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Speaker 1: even not just Lamar, all of that who haven't been

434
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Speaker 1: here once they do come, they're gonna have to catch up.

435
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Speaker 1: But that's not unusual what that happens of the year.

436
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Speaker 1: And for Lamar, I don't think it's gonna be a

437
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: major problem. We know that, you know tight end Mark

438
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: Andrews is the top target has been But what do

439
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: we make of the receiver pecking order? Is there you know,

440
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: a true number one guy that they expect to ascend

441
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: into like a true number one receiver type role? I mean,

442
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: is Bateman gonna be that guy? Is it somebody else?

443
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 1: How do you kind of see things? Shape came out

444
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: with the receiver pecking order excluding Andrew. I think there's

445
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: job Bateman and certainly the guy who would point to

446
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: as the number one successor to Marcus Brown's the number

447
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: one receiver. He's a first round draft pick. He played

448
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: well once he got on the field. Last year, he

449
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: must have missed the first five games with injuries. So

450
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: for a guy who wasn't able to participate in a

451
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: lot of training camp, none of the preseason, and again

452
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: had to play catch up, I thought Bateman did well,

453
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Speaker 1: So this is an opportunity for him. Devin Duvernet, James

454
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: brochet Tylan Wallace, all wide receivers they've drafted in the

455
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: last two or three years to step forward and claim

456
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Speaker 1: that spot. There'll also be other wide receivers vying to

457
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: try and make the team. And it wouldn't shock me

458
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 1: if the Baivers went out and signed the veteran wide

459
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: receiver at some point before Week one. But they've invested

460
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: a lot in draft picks at wide receiver over the

461
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: last two years, and now it's time for a Bateman

462
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: and Duvenee and Prochet and others to seize this opportunity.

463
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be something to watch in training camp

464
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 1: how well they're playing as a group, and as you mentioned,

465
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: the space for the be the ravens number one wide

466
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: receiver target, it's wide open because that guy was Mark's

467
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: Brown and he's no longer here. Yeah, And I don't

468
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: know if this necessarily flies in the face as to

469
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 1: what the Ravens have been over the years, but very

470
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Speaker 1: often we see they usually have a healthy contingent of

471
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: veteran players that get a lot of snaps on both

472
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. And as you pointed out, there

473
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: really isn't one at the receiver position right now. So

474
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Speaker 1: if what you said could happen, does happen. Come you know,

475
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: late July, mid August, a veteran receiver comes in. Do

476
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: we take that as a sign that some of these

477
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: younger receivers just have the coaching staff a little bit

478
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: nervous that maybe they're not quite ready yet. Well, you

479
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: could look at that way and everybody's to be seen

480
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: what happens. Sometimes that could be the cage. It could

481
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: also just be the there's a veteran out there who

482
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: they feel to use an old Algie Newson cliche, right player,

483
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,239
Speaker 1: right price, if they feel as an opportunity to get

484
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: someone who can help them at any position, They're never

485
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: hesitant to add that player on board. I do think

486
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Speaker 1: that overall, when you look at the Ravens wide receivers

487
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: that I think the Ravens are in a lot of

488
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: ways getting back to maybe what they were in twenty

489
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: nineteen when they were fourteen and two, that they had

490
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: the best running attack in football. They had a really

491
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: good offensive line. Of course, Lamar's the best running quarterback

492
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: and football, and they threw the ball, but not as

493
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Speaker 1: much as a lot of teams in the NFL. Do

494
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: I think that the Ravens want to get back to that.

495
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: It's not that they don't want to throw the ball

496
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: at all, and they certainly want to be able to

497
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: produce some big plays in the passing game. But they

498
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: do have an all pro tight end and Mark Andrews,

499
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: so they have a prolific tight end. They drafted two

500
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: tight ends, which has always been a big part of offense,

501
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be a main kind Andrews in the

502
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: panting game. You know, if the wide receivers, if they

503
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: have a couple of guys who you know, get six

504
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: seven hundred yards and they go fourteen and two, they'll

505
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: live with that. So I think for the Ravens, the

506
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: way they want to play, maybe there won't be as

507
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: much pressure on these young wive receivers to step in

508
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: and be a thousand yard guy like Marquis Brown was

509
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: last year. If they're able to get back to running

510
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: the football the way they did a few years ago.

511
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: I know there were a lot of people that were

512
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: super high on David Najabo prior to his tragic achilles injury.

513
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Speaker 1: It is pro day. Is he pretty much with a

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Speaker 1: stamp twenty twenty three? Like they're not even thinking about

515
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two for him? What's the latest on him? No?

516
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: On the contrary, and the Ravens seem to be pretty

517
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: confident that he's going to play at some points this season. Now,

518
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: when that's gonna be, you know, it's too early to

519
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: say that. I will tell you he was an OTA's

520
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: Wednesday on the sideline, you know, looking he was in

521
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: street clothes, but he's doesn't look like a guy who

522
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: was hurt, you know, four months ago. Put it like

523
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: that or whenever, that's a couple of months ago. Yeah,

524
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: it's brother in the March. So yeah, I mean, it's

525
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: great to be young and athletic. He looks like a

526
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: guy who you know, might be able to recover quicker

527
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: than was initially expected. So no, they're not looking at

528
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: him as being a guy who won't help them this season.

529
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Speaker 1: They're looking at him as being a guy at some

530
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: point who's going to be part of their defense. And

531
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Speaker 1: as he gets closer to the fall, when that point

532
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: will be will become more clear. So we're probably looking

533
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: at him as like as p type, you know, missed

534
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: the first six games at the least, and then they'll

535
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: kind of weigh things out from there, maybe even further down.

536
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: All I mean, I think that could happen. But they've

537
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: had experiences like this before. You know, in Terrell Southard's career,

538
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: he tours Achilles, similar time frame. Of course, you know,

539
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: devastating news. When it happened, people thought maybe he wouldn't

540
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: play the next season, and he came back that year

541
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: and you know, really was playing well down the stretch.

542
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: So again, his speculation is too early to say. But yeah,

543
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is it would be being accurate to

544
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: say that he's been ruled out for twenty twenty three,

545
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: and they have. I don't think they're just being unrealistically optimistic.

546
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: They feel that the cause of the progress that he's

547
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: made so far, that there's definitely a point in time

548
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: this year where he could play and help them. Yeah,

549
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I mean, it was a short time ago.

550
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: Achilles was like a one year death sentence for sure,

551
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: and that just doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

552
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Five of the Ravens first seven picks on defense,

553
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: including three dbs. How many of those rookie players may

554
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: get on the field at some point in time, do

555
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: you think, well, we can start with Kyle Hamilton, their

556
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: first round pick, number fourteen. Oh, for all the safety,

557
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a huge part of defense.

558
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: You know, guys can play center field close to the

559
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, in the box, extremely athletic for a

560
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: six foot four of safety's gonna se safeties at tall.

561
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a huge part of their

562
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: defense as a rookie. Travis Jones defensive tackle the third round.

563
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be in the defensive line rotation.

564
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: The Ravens wanted to bring or get younger up front.

565
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: They did be signed Claire's Campbell, but Derek Wolked play

566
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: out all last year and so his status for next

567
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: season is uncertain. Brandon Williams has not been resigned, so yeah,

568
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: I think Travis Jones has a real good chance to

569
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: be part of defensive line rotation. And then Jayalen Armor

570
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: Davis actually two corners. Jayala Armor Davis, he was a

571
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: fourth round pick. I think he'll has a good chance

572
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: to be part of the corner red rotation. Marcus Peters

573
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: and Marlon Humphrey their top two pouners. They were both

574
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 1: injured last year. They expect them back, but they lost

575
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: some depth in corner. They did not resign Anthony Anthony Avert,

576
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: they didn't resign Tavon Young. Jimmy Smith hasn't been resigned,

577
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: so jayl Arvor Davis could step in certainly as a corner.

