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Speaker 1: Oh Tasperstus done down time Ready, you're not here. We come.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy's Team Tasker.

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Speaker 1: We're right next door to new air of field where

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Speaker 1: the wind has blown the snow right off the carpet.

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Speaker 1: At twelve noon today, this Thursday afternoon, we're getting set

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Speaker 1: for three hours of first class radio entertainment. What's so funny?

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Speaker 1: Everything's better in the sunshines. Man. I got up this

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Speaker 1: morning the sun shine. It was great. It was rough yesterday,

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Speaker 1: bad day yesterday, right, it was rough. I canceled my

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Speaker 1: I was scheduled to go to a party up in Williamsville.

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Speaker 1: I canceled those plans. Feel bad about that. You fulfilled

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Speaker 1: your commitment to go to a birthday closer it was in.

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Speaker 1: It was down in Blaisdell a mutual friend of ours,

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Speaker 1: former State Senator Bill Stakowsky seventh birthday seventy A surprise wow,

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Speaker 1: and uh it went off without a hitch, and it

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Speaker 1: was very nice. I saw a lot of old friends

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Speaker 1: there and uh, good food. Obviously had a touch base

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Speaker 1: with some buddies and then he's a good man. Some

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Speaker 1: family members and a couple of my boys and my

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing he probably coached your boys at Saint Francis,

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Speaker 1: right something. That's how I know him. That's exactly how

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Speaker 1: I know him. He was a good player in his

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Speaker 1: own right, Bill Sakowski at the Holy Cross, and yes,

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Speaker 1: he was in high school also as a three sport

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Speaker 1: athlete football backs chool. I could not tell you anyway.

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday you do, Senators Takowski. I believe his birthday today.

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Speaker 1: I saw it in the paper today, Former Senator Bill Stakowski.

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday to do your old teammate, Jim Kelly. His

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Speaker 1: February fourteenth birthday is always memorable. Yeah. I was, actually

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Speaker 1: we're gonna head over to his house tonight, but we're not.

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Speaker 1: We got my families in town, we got stuff, found

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Speaker 1: his Valentine's Day, so and we both observed, well here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. So yesterday, yesterday, you know, we're I thought,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have plans for Valentine's You know

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Speaker 1: what we could do? You know, and I couldn't. I

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Speaker 1: totally forgot. We're having a huge get together to have

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Speaker 1: with a family. Yeah, the grandkids, the kids that you know,

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Speaker 1: my mom and dad are in town and everybody's so

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Speaker 1: we had these all these people coming over the house tonight,

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Speaker 1: so I do have something going on for Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 1: Your house is a little nutty, I guess right. Your

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Speaker 1: parents are in town. You're yeah, it's a yeah, crossed

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Speaker 1: between a retirement home and a monkey cage. The three

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Speaker 1: grandkids are there too, so that you know, everybody want

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Speaker 1: to come over and the you know, it's part of

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Speaker 1: the Yeah, they're not coming to see me, right, My

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Speaker 1: my grandkids. They're great grandkids, so that's yeah. So they're

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Speaker 1: having a great time over there. And I kind of

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Speaker 1: not that I don't enjoy my work with you, but

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Speaker 1: it would kind of be nice to be there with

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Speaker 1: them all today. You should be you mean all day.

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Speaker 1: I should have called in. Yeah, you know you're not

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Speaker 1: this in all seriousness, and I mean this. You I

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Speaker 1: consider myself bless you are blessed. They have grandchildren in town,

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Speaker 1: children in town, and my boys are in town as well,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. It is pretty cool. I yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, you're not, we get it. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: I make jokes about it, but it's pretty cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they So I'll give you this. So yesterday four

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Speaker 1: And so at the same time, I'm ready for a nap,

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Speaker 1: It's not supposed to be RESTful. It's supposed to be memorable.

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Speaker 1: he is graciously donated the next three hours of his

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Speaker 1: But we're happy to be here. We were. We were

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Speaker 1: blessed the last three days by right before we came

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Speaker 1: on the air, having news each day. Right yesterday, of course,

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Speaker 1: the Joe Flacco trade broke right before we went on

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Speaker 1: later today Monday, the news was what Kareem Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: You're talking about the commissioner. Yeah, so this came up.

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Speaker 1: Silver has also been approached by a number of Fortune

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Speaker 1: I don't think much of that. Look, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: He's had some missteps, but if I were an NFL owner,

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Speaker 1: I met him thirty years ago or more. Steve, he's

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Speaker 1: they're a top five defense in the league. And it's

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Speaker 1: going to be virtually intact with the minus of Kyle Williams,

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Speaker 1: who you know, was a great leader and a great

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Speaker 1: guy and all. But you know, they've kind of with

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Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips and all these guys. He was a rotational

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Speaker 1: player last year, although he was a strong leader and

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Speaker 1: a strong locker room guy. The Bills have no reason

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Speaker 1: to think their defense is going to fall off a

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Speaker 1: cliff this next year, no reason. So so you put them,

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Speaker 1: you know, I can't put them in the needy side

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Speaker 1: of things offensively, absolutely, we all know that what's happening.

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Speaker 1: But you know, their quarter, the fact that they're not

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Speaker 1: in this game. We had this conversation before the show too, Man,

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Speaker 1: how nice is it that the Buffalo Bills are not

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Speaker 1: in the conversation of a Kyler Murray And you know,

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Speaker 1: Josh McCown's out there, Teddy Bridgewater is a free agent,

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Speaker 1: Keenan Case, Keenam Tyrod Taylor's still out there, Colin Kaepernick's

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Speaker 1: still out there. Nick nick Foles is available, is he

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Speaker 1: gonna go to Jacksonville? And then you got draft picks

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Speaker 1: that are projected to go high in the draft. You

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Speaker 1: got Drew Locke, Dwayne Haskins, David Jones, Jared Stidham, Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Finley, Will Greer. These are all guys that are

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Speaker 1: projected going the first two or three rounds of the

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Speaker 1: first three rounds of the draft, if not the first

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Speaker 1: two rounds. And then you got late rounders Clayton Thorson, Gardner, Minshew,

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Speaker 1: Jake Browning, Trace mcsorty. So you got all these names,

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Speaker 1: and these are all quarterbacks that go from the NFL

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Speaker 1: veterans all the way to guys you have no idea about.

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Speaker 1: They're just rookies and they may be a rookie free

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Speaker 1: agent quarterback. I am. We're not in that conversation anymore.

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Speaker 1: Bills don't need a starter, The Bills don't need a backup,

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Speaker 1: The Bills don't need a veteran to you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of oversee a situation mentor they don't need a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That is a remarkable departure from where they've been over

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Speaker 1: the last almost two full decades. Right, it's different, it

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Speaker 1: feels different. It opens things up. We talked about it

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Speaker 1: three weeks ago when I was down there and mobile

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Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl. You're asking me questions about other

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Speaker 1: position groups wide receivers, offensive lineman, pass rushers, and you

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Speaker 1: get a chance to think seriously about that because that

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Speaker 1: need is over for the Buffalo Bills. It's a huge development.

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Speaker 1: Somebody asked me the other day, someone on our staff,

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Speaker 1: about Brandon Bean, and I think this is this draft

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Speaker 1: is the most important thing Brandon Bean will have done

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Speaker 1: in his Buffalo tenure. And I thought for a second

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Speaker 1: and said, no, he's already done that. He's already lined

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Speaker 1: himself up with the quarterback that they believe is the

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Speaker 1: quarterback of the future. I'm not saying it's guaranteed that

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Speaker 1: he will be, but Brandon Mean is now tied inexorably

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Speaker 1: to Josh Allen, and he will be for his entire career.

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Speaker 1: I think Brandon Bean will be. He's already made the

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Speaker 1: most important move of his Buffalo ten years general manager.

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Speaker 1: And we don't have to talk about quarterbacks now. We

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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about a quarterback answer, which puts

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Speaker 1: the Bills in a different situation in terms of need

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Speaker 1: than certainly the Dolphins in the AFC East. Here's the

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Speaker 1: thing too that kind of struck me. I hadn't really

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Speaker 1: thought about it. So Joe Flacco super Bowl MVP with

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Speaker 1: a quarterback who's getting a lot of big cap hit

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Speaker 1: this year. It's like twenty seven million cap hit this year,

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Speaker 1: but he's gonna be the starter in Denver. So twenty

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Speaker 1: seven million, You're you're getting a guy that ostensibly hopefully

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Speaker 1: will be healthy, and if he is, you're gonna pay

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Speaker 1: top dollar for him. But here's a guy in Brandon Bean,

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Speaker 1: who last year traded his starting quarterback to the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns for a third round pick. The Baltimore Ravens traded

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Speaker 1: their guy who's a Super Bowl MVP, who I think

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Speaker 1: is a you know, obviously is a throw of the football,

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Speaker 1: and I like the guy. I've always been more of

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Speaker 1: a Joe Fly fan the most people. But anyway, they

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Speaker 1: trade him for fourth round pick and not to me,

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Speaker 1: that shines a pretty good light on what Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: did last year with Tyrod Taylor trading him to a

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Speaker 1: Browns team for a third round when they got the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP. Getting traded at the same position the

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Speaker 1: next year for a fourth round. Now the contract flack

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Speaker 1: Hose contract plays into that. It's a big heavy lift

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Speaker 1: of a contract you're talking about. Are you talking about

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Speaker 1: nine million dollars difference for a third to a fourth

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Speaker 1: round pig. It's significant, I'll tell you that. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get it. But I like word. I like it. I

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Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, all right? Which AFC team EFC East

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Speaker 1: team is the most needy when it comes to personnel

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Speaker 1: during this offseason? We are approaching the draft, were approaching

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Speaker 1: free agency list just about a month away. Which team

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Speaker 1: needs the most in the AFC East? The Patriots, the Bills,

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Speaker 1: Jets of the Dolphins. You can vote on Twitter. You

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Speaker 1: can tweet in a response and we might read it

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Speaker 1: on the air. We're gonna get to some of the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet in a moment, or you can give us

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Speaker 1: a call eight oh three five fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. The other

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Speaker 1: issue on the table with the reports that some NFL

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Speaker 1: owners have reached out to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to

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Speaker 1: see if he's interested in becoming the NFL commissioner. Does

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Speaker 1: the NFL need to replace Roger Goodell? What do you

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Speaker 1: think of that again. Phone line's open on that eighth,

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Speaker 1: three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. It's Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get you any st well, I've kind of

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Speaker 1: would have been shocked, have you did. But thanks for

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Speaker 1: their well wishes. Yeah, same to you though. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: nice and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're Yeah, we're closing

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Speaker 1: in on my first full calendar year on the show,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I expect it. Don't make me, don't make

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Speaker 1: me uncomfortable in my workspace. We're back with One in

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Speaker 1: a moment. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy's team task around this

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Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon, and we've got a couple of topics on

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Speaker 1: the table. We'd love to get your input. Commissioner Goodell,

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Speaker 1: there's talked that Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, has been

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Speaker 1: approached about taking over the NFL. Why do you need

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Speaker 1: to do the owners need to do that. Let's know

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Speaker 1: what you think about that. The other issue on the table,

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Speaker 1: AFC East we're a month away from free agency, we

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Speaker 1: are a month and a half away from the draft,

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Speaker 1: and which AFC East team needs the most personnel this offseason?

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Speaker 1: It's a Twitter pole, that's where we're talking about. And

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Speaker 1: you've got a couple of responses on the tweet cheat there,

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Speaker 1: Stevie from Bill's Fan extreme the Bills have the most needs.

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Speaker 1: But I'm being biased because I really don't care about

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Speaker 1: those other teams enough to follow what they're doing that closely.

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Speaker 1: I leave that things to radio hosts. Good idea, it's

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Speaker 1: a good idea. Who get paid for that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: Just leave it to us, and leave it to us,

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Speaker 1: and we don't get paid enough, and just repeat what

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Speaker 1: we say. You tell people. I heard it on one Bill.

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Speaker 1: That's one guy from Brian Cook. He says, the answer

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Speaker 1: has to be Miami. The Pats are the Pats. The

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Speaker 1: Bills and Yets have holes, but draft capital and cap

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Speaker 1: space to work with. The Fins are in limbo at quarterback,

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Speaker 1: with a coaching carousel and a mediocre roster at best.

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Speaker 1: They're a bad Tannehill game from initiating a complete reboot.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if they're that far away from

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Speaker 1: a complete reboot. There are folks, media folks, people who

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Speaker 1: follow the Dolphins who think the reboot is on and

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Speaker 1: they are in the process of tanking right now. I've

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Speaker 1: heard I don't know if Tannehill gets a chance to

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Speaker 1: have a bad game again with them right right. It's

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Speaker 1: been said that that Brian Flores came in and said,

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Speaker 1: that's here, let me just tell you what you need

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Speaker 1: to do. And that's what he said. You gotta we

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Speaker 1: gotta tear this thing apart and fix it, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's what I think. I think that's what he was

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Speaker 1: hired to do. I don't think they're a bad Tannehill.

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Speaker 1: I think I don't know if Tannehill may play a

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Speaker 1: game for them. Yeah, that's how far they are away

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Speaker 1: from knowing from anybody knowing what they're gonna do next

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Speaker 1: and again. And I think this is obvious. But the

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Speaker 1: difference between the Bills and Jets and Miami is that

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Speaker 1: the Bills and Jets can point to a guy and

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Speaker 1: say we need a lot, but that's our quarterback. That's

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Speaker 1: our guy moving forward. Dolphins are lost when it comes

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Speaker 1: to quarterback. And if you look at the Bills and

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Speaker 1: the even between the Bills and the Jets. Bills can say, listen,

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Speaker 1: we got our quarterback, we got and we got a

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Speaker 1: really solid defense who in a lot of respects last year,

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Speaker 1: UM played way better than they did the year before

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Speaker 1: when they went to the playoffs, and the only thing

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Speaker 1: that was missing was the turnover ratio. Um, this is

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Speaker 1: the Bills team. That's when you look at it in regards.

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Speaker 1: In contrast to that, it's like you gotta say, well, gosh,

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Speaker 1: I like where we're at, you know, I like where

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Speaker 1: the Bills are at rather than the Jets. So UM certainly,

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Speaker 1: but the Bills and the Jets are tied together, I

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Speaker 1: think a little bit, except for the fact that now

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Speaker 1: you've listened, you got to the Jets switched head coaches.

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Speaker 1: That's that is a roll of the dice. You don't

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Speaker 1: know how that's gonna go real right away, But he's

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Speaker 1: gonna talking about when I don't think we're talking about

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Speaker 1: who's gonna have a better season, how it's gonna turn out.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about needs. Who needs players? Right? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: think I don't can't. Yeah, I don't think what I

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Speaker 1: don't Yeah, I think the Dolphins and the Jet are

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Speaker 1: looking for more players than the Bills are. I think

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Speaker 1: there's no question the Bills have holes, but only mostly

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Speaker 1: on one side of the football. They certainly they could

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Speaker 1: use some depth on the defensive side, maybe the defensive front.

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Speaker 1: They to replace Kyle Williams with a quality defensive tackle.

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Speaker 1: But you're not talking about going out and finding a

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback like the Dolphins might be, right, You're not

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Speaker 1: talking about trying to revamp the You know a roster

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Speaker 1: that's that was two years ago, was had Jarvis Landry

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Speaker 1: and Dominican Sue on it and all these guys, And

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Speaker 1: now you know the Dolphins are looking at that right

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Speaker 1: in the face. So and plus the Bills got ten

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Speaker 1: draft picks and eighty seven million dollars to spend. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty good to wandering Jack tweets us. And the Bills

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Speaker 1: have holes, no doubt, But at least we have some

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Speaker 1: solid talent on defense and the possible franchise quarterback on board.

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Speaker 1: The Jets are the same. The Dolphins have no quarterback

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Speaker 1: and are jettisoning talent all over the roster and appear

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Speaker 1: to be in tank. Well, they are the neediest team,

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Speaker 1: seemingly by choice on how they feel about that In Miami. Um,

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Speaker 1: we should get somebody on from Miami. We've got a

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Speaker 1: couple of people down there. Who's Joe Trust Joe Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Armando sol garrel Yeah, Um, somebody like that? Is there?

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Speaker 1: Is it a tank going on in Miami now? And

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Speaker 1: is that what they need? And are people are gonna

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Speaker 1: buy into that? Look? They had fan base is lukewarm

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Speaker 1: at best and have been the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: about the Dolphins. They they barely show up for games,

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Speaker 1: regardless of how hot it is or Sonny it is,

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Speaker 1: regardless of how many roofs you put over the U

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Speaker 1: the seating area. They barely. You know, I never get

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Speaker 1: the sense that that fan base cares too much about

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Speaker 1: how the Dolphins are Steve, and I wonder how they

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Speaker 1: would respond to a tank if that's in fact what's

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Speaker 1: going on about. Yeah, I mean, if they've been through

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Speaker 1: some rough seasons, no questions and bills, fans can relate

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00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: to that. But they've also had um, you know, Ryan

636
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: Tannehill is there. Who's a guy who I don't think

637
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: inspires a lot of confidence in a fan base. I

638
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: don't you know, they Um, they've just been okay a lot,

639
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: they've been a lot like the Buffalo Bills were for

640
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: a long long time, except they'll sprinkle in them and

641
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: the occasional playoff season like they did in Adam Gasee's

642
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: first season as head coach. It'll be interesting to see,

643
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: you know, what they look like this year under Brian Flores.

644
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question. There's a lot of

645
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: things that are going to change inside their buildings, and

646
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: we'll have to see what the results are on the field.

647
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: But I'm I think they're very while there are they

648
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: are I think the most needy team in the division.

649
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: I think they're also in a lot of ways the

650
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: most interesting. Which AFC East team is the neediest this offseason?

651
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: That's the question on the table. Reading some of the

652
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: tweets on the tweet sheet from Doug Briggs said, I'm

653
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: gonna say the Jets because I think they need to

654
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: show the football world why in the heck they chose

655
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: Adam Gayse as their coach. That's a good question. I

656
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: thought the same thing when they hired Adam Gays. We've

657
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: talked to a few folks on the show over the

658
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks who point to one thing. Adam

659
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: gay as a quarterback developer. Now where in his background

660
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: do you see him developing a quarterback? No one has significant,

661
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,479
Speaker 1: has made a significant has given us. It never got

662
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: to answer to that. Well, he had Peyton Manning. Peyton

663
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: mann was pretty well developed by the time Adam Gays

664
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: got him at Denver, Right, can anybody dispute that? I

665
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: don't know where you would look at him? Gayson said, well,

666
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: he's a quarterback whisper. He can help Sam Donald. Really

667
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: when did he do that in his past? I don't

668
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: get it. I don't. But here's the thing too, and

669
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 1: it's been well publicized. Peyton Manning made a call for him.

670
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: He called him. So if pat and that's you know

671
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: I think about that creates some weight and it depends

672
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: on what was in the call. If he says, yeah,

673
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: he's a good guy. But if Peyton Manning said, listen,

674
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: he took me to another level. I was already that

675
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: he really helped me. He's got a great sense. This

676
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: is what quarterbacks. If he said in general terms that

677
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: Adam Gays had everything he would have looked for to

678
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: help him as a young quarterback, you know that kind

679
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: of thing. If he'd give him the right I guess

680
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: he did give the right endorsement when he called the

681
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: Jets front office and said, listen, he's my guy. And

682
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: here's why. It must have been a pretty compelling argument,

683
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: because I've got as much respect for Peyton Manning as

684
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,959
Speaker 1: the next guy. And seriously, I think the guy's one

685
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: of the greats of all time. Ever, he's one of

686
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: the most important quarterbacks of our lifetime. Yes, but what

687
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: does he know about hiring coaches? Yeah? What does you

688
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: know is his voice? Does his voice carry enough weight

689
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: for you to put your franchise behind somebody who, from

690
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: the outside looking in, looks like they he just, you know,

691
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: stapled himself to Peyton Manning's resume, right, Yeah, he just

692
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: stapled his resume on the back of Peyton's. I mean,

693
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. That must have been a

694
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: pretty compelling phone call. And if that's what it took

695
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: for the Jets to If that's all it took for

696
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: the Jets to make that higher than net says a

697
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: lot about the Jets in their hiring process. I believe

698
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: what do you think which AFC East team is the

699
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: neediest this offseason? Our second topic, if NFL owners and

700
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: ESPN reports that where does that want to get the

701
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: language right. Sources close to the situation told ESPN that

702
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: several different NFL owners have tried to persuade Adam Silver,

703
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: the NBA commissioner, to run the NFL. What do you

704
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: think of that? Does Roger Goodell need to be replaced?

