

1158
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 1: they wait until the last possible minute to then trade

1159
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: him for even if it's for nothing. They trade him

1160
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: to the Jets then, and now he's got to go

1161
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 1: in cold try and make it work. And the season

1162
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 1: goes belly up for the Jets because the guy just

1163
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: showed up. Yeah, I mean that's bad for them. I

1164
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: think any scenario where they don't get him is pretty catastrophic.

1165
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: Maybe they could they could pivot to Lamar Jackson and

1166
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 1: make that work, but if they swung in a miss

1167
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: all the way, you know, the worst thing for the

1168
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 1: Jets is probably to miss Adam Rodgers, miss Adam Lamar,

1169
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: make something aggressive happen in the draft trade up to

1170
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: you know, three draft to quarterback and draft the wrong one,

1171
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 1: you know, and they have a rookie performing like a

1172
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: performing badly while they could have had Aaron Rodgers and

1173
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. That's probably their nightmare scenarios, right, It's okay.

1174
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: I just I just need him to he's really getting

1175
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 1: close to entering Tom Brady territory. I just need Aaron

1176
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: Rodgers to go away. There's just too much of Aaron

1177
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 1: Rodgers on my television screen day. I'm growing time. Well,

1178
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: now it's not even hired the whole exercise. It's not

1179
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: even his fault. Now he says, I'm ready to go

1180
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:10,480
Speaker 1: for the Jets, let's go, And now it's it's the Packers,

1181
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 1: you know, and the Jets willing, you know, unwilling to

1182
01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:17,040
Speaker 1: meet them meet each other's price. And that's I mean

1183
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: for the for the Jets, it's about having him in

1184
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 1: the house, getting ready, getting him up to speed, and

1185
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: getting them and like to be a well oiled offensive

1186
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 1: machine by the time the season starts. That's best case

1187
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 1: for the Jets. Um. I would like to think though,

1188
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: that the Jets want this done before the draft so

1189
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: they know what kind of cap I mean, the Packers

1190
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:39,640
Speaker 1: want capital, and I would imagine, most notably in the

1191
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 1: form of draft choices, that they could use right now.

1192
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 1: I gotta believe that the Packers want to get it

1193
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: done just so they can get some draft compensation for

1194
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: this year, wouldn't you think, Sam? Yeah? Absolutely, And like

1195
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: I said, I think I think the hold up probably

1196
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: is that the Packers want pick number thirteen from the Jets,

1197
01:08:57,320 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 1: and I doubt very much whether the Jets want to

1198
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: give that up, and I can imagine that being the

1199
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:05,679
Speaker 1: sticking point in terms of arguing this thing out. What's

1200
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: most amazing to me, though, is how history is just

1201
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:12,160
Speaker 1: repeating itself, Like this is the Brett Farve saga almost

1202
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 1: to the letter, happening what fifteen years later. It is

1203
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:21,600
Speaker 1: insane how completely alike this is from what happened already

1204
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 1: when Rodgers was on the other end of it. Yeah,

1205
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:26,679
Speaker 1: And it would be perfect for Green Bay to have

1206
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 1: another Aaron Rodgers show up in replacing Brett Farve and

1207
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 1: having Jordan Love turn out to be Aaron Rodgers for

1208
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:39,880
Speaker 1: another decade and a half. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean that's

1209
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 1: that's their dream scenario, is they it plays out exactly

1210
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:45,639
Speaker 1: the way it did with Brett Farve and Aaron Rodgers

1211
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:48,920
Speaker 1: paint knowing how much you guys kind of chop up

1212
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:51,799
Speaker 1: the film and everything, Sam, maybe just paint a picture

1213
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: for us if you could, on some of the newer

1214
01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:59,600
Speaker 1: bill's additions, most notably Deonte Hardy, who looks quick as

1215
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,759
Speaker 1: a hicc up and it is kind of a Isaiah

1216
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:06,080
Speaker 1: McKenzie clone, which is why Isaiah McKenzie was released today.

1217
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: And then maybe Kyle Allen. I know he hasn't gotten

1218
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: a ton of playing time since, you know, he played

1219
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: in ten twelve games for Carolina when Cam Newton got

1220
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 1: hurt way back in twenty nineteen, I think it was.

