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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody, Good afternoon. Buffalo Bills fans, Tom Brady fans,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Sorry couldn't we One Bill's Live presided presented

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Speaker 1: if you're watching on there, you gotta look at new

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Welcome to the show. I'm John Murphy. This

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Speaker 1: is Steve Tasker. Happy to have you on the show

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Speaker 1: with us today. We've been laughing all morning about how

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Speaker 1: issue is result. Good afternoon, See how you're doing good?

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Speaker 1: Really good. Steve and I spent last night with a

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Speaker 1: them together are as important as either one of them

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Speaker 1: allowed Tremaine Edmonds to excel. Those guys have just really

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Speaker 1: been outstanding. I think that has been the lynchpin of

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Speaker 1: the transformation of that defense. And I think particularly so

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Speaker 1: number ten in the league. But the coverage has been

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Speaker 1: the thing that has been the difference making, and that

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Speaker 1: and the as far as the passing game against the

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Speaker 1: teams they play their opponents. The secondary I think has

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Speaker 1: been more outstanding than the front. And I think that

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Speaker 1: So I agree with you. I think Micah Hyde probably

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Speaker 1: to begin with, and then Poor you're right behind the

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Speaker 1: right behind them. And there are others too who deserve

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Speaker 1: who merits some consideration here, don't you agree? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you look at Mitch Morris. I think he's a really

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Speaker 1: important part of their offensive line and he probably will

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Speaker 1: be for a long time. He was solid last year.

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Speaker 1: He was solid. Now, the money is outrageous highest paid center,

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Speaker 1: but that's what we're talking about when you signed a

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Speaker 1: it's not outrageous money to me. I mean, it might

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Speaker 1: be for other centers around the league, but it's it's

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Speaker 1: a good contract. It's it's not eye popping, and he's

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Speaker 1: a center and it's one of the most important offensive

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Speaker 1: line positions there is. He's making ten million a year.

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Speaker 1: You got left tackles that are making way more than

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Speaker 1: that in the National Football League. So yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: they got the right guy at the right position, and

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Speaker 1: he solidified him in there. I think they do need

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Speaker 1: to improve around him, and I think they will, but

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Speaker 1: I think he's He's been a really important signing, another

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Speaker 1: important signing for me and I and some people have

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Speaker 1: set him up to be solid upfront and set the

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Speaker 1: in setting the line of scrimmage so that they can

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Speaker 1: number for Starloo tou Lalae, and you'll never see that

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we have that guy. Wow, I'm glad that

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Speaker 1: guy is on our team, or wow, look at you

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Speaker 1: know he just does. He's not supposed to or set

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Speaker 1: up to get five thousand tackles and fifty thousand sacks.

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Speaker 1: It's just not that kind of position. But what he

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Speaker 1: does do what he's supposed to do, he does really well,

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Speaker 1: and that is get double teamed, move the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage into the backfield, and pursue down the line. He

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Speaker 1: does that, he gives constant and regular effort, and while

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Speaker 1: his stats aren't spectacular, that's what those guys in that

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Speaker 1: position are paid to do, and he does it really well.

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Speaker 1: They restructured his contract to make sure that he could

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Speaker 1: a really smart move as well, and I think it's

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Speaker 1: So I think both sides are really happy with the

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Speaker 1: freeing up the money that they did gave him some

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Speaker 1: security and also gave the Bills some relief on the cap.

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Speaker 1: So it was I think all in all, I think

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Speaker 1: star Lute low too. Lelay has been really undervalued for

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Speaker 1: most people who just casually watched the game, and the

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Speaker 1: Bean McDermot era who's been the best free agent signing.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from you eight three fifty twenty three one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty call on

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Speaker 1: the line from Connor Ian Rochester. Hello, Connor, go ahead

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Speaker 1: you are let me get you up here. Connor, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air this Connor go ahead, Hi, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing guys? Real good good, I'm right I'm running

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Speaker 1: line with Steve here. Um. It really comes down to

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Speaker 1: longevity and value, and I think this is a two

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Speaker 1: horse race between Hide employer and I don't know the

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Speaker 1: numbers off the top of my head, but I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure Pawyer's a little bit more of a better value

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Speaker 1: for what we're paying him salary wise. Um, can you

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Speaker 1: talk about that in regards to value per year on payer?

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Speaker 1: And I think that would give him the edge over

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Speaker 1: Hide for the best free agent signing. I'll hop off

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Speaker 1: and listen. Yeah, okay, I don't have the numbers in

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Speaker 1: front of me, Steve, Okay, here's here's what I've gotten

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Speaker 1: in front of me. I'm sure payer makes less money

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Speaker 1: than I, but not much. Uh. Yeah, okay, here we go. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're not on the list I'm looking at. They're both

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Speaker 1: seven year veterans players at twenty eight years old, and

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Speaker 1: he'll be twenty nine. Uh where's his birthday? April twenty

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Speaker 1: fifth this year, he'll be twenty nine years old. Michael

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Speaker 1: Hyde will be thirty and at the end of the

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Speaker 1: year December. Um, just a difference in age of one

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Speaker 1: year difference. What did you have numbers? I don't have numbers.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get in player's contract. I believe a

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Speaker 1: little bit shorter than mikee. Hide. But let me look

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Speaker 1: up those numbers and we'll have it. We'll get back

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Speaker 1: on that right absolutely. I'm gonna see if I can

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Speaker 1: get it right here while we're where, we're still talking.

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Speaker 1: But here's the the thing is they both You look

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Speaker 1: at their for what they've meant to the to the

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Speaker 1: team and what the team's paying them. I think they're

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Speaker 1: they're both Really they're bargains. They're really bargains, and I

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Speaker 1: gotta I gotta go all the way down. Here we goes.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break, we'll come back and talk more

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Speaker 1: about this and give us a call in the Bean

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Speaker 1: McDermott era who's been the best free agent signing for

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Speaker 1: the Bills? Eight oh three five fifty toll free from

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Speaker 1: Outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: It's one Bill Side presented by Collid to Health from

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Speaker 1: the Seneca Studios in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's a Wednesday edition and one go five Happy Day.

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Speaker 1: We with us John Murgery see tasker here until three

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Speaker 1: o'clock today. Amy trans joins us at one and Dawson

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Speaker 1: not Spills tight End joins us at two. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about free agents the Bills have signed, and our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll today deals with who's been the best free agent

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Speaker 1: signing under being in. McDermott and the last caller Steve

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Speaker 1: talked about the salary value of the Bills free agents,

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Speaker 1: in particularly the safeties Michael Hyde and Jordan Player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Micah Hyde is on a on a five year

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Speaker 1: deal with an average salary of six point one per year,

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Speaker 1: and Jordan Poyer is on a four year deal that

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Speaker 1: averages three point two five a year. Spoyer's deal is

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Speaker 1: up after this front season. Yeah, deal is up after

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Speaker 1: this year. And so he's by far, if you if

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Speaker 1: you give those guys equal credit for how the secondary

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Speaker 1: has played poor years, by far the you know, the

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Speaker 1: better value. And the Bills gave him a four year,

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Speaker 1: thirteen million dollar contract and seven million at seven point

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Speaker 1: four was guaranteed. Now Micah Hyde got a five year,

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Speaker 1: third a half million dollar contract and fourteen was guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it sounds like big numbers, but in today,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's the game. Since they signed that, the

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Speaker 1: salary cap has gone up what twenty five million bucks,

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Speaker 1: twenty two million bucks something like that. It's gone up

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Speaker 1: ten or twelve million bucks a year in the three

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Speaker 1: years that they've done this. Oh that's yeah, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I said, in the last two years. But you know,

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Speaker 1: so those deals are bargains right now. When they signed them,

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Speaker 1: neither one of them was an established Mike I let

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Speaker 1: me make this point, like I was more of an

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Speaker 1: established player than Jordan Poyer was. Michael I started eleven

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Speaker 1: games the year before he came here for the Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers. He was playing some corner as a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact. But he came here and was considered to

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Speaker 1: be a starting caliber NFL player, and he was almost

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Speaker 1: a guy that the Packers didn't have a cap room

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Speaker 1: to resign him. Poil you're a different story. He had

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Speaker 1: the serious injury, right, a less rated um. They have

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Speaker 1: a less rated kidney something in his back. Cleveland. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: with Cleveland and a little bit more of a risk

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Speaker 1: for the Bills back then that they had, they took

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Speaker 1: a chance and signed them. Yeah, a lacerated kidney and

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Speaker 1: Bruce Livery suffered playing for the Browns in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: So he comes back from that ready to play with

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Speaker 1: the Bills in twenty seventeen, signs a free agent contract.

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Speaker 1: But it wasn't a sure thing that Jordan Poyer would

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Speaker 1: be fully recovered and ready to go in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: So that's probably why the money is so different for

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Speaker 1: those two, right, and the term of the contract. And

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Speaker 1: we also didn't know too that this synergy would happen

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Speaker 1: between them. You know, they seem to play so well

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Speaker 1: together and did right from the get go. You know,

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Speaker 1: right from the jump, they really seemed to be difference

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Speaker 1: makers in the secondary, and they've done nothing but get better.

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Speaker 1: As as the years of war on. You remember that

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Speaker 1: first year that you know that this team hits the

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Speaker 1: tank in the season because they traded away a couple

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Speaker 1: of guys, and all of a sudden, the defense starts

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Speaker 1: generating turnovers like it's their job, which it is, and

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Speaker 1: they get it done, and you know, team starts winning

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Speaker 1: games and they're go to the playoffs. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: was amazing, and it was all keyed by the you know,

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Speaker 1: by this secondary that emerged with these two guys, and

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Speaker 1: of course Tradavious White stepping up and becoming a really

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Speaker 1: good pro right away. Really cool to see how it happened,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I think Micah Hyde kind of leads

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Speaker 1: the way as these guys. As we ask about who

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Speaker 1: the best free agent signing has been, there are other candidates,

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Speaker 1: Sell and we want you to pick the one and

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Speaker 1: check out our Twitter poll under Bean and McDermott, who's

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Speaker 1: been the best Bill's free agent signing? And you're talking

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Speaker 1: about three off seasons twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and obviously twenty seventeen. Brandon Bean was not here fully

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. But we lump them all together under the

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Speaker 1: Bean McDermott era who has been the best of Bills

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Speaker 1: free agent signing. On the Twitter poll, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: that Twitter the tweet sheet. Let's do the poll first. Okay,

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Speaker 1: do you know what people are saying on the poll

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Speaker 1: that you're saying Micah Hyde for sure? Sixty one percent

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Speaker 1: say Micah, twenty nine percent see Jordan Poyer two to one.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot and eight percent seed John Brown three

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Speaker 1: four percent, three percent say somebody else gotta be others

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Speaker 1: ken that it's right. I know that, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's really well stated on the tweet sheet from John Uh,

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Speaker 1: not you another John, and he says all three of

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Speaker 1: these make a great case in terms of value. Jordan

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Speaker 1: Poyer in terms of talent, Micah Hyde. In terms of

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Speaker 1: filling the biggest need, it was John Brown. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I think the poll is really good, because all

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Speaker 1: those guys are important signings for all the reasons we

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Speaker 1: talk about Jordan Poyer is just completely outplaying his contract.

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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde has been a force back there and been

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Speaker 1: the guy that runs the whole secondary and one of

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Speaker 1: the best secondaries in the league for the last couple

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Speaker 1: three years. And John Brown, man, how bad did we

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Speaker 1: need a guy two catches? And he filled that role

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Speaker 1: and he you know, he can't came through in a

638
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: big way. I mean, forget it. It was just numbers,

639
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: you know, a thousand yards receiving seventy two catches at

640
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: a time when you know, we were two years ago,

641
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: we were flopping around with Kelvin Benjamin and those guys,

642
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: and we're just looking for somebody. And man, did he

643
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: solidify that spot on the offense and come through? He was.

644
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: And you do it again. You're the guy who was

645
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: riding his train two years ago before they when Baltimore

646
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: signed him, and h sure enough, you were right here.

647
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: He is a Buffalo Bill and he's their leading receiver

648
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: in this first year. The other thing about John Brown,

649
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: he's a good fit here, right. He's not a and

650
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: believe me, at receiver, it becomes difficult sometimes to not

651
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: get a guy who's a diva. Doesn't need to you know,

652
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: just give me the damn ball. Doesn't need people fawning

653
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: over him praising him. John Brown fits in well here.

654
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: I mean he threw a touchdown bass right in the

655
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: playoff game. He's just a good fit, a hard worker

656
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: and a good fit. Doesn't really talk a whole lot,

657
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: which is fine um and when he does it's usually

658
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: worth listening to. I think it was a really good fit.

659
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: I think the Bills knew that the year before when

660
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: they lost out to Baltimore. He went to Baltimore because

661
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 1: he wasn't sure who'd be thrown him passes here. Who

662
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: knew that George Allen would be the guy in his

663
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: rookie year that he turned out to be, And so

664
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: John Brown signed with Baltimore. I don't know if he

665
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: regrets it. Baltimore had a mid season changed to Lamar Jackson,

666
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: and John Brown said, I gotta go someplace else. Here.

667
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: He is a good signing for the Bills, A really

668
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: good sign. Yeah, there's a really yeah. He's the most

669
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, the most easily recognizable guy. When you

670
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: look at the numbers and how the season went last year,

671
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: there's a guy that was man and that was a

672
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: good signing. You know what I mean, And I think

673
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: it'd be hard pressed not to find somebody who didn't think, yeah,

674
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: you know what, that's probably a good signing right there,

675
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: because neither he nor Cole Beasley broke the bank. Good

676
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: good contracts, no question, Lucrative contracts by by you know,

677
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: you and me are standards, but by the NFL, they're

678
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: right in line. They had a great they've got both

679
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: got great opportunities. And this has been my montro over

680
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. They've got great opportunities to

681
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: earn the money in the contract. The contracts not gonna

682
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: make them have to be let go or traded or released.

683
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: You're not gonna, you know what I mean. They will

684
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: be able to. They will be able to with this

685
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: quarterback in this offensive system to earn that contract, and

686
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: they'll get a chance for now. They could come back

687
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: later and do the same thing they did with Star

688
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: Lotu Lelay. But that was as big as I've been told.

689
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: That was as big. That restructuring of Loto Lelay's contract

690
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: was as big a win for Star as it was

691
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: for the Bills, because he got some more guaranteed money

692
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: and they got relief by turning it into bonuses. So

693
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 1: they may do that with a guy like John Brown

694
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: or Cole Beasley, but they are guys who have the

695
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: chance to be Yeah, he earned that contract, you know,

696
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: And that's hard to say about a lot of free agents, right,

697
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 1: you get guys. What you know, Levion Bell, Let's go

698
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: get down the list right of guys who have hit

699
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: those home run contracts. It's like, Wow, I w are

700
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: be doing paying that guy? Yeah? Right? So I think

701
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: it's I think he's sitting in a perfect spot to

702
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: continue to be productive and have fans really look at

703
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: him as being a guy that was a great signing

704
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: and the being h McDermot era who's been the best

705
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: free agent signing. What do you think? We a call

706
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: on the line from Stan in Buffalo. Hello, Stan, you're

707
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 1: on the air. Hey, guys, how you doing today? Great?

708
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: I think that John Brown line really needs to be

709
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: a John Brown slash Cole Beasley line. I don't think

710
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: either one of them excels sing singly on their own

711
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: with Josh, and I don't think Josh progresses without having

712
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: both of them on the field. I think it was

713
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: a win win with all both those guys together, and

714
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 1: I understand something about John was the career year he had,

715
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: but just your thoughts on that, and I think that

716
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: that really needed to be both. And another thing I'd

717
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: like to have you guys talk about before hang up

718
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: is I read an article that Jordan Homer said that

719
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is ahead of schedule from where he thought

720
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: he would be, and if you look back, he probably

721
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,439
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be a bill starter, so maybe make

722
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: a year. I think that was a prediction, and he's

723
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: ahead of schedule, he's got tossed into the fire, he's

724
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: done really well, So I really think that with I

725
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: think Josh can really break out this year. Thanks guys,

726
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: all right, a couple of good points. Then, on the

727
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer thing, we had him on our show at

728
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: the Combine in Indianapolis two weeks ago. We were there.

729
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: You can go back easily and find it on the

730
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot com. You can find an interview. He

731
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: said that and a lot more. He talked about what

732
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: a great worker Josh Allen is. He talked in specific terms.

733
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: He talked about how he's getting to think about deep

734
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: passes differently. You know how Josh had the problem connecting

735
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: on deep passes or Jordan Palmer is at work on

736
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: it right now, and the two of them are at

737
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: work on it, So I really would if you're interested

738
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: in what Jordan Palmer might be thinking, you really got

739
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: to listen. It was my favorite interview of Combine week. Yeah,

740
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: and for those of you who aren't for me, Jordan

741
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: Palmer is the private quarterback coach for Josh Allen and

742
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: some other quarterbacks as well a lot of the quarterbacks

743
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: in this draft. He's an accepted authority on how to

744
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: throw the football and making guys better and coaching them up.

745
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: And one of the things I got out of, and

746
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: we've talked about this before as well on this show,

747
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: if you want to go back and listen to it,

748
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: is that some fans who are you know, casual fans,

749
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: are you know, people who are worried about their quarterback

750
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: Josh Allen getting developed and all of that and having

751
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: so many people coaching him up. One of the things

752
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: that I found interesting is that Jordan Palmer is coaching

753
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 1: Josh Allen exactly the way that Ken Dorsey and Brian

754
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: Dabole want him to coach him up. Jordan Palmer is

755
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,479
Speaker 1: taking his tips from the Bill's coaching staff. They talk,

756
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: they're informed with each other. Jordan Palmer is following the

757
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: plan and the process everybody's on. And another thing that

758
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 1: I got out of that interview, Murph, and you'll know

759
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: it too, man, Josh is wearing it out. He works hard,

760
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: he's working it. He's working hard at it. He doesn't

761
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 1: he is relentless in his work ethic. So that was

762
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: kind of comforting as well to know that, you know,

763
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: he got a smart young player who's working really hard

764
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: at it, and he's getting coached up consistently by the

765
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: same voices all the time in the same system. And

766
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: Stan the caller might be right, Josh may take a

767
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: bigger step forward this year than he did last year.

768
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: I hope it'd be great, wouldn't it. You think about

769
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,240
Speaker 1: he went from fifty two and change percent completion percentage

770
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: to fifty eight and change completion percentage. Wouldn't it be

771
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: nice to see him go to you know, sixty two

772
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: or sixty four percent or sixty five percent. You know,

773
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: that'd be great or even more and getting up in

774
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: the sixty eight percent rent range. But a lot of

775
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks will go through stretches where they will complete

776
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: seventy percent of their passes these days. That'd be great

777
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: to see. Don't know that that may be too much

778
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: to ask, and we don't even know what the office

779
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: is going to look like around him. But still I

780
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:36,479
Speaker 1: think I am fully expecting him to take another step

781
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: this year. It was two weeks ago we talked to

782
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer at the Combine an Indie. I think it

783
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 1: was two We might have been two weeks ago today

784
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: at least Thursday. Anyway, that week two weeks ago, and

785
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: you can find it all of our interviews. You can

786
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: go back and listen to him. You can stream this

787
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: show live on the Buffalo Bills app. You can get

788
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: our podcasted shows on Buffalo bills dot com, the Buffalo

789
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: Bills App, iTunes, Spotify, google Play. We got video portions

790
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: of the show. I think that was one of them.

791
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: It's probably still up at Buffalo bills dot com. You

792
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: can also find him on YouTube. But the Jordan Palmer

793
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: interview essential for any Bills fan. I think this offseason.

794
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: Now to your first point, how Brown and Beazley should

795
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: be an entry, I guess there's a point to be

796
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: made there. I think you're right about that. There's a

797
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: point to be made, just like poorer and Hide should be. Yeah,

798
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: the slash and I was saying, I went back even

799
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: before you call done that man. Yeah, maybe poor Yer

800
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: Hide versus Beasley and Brown versus Low too, La and

801
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: Morse and Lotulala. Yeah, well they're not the same year though. Yeah,

802
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: but that's true. Here's the John Brown seventy two catches,

803
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley sixty seven catches. Not that much difference there.

804
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: They each had six touchdown catches. John Brown had a

805
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: thousand plus yards. Cole Beasley had six or seven hundred yards.

806
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, Cole Beasley had a big impact.

807
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: And more than the numbers, it was what they provided

808
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: for Josh and the Buffalo offense. I think that was important.

809
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: Exactly what they needed. They needed a good, reliable slot

810
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: guy who would get himself open on a regular basis.

811
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: That's what Cole Beasley did. They also needed a deep threat,

812
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: that's what John Brown did. They also still have some

813
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: needs at the wide receiver spot that they mill they

814
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: may fill in the draft or maybe in free agency

815
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: next week. But yeah, I think there's a lot to

816
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: be said for those two. Beasley had his certainly, if

817
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: not the same impact John Brown had. He was very close. Yeah,

818
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: people on MSGAR watching Cole Beasley come back into the

819
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: locker room in Dallas after the Bills beat the Cowboys

820
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving and the reception he got, you know, there's

821
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: so much in that, right he comes into the locker,

822
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: he's waiting on him. So he comes jogging into the

823
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: locker room after he was at the podium or whatever,

824
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: I guess, and just gets doused with all kinds of

825
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: sports drinking. Maybe beer, I don't know what. It was, water,

826
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: beer and everything, and they lifted him up, carried him,

827
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: you know, crowd served him across the lock It gave.

828
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: There's a lot in that one. They're happy, you know.

829
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: Most importantly is the is the cohesion of the team

830
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: and how happy they are for each other and how

831
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: much they cheer for each other. I think that's one

832
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: thing that strikes a real chord with Bills fan base.

833
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: With the Bills fan base is that this team is

834
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: fun to watch because they are having fun together and

835
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: they played well. Of course that means a lot, obviously,

836
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: but the fact that they are that close to each

837
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: other and that happy for each other's success is really

838
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: easy to cheer for and I think that endears this

839
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: team even further to Bills fans, who you know they're

840
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: gonna cheer for the team no matter what. But when

841
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: you got a group like that really really heightens your

842
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: passion for him, you know, yep, it sure does. All right,

843
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. We'll get more of this,

844
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: We'll get more of the tweet sheet, get some of

845
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: your responses, and the phone lines remain open. Eight three

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00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: fifty twenty three from Outside Buffalo one eight eight eight

847
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty under Bean and McDermott. Who's

848
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: been the best Bills free agent signing? Let us know

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Speaker 1: It's One Bills Live, presented by Kalaida Health from the

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Speaker 1: Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back One Bill's Live. John Murphy was seeing Tasker

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Speaker 1: and not talking about Tom Brady exclusively today, but we

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Speaker 1: can if you like. Yeah, I do think it's funny.

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Speaker 1: People get so worked up. We're gonna talking about Brady.

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Speaker 1: It's important. It is import A tweeter from Joe Maser

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Speaker 1: tired of hearing about Brady. This is one Bill's life,

859
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: not Patriots Pride. Who cares about Brady? When he signed

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Speaker 1: with someone, fine, say something, but only a little something.

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Speaker 1: We'll say what what we want and we'll probably have

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Speaker 1: Brady as a topic the next few days. But now

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Speaker 1: he signs with somebody else, it's our goal to get

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Speaker 1: that sucker on our show. Love to have Brady on

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Speaker 1: the show. I think when he signed question when he

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Speaker 1: signs with somebody else, got a lot of questions for him.

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Speaker 1: Here's something else from Twitter, and this was discussed in

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Speaker 1: our morning meeting. We have extensive morning meetings about the show.

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Speaker 1: Um Andrew North tweets and I really agree that all

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Speaker 1: three were great signings. The one which no one ever

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00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: predicted at the time was a good signing, but his

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00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: attitude towards the Bills and leaving our team hanging, that

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00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: was not right. I'm talking about Davis, Vante Davis. His

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Speaker 1: name came up today, Steve, not as a good signing.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the worst signing of the being McDermot era. Huh,

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Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Somebody somebody said it was you know,

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Speaker 1: they thought Starlow to Lele was a guy who's you know,

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Speaker 1: as overpays not playing well, And I thought, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you're talking about the worst signing, that's it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's only one name on the list, that guy. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, halftime quit halftime? Are you kidding? And you

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Speaker 1: know people, and they were in our little meeting today

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Speaker 1: making it well, how would they know, being McDermot, And

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Speaker 1: of course they didn't know, No, they didn't know it,

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Speaker 1: but they still, Yeah, that's the way it goes. And

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Speaker 1: and how would they know the part was going to

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Speaker 1: be that good? They didn't know, right, sure, exactly, And

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Speaker 1: so that's the way it goes. But yeah, there's there's

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00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: only one name on that list, and that's a guy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One more from the tweet sheet brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Corgan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: from Lucas and response to our question in the Bean

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Speaker 1: McDermott era, who's been the best free agent signing for

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Speaker 1: the Bills, Lucas says, Oh, this is a tough one.

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Speaker 1: Might be a little too early to say John Brown

896
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Speaker 1: because he just got here last year, but Hide and

897
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: Poyer have been consistently good since they've signed here. You're right,

898
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Speaker 1: it's been three years. I do think John Brown is

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Speaker 1: as delivered in one year with the bill seventy two catches,

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Speaker 1: six touchdowns. I think he has delivered. But yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: only got the one year and one more. From the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Tiffany says, I'm voting from Micah Hyde.

903
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: He was the first free agent brought in to begin

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Speaker 1: the overall of the roster makeover the roster. He is

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Speaker 1: the shot caller for the defense. Watching him recognize what's

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Speaker 1: happening in an offense and making the necessary adjustments shows

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00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: what a complete player and leader he is. Can't argue

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Speaker 1: with any of that. Yeah, I agree, and it's been

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Speaker 1: a huge difference maker. I don't know that we've ever

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Speaker 1: had a secondary's plate as well as the one that

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Speaker 1: they've gotten now. I guess I would say, Yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: the strength of the defense the second the front seven

913
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: benefits from them as much as vice versus, as much

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Speaker 1: as some secondaries benefit from a great pass rush. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I know we had this thing going where

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Speaker 1: one of the callers said, why didn't you put poor

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Speaker 1: Poyer and Hide together as one choice? Beasley and Brown

918
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Speaker 1: together as another. And then this next tweet on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Ryan has our third one. I'd say

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Speaker 1: Mitch Morris and John Feliciano, those two guys that remember

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Speaker 1: this is an offensive line had four new starters from

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Speaker 1: week seventeen of seventeen or week seventeen of twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: to week one of twenty nineteen. The next time they

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Speaker 1: lined up, it were four new guys starting, all brand new,

925
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Speaker 1: and it was an offensive line that needed an overhaul badly,

926
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Speaker 1: and they got it. I still think they're looking to improve.

927
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Speaker 1: They've got Tay and Secki, who was a really good

928
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Speaker 1: player for him but couldn't stay healthy and fresh enough

929
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Speaker 1: to be on the field enough. They were trying to

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Speaker 1: develop Cody Ford. I don't know how where they stand

931
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Speaker 1: on that, what their opinion is. We may know more

932
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Speaker 1: by who they pick in the draft, more so than

933
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Speaker 1: why what they tell us about Cody Ford. I still

934
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,240
Speaker 1: think they've got to do something. Quentin Spain is probably

935
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Speaker 1: not going to be back because he's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: free agent who had a probably his best year as

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Speaker 1: a pro at left guard, and of course they may

938
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Speaker 1: have to extend Dion Dawkins. So Mitch Morse is not

939
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Speaker 1: going anywhere for the foreseeable future, so Dion Dawkins and

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Speaker 1: Mitch Morrise. I think John Feliciano is a guy there

941
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Speaker 1: depending on to come back. They just exercise the option

942
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Speaker 1: on Spencer Long to bring him back and Cody Ford,

943
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Speaker 1: so that god guys. But I still think this is

944
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Speaker 1: a group that needs somebody step in at left guard

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Speaker 1: for Quentin Spain. I don't think Quentin Spain will be

946
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Speaker 1: the left guard next year. I think he'll be gone,

947
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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I do so, I you know, I

948
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Speaker 1: think they're looking up grade. And I think one of

949
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Speaker 1: the reasons now, this offensive line did some really good

950
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Speaker 1: things and some things better. Obviously they did everything better

951
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Speaker 1: than they did in eighteen. But one of the things

952
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Speaker 1: that that we kept getting feedback on, and this is

953
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Speaker 1: strictly my opinion, is last year's Brian Day Ball got

954
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Speaker 1: crushed for never running screen passes and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: And one of the reasons for that is Feliciano and

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00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: Spain don't run well, They're not real fast guys to

957
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Speaker 1: get out to the edge. And when your guards can't

958
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: aren't athletic and can't get out to the edge, you

959
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: don't run those kind of plays. That's why I think

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Speaker 1: Brian Dayball felt a little bit handcuffed last year in

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Speaker 1: that part of the passing game. I think that's one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons, maybe one of the reasons they didn't

963
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: run a lot of screen passes because they didn't have

964
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Speaker 1: the offensive linemen to do it. I think they want

965
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: to get better up there and more athletic. All right, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a variety of issues with our

967
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Speaker 1: next guest, Amy Trask, former CEO of the Raiders back

968
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Speaker 1: when they were in Oakland, now they're moving to Las Vegas.

969
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. We'll talk about Tom Brady's apparent

970
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: entry to NFL free agency, talk about free agency in general,

971
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: teams gear up to recruit players. All of that coming back,

972
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Speaker 1: coming up when we come back. It's One Bill's Live,

973
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Speaker 1: presented by kalidah Health from the Seneca Studio in Archer Park,

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Speaker 1: Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close Little Radio Network

975
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Speaker 1: Sports Teams. The update from One Bill's Live Today. NFL

976
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: owners will meet late this month in Florida for the

977
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Speaker 1: annual league Meeting. With it comes the usual proposals for

978
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Speaker 1: rules changes. The most significant change proposal would come on

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Speaker 1: the kickoff, whichs been changed in recent years. The plan

980
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: is to eliminate running starts and increase the yardage games

981
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: on a touchback in an effort to improve what is

982
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Speaker 1: considered the game's most dangerous play. Other changes include adding

983
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: a sky judge to officiating crews in the upcoming season.

984
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 1: None of those proposals from various teams have been vetted

985
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Speaker 1: or endorsed yet by the NFL Competition Committee. NFL came

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00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: out with its compensatory picks for teams that lost valuable

987
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: free agents last year. The Bills got no compensatory picks.

988
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 1: The Patriots got four. The NFL announced that thirty two

989
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Speaker 1: compensit story choices were awarded to fifteen clubs. Patriots got four,

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Speaker 1: including two in the third round. New England will have

991
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Speaker 1: fourteen total picks in the twenty twenty NFL Draft. Robbie Anderson,

992
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Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Jets, ready to hit the free

993
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: agent market next week. The twenty six year old receiver

994
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: hopes he will he will see a good offer from

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Speaker 1: his current team, the New York Jets. Anderson said he

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Speaker 1: and the team have a mutual interest in him returning

997
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,720
Speaker 1: to New York. An undrafted free agent out of Temple,

998
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Speaker 1: Anderson rose from the training camp stand out to a

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Speaker 1: full time starter in his four years with the New

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Speaker 1: York Jets. Cleveland Brown center JC Trader was elected NFL

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Speaker 1: Players Association president yesterday during Board of Player Reps meetings

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Speaker 1: in Florida. The proposed CBA vote still up in the air.

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Speaker 1: Vote in closes at midnight Saturday. Trader not saying which

1004
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Speaker 1: side he is on, but says his goal is to

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Speaker 1: educate all players on details of the new CBA so

1006
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Speaker 1: they can make an informed decision. Former Patriots tied end

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Speaker 1: Rob gun Cross Gronkowski close to finalizing the deal with WWE.

1008
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Speaker 1: Gronkowski deep in talks with a pro wrestling promotion. According

1009
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Speaker 1: to reports, how he'll be used on screen is still unknown.

1010
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Speaker 1: Savers practicing today preparing for tomorrow night's game in Montreal

1011
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: based off set for seven o'clock in the NBA is

1012
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Speaker 1: going to confer about moving games to cities that are

1013
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Speaker 1: not affected by the coronavirus pandemic. I guess it's now

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Speaker 1: a pandemic on the line with us right now. A

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Speaker 1: woman whose name you probably recognize, former CEO of the

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Speaker 1: Raiders for years from two thousand or nineteen ninety seven

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Speaker 1: to twenty thirteen. Now a football analyst for CBS Sports

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Speaker 1: and a contributor to the Athletics. She's author of the

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Speaker 1: book You Negotiate Like a Girl. Amy Trask is on

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Speaker 1: the line with us Amy John Murphy's team tasker up

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Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Thanks coming on, well, thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me man. Nice to talk to you. Yeah you met.

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Speaker 1: You sent out a tweet in response to our promotional

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Speaker 1: tweet that you have I guess still vivid memories of

1025
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Speaker 1: fifty one to three here an Orchard parkway back? Whynot.

1026
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: You might call them vivid memories. I might call them

1027
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Speaker 1: horrible flashbacks. But you know, the thing that's one of

1028
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Speaker 1: the great things about sports is that in life there

1029
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: are so many instances in which we're told or we

1030
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Speaker 1: have to get over things. Well, you know, the fun

1031
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Speaker 1: of sports is we don't have to get over it

1032
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Speaker 1: as long as when we do these things, we do

1033
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Speaker 1: this as good sports, in good spirit and in the

1034
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Speaker 1: spirit of sportsmanship. So in that regard, no, I'm not

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Speaker 1: over it. It's almost thirty years ago, and I wonder

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Speaker 1: I don't want to relive it too much. But what

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Speaker 1: was it like? Flying home all the way to the

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Speaker 1: West Coast after a fifty one to three shellacking like

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Speaker 1: that in a championship game. Miserable, Absolutely positively miserable. And

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Speaker 1: I will always remember, you know, we're on the plane,

1041
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: we're miserable. We land, we're miserable. We get in the

1042
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Speaker 1: buses to get back to the team facility, We're miserable.

1043
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Speaker 1: Everyone is silent, and all of a sudden, you hear

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Speaker 1: Marcus Allen just sort of pop up with this comment,

1045
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Speaker 1: come on, man, let's get through this. And then he says,

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Speaker 1: of Buffalo and of USC sometimes s doesn't even score

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Speaker 1: that many points in a basketball game, and we sort

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Speaker 1: of all laughed, and then it broke the silence, and

1049
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Speaker 1: he said it a lot more humorously and articulately than

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Speaker 1: I do, but I just remember we all kind of laughed,

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Speaker 1: and that was the first moment we took abreast one

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Speaker 1: of the amy. Thanks for coming on. It's great to

1053
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: talk to you. We've spoken so many times in the

1054
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Speaker 1: past and production meetings and stuff when you were with

1055
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Speaker 1: the Raiders, and I just got to ask you too,

1056
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Speaker 1: in the light that is around the league now, where

1057
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Speaker 1: the CBA is being voted on, you were you had

1058
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Speaker 1: a voice at that table at one point on the

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00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: other side, me as a player and you as one

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00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: of the from the owner's side of things. What's your

1061
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: take on this process here, this late in the game,

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00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: where the players are actually sitting down to vote on

1063
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: this CBA. What's your what's your view of this as

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00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: it as it comes down to the final hours? Maybe? Well?

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00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: I think what we're seeing now is very very heartening

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00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: in terms of players digging in and demanding from their

1067
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: representatives and the others at the executive positions of the

1068
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: PA to give them all the information. I love that

1069
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: they asked for the side by side comparison of the deal.

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00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: I love that players are engaged. And look, you know

1071
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: this better than many or better than most Steves. It

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00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: is a big, big body of players. They are of

1073
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: different ages, different viewpoints, different economic means, different points in

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00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: their careers. By definition, they are not always all going

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00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: to agree. And you know what, although the body of

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00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: team owners is far far, far smaller, they don't all

1077
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: agree either. And the key here is coming up with

1078
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 1: an agreement that does the best for the league as

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00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: a whole, taking into account what's best for the players

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00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: and what's best for the league to thrive. And you

1081
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: haven't been on the management side in the past, and

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00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: I wonder is there any indication or any kind of

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00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: I mean, does it look to you like the owners

1084
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,439
Speaker 1: maybe taking advantage of the NFLPA because of I guess

1085
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: two things, the wide variants and you know, all the

1086
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: first second year players making minimum wage and the high

1087
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: priced players, and two sort of a general lack of

1088
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: knowledge about the CBA on behalf of all players. Many

1089
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,479
Speaker 1: players don't even seem engaged in it. Are the owners

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00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: taking advantage of those two factors? Do you think? So?

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00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: You know, the words taking advantage are certainly pejorative in nature,

1092
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: and I'm not suggesting you and tend them pejoratively. I

1093
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: noted this in the piece I wrote for the Athletic

1094
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:31,280
Speaker 1: NFL Careers are for the most part, very very very short.

1095
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: It is extremely rare to see someone succeed as well

1096
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: as Steve succeeded for as long as Steve succeeded. Steve

1097
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: is the outlier in terms of an extraordinary career and longevity.

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00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: Most careers are very short, and it's a daunting proposition

1099
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 1: to suggest for someone who may only have let's just

1100
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: use four because it's easily divisible and I need help

1101
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: with math. Let's say someone only has four years in

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00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: the league. Do you say to that person, you need

1103
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: to give up a year of your career to sit out,

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00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: to have a strike. How do you ask someone or

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00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: reasonably expect someone to give up twenty five percent of

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00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: their projected earning? And I'll circle back to your question.

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00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 1: Do the owners notice? Yes, they do, yeah, And I

1108
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: think it's it's you can't fault them for trying to

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00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: spend things and use their leverage as owners in a

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00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 1: way that benefits them long term. And I have said

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00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 1: this before that the players and the owners know this too,

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00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 1: and we see it a little bit in their addressing

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00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: of base salaries for the core guys, the young guys

1114
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: who were in their first contract. Those base salaries get

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00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: elevated because the owners know they can take the long view,

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00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: like a decade and a half or two decade view

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00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: of where the league is headed, whereas the players are

1118
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: more about the two, three, four next years in the

1119
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: future of the league, and if the owners can give

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00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 1: them something, they can ask for everything, including a seventeenth

1121
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,359
Speaker 1: game in the regular season and an extra playoff team.

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00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: All of that stuff can get on the table when

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00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: you can use the brevity of their careers against them.

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00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: And I think the owners you gotta whether you like

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00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: it or not, it makes good business sense. And look,

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00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: there is everything you said is correct, of course, but

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00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: there is a big difference of opinion between and amongst

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Speaker 1: some owners. I worked for a man for almost thirty years,

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00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: Al Davis, who said to me from the time I

1130
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: started my career throughout his life from that point on,

1131
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 1: the players are the game. And he's right. Without players,

1132
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: there is no game. They are the game. And let

1133
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: me tell you something, it's a lot easier for an

1134
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: organization to go out and find a good CFO or

1135
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: a good CEO than it is to find a good

1136
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: shutdown corner or a good left tackle. Players are the game,

1137
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 1: but not every owner holds the view al head held.

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00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: And you know, I'll just say this one more thing

1139
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: and then I'll stop yaking. It is in everyone's interest

1140
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: everyone who's involved with the game, players, coaches, staff, team ownerships,

1141
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: NFL lead executives that the game thrived, not simply survived,

1142
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 1: but continue to thrive, and they've got to find a

1143
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: way to balance all of these issues in an agreement,

1144
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: so it can with Amy trans football analysts for CBS Sports.

1145
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 1: Another question about the CBA Amy. We had a guest

1146
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: on last week Andrew Brandt, who said, one argument against

1147
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: this proposed CBA is its length. He says it's too

1148
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: long and there's no provision for an opt out on

1149
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: behalf of the players. Do you think that could be

1150
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: a problem down the road if this thing is approved?

1151
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if I would articulate it

1152
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: precisely as Andrew did with noting that it could be

1153
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: a problem. I articulated it slightly differently in the piece

1154
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,479
Speaker 1: I wrote for The Athletic and said, that's a good

1155
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: compromise to get this done if there continue to be

1156
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: stumbling box is to either shorten the term or to

1157
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: give the parties opt out. I think I agree with

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00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: Andrews underlying premise, which is well, I know, I agree

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00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: with the premise that ten or eleven years is a

1160
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: very very long time, and we continue to see changes

1161
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: in technology and gambling and social media and all of

1162
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: these other things that impact the way the games are

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00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: broadcast and other aspects of the game. So why not

1164
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: give the parties opt out, Why not shorten the deal

1165
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: if that's what it takes to get it done. And

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00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: I do recognize that would then be a bit of

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00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 1: a wrinkle for the league and entering long term deals

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00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: with other people, but I think it's a good compromise

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00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: and one of the big tenants and one of the

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00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: big highlights of this CBA is obviously the seventeenth regular

1171
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: season game. Take us inside if you could envision what

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00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: that conversation was like from the part of the owners

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00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: of how they got to that seventeenth game, what they know,

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00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: what kind of they thought it would take to get it.

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00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: And for me, I think it makes a lot of

1176
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: sense just to take a stepping stone towards an eighteen

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00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: game schedule. But what are your thoughts on that? Oh? Well,

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00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: I think you hit the proverb you'll nail on the

1179
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: head because dating back to my years in the league,

1180
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: the discussion wasn't only of hey, we should be eyeing

1181
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: a seventeenth game. The discussion at those owners meetings was hey,

1182
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: and not by all owners, but by many, hey we

1183
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: should be eyeing a seventeenth and an eighteenth game. And

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00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: I have a very very strong view that if the

1185
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 1: league does expand the number of games, whether the seventeen

1186
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 1: or ultimately eighteen, the roster has to be increased substantially,

1187
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: not by just a smidgeon, not by just a couple

1188
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: of guys. But look, league economics, support and health and

1189
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: safety dictates that you expand that roster by a chunk

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00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: of players, and you expand the number of men who

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00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: are active or available to be active on game day,

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00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: and you expand the practice squad, and you don't just

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00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: do it by a couple of guys. With Amy trans

1194
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: Football Antost for CBS Sports contributed to The Athletic. We've

1195
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: talked about the CBA free agency comes up next week

1196
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 1: gaming and folks in Buffalo don't belie, But I do

1197
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: think that Tom Brady is the biggest issue before her

1198
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: free agency gets started. How do you think there's going

1199
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: to work out? And what should potential teams do to

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01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: try to attack attract Tom Brady wrote about that and

1201
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: a piece dot com right, Well, they shouldn't do it.

1202
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: We did when we courted a free agent and the

1203
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: car we were we sent to pick him up at

1204
01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 1: the airport got a flat tire on the way back

1205
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: to the team facility, and neither of our football people

1206
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: in the car, nor the driver knew how to change it.

1207
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: So we asked, I don't know that we asked, let

1208
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 1: me let me state it more accurately. The free agent

1209
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: quarterback Jeff Hostetler looked at them sort of incredulously, like,

1210
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: I'll just change the tire, got out, change the tire

1211
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: on the side of the freeway, and ultimately we did

1212
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 1: sign him. But I would recommend to any team looking

1213
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: to woo Tom Brady, don't ask him to change the

1214
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,479
Speaker 1: tire on the side of the freeway. Yeah, no doubt

1215
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: that would be I don't know how that could be

1216
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: construed as a positive hav an. A guy changed the

1217
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: tire nevertheless, but yeah, right A church spoke to Jeff

1218
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: Hosstetler and how what I and this man he was,

1219
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: and it just so he rolled up his sleeves and

1220
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: changed with high yeah, little, yeah, that's a that's a

1221
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: great story. What do you think is going to have?

1222
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: What do you think is I think it comes down

1223
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: to and like we always say, for most guys, it's money.

1224
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: I don't know that we can make that statement about

1225
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. We've heard that it's about the length of

1226
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: the contract. This is the guy wants to make a

1227
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: statement about his ability to play till he's forty five.

1228
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: Is that going to be the thing you think that

1229
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: changes his mind? And is that what teams need to

1230
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: be thinking about. I think twofold. First of all, I

1231
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 1: think I think you're right on the money issue. Not

1232
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: only has Tom made a credible amount of money over

1233
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 1: the course of his career, I understand from reports that

1234
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: that's daunted by the amount his wife has made. So

1235
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 1: they're fine, you know, they're They're just going to be fine,

1236
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 1: And don't anybody get upset. I'm saying that with a

1237
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: giant smile on my face and sarcastically and in a

1238
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 1: silly manner. Of course they are. I do think your

1239
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 1: right longevity as a point. I also think winning is

1240
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: a point, and in that regard, I would look to

1241
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 1: Tom focusing on teams that can demonstrate they can protect

1242
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: the quarterback, that they have weapons, deep threats, running threats,

1243
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: tight end threats, wide receiver threats, and you know what,

1244
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: a defense that can hold the opponents to a few points. So,

1245
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: in other words, I think he's going to look at longevity.

1246
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: I also think he's going to look at going to

1247
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: someplace he believes he can win. You know, in the

1248
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: piece that you wrote, Tom Brady will have plenty to

1249
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 1: consider as you went through it, all the things that

1250
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: I'll have to look at, you kind of made a

1251
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: pretty strong case for him to stay with New England Namy. Well,

1252
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: you know, the point I made was the Willie May's analogy,

1253
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 1: which is, does anybody remember that Willie didn't end his

1254
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: career where he played for so many years? And look,

1255
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: maybe that didn't matter to Willie, maybe it won't matter

1256
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: to Tom. But I would think one thing you'd want

1257
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: to take into account in that regard is legacy. Do

1258
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: you want to start and end in the same place

1259
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: and be sort of the player that that team has

1260
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: had over the span of deserts of decades that everyone considers.

1261
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't know that that would be important to Tom,

1262
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: but I do know if I were one of Tom's advisors,

1263
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: I would say you've got to think about that at

1264
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 1: a minimum and one of the other considerations. And you know, players,

1265
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: this usually comes from players because they're competitive and they

1266
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: like challenges, and a lot of players feel like maybe

1267
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 1: Tom Brady would be important to him to prove that

1268
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: it was him being as big a part of those

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Speaker 1: victories as it was Bill Belichick, and their ability to

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Speaker 1: gain plan and put together all the things they put

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Speaker 1: together with their process. That Tom Brady could go to

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Speaker 1: another team and win a world championship without having the

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Speaker 1: hoodie on the sidelines, that is a great, great, great point.

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Speaker 1: And I would only say in response to that that

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Speaker 1: there's a saying that immediately sprang to mind as you

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Speaker 1: were making your point. Be careful what you wish for,

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Speaker 1: because you might get it if your wishes to go

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Speaker 1: somewhere where you can prove exactly what you just articulated,

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Speaker 1: and you do go somewhere and you're not able to

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Speaker 1: prove that. Something to consider, right, Amy back, I just

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Speaker 1: want to get back to the CBA for one more thing.

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Speaker 1: They are going to play a seventeenth game, and another

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Speaker 1: post you wrote on the Athletic said that seventeenth game

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Speaker 1: should be played on a neutral site. The league doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to have that in mind at all, at least initially,

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Speaker 1: and proposed, CBA, why do they need to make that

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Speaker 1: seventeenth game a neutral site and how would that work?

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Speaker 1: Do you think? Well? I hate hate, hate, hate, hate,

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Speaker 1: and yes I know hate a strong word, and I

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Speaker 1: hate the idea that teams would swap back and forth.

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Speaker 1: In one year, you'd have nine games at home and

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Speaker 1: eight on the road. In another year you'd have AID

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Speaker 1: at home and nine on the road. As we know, men,

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Speaker 1: the window to win and to win it all is

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Speaker 1: often open only slightly or only briefly. And if you

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Speaker 1: have a window because of the personnel on the team,

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Speaker 1: because you are injury free in a given year for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, if your windows open and that's a year

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Speaker 1: where you've got only AID at home and nine on

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Speaker 1: the road, whereas the teams that are your staunchest competitors

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Speaker 1: have the reverse, I don't like that. I think it

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Speaker 1: should be the same number of home and road regular

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Speaker 1: season games for each team each year. So if there's

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Speaker 1: going to be an odd number of games, take that

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Speaker 1: odd number game and put it somewhere on a neutral site.

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Speaker 1: And that doesn't have to be international, but it can.

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Speaker 1: It can be in a region in this country where

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Speaker 1: there is no NFL football, but there's a tremendous college

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Speaker 1: stadium that could host a game. It could be in

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Speaker 1: a region in this country that had an NFL team

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Speaker 1: but lost it. And by the way, it could be

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Speaker 1: in Hawaii. As I said, and I'm going to have

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Speaker 1: a very strong conversation with CBS is a game in Hawaii?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta be the one to go to

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Speaker 1: Hawaii for CBS, because you know California, We're a lot

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Speaker 1: closer than you guys are back there. But no, I

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Speaker 1: don't think there should be odd number of home and

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Speaker 1: away games. I think that's a competitive mistake. I would

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Speaker 1: agree with that, and I there's a lot that goes

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Speaker 1: into it, and there's a lot of play, and the

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Speaker 1: league has always wanted to expand their footprint around the globe.

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Speaker 1: It's the perfect example and the perfect portinuity to do that.

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Speaker 1: If you can work out the logistics, what about let's

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Speaker 1: move it on. What about the other aspects of the

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Speaker 1: CBA that we've been talking about, Like how important was

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Speaker 1: it for the players say that Roger Goodell isn't the judge, jury,

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Speaker 1: and executioner of the disciplinary measures that come against players

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Speaker 1: for on the field off the field transgressions. You think

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Speaker 1: that was a big sticking point. Well, I think it

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Speaker 1: was important to the players, but I think it should

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Speaker 1: be equally important to the league. And at the time

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Speaker 1: that the CB under which the players and teams are

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Speaker 1: operating now was put into place. I was in the league,

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Speaker 1: and I remember saying to a lot of people at

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Speaker 1: the league office and throughout the leagues and all the

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Speaker 1: member clubs, why do we want this? Why would we

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Speaker 1: want the commissioner to be the trier of fact if

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Speaker 1: you will, and sorry, that's my legal training coming through.

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Speaker 1: Why would we want the commissioner to be the judge

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Speaker 1: and the jury. If you want to have the appearance

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Speaker 1: of impartiality and the parents of neutrality, you should have

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Speaker 1: someone neutral doing it. And I was very clear to

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Speaker 1: suggest then and I will suggest now. I'm not for

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Speaker 1: a minute suggesting that the commissioner does anything improper when

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Speaker 1: he renders the decisions. But again, going back to my

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Speaker 1: law school years, you have to be concerned both about

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Speaker 1: impropriety and the appearance of it. I would think you

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Speaker 1: would want a neutral decision maker because then, no matter what,

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Speaker 1: you've got the appearance of neutrality. And I'm going to

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Speaker 1: just take one more second to say, Steve, if there's

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Speaker 1: a game in Hawaii, you and I need to do

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Speaker 1: that together. I'm all about it, and refer to let

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Speaker 1: you go. I may have ask you this a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, and you're on the show with us

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Speaker 1: your book. You negotiate like a girl. Just let us

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Speaker 1: how does it girl negotiate? What's the difference? There is none,

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Speaker 1: And that was the point. And at one point in

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Speaker 1: involving a very very very extraordinarily I can't emphonize emphasize

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Speaker 1: enough how extraordinarily important transaction we were working on. And

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Speaker 1: just to be clear, it was not stadium location related.

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Speaker 1: Al was tense. I was tense. We were at one

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Speaker 1: another's throats. He didn't like the way I was negotiating,

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Speaker 1: he didn't like the pace of the negotiations, and he

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Speaker 1: sort of spit out at me, you negotiate like a girl.

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Speaker 1: And I took zero offense to that, because, after all,

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Speaker 1: I'm the girl he hired back in the mid eighties.

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Speaker 1: I'm the girl he let advance throughout the organization and

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Speaker 1: ultimately he named CEO, so I knew he had no

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Speaker 1: issue whatsoever with my gender. He just sort of barked

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Speaker 1: that out or spit it out, and ultimately we closed

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Speaker 1: the transaction and the result was supercalifragilistic, explodocious, spectacular for

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Speaker 1: the organization. And when I handed him the agreements to sign.

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Speaker 1: I put him down on his table and I looked

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Speaker 1: at him and I said, like a girl. It was

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Speaker 1: a sort of a fun moment. Yeah, that's great. And

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Speaker 1: one last thing you mentioned it about these huge transactions.

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Speaker 1: One that's got to be near and dear to your heart.

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Speaker 1: The Oakland Raiders headed to Las Vegas to become the

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders. It's probably you've probably got some strong feelings,

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Speaker 1: but pro or con, I don't know what are your

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Speaker 1: feeling How do you think it's going to go. What

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts at this point in history about the

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Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders finally finding maybe a permanent home in Las Vegas. Well,

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Speaker 1: two quick thoughts number one and what I'm about to

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Speaker 1: say is not mutually exclusive. And some people think it is,

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Speaker 1: but it really isn't. For those fans that are excited

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Speaker 1: by the move, that will follow the team to Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: that will enjoy games in Las Vegas, I am thrilled.

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Speaker 1: For those fans who are heartbroken by the move, I

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Speaker 1: am heartbroken for them as they have supported the team

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Speaker 1: through thick and thin. And what I find a little

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Speaker 1: odd is that people don't understand that I can be

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Speaker 1: happy for the fans who are happy and heartbroken for

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Speaker 1: the fans who are heartbroken. As to the move itself,

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Speaker 1: the stadium appears to be spectacular, but the team is

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Speaker 1: going to have to get ready for a paradigm shift.

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Speaker 1: When you go to a game in Oakland or I

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Speaker 1: shouldn't use present tents anymore. When you went to a

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Speaker 1: game in Oakland, what was ninety eight percent Raider fans

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Speaker 1: in the stadium. That's not going to be the case anymore.

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Speaker 1: In Las Vegas. There will certainly be a lot of

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Speaker 1: Raider fans, no doubt about it. But if you're the

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Speaker 1: fan of a team that's playing the Raiders on the

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01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:18,120
Speaker 1: road and you can go to only one game to

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Speaker 1: rid your team on, well, come on, we all saw

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Speaker 1: Vegas vacation. You're going to Vegas? Yeah, you're probably right. Amy,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for this great to talk with you. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Amy

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Speaker 1: Amy transformer Raiders CEO, now football analysts for CBS Sports

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Speaker 1: and a contributor for the Athletic Dot Com. Her book,

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Speaker 1: You Negotiate Like a Girl. She told the story of

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Speaker 1: how the book came up with that one covers a

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Speaker 1: wide variety of topics. I mean, look at we talked

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Speaker 1: about Brady, we talked about CBA, talked about negotiating like

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Speaker 1: a girl. The move of the Raiders covered a lot

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Speaker 1: of ground there, buddy. She's got a vast wealth of

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Speaker 1: experience and it's just fun to talk to. She's she's

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Speaker 1: a great storytellers, she's a great analyst. She knows the

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Speaker 1: side from with the players from an empathetic standpoint, and

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Speaker 1: also the owner from being in the room talking to

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Speaker 1: those guys. It was interesting that, you know, as consolidated

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Speaker 1: affront as we seem to always see the NFL ownership take,

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Speaker 1: she's very forthright and saying they're not all in the

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Speaker 1: same page. They've got a lot of different views about

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Speaker 1: how it should go. That's pretty interesting and it's fun,

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Speaker 1: always fun to talk to. Amy. Yep, Amy Trask, happy

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Speaker 1: to hammer, Thanks for coming on with us. Got another

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Speaker 1: segment coming up at a moment. One Builds Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by a lot of health round the Seneca Studio in

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome Back. It's

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Speaker 1: One Build's Live. John Murphy and Steve Tasker here on

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday afternoon in Orchard Park Dawson, Knox Bills tight

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Speaker 1: end going into a second year in the league. We'll

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Speaker 1: join us at two. He's got a special project going

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Speaker 1: on to raise funds to help alleviate the tornado damage

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Speaker 1: in his hometown in Nashville. We'll talk to him about that.

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Speaker 1: Hour's offseason is going coming up at two. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: you can get involved in our Twitter poll today. What's

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Speaker 1: your favorite? Tom Brady stort No, that's not it. Our

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Speaker 1: question is um something to do with um the free

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Speaker 1: agents and the Bills history and free agency, and look,

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01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 1: the history of free agency has been good for the

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Speaker 1: Bills for the most part in the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: We are asking you on Twitter today who's the best

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Speaker 1: free agent signing for the Bills so far? In the

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Speaker 1: Bean McDermott era. Fifty eight percent of you say it's

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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde, thirty percent of you say it's Jordan Poyer,

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Speaker 1: nine percent say John Brown, three percent say somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight h three five fifty and

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

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Speaker 1: fifty full nine is wide open on that one. Want

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Speaker 1: to go tweet cheat? What do you can you throw

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01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:47,040
Speaker 1: on paper? No, no, not at all. HyG best free

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Speaker 1: agent signing from Evan Mitch Morris. When we lost Eric Wood,

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Speaker 1: we needed a plug in, solid center to replace him,

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Speaker 1: and I believe they did that with Morris. One to

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Speaker 1: add to the list with Vonte Davis was Anquan Bolden.

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Speaker 1: It was exciting when he signed with his team, only

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Speaker 1: for him to retire the same week. Interesting though I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say that was as bad. I get it, but

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Speaker 1: Bolden never took a roster spot. You know, that was

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Speaker 1: a training camp signing. He was there for like what

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Speaker 1: six days, and he retired. Vante Davis went through training camp.

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Speaker 1: They plugged him in. He was gonna play, and you

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Speaker 1: know that was it. He just quit. That was bad.

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Speaker 1: That was bad. It was real bad. It was bad.

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Speaker 1: That was an all time bad. Another one from the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, and the tweet sheets are brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Carrigan Moving Systems, the official moves of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Did we do this? One from Jack tough Choice. Here

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Speaker 1: he says all three are excellent pickups, meaning John Brown,

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Speaker 1: Michael High, Jordan Poyer. But Jack says, I went Michael

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Speaker 1: High because I think he's the heartbeat of the secondaria

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01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 1: leader on defense, he allows the rest of the guys

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Speaker 1: to play their best. Other considerations should be Mitch Morse,

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Speaker 1: who stay alized line, and Cole Beasley, who can be

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Speaker 1: Allen's best target. I agree with all of that. Yeah,

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01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 1: I think you're onto somebody. Yea, there's there's been some

1479
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:07,519
Speaker 1: good ones, no question about it. And I know everybody's

1480
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:10,960
Speaker 1: got their own favorite as well. So it's, uh, it's

1481
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 1: a fun topic considering the tampering period starts what Monday,

1482
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: and we're gonna probably get start to hear some leaks

1483
01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: about who's talking to who, although some day has always

1484
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:25,439
Speaker 1: some some you know what I mean, some surprises, right.

1485
01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:28,360
Speaker 1: You know why it's a fun topic now because the

1486
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 1: Bills have done so well in free agent signings in

1487
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:33,679
Speaker 1: the last three years, So it makes you think maybe

1488
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 1: they get the next Jordan Poyer, Micah Hide or John

1489
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 1: Brown or or somebody that we haven't even discussed. That's

1490
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 1: where you go not knowing. But there's a guy out

1491
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:44,520
Speaker 1: there we have not even discussed, have not even considered

1492
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 1: for free agency that you better believe the Bills have

1493
01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 1: and they've had success in three years with this group.

1494
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: That's been the thing they go out we did. We

1495
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: were all talking about Matt Parodies last year, the center

1496
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:58,639
Speaker 1: from Denver. Right, Well, they find Mitch Morse, who's six

1497
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 1: years or five years yell Anger and played for the

1498
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:03,559
Speaker 1: team that was in the AFC Championship. I didn't even

1499
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: know Bitch Morse existed or was going to be a

1500
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:10,679
Speaker 1: free agent. I knew Jordan Poyer, I knew Micah Hyde

1501
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: by name. I didn't know how good they were, whether

1502
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: they were that kind of safety. They would go out

1503
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 1: and get those guys, signed them to good contract. Starlo

1504
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:19,720
Speaker 1: two Lela, same story, Trent Murphy, same story. I mean,

1505
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:21,560
Speaker 1: you get these guys that have come in and contributed,

1506
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 1: and they've all been you know, it's interesting because the

1507
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: Bills have never haven't been the team under Brandon Bean

1508
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:31,720
Speaker 1: or McDermott to go out and get Levon Bell. You know,

1509
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: they don't go out and sign you know whoever. You

1510
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: pick your pick your you know, high price free agent,

1511
01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 1: pick your star player who's out there or just happens

1512
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: to be out there. They've gotten these guys that have

1513
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 1: been affordable, contributing, hard working guys with as McDermott says,

1514
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:53,760
Speaker 1: have the right DNA and from from you and I

1515
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: from from here on the radio, and from our fans

1516
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 1: sitting at home. Oh, we don't know who those guys are.

1517
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:02,719
Speaker 1: It's impossible to find out. This Christian Kirksey, he seems

1518
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: to be one of those guys. I was just released

1519
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 1: from Cleveland yesterday. Everybody raves about what kind of guy

1520
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:10,639
Speaker 1: he is. Locker room guy, good player, so I would think,

1521
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:12,800
Speaker 1: And maybe he's not considering it, or maybe he's plays

1522
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 1: the wrong position for the Bills to consider. I don't

1523
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:17,240
Speaker 1: know that he's going around to visit. He's in Vegas today.

1524
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: You know, all these guys are making the rounds and

1525
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 1: they're more under the radar guys, you know. So it's

1526
01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. And that's been the thing that's you know,

1527
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: kind of been the hallmark of this regimes free agent

1528
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:35,120
Speaker 1: record is the surprising, like oh okay kind of nature

1529
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:36,600
Speaker 1: of it, you know what I mean. And they have

1530
01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: signed significant free agents, whether it's you know, they've signed

1531
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 1: people who've played a lot, Trent Murphy, Starlo Tulay. The

1532
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: guys who are not even on our list of three

1533
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:48,839
Speaker 1: to choose from the best, Jordan Phillips, Mitch Morris, Cole Beasley,

1534
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 1: Stephen Hauska. I mean they've signed significant free agents done

1535
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:56,439
Speaker 1: at a reasonable price, and I look for more of

1536
01:16:56,479 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 1: the same next week. Really, to be honest with you,

1537
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 1: eight three fifty to free one eight eight eight five

1538
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty, give us a call. What do

1539
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,560
Speaker 1: you think who's been the best free agent signing in

1540
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 1: the Brandon Bean. Sean McDermott era, let's talk about rules, Steve.

1541
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 1: Later this month, March twenty ninth, the owners are going

1542
01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:16,080
Speaker 1: to meet in Palm Beach, Florida. And what they've done

1543
01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: is they've assembled a bunch of rules changed proposals from

1544
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: various teams. None of these endorsed by the Competition Committee,

1545
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 1: which may not matter anymore based on what happened last

1546
01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 1: year with the replay on past interference, right, that came

1547
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:33,719
Speaker 1: from an impromptu meeting of coaches at the owners meetings.

1548
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 1: They said, hey, let's tell the let's bypass the competition

1549
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 1: Committee and make this a rule. They did, and that's

1550
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 1: what they got past interference on replay. By the way,

1551
01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 1: that was a one year experiment. Remains to be seen.

1552
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:48,840
Speaker 1: Whether that's going to happen again at the combine. Last month,

1553
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:52,600
Speaker 1: Mark Murphy, the Packers said, the results are past interference

1554
01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:56,639
Speaker 1: replay review were not great. It's unclear that'll be renewed

1555
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: for this year. But in the meantime, various teams have

1556
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: come up with proposals, some of the more significant to

1557
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 1: change in overtime for onside kicks or no for onside

1558
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:08,679
Speaker 1: kicks not overtime. The league is ready to consider something

1559
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 1: that first tried in the Pro Bowl last year. This year,

1560
01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:15,559
Speaker 1: instead of only being to attempt to unlikely onside kick

1561
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,479
Speaker 1: because they haven't worked onside kicks, with the new kickoff rules,

1562
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:21,280
Speaker 1: the team set to kick off can instead elect to

1563
01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: attempt to get a first down fourth and fifteen from

1564
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: their own twenty five. If they get that first down,

1565
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: the offense stays on the field. You keep going. So yeah,

1566
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:34,599
Speaker 1: for example, you're down by six. Normally, you know, last

1567
01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 1: few seconds, minute or so, you try an onside kick.

1568
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: But instead of that, now you can say, okay, give

1569
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 1: us a ball fourth and fifteen from our own twenty

1570
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 1: five if we pick up the first offense still in

1571
01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:46,000
Speaker 1: the field. If you're wondering, you're like, well, what's that mean.

1572
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:49,680
Speaker 1: Here's the thing on attempts on fourth and fifteen. It's

1573
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:53,960
Speaker 1: occurred sixty times over the last ten seasons, so six

1574
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: times a year some team is trying a fourth and

1575
01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:59,639
Speaker 1: fifteen to stay on the field. What was the percentage

1576
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:03,679
Speaker 1: do you recall, Yeah, sixteen of the sixty it worked.

1577
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 1: They're completing on a quarter like twenty six point seven

1578
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: percent that fourth and fifteen works, which is way more

1579
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 1: than the onside attempts used to used to get including

1580
01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 1: two of seven attempts in twenty nineteen, So two out

1581
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,679
Speaker 1: of seven tries in twenty nineteen on fourth and fifteen

1582
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:23,560
Speaker 1: plays the team got it. So that will raise the

1583
01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 1: probability that a team who's desperately trying to get back

1584
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: in the game has a chance to do it with

1585
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:30,800
Speaker 1: a fourth and fifteen play from their own twenty two

1586
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,719
Speaker 1: seven converted fourth and fifteen Last year, it happened twice

1587
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: and it was two and two of them got it.

1588
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:37,760
Speaker 1: And wonder, I wonder what the I wonder how much

1589
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:41,120
Speaker 1: different the percentages to recover an outside kick? Do you

1590
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:43,719
Speaker 1: ever see those numbers that have not It was always

1591
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 1: about ten percent, alright, but it was higher than that

1592
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: on surprise on sides, but not now that they changed

1593
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,519
Speaker 1: it to the new after the kickoff summit of a

1594
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: handful of years ago before that, in the old days,

1595
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: it was about one in ten. Now with the old

1596
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:02,120
Speaker 1: and it's like zero row zero out of zero. I mean,

1597
01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 1: they gotta gotten one on a Fluke bounce or something.

1598
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: But I like this fourth and fifteen option. I really do.

1599
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: Eagles propose that it might it might pass. It might

1600
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: be kind of fun to see instead of an outside kick,

1601
01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:16,760
Speaker 1: keep the ball, try to pick up a first down

1602
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:19,120
Speaker 1: and fourth and fifteen, And I like it. In that

1603
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: last year, I heard that one of the caveats to

1604
01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:23,920
Speaker 1: doing and implementing it was that you had to do

1605
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:25,560
Speaker 1: it only you can only do it once in the

1606
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and I disagree with that. I think you

1607
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 1: do it anytime you want. You know, do it anytime

1608
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:33,560
Speaker 1: you want. If they want to do it in the

1609
01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:36,800
Speaker 1: first quarter, or do it. And I just think if

1610
01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 1: you're gonna give them the option, give them the option

1611
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 1: all the time. You can't just wait till the fourth quarter.

1612
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: So I don't know if they'll do that or if

1613
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: that's one of the things they've still got in it.

1614
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:50,680
Speaker 1: But I love this rule. Another proposal this comes it's

1615
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:53,719
Speaker 1: a joint proposal the Baltimore Ravens and Los Angeles Chargers

1616
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: formerly propose a booth umpire as well as a senior

1617
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 1: technology advisor to assist the referee, essentially either kind of

1618
01:21:01,240 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: talking about the sky Judge plan, you know, putting an

1619
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 1: extra official in the booth to take a look at

1620
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 1: the replays and make those calls. That's interesting. An extra

1621
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:17,599
Speaker 1: official just to handle replay, the sky Judge. I don't

1622
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 1: know if I'm in favor of that, Steve. I you know,

1623
01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: it kind of goes against my theory. It's a booth umpire.

1624
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:24,840
Speaker 1: They don't call it a sky judge, an eighth game

1625
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: official proposed by Baltimore and the Chargers, and the senior

1626
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 1: technology official also proposed by Baltimore and the Chargers. I

1627
01:21:32,280 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 1: mean to me, that's extending the the inroads that replay

1628
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 1: has made. I'm not in favor of that. And I'll

1629
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 1: say this one of the problems last year. I didn't

1630
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 1: really realize this last year. One of the reasons they

1631
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 1: didn't go to the sky Judge, or one of the

1632
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:50,800
Speaker 1: reasons given for that they didn't include the sky Judge

1633
01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: and the rule changes and give it a try like

1634
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: a one year trial basis was they didn't think they

1635
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 1: could find seventeen quality guys to do it. They didn't

1636
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:02,120
Speaker 1: know if they could find guys who were you know, qualified, yea,

1637
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:07,960
Speaker 1: and good enough. It's a new position and it's relatively specialized,

1638
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: and it's not just like take a guy off the

1639
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 1: field and put him up there. They gotta, you know,

1640
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:15,160
Speaker 1: they gotta ask them, know how. They didn't know if

1641
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: they could get it up and running in that quick

1642
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:18,720
Speaker 1: of a time and have enough guys that could do

1643
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:20,559
Speaker 1: it well enough to make a difference. And they didn't

1644
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:22,600
Speaker 1: want guys who they didn't want like out of the

1645
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 1: you know, if they're sixteen games on a weekend starting

1646
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 1: on Thursday, they didn't want to have like eight guys

1647
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:29,920
Speaker 1: that could really do it and do it well and

1648
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:34,479
Speaker 1: then eight other guys who were inconsistent. So that was

1649
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 1: a problem for them, and that was one of the

1650
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:38,000
Speaker 1: reasons that you know, they kind of put it on holes.

1651
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:39,800
Speaker 1: They didn't know if they could staff it well enough.

1652
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: So there's that, and I don't know how that's changed.

1653
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:43,800
Speaker 1: How was that changed in the year. I don't know.

1654
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:45,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. It would be one that will get

1655
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:49,280
Speaker 1: some attention, and another a couple of minor rule changes,

1656
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:53,639
Speaker 1: including modifying the blindside block rule to prevent unnecessary fouls

1657
01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 1: that was proposed by the Eagles. They probably got to

1658
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:58,759
Speaker 1: look at the Cody Ford call in the Houston Texans

1659
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: Bills playoff game and and what that's not a penalty.

1660
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: It was not a penalty and Cody Ford, Cody Ford

1661
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: not only was penalized, he was fined. I mean, they

1662
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: doubled down on it. I've seen it change. I've seen

1663
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 1: people bump into each other harder in the subway. Crazy,

1664
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:16,640
Speaker 1: you know, Well, anyway, you're right. And then and the

1665
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 1: one that they site in the article I'm looking at,

1666
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 1: there was a Browns play, a brand play by the

1667
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns Greg Robinson in Week one and his offensive coordinator,

1668
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:30,679
Speaker 1: Todd Munker Monkin contact of the team, was the league

1669
01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:32,760
Speaker 1: contact of the team and said it was incorrectly thrown.

1670
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: So there are some instances where the league will say, yeah,

1671
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:36,920
Speaker 1: you know what, he shouldn't have thrown that. But they,

1672
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 1: like you said, they doubled down on the Cody Ford

1673
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 1: play in a playoff game, where yeah, so I get it,

1674
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:45,640
Speaker 1: so well, I don't get it, but there it is.

1675
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 1: These rules proposals go to the Competition Committee and they

1676
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: can choose to send him on to the entire ownership

1677
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 1: roster and they can vote on it up or down.

1678
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:56,679
Speaker 1: But as we said last year, there was a rules

1679
01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:59,920
Speaker 1: proposal to use replay on pass interference that was never

1680
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:03,679
Speaker 1: discussed by a competition committee. It was a coaches hijack

1681
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 1: the coaches. NFL head coaches hijack the competition committee and said, hey,

1682
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: this we want this rule discussed. We want to pass

1683
01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:13,639
Speaker 1: thank you. You know that was Sean Payton and everybody,

1684
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 1: I mean anybody who follows the NFL knows it didn't work.

1685
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,600
Speaker 1: And the reasons why it didn't work is because that

1686
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Speaker 1: coaches agreed to it. When this happened, they all the

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01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 1: clubs agreed and they said, okay, we'll do it that way.

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Speaker 1: And what they did was they said it has to

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01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:31,640
Speaker 1: be egregious for it to be changed. It can't be

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01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: just technically a foul to be called a foul. It

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01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: has to be an egregious miss by the on field official.

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01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: And those just don't happen that often. And we had

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01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:43,479
Speaker 1: this big go around two years ago when the Rams

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01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 1: and the and the Saints were going to the NFC

1695
01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:50,760
Speaker 1: Championship game and then late in the game and you know,

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01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:54,760
Speaker 1: there's this huge miss call that happens that I've never

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01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:57,679
Speaker 1: seen a miss call like that ever. We're talking about

1698
01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:01,200
Speaker 1: the Nickel rub Yeah, the Nile Rob call on Alvin Kamara.

1699
01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:05,240
Speaker 1: I've never seen a call that badly missed on past interference,

1700
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: defensive past interference. So now they got to throw the whole,

1701
01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:12,720
Speaker 1: this whole thing in there because of one play in

1702
01:25:12,840 --> 01:25:15,479
Speaker 1: a generation that has happened, and I thought it was

1703
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:18,600
Speaker 1: a huge overreaction by those and the coaches, and that

1704
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: is up for review this year. Owners Meeting starts to

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01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:24,840
Speaker 1: March twenty ninth in West Pond Beach, Florida. We'll come back,

1706
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:26,639
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about our topic of the day. Who's

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01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 1: the best fore agent signing in the last three years

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01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: for the Bills and the Bean McDermott era. Give us

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01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:33,960
Speaker 1: a call eight three fifty toll free one eight eight

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01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:36,920
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Will check some calls

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Speaker 1: and we'll check the tweet sheet when we return. One.

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca Studio

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01:25:43,080 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close. Welcome back those

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01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:03,200
Speaker 1: live John here until three o'clock coming up in the

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01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 1: next hour Dawson Knox Bills tight end getting set for

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01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 1: a second year in the league. Our Twitter poll today

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01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: under the being McDermott era, we know that they started

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01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 1: about a year apart. Who has been the best free

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01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 1: agent signing the Bills have acquired in that era? Eight

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01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: h three oh five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Trying

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01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:27,599
Speaker 1: to get my earpiece in. Okay, let's going to Ryan

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01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:29,679
Speaker 1: and Lockport as a thought on this Ryan, go ahead,

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01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:32,840
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Hi, Ryan, Hi, Yes, John,

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01:26:32,920 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 1: can you hear me? I can hear you, Yes, sir,

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01:26:36,120 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 1: okay um. I think it's a toss up between Micah

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01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:44,120
Speaker 1: and Jordan because well, they were signing the very first

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01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:49,599
Speaker 1: year being a McDermot guy here, and we always talk

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01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:53,400
Speaker 1: about them trying to build a culture here, and I

1730
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:56,880
Speaker 1: think they are the perfect like pieces because you never

1731
01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:59,800
Speaker 1: hear about them off the field and they let them

1732
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: their play on the field do the talking. So I

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01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 1: believe that they're the two best signings because of their

1734
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:09,720
Speaker 1: production and the way they fit in the culture. And

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01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:14,040
Speaker 1: I think now that our culture is solidified here because

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01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 1: we've had success the past three years relatively that because

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01:27:19,040 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: of our culture, that more free agents will sign because

1738
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:27,679
Speaker 1: of how it started. Okay, I mean they the Bills

1739
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 1: hit the jackpot with those two, and I have a

1740
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:32,280
Speaker 1: hard time pulling them apart saying one's more valuable than

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01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:34,639
Speaker 1: the other. And I agree with you on that, Ryan,

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01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, I can't disagree with anything you said.

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01:27:38,200 --> 01:27:40,640
Speaker 1: They were I think a signal that this team was

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01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:43,000
Speaker 1: going to be aggressive and getting free agents and getting

1745
01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 1: the right kind of free agency. They weren't just reaching

1746
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 1: for big name guys, they were looking for the right

1747
01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:49,800
Speaker 1: kind of free And I'd say it's interesting too you

1748
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: think about what this process looks like, and you talk

1749
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 1: about the culture and how big a word it's been

1750
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:59,600
Speaker 1: in the Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean era. One of

1751
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:03,680
Speaker 1: the interesting parts about this is even when they go

1752
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 1: out in public away from Buffalo, it's not just here,

1753
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: but when they go out Buffalo and they got other

1754
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:10,680
Speaker 1: cameras on them from other NFL cities and from the

1755
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:14,720
Speaker 1: national media. And Sean McDermot says, hey, listen, when guys

1756
01:28:14,800 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: come to Buffalo, they're gonna be the best version of themselves.

1757
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:23,639
Speaker 1: There's an enormous group of players out there who want

1758
01:28:23,680 --> 01:28:27,040
Speaker 1: a chance, and the Bills signing these guys these one

1759
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:30,360
Speaker 1: year proved deals, and you get guys who have done it.

1760
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:32,600
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you the biggest poster boy for it

1761
01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:36,400
Speaker 1: is Jordan Phillips, who came to Buffalo as a second

1762
01:28:36,479 --> 01:28:39,960
Speaker 1: round draft pick, got cut from the Miami Dolphins, was

1763
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:43,200
Speaker 1: not happy there, came to Buffalo, played the second half

1764
01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:45,960
Speaker 1: of that year, and then came back and knocked it

1765
01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 1: out of the park and his first full year with

1766
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 1: the team, and now as a free agent, other guys

1767
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:54,599
Speaker 1: are looking at that going, yeah, me too. I'm gonna

1768
01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 1: go to Buffalo. I'm gonna hit a home run with

1769
01:28:56,920 --> 01:29:00,479
Speaker 1: a great group of guys, a great fan base, a

1770
01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 1: team that got it, has a chance to win it,

1771
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go there and I can do it.

1772
01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:07,800
Speaker 1: And because you think, well, listen, it's just for one year,

1773
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 1: I can put up with anything. You know, everybody's got this,

1774
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:12,680
Speaker 1: this preconceived notion about what Buffalo is, small town in

1775
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 1: snow and all whatever they're gonna say, Well, listen, I

1776
01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:18,240
Speaker 1: can go there for at least a year and do

1777
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: my thing and then hit a home run. There's a

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01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 1: big group of players out there that may think that,

1779
01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 1: and I think you can look at Jordan Phillips, Wow,

1780
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 1: look at that. Look at Micah Hyde and Jordan Poy.

1781
01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:30,479
Speaker 1: I didn't know who those guys were. Now look at them.

1782
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:33,880
Speaker 1: You know, Tredavious White loves it there, Tremaine Edmunds, Josh.

1783
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:37,720
Speaker 1: You got all these guys who show up here and

1784
01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:41,320
Speaker 1: like a guy like like Matt Milana, who's a fifth

1785
01:29:41,439 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 1: round draft pick, and they're going, man, they're getting They're

1786
01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 1: getting a lot out of these guys. I'm gonna go

1787
01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:49,479
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna further my career and make myself better

1788
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:51,360
Speaker 1: so that I can hit home run. It's a great

1789
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 1: billboard for this culture here to really do have guys

1790
01:29:55,240 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 1: who are attracted to this program and coming in here

1791
01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:00,720
Speaker 1: and looking wow, look at that. They take care of

1792
01:30:00,760 --> 01:30:02,519
Speaker 1: the guys. How many days off did Tie in a

1793
01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:06,760
Speaker 1: second get last year? Did Lorenzo Alexander get, Davious White

1794
01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: getting gays off? Man? Oh man. They take care of

1795
01:30:09,439 --> 01:30:11,040
Speaker 1: their guys. And look at all these people here, this

1796
01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:14,759
Speaker 1: staff here, at this what's it called a wellness center?

1797
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:18,160
Speaker 1: You know that goes a long way for guys are going, Wow,

1798
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 1: they're they're getting it done up there in a lot

1799
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 1: of different ways. It's a huge advertisement for what some

1800
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:26,040
Speaker 1: of the stuff they're doing up here. Yeah, and all

1801
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:28,560
Speaker 1: of that. It seems like the Bills are reaping the

1802
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:31,479
Speaker 1: benefits of that kind of talk just now, just recently.

1803
01:30:31,520 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 1: We noticed it at the combine. Didn't notice it as

1804
01:30:34,240 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 1: much last year. Last year it was like, oh, made

1805
01:30:36,439 --> 01:30:39,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so I guess you are going into twenty eighteen.

1806
01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:41,559
Speaker 1: They made the playoffs last year. I guess they're pretty good.

1807
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 1: But it's been kind of a gradual process of people

1808
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:46,880
Speaker 1: appreciating what they're building here and the word getting out

1809
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:48,639
Speaker 1: around the league where other players look at the Bills

1810
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:50,680
Speaker 1: and say, as you said, yeah, that's right. Look how

1811
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:52,160
Speaker 1: they take care of players. Yeah, but now they've got

1812
01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:53,680
Speaker 1: some things they can depend on. They didn't know who

1813
01:30:53,720 --> 01:30:55,680
Speaker 1: the quarterback was two years ago. They got out, they

1814
01:30:55,760 --> 01:30:59,080
Speaker 1: drafted Josh Allen and ever the consensus was they kind

1815
01:30:59,120 --> 01:31:01,720
Speaker 1: of settled for him him right, and and I don't

1816
01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:04,240
Speaker 1: know who's you know, McDermott had that nice year first year.

1817
01:31:04,360 --> 01:31:06,920
Speaker 1: Now they're six and ten, they I don't know, you

1818
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 1: know what's now? You know this year when everybody's taking

1819
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:12,040
Speaker 1: a full step forward and they and you see things

1820
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:15,400
Speaker 1: coming out of there, like the Cole Beasley reception in

1821
01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:17,400
Speaker 1: Dallas after the game when he comes into the locker

1822
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:19,479
Speaker 1: room and everybody's jumping up and down for him. You

1823
01:31:19,600 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 1: see guys like Lorenzo Alexander get treated the way he

1824
01:31:22,360 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 1: was and and Kyle Williams get treated the way he

1825
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 1: got treated on his departure. You got all this stuff

1826
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:30,640
Speaker 1: going on. When you got a Dion Dockins catching a

1827
01:31:30,760 --> 01:31:33,880
Speaker 1: touchdown pass in New England, all is that right? Yeah?

1828
01:31:33,880 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 1: He did right? It was Dion? Was it Dion? I

1829
01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:38,880
Speaker 1: think it was Deon caught that touchdown pass in New England.

1830
01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:40,760
Speaker 1: So you got all this fun stuff going on and

1831
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:42,800
Speaker 1: a group of guys that are really having fun doing it.

1832
01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:45,800
Speaker 1: It really does say a lot. It does say a

1833
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:49,080
Speaker 1: lot for being a destination where players can get it

1834
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:52,120
Speaker 1: together up here and they don't have to sign a

1835
01:31:52,200 --> 01:31:54,600
Speaker 1: long term deal. They'll make a good buck, not a

1836
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:58,680
Speaker 1: home run buck, but man great money and have a

1837
01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:01,840
Speaker 1: chance to launch your career into something bigger and better.

1838
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:03,879
Speaker 1: I think it's a great way to sell this program,

1839
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:07,240
Speaker 1: these facilities, and they've got a real plan here that

1840
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: goes from top to bottom. It really is starting to

1841
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:12,720
Speaker 1: pay big dividends. We'll talk more about this in the

1842
01:32:12,800 --> 01:32:14,439
Speaker 1: third and final hour of the show. Come on back

1843
01:32:14,439 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: and join us. One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health

1844
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:19,680
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studios in Orchard Park, and this is

1845
01:32:19,760 --> 01:32:37,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radiolo Bills Radio Network Stories update from One

1846
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:40,759
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. NFL owners will meet later this month in Florida,

1847
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 1: at which time to look over some proposals for rules changes.

1848
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:47,200
Speaker 1: Various teams with a number of changes, including one from

1849
01:32:47,240 --> 01:32:50,840
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, talking about changing and inside kicks. The

1850
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:53,639
Speaker 1: league is ready to consider something that first made available

1851
01:32:53,680 --> 01:32:55,800
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl this year. Instead of only being

1852
01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:59,559
Speaker 1: enabled to attempt to unlikely recoverable onside kick, the team

1853
01:32:59,640 --> 01:33:02,360
Speaker 1: set to kickoffkin instead, I'll elect to attempt the first

1854
01:33:02,439 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 1: down on fourth and fifteen from their own twenty five.

1855
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:08,640
Speaker 1: It's successful, the team maintains possession. That's one of the

1856
01:33:08,720 --> 01:33:12,559
Speaker 1: plans put forth by various teams, also talking about modifying

1857
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 1: the blindside block rule and a couple of others adding

1858
01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:17,680
Speaker 1: a booth umpire. Those will all be discussed at the

1859
01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:20,880
Speaker 1: NFL owners meetings later this month at those meetings go on.

1860
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 1: The New England Patriots lead the league in compensatory draft picks.

1861
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:28,519
Speaker 1: The league announced yesterday the thirty two compensatory choices were

1862
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:31,360
Speaker 1: orded to fifteen clubs. The Patriots led all teams with

1863
01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:34,720
Speaker 1: four compis, including two in the fourth round or third round.

1864
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:37,400
Speaker 1: New England will have a total of fourteen picks in

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01:33:37,479 --> 01:33:40,960
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty draft. New England last seven compensatory free

1866
01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:44,799
Speaker 1: agents during the twenty nineteen offseason, including Trent Brown, Trey Flowers,

1867
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 1: and Chris Hogan, and gained just one around the NFL.

1868
01:33:48,400 --> 01:33:50,519
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are going to cut Pro safety Pro Bowl

1869
01:33:50,520 --> 01:33:53,599
Speaker 1: safety Rashad Jones. The move will become official next month

1870
01:33:53,640 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 1: when the league year begins March eighteenth. Joan salary off

1871
01:33:56,520 --> 01:33:58,719
Speaker 1: the books will free up five point three million dollars

1872
01:33:59,040 --> 01:34:01,840
Speaker 1: against the cap for the Dolphins salary. Miami has around

1873
01:34:01,920 --> 01:34:04,599
Speaker 1: ninety million in cap space, tops in the league. Jones

1874
01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:07,320
Speaker 1: turned thirty two year old thirty two years old in February.

1875
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,240
Speaker 1: He established himself as one of the Dolphins core players

1876
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:13,759
Speaker 1: for the last decade. Robbie Anderson says the Jets definitely

1877
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 1: want him back this year. He scheduled to hit free

1878
01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:19,120
Speaker 1: agency next week. Twenty six year old receiver undrafted free

1879
01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:21,919
Speaker 1: agent on a temple rose from a training camp standout

1880
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,439
Speaker 1: to a full time starter in four years with the

1881
01:34:24,520 --> 01:34:27,080
Speaker 1: New York Jets, one of the great deep threats in

1882
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:29,880
Speaker 1: the league, average fifteen yards per catch last year. And

1883
01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:33,640
Speaker 1: the Savers practicing today. They'll practice and then head for

1884
01:34:34,040 --> 01:34:37,679
Speaker 1: Ronite's game in Montreal against the Canadians. That's the update

1885
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:40,160
Speaker 1: from One Day's Live John Murphy and Steve Tasker. We're

1886
01:34:40,200 --> 01:34:42,160
Speaker 1: gonna talk with We were going to talk with Dawson

1887
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:45,640
Speaker 1: Knoxeville's tight end, but apparently we're not. Something happened that

1888
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:48,240
Speaker 1: something happened. He's all right, but something happened. He's not

1889
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:50,600
Speaker 1: available to us. So we'll see if we can. I

1890
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:52,479
Speaker 1: don't know what. Maybe we'll get him on If we will, right,

1891
01:34:52,640 --> 01:34:54,719
Speaker 1: he'll be all right, He'll be fine. Word on Josh

1892
01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:58,160
Speaker 1: Norman's contract today from Dan Graziano of ESPN. Got some

1893
01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:00,840
Speaker 1: of the details on Josh Norman's con What do we

1894
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 1: say the other day? Six million dollars six million, possibly

1895
01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:06,800
Speaker 1: eight with incentives. Some of the details are out now.

1896
01:35:06,840 --> 01:35:10,280
Speaker 1: According to Dan Graziano, two point eight million dollars salary

1897
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:12,760
Speaker 1: one and a half million guaranteed one and a half

1898
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:15,080
Speaker 1: million dollars, roster bonus paid on the fifth day of

1899
01:35:15,120 --> 01:35:17,880
Speaker 1: the league year, gets another half million dollars. If he's

1900
01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:20,519
Speaker 1: on the fifty three million roster on week one, two

1901
01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars, workout bonus up to one one million dollars,

1902
01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:27,960
Speaker 1: and uh per game roster bonuses, incentives on the Pro Bowl,

1903
01:35:28,080 --> 01:35:29,960
Speaker 1: All Pro that sort of thing. That's not really that

1904
01:35:30,080 --> 01:35:32,960
Speaker 1: close to six million dollars though. No, it ends up

1905
01:35:33,040 --> 01:35:34,760
Speaker 1: and and it's gonna three point he's gonna have to

1906
01:35:35,240 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to earn it. You know, he's got

1907
01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:39,120
Speaker 1: a lot I guess it could be closest. There's a

1908
01:35:39,160 --> 01:35:40,720
Speaker 1: lot of hoops that he's got to jump through. He's

1909
01:35:40,720 --> 01:35:42,679
Speaker 1: got to work out to get a couple hundred thousand.

1910
01:35:42,680 --> 01:35:44,599
Speaker 1: He's gotta make the roster on opening day to get

1911
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:47,800
Speaker 1: one point five. He's got to get through the league

1912
01:35:47,880 --> 01:35:51,600
Speaker 1: year to get the roster bonus um gets like I

1913
01:35:51,640 --> 01:35:55,439
Speaker 1: think it's one one point five to sign. I guess

1914
01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:59,479
Speaker 1: that's that's fine. That's you know, that's like what one

1915
01:35:59,560 --> 01:36:03,200
Speaker 1: half of one percent, not even of the salary cab

1916
01:36:03,280 --> 01:36:05,920
Speaker 1: And that's nothing. So yeah, there's not there. They're not

1917
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:08,280
Speaker 1: investing much in him, but they're like we said, we

1918
01:36:08,400 --> 01:36:10,760
Speaker 1: call it that one of those one year proven deals,

1919
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:12,439
Speaker 1: and it looks like that's exactly what it is. He's

1920
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:15,240
Speaker 1: got to prove it and he's gonna giving him a

1921
01:36:15,320 --> 01:36:19,720
Speaker 1: chance to do it. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of what

1922
01:36:19,840 --> 01:36:23,360
Speaker 1: I thought. And listen, if he's on the roster on

1923
01:36:23,520 --> 01:36:28,120
Speaker 1: opening day, it's because he earned it, you know, and

1924
01:36:28,600 --> 01:36:30,960
Speaker 1: that's what you want. You want the guy to compete

1925
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:33,640
Speaker 1: for the job and win it, and he's gonna get it.

1926
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:35,760
Speaker 1: He's gonna chance to do it. So and if he

1927
01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:37,800
Speaker 1: ends up being the number two corner, I don't care.

1928
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:42,760
Speaker 1: Pay the guy eight million. We need a guy there, right, Yeah,

1929
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:44,679
Speaker 1: they can use a guy there. Yeah. They can also

1930
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:47,719
Speaker 1: get a draft pick there who might play, and maybe

1931
01:36:47,720 --> 01:36:50,479
Speaker 1: another free agent next week. Yeah. They got to go

1932
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:53,680
Speaker 1: into camp with like eight corners and they'll go in

1933
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:58,720
Speaker 1: with like six safeties, right, and then same thing you'll

1934
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:02,639
Speaker 1: have going with like nine linebackers and ten or twelve

1935
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:06,080
Speaker 1: d lineman. So that's and that's your that's your roster.

1936
01:37:06,560 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 1: But the make cuts from there. So he's just one

1937
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:10,400
Speaker 1: of a bunch of guys, they're gonna be at that

1938
01:37:10,439 --> 01:37:13,200
Speaker 1: spot looking for that second corner spot. Thirty two years

1939
01:37:13,240 --> 01:37:16,200
Speaker 1: of age not done, I don't think. But we'll say

1940
01:37:16,920 --> 01:37:20,400
Speaker 1: seventeen more games, bro, you know, seventeen or eighteen more

1941
01:37:20,479 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 1: games is all we need? Right? Who was it? Yesterday's

1942
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:27,479
Speaker 1: guest Bill Barnwell talking about Josh Norman who said he

1943
01:37:27,479 --> 01:37:29,400
Speaker 1: played lousy last year end of the year, couldn't get

1944
01:37:29,439 --> 01:37:31,719
Speaker 1: on the field right, and Chris Brown on our show

1945
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 1: Monday talked about some of the reasons for that, and

1946
01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:37,800
Speaker 1: they were including the fact that the Redskins had changed

1947
01:37:37,840 --> 01:37:40,840
Speaker 1: their defensive philosophy more man to man in the back

1948
01:37:40,920 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 1: end as opposed to his own. He wasn't he wasn't

1949
01:37:43,200 --> 01:37:45,519
Speaker 1: really set up for that. There Washington not going anywhere

1950
01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:47,720
Speaker 1: last year. I wanted to look at young players and look,

1951
01:37:47,840 --> 01:37:50,080
Speaker 1: those all are. Probably there's an element of truth in that.

1952
01:37:50,200 --> 01:37:53,160
Speaker 1: There maybe an element of truth in Josh Norman being

1953
01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:54,920
Speaker 1: thirty two and doesn't have a whole lot left to give.

1954
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:56,880
Speaker 1: But the Bills get him a chance to demonstrate that

1955
01:37:56,960 --> 01:37:59,960
Speaker 1: he was with a very reasonable contract for next year.

1956
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 1: They're not into him for too much. I don't think, well,

1957
01:38:02,160 --> 01:38:06,080
Speaker 1: you think about it too I mean, this is when

1958
01:38:06,080 --> 01:38:08,160
Speaker 1: you're playing corners. It's the skill set. And you always

1959
01:38:08,160 --> 01:38:11,400
Speaker 1: hear about zone corners, man coat corners. Josh Norman was

1960
01:38:11,680 --> 01:38:14,960
Speaker 1: a zone corner. That's what the Bills play. Play a

1961
01:38:15,000 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff, and he's good at it. And

1962
01:38:17,400 --> 01:38:20,880
Speaker 1: the Redskins started playing man, in fact, started playing bump man.

1963
01:38:20,960 --> 01:38:22,840
Speaker 1: And he's not good at that. He doesn't have the

1964
01:38:22,880 --> 01:38:27,360
Speaker 1: physical traits for it and doesn't have, you know, the

1965
01:38:27,479 --> 01:38:30,800
Speaker 1: kind of athleticism you need to play that spot. And

1966
01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:34,200
Speaker 1: when they changed their defense, he became less effective. And

1967
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:36,960
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, if not for nothing, it

1968
01:38:37,040 --> 01:38:41,439
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like Washington was quite the flowery place man.

1969
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 1: They fired their head coach halfway through the season last year. Correct, yep.

1970
01:38:45,680 --> 01:38:48,479
Speaker 1: And you know, so obviously it wasn't a real flowery

1971
01:38:48,560 --> 01:38:51,680
Speaker 1: place to play, and it wasn't like, oh, you know,

1972
01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:54,160
Speaker 1: gum drops and roses over there. So I'm sure there

1973
01:38:54,200 --> 01:38:56,960
Speaker 1: were some guys checking out, and maybe maybe Josh Norman,

1974
01:38:58,160 --> 01:38:59,519
Speaker 1: not for another one, was one of those guys, and

1975
01:38:59,560 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 1: they didn't. I can't benched him for it. Here. Question

1976
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:04,040
Speaker 1: of the Day on the Twitter poll and question to

1977
01:39:04,080 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 1: Answer on the telephone line talking about free agency it

1978
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:10,240
Speaker 1: opens a week from today. Legal tampering starts next Monday.

1979
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:12,599
Speaker 1: Now we're in the third year of the Bean McDermott era.

1980
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:15,519
Speaker 1: Yes we know Brandon Bean started after the draft, after

1981
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:18,080
Speaker 1: most of free agency in twenty seventeen. But in the

1982
01:39:18,160 --> 01:39:20,639
Speaker 1: Bean McDermott era, who's been the best free agent signing

1983
01:39:20,680 --> 01:39:22,880
Speaker 1: for the Bills and why? We offer a couple of

1984
01:39:22,960 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 1: suggestions for the Twitter poll. We got eleven hundred votes

1985
01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:27,240
Speaker 1: in on the Twitter poll. Fifty eight percent of you

1986
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:30,320
Speaker 1: say it's Micah Hyde, thirty percent say Jordan Poyer, his

1987
01:39:30,479 --> 01:39:33,400
Speaker 1: partner back there at safety, nine percent say John Brown,

1988
01:39:33,520 --> 01:39:36,439
Speaker 1: and three percent say something else. There are other candidates too.

1989
01:39:37,320 --> 01:39:39,479
Speaker 1: We went through him in our morning meeting today. Who

1990
01:39:39,720 --> 01:39:42,599
Speaker 1: some of the free agent signings for the Bills? Star Lotu, Lalay,

1991
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:47,240
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy, Mitch Morris, Cole Beasley, Stephen houskeet all of

1992
01:39:47,280 --> 01:39:49,760
Speaker 1: them free agent signings? Which one's the best free agent

1993
01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: signing for the Bills in the Bean McDermott era, Give

1994
01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:54,639
Speaker 1: us a call eight oh three oh five fifty toll

1995
01:39:54,720 --> 01:39:57,880
Speaker 1: free from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty

1996
01:39:58,280 --> 01:40:01,200
Speaker 1: two five fifty. The tweets the phone lines wide open.

1997
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:02,800
Speaker 1: By the way, if you send it a tweet, we

1998
01:40:02,840 --> 01:40:04,439
Speaker 1: can read them on the tweet sheet. It's brought to

1999
01:40:04,439 --> 01:40:07,160
Speaker 1: you by Cargan Moving Systems, the official movers of the

2000
01:40:07,160 --> 01:40:10,599
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Big John just tweets in. Micah Hide said

2001
01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:13,879
Speaker 1: the Bill secondary sets up the entire team for success.

2002
01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:16,759
Speaker 1: Without them, there'd probably be no playoffs to talk about.

2003
01:40:17,120 --> 01:40:20,759
Speaker 1: And from Jeremiah, he says, other John Feliciano is toughness,

2004
01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:23,760
Speaker 1: versatility and ability to move right into center without a

2005
01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:26,800
Speaker 1: bit of drop of a without a bit of drop

2006
01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:29,760
Speaker 1: and play made him steal And none of the others

2007
01:40:29,840 --> 01:40:32,559
Speaker 1: mentioned have that level of versatility and at such an

2008
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:36,920
Speaker 1: important spot. Yeah. Then, and that's been the kind of

2009
01:40:36,960 --> 01:40:38,960
Speaker 1: the tenor of what we've been talking about with their

2010
01:40:39,000 --> 01:40:41,320
Speaker 1: philosophy about free agent, where you get these guys that

2011
01:40:41,320 --> 01:40:43,360
Speaker 1: are a little bit versatile, a little bit under the radar.

2012
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:47,360
Speaker 1: Ryan also says Micah Hide, because he was one of

2013
01:40:47,400 --> 01:40:50,160
Speaker 1: our first under the radar free agent signings that we

2014
01:40:50,280 --> 01:40:53,200
Speaker 1: had that turned out great for the Bills. It was

2015
01:40:53,200 --> 01:40:55,080
Speaker 1: a great fit for the culture we were trying to build.

2016
01:40:55,120 --> 01:40:56,680
Speaker 1: And now look where we are, and look where we

2017
01:40:56,760 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: are now. We have created good culture for more free

2018
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:01,960
Speaker 1: agents to want to come here. You know. I went

2019
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 1: on and on about that, just the last segment, about

2020
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:09,920
Speaker 1: what a great advertisement, the ground swell of attention the

2021
01:41:10,040 --> 01:41:12,240
Speaker 1: Bills are getting and the organization is getting because of

2022
01:41:12,240 --> 01:41:15,760
Speaker 1: the way Sean McDermott runs the football program. You got.

2023
01:41:16,479 --> 01:41:18,439
Speaker 1: They are taking care of the guys, are giving them

2024
01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:21,920
Speaker 1: days off, and I go back to it, taking care

2025
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:25,800
Speaker 1: of players, not having your thumb on them all the time.

2026
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:28,840
Speaker 1: It's not a military kind of atmosphere. It's more of

2027
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:31,160
Speaker 1: a family type atmosphere where you take care of each

2028
01:41:31,200 --> 01:41:32,599
Speaker 1: other and you cheer for each other and you work

2029
01:41:32,640 --> 01:41:36,200
Speaker 1: hard for each other as well. That goes a long

2030
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:38,880
Speaker 1: way for guys around the league who are looking for

2031
01:41:39,479 --> 01:41:41,800
Speaker 1: a spot to land where they can be their best

2032
01:41:42,439 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 1: and do it in a way that doesn't, you know,

2033
01:41:45,040 --> 01:41:47,600
Speaker 1: force them to sacrifice future. I mean, they don't have

2034
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:50,600
Speaker 1: to go in and practice, you know, seven days a

2035
01:41:50,680 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 1: week in full pads. Not that that's legal. I'm just

2036
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:55,920
Speaker 1: making a point, you know, they don't have to go

2037
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,599
Speaker 1: in there and grind it away. They can enjoy being

2038
01:41:58,640 --> 01:42:01,599
Speaker 1: a great atmosphere and have success and reap the benefits

2039
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:04,360
Speaker 1: of that down the line, and the Bills seem more

2040
01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:05,840
Speaker 1: than willing to give guys a chance to do it.

2041
01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:07,600
Speaker 1: Do it for a year, see if you can do it,

2042
01:42:07,640 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 1: and then get a big contract, go ahead, and the

2043
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:12,559
Speaker 1: Bills reap the benefits of that contribution. So I think

2044
01:42:12,600 --> 01:42:14,679
Speaker 1: it's a really great philosophy that the Bills are starting

2045
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:19,320
Speaker 1: to maximize. Another from the tweet sheet from Seth he

2046
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:22,280
Speaker 1: says other I think Mitch Morse will prove to be

2047
01:42:22,439 --> 01:42:25,040
Speaker 1: a sort of an unsung hero of their this rise

2048
01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:27,639
Speaker 1: to power. He is only going to continue to help

2049
01:42:27,720 --> 01:42:30,160
Speaker 1: Josh the run game and the offense as a whole improved.

2050
01:42:30,479 --> 01:42:32,960
Speaker 1: That eleven million dollars will be worth every penny as

2051
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:35,640
Speaker 1: long as he is healthy. Great leader in DNA guy too,

2052
01:42:35,880 --> 01:42:38,080
Speaker 1: I can see all of that. I think Mitch Moore

2053
01:42:38,120 --> 01:42:43,040
Speaker 1: says a lot to offer this team. He's not real expressive.

2054
01:42:43,080 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 1: He's been good with us on the show, but he's

2055
01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:48,599
Speaker 1: not real expressive. But I think he is behind closed doors,

2056
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:51,200
Speaker 1: and I think he's got the respect of a certain

2057
01:42:51,240 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 1: amount of a certain amount of respect in the offensive

2058
01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:56,800
Speaker 1: line meeting room because of his success at Kansas City,

2059
01:42:56,840 --> 01:42:59,479
Speaker 1: what he's accomplished in the league so far, and quite

2060
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:01,439
Speaker 1: frankly and Steve, you can speak to this because of

2061
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:04,080
Speaker 1: the money he's paid. Guy. It makes that much money.

2062
01:43:04,120 --> 01:43:05,960
Speaker 1: The other guy's in his room and his position will say,

2063
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:08,640
Speaker 1: whoa this must be a player, wouldn't they. Yeah, it

2064
01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:10,439
Speaker 1: does give you a level of credibility, but he also

2065
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:13,840
Speaker 1: earns it. I mean every day if if just the

2066
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:16,160
Speaker 1: opposite can be true too, the guy comes in, it's like,

2067
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 1: who is this guy? He's kind of he's making all

2068
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:20,680
Speaker 1: this money and he's not And that's what that's the

2069
01:43:20,760 --> 01:43:23,840
Speaker 1: kind of guy is. Um, there's that as well, and

2070
01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:25,559
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem to be the case with No. I'm

2071
01:43:25,560 --> 01:43:27,479
Speaker 1: gonna say Mitch Mort's is not the one you would say,

2072
01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:29,800
Speaker 1: that's that's how he works. That's what his effort is.

2073
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:32,639
Speaker 1: The money is he factored into how the guy handles himself.

2074
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:37,000
Speaker 1: And it's the DNA that Sean McDermott talks about, is

2075
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:41,479
Speaker 1: that you find guys like Mitch Morris who are making

2076
01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 1: all that money and are doing everything extra they can

2077
01:43:45,479 --> 01:43:48,640
Speaker 1: to make it look like they can earn it, to

2078
01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:51,920
Speaker 1: make it look like they deserve that money. Uh, they're

2079
01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:53,920
Speaker 1: the ones leading the meeting and they're the ones calling

2080
01:43:53,960 --> 01:43:56,160
Speaker 1: the meetings. They're the ones doing extra film work. They're

2081
01:43:56,200 --> 01:43:58,920
Speaker 1: the ones that are seeking out their teammates and saying, hey,

2082
01:43:58,960 --> 01:44:00,840
Speaker 1: we need to talk about these tales on this play

2083
01:44:00,880 --> 01:44:03,000
Speaker 1: call and this call. When we see this look and

2084
01:44:03,160 --> 01:44:05,120
Speaker 1: we get this call, here's what I want to do

2085
01:44:05,240 --> 01:44:07,120
Speaker 1: with it. And going the extra mile and making sure

2086
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 1: the details are ironed out and staying late and working

2087
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:12,559
Speaker 1: hard and coming in early. All the stuff that goes

2088
01:44:12,680 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 1: extra that teaches young players how to be pros and

2089
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 1: teaches guys who want to make a lot of money

2090
01:44:20,240 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 1: how to earn a lot of money. And that's the

2091
01:44:22,600 --> 01:44:24,599
Speaker 1: kind of DNA that seems to be prevalent. And guys

2092
01:44:24,640 --> 01:44:26,760
Speaker 1: like Mitch Moore, Starlotu Lelay and you can go down

2093
01:44:26,800 --> 01:44:29,720
Speaker 1: the list, certainly Mica Hyde and Jordan Poyer and John

2094
01:44:29,800 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 1: Brown and those guys we mentioned. YEP, got one more

2095
01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:35,120
Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet from Brian Micah Hyde is my

2096
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 1: vote for a couple of reasons. His contribution on the

2097
01:44:37,560 --> 01:44:40,599
Speaker 1: field and for being a level headed spokesman. I also

2098
01:44:40,680 --> 01:44:43,479
Speaker 1: want to acknowledge Matt Barkley for his role in Josh's

2099
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:47,000
Speaker 1: growth and Patrick DeMarco helping install mcdermot's culture. From the

2100
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:49,439
Speaker 1: onset of this regime. I don't think it'd be hard.

2101
01:44:49,479 --> 01:44:51,479
Speaker 1: You'd be hard pressed to argue that Matt Barkley or

2102
01:44:52,080 --> 01:44:54,840
Speaker 1: DeMarco we're the best free agent signing the Bills have

2103
01:44:54,960 --> 01:44:57,639
Speaker 1: had and the b mcdermoty era. But I would listen

2104
01:44:57,680 --> 01:44:59,439
Speaker 1: to an argument about how important they are to the

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01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:01,920
Speaker 1: culture of the team. Barkley I think has a lot

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01:45:01,960 --> 01:45:03,800
Speaker 1: to offer the quarterback room, and I think he does.

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01:45:05,040 --> 01:45:07,400
Speaker 1: He had what the one performance last year when he

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01:45:07,479 --> 01:45:10,439
Speaker 1: played considerable amount was that New England and didn't play well.

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01:45:11,640 --> 01:45:14,639
Speaker 1: But DeMarco plays a little bit more and is asked

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01:45:14,680 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 1: to do more, and I think DeMarco is is a

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01:45:16,560 --> 01:45:18,960
Speaker 1: good uh fit. I don't think he's in any way

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01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 1: the best free agent signing, but a pretty good, pretty

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Speaker 1: good role player for this team. Let me say that

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01:45:23,200 --> 01:45:25,439
Speaker 1: it's interesting because how much we've talked about culture today,

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01:45:25,479 --> 01:45:29,639
Speaker 1: we're talking about these free agents and guys like Pat

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01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:33,519
Speaker 1: DeMarco and Matt Barkley are perfect examples of it, because

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01:45:33,600 --> 01:45:36,439
Speaker 1: those are guys who are you know, they're role players

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01:45:36,600 --> 01:45:40,000
Speaker 1: at best, right Matt Barkley particular, Yeah, certainly he's kind

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Speaker 1: of a parachute. You don't really need your backup quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Continue to need him and then you really got to

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01:45:43,840 --> 01:45:48,840
Speaker 1: have him right. But guys that are in those kind

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01:45:48,880 --> 01:45:52,280
Speaker 1: of situations on your roster, like the fullback who plays,

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01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, ten percent of the snaps, or the backup

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01:45:55,160 --> 01:45:57,799
Speaker 1: quarterback who doesn't do anything on game, they accept support

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01:45:58,080 --> 01:46:00,479
Speaker 1: the starter and all during the week getting him ready,

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01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:03,920
Speaker 1: all those kind of roles. When you've got guys who

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01:46:04,120 --> 01:46:09,280
Speaker 1: do that and strive to do it really well, those

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01:46:09,320 --> 01:46:13,679
Speaker 1: are contributions that fans will notice, but certainly the team

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01:46:13,720 --> 01:46:16,160
Speaker 1: as a whole will grain great benefit from because it's

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01:46:16,160 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 1: not just Matt Barkley and Pat DeMarco. It's also love,

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01:46:21,560 --> 01:46:25,400
Speaker 1: and it's the lineback, you know, it's all you know,

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01:46:25,560 --> 01:46:28,840
Speaker 1: all the guys down the roster that you can think

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01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:31,599
Speaker 1: of that add to it, Garrison Sandborn, all these guys

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01:46:31,640 --> 01:46:35,400
Speaker 1: down the roster who contribute in small and meaningful ways

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01:46:35,560 --> 01:46:38,840
Speaker 1: to the guys around them. But having all those guys

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01:46:38,920 --> 01:46:41,920
Speaker 1: on board with that, or those guys are trying to

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01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:43,920
Speaker 1: earn their money too, they're trying to earn their way.

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01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 1: They're trying to contribute as well as you can. When

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01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:48,759
Speaker 1: those guys are hired and kept because of those traits,

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01:46:49,040 --> 01:46:52,559
Speaker 1: those traits become prevalent on your roster. And that's why,

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01:46:53,280 --> 01:46:55,200
Speaker 1: you know, this coaching staff seems to get the most

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01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:57,760
Speaker 1: out of their guys because they got guys like that

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01:46:57,920 --> 01:47:00,920
Speaker 1: who are helping each other, who are from the bottom

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01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:03,599
Speaker 1: of the roster up or pushing up, pushing the guys

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01:47:03,640 --> 01:47:08,840
Speaker 1: at the top to elevate, and it creates a team

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01:47:09,040 --> 01:47:11,840
Speaker 1: that is greater than the sum of its parts. There's

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01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:15,160
Speaker 1: something in there, you know that. You know, Matt Barkley

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01:47:15,240 --> 01:47:17,639
Speaker 1: helped Josh Allen about three or four plays this last

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01:47:18,360 --> 01:47:21,080
Speaker 1: week that wouldn't have happened had he not, you know,

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01:47:21,479 --> 01:47:23,800
Speaker 1: And it's just because of his willingness to play that

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01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:28,040
Speaker 1: role and live it out and exploit it like Matt Barkley,

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01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:32,519
Speaker 1: like Pat DeMarco. That makes it, you know, a team

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01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: that's better than it would otherwise have been. And that's

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01:47:35,640 --> 01:47:39,360
Speaker 1: nothing but culture. A couple of interesting stories up on

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01:47:39,439 --> 01:47:42,200
Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk we should discuss and started out the show,

2156
01:47:42,280 --> 01:47:45,439
Speaker 1: you were talking about coronavirus and the impact on sports.

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01:47:45,720 --> 01:47:49,519
Speaker 1: Here's an interesting story. NFL teams, per multiple sources, are

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01:47:49,560 --> 01:47:52,679
Speaker 1: talking about steps that should be taken as it relates

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01:47:52,720 --> 01:47:56,320
Speaker 1: to attendance of Pro Day workouts. Some teams are considering

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01:47:56,400 --> 01:47:59,559
Speaker 1: pulling their scouts off the road, relying on the video

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01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:03,240
Speaker 1: of by school workouts instead. They want to eliminate non

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01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:06,439
Speaker 1: essential travel. The question becomes whether these trips are truly essential.

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01:48:06,800 --> 01:48:08,720
Speaker 1: Some teams think they are, others think they are not.

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01:48:09,120 --> 01:48:11,439
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bill's a general manager, Brandon Bean makes

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Speaker 1: a number of these pro day visits and visits to

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01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 1: watch various prospects. The pre draft process could also limit

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01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:21,720
Speaker 1: or end visits by players to individual teams. We had

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Speaker 1: the report yesterday that what was his name, Shack Quarterman

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01:48:23,880 --> 01:48:27,080
Speaker 1: from Miami linebacker planning on a visit to Buffalo. One

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01:48:27,120 --> 01:48:29,640
Speaker 1: source predicts the league office will eventually get involved and

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01:48:30,120 --> 01:48:33,280
Speaker 1: teams they have thirty visits. Up to thirty prospects can

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01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:37,679
Speaker 1: visit a given team that maybe prospects may simply decline

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01:48:37,720 --> 01:48:40,479
Speaker 1: to show if they're invited. Based on a team's location, like,

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Speaker 1: for example, Seattle's maybe the hotbed of coronavirus activity. Now,

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01:48:45,439 --> 01:48:49,519
Speaker 1: if you're a draft prospect, would you really go to Seattle?

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01:48:49,800 --> 01:48:52,800
Speaker 1: Would you go there and risk contracting the disease? I

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01:48:52,880 --> 01:48:56,040
Speaker 1: don't know, certainly would be less attractive. Private workouts in

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01:48:56,120 --> 01:48:59,679
Speaker 1: the prospect's own town could be limited. Or abandoned. Everything's

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01:48:59,720 --> 01:49:02,400
Speaker 1: in here, Steve, everything's in play with coronavirus. There's a

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01:49:02,439 --> 01:49:05,840
Speaker 1: lot going on. Fortunately, the NFL doesn't have until the

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01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:08,960
Speaker 1: drafts end of April April twenty third, NFL doesn't have

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01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:13,200
Speaker 1: any real big events planned that would, uh, you know,

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01:49:13,320 --> 01:49:16,519
Speaker 1: bring people to watch, like NBA games or or other

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01:49:16,600 --> 01:49:19,400
Speaker 1: sports have games right now. But maybe that'll change too,

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01:49:19,479 --> 01:49:21,080
Speaker 1: We'll see. We really don't know where this is going,

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01:49:21,200 --> 01:49:23,519
Speaker 1: at least not events where they need to have thousands

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01:49:23,560 --> 01:49:25,360
Speaker 1: of people. They are the drafts coming up, and that's

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01:49:25,479 --> 01:49:29,840
Speaker 1: obviously a thing in Vegas. That's the next big thing,

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01:49:29,880 --> 01:49:31,519
Speaker 1: the Spectator event. They don't know how. I don't know

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01:49:31,520 --> 01:49:33,320
Speaker 1: how many people are gonna be there, Probably quite a few.

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01:49:33,800 --> 01:49:36,519
Speaker 1: It's getting to be quite the deal. But they may

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01:49:37,320 --> 01:49:41,040
Speaker 1: change that if they so desire. But you're right, there's

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01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:43,280
Speaker 1: gonna be some consideration in the months ahead as to

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01:49:43,360 --> 01:49:45,000
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do and how they're going to handle it.

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01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:49,280
Speaker 1: And it's not just about having the prospects go to

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01:49:49,360 --> 01:49:51,479
Speaker 1: Seattle to talk to those guys. It's also about having

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01:49:51,520 --> 01:49:54,599
Speaker 1: their scouts exit Seattle and go out to all over

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01:49:54,680 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 1: the country to these schools and these universities where they're

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01:49:58,160 --> 01:49:59,599
Speaker 1: gonna go in and there's gonna be a couple hundred

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01:49:59,600 --> 01:50:02,439
Speaker 1: people at is gathering at the at the pro day,

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01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:06,320
Speaker 1: let alone the athletes, uh, and then all the people

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01:50:06,400 --> 01:50:09,439
Speaker 1: you come in contact with when you travel. I mean it's, um,

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01:50:10,240 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 1: there's a lot of concerns, and you know, nobody wants

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01:50:12,560 --> 01:50:16,760
Speaker 1: to overreact, but there's a lot of us, a lot

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01:50:16,760 --> 01:50:18,600
Speaker 1: of us either to just you know, you hear what

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01:50:18,680 --> 01:50:20,160
Speaker 1: you hear about it. You don't know how to react,

2207
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:24,160
Speaker 1: you know, whether you're you're underreacting or overreacting. Who's to say, Um,

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01:50:24,840 --> 01:50:26,680
Speaker 1: most of us are in that joint, you know that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just kind of living my life

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01:50:29,439 --> 01:50:32,160
Speaker 1: right now. Um. But if I were ad minister of

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01:50:32,200 --> 01:50:35,479
Speaker 1: a league, a pro sports league or a pro sports team,

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01:50:35,520 --> 01:50:38,280
Speaker 1: I would be I would be at sea trying to

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01:50:38,280 --> 01:50:40,680
Speaker 1: figure out what to do whatever, looking for direction. And

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01:50:40,720 --> 01:50:42,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't you tend to be a little bit overcautious in

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01:50:42,960 --> 01:50:46,240
Speaker 1: this day and age? Yeah? Particularly, And I don't know

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01:50:46,280 --> 01:50:48,080
Speaker 1: whether it's the I don't know, I really don't and

2217
01:50:48,160 --> 01:50:50,599
Speaker 1: I'm not making any assumptions, but in this day and age,

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01:50:50,680 --> 01:50:53,639
Speaker 1: we all know everything at the same time. On social

2219
01:50:53,680 --> 01:50:56,760
Speaker 1: media everything. When anything happens and it's announced, we all

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01:50:56,800 --> 01:51:00,880
Speaker 1: find out almost immediately. So it seems like anything that

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01:51:00,960 --> 01:51:02,840
Speaker 1: comes to our attention or is worthy of our all

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01:51:02,880 --> 01:51:06,120
Speaker 1: of our attention, like this should be. It does seem

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01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:09,919
Speaker 1: to be like, Wow, it's kind of you're kind of overreacting,

2224
01:51:09,960 --> 01:51:12,559
Speaker 1: aren't you. Well, it just happens that everybody found out together,

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01:51:12,600 --> 01:51:14,600
Speaker 1: and everybody's you know, everybody's got a little bit of

2226
01:51:14,680 --> 01:51:17,360
Speaker 1: skin in that game, right, Ye, So I don't know.

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01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:20,760
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to im I'm just a pilgrim making

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01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:23,760
Speaker 1: my way in the universe, that's all. I like that.

2229
01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:27,240
Speaker 1: I would say it would help if there was legitimate,

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01:51:27,439 --> 01:51:32,320
Speaker 1: honest leadership from above that could kind of send a direction,

2231
01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:36,120
Speaker 1: but there is not, and nobody quite trusts that leadership. Yeah,

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01:51:36,160 --> 01:51:38,400
Speaker 1: who do you mention? I won't mention any names. We're

2233
01:51:38,439 --> 01:51:41,479
Speaker 1: not getting good solid information and how serious this is

2234
01:51:41,560 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 1: and what the plan is. We're not getting that information. Yeah,

2235
01:51:44,080 --> 01:51:47,120
Speaker 1: just give me a credible source, right, and I'll listen

2236
01:51:47,120 --> 01:51:49,439
Speaker 1: to one and even And here's the thing too, I'm

2237
01:51:49,600 --> 01:51:51,960
Speaker 1: I'm relatively help I don't know where even Look, who

2238
01:51:51,960 --> 01:51:54,640
Speaker 1: who do I even ask? Right? Right? So all this

2239
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:56,400
Speaker 1: stuff is in the mix now when we got this

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01:51:56,520 --> 01:51:59,360
Speaker 1: free agency thing coming everybody the NFL, all these guys

2241
01:51:59,479 --> 01:52:01,160
Speaker 1: on an end of you're basically gonna be traveling over

2242
01:52:01,200 --> 01:52:04,639
Speaker 1: the country. Maybe maybe they won't do it. No new

2243
01:52:04,680 --> 01:52:06,879
Speaker 1: guys that are signed are gonna command sign their contract

2244
01:52:06,960 --> 01:52:08,640
Speaker 1: or maybe it'll all be done by courier. Is that

2245
01:52:08,720 --> 01:52:11,120
Speaker 1: even better do it? Yeah? I don't know. Take your calling.

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01:52:11,200 --> 01:52:12,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to another issue that just came up

2247
01:52:12,840 --> 01:52:14,960
Speaker 1: this afternoon. But first a phone call, Mark and Buffalo

2248
01:52:15,080 --> 01:52:16,320
Speaker 1: is on the air. Hello, Mark, you're on the air.

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01:52:16,360 --> 01:52:19,240
Speaker 1: But that's good, go ahead, how you doing it? I

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01:52:19,320 --> 01:52:24,000
Speaker 1: think Steve Harris the signing that we hit the money

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01:52:24,080 --> 01:52:26,960
Speaker 1: every time here in the field goes. Yeah, he had

2252
01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:29,080
Speaker 1: a good rebound layer year last year, I think, and

2253
01:52:29,400 --> 01:52:31,519
Speaker 1: it was money for the most part last year. Yeah,

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01:52:31,600 --> 01:52:35,200
Speaker 1: he was your favorite signing any time he is, probably

2255
01:52:35,400 --> 01:52:39,800
Speaker 1: I think it's the holder at him every time. All right,

2256
01:52:40,640 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 1: maybe join the Bills March nine, seventeen, just about three years.

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01:52:44,400 --> 01:52:46,400
Speaker 1: That's what I That's what I always try to That's

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01:52:46,439 --> 01:52:48,200
Speaker 1: what I always felt like when I was holding I

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01:52:48,360 --> 01:52:50,080
Speaker 1: was when he missed a kick, I was like, oh man,

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01:52:50,160 --> 01:52:53,880
Speaker 1: I was a kick. No I always he always felt responsible, man,

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01:52:53,880 --> 01:52:55,880
Speaker 1: because you think how hard You always look at how

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01:52:55,920 --> 01:52:58,280
Speaker 1: hard can it be? Man? Come on? So when he

2263
01:52:58,360 --> 01:53:00,360
Speaker 1: missed one, I always thought, you know, the first thing

2264
01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:03,240
Speaker 1: you do is like, oh, jeesus, how was that? Was that? All? Right?

2265
01:53:04,479 --> 01:53:07,880
Speaker 1: I'll never I was a rookie with the Houston Oilers

2266
01:53:07,920 --> 01:53:10,960
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five and Week one, we're in the

2267
01:53:11,040 --> 01:53:14,400
Speaker 1: Astrodome and we were playing the Miami Dolphins, the Houston

2268
01:53:14,479 --> 01:53:19,679
Speaker 1: Oilers and Miami Dolphins, and it was Dan Marino's first

2269
01:53:19,840 --> 01:53:21,840
Speaker 1: start after they had gone to the Super Bowl, and

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01:53:21,880 --> 01:53:25,080
Speaker 1: it was his rookie season, right, and he had held

2271
01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:27,559
Speaker 1: out through training camp. Remember, he wanted a new deal

2272
01:53:27,600 --> 01:53:29,200
Speaker 1: because he you know, he knocked it out of the

2273
01:53:29,240 --> 01:53:30,560
Speaker 1: park and took him to the super Bowl, So he

2274
01:53:30,680 --> 01:53:34,439
Speaker 1: held out for a new deal. And so it's my

2275
01:53:34,560 --> 01:53:37,760
Speaker 1: first game as a professional athlete and I'm holding for

2276
01:53:37,840 --> 01:53:41,639
Speaker 1: the kicker. So Warren Moon takes our offense down down

2277
01:53:41,680 --> 01:53:43,880
Speaker 1: the field and they're gonna score, and we're about to score.

2278
01:53:43,960 --> 01:53:46,000
Speaker 1: We're in field goal range anyway, so we know we're

2279
01:53:46,040 --> 01:53:47,880
Speaker 1: gonna get a chance to kick the first kick of

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01:53:47,920 --> 01:53:51,080
Speaker 1: the season. And Tony's in day Houses, the place kicker

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01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:53,840
Speaker 1: and I'm standing next to him and he goes, hey,

2282
01:53:54,200 --> 01:53:55,439
Speaker 1: I go, how are you doing? He good? Good? He goes,

2283
01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:57,360
Speaker 1: are you nervous? I go, yeah, I really am. He goes,

2284
01:53:57,960 --> 01:54:02,120
Speaker 1: what tell me that you're supposed to boone me up?

2285
01:54:02,360 --> 01:54:04,920
Speaker 1: It's like, oh sorry. So we go out, we score

2286
01:54:04,920 --> 01:54:08,920
Speaker 1: a touchdown. He and I go out there. I get

2287
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:12,799
Speaker 1: the Bruce Matthews Hall of Fame office lineman. Bruce Matthews

2288
01:54:12,840 --> 01:54:14,560
Speaker 1: boom puts the snap right on it. I put it

2289
01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:16,680
Speaker 1: down and put it right. I think I make a

2290
01:54:16,720 --> 01:54:20,519
Speaker 1: pretty good hold. It gets blocked right back into our face.

2291
01:54:21,560 --> 01:54:24,760
Speaker 1: My first special teams play of my career. Maybe I

2292
01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:26,960
Speaker 1: was on kickoff return, maybe for the first game. But

2293
01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:30,600
Speaker 1: the boom boom right back in our face. I was like,

2294
01:54:30,720 --> 01:54:34,480
Speaker 1: ooof this is not going well. About that. I don't know,

2295
01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:37,120
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I was not happy. I felt

2296
01:54:37,160 --> 01:54:39,800
Speaker 1: so bad. But you know, but he's the guy who

2297
01:54:39,840 --> 01:54:41,400
Speaker 1: picked me. We had like all these guys trying out.

2298
01:54:41,440 --> 01:54:43,040
Speaker 1: He goes, no, I want him to do it, so really,

2299
01:54:46,120 --> 01:54:48,320
Speaker 1: he said that. I got the ball down faster and

2300
01:54:48,360 --> 01:54:50,160
Speaker 1: gave him a little bit of a longer look at

2301
01:54:50,200 --> 01:54:53,400
Speaker 1: the ball before he hit it. That's all I can say,

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01:54:53,520 --> 01:54:55,360
Speaker 1: how was he a good kicker? He was good. Tony

2303
01:54:55,400 --> 01:54:56,800
Speaker 1: was a really good kicker. Went to the Pro Bowl,

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01:54:56,880 --> 01:54:59,440
Speaker 1: kick for him for a while. Good guy too, really

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01:54:59,480 --> 01:55:03,080
Speaker 1: good guy. Yeah, Tony's in day house. Nice dude. And

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01:55:03,240 --> 01:55:04,960
Speaker 1: one other issue I want to discuss. And this came

2307
01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:07,960
Speaker 1: up on Pro Football Talk, but it's a it's kind

2308
01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:11,280
Speaker 1: of a repeat of something that's being reported in Boston.

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01:55:11,400 --> 01:55:14,320
Speaker 1: Let me find it here. Apparently Dak Prescott has been

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01:55:14,440 --> 01:55:17,720
Speaker 1: offered a contract by the Dallas Cowboys. He's going to

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Speaker 1: be a free agent next week. If he doesn't get

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01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:22,080
Speaker 1: a new contract, it would make him the highest paid

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01:55:22,800 --> 01:55:26,360
Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL, like thirty five million a year. I

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01:55:26,400 --> 01:55:28,400
Speaker 1: can't find the story, but I read it a moment ago.

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01:55:28,840 --> 01:55:31,200
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. Does

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01:55:31,240 --> 01:55:34,400
Speaker 1: that make sense? Of course not. However, it's free agency,

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01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:37,320
Speaker 1: and in free agency stuff happens, right, I mean, that's

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01:55:37,320 --> 01:55:40,000
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that that happens in free agency.

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01:55:40,200 --> 01:55:43,520
Speaker 1: If you're gonna keep Dak Prescott, young guy, he's been productive,

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01:55:43,560 --> 01:55:45,880
Speaker 1: he's had success. He's certainly not the best quarterback in

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01:55:45,920 --> 01:55:47,920
Speaker 1: the NFL. But if you're going to keep him or

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01:55:48,800 --> 01:55:50,520
Speaker 1: or sign him, if you're somebody else. You're gonna have

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01:55:50,560 --> 01:55:53,080
Speaker 1: to make him the highest paid quarterback in the NFL.

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01:55:53,160 --> 01:55:55,600
Speaker 1: I think, well, because you're run the risk of losing him,

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01:55:55,720 --> 01:55:58,600
Speaker 1: right and then where do Then that's the problem as well.

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01:55:58,680 --> 01:56:00,160
Speaker 1: He may not be the best guy out there, but

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01:56:00,160 --> 01:56:01,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose him if you don't pay him. And

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01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:07,880
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's the real quandary of the

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01:56:07,960 --> 01:56:10,760
Speaker 1: whole thing. What are you gonna do without him? And

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01:56:11,560 --> 01:56:13,480
Speaker 1: where's this kind ahead And the fact that they're ready

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01:56:13,520 --> 01:56:16,320
Speaker 1: to sign this before this CBA gets adopted or or

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01:56:16,480 --> 01:56:19,200
Speaker 1: gets signed, as says something as well, means they would

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01:56:19,200 --> 01:56:21,320
Speaker 1: go up if somebody else is bidding anything, right, I

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01:56:21,400 --> 01:56:23,720
Speaker 1: think it would, Yeah, so I you know, I don't

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01:56:24,840 --> 01:56:27,040
Speaker 1: The terms of the deal will be really interesting to watch.

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01:56:27,360 --> 01:56:30,080
Speaker 1: Dallas Morning News reports that it's a contractor with an

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01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:33,360
Speaker 1: average value of thirty three million dollars a year. That's

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01:56:33,400 --> 01:56:35,640
Speaker 1: a lot. He would be the highest paid quarterback in

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01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:38,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. It will be for a minute, anyway, Yeah,

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01:56:38,920 --> 01:56:41,080
Speaker 1: for a minute until Brady makes his move and who

2341
01:56:41,320 --> 01:56:44,320
Speaker 1: maybe somebody else Mahomes gets his deal next year, he

2342
01:56:44,400 --> 01:56:46,760
Speaker 1: would you know, maybe Bridgewater gets a ton of money

2343
01:56:46,800 --> 01:56:52,480
Speaker 1: in fregency. Right, Russell wilson most recent deal was the richest,

2344
01:56:52,520 --> 01:56:55,560
Speaker 1: well it is until this is official. Russell Wilson total

2345
01:56:55,640 --> 01:56:58,040
Speaker 1: value thirty one point four million a year with one

2346
01:56:58,160 --> 01:57:03,080
Speaker 1: hundred seven million guaranteed. Wow, thirty million dollars is that

2347
01:57:03,280 --> 01:57:06,320
Speaker 1: is crazy? It's the basement. Now for where you start.

2348
01:57:06,560 --> 01:57:09,000
Speaker 1: We're starting quarterback, and a good starting quarterback in the

2349
01:57:09,080 --> 01:57:11,840
Speaker 1: NFL should look at his salary, start at thirty move

2350
01:57:11,960 --> 01:57:15,000
Speaker 1: up from there. That's crazy. Yeah, they were talking that

2351
01:57:15,320 --> 01:57:17,560
Speaker 1: maybe Mahomes would be the first forty million dollars a

2352
01:57:17,640 --> 01:57:21,000
Speaker 1: year guy when he signs his deal after the CBA

2353
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:23,560
Speaker 1: and the next year, you know, he's won the Super Bowl,

2354
01:57:23,600 --> 01:57:29,560
Speaker 1: he's been an MVP, and now his contracts up. Nuts.

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01:57:29,880 --> 01:57:31,560
Speaker 1: All right, we're taking a break. We're coming back One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca Studio

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01:57:34,360 --> 01:57:49,920
Speaker 1: in Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome Back

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01:57:49,960 --> 01:57:52,919
Speaker 1: One does Live. John Murphy see task around this Wednesday afternoon.

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01:57:52,960 --> 01:57:55,640
Speaker 1: We had Amy Trask on the show earlier talking about

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01:57:55,640 --> 01:57:58,840
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll. Today. You can still weigh in on

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01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:00,520
Speaker 1: that if you want to give us a call at

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01:58:00,600 --> 01:58:03,120
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty and toll free one

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01:58:03,320 --> 01:58:06,040
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Who is

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01:58:06,120 --> 01:58:08,840
Speaker 1: the best free agent the Bills have signed in the

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01:58:08,920 --> 01:58:11,640
Speaker 1: Bean McDermott era. We know they You know, there was

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01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:14,520
Speaker 1: a month or so when McDermott started being came what

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01:58:14,680 --> 01:58:17,080
Speaker 1: the week after? You know what? I noticed earlier something

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01:58:17,160 --> 01:58:21,640
Speaker 1: the caller talked about Houshka. He was signed March ninth,

2369
01:58:22,040 --> 01:58:25,840
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, the day free agency opened. Bean wasn't here.

2370
01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:29,600
Speaker 1: Poyer and Micah signed, the Hyde signed the same day.

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01:58:29,880 --> 01:58:32,040
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills got at it on the first

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01:58:32,120 --> 01:58:34,640
Speaker 1: day of free agency in twenty seventeen. Are you starting

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01:58:34,640 --> 01:58:37,760
Speaker 1: to get tingly? I'm just saying based on the list,

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01:58:37,840 --> 01:58:41,640
Speaker 1: and we have the entire list including Trent Murphy, Lo'tulaay,

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01:58:42,160 --> 01:58:45,240
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips, Jordan Poyer, Micah Hyde, Mitch Morris, Cole Beasley,

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01:58:45,320 --> 01:58:48,640
Speaker 1: John Brown, Stephen Houshka, and others. And yes, there have

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01:58:48,720 --> 01:58:52,440
Speaker 1: been a few lesser only time John you know, John Brown,

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01:58:52,520 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley last year, Mitchell Morris. They get they get busy,

2379
01:58:55,600 --> 01:58:57,880
Speaker 1: and they they've had a good record of signing free agents.

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01:58:57,880 --> 01:58:59,640
Speaker 1: I think it bodes well for next week around here.

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01:58:59,640 --> 01:59:00,960
Speaker 1: I do you know one of the things that goes

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01:59:01,040 --> 01:59:02,880
Speaker 1: under the radar as well. And it's just one of

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01:59:02,920 --> 01:59:05,879
Speaker 1: the details that you know, he says, not too many teams.

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01:59:06,400 --> 01:59:08,400
Speaker 1: And this is another This is another one of those

2385
01:59:08,440 --> 01:59:10,160
Speaker 1: billboard things where the Bills say, hey, you can be

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01:59:10,240 --> 01:59:13,680
Speaker 1: your best self if you come to Buffalo. Quentin Spain,

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01:59:13,840 --> 01:59:16,880
Speaker 1: who played left guard for the Bills sixteen games last year.

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01:59:17,080 --> 01:59:19,280
Speaker 1: He didn't allow a sack, had his best year as

2389
01:59:19,320 --> 01:59:22,400
Speaker 1: a pro. He was on the street for two weeks

2390
01:59:22,480 --> 01:59:24,760
Speaker 1: as a free agent. Nobody wanted, nobody was signing him.

2391
01:59:24,760 --> 01:59:26,960
Speaker 1: They were like, yeah, he can't play. We had people

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01:59:27,000 --> 01:59:28,920
Speaker 1: tell us. We had people tell us he couldn't He

2393
01:59:28,920 --> 01:59:31,080
Speaker 1: couldn't play, and not not in this building, but you know,

2394
01:59:31,240 --> 01:59:33,720
Speaker 1: out some of the people we talked to in the

2395
01:59:33,840 --> 01:59:36,520
Speaker 1: national media, they're like, he can't play. And you know

2396
01:59:36,640 --> 01:59:37,920
Speaker 1: he was a stuy. You know, he's out there for

2397
01:59:38,000 --> 01:59:40,000
Speaker 1: two weeks. Everybody saw the same thing on film. He

2398
01:59:40,040 --> 01:59:42,000
Speaker 1: can Well, he comes here, doesn't give up a sack

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01:59:42,040 --> 01:59:43,960
Speaker 1: all year, and he's on a playoff team, doesn't miss

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01:59:44,000 --> 01:59:47,760
Speaker 1: its snap and doesn't give up a sack. You talk

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01:59:47,760 --> 01:59:50,520
Speaker 1: about being the best player you can be. Quentinn Spain

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01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:53,839
Speaker 1: is a poster boy for that, just like Jordan Phillips,

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01:59:54,320 --> 01:59:59,680
Speaker 1: I mean, word gets around when that stuff happens, right, Yeah,

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02:00:00,560 --> 02:00:03,280
Speaker 1: that's the word from among the players, like I'm going

2405
02:00:03,320 --> 02:00:05,720
Speaker 1: to Buffalo be the best I'm gonna get. I'm gonna

2406
02:00:05,960 --> 02:00:08,200
Speaker 1: get a short term deal. They give a lot of

2407
02:00:08,280 --> 02:00:10,240
Speaker 1: one year proven deals. They give you a pretty good

2408
02:00:10,280 --> 02:00:13,800
Speaker 1: buck to do it, and you're not tied up if

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02:00:13,880 --> 02:00:15,800
Speaker 1: things don't go well or whatever. And if I don't

2410
02:00:15,800 --> 02:00:18,000
Speaker 1: want to live, if I don't like Buffalo, like everybody says,

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02:00:18,000 --> 02:00:20,840
Speaker 1: I don't like Buffalo, I can get out after one year.

2412
02:00:21,160 --> 02:00:23,480
Speaker 1: But I will be able to get out after proving

2413
02:00:23,520 --> 02:00:25,120
Speaker 1: I can really play in the league. And given what

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02:00:25,200 --> 02:00:30,160
Speaker 1: I got, that word gets around when that And not

2415
02:00:30,280 --> 02:00:32,240
Speaker 1: only do they get the most out of their players,

2416
02:00:32,320 --> 02:00:34,000
Speaker 1: they take care of those guys. They got a brand

2417
02:00:34,040 --> 02:00:37,960
Speaker 1: new facility here, it's staff they had. They led the

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02:00:38,080 --> 02:00:42,880
Speaker 1: league in fewest games lost to starters. They led the

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02:00:42,960 --> 02:00:45,960
Speaker 1: league in that it's a injury lost to injury. They

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02:00:46,000 --> 02:00:48,200
Speaker 1: were the healthiest team because and they got all kinds

2421
02:00:48,240 --> 02:00:52,000
Speaker 1: of guys taken days off, veteran days off. You know,

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02:00:52,600 --> 02:00:56,240
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not they're not putting two hundred pounds

2423
02:00:56,240 --> 02:00:58,400
Speaker 1: of weight on your shoulders every time you show up

2424
02:00:58,440 --> 02:01:00,560
Speaker 1: at the doors, like Okay, let's go, you're gonna grind

2425
02:01:00,600 --> 02:01:02,680
Speaker 1: it away here. No, they're taking care of their guy.

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02:01:02,760 --> 02:01:05,920
Speaker 1: Got you here's a question and gets out. I agree

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02:01:05,920 --> 02:01:08,120
Speaker 1: with everything you say. Quentin Spain in particularly, I'm talking

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02:01:08,120 --> 02:01:11,560
Speaker 1: about here played and nine point five percent of the

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Speaker 1: snaps started all sixteen games. One year contract. He's a

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02:01:15,120 --> 02:01:17,120
Speaker 1: free agent. It's a week await. Why haven't they signed

2431
02:01:17,200 --> 02:01:21,280
Speaker 1: him yet? The signed him? Maybe they're talking to him,

2432
02:01:21,320 --> 02:01:25,040
Speaker 1: maybe for him, And I think that's another thing the

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02:01:25,160 --> 02:01:27,840
Speaker 1: Bills have a great relationship with We know they have

2434
02:01:27,840 --> 02:01:29,960
Speaker 1: a great relief. We've heard Jordan Phillips come and says,

2435
02:01:30,040 --> 02:01:31,760
Speaker 1: loved to hear he was great, He'd love to come back.

2436
02:01:32,440 --> 02:01:34,800
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson is. You know, they all have nothing but

2437
02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:37,720
Speaker 1: great things to say about their time here in Buffalo.

2438
02:01:37,760 --> 02:01:39,760
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Quentin Spain will say the same thing.

2439
02:01:40,120 --> 02:01:42,560
Speaker 1: And the Bills will tell you this, those guys and

2440
02:01:42,920 --> 02:01:44,960
Speaker 1: and this is what got players want to hear before

2441
02:01:45,000 --> 02:01:48,040
Speaker 1: they sign with the team. If you earn the chance

2442
02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:50,800
Speaker 1: to get to free agency, go see what you're worth.

2443
02:01:51,560 --> 02:01:53,360
Speaker 1: Go ahead. You can hit a home or if you

2444
02:01:53,400 --> 02:01:56,800
Speaker 1: can hit a home run, go man. Players are great.

2445
02:01:56,840 --> 02:01:59,400
Speaker 1: You're not gonna you're not gonna transition tag me. You're

2446
02:01:59,400 --> 02:02:02,120
Speaker 1: not gonna, you know, give me a you know, a

2447
02:02:02,280 --> 02:02:04,040
Speaker 1: deal and I don't know, You're not gonna put pressure

2448
02:02:04,080 --> 02:02:07,400
Speaker 1: on me to sign with you. It's that's a plus

2449
02:02:07,480 --> 02:02:09,680
Speaker 1: as well for the team. They can spend that in

2450
02:02:09,720 --> 02:02:12,520
Speaker 1: a way that makes them look like, hey, we'll give

2451
02:02:12,560 --> 02:02:14,040
Speaker 1: you the going rate and if you can get a

2452
02:02:14,120 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: better deal somewhere, you know, bless your heart. And that's

2453
02:02:17,320 --> 02:02:20,520
Speaker 1: a great relationship to have with a team that is

2454
02:02:20,560 --> 02:02:23,120
Speaker 1: trying to help you get better. The Bills are hitting

2455
02:02:23,120 --> 02:02:26,040
Speaker 1: on all cylinders in that regard. I think the Quentin

2456
02:02:26,120 --> 02:02:29,600
Speaker 1: Spain discussion takes us right into today's NFL true false.

2457
02:02:29,680 --> 02:02:32,560
Speaker 1: It's brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artists

2458
02:02:32,560 --> 02:02:35,760
Speaker 1: and Cheese. An article and Bleacher Report posted last week

2459
02:02:36,600 --> 02:02:39,680
Speaker 1: listed every NFL team's weakest link heading into free agency,

2460
02:02:40,000 --> 02:02:42,120
Speaker 1: and they said the Bill's weakest link head into free

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02:02:42,160 --> 02:02:45,840
Speaker 1: agency is guard. They said, I'll read you a little

2462
02:02:45,840 --> 02:02:48,080
Speaker 1: bit what they said. The Bill signed six linemen last year.

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02:02:48,360 --> 02:02:52,480
Speaker 1: Morrislong and Seci Feliciano Spain waddle the front office should

2464
02:02:52,520 --> 02:02:55,560
Speaker 1: be keep doing so this year. Not every signing works.

2465
02:02:55,600 --> 02:02:58,480
Speaker 1: They write in a team's favor. Widdle suffer an injury

2466
02:02:58,560 --> 02:03:01,360
Speaker 1: during training camp, never played it down. Last season, Spain

2467
02:03:01,720 --> 02:03:04,760
Speaker 1: looked like a potential free agency steel He started every

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02:03:04,800 --> 02:03:06,440
Speaker 1: game at left guard, but he was clearly the weak

2469
02:03:06,520 --> 02:03:09,560
Speaker 1: link among Buffalo's offensive line last season. Signed a one year,

2470
02:03:09,640 --> 02:03:11,320
Speaker 1: proven deal. The Bills need to look for a better

2471
02:03:11,400 --> 02:03:14,280
Speaker 1: interior option. Is the Bill's weak link going into free

2472
02:03:14,320 --> 02:03:21,680
Speaker 1: agency at guard? We're thinking I'm gonna say true. I

2473
02:03:21,720 --> 02:03:24,240
Speaker 1: don't feel that strongly about it, but I will say true.

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02:03:24,520 --> 02:03:27,680
Speaker 1: It's almost a function of every other thing is pretty

2475
02:03:27,720 --> 02:03:29,839
Speaker 1: well short up. I mean, are they looking for starters

2476
02:03:30,040 --> 02:03:34,000
Speaker 1: in many positions? And don't tell me Lorenzo Alexander that's

2477
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 1: a fifty percent playing time thing. He's not really a starter,

2478
02:03:37,200 --> 02:03:40,040
Speaker 1: you know, replacing Lorenzo Alexander. So I'll say true, But

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02:03:40,160 --> 02:03:42,400
Speaker 1: I don't think I think it's indicative of how strong

2480
02:03:42,840 --> 02:03:46,000
Speaker 1: overall the roster is. It's a pretty solid roster that's

2481
02:03:46,120 --> 02:03:49,280
Speaker 1: pretty evenly dispersed. I gotta say true as well, because

2482
02:03:50,600 --> 02:03:53,080
Speaker 1: for me, I think it's the importance of those spots

2483
02:03:53,200 --> 02:03:55,800
Speaker 1: that carries the day. I mean, they've got Cole Beasley,

2484
02:03:55,840 --> 02:03:57,720
Speaker 1: John Brown and they and they went to the playoffs

2485
02:03:57,760 --> 02:03:59,520
Speaker 1: with that crew of wide receiver kind of trying to

2486
02:03:59,560 --> 02:04:03,480
Speaker 1: find that guy. The edge rushers in the past rush

2487
02:04:03,560 --> 02:04:05,800
Speaker 1: You wish you'd get better, Yeah, sure, but your secondary

2488
02:04:05,880 --> 02:04:08,800
Speaker 1: is so strong it makes those guys better. You've got

2489
02:04:08,920 --> 02:04:11,720
Speaker 1: a Josh Allen continues to be the focal point of

2490
02:04:11,800 --> 02:04:14,200
Speaker 1: the improvement of this team. You got to do everything

2491
02:04:14,280 --> 02:04:16,320
Speaker 1: you can to help him. Yes, a wide receiver would

2492
02:04:16,320 --> 02:04:18,720
Speaker 1: be great. I don't think it's a weakness. But the

2493
02:04:18,840 --> 02:04:21,760
Speaker 1: offensive line needs to get better. They need to get

2494
02:04:21,800 --> 02:04:25,240
Speaker 1: more athletic upfront and more powerful upfront if they can.

2495
02:04:25,920 --> 02:04:28,080
Speaker 1: They still haven't found a spot for Cody Ford as

2496
02:04:28,120 --> 02:04:31,360
Speaker 1: he guard as he at tackle, and Quentin Spain may

2497
02:04:31,400 --> 02:04:34,160
Speaker 1: be gone. I don't know what you got Liadrian Waddle.

2498
02:04:34,160 --> 02:04:35,960
Speaker 1: They picked up the option on Spencer Long. He was

2499
02:04:36,000 --> 02:04:37,960
Speaker 1: a backup last year on a line that was much

2500
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:41,960
Speaker 1: better but still not dominant. So yeah, you can make

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02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:43,800
Speaker 1: a really strong case for it, and I think I would,

2502
02:04:43,920 --> 02:04:46,720
Speaker 1: just because I think I've always thought that offensive line

2503
02:04:46,800 --> 02:04:49,440
Speaker 1: is the most important position group you've got, and they

2504
02:04:49,480 --> 02:04:51,480
Speaker 1: got to make sure it's good. NFL True or False.

2505
02:04:51,560 --> 02:04:54,720
Speaker 1: Part two, The combine two weeks ago, there's a report

2506
02:04:54,760 --> 02:04:58,160
Speaker 1: in the USA today that said the NFL's Primetime Combine

2507
02:04:58,280 --> 02:05:01,880
Speaker 1: hurt this year's draft aspects for two reason. They said

2508
02:05:01,960 --> 02:05:05,240
Speaker 1: that as the players worked out, they were not told

2509
02:05:05,240 --> 02:05:08,120
Speaker 1: about new drills until they arrived in Indianapolis, leading to

2510
02:05:08,120 --> 02:05:10,600
Speaker 1: a lot of last minute frantic training, as well as

2511
02:05:10,640 --> 02:05:13,080
Speaker 1: a realization that a lot of training time over the

2512
02:05:13,120 --> 02:05:16,520
Speaker 1: months before the combine were wasted. The other problem, they said,

2513
02:05:16,720 --> 02:05:20,200
Speaker 1: was just logistics. You know, everything had to be rearranged

2514
02:05:20,200 --> 02:05:22,640
Speaker 1: in a short period of time. Jeff Foster, we had

2515
02:05:22,680 --> 02:05:24,680
Speaker 1: on the show before the combine, said, you know, we

2516
02:05:24,760 --> 02:05:27,000
Speaker 1: had to put stuff together in a hurry. Strategically, I

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Speaker 1: never would have implemented this much change in any one

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Speaker 1: year because the potential domino effect that can have on

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Speaker 1: the logistics involved. NFL Primetime Combine hurt this year's draft prospects.

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Speaker 1: True false, Let's say false. You know they're they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be draft. There's gonna be a draft. They're gonna draft

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Speaker 1: seven rounds at least for each team, and all those

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Speaker 1: guys at the combine are likely to be drafted. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that you saw a drop off in performances

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Speaker 1: at the combine because they were mostly late afternoon and

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Speaker 1: evening workouts as opposed to daytime workouts. I'll go false.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. They I have hurt the guy's ability

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Speaker 1: to run their ultimately best time, or lift ultimately their

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Speaker 1: best or look as sharp as they would have as

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Speaker 1: they as they would have in like you know, ten

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Speaker 1: in the morning or what have you. And I do

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02:06:13,360 --> 02:06:17,600
Speaker 1: think there's some kinks and some wrinkles to be ironed

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Speaker 1: out in the scheduling. So these guys show up they're

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Speaker 1: ready to go and fresh, but they're not. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if the guys who ran the forties this year

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Speaker 1: are not running as fast as the guys who ran

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Speaker 1: the forty ten years ago. It means it matters who

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Speaker 1: they're running against in this draft because they're kind of

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02:06:37,960 --> 02:06:42,200
Speaker 1: competing against each other, not years past. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: if a guy didn't break the record in the forty

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02:06:44,760 --> 02:06:46,400
Speaker 1: this year, what's the team I'm gonna do saying that

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Speaker 1: will pass. He's not as good as the guy we

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Speaker 1: got two years ago right now. That so, no, I

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02:06:50,440 --> 02:06:53,360
Speaker 1: don't think it hurt him. But I do think being

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02:06:53,520 --> 02:06:57,480
Speaker 1: unexpectedly changed like it was, uh didn't certainly didn't make

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Speaker 1: them comfortable in their workouts, but I don't think it

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02:06:59,600 --> 02:07:02,600
Speaker 1: hurt their prospects. I don't either. Finally, NFL true or false.

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Speaker 1: This was a report at NBC Sports covering the Patriots.

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02:07:06,120 --> 02:07:09,280
Speaker 1: They said, the Patriots, now, if Brady Leaves must opt

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Speaker 1: for a mobile quarterback. Some of the best in the game,

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02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:16,040
Speaker 1: they write, Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, Houston's Deshaun Watson,

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02:07:16,160 --> 02:07:19,160
Speaker 1: Dallas Dak Prescott, Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers, all have the

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Speaker 1: athleticism to buy themselves time behind the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: Their next quarterback, the Patriots next quarterback must be more mobile.

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02:07:26,720 --> 02:07:30,920
Speaker 1: True or false. I got a problem with the word

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02:07:31,040 --> 02:07:33,040
Speaker 1: must if it has to been nice of a word

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02:07:33,160 --> 02:07:35,520
Speaker 1: more more mobile, But they made it work pretty well

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02:07:35,560 --> 02:07:38,000
Speaker 1: with Brady Um. I haven't to think Philip Rivers is

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02:07:38,040 --> 02:07:40,080
Speaker 1: going to be pretty pretty solid this year for him,

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Speaker 1: whoever he plays. So I'm gonna go false. If the

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Speaker 1: word must was not in this, I'd probably say true.

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02:07:44,560 --> 02:07:47,360
Speaker 1: But the must makes it a false form. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: if it wouldn't. Even if they just said they will

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Speaker 1: go with a more mobile quarterback that's said, that's obvious

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02:07:51,600 --> 02:07:55,080
Speaker 1: because the ain't nobody less mobile than Tom? Yeah right, yeah? So,

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Speaker 1: But must I say no as as false? And I've

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Speaker 1: said this and I'm going to continue to say that.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I still think today, like where we're

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02:08:03,200 --> 02:08:05,320
Speaker 1: talking here in this true and false thing, I still

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02:08:05,400 --> 02:08:08,480
Speaker 1: think he's gonna go back to the Patriots after that. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win with whoever they get in place that

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02:08:13,920 --> 02:08:16,320
Speaker 1: they are not gonna go to a seven and nine

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02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:18,200
Speaker 1: ball club or even an eight and eight ball club

2574
02:08:18,600 --> 02:08:20,920
Speaker 1: without Tom Brady. They're gonna be a good football team

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Speaker 1: because they got a lot of things in place to

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Speaker 1: help them. They have an elite defense. May they may

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02:08:25,400 --> 02:08:27,839
Speaker 1: lose a number handful of guys from it free agency,

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02:08:27,880 --> 02:08:30,320
Speaker 1: but I still think the Patriots know how to build

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02:08:30,360 --> 02:08:32,400
Speaker 1: a roster and put a team out there that is

2580
02:08:32,440 --> 02:08:34,680
Speaker 1: not gonna fall off the face of the love to

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Speaker 1: have a discussion about that, but I'm so afraid of

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02:08:36,560 --> 02:08:39,040
Speaker 1: the pushback we got yesterday that we can't talk about

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02:08:39,080 --> 02:08:41,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots so anyway, So I'm say false, They're gonna,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna put it. They're gonna they're gonna have a

2585
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Speaker 1: very a very competitive team. They don't have to do

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02:08:47,360 --> 02:08:50,360
Speaker 1: anything at the quarterback spot except to get the best

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02:08:50,440 --> 02:08:53,000
Speaker 1: guy they can get, whether he's mobile or not. All right,

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Speaker 1: there you go. NFL True or False brought to you

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Speaker 1: and catch it. It's One Bill's Live, presented by Klata

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Speaker 1: What do we learn? Did you learn anything today? What

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Speaker 1: are you laughing about? I'm not asking you. I'm laughing

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Speaker 1: with you. I'm not asking you. I know you didn't

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Speaker 1: learn You better to pay attentions. Did you pay attention today?

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Speaker 1: Did you learn anything? Did we edify you about anything

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Speaker 1: at all? Well? We had Amy Trask on the show,

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Speaker 1: former CEO of the Raiders, longtime confident out of Al Davis. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course she does a ton of work with variety

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Speaker 1: of media topics including m NFL network, She's on there

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Speaker 1: and ESPN. Amy Trask was our guests. We asked her

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Speaker 1: about the ongoing NFLPA vote on the proposed CBA. Here's

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Speaker 1: what you said to say, Here's what you had to say.

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02:10:08,720 --> 02:10:10,960
Speaker 1: I love that they asked for the side by side

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Speaker 1: comparison of the deal. I love that players are engaged.

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Speaker 1: And look, you know this better than many or better

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Speaker 1: than most, Steves. It is a big, big body of players.

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Speaker 1: They are different ages, different viewpoints, different economic means, different

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Speaker 1: points in their careers. By definition, they are not always

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Speaker 1: all going to agree. And you know what, although the

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Speaker 1: body of team owners is far far, far smaller, they

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02:10:36,920 --> 02:10:40,160
Speaker 1: don't all agree either. And the key here is coming

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Speaker 1: up with an agreement that does the best for the

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Speaker 1: league as a whole, taking into account what's best for

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Speaker 1: the players and what's best for the league to thrive

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Speaker 1: any trash. Pretty good guests. We're happy to have her

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Speaker 1: on today. Here a Twitter poll today. I had a

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Speaker 1: question about a free agent signings and why is this

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Speaker 1: all right? Question? No? Yeah, it is under McBean, under

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Speaker 1: mc McBean, under Bean McDermott, who's been the best free

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Speaker 1: agent signing? Okay? Yeah? And why that was our Twitter

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Speaker 1: pole and we got got a lot of votes, got

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Speaker 1: a responses thirteen hundred responses, Fifty eight percent say Micah

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Speaker 1: Hyde hmm uh, twenty thirty percent say Jordan Poyer, ten

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Speaker 1: percent say John Brown, only three percent said somebody else.

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Speaker 1: There were other candidates we talked about him. Um, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a ton of them, guys from Jordan Poyr, Mica Hide,

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, Stephen Houshka, Trent Murphy, Mitch Moore, Starlow to Lelayum.

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Speaker 1: You know, even Jordan Phillips was on that line heat

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Speaker 1: they got him off the street when he got released

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Speaker 1: from Miami. So a lot of names of uh, John Feliciana,

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Speaker 1: Quentin Spain. There's been a number of guys who've come

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02:11:51,360 --> 02:11:54,920
Speaker 1: in and really contributed to the team. And it's you

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02:11:55,040 --> 02:11:59,640
Speaker 1: think about it. I don't know. I don't know, not

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Speaker 1: with going down the whole list of all the guys

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Speaker 1: they've signed, but they've they've hit on a lot more

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Speaker 1: than they have not. And like I said, the thing

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Speaker 1: I harp on most Murphy is they signed guys and

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02:12:09,640 --> 02:12:12,880
Speaker 1: give those guys a chance to actually play the contract

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Speaker 1: to its fullest. You know, they can earn the money.

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02:12:15,640 --> 02:12:17,960
Speaker 1: It's not outrageous money that can never have a good

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Speaker 1: enough year to justify the number they paid them to

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Speaker 1: get them in here. They give them a chance that

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02:12:22,160 --> 02:12:23,720
Speaker 1: they can earn it, and I think a lot of

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02:12:23,800 --> 02:12:25,680
Speaker 1: guys have responded to it. I think it's a great

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02:12:25,800 --> 02:12:28,640
Speaker 1: atmosphere right now one Bill's life for this free agent

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02:12:28,720 --> 02:12:31,480
Speaker 1: market that's coming up. We did also informally, and we

2652
02:12:31,560 --> 02:12:33,480
Speaker 1: didn't do a poll on this or take questions on it,

2653
02:12:33,600 --> 02:12:37,720
Speaker 1: but it came up the worst free agent signing they had,

2654
02:12:37,760 --> 02:12:39,600
Speaker 1: and you kind of led the charge on this. And

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02:12:39,680 --> 02:12:43,440
Speaker 1: it's only name, there's only one name, Vante David's just

2656
02:12:43,520 --> 02:12:47,120
Speaker 1: the worst signing in the history of this franchise. And really,

2657
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, didn't work out, you know why? You

2658
02:12:50,280 --> 02:12:52,200
Speaker 1: know why. There have been other guys who have stunk

2659
02:12:52,280 --> 02:12:54,880
Speaker 1: and come in and ain't gotten cut before they played

2660
02:12:54,960 --> 02:12:57,800
Speaker 1: and all that, But I don't think there's ever been

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Speaker 1: a player who've embarrassed the franchise. The wave on the

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02:13:00,280 --> 02:13:01,960
Speaker 1: way he left made it bad. It was bad, It

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Speaker 1: was in professional it was it was embarrassing for Bill's fans. Yeah,

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02:13:05,800 --> 02:13:08,480
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, like there was something wrong with us here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that guy that so we get that guy in

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Speaker 1: the show. I'd just like to call him out, he's

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Speaker 1: on he's on a list of one for me. You're right.

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Speaker 1: He embarrassed fans, he embarrassed everybody here the way he departed,

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02:13:21,080 --> 02:13:23,360
Speaker 1: that was awful. He embarrassed the coaching staff, and it

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Speaker 1: was you know, it's the start of what turned out

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02:13:25,240 --> 02:13:29,920
Speaker 1: to be a pretty down year. And man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: that really I'm I'm, I'm that still kind of bothers

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Speaker 1: me to that that happened. I don't know what he

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Speaker 1: feels about it. I really now at this point too

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Speaker 1: after saying that I don't care what, but I think

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Speaker 1: that was probably by far the probably one of the

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Speaker 1: worst moments. Hey, we got a good show tomorrow, great

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Speaker 1: co sell normally Friday is gonna be with us tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about some of the prospects in this

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Speaker 1: year's draft. Production assistance from George Blast, Jeff Coltonick Thomas,

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Speaker 1: robot our producer Jay Harris. We'll see tomorrow at twelve

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