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Speaker 1: Oh, good time, Steve Taskers. Time to time, more time,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Welcome to the end of the week, and

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Speaker 1: what a week it has been here at One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bill's Live all right next door to

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Speaker 1: the plane surfence over there where the Bills play on Sundays,

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Speaker 1: and Bills have been pretty busy off the field the

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Speaker 1: whole week long with the week the first week and

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Speaker 1: free agency. Welcome to the show. We're here until three.

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Speaker 1: I'm John Murphy. Chris Brown is here in for the

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Speaker 1: vacation in Steve Tasker, and we kick off today's show

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Speaker 1: with a special guest. Bill's general manager, Brandon Bean, takes

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Speaker 1: time out of his schedule to come by. Have you

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Speaker 1: caught your breath at all yet? From the pace that

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Speaker 1: you put in this week? Yeah, we're trying to where's

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Speaker 1: the Hex Tasker at? So? Can I go on vacation? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's he's far away. He doesn't want me to say

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Speaker 1: where he is. Oh, I got you. He'll talk about

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Speaker 1: it when he comes back in a week. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: picked a weird week right away. He didn't care. Huh.

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Speaker 1: We'll relay that message to us. Are trying to win

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Speaker 1: around here? Trying to win a championship. Heres. Hey, first

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Speaker 1: of all, congratulations and and uh, congratulations on holding up

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Speaker 1: this week because I know it was a busy week

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Speaker 1: starting way back on Monday. Huh. Yeah, it's uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was obviously got very busy Monday. We've a lot

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Speaker 1: leading up to this. We'd returned from the Combine the

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Speaker 1: week before, and once we got back there, it was

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Speaker 1: all eyes turned back onto the you know, the pro

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Speaker 1: through the weekend and really just tried to haul in

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Speaker 1: on who our targets were, um, where positions of depth

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Speaker 1: positions of depth and free agency and where we might

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Speaker 1: need to just hey, we might need to be a

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Speaker 1: little more aggressive here, and we can be a little

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Speaker 1: more patient here. I heard you say yesterday that you

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Speaker 1: set up essentially a draft type board to get ready

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Speaker 1: needs have to be prioritized, right, I mean it can't

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Speaker 1: be just a strict player grade board. Yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: this is you know, draft is by drafting best player available.

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Speaker 1: Free agency is all about your needs to help you

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Speaker 1: be able to go into the draft and with very

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Speaker 1: few so called needs, and so yeah, we're looking for

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Speaker 1: good players and we put them into various tiers from

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Speaker 1: Tier one down to tier four of how we see

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Speaker 1: these guys, and you know, some guys we didn't even

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Speaker 1: There are certain positions we didn't target a Tier one guy.

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Speaker 1: We just felt like that's not as big of a need,

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Speaker 1: that's not as wise a use of our money. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: we'd love to have all those Tier one guys, but

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Speaker 1: that's not realistic. We also had to factor in injuries, character,

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Speaker 1: thing that's different about that board is you got to

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Speaker 1: put the the expected value in there too, the cost,

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Speaker 1: there's all sorts of smoke on out there, and guys

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Speaker 1: What you're hearing on certain guys, So you try to

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Speaker 1: his peers, you know in the league. With Brandon being

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Speaker 1: get things started on the show this Friday, Hey, Um,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I when Steve was working earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: We had several legit meetings that we had schedule, but

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Speaker 1: going to ask you the level of input from the coaches. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: But you know, talking to you about Feliciano and Bobby, Bobby,

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Speaker 1: first week of free agency comes to a close. It's

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Speaker 1: not the end of free agency. In fact, I want

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Speaker 1: visit by Ziggy Onza that even people on Twitter today

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Speaker 1: are asking us, what's up? Anything up with Embassy's still here?

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Speaker 1: He's not he left and his visit. You know, I

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Speaker 1: But that's kind of where it stands. We had a

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Speaker 1: and the time for that sort of approach is probably

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Speaker 1: Is that accurate to say? Yeah? Probably so. And Ziggy's

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Speaker 1: you want to try and prevent that because you don't

430
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Speaker 1: want to be drafting guys in the first round that

431
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Speaker 1: you got second round grades on. And the one guy

432
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Speaker 1: that nobody really asked you about was the guy that

433
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Speaker 1: signed before all this official free agency started. But Kevin Johnson,

434
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, this seems like a high potential

435
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Speaker 1: reward kind of signing. I mean, I know injuries have

436
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Speaker 1: kind of interrupted his career here the last couple of years,

437
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Speaker 1: but if he's healthy and he's good to go, I mean,

438
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Speaker 1: this is this is a town all died player. I mean,

439
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,480
Speaker 1: he's a former first round pick and I mean he

440
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Speaker 1: killed it. I mean he did well at the Combine.

441
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,280
Speaker 1: I remember, so I mean, what do you do you

442
00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:09,760
Speaker 1: see that same thing. There's a there's a high potential

443
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Speaker 1: for reward there with him. Most definitely, you know Kevin

444
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Speaker 1: uh I was obviously I was in Carolina at the

445
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Speaker 1: time when he came out, but he was a plan

446
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Speaker 1: at Wake Forest, so I saw him, you know, a

447
00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 1: couple times up close, and uh, we had very good

448
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Speaker 1: grades on him as well coming out, and he was

449
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Speaker 1: drafting the first round for a reason. Um. You know,

450
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 1: his play has been good when healthy. Um. The reason

451
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Speaker 1: he was available, you know, at the price that we

452
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,200
Speaker 1: got him was you know, injuries. And we've got some

453
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Speaker 1: ideas here to try and help him. We're gonna use

454
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Speaker 1: our sports performance team to to work with him. And

455
00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,639
Speaker 1: Kevin's excited to get here. And and um, he's a

456
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Speaker 1: great young man. John Butler was with him in Houston.

457
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Speaker 1: He fits what we do. He's a he's an excellent

458
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Speaker 1: zone corner. Uh, he's got good ball skills. Um. And

459
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Speaker 1: he plays you know, he's kind of like tearing a

460
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Speaker 1: little bit. He plays physical for his size. He actually

461
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Speaker 1: I remember a targeting penalty against Louisville he got he

462
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,200
Speaker 1: got ejected for level on this guy. Um, and you

463
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,880
Speaker 1: didn't expect it from a guy with his thinner frame.

464
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Speaker 1: Kevin is one of them. Are a couple of others

465
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Speaker 1: of the free agents you signed this week who you

466
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Speaker 1: have to be relying on your medical staff, right and

467
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,680
Speaker 1: the evaluations they've made is that you feel an element

468
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Speaker 1: of risk there at all, or do you think you're

469
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,399
Speaker 1: good to go with what they've told you. Yeah, I mean, listen,

470
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,880
Speaker 1: we got guys that are coming back from our roster

471
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,919
Speaker 1: that aren't fully healthy and things like that. So, uh,

472
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 1: this is a physical sport, okay, and sometimes it takes guys,

473
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 1: but we'll use the offseason. Listen, there will be there

474
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Speaker 1: are guys that we sign that are still getting over

475
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Speaker 1: some aches and things like that, and we'll progress them

476
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Speaker 1: back in just as if they've been one of us

477
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Speaker 1: the whole time. Hopefully the ones that do have injuries

478
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: will be able to get back in here real quick

479
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 1: to get with our staff because we think they're they

480
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Speaker 1: they've got the best rehab plan for him. But yeah,

481
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Speaker 1: I mean, the goal is to get as much experience

482
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Speaker 1: as we can in the spring with these guys and

483
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Speaker 1: then everybody be ready to go when we get to

484
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Speaker 1: Saint John Fisher. I told you before you came on

485
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Speaker 1: today that our twitterpool today. I want you to get

486
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Speaker 1: involved in a little bit of the extent you can.

487
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Speaker 1: I don't have Twitter, Well I will read it you, Okay. Yeah,

488
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Speaker 1: here's where we're asking our listeners today and viewers, The

489
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Speaker 1: Bill signed nine free agents this week. Were they more

490
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Speaker 1: active than you thought they would be in free agency?

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Speaker 1: We're asking our listeners. Seventy two percent say, yeah, they

492
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Speaker 1: are more active than I thought they'd be. Twenty three

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Speaker 1: percent say there, it's about what I expected. Nine players

494
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Speaker 1: one week. Four percent say not as active as I

495
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Speaker 1: had hoped. Where would you vote on that? Did this go?

496
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: There was a more volume than you thought you'd get

497
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Speaker 1: going into this week. I love the four percent right

498
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,399
Speaker 1: they want us? Is that like fantasy football where you

499
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: just take your whole team and watch it and start.

500
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,639
Speaker 1: There's always one line, right, there's always one. I love it. Uh.

501
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 1: You know, we had targets, as we said, but sometimes

502
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 1: you don't know how it worked out. We're trying to

503
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 1: get good players. Uh. Some years, I think it just

504
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: fell a little bit better for us. This year. We

505
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: obviously had cat money too to be able to be

506
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Speaker 1: a little more aggressive and get some guys. So I

507
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Speaker 1: couldn't have told you whether we were gonna have five, six, seven, eight, nine,

508
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Speaker 1: whatever it was, but I think we added some guys

509
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Speaker 1: that will add great competition. You don't win any championships

510
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: in March, so I don't want people to get, you know,

511
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: too crazy. But we're excited about the guys and look

512
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Speaker 1: forward to welcoming them here once the offseason program starts

513
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: next month. It feels like a good week. You must

514
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Speaker 1: feel that, Yeah, I mean it feels it's like after

515
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Speaker 1: the draft you feel like you added some talent, and um,

516
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Speaker 1: nothing's proven, nothing's done till they get here. But I

517
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Speaker 1: can't wait to you know, and the energy these guys brought.

518
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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun here yesterday. Some of

519
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Speaker 1: them brought their wives, and I think they I can't

520
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: tell you. I mean, I've talked about how family feel

521
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Speaker 1: I felt with and that's not just from that's the

522
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 1: people in this building and people welcoming some of them

523
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Speaker 1: with Buffalo wings had three of them, three of them

524
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Speaker 1: told me about that, how awesome that was that they did.

525
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: Then it speaks to our fans and how great they are.

526
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: There's an opportunity there right for Chicken wing manufacturing. Notice

527
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna expect that now. We may we may lose

528
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: a guy because of that. Now, No Brandon, thanks great

529
00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: job this week and thanks for coming bout here. We

530
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: appreach appreciate John Brandon being is the general manager of

531
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's nine free agents, including John Brown, receiver.

532
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Speaker 1: He's coming up next on the show with us, Chris

533
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,959
Speaker 1: and I here until three today One Bills Live, Steve's

534
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: on vacation, One Bills Live from One Bill's Driving. This

535
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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Go five from

536
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Speaker 1: One Go Drive, John Murphy and Chris Brown the Bills

537
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: introducing their free agents at the end of this week

538
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Speaker 1: and joining us now one of them. Wide receiver John

539
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Speaker 1: Brown joins US former Baltimore Raven fromer Arizona Cardinal. Welcome

540
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Speaker 1: to Buffalo, John, How do you like it? Oh? I'm

541
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Speaker 1: loving it right now. I'm enjoying it. I'm glad to

542
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Speaker 1: be here. What is this visit is for you to

543
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 1: sign the contract, obviously, But what else have you done?

544
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: Said you've been here in Buffalo. I've been, you know,

545
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: doing a lot of running around a little sight seeing

546
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Speaker 1: of the facility and everything. I'm what I'm seeing, I

547
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: mean the facilities, you know, I'm loving all the coaches

548
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Speaker 1: and the players that I met so far. What kind

549
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: of previous familiarity did you have with Cole Beasley, who's

550
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 1: obviously coming in the door with you? Here and you

551
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: know he's going to be that inside option which will

552
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: cater very well to you on the outside. So how

553
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: do you do you have any previous familiarity? You ever

554
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: crossed paths with him before? Now? Now, I never crossed

555
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: paths with him, but I also watched this game. I

556
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: love the way he played, and you know, just by

557
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Speaker 1: me and him and also by him being the oldest,

558
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: you know, we can get in here and you know,

559
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: we can push guys to the limit, you know, for

560
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: us to receiver group because I know they are young,

561
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,120
Speaker 1: and you know we all gonna come to help each other.

562
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Speaker 1: Is that Is that a new thing for you? Because

563
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: I know Coach McDermott and he's probably communicated this to you.

564
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: He likes to have a leader in every room, every

565
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Speaker 1: position room. He wants a room leader. And as you that,

566
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Speaker 1: you and Cole being kind of the veteran guys walking

567
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: in there, you feel comfortable in that role. Huh oh Yeah.

568
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: I feel comfortable with it. And it's something new to me,

569
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Speaker 1: especially being around Larry Fitzgerald for four years and like

570
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: a crabtree for one and just following those guys, I

571
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: think like I can help out to lead a lot

572
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: of lessons. Yes, John, what are some of the things

573
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Speaker 1: you learned from Larry Fitzgerald? You started your career with

574
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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, went in, there was a third round pick,

575
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Speaker 1: and what did you What did you take from your

576
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Speaker 1: four years with Larry Fitzgerald that you carry with you

577
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Speaker 1: throughout your career. Also, the first thing I learned was

578
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: to be a pro and you know, come come to

579
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: practice every day, ready to work. And the way that

580
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: he practiced, you know, it's just amazing because he practiced

581
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: the same way he plays in the game. Last year,

582
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Speaker 1: you went through free agency, wound up in Baltimore, but

583
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: you didn't talk to the Bills. How far down the

584
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 1: road did you get with the Bills a year ago? Oh,

585
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: we got pretty far. But did you make a visit here? Now?

586
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Speaker 1: I didn't take a visit here. I didn't take a

587
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:04,479
Speaker 1: visit nowhere. But you know, honestly, I chose Baltimore because

588
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: I didn't know what the quarterback situation was going to

589
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: be here. Nobody did. We didn't know either. So but

590
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: like you know, I was great to play with Joe

591
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: Flack or Lamar Jackson, but just watching Josh, you know,

592
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: looking at how he can throw passes. You know, it's amazing.

593
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: So I wasn't gonna let the opportunity to pass this time.

594
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: You're pretty much with a big arm guy every step

595
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: of your career here, I mean from Carson down Arizona,

596
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: who we know can throw it a misle and throws

597
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: a beautiful ball, you know, to Joe who can chuck

598
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: it a ton. And now you got Josh here. I

599
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: mean you're gonna be running a lot, buddy. Oh yeah,

600
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: I do it a lot. And you know, I'm just

601
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: blessed them to be able to play with those type

602
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: of guys. And you know, I'm just excited for what

603
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: was about to come. Hunt and John. That quarterback situation

604
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 1: in Baltimore last year changed pretty dramatically. Did you see

605
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: that coming that you might not get the chance to

606
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: make big plays once they went with the Lamar Jackson? Now,

607
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: I didn't see it coming, But one thing about it,

608
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: I was just still excited to be there. You know,

609
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: Baltimore is a place I always love, and you know,

610
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: it's just in order to win games, you know, most

611
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: times you had to change your offense, and you know

612
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: I was fine with it, so I couldn't I didn't

613
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: have much say so about it. I know some of

614
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: our people talk to Carson Palmer, who had nothing but

615
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: great things to say about you. And then we had

616
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Speaker 1: his brother in here yesterday or the other day in

617
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer, who was running Tyree Jackson, threw his pro

618
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: day out here in the Bills Field House. And the

619
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Speaker 1: one thing that stuck with me anyway, I don't know

620
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: what stuck with Murph, but the one thing that he

621
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: said about your game is you play bigger than your

622
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: size on the field. How how does that happen? Does

623
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: that just come naturally to you where you know, even

624
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: though you might not mean the most broad shouldered guy,

625
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: you can win battles in tight coverage. How did that

626
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: manifest itself in your game? No, that's just something I

627
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: took in when people would say those are the things

628
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't do. I always play with a chip on

629
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Speaker 1: my shoulder, and you know, just every day I'm ready

630
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: to compete. Well, since you've been here in Buffalo, have

631
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: you had a chance to spend much time with the

632
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: coaching staff receiving coach that that that whole offensive group yet? Yeah,

633
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean I got a little time in to be

634
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: able to talk with them, you know, get to know

635
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: him as a person. Do they outline what they envisioned

636
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: is your role, what they expect from you, what they

637
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: hope to get from you? Yet? Oh? They you know,

638
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: they didn't say much, but I'm sure they got high

639
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: expectations of me, and I'm going to give them everything

640
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: I got. To take you off the field a little bit.

641
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: I know you wear this medallion all your time. Is

642
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: that your half brother James or it's my half brother,

643
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: but you know growing up in the same house, yes,

644
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,719
Speaker 1: And like I know that you guys always pushed each other,

645
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, as you were both coming up and you

646
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: were both playing college ball. How how does maybe serving

647
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: his memory push you even harder now? Would you say?

648
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: It pushes even harder now than when you guys were competing. Oh? Yeah,

649
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: it still pushed me to this day, just the things

650
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: that I went through, you know, going through the time

651
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: of losing my brother, you know, it was a tough

652
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: time and you know, just seeing like dealing with that,

653
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: you know, it's like I can make it through anything.

654
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: So just going through injuries in Arizona and you know,

655
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: like it just still pushed me to want to do better.

656
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: Did you so when you think, you know, he's got

657
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: the best seat in the house now watching you play,

658
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: do you feel feel I mean, you have to feel

659
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: like he would be immensely proud of what you've accomplished

660
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: in this league so far. Right, Oh, yes, he most

661
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: definitely will be proud of me. And you know, just

662
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,479
Speaker 1: to be able to take care of moms and the family.

663
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: You know, when he left. You know, that was a

664
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Speaker 1: plan that we both had together. But you know, I

665
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: had to make it to the league, yes, to make

666
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: it to the league and take care of the family.

667
00:30:58,280 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: And you know, just for me to do it when

668
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: times were tough. You know, I'm sure he is sided

669
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah. On your family, you have one daughter, right,

670
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: that's what you have for children. I have two daughters. Okay,

671
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: what are the names? Kay and Ray? I have a cecio.

672
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: And you're in the thick of it now, I've been there.

673
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: And when you'll be moving family up here to Buffalo

674
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: during the season or what do you think if you

675
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: thought it might be too cold for them, But they

676
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: will be coming, They will be coming out. Yeah, you're not.

677
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: You can't beat made to September here though, I mean,

678
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: it's beautiful, So training camp not super hot, so you'll

679
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: like it, you'll like it a lot. But so you

680
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: look at this receiving group, uh, and I don't know

681
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: how familiar are with all the names, but what what

682
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: do you think about? What first comes to mind when

683
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: you think about the possibilities the potential of this group

684
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: of receivers, you know, coupled with Josh oh just looking

685
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: at their own group of receivers. You know, it's just,

686
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: you know, when you look at it, it's always something

687
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: small that you had to correct that can get you

688
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: to the next step. And you know, also where we

689
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: played them early in the season last year when I

690
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: was with the Ravens, right, you know, you can see

691
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: like it was still like room for improvement. But as

692
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: it kept going on, they continue to get better and

693
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: watching the watching the highlights in there, there was a

694
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: lot of plays being made, and you know, it kind

695
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: of had me excited to work with these guys because Coach,

696
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's told you, Coach likes grinders, guys that

697
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: are gonna be giving him the same thing on a

698
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: Thursday in week seventeen as they're giving him in week

699
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: one on a Thursday. So it's from what we've heard,

700
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: you're that kind of guy. I mean, how would you

701
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: describe yourself that way? You don't mind the grind, I mean,

702
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: I don't mind it, but I'm not going to talk

703
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,719
Speaker 1: about it. I'm just I'm gonna just sure. Yeah. I mean,

704
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just coming and you know, lead by example.

705
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: Fans talk about this guy is a number one receiver,

706
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: this guy is not. Are you a number one? Do

707
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: you think you you yourself as a candidate, at least

708
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: for a number one receiver spot on this team. I don't.

709
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: I don't really feed into all that. You know. I'm

710
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: just a dude that can make plays and you know,

711
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: hopefully you know, have players to come in and help

712
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: and I helped them out and we feed off each other.

713
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: I don't really pay attention to the ones and twos,

714
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, just playing over the years. I never was

715
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: a number one receiver, but when my number got called,

716
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: I made plays. So that's what I go by. The

717
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,239
Speaker 1: last one I got for you. I don't know if

718
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: you're aware of this, but you are only the second

719
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: player from Pittsburgh State to ever play for the Bills.

720
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: Do you have you ever crossed paths with the first

721
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: guy who Brian Warman. You know Brian, Yes, I have

722
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: cross paths. I talked to him before, and you know,

723
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: he's just a great dude. Do you talk to him

724
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: since you No, I haven't talked to him since that.

725
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: But he's gonna be fired up. But yeah, he's gonna

726
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: be fired up. The gorillas, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's

727
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: not a who lot of guerrillas in the NFL. No,

728
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 1: there's only one gorilla. Hey, John, congratulations to you than

729
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: for coming by here. We appreciate it, and good lucky you.

730
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: We'll see you down the rodeo. Thank you appreciate it.

731
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: John Brown joined US Bills receiver signed to the roster

732
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 1: earlier this week. Chris and I coming back with more

733
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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bills Drive and this is

734
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back, One Goes Live

735
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 1: from One Goes Drive. Chris Brown with us here today.

736
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: I'm John Murphy. Steve Tasker remains on vacation for a

737
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: little while longer next week. Joe Piscallion will join us

738
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: Monday through Wednesday, and you're back next Thursday Friday. I

739
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: believe that is correct. That's the plan for next week.

740
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: The plan for the rest of the day. What's a

741
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: jam Pack show. If you just joined us, you missed

742
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: a Brandon being the Bills general manager. We spent the

743
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: first twenty twenty five minutes of the show with him.

744
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: A lot of good stuff there. He'll be up on

745
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: our website, Buffalo Bills dot com before much longer than Samtunoon.

746
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 1: You just heard John Brown, one of the Bills free

747
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: agents coming up at one. Greg Cosell from NFL matchup

748
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: on ESPN. He's got thoughts on these nine Bills free agents.

749
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: Will tap into his wealth of knowledge. Cole Beasley one

750
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: of the Bills wide receivers free agent signees this week.

751
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: He'll join us at one thirty two thirty Tie and

752
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: Secki builds offensive lineman signed to the roster this week.

753
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: Nine new Buffalo Bills, including one last night yesterday, Andre Roberts,

754
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: had been talked about. A free agent who is a

755
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: return specialist. Andre Roberts set career highs and punt and

756
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: kick return yardage last year, tied for the league, league

757
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: and punt return yardage. It's an interesting signing. Obviously, the

758
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: Bills need for special teams help Chris, but the fact

759
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: that Andre Roberts is on is what fourth new team

760
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: in the last four years. Why do you think he

761
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: bounces so much team to team. I think because teams

762
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: see him as a singular thing, which is a return man. Yep.