705
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: We'll take phone calls on this. We'll discuss with you

706
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: eight three five fifty and toll three one eight eight

707
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Bob on the line

708
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: from Lockbot, Oh Bob, how are you? I'm doing fine?

709
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you very much for taking my phone call. Sure,

710
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: I want to comment on Squitching novel and I'll tell

711
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: commissioners the owners are gonna be kind of greedy if

712
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: they do that. They're making a ton of money. Things

713
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: are running real wall. They should work back in the history.

714
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: Other companies have done us in the past. They've brought him.

715
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Petties bought a CEO and spent twenty

716
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 1: three million dollars. He come in with some new ideas

717
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: and the stock dropped almost thirty percent. Then they're running

718
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: spoons right now. They should keep it that way. The

719
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: players are making a lot of money. The owners are

720
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: doing real wall. You're right, Bob. I mean, we spoke

721
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,720
Speaker 1: about it a minute ago. It's a they are churning

722
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: out there. It's a cash cowl, is I mean it is.

723
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 1: They're turning out almost twenty five billion dollars of revenue,

724
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: and the owners like a guy who keeps that going,

725
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: like Roger Goodell. I don't think they're close to it,

726
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: but I think it does say something that if there

727
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: was what a handful of guys who have said, you know,

728
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: Adam Silver, he looks pretty sharp, you know, it says

729
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: something that there is a group of owners or a

730
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: sentiment within ownership that thinks they can do better. And

731
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: the reasons for that I would like to hear. Yeah,

732
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean too, I would like to hear. But I

733
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: think it is interesting, and that's why we talked about

734
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: it today. I think it's interesting that the NFL there

735
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: is a minority. Maybe it's a minority, maybe it's whatever,

736
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 1: there's some small voice in the ownership group that says,

737
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: you know what, I might be done with Roger, or

738
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: it might be time to start ramping up his replacement.

739
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: The ESPN report said several different NFL owners have approached

740
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: Adam silver several. So what does that mean four or five, six?

741
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, Um, but you make a really good point.

742
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: What would they want to improve production of revenue? It's

743
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: hard to imagine the league, the NFL could make more

744
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 1: money than they already make. UM. Public perception, it's out

745
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: there though, what's out there money? I mean, now you're

746
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: getting here's the thing, and here's what I say. I know,

747
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: but here's wine. Here's what happens. It's not about every

748
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: nickel on the tape. Well it is, but here's the thing, Murph.

749
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: For a lot of years there was ABC, NBC, CBS,

750
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: and they all had a piece of the pie. They

751
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: all had things. Then Fox got in the mix and

752
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 1: now one of those networkers was going to be out,

753
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: and the TV rights skyrocketed, I mean skyrocketed because somebody

754
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: didn't want to get left off the merry go round.

755
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: So then that boosted everything up. And now the same

756
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: thing is happening again. Now you've got Yahoo, Google, Hulu

757
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: streaming right. Streaming rights are coming on board now, um,

758
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: for all the games. It's an the revenue stream for

759
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: the league. It's it's getting more, you know, that's where

760
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: it's coming from. So it's not about just leaving every

761
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: getting every nickel. It's also about the new nickels that

762
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: are getting thrown on the table. And I would say

763
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: that there's no evidence that Roger Goodell is not aware

764
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: of that and is not ready to embrace that. I

765
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,959
Speaker 1: think he's demonstrated. You know, they've streaming rights and bounce

766
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: around to a couple of different formats over the last

767
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: three or four years in the league on a limited basis,

768
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: as the league sort of evaluates who can do this best,

769
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: who has the biggest reach. Who's going to pay us

770
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: the most money is a big thing. I think they're

771
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: well positioned to move into the next era in the

772
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: next TV contract of streaming rights, and what that means

773
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: doesn't mean pay per view. I mean look under Goodell

774
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: and even under Tagliboo before him, the NFL does a

775
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: great job of technology of anticipating what's the next big thing,

776
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: what's the next thing that's going to generate revenue for us.

777
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: They do it better than any other league, maybe better

778
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: than any other company in America. And one of the

779
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: other things, too, is there's also another big elephant on

780
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,439
Speaker 1: the horizon, and that's gambling. They've got to hurt. They've

781
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: got that hurdled across as well. Now, Adam Silver, and

782
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: like you said, the NBA, they're kind of on the

783
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: cutting edge of that. They're already kind of getting their

784
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: arms around what it's going to mean for their league.

785
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: So that may be one thing that entices, uh, the

786
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: NFL into going that direction. That, like you said, they

787
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: may just get greedy and say, we want somebody who

788
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: really knows this gambling thing so we can take full

789
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: advantage of them. We don't think Roger can do it.

790
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: That may be a reason for you know, this interest

791
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: in another commissioner. It's all, it's it's I was blown

792
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: away when I read this today. That day, several owners

793
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: close to the situation said that they've tried to persuade

794
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: Adam Silver to consider coming over to the NFL. I

795
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: was blown away. I said, really, And that did nothing

796
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: wrong with Adam Silver. He has done a great job

797
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: of the NBA has been app I like his I

798
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: like what I hear, and I like everybody has gone

799
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: to Batman said would you come and run our league

800
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: into the ground? Please? Oh my gosh, no. Actually the

801
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: NHL makes money too, so all right, so I'm with you.

802
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: I think it's it's really interesting. I really like Adam

803
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: Silver from what I didn't know anything about him until

804
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: I started, until I saw his introductory press conference as

805
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: commissioner of the NFL, and then some of the other

806
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: subsequent in the NBA. Since some of the subsequent public

807
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 1: appearances and interviews that I've seen him do on behalf

808
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: of the NBA. He is an impressive guy. And one

809
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: thing that I've struck me that the NBA does, and

810
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: I said this little earlier in the show, is his

811
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: ability to connect with the players that play in the NBA,

812
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: the guys who play in his league. I think his

813
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: relationship with those guys, and particularly the elite players, is

814
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: one of the things that allows that league to be

815
00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: more nimble and more ready to embrace things like like

816
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: legalized gambling, free agency changes, and tweaks to the collective

817
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: Bargain Agreement. I think that relationship is crucial to the

818
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: NBA's ability and to its growth over the last Over

819
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: his tenure in the last five years, I think he's

820
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean you talk about he may be

821
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: the most impressive guy. Of the three major commissioners there

822
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: are Roger, Adam Silver, and Gary Bettman. I think Adam

823
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: Silver is a guy who has maximized his position in

824
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: such a short amount of time for the betterment of

825
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: his league, both for the players and for the ownership.

826
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: He has done an impressive job. So I think that's

827
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: maybe where the interest comes from. Certainly some of it does.

828
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: Know what I do not like hi about Adam Silver.

829
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: When he got the job, what five years ago now,

830
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: he came in and said that he was going to

831
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: do something about one and done. How college players play

832
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: one year in college and then come to the NBA.

833
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: He's done nothing, He's backed off. He never even really

834
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: got to work on that. It's a problem for the NBA,

835
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: and it's a problem for college basketball. I think they

836
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 1: have one year of college and then guys are eligible

837
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: and drafted. It would never even touched it after he

838
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: said he would when he got the job. It's interesting

839
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: to me because guys who say that, and obviously when

840
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 1: they get in the job and they start to explore

841
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: the possibility of fixing it, something happens that says, either

842
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: we can't fix it, yeah, probably got union and right,

843
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't fix it, right, or if you do,

844
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the NCAA to change way they

845
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: do business, and you have no power there, you have

846
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: no you know, you have no recourse to go there. Um.

847
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: So there's probably some of that, if not all of that,

848
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: But obviously it's been if he did really want to

849
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 1: fix it and he wasn't able to or not even

850
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: to address it, it's got to he's got to come

851
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: to the realization probably he has no effect on he

852
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: can't have anything. I guess I never saw that, which

853
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: is interesting. I don't know how the NBA commissioner would

854
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: affect the NCAA rules. Just change the NBA rule. We

855
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: need this amount of time in college or this age.

856
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: I mean the NFL does it. The NFL has a

857
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: different rule. You got to be what is it so

858
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 1: many years out of high school before they'll they'll cons

859
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that it's a little different though, because

860
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: you always run into this when we start comparing sports

861
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: in the way kids young guys get into the league.

862
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: Football is a different type of sport because I don't

863
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: say nobody, but very few high school kids could make

864
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: a jump from high school to the NFL. They're just

865
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: because they're too young, and you just need to get

866
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: more physically mature, and I don't know that it's quite

867
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: that cut and dried for the NBA guys. There's there

868
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: are guys who could make it and have made the

869
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: jump from high school to the NBA, and you just

870
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: there's just never been a guy that can do that

871
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: in my mind in the NFL. So there is a

872
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: difference there. Hey, what do you think should the NFL

873
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: owners be flirting with Adam Silver as a potential new

874
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: NFL commissioner? What do you think of that? And what

875
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: do you think who's the neediest team in the AFC

876
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: East when it comes to personnel in the upcoming season

877
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: the upcoming off season? Give us a call or a

878
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: tweet us in on either topic. We're back to discuss

879
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: more in a moment. One Bill's Live presented by Kalaida

880
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: Health from One Wheels Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

881
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Life. John Murphy's Steve Tasker

882
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: here on this Thursday afternoon. Spencer Long, new Bills offensive lineman,

883
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: coming up on the show at a couple of minutes

884
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: one o'clock today, and Condre Ismael, who played in the

885
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: NFL played college football at Syracuse and has been a

886
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: part of the Ravens media group for a couple of years.

887
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: He'll join us to talk about the impact on the trade,

888
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: the Joe Flacco trade, what it means in Baltimore. There

889
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: was the aftermath is for the fans there in Baltimore. Yeah,

890
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: certainly they sowered on Flacco, right right, That's amazing to me,

891
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,479
Speaker 1: not not amazing the guy who won the Super Bowl

892
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 1: for him. And I know that their defense and Lewis

893
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: and those guys and Ed Reid and those guys well

894
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: Ed might so you know, they got a lot of

895
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 1: credit for that. But man, oh man, Joe was a

896
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 1: good quarterback. Yeah, I wouldn't. I see his stat about

897
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: how bad he had been in the last couple of

898
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: years though, And I get that it is of what

899
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 1: have he done for me lately? League, But it seems like,

900
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: and I think I'm equeen what you just said, It

901
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: seems to me like there should he should have been

902
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 1: held in higher regard in Baltimore than he was. I

903
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: think one of the things they soured on him. He

904
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: played hurt. He's been hurt significantly the last couple of years,

905
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: and people grow tired of that. They don't want to.

906
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: You know, they want guys who were available, just like

907
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: coaches do, and Joe has not been available. That's how

908
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: that's why he got benched this last year. It wasn't

909
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: so much that of lack of production. It was the

910
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: fact that he was hurt and that may be the

911
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: biggest concern for Bronco fans as he, you know, starts

912
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: to put on a different uniform. I just had a

913
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: quick fleeting memory of the It must have been a

914
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: wild card player game, Baltimore versus the Chargers. Remember how

915
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: bad Lamar Jackson was that day? He was awful, awful

916
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: early in the game, especially, Yeah, I have a hard

917
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: time tying my future to him. Rookie quarterback played a lot.

918
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: I guess he was an upgrade over Flacco. But uh,

919
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: and not that you know, you might say, well, yeah, okay,

920
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: maybe Lamar Jackson is not the answer, but Joe Flacco is.

921
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: Certainly he's not either. Okay, you deal them away, but

922
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: I just don't. I'd be worried if I were a

923
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: Ravens fan. We're gonna talk with Cadre about this, but

924
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: I'd be worried that they got the right guy in

925
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: the job. Not again, not that Flacco was the right

926
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,879
Speaker 1: guy either. Well, that is Lamar Jackson the answer. Joe

927
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: remember the playoff game, I'll bad. Yeah, he was like

928
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: brutally bad, like oh for a long time on that

929
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: first half. I think about this though, I think Joe

930
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,720
Speaker 1: Flacco is kind of in the same spot. Eli Manning

931
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: has been, you know, a guy who's on a team

932
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 1: that's not quite the same team it was. They want,

933
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: you know, one on one. Flacco won one Super Bowl,

934
00:46:56,080 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: Manning one two and seemingly not as good as they

935
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: have been, you know, not good enough. And now Eli

936
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: Manning has not had any injury issues, but certainly his

937
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: production has been off so much so that the club

938
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: and you know, Ben McAdoo, the head coach at the time,

939
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: wanted to bench him. That didn't go over very well,

940
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: and it ended up him getting fired because of the

941
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: way he handled it. But Eli Manning is still there,

942
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,240
Speaker 1: still playing, and neither one of them has been lightened

943
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: on fire. And I don't know whether it points to

944
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: the fact that it's so difficult to find one of

945
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: these guys. You've really got a stink before you get replaced,

946
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: particularly if you've been successful in the past, and that

947
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: always begs the question, why can't these guys get it

948
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: done again? Well? What changed around them? And that I

949
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 1: think always buys them a little extra time, even if

950
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: it is the quarterback's fault. You say, well, he doesn't

951
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 1: have quite the weapons that he had when he won

952
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Well, his offensive line is not quite

953
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: as good as it was when he had ran the

954
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: Super Bowl or won the Super Bowl. His running game

955
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: hasn't really come around like it they had it in

956
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. The defense isn't getting as many turnovers

957
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: as they did when they won the Super Bowl. So

958
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: there's all these excuses you can give these guys who

959
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 1: have been the quarterback of a super Bowl winning team

960
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: that they seem to run through before the team finally says,

961
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,479
Speaker 1: you know what we're trading to Denver? Yeah, I guess,

962
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: and you know, I wonder. I don't think that. And

963
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: the Ravens have not been a team that typically responds

964
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: to fan pressure. But if you think about that playoff

965
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: game against the Chargers, Lamar Jackson was so bad there

966
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: was open speculation on CBS by nance and a Tony

967
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: Romo and Tracy Wolfson asked, but Joe back in, They

968
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: never did and maybe it's the Ravens saying we don't

969
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: want to we don't want to be faced with that

970
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: question again down the road. We want to go all

971
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: in on Lamar Jackson. That's the part. I've got to

972
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: ask Condre about it when he joins us and what

973
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: times you join us? At two o'clock? We got asked

974
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 1: Condree about it? Because is that a reason to make

975
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: that decision? I don't know. I don't know. Well, what

976
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: are you gonna do if you get into training camp?

977
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: You've got Joe Flacco and Lamar Jackson again, you know,

978
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: make Joe the back up. I mean that that's just

979
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: not that dynamic doesn't work. But you've got you know,

980
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: they are getting some capital. I mean twenty seven million bucks.

981
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: There's a lot of money. Yeah, and you know that

982
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:15,240
Speaker 1: that will help him. Their speculation now that maybe Tyrod

983
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: Taylor goes back to Uh, Tyrod Taylor is a free

984
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: agent and he's yeah, And I don't know. I listen,

985
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: we've seen Tyrod and we know who Baker Mayfield took

986
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: his job last year. Uh, I don't I doesn't surprise

987
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: me that that's out there. But Tyrod Taylor is not

988
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: as good as Lamar Jackson. He's sure. I'm pretty sure

989
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: that's my opn't get away from this my opinion that

990
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: playoff games, yeah, I get it, but that that's what

991
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: happens when I mean, we've all seen it. You're getting

992
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 1: the playoff games. You don't play these teams that are struggling, Yeah,

993
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: play really good ones that are you play talented teams

994
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: that are playing well. I just wouldn't have a lot

995
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: of faith in Lamar Jackson. But we'll talk to Kydre

996
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 1: about it at too. Coming up at one after the break.

997
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,760
Speaker 1: Here at the top of the hour, Spencer Long, Bill's

998
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: new offensive lineman, will join us live on the line

999
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 1: that's coming up next. Come on back, One Bill's Live,

1000
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: presented by Collata Health. From One Bill's Drive. This is

1001
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radiollo Bills Radio Network Sports Off date. The

1002
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive around the NFL. With the

1003
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: free agency just a little bit less than a month

1004
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 1: away and the draft about a month and a half away,

1005
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,720
Speaker 1: its teams are getting their rosters set. The Los Angeles

1006
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: Chargers have put defensive lineman Cory Legit on the free

1007
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: agent market. The defensive tackle will be a free agent

1008
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: as the team will not exercise its option. Legit as

1009
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,720
Speaker 1: a nine and a half million dollar cappit Ian rappaport

1010
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: A NFL network says that the Chargers are open to

1011
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 1: him returning, and the team later confirmed that report. Interesting

1012
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: move in San Francisco, where the Niners have declined to

1013
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: tracked option for a wide receiver, Pierre Garson thirty two

1014
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: years old. He has struggled to stay healthy two seasons

1015
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. He played just sixteen total games, So

1016
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 1: Pierre Garson will hit the free agent Markut Interesting thirty

1017
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: two year old wide receivers had some production in the league.

1018
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,919
Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers on the practice Nites today at key Bank Center,

1019
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: coming off the win over the Islanders Tuesday. Tomorrow night,

1020
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: the Sabers wrap up their seven game homes m with

1021
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: a game against the New York Rangers. Sabers and the

1022
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: Rangers coming up tomorrow night and then the NBA. James

1023
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: Harden has extended his thirty point streak to thirty one

1024
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: consecutive games. He scored at least thirty points and thirty

1025
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: one consecutive games now Tyan Wilt Chamberlain for the second

1026
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: longest such streak in NBA history. He had forty two

1027
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: points last night as the Houston Rockets lost in the

1028
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves one twenty one to one eleven. And that

1029
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: is the brief edition of the update. Steve. There's not

1030
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: a whole lot going out in the sports world today,

1031
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: as reflected in our headlines quiet, quiet day around the

1032
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: National Football League. We're gonna we're gonna see what We're

1033
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 1: gonna reach out to Spencer along here in just a minute,

1034
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: see if he can come on with us and see

1035
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Maybe he's working out, you know he,

1036
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: and we're gonna ask him about it. He working out

1037
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: with Jeremiah Searles, another Bill's offensive line both from Nebraska.

1038
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to hear. We're underweight, hour two of

1039
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: the show. We're here until three o'clock. I love to

1040
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: hear from you. We've been talking about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodowell.

1041
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: Does he need to be replaced? That's the question on

1042
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 1: the table. The reason we ask is because of this

1043
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: ESPN report that says several different NFL owners have tried

1044
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: to persuade NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to come over and

1045
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 1: be the NFL commissioner what do you think of that?

1046
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: Give us a call lines open eight oh three oh

1047
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,319
Speaker 1: five fifty and toll free one eight eight eight five

1048
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. The other thing on the table

1049
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: neediest teams. Bill Barnwell, our buddy from side dot com

1050
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: ranked the NFL's neediest teams. He's got the Oakland Raiders

1051
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 1: the neediest team in the NFL going into this offseason.

1052
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: They are number one, the Oakland Raiders with their four

1053
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 1: and twelve record last year. He's got the number two.

1054
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: He's got the Buffalo bill He's got the Dolphins number four,

1055
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills number six. The least needy team

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00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 1: in the NFL, according to Bill Barnwell, the team that

1057
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: doesn't really need much, if anything in terms of personnel

1058
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: this offseason. For Bill Barnwell says, the least needy team

1059
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: is Atlanta Falcons. Bill Barnwell, we'll talk about this with

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00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: him tomorrow when he joins us on the show. But

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00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: what do you think our Twitter poll today in the

1062
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: AFC East, Who's the neediest team? What do you think?

1063
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,359
Speaker 1: We have had the Twitter poll up for a little

1064
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: bit more than an hour right now. The least neediest

1065
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. Most of our respondents so far

1066
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,280
Speaker 1: think that it's well, the neediest team is the Miami

1067
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: dolphinsty percent say the Bills, thirteen percent say the Jets,

1068
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: and just two percent say the New England Patriots. Okay, okay, okay, yeah,

1069
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:56,959
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know. Look, the Bills have needs,

1070
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 1: but I think when you've got a quarterback, your needs

1071
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 1: are and it's not just you know, we need ten

1072
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: players or eight starters, but if you've got a quarterback,

1073
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 1: that's worth more than We've got everything about a quarterback.

1074
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: And I think that's the position. That's the position that

1075
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,919
Speaker 1: the new the Miami Dolphins are in. We need people,

1076
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: including a quarterback, and the Bills are not in that position.