578
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: And then the Marion Williams a corner from Houston. He

579
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: played everywhere in the secondary at Houston. He played slot,

580
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: he played outside, he even played safety, so he's got

581
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: a lot of potential to be a backup corner. So yeah,

582
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: the Ravens had eleven picks in the draft. A lot

583
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: of people, including myself, didn't really think they would draft

584
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: eleven players. But they did. So they're looking for a

585
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: lot of these guys to step in and if they're

586
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: non starters, certainly be guys who contribute on Sundays. But

587
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: certainly Kyle Hamilton. Yeah, he's got to. I think he

588
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: could be one of the top defensive rookies you know,

589
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: in the league this year if he's as good as

590
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: people think he's going to be. Yeah. I mean it's

591
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: a youth movement for sure, like the likes of which

592
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: we haven't really seen in Baltimore in quite some time,

593
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: at least in terms of volume. But you mentioned Kyle Hamilton,

594
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: and I'm scratching my head a little bit, Cliff, because

595
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: Chuck Clark's a pretty damn good safety and they just

596
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: signed Marcus Williams to a five year, seventy million dollar contract.

597
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: So is Kyle Hamilton like a big nickel, Like, where

598
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: where is he gonna factor in? Well, that's a good question.

599
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 1: I think that you know, there's a lot of potential

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00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: for the Ravens to play three safeties a lot o.

601
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: Chuck Clark has been an old as He's been a

602
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: big health to Marcus Williams as far as getting him

603
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: up to speed in the All in the defense. And

604
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: you know, I think some people are assuming that, you know,

605
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: adding Williams and Hamilton me is that Chuck Clark isn't

606
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: going to be a big part of the defense, but

607
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,479
Speaker 1: he's one of the Ravens defensive leaders. No one knows

608
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: the defense better. And I think that you know, in

609
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: today's NFL where teams are throwing the ball so much

610
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: and you've got to match up with athletic players, that

611
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: the Ravens have three safeties now who are really good

612
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: and able to play a lot of different positions on

613
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: the field. So yeah, I think that they will be

614
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: a team that even though I don't think they thought

615
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 1: that Hamilton was going to be available at fourteen, when

616
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: he was, they thought, hey, he was two of a

617
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: player to pass up and be their new defensive coordinator.

618
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald at Michigan did a lot of mixing and

619
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: matching and really looking just to get the best eleven

620
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: players on the field. We saw Adan Hutchinson take off

621
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: under McDonald last year. Dax Hill, one of the safeties,

622
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: really took off. And yes, so obviously he's a guy

623
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: that likes using athletic players. Hamilton Williams of Clark I

624
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: think they could be on the field a lot in

625
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: to be safety baggages. Yeah, I mean Hamilton's stature, it

626
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: seems to make him Taylor made to cover these tall,

627
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: rangy tight ends that we see all over the league nowadays.

628
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: With that length, I mean, it's almost perfect to cover

629
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: the bigger tight ends running around making catches all over

630
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: the place in the league nowadays. Injuries obviously were probably

631
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: the biggest reason that the Ravens season went south and

632
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: they just missed the playoffs. Of all of the guys

633
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: that have had to kind of rehab from the injuries,

634
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: is there anybody in that group, and I realize I'm

635
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: forcing you to roll a decks a pretty big group here, Cliff.

636
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 1: Is there anybody that is still dealing with some lingering

637
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: issues from those injuries from last year that's being like

638
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: paced through OTAs or held back a bit even now? Well,

639
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean Ronnie Stanley, they're all pro left tackle.

640
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: He has not been at OTAs, Tis Valley of the Bows,

641
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: or they're outside linebacker who led them in sacks last year.

642
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 1: He tours Achilles the final game the last season they

643
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: had insulted injuries, so he hasn't been an OTA's. Those

644
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: are two guys right there. Um, Gus Edwards hasn't been

645
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: at OTAs, nor has JK. Dobbins. They lost a chip

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Speaker 1: to running by now. Dobbins was watching from the sidelines

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Speaker 1: at Otsas this week. So they have numerous players at

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Speaker 1: numerous physicians. Marcus Peters, uh, he was watching from sidelines

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Speaker 1: as well their quarters. So I mean, yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: that everyone knows how many injuries the Ravens had last year,

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Speaker 1: But when you really stop and think about it, when

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Speaker 1: you're around the team, I mean, it was really unprecedented

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Speaker 1: the injuries they had. They lost their top two running backs,

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Speaker 1: they lost Peters and Hume for their top two corners.

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Speaker 1: They lost their all pro left tackle. I mean they

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Speaker 1: that's just for starters. They suffered injuries that would have

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Speaker 1: frippled any team. I mean, you think about the Bengals

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Speaker 1: a year they had getting the Super Bowl. You know,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson didn't play the last five games. If you

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00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: took Joe Burrow away for the last five games, if

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00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: you took Joe Mixon for the entire season, if you

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Speaker 1: took their starting left tackle away for all but one game,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Bengals would have made the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So the Ravens had so many injuries last year that

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Speaker 1: it was impossible, in my opinion, for them to go

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Speaker 1: farther than they did, and they start off the year

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Speaker 1: eight and three. It wasn't until Lamar got hurt that

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Speaker 1: the wheels really fell off and they lost their last

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Speaker 1: six games. So you would think that the odds are

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Speaker 1: they'll have a much better year injury wise this year,

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Speaker 1: or certainly won't happens bad of it year injury wise

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Speaker 1: this year as they did last year. But different players

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00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: are going to be coming back at different times, and

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Speaker 1: right now, you know, it's too early to see to

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Speaker 1: tell who's going to be ready week one or not.

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Speaker 1: But I would say, you know, Nick Boyle there tight end,

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Speaker 1: he was on the field of ots. He looks like

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Speaker 1: a guy who has a good chance to be ready

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Speaker 1: week one, and they're just hoping that Stanley, Marcus Peters

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Speaker 1: and some other guys will also be ready week one.

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Speaker 1: We'll just have to see how plays out. And the

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Speaker 1: last one I've got for your Cliff, just to dovetail

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Speaker 1: off this whole injury discussion, has Coach Harball or anybody

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Speaker 1: in the organization been asked by the media if they

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Speaker 1: took a deeper dive into why they were so victimized

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Speaker 1: with injuries to this degree, because I gotta believe this,

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Speaker 1: when it happens to this degree, it's gonna prompt a

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Speaker 1: study on the part of the team in some way,

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00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: shape or form. And if so, what were the results

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00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: of that if they provided any Yeah, no question they did.

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00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: That's a good question. And yeah, they spent a lot

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Speaker 1: of time this offseason before OTA's looking at what they

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Speaker 1: did and what changes they need to make. They haven't

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Speaker 1: really taught a bounti specific changes that they've made, but

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00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, players are mentioned. You know, they're spending a

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00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: lot more time stretching before practices. You know, some of

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00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: the drills have been changed. There's just a lot more

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Speaker 1: attention being paid to maintenance, stretching, rest, and recovery. They're

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Speaker 1: doing whatever they can to try and make sure that

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Speaker 1: it doesn't repeat. I mean, some of it is bad luck,

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Speaker 1: but as coach Harball said, when you have that many injuries,

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00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: you can't just chalk it up to bad luck without

703
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: taking a hard look at what you're doing. So they've

704
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: done that. They're just hoping that as the season gets

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00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: into training camp and the regular season that they won't

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Speaker 1: have the same amount of injuries as they did last year.

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Speaker 1: And they've had a lot of healthy years in recent years.

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Speaker 1: Lastly just seemed to be one of those seaters where

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Speaker 1: no matter what, they couldn't avoid it. I mean, Marcus

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00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: Peters and Gus Edwards suffered season ending knee injuries within

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Speaker 1: like twenty minutes of each other the same practice, and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't even a padded practice. So I mean, when

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Speaker 1: stuff like that starts happening, you just kind of feel statement.

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Speaker 1: But they are taking more precautions and hopefully they'll get

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Speaker 1: the results of having fewer injuries, which you have to

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Speaker 1: see what happens. Good enough, Well, Cliff will catch you

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Speaker 1: up with you in the fall. Week four, man will

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Speaker 1: be down there your way for that game between the

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Speaker 1: Bills and the Ravens in late September early October. I

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Speaker 1: can't remember the calendar, Dad, I just no Week four.

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Speaker 1: I go by the weeks. But thanks for the time.