763
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: And I think also teams have shifting philosophies on what

764
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: the kick return game should be will be based on

765
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: some of the rule changes, because you know, when that

766
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: rule first changed, everybody was just driving it through the

767
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: end zone and not letting anybody return. Then they realized, well,

768
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: it's pretty darned difficult to get out past the twenty

769
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: five yard line, which is where they're getting it on

770
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: a touchback if you have a good cover team. So

771
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: maybe we should kick to people more. And we saw

772
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: the shift there in the second year. But this guy's dynamic.

773
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I asked him yesterday, you know, could you

774
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: have ever pictured in your wildest dreams that you were

775
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: going to have your career year in your tenth NFL season?

776
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: And he said, no, not really, but I'm glad it

777
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: happened because he cashed in this year because of it.

778
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: I thought it was very interesting that he did not

779
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: appreciate the way the Jets kind of handled his free

780
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: agent status. They were very he said, it was a

781
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: little shady the way they conducted business with him. So

782
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: one of the first things he said when he got

783
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: to the lecture and yesterday was I am looking forward

784
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: to playing that team twice a year, which has to

785
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: be music to the years of Bills fans after they

786
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: saw him run all over the Bills last year in

787
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: two games Murph two games on kick returns alone, he

788
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: had three hundred and eight yards. I mean, he was

789
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 1: a big reason why the Bills lost to the Jets

790
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: in the game here last year, the second meeting between

791
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: the two teams. He had a fifty something yard return

792
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 1: in that game and an eighty six yard return in

793
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: that game that led to ten points for the Jets

794
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: in what ended up being a four point game. Yeah. Rough,

795
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: that was rough. That was a rough loss. How can

796
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: you use to the Jets anyway? Seriously, I can't. I

797
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: still can't. That's I mean, that's a huge game now

798
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,439
Speaker 1: this year. I mean you think about you know, people

799
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: would people would kind of you see Bills Jets on

800
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: the schedule nationally. I think the national people would be like, yeah, okay,

801
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: you know a couple of also rans in the AFCAS Patriots, Patriots, Patriots,

802
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. You know, but now with the way

803
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: these two teams have improved their rosters with young and

804
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: improving quarterbacks, you know, to go against one another who

805
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: are also really good friends, you know, I think it's

806
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a matchup that's gonna, I think,

807
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: get a little bit greater national exposure. I'm not saying

808
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be the national game at four o'clock necessarily,

809
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 1: but it could be quarterback. It could be the two buddies,

810
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: the young quarterbacks going head to head, could be that's

811
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: going to be a story for years to come. You

812
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: would think, hey, this just crossed Adam Schefter's report, Chris On.

813
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: It looks like what the first Buffalo bill for UFA

814
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 1: finds a new home. What he got there? Yeah, John

815
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 1: Miller going to the Bengals three years, sixteen and a

816
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: half million according to Schefter. So not a bad deal

817
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: for John Miller. No, And and you know they're trying

818
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: to revamp that line to a certain extent. You know,

819
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: they have the draft choice Billy Price, who was a

820
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: first round pick a couple of years ago. They resigned

821
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: the guy that was already on their roster and Bobby Hart,

822
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: though a lot of people in the media thought they

823
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: paid way too much for a guy who really wasn't

824
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: all that great for them last year. But that being said,

825
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 1: they still have Cordy Glenn at left tackle, Clint Bowling

826
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: at left guard, a veteran there. So it looks like

827
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: John's gonna line up where he has, you know, for

828
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: most of his Bill's career, which is going to be

829
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: at right guard for him. And you know, it's okay

830
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: to be happy for a guy. You know, he got

831
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: a nice contract in free agency, so good for him.

832
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,439
Speaker 1: There was a hard worker here well, and that's that's

833
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: kind of the thing you you kind of feel bad

834
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: about because I know he bought into the culture that

835
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: coach McDermott was trying to build here last year. He

836
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: came into camp last year in the best shape of

837
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: his career, and I mean you could see it. It's

838
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: not easy to see that on alignment, you could see

839
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: how fit he was. I mean, there wasn't a sloppy

840
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: part to him at all. I mean he was fit.

841
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: And so while he was physically in the best shape

842
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: of his life, just for some reason, a lot of

843
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: those parts just did not blend together last year, up

844
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: front and winning battles at the line of scrimmage, assignment errors.

845
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying John, I'm saying just the whole

846
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: lot of them. It just did not come together. We

847
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: talked a little bit yesterday about how Dion Dawkins in

848
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: his second year was in desperate need of guidance, leadership coaching,

849
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: may or may not have received it adequately last year.

850
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: I think John Miller falls into that category. A guy

851
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: who approaching the final year of his rookie deal probably

852
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: thought this is my year. I'm gonna come in and

853
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: fit in shape, ready to go to work, and like

854
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,280
Speaker 1: you said, it just didn't. Yeah, he regressed as a player.

855
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't want to knock the

856
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: guys on the line there, but you know, I don't

857
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 1: think that Royan Groy played as well in his time

858
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: at center that he did when he filled in for

859
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: Eric Wood at the end of the twenty sixteen season,

860
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: when he looked fabulous and you're like, Wow, this is

861
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: guy's a future starter for this team. And then for

862
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: some reason it just didn't come together, and you feel

863
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: bad about that. I mean, that's not to say that

864
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: he can't, you know, redeem himself, you know, when he

865
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Speaker 1: gets back wherever he lands, whether it's here or somewhere else.

866
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Speaker 1: You know, with Ryan Groy, I mean he's still a

867
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: relatively young player. You know, the Rams were interested in

868
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: him because they made him an offer and the Bills

869
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 1: matched that a couple of years ago. But yeah, yeah,

870
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: you kind of feel bad that when you see guys

871
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,760
Speaker 1: who you know are putting the time in and putting

872
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 1: the effort in, and then on Sundays it just doesn't

873
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: come together. You kind of feel bad for guys that

874
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: are working hard and not reaping the rewards. Good Ram

875
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: John Miller goes to the Bengals report of the Art

876
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 1: in his backyard where he played college. I mean, he's

877
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: a Miami native, but you know he played college at Louisville,

878
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: so he's right down the road. Hey, nine new Buffalo

879
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: Bills this week. What do you think our Twitter pull

880
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: today where the Bills more active than you thought they

881
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: would be in free agency on Twitter? With about four

882
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: hundred fifty votes cast so far less than an hour

883
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: in on Twitter, seventy two percent of you say, yeah,

884
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: they were more active than I thought with those nine signings.

885
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,439
Speaker 1: Twenty three percent say it's about what I thought. Four

886
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: percents say not as active as I had hoped going

887
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: into free agency. The first week of free agency? Where

888
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: did you come down? I would say more than I thought.

889
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: I remember joking around with task or a week ago,

890
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: and I was being a little crazy. I said, man,

891
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: what do we have twelve new Buffalo bills by this

892
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,479
Speaker 1: time next week? I did, and I thought, well, okay,

893
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: I'd settle for half half that. Half a dozen new

894
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo bills. Yeah, I mean, I guess I never really

895
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: from a money perspective, you knew they had the money

896
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: to sign people. I was just I guess what I

897
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 1: was anticipating, based on Brandon's judicious quote about being fiscally

898
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: responsible with the money they had at their disposal, that

899
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 1: you know, maybe in week one they have two or

900
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: three early signings for pretty sizeable money, and then in

901
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: week two and three, you know they kind of not

902
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: to discredit any player that would be signing in these situations,

903
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: but kind of backfill the rest of your holes. And

904
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: they didn't do that at all. They just kept swinging

905
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: for a few days, left and right and center. They

906
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: were swinging everywhere, and if you think about it, he

907
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: stuck true to his word. I mean, Mitch Morris is

908
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 1: the only giant contract of the lot here when you

909
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 1: think about it. I mean, people will talk about Beasley's

910
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: contract in Brown's contract, but as far as the top

911
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: end of the receiver market goes, those are very reasonable

912
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: deals for the team to handle. You know what else

913
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: struck me as I think back to this week and

914
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: what the Bills accomplished this week. Look, we all knew

915
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: where the areas of need were right, wide receiver and offensive.

916
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: I think that's where they went strong right three No,

917
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 1: two wide receivers, actually three if you want to count

918
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: to Andre Roberts, more of a special teamer and three

919
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: offensive linement. And despite the fact that we all knew

920
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: kind of what their focus would be, nobody really had

921
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: a bead on any of these players. I mean, I

922
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: didn't have any insight that John Brown was on the

923
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: Bills list. I'd like him all but you knew they

924
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: pursued him last year, so it made sense to, you know,

925
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 1: at least keep him on your list of potential targets.

926
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Speaker 1: But who else? I think our buddy Joe b mentioned

927
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft and his pre free agency analysis. But all

928
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: the guessing that was out there about who they'd go after,

929
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: nobody really had a clue, which is we again, you

930
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: try to learn from this and move forward, right. I

931
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: think two big lessons this week. Don't and go back

932
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: to last Friday, the Antonio Brown situation. Don't underestimate the

933
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 1: bills aggressiveness because they are very aggressive under this regime.

934
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,919
Speaker 1: And number two, don't think that you got a line

935
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: or a beat on who they're going to go after,

936
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: whether it's draft or free and see, because they surprise you, right,

937
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: they surprise people well a thing Josh Allen last April.

938
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,320
Speaker 1: And I think the workings of the market itself force you,

939
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, as an NFL front office to pivot quickly. Yeah,

940
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: I mean you may have an initial plan in mind,

941
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: but they're better be contingency B, CONTINGENCYC, and contingency D

942
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: because it can happen as fast as you talking to

943
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: an agent. And if a player works for a big agency,

944
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: there could be a second agent working for that same

945
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: player on another phone trying to get more money, and

946
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: those two guys are talking to each other saying, what

947
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: do you have right now? I got seven million year.

948
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: Well I got eight and a half over here, hang

949
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: up the phone. Okay, well sorry, we got another deal

950
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: coming in. We can't talk and I mean and then

951
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: they're off the phone. And that's how quick it can

952
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: be over and then you're like, oh boy, I gotta

953
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: do something else now, you know what I mean. So

954
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: that's how quick this market can turn on its head.

955
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: And that's why you have to be super fluid and

956
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: able to adjust on the fly, because if you don't,

957
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: you're going to be left out of the room without

958
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: filling the needs that you feel you need to address.

959
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: Ye on the tweet sheet in response to our question

960
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: where the Bill is more active this week in free

961
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: agency than you thought they might be wandering, Jack says,

962
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: way more than I figured, maybe five nine. Shows how

963
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: aggressive they plan to improve this team and build a winner.

964
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: He says, I hope they keep it up and add

965
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman or edge pass rusher. Some good names

966
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: out there, ansa Houston Wilkerson, legit to name a few,

967
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: and then take the best player available in the draft.

968
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: They are already really in pretty good position. Take the

969
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: best player available in the draft. I know by the

970
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: way that best player might be a defensive lineman, a

971
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: defensive end, edge rush guy. So I think they're a

972
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: pretty good spot as far as being free to take

973
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: who they want and you know, the best player in

974
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: the draft. Do you agree? I would agree with that,

975
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: you know, and I think and that's assuming they stay

976
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: at nine. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how you feel,

977
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: but I think they are completely open for business at

978
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: pick number nine for anybody that might want to get

979
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: up there. If a quarterback slides, or if some defensive

980
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: end that they had at the top of the board

981
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: is still sitting there. Of course, in that case, the

982
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: Bills may just take them themselves. But you know what

983
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If there's a team that's somewhere in the

984
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: teams that wants to get up into the top ten

985
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: and the right people are falling or sliding down the board,

986
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,479
Speaker 1: or maybe there's some supreme defensive talent that's getting pushed

987
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: down because somebody's reaching for a quarterback earlier than expected,

988
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: there could be some prime opportunity to get some more

989
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: draft capital just by sliding back maybe a handful of

990
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: picks to fourteen fifteen area, where you can still get

991
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: a really darn good defensive player. Or even an offensive

992
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: tackle if you feel you still have to go there again,

993
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: to the well one more time. For the long term future,

994
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 1: there are going to be options I think for Brandon

995
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: being maybe more than we even anticipate based on how

996
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: this thing falls. And one more from the tweet sheet,

997
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: answering the question where the Bills more active than you

998
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: thought they'd be in free agency? Joe Defko tweets and

999
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: they came out swinging like a young Mike Tyson, super

1000
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: happy with the ads they made on the offensive line.

1001
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: He goes on to say, I bet Shady is smiling

1002
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: from ear to ear. Yeah, he's got to be happy, Shady, right,

1003
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: some offensive line help, well, his buddy Frank Gore offensive

1004
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: line help for sure. I mean that's got to get

1005
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 1: him excited. I think the one thing that if you

1006
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: kind of dig a little bit into the playing history

1007
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: of some of these linemen that they acquired, you know

1008
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: whether and it's probably Feliciano and Enseeci maybe more than

1009
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: anybody else, but more is to a certain extent, is

1010
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: known as a great pass blocker and is above average

1011
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: as a run blocker. You know, he knows what his

1012
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,479
Speaker 1: strengths are. But in any event. The point I'm getting

1013
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: at here is there is a there's a theme that

1014
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: runs through Feliciano and in SCI's game, and that is

1015
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: a mean streak. These guys have some nastiness to them,

1016
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: Feliciano to the point where Brandon being said yesterday that

1017
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: his strength at times can also be his weakness because

1018
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: he is so determined to drive his opponent into the

1019
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: ground and way to China that sometimes he'll miss. And

1020
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: Brandon said, I'll take a few misses if I'm going

1021
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: to get that on every play. And in Secky too,

1022
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,959
Speaker 1: I mean, man handling Jadavian Clowney is something that doesn't

1023
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: always happen, but he certainly held his own and one

1024
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: his share of battles. I mean that you got to

1025
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: put on if you haven't seen in Secky play, you know,

1026
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: when you have NFL Game Rewind or one of those services,

1027
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: go look at when the Washington Redskins played the Houston

1028
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: Texans and he was in for Trent Williams and had

1029
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: to match up on Jadeveon Clowney. It's some of the best.

1030
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're his agent, you had to be

1031
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: sending that tape to everybody because I mean, he just

1032
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 1: he did a fantastic job on him and that opens

1033
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: your eyes. I mean, it opens your eye. I mean,

1034
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: I'm sure you have your own evaluation as a pro

1035
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: personnel staff, but you watch that tape and you're like, wow.

1036
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a number one pick in the draft

1037
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 1: and this is an undrafted guy who took five years

1038
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: to get to the NFL and he can do that.

1039
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: I mean, he's I mean that's really really encouraging. Yep.

1040
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: All right, a break here, great sell NFL matchup on ESPN.

1041
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: He's got some thoughts on the bills nine free agent signings.

1042
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: We'll talk with him when we come back for our

1043
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: number two one Bills Live presented by Kalada Health from

1044
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills

1045
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Date the update from One Bill's Drive.

1046
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: Where the first week of NFL free agency winding down

1047
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: here and all over the league. The Bills added nine

1048
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: new players to their roster this week through free agency,

1049
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 1: the latest late yesterday when they signed free agent return

1050
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: man Andre Roberts to a two year deal. Thirty one

1051
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: years of age. Had a great season with the New

1052
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: York Jets last year, earned his first Pro Bowl selection

1053
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: as the AFC Vessel Teams player. He had both the

1054
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 1: kick return and a punt return for a touchdown last

1055
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: season for New York. Andre Roberts joins on with the

1056
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills as a return specialist around the league. The

1057
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: signings continue former Bills John Miller, former Bill's draft pick

1058
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: third and round here a couple of years ago, as

1059
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: agreed to terms on a three year deal with at

1060
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, said to be worth sixteen and a half

1061
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: million dollars for John Miller. The NFL has suspended Brown's

1062
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: running back Kareem Hunt for the first eight games of

1063
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: the upcoming season, were violating its personal conduct policy. It

1064
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: stemmed from a February twenty eighteen incident on which he

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Speaker 1: was shown on video shoving and kicking a woman. Hunt

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Speaker 1: will forfeit about three hundred three thousand dollars out of

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Speaker 1: his salary this year. Young Giants last night agreed dual

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Speaker 1: deal with wide receiver Golden Tate. His agents announced a

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Speaker 1: deal but did not provide terms. It's said to be

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Speaker 1: four years, thirty seven and a half million dollars. Raiders

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Speaker 1: made a couple of cuts last night despite giving Jordy

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Speaker 1: Nelson a roster bonus in December, they released him today

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Speaker 1: also created more cap room by releasing quarterback A J. McCarron.

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Speaker 1: The former Buffalo Bill and former Bill's wide receiver Jordan

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Speaker 1: Matthews has agreed to a one year deal with the

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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine Ers College basketball Tournament time. Do

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Speaker 1: you beat Bulls in action tonight in Cleveland semifinals in

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Speaker 1: a Mid American Conference. The Bulls tip off at six

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Speaker 1: thirty tonight against Central Michigan. That game on CBS Sports Network.

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Speaker 1: You'd be late. Yesterday agreed to a new five year

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Speaker 1: contract for head men's basketball coach and eight oates college

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Speaker 1: basketball in the Atlantic Ten Tournament, The Bonnies of Saint

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Speaker 1: Bonaventre just about ninety minutes away from their tournament action,

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Speaker 1: a quarterfinal game against George Mason. Mason won eighteen games

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Speaker 1: this year. Bonnies have won sixteen Bonnies going on a roll.

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Speaker 1: They've won seven of their last eight games tournament time

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Speaker 1: in college basketball, John Murphy and Chris Brown in for

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Speaker 1: the vacation in Steve Tasker happy to be on the

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Speaker 1: line our regular Friday spot with the executive producer and

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Speaker 1: analyst for NFL Matchup on ESPN. Senior producer in NFL

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Speaker 1: Films Buddy, Greg Cosell on the line with us High Greg,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, and Chris Here in Buffalo, thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us, mrv Chris. You guys getting ready for the

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Speaker 1: big dance. Yeah, we are. There's a there's a big

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Speaker 1: party next Friday, right, Chris here at one bl Drive. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We like March Madness, we do. We love it here,

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Speaker 1: we love it. Yeah, we got a couple of favorites

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Speaker 1: to the you be bulls Bodies still live. Yeah, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Greg gut we just said Brandon Bean on the show

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Speaker 1: an hour ago. Help us sort through what the Bills

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Speaker 1: did this week nine additions. What do you think overall

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Speaker 1: about the additions the Bills made and maybe how they

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Speaker 1: improve their position in the AFC East. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: to me, and again, we can go through all of them,

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Speaker 1: but I think for me, the three critical sign well

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Speaker 1: four really where the two receivers. We've spoken about their

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Speaker 1: need at receiver. I thought Mitch Morrise was absolutely critical.

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Speaker 1: And I really have always liked Tyler Croft ever since

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Speaker 1: he came out of Rutgers, and I think that he's

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Speaker 1: an athletic tight end. So to me, they've really added

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00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: the old line, which was absolutely essential. And I think

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Speaker 1: the receiving corps, which we've spoken about Murph so many times,

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Speaker 1: that is something they absolutely needed to do. Let's break

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Speaker 1: let's go dive into some of these and let's start

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Speaker 1: with Mitch Morris, the center of the former Kansas City Chief.

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Speaker 1: Are you saying that signing him was absolutely critical or

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Speaker 1: signing somebody of that caliber was to go for the bill? Well, certainly,

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00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: he's a very good center. I mean, I think that

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Speaker 1: when he was in Kansas City for those I don't

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Speaker 1: know how many years it was, but he was a

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Speaker 1: very very good player. I believe he actually came out

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Speaker 1: of Missouri as a tackle, he was moved to center,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's a really solid quality NFL center.

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Speaker 1: He can stabilize that old line quite a bit, and

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Speaker 1: I think that that was a very good first step

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Speaker 1: for reworking an offensive line. And the second part of that,

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Speaker 1: which didn't happen in the last three days, but it

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Speaker 1: absolutely bears mentioning, is Spencer Long. And Spencer Long came

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Speaker 1: out of Nebraska. I remember watching him there and I

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Speaker 1: liked the player coming out, and now he'll likely start

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Speaker 1: at one of the guard spots, and I think that

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00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: that's an upgrade as well. So you're going to have

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Speaker 1: Mitch's at center, Spencer Long I guess at right guard probably,

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Speaker 1: And I think you've upgraded the interior of your old line.

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Speaker 1: And how many times this season did we talk about

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Speaker 1: the fact that the old line was not particularly athletic

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Speaker 1: and needed upgrades. Right? And then with respect to the

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Speaker 1: receiver signings in John Brown and Cole Beasley, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean you look at that and I think everybody knows

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Speaker 1: what Brown is and everybody knows what Beasley is being,

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Speaker 1: you know, a deep threat and a slot receiver respectively.

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Speaker 1: I think the big wonder on the part of fans,

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Speaker 1: as excited as they are about Beasley, is the hope

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Speaker 1: that they can see development in Josh Allen's game in

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Speaker 1: the short to intermediate area where he can fully take

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Speaker 1: advantage of a target like Beasley. What do you foresee there? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's a critical point. But let's start at the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Let's start what I think what Josh Allen is at

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Speaker 1: this point and what he'll likely be even if he

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Speaker 1: improves in certain areas. I think what you're trying to

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00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: get established with Josh Allen is you're trying to get

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Speaker 1: established with him that he'll be an under center quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And when I say that, I don't mean that's one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent by any means. But then you're going to

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Speaker 1: have a play action pass game. You're going to be

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Speaker 1: able to stretch the field with vertical routes and vertical

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00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: route concepts. And by that I mean, Chris, we're not

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Speaker 1: talking about just throwing it fifty yards down the field.

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Speaker 1: But now you have John Brown, who at his best

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Speaker 1: when healthy, is a vertical receiver running post routes, deep crossers,

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Speaker 1: dig routes. You have Foster who I really like, another

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Speaker 1: vertical type receiver. And then you have Cole Beasley, now

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Speaker 1: who when you go to eleven personnel will work in

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Speaker 1: the slot. And as you said, that's the area where

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00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: clearly Josh Allen needs some improvement, but you expect that

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Speaker 1: to happen based on what he did the final three,

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Speaker 1: four or five games last year. And Beasley is outstanding

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Speaker 1: at getting open versus both man and zone in those

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Speaker 1: short intermediate areas. He's a very good chain mover, and

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Speaker 1: that's a critical piece of an offense. Are you saying,

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Speaker 1: Greg that you would not anticipate though, like an overhaul

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Speaker 1: of the type of passing offense the Bills had last year,

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Speaker 1: even with some of these editions. Well, I think when

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Speaker 1: you look at what they did, Murph, they have Foster

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Speaker 1: who will be there. I think he acquitted himself. Well,

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Speaker 1: they signed John Brown. Brandon Bean knows what John Brown is,

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Speaker 1: just as Sean McDermott does. He's a certain kind of receiver.