1221
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: But maybe just a thumbnail sketch on those two, if

1222
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 1: you could, just for our listening audience. Yeah, Deonte Hardy

1223
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 1: in particular, I think is a really fun player. Obviously

1224
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: there's some concerns. He basically didn't play all last season.

1225
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:33,640
Speaker 1: It was with a turf toe injury. That's obviously not

1226
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:37,080
Speaker 1: a good injury for a speedy wide receiver that relies

1227
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:39,680
Speaker 1: on quickness and burst and those kinds of things. But

1228
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: he's a dynamic playmaker. He's obviously a small, shifty receiver,

1229
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: but he's quick and fast. He's got the ability to

1230
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 1: win kind of at all levels. He can take the

1231
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: top off a defense as a deep threat. He can

1232
01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:56,080
Speaker 1: get the gimmick stuff underneath and beat people with the

1233
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:58,240
Speaker 1: ball in his hands. He's got an incredible amount of

1234
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: mistackles for a guy that hasn't touched the ball as

1235
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:06,679
Speaker 1: often as many other players, and he just is incredibly

1236
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:09,400
Speaker 1: productive for how often he's been on the field. And

1237
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,560
Speaker 1: last offseason, I was sort of running through wide receivers,

1238
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:17,520
Speaker 1: looking at a variety of different scenarios against press coverage,

1239
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,280
Speaker 1: against man coverage again, you know, all these kinds of things,

1240
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: and the list was like a who's who of number

1241
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: one X receivers Jamar Chase, Stefon Diggs, AJ Brown, all

1242
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 1: these guys, and then Deante Hardy was always there, and

1243
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 1: he had to remove him from the list because he

1244
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: hadn't played enough or hadn't got enough targets. But this

1245
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: guy has been incredibly productive per snap, and if the

1246
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,680
Speaker 1: Bills can keep him healthy, this is by far the

1247
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: best quarterback that he's ever had throwing to him as well.

1248
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: I know he had Drew Brees, but that wasn't really

1249
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:51,840
Speaker 1: Drew Brees by the time, you know, he was playing

1250
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 1: with Deonte Hardy. It was the version of Drew Brees

1251
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: that couldn't really get the ball where he needed to

1252
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:59,080
Speaker 1: get to it, that everything was underthrown. You know, it

1253
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 1: wasn't really the same guy. So outside of that, it's

1254
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:07,760
Speaker 1: been Taysom Hill, Trevor Simeon, Teddy Bridgewater, Jamis Winston, like

1255
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is a massive upgraded quarterback for him, and

1256
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 1: then Kyle Allen is one of those guys that you

1257
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: know has shown he can come in and start some

1258
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 1: games if it's absolutely necessary, but has been very sort

1259
01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:23,559
Speaker 1: of scatter shot or hidden miss when it comes to

1260
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: He'll make some big plays, but there'll be a lot

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01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: of big mistakes coming along with it as well. So

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01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:33,479
Speaker 1: kind of classic boom or bust type of backup quarterback. Sam,

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Speaker 1: thanks as always enjoyer Saint Patrick's day. We appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Sam. Thanks guys, Take it easy, all right. That's

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Speaker 1: Sam Monson from Pro Football Focus joining us there breaking

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01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,519
Speaker 1: down the first wave of a free agency across the league,

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01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: and then providing the little thumbnail sketch on Kyle Allen

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01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: and Deontay Hardy's obviously high on the Hardy acquisition. I

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01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 1: think he believes it's opportunity and quarterback talent with which

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01:12:57,520 --> 01:13:01,679
Speaker 1: he's working that will spike his production. Yeah, he's high

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Speaker 1: on him. He's and he says it seems to be

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Speaker 1: from what Sam just said about Hardy is that he's

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Speaker 1: also pretty consistent. When he gets a chance, he makes

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01:13:10,479 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: the most of it. It will. There hasn't been any

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01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 1: of these moments where he has been poor per snap.