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Speaker 1: But if we appreciate, appreciate you bringing us up to

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Speaker 1: speed on the Ravens. Thanks man, me enjoyed it. You

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Speaker 1: take care, all right. That's a Ravens beat writer for

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens dot Com. Cliff Brown joining us kind of

726
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: breaking down the Ravens for us, and I am not

727
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Speaker 1: surprised in the least that coach Harbaugh took a deep

728
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: dive as to what the heck was going on with

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00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: their injury problems last year. I mean, every other week

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Speaker 1: it seemed another starter was going down. You just heard

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Speaker 1: Cliff mention that they had two corners, two starting corners

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Speaker 1: go down to season ending injuries in the span of

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes of practice. And if I remember right,

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Speaker 1: both of those injuries were non contact. You heard Cliff

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Speaker 1: say they were in padded practices. I think there were

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Speaker 1: non contact injuries, very similar to the injury we saw

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Speaker 1: Tradevious White suffer on Thanksgiving against the Saints, which was,

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Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, a non contact injury when

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Speaker 1: his foot got caught in the turf and he tore

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Speaker 1: his ACL. And October second is the day of that

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Speaker 1: game down in Baltimore. Healthy contingent of Bill's fans down

742
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: Baltimore Way, as we've seen over the years, traveling down.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully that continues, because that is going to be

744
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: a rock'em sock 'em game for sure. We have to

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Speaker 1: take a break here, but when we come back, it's

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Speaker 1: our latest installment of Another Reason to Hate Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: I'll be happy to bring it to you next here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, So the latest edition of Another

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Speaker 1: Reason to Hate Tom Brady. Now I missed this, so

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Speaker 1: I watched I would say, probably close to half of

752
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: the telecast on the match, you know, the golf thing

753
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 1: earlier this week with Rogers and Brady and Josh Allen

754
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes. I missed the preamble. There was like

755
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: this whole pregame show, and I guess it was pretty lousy.

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Speaker 1: My most acco ounce because number one, Aaron Rodgers was

757
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 1: being Aaron Rodgers, which is basically disinterested in anything that

758
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: he's not directly involved in in terms of its idea concept.

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00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: So he was basically not answering any questions. And then

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00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: Josh and Patrick were trying to be cordial in some

761
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: small way. There was a little bit of trash talking,

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00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: but then Tom Brady decided he was going to take

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Speaker 1: it to another level, while you know, Josh kind of

764
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: honed in a little bit on Brady's age and that

765
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Tom went into a personal attack by

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Speaker 1: criticizing Josh's weight, which I guess in the first place,

767
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: I'll just say is pretty flimsy for an avenue to

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Speaker 1: go down. That's number one. But I didn't see any

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Speaker 1: of this back and forth commentary. JJ Watt, I guess

770
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: was hosting this portion of it. There was like a

771
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Speaker 1: press conference, so to speak, and JJ Watt was moderating it,

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00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: and by all accounts it was awful. But there were

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Speaker 1: some comments by Brady. I'm like, what the hell, man, Like,

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Speaker 1: I understand, you know, you're ribbing each other this and that.

775
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: So there was a question where jj Watt asked each

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Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks their greatest fear, and Brady decides he's

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00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: going to chime in and answer for Alan, and he

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00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: said Josh's biggest fear is vegetables. And then there was

779
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: a question about favorite pizza toppings and Josh says Pepperoni, mushroom,

780
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: Articho crush, Pepper's halloweenis. Brady pounces on Josh's answer and says,

781
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: looks like a Josh. So that was two. Then comes

782
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Speaker 1: the third one and JJ Watt, already seeing where Tom

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00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: Brady was going, interrupted before Tom could answer because there

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00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: was a question about whether guys preferred French toast or pancakes,

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00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,479
Speaker 1: and Watt steps in and said, Tom's gonna say both

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00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: for you, Josh, And then he said, I don't think

787
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: he's that fat, Tom, But I'm like, holy crap, JJ Watt,

788
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: what the hell is that? Like, you don't think he's

789
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: that fat? Like, where is what the hell? So then

790
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: Brady didn't miss a beat. Even though JJ steps in

791
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: preemptively to answer, Brady follows up and says whipped cream.

792
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: And then there was a question about which quarterback had

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00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,439
Speaker 1: the best fashion sense, and Brady said, Josh can't even

794
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: get shorts that fit him. He goes to Big and

795
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: Tall for all his shopping needs. And he even said

796
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: something out on the course about one of his golf shots,

797
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: calling it a little chunky, and he said, oh, I

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00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: hold it a little Josh elleny ho ho. You know,

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00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 1: get a new get a new angle there. I mean,

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00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: you overplayed it. It doesn't even make sense as far

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00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. And here's the other thing, Josh Allen

802
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: is bigger, stronger, and faster than you. And throws a ball. Further, So,

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00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 1: physical attributes are the last thing that I would be

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00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: criticizing Josh Allen on if I were Tom Brady, even

805
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: Tom Brady of seven Super Bowl rings, So spare me

806
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: with that one. You could have come up with a

807
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: lot better stuff than what you did, And it's kind

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00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: of pathetic, But in a small way, I am actually

809
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: gonna thank Tom Brady for going that route on Josh

810
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: because I know, I know that Josh is going to

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00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:42,879
Speaker 1: be using that as one gas for the fire. So

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00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: keep it coming, Tom, because you don't know what kind

813
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 1: of fire you're playing with right now. So yet another

814
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 1: reason to hate Tom Brady. Sure, I'm sure he's gonna

815
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: say it was all in good fun and he knew

816
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: Josh could take it, so that's why he dished it out,

817
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: you know. And Josh, you know, he took it all

818
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: in stride. But I'm hoping somewhere it only adds to

819
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Speaker 1: the size of the chip on Josh's shoulder heading into

820
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: the twenty two seasons. So another reason to hate Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: The list is pretty long, right, What is it like

822
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: as long as my arm at this point? Another reason

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00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,879
Speaker 1: gotta love it all? Right, we gotta take a break here.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we are going to be joined

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Speaker 1: in our number two by the one and only Connor Orr,

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Speaker 1: who has just put together his one hundred bold predictions

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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty two NFL offseason. I think we

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Speaker 1: can safely or NFL season. I think we can safely

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Speaker 1: call Connor an overachiever. We'll catch up with him next

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has been

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00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

833
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for State, Steve a blimp.

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Speaker 1: We're not even in the strateityre of normalcy. All right.

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Speaker 1: Here we are our number two on a Friday, Chris

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00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: Brown here with you, flying solo. But please to be

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Speaker 1: joined now by NFL writer for Sports Illustrated, Connor Or,

838
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: who I have already stamped overachiever. I mean, doing this

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Speaker 1: in the off season one hundred bold predictions for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two NFL season. I'm either manager, editor or

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00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: you just have an illness so putting together a hundred

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Speaker 1: of these? Connor, first of all, how you're doing You're

843
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: doing our RND. I'm doing well. Thanks, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of both crazy editor, crazy person. Okay,

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00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,479
Speaker 1: fair enough, So it's fifty fifty on the responsibility there.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to start off with the highlights, at least

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Speaker 1: as far as our Bills listeners are concerned. You predicted

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00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: the Bills winning the Super Bowl over the Packers, which

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00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: is interesting not only because of the matchup, but because

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00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: they are going to play on Sunday night, October twentieth.

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00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: I think it is. Yeah, I love that matchup. I

852
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,760
Speaker 1: just think the Bills have rounded into the most complete

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00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. I think the draft really solidified

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00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,720
Speaker 1: it for me. And you know, I went back to

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Speaker 1: a little bit of what Ken Dorsey was able to

856
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: do in Carolina. I think some of those principles will

857
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: really carry over. Brian Dable from a strategic standpoint, is

858
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,760
Speaker 1: a tough loss, but I think that he compliments Josh

859
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: Allen the player. Well, I don't think that offense is

860
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: really going to skip a beat very much. And they're just,

861
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: to me, the most complete team of football. I think

862
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: they're they're they're gonna not walk through that AFC. It's

863
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: tough division, but they're they're better equipped to handle that

864
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: the rigors of it than I think anybody else's. All right,

865
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to explain this other one. Von Miller

866
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:03,720
Speaker 1: twice breaks his goal game sack record in twenty twenty two.

867
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: I think, I know where you're going with this, But

868
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 1: why don't you kind of spell it out for us?

869
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: So you break it once against the Jets, and you

870
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,879
Speaker 1: break it once against the Dolphins, right, And that's kind

871
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: of what I figured right where, you know, and you

872
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: know it's tongue in cheek a little bit, right, But

873
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 1: when you have Zach Wilson into a tongue of VLOA,

874
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: I think those are two quarterbacks who are running a

875
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: similar system. You know, has a lot of boot action,

876
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: a lot of time in the pocket. And then you're

877
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: facing Micah Hyde and Jordan Ployers. They're gonna pin you

878
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: in the pocket for longer than you need to be.