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Speaker 1: He's not quote unquote a possession guy. They have vertical

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Speaker 1: elements now and vertical dimensions in their passing game, and

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Speaker 1: they have a quarterback who's probably at his best as

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Speaker 1: a vertical thrower. And again to reiterate, I don't mean

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Speaker 1: fifty yard chucks down the field. I mean you know

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Speaker 1: where you're working, let's say fifteen to twenty two yards

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Speaker 1: with the passing game, and you're working off play action,

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Speaker 1: and you're working with those kinds of route concepts. So

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Speaker 1: you know, they know what they signed, and I think

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Speaker 1: that that's the way they see Josh Allen, and that's

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Speaker 1: the way they see their offense and their pass game.

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Speaker 1: So let's take that a step further, because now that

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Speaker 1: you have two speed elements in Brown and Foster, and

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Speaker 1: there aren't too many defenses that are going to feel

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Speaker 1: real comfortable about playing single safety high unless they've got

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00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: some all world corners there. Just maybe just speak to

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Speaker 1: how that's probably going to help people like Lashawn McCoy

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Speaker 1: and Frank Gore well in an ideal world, you know,

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Speaker 1: And obviously, Chris, it depends on what you do personnel wise. Informationally,

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Speaker 1: if you line up on first and ten with two

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Speaker 1: tight ends, you're going to get a single high safety.

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Speaker 1: If you line up on first and ten maybe with

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Speaker 1: three wide and you have either Gore or McCoy in

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Speaker 1: the backfield, then defenses have to decide how they want

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Speaker 1: to play that. With two receivers and Foster and Brown

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00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: that can stretch the field vertically, and how do you

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Speaker 1: handle that? How are you going to let your corners

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00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: play one on one? Are you going to play with

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00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: two deep safeties? How are you going to play that?

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Speaker 1: The point is it puts a burden on the defense,

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00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: It challenges the defense, and then ideally you get the

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00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: defense spread, you light in the box, and then you

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00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: can run the football well with great cosal Executive producer

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Speaker 1: analysts for NFL Matchup on ESPN and long time senior

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00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: producer at NFL Films, tell me your I guess overall

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Speaker 1: impression to John Brown's NFL career so far, the four

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Speaker 1: years in Arizona, the one year at Baltimore. Do you

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Speaker 1: feel as if he's maximized his potential if that's the

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Speaker 1: way to look at as he has, he'd been the

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Speaker 1: type of player he thought he might be when he

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Speaker 1: was coming out of college. Well, he came out of

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00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: a small school, right, so to be honest, I didn't

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Speaker 1: study him coming out, so I knew what kind of

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Speaker 1: player he was, and I think when he's been healthy,

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Speaker 1: he's shown that. Look, his best year was with Carson

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Speaker 1: Palmer twenty fifteen. Carson Palmer is an overall better thrower

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Speaker 1: than Josh Allen in terms of accuracy, but they're both

1225
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Speaker 1: kind of push it down the field intermediate vertical throwers.

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Speaker 1: And I think that John Brown at his best when

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Speaker 1: you go back to let's say two thousand and fifteen,

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Speaker 1: when you look at some of his good moments a

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Speaker 1: year ago with the Baltimore Ravens, is he catches deep balls,

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Speaker 1: he catches in breaking routes where he then can run.

1231
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Speaker 1: So if he's healthy, he's that kind of receiver, and

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Speaker 1: I think that that fits what the Bills want to

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Speaker 1: do in their passing game. I know you mentioned Tyler

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Speaker 1: Croft a bit already. You know, you try to get

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Speaker 1: a handle on him, at least from you know, the

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00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: media perspective where we sit. You know, you try to

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00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: look at the tape and what he did, and it's

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00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: hard not to ignore what he did when he had

1239
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: the opportunity to start on a regular basis for an

1240
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 1: injured Tyler Eiffert in twenty seventeen. And even the numbers

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00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: alone there if you don't even look at his tape,

1242
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Speaker 1: seven touchdowns on forty two catches, Greg, I mean, that's

1243
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Speaker 1: that's very good red zone potential for this Bill's offense,

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Speaker 1: is it not? And you know, to me, Chris, he's

1245
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Speaker 1: actually a pretty athletic tight end. I mean, you know,

1246
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Speaker 1: he may not beat Travis Kelcey, but he's not just

1247
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 1: a six yard guy. You know, you throw it to

1248
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Speaker 1: him and he gets tackled. He's got good athletic ability.

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Speaker 1: And now you create an opportunity the way I see it, anyway,

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00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:56,919
Speaker 1: And I don't know what Brandon being or Sean would

1251
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: say about it, or Brian Dable, but I think you

1252
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: create a sujoy where you can line up with twelve

1253
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Speaker 1: personnel and you can have two tight ends and Tyler

1254
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Speaker 1: Croft and Jason Crum who can line up anywhere in

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Speaker 1: your formation because they're both athletic enough to detach from

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Speaker 1: the formation. So now you're also giving yourself a lot

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Speaker 1: of formation versatility with two tight end sets. So you're

1258
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Speaker 1: giving yourself a lot of personnel versatility and a lot

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Speaker 1: of formation versatility. And I think in today's NFL that's

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Speaker 1: absolutely critical, and eleven personnel was far and away, you know,

1261
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Speaker 1: the most popular grouping for him, as it was for

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01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: a lot of teams in the league Brian Dable. That is,

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01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 1: they would go to twelve personnel a good amount of

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Speaker 1: the time. But out of that twelve personnel, as you said,

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Speaker 1: I mean we might be able to see more of

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Speaker 1: those four wide looks with both of those tight ends

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Speaker 1: that you mentioned in the slots, because that's kind of

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01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: a page out of New England's book, is it not? Yes?

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Speaker 1: And I think that's why the tight end position, to me,

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01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: has so increased in importance because when you go to

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Speaker 1: these spread sets, you really like to be able to

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Speaker 1: do it out of every personnel package. In other words,

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Speaker 1: not be tied into playing two tight ends you have

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01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: to line up tight to the formation, because then you

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01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 1: put a burden on the defense. If you have two

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Speaker 1: tight ends on the field, are they going to stay

1277
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Speaker 1: with their base defense? Are they going to play nickel?

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01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 1: You put a burden on the defense as to how

1279
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Speaker 1: they choose to play it. But to my way of thinking,

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01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: I think both Croft and certainly Kroom because Kroom went

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Speaker 1: to college as a wide receiver and we saw last

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Speaker 1: year that he's an athletic kid, I think they can

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Speaker 1: really line up in multiple formation looks when they have

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Speaker 1: two tight ends on the field. Greg those are the

1285
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: only two tight ends on the roster right now. What

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Speaker 1: are the Bills missing, Not specifically a name, but what

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01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: type of tight end should they be in the market

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Speaker 1: for moving forward, draft or free agency. I think they'll

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Speaker 1: probably look more for a blocking tight end Murph as

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Speaker 1: their third tight end. I don't think that third tight

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Speaker 1: end needs to be an athletic receiver. They have two

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Speaker 1: of those, so you can either get that in the

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Speaker 1: draft free agency. There's a lot of those guys around

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01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 1: who were third tight ends, so I think that's probably

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Speaker 1: what they look for. Curious about your thoughts on thirty

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Speaker 1: five year old Frank Gore. You saw him with the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins last year. What do you think the Bills hope

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01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: to get from him at at age thirty six next season.

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Speaker 1: Frank Gore is one of my absolute favorite players that

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01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: I've ever watched, and I've never met him, unfortunately, but

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01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 1: I've talked to people who know him well. You know,

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01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 1: Frank Gore to me, has not really slowed down that

1303
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 1: significantly talent wise. Obviously, he's not a back who will

1304
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: carry two hundred and forty times anymore. If he did that,

1305
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: he would slow down because he wouldn't be able to

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01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 1: do that. But if you look at him last year

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Speaker 1: on tape, he looked very good to he looked like

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01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 1: Frank Gore. And again it's the number of carries. But

1309
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: he's also on a team with Lashawan McCoy. And the

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Speaker 1: one thing about Gore is he's really good in all

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01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: the other aspects of the game, plus the leadership. He's

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01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:59,400
Speaker 1: a terrific pass protector and that's so so important because

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01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 1: what's you're trying to do with Josh Allen is increase

1314
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: his comfort level, make him feel like he can drop back,

1315
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: stay in the pocket, deliver the football. Always knowing that

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01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: he has the running ability as a parachute and yes,

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01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 1: we know he's a great runner, but you're trying to

1318
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: develop him as a passer, and I think that someone

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Speaker 1: like Gore is absolutely critical in that regard because he's

1320
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: such a good pass protector. Greg Late yesterday, the Bills

1321
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: finished off their negotiations and signed return specialist Andre Roberts,

1322
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: who killed them when he played for the Jets last

1323
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: year against Buffalo. What you've seen him? What are the

1324
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 1: Bills hope to get from Andre Roberts? Who's not young

1325
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: either thirty one years old? Oh, I think he's thirty one.

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01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: But you know, it's funny because over the last three

1327
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: four years he hasn't been a receiver as much, but

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01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 1: he's also been a guy. If you go back earlier

1329
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: in his career with the Cardinals, maybe twenty twelve or so,

1330
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: I'm guessing he had some years where he caught fifty

1331
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 1: sixty balls. So again, I know that their receiving corps

1332
01:03:56,160 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: now has Brown. It obviously still has a Jones as foster.

1333
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: But Andre Roberts was earlier in his career, A nice

1334
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, fourth type receiver, third type receiver, So I

1335
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: think he can provide that potentially. But he's certainly a

1336
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 1: very good return man, Greg And one more question for you,

1337
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: and I want to go back to the offensive line.

1338
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 1: The Bills added three a lot of what they've talked

1339
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: about over the last month or so of personnel editions

1340
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 1: here and even when they look at the draft, when

1341
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 1: they talk about offensive lineman, it's clear that both McDermott

1342
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,240
Speaker 1: and being put a premium on position flexibility. They want

1343
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: guys who can might move around a little bit. Is

1344
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: that a I've never is that a league wide trender?

1345
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: Is that the Buffalo Bills maybe looking in that direction

1346
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: moving forward? I think you see that more with interior players, Murph.

1347
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: You know, you like guys who can play both guard

1348
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: and center. Spencer along fits that role. Rarely does a

1349
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: team go through a whole season playing five offensive linemen.

1350
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's happened, but rarely is that the case.

1351
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: So you always like to have players that can play

1352
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: more than one position, And like I said, I think

1353
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: it happens more on the interior. But speaking to that,

1354
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: I think a very overlook signing as tynes Ski because

1355
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: Tynesseki a few years back started six or seven games

1356
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 1: when Trent Williams was out and played extremely well at

1357
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,480
Speaker 1: left tackle. You know, a lot of people might not

1358
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: know who he is. He played in the Arena League.

1359
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: I know he's thirty three, thirty four years old, but

1360
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 1: he wasn't signed, my guesses to be a starter to

1361
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: play all sixteen games. But he played really, really well

1362
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 1: at left tackle a number of years ago when Trent

1363
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: Williams was out for the Redskins. Yeah, it's a great

1364
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: story his battle to get to the NFL. We've talked

1365
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: to him. Actually he's coming on the show with us

1366
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 1: later today to talk about that. But it's a great

1367
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: story for tynes Ski. Hey, great guy. You mentioned you're

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01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:43,439
Speaker 1: already turned your attention now you're back to the draft

1369
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 1: for the most part. How does that process go for you?

1370
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: What do you what do you do set aside position

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01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: groups and do that all at once? Or how do

1372
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: you prepare for the draft? Well, we do two matchup shows,

1373
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: murphor the Draft, which will our April sixteenth and April

1374
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: twenty third on ESPN and ESPN and two. So I'm

1375
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 1: right now you know I'm grinding away watching different groups.

1376
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:07,880
Speaker 1: I kind of do it randomly, whatever strikes my fancy.

1377
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: I could be watching you know, linebackers for one day,

1378
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 1: and then the next day I just feel like switching positions.

1379
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: So it's sort of whatever strikes my fancy. I'm trying

1380
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 1: to get through a lot of guys. You've got to

1381
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: watch a lot of tape. I'm not one of those

1382
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 1: guys that watches one game and thinks I know what

1383
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 1: a player is, or do I watch highlights. I try

1384
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 1: to grind through full games, and in college very often

1385
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 1: teams run a lot more plays murth so's it's a

1386
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 1: slow process. Just give us a ballpark figure here, we're

1387
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 1: five weeks out from the draft. How many hours of

1388
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: tape do you watch on a typical day these days? Oh,

1389
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 1: I'm still in at six thirty. I'm probably watching eight

1390
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 1: nine hours a day, trying to get through two hundred

1391
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 1: to two hundred and fifty players. You know, some I

1392
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 1: will see more than others, but that's sort of my goal.

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01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 1: That's great. Great, Thanks, We'll talk to you again next week.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Appreciate it, guys. Thanks great. Cosell

1395
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: is Executive producer analysts NFL matchup on the ESPN as

1396
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: he said, they've got a draft leading show coming up

1397
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks. Also senior producer at

1398
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,040
Speaker 1: NFL Films. We think Greg for joining us. My eyes

1399
01:07:07,080 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 1: would fall out exactly. I'm tired, fall out of my head.

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01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: That's a lot of video, man. I couldn't do it. Yeah,

1401
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 1: I can't do that much. I watch a couple of

1402
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: games on somebody. I'm like, yep, you gotta really love

1403
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: that stuff. Last year for the quarterbacks that I didn't

1404
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: even bother with Lamar Alexander, but I watched the other

1405
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:26,480
Speaker 1: four before the draft, each of them three or four games.

1406
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: It wore me out, just quarterbacks, just doing four players,

1407
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, do it at night when we're not here

1408
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: at work. But I was like, man, this is hard.

1409
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: Is just taxing, right. I don't like doing it. I

1410
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: mean I do it because I have to, but I

1411
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 1: don't like doing it, not extensively. Like, once i feel

1412
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: I've seen enough, I'm off. I am off, Like, just

1413
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 1: work hard, not long in that department. That's kind of

1414
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: the way I go at it. That's why we have Greg,

1415
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: and we thank you for doing that, all right, we're

1416
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: moving along with the show. Cole Beasley is gonna be

1417
01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 1: with us when we come back. The one of the

1418
01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 1: free agent wide receivers the Bills picked up. He's gonna

1419
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: join us when we come back on the show. Come

1420
01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 1: on back, John Murphy and Chris Brown in for the

1421
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 1: vacation in Steve Tasker. It's One Bill's Line, presented by

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01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: Klada Hell from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:32,639
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. John Murphy Chris Brown

1424
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: in for Steve Tasker this week and joining us. One

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01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,280
Speaker 1: of the newest Buffalo Bills wide receiver, Cole Beasley, signed

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01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: as a free agent a couple of days ago. Cold welcome.

1427
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 1: How do you like Buffalo? So I appreciate It's been awesome.

1428
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 1: They're very welcoming. Wife loves it. Fills at home already.

1429
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:48,200
Speaker 1: So we're excited. Your wife came in with you on

1430
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:50,639
Speaker 1: this visit thing. Yeah, she did start looking for places

1431
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 1: to live, that sort of thing. They we're trying to

1432
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: get up here as soon as we can get situated.

1433
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: This is a big move for you and your family.

1434
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: You basically, you know, played the what's six years with

1435
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and grew up right outside Dallas. You played

1436
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 1: in college football there too. It's basically your entire life

1437
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: isn't spent there. Uh yeah, I mean playing in Dallas

1438
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: in college is kind of like I didn't have any

1439
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 1: other options, so it was a really old purpose so

1440
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,200
Speaker 1: turned out. Okay, yes, sir, let me ask you about

1441
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: the options that you've had here. You wind up with

1442
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,479
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, but you had some choices, right You

1443
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: could have gone back to Dallas, I suppose, and I

1444
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: read the Patriots were even in the mix for you

1445
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 1: a little bit up. Yeah, there are a few places

1446
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 1: that were interested. But it worked out for the best.

1447
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:31,680
Speaker 1: And I'm here. The fact that you chose Buffalo over

1448
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: New England is going to give you even more Bills

1449
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 1: fans than you already have right now now that you're here.

1450
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: But just maybe spell out or provide a little bit

1451
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:42,639
Speaker 1: of a picture, at least in terms of the limited feedback,

1452
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 1: because I know it's probably been limited from the coaching

1453
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 1: staff and what they've told you about where they see

1454
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:49,720
Speaker 1: you kind of fitting in here. I think all of

1455
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 1: us have a general idea of what you're going to

1456
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 1: be doing for this offense in the passing game. But

1457
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 1: how do you see it? What is your vision going

1458
01:09:57,320 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 1: forward here? Well, there are no promises being made or

1459
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: any thing. You know, you got to go out here

1460
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:02,640
Speaker 1: and earn it every day. And you know that's all

1461
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:03,640
Speaker 1: I want to do. I want to go out here

1462
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 1: and earn it and um just do my best and

1463
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 1: you know, help the team win. How much will a

1464
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:13,680
Speaker 1: fresh start energize you? Maybe even more because you know

1465
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: you've been in one place for a while. Now now

1466
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:18,840
Speaker 1: you're in a new place, new faces. How much more

1467
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: does that juice you up? Now? You know, I was

1468
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: actually talking to receivers coach at Dallas not too long ago.

1469
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 1: Um that actually used to be here, coach Sanjay Lao Okay, yeah,

1470
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: and I was telling him like this whole whole uh

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01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: you know process has kind of rejuvenated me and gave

1472
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 1: me a new energy. And it's, um, it's really exciting

1473
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: and it's almost you feel like a rookie again all over.

1474
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 1: And um, you know, even though um money or whatever

1475
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 1: is where it's at, you know, you still feel like

1476
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:45,760
Speaker 1: you got to earn it and show everybody what you

1477
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 1: can do. And you know, I like I like feeling that.

1478
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: I saw Sanja at the combine in a couple of

1479
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and I got even you know, people always

1480
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:54,840
Speaker 1: say nice things, but I got the sense that he

1481
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:56,560
Speaker 1: really liked working here for a couple of years he

1482
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,720
Speaker 1: was here, and but disappointed that he didn't get a

1483
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: chance to stay back the deep. Have you talked to

1484
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 1: him since you signed with the Bills at all or

1485
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 1: did he express that to you. I talked to him

1486
01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: a little bit, I think the next day after I

1487
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 1: chose to come here, and really he was just really

1488
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: excited for me and and happy I found a place,

1489
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:15,640
Speaker 1: um where I could go play ball and have some

1490
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 1: more opportunities. And I didn't really ask him much about

1491
01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: his stay other than like where do I live? You know,

1492
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to move forward. Um. He showed me

1493
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:28,320
Speaker 1: a few few places. He actually sent me his house

1494
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 1: that he lived in. I was like, this doesn't help me, Like,

1495
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 1: where's it that. It was just like a video of

1496
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:36,719
Speaker 1: his whole house. You want to buy it. He's probably

1497
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 1: thinking he's trying to sell his house. But right look,

1498
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: I know you you have you know, there's a lot

1499
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 1: of reasons why the Bills found you as an attractive

1500
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:46,680
Speaker 1: candidate to bring in here to help their offense. One

1501
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 1: of them had to be you know, the measure of

1502
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,840
Speaker 1: success and help that you gave a young quarterback and

1503
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, how did that, um relationship kind of evolve there?

1504
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: And how do you think you can apply how you

1505
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 1: helped bring a young quarterback along in Dallas here now

1506
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:06,639
Speaker 1: in Buffalo with Josh. Well, the biggest thing, I'm big

1507
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,479
Speaker 1: on communication, and um, you know, if the quarterback doesn't

1508
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 1: know where you're going or where you're gonna be at,

1509
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have success. So m I was as

1510
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 1: vocal as I could be on figuring out what he's

1511
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 1: thinking in his mind and where he wants me to be.

1512
01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 1: So I have a good idea of of how I

1513
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: can run my routes and get there still get separation,

1514
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 1: you know, like he wants to. So, Um, I'll do

1515
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: the same things with Josh and filling him out and

1516
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:30,680
Speaker 1: seeing what he likes to do and what he likes

1517
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: it to look like. And then I'll tailor my game

1518
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: towards that and um, you know, do my best with

1519
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: my body language to present a target for him. Well,

1520
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,719
Speaker 1: I'm sure that every receiver has to have communication, strong

1521
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 1: communication with a quarterback, but you tell me, isn't it

1522
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:45,720
Speaker 1: most critical for the slot guy, for the quarterback to

1523
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: trust you know you where you're gonna be sure, because

1524
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of bodies in there, you

1525
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:52,560
Speaker 1: know when you're in the inside, So um, you know,

1526
01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: one wrong, wrong move and just to throw a little

1527
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 1: bit that way could be tipped off one guy's hand

1528
01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:01,040
Speaker 1: and picked by another. So um, it's I think it's

1529
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: very important, especially when you start, you know, running all

1530
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 1: different kinds of routes where you have more than one

1531
01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 1: option to do something. So how much of it is

1532
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,680
Speaker 1: non verbal communication? Maybe even a signal Hey this I'm

1533
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: gonna run this A look sometimes right, Well, I mean

1534
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's gonna be here, So I

1535
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: mean it's still it's still too early. But um, you

1536
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,519
Speaker 1: know at Dallas there wasn't a lot of that. Um

1537
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 1: is really just being where I was supposed to be

1538
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 1: and and um dak Um, we just grew a trust.

1539
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: There was a trust factor there and he knew what

1540
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna do and knew I was gonna win

1541
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:31,679
Speaker 1: for him, and he could put it out there before

1542
01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:34,880
Speaker 1: I would break. I know, since you've signed, you know,

1543
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:37,479
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of attention you've been getting, probably

1544
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: a lot more tweets flying at you and a question

1545
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:42,919
Speaker 1: you're not shy about coming up with a clever response.

