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Speaker 1: We see these One Bill's Live presented by called Light

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Speaker 1: to Health. What's Up? Everybody? Welcome into One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Maddie Glab filling in for Chris Brown alongside Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: You guys are going to listen to us here for

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Speaker 1: the next couple hours as we get into some Bill's

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Speaker 1: topics NFL related topics. It's the couple of weeks here

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Speaker 1: where not too much going on inside the building here.

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Speaker 1: The players are gone, the super Bowl has yet to happen.

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Speaker 1: A lot of us just want to turn the dang page.

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Speaker 1: We're just waiting for this game to happen. I went

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Speaker 1: to the Sabers game last night to help together. It

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Speaker 1: didn't help. It didn't help. Last night's game did not help. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was rough, but we're here. We are, like Marty said,

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Speaker 1: they're a good team and it's all good. Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: And tonight and tomorrow is going to be like the

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Speaker 1: coldest day of the year. It feels like Chicago outside.

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Speaker 1: I'm from Chicago, spent eighteen years of my life there,

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Speaker 1: and it feels like Chicago. School in Chicago not a

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Speaker 1: good thing. You can completely you can live your whole

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Speaker 1: it's just like different types of different cold. It's like

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis Minnesota cold, like dangerous cold. Yeah, that's what it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be like. But it's to warm up up, it'll

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Speaker 1: warm up after that. For the weekend, Yeah, for the weekend.

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Speaker 1: So Pro Bowl games this weekend. Let me ask you

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Speaker 1: this now because I know the answer. Yes, which way

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Speaker 1: for this weekend? I got nothing my whole weekend. No.

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Speaker 1: I mean the way that we live our lives is

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Speaker 1: did not plan anything until a couple of weeks after

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Speaker 1: when you're making plans, you're not even going to touch

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Speaker 1: that weekend or the weekend after, because you're thinking, you're

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Speaker 1: thinking about super Bowl parades, You're thinking about the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: We were thinking about making reservations going to Arizona. We're

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Speaker 1: you know, trying to get ready for a week of

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Speaker 1: radio row out in Arizona for the super Bowl. My

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Speaker 1: family books lights. Yes, they got their airbnb a bunch

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Speaker 1: now you're just literally floating in midair doing nothing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it kind of sucks it. Yeah, it's weird to go

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Speaker 1: from a schedule of being so busy in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: from from us who work inside the building, to the

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Speaker 1: coaches to the players, to absolutely nothing. I was trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out what what other careers have something like that,

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Speaker 1: summer to breaks like that, but there's there's few people

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Speaker 1: who experience insane, insane amount of a war classe. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're on a grind. It's nothing. Every week is the same,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's football is a real creature of because

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Speaker 1: it's a real routine. You know, you got this thing

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Speaker 1: And then you know, we get there and you're always

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Speaker 1: all of us. And I know fans feel the same way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: exhaustion we heard the players say, you know it was.

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Speaker 1: It was an exhausting season. But once you at the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: you want to keep going. Exhaustion doesn't matter. We were

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Speaker 1: that's not the case for this season. Maybe next year,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe twenty twenty three is the year for this team.

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Speaker 1: Certainly quite a few free agents we're gonna talk. We're

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Not the case though for this season.

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Speaker 1: But mock drafts are coming out. We have a mock

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Speaker 1: People are mocking cornerbacks to us. People are mocking lineback, well,

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Speaker 1: the next couple months. Pro Bowl games this weekend, guys

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Speaker 1: but it's reinvented, reimagined of what they're doing. Longest drive,

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Speaker 1: We also have a team of people going to cover it.

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Speaker 1: We've got social media, photography, videography, so we'll have stuff

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Speaker 1: for today, how would you reinvent the Pro Bowl? We're

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Speaker 1: that we get. If you had the power to reinvent,

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Speaker 1: people would actually go? First of all, there'd be an enormous,

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Speaker 1: their families, you know, all of that stuff water parks

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Speaker 1: So I don't know how the staff is looking at

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Speaker 1: what he was able to put on display, put on

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Speaker 1: film this year. Knowing that he was hurt for part

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Speaker 1: of the season, so he did turn it up a

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Speaker 1: notch in the playoffs. He did turn it up not

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Speaker 1: toward the end of the season. I think we saw

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Speaker 1: we saw highlights of what we want Gabe Davis to be,

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Speaker 1: of what we know Gabe Davis can be. I think

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Speaker 1: the consistency is what everybody's looking for. I thought Brandon

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Speaker 1: Bean pointed out something that was good to hear and

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Speaker 1: just good to remember. I know we all want a

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Speaker 1: lot from a player like Gabe Davis who steps into

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Speaker 1: a bigger role for the first time in his NFL career.

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Speaker 1: His first year as a rookie, he wasn't asked to

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Speaker 1: do as much. Now we heard that he was somebody

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Speaker 1: who could learn every single position in the wide receiver corps,

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Speaker 1: and that was a reason why they really liked him,

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Speaker 1: as he had the intelligence, he had the intangibles to

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Speaker 1: where he could do that and they could ask him

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Speaker 1: to play in different spots. And then this year he

447
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: gets the opportunity to step up and snap count and

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Speaker 1: in the amount of time he was on the field

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Speaker 1: and it necessary. It didn't necessarily translate too. I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people's expectations game in game out, but

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Speaker 1: it showed up for some games. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if this falls all on Gabe. I'm sure Gabe is

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Speaker 1: going to do what Gabe needs to do this offseason

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Speaker 1: to be a better wide receiver for his third NFL season,

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Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to seeing what that is because

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Speaker 1: i think with the way that we know Gabe and

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Speaker 1: the way that we know he takes pride in his

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Speaker 1: craft and his worth at work ethic, that dude's going

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Speaker 1: to be at at this office. Yeah, he'll be at it.

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Speaker 1: He did how many he was one of the tops

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Speaker 1: in the league, if not the tops in the league.

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Speaker 1: He had like nine drops this year and those are

463
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Speaker 1: huge for a team. I'll say this, it's wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: A lot of what they do and why they do

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Speaker 1: it is due to the opportunities that the offense gives them. Certainly,

466
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Speaker 1: Steph Diggs gets a lot of opportunities in this offense

467
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Speaker 1: because he's the number one guy and Josh. He catches

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Speaker 1: the ball well and Josh loves him. Gabe Davis came

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Speaker 1: on late in the season because the Bills were in

470
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Speaker 1: went do or die situations trying to get you know,

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Speaker 1: come down the stretch of the season and being ready

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Speaker 1: to play and win games. And that means, you know,

473
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, Gabe Davis got a big got a

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Speaker 1: chance to get more opportunities, and he made him He

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Speaker 1: showed up. So I don't know if and I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna chalk up the entire season as being one where

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Speaker 1: he didn't get enough opportunities, but I do think there's

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Speaker 1: a level that wrote rose at the end of the

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Speaker 1: season for Gabe Davis, that showed what he was capable

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Speaker 1: of in a bigger way. Drop balls, you can fix those.

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox fixed his problem. Remember when he was a rookie,

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Speaker 1: he had a huge problem with dropping the ball, Not

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Speaker 1: so much now. And I you know, so I you

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Speaker 1: know Gabe Davis. I don't think he's going anywhere unless

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Speaker 1: we get you know, trade Baite or something like that

486
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Speaker 1: for him. I think they're gonna they're not done with

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis. But there's no question they need some a guy,

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver in the wide receiver room that comes

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Speaker 1: with some huge physical traits. And I don't mean a

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Speaker 1: big guy, I mean speed route running. He's got to

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Speaker 1: be a be a guy that if he's not ready

492
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Speaker 1: when he's a rookie, He's gonna be at some point

493
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Speaker 1: to be a number one wide receiver. The more good

494
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Speaker 1: guys you have, the better your team's gonna be. I

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00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: think Khalil Shaker earned more opportunities as well at the

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Speaker 1: end of the season. So there's it's not going to

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Speaker 1: be the same next year, even if they come back

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Speaker 1: with the same guys. But I don't think it's any

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Speaker 1: question we're gonna see some new faces on the roster. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Gabe Davis, I mean you look at the stats

501
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Speaker 1: his first year, his rookie year, and I know he

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Speaker 1: said going into his third year, I meant fourth year

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Speaker 1: because he has been a part of the team for

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Speaker 1: three years. That COVID year, I feel like in my

505
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Speaker 1: brain is just like not an on year when these guys,

506
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Speaker 1: some of the rookies came on to this team because

507
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Speaker 1: it was such a different season. But he goes five

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Speaker 1: hundred ninety nine receiving yards five forty nine receiving yards

509
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Speaker 1: in his second season. His third season, he goes eight

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty six. So you are seeing an uptick

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Speaker 1: there in stats and in what he was able to

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Speaker 1: do with the games that he played in maybe not

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Speaker 1: the uptick that we all had expectation wise, because he

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Speaker 1: ended the playoffs in that twenty twenty one season in

515
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Speaker 1: the most wild way with four touchdowns in one game,

516
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Speaker 1: which nobody's ever seen, and you expect that for the

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Speaker 1: next season. I think we can expect him to just

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Speaker 1: grow next year in that fourth NFL season, knowing what

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Speaker 1: he's done the last few years. This is a good

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. But I do agree you need more in

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Speaker 1: that room because this offense looks best when it's multiple

522
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Speaker 1: right and Josh Allen looks best when he has more

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Speaker 1: targets to throw too, when he has more guys to

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Speaker 1: involve in it. Really get keep getting better players and

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Speaker 1: put them around Josh in the offensive better. Yeah, one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent. All right, we're gonna take our first break

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Speaker 1: of the show, and when we come back, we've got

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Speaker 1: Dan Manucci on with us. He's a former Bills quarterback

529
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Speaker 1: played here in the eighties and late seventies. He's also

530
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Speaker 1: the co host of the Rock and Manooch Show on

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Speaker 1: kg EMY in Phoenix, Arizona, and he's got a connection

532
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Speaker 1: to Brock Purty. So we're going to talk about quarterbacks

533
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Speaker 1: in today's NFL Talk little Brock Purty and kind of

534
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: his ascent into the NFL this season. It was a

535
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Speaker 1: fun story to watch, So stick with us here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. We're presented by Kalidah Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back into one Bills Live. Maddi

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Speaker 1: Glabs Steve Tasker. Here on a Thursday afternoon. We'd like

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Speaker 1: to welcome in Dan Manucci to the conversation. He's a

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Speaker 1: former NFL quarterback played for the Buffalo Bills, also a

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Speaker 1: current quarterback coach. He's got a connection to Brock Purty

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Speaker 1: that we want to get into. So, Dan, thanks for

543
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Speaker 1: being on with us today as we approach the Super Bowl.