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01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 1: When he's been in there, he's been good. Health is

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01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:22,599
Speaker 1: the issue. Smaller framed player. You can get nicked pretty

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01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:24,559
Speaker 1: easily in this league when you're a small guy. I mean,

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01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:26,680
Speaker 1: he's not much bigger than me, and I'm i Am

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01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 1: not football material. So he's got the skill set to

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01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: make it work. Just got to keep him on the

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01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:36,559
Speaker 1: field and available every week, and yeah, he could very

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01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:40,639
Speaker 1: well produce. Listen to the Brandon Being yesterday talk about him.

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01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 1: He said what impresses him is he's not just quick

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01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 1: off the line. He'll be running a twelve yard route

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01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:50,680
Speaker 1: and he's still or not at twelve He's running a

1287
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 1: go route and he's still picking up speed at twelve

1288
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 1: yards and he's fast off the line. So, as Sam said,

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01:13:57,160 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: he can take the top off a defense. But Brandon

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01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 1: Being said, yeah yesterday, he's gonna play inside and outside.

1291
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: He'll line up in both places because of his shiftiness.

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01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:08,680
Speaker 1: They want to get him out in space, and I

1293
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: think they also want to use as quick as a

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01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 1: two way going the slot. So it'll be interesting to

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01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 1: see how he is deployed in the Bills line up

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Speaker 1: this season. We have to take a break here. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, more of your phone calls. Ob L

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01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: Fan Friday mail bag is open. We'll get to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet as well. Next here on One Bills Live

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

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Speaker 1: here we are One Bills Live on this Saint Patrick's

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01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:44,280
Speaker 1: Day Friday. The OBL Fan Friday mail bag is open

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01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: and we're taking your phone calls at a three oh

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01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 1: five fifty. So let's get back there in short order,

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01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 1: and we go to Eric and Williamsville. Next. What do

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Speaker 1: you got for us? Eric? How are you? We're doing

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01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 1: all right? And Christ and Steve. I respect everything you

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01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: guys do. I've only been a Bills fan for seven years.

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01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm a forty nine fan for fifty years, but I've

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01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: only lived in Williamsville for seven years. You still welcome,

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01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:12,360
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Eric, Okay, So I got a couple of

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01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 1: questions for your first off, I think Josh Allen went

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01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: back three years with dave O leave, and I think

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01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:21,720
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey didn't take care of him the way he

1315
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 1: should have, and I hope he does better this coming year,

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01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: and we all know what the ramifications are going to be,

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01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:31,759
Speaker 1: they'll probably move on for him. Secondly, I think Leslie

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01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:36,080
Speaker 1: Frazier should have been fired after the debacle in Kansas

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01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 1: City with thirteen seconds when you're playing the outside. And

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01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 1: then more importantly with Aaron Rodgers coming to the NFC

1321
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:48,879
Speaker 1: or AFC East, what do you think about mc dermis

1322
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:51,480
Speaker 1: job coming up here if we don't make the championship

1323
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: or go to the Super Bowl or we had risk

1324
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: and losing him. And then the last question I have

1325
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:57,960
Speaker 1: for you is I agree with what you already heard

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01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 1: from you guys. We do need a number two receiver.

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Speaker 1: And I'll just listen. Thank you, all right, Eric, appreciate

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01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: the phone call. Yeah, I mean, I think much as

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01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 1: much to the point we made earlier in the show.

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01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:11,719
Speaker 1: I think we were talking with Marie earlier in the show.

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01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 1: I don't think McDermott is on the hot seat in

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01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form unless the team completely implodes

1333
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 1: and you're talking about a four and thirteen season or

1334
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:24,960
Speaker 1: something like that, and even then I think he might

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01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 1: get a one year reprieve. And even so, even if,

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01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: like if Josh gets hurt, like if he has like

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01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:33,680
Speaker 1: a Jamison crowd or injury or something and he's out

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01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: for eight weeks or something, you know that, Yeah, Okay,

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01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: I don't see it. The good outweighs the bad by

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01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 1: such a large degree in terms of what McDermott has

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01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:52,599
Speaker 1: built here in association with being I almost feel like

1342
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: there's this contingent of Bills fans that have jumped on

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01:16:56,479 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 1: the bandwagon in the last four years or three years

1344
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:04,800
Speaker 1: or two years that didn't go through the hardship of

1345
01:17:04,840 --> 01:17:08,599
Speaker 1: the seventeen year drought. I don't think they have an

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01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: inkling of an idea as to the depths that this

1347
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: franchise sunk during that period and how bad it was.