879
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: Plus you're already in your second you know, your second

880
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,439
Speaker 1: year quarterback, you're still learning processing time. And then von

881
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: Miller's just so fast off the edge. You combine all

882
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 1: that stuff, I think he's gonna be a tear in

883
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 1: the backfield. I really think he's gonna have a big

884
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: season this year. Yeah, I mean, even if he draws

885
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: the attention you know of most offensive lines, which I

886
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: think we all anticipate happening. I think these young guys

887
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: on the other side are gonna get home and eat

888
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: enough where they may force opposing offensive lines to play

889
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more honest as the season wears on,

890
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: and then more opportunities might develop for Miller. And we

891
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: can't forget the because you mentioned Tah, we can't forget

892
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: to mention the fact that it's a new offense for

893
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: twoa two that he's got to learn now, so he

894
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 1: could be slow out of the gate. That Week three

895
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 1: game might be kind of ugly for him with a

896
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: number one defense that now has von Miller from from

897
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: last year the number one defense in the league. I

898
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: wanted to also cover a guy that is getting a

899
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: lot of headlines here in Buffalo already, not just from

900
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: the media, and it doesn't just have the fan base excited,

901
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: but even veteran players on Buffalo's roster are talking about

902
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:44,479
Speaker 1: this kid after two weeks of OTAs James Cook, who

903
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 1: you say is going to have more rushing yards than

904
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. Now, my question to you is how much

905
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,720
Speaker 1: of their new offense up in Minnesota is baked into

906
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 1: this prediction. Are you expecting Cook to be the bell

907
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: Cowie was or maybe a little bit more thrown around

908
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: the yard. I could imagine Minnesota going more to leaning

909
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,399
Speaker 1: more towards a committee approach. I mean, I think Mike

910
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: Zimmer had much more of an old fashioned mentality to that.

911
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: He wanted that commanding presence at running back, whereas I

912
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: think the new coaching staff is really gonna want fresh legs.

913
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: I think that's, you know, the more obviously the more

914
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: modern approach, right, you want different styles, different body types

915
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: to be attacking defenses on different downs. But that said,

916
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: I mean I was just really impressed with the Bills

917
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: running game came along way last year, and you know,

918
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: I think they addressed that after they beat the New

919
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: England in the playoffs, which was that, you know, they

920
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: weren't getting the credit. I don't think maybe the media

921
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: at large was seeing the progress. But we went back

922
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: and looked at the end of the season. I thought

923
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: they're running the ball a lot better, blocking it up

924
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: a lot better, and I think that continues. Plus you

925
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: just have the dynamic running back. I mean, you watch

926
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 1: his tape from college, and you know, not to say

927
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: that this is a reflection of what they had on

928
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: the roster prior, but I just think he adds a

929
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 1: different dimension to this offense. Yeah, I mean, there's no question,

930
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,839
Speaker 1: and he does. The thing that I'm wondering is, like

931
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this prediction that you made. You know,

932
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: you know, James Cook's gonna have more rushing yards in

933
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. I'm wondering if either of them even get

934
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:14,240
Speaker 1: to a thousand because, I mean, we know the Bills

935
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: offense are gonna be throwing a ton. If they run

936
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: it more than fifteen times a game, it's a big deal.

937
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: They almost never get to twenty two let's say. I

938
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 1: mean occasionally they'll get to twenty and sometimes half a

939
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: dozen of those are Josh running with the ball. So

940
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: now you divvy it up in the backfield. I don't

941
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 1: know if either of those guys get to a thousand yards.

942
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: If that's the case, if there's a committee in Minnesota,

943
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: as it'll probably be here. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean

944
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 1: I'm kind of looking stylistically at what the Bills might

945
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: be closer to almost what the Panthers were during some

946
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 1: of Cam Newton's best years, right, and I think that

947
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: you look at the rushing splits there and Josh isn't

948
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: going to take as many of the carries away as Cam.

949
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean, it's a committee approach. That said,

950
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: I think the Bills are going to be up in

951
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: a lot of these games too. I mean, I think

952
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: that that's how good of a team they are that

953
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to run the clock out

954
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: on some of these teams too. Yeah. I think they

955
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: only had one victory last year that was by a

956
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: score or less, so that would make an awful lot

957
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 1: of sense going forward into twenty twenty two. All Right,

958
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:18,360
Speaker 1: this one might get some Bills fans a little nervous,

959
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: but you do have a button here. Josh Allen will

960
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: throw a career high number of interceptions, but dot dot

961
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 1: dot so explain. But he will also throw a career

962
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: high in touchdowns, and he's gonna throw forty touchdowns, so

963
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: I think everything's gonna be okay. I think you would

964
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: take that. I think you would take what eighteen interceptions

965
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: and forty touchdowns. I think that was close to Matt

966
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: Stafford's line last year when the Rams won the Super

967
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: Bowl if I'm not mistaken, and I think this is

968
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: a good thing. I don't mind when some quarterbacks now,

969
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: maybe not Blake Bortle's right post AFC Championship, but quarterbacks

970
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: like Josh, they take a little bit more of a risk.

971
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: They're less afraid to try to spin the ball into

972
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: type places. You know, this is something that Eli Manning

973
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: did a lot during some of his peak growth years.

974
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: He had higher interception total, but that was okay, and

975
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,320
Speaker 1: I think that that just means he's taking more ownership

976
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: over the offense. He's displaying a confidence in himself, and

977
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: I think he's been thrown off a lot of touchdowns

978
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: this year. So I have all the faith in the

979
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: world and Josh that he's gonna have a good season

980
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah. Moving to the AFC East, the Jets

981
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 1: are a team that and I know a lot hinges

982
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: on Zach Wilson obviously, and the reports out of the

983
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: OTAs aren't glowing right now, but it's you know, it's June.

984
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: I'm not freaking out yet, not that I'm necessarily pulling

985
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: for the Jets, but the Jets will win at least

986
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: six games. I actually had him pegged at seven and ten.

987
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: I think they could win seven games this year, and

988
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I'm so down on the

989
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: Patriots that might be good enough for third place in

990
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: this division. What's your call on the Jets? Are you

991
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: thinking strictly six? Do you think they could go maybe

992
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: even a game over that. I think they could go

993
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: a game over that. I think I would buck against

994
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of the nagat. I checked out Zach

995
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: Adota's two weeks ago. I think whatever their first OTA

996
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: practice was, I was there, and you know, there are

997
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: not a lot of these wow moments, but I think

998
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 1: what he's doing better than he has you know, and

999
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: I saw him last year during OTAs two, was that

1000
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 1: he's getting the ball out on time better and he's

1001
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: he's just more accurate in those mid range throws. He's

1002
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: always going to be phenomenal on the move right and

1003
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: kind of boot action stuff and throwing the ball deep.

1004
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: He's always going to be good at that. But he

1005
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: needed to become a more complete quarterback in the offseason,

1006
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: and I think he did that. And the Jets also

1007
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: did another really important thing, which is gets some veterans

1008
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: in there, like CJ. Zoma, guys like that, who are

1009
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: just going to help them from a leadership standpoint. That

1010
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: was such a young team last year, and I think

1011
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be a little bit more mature. They're

1012
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: gonna be able to handle some of these games this

1013
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: year that they weren't in twenty twenty one. So haven't

1014
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you probably only saw him for

1015
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: a day or so. There was talk that he's bolted

1016
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: up a little bit, added some muscle to his frame.

1017
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: Did you see that? Number one? And then number two?

1018
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: You mentioned the accuracy? What's the general narrative down there

1019
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: with all that they've surrounded him with now, because you

1020
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: know how New York fans are, they want results yesterday.

1021
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: So what's your general sense on the narrative there now

1022
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:20,439
Speaker 1: in terms of how much rope Wilson's getting this year? Yeah,

1023
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: I would say that you have to look at it

1024
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: in two buckets. Right, there's the New York narrative, which is,

1025
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: you know, we got him all the weapons, we got

1026
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: him the offensive line. It's got to happen this year.