1546
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: Have you always been that way or is it just

1547
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 1: because the level of snark coming at you has spiked

1548
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: here in the last few days. It's it's spiked in

1549
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:52,560
Speaker 1: the last few days. But I've I've always kind of

1550
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 1: been like that, you know, I don't know, it's I've

1551
01:13:57,040 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 1: always been a guy from day one who's obviously been

1552
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: doubted I wasn't gonna do this. I mean, I've been

1553
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: told I wasn't gonna play D one ball. So um,

1554
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a chip on my shoulder

1555
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:09,439
Speaker 1: or what, but I just have this knack about proving

1556
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: people wrong and maybe I should just do it with

1557
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 1: with you know, my own the field play. But you know,

1558
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: a fan's gonna talk to me, I should be able

1559
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: to say something bad. You did have a really good response.

1560
01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: I think I saw him one tweet somebody said that

1561
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 1: why would you go to Buffalo? They don't win there?

1562
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:27,040
Speaker 1: And you said, I said, I was said Dallas for

1563
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 1: seven years, adn't win there either. I guess a lot

1564
01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: of people, you know, took it but further than I

1565
01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:38,080
Speaker 1: really meant it to go. But but I think you

1566
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:43,120
Speaker 1: just basically told fans. You know why Sean McDermott, Brandon

1567
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: being you know, this Bill's front office saw you as

1568
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 1: a fit here. They talk about having players here that

1569
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:52,680
Speaker 1: have their DNA And John Brown was in here a

1570
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: little while ago, and he was talking about how he

1571
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 1: was doubted and how he had a chip on his

1572
01:14:57,000 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 1: shoulder and how that always drove him. And you seem

1573
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:01,720
Speaker 1: to be cut from the same kind of cloth you're

1574
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: gonna find in the Buffalo locker room. They're an awful

1575
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:07,559
Speaker 1: lot of players like that. How much does that help

1576
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: you as a player, when you're on a team with

1577
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 1: guys that kind of see the game and take their

1578
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 1: approach to the game in similar fashion, how much does

1579
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:19,720
Speaker 1: that kind of help you kind of assimilate that much quicker? Well,

1580
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 1: we just we understand that nothing's ever given, especially not

1581
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:26,679
Speaker 1: to guys like us. We almost have to well not almost,

1582
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:28,040
Speaker 1: I mean I felt like I had to go above

1583
01:15:28,080 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 1: and beyond just to prove just belonged, you know, early,

1584
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 1: you know, at an issue when I got to the

1585
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 1: Cowboys where I left camp, you know, and as part

1586
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 1: of it was me seeing that I didn't feel like

1587
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: I was gonna get my opportunity even though I felt

1588
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:44,640
Speaker 1: like I was better than a lot of guys. I

1589
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 1: didn't feel like I was gonna get my opportunity man,

1590
01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 1: because of what I look like. And there was never

1591
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:50,040
Speaker 1: a guy like that that fit into that offense. So

1592
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 1: it's just you know, you know you got to do more,

1593
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:57,000
Speaker 1: you know so, and we're willing to go that extra

1594
01:15:57,080 --> 01:15:58,640
Speaker 1: link that you have to go. So how does it

1595
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: feel that? How does it feel when you prove people wrong?

1596
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 1: I spect, I mean, you've done it pretty much for

1597
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: most of your playing career, but to do it at

1598
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:11,800
Speaker 1: that level in an organization that is as traditional as

1599
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 1: they come in terms of things are done this way

1600
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 1: and this is how we feel this is best and

1601
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:18,880
Speaker 1: we don't deviate from it all that much. You force

1602
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,879
Speaker 1: them to deviate because your play could not be ignored.

1603
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:25,800
Speaker 1: How satisfying was that at a very pretty much young

1604
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:27,560
Speaker 1: point in your career. I mean, I had success, but

1605
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: I mean I never feel like the job is done. Um,

1606
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:34,879
Speaker 1: I still feel like I haven't showed my best football

1607
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:36,599
Speaker 1: and I still feel like I've a lot to prove.

1608
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 1: I just feel like I can do a lot more,

1609
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:42,800
Speaker 1: and that's that's partially why I chose to come here.

1610
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 1: You're a Dallas area native, you grew up there, played

1611
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: college football there, and then of course played in the

1612
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 1: NFL for the Cowboys. With all that on your side,

1613
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:53,280
Speaker 1: was Dallas even a little tough place to play sometimes,

1614
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 1: whether it's the expectation level, the focus on the team

1615
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:06,720
Speaker 1: fish Bowl football, right, it's even distracting and tough. Um No,

1616
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean really for me. Once once you get in

1617
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:10,840
Speaker 1: the game, you don't have time to think about that stuff,

1618
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:13,720
Speaker 1: you know, and you do so much work during the

1619
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 1: week to prepare and um, you know, I was always

1620
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 1: just focused on doing my job and doing it the

1621
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 1: best I could, so, um, there's really no time to

1622
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 1: think about that stuff. And then yeah, there's all these

1623
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 1: distractions and that that stadium, there's a lot of stuff

1624
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 1: going on. But you know, once you're in the game,

1625
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: you're just locked in. I know you just before we

1626
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: got on the air, you were describing yourself as country. Um,

1627
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 1: you know, and even though Dallas is down in Texas

1628
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 1: and people think cowboys literally cowboys that don't live down there. Um,

1629
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: the description here from a lot of the players that

1630
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 1: have come here to play. Is this is more like

1631
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: a college type atmosphere on a Sunday. I don't know it.

1632
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: First of all, that had you heard that prior to

1633
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:54,759
Speaker 1: making the decision to come here, and does that appeal

1634
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: to you at all? I did. I heard that the

1635
01:17:56,960 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 1: fans were right or die, and um, you know, I

1636
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: think that's something that would be different from from here

1637
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:05,639
Speaker 1: in Dallas. Um. You know, Dallas was really good when

1638
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 1: we got to the playoffs. Before then, it's just kind

1639
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:09,400
Speaker 1: of everybody was there to have a good time and

1640
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:12,639
Speaker 1: enjoy the show, you know. Um, But I heard here

1641
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:17,000
Speaker 1: that the fans are really about their team, and you know,

1642
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: I just think that's awesome. There were fans waiting for

1643
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 1: me at the airport with wings, so um, you know

1644
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,120
Speaker 1: that's that's just a cool thing to be a part of.

1645
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:27,559
Speaker 1: And yeah, as a real family feel here Chris. As

1646
01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:29,840
Speaker 1: as Chris said, you describe yourself as country and yet

1647
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 1: you you do rap music. You have a rap album. Yeah, right,

1648
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: but that doesn't make sense. On the way to listen

1649
01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: on the way to on the way to school and

1650
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 1: every morning high school though, my dad would had it

1651
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:41,920
Speaker 1: on a radio station ninety nine five of the Wolf,

1652
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: and that's all we We listened to his country, so

1653
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 1: I know all the country songs from all right, So

1654
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 1: well then you'll be okay with the music that they

1655
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,439
Speaker 1: played during practice, because it varies back and forth between

1656
01:18:52,479 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 1: those two musical genre like, oh you old school country

1657
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,200
Speaker 1: like Garth Brooks and yeah, well, I mean I'm not

1658
01:18:57,280 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: old school, but you know what do they got? They

1659
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 1: got like, um, that was that windows they're wrong? They

1660
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: got you know, they got some pretty you know, Florida

1661
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,000
Speaker 1: Georgia line stuff. They got some pretty modern stuff. You know,

1662
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 1: the coaches don't get too much. Say, it's mostly the

1663
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:11,840
Speaker 1: players that kind of call the shots. There's maybe one

1664
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:14,040
Speaker 1: day a week where the coaches might roll, you know,

1665
01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: Coach Frasier comes in and look out, the motown's coming out.

1666
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 1: But you know, other than that, you know, you're gonna

1667
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:20,639
Speaker 1: have pretty modern stuff. But you're gonna have the whole

1668
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: thing covered because it's either it seems to be either

1669
01:19:23,240 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 1: country or rap. I mean, that's pretty much your own album. Yeah,

1670
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:28,800
Speaker 1: we can get you in the rotation. I prefer some

1671
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: rock too, though. All right, well, well you'll have to

1672
01:19:31,240 --> 01:19:33,000
Speaker 1: Little Tica. You gonna have to lobby a little bit.

1673
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:34,680
Speaker 1: That'll lobby a little see what we can do. We'll

1674
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,719
Speaker 1: get that before we let you go to your family.

1675
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 1: Everybody's moving up here soon. I would think maybe they

1676
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: as soon as we can. Man, what do you yeah?

1677
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:43,680
Speaker 1: I mean my four year olds the only one that's

1678
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: really going to school, so and two others. Yeah, two

1679
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,680
Speaker 1: year old and then two months everybody ready for the move.

1680
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:51,679
Speaker 1: What did they say? They're ready? My son's so excited

1681
01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: about the snow, so we can deliver that. I told him,

1682
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 1: I said, you're about to get to see some real snow.

1683
01:19:57,200 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: Now you're ready, It's really yes, sir, Like, let's go there.

1684
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 1: Couple of weeks too. Hey, Cole, thanks for this. We

1685
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: we're glad to meet you, and which you will. You'll

1686
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:05,400
Speaker 1: be back here, what in a month or so for

1687
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:08,800
Speaker 1: offseason workouts? I would think hopefully earlier. Okay, find the

1688
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: housing is situated before that. Good luck to you. Thank

1689
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 1: you very much. I appreciate thanks for having a guy.

1690
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:14,640
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, Bill's new wide receiver added to him from

1691
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:16,439
Speaker 1: the free agent market. The other day. Chris and I

1692
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:18,360
Speaker 1: are coming back with more One Bill's Live from One

1693
01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:35,800
Speaker 1: Bill Drive. And this is Buffalo Bill's reading Welcome Back

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01:20:35,840 --> 01:20:38,599
Speaker 1: one BILS Live John Murby Chris Brown in four steep

1695
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: Tasker Our thanks again to Cole Beasley for joining us.

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01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 1: Interesting guy. He's sort of a soft spoken, good guy,

1697
01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, he's got that energy level

1698
01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:49,640
Speaker 1: that comes out when he's on the field. I know

1699
01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:51,080
Speaker 1: the Bills are happy to have him, and I'm sure

1700
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's gonna be really happy. He was he was

1701
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: tired yesterday, he was worn out. I actually heard him

1702
01:20:55,920 --> 01:20:57,760
Speaker 1: in the hallway after he finished with us about an

1703
01:20:57,800 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 1: hour later. He's he was over in a different part

1704
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,600
Speaker 1: of the building and he's like he's asking somebody, can

1705
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:05,479
Speaker 1: I get some coffee. He's like, I am dragging right now.

1706
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: So I think that's why he was kind of somewhat

1707
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: subdued with us too, And you know, like he was

1708
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:12,640
Speaker 1: just trying to get through the day and you know

1709
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: kind of I mean, plus there, you know, some of

1710
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: those guys that were coming from a little further west

1711
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 1: to get in here were delayed by that Midwest storm.

1712
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: I know Mitch Morse had to spend the night here

1713
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:26,320
Speaker 1: because he could not get back because his yeah, because

1714
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:29,400
Speaker 1: his flight was delayed. So the screw it, I'll spend

1715
01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: the night and I'll fly out tomorrow. He got stuck,

1716
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:34,679
Speaker 1: and I think Cole I don't know how long Cole

1717
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: was planning on staying, but he had to. I think

1718
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: he had to wait to get back to Texas too,

1719
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:42,080
Speaker 1: because getting back west where that storm was was just

1720
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:44,520
Speaker 1: a mess. Yeah. Did you see what it did in Colorado?

1721
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:46,759
Speaker 1: It was bad. I mean it was blowing tractor trailers

1722
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 1: off the road that storm. And then it was like

1723
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:50,760
Speaker 1: six to eight inches of snow too. It was it

1724
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:52,680
Speaker 1: was nasty. Yeah. We hope, By the way, there are

1725
01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: some of these we're going to talk with ty and

1726
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: Sucky coming up in the next hour the show here

1727
01:21:57,720 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 1: and then you know, we'll fill in next week. We

1728
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:02,560
Speaker 1: hope to get Roberts and Frank Gordon, Tyler Croft, and

1729
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:06,160
Speaker 1: some of the others, Mitch Morse as the as the

1730
01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:09,839
Speaker 1: week goes along next week. Interesting note about Tyler Croft,

1731
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:12,880
Speaker 1: I just kind of noticed in researching his background that

1732
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: he comes from pretty much the same area of the

1733
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: country where Coach McDermott grew up there in that southeastern

1734
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania region outside of Philadelphia. And I asked Downingtown High School. Yeah, um.

1735
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,760
Speaker 1: And I asked him yesterday at his press conference. I said, Hey,

1736
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 1: did uh, you're a Southeast PA guy, and I'm sure

1737
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 1: you already know that Coach McDermott is as well. I said,

1738
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:37,680
Speaker 1: did you get a chance to talk to coach you

1739
01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 1: know about you guys sharing similar roots? He goes, oh, yeah,

1740
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 1: it's like, oh yeah, that's probably the first thing we

1741
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:47,640
Speaker 1: talked about. And he said, but he really got into it.

1742
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 1: He said, you know, coach was talking about, you know,

1743
01:22:50,320 --> 01:22:53,559
Speaker 1: the type of gritty people that come out of that area,

1744
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: and you know, he wanted to know that I was

1745
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: kind of cut from that same cloth and that I'm,

1746
01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, just as gritty as he is, and this

1747
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:03,280
Speaker 1: and that, and I'm can you see that meeting you

1748
01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 1: could totally seeing? Tell me they well, I don't think

1749
01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 1: they wrestled, but would you put it past him if

1750
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:10,600
Speaker 1: they did? I probably wouldn't dermott if that'd be a

1751
01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 1: tough wrestling match for him. You know, Tyler would have

1752
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 1: him on reach. Yeah, he's got arms like a condor.

1753
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: So all right, Hey, our Twitter poll today, we think

1754
01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:20,920
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Were the bills more active this week? In

1755
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 1: free We got in good response to I thought it

1756
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:25,760
Speaker 1: was good. Yeah, Were the Bills more active than you

1757
01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 1: thought they'd be this week in free agency? Right now,

1758
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll, most of you say yeah. Seventy

1759
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,000
Speaker 1: you say yeah, Bills were more active than I thought

1760
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: they'd be in free agency. Twenty two percent say you know,

1761
01:23:35,360 --> 01:23:38,519
Speaker 1: this one about as I expected with nine additions to

1762
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:41,280
Speaker 1: the roster this week. Four percent say they're not as

1763
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 1: active as they thought they would be. What do you think?

1764
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. Give us a call eight oh

1765
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty or twelve three one eight eight

1766
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:50,479
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Jim in Florida on

1767
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 1: the line, How Jim, go ahead, you're on the air

1768
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 1: with this. Are you still there, Jim? I believe we

1769
01:23:57,040 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: lost him or he's napping. Yeah, he was waiting while

1770
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 1: It's a shame to wait that long and then not

1771
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: be either. On the tweet sheet from Eli Padilla, the

1772
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:07,880
Speaker 1: way Brandon Bean did moves this year, I had the

1773
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: feeling he was going to be aggressive early in the process,

1774
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:12,639
Speaker 1: the way I'm sorry, the way Brandon Bean did moves

1775
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: last year. I had the feeling that he was going

1776
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 1: to be aggressive early in the process, especially with the Jets.

1777
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,800
Speaker 1: Right behind them being aggressive too. I'm not surprised on

1778
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 1: the moves he did, okay, And that's a valid point.

1779
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills knew going in the Jets had

1780
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:25,600
Speaker 1: all that money. The Jets certainly had a ton of

1781
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:28,320
Speaker 1: needs as well, and they certainly didn't want to be

1782
01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 1: outdone by the Jets, and at least in terms of

1783
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 1: number of signings, let alone the type of signings that

1784
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: fit what they're looking for. Right. And I find it

1785
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:39,879
Speaker 1: interesting too that you know, the Bills have plucked players

1786
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 1: off of two division opponent rosters already, you know, in

1787
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Dolphins, and Frank Or and Andre Roberts,

1788
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 1: so you know it's going to be you know, every

1789
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:52,160
Speaker 1: I know Bills fans get really up in arms when

1790
01:24:52,240 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 1: they see, you know, New England signing somebody that was

1791
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 1: previously on our roster or you know another division team

1792
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 1: does that. And Spencer Long too, now that I think

1793
01:25:01,479 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: about it. Spencer Long early in the signing period here,

1794
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 1: when he got cut by the Jets, the Bill scooped

1795
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 1: him up. Also said, that's two players you took from

1796
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: the Jets. Running back you took from the Dolphins, So

1797
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:12,840
Speaker 1: you know I got one more team to go. Let's

1798
01:25:12,840 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 1: see we can do something. Ryan Parfett tweaks this in

1799
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:17,559
Speaker 1: when we asked the question with the Bills more active

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01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:19,719
Speaker 1: in free agency than you thought they would be, Bryan

1801
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 1: Parfett says, I've learned to come into free agency with

1802
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 1: low expectations, second third tier guys with maybe one big

1803
01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: name player to grab a headline or two. But being

1804
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: blew past my expectations at ninety miles per hour. It

1805
01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:36,759
Speaker 1: didn't even slow down to wave hello. Yeah, I agree.

1806
01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: I mean it's the volume though, that's right, That's what

1807
01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: it is. It's not how quickly it came. We're not

1808
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:43,760
Speaker 1: talking about nine new bills, you know, three weeks into

1809
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 1: free agency was nine bills in a week. That's a lot,

1810
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: that's all. Yeah, and I and I you know, you

1811
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: asked Brandon the question at the top of the show

1812
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,639
Speaker 1: about was it like the floor of the stock market.

1813
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 1: I'll bet for a couple of hours it was. I mean,

1814
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 1: because with the volume of players that came in and

1815
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:00,920
Speaker 1: such in such a short span of time. I mean,

1816
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 1: Tuesday was nuts. It was nuts. What was like, Well, yeah,

1817
01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: it was fun, but imagine how much what it was

1818
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:09,439
Speaker 1: like up there. I mean you know, you probably had

1819
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 1: upwards of a half a dozen people on phones probably

1820
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:14,760
Speaker 1: trying to close deal, and the attention to detail on

1821
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 1: their part has to be huge. Well, yeah, because you're

1822
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 1: you're you're also calculating the figures for your cap as

1823
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:22,479
Speaker 1: you're going. I mean, it's all on the fly. Yeah,

1824
01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: and you got more than one deal at a time too,

1825
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: it right, And then you're also kind of holding your

1826
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: breath that you don't have some agent Renegan on you,

1827
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 1: Like we saw Anthony Bardo with the Jets. I mean,

1828
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:36,400
Speaker 1: you know, and Bridgewater was kind of playing some games

1829
01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 1: there between the Saints and the Dolphins, like, oh, he's

1830
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 1: resigning with the Saints. Oh wait, he's visiting the Dolphins.

1831
01:26:41,560 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: And you know, nobody's got anything on paper yet. I mean,

1832
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: it's it's Keystone Cops sometimes with the way some of

1833
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: these agents work. One more from the tweet sheet. Were

1834
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:51,600
Speaker 1: the Bills more active than you thought they'd be in

1835
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,280
Speaker 1: free agency? Sipping the kool aid says I expected the

1836
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 1: Bills to be active just based on the amount of

1837
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: cap space they had. However, I did not expect to

1838
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 1: get nine solid play and still have forty million dollars

1839
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: left over. Being as stuck to his word and gotten

1840
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 1: great value out of his pickups. That's another good point,

1841
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:09,880
Speaker 1: stipp in the kool aid. You're right, and Brandon said

1842
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 1: it with us. You know, they have left themselves in

1843
01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: a good position under the cap as the active as

1844
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:18,719
Speaker 1: they've been. Certainly they didn't sign the other than Mitch Morrise,

1845
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 1: they didn't sign the high price tag players, but they

1846
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:24,000
Speaker 1: got guys who seemed to fit what they were looking for.

1847
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:27,000
Speaker 1: And they have tons of room remaining under the cap, which, oh,

1848
01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:28,800
Speaker 1: by the way, does not I'll have to be spent

1849
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: this year. They have, you know, guys coming up for

1850
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 1: renewal at least in the next couple of years are

1851
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:36,479
Speaker 1: going to have to account for. Right. So even though Brandon,

1852
01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 1: who yesterday at his press conference, when asked, where do

1853
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:41,960
Speaker 1: you estimate your cap space to be right now, he's like, well,

1854
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:44,759
Speaker 1: we haven't crunched the numbers exactly yet, but we're somewhere

1855
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 1: in the high thirties, low forties. You have to budget

1856
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:51,240
Speaker 1: at least about ten for your draft choices, so now

1857
01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:54,559
Speaker 1: you're in the high twenties, low thirties. And it didn't

1858
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 1: sound like he wanted to use all of that. Yeah,

1859
01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:02,800
Speaker 1: and most gms lead about five million in reserve, knowing

1860
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:05,920
Speaker 1: that based on certain injury situations that crop up, you're

1861
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 1: gonna need some money to bring other players in to

1862
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:11,200
Speaker 1: fill holes, especially if you lose someone for the duration

1863
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 1: of the season, you know, due to a season ending

1864
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:15,799
Speaker 1: injury or what have you. So you know, you whittle

1865
01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:18,680
Speaker 1: all that down and you quickly realize, you know, you're

1866
01:28:18,720 --> 01:28:22,240
Speaker 1: talking about maybe fifteen to twenty million dollars that you

1867
01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 1: have to play with right now. They feel that's enough

1868
01:28:25,280 --> 01:28:28,000
Speaker 1: to go make a big move if something presents itself.

1869
01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:30,840
Speaker 1: But I don't think he would be totally torn up

1870
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:33,479
Speaker 1: if he had ten million dollars that he could push

1871
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:36,640
Speaker 1: into next year for more room next year, knowing that

1872
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:39,639
Speaker 1: he's got the twenty seventeen class coming up real soon.

1873
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:42,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you can do a fifth year option or

1874
01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 1: oh no, we're not up to fifth year. It's only

1875
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 1: three years. So they'd be going into their fourth season

1876
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:48,720
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, is that right, seventeen eighteen, Yeah, the

1877
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:51,880
Speaker 1: fourth season, so you still have time. But you know,

1878
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 1: if somebody, if Tredavious White has another Monsters season, gets

1879
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: to his first Pro Bowl, you probably want to lock

1880
01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:58,160
Speaker 1: him up to a long term deal before he gets

1881
01:28:58,200 --> 01:29:00,439
Speaker 1: to his fourth year, don't you wire with him? I

1882
01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 1: want to get that done. All right, We're gonna continue

1883
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 1: this discussion in the third and final hour of the show.