544
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Speaker 1: And you were very close to a quarterback who got

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Speaker 1: thrown into the fold in his rookie season and had

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Speaker 1: a chance at the Super Bowl, which would have been

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Speaker 1: an amazing story. I think a lot of people were

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Speaker 1: cheering for the forty nine ers for that fact, to

549
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Speaker 1: be able to see mister Irrelevant go to the Super

550
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Speaker 1: Bowl and start in a Super Bowl unfortunately injured in

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Speaker 1: that final game of his rookie season. But what did

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Speaker 1: you see in Brock Purdy that maybe some people missed

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Speaker 1: out on early on. Well, first of all, it's great

554
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Speaker 1: to be one one Bill's life. Finally, after all these

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Speaker 1: years with Maddie and Steve Tasker are always a pleasure

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Speaker 1: to say. Hid all those Buffalo Bills fans, But nineteen

557
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: eighty AFC Eastern Division chaps that year, as I recollect,

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Speaker 1: But Maddie, answer your question. A couple of things that

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Speaker 1: I've seen in brock Purty. I've been training this young

560
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Speaker 1: man since ninth grade. Are so many of the intangibles,

561
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Speaker 1: the playmaking ability, the accuracy, the winner in him. And

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Speaker 1: he's one of those young men that's always and Steve,

563
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Speaker 1: you can appreciate this. He's always looking to get better

564
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Speaker 1: each and every day. It's kind of your moniker. Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 1: may have another. Thank you, sir, might have another. What

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Speaker 1: else can I do as a quarterback to get better?

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Speaker 1: You'd always say, hey, look, coach, you know what it's

568
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Speaker 1: like to get there, what it needs to be maintained,

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Speaker 1: and just his drive, you guys, this is perseverance, his

570
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Speaker 1: endurance and the even killedness if you will, of the

571
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Speaker 1: moment never being too big for him. And here's a

572
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Speaker 1: young man, and Steve you can appreciate this. I think

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Speaker 1: the scouts missed on him because he played forty six

574
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Speaker 1: regular season plus bowl games at Iowa State. Reps matter,

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Speaker 1: So I think a lot of times these combines, these

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Speaker 1: scouts that are out there miss they don't measure the heart.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's a tape measure for the heart,

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Speaker 1: the want to the determination, and the want to get

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Speaker 1: it better that we saw Brock Curty. So, Maddie, to

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Speaker 1: answer your question, I've been seeing a lot of this

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Speaker 1: since high school, junior year, all through college at Iowa State,

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Speaker 1: and then watch him this first year. A lot of

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Speaker 1: things didn't surprise me because we've worked on a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff. His speed is agility, he's always been accurate,

585
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Speaker 1: he's always had a very good arm, and he's always

586
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Speaker 1: know where to put the ball. And Steve as a

587
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Speaker 1: receiver form a receiver, I think you can appreciate that

588
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: when Jim was going to your Frank whack that if

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Speaker 1: they're going to miss, they're gonna miss in the right spot.

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Speaker 1: But on top of that, just as enthusiasm for his teammates,

591
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: it's all about the team and not about one Brock Curtie,

592
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: and that's why they have really really embraced this young

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Speaker 1: man and Maddie, I know that's a that's a long

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Speaker 1: answer to a short question, but that's just to this

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Speaker 1: young man. So you see this guy, see him get

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Speaker 1: this chance. First of all, you see him get drafted,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the draft is a little like you said,

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams miss, some teams get it right.

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Speaker 1: But to get drafted you, it does say something about

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Speaker 1: where you've come from, about what you've proven to somebody,

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Speaker 1: even though if you're the last guy drafted, they want

602
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Speaker 1: you right, So it does say something about what you're

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Speaker 1: probably your physical abilities. They know physically you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to handle the physical load of being an NFL quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and then they find out all the other stuff that

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Speaker 1: they can't measure, and they didn't have any idea about what, how,

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Speaker 1: how awesome, how good was it for you? You you

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Speaker 1: played the position, You've seen this forty nine er offense.

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Speaker 1: Almost no way brock Purty could have gone to a

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Speaker 1: different team and been as successful. In my opinion, I'm

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Speaker 1: not that he's not gonna couldn't be successful anywhere, but

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Speaker 1: the perfect landing spot for him, particularly as a rookie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Steve, I think you nail the right there.

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Speaker 1: I think back of like Ben Roethlis where you got

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Speaker 1: thrown in the mix when when Maddox went down for

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. I think of a lot of rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that came in had success. Well. Number one Priston

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Speaker 1: foremost that had a defense that could stop other teams

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Speaker 1: with that young quarterback could turn the ball over. A

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Speaker 1: number two as an outstanding group of receivers that Christian

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey got not a bad dude if you think about it, Deebo, Samuel,

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Speaker 1: you got Jennings. Oh and by the way, this outstanding

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Speaker 1: tight ending Kittle. So you're right, Steve. For a rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterback to have those weapons around you and kind of

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Speaker 1: manage the game, be the point guard, if you will,

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Speaker 1: and to understand where to go with the ball is

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Speaker 1: by the important. And not to take anything away from that,

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Speaker 1: but you saw a few glimpses of him making plays,

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Speaker 1: stepping up in the pocket, going to his right, keeping

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Speaker 1: his eyes down the field, finding Kittle, finding Auk in

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Speaker 1: the back of the end zone, finding this guy. And

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Speaker 1: then one thing we always train with quarterbacks is when

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Speaker 1: you move or step up, keep your eyes up up

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Speaker 1: the field first, not to take away the playmaking ability,

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Speaker 1: but keep your eyes up. Look to throw the ball

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Speaker 1: to those guys that are net scramble, Groom and Steve.

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Speaker 1: You know many times when Jim was scrambling, you know

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00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: you'd move right and left you wide open here and there.

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Speaker 1: So what I thought, Kyle Shanahan and Brian Greasy, his

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Speaker 1: quarterback coach, did a great job of making sure he

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Speaker 1: understood the offense, the reads and the and the understanding

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Speaker 1: that it take care of the ball first and foremost.

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Speaker 1: Go way back to my rookie year in nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 1: Right there you can talk about Orchard Park and right

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Speaker 1: there and what you're talking one bills, laying one bills

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Speaker 1: live what are you gonna call it? And Chuck Knox

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Speaker 1: telling us quarterbacks number one take care of the ball,

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Speaker 1: number two take care of the ball, and number three

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Speaker 1: take care of the ball. And number four, which happens

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Speaker 1: to be on fourth down, it's okay to punt. So

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Speaker 1: Brock understands what he can do and can't do it.

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Speaker 1: As he got more and more confident in the offense,

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Speaker 1: not misabilities in his offense, you really start to see

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Speaker 1: him flourish I think you saw that too on the

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Speaker 1: field in the way that he played. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: expect this rookie quarterback, the last pick in the NFL draft,

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Speaker 1: to come in, maybe have the yips a little bit,

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Speaker 1: maybe be a little bit nervous, and you didn't see that,

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Speaker 1: and you were always waiting for that, I think because

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Speaker 1: it was like, when is the rookie gonna have the

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Speaker 1: rookie game? When is the rookie gonna make the rookie mistake?

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Speaker 1: And like you said, he just took care of the football.

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Speaker 1: He had thirteen touchdowns compared to four interceptions, He completed

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Speaker 1: sixty seven percent of his passes. He put up stats

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Speaker 1: that don't reflect what a rookie quarterback of somebody who

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Speaker 1: was drafted at the place that he was drafted at

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Speaker 1: what you would think it would be. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: began his NFL career as a starter seven and oh

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Speaker 1: that is a very impressive thing to do for somebody

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Speaker 1: who has picked where he was picked. So I think

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Speaker 1: that begs the question is why do scouts miss on

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks like Brock Purty. You could even talk about Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen in this conversation and how a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: really didn't see it with him, and how our scouting

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Speaker 1: staff was able to see that potential and take the

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Speaker 1: take the risk because they knew that what he could

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Speaker 1: become was so much greater than the risk that he

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Speaker 1: presented on his film. Yo Mann, I think that's a

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Speaker 1: great point. Sometimes does that quarterback fit that system? I

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Speaker 1: think I go way back. You know John Montana, you

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Speaker 1: know Bill Walsh picked him if he fit that West

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Speaker 1: Coast offense, and we know much about it. But Joe

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Speaker 1: had that ability and didn't have a big arm, had

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Speaker 1: a good arm that that fit. I think of myself

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Speaker 1: having a big arm, big strong kid going and playing

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Speaker 1: with the in the elements of Buffalo number one, number two.