1077
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: I think that makes them a lot less needy. That's

1078
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: so hard to less needy than the Miami Dolphins more significant.

1079
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what are you gonna do? Yess a

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00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: call eight three fifty to three one eight eight five fifty. Yeah,

1081
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: you know that's and we got this thing about which

1082
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: team is the neediest. We've also in this stuff about

1083
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: where the Bills are. And it's interesting we're getting some

1084
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: feedback on from people on Twitter and and uh there's

1085
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: a from I'm ad fifty. Lamar Jackson was in a

1086
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 1: playoff game. And if you say you're not ready to

1087
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: commit to Lamar Jackson, why do you think we should

1088
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 1: commit to Josh Allen. Both organizations should commit to those

1089
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 1: rookies as they showed promise. Because Josh Hellen, I'll say

1090
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: it is a better quarterback than Lamar Jackson was last year,

1091
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: and it's a much brighter future. I don't care who

1092
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: played the playoffs last year in terms of this question.

1093
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: That's that's that's a dumb question on Twitter. You're no,

1094
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: I got Josh Hellen is better than the Jackson's Yeah, skilled,

1095
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:23,839
Speaker 1: He's gonna be another quarter If you're gonna tell me question,

1096
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: if you line those guys up and say you'd rather

1097
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: have Lamar Jackson than Josh Allen because Lamar played in

1098
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: the playoff game last year, you didn't watch those guys play, right,

1099
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 1: You didn't? Yeah, all right. So Bill signed an offensive

1100
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,839
Speaker 1: lineman a couple of days ago, a veteran who's got

1101
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: forty four NFL starts, and he joins us right now

1102
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: in the Subway fresh Take hot line offensive lineman Spencer Long.

1103
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: Five seasons in the League four with Washington one with

1104
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: the Jets last year. Now he comes to the Buffalo

1105
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: Bills after signing this contract a couple of days ago.

1106
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: Spencer John Murphy's team tasker here in Orchard Park, where

1107
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: you got out of town before the big snow hit yesterday.

1108
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: You're smart, we can see that already. Yeah, thanks for

1109
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: having me, John, Yeah, tell me about Buffalo and what

1110
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: it was that brought you to the Buffalo Bills this week.

1111
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, going into the visit, I didn't know

1112
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: what was going to happen, but you know, I really

1113
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 1: just kind of fell in love with, uh, you know,

1114
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 1: the group of guys that I'm going to be working

1115
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: with and the coaching staff. I think the energy there.

1116
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: We're heading in the right direction and everybody's in it

1117
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: for the right reasons, and um, they're trying to you know,

1118
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: align everybody to make sure we're we're all on the

1119
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 1: same page and moving towards our goal in the right way.

1120
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: And that was a huge selling point for me. And

1121
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: also Buffalo as a you know, as an area. I'm

1122
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: from Lincoln, Nebraska, so it's it's kind of reminds me

1123
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: of that a little bit. So, um, that's something I'm

1124
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: you know, excited to be a part of Spencer. Did

1125
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 1: the move by the Jets a week ago take you

1126
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: by surprise? Uh? Yeah, a little bit. I can't say,

1127
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta expect anything in this league, but um,

1128
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: you know I would I would be surprised. Yeah, I

1129
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: was a little bit surprised. I would say, Yeah, did

1130
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: you get a did you put a call into your

1131
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: friend Jeremiah Searles, who's a backup line and for the

1132
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. You were coming in for a visit. You

1133
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,879
Speaker 1: work out with Searles in in Nebraska, or so we've

1134
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: been told. Did he what what kind of heads up

1135
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: scouting report did he give? You? Uh, you know, just

1136
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: kind of general stuff. You know, how's the how's the

1137
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, the building in there, how do you like

1138
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: working there? How's the quality of life house? Uh? You know,

1139
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: has everybody you know aligned with the way we think

1140
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: and you know, you have a good character and stuff

1141
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: like that. And he had nothing to say or nothing

1142
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 1: but good things to say, and everybody else had good

1143
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 1: things to say about him, and so that made me.

1144
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: You know, if you appreciate hard working, smart football players,

1145
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: then you appreciate Jeremi Searles, and uh, you know that

1146
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 1: was enough sale for me. And you know I talked

1147
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: to him in person about it, not over the phone,

1148
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: because you know, like I said, I lived with him

1149
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,439
Speaker 1: in the off season, we trained together, so um, yeah,

1150
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: it was it was a smooth, you know, easy decision

1151
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: for me. I just everything fell into place. You live

1152
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: with Searles, now, is that right, zaakare Thomas? Yeah, yeah,

1153
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: just for a couple of months. I take over his basement, okay,

1154
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: because he's married, right, I met his wife. He's married

1155
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: and yep, no kids, I don't think. Yep, they're out.

1156
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: They have one on the way. So I'm gonna get

1157
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna get the boot when that comes around.

1158
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: You can you could pretend to be his son, now

1159
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: though you can. Are you gonna Are they gonna name

1160
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: their kids Spencer or anything like that or something? Guys,

1161
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 1: I'm excited for my new roommate. But yeah, right, a

1162
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: little different menu. We're with Spencer long new Bills, offensive linement. Uh,

1163
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: tell me about your years in Washington, the four years

1164
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:28,439
Speaker 1: in Washington, Spencer, what was that like? What went well

1165
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: for you there with with Washington Redskins? Oh, yeah. I

1166
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: mean I started out, I didn't get you know, the

1167
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: playing time I wanted to as a rookie. Um, but

1168
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: really just you know, once I you know broth the

1169
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: lineup and I I figured out, you know that, I

1170
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: started to have to you know, cross train at center

1171
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: and stuff. I've never played center before I was in Washington,

1172
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: but you know, started my second year like fourteen games

1173
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: of left guard, and um, we had a veteran guy

1174
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: come back from an injury and we competed for that job.

1175
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 1: And I also was starting to put you know, my

1176
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: seat in two buckets by competing at center, and then

1177
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: eventually got that job when the you know, when our

1178
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: center went down, and kind of never turned back and

1179
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: was kind of that guy for the remainder of my

1180
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: time there. Kind of just was It was weird how

1181
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,439
Speaker 1: it worked out because you know, I was always a guard,

1182
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: but um, you know, working with Bill Callahan and you know,

1183
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: getting my skills sharpen up and having a lot of

1184
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 1: tools to work with and um, learning from him in

1185
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: a new position was was really valuable. And UM kind

1186
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: of hit the ground running there. You hit you you

1187
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: came in with the Jets, and then last year, the

1188
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: big and I hate to bring it up, but you

1189
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: had the injured finger in the game against Miami, trying

1190
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: to snap the football with a busted hand and it

1191
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: went bad sideways on you and you had you couldn't

1192
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: do it. I mean, I know I've been there where

1193
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: you're trying to play through an injury and you're trying

1194
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: to do it. Your body makes you do it pain free.

1195
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: It's like a limp, so when you snap it, you

1196
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: do it pain free, not knowing it feels normal. But

1197
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: it was anything but normal. What did what happened in

1198
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 1: the aftermath of the day you had against Dolphins where

1199
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: you couldn't get the snap back to your quarterback, you

1200
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: know that was that was a really tough time for me.

1201
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: You know, UM, I made a decision to go ahead

1202
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: and step out there and given all I could do

1203
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: was you know, given the information that I was, you know,

1204
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: my body was telling me at the time, and what

1205
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: happened during the week, UM I made it through practice.

1206
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: You know, UM didn't have any abearance snaps that week.

1207
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 1: UM came in, I said, all right, here we go.

1208
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 1: I want to help my team, and you know it's

1209
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: an offensive line. You're like, you're not going to sit

1210
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 1: out for a freaking hand, you know what I mean.

1211
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: Part of my friends went in there and uh ended

1212
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: up getting reinjured in the fourth quarter. And um, you

1213
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 1: know you can shoot it up, you can, you know,

1214
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: but you have to play that game as if you

1215
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: shoot up too much, your hand goes Now you can't

1216
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: feel the football. So I mean that really affects your

1217
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 1: release as a center. And when you kind of you know,

1218
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 1: get that pink in your chain, you know, it's sometimes

1219
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:45,439
Speaker 1: in the heat of the moment, when the balls rolling,

1220
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: you can't really get out of that. And I just

1221
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: tried to make the best decision with what I could

1222
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: at the time, which turned out, you know, kind of

1223
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: bite me in the app and uh, it was it

1224
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 1: was really tough for me to put that on tape,

1225
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: and um, let my you know, I felt like that

1226
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: was probably one of the feeling that I had playing

1227
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: football up into my career, and um, it's really not

1228
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:05,959
Speaker 1: like me. And you know, catching a lot of flak

1229
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 1: for that was you know, kind of kind of frustrating

1230
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: because people at a lot of time, you know, didn't

1231
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: know I'm not allowed to disclose injuries during the season,

1232
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: and um, during that time, a lot of people didn't

1233
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: really understand what was really going on, and um, I

1234
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: wanted to just explain so bad, but um, I didn't

1235
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to it. Kind of had to just

1236
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: put my head down and keep moving forward. And um

1237
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 1: it worked out that after the BI week I was

1238
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: able to move the left guard and actually properly you know,

1239
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: pape it up and cast it and put some protection

1240
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: on it and continue to help the team. And um,

1241
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: I think you know that finished well, but it was

1242
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: definitely a mid season loal that was hard to deal with.

1243
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: But um, you know, you live and you learn and

1244
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: you move on, you know, Spencer, I watched a game

1245
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: on tape because it was the week before the Bills

1246
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: played the Jets last year, and as I watched it,

1247
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 1: I thought, well, why isn't Todd Bowls or somebody get

1248
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 1: them out of this? Clearly, you know, you weren't right

1249
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: and the snaps weren't right, And I wasn't thinking about you.

1250
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: I was saying, what's what's wrong with the Jets that

1251
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: they don't they don't see this? Obviously they saw it

1252
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: and don't do something about it. That's what concerned me

1253
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: about that game. Yeah, inside for me, I'm battling saying

1254
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. I want to play, you know

1255
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: what I mean, and you want to contribute, and at

1256
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: the time I thought I could, and um it really

1257
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: happened in one series when the real bad snap happened.

1258
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 1: It was really like, you know, okay, time to come

1259
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: out like this is obviously but obviously hindsights twenty twenty.

1260
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 1: You know, like you're gonna, well, what if that didn't

1261
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 1: happen and we drive down to win the game, you

1262
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like maybe I could survive, but um, yeah,

1263
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: it was. It was one of the more challenging games

1264
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: of my career just to try to deal with that

1265
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: and you know, perform at my highest level. And yeah,

1266
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: it was something that you know, was tough, but I

1267
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: think I learned from as player, and um, you know,

1268
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: really tested me. And uh, you know, I think I'm

1269
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: coming out on top of that. So well, you hit

1270
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: the free agent market and you end up a week

1271
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: later signing with the Buffalo Bills. What have you been

1272
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 1: told by this club? And what's the next step and

1273
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 1: when will we see you back here in Buffalo? Uh? Yeah,

1274
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: you know the thing that really sold me here was, Um,

1275
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: they want to you know, they sold me for you know,

1276
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: coming in and bringing a guy that's you know, trusting

1277
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 1: to me that I'm gonna work hard and be a

1278
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: team player and you know do I'm gonna try to

1279
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: do whatever I can to help the bills and whatever

1280
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 1: way they ask. And you know, at this point in

1281
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: my career, I just want to I just want to

1282
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: play a contributed to win and they know that. And

1283
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work hard and I'm not gonna be an

1284
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: ego guy and not going to make it about me,

1285
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: and um, and they know that, you know from doing research.

1286
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 1: I mean that type of guy, which you know, really

1287
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 1: gave me a lot of faith in the organization that

1288
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: they're that their values in the right place. And um,

1289
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm super excited to work with the staff

1290
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, get to work in Buffalo

1291
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: and that'll come around in April. I'll probably come down

1292
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: a little early to try to get settled. Before you

1293
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: know that, I'll see some program begin. Spencer, the issues

1294
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: you had with your hand and not being able to snap,

1295
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 1: is does that impact whether you could play center again?

1296
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think is there a chance

1297
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 1: you might be a swing guy, guard center or something

1298
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 1: for the Bills moving forward. Um. Yeah, it's always a

1299
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: chance of that, you know. You know, I'm just I'm

1300
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna I know, I'm gonna go in there and compete

1301
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: at center. So, um, you know that's up to the

1302
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: coaching staff. And UM, you know there's one there's one

1303
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: thing you always say control, which you can control, but

1304
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, acting on it is another thing and believing

1305
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: in that and I'm just you know, I'm gonna go

1306
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:17,800
Speaker 1: in there and compete my ass off and see what happens.

1307
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: And you know it's up to them to make the

1308
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,919
Speaker 1: decision where they want me, and I trust that they're

1309
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,200
Speaker 1: gonna make, you know, the best decision for the team.

1310
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: And at this point in my career, I want I

1311
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 1: want you know, that's I'm good with that. I'll accept that,

1312
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: and I just I just want to win football games.

1313
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: You know, what did you think of the two games

1314
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:35,480
Speaker 1: against the Bills the Jets played last year that the

1315
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: bad loss which you probably sat out right after the

1316
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 1: Dolphins game with your hand and then coming up here

1317
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: and play and the Jets played pretty well. What did

1318
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: you make of the Bills and what were your impressions

1319
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: of the twenty eighteen Buffalo Bills. Um, I thought, you know,

1320
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 1: they're they're a really good team, and especially Josh Allen.

1321
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: I'm excited to play for him. They're under him, and

1322
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's a really talented kid and

1323
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: you know, can can run, can throw. Um, it's just

1324
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 1: he's got that kind of like that factor, you know

1325
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 1: that you know, you just you see a real competitor

1326
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: that just does whatever they can to win. And UM,

1327
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 1: I'm excited to work for that. And we had we

1328
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 1: kind of grinded out that game and it was a

1329
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 1: really fun game. But um, you know that was I

1330
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: was going up against the legend and Kyle Williams, and

1331
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 1: that was another thing, like seeing how they treated him

1332
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 1: on the way out, Like I just know this is

1333
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: a class, classy organization from top to bottom, and I

1334
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 1: want to play for people like that. Last thing, Spenter,

1335
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 1: Steve and I thinking back to that the Jets Bills

1336
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 1: game up here, So impressed with Sam Donald. You you

1337
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 1: played with Donald last year, You'll get Josh Allen this year.

1338
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: Their buddies. Obviously they worked out together themselves. Um, what

1339
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 1: was it like with Donald and what did you think

1340
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 1: about what do you think about his quarterback prospects in

1341
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: the league. You know, to be honest, I think he's

1342
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: got a right future and he handled himself well as

1343
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 1: some a lot of pois on the field. Granted there's

1344
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: some growing pains, but anybody's twenty one years old playing

1345
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 1: the NFL is going to have that. Um. But you know,

1346
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: I wish the best for Sam, but not when they're

1347
01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: playing the Bill. Yeah, I got you. Yeah, yeah, we

1348
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: have to kind of agree with you. We think he's

1349
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,280
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. And in fact, you're in you know,

1350
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: we're you know, in best case scenario for everybody. These

1351
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 1: two Sam Darnold, Josh Allen play against each other for

1352
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 1: fifteen years and half some epic battles. Hopefully with and

1353
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: now with Josh Allen getting the best of it. I

1354
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 1: think they have, you know, both of them have really

1355
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: great futures and um, it'll be it'll be fun to

1356
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:25,720
Speaker 1: be a part of. And yeah, Spencer, thank you very much.

1357
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 1: Say hello to Jeremiah Searles for us. He's he's been

1358
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: out to the show a couple of times. I think

1359
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 1: he likes to show. Yeah, you love radio. So now

1360
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 1: there you go, there you go. We like radio. Yeah,

1361
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 1: we've all got good faces for radio. That's great. Thank you, Spencer.

1362
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: Good luck. We'll see here in a little bit. Yeah,

1363
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,360
Speaker 1: thank you guys. Take care. Spencer Long, the Bill's new

1364
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, signed to a contract on Tuesday. Joined to

1365
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 1: sign the Subway Freshtate cotline, presented by Subway Restaurants, probably

1366
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: locally owned and operat It's interesting to hear him talk

1367
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 1: about what sold him on Buffalo and it kind of

1368
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 1: gives you a little bit of optimism about how how

1369
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: the culture affected him. He now, he is a guy

1370
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 1: from Lincoln, Nebraska, and you know, obviously Buffalo is kind

1371
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: of a blue collar, middle size city like that where

1372
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: it kind of reminds him of home. But he also

1373
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 1: had a lot to say about what he saw on

1374
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 1: the field playing for the Jets. It was interesting to

1375
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 1: hear him say, listen, I played against that legend Kyle Williams,

1376
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: and to see how the club treated him on that

1377
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 1: last game when he was headed out. You want to

1378
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: play for people like that. And to have him say

1379
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 1: that after signing here with the Bills and say that

1380
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 1: that affected a decision, it does say something that debate

1381
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 1: we've had, you know, a little bit this week about

1382
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,920
Speaker 1: culture and what it means. And in free agency, players

1383
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 1: want to move into a place where there's a really

1384
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,920
Speaker 1: great work environment, a place where you can kind of

1385
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: feel like you're part of something. And I think that

1386
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: Spencer Long, to his credit, said that's what drew him here,

1387
01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 1: A little bit of it. Yeah, and moving into an

1388
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: organization that's just hired a new offensive line coach too,

1389
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 1: Bobby Johnson. So whatever feeling he got came from a

1390
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 1: new guy who just got here as well. I mean,

1391
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: Bobby Johnson had the earlier tenure with the Buffalo Bills,

1392
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: but that's a good site too that the new coach

1393
01:07:56,480 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 1: can come in and express and to basically they got

1394
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 1: a recruit Spencer A little bit, I would think, right,

1395
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you probably had some other offers A little bit,

1396
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,520
Speaker 1: here's why you want to come here. Yeah, And I

1397
01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: imagine he and you know, we should have asked him

1398
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: if he went to some places or had any other offers.

1399
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: It might have been an interesting answer. But nevertheless, this

1400
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:18,160
Speaker 1: is the one that he excited to have decided to accept.

1401
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: And um, and you like you said, He's right, you

1402
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 1: don't want to come out of a game for a hand, right,

1403
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, for your hand injury, He's gonna try and

1404
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:30,600
Speaker 1: play through it, and got through three quarters of the

1405
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: game and then finally got the injury aggravated in the

1406
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:36,479
Speaker 1: fourth quarter couldn't come out. And you think it's interesting

1407
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 1: too that in New York when a guy has a

1408
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 1: game like that and nobody wants to hear that he

1409
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 1: had a busted finger or blown tendon or whatever that

1410
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:44,680
Speaker 1: whatever it was, and I just say, you know what,

1411
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: let's move on. And I don't know that that's I

1412
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: don't know that this is the organization that would do

1413
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 1: that in that case. I don't know if sippencer Long

1414
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 1: would have been a guy on the chopping block had

1415
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 1: he had that kind of game for this organization. So

1416
01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 1: help me out from the players in respective, here is

1417
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: he saying the Spencier A Long just tell us said

1418
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 1: he talked the coaching staff out of taking him out

1419
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 1: of that game. Because that still bothers me six four

1420
01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: or five, six months later, that they didn't see how poorly,

1421
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: how bad he was struggling snapping the ball and get

1422
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:14,920
Speaker 1: him out of there for their own good. By the way,

1423
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: the coaching Yeah, so did he did? He just tell

1424
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 1: us to Long tell us, I wouldn't let him take

1425
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 1: me out because it's hard to come out. Yeah, I'm

1426
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 1: sure he may try to make a case for himself

1427
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: say listen, I think I can still do it and stuff.

1428
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: And then you know, but listen, as a coaching staff,

1429
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:29,160
Speaker 1: you guys say, hey, man, I love you, but you're

1430
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:32,639
Speaker 1: sitting down yeah, Or I love you, but you're gonna

1431
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 1: move to left guard, and somebody else is gonna say whatever.

1432
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: They moved him to left guard the next year. So

1433
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 1: here's the thing too, that speaks well about this signing

1434
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 1: Spencer Long. The Jets moved, they didn't take him off

1435
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: the field at center. They put him at left guard.

1436
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:49,000
Speaker 1: He was still one of their best five offensive linement

1437
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: two games. Then when he got healed, they put him

1438
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: back on the field as soon as he was ready,

1439
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 1: and that speaks to their confidence in his abilities to

1440
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,560
Speaker 1: play at the NFL level on a starting level. So

1441
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:03,800
Speaker 1: I I you know, we always say he's not a

1442
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:05,680
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl guys, you know, he's a he's a guy.