1027
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 1: And then I think there's what the team understands and knows,

1028
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 1: which is this is going to take time. You know,

1029
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: this is going to take another year, and I think

1030
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 1: that everybody within the building knows that. I think maybe

1031
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: the hope is that the ownership is committed to that

1032
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: and realizes that. But you know, yes, you had a

1033
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: great draft, you brought in prospects, but these guys are

1034
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: still incredibly young, and so I think that the hope

1035
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: is that they give him the time. I think that

1036
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: is really the because I think he can be a

1037
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: really good player if he's allowed that those moments to

1038
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: kind of season and develop. But if you're going to

1039
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 1: try to force the issue this year and say you

1040
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: were either in or out on him, then I think

1041
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: you're going to destroy a good young quarterback, which is

1042
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: something that the Jets have done in the past. And

1043
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: I think this is an opportunity to write those wrongs.

1044
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: Talking with NFL writer for Sports Illustrated, Connor Or, and

1045
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: I know I'm putting you on the spot a little

1046
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: bit here, but all of these hundred bold predictions, was

1047
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 1: there one or two that you really like the most,

1048
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: that you felt the most confident in as soon as

1049
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: you put it down on your laptop. Well, this is

1050
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 1: a good Bills connection because it's involving Brian Dable. But

1051
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: I think sae Quon Barkley is going to catch sixty

1052
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: balls this year. And I got criticized for that one

1053
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: a little bit for being too obvious almost, but I

1054
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: think that the Bills. You know, what Brian Dable's always

1055
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: best at is putting guys in a position to succeed.

1056
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: If you go back to his best games plays with

1057
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: the Giants, it's always that sprint action stuff out of

1058
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 1: the backfield with Eli Manning, just dumping him the ball

1059
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: with space because I think there are problems with him

1060
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 1: seeing the field and running. You know, I do think

1061
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: that there's a discomfort there. But if you get him

1062
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: the ball with space and just allow him to use

1063
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: his speed in his frame, I think he's going to

1064
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: get out there and you know, it might not be

1065
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 1: a revival season for him, but it'll be good enough.

1066
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: I think he's going to have a nice year this year.

1067
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:19,440
Speaker 1: And I wanted to ask you about another piece that

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Speaker 1: you wrote about how it's time for the Browns to

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Speaker 1: speak their truth about quarterback Deshaun Watson. You know, we

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Speaker 1: saw Kevin Stefanski asked about the whole situation all over

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Speaker 1: again when the twenty third civil suit was filed this

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Speaker 1: past week. What more do you think it's incumbent upon

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Speaker 1: the Browns to do as an organization, knowing that members

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Speaker 1: of their own fanbase were even opposed to that signing.

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Speaker 1: I think my argument was pretty simple. It was just,

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Speaker 1: you know, Deshaun at his introductory press conference, you gave

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Speaker 1: him a forum to say that he has never, once

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Speaker 1: in his life ever disrespect to a woman. And so

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Speaker 1: I think the Browns owe it to us and to

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Speaker 1: their fan base to just either say that they believe

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Speaker 1: him or they don't. And I think that while it

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Speaker 1: doesn't make this easier to stomach or understand, I think

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Speaker 1: it makes it cleaner from an optical standpoint of Okay,

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Speaker 1: we know what direction you guys are coming from. Do

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Speaker 1: you really believe that all twenty three, now twenty four

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Speaker 1: of these people are lying or are you betting on

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Speaker 1: our factor? Are you betting on our tendency as a

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Speaker 1: society to forget about things after a while? And I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm curious which one of those their strategy was.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling I know which one it is.

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Speaker 1: But when you're a team that makes a move like that,

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Speaker 1: I would like you and I think you owe it

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Speaker 1: to the public to come out and say that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's almost as if and I probably shouldn't assume this,

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Speaker 1: but you get the sense that they're banking on as

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Speaker 1: soon as we start winning games, people will forget and

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Speaker 1: stop complaining about, you know, the optics surrounding Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: and the decision to overlook twenty three civil suits filed

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Speaker 1: against him. I think they're banking on them having success

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Speaker 1: on the field, and that's just going to melt everything

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Speaker 1: else away. I don't know if you feel similarly, but

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Speaker 1: I think that I think that is probably a large

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Speaker 1: portion of the plan, right. I mean, if you go

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Speaker 1: back and you watch the press conference, what Andrew Barry

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Speaker 1: said over and over again was it was a process

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Speaker 1: to get comfortable with Deshan And he never said it

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Speaker 1: was a process to prove his innocence. It was a

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Speaker 1: process of we're getting comfortable with the idea, right, and

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Speaker 1: comfortable with the idea means if we're eleven and six

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Speaker 1: next year, then I think that, you know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people will get comfortable too, which is a tough

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Speaker 1: pill to swallow societally right now, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: think that's kind of where we're at. Yeah, the whole

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Speaker 1: thing just makes me want to take a shower. Last

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Speaker 1: one for you so we can finish on a little

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Speaker 1: bit better. Note, Frank Gore, you wrote about him recently

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Speaker 1: and how his work ethic is going to lead him

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Speaker 1: into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I think there's

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Speaker 1: only one running back that's gotten over twelve thousand yards

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Speaker 1: who is not in the Hall of Fame, and that's

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Speaker 1: Ricky Waters. He's I mean, Frank's ashowin with sixteenth. First

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Speaker 1: of all, how cool is it the guy plays for

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Speaker 1: sixteen years and has exactly sixteen thousand rushing yards. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what it is about the number. I just

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Speaker 1: think that's the coolest thing. And he's fifteen yards shy

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Speaker 1: of twenty thousand total yards from scrimmage in his career.

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Speaker 1: Just a remarkable career that defied any and all logic

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Speaker 1: after a couple of ACL injuries in college. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: this guy, if his longevity isn't respected enough, maybe he's

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Speaker 1: not first ballot. But man, I'd be hard pressed to

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Speaker 1: say that he isn't at least first ballot consideration, because

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Speaker 1: if you can play that long and be that productive

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Speaker 1: at that position, I mean, doesn't that cement you he

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Speaker 1: should be first ballot. I think, yeah, this isn't a

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Speaker 1: knock on Tom Brady, but we just deify his longevity.

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Speaker 1: But Frank Gore did it for almost as long at

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Speaker 1: a position that's thirty times as violent, and he didn't

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Speaker 1: have you know, he didn't go to the Buccaneers, right,

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01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:05,400
Speaker 1: he didn't go to an all star roster. The Bills

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Speaker 1: were that that twenty nineteen year was his last winning season.

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Speaker 1: He was taking carries for some really bad football teams.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, kind of the five hundred Colts

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Speaker 1: teams that just trying to get by and uh, you

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Speaker 1: know the Jets team in twenty twenty that wasn't pretty.

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01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 1: But that was just pure love of football. And I

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Speaker 1: think that we've gotten away from celebrating that and guys

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Speaker 1: and Frank just he didn't He wasn't in it to

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Speaker 1: do anything else but just showcase how much he loved

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Speaker 1: the game and how much he loved to play. And

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Speaker 1: I think that means a lot to a lot of

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Speaker 1: us as fans. Yeah, I mean I remember with the

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Speaker 1: years with the Bills, we're down in Spartanburg, South Carolina,

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01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: do enjoin practices with the panthers. I go to the

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Speaker 1: hotel gym at like six thirty just to try to

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01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 1: get twenty minutes in, you know, before breakfast or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Frank Gore is in there in one of those sweat jackets,

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Speaker 1: and I mean it's just rolling off him. I'm like,

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01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: this guy's got practice in three hours, what the heck?

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Speaker 1: And he's thirty six, Like, what the hell is going

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Speaker 1: on here? I was just like, this guy's just a

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Speaker 1: different breed of cat man. He's unbelievable, really incredible. I

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Speaker 1: mean I was doing two of days. I think he

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Speaker 1: told Sports Illustrated this past year that it was the

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Speaker 1: first double workout that he had missed in like twenty

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Speaker 1: one years. Wow, something like that. Think about that. That's crazy, Yeah, unbelievable. Well, listen, Connor,

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Speaker 1: thanks for giving us some time today. I'm sure we'll

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Speaker 1: catch up with you later in the offseason. And if

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Speaker 1: you want to check it out, it's his hundred bold

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Speaker 1: predictions at SI dot com. Thanks very much, counter have

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Speaker 1: a good weekend. Thank you. All right. That's Connor y

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Speaker 1: joining US NFL writer for Sports Illustrated, And I do

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Speaker 1: have to say, like the Frank Gore thing, I think

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Speaker 1: he had nine one thousand yard rushing seasons in his

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Speaker 1: sixteen year career. As I mentioned, he finished with exactly

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Speaker 1: sixteen thousand yards in his sixteen NFL seasons. Rushing yards

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, and I don't think people realize this,

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Speaker 1: but he is third on the all time rushing list,

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Speaker 1: behind Emmett Smith and Walter Payton. So hello, I think

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Speaker 1: he's a shoeing and I think he's got a very

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Speaker 1: good chance to be a first ballot guy. Quite frankly.