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Speaker 1: The kind of offense that Chuck Knox had in those

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Speaker 1: days was deeper balls down the field, dig routes at

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Speaker 1: twenty yards, comebacks at twenty, back to eighteen. So they

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Speaker 1: look at the athlete, the quarterback. Does he fit what

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Speaker 1: we want to do? How is it he fits? And

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Speaker 1: I think for Josh Allen, I looked at that one.

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Speaker 1: That kid's a big, strong, athletic, big arm young man

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Speaker 1: that can handle the elements of Buffalo New York. I

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Speaker 1: looked at Brock Purty where they missed, I really believe

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Speaker 1: is all the reps he had, the ability on the

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Speaker 1: run throws this throw. Oh. By the way, he was

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Speaker 1: the MVP of the Fiesta Bowl his junior year playing

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Speaker 1: against another one of my quarterbacks in Tyler Shuck who's

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Speaker 1: at organ at the time. And now it texts his

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Speaker 1: tech and then his senior the same thing, and he

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Speaker 1: even killed this. The understanding of his temperament, his accuracy,

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Speaker 1: his ability really fits the San Francisco forty on his offense.

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Speaker 1: And if you recollect guys, when John Lynch said, the

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Speaker 1: thing impresses semosis how consistently consistent? So word I use

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Speaker 1: a lot of my quarterbacks that brock Purty wasn't as

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Speaker 1: full four years as a quarterback at Iowa State, that

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Speaker 1: stayed there and produced timing and time out. So when

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Speaker 1: he moves in the pocket and he steps up, he

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Speaker 1: understands his chances. Do I throw here? Do I run here?

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Speaker 1: Where do I go? And the other immeasurable thing that

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Speaker 1: they don't do it the comby when they evaluate the

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Speaker 1: film is the fire in that belly. And I mentioned

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Speaker 1: it earlier at the heart and determination this young man

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Speaker 1: has and how he motivates the young been around him.

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Speaker 1: And one of the important things about it now he's

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Speaker 1: got some important reps. He's won, He's won a bunch

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Speaker 1: of games for the forty nine ers at quarterback. He

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Speaker 1: suffered this injury that's gonna use up his offseason. And

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Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about how rookies handled their rookie season.

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Speaker 1: Certainly it was an unexpected turn for Brock Purdy as

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Speaker 1: a starting quarterback at the end of the year going

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs for the Niners. Now he's got to

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Speaker 1: go through the off season rehabilitating his elbow. And the

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Speaker 1: Niners are kind of in this no man's land of

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Speaker 1: three guys who have won games for them as a

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Speaker 1: starting quarter back, and there's gonna be an odd guy.

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Speaker 1: I could be. It looks to be probably Garoppolo because

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Speaker 1: they've been trying to get rid of him for a

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Speaker 1: year and brock Purty gives him the ability to say

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Speaker 1: we got a guy is just as good. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: brock Purty, really, with this last month and a half

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Speaker 1: or two months that he's put on film for the Niners,

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Speaker 1: do you expect him to be there for the foreseeable future?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you got to right, even given the crowded room.

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Speaker 1: You know what, Steve, I think when we look at

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, who's who's the winner of the group, or

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Speaker 1: let me fill me back up, who's the proven winner

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Speaker 1: of the group, And who's the guy been going to

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Speaker 1: Seattle when you can't hear each other that wins that

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Speaker 1: game and wins his first two playoff games and looking

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Speaker 1: like a veteran doing it. And again I always go

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Speaker 1: back to he's been there and done that to some form.

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Speaker 1: You and I both know it's about two years quicker

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League, but he's handling. He's been there,

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Speaker 1: he's done that. I quite frankly, I would just you know,

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Speaker 1: he'll come back. Whether it's six months off this surgery.

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Speaker 1: He's still getting it evaluated as it today. If they

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Speaker 1: have to do it, Tommy John, if they have to

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Speaker 1: in my cost of the whole year, but we're hoping

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Speaker 1: he comes back six months. Rock Purty's my starter, He's

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Speaker 1: my guy. Trey Lance, Okay, get him ready to be

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Speaker 1: the backup. I think Jimmy G's gonna be gone as

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Speaker 1: far as a free agent, I don't think he's part

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Speaker 1: of the plans. But all that being said, I'd make

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Speaker 1: sure I go get another experienced backup if Jimmy g leaves,

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Speaker 1: bring somebody else in. But I think this is brock

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Speaker 1: Purty's job. He'll get healthy, he'll be bounding to determine.

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Speaker 1: The only thing, guys, that will hold him up is

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Speaker 1: if it turns into a Tommy John, which should last thing.

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Speaker 1: We're from eight to ten months a you're out. We're

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Speaker 1: hoping and praying that just they fix the tear and

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Speaker 1: able to move in and he can come back by

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Speaker 1: training camp. Yeah, I'm sure we're gonna get more news

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Speaker 1: as that injury moves on, in terms of what he's

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Speaker 1: able to see, second opinions, what they decide to do

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Speaker 1: with that elbow injury. But brock Purty earned a lot

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Speaker 1: of fans this season, and I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people would love to see him as the starter of

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers offense in twenty twenty three. But Dan,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate Mattie you said something fans just real quick

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Speaker 1: is he brought I'm telling you guys on my Twitter

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Speaker 1: page at QB Manuch and my Facebook. You know, Dan Manucci,

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Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how many fans that know me

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Speaker 1: or no Brock, but it brought a lot of fans

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Speaker 1: his way, his demeanor brought a lot of fans that

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Speaker 1: used to be NFL fans back into the full I

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Speaker 1: cannot tell you, Steve and Mannie how many people are

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Speaker 1: back because of Rockford who watched this young man the excitement,

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Speaker 1: the enthusiasm, the team first kind of attitude, which I

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Speaker 1: really feel He's not only affected us here Phoenix, Areaz

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Speaker 1: Owner out there, Queen Preet and Gilbert nine San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: but he's really affected a nation as far as watching

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Speaker 1: this young man, mister Irrelevant, become relevant and do all

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Speaker 1: the things that he's done, and you give all the

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Speaker 1: credit to his offense and his coaches. Yeah, as a

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Speaker 1: fan of the NFL, it was I enjoyed watching it.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was so cool. How can you not

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Speaker 1: cheer for somebody like him. Everybody loves a good story,

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Speaker 1: and he has a great one. And I know you

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Speaker 1: know him more than a lot of people do. And

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Speaker 1: it was amazing to hear all the great things you

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Speaker 1: had to say about him, because that's what people want

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Speaker 1: to hear about players like him. They want to hear

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Speaker 1: that he's a great guy and he's got the heart

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Speaker 1: and the fire in his belly that he talked about.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully he has a long career ahead of him

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Speaker 1: where he is the starter of the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: or whatever offense he plays for throughout his career. But Dan,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Former Bills quarterback and go host of the

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Speaker 1: Rock and Manuc Show on kg Emmy and Phoenix appreciate

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Speaker 1: the time, you know what, guys always appreciate it. And

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Speaker 1: let's go Buffalo. Let's go Buffalo. That's right, Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 1: That was Dan Manucci who was joining us talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about Brock Purty and his cool connection to

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Speaker 1: a quarterback who did a lot this season for the

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. I think a lot of people weren't

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Speaker 1: expecting him to come in and play like he played.

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Speaker 1: We're fans of the NFL. I said it. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was really fun to watch, and you wanted to

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Speaker 1: cheer for a quarterback like him, And I mean, you

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Speaker 1: hope that Trey Lance gets a chance as well. It'll

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see what unfolds with Rock Party's

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Speaker 1: injury when he's able to go. And Trey Lance also

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Speaker 1: suffered an injury early on in the season for the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. So you have these two young quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: who need to prove that they can stay healthy in

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Speaker 1: the NFL early on in their lives. I know it

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Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but I'm sure Kyle Shanahan and his staff

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Speaker 1: are going through their offensive philosophies and watching film and

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Speaker 1: making sure that there's not an issue with their offense

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Speaker 1: that puts their quarterbacks at more. They lost four quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: this year, and they've just lost so many players on

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Speaker 1: both sides of the balls of the ball in the

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Speaker 1: last few seasons. I feel like they've suffered some really

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Speaker 1: big injuries. Hopefully it's just bad luck, because you hate

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Speaker 1: to see. Knowing what we went through this season with

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Speaker 1: the injuries, I can't imagine that happening multiple years in

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Speaker 1: a row. And I feel like they've had some big

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Speaker 1: players who have been out. You know, maybe not the

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Speaker 1: same guy every single year, but they have had big

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Speaker 1: names go out over the last few years, and that's

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Speaker 1: something that you hate to see after we after we

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Speaker 1: experienced it ourselves, so big thanks to jan for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We're going to take a break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll get into the tweet sheet, possibly with Pro Bowl games.

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Speaker 1: If you had to reinvent it, what would it look

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Speaker 1: like to you? So we'll answer some of those responses,

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Speaker 1: read them off. Give us a call here at eight

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Speaker 1: to three fifty if you'd like to join in on

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Speaker 1: the conversation. One Bill's Live is presented by Kalidah Health

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back into One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Mattie Glab alongside Steve Tasker. We just had Dan Manucci

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Speaker 1: on former Bills quarterback played for the Bills in seventy nine,

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Speaker 1: eighty and later on in the eighties, I believe eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: It was talked a little bit about Brock Purty. He

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Speaker 1: has coached Brock Purty and mentored him since he was

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Speaker 1: in high school, so had a lot of great things

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Speaker 1: to say about that quarterback and about his potential in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. We've got a tweet sheet conversation going on.