1443
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, he's a solid pro. That speaks

1444
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: to the fact that for at least one team in

1445
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: our division, he was one of their best five guys.

1446
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,160
Speaker 1: They wanted him on the field when they even when

1447
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 1: he was hurt, and I think that speaks well of

1448
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,400
Speaker 1: the signing and their ability to to find a guy

1449
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 1: that can help this offensive line. Talking about Spencer Long,

1450
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: who just signed to a contract a couple of a

1451
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:26,720
Speaker 1: couple of days ago by the Buffalo Bills, and Steep said, look,

1452
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:29,680
Speaker 1: he's not a probably not a difference maker. I mean,

1453
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: this sends the Joe Flacco trade. No, but it's a

1454
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 1: it's a move that the Bills have made. So that's

1455
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:38,360
Speaker 1: why we talk about a little bit. And I think

1456
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 1: for a team that is desperate in search of offensive

1457
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 1: lineman to get a guy who started forty four games

1458
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:46,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL, that's significant. Does he start here? He

1459
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: might he could be a starter, he as he said,

1460
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:50,599
Speaker 1: he was told he come in here and compete. That's

1461
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 1: why we talk about it so much. Yeah. Right, And

1462
01:10:53,000 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: plus what it's February, it's Valentine's Day, you know, I mean,

1463
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about the Joe Flacco thing. We're

1464
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:05,360
Speaker 1: talking about the commissioner a little bit today. We've got

1465
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 1: a lot of things to talk about. But you know,

1466
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:08,880
Speaker 1: there's nothing really that's on the front burner of the

1467
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 1: NFL right now. It's kind of everybody's kind of like

1468
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:13,600
Speaker 1: taking a deep stretch and a deep breath, waiting for

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Speaker 1: the AAF to take off again this weekend. And we're talking,

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Speaker 1: we're waiting on free agency to hit. Teams are starting

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01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 1: to sign guys that are street free agents, are starting

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01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: to kind of get their ducks in a row. We

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01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 1: had the Senior Bowl two weeks ago. Teams are still

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01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 1: evaluating those guys. So it's kind of a it's kind of,

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01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 1: you know, a lull in the NFL care and the

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01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: NFL calendar, and uh, you know you and so you

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01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: and I can talk about just about anything we want.

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01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 1: What do you want to talk about? Well, we talk.

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01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,679
Speaker 1: Let's see, here's what we can talk about. Our Twitter

1480
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: poll Which team in the AFC East needs the most

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01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:47,639
Speaker 1: from a personnel standpoint? Which team in the AFC East?

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01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: On Twitter? With a four hundred votes in so far,

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01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 1: you say the Dolphins, okay, forty percent say the Bills, uh,

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01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 1: thirteen percent say the Jets, two percent say the Patriots.

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01:11:58,400 --> 01:11:59,760
Speaker 1: Give us a ring. Let us know what you think.

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01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,720
Speaker 1: We're sending a tweet we might read it on the air.

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Speaker 1: Which team is the neediest in the AFC East this offseason.

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Speaker 1: Lines are open eight oh three five fifty twelve three

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. The

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Speaker 1: other thing on the table the news from ESPN that

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01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 1: several they report NFL owners have reached out to NBA

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01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: Commissioner Adam Silver about asking him, do you want to

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01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 1: come over and be the NFL commissioner? What do you

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01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 1: think of that? Does Godell need to be replaced? We'll

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01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:26,640
Speaker 1: talk about that. We'll talk about a lot more when

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Speaker 1: we come back. One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. On this

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01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. John Murphy and Steve Taski are here until

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01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: three o'clock. Andre Ismael will join us at two talk

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01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: about the Baltimore Ravens and the end of the Joe

1502
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: Flacco era. And that's an era if you win a

1503
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:04,280
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and you're a quarterback, it is there's only

1504
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: it's a little bit like it's a little bit like

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01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 1: the Trent Dilfer era, and he won a Super Bowl,

1506
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 1: but I don't think that was an era. I don't

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01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: know if it was a super Bowl win. It was

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01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: a super Bowl win we had. Yeah, we just got

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01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:20,599
Speaker 1: off the phone with Spencer Long, who's a new signing

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01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:23,760
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills and left guard center for the

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01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: Jets last year, and we got a tweet about that

1512
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: interview from James Francis Krelovitz. He says, Buffalo Bills one

1513
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,000
Speaker 1: Bill's live. Sounds like Buffalo has a decent guy there

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01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 1: in Spencer Long. Guy sounds like he has a chip

1515
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,639
Speaker 1: on his shoulder and wants to come out and prove something.

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01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: It's a nice under the radar pickup. If nothing else, Guys,

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01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: it's a much needed it's much needed depth that can

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01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:49,759
Speaker 1: fill multiple holes. And yeah, the offensive line is gonna

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01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:52,839
Speaker 1: be a question mark until they line up next season

1520
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,639
Speaker 1: and played better than they were able to this year.

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01:13:57,160 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: Spencer Long is the guy who's got a lot of experience.

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01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:03,320
Speaker 1: He's a little bit like um, well not quite. I

1523
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: think he's a notch more than than Russ Bodin was

1524
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: last year. Russ Bodin came in and never missed a

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01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: start in his career, a four year career. UH got

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01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:15,680
Speaker 1: out of Cincinnati, but Bodin was a free agent for

1527
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks before he made his decision. He

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01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:20,799
Speaker 1: was out there for a while. I don't think Spencer

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01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 1: Long was. I think there was a lot of teams

1530
01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: that had their eyes on Spencer Long. And we'll see

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01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: if he turns out to be the kind of player

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01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 1: that it seems like he is. He's the Bills wooed

1533
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 1: him big time and brought him in and he liked

1534
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 1: what he saw here and it's gonna be interesting to

1535
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,080
Speaker 1: see him compete for a starting job. But they've started

1536
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:39,760
Speaker 1: to fill the holes that we've talked about for the

1537
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: last you know, three or four months that they have

1538
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 1: and uh, i'mage. I don't have the numbers in front

1539
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: of me. I'd imagine that Bodin was paid more than

1540
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: Spencer Long, right, because Bodin was on the open market.

1541
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 1: I mean, they both were on the open market. Bodin

1542
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: was in the free agency period though, I'm just kissing, right,

1543
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,720
Speaker 1: I think he was. You're right, Bodin was paid to

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01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: se diificantly more. I think I think he maybe double

1545
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,720
Speaker 1: maybe double, but he was, you know, he's I don't

1546
01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:09,320
Speaker 1: know why that is. So you add Spencer Long to

1547
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:10,720
Speaker 1: the mix and what do you got up front for

1548
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:13,680
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, And you know, let me say this,

1549
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:15,600
Speaker 1: and we know there are gonna be additions made in

1550
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: free agency. I would think on the offensive line, I

1551
01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: have a feeling, based on what I saw in the

1552
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:23,639
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and the focus the Bills had on offensive

1553
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 1: lineman at the Senior Bowl, that they are definitely looking

1554
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: at the draft to add some offensive linement. If they

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01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 1: had to lineup in play Sunday, which they don't, who

1556
01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:36,680
Speaker 1: would they start up front? Let's let's talk about this

1557
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 1: for a minute. I believe, I'll tell you I believe

1558
01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 1: would start. I believe they'd start Dion Dawkins at left tackle.

1559
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 1: I believe that they probably start Spencer Long at left guard.

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01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 1: I believe they would probably go with Russell Bodine at center.

1561
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: I believe they might go with m Whyatt Teller at

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01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: right guard. And I believe if they had to lineup

1563
01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 1: and play Sunday, they'd go with Jordan Mills at right tackle.

1564
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 1: Is this ridiculous exercise? I mean, they don't play obviously,

1565
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 1: so they don't play for six seven. I think that

1566
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: there are other candidates in here. Steve vlad Ducas. They

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01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: could bring him back. Ryan Groy, they could bring him back.

1568
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: Butcker got some snaps last year. Maybe they had planned

1569
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:22,720
Speaker 1: for him. Connor McDermott. Same Um, John Miller, they could

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01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 1: bring him back. Um, I don't know a might being.

1571
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 1: Is this a fruitless and pointless I think about this,

1572
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:30,519
Speaker 1: John Miller, if he hit this free agent market, he

1573
01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 1: would be the same kind of level of perceived by

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01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:35,960
Speaker 1: the team that gets him as the same level of

1575
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:38,559
Speaker 1: player a guy like Spencer Long was for the Buffalo Bills.

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01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 1: He started a ton of games, got some experience, but

1577
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,240
Speaker 1: third round pick, third round of picks. So you know,

1578
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 1: that's it's it's so hard to go back. Now you

1579
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 1: can go back, and you can look at websites like

1580
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: Football Folk, Pro Football Focus and all these things, and

1581
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 1: they'll they'll grade all these guys out. The problem is there,

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01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 1: you're grading amount. I don't know if you're granting them

1583
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:02,760
Speaker 1: out against it in the same scheme and the same

1584
01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's I don't are you comparing

1585
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:08,120
Speaker 1: apples to apples. Certainly the positions are the same, but

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01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 1: I don't know that the team they're playing on is

1587
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: that what they're asking the guys to do is the same.

1588
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:16,800
Speaker 1: The opponents they're playing against are the same. It's real,

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01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:20,120
Speaker 1: and plus how good each of them does in all

1590
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 1: those different areas. So it's it's really, it's really, you know,

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01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 1: it's a cloudy picture. The interior offensive linemen. I think

1592
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 1: offensive line is maybe the most troubling and troublesome position

1593
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:36,679
Speaker 1: group of every team in the NFL. We were talking

1594
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:38,920
Speaker 1: about it in there and with our production crew the

1595
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: other day, how virtually every team there are only a

1596
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:44,320
Speaker 1: couple of virtually every team hates their offensive line. Gotta

1597
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 1: get better in the offensive right, fans, fan base, things

1598
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: like three teams that don't You don't hear about it.

1599
01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:52,519
Speaker 1: But I will tell you this, at age twenty five,

1600
01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: a former third round pick with all of his u

1601
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:59,040
Speaker 1: all of his playing experience, if John Miller hits the

1602
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 1: free agent market, which he might, I mean he's in

1603
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 1: line to do it. Now, that guy's gonna make some money.

1604
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: And people in Buffalo saying John Miller, and people that

1605
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: the team that signon, we're gonna say, oh, we got

1606
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: an interesting guy who was the third round pick and

1607
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 1: had some starting experience as a rookie even with the

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01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Right, But that's the way it is on

1609
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 1: the offensive line, there's there's all kinds of people moving around,

1610
01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:23,080
Speaker 1: players moving around, people unsatisfied with what they have. As

1611
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:25,840
Speaker 1: you point out, the schemes change. A lot of it

1612
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: I think is clouded by the way that offensive lineman

1613
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: come into the draft for the most part, not ready

1614
01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 1: to play. Quenton Nelson is an obvious example. But they

1615
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:36,560
Speaker 1: come in not ready to contribute right away because of

1616
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:39,599
Speaker 1: the way that college football plays upfront now with spread

1617
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 1: formation and everything they do. And it's just a very

1618
01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:46,799
Speaker 1: difficult position both to evaluate and to get a handle

1619
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:48,960
Speaker 1: like what do the Bills need. We know they need

1620
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:52,160
Speaker 1: offensive linemen, and they have a chance to resign three

1621
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:53,640
Speaker 1: of their own. They may or may not do that.

1622
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,639
Speaker 1: And I don't think there'd be anybody many Bills fans

1623
01:18:56,680 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: campaigning in the street to say, we have to have

1624
01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 1: John Miller, we have to have Jordan Mills, we gotta

1625
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: get Ryan groy Brat back. But somebody's gonna pay them,

1626
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:05,760
Speaker 1: all three of them if they don't play here are

1627
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,920
Speaker 1: gonna get paid. Yeah, Bills fans, And like like you said,

1628
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: every team has soured on certain players. They're fan basis

1629
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 1: hours on certain places. For goodness, sake that Baltimore Ravens

1630
01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: fans are soured on Joe Flacco. I mean, he took

1631
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 1: a lot of criticism even going into Week one of

1632
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,439
Speaker 1: the regular season last year when they hung fifty two

1633
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:28,879
Speaker 1: on the Bills or was it fifty two? It was ridiculous.

1634
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: And even you know, teams just you just get sound

1635
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: forty seven. So it's it's crazy sometimes because offensive line

1636
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 1: is so difficult to evaluate as a regular everyday fan

1637
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: just watching, Well, the quarterback got hit, The offensive line stinks,

1638
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 1: the quarter got Wow, our offensive relyne really stinks. We

1639
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: only rushed for thirty five yards and a half. Wow,

1640
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: our offensive line is terrible. Well, you know, maybe they are,

1641
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,439
Speaker 1: maybe they're not, or maybe just one of the guys stinks.

1642
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,840
Speaker 1: You know, how do you know? Uh, it's you just

1643
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: got you got to know what you're looking at. You

1644
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,479
Speaker 1: gotta study the film, and and most fans, you and

1645
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:11,720
Speaker 1: me included, we don't. I'm not interested in doing that.

1646
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: We got to know what they're being asked to do.

1647
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:16,560
Speaker 1: And even watching even watching film, it's hard to know

1648
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 1: if that's true. And plus you don't even know what

1649
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:20,680
Speaker 1: pre snap calls were made where the guy blew an

1650
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 1: assignment and blocked the right get blocked a guy and

1651
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 1: really knocked him out, but it was the wrong guy, right,

1652
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:28,000
Speaker 1: So it looks like he played really well, but he's

1653
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: blocking them completely the wrong guy and making everybody else

1654
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 1: look bad. It's all that stuff is in there, and

1655
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:37,519
Speaker 1: it's it's impossible to know without asking somebody who's actually

1656
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 1: in the huddle with the guy. We need an offensive

1657
01:20:39,439 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 1: line expert on the show, we really do, and we

1658
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:45,400
Speaker 1: need something silarge season. We do like last tomorrow, last offseason,

1659
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:47,719
Speaker 1: we needed a quarterback. We need somebody who can explain

1660
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 1: to us what the Bills have on the offensive line

1661
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 1: and what they need on the offensive line. We're not

1662
01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:53,640
Speaker 1: going to get the GM to do that. The one thing,

1663
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: you've always had somebody from outside outside critics of the

1664
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and said their offensive line is just not

1665
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: athletic enough. And you know, all these guys weigh three

1666
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 1: bills plus, you know, three twenty three, twenty five, three eighteen,

1667
01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: they're all three hundred pounds. And to say athletic, they

1668
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: mean it. The guy's got to be able to bend

1669
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: his knees and shuffle side to side very fast in

1670
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:17,559
Speaker 1: very tight spaces. And they've got to be big enough

1671
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 1: and strong enough and athletic enough to absorb a big,

1672
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: heavy guy crashing into them and not move. That's they're

1673
01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:29,000
Speaker 1: hard to find. And in fact, I'll tell you this too.

1674
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:35,560
Speaker 1: The AAF is as much about offensive line development for

1675
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,879
Speaker 1: the NFL as it is about quarterback wide receiver development.

1676
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:41,640
Speaker 1: It's not just about quarterback development finding guys diamonds, and

1677
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:44,600
Speaker 1: it's about offensive linemen. They're hard to find. It's the

1678
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 1: most because there's so many. There's five on every eleven

1679
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: of offense, and that's just a lot of guys. You

1680
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:53,599
Speaker 1: go across the league, that's a ton of guys. There's

1681
01:21:53,640 --> 01:21:56,080
Speaker 1: only forty of them that are starting in the AAF

1682
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 1: this year, forty, and there's thirty two NFL teams. There's

1683
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 1: not enough of those big guys to go around, certainly,

1684
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: not enough big guys who are really skilled and athletic,

1685
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:08,800
Speaker 1: so teams try and hoard them. You gotta find him,

1686
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 1: and sometimes you can get a little extra out of

1687
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:13,519
Speaker 1: this group of guys if you change the chemistry. Put

1688
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:15,600
Speaker 1: a guy at left guard, move this other guy to

1689
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 1: right tackle, whatever it takes, and sometimes you find lightning

1690
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 1: in a bottle in this offensive line goes. But man,

1691
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:24,360
Speaker 1: oh man, they're just not enough of those guys to

1692
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:26,839
Speaker 1: go around. And that's why all of these teams, Bills included,

1693
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 1: you scour well, and you're right, they hoard him. I mean,

1694
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 1: Connor McDermott has barely seen the field in a couple

1695
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 1: of years with the Buffalo Bills, but he's a big

1696
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,840
Speaker 1: some of the athletic tackle prospect. And they're not gonna

1697
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 1: left Connor McDermot get away before they are sure that

1698
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 1: he can't play. Butker they brought him back. They had

1699
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: him in camp, they released him where do you go,

1700
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:49,040
Speaker 1: Dallas or somewhere for a couple of weeks and then

1701
01:22:49,120 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 1: got released and they brought him back. They hoard these guys,

1702
01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: the big guys, because they think maybe we can get Look,

1703
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:58,680
Speaker 1: and I've said this on the show, you don't necessarily

1704
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: And I think the Bills are gonna draft offensive lineman

1705
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: two of them, I think, but I'm not saying first

1706
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 1: round and maybe not even second round. You don't need

1707
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: to spend that kind of draft capital on an offensive

1708
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:10,719
Speaker 1: lineman unless they warrant it, and most of them don't

1709
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:14,120
Speaker 1: because most of them, unlike Quentin Neilson, at the Indie

1710
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 1: Most of them cannot step in and play right away.

1711
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 1: You have to develop them. You have to teach him

1712
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:19,960
Speaker 1: how to play. You have to break their old habits

1713
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: from their spread offense and all the things they're doing

1714
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 1: in college, and teach them how the game is played

1715
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL. That takes a couple of years. That's

1716
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:29,599
Speaker 1: why people will look at the bills fifty three man roster.

1717
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:32,040
Speaker 1: And I heard it last year on the show and elsewhere, Well,

1718
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 1: who's this guy Connor McDermot, Why is he still Here's

1719
01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:36,600
Speaker 1: here because he's a giant, and because he's shown some

1720
01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 1: flashes of athleticism, and they're hoping he develops into the

1721
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:42,160
Speaker 1: kind of guy who can help a team win. Don't

1722
01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: why the horrid players? And there's a different philosophy about

1723
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: what kind offensive lineman you're looking for. Some teams will

1724
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: go out and they're not going to draft any guards

1725
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 1: or any centers. They're drafting left tackles, one after the

1726
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 1: other after the other. And if you can't if this

1727
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 1: guy's a better left tackle than you, then you're gonna

1728
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 1: play left guard. And if he's and if you're a

1729
01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: better right tackle this guy, you're gonna move over. We're

1730
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 1: gonna play it right tackle, but we're not taking anybody

1731
01:24:02,439 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 1: but left tackles. They're taking left tackle after left tackle

1732
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:07,560
Speaker 1: after left tackle, and then they spread them out the

1733
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: other four positions and just fill them in over there.

1734
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:14,719
Speaker 1: And then there's other teams that do you draft a center,

1735
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 1: you draft a right tackle kid that plays off the

1736
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:20,679
Speaker 1: right side. You drafted a guard, somebody who's who doesn't

1737
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:24,560
Speaker 1: have the elite frame that left tackle usually does. So

1738
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 1: there's different philosophies of what kind of guy you get,

1739
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:32,000
Speaker 1: what they look like, how big they are. Some teams

1740
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:34,559
Speaker 1: have size restrictions. If a guy's an inch too short,

1741
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 1: they won't do it. Other team will take him and

1742
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 1: a guy who tends up having a good career even

1743
01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:40,640
Speaker 1: though he's an inch shorter than the prototype. It's just

1744
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 1: it's as much of a of an unknown and as

1745
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 1: much as as as difficult to draft really good offensive

1746
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 1: lineman as it is quarterbacks. The problem is, and the

1747
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:56,880
Speaker 1: benefit is when you get a one offensive lineman who's

1748
01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 1: not quite there, you can cover for him. If you

1749
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:01,639
Speaker 1: get a bad quarterback, there's no covering form. Really eager

1750
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 1: to see what Bobby Johnson, the Bill's new offensive line

1751
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,680
Speaker 1: coach does with this group, what his plans are with

1752
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: this group, and his assistant offensive line coach hired just

1753
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:11,960
Speaker 1: a week ago, Terry Heffernan. Eager to see what those

1754
01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: two have in mind. Now things might change in terms

1755
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: of approach for the Buffalo Bills Wholine this year. All right,

1756
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:18,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. When we come back, talk

1757
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: more about our topic of the day. Which are the

1758
01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 1: neediest teams in the AFC East? The result of a

1759
01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: post from Andy Venoit on si dot com yesterday about

1760
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:31,759
Speaker 1: ranking the needy teams in the NFL. Also, Roger Goodell

1761
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:34,200
Speaker 1: does he need to be replace? There's news out there

1762
01:25:34,240 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 1: that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has been approached about becoming

1763
01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 1: the NFL commissioner. That's all on the table. Whatever else

1764
01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:42,639
Speaker 1: you have, we'll talk about it. Eight three five fifty

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01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty jo Raphe's Team Tasker one goes live from one

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01:25:48,280 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 1: Wheels Driving. This is Buffalo Bills. Ready, Welcome back to

1768
01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live. His murf settles in for the final hour,

1769
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: trying to avoid getting a cold steep and I don't

1770
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:16,479
Speaker 1: please do please do got dodge it, Murph, you gotta

1771
01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:19,479
Speaker 1: dodge it. Gets what's that stuff? An orange or something?