1348
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: And so now that the team is experiencing year over

1349
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: years success but not getting to the promised land, I

1350
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,680
Speaker 1: understand people are impatient this day and age. This is

1351
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 1: the on demand generation. I know it because I have

1352
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 1: two kids. There is a lot of good going on

1353
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 1: here at one Bill's Drive more than we've seen in

1354
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:45,720
Speaker 1: a long time. So throwing the baby out with the bathwater,

1355
01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 1: I think is foolhardy. You keep taking your swings at

1356
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:55,480
Speaker 1: the ultimate prize, and if you can keep the core intact,

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01:17:56,280 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: keep the franchise quarterback happy and all of that, you're

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01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: on the right track and you're way ahead of most

1359
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:08,639
Speaker 1: of the other teams in the league. Now the gut

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01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: the mountain to climb is the Chiefs, and they have

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01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:15,599
Speaker 1: a quarterback that some would say is decidedly better then

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01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: Josh Allen in terms of manipulating defenses, making the right

1363
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 1: decisions at the most critical moments, and turning in a

1364
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:26,599
Speaker 1: spectacular play. Although Josh has had more than his share

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01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: of spectacular plays in his short career, he also has

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01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:34,679
Speaker 1: the benefit of not only the most experience, but perhaps

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01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:39,679
Speaker 1: the most dynamic play caller since Bill Walsh. So those

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01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: are two things working very much in the Kansas City

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01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: Chiefs favor. Can they mimic that, duplicate, that rise above that?

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01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: That is the challenge, and you bet your bottom dollar

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01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:57,639
Speaker 1: that Brandon Bean is working day and night to try

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01:18:57,680 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 1: to craft a roster that can accomp that. And Sean

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01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:05,880
Speaker 1: McDermott is tweaking and trying to work a offensive and

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01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 1: defensive scheme to overcome that as well. So this isn't

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01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 1: just a roster that tries to get better from one

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01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:19,719
Speaker 1: season to the next. It's a coaching staff that goes

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01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 1: through with a fine tooth comb as well to be

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01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:25,720
Speaker 1: better themselves. Yea, I Josh was accounted for exactly the

1379
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,400
Speaker 1: same number of touchdowns as in twenty two as he

1380
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 1: did in twenty one, and he also threw for more

1381
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 1: yards in twenty two than he did for twenty one.

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01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:33,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how you get to the point where

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01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:37,600
Speaker 1: you think he regressed at the very least he was

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01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:43,800
Speaker 1: even where he was a year ago. And I'm I'm

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01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:47,759
Speaker 1: with Brownie on a lot of that. Certainly, the division's

1386
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: getting tougher to win, and you can make it. You

1387
01:19:51,439 --> 01:19:54,759
Speaker 1: can make or break your your number two wide receivers,

1388
01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: sure broke Bounty. And I think if you if you

1389
01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:59,840
Speaker 1: can upgrade, upgrade always at any position, I don't care

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01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: what it is. If you got to if you can

1391
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 1: get a better player, go get them. And you know,

1392
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 1: if you can do it without giving away you know

1393
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:09,840
Speaker 1: the keys to the franchise, do it. And I think

1394
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:11,880
Speaker 1: that's where they how they got to where they're at now.

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01:20:13,040 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier, Well, you got your wish if you wanted

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01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 1: him fired after the thirteen seconds, although it's hard to

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01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 1: do that when the defense is the top two or

1398
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 1: three in the league every year, and then fire your

1399
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:28,160
Speaker 1: defensive head coach, your defensive coordinator so you can you

1400
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 1: can say what you want. They did make the move

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01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,880
Speaker 1: this year for whatever reason. So a lot of what

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01:20:34,920 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 1: you said I agree with, except for the fact that

1403
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think Josh regressed. I don't think McDermott,

1404
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 1: like Brownie said, I don't think McDermott's on the hot satan.