1884
01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 1: Tyan Secky's going to join us. Two offensive lineman, former

1885
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 1: Washington Redskin. He'll join us about two thirty or so

1886
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:12,559
Speaker 1: here in studio with Chris and I. So there's plenty

1887
01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:13,760
Speaker 1: of time for you if you'd like to weigh in

1888
01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 1: on this. We're the Bills more active in free agency

1889
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:18,479
Speaker 1: this first week than you thought they might be. Got

1890
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:20,719
Speaker 1: phone lines open at eight oh three oh five fifty

1891
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 1: and from outside Buffalo, it's a toll free call at

1892
01:29:23,240 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We'll

1893
01:29:25,920 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: take your tweets, read them on the tweet sheet as well.

1894
01:29:28,400 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 1: Where the bill is more active. Did they surprise you

1895
01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:33,160
Speaker 1: with how active They've been? Nine new Buffalo Bills in

1896
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:35,720
Speaker 1: the last week, and the week's not over yet. We

1897
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:37,760
Speaker 1: don't think there's any more signing today, but who knows.

1898
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Speaker 1: We're coming back with the final hour of the show.

1899
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Speaker 1: One Bill Slide presented by Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive.

1900
01:29:42,800 --> 01:30:01,320
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radiofalo Hills Radio Network Sports Games

1901
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive as he under the first

1902
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:06,639
Speaker 1: week of NFL free agency. The Bills haul so far

1903
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:09,479
Speaker 1: nine new Buffalo Bills over the last week of play,

1904
01:30:09,800 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: the latest one late yesterday. Return Man Andre Roberts leaves

1905
01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:14,960
Speaker 1: the New York Jets to come to the Buffalo Bills.

1906
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:17,360
Speaker 1: Thirty one years old, had a breakout year last year

1907
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 1: as a return specialist, made the Pro Bowl as a

1908
01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 1: AFC Special Teams Player of the Year. Andre Roberts now

1909
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:26,040
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills, joining the eight others who joined

1910
01:30:26,040 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: the team over the last week. Around the league for

1911
01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 1: agent guard John Miller, former Bills guard, He's going to

1912
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:32,880
Speaker 1: sign a three year deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. The

1913
01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 1: deal said to be worth sixteen and a half million dollars.

1914
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:39,000
Speaker 1: The New York Giants added wide receiver Golden Tate to

1915
01:30:39,120 --> 01:30:41,280
Speaker 1: their roster a four year deal worth thirty seven and

1916
01:30:41,320 --> 01:30:43,840
Speaker 1: a half million dollars. Moves made by the Raiders. They

1917
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:46,240
Speaker 1: released wide receiver Jordy Nelson. They just gave him a

1918
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:49,599
Speaker 1: roster bonus in December, but released him late yesterday. Raiders

1919
01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 1: also created cap space by waving quarterback Aj McCarron, the

1920
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:55,880
Speaker 1: former Buffalo Bill. They say five million dollars in cap

1921
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 1: space with app move. Mccaron went to the Raiders last

1922
01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:02,040
Speaker 1: September first in the trade the Bills. With the departure

1923
01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 1: of McCarron, Nathan Peterman is the loan backup right now

1924
01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:07,840
Speaker 1: to Derek Carr with the Oakland Raiders. Former Bills wide

1925
01:31:07,840 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 1: receiver Jordan Matthews got a one year deal from the

1926
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:14,680
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers, and the Raiders have got

1927
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:17,000
Speaker 1: a new lease to stay in Oakland for twenty nineteen.

1928
01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:20,439
Speaker 1: The Oakland Coliseum Authority unanimously voted to approve the Raiders

1929
01:31:20,439 --> 01:31:23,000
Speaker 1: stadium lease for twenty nineteen before the team moves to

1930
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. One other NFL note, the league has suspended

1931
01:31:26,080 --> 01:31:28,240
Speaker 1: Brown's running back Kareem Hunt for the first eight games

1932
01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:31,360
Speaker 1: of the upcoming season for that incident when he was

1933
01:31:31,400 --> 01:31:33,680
Speaker 1: shown on video shoving and kicking a woman during an

1934
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:37,639
Speaker 1: early morning altercation. Now college basketball, You Be Basketball tonight

1935
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 1: tries to advance in the Mid American Conference Tournament. At

1936
01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:43,880
Speaker 1: six thirty tip off You Be against Central Michigan. That

1937
01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:46,840
Speaker 1: game will be televised on CBS Sports Network. Yesterday, the

1938
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:50,040
Speaker 1: Bulls announced the men's basketball coach Nate Oates has been

1939
01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:52,719
Speaker 1: given a new five year contract extension through the twenty

1940
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:54,800
Speaker 1: twenty fourth season. And we're about a half hour away

1941
01:31:54,840 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 1: from Saint Bonaventure's entry in the Atlantic Ten Tournament. The

1942
01:31:57,280 --> 01:32:00,439
Speaker 1: Blade George Mason in a quarterfinal game two thirty afternoon

1943
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:04,120
Speaker 1: NET game televised on NBC Sports Network. John Murphy Chris

1944
01:32:04,200 --> 01:32:06,640
Speaker 1: Brown is in for Steve Tasker these days, you're a

1945
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:09,200
Speaker 1: basketball guy. I am a basketball guy. But very quickly

1946
01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:11,760
Speaker 1: based off your update there, yeah, do you realize that

1947
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:15,840
Speaker 1: AJ McCarron has now been moved off two rosters in

1948
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:21,800
Speaker 1: eight months because he lost his spot to Nathan Peterman. Well, look,

1949
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:25,080
Speaker 1: we are in a Peterman uh free zone here. We

1950
01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:28,479
Speaker 1: don't make fun of Nathan Peterman because I'm not. You're

1951
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:30,920
Speaker 1: kind of are You're a little bit mate. I'm just saying,

1952
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:33,920
Speaker 1: if I'm AJ McCarron, Like, how do you feel today?

1953
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:36,400
Speaker 1: If you're a J McCarron, The guy got you again? Oh?

1954
01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:40,240
Speaker 1: I see, okay, you're right again? Right? Well, I mean,

1955
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:43,120
Speaker 1: we know Gruden like Peterman a lot though when he

1956
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 1: was doing those what did they call that in the

1957
01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:48,920
Speaker 1: quarterback camp? Or whatever the heck they was. He really

1958
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:53,360
Speaker 1: liked him. Yeah, um, and Johnny Lamb Jones died Murph, Yeah,

1959
01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: you had some details on johnny long battle with cancer apparently.

1960
01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 1: And for the younger listeners that don't remember who the

1961
01:32:59,560 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 1: heck John Lamb Jones was, this guy was a special athlete,

1962
01:33:03,320 --> 01:33:06,560
Speaker 1: special athlete. I didn't. I totally forgot that. He was

1963
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:09,439
Speaker 1: on the nineteen seventy six US Olympic relay team, the

1964
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 1: four by one hundred relay team. He wanted gold medal.

1965
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:14,880
Speaker 1: He was eighteen years old. Gold medal at eighteen years old.

1966
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:17,080
Speaker 1: Just think about that for a second. He's only sixty

1967
01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:21,800
Speaker 1: years old. Long battle with cancer, and of course he is.

1968
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:27,200
Speaker 1: He is the beginning of the infamous reel of first

1969
01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:31,280
Speaker 1: round draft busts by the New York Jets. So whenever

1970
01:33:31,320 --> 01:33:33,880
Speaker 1: you see ESPN run that reel with Jets fans holding

1971
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:36,559
Speaker 1: their head in their hands and doing all these things,

1972
01:33:36,840 --> 01:33:39,680
Speaker 1: Johnny Lamb Jones is the start of that string from

1973
01:33:40,240 --> 01:33:42,920
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty draft. Where do you play college football? Texas?

1974
01:33:43,240 --> 01:33:48,559
Speaker 1: So he just to provide some context here. The Jets

1975
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 1: in that draft had two first round picks at thirteen

1976
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:54,519
Speaker 1: and twenty they trade both of them to move up

1977
01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:57,200
Speaker 1: to number two pick in the draft, and they were

1978
01:33:57,240 --> 01:34:01,240
Speaker 1: going to take Anthony Munio's and their doctors told him,

1979
01:34:01,320 --> 01:34:03,800
Speaker 1: do not do that because he had a surgically reconstructed

1980
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:07,360
Speaker 1: knee or surgically repaired knee. Nope, don't take Munyos, don't

1981
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:10,599
Speaker 1: take the tackle. You want this guy. So they take

1982
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:14,120
Speaker 1: Johnny Lamb Jones, the speed receiver. He has like a

1983
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 1: five year career with the Jets. He has thirteen career

1984
01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:19,519
Speaker 1: touchdowns and is out of the league in about seven

1985
01:34:19,600 --> 01:34:23,040
Speaker 1: or eight years. Um, his body wasn't holding up either.

1986
01:34:23,200 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 1: But he was a track guy first and foremost. But

1987
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:29,800
Speaker 1: what an athlete? I mean he could run, man, but

1988
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: he is. He is the start of a very infamous

1989
01:34:32,840 --> 01:34:36,160
Speaker 1: string of missus by the Jets in the draft through

1990
01:34:36,200 --> 01:34:40,080
Speaker 1: the eighty sixty sixty years old passed away. Johnny Lamb

1991
01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:44,439
Speaker 1: Jones said, Hey, um, he could run them, could fly. Um.

1992
01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 1: A couple of things I want to talk about, Chris

1993
01:34:46,120 --> 01:34:47,760
Speaker 1: before we get back to the business at hand. The

1994
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:52,720
Speaker 1: builds in free agency, the eight games suspension for Kareem Hunt. Yeah,

1995
01:34:52,760 --> 01:34:54,360
Speaker 1: I have to confess that caught me a little bit

1996
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:57,400
Speaker 1: by surprise. That's that's that's a major suspension. That's half

1997
01:34:57,439 --> 01:34:59,599
Speaker 1: a season. Now he can't take part of OTA's mini

1998
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:02,439
Speaker 1: camps preseason games, but he'll miss half a season and

1999
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:07,479
Speaker 1: miss half of his base salary. I guess that's good, right,

2000
01:35:07,520 --> 01:35:09,519
Speaker 1: I mean, the league did the investigation. What was it,

2001
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:13,439
Speaker 1: h ray Rice was six games? Yeah, six games was

2002
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 1: the standard. So obviously this goes beyond what the league

2003
01:35:16,160 --> 01:35:18,400
Speaker 1: found to be the standard for what they normally do

2004
01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:21,360
Speaker 1: in domestic violence cases. Should have been more if you

2005
01:35:21,400 --> 01:35:24,040
Speaker 1: ask me, But eight games for Kareem Hunt, it's a lot.

2006
01:35:24,479 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: It is a lot. The Bills played the Browns this year,

2007
01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:30,599
Speaker 1: so we'll have to wait to see when the schedule

2008
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:33,240
Speaker 1: comes out. Personally, I think Nick Chubb's a better running

2009
01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 1: back than Kareem Hunt, even he's more talented. But Hunt

2010
01:35:37,120 --> 01:35:40,599
Speaker 1: might be a little bit better receiver. But yeah, I mean,

2011
01:35:40,800 --> 01:35:42,120
Speaker 1: is it going to make a difference if the Bills

2012
01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:44,360
Speaker 1: play them before Week nine when Hunt can come back.

2013
01:35:44,439 --> 01:35:48,360
Speaker 1: Probably not. It'll be interesting to see where the Browns

2014
01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:50,360
Speaker 1: fall on the Bills schedule in terms of time on

2015
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:53,760
Speaker 1: the NFL calendar in the fall, knowing Hunt would not

2016
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:55,720
Speaker 1: be part of the equation at all through the first

2017
01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:59,160
Speaker 1: eight weeks. It's an interesting trade for John Dorsey and

2018
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 1: the Browns. Right they knew that there was likely to

2019
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:03,920
Speaker 1: be a suspension, don't know, They probably didn't, well, didn't trade.

2020
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:05,720
Speaker 1: He got cut, right, Oh yeah, that's right there. He

2021
01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:07,280
Speaker 1: signed the cut and then they signed him as a

2022
01:36:07,439 --> 01:36:09,439
Speaker 1: free agent. Still an interesting move, right, knowing that the

2023
01:36:09,479 --> 01:36:11,800
Speaker 1: guy is gonna miss some time, you give him a

2024
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:14,280
Speaker 1: contract six hundred something that thousand, six hundred forty five

2025
01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:16,799
Speaker 1: dollar bits out. But you would, I mean, if you're Dorsey,

2026
01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:19,200
Speaker 1: you're arguing that I know this man. I was around

2027
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:21,200
Speaker 1: this man because I was in the Chiefs front office

2028
01:36:21,240 --> 01:36:23,360
Speaker 1: when Hunt was there. I've been around him on a

2029
01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 1: daily basis. I know the kind of person he is.

2030
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:28,559
Speaker 1: So that's still I mean, you're sticking your neck out

2031
01:36:28,640 --> 01:36:31,080
Speaker 1: for this guy. I mean you really are. Yeah, So

2032
01:36:31,880 --> 01:36:34,720
Speaker 1: it's you know, I guess the way he views it is,

2033
01:36:34,840 --> 01:36:36,920
Speaker 1: I know this guy because I've been around him. And

2034
01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:38,719
Speaker 1: it's a one year deal. I mean, if it doesn't

2035
01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 1: work out, I just clip him and you're only paying

2036
01:36:40,479 --> 01:36:42,679
Speaker 1: it for half a year. At this point, Kareem Hunt

2037
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: released a statement that the Browns put out. I want

2038
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:47,160
Speaker 1: to again apologize for my actions last year. I know

2039
01:36:47,320 --> 01:36:49,719
Speaker 1: my behavior hurt a lot of people, and I again

2040
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:53,040
Speaker 1: apologize to them. I respect the league's decision on discipline.

2041
01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:57,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate the time I spent with Commissioner Goodell. I

2042
01:36:57,840 --> 01:36:59,639
Speaker 1: understand a lot of hard work ahead him before I'm

2043
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:01,680
Speaker 1: a fully return to playing the game. I love. So

2044
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 1: that's appropriate eight games suspension for violating the Personal Conduct Policy.

2045
01:37:06,400 --> 01:37:07,880
Speaker 1: I guess the other seat never a good thing here

2046
01:37:07,960 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: is that although I guess I believe the standard was

2047
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 1: six for domestic violence, you know, don't sit on that.

2048
01:37:13,360 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 1: They could probably ramp it up or ramp it down.

2049
01:37:15,360 --> 01:37:18,920
Speaker 1: I would think if they find extenuating mitigating circumstances, right,

2050
01:37:19,560 --> 01:37:21,960
Speaker 1: I mean yeah. I also heard that he's not going

2051
01:37:22,040 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 1: to appeal. Oh yeah, yeah, right, you know, and there's

2052
01:37:25,439 --> 01:37:28,479
Speaker 1: no reason he should. I mean, the facts are the facts.

2053
01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:32,200
Speaker 1: There is video evidence. I mean, come on, like, and

2054
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:36,600
Speaker 1: his statement indicates that he's gonna accept this suspension wholeheartedly

2055
01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:39,639
Speaker 1: and try to make himself a better person. And that's

2056
01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:41,120
Speaker 1: what you should do when the time you're away for

2057
01:37:41,160 --> 01:37:44,479
Speaker 1: the game. Yep. Quite frankly, Hey, our Twitter poll question today,

2058
01:37:44,520 --> 01:37:46,439
Speaker 1: Our question today, were the bills more active than you

2059
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:49,360
Speaker 1: thought they would be. In this first week of free agency.

2060
01:37:49,520 --> 01:37:52,920
Speaker 1: Nine players added to the roster. Wide receivers Cole Beasley

2061
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:55,759
Speaker 1: and John Brown. Wide receiver special team are Andre Roberts,

2062
01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:59,400
Speaker 1: running back Frank Gore, tighten and Tyler Croft, Offensive lineman

2063
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:03,160
Speaker 1: Mitch Morse, John Feliciano and tay An Seki, who, by

2064
01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:04,439
Speaker 1: the way, will be with us coming up at the

2065
01:38:04,439 --> 01:38:07,280
Speaker 1: bottom of this hour. And cornerback Kevin Johnson signed as

2066
01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:09,679
Speaker 1: a street free agent earlier in the week. Nine players

2067
01:38:09,760 --> 01:38:12,280
Speaker 1: added eight on offense were the more active than you thought.

2068
01:38:12,360 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: What do you think? Phone lines open eight oh three

2069
01:38:14,280 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 1: oh five fifty and toll free one eight eight eight

2070
01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:19,400
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Ryan on the line from

2071
01:38:19,479 --> 01:38:21,280
Speaker 1: Cheek Dowaga. Hello, Ryan, go ahead, you're on the air

2072
01:38:21,320 --> 01:38:28,920
Speaker 1: with us. Hello Ryan, are you there? Doesn't sound like it?

2073
01:38:29,720 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 1: Oh on once going twice Ryan, cheek Dowaga. Nope, all right.

2074
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:37,320
Speaker 1: Back to the tweet sheet we go, Ryan Nickerson. While

2075
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:40,400
Speaker 1: Bean Sandy would spend wisely, I expected the same old

2076
01:38:40,479 --> 01:38:43,519
Speaker 1: signings a few players overpaid. The fact that we signed

2077
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:45,040
Speaker 1: the amount of players that we did at the right

2078
01:38:45,080 --> 01:38:47,800
Speaker 1: prices was a pleasant surprise. Like to see them add

2079
01:38:47,840 --> 01:38:50,519
Speaker 1: to the line. Guard Josh Klein just released from the Titans.

2080
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:52,639
Speaker 1: Did you mentioned jess Con, Yes, he did get released.

2081
01:38:52,720 --> 01:38:55,960
Speaker 1: So you know that's a guard that signed a big

2082
01:38:56,040 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 1: money deal last year. It was four years, twenty six

2083
01:38:58,160 --> 01:39:02,200
Speaker 1: something million. And you know, here again is another example

2084
01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:04,240
Speaker 1: of a player that two years ago signs a big

2085
01:39:04,320 --> 01:39:06,920
Speaker 1: deal and now he's out in the free agent market again.

2086
01:39:07,280 --> 01:39:09,880
Speaker 1: You know, due to cap maneuverability on the parts of teams.

2087
01:39:09,920 --> 01:39:13,280
Speaker 1: He's a cap casualty. So more and more we're seeing

2088
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:16,320
Speaker 1: a lot of these players who signed big money deals

2089
01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:19,000
Speaker 1: two years ago finding their way back into the free

2090
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:21,759
Speaker 1: agent market even though they signed four and five year contracts.

2091
01:39:21,800 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 1: I mean, Malie Jackson was another example, Dann in Jacksonville.

2092
01:39:24,320 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 1: Two years after he signs down their bang, he's out

2093
01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 1: on the free agent market. And there's a handful of

2094
01:39:29,080 --> 01:39:33,400
Speaker 1: others too. So it's an interesting dynamic and you understand

2095
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:35,680
Speaker 1: why gms like Brandon Bean, who was just here at

2096
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:38,240
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show, said, you know, you want

2097
01:39:38,280 --> 01:39:41,720
Speaker 1: to leave yourself some wiggle room in terms of your

2098
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: cap room, where if someone is unexpectedly cut that you

2099
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:49,519
Speaker 1: coveted or covet as a player, you're in a position

2100
01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:52,240
Speaker 1: to go get that guy, whether it's a salary cap

2101
01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:55,439
Speaker 1: casualty player like a Josh Klein, or whether it's some

2102
01:39:55,680 --> 01:39:59,160
Speaker 1: team that acquired a player that they saw as an

2103
01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:01,439
Speaker 1: upgrade and now to move a player that would be

2104
01:40:01,479 --> 01:40:03,960
Speaker 1: an upgrade for your roster and they call you and say, hey,

2105
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:06,960
Speaker 1: you want to trade for this guy? You know, you

2106
01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:10,599
Speaker 1: leave yourself open to take advantage of those opportunities. You're

2107
01:40:10,640 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 1: doing all right, And that's why he used the phrase

2108
01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:15,519
Speaker 1: cap strong because despite all these moves, they are still

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01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:17,600
Speaker 1: cap strong right now, you know, and it needs to

2110
01:40:17,640 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 1: be said this as well. Nine players sign we're talking

2111
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:23,960
Speaker 1: about how for the most of us that surprised a

2112
01:40:24,040 --> 01:40:26,479
Speaker 1: little bit they were that active and signed them many players.

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01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: The fact that they are still cap strong means something.

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01:40:29,760 --> 01:40:32,000
Speaker 1: All of this, Chris, Look, this did not come cheaply.

2115
01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:34,920
Speaker 1: The Bills and their fans paid for this last year

2116
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:37,080
Speaker 1: and maybe the last year and a half or more

2117
01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:40,040
Speaker 1: by kind of taking their lumps with the bad contracts

2118
01:40:40,080 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 1: they had and trying to get out of cap jail.

2119
01:40:42,240 --> 01:40:44,640
Speaker 1: So I guess I'm trying to say, you earned this

2120
01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:47,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. You were in this Bills fan, right, Bills

2121
01:40:47,240 --> 01:40:49,760
Speaker 1: fans this kind of a flexibility they have now to

2122
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:53,479
Speaker 1: make signings and to move forward. Yeah, and it did

2123
01:40:53,560 --> 01:40:57,040
Speaker 1: not come without paying no, because last year was miserable

2124
01:40:57,120 --> 01:40:59,720
Speaker 1: and the year before was miserable. And I don't think

2125
01:40:59,760 --> 01:41:02,360
Speaker 1: it was a picnic for Brandon Bean either, because he

2126
01:41:02,479 --> 01:41:04,280
Speaker 1: had to feel like he had his hand side behind

2127
01:41:04,320 --> 01:41:05,840
Speaker 1: his back. Because they had to eat a lot of

2128
01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:08,640
Speaker 1: dead cat money. They were very they had to be

2129
01:41:08,840 --> 01:41:12,120
Speaker 1: very restrictive, and that's why we saw a lot of

2130
01:41:12,160 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 1: one year deals in the players that whom they did

2131
01:41:15,120 --> 01:41:17,880
Speaker 1: sign last year and even the year prior to that.