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Speaker 1: Some may argue that and whether it's deserved. And as

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Speaker 1: you heard Connor mentioned, he didn't play on a ton

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Speaker 1: of great football teams. He played on some playoff caliber

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Speaker 1: football teams. But man, I mean, you knew what the

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Speaker 1: guy was bringing every single week. And if you hear

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary talk about him, he talks about him in

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Speaker 1: glowing terms because Singletary was a rookie the year Frank

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Speaker 1: was here, and he credits a lot of the lessons

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Speaker 1: he learned in how to be a true professional from Frank.

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Speaker 1: And that's not to say that Devin didn't have a

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Speaker 1: work ethic that was good enough to be a success

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Speaker 1: in this league to begin with. But I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of the little nuances of what did to be

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Speaker 1: a true pro only benefited Devin Singletary and where he's

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Speaker 1: at now. So just something else to kind of chalk

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Speaker 1: up to Frank. You know, you hear all the time

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Speaker 1: about all of these head coach, these successful head coaches

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Speaker 1: in the league, and they're coaching trees, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid obviously, with all the different guys in the

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Speaker 1: league that have been, you know, branched off of his tree,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Sean McDermott or John Harbaugh. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can run down the list, even Leslie Frazier, so Frank

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Speaker 1: Gore and the number of guys that he's mentored in

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Speaker 1: this league, it's probably as big as like the coaching

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Speaker 1: tree of Andy Reid or Mike Shanahan or Bill Walsh

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Speaker 1: because he's played so long and he mentored so many guys.

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Speaker 1: And if you talk to any young player in the

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Speaker 1: league that played behind Frank Gore on the depth chart,

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Speaker 1: the first thing they'll tell you is if you had

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Speaker 1: a question, he was more than happy to give you

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Speaker 1: an answer. So not just an uncommonly productive player for

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Speaker 1: as long as he was at the most punishing position

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Speaker 1: in the game, but a good dude too when it

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Speaker 1: came to paying it forward, which you know more often

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Speaker 1: than not most veteran players do in this league. Even

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Speaker 1: though it is cutthroat in terms of competition, a lot

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01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 1: of those established guys do know how to pay it

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Speaker 1: forward to the younger players. So you don't only tip

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Speaker 1: your ad to Frank Gore for for what he accomplished

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Speaker 1: in terms of his career production, but in terms of

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Speaker 1: the guy he was and paying it forward to the

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Speaker 1: next generation of players. We have to take a break here,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we crack open the obl

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Speaker 1: fan Friday mail bag. So if you have any questions

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Speaker 1: and you didn't send it in at one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: for you there. Let's talk some Bills football or some

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Speaker 1: NFL at large. Next here on one Bills Live, presented

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Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty Any question about the Bills

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Speaker 1: or the NFL at large, fire them off, be happy

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Speaker 1: to answer for you. We've been collecting some on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at One Bill's Live, which is another place you can

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01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: send your questions if you have them. And we lead

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Speaker 1: off with Scott, who said, what's your daily routine for

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Speaker 1: the show? Production? Meetings before have show and then more

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Speaker 1: meetings after. I'm unfamiliar with the process involved in putting

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Speaker 1: on a live talk show that airs on TV and radio.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be hard work, but you guys

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Speaker 1: make it look Easygo Bills. Well, thanks Scott. I appreciate that,

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Speaker 1: I would say first and foremost. You know, we do

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Speaker 1: discuss things the morning of. It's funny because you certainly

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Speaker 1: want to be prepared, you know, Steve and I are

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01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 1: usually researching the latest news going on around the league.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we've got our ear to the ground here One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive as far as what's going on here, and

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Speaker 1: then we'll try to develop certain show topics with our producer,

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris. We also get support from the control room staff,

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Speaker 1: you know, sending us news from around the league social

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Speaker 1: media people, that's kind of stuff. So we'll kind of

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Speaker 1: collect it's a collection effort first, and then we whittle

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Speaker 1: the list down to the things we want to focus

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Speaker 1: on through the course of the show that we think

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Speaker 1: you guys will find interesting, and then we take it

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Speaker 1: from there as far as post production. After the show,

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Speaker 1: sometimes we'll rehash a few things based on how we

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Speaker 1: thought it went, but more often than not, once a

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Speaker 1: show is put to bed, we're on to the next

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Speaker 1: and so sometimes if there is breaking news that happened

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Speaker 1: during the show or even after the show, sometimes we'll

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Speaker 1: have a tech string going on at night to kind

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Speaker 1: of prep for the next day with some thoughts and

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Speaker 1: ideas there. But sometimes more often than not, after we

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Speaker 1: do that day's show, we'll put that to bed. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll tie up some loose ends in our office after,

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Speaker 1: but it's really pretty much onto the next after that,

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of I think that's kind of how

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Speaker 1: we do it. I will say this a lot of times,

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Speaker 1: I'll have something that I want to tell Steve when

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Speaker 1: I come into the office, but then I think better

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Speaker 1: of it. I say, you know what, I'm not going

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01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 1: to tell him till we're on the air, because more

1279
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: often than not, I can get a more organic response

1280
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 1: out of Steve, and a more natural response because he's

1281
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 1: hearing it for the first time. If I tell him

1282
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: at nine thirty in the morning when we're here, when

1283
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 1: we come on at one, I'm not going to get

1284
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 1: the same response or comment from him that I would

1285
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: live on the show. And I think that's as it's

1286
01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 1: more it's a more natural answer from Steve and very

1287
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,720
Speaker 1: and it's a more entertaining answer for you listening to

1288
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:04,720
Speaker 1: the show. So I kind of make a habit of

1289
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 1: doing that. So even while we'll conceptualize and talk about

1290
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:10,800
Speaker 1: the direction the show is going to go, we don't

1291
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 1: really talk too much about detail. He does research at

1292
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: his desk over here, I'll do mine over here. We'll

1293
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 1: clue each other in on some of the things we're

1294
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 1: talking or seeing or looking at, but we won't kind

1295
01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: of commits back and forth about it because we try

1296
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 1: to save that for the show, for more organic conversation.

1297
01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: So hopefully that works for you guys. Tammy asks on

1298
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:37,960
Speaker 1: the fan mail bag, wouldn't it be so great if

1299
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,640
Speaker 1: Fitz he could retire a Buffalo bill? He loved us

1300
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: when it wasn't cool to be on the Bills. It

1301
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,840
Speaker 1: would mean so much to him and to us. Two,

1302
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 1: do you think they can make this happen? I would

1303
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 1: say this, there's already talks that you know, Fitz is

1304
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 1: going to be on a pregame show for Amazon's streaming

1305
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 1: of NFL games this season on Thursdays. That could conceivably

1306
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: leave some weekends open for him. So whether he's here

1307
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 1: leading the charge in a pregame or coming here to

1308
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 1: sign a one day contract to retire a Buffalo Bill,

1309
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. After watching Fits basically text message almost

1310
01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: all of his teammates that he's had over the last

1311
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:28,960
Speaker 1: seventeen years with a graphic that had all of their

1312
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:36,280
Speaker 1: names listed, I wonder if he would be comfortable doing that.

1313
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 1: What I mean it would he be comfortable retiring as

1314
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bill signing a one day contract here because

1315
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:47,840
Speaker 1: I wonder if he would feel he would be not

1316
01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: disrespecting his too strong a word, but making light of

1317
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: his time with the eight other teams for which he played,

1318
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: including the Rams who drafted him. I'm not going to

1319
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: try to all into fits His head to think that

1320
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 1: would be an issue for him. I'd definitely be in

1321
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: favor of having him come back sign a one day contract.