1405
01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: It's hot seat in any way, shape or form. I

1406
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna have a kind of season that

1407
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 1: would even give you a glimmer of that. It's hard

1408
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:55,240
Speaker 1: to win in this league, and when you're there, right

1409
01:20:55,280 --> 01:20:58,880
Speaker 1: there every single year, that's no reason to change what

1410
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: you're doing. It's just it's a reason to do what

1411
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:07,240
Speaker 1: you do better, particularly on that day. There's ten million

1412
01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:09,559
Speaker 1: moving parts to putting an NFL team on the field,

1413
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:12,680
Speaker 1: and you've got to get a good number of them

1414
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:16,439
Speaker 1: exactly right before you're any good, let alone just feeling

1415
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: the team. The Bills are doing a lot of that

1416
01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:22,799
Speaker 1: right all the time, every day, every year, every season,

1417
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:25,639
Speaker 1: under these under these guys, under the under this ownership group,

1418
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:29,639
Speaker 1: under this GM, under this head coach. So we don't

1419
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: like the results every year, just like the fans don't,

1420
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:38,760
Speaker 1: Brownie and Eye. But man and man, o, man, you know,

1421
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:41,439
Speaker 1: just do what you're doing better because you're almost there

1422
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:44,600
Speaker 1: right now. You're not making too many mistakes, and the

1423
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:47,320
Speaker 1: mistakes don't have anything to do really, let's face it,

1424
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:50,559
Speaker 1: Brow and I maybe you think they're they're making mistakes.

1425
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: I'll tell you it goes back to the Sunday they

1426
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:55,760
Speaker 1: play on. It doesn't go to what they do in March, April, May, June,

1427
01:21:55,760 --> 01:22:00,479
Speaker 1: and July of this team. What happens on game day

1428
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 1: is really where they they fall short has nothing to

1429
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:05,280
Speaker 1: do with the what they're doing this time of year.

1430
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 1: They're doing everything right in this time of year, and

1431
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: they're doing right, everything right a ton of times during

1432
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:12,599
Speaker 1: on game days too. But they run in some pretty

1433
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:15,679
Speaker 1: good teams and some really good players. It's hard to win,

1434
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:18,960
Speaker 1: and you know, for whatever reason, they haven't been able

1435
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 1: to get there. But man, old man, I'll tell you what,

1436
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to throw stones at what the Buffalo

1437
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:28,760
Speaker 1: Bills are doing year in, year out, weekend, week out.

1438
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones and we go to

1439
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: Dave in Niagara Falls. What do you got for us? Dave,

1440
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:39,680
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Chris, and hello Steve. Thank you. I just

1441
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: said a question about guaranteed contract, like how it affects

1442
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:47,719
Speaker 1: the cap say a person in like at Oliver's position,

1443
01:22:47,960 --> 01:22:50,880
Speaker 1: if he was moved or And the second question I

1444
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 1: had was if he had any opinion when you were

1445
01:22:53,880 --> 01:23:03,160
Speaker 1: at Combine about a linebacker from Oregon or Noah Suili. Yeah,

1446
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: all right, let's start with the first part of your question, Dave.

1447
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:11,000
Speaker 1: I would say that, and thanks for the call. It's

1448
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:14,680
Speaker 1: it's a guaranteed ten point seven as a fifty year

1449
01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: option salary. So that means if he's on the roster

1450
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:21,479
Speaker 1: or not, it's still a ten point seven million dollars

1451
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: cap hit. So they're kind of stuck with ed Oliver.

1452
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:26,519
Speaker 1: I mean, even if they wanted to move him, and

1453
01:23:26,560 --> 01:23:29,479
Speaker 1: I don't have any indication that they do, he's still

1454
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: gonna count ten point seven on your they trade him,

1455
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: it'll be on the other teams because they have a salary, right, Well,

1456
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:37,680
Speaker 1: it's guaranteed. It's a guaranteed teed by the team that

1457
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:39,680
Speaker 1: gets him. If the Bills trade him, it will not

1458
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: go on there. I'm not one hundred percent sure of that.