2132
01:41:18,080 --> 01:41:20,040
Speaker 1: Just as Bean was coming in the door in May

2133
01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:24,960
Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, you know, so you or twenty eighteen,

2134
01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:27,240
Speaker 1: sorry so you know you look or no, twenty seventeen,

2135
01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:30,080
Speaker 1: so you look at it, and you know you say, Okay,

2136
01:41:30,439 --> 01:41:33,360
Speaker 1: here's his chance to take some big swings. And while

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01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:35,160
Speaker 1: he did take one big swing in terms of a

2138
01:41:35,200 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 1: contract commitment in the form of Mitch Morrise, the other

2139
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 1: signings I wouldn't call them budget signings, but they weren't

2140
01:41:41,080 --> 01:41:43,439
Speaker 1: break the bank signings either, and I think that's what

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01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:48,080
Speaker 1: allowed them to sign to the degree of volume that

2142
01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:50,640
Speaker 1: they did in terms of number of players. That's what

2143
01:41:50,760 --> 01:41:53,639
Speaker 1: allowed them to get up in that seven eight player

2144
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:56,320
Speaker 1: range because a lot of the contracts that they did

2145
01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:59,680
Speaker 1: agree to with these players didn't quote unquote break the

2146
01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:04,760
Speaker 1: bank and really restrict their cat maneuverability. Another one from

2147
01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:07,240
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet from Jim where the Bills more active

2148
01:42:07,280 --> 01:42:09,360
Speaker 1: than you thought they would be in free agencye Jim says,

2149
01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:11,520
Speaker 1: more than I thought they would. They came out aggressively

2150
01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:13,439
Speaker 1: and filled a bunch of holes. With the way this

2151
01:42:13,520 --> 01:42:15,880
Speaker 1: team stands now, even before the draft, do you think

2152
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 1: they have enough talent to make the playoffs? We're already

2153
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 1: into that. That happened quickly. Yeah, I'd like to see

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01:42:22,560 --> 01:42:24,519
Speaker 1: the draft. Yeah, let's see the draft class. And I

2155
01:42:24,560 --> 01:42:26,800
Speaker 1: don't think they're done a free agency either. I mean

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01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:28,800
Speaker 1: I think I you know, we talked a little bit

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01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:30,559
Speaker 1: about this on the show yesterday. Or if I think

2158
01:42:30,600 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 1: where we're going now is that second and third wave

2159
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:37,519
Speaker 1: of free agency where now you're looking for some of

2160
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:41,000
Speaker 1: the more affordable options that are out there that you

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01:42:41,160 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 1: still see as an upgrade for your roster or could

2162
01:42:43,960 --> 01:42:47,640
Speaker 1: address a hole in a stop gap form. You know,

2163
01:42:47,960 --> 01:42:50,080
Speaker 1: I think what you're going to see more is a

2164
01:42:50,240 --> 01:42:55,960
Speaker 1: greater number of one year deal type contracts where you're saying, look,

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01:42:56,200 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 1: we got a hole here, We're still a little thin

2166
01:42:58,479 --> 01:43:00,519
Speaker 1: at this position. I don't know. We want to make

2167
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:02,680
Speaker 1: a long term commitment to somebody, but for this year,

2168
01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:04,800
Speaker 1: let's just take care of this now. We've got a

2169
01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:07,040
Speaker 1: player here who we like, who we think can help

2170
01:43:07,120 --> 01:43:09,360
Speaker 1: us if we need to turn to him, but let's

2171
01:43:09,400 --> 01:43:11,080
Speaker 1: just sign him to a one year deal. Take care

2172
01:43:11,120 --> 01:43:12,680
Speaker 1: of it now, and if we can also address it

2173
01:43:12,720 --> 01:43:15,680
Speaker 1: in the draft, all the better. If we can't, at

2174
01:43:15,720 --> 01:43:18,320
Speaker 1: the very worst, we're looking to stop gap it again

2175
01:43:18,360 --> 01:43:20,639
Speaker 1: next year or find somebody long term in the draft

2176
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:23,080
Speaker 1: to address it. I don't want to dodge Jim's question

2177
01:43:23,120 --> 01:43:25,880
Speaker 1: because it's a legitimate question, and I'm sure he's earnest

2178
01:43:25,880 --> 01:43:27,920
Speaker 1: about it, and so I will try to answer it.

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01:43:28,080 --> 01:43:30,519
Speaker 1: To answer your question at the end of that tweet,

2180
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:32,160
Speaker 1: do you think they have enough talent to make the playoffs?

2181
01:43:32,160 --> 01:43:33,840
Speaker 1: I would say, yes, they do, but I got a

2182
01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:35,920
Speaker 1: long you know, I think about the build stuff pretty

2183
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:37,720
Speaker 1: much all day. I'm sure you do, Chris, and I

2184
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:40,320
Speaker 1: was thinking about the role that luck plays in the

2185
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:42,640
Speaker 1: course of a season. Luck in free agency, luck in

2186
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:45,320
Speaker 1: the draft, and then luck on a regular basis on Sundays.

2187
01:43:45,360 --> 01:43:47,519
Speaker 1: That has a role to play. People don't want to

2188
01:43:47,720 --> 01:43:49,680
Speaker 1: consider that, but it does. The object is to get

2189
01:43:49,720 --> 01:43:52,400
Speaker 1: as talented as you can and as well coached and

2190
01:43:52,600 --> 01:43:55,040
Speaker 1: schooled as you can, so that you minimize the impact

2191
01:43:55,080 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: of bad luck in the most affordable way that you ges. Yeah,

2192
01:43:58,240 --> 01:44:00,960
Speaker 1: with the cap restrictions, but look, they made the playoffs

2193
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 1: two years ago, nine wins two years ago, and I

2194
01:44:04,320 --> 01:44:07,080
Speaker 1: believe this group right now, even without this draft, I

2195
01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:09,720
Speaker 1: believe they're more talented. There's more talent on the roster

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01:44:09,840 --> 01:44:12,160
Speaker 1: than there was two years ago. So yes, i'd answer

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01:44:12,160 --> 01:44:14,360
Speaker 1: your questions specifically, Jim, Yes, I do believe they have

2198
01:44:14,439 --> 01:44:16,719
Speaker 1: enough talent to make the playoffs. But again, the draft

2199
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:19,280
Speaker 1: is coming and that will enhance the talent you would think.

2200
01:44:19,880 --> 01:44:22,600
Speaker 1: Beyond that, Um, there's a million things coming, you know.

2201
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:26,200
Speaker 1: Do you avoid injury That plays into the luck factor

2202
01:44:26,240 --> 01:44:28,639
Speaker 1: as well. Yes, they have enough talent to make the playoffs,

2203
01:44:28,720 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't guarantee anything yet. Um, they gotta play it,

2204
01:44:32,360 --> 01:44:33,880
Speaker 1: you know, they gotta play. They gotta play well, they

2205
01:44:33,920 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 1: gotta stay as healthy as they can. Add the right pieces. Um,

2206
01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:39,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll be coached up well, but they got

2207
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:41,439
Speaker 1: to make sure that that's the case. You know, you're

2208
01:44:41,479 --> 01:44:46,559
Speaker 1: looking at an offensive line coming here, Chris, that it's

2209
01:44:46,600 --> 01:44:48,760
Speaker 1: going to be brand new with a brand new coach.

2210
01:44:49,280 --> 01:44:52,679
Speaker 1: So that's something that you gotta consider. I'm not ready

2211
01:44:52,720 --> 01:44:55,280
Speaker 1: to guarantee, you know, eleven wins playoff Earth, but I

2212
01:44:55,320 --> 01:44:57,000
Speaker 1: do think they're more talented than they were a couple

2213
01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:58,439
Speaker 1: of years ago when they made the playoffs. And and

2214
01:44:58,680 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 1: you reference just what I was to get to the blend,

2215
01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 1: I mean, as exciting as it is to see eight

2216
01:45:04,320 --> 01:45:06,240
Speaker 1: nine players come through the door who are new and

2217
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: will help this team from a talent perspective, there is

2218
01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:12,679
Speaker 1: still the challenge of blending all that together. And yes,

2219
01:45:13,320 --> 01:45:16,360
Speaker 1: you have OTAs, you have mini camp, you have training camp,

2220
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:19,800
Speaker 1: you have four games of a preseason, but it's a lot.

2221
01:45:20,120 --> 01:45:23,759
Speaker 1: That's a lot to blend together. The offensive line perhaps

2222
01:45:24,120 --> 01:45:27,320
Speaker 1: more than any other area. Yes, John Brown and Cole

2223
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:30,040
Speaker 1: Beasley have to develop on field chemistry with Josh Allen,

2224
01:45:30,400 --> 01:45:33,960
Speaker 1: But that offensive line, as we said, odds are eighty

2225
01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:36,840
Speaker 1: percent of that line is going to be brand stinking new,

2226
01:45:37,400 --> 01:45:39,240
Speaker 1: and they all got to get used to one another.

2227
01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:42,519
Speaker 1: They all got to get used to the techniques and

2228
01:45:42,640 --> 01:45:46,720
Speaker 1: approach that Bobby Johnson is going to be coaching them in.

2229
01:45:47,160 --> 01:45:51,679
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to be put together there before

2230
01:45:51,760 --> 01:45:56,479
Speaker 1: they quote unquote maybe hit their stride. And sometimes when

2231
01:45:56,520 --> 01:45:59,160
Speaker 1: you see this level of turnover, even though you have

2232
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:02,880
Speaker 1: a coaching staff that's largely been intact and is not

2233
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:06,400
Speaker 1: new from the top down, the players are the ones

2234
01:46:06,439 --> 01:46:09,120
Speaker 1: that are executing on the field, and sometimes you don't

2235
01:46:09,160 --> 01:46:11,519
Speaker 1: get that traction where you really feel like you've hit

2236
01:46:11,600 --> 01:46:15,400
Speaker 1: your groove or hit your stride until sometimes week five,

2237
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:18,600
Speaker 1: week six, week seven. So the schedule could have a

2238
01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:22,040
Speaker 1: lot to do with their fortunes as well, coupled with

2239
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:25,360
Speaker 1: how quickly they hit the ground running knowing all the

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01:46:25,479 --> 01:46:27,840
Speaker 1: newness that has to happen, particularly on the offensive side

2241
01:46:27,840 --> 01:46:29,200
Speaker 1: of that. And I was going to add wide receiver

2242
01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:31,200
Speaker 1: factors into that too. There are guys who are going

2243
01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:34,160
Speaker 1: to be lining up, catching passes, working on timing with

2244
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:36,760
Speaker 1: John Shallon who's never played with before. So all of

2245
01:46:36,800 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 1: this factors into it. But to answer your question, Jim, yeah,

2246
01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:40,920
Speaker 1: I think they have enough talent to make the playoffs,

2247
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:43,719
Speaker 1: but it goes beyond that. You need more than just talent.

2248
01:46:43,960 --> 01:46:47,200
Speaker 1: From the tweet, sheet from Scott Cyberdude. We asked a

2249
01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:48,960
Speaker 1: question where the Bills more active than you thought they'd

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01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:50,880
Speaker 1: be in free agency. Scott says they're not just getting

2251
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:53,920
Speaker 1: random players to make people happy. They are getting legitimate

2252
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 1: needs to make the team better. And that's been a

2253
01:46:56,439 --> 01:47:00,200
Speaker 1: familiar take on the Bills free agency. Yeah, it's just

2254
01:47:00,320 --> 01:47:02,640
Speaker 1: a collection of talent. As we said, when do we

2255
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:04,880
Speaker 1: have Mike Lombardi on last week? I believe in talking

2256
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:07,640
Speaker 1: about his book and it's been said by McDermot and

2257
01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:09,560
Speaker 1: being over the last couple of years. Hey, we're not

2258
01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:11,880
Speaker 1: here collecting talent. We're building a team. And I think

2259
01:47:11,960 --> 01:47:14,639
Speaker 1: Scott cyber Dude points that out right. They're getting guys

2260
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:17,240
Speaker 1: who seem to fit what they're looking for and try

2261
01:47:17,320 --> 01:47:20,080
Speaker 1: and we'll have an effort to make the team better.

2262
01:47:20,240 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 1: Scott cyber Dude is the guy who would count on

2263
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:24,320
Speaker 1: to raise that point, So I'm glad that he did.

2264
01:47:24,439 --> 01:47:26,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a heck of a handle, isn't he.

2265
01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:28,120
Speaker 1: That's a good one, cyber Dude. I don't know if

2266
01:47:28,120 --> 01:47:30,720
Speaker 1: it's as good as sipping the kool aid, but that's

2267
01:47:30,760 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 1: a good Twitter handle too. The guy, that guy is

2268
01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: a frequent contributor to the show on the tweet sheet,

2269
01:47:35,800 --> 01:47:37,880
Speaker 1: sipp in thekool aid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good one.

2270
01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:40,439
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Sip the cool. I feel kind

2271
01:47:40,479 --> 01:47:43,880
Speaker 1: of boring with my Chris Brown Bills twitter handle. I

2272
01:47:43,920 --> 01:47:46,280
Speaker 1: don't know, It's just I feel it should have been better.

2273
01:47:46,640 --> 01:47:48,320
Speaker 1: But I've made my bed and now I have to

2274
01:47:48,400 --> 01:47:49,680
Speaker 1: lie in it. So so there you go. If you

2275
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:51,439
Speaker 1: have thoughts on this with the Bills more active this

2276
01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:53,639
Speaker 1: week and free agency and than you thought, you'd probably

2277
01:47:53,680 --> 01:47:56,200
Speaker 1: be better off tweeting it in because apparently we've got

2278
01:47:56,280 --> 01:47:59,920
Speaker 1: phone issues. Well, yeah, we had two people who are

2279
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:03,880
Speaker 1: aren't there right, Yeah, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen

2280
01:48:04,080 --> 01:48:06,880
Speaker 1: technology these days. Who knows it's a telephone, Chris, Yeah,

2281
01:48:07,040 --> 01:48:10,360
Speaker 1: give me a landline. It's a telephone. Get somebody on

2282
01:48:10,400 --> 01:48:13,960
Speaker 1: a land line. UM NFL true or false? Brought Morse

2283
01:48:14,040 --> 01:48:17,120
Speaker 1: Code if you want might work NFL true or false.

2284
01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:19,519
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artist in Cheese.

2285
01:48:19,600 --> 01:48:21,840
Speaker 1: Here we go, two or false. Chris is gonna play

2286
01:48:21,840 --> 01:48:25,240
Speaker 1: the role of Steve Tasker who bends over back. Yes,

2287
01:48:25,439 --> 01:48:27,840
Speaker 1: what tuys to do? Everything can to disagree. What are

2288
01:48:27,880 --> 01:48:32,479
Speaker 1: we doing anything? I say? Is that good? Yeah? That's

2289
01:48:32,520 --> 01:48:34,439
Speaker 1: pretty good. Here you go. Hold on, let me get

2290
01:48:34,479 --> 01:48:36,840
Speaker 1: on my phone first, all right, now talk to me

2291
01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:39,599
Speaker 1: and then I'll say what After the Odell Beckham Junior trade,

2292
01:48:39,640 --> 01:48:42,400
Speaker 1: the Browns are now Super Bowl contenders? True or false?

2293
01:48:43,439 --> 01:48:45,040
Speaker 1: You want to jump on that or should I start?

2294
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:50,760
Speaker 1: I think that's premature. I'm gonna say false. I think

2295
01:48:50,800 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 1: they are AFC North Division contenders. But there are a

2296
01:48:55,080 --> 01:48:57,160
Speaker 1: lot of guys on that team that have never sniffed

2297
01:48:57,240 --> 01:48:59,760
Speaker 1: the postseason. And I think anybody would tell you it's

2298
01:48:59,760 --> 01:49:02,200
Speaker 1: aff for an animal when you get there. And what

2299
01:49:02,320 --> 01:49:05,280
Speaker 1: do we see? We see like teams make that rise,

2300
01:49:05,840 --> 01:49:08,519
Speaker 1: sometimes in meteoric fashion, like we saw at the Rams

2301
01:49:08,560 --> 01:49:10,000
Speaker 1: two years ago. What happened when they got to the

2302
01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:12,280
Speaker 1: playoffs that first year, it was like a slap in

2303
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:14,280
Speaker 1: the face. Yea, like, oh boy, this is a different

2304
01:49:14,320 --> 01:49:17,040
Speaker 1: brand of football. And you know, they kind of bowed out.

2305
01:49:17,120 --> 01:49:18,760
Speaker 1: I think they would they win one playoff game and

2306
01:49:18,760 --> 01:49:20,000
Speaker 1: then they bowed out, and then they went to the

2307
01:49:20,040 --> 01:49:22,560
Speaker 1: super Bowl the next year. So I could see the

2308
01:49:22,640 --> 01:49:24,720
Speaker 1: Browns doing something like that. I think they could end

2309
01:49:24,760 --> 01:49:28,480
Speaker 1: their playoff drought. I could see them perhaps reaching the postseason,

2310
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:32,360
Speaker 1: but the Super Bowl contenders. No, I don't think they're

2311
01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:33,880
Speaker 1: ready for that. I don't either. I'm going false on

2312
01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:36,360
Speaker 1: this one too. They've got a lot of ground to cover.

2313
01:49:36,479 --> 01:49:38,920
Speaker 1: You know, they made big step forward last year, but

2314
01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:42,240
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is a second year quarterback. They have many

2315
01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:44,479
Speaker 1: the same issues we talked about them in ago regarding

2316
01:49:44,479 --> 01:49:47,320
Speaker 1: the Bills. They have to work out in terms of cohesion,

2317
01:49:47,439 --> 01:49:50,439
Speaker 1: especially among their wide receiving corps. Yeah, I'm saying false.

2318
01:49:50,479 --> 01:49:52,679
Speaker 1: I did his premature. I did see her report yesterday

2319
01:49:52,720 --> 01:49:56,599
Speaker 1: that they're shopping Emmanuel Ogba, one of their defensive ents,

2320
01:49:56,640 --> 01:49:59,320
Speaker 1: so be interesting to see what happens there. They're really

2321
01:49:59,400 --> 01:50:03,200
Speaker 1: trying to rea tool that defense, you know, which was

2322
01:50:03,280 --> 01:50:06,000
Speaker 1: a pretty talented defense. I know they were playing, you

2323
01:50:06,040 --> 01:50:08,519
Speaker 1: know when Greg william scheme, and the scheme's changing again.

2324
01:50:08,840 --> 01:50:12,000
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the reason, but I just find it interesting

2325
01:50:12,040 --> 01:50:13,640
Speaker 1: that they're retooling as much as they are on that

2326
01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:16,040
Speaker 1: side of the ball, which was kind of considered a

2327
01:50:16,880 --> 01:50:20,479
Speaker 1: pretty deep group. But I don't know. Take number two

2328
01:50:20,640 --> 01:50:22,120
Speaker 1: NFL true or false? What do you think of this?

2329
01:50:22,200 --> 01:50:25,799
Speaker 1: True or false? The Giants have no plan, no direction

2330
01:50:26,200 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 1: under Dave Geteman, their general manager. Yeah, I mean, I'm

2331
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:32,760
Speaker 1: gonna say false here. The guys a veteran personnel man.

2332
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:38,200
Speaker 1: While I don't agree that you sign somebody to a

2333
01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:40,680
Speaker 1: contract and then he twenty one million dollars in dead

2334
01:50:40,720 --> 01:50:43,000
Speaker 1: money and trade him a year later, I don't agree

2335
01:50:43,080 --> 01:50:45,599
Speaker 1: with that, that doesn't mean he doesn't have a plan.

2336
01:50:46,120 --> 01:50:48,960
Speaker 1: So while that is a move that I wouldn't do,

2337
01:50:49,080 --> 01:50:52,120
Speaker 1: ten times out of ten, I think he does have

2338
01:50:52,240 --> 01:50:54,240
Speaker 1: a plan. He's been in this business way too long

2339
01:50:55,200 --> 01:50:58,360
Speaker 1: to not have a vision for how to reshape this roster.

2340
01:50:58,479 --> 01:51:00,680
Speaker 1: And we kind of saw the beginnings of at you know,

2341
01:51:00,840 --> 01:51:03,760
Speaker 1: signing Golden Tate. So now you've got two pretty darn

2342
01:51:03,840 --> 01:51:06,120
Speaker 1: good slot receivers. And we heard Greg Cosell on our

2343
01:51:06,120 --> 01:51:09,800
Speaker 1: own show here say that, you know, that is kind

2344
01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:11,880
Speaker 1: of the InVogue thing in the league to go double

2345
01:51:11,960 --> 01:51:15,960
Speaker 1: slots with people to give your opposing defense personnel grouping

2346
01:51:16,080 --> 01:51:18,040
Speaker 1: issues in terms of what they're going to go with

2347
01:51:18,160 --> 01:51:21,240
Speaker 1: on the field. And now they have Sterling Shepard and

2348
01:51:21,320 --> 01:51:23,320
Speaker 1: Golden Tate who can line up opposite one another in

2349
01:51:23,360 --> 01:51:25,080
Speaker 1: the slot, and you've also got their tight end, who's

2350
01:51:25,080 --> 01:51:28,599
Speaker 1: that Evan Ingram, who's a dynamic tight end receiving talent.

2351
01:51:28,720 --> 01:51:32,320
Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot of inside receiving talent,

2352
01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:35,400
Speaker 1: which is where Eli Manning can still deliver the football,

2353
01:51:35,479 --> 01:51:39,439
Speaker 1: probably with the greatest consistency. So I think you can

2354
01:51:39,520 --> 01:51:41,880
Speaker 1: kind of see that taking shape a little bit. They

2355
01:51:41,960 --> 01:51:44,719
Speaker 1: signed to veteran safety and Antoine Bathet who got released

2356
01:51:44,760 --> 01:51:48,320
Speaker 1: by Arizona, so they've tried. And they traded for Jabril Peppers,

2357
01:51:48,360 --> 01:51:50,360
Speaker 1: so they've tried to address the loss of land in

2358
01:51:50,439 --> 01:51:54,720
Speaker 1: Collins to a certain extent. So steadily here there are

2359
01:51:54,800 --> 01:51:58,559
Speaker 1: some things going on. It doesn't look like they're gonna

2360
01:51:58,560 --> 01:52:03,360
Speaker 1: take a quarterback thought six. You know, knowing Dave Gettleman's

2361
01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:06,479
Speaker 1: affinity for the big Uglies as he's calling them, I

2362
01:52:06,560 --> 01:52:08,439
Speaker 1: think he goes D line there, don't you. He traded

2363
01:52:08,439 --> 01:52:10,519
Speaker 1: away Olivier Vernon. I mean it's screaming that he's going

2364
01:52:10,560 --> 01:52:12,400
Speaker 1: to take a pass rusher. Yeah, And I would say

2365
01:52:12,439 --> 01:52:14,120
Speaker 1: false to this too. I do. I know Gettleman a

2366
01:52:14,160 --> 01:52:15,840
Speaker 1: little bit, and I believe he has a plan and

2367
01:52:16,320 --> 01:52:19,559
Speaker 1: a direction in which he's headed. It's old school, it's um.