1772
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:21,760
Speaker 1: I had an orange or a couple of them this morning.

1773
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:28,200
Speaker 1: What's that stuff you take when you feel cold coming up? Airborne? Yeah? Airborne? Airborne?

1774
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:31,400
Speaker 1: You ever try that? People tell me it works? Yeah?

1775
01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:35,560
Speaker 1: That they traveler did it? You know, right, one of

1776
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:37,599
Speaker 1: the people who travel on business, gone on planes all

1777
01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 1: the time. They used to take it and it keeps

1778
01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 1: him from getting Yeah, it might be too late. Can

1779
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:42,960
Speaker 1: fighting with all those people. Let's take a phone call

1780
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: here sideways. You're gonna go downhill. No, I'm fighting it, man,

1781
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: I'm fighting hard, all right. Man, she keeps swinging. I

1782
01:26:48,479 --> 01:26:50,599
Speaker 1: blame Craig Rivet, one of the instigators. He's been off

1783
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 1: for a couple of days. But I assume a cold.

1784
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:55,559
Speaker 1: I don't know. Never take responsibility for it yourself. Maybe

1785
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: you got hit by a bus or somebody. He's been out.

1786
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,360
Speaker 1: I just assume he's got a cold. Yeah, he's been sick.

1787
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:06,479
Speaker 1: Tom on the west Side, Hello time, Welcome to the show, Tom, Tom,

1788
01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:12,519
Speaker 1: Tom ditched. He lost lost him. He had something to

1789
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 1: gives me a chance to have tossed me to the

1790
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:18,519
Speaker 1: tweet sheet here, so I'm sorry, Thomas Thomas drlac. This

1791
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: is on this commissioner change when the handful of several

1792
01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:25,840
Speaker 1: NFL owners have reached out to Adam Silver the NBA

1793
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:29,680
Speaker 1: to meant whether he might want to be the NFL commissioner,

1794
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:33,800
Speaker 1: and Thomas Derlake says, in my opinion, the changing commissioner

1795
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 1: may be related to public perception, the league wide discipline

1796
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:40,640
Speaker 1: and labor negotiations. In my opinion, the NBA does a

1797
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:44,839
Speaker 1: much better job disciplining players. There are many more instances

1798
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 1: of players being suspended for peed violations in the NFL.

1799
01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what's there. Yeah, that's interesting. I do

1800
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 1: think the issue that comes up on the ESPN today

1801
01:27:57,360 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 1: is mostly a public perception thing that the NFL as

1802
01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:04,240
Speaker 1: a public perception of being out of control and players

1803
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 1: are running the mock and they aren't. Really it really is.

1804
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:09,320
Speaker 1: The numbers would indicate it's not really. There's not really

1805
01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 1: an increasing problem with league wide discipline. Labor negotiations coming up.

1806
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:16,720
Speaker 1: Um Goodell did a pretty good, um, pretty good job

1807
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:19,080
Speaker 1: last time right of getting a new deal on long deal.

1808
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:21,120
Speaker 1: What are we two or three years away still from

1809
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 1: the next labor negotiations is Adam Silver a better negotiator.

1810
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:27,120
Speaker 1: I mean, how much better off a deal can the

1811
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:29,320
Speaker 1: owners get? By the way, right, they took the players

1812
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: as the cleaners. Well, a lot of people think five yeah,

1813
01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:35,639
Speaker 1: I think. And it was the one where Robert Kraft

1814
01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:38,840
Speaker 1: was involved so deeply, and Jeff Saturday was a member

1815
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: of that as well, and they they they hashed it out,

1816
01:28:41,320 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 1: and I think really really speaks to the fact that

1817
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:47,280
Speaker 1: the NFL has been down this road before and they've

1818
01:28:47,320 --> 01:28:50,599
Speaker 1: got some pretty good guys in place now to make

1819
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,679
Speaker 1: sure that it's paramount for both sides, players and owners.

1820
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:56,559
Speaker 1: You don't need a work stoppage in the NFL. Sit

1821
01:28:56,640 --> 01:28:59,200
Speaker 1: down and hash it out. Um, there's gotta be some

1822
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:01,000
Speaker 1: things that you're gonna have to compromise on it on

1823
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:03,880
Speaker 1: both sides and if any. And the problem for me is,

1824
01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:06,599
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a very good relationship between Roger

1825
01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 1: Goodell and de Marie Smith. I don't think they get

1826
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 1: along very well. Right. I don't know work stems from

1827
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 1: or whether it's even true. I don't I think it

1828
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:16,599
Speaker 1: is true. I think that I don't know that that'll

1829
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 1: get in the way. But oh my gosh, please don't

1830
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:22,680
Speaker 1: have a work stoppage in the NFL scout Last Time

1831
01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:25,360
Speaker 1: twenty eleven. Hey read that next from the tweechee. That's

1832
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:27,240
Speaker 1: a good one. To Brian Cook, the NFL has been

1833
01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:30,560
Speaker 1: reactionary for decades and have treated the players like commodities,

1834
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:33,360
Speaker 1: not like the players. They should be partners. The partners

1835
01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:36,519
Speaker 1: they should be. The NBA is the antithesis to that,

1836
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:42,160
Speaker 1: and the upcoming CBA expiration, the NFL may finally be

1837
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 1: seeing the financial and social impact of their status quo, Oh,

1838
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:49,040
Speaker 1: how do you get to that? Yeah, I don't know

1839
01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:52,200
Speaker 1: about the financial impact. I mean they might say, yeah,

1840
01:29:52,280 --> 01:29:54,679
Speaker 1: give me more of that financial impact, because it's we're

1841
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:59,479
Speaker 1: twenty five billion dollars in revenues. And here, let's face it,

1842
01:29:59,720 --> 01:30:02,360
Speaker 1: the reception about Roger Goodell, and you and I have

1843
01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:04,760
Speaker 1: touched on it earlier in the show, about him being

1844
01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:09,920
Speaker 1: roundly criticized by players and fans. That's his job. He

1845
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:12,640
Speaker 1: does the owners bidding, and the owners are gonna be

1846
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:14,840
Speaker 1: thirty two. Owners are gonna take a stance they like,

1847
01:30:15,080 --> 01:30:18,599
Speaker 1: and he's got to sell it and take the take

1848
01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:23,240
Speaker 1: the heat or praise because of it. But this is

1849
01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:25,720
Speaker 1: a business that being run by a business by businessmen.

1850
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:28,080
Speaker 1: It is not being run in any way, shape or

1851
01:30:28,120 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 1: formed by the players, right, and those other two leagues

1852
01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:33,880
Speaker 1: NBA and Major League Baseball are not quite that way.

1853
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:37,000
Speaker 1: Two years left in the NFL collected bargaining agreement, so

1854
01:30:37,120 --> 01:30:40,599
Speaker 1: two seasons left twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, and then that's

1855
01:30:40,680 --> 01:30:42,680
Speaker 1: right on the corner. Yeah, it is closer than I thought.

1856
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:45,320
Speaker 1: I just looked at up and Brian Cook is right

1857
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:49,320
Speaker 1: to point that out that the upcoming labor or CBA expiration,

1858
01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:52,360
Speaker 1: the NFL may be finally seeing the financial and social impact.

1859
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 1: But the other thing he says, and I do agree

1860
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,760
Speaker 1: with this, Bran Cook, the NFL has treated players like commodities,

1861
01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 1: not partners. I think that's absolutely right. And I want

1862
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:02,240
Speaker 1: to get Steve s thoughts on this because he was

1863
01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:04,560
Speaker 1: one of those commodities. I think the reason for it

1864
01:31:04,680 --> 01:31:08,960
Speaker 1: maybe Steve uh. The NBA just says, the NBA is

1865
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:12,120
Speaker 1: a star league, right, made up of stars, superstars. NFL

1866
01:31:12,280 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 1: is not like that. The NFL has grunts. NFL has

1867
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:18,880
Speaker 1: day to day workers, and there's a there's a hierarchument

1868
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:21,720
Speaker 1: they treat them like commodities. Because I also think it

1869
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:24,160
Speaker 1: is a bad approach by the ownership though, to treat

1870
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:26,160
Speaker 1: him like commodities. I think Bran Cook is there's always

1871
01:31:26,160 --> 01:31:29,599
Speaker 1: been this, there's always been this um well, let's think

1872
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:31,960
Speaker 1: about it here too. They went out and got replacement players.

1873
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 1: I mean, absolutely awful. That's absolutely what an insult that was.

1874
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:38,240
Speaker 1: And here's the thing too, that that gets around it,

1875
01:31:38,320 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 1: and it's always been a math problem. NBA players are,

1876
01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:46,799
Speaker 1: or from top to bottom, are much more um financially

1877
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:50,880
Speaker 1: rewarded than on than NFL players. You've got a nine

1878
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:54,840
Speaker 1: billion dollar industry in the NBA with only twelve guys

1879
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 1: on a roster. You've got twenty eight. They're twenty five

1880
01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:03,880
Speaker 1: billion in the NFL with fifty three guys on a roster,

1881
01:32:04,880 --> 01:32:10,080
Speaker 1: and the math just doesn't work out the same. Plus

1882
01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:14,840
Speaker 1: you get a you got a quarterback here and you've

1883
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:18,559
Speaker 1: got a special teams player over here. They just there's

1884
01:32:18,560 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 1: a wider range of contributions on the roster in an

1885
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:24,080
Speaker 1: NFL team than there are on an NBA team. So

1886
01:32:25,120 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit apples to oranges when you

1887
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: can start comparing you but there's no doubt the attitude

1888
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:32,840
Speaker 1: has always been in the NFL. It is a little

1889
01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:34,800
Speaker 1: bit more of a meat market. The Absolutely, we'll get

1890
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:37,960
Speaker 1: another guy. You don't want to play, We'll find somebody else. Absolutely, Hey,

1891
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:39,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. Coming up in the third

1892
01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:42,160
Speaker 1: and final hour of the show, Cadre Ismael will let

1893
01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:44,360
Speaker 1: us know what's going on in Baltimore with the upcoming

1894
01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:48,479
Speaker 1: departure of Joe Flacco. What does that mean for the Ravens.

1895
01:32:48,520 --> 01:32:50,360
Speaker 1: Who do they get for a backup? What about the

1896
01:32:50,439 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco era there in Baltimore? All of that with

1897
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:55,320
Speaker 1: Cadre Ismael, He's coming up after the break. Come on back.

1898
01:32:55,400 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 1: One Bill slide presented by Kalada Hell from One Bill's Drive.

1899
01:32:58,200 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hell Lill Radio Network Stories update.

1900
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:18,400
Speaker 1: The update from One Bill Drive. The Buffalo Bills just

1901
01:33:18,600 --> 01:33:21,000
Speaker 1: now about a month away from NFL free agency and

1902
01:33:21,120 --> 01:33:22,679
Speaker 1: the Bills and the rest of the league getting set

1903
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:26,240
Speaker 1: as they get their rosters set, getting ready for the

1904
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 1: period of free agency. The Los Angeles Chargers had decided

1905
01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:33,760
Speaker 1: not to exercise their contract option on defensive limand Corey Legit,

1906
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:38,479
Speaker 1: the career long Chargers defensive tackle, will be a free agent.

1907
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:41,599
Speaker 1: He had a nine point five million dollars cap hit.

1908
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:44,200
Speaker 1: Chargers will not exercise that, so he will hit the

1909
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:47,880
Speaker 1: free agent market. Niners do something similar with wide receiver

1910
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 1: Pierre Garson. Garson, thirty two years of age, trying to

1911
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:54,360
Speaker 1: struggle to stay healthy the last two years in San Francisco,

1912
01:33:54,439 --> 01:33:57,840
Speaker 1: played just a total of sixteen games, and the San

1913
01:33:57,880 --> 01:34:00,200
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers say they will not pick up

1914
01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:04,400
Speaker 1: the contract option on Pierre Garson. Also from the NFL

1915
01:34:05,080 --> 01:34:09,080
Speaker 1: report from ESPN that says several NFL owners have approached

1916
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:14,120
Speaker 1: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver about becoming NFL commissioner. Silver did

1917
01:34:14,200 --> 01:34:17,200
Speaker 1: not explicitly confirm that he's been approached by NFL owners,

1918
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 1: but sources say several owners have tried to persuade him

1919
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:22,000
Speaker 1: to run the NFL over the course of his five

1920
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,960
Speaker 1: years as NBA Commissioner. Silver says, I'll just say I

1921
01:34:25,080 --> 01:34:28,880
Speaker 1: have not given it any thought. Buffalo Sabers practicing today

1922
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:31,240
Speaker 1: at key Bank Center, coming off that three one win

1923
01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:34,000
Speaker 1: over the Islanders on Tuesday. Next up tomorrow night, the

1924
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:36,680
Speaker 1: Sabers wrap up their seven game homestand with a game

1925
01:34:36,720 --> 01:34:39,760
Speaker 1: against the New York Rangers. Sabers and Rangers coming up

1926
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, and James Harden continues as a roll along

1927
01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:45,800
Speaker 1: in the NBA. The Houston Rockets star put himself in

1928
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:48,599
Speaker 1: rare company last night as he scored forty two points

1929
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:51,360
Speaker 1: against Minnesota, and now Harden has scored at least thirty

1930
01:34:51,400 --> 01:34:55,519
Speaker 1: points in thirty one consecutive games. That ties Wilt Chamberlain

1931
01:34:55,600 --> 01:34:59,400
Speaker 1: for the second longest streak in NBA history with thirty

1932
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:02,519
Speaker 1: or more points. Amazing. That's the update from One Bill's Track.

1933
01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:05,160
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Chasker, moving into our final hour of

1934
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: the show. Happy to have you with us. We're gonna

1935
01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:08,559
Speaker 1: make it. Steve got an hour to go. We got

1936
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:11,280
Speaker 1: Cadree Ismel coming up in a moment or two long time,

1937
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:14,640
Speaker 1: well not long time, but a significant receiver or the

1938
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:16,960
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, and he'll be joining us in a couple

1939
01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:19,360
Speaker 1: of minutes to talk about the Ravens. After Joe Flackow,

1940
01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:21,160
Speaker 1: what do you think of a ten year career? He was, Yeah,

1941
01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:23,880
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting to see the aftermath of the

1942
01:35:23,960 --> 01:35:27,280
Speaker 1: trade and the team that lost, the guy who won

1943
01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:31,320
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Certainly we will ask him about, you know,

1944
01:35:31,439 --> 01:35:36,120
Speaker 1: what soured them on him, because certainly, while Lamar Jackson

1945
01:35:36,560 --> 01:35:38,360
Speaker 1: was their quarterback and they made it to the playoffs

1946
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:41,360
Speaker 1: this last season. I don't know that he knocked the

1947
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:43,599
Speaker 1: socks off and I wasn't a home run. I don't

1948
01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:47,240
Speaker 1: think so either. He certainly they managed to work their

1949
01:35:47,280 --> 01:35:49,320
Speaker 1: offense around him. But I'll tell you this, it's one

1950
01:35:49,360 --> 01:35:51,960
Speaker 1: of those offenses. When he watched that Baltimore offense. If

1951
01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:56,719
Speaker 1: something ever happened to Lamar Jackson, the Ravens had nothing

1952
01:35:56,800 --> 01:35:59,799
Speaker 1: to go to. Their offense was built around a quarterback

1953
01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:05,800
Speaker 1: that could run read options, quarterback sweeps, rollout passes, the

1954
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:08,120
Speaker 1: whole the whole offense was built around him. If if

1955
01:36:08,160 --> 01:36:11,479
Speaker 1: he twists an ankle and can't go, I don't know

1956
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 1: if you've got anybody that can go in there and

1957
01:36:15,320 --> 01:36:17,640
Speaker 1: run that offense, everything's got to change, and all of

1958
01:36:17,640 --> 01:36:19,800
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're you're in a hole. And that's what

1959
01:36:20,040 --> 01:36:22,120
Speaker 1: leads people to believe that Tyrod Taylor might have a

1960
01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:25,400
Speaker 1: role to play there. Maybe he will, Maybe he will.

1961
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:30,080
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see. Tyrod certainly has now that

1962
01:36:30,120 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 1: he's Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, and now he's he'll bounce somewhere else.

1963
01:36:34,120 --> 01:36:38,439
Speaker 1: There's no question Tyrod is an NFL quarterback, but he

1964
01:36:38,520 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 1: has limitations, just like most of them do. But I

1965
01:36:41,520 --> 01:36:43,639
Speaker 1: think at this point in his career, everybody knows exactly

1966
01:36:43,680 --> 01:36:46,840
Speaker 1: what they're getting with him, So I'm pretty sure somebody

1967
01:36:46,880 --> 01:36:48,479
Speaker 1: will have a plan for him if they do sign him.

1968
01:36:48,640 --> 01:36:50,400
Speaker 1: Let's take a couple of phone calls. Here. Will go

1969
01:36:50,520 --> 01:36:53,479
Speaker 1: to Jeff in Buffalo. Hello, Jeff, welcome, You're on the

1970
01:36:53,520 --> 01:37:00,559
Speaker 1: air with us. Jeff, We're in bad luck with our phones.

1971
01:37:01,120 --> 01:37:03,360
Speaker 1: Like the second one in a row usually doesn't happen. Jeff,

1972
01:37:03,400 --> 01:37:07,240
Speaker 1: are you there, No, sir. We'll go to Frank in Webster,

1973
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 1: New York. Frank, are you there? I'm suspecting user error, Murph,

1974
01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:15,600
Speaker 1: we may have some issues with the phone. We've just

1975
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:21,439
Speaker 1: been told. I have no more called. No, don't do it.

1976
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:25,519
Speaker 1: Don't do it, Murph, don't do it. Stay with me, Okay,

1977
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:29,479
Speaker 1: go all right. Tweet sheet Which AFCAST teams are the

1978
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 1: neediest going into the personnel season, Brian or single Wing says,

1979
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:36,880
Speaker 1: needy teams are usually desperate. Also, when you're desperate, you

1980
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,479
Speaker 1: make mistakes. The Jets and Dolphins seem to be the

1981
01:37:39,520 --> 01:37:42,280
Speaker 1: most desperate. The Bills need to take advantage and be

1982
01:37:42,360 --> 01:37:44,680
Speaker 1: smart over the next couple of years. It's the right

1983
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:46,960
Speaker 1: time to make a move for number one in the division.

1984
01:37:48,640 --> 01:37:51,519
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm all for it. Yeah, built Jets and

1985
01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:53,400
Speaker 1: Dolphins seemed to be the bost Defford. I would think

1986
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:55,599
Speaker 1: that desperate. I think the Dolphins will be with their

1987
01:37:55,680 --> 01:37:59,280
Speaker 1: quarterback need. It's not to say they will choose a

1988
01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:01,800
Speaker 1: quarterback in the first round or early in this draft.

1989
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:03,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anybody who would get my

1990
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:06,439
Speaker 1: interest that much, but he's right. Single Wing is right.