1459
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: Only it has to be that way because you can't

1460
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:45,880
Speaker 1: the other team has to take the cap and you

1461
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 1: can't cap hit twice. The other team can't pay him

1462
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:50,479
Speaker 1: ten point seven and not have it go against their

1463
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 1: cap because he gets it because it does get fully guaranteed.

1464
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:57,800
Speaker 1: But if you're the team paying it, that's who gets

1465
01:23:57,840 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 1: it on their thing. But because it's salary, it doesn't

1466
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 1: go on your cap until you pay it. So if

1467
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:07,840
Speaker 1: you trade him before that, the only thing that goes

1468
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:10,080
Speaker 1: against it would be the signing bonus he got as

1469
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: a rookie top ten draft pick, a number ten draft pick.

1470
01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 1: That goes on against your cap. What doesn't go on

1471
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 1: dead money? Sorry, you still incur the dead money because

1472
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:23,360
Speaker 1: you guaranteed. If you were the team that guaranteed the

1473
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:26,679
Speaker 1: fifty year option, it's not actual money, but on your cap,

1474
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 1: it's dead money. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah? Yeah, yah,

1475
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:33,400
Speaker 1: hold on, let me see. So you're not paying the

1476
01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: money that it's dead cap if you cut him, not

1477
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:39,680
Speaker 1: if you trade him. Oh, only that's right, you're right.

1478
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 1: If you cut him, yet it's ten point seven against

1479
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:45,920
Speaker 1: your cap. If you trade him, it's ten point seven

1480
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:48,120
Speaker 1: on their cap, not yours. Right now, I don't know

1481
01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:50,400
Speaker 1: what he got as a signing bonus. There's nothing recorded

1482
01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:52,920
Speaker 1: as a signing bonus. It's just a straight fifty year option.

1483
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:55,439
Speaker 1: It's a fifty year option. So here's the thing. I misspoke.

1484
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 1: I apologize, right, So if they trade him, all that

1485
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:01,080
Speaker 1: ten point seven goes on the other team's hap. You

1486
01:25:01,120 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 1: don't get any of it. You don't. It doesn't count

1487
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: against you at all. If you cut him, yes, you

1488
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:10,840
Speaker 1: you're on the hook for all ten point seven plus

1489
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 1: you're paying him the money anyway, because it's guaranteed. Yeah,

1490
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:18,080
Speaker 1: that's that's how it works with with Ed Oliver. But

1491
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 1: that's because his contract is that of a first round

1492
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:24,479
Speaker 1: draft pick, five year contract. The last year of the

1493
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 1: contract by CBA by league rule, is guaranteed once you

1494
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:31,120
Speaker 1: pick up that option. The Bills did, so, so that's

1495
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:36,840
Speaker 1: how that works. And yeah, and because it's fully fully salary,

1496
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:39,160
Speaker 1: it's all salary. It's not bonus or anything. Like that,

1497
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 1: if you trade him, that goes on the next team.

1498
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:43,680
Speaker 1: Thanks for straighten into that for me. I don't know

1499
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: why I got so crusted because if you're talking right,

1500
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:48,720
Speaker 1: but we've been talking for a month about him as

1501
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 1: a potential trade option if you can find somebody that

1502
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:53,559
Speaker 1: needs and then I was like, oh, you can't trade

1503
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: him the dead cap. But I got all crushed up.

1504
01:25:56,560 --> 01:25:58,960
Speaker 1: I'm still a little rusty coming off vacation. We got

1505
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:04,759
Speaker 1: it right. I'll be honest, I have not watch tape

1506
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:08,360
Speaker 1: on Noah Sewel yet. I'm kind of eyeballs deep in

1507
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 1: free agency, so you'll have to forgive me. I didn't

1508
01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 1: see him test there, the Oregon linebacker. And incidentally, we

1509
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:20,120
Speaker 1: have some other news that we have to get to quickly. Here.

1510
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: It's breaking news. Dane Jackson has resigned with the Bills

1511
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:26,880
Speaker 1: on a one year contract. Last week, they tendered the

1512
01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:32,120
Speaker 1: restricted free agent to a one year qualifying offer, which

1513
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: meant they retained his contractual rights, and now he has resigned.