1322
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: I think that'd be a cool deal. I don't think

1323
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 1: it would be an issue. I'd be all in favor

1324
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 1: of that, and I could see Fits saying yes to

1325
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:18,639
Speaker 1: that if he's asked. But I definitely love to see

1326
01:15:18,720 --> 01:15:23,360
Speaker 1: him here before the start of a big game. Heck,

1327
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 1: i'd bring him back for the Patriots game and tell

1328
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: him to wave the flag around shirtless. That's what I

1329
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:29,800
Speaker 1: would do, so I would be up for that. He

1330
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: certainly has enough chest hair to stay warm, so I'm

1331
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 1: not worried about that, especially if he's doing it the

1332
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: playoff game last winter in January, which is the coldest

1333
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:40,160
Speaker 1: game we've had here in quite a while. So yeah,

1334
01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm on board, Tammy. I'm all in favor of it,

1335
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't rule it out. I think there's a

1336
01:15:45,280 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 1: chance that could happen. If not this season, certainly some

1337
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: season in the future for sure. So that would definitely

1338
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: be cool. Good idea. Nick from the mail Bag asks

1339
01:15:55,760 --> 01:16:01,839
Speaker 1: is there any possibility that Cook, Singletary, Johnson, and Moss

1340
01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:05,360
Speaker 1: all make the team this year? If someone does have

1341
01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:08,200
Speaker 1: to be cut, who do you think it'll be. I

1342
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:11,840
Speaker 1: think Johnson fits our offensive scheme better than Moss, but

1343
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: Moss stands out by being the only real power option

1344
01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:18,760
Speaker 1: we have. Nick, I think you've kind of nailed this

1345
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: down pretty effectively on your own. Is there a possibility

1346
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:27,639
Speaker 1: all four or on the roster? I think it's tough

1347
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 1: only because technically Taiwan Jones is a running back, and

1348
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,600
Speaker 1: unless he's lost two steps, he's going to be on

1349
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: this team because of his special team's prowess. That's why

1350
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: they keep resigning him to one year contracts. Even when

1351
01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: he left to go play for Houston. They signed him

1352
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 1: the very next year when he was a free agent

1353
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:50,479
Speaker 1: again and brought him back because of that. You know,

1354
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: you technically have a running back already on special teams,

1355
01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 1: then you're probably carrying three more. And don't forget about

1356
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 1: the dual position nature of Reggie Gilliam, who I also

1357
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 1: think is going to be on this roster because of

1358
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 1: the different roles he can play within the scope of

1359
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: your offense, most notably fullback if in fact, you feel

1360
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: you need one. And I would tend to lean toward

1361
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 1: Gilliam being on the roster and serving in a role

1362
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 1: similar to the one he played last year, so you

1363
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: roll all that together, I don't think all four of

1364
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: those guys make this roster. So it then becomes a

1365
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: question of do you believe that Moss stands out as

1366
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 1: a true power runner and you don't feel you have

1367
01:17:37,800 --> 01:17:41,080
Speaker 1: anybody else that can do that, Because I think the

1368
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 1: biggest adversary working against Zach Moss is not Duke Johnson,

1369
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,720
Speaker 1: it might be Reggie gilliam Because if you need a

1370
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: power guy, if you believe Reggie Gilliams can do that, well,

1371
01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 1: then I think that hurts Zack's Moss case even more.

1372
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 1: And look, I'm gonna be the first guy I tell

1373
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:02,680
Speaker 1: you I think Moss is a good player. I was

1374
01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: genuinely excited when they drafted him because I thought he

1375
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 1: had a lot of that Bill's DNA that they look for.

1376
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:11,880
Speaker 1: And I don't think we should dismiss the fact that

1377
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,960
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean made a point of saying on our show

1378
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: and in other places when he made public comments that

1379
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,280
Speaker 1: Zack Moss's ankle that he'd broke in the playoff game

1380
01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 1: against Indie in the twenty twenty season in the playoffs

1381
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:27,639
Speaker 1: still wasn't right last year and really hindered his cutting

1382
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: ability last season. So I'm very interested to see a

1383
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: better version of Zach Moss this year. And I don't

1384
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: think he's a guy who's gonna pop to the naked

1385
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:43,640
Speaker 1: eye or two fans watching a training camp until they

1386
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:46,600
Speaker 1: have panted practices, because he has a physical game, and

1387
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 1: I think he is somewhat underrated as a receiver. Now, look,

1388
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 1: is he Duke Johnson as a receiver? Is he James

1389
01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:56,880
Speaker 1: Cook as a receiver? Probably not, But he's more than

1390
01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:01,680
Speaker 1: capable as a pass catcher. So I think it's going

1391
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 1: to be a very interesting decision for this coaching staff

1392
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 1: to make. And here's the other thing, because personally, I

1393
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:12,679
Speaker 1: think Cook and Singletary are locks for the roster. Those

1394
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: guys are locks, and then Moss and Johnson it's a

1395
01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 1: little more iffy. And so if James Cook is lighting

1396
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 1: the world on fire in the spring, and when we

1397
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:27,560
Speaker 1: get to training camp and when we get to the preseason,

1398
01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 1: the question becomes, is Cook so good that there's no

1399
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:36,720
Speaker 1: way Duke Johnson, whose skill set is most closely related

1400
01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 1: to Cook, Is Cook so good there's no way Duke

1401
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: Johnson is getting on the field and he's just going

1402
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: to be an active every week. So does that mean

1403
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 1: you take Moss instead because he offers maybe some different

1404
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 1: things to that of Cook, Or do you say what

1405
01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 1: Cook does in this offense is so important we need

1406
01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: a backup who can do similar thing, And yes, we

1407
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: keep Duke Johnson because of that fact, and then does

1408
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: Moss become the victim? That's a decision. I can't definitively

1409
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: say I know what the Bills are going to do there.

1410
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: A lot has to happen between now and the end

1411
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 1: of August, obviously, and then it becomes a true preference

1412
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:23,839
Speaker 1: for what Ken Dorsey and Sean McDermott feel this offense

1413
01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:28,960
Speaker 1: needs from a skill set perspective going forward. So that's

1414
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 1: where the rub is and I wish I could give

1415
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 1: you a definitive answer, but right now I don't think

1416
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: we can. So I hope that spells out at least

1417
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 1: the good dilemma that the Bills coaching staff is going

1418
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: to have come late August in terms of figuring out

1419
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: that running back position. Tim from the OBL mailbag asks

1420
01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:53,720
Speaker 1: what do you make of the Tavon Austin signing a

1421
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:56,479
Speaker 1: sign the Bills are not happy with the returners as

1422
01:20:56,520 --> 01:21:01,000
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. He doesn't appear different than mackenzie or Stevenson.

1423
01:21:02,200 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: I kind of addressed this at the top of the show,

1424
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 1: but I'll reiterate some of it. I think there are

1425
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:11,639
Speaker 1: three things at play here. Number One, Coach McDermott loves

1426
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: to prompt guys to give their level best, even in June.

1427
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 1: How do you do that. You do it by adding

1428
01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:26,360
Speaker 1: competition to the fray. And Tavon Austin is unquestionably that

1429
01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:32,639
Speaker 1: I will agree with you, Tim that he is similar

1430
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: in skill set, probably most to Isaiah McKenzie, lesser so Stevenson,

1431
01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:42,280
Speaker 1: because Tavon Austin has got more shake and wiggle to

1432
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: his game than speedy Stevenson has. Stevenson is fast, but

1433
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 1: in a straight line variety. He's not gonna shake anybody

1434
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 1: out of his shoes. He's just gonna blow by people.

1435
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin and Isaiah McKenzie can shake people, you know,

1436
01:21:58,240 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: with jitterbug style. So because of that, I would say

1437
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:05,799
Speaker 1: he's more closely matched to the skill set of McKenzie

1438
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:09,600
Speaker 1: than he is Stevenson. And I will say this in

1439
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:14,480
Speaker 1: addition to Coach McDermott and his coaching staff's desire to

1440
01:22:14,560 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 1: churn the roster at the bottom to spark greater motivation

1441
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 1: on the part of those players on the back half

1442
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 1: of the roster. I think what also could be at

1443
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:27,000
Speaker 1: work here is a peek into what Isaiah McKenzie's role

1444
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: could be. And I don't know this, I'm just as

1445
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:37,559
Speaker 1: a hypothesis. Isaiah McKenzie, in every opportunity he's been given

1446
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: to spots start in this offense, has come through in

1447
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: sparkling fashion. Whether you want to talk about the season

1448
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:48,840
Speaker 1: finale against the Dolphins in twenty twenty, the fifty six

1449
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: to twenty six game where he had three touchdowns, or

1450
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:53,280
Speaker 1: you want to talk about Week fifteen last year against

1451
01:22:53,280 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots when he had eleven catches for one hundred

1452
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: and twenty five yards and a touchdown in a crucial

1453
01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:01,760
Speaker 1: game where they were shorthanded on offense. He's earned the

1454
01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:04,680
Speaker 1: right to have a larger role in this offense. The

1455
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 1: question is is Ken Dorisy gonna give it to him

1456
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: and is Sean McDermot going to sign off on it?