1991
01:38:06,600 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 1: The Bills need to be smart over the next few

1992
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:12,160
Speaker 1: years because, look, things are changing. I know it's hard

1993
01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:15,120
Speaker 1: to imagine now two and a half weeks since the

1994
01:38:15,200 --> 01:38:17,760
Speaker 1: Patriot's latest Super Bowl win, but we know that that

1995
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:19,880
Speaker 1: is going to come to an end soon, right a

1996
01:38:19,960 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 1: year or two. Somebody's got to step up, right, and

1997
01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:24,439
Speaker 1: why not the Bills. They got to be smart. And

1998
01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:26,080
Speaker 1: this is why this is a big year, a big

1999
01:38:26,120 --> 01:38:29,439
Speaker 1: draft year for the Bills. Absolutely free agent year. All

2000
01:38:29,520 --> 01:38:31,400
Speaker 1: right on the line. Right now, we're gonna talk about

2001
01:38:31,400 --> 01:38:34,240
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens, the team that traded away it's all

2002
01:38:34,320 --> 01:38:38,360
Speaker 1: time leading passer. Just yesterday, as Joe Flacco goes to

2003
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:42,000
Speaker 1: out west of the Denver Broncos, joining us on the subway,

2004
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:45,760
Speaker 1: fresh take hotline. Former Ravens NFL analysts co host on

2005
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:48,800
Speaker 1: w jay Z TV for pre and postgame shows during

2006
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:52,360
Speaker 1: the Ravens game, long time outstanding receiver at Syracuse and

2007
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:55,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL for ten seasons with the Vikings, the Dolphins,

2008
01:38:55,160 --> 01:38:57,760
Speaker 1: the Saints, the Ravens, and Indie. Happy to have Cadre

2009
01:38:57,920 --> 01:38:59,880
Speaker 1: smet on the line with this Condre John Murphy's team

2010
01:38:59,880 --> 01:39:01,360
Speaker 1: to ask you here in Buffalo, thanks for coming on

2011
01:39:01,439 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 1: with us. Thanks John, Thanks Steve for having me. We think,

2012
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:07,800
Speaker 1: Steve and I think that we might be in the

2013
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:10,960
Speaker 1: minority here, I believe, but I think we hold Joe

2014
01:39:11,040 --> 01:39:13,120
Speaker 1: Flacco in a higher regard than many people in the

2015
01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:16,320
Speaker 1: NFL and fans in the NFL and many of Baltimore

2016
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:18,200
Speaker 1: Ravens fans. What can you tell us about that? Are

2017
01:39:18,280 --> 01:39:21,479
Speaker 1: people glad that Flacco's gone? Do you think so? I

2018
01:39:21,600 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 1: think the NFL at large to have a certain bias

2019
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:28,960
Speaker 1: I guess towards Joe Flacco, good or bad. And I

2020
01:39:29,080 --> 01:39:32,600
Speaker 1: think part of that is just he is a quarterback

2021
01:39:32,680 --> 01:39:35,000
Speaker 1: that goes out and does his job, does it well,

2022
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:37,600
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, he's not necessarily

2023
01:39:37,680 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 1: going to create any major headlines. If you look at

2024
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:47,120
Speaker 1: the telecast, he seems like he's you know, bored. If

2025
01:39:47,160 --> 01:39:50,400
Speaker 1: you look at you know, times where he seems as interested.

2026
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:54,280
Speaker 1: But those that are here in Baltimore, those that have

2027
01:39:54,479 --> 01:39:56,320
Speaker 1: been around the team and comes to team like I have,

2028
01:39:57,160 --> 01:40:00,240
Speaker 1: you definitely see a totally different side than what be

2029
01:40:00,520 --> 01:40:02,920
Speaker 1: you know, a national view, and that's a very fighly

2030
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:08,879
Speaker 1: competitive quarterback who has UH the the Super Bowl Champion

2031
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:12,760
Speaker 1: MVP title by his name. I think he's a very good,

2032
01:40:12,880 --> 01:40:16,080
Speaker 1: strong quarterback. Yeah. And what do you think led to

2033
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:20,759
Speaker 1: UH fans in general or whatever maybe souring on Joe's

2034
01:40:21,080 --> 01:40:22,960
Speaker 1: this He started to struggle in the last couple of

2035
01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:25,400
Speaker 1: years with some injuries, all different kinds of injuries. It

2036
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:28,280
Speaker 1: wasn't hasn't been one chronic thing except maybe I don't

2037
01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: know if you want to look at his back and

2038
01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:31,680
Speaker 1: say those are kind of always a secretive injury. But

2039
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:34,360
Speaker 1: why do you think what do you think the biggest

2040
01:40:34,400 --> 01:40:38,680
Speaker 1: reason is for U Joe's you know, sliding back in

2041
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:42,600
Speaker 1: the in the opinion of the fan base. Well, I

2042
01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:47,599
Speaker 1: think part of the fan base was expecting more from Joe.

2043
01:40:47,720 --> 01:40:51,840
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that, um after he won

2044
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:54,519
Speaker 1: the DVD and you know, Hey, the braves of the

2045
01:40:54,520 --> 01:40:57,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions, this is an opportunity to you know

2046
01:40:57,479 --> 01:41:00,240
Speaker 1: better yourself. He did. Did he get the big Tacon track?

2047
01:41:00,320 --> 01:41:03,719
Speaker 1: Absolutely did. But from there it was five hundred football

2048
01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:06,920
Speaker 1: across the board for the Ravens. And yes, you mentioned

2049
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:12,320
Speaker 1: his injuries, but it wasn't where he took that next step.

2050
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:16,479
Speaker 1: People would compare him to Matt Ryan, and if you

2051
01:41:16,560 --> 01:41:19,759
Speaker 1: look at it, you know, from a numbers aspect of things,

2052
01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:22,120
Speaker 1: since they both were in the same draft class, it

2053
01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:25,240
Speaker 1: was one of those where they wanted to see the

2054
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 1: larger numbers. They wanted to see him produced. Now with

2055
01:41:29,479 --> 01:41:33,960
Speaker 1: that said, yeah, Matt Ryan had guys like Julio Jones

2056
01:41:34,160 --> 01:41:36,479
Speaker 1: to throw the ball to. I think he had an

2057
01:41:36,600 --> 01:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Quan Bolden, but then once you know, An Kwan's time

2058
01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:43,040
Speaker 1: was up, they shipped them out. They didn't resign Tory Smith.

2059
01:41:43,200 --> 01:41:48,680
Speaker 1: They drafted a Bishop Peerman who wound up, you know,

2060
01:41:48,880 --> 01:41:52,080
Speaker 1: being a draft bust. They went out and got c

2061
01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:56,000
Speaker 1: Smith Senior, who was strong and good and all that.

2062
01:41:56,200 --> 01:42:00,479
Speaker 1: But I think ultimately the numbers and which they felt,

2063
01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:04,360
Speaker 1: you know, Joe could produce just to materialize with Cadre

2064
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:07,200
Speaker 1: Esmael who follows and covers the Baltimore Ravens used to

2065
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:10,040
Speaker 1: play with him. Care are saying this to Steve So

2066
01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:12,840
Speaker 1: with the trade away of Joe Flacco, the Ravens go

2067
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:15,960
Speaker 1: all in now on Lamar Jackson. I can't get that

2068
01:42:16,960 --> 01:42:20,400
Speaker 1: playoff performance against the Chargers out of my head. Um,

2069
01:42:20,640 --> 01:42:22,360
Speaker 1: what do you think the Ravens think of the way

2070
01:42:22,400 --> 01:42:24,880
Speaker 1: he played in that wildcart playoff game and what would

2071
01:42:24,920 --> 01:42:29,200
Speaker 1: give them confidence that he should be their guy moving forward? Yeah?

2072
01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:31,479
Speaker 1: I think part was the fact that he was a rookie,

2073
01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:35,759
Speaker 1: and we all know that there is regular season football,

2074
01:42:35,920 --> 01:42:40,280
Speaker 1: there is postseason football. The postseason football, it turns it

2075
01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:43,840
Speaker 1: up a notch. Um, the intensity from the scouting of

2076
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:48,600
Speaker 1: a team to game planning. I think most teams, you know,

2077
01:42:48,720 --> 01:42:51,640
Speaker 1: they recognize as they see a team in the you know,

2078
01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, that they're going to change

2079
01:42:54,439 --> 01:42:56,400
Speaker 1: over the course of the year. And I think for

2080
01:42:57,080 --> 01:42:59,920
Speaker 1: you know, the Chargers, they were in a scenario where

2081
01:42:59,920 --> 01:43:02,639
Speaker 1: they didn't really know what to expect the first time out,

2082
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:04,880
Speaker 1: and I think they felt like, Okay, well, we're going

2083
01:43:04,920 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: to develop a game plan that we will recognize what

2084
01:43:08,520 --> 01:43:12,040
Speaker 1: to do against you know, this really talented young guy,

2085
01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:15,439
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and by putting in what was it, seven

2086
01:43:15,479 --> 01:43:19,880
Speaker 1: defensive backs, their their dime package, and the way in

2087
01:43:19,920 --> 01:43:22,960
Speaker 1: which they played him was a lot different than where

2088
01:43:22,960 --> 01:43:26,800
Speaker 1: they played him in the beginning. And you're going with

2089
01:43:27,080 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 1: your first round quarterback and you're saying, look, you're our

2090
01:43:31,520 --> 01:43:34,720
Speaker 1: ride to die. There's no going back on that. And

2091
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:38,439
Speaker 1: I think the reason why everybody's like, oh boy, you know,

2092
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Speaker 1: why why are we sitting here watching this? It's because

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Speaker 1: you knew that you had Joe Flacco Kelsey ready to

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Speaker 1: go on a sideline. I think that's what stuck in

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Speaker 1: people's mind as opposed to, you know, once the game

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01:43:52,120 --> 01:43:54,479
Speaker 1: was over with chalking it up too well, they're going

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Speaker 1: to be good for years to come because they have

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Speaker 1: Lamar and he will learn from this. I know he's

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Speaker 1: gonna learn from it. I know he's gonna be better.

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Speaker 1: But I think the fact that you had a vetteran

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Speaker 1: quarterback that's been there, done that has a Super Bowl mvut,

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Speaker 1: I think that that's what people were expecting. I definitely

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Speaker 1: know that's what people were expecting here in Baltimore and

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Speaker 1: why there was so much criticism. Yeah, and I wondered too,

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Speaker 1: Godrey was from your perspective. Was there ever any chance

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Speaker 1: that they were gonna bench Lamar Jackson in that playoff

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Speaker 1: game and put Joe Flacco in there, and if not,

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Speaker 1: why not? Yeah? I think they talked about that, but

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Speaker 1: I think ultimately they recognize and I even you know,

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Speaker 1: I was watching the sideline. You can see where Joe

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Speaker 1: for the most part in the first half, and he

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Speaker 1: was just sitting on the sideline the entire time, you know,

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Speaker 1: the offense to get on the sales. He's like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll go back to sit on the sideline, chill. And

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Speaker 1: it wasn't until like the second half where you kind

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Speaker 1: of saw him get up and walk around, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Sadie was like, Oh, if this's gonna be the drive

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Speaker 1: or this's gonna be the series, it wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: happen unless Lamar just simply got hurt. I think they

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Speaker 1: out like, you know, give the guy a chance, and

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Speaker 1: if he's our guy, he's going to be our guy.

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Speaker 1: And they stuck to it. What's next are they? Joe

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Speaker 1: Flacco's off the roster as a quarterback. There's been rumblings

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Speaker 1: that Tyrod Taylor may come back. He backed up Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 1: He could back up Lamar Jackson. Their offense became something

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Speaker 1: very different obviously with Lamar Jackson at quarterback than he

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Speaker 1: did than it was with Joe Flacco. What's next for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens offense? Yeah, so now it's it's all right, well,

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01:45:29,360 --> 01:45:31,800
Speaker 1: what do you do better? How do you get you know,

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01:45:31,880 --> 01:45:35,240
Speaker 1: the run pass option going better? Uh? You know, how

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01:45:35,680 --> 01:45:38,920
Speaker 1: does he as a quarterback? And this is John Harbaugh

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Speaker 1: his end of the year, you know interview, but also

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Speaker 1: his conversation that he always has with his team. It's looked,

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Speaker 1: we recognize we have to get better. You are good

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Speaker 1: and you did what you needed to do, but you

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01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:56,400
Speaker 1: will not be good enough when you come back if

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Speaker 1: you stay the same. And therefore you got to go

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Speaker 1: out and and create those changes. And I think that

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Speaker 1: conversation was the same conversation that he had with everybody

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Speaker 1: on the roster that was projected to come back. And

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Speaker 1: I think that was a conversation that he had with

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Speaker 1: Lamar and part of it it was, you know, improving

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Speaker 1: upon his disability to throw the ball. And I think

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Speaker 1: for them, they they go away from Marty Morney wig

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01:46:19,760 --> 01:46:22,600
Speaker 1: as the office of coordinator. Greg Roman gets elevated to

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Speaker 1: that position, and now it's okay, what do you do

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01:46:26,520 --> 01:46:31,120
Speaker 1: as an offense to add and wrinkles to what Lamar

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Speaker 1: does is a strength with running the ball, and how

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Speaker 1: do you as a passing attack, how can you get

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Speaker 1: the big play down the football field more consistently, because

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Speaker 1: that's what was missing in the offense, throwing the ball

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Speaker 1: down the football field consistently. That's going to be the

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Speaker 1: next challenge for him. And this season started out John

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01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:54,080
Speaker 1: Harball looked like after the owner, Steve Bischotti said, you know,

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Speaker 1: he did consider replacing John Harbor, and the and the

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Speaker 1: season ends up with a four year extension. What happened

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01:47:00,479 --> 01:47:03,879
Speaker 1: in that transformation? It couldn't have all been just Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: It was a four and five record and you're staring

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Speaker 1: down the abyss and in that press conference, John Hardball

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01:47:14,920 --> 01:47:17,840
Speaker 1: looked like a guy that was very much going to

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Speaker 1: be fired. And the pressure in the intensity of it all,

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01:47:21,960 --> 01:47:26,479
Speaker 1: it was all there. But I gave him credit because

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Speaker 1: he did go away from a franchise quarterback that put

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Speaker 1: them in that position of a four and five record,

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Speaker 1: and he went with a young guy. He totally changed

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Speaker 1: his offense, and we all know it is extremely difficult

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Speaker 1: to do that, and they put him back in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You have a new coordinator in Wet Martindale, and you

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Speaker 1: literally see a tremendous effort from the defense revitalized as well.

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Speaker 1: So it shows once again that mid season, which is

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Speaker 1: something that you don't see normally in the NFL, a change,

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01:48:01,880 --> 01:48:04,519
Speaker 1: and that change comes from the leadership of John Harpball.

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Speaker 1: I think they felt like who else is going to

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Speaker 1: come in and who else is going to be able

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Speaker 1: to run the ship the way we wanted to be

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Speaker 1: run and have the success, And they got him in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I think all of that pointed towards

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Speaker 1: John Horbas saving his job and getting the extension on

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Speaker 1: the line with Cadre, It's meant a long time NFL receiver,

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01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:26,599
Speaker 1: a long time analysts of the Baltimore Ravens, covers him

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01:48:26,640 --> 01:48:29,519
Speaker 1: on w jay Z TV in Baltimore. A couple of

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Speaker 1: questions about nine quarterbacks guys in interest me a little

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Speaker 1: bit as they approach free agency, John Brown, what do

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Speaker 1: you have just the one year Cadre with Baltimore, maybe

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Speaker 1: been two, but he's probably going to hit the free

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Speaker 1: agent market, right, Does he have a lot to offer?

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Speaker 1: Do you think for interested teams he does the one year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the one year, and he was betting on himself and

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01:48:50,520 --> 01:48:53,600
Speaker 1: he was like, look, ironically enough, I'm coming to Baltimore.

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01:48:54,320 --> 01:48:56,719
Speaker 1: That another guy that's betting on himself. And as Jill Flacco,

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01:48:56,880 --> 01:48:59,920
Speaker 1: and even though Lamar Jackson is the number one thing,

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Speaker 1: I feel like if I come here, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to get you know, some opportunities to get the ball.

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Speaker 1: U Joe likes to throw the deep ball, and I'm

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Speaker 1: that guy. He looked good and I really thought that,

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Speaker 1: you know, John was going to you know, be that

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Speaker 1: thousand yards receiver with multiple touchdowns and and it's about

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Speaker 1: signing him back and figuring out you know, all the

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Speaker 1: things with you know, Joe and him. But yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: all in the rearview mirror. I think he would be

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Speaker 1: in his best interest to to go out somewhere because

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Speaker 1: you're you're looking at a team that's probably going to

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01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:39,400
Speaker 1: need more of a run blocking receiver and you know,

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01:49:39,400 --> 01:49:41,680
Speaker 1: a little bit more physical kind of a receiver than

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Speaker 1: what he would actually bring to the table. Do you

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Speaker 1: think Lamar Jackson will be a lure to guys free

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Speaker 1: agents on the on the market, particularly guys like Levon Bell,

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Speaker 1: who's looking for a place a great running back and

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Speaker 1: a team that wants to run the football a lot.

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Speaker 1: You think Levon Bell is on the table for the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: So you got me, you got me. My drool, I'm

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Speaker 1: drooling right now because my goodness, we've seen him twice

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Speaker 1: a year and and Levion is the real deal. I

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Speaker 1: always thought he was the best back in football. Um

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Speaker 1: and and now if you look at this division with

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Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, now I'm going to be a part of

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Speaker 1: the division with the Cleveland Browns. I just think that

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Speaker 1: you need to do whatever you need to do just surround.

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01:50:31,920 --> 01:50:35,640
Speaker 1: Lamar was as much talent as possible. And with a

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Speaker 1: Levion Bell, you're you're saying you don't have to run

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Speaker 1: the ball Lamar, give it to a talented back. You

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Speaker 1: also have some other guys and Kenneth picks in and

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Speaker 1: and as far as Gus Edwards, you know, both guys

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01:50:48,320 --> 01:50:51,080
Speaker 1: really did a remarkable job. But that's a that's a

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Speaker 1: whole different level where you talked about what Levion can

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Speaker 1: do and obviously throwing the ball out of the backfield too.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I know that free agency is going to

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01:50:59,640 --> 01:51:03,000
Speaker 1: be interesting. I know that Eric decassa business his first

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01:51:03,080 --> 01:51:06,320
Speaker 1: run as GM and having the final say, I'll be

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Speaker 1: curious to see how he, you know, kind of puts

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Speaker 1: forth his game plan. One more guy, that player I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you about Codre That is a guy

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01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:15,439
Speaker 1: who essentially has been the face of the Ravens franchise

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Speaker 1: for at least the last decade. Terrell Sugs hitting free agency,

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01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:21,280
Speaker 1: is he does he have more to give as far

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Speaker 1: as the player and will he give it to Baltimore

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01:51:23,560 --> 01:51:25,800
Speaker 1: or will he be ready to move you think? I

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01:51:25,880 --> 01:51:27,680
Speaker 1: think the price has to be right. I think it

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01:51:27,800 --> 01:51:30,120
Speaker 1: always comes down to, you know, the business side of

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Speaker 1: it with you know, the Ravens and obviously they you know,

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01:51:34,960 --> 01:51:39,040
Speaker 1: they consider terrell Sugs one of those foundation pieces that

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Speaker 1: Baltimore has had the privilege of having over the years.

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01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:50,040
Speaker 1: Um and and just making a defensive, toughness mindset for

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01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:54,280
Speaker 1: um what this organization stands for. And it's going back

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01:51:54,320 --> 01:51:57,160
Speaker 1: to Ray Lewis of course. But with that said, yeah,

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01:51:57,320 --> 01:52:00,759
Speaker 1: you know, it depends upon what you know he's asking

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01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:05,840
Speaker 1: for and I think he is a strong situational player

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01:52:06,600 --> 01:52:08,639
Speaker 1: in my opinion, I think that's what he would bring

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01:52:08,720 --> 01:52:11,080
Speaker 1: to the table. For any team that would be looking

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Speaker 1: to hire his services. Ravens are coming here to Orchard

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Speaker 1: Park this season, Kadrie, and all of a sudden, they

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01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:19,000
Speaker 1: looked like one of the more interesting teams over the

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01:52:19,080 --> 01:52:20,599
Speaker 1: next couple of months, or at least in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Would you agree? They certainly have made a tremendous splash

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Speaker 1: with kind of going away from this you know, offensive

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01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:33,880
Speaker 1: system where it's just slinging around the football field. We

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Speaker 1: witnessed thirteen play drive that went down the football field

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01:52:37,160 --> 01:52:40,639
Speaker 1: for touchdowns without throwing a pass. So yeah, the Bills

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01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:43,200
Speaker 1: and the rest of the league, they've taken notice in

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park is going to be It's going to be

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Speaker 1: an exciting and interesting time. Cadre. We always appreciate your

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Speaker 1: work and thank you for cutting out a little time

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Speaker 1: for us today. Thank you very much. Absolutely appreciate you

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Speaker 1: guys having me on. Thanks Cadre. Ismail NFL In Ravens Baltimore,

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01:52:58,280 --> 01:53:01,879
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens analysts play down the Super Bowl champion Baltimore

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Speaker 1: raven Super Bowl thirty five played ten seasons in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: He joined us on the Subway Fresh State kidline presented

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Speaker 1: You agree with me. I mean, look SUGS is gonna

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01:53:14,080 --> 01:53:17,760
Speaker 1: hit free agency. That's crazy. M John Brown. I've made

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01:53:17,760 --> 01:53:19,680
Speaker 1: it plain to you how much I value him. I

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01:53:19,760 --> 01:53:22,479
Speaker 1: think he could be a premium free agent wide receiver

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01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:26,880
Speaker 1: acquisition for the Buffalo Bills. Lamark Jackson. They're all in

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01:53:26,960 --> 01:53:30,479
Speaker 1: with Lamark Jackson RG threes in free agency down there.