1514
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:40,360
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean yesterday, Steve said they were talking with Dane.

1515
01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:42,960
Speaker 1: They were trying to see if they could reduce his

1516
01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 1: cap number because the tender number is two point six

1517
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:50,000
Speaker 1: to seven million, and they were trying to reduce that

1518
01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 1: figure to be more cap friendly. But today you just

1519
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:57,760
Speaker 1: saved over two million dollars on the cap with the

1520
01:26:57,800 --> 01:27:00,639
Speaker 1: release of Isaiah McKenzie. Yeah, but they would have known

1521
01:27:00,640 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 1: that yesterday that they were going to do that. And

1522
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:06,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that one led to the other. But

1523
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 1: if they gave Dane a two year deal and in

1524
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:13,160
Speaker 1: the two years he was guaranteed that two point six tender,

1525
01:27:13,200 --> 01:27:15,200
Speaker 1: he didn't, you know, won't matter so much when he

1526
01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:17,160
Speaker 1: gets it, if he's actually gonna get it, So maybe

1527
01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 1: he gave him some relief and they gave him a

1528
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 1: two year deal and spread it out over two years,

1529
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: or gave him avoidable year next year or whatever. Right, So,

1530
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:28,040
Speaker 1: so Dane's back in the fold. The cornerback position is

1531
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:30,320
Speaker 1: a little deeper today with him coming back on a

1532
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: one year deal for twenty twenty three very quickly. Noah

1533
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 1: Sewell did alright, testing four to six four and the

1534
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:38,679
Speaker 1: forty had a great ten yards split one five seven

1535
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:41,960
Speaker 1: vertical leap, thirty three inches six one and a half

1536
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:45,360
Speaker 1: two forty six bigger thicker linebacker. I don't know that

1537
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: he has the coverage skills to fit the scheme. That's

1538
01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 1: my only concern with him. But I do have some

1539
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:51,519
Speaker 1: work to do on him, and I'll try to give

1540
01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:53,720
Speaker 1: you a better answer, a little kit. And maybe they

1541
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,760
Speaker 1: don't pick him at twenty seven. Oh no, he's not

1542
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:59,200
Speaker 1: a first round you know, so down the line at

1543
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:01,720
Speaker 1: some point if he's there, you know, either trade up,

1544
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:07,120
Speaker 1: trade down, get him and still you know, land him.

1545
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:09,280
Speaker 1: No question, they're gonna bring in some more depth players

1546
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:12,200
Speaker 1: for linebacker where they get that in the draft or whatever.

1547
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:15,759
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's it's a possible. It is possible because

1548
01:28:16,120 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 1: like you said, Brownie, he'll he'll be around for a

1549
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 1: minute in this draft. He may not go on Day one.

1550
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:22,880
Speaker 1: Break time for us. We're back to close it up

1551
01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:44,280
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned all right back

1552
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:48,680
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live. One brief dip into the

1553
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:53,640
Speaker 1: obl fan Friday mail bag. Steve from Robert, why do

1554
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:56,000
Speaker 1: you have to have a number two wide receiver and

1555
01:28:56,080 --> 01:28:57,840
Speaker 1: not a number one wide receiver in a bunch of

1556
01:28:57,880 --> 01:29:00,360
Speaker 1: different guys or have a tight end to be your

1557
01:29:00,439 --> 01:29:04,720
Speaker 1: number two? Also, can you please explain compensatory picks. Compensatory

1558
01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:07,360
Speaker 1: picks very quickly? You need to have a net loss

1559
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:11,200
Speaker 1: of free agents over a certain period of time. There

1560
01:29:11,280 --> 01:29:13,559
Speaker 1: is a window of time the league doesn't really explain it.

1561
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:16,960
Speaker 1: We already kind of laid out our case for a

1562
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:19,280
Speaker 1: number two wide out tight end could do that. Steve

1563
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:22,960
Speaker 1: thinks it's difficult, difficult. We can get into it more

1564
01:29:23,160 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 1: on Monday. Enjoy your weekend. We'll see it one on Monday.