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl games are this weekend, so we thought we'd

853
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of fun with the Pro Bowl. So,

854
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: if you had to reinvent the Pro Bowl, how would

855
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: you do it? What would it look like? Would it

856
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: involve football at all? Would it involve any games at all?

857
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: I think we are on the same page of maybe

858
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: just make it a nice week for everybody, take the

859
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: competition out of it, go to one all inclusive. Do

860
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: some golfing have some fancy events to where these guys

861
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: really feel like they want to be there, because I

862
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 1: think every year we've seen people say, yeah, I'm gonna

863
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: do something else. I'm heading all the way back when

864
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: I'm johnsh Allen's golf in this weekend instead of going

865
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl. Why not? Why not? He did

866
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 1: say it was for injuries. He did have some bumps

867
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: and bruises. After the season. He said that on podcasts

868
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: and said that in an interview with local media. So

869
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: I understand that golfing in a pro am at Pebble Beach,

870
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: Pebble Beach, we're playing dodgeball in Vegas. I know it's

871
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: a tough choice. They're both fun. I get it. Or

872
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, balloon toss a water balloon toss in Vegas

873
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: or playing pebble in a ProAm. Yeah, water bowls all day. Yeah,

874
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,280
Speaker 1: you take the water balloon toss, not me. Um, That's

875
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you're looking at. Though. It's they

876
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: want to they want to commemorate it. Somehow I get it.

877
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: And let's face it, the TV people want something to

878
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: put on the weekend between the championship games. There's nothing

879
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: going on. They got to come up with something that

880
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: they can do that would capture eyes, and certainly competition

881
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 1: is one way to do it. But you know, the

882
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: water balloon thing, the dodgeball things that we'll see if

883
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,399
Speaker 1: this one does. I don't know how good of ratings

884
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: it's gonna get. We'll see, I don't know it. Yeah,

885
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: it's tough. It's a tough call because football isn't baseball,

886
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's not tennis or ping pong. You know,

887
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: it's you know, these guys, somebody get hurt bad. It's

888
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,919
Speaker 1: not like a home run derby, which they could add

889
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: that to the Pro Bowl. I'd watch that, right, Ping pong? Okay,

890
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: at it, you know, let the guys play ping pong, darts,

891
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: you know, all this stuff. But you can have a

892
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 1: chess game, you know, who cares. Although that may not

893
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: draw eyeballs, but you get the idea. It's hard to

894
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: have these guys compete. And what would be an interesting

895
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: way to showcase the players in the National Football League

896
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: other than having them suit up and play football. That's

897
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: the hard part. You what are you gonna do? Uh?

898
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: And that's the dilemma that the Pro Bowl has always faced.

899
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: You know, the game was great and the Hawaii guys

900
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: would come out, it was a great week. Practice was

901
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: totally one hundred percent dependent on which coaching staff was

902
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: coaching the game for your conference. I think I was

903
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: four and three in Pro Bowls. The only three games

904
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: we lost was when I actually had to play wide receiver,

905
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 1: and we got beating those games. Um, it wasn't because

906
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: there wasn't the reason, but it was just kind of

907
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 1: looked out there. I'd take like one rep and wide out.

908
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: But fun, yeah, yeah, I would enjoy watching is guys

909
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: playing different positions and see now that I could get

910
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: into that. But and guys might interest him, that might

911
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: interest him more. But that's even more dangerous. I mean, goodness, gracious,

912
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yes, it's just a tough dilemma,

913
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: and certainly the league wants to do something for these

914
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: guys and commemorated in a way that will draw attention.

915
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: And that's the real issue with it. Nobody wants to

916
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: play a game. Nobody. I mean, I you know, I

917
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: got I got a busted finger in one of those

918
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: games out there, that kind of stuff, it's just not

919
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: really worth it. And you could see last year during

920
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: the game I was there. I was covering the Pro Bowl,

921
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: and you could see when a play got a little

922
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: bit too aggressive, when guys were doing a little bit

923
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: too much pushing, the people on the other side would

924
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: let the people know, let the players know. Stop that.

925
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: I went, this is not supposed to be aggressive. What

926
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: the heck are you doing here. I was the radio

927
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: analyst for the Pro Bowl in Orlando about I don't know,

928
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: six or eight years ago or whatever. And it was

929
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: and they so, this is how this is how like

930
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: casual this game was. So we're I'm doing it for

931
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: Westwood One, and they're telling the people it's on ESPN, right,

932
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: you know the game. They said, listen, we have a

933
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: hard out. The game starts at one, we have a

934
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: hard out at three. We're done. We've got we've got

935
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: a thing starting at three. You've got to get off

936
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: this game, right. Well that's what they thought. They thought,

937
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta make sure the game fits right.

938
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,760
Speaker 1: So the officials, they told the officials, and the officials

939
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: are the same way they're like, so they said, hey, listen,

940
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna So the officials ran it like

941
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: a practice. Oh my god, they weren't tackling. It was

942
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,479
Speaker 1: like a thump practice. They get him, wrap up a boom,

943
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: they'd blow the whistle, dead spot the ball, running clock,

944
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 1: they said, And as the game got into the second half,

945
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: they go, hey, slow it down. Yeah, it's we're gonna

946
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: be done in two hours. It was the fastest game

947
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: I have ever witnessed. The officials just spotting the ball.

948
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: Let's go moving on and no, you know, just go

949
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: And it was really it was like an not even

950
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: an intense practice. Nobody tackled to the ground. They'd stand

951
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: him up, hold the guy, and they blow the whistle,

952
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: quick come in, spot it. Here we go again, third down,

953
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: second down, whatever, And the game went like lightning fast

954
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 1: and ESPN shortly at halftime they go, dudes, you know

955
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,919
Speaker 1: we started this game at one. It's like one forty five.

956
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: Now you gotta we gotta get to three, right, So

957
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: it was they can do that. It's a problem, man,

958
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do because this this,

959
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: I mean, you got Peyton and Eli there, Pete Peyton

960
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: and Eli Manning. Okay, that's I like those kids. They're great.

961
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: I love I love watching them. They're great guys. They

962
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: don't take themselves too seriously even though they're you know,

963
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: they're these icon iconic quarterbacks all that stuff, and they're

964
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: brothers and they it's fun. But I don't know. I

965
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: don't know a water balloon, toss, dodgeball. What else are

966
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: they got going? Longest drive, longest drive one of them?

967
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: Let's see what else? Um do you said? Dodgeball, longest drives, passing.

968
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: There is some skills stuff, best catch, um. Yeah, they

969
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: got the guys jumping off a mini tram, in chain chains,

970
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 1: kick tac toe. Yeah, I'm just reading off these games here,

971
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: Gradyron Gauntlet. There'll be a curiosity factor for me because

972
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: I want to see what it's what they're talking about.

973
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 1: But if I turn that on and it's like if

974
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: it's like i'll catch the highlights, it's like sixth grade

975
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: gym class. I ain't watching. I'm not watching. Heard it

976
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: here first st. It's like gym class. I'm not watching.

977
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to continue the conversation when we return,

978
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: so don't go anywhere on when Bills LIB represented by

979
00:53:47,960 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: Clyde Help. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, These one Bills Live,

980
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: presented by called Light to Health. We're in the final

981
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: hour here of One Bills Live. Maddie glab and Steve

982
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: Tasker coming Tea Alive. We're talking about how you would

983
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: reinvent the Pro Bowl. We've shared our thoughts on how

984
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: you could reinvent it. We'll go to the tweet sheet here.

985
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: Number one from Dominic He said, I have Payton and

986
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: Eli play the game on Madden. I like the involvement

987
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: of a video game aspect. They did do some of

988
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: that last year. Maybe they were playing Madden. I cannot

989
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: remember what game they were playing, but they did have

990
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: a couple of players. Yet, although I'll say this video

991
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 1: video game E tournaments or e games that you have

992
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: their events. I mean where guys go out and they

993
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: play these whatever Call of Duty or Madden or these

994
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: these competitions where people show up and it's a big deal.

995
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: I am Seed one here in Buffalo, Okay. And you

996
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: know that does draw some eyeball, and there's a big

997
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: group of people around the country who gamers, who you

998
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: know would flock to that. So that's that no, I know,

999
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: I know, I know how to hold I know how

1000
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: to hold the gaming console, but I don't know how

1001
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: what buttons to peace? You know what? I think a

1002
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 1: lot of people would watch you try to game. Maybe

1003
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: we should do that, and maybe that's an offseason piece

1004
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 1: of content that we could do. Here on one Bill's Live,

1005
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: Daddy and Steve faced each other. No on Madden. People

1006
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 1: would enjoy watching standing there like that, just waiting for

1007
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: us to push the right button. It would be hilarious.

1008
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: It would be hilarious. One of the other funny things

1009
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 1: about the Pro Bowl last year, so it's in Vegas.

1010
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: Last year's in Vegas. This year it was so cold

1011
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: at night and they did yes you don't there's no

1012
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 1: humidity there and it's February, so at night it was.