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01:53:31,439 --> 01:53:34,960
Speaker 1: He said, Ishmael that you think about a team that

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Speaker 1: would be in the bidding war for Levion Bell as well.

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Speaker 1: We asked him about that and he said, man, they

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01:53:38,920 --> 01:53:41,360
Speaker 1: would love it because they you know, he hammered him

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Speaker 1: twice a year throughout his career with the Steelers. And

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01:53:44,200 --> 01:53:46,600
Speaker 1: to have to take Levion Bell off the Steelers and

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01:53:46,640 --> 01:53:50,120
Speaker 1: put him on your team, that's an exponential improvement for

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01:53:50,240 --> 01:53:52,479
Speaker 1: your club trying to win that division and that's you know,

2283
01:53:53,160 --> 01:53:55,559
Speaker 1: listen to how many times we've seen the raven Steelers

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01:53:55,640 --> 01:53:57,519
Speaker 1: go out and for the division title. I mean, they

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01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 1: they need that kind of guy on their team, and

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01:54:01,680 --> 01:54:04,880
Speaker 1: to subtract him from the Steelers roster's that's huge. We're

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01:54:04,920 --> 01:54:07,760
Speaker 1: gonna get the Ravens Bills for the second consecutive year.

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Speaker 1: And I believe the third time in the last four

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Speaker 1: years he didn't get him two years. I think we

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01:54:11,800 --> 01:54:14,080
Speaker 1: got them two years ago. Three years they opened up there.

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01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:17,479
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Yeah, that's right. Two years apart, that's right.

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01:54:17,520 --> 01:54:19,160
Speaker 1: And they're coming here. We don't know obviously the dates

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01:54:19,200 --> 01:54:21,280
Speaker 1: of the schedule, but Ravens are coming here to watch him.

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01:54:21,280 --> 01:54:23,479
Speaker 1: The schedule back on the schedule, All right, a break here,

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Speaker 1: we're coming back with more. You can join us and

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01:54:25,439 --> 01:54:27,439
Speaker 1: let us know what you think on Twitter. I guess

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01:54:27,520 --> 01:54:29,160
Speaker 1: is the way to go with the phone problems we've had.

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01:54:29,560 --> 01:54:32,480
Speaker 1: What do you think of who's the neediest personnel team

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01:54:32,600 --> 01:54:35,360
Speaker 1: left in the AFC East? That's number one? And what

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Speaker 1: do you think about the prospect of a new commissioner?

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver approached by some NFL owners to leave the

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Speaker 1: NBA and be NFL commissioner. Thoughts on that tweeted into

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Speaker 1: us John Murphy' Steave Tasker One Bill's Live from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the show. Jim Murphy's Steve Tasker got bone issued, so

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01:55:04,520 --> 01:55:06,040
Speaker 1: we would invite you to call, but if we can't

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Speaker 1: catch you on the Air's right so I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you Steve Stay of the art, Murph. Let me give

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01:55:10,080 --> 01:55:12,600
Speaker 1: you Steve's personal cell numbers. You call him, call me

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Speaker 1: and we'll just seven one six. Yeah, I wouldn't do

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Speaker 1: that to you, Steve. We're here for another half hour.

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Speaker 1: We got a ways to go here and thanks to

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Speaker 1: Cadre ismail Um. I don't know what what did he

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Speaker 1: say about Joe Flacco? That how will We never asked

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Speaker 1: him this specifically, but how will Joe Flacco be remembered?

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01:55:30,440 --> 01:55:32,120
Speaker 1: And I guess I asked him how was he regarded

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01:55:32,160 --> 01:55:34,520
Speaker 1: in Baltimore? Not so well. I got to send from

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01:55:34,720 --> 01:55:36,879
Speaker 1: you know what I get from. And I keep forgetting

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01:55:36,960 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 1: this when I think about him, because I see him

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Speaker 1: on the field and he throws it like he's got

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Speaker 1: a great arm. He's got a great arm, a sweet delivery,

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Speaker 1: quick release, very accurate, strong. I mean, the guy throws it.

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01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:49,920
Speaker 1: He's an elite thrower. But the thing that keeps him

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Speaker 1: from being an elite quarterback, in my opinion, one of

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Speaker 1: the main things. And I always get this, and you

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01:55:54,240 --> 01:55:56,200
Speaker 1: can poo poo it if you want. I think it's

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01:55:56,240 --> 01:55:59,040
Speaker 1: not it's not important or whatever, but here's what it

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01:55:59,160 --> 01:56:04,280
Speaker 1: is he's got a flat heartbeat. The guy has got

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01:56:04,480 --> 01:56:08,760
Speaker 1: zero personality in the huddle, zero personality and meetings, zero

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Speaker 1: fire in his speech. How do you know that? Well's

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01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:17,600
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've been in meetings with him and said,

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Speaker 1: that's a perception. That's I think Cadre told us that's

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Speaker 1: really not true. He's well competitive, that's the perception, right,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the one thing that he doesn't do.

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01:56:28,480 --> 01:56:31,680
Speaker 1: I don't know that he is a guy that lights

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01:56:31,680 --> 01:56:34,840
Speaker 1: a fire under his teammates. I think he does. I

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01:56:34,880 --> 01:56:37,360
Speaker 1: think Kadrea Ismailis alluded to it. He does his job

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01:56:37,680 --> 01:56:40,400
Speaker 1: and expects others to do theirs and if they don't, well, okay,

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01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: we'll find let's see if we can let's do better

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01:56:42,680 --> 01:56:44,520
Speaker 1: next time, or let's find somebody who can do that

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01:56:44,640 --> 01:56:46,840
Speaker 1: job better and let's we'll try and win that way.

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Speaker 1: He is. That's why he was successful with ray Lewis

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01:56:49,640 --> 01:56:51,400
Speaker 1: on the team. Ray Lewis did all of that. Ray

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01:56:51,480 --> 01:56:53,680
Speaker 1: Lewis was the heartbeat and the soul and the fire

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Speaker 1: and the furnace of the entire club in the tire organization. Well,

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01:56:57,160 --> 01:56:59,600
Speaker 1: let's let's face it. When Joe Flacco shows up there

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01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:03,600
Speaker 1: and with Ray Lewis and Ed Reid, etc. Terrell Suggs,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have to be the emotional fire of that team.

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Speaker 1: He's got He's got world class emotional leaders, right, And

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Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think. I think they've found

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Speaker 1: out that since those guys have gone, he doesn't have

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01:57:13,680 --> 01:57:15,280
Speaker 1: it in him to be that. Yeah, And I think

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Speaker 1: that's the one thing that he lacks. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he made the Baltimore Ravens Joe Flacco's team. I don't

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01:57:20,960 --> 01:57:23,880
Speaker 1: think it was ever Joe Flacco's team. And I think

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01:57:23,880 --> 01:57:25,760
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, you've got to make at least making

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01:57:25,800 --> 01:57:27,840
Speaker 1: an effort to try and do that. And I think

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01:57:27,880 --> 01:57:30,800
Speaker 1: that's one of the shortcomings I noticed from Afar that

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Speaker 1: I and I heard it from. I heard from Kadre

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01:57:34,240 --> 01:57:36,120
Speaker 1: in our last interview too. I think is in there.

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01:57:36,160 --> 01:57:38,320
Speaker 1: I think he said he tried to come to his

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01:57:38,360 --> 01:57:40,960
Speaker 1: defense say, hey, listen, he is a fiery competitor, but

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01:57:41,080 --> 01:57:43,680
Speaker 1: he's not a fiery leader. You know, he's not a

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Speaker 1: guy who you know, pounces fist on the table in meetings.

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Speaker 1: He's kind of a flat line, steady guy who you know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's hard to rally around guys like that.

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01:57:54,960 --> 01:57:56,920
Speaker 1: I think that maybe one of the shortcomings. So the

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Speaker 1: calculation they have made Eric da Costa, the new general

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Speaker 1: manager there, and the Ravens decision makers, the calculation they

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Speaker 1: have made is that we believe Lamar Jackson is best

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Speaker 1: for us next for us. I'm just not convinced to

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Speaker 1: that based on what I saw last year. He was

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Speaker 1: okay last year. Of the five rookie starting quarterbacks first rounders,

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Speaker 1: last year, he was number five. I believe in terms

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Speaker 1: of what he showed and what he can do for

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Speaker 1: that team, he was okay. But to commit to part

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Speaker 1: ways with the Flacco as quickly and as decisively as

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Speaker 1: they have done and turn things over to a second

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Speaker 1: year quarterback who was okay in his first year, that's

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Speaker 1: just I questioned that. I do question that move by

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Well. I think they got pushed into a

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Speaker 1: place where they didn't want to have a twenty seven

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Speaker 1: million dollar quarterback in a backup position. I understand it,

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Speaker 1: and I think it became a financial business decision. And

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01:58:47,000 --> 01:58:48,600
Speaker 1: when you're gonna make, if you're gonna make that, you

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01:58:48,720 --> 01:58:50,760
Speaker 1: got you gotta take the baggage that goes with it.

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Speaker 1: And in this case, it's going head and shoulders, feet first,

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01:58:55,280 --> 01:58:57,720
Speaker 1: both feet, whatever you want to say. It is jumping

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Speaker 1: all in with Lamar Jackson. And that's where they're at

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Speaker 1: right now. I don't have a problem with it. They listen.

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Speaker 1: They had a good team and a good vibe, and

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson did some good things. But their running game

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01:59:08,960 --> 01:59:10,880
Speaker 1: is a handful. And I was at the game that

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Speaker 1: Kadrey Ishmael spoke about. It was like a thirteen play

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01:59:14,720 --> 01:59:18,360
Speaker 1: drive and they never they never threw it, and they

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01:59:18,440 --> 01:59:20,520
Speaker 1: went right into the end zone. And that set the

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Speaker 1: tone for the entire game. So if you have the

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Speaker 1: ability to do that, hey roll with it. And that's

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Speaker 1: what the Ravens are going to do this year. A

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Speaker 1: couple of tweets that we will mention, not necessarily on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, but people responding to issues. We were

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01:59:32,480 --> 01:59:35,880
Speaker 1: talking about offensive line issues and a tweet from Joe

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01:59:35,960 --> 01:59:38,240
Speaker 1: kat Senior. He says, get Mark Slais on the show

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01:59:38,280 --> 01:59:40,320
Speaker 1: to talk about the offensive line. He is excellent. Had

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01:59:40,400 --> 01:59:42,360
Speaker 1: him out at the super Bowl. You're right, he is excellent.

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Speaker 1: He is a guy. We got Eric Wood on tomorrows show.

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01:59:44,600 --> 01:59:47,480
Speaker 1: We'll ask him about offensive line play and how difficult

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01:59:47,520 --> 01:59:50,360
Speaker 1: it is to transition from a college offensive lineman to

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So that's coming up tomorrow. As far as Gooddell,

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01:59:54,560 --> 01:59:57,240
Speaker 1: should Gooddell re replace? A couple of tweets on this,

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01:59:58,320 --> 02:00:01,320
Speaker 1: Doug Breaks says, NFL owners seem to get what they

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02:00:01,360 --> 02:00:03,280
Speaker 1: wanted in the NBA. It's more of a player's way.

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Speaker 1: I cannot see the NFL wanted to go in that direction.

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02:00:06,760 --> 02:00:09,400
Speaker 1: That's pretty odd. Yeah, Goodell works for the owners. He

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02:00:09,520 --> 02:00:13,120
Speaker 1: makes that clear and obvious. Um, some people think to

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Speaker 1: his detriment. I don't necessarily think that. But he does

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Speaker 1: work for the owners, There's no question about that, and

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Speaker 1: carries out the directives of the owners, not the players,

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02:00:21,880 --> 02:00:26,120
Speaker 1: not the fans, not the partners, not the media for sure. Um,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo fan tweets and new commissioner, what about the fans?

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02:00:30,120 --> 02:00:32,760
Speaker 1: Good grief. The NFL is becoming the league of billionaire

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Speaker 1: and millionaires and high income fans and markets. What's that

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02:00:36,840 --> 02:00:40,560
Speaker 1: got to do with the commissioner? I don't know. He's okay,

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02:00:40,640 --> 02:00:43,560
Speaker 1: we take grants. Yes, and one more on this old

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02:00:43,640 --> 02:00:48,520
Speaker 1: man one on one Taylor made for our target audience. Yes,

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02:00:48,840 --> 02:00:50,960
Speaker 1: the NFL does need a new commissioner. It's time for

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Speaker 1: a change and John Murphy needs airborne. It works, doctor.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm gonna work on it. I'm gonna. I'm gonna.

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Speaker 1: I won't up sick. Are we gonna do NFL true Falls?

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Speaker 1: You want to do it because you did a great

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02:01:05,760 --> 02:01:07,760
Speaker 1: job of it yesterday? We didn't do it. Yesterday was

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02:01:07,800 --> 02:01:09,640
Speaker 1: skipping two days ago. Two days ago. You know who

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02:01:09,760 --> 02:01:14,520
Speaker 1: the sponsor is, Yancey's, Fancy New York's artists and cheese.

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Speaker 1: I got a roar from the control room as well. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go NFL True Falls. Number one NFL teams

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02:01:22,600 --> 02:01:27,640
Speaker 1: should commit more to running back duo's. I will say

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Speaker 1: true to that. I think it's true. I think you

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02:01:29,440 --> 02:01:32,040
Speaker 1: maximize your roster more so when you get rolls, fresh

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02:01:32,080 --> 02:01:33,720
Speaker 1: guys through there. And if you can get a guy

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02:01:33,760 --> 02:01:37,440
Speaker 1: that compliments your number one guy, either a big, strong,

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02:01:37,600 --> 02:01:40,280
Speaker 1: heavy guy that comes in and pounds it, or whether

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02:01:40,360 --> 02:01:42,400
Speaker 1: you get two guys that are identical and just put

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02:01:42,480 --> 02:01:44,920
Speaker 1: fresh legs on the field, I think you get a

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02:01:44,960 --> 02:01:47,080
Speaker 1: lot out of it, and it does maximize your roster.

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02:01:47,160 --> 02:01:48,560
Speaker 1: And I think it's I say true, you got to

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02:01:48,640 --> 02:01:50,720
Speaker 1: commit more to those. Can I give that a limited true.

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02:01:51,320 --> 02:01:53,560
Speaker 1: Did I see the value having to change up back

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02:01:53,840 --> 02:01:55,560
Speaker 1: a different style of back. I get all that, But

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02:01:55,600 --> 02:01:58,120
Speaker 1: if you've got a quality running back, you've got Lashan

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02:01:58,240 --> 02:02:01,320
Speaker 1: McCoy running well, I don't want to commit to a

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02:02:01,920 --> 02:02:03,920
Speaker 1: half and half split of carries. No, no, no, I

2452
02:02:04,000 --> 02:02:06,640
Speaker 1: want my If I've got there's only a half dozen

2453
02:02:06,760 --> 02:02:09,240
Speaker 1: or so in the league, Lashawn is one of them.

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02:02:09,280 --> 02:02:11,360
Speaker 1: When he's good and healthy and ready to go. I

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02:02:11,440 --> 02:02:13,520
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to take carries away

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02:02:13,520 --> 02:02:15,160
Speaker 1: from him just to say, well, we've got a nice

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02:02:15,200 --> 02:02:17,360
Speaker 1: tandemare of running backs. I'm gonna go. Oh, it's a

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02:02:17,440 --> 02:02:19,600
Speaker 1: limited true. That's what it shows up, A limited true

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02:02:19,760 --> 02:02:22,400
Speaker 1: to a certain extent. Yes, you need two, you need

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02:02:22,480 --> 02:02:25,480
Speaker 1: to have an option somewhere to go if the other

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02:02:25,520 --> 02:02:27,840
Speaker 1: guy's not running well. But if you've got a really

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02:02:27,920 --> 02:02:30,800
Speaker 1: good back, well you gotta have. You know the thing,

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02:02:31,000 --> 02:02:33,800
Speaker 1: Sonny Michelle is a really good back. Splits reps so

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02:02:34,200 --> 02:02:36,080
Speaker 1: a little bit there in New England. I'm okay, it's

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02:02:36,080 --> 02:02:38,320
Speaker 1: what they do with him. I think Michelle gets the

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02:02:38,440 --> 02:02:41,080
Speaker 1: majority of the snaps, but they also worked the other

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02:02:41,160 --> 02:02:42,760
Speaker 1: guys in and I think they got it right there

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02:02:42,800 --> 02:02:44,920
Speaker 1: and let me tell me give you an example of

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Speaker 1: why I think you should just say true instead of limited. True.

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Speaker 1: One the Los Angeles Rams. They got Todd Gurley franchise back.

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02:02:51,000 --> 02:02:53,080
Speaker 1: Last year, he was an a candidate for the MVP.

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02:02:53,320 --> 02:02:55,200
Speaker 1: This year, he had a very good year. Late in

2473
02:02:55,200 --> 02:02:57,360
Speaker 1: the year they signed C. J. Anderson, and all of

2474
02:02:57,400 --> 02:02:59,720
Speaker 1: a sudden, Todd Gurley is ineffective. In the championship game,

2475
02:03:00,040 --> 02:03:02,360
Speaker 1: they pull him, put C. J. Anderson in, and he's

2476
02:03:02,480 --> 02:03:05,120
Speaker 1: very effective. You got to be committed to having two

2477
02:03:05,200 --> 02:03:08,280
Speaker 1: guys that you will hand the ball to, even if

2478
02:03:08,400 --> 02:03:12,320
Speaker 1: one becomes predominantly the guy who is started as the

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02:03:12,400 --> 02:03:14,320
Speaker 1: second guy. You just gotta be ready to do that.

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02:03:14,640 --> 02:03:16,440
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure where it went wrong though with

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02:03:16,520 --> 02:03:19,520
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley. Not only did he not yeah, I mean

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02:03:19,760 --> 02:03:21,800
Speaker 1: they basically benched him in the last couple of weeks.

2483
02:03:21,800 --> 02:03:25,360
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what he's dunk. I think he could

2484
02:03:25,400 --> 02:03:27,800
Speaker 1: have used more carries in the championship game and in

2485
02:03:27,880 --> 02:03:30,040
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl as well. I don't know that he sucked.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to NFL true false Number two.

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02:03:32,400 --> 02:03:36,560
Speaker 1: Redskins must draft first round quarterback. With Alex Smith's uncertainty,

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02:03:37,120 --> 02:03:40,320
Speaker 1: I would say false, Yeah, they don't have to draft

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02:03:40,360 --> 02:03:42,920
Speaker 1: a guy in the first round. They certainly Alex Smith

2490
02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:44,560
Speaker 1: has been in the league a long time. He's coming

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02:03:44,600 --> 02:03:46,160
Speaker 1: to the end of his career and he may not

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02:03:46,280 --> 02:03:48,200
Speaker 1: be able to come back and play this year at all.