2368
01:52:20,120 --> 01:52:23,400
Speaker 1: Look they no one would say that they've won free

2369
01:52:23,439 --> 01:52:25,479
Speaker 1: agency this week. But I don't think Dave Gentleman cares

2370
01:52:25,479 --> 01:52:27,360
Speaker 1: about that. I think he has a plan and I

2371
01:52:27,439 --> 01:52:29,240
Speaker 1: think he'll follow it and we'll see where it goes.

2372
01:52:29,360 --> 01:52:31,200
Speaker 1: It probably doesn't take care of the media things either

2373
01:52:31,240 --> 01:52:34,519
Speaker 1: Oh no or the fans. No going back to Golden

2374
01:52:34,560 --> 01:52:36,120
Speaker 1: Tate though, I want to bring that up. But he

2375
01:52:36,200 --> 01:52:38,720
Speaker 1: did sign with the Giants last night, and he got

2376
01:52:38,720 --> 01:52:40,640
Speaker 1: a pretty good deal. Chris four years, thirty seven and

2377
01:52:40,640 --> 01:52:43,240
Speaker 1: a half million dollars twenty three million fully guaranteed for

2378
01:52:43,320 --> 01:52:45,519
Speaker 1: a guy who waited two days or I guess a

2379
01:52:45,600 --> 01:52:49,120
Speaker 1: day and a half before a free agency officially opened,

2380
01:52:49,280 --> 01:52:52,400
Speaker 1: or almost four days before negotiating started. To get that

2381
01:52:52,479 --> 01:52:54,000
Speaker 1: kind of a deal surprised me a little bit. There

2382
01:52:54,040 --> 01:52:57,320
Speaker 1: were obviously other receivers who were signed before Golden Tate.

2383
01:52:57,400 --> 01:52:59,720
Speaker 1: He was regarded as, if not the top, near the

2384
01:52:59,800 --> 01:53:02,000
Speaker 1: tip of the list of available free age and wide receivers,

2385
01:53:02,040 --> 01:53:04,160
Speaker 1: even at age thirty. I'm surprised you got such a

2386
01:53:04,200 --> 01:53:05,800
Speaker 1: sweet deal for him. I think that's why I think

2387
01:53:05,800 --> 01:53:08,040
Speaker 1: he answered your own question, because he was considered to

2388
01:53:08,120 --> 01:53:10,120
Speaker 1: be at the top of the market at that position,

2389
01:53:10,920 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 1: and really you didn't see too many contracts that were

2390
01:53:14,160 --> 01:53:19,879
Speaker 1: gigantic at the receiver position. Like, you know, ridiculous stupid

2391
01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:23,400
Speaker 1: money contracts. There weren't any of those, and knowing, and

2392
01:53:23,880 --> 01:53:26,000
Speaker 1: you got to credit his agent here for holding his water.

2393
01:53:26,600 --> 01:53:28,680
Speaker 1: You know, he knew that his client was near the

2394
01:53:28,800 --> 01:53:31,400
Speaker 1: top of the scale and that they could sit a

2395
01:53:31,479 --> 01:53:34,840
Speaker 1: little bit and wait because there were enough teams out

2396
01:53:34,880 --> 01:53:37,760
Speaker 1: there with receiver needs, Giants being one of them. So,

2397
01:53:38,120 --> 01:53:42,040
Speaker 1: especially after trading Backham So I think as long as

2398
01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:45,240
Speaker 1: they got a deal done before, you know, the first

2399
01:53:45,320 --> 01:53:48,519
Speaker 1: weekend that the free agent market was open, he was

2400
01:53:48,560 --> 01:53:49,880
Speaker 1: going to be able to get the money that they

2401
01:53:49,920 --> 01:53:52,320
Speaker 1: were looking for. He had seventy four catches last year

2402
01:53:52,360 --> 01:53:55,439
Speaker 1: between the Lions and the Eagles, more productive than I

2403
01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:58,280
Speaker 1: guess I anticipated. I I've never been a big Golden

2404
01:53:58,320 --> 01:54:01,080
Speaker 1: take guy. Oh I like him? Do you yeah? Would

2405
01:54:01,080 --> 01:54:03,880
Speaker 1: you really have Golden Tate or um or Beasley? I

2406
01:54:03,960 --> 01:54:05,719
Speaker 1: don't know that. I know they both played the slot,

2407
01:54:05,720 --> 01:54:07,439
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're quite the same. I don't

2408
01:54:07,439 --> 01:54:10,599
Speaker 1: think they're quite the same because I think Tate offers

2409
01:54:10,600 --> 01:54:14,800
Speaker 1: you greater position flexibility. He can line up outside as well.

2410
01:54:15,320 --> 01:54:18,400
Speaker 1: He is, he is fan. I think Beasley is better

2411
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:23,439
Speaker 1: at getting separation. Golden Tate is better at making people miss. Uh.

2412
01:54:23,560 --> 01:54:26,400
Speaker 1: They both have run after the catchability, but for different reasons.

2413
01:54:26,760 --> 01:54:29,120
Speaker 1: And I think Golden Tate is the more elusive player

2414
01:54:29,360 --> 01:54:32,400
Speaker 1: after he catches the ball, and he's a more versatile player,

2415
01:54:32,720 --> 01:54:36,400
Speaker 1: and he has a greater you know, size ability size

2416
01:54:36,440 --> 01:54:40,080
Speaker 1: speed ability. As Brandon Being said yesterday, Cole Beasley is

2417
01:54:40,120 --> 01:54:42,640
Speaker 1: more quick than fast. It's not to say he can't run.

2418
01:54:42,680 --> 01:54:45,240
Speaker 1: He ran a four four nine at the Combine or

2419
01:54:45,320 --> 01:54:48,440
Speaker 1: at his pro day, but he's more quick than fast.

2420
01:54:48,680 --> 01:54:50,920
Speaker 1: Just because I was thinking about the age comparison, and

2421
01:54:52,320 --> 01:54:54,960
Speaker 1: Beasley's going to turn thirty next month, twenty six, so

2422
01:54:55,040 --> 01:54:57,200
Speaker 1: they're about the same age. I didn't for some reason,

2423
01:54:57,240 --> 01:54:59,040
Speaker 1: I thought, I think Tate turns thirty one before the

2424
01:54:59,080 --> 01:55:02,920
Speaker 1: season starts. Okay, yeah, year ahead. Lastly NFL true or false,

2425
01:55:03,280 --> 01:55:06,680
Speaker 1: Levan Bell wasted earning power by sitting out last season,

2426
01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:11,880
Speaker 1: thanks for the softball. Yeah that's true. Not only wasted

2427
01:55:11,920 --> 01:55:14,520
Speaker 1: earning power, he lost fourteen million dollars at least at

2428
01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:18,200
Speaker 1: least well, yeah, it's probably at least nineteen million dollars

2429
01:55:18,280 --> 01:55:22,720
Speaker 1: because the Steelers offered him five years seventy million, and

2430
01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:26,400
Speaker 1: he said thanks, but no thanks, and then also sat out,

2431
01:55:26,440 --> 01:55:29,040
Speaker 1: so he wouldn't collect the franchise tag money that the

2432
01:55:29,080 --> 01:55:32,640
Speaker 1: Steelers tagged him with because he never signed it. So

2433
01:55:34,320 --> 01:55:36,040
Speaker 1: he comes to the Jets and he got what fifty

2434
01:55:36,080 --> 01:55:41,120
Speaker 1: two and a half? Right? So I mean, you're way behind, buddy.

2435
01:55:41,240 --> 01:55:42,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care which way you're slicing it.

2436
01:55:44,240 --> 01:55:46,640
Speaker 1: You can't even Donald Trump these numbers and make him work.

2437
01:55:46,680 --> 01:55:49,800
Speaker 1: So I mean, I'm sorry, buddy, you know, I mean,

2438
01:55:49,920 --> 01:55:52,200
Speaker 1: unless you're living in an era of new math that

2439
01:55:52,320 --> 01:55:55,040
Speaker 1: none of us can understand or in the space time Continueum,

2440
01:55:55,560 --> 01:55:57,960
Speaker 1: you lost a lot of money and you're never getting

2441
01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:01,080
Speaker 1: it back. You're never getting it back never, because when

2442
01:56:01,160 --> 01:56:03,680
Speaker 1: this contract's over, he's gonna be what thirty years old.

2443
01:56:04,000 --> 01:56:06,040
Speaker 1: He's not making that kind of money at thirty. I

2444
01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:07,800
Speaker 1: don't care if he leads a league in rushing two

2445
01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:11,320
Speaker 1: out of those four years, it's not happening. And oh,

2446
01:56:11,440 --> 01:56:15,160
Speaker 1: by the way, the Jets line ain't as good as

2447
01:56:15,240 --> 01:56:18,480
Speaker 1: the Steelers line. I mean maybe they can do a

2448
01:56:18,520 --> 01:56:21,160
Speaker 1: couple more things. I know they got Osamla, but we

2449
01:56:21,320 --> 01:56:24,520
Speaker 1: simule however you say it, but it's not the Steeler's

2450
01:56:24,560 --> 01:56:28,560
Speaker 1: offensive line. I'm terribly sorry, So have fun. There you go.

2451
01:56:28,720 --> 01:56:30,640
Speaker 1: NFL true and false, brought to you by Yancey's fancy

2452
01:56:30,680 --> 01:56:33,440
Speaker 1: New York's artists and Cheese. Against my better judgment, we'll

2453
01:56:33,440 --> 01:56:35,000
Speaker 1: try to get a phone call on here. They answer

2454
01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:37,240
Speaker 1: to our question. This one's gonna work. I can feel it.

2455
01:56:37,480 --> 01:56:41,000
Speaker 1: Let's see here, Kevin and Amberg. Keviny Oh my goodness,

2456
01:56:41,080 --> 01:56:44,920
Speaker 1: thanks Kevin. I'm totally impressed with the people they picked.

2457
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:49,720
Speaker 1: I thought maybe get five or six. But ten, that's amazing. Yeah, ten,

2458
01:56:49,800 --> 01:56:54,760
Speaker 1: including Spencer Long. I guess you would include. I wish

2459
01:56:54,840 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 1: we would have got one of those defensive vironement awake

2460
01:56:57,320 --> 01:56:59,440
Speaker 1: from one of our enemies, like Cameron Wake because he

2461
01:56:59,480 --> 01:57:01,720
Speaker 1: always gives a hard time, but I would love to

2462
01:57:01,760 --> 01:57:04,600
Speaker 1: see him get someone from one of our enemies, like

2463
01:57:04,840 --> 01:57:07,520
Speaker 1: maybe the Jet guy or the Pad guys. It's always

2464
01:57:07,520 --> 01:57:09,960
Speaker 1: good to get someone away from an enemy. Well, they've

2465
01:57:10,000 --> 01:57:11,680
Speaker 1: done that to a certain extent already. We were just

2466
01:57:11,760 --> 01:57:14,320
Speaker 1: talking about that earlier, Kevin. I mean, you know, you look,

2467
01:57:14,360 --> 01:57:16,600
Speaker 1: they got Frank Gore from Miami, they got Spencer Long

2468
01:57:16,680 --> 01:57:18,440
Speaker 1: from the Jets, and then they got the return man

2469
01:57:18,520 --> 01:57:21,280
Speaker 1: from the Jets. You know that's gonna weaken the Jet

2470
01:57:21,360 --> 01:57:24,240
Speaker 1: Special teams at the very least. I mean people. I

2471
01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:27,440
Speaker 1: don't know if people realize this. Okay, the kind of

2472
01:57:27,520 --> 01:57:30,760
Speaker 1: the caliber of return man that the Bill's got. I mean,

2473
01:57:31,200 --> 01:57:33,840
Speaker 1: this guy was tied for the league lead in punt

2474
01:57:33,920 --> 01:57:36,320
Speaker 1: return average at just over fourteen yards of punt return

2475
01:57:36,600 --> 01:57:40,040
Speaker 1: and he was second in kick return average. And if

2476
01:57:40,120 --> 01:57:43,040
Speaker 1: you weed out the guy that finished ahead of him

2477
01:57:43,040 --> 01:57:47,560
Speaker 1: because he only had nineteen returns, Roberts had forty, he

2478
01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:48,880
Speaker 1: would have been at the top of the league and

2479
01:57:48,960 --> 01:57:51,440
Speaker 1: kick the guy led the league practically in kick return

2480
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:54,240
Speaker 1: average and punt return average. There aren't too many guys

2481
01:57:54,280 --> 01:57:56,960
Speaker 1: in the league anymore that are good at both. It's

2482
01:57:57,040 --> 01:57:58,800
Speaker 1: kind of like tight ends. You can't find guys that

2483
01:57:58,880 --> 01:58:01,480
Speaker 1: can catch and block really well, and you can't find

2484
01:58:01,520 --> 01:58:04,120
Speaker 1: returners it seems that can do punt and kick return

2485
01:58:04,240 --> 01:58:07,280
Speaker 1: really well. This guy does both really well. And it

2486
01:58:07,440 --> 01:58:10,960
Speaker 1: was interesting yesterday because there is absolutely a chip on

2487
01:58:11,120 --> 01:58:15,040
Speaker 1: robert shoulder about being a receiver. Somebody asked him, you know,

2488
01:58:15,080 --> 01:58:17,040
Speaker 1: at this stage of your career, you know, have you

2489
01:58:17,240 --> 01:58:19,280
Speaker 1: kind of accepted the fact that teams see you as

2490
01:58:19,320 --> 01:58:22,600
Speaker 1: a return man primarily? And he said, no, I have

2491
01:58:22,720 --> 01:58:25,280
Speaker 1: not gotten over that. And if you do, look and

2492
01:58:25,360 --> 01:58:27,400
Speaker 1: I know Greg Kosal mentioned this earlier in the show.

2493
01:58:28,160 --> 01:58:31,320
Speaker 1: He had productivity as a wide receiver, and he still

2494
01:58:31,400 --> 01:58:33,680
Speaker 1: holds onto that belief that he can contribute to a

2495
01:58:33,760 --> 01:58:36,240
Speaker 1: team at the wide receiver position. I think he's gonna

2496
01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:40,640
Speaker 1: make the wide receiver pecking order a very interesting proposition

2497
01:58:40,720 --> 01:58:44,000
Speaker 1: to examine as we get through the spring practices and

2498
01:58:44,240 --> 01:58:46,680
Speaker 1: even training camp, because he had a couple of years

2499
01:58:46,760 --> 01:58:49,320
Speaker 1: early in his career where he had some receiving numbers

2500
01:58:49,360 --> 01:58:51,480
Speaker 1: that were that looked pretty good even though he was,

2501
01:58:51,600 --> 01:58:53,480
Speaker 1: you know, the fourth guy on the depth chart in Arizona.

2502
01:58:53,960 --> 01:58:55,480
Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a break. When we come back,

2503
01:58:55,520 --> 01:58:58,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Ontai in Seki builds offensive minme in.

2504
01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:00,800
Speaker 1: Another free agent signed this week, that's coming up next.

2505
01:59:01,040 --> 01:59:03,600
Speaker 1: One Goes Live, presented by Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive.

2506
01:59:03,920 --> 01:59:23,560
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, John Murfee, Chris Brown.

2507
01:59:23,680 --> 01:59:25,720
Speaker 1: One goes Live from One Bill Drive. The free agents

2508
01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:28,240
Speaker 1: making their way through One Bill's Drive these days and

2509
01:59:28,320 --> 01:59:30,120
Speaker 1: joining us one off. I'm one of the signees from

2510
01:59:30,600 --> 01:59:33,240
Speaker 1: Wednesday this week, a couple of days ago, offensive lineman

2511
01:59:33,320 --> 01:59:35,280
Speaker 1: Tie and Seki joins us. Tie. Welcome, good to have

2512
01:59:35,320 --> 01:59:36,840
Speaker 1: you here with us, Psyche, good for having to thank you.

2513
01:59:36,880 --> 01:59:38,240
Speaker 1: You know, it strikes me most of the guys that

2514
01:59:38,360 --> 01:59:39,880
Speaker 1: have signed, most of the guys we've had on the

2515
01:59:39,920 --> 01:59:42,320
Speaker 1: show are four or five year veteran guys, you know,

2516
01:59:42,400 --> 01:59:45,080
Speaker 1: maybe twenty eight years old. You are considerably older and

2517
01:59:45,160 --> 01:59:47,360
Speaker 1: more experienced than most of the guys moving around the

2518
01:59:47,400 --> 01:59:49,760
Speaker 1: league this time of year. Are Yeah. Yeah, And tell

2519
01:59:49,840 --> 01:59:53,000
Speaker 1: us about your background and how long it took you

2520
01:59:53,080 --> 01:59:54,680
Speaker 1: to get to the NFL. It's a great story. How

2521
01:59:54,760 --> 01:59:57,360
Speaker 1: much time you had to put into get national football. Yeah.

2522
01:59:57,360 --> 02:00:00,800
Speaker 1: I played in a few arena leagues. Yeah, about three years,

2523
02:00:00,880 --> 02:00:02,840
Speaker 1: three and a half years, and then I finally broke

2524
02:00:02,920 --> 02:00:05,760
Speaker 1: into the NFL in twenty twelve. In your mind, were

2525
02:00:05,800 --> 02:00:07,880
Speaker 1: you thinking I'm playing arena league because I think I

2526
02:00:08,040 --> 02:00:10,520
Speaker 1: can get to the NFL. Was that that was the goal?

2527
02:00:10,560 --> 02:00:13,160
Speaker 1: Because I only played about a year and a half

2528
02:00:13,200 --> 02:00:16,160
Speaker 1: of college by so I kind of got derailed, and

2529
02:00:16,680 --> 02:00:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, then I got focused. So I was like,

2530
02:00:19,760 --> 02:00:22,560
Speaker 1: the only mode of transportation to get to the league

2531
02:00:22,720 --> 02:00:24,600
Speaker 1: was arena football at the time. So I was like,

2532
02:00:24,680 --> 02:00:27,080
Speaker 1: I'm just going to focus in playing arena football to

2533
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:28,880
Speaker 1: the best of my ability, and we'll see what happens.

2534
02:00:28,880 --> 02:00:31,000
Speaker 1: A lot of times people will have somebody who they

2535
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:33,640
Speaker 1: are getting advice from. Did you have somebody in that

2536
02:00:33,760 --> 02:00:35,920
Speaker 1: time Arena league that said, stay with it, you got

2537
02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:38,000
Speaker 1: what it takes you. I can see you in the NFL. Yeah.

2538
02:00:38,000 --> 02:00:39,920
Speaker 1: I had a couple of coaches that played in the

2539
02:00:40,040 --> 02:00:42,440
Speaker 1: NFL and you know, coach in the NFL. They were

2540
02:00:42,480 --> 02:00:43,880
Speaker 1: telling me, you know, just stick with it and you'll

2541
02:00:43,920 --> 02:00:47,840
Speaker 1: get there. So where did you feel your game made

2542
02:00:47,920 --> 02:00:50,760
Speaker 1: that leap or did you feel like, look, I got

2543
02:00:50,800 --> 02:00:52,840
Speaker 1: the tools, I just need time on the job here

2544
02:00:52,920 --> 02:00:55,160
Speaker 1: to kind of show people I got I gotta put

2545
02:00:55,280 --> 02:00:56,960
Speaker 1: enough on film to show people I can play. I

2546
02:00:57,000 --> 02:01:01,000
Speaker 1: always knew, like my second year with the Rams, I

2547
02:01:01,120 --> 02:01:02,720
Speaker 1: knew that I could play in this league. I just

2548
02:01:02,800 --> 02:01:05,400
Speaker 1: needed time, you know, I had. I had an ankle

2549
02:01:05,480 --> 02:01:09,760
Speaker 1: injury that year and they decided to move on from

2550
02:01:09,800 --> 02:01:12,080
Speaker 1: me early, and I never and after that it seemed like,

2551
02:01:12,200 --> 02:01:13,720
Speaker 1: you know, I bounced around from the team the team.

2552
02:01:13,720 --> 02:01:16,200
Speaker 1: I never got an opportunity to actually digest the playbook

2553
02:01:16,240 --> 02:01:19,680
Speaker 1: and get in there and get comfortable. So Washington was

2554
02:01:19,720 --> 02:01:21,760
Speaker 1: like the first team that actually took the time and

2555
02:01:22,080 --> 02:01:24,000
Speaker 1: patient with me and let me get used to the

2556
02:01:24,040 --> 02:01:26,440
Speaker 1: playbook and used the terminology, and then you see what happened.

2557
02:01:26,440 --> 02:01:29,640
Speaker 1: I flourished. What was it like playing with guys like

2558
02:01:30,240 --> 02:01:32,680
Speaker 1: Trent Williams and Morgan Moses? I mean, guys that went

2559
02:01:32,800 --> 02:01:34,320
Speaker 1: right from college right into the league. I mean, I

2560
02:01:34,440 --> 02:01:36,960
Speaker 1: know Trent super talented, but I mean you get a

2561
02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:39,000
Speaker 1: lot of kudos for the times that you had to

2562
02:01:39,040 --> 02:01:41,760
Speaker 1: step in for him. I mean you performed admirably. I

2563
02:01:41,800 --> 02:01:43,960
Speaker 1: mean we're watching some tape the other day and you're

2564
02:01:44,000 --> 02:01:47,360
Speaker 1: handling clowning, You're taking him to the ground. I mean, well,

2565
02:01:47,400 --> 02:01:50,480
Speaker 1: I mean just being around Trent day to day, you know,

2566
02:01:51,640 --> 02:01:54,480
Speaker 1: for future Hall of Fame talent, you know, just seeing

2567
02:01:54,520 --> 02:01:56,480
Speaker 1: how you prepares. You know, I just took some of

2568
02:01:56,560 --> 02:01:58,120
Speaker 1: that and they rubbed off on me, and you know,

2569
02:01:58,240 --> 02:02:00,400
Speaker 1: we just worked together, took some of what I see

2570
02:02:00,480 --> 02:02:02,600
Speaker 1: him do and you know, added that to my game.

2571
02:02:02,760 --> 02:02:05,000
Speaker 1: And you know this is what you see on tape. Yeah.

2572
02:02:05,360 --> 02:02:07,360
Speaker 1: I read somewhere along the line here that on your

2573
02:02:07,440 --> 02:02:09,080
Speaker 1: road to the NFL, there was one point I think

2574
02:02:09,080 --> 02:02:11,560
Speaker 1: you're playing Arena League where you you pretty much had

2575
02:02:11,560 --> 02:02:13,080
Speaker 1: it enough. I've had it. I'm not gonna make it.

2576
02:02:13,480 --> 02:02:15,240
Speaker 1: How long ago was that and what was that all about?