1457
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:12,520
Speaker 1: Because if you give him a bigger role on offense,

1458
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,840
Speaker 1: it stands to reason that you have to curtail his

1459
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: role on special teams as a return man. So if

1460
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:22,680
Speaker 1: you're going to do that, do the Bills want to

1461
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: rely solely on a second year player who got very

1462
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:29,400
Speaker 1: little time in the special team's portion of the game

1463
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:31,719
Speaker 1: at the very tail end of the season in Speedy

1464
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:35,720
Speaker 1: Stevenson or do you want a more proven player to

1465
01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: serve as competition for Stevenson in the return game. So,

1466
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 1: knowing the way this team has operated over the years,

1467
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:49,400
Speaker 1: while they can be encouraged and even excited about a

1468
01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:52,880
Speaker 1: young prospect who has a skill set like Speedy Stevenson,

1469
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:57,639
Speaker 1: Brandon being the personnel department and the coaching staff more

1470
01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 1: often than not to have a veteran option to turn to,

1471
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:06,360
Speaker 1: and I think Tavon Austin is that veteran option, not

1472
01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 1: only to serve as competition for Speedy Stevenson, but maybe

1473
01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: to serve as injury insurance for a guy like Isaiah McKenzie.

1474
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 1: So that's where I kind of come down on the

1475
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:20,719
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin signing. Andrew asked in the OBL Fan Friday

1476
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:25,599
Speaker 1: mail bag, still feel like we need another safety? Who

1477
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:27,519
Speaker 1: would you like to see the Bills pick up for

1478
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 1: that position? My answer is no one. And this is

1479
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:38,640
Speaker 1: why the Bills And if you really don't pay attention

1480
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 1: to the back end of the roster. The Bills for

1481
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: the better part of the last three years have been

1482
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:50,720
Speaker 1: very quietly stockpiling young safeties. They did it with six

1483
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: round pick u Kwon Johnson three years ago, they did

1484
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 1: it with Damar Hamlin, a six round pick last year,

1485
01:24:57,080 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: and two years ago they did it in the undrafted

1486
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 1: free agent signings, signing undrafted free agent rookie Josh Thomas

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01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 1: out of Appalachian State in twenty twenty. All three of

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01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:15,640
Speaker 1: those players are still on the roster, so the opportunities

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01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:20,320
Speaker 1: for them, admittedly have been few and far between. Because

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Speaker 1: Poyer and Micah Hyde don't miss games, They've been remarkably healthy.

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Speaker 1: I think Poyer missed one game last year and a

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01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 1: game the year before that, and I think Hyde missed

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01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:32,600
Speaker 1: a game in twenty twenty. So those two guys have

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01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:37,680
Speaker 1: been remarkably durable, remarkably productive. They are the lynch pins

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Speaker 1: of the back end of this defense. So the time

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Speaker 1: the opportunities for guys to get on the field Jaquan Johnson,

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01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:46,920
Speaker 1: Tomar Hamlin, Josh Thomas, who's been on the practice squad

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01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:50,600
Speaker 1: the last two years, have been very limited. If you

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Speaker 1: bring in another veteran safety. You're saying two things. One,

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01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:01,760
Speaker 1: we want another veteran to serve his insurance in case

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01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:05,120
Speaker 1: Poyer and Hide get healthy. And number two, you're saying,

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01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 1: with all this grooming you've done and all the tutelage

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01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:13,599
Speaker 1: that Jakwon Johnson, Damar Hamlin and Josh Thomas have gotten,

1504
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:17,679
Speaker 1: working at the elbow of Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer

1505
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 1: every day for the better part of the last one

1506
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 1: two or three years in the same defensive system, you're

1507
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: basically saying you don't trust those guys to capably step

1508
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:31,400
Speaker 1: in if Jordan Poyer and or Micah Hide can't go

1509
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:34,559
Speaker 1: on a given Sunday. And I don't think that's the

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01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 1: way Sean McDermott runs his football team. If you're gonna

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01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:41,439
Speaker 1: put the time in and you're gonna work hard improve

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01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:44,120
Speaker 1: yourself as a player, so when the time does come

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01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:47,840
Speaker 1: to step in and play that you're ready. Well, then

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Speaker 1: why you're asking those young guys to do that? If

1515
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:52,639
Speaker 1: you're just going to sign a veteran off the street

1516
01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:55,640
Speaker 1: to come in cold with half the knowledge of this

1517
01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:58,240
Speaker 1: defensive system and plug them in instead of one of

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01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:01,799
Speaker 1: those guys. And we saw that last year, Week four

1519
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,840
Speaker 1: against the Texans. It's a blowout, it's a shutout. It

1520
01:27:04,880 --> 01:27:07,320
Speaker 1: winds up being forty to nothing. They pull some of

1521
01:27:07,320 --> 01:27:09,559
Speaker 1: their starters early. Jakwon Johnson's on the field, he gets

1522
01:27:09,560 --> 01:27:13,600
Speaker 1: to pick at the end of the game. That reinforces

1523
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:16,320
Speaker 1: the level of trust that this coaching staff is going

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01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:18,280
Speaker 1: to have in those young guys if and when it

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01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:20,519
Speaker 1: comes time to call their number and put them in

1526
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:23,200
Speaker 1: the lineup in a given week where God forbid, Jordan

1527
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: Poyer or Micah Hide or injured and can't play. So

1528
01:27:26,680 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of grooming the last couple of

1529
01:27:29,479 --> 01:27:32,840
Speaker 1: years at the safety position, you know, pretty much in

1530
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:36,559
Speaker 1: secret behind Poyer and Hide because they haven't played. But

1531
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:39,559
Speaker 1: you got those guys playing, they'll be ready if their

1532
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 1: number has to be called. So that's where I come

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01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:43,960
Speaker 1: down on that. That's the obl fan Friday mail bag.

1534
01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: If I have a chance to get a couple more

1535
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:47,519
Speaker 1: on the other side of this break, I will do that.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, we'll catch up with the end of

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01:27:49,320 --> 01:28:03,960
Speaker 1: second here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back One Bill's Live. Just about wrapping it up

1539
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Speaker 1: here for the weekend, and one more from the obl

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01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:13,519
Speaker 1: Fan Friday mail Bag, Daniel asked, high Christy, you know,

1541
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:15,479
Speaker 1: if Justin Zimmer is still on the team. I like

1542
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:17,720
Speaker 1: the way he played for us, Thanks go Bills. He

1543
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 1: is not on the roster. He unfortunately suffered an ACL

1544
01:28:21,080 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 1: knee injury last season, was not yet healthy I believe

1545
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:30,679
Speaker 1: to pass a physical and so with him not healthy

1546
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 1: enough to play, using a roster spot for him probably

1547
01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:37,800
Speaker 1: just didn't make sense at the time. The team was

1548
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: just as happy with him as well, with the way

1549
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:41,840
Speaker 1: he played for this team, not only last year, but

1550
01:28:41,880 --> 01:28:44,680
Speaker 1: the season before, and so I think if they had

1551
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 1: their druthers, a healthy Justin Zimmer would be on this

1552
01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 1: roster right now. But it's the injury that I think

1553
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: compromise those plans. Want to remind you that our Bills

1554
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 1: by the Numbers podcast with myself and Steve is up now.

1555
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 1: The latest episode out. It deals with the best deep

1556
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:06,240
Speaker 1: ball passers in the league in twenty twenty one. Take

1557
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:07,960
Speaker 1: a guess who's at the top of the list. We

1558
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:11,479
Speaker 1: dive into the numbers on that, and we also have

1559
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 1: our one burning question. You never want to miss Steve

1560
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 1: play in the Numbers game. It's the best thing you'll

1561
01:29:16,320 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: ever listen to bills, Buy the numbers. We'll see you

1562
01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:25,559
Speaker 1: on Monday at one