1013
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: They had a couple of cold days when we were there,

1014
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: cold nights when we were there, and it dipped into

1015
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: like the thirties. I think one night when they were

1016
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: taping Best Catch and it aired later on and the

1017
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: guys were freezing. And I remember they also did the

1018
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: gaming competition or whatever game they were playing at night

1019
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: as well, and everybody's bundled and freezing. I remember our

1020
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: videographer and our photographer came back from shooting. I think

1021
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: it was best catch or something like that, and it

1022
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:02,240
Speaker 1: took them hours to actually feel warm. Of that warm again.

1023
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: They're like, we live in Buffalo and here we are

1024
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 1: in Vegas, and we're even colder in Vegas than we

1025
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: are in Buffalo because we didn't We didn't know it

1026
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 1: was going to be this cold. Yeah, you didn't know.

1027
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of the things I've seen,

1028
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: the videos that we've seen, it's inside oh yeah. And

1029
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: I think it's because it was so cold blast year.

1030
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 1: I was freezing in Vegas. I thought it was hot

1031
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: all the time in Vega. It was I could have

1032
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: brought my freaking winter jacket. I have a confession to make.

1033
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: I may be the only guy of my age in

1034
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: the entire country's never been there. Never been there, not

1035
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: even like not even like as a stopover going somewhere now,

1036
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: never been there. Well, maybe you can cover the Pro

1037
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: Bowl next year in Vegas. Take Steve Tasker first time

1038
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Ain't nobody taking me the Pro Bowl? Yeah,

1039
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just I don't know. It's not

1040
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: my I've never I've never been a I'm not a gambler. Yeah,

1041
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: so you know, I mean, you know, no, I just

1042
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: don't so same. But they have good they have food.

1043
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: I'm the kind of person that Vegas would, you know,

1044
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: try to entice to go out and start come on, yeah,

1045
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: you know, right, get me interested. But no, no, Theodore says,

1046
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: winner gets home field advantage for the Super Bowl, just

1047
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: like the MLB All Star Game. But a little incentive

1048
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: into things you do this, you get that. Think about

1049
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: the coaching staffs. They would actually care, they would really care.

1050
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm trying to imagine the ripple effect

1051
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: of the Pro Bowls that I attended and what it

1052
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: would mean if you had a coaching staff that was

1053
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: one hundred percent invested. Some of them kind of some

1054
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: of them were like I went out there with the

1055
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: Raiders staff with Art Shell and those guys. Man, we

1056
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: were at the beach Man. We were like, yeah, we

1057
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,479
Speaker 1: won the game too. It was great. It was great.

1058
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: It was like a week of nothing. The other side,

1059
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: I think, who was it did they have the forty

1060
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: nine ers staff with George Seyffert. They were practicing doing stuff.

1061
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: We went to the we all had to go to

1062
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: the stadium and then the team that was it was

1063
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: their turn to our turn. We had to drive over,

1064
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: We had to get suited up, drive over to University

1065
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: of Hawaii, have our practice there while the NFC practiced

1066
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,959
Speaker 1: in the stadium, and then you know, you come back,

1067
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: shower in the stadium, and then go back to the hotel. Right, Well,

1068
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: we did that. We got there, shout when we left

1069
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: to go ride the bus, they were stretching for their practice.

1070
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: We come back, they're still practicing. We shower up, we're

1071
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: back at the hotel. And that was after driving back

1072
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: and forth. They were still practicing when we came back,

1073
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: showered and we're gone. They were hot, they were so mad,

1074
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: so upset, and we were, you know, sipping my ties

1075
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 1: at the beach. So it all you're the kind of

1076
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: week you had back then? Did really it mattered who

1077
00:59:55,760 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: you're coaching staff. Yes, So if you attached anything meaningful

1078
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 1: to the outcome of the Pro Bowl, let alone the

1079
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: home field for the Super Bowl. Well, see the Super

1080
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: Bowl is always at a neutral site, though, so if

1081
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: you were the home team of them, yeah, that would

1082
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: make make a difference. But if you could have it

1083
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: at home in your home stadium, it wasn't a neutral site. Y, Yeah,

1084
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: that's big. That would be big, big, really big practices.

1085
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: Now for the Pro Bowl, I think they have one

1086
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: practice this year. I think we had two last year.

1087
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: They're like walkthroughs. Guys are hanging out, the coaching staff

1088
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: has their kids on the field with them. It's it's fun.

1089
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 1: It's so where it was for us. It's not supposed

1090
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 1: to be hard by any means. We practiced. Marty Schottenheimer

1091
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: was our coach my first Pro Bowl. He had us

1092
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: practicing in pads on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and it was

1093
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: gonna be on Friday as well. And Howie Long and

1094
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: Marcus Allen, the two Raider guys, they go, hey, they

1095
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: were in the locker room. They go, guys, we are

1096
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 1: not practicing in pads on Friday of the Pro Bowl.

1097
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: We're all like, you know what, I agree. So he says,

1098
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: let's nobody wear your pads. So we did. We got

1099
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: out and we get on the bus to go to

1100
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: University Hawaii and nobody's got pads on. We're just and

1101
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: Marty gets the coach head coach gets on the bus

1102
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: and he's got that look on his face like Okay,

1103
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: here we go and he goes. It's like, I told you,

1104
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: guys on the first day this week, we are not

1105
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: going to practice in pads on Friday. So we're like, okay,

1106
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: got you. But there are guys like that Dan Reeves,

1107
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: the old coach of the Denver Broncos. When we beat

1108
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: the Broncos in the championship game, they were the staff

1109
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: out there and they were kind of had some high

1110
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: expectations from coming off a loss. Yes, they had some

1111
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: high expectations for our performance. It's a bummer. Did you

1112
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 1: enjoy the aspect of getting to know players that the

1113
01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl presents you with. Yes, it was nice to

1114
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 1: see and talk with those guys setting It's not like

1115
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: you're catching up before a game during warm up. I'll

1116
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 1: give you an idea of how old I am my

1117
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: first Pro Bowl. I was a teammate on the same

1118
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl squad with Steve Largent and Mike Webster, the

1119
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: center for the nineteen seventies Hall you know, the Steelers,

1120
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Webster, Terry Bradshaw playing in the

1121
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl when you're twelve years old, I was think

1122
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: about it. I was. He was the seventies center and

1123
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: he was still going to the Pro Bowl in eight

1124
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 1: it was eighty. So these are guys that you watched

1125
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: growing up. Yeah, I would have been like twelve when

1126
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: I saw him play in his first Super Bowl on

1127
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 1: Monday Night football and the Steelers and all the Steel

1128
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: curtain and all the whole thing. And here I am

1129
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 1: sitting there, and there he's sitting like, you know, and

1130
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 1: I'm his teammate. Pretty cool. It is pretty cool. Yeah,

1131
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 1: So it is kind of neat to to do that.

1132
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: You know, I played with a bunch of Hall of

1133
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: famers in those games, and there is something about being

1134
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: out there and it you know, it is a um man.

1135
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: It was different than to ninety percent of the guys

1136
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 1: did show up, but it was after the Super Bowl, okay,

1137
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: So that was different because then the Super Bowl guys

1138
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 1: could show up if they've so desired. Interesting, So, um

1139
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: you'd lose some of those guys because it was kind

1140
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:27,440
Speaker 1: of a down or poor or they'd have a parade

1141
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 1: back in their hometown. So there was something to getting

1142
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: to know some of the great players in the game

1143
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: for the first time. You know, I hadn't even played

1144
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: against any of those some of those guys, so it was.

1145
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: It was one of the better parts of it. Yeah,

1146
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: no question, Tank says, have them play the game. Winners

1147
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: received three hundred thousand dollars, losers received fifty thousand dollars.

1148
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 1: Something like that already happens. That's how I don't I

1149
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 1: don't know what the numbers to win and fifty maybe

1150
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: something like that. They cut it in half, so the

1151
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: losers you get half. But yeah, to make that a

1152
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: wider disparity, Yeah, the fangs would come out, particularly for

1153
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: those guys that are, you know, making the veteran minimum

1154
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: who actually make a Pro Bowl for some reason or other.

1155
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: Would be a nice on the field. Yeah, I don't

1156
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,919
Speaker 1: know though that then you would almost be inviting injuries. Yeah,

1157
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: that's I get it, though. You got incentivized with money.

1158
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: Money's a great motivator. Let's let's be honest. So it

1159
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: might have some merit, but up the antie a little

1160
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 1: bit there. I don't know. Burgermeister says, turn it into

1161
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 1: a four game weekend of college seniors who are looking

1162
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: for more attention, call it the go Pro Bowls. They

1163
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: should be paid and all medical expenses covered. NFL Pro

1164
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: Bowlers interact during practices and games in an attempt to

1165
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 1: find diamonds in the rough for their teams. This is

1166
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 1: an interesting look at to pretty much flipping it all

1167
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: around and involving some high school college players who are

1168
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: interested in joining the NFL. Players are probably more cautious

1169
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 1: about injury than the pro players are, Yeah, because they

1170
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: haven't signed any contract or anything like that, So you

1171
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: probably have a hard time. I think if I'm an agent,

1172
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 1: I'd say, no, just watch the film of his college

1173
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 1: years and he's not going to come out here and

1174
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: hob nob with, you know, just because it's Tom Brady

1175
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: and Peyton Manning and all these guys out Here's my

1176
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: guy's healthy enough. Yeah, we're not gonna go out there

1177
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 1: and we'll just go to the combine, you know, that

1178
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But yeah, I get it. Put it.

1179
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:42,360
Speaker 1: Put some sort of scouting scouting element into it. Yeah,

1180
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,720
Speaker 1: I like that because, I mean the East West Shrine

1181
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 1: Ball is going on right now in Vegas, so that's

1182
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 1: happening the same location. Bill Belichick is coaching out there,

1183
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:57,920
Speaker 1: so that's a little bit of crossover. I like that.

1184
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: I think that would be cool. James as skills competition

1185
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 1: with upcoming draftees that invited something that we just talked

1186
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: about involving some of the guys who are going to

1187
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: get drafted in the twenty twenty three NFL Draft. Rich says,

1188
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: for how he would you reinvent the Pro Bowl? How

1189
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 1: about playing it a week after the Super Bowl in

1190
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: some cool location, say Hawaii. This way the players in

1191
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and Hall of Fame inductees could attend

1192
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: as well. Task here. That's what you were talking about.

1193
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: That that's why it was. That's the way it was.

1194
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: That's exactly the way it was when I was there

1195
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: in Joy, Hawaii. Oh yeah, you cannot. You can't not

1196
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Maybe take it back to it is absolutely spectacular.

1197
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:41,800
Speaker 1: And that is alsoaked And I think Rich has got

1198
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: to be being sarcastic because that's exactly what it was

1199
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 1: in Hawaii at the Pro Bowl the week after the

1200
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 1: Super Bowl when they were and you know, when they

1201
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: were announced would be the first time as a class

1202
01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 1: they would be introduced to the public. They would come out,

1203
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 1: be out there in the Hawaiian shirts and their lay

1204
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 1: and they'd walk across the fifty yard line at the

1205
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Sounds great, again, that's the way it was.

1206
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:06,800
Speaker 1: But then there was a game that nobody wanted to play.

1207
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 1: That's the issue. What do you do with the thing

1208
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 1: that nobody wants to do? It's yeah, it's a yeah,

1209
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: it's an ugly truth, Jill. First off, I would host

1210
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:20,440
Speaker 1: it after the Super Bowl, all right. I would have

1211
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: many different events. It would be a mandatory for all

1212
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 1: the NFL to participate, especially the practice squad. Let's see

1213
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: what they have, and they have not been able to

1214
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: show on the field thus far. Okay, that's that's a squad,

1215
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 1: So maybe maybe more, maybe more players would be invited

1216
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: to this. What about the word what about the word mandatory?

1217
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: Do you think the NFL could make it mandatory without

1218
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:51,439
Speaker 1: catching injured? Yeah, which is what the excuse they give now.

1219
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 1: And I mean Josh is out there playing golf with

1220
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 1: the bust A delbou So, yeah, you can't make it

1221
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 1: mandatory for somebody who's had is gonna have knee surgery

1222
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 1: or something. So and have the entire NFL to be participated,

1223
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 1: all the NFL, um that's no very hard to organize. Yeah,

1224
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 1: it would. You'd have to collectively bargain it too. I mean,

1225
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:19,560
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be just something listening the lead's gonna do it,

1226
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: and everybody had to show up. The players Union and

1227
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: everybody would have to be on board with it. And

1228
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,760
Speaker 1: think about this though, it is kind of an interesting thought.

1229
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 1: After the Super Bowl, when all that happens. The next week,

1230
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 1: every player, coach, everybody, they all descend on a city

1231
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: for the end of season, end of season wrap up.

1232
01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 1: The Pro Bowlers would be be there, they'd be acknowledged,

1233
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame guys would be acknowledged. They would

1234
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 1: address issues, talk about, you know, rule changes, all the

1235
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: stuff that's going to come up in the next year.

1236
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,880
Speaker 1: They could set, you know, have the calendar unfold, say

1237
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 1: here's when we're gonna do them buying, here's a free agency,

1238
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:03,680
Speaker 1: here's that They could unfold that at the thing with

1239
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:07,920
Speaker 1: like it'd be like what four or five thousand people.

1240
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:11,679
Speaker 1: They're all players and coaches and you know staff or whatever.

1241
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: Media would be huge. Um be an opportunity for like

1242
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: I said, fundraisers, the quarterback the quarterback banquet is going

1243
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 1: to be Wednesday night. The edge rushers are gonna you

1244
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean, head coaches. Head coaches banquet is

1245
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 1: going to be Friday night. You can go all the

1246
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:37,640
Speaker 1: way around, so Yeah, that's okay. But that's a long

1247
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 1: way from a Pro Bowl game, that's for sure. But

1248
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: that would be something cool. It could be all part

1249
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 1: of my NFL city idea too, but I've been so anyway,

1250
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: But that's that would be something very different than the

1251
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. But you could incorporate or replace the Pro

1252
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,799
Speaker 1: Bowl with and still make it worth it for guys.

1253
01:09:55,840 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: But that you're talking about bringing, well, we'll see. There's

1254
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:07,720
Speaker 1: thirty two, sixteen hundred, seventeen eighteen hundred guys down to

1255
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:13,679
Speaker 1: the to the city, along with twenty five coaches coaching staffs.

1256
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:19,639
Speaker 1: You know, you're talking three thousand people to fly in. Yeah,

1257
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:21,840
Speaker 1: and when we do the combine, it feels like we

1258
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:24,360
Speaker 1: take over the city. And it's not even that many people.

1259
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 1: It's not even that many people. It's not you have

1260
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 1: a couple hundred guys, got a couple hundred players, and

1261
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 1: a couple hundred coaches, a couple hundred coaches and a

1262
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: couple hundred media. Yeah, but they're all in the same

1263
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: spot all the time basically, and then they're all out

1264
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: for dinner at the same time, trying to get the table.

1265
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's kind of like that and that's cool.

1266
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that's enjoy it. It's a nice event. That's

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Speaker 1: a that's a better people you see only once a year, Matt.

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Speaker 1: It's a better event than the Pro Bowl. Yeah. The

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Speaker 1: Combine is for football people, right. I think there's more

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Speaker 1: interests in what's going on on the field and what's

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01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: going on in terms of the chatter of prospects. You

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01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:14,559
Speaker 1: hear from coaches about free agency, about the draft. There's

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01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 1: a lot more content that comes out of the Combine

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01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: and there should be than the Pro Bowl because of that.

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01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 1: Even so the Combine, you and I know this. They

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01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 1: have these stages set up, like for bench press here,

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01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: they have vertical jump here, and they have the forty

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01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 1: in the stadium. You know, we're always they show. That's

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01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: a big highlight. The only thing that there's only two

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01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:41,839
Speaker 1: things that the teams care about. One getting the medical exam? Yeah,

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01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: how healthy is am I going to get this guy

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01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:45,599
Speaker 1: and he's going to be damaged? And is he going

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01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 1: to spend the entire first rookie con first four years

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Speaker 1: of his rookie contract injured? Oh? And I want to

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01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: see him person in person. I want to sit down

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01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: and talk with you, and that's the only two things

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Speaker 1: the medical in the interview. They don't care about the

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Speaker 1: forty time. They don't care about the underwear Olympics, that's right.

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01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: So that's right. They don't care about sixth grade gym class. Oh,

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01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the Pro Bowl, that's right. So

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01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: you don't care about the event that's going on. So

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01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 1: so this, you know, whatever you do, it's gonna be

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01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 1: the Combines turn it into the same thing the Pro

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01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 1: Bowls turn it into all this athletic stuff is. Yeah,

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01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,640
Speaker 1: I just want to talk to the guy. Yeah, I

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01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 1: just want to be there in person to do a

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01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: couple of things. But the big, the big thing, the

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01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:37,559
Speaker 1: big Juna right on Sunday or on whatever day, the

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Speaker 1: forties happening whatever. Yeah, exactly, let the people talk exactly.

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Speaker 1: The Combine is the Pro Bowl for college prospects. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly what it is. Wow, I'm glad we arrived at that.

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01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 1: We solved one of the life's great mysteries. And that's it.

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01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's true. Here we are, February of

1304
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:02,200
Speaker 1: the off season, solving the problems. It's the college problem.

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01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 1: Up with the comitions. Yeah, I'm still excited for the Combine. Though, Shoot,

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01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait. That's going to come

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01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 1: up the end of February, last couple of days of

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01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:18,560
Speaker 1: February into the first week of March. I'm excited to

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01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 1: get that schedule. When we're gonna hear people talk. I'm

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01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 1: sure we'll hear from Brandon Bean, Sean McDermott. The show

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01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 1: is going to be on the road for that. We're

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01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: down there Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of the Combine. I

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01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:33,679
Speaker 1: love it and I'll be there with you all. Great, yeah, yeah, great.

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Speaker 1: It's always a good time, good team bonding time as well,

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01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,080
Speaker 1: have some fun dinners there. Okay, break time for us.

1316
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:42,880
Speaker 1: We will get back to the tweet sheet, maybe talk

1317
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:45,679
Speaker 1: a little bit of offseason priorities here when we return,

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Speaker 1: So don't go anywhere. We are One Bills Live. We're

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01:13:47,840 --> 01:14:01,200
Speaker 1: presented by Clyde to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Less

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Speaker 1: than a half an hour left here for One Bills Live.

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01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:08,520
Speaker 1: A Thursday addition, Maddie glab and Steve Tasker, we solved

1322
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl issue, the Pro Bowl question of how

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01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 1: would you reinvent it? We just decided the Pro Bowl

1324
01:14:14,800 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: and the Combine are the same thing. Yeah, ones for

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01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 1: college prospects, ones for pro players, and they just show

1326
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 1: up and it's the it's the it's it's like the

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01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 1: old saying if it you know, when the guy got

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01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: tarred and feathered, he says, if it wasn't for the

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01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: honor of the thing, I could do without it. Right. Well,

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01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: that's kind of like the if it wasn't for the

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01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 1: honor of being named to the Pro Bowl or being

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Speaker 1: invited to the NFL Combine, you don't get anything out

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01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah. So they're the same, ones for college

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01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:45,880
Speaker 1: recruits and ones for pro players who had a nice

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01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:51,959
Speaker 1: season and got reck some recognition, and the events surrounding them,

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01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:56,439
Speaker 1: the measurables are nothing compared to the interview and the

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01:14:56,520 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 1: health records. Yeah and yeah, exactly the health. Nobody wants

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01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:01,560
Speaker 1: to play in the Pro Bowl because they want to

1339
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 1: stay healthy, and the only reason the pro teams want

1340
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 1: the guys of the combine is to see if they're healthy. Yeah,

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01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: it's it's a yeah, I gotta I'm I'm gonna start

1342
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,639
Speaker 1: using that everywhere I go because it's really the truth.

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01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: We did arrive at that, and it's the exact same thing.

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01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 1: One conclusion. We haven't arrived upon yet is one that

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01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 1: we started to talk about in the beginning of the show.

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01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,640
Speaker 1: It was yesterday's topic, something that you guys have discussed

1347
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 1: already since the season finished up, but is something that

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01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 1: we will continue to discuss as free agency approaches, as

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01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: well as the NFL Draft. It's priorities for the Bill's

1350
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: roster this offseason. I think you could go a bunch

1351
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: of different ways with this. We already spoke about the

1352
01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 1: offensive line and the wide receivers and rob from our

1353
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:51,200
Speaker 1: tweet sheet from yesterday. We had so many responses that

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01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 1: we wanted to continue the conversation. He said, right tackle

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01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 1: and defensive tackle. I would move ed Oliver to defensive end.

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01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 1: Imagine that guy dropping fifteen pounds coming off the edge.

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01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: At Oliver is a quick player. Do you see him

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01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 1: being able to play at the edge position. I think

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01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 1: you look at the type of defensive ends that we

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01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 1: have on this roster and you look at what at

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Speaker 1: Oliver looks like. I'm thinking about height, weight. I don't

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01:16:18,479 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 1: think he has to drop fifteen pounds. He's an explosive

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01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: player and he's got some speed, and that's one of

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01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 1: the things we see too. A guy like Greg Russo,

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01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: who can cover a lot of ground. Ed Oliver also

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01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: has some speed, and speed gives you some versatility as

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01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:36,720
Speaker 1: to where they could put you because you know, you

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01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 1: got to cover ground and if you go off the edge,

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01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:41,680
Speaker 1: it's obviously further away from the quarterback then playing right

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01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: on the center or the three technique. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get it. We saw Greg Russo dropped down inside different

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01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 1: times during the season once in a while. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I yeah, if but that would be comin move up

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01:16:57,240 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 1: to ed if you wanted to do that. He might

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01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 1: give him some pushback on that, But also what they

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01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 1: know about him as to whether he would be good

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01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: at it or you know whatever. If they were committed

1378
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:12,599
Speaker 1: and saying he's gonna be we gotta find different ways

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01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: to use him. Certainly they've probably tried him that we're

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01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:17,680
Speaker 1: out there in practice and stuff. I have no idea,

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01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 1: but no question he's got the athleticism to be out there.

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01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: Whether he's got power right so, whether he learns the

1383
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:27,280
Speaker 1: techniques for playing out there, which they are different and

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01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 1: all that, I don't know, but it's intriguing to think

1385
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 1: about because he's I think there's no question he's athletic

1386
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:36,639
Speaker 1: enough yeah, Lego says offensive line. Why franchise quarterback got

1387
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 1: injured in the pocket. Need an offensive line that can

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01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:42,440
Speaker 1: protect the passer and provide time for these long developing

1389
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:46,360
Speaker 1: play calls that the offensive coordinator likes to use. We

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01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: currently don't have a lot of creativity in our offensive scheme,

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01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 1: which mitigates for a weak offensive line. There's a lot

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01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 1: there to unpack offensive line. Yes, I do think they

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01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,639
Speaker 1: could use some more depth at that position, a position

1394
01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 1: regardless of what teen you're on, there's never enough offensive

1395
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 1: lineman because of the injuries that happen at that position.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked about it at length. What's the number

1397
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:12,679
Speaker 1: one position that you don't want to play in the NFL?

1398
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: Nobody grows up. Nobody grows up saying I want to

1399
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:18,799
Speaker 1: be an offensive lineman. This is something that Mitch Morris

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01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 1: has said multiple times too. So when that's the case,

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01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 1: you just get less people playing that position. And when

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01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:28,479
Speaker 1: you have less people playing that position, you have less

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01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:31,559
Speaker 1: talent at that position to begin with. There's and I

1404
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 1: said this too, you can't be like me and play

1405
01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: offensive line. You got to be six three plus and

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01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,240
Speaker 1: three bills. The shorter you are, the heavier you have

1407
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:45,640
Speaker 1: to be. In more athletic you have to be, and

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01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:48,320
Speaker 1: the bigger you are you can get away with being less.

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01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:51,760
Speaker 1: The bigger and taller and longer you are, the less

1410
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 1: you know athletic you need to be to cover ground

1411
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 1: because there's not much space in there to begin with.

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01:18:56,120 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: There's just not that many guys out there. Maddie, I

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01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: mean Brownie and I had this versation yesterday. One of

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Speaker 1: the thing the strong arguments I've heard from the highest

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01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 1: levels of the National Football League when they talk about

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01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 1: expanding the league to thirty four teams or thirty six teams.

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Speaker 1: One of the strongest arguments against it is the lack

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01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,680
Speaker 1: of good enough players to play, and that starts with

1419
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 1: the offensive and defensive line. You would have substandard play,

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01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 1: you know, sprinkled further and thicker through the high level

1421
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,680
Speaker 1: play that you get now and not everywhere, but you

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01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:35,080
Speaker 1: know certainly what it is what it is, and so

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01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: that would be the good players would be spread even thinner.

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01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 1: That's a big argument against doing it because big, strong, fast,

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01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 1: athletic guys don't happen very often, and most of them

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01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:57,760
Speaker 1: that do are already playing. So if you can get

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01:19:57,800 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: more of those guys, the better you're going to be.

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01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 1: And I'm we all say it. We say it here

1429
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:03,559
Speaker 1: all the time, and people say it all We get,

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01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: you know, two hundred and fifty responses to our thing

1431
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,920
Speaker 1: about we need a dominant offensive line, we need a

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01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 1: dominant pass rushing off defensive line. I got it. And

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01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 1: that's where the game starts. And everybody says it, and

1434
01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:17,599
Speaker 1: we reiterate, and we say it a number of different ways,

1435
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 1: and we talk about how it costs your game here,

1436
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: it costs you a game there, or you know your

1437
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 1: team's not good enough because it starts up from Okay,

1438
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:30,799
Speaker 1: and they spend all day every day looking for those guys.

1439
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:33,680
Speaker 1: They just don't exist. You can't find them. And if

1440
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: you can't find them, somebody else picked him before you

1441
01:20:36,439 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: could get there, or somebody else signed him, or you

1442
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 1: didn't have a high enough draft pick, and it's it's

1443
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:45,120
Speaker 1: it's tough for the Bills being This goes back to

1444
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 1: the conversation that Brandon Being had when he was up

1445
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: on the podium when he spoke with us to kind

1446
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 1: of wrap up the season. It's here, we are at

1447
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:59,679
Speaker 1: number twenty seven, and it's hard to get of course,

1448
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:02,080
Speaker 1: there's going to be a best player available at that point,

1449
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 1: but it's not going to be the type of caliber

1450
01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 1: that you're going to get from your number one through

1451
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:11,240
Speaker 1: your number ten. This is a good quarterback draft, so

1452
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: maybe that's going to help the Bills out in a

1453
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: position where some of these quarterbacks are going to be

1454
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:18,759
Speaker 1: going off the board, which makes people more talented players

1455
01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:21,600
Speaker 1: fall down to the Bills. But when you're sitting constantly

1456
01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 1: at number twenty seven, number twenty eight, and beyond the

1457
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 1: chance of you getting a day one impact player that

1458
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:32,840
Speaker 1: you want to have the type of impact that maybe

1459
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:37,200
Speaker 1: a top ten pick would have, it's not always the case.

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01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:39,840
Speaker 1: It's not always going to happen. I know there's those

1461
01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 1: diamonds in the rough there that you're going to get,

1462
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: but the chance of it happening where the Bills are

1463
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 1: picking is not as high, of course as the players

1464
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: who are picking top ten. And Brandon Bean said, we

1465
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: don't want to go back to a place where we

1466
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Speaker 1: are picking top ten because that means we didn't have

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01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:00,960
Speaker 1: a good season. We already have a good roster, we're

1468
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:03,280
Speaker 1: already a playoff team. We don't want to take steps

1469
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: back to take steps forward. It's hard for teams who

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01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 1: have built the Bills have built. They were the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl Chat favorites this year, the Super Bowl favorites coming

1472
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Speaker 1: into the season, and they held the number one seat

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Speaker 1: all the way through Week seventeen into the Monday night

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Speaker 1: game against Cincinnati. They were they were doing exactly what

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Speaker 1: we thought they were gonna do. And so even drafting

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01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:27,960
Speaker 1: in the first even having a first round draft head

1477
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:30,760
Speaker 1: like the Bills do, it's number twenty seven. Even if

1478
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 1: that guy's a really good player, it's a hard roster

1479
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:37,320
Speaker 1: to bust into. We had this conversation last year as well.

1480
01:22:37,479 --> 01:22:40,040
Speaker 1: They were deep. I mean, could you imagine the Bills

1481
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:43,080
Speaker 1: drafting a safety last year with Poyor and Hide sitting there. Yeah,

1482
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard. The kids know, you're even gonna

1483
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 1: know if the kids can play. That's the way it

1484
01:22:47,320 --> 01:22:49,000
Speaker 1: is for some of the teams at the bottom of

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01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:51,280
Speaker 1: the draft, like like the Bills, like the Chiefs, like

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01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 1: the like Philadelphia. Now free agency has changed that to

1487
01:22:54,439 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: a certain degree because you know, there's always a turnover

1488
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 1: at the time of the position groups, at each position

1489
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: group every year, so there's going to be a number

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01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: of really good defensive tackles, a number of really good

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01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 1: defensive ends, a number of really good corners, running backs,

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01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 1: even quarterbacks have started to change teams more often than

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01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: we've seen in past decades. So there is some of

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01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 1: that going on in free agency has created that, But

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01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:24,120
Speaker 1: for the most part, with the key pieces, most of

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01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 1: these teams, like the Chiefs and the Bills and you

1497
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 1: know the Niners, and they've got a lot of key

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01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:32,640
Speaker 1: pieces in place and they're just kind of spend their

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01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:36,479
Speaker 1: time refurbishing the others that you know that's tend to

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01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: come up. So draft in twenty seventh, yeah, it's hard

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01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: to find a guy that's going to step in and

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01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 1: unseat somebody who's been playing at a high level for

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01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: two or three years. And is the approach of free

1504
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 1: agency is for our needs, the draft is for our wants.

1505
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:52,720
Speaker 1: You want to go into the draft feeling good about

1506
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 1: the roster. You have good enough about the roster you

1507
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:58,200
Speaker 1: have so you can truly pick best player available. But

1508
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:00,719
Speaker 1: when you're drafting that late in the first round, it's

1509
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 1: tough because you're hoping this person is an impact player,

1510
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 1: but depending on what type of prospects are available, maybe

1511
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 1: they're not going to be I do look at this

1512
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 1: draft this year for this team being very very very

1513
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 1: very important. We heard we saw what the cap number

1514
01:24:18,600 --> 01:24:21,920
Speaker 1: is going to be reported to be around that two

1515
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 1: twenty five number, and Brandon Bean said, we are around

1516
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:28,720
Speaker 1: two forty. They are going to have to do a

1517
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 1: lot of work to get under the cap, and he

1518
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:33,720
Speaker 1: said that means low budget free agents and hitting on

1519
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:36,560
Speaker 1: the draft. So maybe this year, maybe this is the

1520
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 1: year that if you are going into the draft, yes

1521
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 1: with wants, but maybe you still have a need there.

1522
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:43,479
Speaker 1: Maybe this is the year that you do have to

1523
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:46,040
Speaker 1: trade up a little bit to truly get that impact

1524
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:47,800
Speaker 1: guy that you know is going to be a Day

1525
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:50,839
Speaker 1: one starter. We talked to Mike Ginetio spot Track yesterday.

1526
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 1: He said, if the Bills reworked Von Miller and Josh

1527
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 1: Allen and restructure their contracts, they could clear up thirty

1528
01:24:57,479 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 1: million of the eighteen that they're over, So they could

1529
01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:03,560
Speaker 1: get down pretty quick with just a couple of restructures.

1530
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:06,519
Speaker 1: And they're guys on the team like tarn Johnson's not

1531
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:09,680
Speaker 1: going anywhere. Vaughan and Josh are not going anywhere. You know,

1532
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 1: you got these Dion Dawkins, They're not going anywhere. They're

1533
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 1: gonna be on the team. So it doesn't matter if

1534
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,400
Speaker 1: you give them their salary upfront now, because then they'll

1535
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:19,639
Speaker 1: give you cap relief because they're gonna get earned that salary.

1536
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:21,559
Speaker 1: Whether they get hurt or not, they're gonna get on iron.

1537
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:23,880
Speaker 1: They're gonna earn their salary. So all of that stuff

1538
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: can they can get under the cap if if you know,

1539
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:32,880
Speaker 1: if they so desire. But you're right, Maddie that the

1540
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:35,599
Speaker 1: free agency is crucial because you can get the guys

1541
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:38,599
Speaker 1: to cover the holes in your broster and stuff. And

1542
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: I've we've said that, we got stuff on the whiteboard

1543
01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:42,280
Speaker 1: in our office, and one of the things that's on

1544
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:47,800
Speaker 1: the whiteboard is the Bills draft traits. They draft guys

1545
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 1: with physical abilities. They're looking for even if if if

1546
01:25:51,520 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: it's size Tremaine Edmund's tall, long, crazy athletic, that's we're

1547
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 1: gonna get Spencer Brown, Spencer Brown, Greg Rousseau. And you know,

1548
01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:06,519
Speaker 1: as you get further and further down the list into

1549
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:09,639
Speaker 1: the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh rounds, you know those traits

1550
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:12,200
Speaker 1: tend to be not as pronounced as they are at

1551
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:16,600
Speaker 1: the top. Matt Milano is a fifth rounder and all

1552
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:19,080
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's an all pro ye because not

1553
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:21,680
Speaker 1: only or is traits just you know what you're looking for,

1554
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:25,080
Speaker 1: but so is his heart and his head or off

1555
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:29,599
Speaker 1: the chart. So the draft is always about your right

1556
01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 1: it's you're about drafting what you want, and you want

1557
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 1: guys that are physically capable of really hitting it out

1558
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 1: of the park, particularly at the highest level of the draft.

1559
01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:42,680
Speaker 1: So the Bills at twenty seven, there's gonna be a

1560
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: guy there that's gonna have some physical traits, some real

1561
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:48,800
Speaker 1: physical traits, and it's gonna be interesting to see where

1562
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:50,280
Speaker 1: they go with that. But if it's just a guy

1563
01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:52,879
Speaker 1: they want, it could be any position. And it's that's

1564
01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 1: what the mock drafts has looked like right now, and

1565
01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:57,920
Speaker 1: it's hard to find. It's hard to see the picture

1566
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:01,040
Speaker 1: come together until after free agents. See, because we don't

1567
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:02,760
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen in free agency. All these

1568
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:04,880
Speaker 1: analysts who are doing mock drafts right now, they don't

1569
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: They may have an idea, but they don't know what's

1570
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:09,760
Speaker 1: going to happen. Truly, they haven't seen it happen yet.

1571
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:13,519
Speaker 1: So until free agency happens, these mock drafts they're all

1572
01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:15,400
Speaker 1: over the board, and that's how it looks for the Bills,

1573
01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: from defensive backs to running backs, to wide receivers, to

1574
01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:21,920
Speaker 1: offensive lineman to defensive lineman. I think we have just

1575
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:24,400
Speaker 1: about every position mocked to the Bills at this point.

1576
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 1: We've got a mock draft coming out tomorrow morning, so

1577
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:29,639
Speaker 1: I'm finishing that up this afternoon and we'll talk about

1578
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: it maybe during tomorrow's show. Break time for us when

1579
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 1: we come back. We're wrapping things up here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live are presented by Clyda Help. This is Buffalo

1581
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: Bills Radio, all right, closing things out here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live on this windy Thursday afternoon. Going to be

1583
01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 1: a cold weekend here, looking forward to things warming back up.

1584
01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:04,800
Speaker 1: It's going to get cold. Not excited about that. Find

1585
01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:10,240
Speaker 1: a warm place and hunker down. It's gonna be bad, cold, cold, bad.

1586
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:14,160
Speaker 1: Start a fire, Put a movie on, yea something, Watch

1587
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl game, watch the watch the balloon toss

1588
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: in Vegas. It feels like a Friday here. Tomorrow is

1589
01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 1: Friday Friday Tomorrow. You got a hunker down, it's gonna

1590
01:28:23,280 --> 01:28:24,960
Speaker 1: be I might be in a park out and say

1591
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 1: all right, let's do the show outside in our coats. Yeah,

1592
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:32,600
Speaker 1: it'll be our own version. I'm not going to have

1593
01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl games. Thanks for sending in some of

1594
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 1: those responses of how you would reinvent the Pro Bowl games.

1595
01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: Some good ideas there. I saw another one that said, like,

1596
01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 1: what if you involve some XFL players into it? I

1597
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:50,679
Speaker 1: think that could be interesting. I'm I'm team go somewhere warm,

1598
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:54,720
Speaker 1: make it be a vacation and do a couple events,

1599
01:28:56,080 --> 01:29:01,360
Speaker 1: couple big big dinners, or do some golfing inside. Why

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01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:03,760
Speaker 1: don't they they should just have those guys come in

1601
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 1: and make a big public appearance and have fans from

1602
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:07,600
Speaker 1: all the time come in and meet and greet and

1603
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:11,479
Speaker 1: picture and photo opportunities and cocktail parties and watch parties

1604
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 1: and YadA, YadA, YadA YadA. Everybody's happy, right, Well, don't

1605
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:20,719
Speaker 1: overthink it. Everybody's already there, So stuff begins. I think

1606
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:24,479
Speaker 1: tonight tomorrow, Saturday Sunday is the big day. All right,

1607
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:27,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna be back here tomorrow on one Bill's Lives,

1608
01:29:27,240 --> 01:29:29,800
Speaker 1: So catch us here tomorrow one to three. We'll see

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01:29:29,800 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 1: you then,