2493
02:03:48,440 --> 02:03:50,560
Speaker 1: But there's some free agent quarterbacks that are out there

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02:03:50,600 --> 02:03:53,240
Speaker 1: that may be a better fit short term. And I

2495
02:03:53,320 --> 02:03:55,800
Speaker 1: don't like this crop of quarterbacks coming out in the

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02:03:55,880 --> 02:03:58,520
Speaker 1: NFL Draft this year anyway, So I think the Redskins

2497
02:03:58,560 --> 02:04:00,600
Speaker 1: should do just the opposite. They should sign a guy,

2498
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:03,520
Speaker 1: maybe even get case Keenom if they want to, from Denver,

2499
02:04:04,160 --> 02:04:07,320
Speaker 1: take that contract over, and then when Alex smiths healthy,

2500
02:04:07,400 --> 02:04:09,480
Speaker 1: plugged him in and in the interim, when you've got

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02:04:09,560 --> 02:04:12,440
Speaker 1: those two guys playing for you find your quarterback in

2502
02:04:12,480 --> 02:04:14,440
Speaker 1: the future someplace else. But this draft, I don't think

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02:04:14,480 --> 02:04:15,760
Speaker 1: it's the place to do it. I got faults on

2504
02:04:15,880 --> 02:04:20,640
Speaker 1: this one too. Redskins Draft fifteenth. There you know, who

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02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:23,600
Speaker 1: are the top quarterbacks in this draft? Kyler Murray he doesn't,

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02:04:23,920 --> 02:04:26,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't marry, he doesn't merit the fifteenth pick. He

2507
02:04:26,520 --> 02:04:28,760
Speaker 1: may go sooner than that, but you're making a mistake

2508
02:04:28,800 --> 02:04:30,600
Speaker 1: if you're reach for him that high. Most people have

2509
02:04:31,120 --> 02:04:34,760
Speaker 1: drew Locke Missouri as they saw him at the Senior Bowl.

2510
02:04:34,880 --> 02:04:37,000
Speaker 1: Not that impressed, right. I don't think he's the top

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02:04:37,080 --> 02:04:39,080
Speaker 1: half of the draft pick either. He probably will be

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02:04:39,280 --> 02:04:41,640
Speaker 1: chosen in the top half of the draft. Dwayne Haskins,

2513
02:04:41,720 --> 02:04:44,240
Speaker 1: a guy highly regarded the Ohio State quarterback. Um, No,

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02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:48,000
Speaker 1: the Redskins don't have to commit to a first round

2515
02:04:48,120 --> 02:04:50,280
Speaker 1: quarterback draft. That'd be a mistake. They might do it.

2516
02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:53,120
Speaker 1: They just might do it, but no, I would not

2517
02:04:53,240 --> 02:04:55,320
Speaker 1: do it. All right, so both of us safe. Fause?

2518
02:04:55,360 --> 02:04:57,600
Speaker 1: All right? Number three, Lamar Jackson will make the Pro

2519
02:04:57,760 --> 02:05:00,840
Speaker 1: Bowl in twenty nineteen. I can't say false fast enough.

2520
02:05:00,960 --> 02:05:03,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say true. Oh, come on, all the really

2521
02:05:03,840 --> 02:05:06,320
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks are not going to go and will be

2522
02:05:06,360 --> 02:05:12,160
Speaker 1: the last guy stand. But he may yet, he may

2523
02:05:12,400 --> 02:05:13,800
Speaker 1: maybe in a couple of years down the road. I'm

2524
02:05:13,800 --> 02:05:16,800
Speaker 1: gonna say true. I'm saying true. Mark it down, okay,

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02:05:16,840 --> 02:05:19,200
Speaker 1: all right, all right, here we go. Last one Patriots,

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02:05:20,160 --> 02:05:24,760
Speaker 1: NFL true false. Number four The New England Patriots will

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02:05:24,840 --> 02:05:29,840
Speaker 1: acquire wide receiver to Marius Thomas. You might. I don't

2528
02:05:29,880 --> 02:05:34,920
Speaker 1: know what will it do for him at this age?

2529
02:05:35,120 --> 02:05:37,720
Speaker 1: They don't. Yeah, but can I answer to her? False?

2530
02:05:37,760 --> 02:05:41,720
Speaker 1: With I don't care. That's basically Thomas is not gonna

2531
02:05:41,720 --> 02:05:45,040
Speaker 1: be false with choke and die. He's got a difference maker.

2532
02:05:45,240 --> 02:05:49,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he is is past his crime. Patriots,

2533
02:05:49,200 --> 02:05:51,160
Speaker 1: go ahead if you want to marrus Thomas. If he's

2534
02:05:51,200 --> 02:05:53,040
Speaker 1: got something to give and they can use him, they

2535
02:05:53,080 --> 02:05:55,120
Speaker 1: probably will. But you can bet that this New England

2536
02:05:55,160 --> 02:05:57,920
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna draft and sign guys that you that

2537
02:05:58,000 --> 02:06:01,960
Speaker 1: are unexpected. Uh. They will sign mid level free agents

2538
02:06:02,040 --> 02:06:04,520
Speaker 1: and whoever they sign is going to be able to

2539
02:06:04,800 --> 02:06:08,400
Speaker 1: and in a position to and be motivated to earn

2540
02:06:08,480 --> 02:06:12,360
Speaker 1: their contract. The Patriots are better than any other organization

2541
02:06:12,600 --> 02:06:15,800
Speaker 1: at not having any money spent on their roster that

2542
02:06:15,880 --> 02:06:20,400
Speaker 1: they don't get value for Josh Gordon. Well, they got

2543
02:06:20,480 --> 02:06:22,640
Speaker 1: some things out of him during the season he was

2544
02:06:22,680 --> 02:06:25,040
Speaker 1: starting to play for them. He's caught some touchdown passes

2545
02:06:25,120 --> 02:06:28,080
Speaker 1: for them during a season when their offense was struggling.

2546
02:06:28,120 --> 02:06:31,120
Speaker 1: He gave him another dimension and they did it. From

2547
02:06:31,160 --> 02:06:32,800
Speaker 1: the second game he played for him, he caught a

2548
02:06:32,880 --> 02:06:38,000
Speaker 1: touchdown pass. So yeah, I would say that they get

2549
02:06:38,120 --> 02:06:40,280
Speaker 1: as much out of their roster as anybody in the NFL,

2550
02:06:40,400 --> 02:06:41,800
Speaker 1: and you can bet they're going to do it again

2551
02:06:41,880 --> 02:06:45,160
Speaker 1: this offseason. That is NFL true false, brought to you

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02:06:45,240 --> 02:06:48,280
Speaker 1: by Yancy's Fancy New York's artists and Cheese. Thank you.

2553
02:06:48,920 --> 02:06:54,040
Speaker 1: Can I respond to your ridiculous Patriots love fest? Nah? Whatever? Look,

2554
02:06:54,440 --> 02:06:56,960
Speaker 1: yeah they get they went in championships. Yeah, they're getting

2555
02:06:56,960 --> 02:06:59,360
Speaker 1: out of the roster than anybody else. But they have

2556
02:06:59,480 --> 02:07:02,080
Speaker 1: plenty of personnel failings. They they're not a good drafting

2557
02:07:02,120 --> 02:07:04,520
Speaker 1: team to doing the Patriots. They really aren't. We'll get

2558
02:07:04,600 --> 02:07:07,720
Speaker 1: more into that as we get closer to the drafts. Seriously, Yeah,

2559
02:07:07,760 --> 02:07:10,040
Speaker 1: because I don't really spend much time thinking about their drafts.

2560
02:07:11,000 --> 02:07:12,920
Speaker 1: They don't have a great record in the draft, they

2561
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:15,880
Speaker 1: really don't. They lucked down on a six round pick

2562
02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:17,560
Speaker 1: at quarterback a couple of years ago, who was going

2563
02:07:17,560 --> 02:07:19,880
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame, and let me tell you something.

2564
02:07:20,880 --> 02:07:22,760
Speaker 1: Say what you want about how they did at what's

2565
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:27,960
Speaker 1: happened to him since then? That was absolutely dumb luck. Yeah, yeah,

2566
02:07:28,600 --> 02:07:31,280
Speaker 1: that was like Belichick's what third draft, second or third

2567
02:07:31,360 --> 02:07:35,040
Speaker 1: draft that they had there. He had blood so for

2568
02:07:35,120 --> 02:07:37,760
Speaker 1: a couple of years and then they had Yeah, that

2569
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:42,080
Speaker 1: was absolutely lucky. All Right, We're gonna take a break,

2570
02:07:42,120 --> 02:07:44,880
Speaker 1: come back with more one Bill's Live presented by Kalida

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02:07:44,960 --> 02:08:02,160
Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Okay,

2572
02:08:02,240 --> 02:08:04,040
Speaker 1: what have we learned from today h show? We learned

2573
02:08:04,040 --> 02:08:06,800
Speaker 1: that the phones don't work? That's number one. What have

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2578
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Speaker 1: the phones good for tomorrow. Right, we can't do another

2579
02:08:18,920 --> 02:08:22,520
Speaker 1: show without phones. We had Spencer Long. You're looking do

2580
02:08:22,600 --> 02:08:24,680
Speaker 1: I respond to that? What do I say? What do

2581
02:08:24,760 --> 02:08:27,560
Speaker 1: I say to that? Spencer Long on the show today

2582
02:08:27,640 --> 02:08:30,480
Speaker 1: brand new Buffalo Bill's Offensive lineman, and he talked about

2583
02:08:30,520 --> 02:08:32,880
Speaker 1: what sold him. I'm signing with the Buffalo Bills this week.

2584
02:08:34,680 --> 02:08:37,360
Speaker 1: The thing that really sold me here was they sold

2585
02:08:37,400 --> 02:08:39,920
Speaker 1: me for you know, coming in and bringing a guy

2586
02:08:39,960 --> 02:08:41,640
Speaker 1: that's you know, trusting to me that I'm gonna work

2587
02:08:41,680 --> 02:08:43,560
Speaker 1: hard and be a team player, and you know, do

2588
02:08:43,640 --> 02:08:45,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to do whatever I can to help

2589
02:08:45,240 --> 02:08:47,360
Speaker 1: the Bills and whatever way they ask. And you know,

2590
02:08:47,440 --> 02:08:48,960
Speaker 1: at this point in my career. I just want to

2591
02:08:49,160 --> 02:08:51,240
Speaker 1: I just want to play a contributing win and they

2592
02:08:51,320 --> 02:08:52,800
Speaker 1: know that. And I'm gonna work hard and I'm not

2593
02:08:52,840 --> 02:08:55,480
Speaker 1: gonna be an ego guy and not gonna make it

2594
02:08:55,560 --> 02:08:58,640
Speaker 1: about me, and um, and they know that, you know,

2595
02:08:59,000 --> 02:09:01,280
Speaker 1: from doing research on that type of guy, which you know,

2596
02:09:01,400 --> 02:09:03,280
Speaker 1: really gave me a lot of faith in the organization

2597
02:09:03,360 --> 02:09:06,200
Speaker 1: that they're that their values in the right place. And um,

2598
02:09:06,400 --> 02:09:08,240
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm super excited to work for the staff

2599
02:09:08,280 --> 02:09:10,920
Speaker 1: and and you know, get to work in Buffalo and

2600
02:09:12,840 --> 02:09:17,960
Speaker 1: special long Diday interview from a shooting range of fencers.

2601
02:09:17,960 --> 02:09:21,320
Speaker 1: Everything all right? Oh? Is that the gym? Kind of

2602
02:09:21,360 --> 02:09:24,839
Speaker 1: a gym? Also on the show Today moments ago, Cadre Ismael,

2603
02:09:24,920 --> 02:09:27,879
Speaker 1: former NFL wide receiver, former color analysts on the Baltimore

2604
02:09:27,960 --> 02:09:30,840
Speaker 1: Ravens Radio network covers the Ravens for radio and TV

2605
02:09:30,920 --> 02:09:35,040
Speaker 1: outlets in the charm City, Baltimore, Maryland. Guess, Cadre, what

2606
02:09:35,200 --> 02:09:39,320
Speaker 1: is the perception of Joe Flacco in Baltimore, especially as

2607
02:09:39,360 --> 02:09:41,680
Speaker 1: it relates to what the perception is around the country,

2608
02:09:41,680 --> 02:09:46,280
Speaker 1: around the NFL. Here's what Cadre had to see, say, Jesse,

2609
02:09:46,280 --> 02:09:49,560
Speaker 1: he is a quarterback that goes out and does his job,

2610
02:09:49,680 --> 02:09:51,880
Speaker 1: does it well, and at the end of the day,

2611
02:09:51,960 --> 02:09:56,120
Speaker 1: he's not necessarily going to create any major headlines. Um

2612
02:09:56,200 --> 02:10:00,320
Speaker 1: as you look at the telecast, he seems like he's

2613
02:10:01,080 --> 02:10:03,879
Speaker 1: you know, board if you look at you know, times

2614
02:10:03,960 --> 02:10:08,000
Speaker 1: where he seems as interested. But those that are here

2615
02:10:08,040 --> 02:10:10,600
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, those that have been around the team and

2616
02:10:10,680 --> 02:10:13,360
Speaker 1: comes the team like I have, you definitely see a

2617
02:10:13,480 --> 02:10:16,040
Speaker 1: totally different side than what might be you know, a

2618
02:10:16,160 --> 02:10:19,800
Speaker 1: national view. And that's a very fighly competitive quarterback who

2619
02:10:19,960 --> 02:10:26,640
Speaker 1: has the Super Bowl Champion MVP title by his name.

2620
02:10:26,760 --> 02:10:29,880
Speaker 1: I think he's a very good, strong quarterback. Interesting take

2621
02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:32,520
Speaker 1: from Cadre Ismael. You know, he hit on something that's

2622
02:10:32,520 --> 02:10:35,400
Speaker 1: always been always bothered me around the NFL for for

2623
02:10:35,560 --> 02:10:38,040
Speaker 1: decades now, Steven, people will and believe me, I know,

2624
02:10:38,160 --> 02:10:40,360
Speaker 1: the only way you can pay attention is to watch

2625
02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:42,880
Speaker 1: games on TV. I get that many times, though I

2626
02:10:42,960 --> 02:10:44,640
Speaker 1: hear it last night, But many times people would watch

2627
02:10:44,640 --> 02:10:47,400
Speaker 1: a game and say, well, this team looked disinterested, they

2628
02:10:47,480 --> 02:10:49,640
Speaker 1: look like they didn't care. Well, when they're down like

2629
02:10:49,720 --> 02:10:51,560
Speaker 1: thirty one or nothing in the fourth quarter, they're gonna

2630
02:10:51,560 --> 02:10:53,640
Speaker 1: look disinterested. They're gonna look like they don't care. I

2631
02:10:54,200 --> 02:10:55,960
Speaker 1: always used to, and I don't do it. I have

2632
02:10:56,040 --> 02:10:58,640
Speaker 1: to do it much anymore. Caution people from making broad

2633
02:10:58,760 --> 02:11:02,680
Speaker 1: sweeping generals stations about players and teams based on what

2634
02:11:02,840 --> 02:11:06,200
Speaker 1: they see sideline demeanor, you know they look on the

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02:11:06,240 --> 02:11:09,280
Speaker 1: second I will say. I will say this, though, I've

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02:11:09,360 --> 02:11:14,240
Speaker 1: seen so many games where teams come in and it's not,

2637
02:11:14,960 --> 02:11:17,640
Speaker 1: for instance, a team like Baltimore who's playing well, who's

2638
02:11:17,640 --> 02:11:20,360
Speaker 1: headed the Super Bowl or whatever, a playoff caliber team

2639
02:11:20,400 --> 02:11:23,720
Speaker 1: playing a team like the Cleveland Browns when they were

2640
02:11:23,720 --> 02:11:26,240
Speaker 1: going oh and sixteen, the Ravens will jump out on

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02:11:26,320 --> 02:11:28,480
Speaker 1: a team twenty eight to nothing like that. I've seen

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02:11:28,520 --> 02:11:30,760
Speaker 1: it happen. Not I'm just using these two teams as

2643
02:11:31,240 --> 02:11:33,840
Speaker 1: for no particular reason, just to call them out. But

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02:11:33,960 --> 02:11:36,120
Speaker 1: the Ravens will jump out, get a big lead, and

2645
02:11:36,320 --> 02:11:39,360
Speaker 1: you'll be able to tell that they think that by

2646
02:11:39,400 --> 02:11:43,480
Speaker 1: their body language and subtle things that they do play selection,

2647
02:11:43,880 --> 02:11:45,440
Speaker 1: the way they run on and off the field, that

2648
02:11:45,520 --> 02:11:47,520
Speaker 1: they have kind of raised up and said, Okay, I

2649
02:11:47,640 --> 02:11:50,520
Speaker 1: think this game is one. And in the next two

2650
02:11:50,680 --> 02:11:53,560
Speaker 1: or three series, the Cleveland Browns will go bang bang

2651
02:11:53,640 --> 02:11:56,680
Speaker 1: bang touchdown, bang bang bang touchdown, bang bang bang field

2652
02:11:56,720 --> 02:11:59,480
Speaker 1: goal and all of a sudden, it's a much different thing.

2653
02:11:59,560 --> 02:12:04,200
Speaker 1: In point is, in football, your emotional content is more

2654
02:12:04,280 --> 02:12:07,560
Speaker 1: important than in any other professional sport. It shows up

2655
02:12:07,680 --> 02:12:10,440
Speaker 1: in a big way in a team atmosphere. That's why

2656
02:12:10,800 --> 02:12:14,680
Speaker 1: momentum is such a big word in football. It is

2657
02:12:14,760 --> 02:12:20,240
Speaker 1: a collective perception of your chances to win this game,

2658
02:12:20,680 --> 02:12:23,160
Speaker 1: and it hits all the entire fifty three men roster

2659
02:12:23,320 --> 02:12:25,000
Speaker 1: the same thing the same time. And that's why you

2660
02:12:25,040 --> 02:12:27,960
Speaker 1: get a momentum swing for one team and against another.

2661
02:12:28,400 --> 02:12:30,920
Speaker 1: One team there's momentum swings against them because they think,

2662
02:12:31,400 --> 02:12:33,320
Speaker 1: you know, as a collective unit, hey we got this.

2663
02:12:33,920 --> 02:12:36,720
Speaker 1: So this momentum swings away from them because their emotional

2664
02:12:36,800 --> 02:12:39,840
Speaker 1: content changes. And I think that is more prevalent and

2665
02:12:41,480 --> 02:12:45,000
Speaker 1: evident in football during a game than any others. I

2666
02:12:45,000 --> 02:12:46,320
Speaker 1: don't know we can talk about that. We don't have

2667
02:12:46,360 --> 02:12:47,760
Speaker 1: a lot of time to talk about today, but I do.

2668
02:12:47,840 --> 02:12:49,840
Speaker 1: I would tell you this. I'm not one of them.

2669
02:12:50,040 --> 02:12:53,760
Speaker 1: There are people who would laugh at your characteration of momentum.

2670
02:12:53,840 --> 02:12:57,200
Speaker 1: There are people who think there's no such thing as momentum. Yeah,

2671
02:12:57,600 --> 02:13:00,960
Speaker 1: I think I can articulate what it is. Momentum may

2672
02:13:01,040 --> 02:13:04,919
Speaker 1: not be an accurate word to use in that situation.

2673
02:13:05,320 --> 02:13:06,960
Speaker 1: But I know what they're talking about, and I think

2674
02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:08,680
Speaker 1: I could articulate it if you give me a chance.

2675
02:13:08,720 --> 02:13:11,800
Speaker 1: But a chance tomorrow, all right, three hours tomorrow Tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We end up the week with my lessons in Momentum.

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Speaker 1: Eric Woods going to join us tomorrow, Bill Barnwell and

2678
02:13:16,400 --> 02:13:19,040
Speaker 1: Job Scallier from Channel seven, all of them on the

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02:13:19,080 --> 02:13:21,440
Speaker 1: show with us tomorrow. Our Twitter poll today which team

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East is the neediest in terms of personnel?

2681
02:13:25,160 --> 02:13:27,840
Speaker 1: The Dolphins say forty five percent, Thirty nine percent say

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02:13:27,840 --> 02:13:30,760
Speaker 1: the Bills, fourteen percent say the Jets, two percent say

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02:13:30,800 --> 02:13:34,440
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Champions. Production assistants from George Blast, Jeff Colteneck,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Hollander, Kelly Rude, JJ Turito, Kevin Cargier, Steam's Robe.

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02:13:38,720 --> 02:13:41,920
Speaker 1: Our producer is Jay Harris. We're back tomorrow to finish

2686
02:13:41,960 --> 02:13:44,200
Speaker 1: out the week twelve noon to three pm with One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Line, presented by Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: And this is Buffalo Bills Radio