2577
02:02:15,280 --> 02:02:18,080
Speaker 1: What was after the twenty and ten season. I was

2578
02:02:18,160 --> 02:02:21,600
Speaker 1: in the Philadelphia with the Soul. Before I got there,

2579
02:02:22,040 --> 02:02:25,200
Speaker 1: I was I had scheduled though, had a workout scheduled

2580
02:02:25,240 --> 02:02:28,040
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, and I think that was the lockout season.

2581
02:02:28,560 --> 02:02:31,800
Speaker 1: So the lockout came and I actually went to the workout.

2582
02:02:31,800 --> 02:02:34,080
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I had to workout. They were talking about

2583
02:02:34,080 --> 02:02:36,200
Speaker 1: bringing me on the future contract and the lockout happened.

2584
02:02:36,480 --> 02:02:37,920
Speaker 1: So it kind of, you know, brought me down a

2585
02:02:37,960 --> 02:02:41,720
Speaker 1: little bit. So then I've met Jaworski Ron Jorski with

2586
02:02:41,840 --> 02:02:44,680
Speaker 1: the Soul and you know, I played that season. You know,

2587
02:02:44,840 --> 02:02:46,800
Speaker 1: all the things that I was told was, you know,

2588
02:02:46,800 --> 02:02:49,440
Speaker 1: I get a chance with the Eagles once the lockout

2589
02:02:49,520 --> 02:02:51,880
Speaker 1: let up and then never came to fruition. So it

2590
02:02:52,000 --> 02:02:54,000
Speaker 1: kind of got me down even more. So then I

2591
02:02:54,120 --> 02:02:56,720
Speaker 1: was like, well, you know, maybe my windows closed, you know.

2592
02:02:56,880 --> 02:02:59,840
Speaker 1: So I was like, really, I don't you know. The

2593
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:01,880
Speaker 1: reason why it was playing Arena football was to get

2594
02:03:01,920 --> 02:03:03,800
Speaker 1: to the league. So the fact that the window was closing,

2595
02:03:03,840 --> 02:03:05,280
Speaker 1: I was like, maybe I need to go do something else,

2596
02:03:05,400 --> 02:03:08,240
Speaker 1: you know. So it's just what brought you back, oh man,

2597
02:03:08,320 --> 02:03:11,120
Speaker 1: the opportunity. You know. I got a call from one

2598
02:03:11,120 --> 02:03:14,800
Speaker 1: of the gems. And you know, they showed me or

2599
02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:18,240
Speaker 1: presented me an opportunity to make a large summer money playing, ArenaBall?

2600
02:03:18,600 --> 02:03:21,160
Speaker 1: I stuck with it. So when you think about those

2601
02:03:21,320 --> 02:03:26,000
Speaker 1: days and then you think about Tuesday, Yeah, because getting

2602
02:03:26,040 --> 02:03:31,000
Speaker 1: to free agency with an opportunity to finally cash in,

2603
02:03:31,280 --> 02:03:34,280
Speaker 1: I mean, for lack of a better term, how go

2604
02:03:34,360 --> 02:03:37,640
Speaker 1: over that go back from that point live Tuesday? I mean,

2605
02:03:37,800 --> 02:03:40,960
Speaker 1: is that as satisfying and rewarding as it gets? I

2606
02:03:41,040 --> 02:03:45,120
Speaker 1: mean literally and figuratively, yes, yes, yes, just the call.

2607
02:03:45,280 --> 02:03:47,240
Speaker 1: When I got the call, you know what I'm saying that,

2608
02:03:47,480 --> 02:03:51,040
Speaker 1: you know, Buffalo was willing to have my services. You know,

2609
02:03:51,040 --> 02:03:52,880
Speaker 1: it was just an amazing fielding because I think about

2610
02:03:53,160 --> 02:03:54,600
Speaker 1: all these guys we're going to see in a month

2611
02:03:54,640 --> 02:03:56,520
Speaker 1: from now. We've been playing football since the little kids

2612
02:03:56,560 --> 02:03:59,320
Speaker 1: get drafted. You know, when you see them breaking down

2613
02:03:59,360 --> 02:04:01,360
Speaker 1: the role emotion because of all the time they put in,

2614
02:04:01,440 --> 02:04:03,280
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine Tuesday. It was a lot like that

2615
02:04:03,440 --> 02:04:05,320
Speaker 1: for you. It was, it was, it was. It was

2616
02:04:05,360 --> 02:04:06,520
Speaker 1: a lot for me. I had to when I got

2617
02:04:06,560 --> 02:04:08,520
Speaker 1: to call, I had to sit down, like seriously, I

2618
02:04:08,600 --> 02:04:09,720
Speaker 1: had to sit down, like I had to take it.

2619
02:04:09,760 --> 02:04:11,080
Speaker 1: It was. It was a little off a woman, you know,

2620
02:04:11,160 --> 02:04:13,360
Speaker 1: because it's been a long road, a lot of work,

2621
02:04:13,560 --> 02:04:15,520
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of a lot of a lot

2622
02:04:15,600 --> 02:04:18,120
Speaker 1: of sweat, A lot of sweat equities been put into

2623
02:04:18,200 --> 02:04:20,360
Speaker 1: this dream, a lot of it. I gotta believe you

2624
02:04:20,680 --> 02:04:23,440
Speaker 1: were a valuable piece of the of the Redskins picture.

2625
02:04:23,480 --> 02:04:25,880
Speaker 1: They're what five starts last year year swing you complete

2626
02:04:25,920 --> 02:04:27,520
Speaker 1: either way, And there had to be in the back

2627
02:04:27,520 --> 02:04:29,120
Speaker 1: of your mind the thought that the very worst he

2628
02:04:29,160 --> 02:04:31,520
Speaker 1: could probably come back here to Washington, right was I mean,

2629
02:04:31,640 --> 02:04:33,520
Speaker 1: I figured that much, but you know I didn't. I

2630
02:04:33,520 --> 02:04:35,760
Speaker 1: don't do negotiating. I'll leave that to my agents. So

2631
02:04:36,080 --> 02:04:37,800
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going on with that In

2632
02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:39,720
Speaker 1: just come as a surprise to you when you got

2633
02:04:39,800 --> 02:04:42,200
Speaker 1: the call about Buffalo, not really a surprise. I knew

2634
02:04:42,600 --> 02:04:44,800
Speaker 1: he would, you know, he would give me some detail,

2635
02:04:45,160 --> 02:04:47,400
Speaker 1: but I didn't know to the extent of what was

2636
02:04:47,400 --> 02:04:51,480
Speaker 1: actually going on today the job there. So why don't

2637
02:04:51,480 --> 02:04:53,800
Speaker 1: we talk about the fit here, because I mean, obviously

2638
02:04:53,880 --> 02:04:56,040
Speaker 1: you saw it as a fit. It's it's an opportunity

2639
02:04:56,120 --> 02:04:58,400
Speaker 1: that maybe you previously did not have a chance to

2640
02:04:58,640 --> 02:05:02,760
Speaker 1: compete for a starting role. When you walk into this

2641
02:05:03,000 --> 02:05:06,240
Speaker 1: knowing this is a line that's being fitted together. You're

2642
02:05:06,280 --> 02:05:08,600
Speaker 1: not going to be any newer face than anybody else

2643
02:05:09,040 --> 02:05:10,960
Speaker 1: on the right side of the line either. So how

2644
02:05:11,200 --> 02:05:13,880
Speaker 1: how did all of that appeal to you? In what ways?

2645
02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:15,640
Speaker 1: Did it kind of say? You know, what is the

2646
02:05:15,680 --> 02:05:18,440
Speaker 1: place I want to be? Well, you know, at the

2647
02:05:18,520 --> 02:05:21,560
Speaker 1: end of the day, we play to start, you know,

2648
02:05:21,720 --> 02:05:24,560
Speaker 1: so I always wanted to get opportunity to start, you know,

2649
02:05:24,840 --> 02:05:27,640
Speaker 1: prove my worth. And I'm glad that I get a

2650
02:05:27,720 --> 02:05:30,560
Speaker 1: chance here to prove my worth and get opportunity took

2651
02:05:30,560 --> 02:05:32,960
Speaker 1: a pee for the starting position. Ty Chris was talking

2652
02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:36,320
Speaker 1: about the video we had of you against the jadeveon

2653
02:05:36,360 --> 02:05:39,960
Speaker 1: Clowney and Houston. Was that like your signature game, your

2654
02:05:39,960 --> 02:05:42,960
Speaker 1: signature moments so far in the NFL, because maybe it's

2655
02:05:43,000 --> 02:05:44,960
Speaker 1: just highlights, but you you certainly handled him on the

2656
02:05:45,000 --> 02:05:47,440
Speaker 1: video we saw. Yeah, I mean I felt like every

2657
02:05:47,440 --> 02:05:49,880
Speaker 1: week I lined up like that, It's my job to

2658
02:05:50,360 --> 02:05:51,920
Speaker 1: lock the man up across from myself. You know, I

2659
02:05:52,040 --> 02:05:53,880
Speaker 1: just go out there and do my job. You but

2660
02:05:54,080 --> 02:05:56,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you're long, which always helps because you can't

2661
02:05:56,320 --> 02:05:57,960
Speaker 1: let those guys get into your chest, as you know,

2662
02:05:58,080 --> 02:06:00,440
Speaker 1: you want to keep them out there, but just seems

2663
02:06:00,440 --> 02:06:04,280
Speaker 1: like you just have an innate knack to just read

2664
02:06:04,360 --> 02:06:06,400
Speaker 1: that guy and say, Okay, I'm just gonna steer him

2665
02:06:06,440 --> 02:06:09,040
Speaker 1: this time, or he comes to the undermove, don't overset.

2666
02:06:09,120 --> 02:06:11,920
Speaker 1: Like it's almost like you you have this like sixth

2667
02:06:12,040 --> 02:06:14,880
Speaker 1: sense to predict or read that player. So well, how

2668
02:06:15,000 --> 02:06:18,400
Speaker 1: much film study do you do, because it just seems

2669
02:06:18,440 --> 02:06:20,240
Speaker 1: like you have a knack to read players, no matter

2670
02:06:20,320 --> 02:06:21,760
Speaker 1: who it is, from at least from the three or

2671
02:06:21,760 --> 02:06:24,080
Speaker 1: four games that we've seen. Yeah, well, yeah, it's a

2672
02:06:24,120 --> 02:06:25,480
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of study and a lot of

2673
02:06:25,600 --> 02:06:28,120
Speaker 1: a lot of preparation. You know, a lot of a

2674
02:06:28,200 --> 02:06:30,240
Speaker 1: lot of time goes into what you see on Sunday.

2675
02:06:30,400 --> 02:06:33,160
Speaker 1: So you know, it's not it's just being a veteran,

2676
02:06:33,240 --> 02:06:34,640
Speaker 1: you know, you knowing that you've got a job to doing,

2677
02:06:34,720 --> 02:06:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, doing what you're supposed to do during the

2678
02:06:36,640 --> 02:06:39,080
Speaker 1: week to prepare for Sunday. Have you spent much time

2679
02:06:39,120 --> 02:06:41,720
Speaker 1: with the Bill's new offensive line coach, Bobby Johnson? Yeah,

2680
02:06:42,160 --> 02:06:43,880
Speaker 1: what kind of stuff do you have for you? He

2681
02:06:44,000 --> 02:06:45,880
Speaker 1: was just telling what he expects from us, you know,

2682
02:06:46,120 --> 02:06:49,080
Speaker 1: just talking about he likes smart, tough guys and what

2683
02:06:49,280 --> 02:06:51,480
Speaker 1: he's trying to build the culture out here of smart,

2684
02:06:51,560 --> 02:06:54,560
Speaker 1: tough individuals, you know. So he said that I'm one

2685
02:06:54,600 --> 02:06:56,880
Speaker 1: of those guys he thinks fits the mold. So I'm

2686
02:06:56,920 --> 02:06:58,920
Speaker 1: glad he thinks that. I mean, Coach McDermott, I'm sure

2687
02:06:58,960 --> 02:07:01,360
Speaker 1: he's told you this, but he's he talks about this

2688
02:07:01,440 --> 02:07:03,680
Speaker 1: certain type of DNA that they want to have in

2689
02:07:03,840 --> 02:07:07,080
Speaker 1: every player on their roster, where he or anybody else

2690
02:07:07,160 --> 02:07:10,240
Speaker 1: on his coaching staff is not wondering what they're going

2691
02:07:10,320 --> 02:07:13,640
Speaker 1: to get from a guy. Whether it's week seventeen or

2692
02:07:14,000 --> 02:07:17,320
Speaker 1: week three or the third week of training camp. They

2693
02:07:17,400 --> 02:07:18,680
Speaker 1: know what they're going to get out of a guy

2694
02:07:18,800 --> 02:07:21,360
Speaker 1: every day. I mean, just based on your history alone,

2695
02:07:21,880 --> 02:07:24,880
Speaker 1: I think you fall into that category of grinder because

2696
02:07:24,880 --> 02:07:28,440
Speaker 1: you've been grinding for what nine years now? So I mean,

2697
02:07:28,520 --> 02:07:30,640
Speaker 1: did you when you heard that, because I know he

2698
02:07:30,720 --> 02:07:32,920
Speaker 1: delivers that message to a lot of When you heard

2699
02:07:33,000 --> 02:07:37,280
Speaker 1: that message, how did it how did it resonate with you? Well,

2700
02:07:37,480 --> 02:07:40,400
Speaker 1: when I heard the message, I'm like, I'm home, So

2701
02:07:40,960 --> 02:07:43,360
Speaker 1: it's time to go to work because of what they're

2702
02:07:43,360 --> 02:07:46,520
Speaker 1: asking you, because of the work ethic they have exactly typically,

2703
02:07:46,600 --> 02:07:49,600
Speaker 1: offensive lines benefit from cohesion a lot of time together.

2704
02:07:50,200 --> 02:07:52,640
Speaker 1: This group won't have that advantage this year, right, I

2705
02:07:52,680 --> 02:07:54,200
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of new faces and a brand

2706
02:07:54,200 --> 02:07:56,160
Speaker 1: new offensive line coach. You're gonna have to build that

2707
02:07:56,200 --> 02:07:58,920
Speaker 1: chemistry pretty quickly. Yet, well, I mean, you know, unfortunately

2708
02:07:59,240 --> 02:08:01,560
Speaker 1: I had to learn on the job last the last

2709
02:08:01,600 --> 02:08:03,560
Speaker 1: two years in Washington, you know, with all the injuries

2710
02:08:03,600 --> 02:08:05,680
Speaker 1: we had, you know, different faces coming in there every week.

2711
02:08:06,000 --> 02:08:07,320
Speaker 1: You know, we have to learn on the job and

2712
02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:10,520
Speaker 1: meet somebody on Tuesday and he's next to me on Sunday.

2713
02:08:10,600 --> 02:08:14,120
Speaker 1: So you know that's you know, yeah, I'm used to that. Yeah.

2714
02:08:14,160 --> 02:08:16,040
Speaker 1: So if you had a chance to look around Buffalo,

2715
02:08:16,120 --> 02:08:17,880
Speaker 1: yeah area, and when he talks on moving to this area,

2716
02:08:18,720 --> 02:08:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm after this, I'll go and check out some some

2717
02:08:21,680 --> 02:08:24,520
Speaker 1: areas trying to see where I'm gonna plant my flag.

2718
02:08:27,320 --> 02:08:30,960
Speaker 1: I haven't done this yet. I mean it's been a

2719
02:08:31,000 --> 02:08:32,720
Speaker 1: debate now for a couple of weeks here, at least

2720
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:35,640
Speaker 1: the last week about how desirable location is this for

2721
02:08:35,720 --> 02:08:38,400
Speaker 1: free agents that didn't get in your way, whether or

2722
02:08:38,520 --> 02:08:42,040
Speaker 1: whatever about Buffalo, Right, No, I just wanted the opportunity, honestly, job.

2723
02:08:42,120 --> 02:08:45,080
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. You know, football is football. You know, I

2724
02:08:45,160 --> 02:08:46,920
Speaker 1: can be in the in Miami and we still have

2725
02:08:47,000 --> 02:08:49,960
Speaker 1: to go to New England and Buffalo wherever in play,

2726
02:08:50,040 --> 02:08:52,200
Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter. Yeah, Well, good luck to you, Ty.

2727
02:08:52,280 --> 02:08:53,560
Speaker 1: Thanks you for coming by here. We appreciate it. I

2728
02:08:53,600 --> 02:08:54,800
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have a good long run here. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. Spent a few minutes with thank you for

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Speaker 1: having Tyansecky builds offensive lineman free agent just signed the

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Speaker 1: other day. Chris and I back with more and one

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Speaker 1: bills Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Readers, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what have we learned from today's show? Presented by Subway Restaurants,

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Speaker 1: probably be locally owned and operated. Good show today. We

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Speaker 1: started with Brandon Bean, general manager of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: He's had a busy week. Nine players signed total to

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Speaker 1: the roster over the last week by the GM of

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Speaker 1: the Bills, Brandon Mean, and we asked him how active

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Speaker 1: about how active his Bills were during this week of

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Speaker 1: free to see. Here's what he said. We had targets,

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Speaker 1: as we said, but sometimes you don't know how it

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Speaker 1: worked out. We were trying to get good players some years,

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Speaker 1: I think it just fell a little bit better for

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Speaker 1: us this year. We obviously had cat money too to

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Speaker 1: be able to be a little more aggressive and get

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Speaker 1: some guys. So I couldn't have told you whether we

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Speaker 1: were gonna have five, six, seven, eight nine, whatever it was,

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Speaker 1: but I think we added some guys that will add

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Speaker 1: great competition. You don't win any championships in March, so

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Speaker 1: I don't want people to get too crazy, But we're

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Speaker 1: excited about the guys and look forward to welcoming them

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Speaker 1: here once the offseason program starts next month. There you go,

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Speaker 1: Randon being talking about his haul of free agents over

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Speaker 1: the last week here in One Bill's Drive. One of

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Speaker 1: them running back Frank Gore, thirty five year old running

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Speaker 1: back added to the Buffalo roster on the first day

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Speaker 1: of free agent signings, and Greg Cosell, executive producer of

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Speaker 1: NFL Matchup on the ESPN, told us what Frank Gore

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Speaker 1: might mean for the Buffalo Bills. You know, Frank Gore,

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Speaker 1: to me, has not really slowed down that significantly talent wise.

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Speaker 1: And the one thing about Gore is he's really good

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Speaker 1: in all the other aspects of the game, plus the leadership.

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Speaker 1: He's a terrific pass protector, and that's so so important

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Speaker 1: because what you're trying to do with Josh Allen is

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Speaker 1: increase his comfort level, make him feel like he can

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Speaker 1: drop a stay in the pocket, deliver the football, always

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Speaker 1: knowing that he has the running ability as a parachute

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Speaker 1: and yes, we know he's a great runner, but you're

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Speaker 1: trying to develop him as a passer and I think

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Speaker 1: that someone like Gore is absolutely critical in that regard

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Speaker 1: because he's such a good pass protector. That's great cosal

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Speaker 1: on the Bills edition of Frank Gore Free agency rolls along.

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Speaker 1: It's not over. Even though the Bills had a big

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Speaker 1: week with their nine additions to the roster over the

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Speaker 1: last week or so and around the league, stuff still happen.

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Speaker 1: In Chris, what do you got? Ryan Tannehill has been

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Speaker 1: traded by the Dolphins to the Tennessee Titans. He will

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Speaker 1: be the backup up there behind Marcus Mariota, and he

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Speaker 1: restructured his contract to turn it into a one year deal.

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Speaker 1: So the trade terms are as follows. So going up

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Speaker 1: to Tennessee is Tannehill along with a sixth round pick

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Speaker 1: this year, and the Dolphins in exchange get a fourth

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Speaker 1: round pick in twenty twenty and a seventh round pick

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Speaker 1: this year. That is not much sounds like the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: were eager to move him, and the Titans basically said, well,

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Speaker 1: if this is going to happen, you know, we're not

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Speaker 1: giving you a whole heck of a lot number one

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Speaker 1: and number two, he better agree to restructure the deal.

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Speaker 1: It is a notable fall from grace for Ryan and Tannehill,

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Speaker 1: who a year ago at this time they thought they

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Speaker 1: were okay, right, they didn't add a quarterback last year,

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Speaker 1: they had a chance to in the draft and elected

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Speaker 1: to stay with Ryan Tannehill. One year later he has

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Speaker 1: he's basically let go by Miami, sent away in a

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Speaker 1: basically meaningless trade, and is going to play back up

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Speaker 1: to you know, not a great quarterback either, Marcus Marota.

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Speaker 1: It's a pretty stunning fall from grace for and maybe

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Speaker 1: he and his agent are saying to themselves, well, Mario,

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Speaker 1: it does get hurt. Maybe we can get in do

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Speaker 1: a few things and convince some other team to give

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Speaker 1: us a better chance when you're back in free agency

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Speaker 1: next year. And one other move that might be of

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Speaker 1: note to Bills fans today was a former Bills guard

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Speaker 1: John Miller, one of the three free agents on the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo offensive line, who apparently not coming back. John Miller

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Speaker 1: is not coming back. He signed a three year deal

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Speaker 1: with the Bengals for its sixteen and a half million dollars.

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Speaker 1: I think that's good money for John Miller. Yeah, pretty

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Speaker 1: good considering he had a down season here last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean he regressed as a player, So to get

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Speaker 1: that kind of money, somebody still sees some upside and

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Speaker 1: you and believes they can help you. But holy cow,

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Speaker 1: is Miami in the market for a quarterback either via trait?

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Speaker 1: I mean if they don't have I mean right now,

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Speaker 1: they've got Luke Falk, a rookie they had on their

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Speaker 1: roster last year, and Jake Ruddock, the third year player

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Speaker 1: out of Michigan. I mean that's you're not starting one

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Speaker 1: of those guys. So if you don't make a trade

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Speaker 1: between now and the draft, everybody knows what you're gonna

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Speaker 1: try to do when you get to the draft, and

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Speaker 1: the draft pool isn't as deep a quarterback as it

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Speaker 1: was last year, so that all eyes on Miami for

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Speaker 1: quarterback hunting. Hey, Chris, thanks for this. We'll get you

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Speaker 1: back here here Thursday Friday next week right to do

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Speaker 1: the show. Yes, having great Saint Patrick's couch, keep it

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Speaker 1: under control. Oh, no problems. I can handle thissponsibly. Production

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Speaker 1: assistants George Blast, Jeff Coltonick Thomas, honald Or, Kelly Rude,

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Speaker 1: j j Teredoor, Kevin Carter, James robol Our, producer Jay Harris.

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Speaker 1: We're back with Jobascalia next Monday. He'll be closing with

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Speaker 1: us next Monday. One Bills Live for One Bills Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio