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Speaker 1: They were decimated by injuries. In all fairness, Josh Allen

429
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Speaker 1: absolutely tore them apart, and Sala was looking right at it,

430
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Speaker 1: and so was Kyle Shanahan. So I think Shanahan saw

431
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Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, I said I need something like that, And

432
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Speaker 1: the closest thing to it was Trey Lance. And you know,

433
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Speaker 1: for you and I, I know we weren't convinced that

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Speaker 1: it was going to be Mac Jones at any point

435
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Speaker 1: in time. As we said, what they parted with pretty

436
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 1: much indicated you're going for a guy with superstar potential.

437
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: And when they doubled down and said Jimmy g is

438
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: our quarterback, you know he'll be our quarterback this year,

439
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: I think it lend further credence to them taking Trey

440
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Speaker 1: Lance because I think Lance is going to need some

441
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Speaker 1: time in the lab to you know, get a handle

442
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Speaker 1: on things, and when he takes over, I don't know,

443
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 1: it remains to be seen. Maybe they go Alex Smith,

444
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:27,479
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes plan and Garoppolo plays almost the entire season,

445
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Speaker 1: Maybe he only plays five or six games because San

446
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Speaker 1: Francisco next year, now that they're healthy again, they are

447
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Speaker 1: going for it. If Garoppolo can stay healthy and play well,

448
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Speaker 1: he probably stands a pretty good chance of playing most

449
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Speaker 1: of the season unless Lance is lighting it up in practice,

450
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Speaker 1: So that's probably how it's gonna go for them. But

451
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Speaker 1: I thought the Bills came out of last night's draft

452
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Speaker 1: in terms of the AFC East and what they were

453
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Speaker 1: able to add to their respective arsenals, it was probably

454
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Speaker 1: one of the best case scenarios you could have hoped

455
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Speaker 1: for as a Bill's And because they did not get

456
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Speaker 1: a dynamic, transcendent quarterback added to their division, you can

457
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Speaker 1: make an argument for Zach Wilson. I'm not convinced yet.

458
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: I would take Trey Lance or Justin Fields as transcendent

459
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks and Lawrence over the other two guys, Mac Jones

460
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Speaker 1: and and Zach Wilson. That's just the way I feel.

461
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Speaker 1: Could I be wrong, Sure, But you don't have to

462
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Speaker 1: worry about mac Jones. You know where that guy is

463
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Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna be sitting in the pocket every play. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson may come out and be everything they'd hoped

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Speaker 1: him for him to be. But I mean, there was

466
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Speaker 1: a picture last night on social media where five of

467
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Speaker 1: the top draft picks came out and stood next to

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Speaker 1: each other, and it was it was Greg Russos, Zach

469
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Speaker 1: Wilson and a couple and other guys. Zach Wilson happen

470
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Speaker 1: to be standing next to Greg Russo. That is a mismatch, well,

471
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Speaker 1: and it was. It was like Lurch and Eddie from

472
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Speaker 1: the Munsters standing next to each other. He looked little,

473
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Speaker 1: and I know Greg Russo six seven and all that,

474
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Speaker 1: but he looked a little little, like way little, like

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Speaker 1: he was standing in a hole. Little. He's not a

476
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Speaker 1: heavy dude, Zach Wilson. I'm with you. His durability to

477
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Speaker 1: me is a huge question mark, which is why Joe

478
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Speaker 1: Douglass traded it up for an offensive lineman later in

479
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Speaker 1: the round and might do it again here at the

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Speaker 1: top of round two. There are some that believe they're

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Speaker 1: gonna go pass Rusher, somebody like a Zizo Gelari today

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Speaker 1: with pick thirty four. There are others who think they

483
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Speaker 1: may double down and get another offensive lineman, like it's

484
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Speaker 1: Hevin Jenkins who's still on the board there right. I

485
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Speaker 1: would That's what I would do, you know how I

486
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Speaker 1: feel about that. I'm a total offensive line nut. And

487
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Speaker 1: if you've got a young guy like Zach Wilson, you

488
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Speaker 1: can't let him, you know, whatever, break his foot, get

489
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Speaker 1: stepped on, break his ankle, whatever stepping off the curb

490
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Speaker 1: or getting landed on or something by you've got to

491
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Speaker 1: protect him. They've got McKay Beckton from last year's draft.

492
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Speaker 1: He's a really good quality, top notch left tackle, even

493
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Speaker 1: at this early stage of his career. They need another guy.

494
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Speaker 1: They need even more guy. They gotta get dominant up front.

495
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Speaker 1: And if they get those guys in the offensive line,

496
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Speaker 1: whatever running back they throw out there is gonna be

497
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Speaker 1: enough to get a good run game going when you've

498
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Speaker 1: got a dominant offensive line. Just like I said, so

499
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Speaker 1: im and I'm you know, I'm with Jeremy from from Boise.

500
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Speaker 1: I never really believe. I didn't want to. I trusted

501
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermot, so if they did, I

502
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Speaker 1: get it. But I did never. I never believe they

503
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Speaker 1: were gonna go for a running back. I don't believe

504
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Speaker 1: they think the running back is the difference in the

505
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Speaker 1: run game. I think they know it's an offensive line.

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Speaker 1: I think that's where they're gonna foc They were gonna

507
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Speaker 1: focus if they were gonna fix it, and they resigned

508
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: all their guys, and I think they're probably gonna take

509
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Speaker 1: a corner and an offensive lineman in the next couple

510
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Speaker 1: of picks. Yeah, it would make yeah, and provided the

511
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Speaker 1: values right of course, but yeah, the value looks like

512
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Speaker 1: it will be right for corner unless there's an insane run.

513
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Speaker 1: But five corners came off the board in round one,

514
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Speaker 1: so you could venture a guess that those five clubs

515
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: are not gonna go corner again in round two. So

516
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: that helps. But a lot of teams do need corners,

517
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: so we'll have to see where it goes. My prediction,

518
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Speaker 1: I'm you know, you can call me, tell me what

519
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: you want about the Greg Rousseau prediction I made yesterday,

520
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: which was I mean, come on, I didn't know anything.

521
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: But anyway, I think they take two corners in the

522
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Speaker 1: remaining picks, probably, you know, obviously over the course of traft. Yeah,

523
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: for the next two days, they're gonna take another two

524
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Speaker 1: corners and probably two offensive linemen or one offensive lineman

525
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: and another edge. I think they'll I think they'll hammer

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00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: these two positions or three positions, offensive line, corner and

527
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: edge and make sure they've got enough bodies there and

528
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 1: enough guys they can develop that they're gonna be have

529
00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: those cupboards full. But when he get down to the

530
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: fifth and sixth and seventh rounds, it's more about some

531
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Speaker 1: guy like, ah, I know this, I know is this guy,

532
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: but we're gonna take him any We're gonna take this safety,

533
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: or we're gonna take it for the best tight end

534
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: or whatever, the absolute best player, get the best player.

535
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Speaker 1: But I still think they're gonna lean towards that side

536
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: of the ball edge rusher, corner, and they'll take the

537
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: best offensive lineman if he's there. Last point Jeremy made

538
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: was about Jalen Waddle going to the Dolphins. I think

539
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: people don't realize this is not a big guy. He's

540
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: five nine and a half one hundred and eighty five pounds.

541
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Speaker 1: I mean, he looks big next to Davante Smith, but

542
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: he's not a big man. He's fast. Last time he

543
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: ran a forty, he ran a four to three seven.

544
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: Did not do that at his pro day because the

545
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: ankle injury that lingered all through the season for him.

546
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: There are some who believe that had Jalen Waddle not

547
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: gotten injured last season, he would have won the Heisman,

548
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: not DeVante Smith. We'll see, We'll have to see. One

549
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: thing is clear. Miami is Berner fast. Right now Will

550
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: Fuller and Jalen Waddle on the field at the same time,

551
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: you're putting a lot of speed out there. You've got

552
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: more copycats of the Kansas City Chiefs now on the

553
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. We watched Denver do it

554
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: last year in the draft, going Judy and kJ Hammler.

555
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: Now we're watching Miami do it's signing Will Fuller and

556
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: drafting Jalen Waddle. Yeah, and it's there's not much. It's

557
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: not rocket science. You need guys that can outrun people,

558
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: and everybody's looking for him. And I've been making the

559
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: joke this entire process. Everybody got like twenty guys, thirty

560
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: guys running four three's in the decades past, in my

561
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: decade and the ones just after it, there weren't anybody

562
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: running those. Yeah, they were. They were unicorns back then.

563
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: And now you've got you know, a couple of guys

564
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Speaker 1: at every major Power five conference running it. So it's

565
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: it's it's getting more and more. It's getting games getting

566
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: faster and faster, if you can believe it. Now you've

567
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Speaker 1: got guys that are six five running in this low

568
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: four fours, and we wondered who was going to take

569
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: a risk on Jalen Phillips with his concussion history and

570
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury in his playing history as well, and

571
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: it was the Dolphins. They were convinced and satisfied with

572
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: the medical on him. They obviously sat him down and

573
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: talked to him on zoom and are convinced that, you know,

574
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: should God forbid, he gets another concussion, he's not going

575
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,479
Speaker 1: to just hang it up like he did when he

576
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: had three in rapid succession at UCLA and briefly retired

577
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: from football as a college player. So we'll see where

578
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: that one goes as well. They needed an edge desperately,

579
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Speaker 1: especially after trading Shack Lawson, and they got one with

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Speaker 1: one of their two picks in round one. We have

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Speaker 1: to take a break here jam packed show today. We've

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Speaker 1: got Greg co Sell coming on in the third hour

583
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Speaker 1: of our show to break down not only Greg Russo,

584
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Speaker 1: but some of the better players left on the board

585
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Speaker 1: here for Day two. And then at two thirty, about

586
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Speaker 1: two hours from now, we will have Greg Russo's college

587
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: head coach, Manny Diaz, to talk about Russo and what

588
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: the Bills can expect from him going forward. But We've

589
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: got your phone calls for the next hour and a half.

590
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: Tom and Lackawana, Kevin and Rochester, David Florida, Hank Tight

591
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Speaker 1: We'll get to you in the next segment. Here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalata Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

593
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Getting ready for Day

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Speaker 1: two of the NFL Draft. Steve and I had to

595
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: discuss what's best on the board when we have some

596
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: time in the second hour of the show. We also

597
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Speaker 1: have an NFL Films Greg co Seal joining us in

598
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: the third hour of the program, along with Greg Russo's

599
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: head coach at the University of Miami, Manny Diaz, joining

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Speaker 1: us in about a couple of hours from now. But

601
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Speaker 1: in the meantime, we go back to the phones to

602
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on Greg Russo and what's ahead for

603
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: the Bills on day two of the draft. And for

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Speaker 1: that we lead off with Tom and Lackawana. Tom, what

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Speaker 1: do you have for us here on One Bills Live. Hey, guys,

606
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,479
Speaker 1: I got a few things, so if you'd write them

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00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: down and then comment. First of all, another big thing

608
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: that came out is pitches in the other conference and

609
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: Chase went before the Dolphins short guy. Yeah, which I

610
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: think is also very important because Chase could be bigger

611
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: than Jefferson from last year. Real happy with Rousseau, Brownie,

612
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: You and I were right about Stokes, but he went

613
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: one pick ahead. But I'm happier that they got Rousseau.

614
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Speaker 1: And then the main reason I was calling is how

615
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: high with adding it to sixty one, would like two

616
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Speaker 1: picks five and five, five and six, five and seven,

617
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Speaker 1: could Buffalo move up in the second round to get

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Speaker 1: a cornerback or interior offensive lineman or possibly a wide receiver. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks Tohn for the call. You can't get up too

620
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Speaker 1: high with one sixty one and one seventy four. You

621
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Speaker 1: can get up as high as about forty five in

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Speaker 1: round two if you give up your thirty ninety three,

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Speaker 1: if you yeah, if you give up your third, and

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Speaker 1: it'd be that's obaly roughly you'd be able to go

625
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Speaker 1: from sixty one two right around the mid fifty forty eight.

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Speaker 1: Sorry sorry, fifty forty eight, Yeah, forty eight you can

627
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Speaker 1: get to you gave up. If you gave up your

628
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: third and pick up sixty one and both sixes, you

629
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: could get from sixty and you're sixty one, you'd be

630
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: able to get up pretty high. Yeah, if you're only

631
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Speaker 1: if you're only giving up the two fives in the

632
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: mid forties, high forties, yeah, forty eight, like around where

633
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas is is probably where you can get by

634
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Speaker 1: giving up just your three and your pick at sixty one.

635
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: If you give up just the two fives and your

636
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Speaker 1: pick at sixty one, you are probably only getting up

637
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Speaker 1: about half a dozen will picks, you know, somewhere around

638
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh at fifty five, Indie at fifty four, somewhere in there.

639
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Speaker 1: If you're only giving up your two fives with your

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00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: pick at sixty one, it's it's tough. It's a tough

641
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: row to hoe. Yeah, you're yeah, you're thinking, yeah exactly.

642
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: And I don't think they want to give up their three.

643
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: I think they want to keep that. You'd be moving

644
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: up twelve spots and you'd be given up three players,

645
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: So it would take a lot pick. Tom brings up

646
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: an interesting point, though, slot receiver. This draft is chuck

647
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 1: full of them, and I expect a ton of them

648
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: to come off the board here. On Day two. In

649
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: round one, we had one, two, three, four, five, receivers

650
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: come off the board. They thought there could be as

651
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: many as six. I think you're gonna see probably six

652
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: come off the board here in round two. And there

653
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: are a lot of teams in the market for slot receivers.

654
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: You could make the argument that a slot receiver would

655
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: be a pick for the future, although the Bills do

656
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: have Isaiah Hodgins who has a lot of experience in

657
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: the slot. But there's your list of for our MSG viewers.

658
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: Some of the best guys available left on the board.

659
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore, who was on the top of the list

660
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: for our radio listeners from Ole, miss two to out

661
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: Well from Louisville. Elijah Moore is an intriguing player, only

662
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: about five eight, but has a solid frame at about

663
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: one ninety so he's thickly built. Runs a four three five.

664
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: Was a track star in high school but also a

665
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: football player. This kid blew up last year. I mean

666
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: he had more production than Davante Smith. Steve. The guy

667
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 1: played eight games, okay, eighty six catches for eleven hundred

668
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: ninety three yards and eight touchdowns in a half in

669
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: eight games. Over his last three games last year. He

670
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: had he averaged in his last three games last year,

671
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: he averaged thirteen catches a game and two hundred yards.

672
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: I mean, his production was off the charts. And he

673
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: had a year prior to that with good production two

674
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: sixty three catches I want to say, for close to

675
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: a thousand yards, eight hundred something yards and six or

676
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, So it's more than one year. Lane Kiffin

677
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: was his new coach this year. He lined him up

678
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: everywhere in the backfield as a tailback, doing a lot

679
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: of Isaiah McKenzie type things with jet sweeps and such,

680
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: and then he lined him up in the slot. He

681
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: lined him up outside. This guy produced and he is

682
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: quick four three five forty so interesting player. I just

683
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: don't think there's any way he lasts to sixty one

684
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: for the Bills. Well that's what Yeah, that's that's the

685
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: rub right there. Who's gonna be on the board. We

686
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: knew that, you know, for Greg Russ. So there's gonna

687
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: be a lot of players that all of us had

688
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: talked about and maybe getting and then and you know,

689
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: even hope that the Bills get. Yeah, and when push

690
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: comes to shove, there's like eight guys that we had

691
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: both said yeah, that'd be good. I don't know if

692
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: he'll be there. I don't know if you know all

693
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: of them, and it ends up all eight of them

694
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: are sitting there, so uh, same thing goes here sixty one.

695
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: It's gonna be I think more about production and what

696
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 1: the guy looked like on tape rather than what measurables

697
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. Now, certainly all these guys are gonna

698
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: be able to run, jump and lift and all of that,

699
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: but I think they're gonna rely a lot on what

700
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: kind of football player the guy is, more so than

701
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: elite traits. Yeah, so we'll have to see how it unfolds.

702
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: Once again. Brandon Bean's gonna have to be patient, he

703
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: said himself yesterday. That's not my greatest strength, but he

704
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: may have to sit and hold his water, especially if

705
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: he wants to hold on to a third round pick

706
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: at ninety three. Back to the phones we go, and

707
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: we go to Kevin in Rochester. Kevin, what do you

708
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Kevin turned

709
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:45,479
Speaker 1: down your radio, buddy, Kevin, he's gonna have there. We go, Kevin,

710
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: how are you doing? How are you doing? What do

711
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: you got for us? Oh? I was calling me because

712
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: I'm so sick and tired part time Bills fans and

713
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: every time the Patriots make a move, Oh, they're so scared.

714
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: But let's just talk about this. How about the fact

715
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: that Bill Belichick hasn't done nothing in the draft and forever,

716
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: he hasn't drafted a quarterback in the first round. Ever.

717
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: Now they get this guy. Oh my guy, Buffalo going

718
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: the house. It's about to be a tornado or a storm.

719
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: We're scared. Guess what. I ain't scared because guess why.

720
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is getting better, The coaching staff is getting better.

721
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: We're developing our players. If you look at our draft

722
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: and how we develop our team as opposed to the Patriots,

723
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: guess what, We're doing it the right way. So I

724
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: just got no time following the fans and then want

725
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: to be pundits as, oh, the Patriots are doing this.

726
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: This guy is the next Tom Brady. Nobody thought Tom

727
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 1: Brady was gonna be Tom Brady. So who is this guy?

728
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that he won't be a good player.

729
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he doesn't have a chance to be

730
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: a good player. But what I'm saying is this, You

731
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: put all this stock in the day how about you

732
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 1: put some stock in It is Buffalo's here. We're ready

733
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: and we're ready to go. Thanks for the call. Yeah,

734
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: all right, keV, no problem with that. I think mac

735
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: Jones has a limited ceiling and because of that, I

736
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: don't think he necessarily strikes fear in Bill's fans. If

737
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: Justin Fields went to New England, I think we'd be

738
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: having a different conversation. The Patriots chose to stand pack.

739
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: They were clearly happy just letting the board fall to them,

740
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: and mac Jones was sitting there for him and they

741
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: took him. What he becomes is, you know, predicated on

742
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: what scheme they choose to run, how they work with

743
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: him and develop him. But he's a pro ready quarterback.

744
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: I mean, he was deemed to be the quarterback maybe

745
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: with the highest floor next to Trevor Lawrence. Right. There's

746
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: no reason to think mac Jones is going to flame out,

747
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: or that Zach Wilson's going to f aim out or

748
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: any of this other stuff. But they've got to play well.

749
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: And I'm not afraid of a rookie quarterback in his

750
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 1: first year, which is what two of the AFC's teams

751
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: are gonna have. If unless Cam Newton holds Mac Jones off.

752
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: I'm just not that afraid of young players coming in

753
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: and making a difference for the team. Certainly, they're gonna

754
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: have flashes, they're gonna be great players in their time,

755
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: and they're gonna, you know, they're gonna make some plays

756
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: even as young players. But being consistent and knowing everything

757
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: they need to know to beat a team that is

758
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:36,879
Speaker 1: playing as well as the Buffalo Bills have been playing

759
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years, I think that's a

760
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 1: big ask. But eventually those guys aren't gonna be rookies anymore,

761
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: and they're gonna get better down the road. Yeah, they

762
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Jets, it's and the Dolphins as well.

763
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: It's hard to think they're not getting better by picking

764
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: these good players. But for the time being, the caller's right.

765
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: The Bills are better, yep, And they're more proven, and

766
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 1: they're still on the uptick, and they still have the

767
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the division. That's correct, and so I

768
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: think the caller's right in that regard. You know, they're

769
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: coming after us still and they have yet to prove

770
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 1: that they've reached us. To Shamus in Buffalo, we go quickly, Shamus,

771
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live.

772
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: Hey guys, UM just want to say a huge fan

773
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: and I'm really pleased with our first round pick. But

774
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, Um, I know we saw Jeremiah a Wusue

775
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: Coramoa fall. Yeah he continues to fall to maybe forty

776
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: or you know someone like a Sante Samuel Junior. If

777
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: being really has him high up on the board, what

778
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: do you think the odds are of him making a

779
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: move and climbing up to that tech. Yeah, you'd have

780
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: to give up a lot to get there. We were

781
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: just talking about that. We think, you know, if you

782
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: give up your third round pick and package it with

783
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: your pick at sixty one, you can get up around

784
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: forty sixty seven, forty eight. If you give up a

785
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: little more than that, you can get up to maybe

786
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: forty five. I think, But felt that's that's given up

787
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: a lot just to get up there. When when they

788
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: say it with their actions or in action in this

789
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: case in Uma, is that where are you going to

790
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: play him? Does he fit your scheme? I think he's

791
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: got to be a scheme fit for you. The Bills

792
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: have got Matt Milano who plays the you know, the

793
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: off linebacker next to Tremaine Edmonds, and he's in a

794
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: coverage a lot, and he does a lot. He does

795
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: a lot of things, which is what Coromoa could do.

796
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: But do you spend It depends on where you can

797
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: get a guy like that the Bills got. There's in

798
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: the fifth round, right, and he's really good. This guy

799
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: is a far greater athletic talent coming out of college

800
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: than Matt Milano was. And let's not forget this. Matt

801
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: Milano was young at his own position, linebacker, because he

802
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: was a converted safety at Boston College where he started

803
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: his college career. Uh, Coromoa is kind of a positions player.

804
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: And so you wonder if there are NFL clubs with

805
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: coaching staffs that tell their scouting department, well, we don't

806
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: know what he is. He's a great athlete, but where

807
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: are we gonna line him up? And what are we

808
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: gonna do? Play him? Twenty plays a game to be

809
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: a hybrid linebacker for us. And now you're now, if

810
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: you're a scouting department, you're saying, well, geez, the only

811
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: thing he's gonna play him twenty snaps a game I'm

812
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: not drafting that guy in the first round to play

813
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: twenty snaps a game for us, and so I think

814
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: that's what he might be falling victim to a little bit.

815
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: But he's one of my favorite players in the draft.

816
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he is a lights out talent. You have

817
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: to have a coaching staff that's creative enough to find

818
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: a way to get him on the field. And this too,

819
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of talent. He's productive, and he

820
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: makes a lot of flash plays, which is kind of

821
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: fun to watch. His highlight hands like a freight train.

822
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,879
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, what you gotta know what this guy does.

823
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: Like all players, all players that we're talking about in

824
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: this draft, you find out what do they do, what

825
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: do they do well in college? What do they not

826
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: do well? And if they do something well in college,

827
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: do they do it well enough to do it against

828
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: better players? Will it translate? So when you're talking about

829
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: a guy like Coramoa, he is he that good to

830
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: be to step up to the NFL? Like does his

831
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: size is gonna be a problem at the NFL level,

832
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: He's gonna get engulfed or is he good enough to

833
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: overcome that? And if he's good enough to do that.

834
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: Is he good enough in coverage like he has been

835
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: in college playing against college kids? Is that gonna Is

836
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: he good enough to do it at the NFL level?

837
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: All how that all translates is a hard thing to extrapolate,

838
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: considering you're gonna have to make a role for him

839
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: anyway you know you gotta, and how much responsibility is

840
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: contained within that role and can he mentally handle all

841
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: of that as a wet behind the years. There's a

842
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of stuff that where he's got

843
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: a fit that you got to come up with a

844
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: plan for and it may affect other players on your roster,

845
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 1: positively or negative. It's it's a really hard thing to project.

846
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: He's gonna come board fast here on day two. I

847
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: gotta be too good an athlete not to come off

848
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: the board. Break time here, Dan on a cell, Hank tight.

849
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850
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Speaker 1: stop in at Rachel's, make sure you round up the

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Speaker 1: total on your order. We want to get back to

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Speaker 1: the phone to get your thoughts on night one in

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Speaker 1: the draft and what you're looking forward to in round

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Speaker 1: two and three tonight. And we go back to the

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Speaker 1: phones and to Dan on a set. Oh Dan, what

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? You? Ri, Steve Hi, Chris. First, thanks,

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Speaker 1: I work in Michigan and you guys your colleagues really

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Speaker 1: helped out of towners stay connected to our hometown. So

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Speaker 1: thank you for ye happy to do it. I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to get your thoughts on a certain thought process

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Speaker 1: I had. I was really leaning toward Elijah Moore at

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Speaker 1: pick thirty last night. This was my thinking that in

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Speaker 1: a sense, you know, it was an aberration that Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay got to Mahomes. He was injured and missed two

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Speaker 1: key offensive linemen. I think we have to outscore Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I was leaning toward a guy like

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Speaker 1: Moore because then a sense Stefan dis canceled maybe not

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Speaker 1: canceled out, but matches Kelsey with that across the field,

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Speaker 1: you know, unstoppability, but we need the tirech tyreek Hill

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Speaker 1: match in a sense. So what are your thoughts about that?

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Speaker 1: And maybe he's still going for like a home run

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Speaker 1: hitter type receiver in Ron Stewart three. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: think you can rule it out, Dan, And thanks for

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Speaker 1: the call. I think that guy. We were just talking

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Speaker 1: about Elijah Moore and the extraordinary production that he had

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Speaker 1: at Old Miss. He's not alone. This draft class is

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Speaker 1: extremely deep in receivers and particularly slot receivers, and we've

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Speaker 1: talked about and heard Brandon Bean say, Steve, we think

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Speaker 1: draft long term ratter than short term this year and

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Speaker 1: that would be an example of a long term investment

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Speaker 1: because you have Beasley, He's got this year and next

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Speaker 1: year left on his contract, but he's also thirty three

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Speaker 1: years old, and I know you have Isaiah Hodgens in

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Speaker 1: the pipeline. He's a completely different type of slot receiver

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Speaker 1: to that of Cole Beasley. He is not a quick

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Speaker 1: separator off the line. He's not super explosive. He's a

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Speaker 1: route technician. That's how he gets open. And he uses

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Speaker 1: his size as well. It's two and probably about two

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Speaker 1: hundred and ten pounds. So do they want to look

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Speaker 1: at more of those smaller statured quick as a hiccup

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Speaker 1: two way go guys that get quick separation to be

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Speaker 1: options for Josh Allen early in the play. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: the conundrum you're in. If you want to score with

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, you gotta figure out ways to do it. Now,

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Speaker 1: you can do it by trying to do what they do,

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Speaker 1: and that's outrun people. And they've got Travis Kelsey as

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Speaker 1: well to tight end who can really catch everything. And

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Speaker 1: you can do it differently than that, as long as

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Speaker 1: you're as effective as that, So you don't have to

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Speaker 1: look like the Kansas City Chiefs, as long as you're

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Speaker 1: as productive as the Chiefs are, if that's the way

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Speaker 1: you're going to go. I've said it a lot this offseason.

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Speaker 1: The Bills are good enough offensively to play with those guys. Now.

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Speaker 1: They had a couple of things there not go their way,

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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs played extremely well on the day of

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Speaker 1: the championship game, they played their best game of the

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Speaker 1: season on that day. The Bills did not. I don't

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Speaker 1: think anybody would deny that you got to play well

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Speaker 1: on those days. I think the Bills are good enough

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Speaker 1: now to beat them. You don't have there's no magic

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Speaker 1: wand or magic formula that's going to help you play well.

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Speaker 1: You may be good enough to win, but you've got

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Speaker 1: to play well enough to win on the day you play.

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Speaker 1: That's what hit. That's what ended the Bills seasons this

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Speaker 1: past year in twenty twenty. They didn't play well in

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Speaker 1: the day they needed to play well, and that cost

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Speaker 1: them the chance to advance to the Super Bowl. Not

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Speaker 1: so much Tyreek Hill or Travis Kelsey, although you know

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs and Mahomes and all those guys played well

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Speaker 1: and that you know that's the team you're playing. I

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Speaker 1: think it was more about the Bills than it was

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Speaker 1: about the Chiefs when you know you're playing them. The

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Speaker 1: Bills didn't play well enough. They didn't play as well

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Speaker 1: as they had been. They didn't play as well as

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Speaker 1: they could. That's what you have to concentrate on if

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Speaker 1: you're this team now when you get to the point

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Speaker 1: of what's it gonna take. You gotta get good players,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. But the Bills, you can win

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Speaker 1: a ton of different ways. The Bills have got some

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Speaker 1: technicians now with Stefan Diggs, Emmanuel Sanders and Cole Beasley

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Speaker 1: and Gabriel Davis. If those guys stay healthy and play

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Speaker 1: their best, you don't need anybody else, right, Nobody else

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Speaker 1: is gonna hit the field. But one's thirty three and

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Speaker 1: the others thirty four. So there is I mean, we

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Speaker 1: know Father Time is undefeated, and I'm not wishing any

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Speaker 1: ill will on Cole Beasley or Emmanuel Sanders, but personnel

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Speaker 1: departments have to prepare for that. That's right. They have

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Speaker 1: to be. And we saw what happened when Cole Beasley

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Speaker 1: got injured in Week sixteen and went out of the lineup,

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Speaker 1: and we saw what happened to this offense from a

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Speaker 1: point production perspective. In the playoffs, they're scoring dropped by

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Speaker 1: more than a touchdown eight points on average. That's a

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Speaker 1: huge difference when games are as tight as they are

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Speaker 1: in the postseason. Even when Beasley was in there, he

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Speaker 1: had a busted leg and he's you know, and he

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Speaker 1: played hard and you gotta. I mean, we all love

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Speaker 1: the guy, Oh my god, he's the guy's tough as

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Speaker 1: nails and he's out there with the busted leg and

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Speaker 1: he's being productive. But he wasn't the same and the

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Speaker 1: same thing. We were different when Beasley was out of

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Speaker 1: the lineup more so than we were different when John

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Speaker 1: Brown was out of the lineup. Correct, So it's you

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Speaker 1: do lose different levels of production when different guys drop out.

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Speaker 1: John Brown was a speed guy, Bills never missed him.

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Speaker 1: Beasley's not a speed guy. He's a slot guy. The

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Speaker 1: Bills missed him desperately when he was out. So choose

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Speaker 1: your poison. But the question, the best thing to do

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Speaker 1: is just get guys who can really play mesh together

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Speaker 1: and Josh Lights can throw it all that stuff. So

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Speaker 1: whether they're fast or whether they're big or whatever, get

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Speaker 1: the best ones. Yeah, break time for us, Mike and Carthage.

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Speaker 1: Hang on, we have more of your phone calls coming

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Speaker 1: up in the second hour of the program. We're also

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Speaker 1: gonna play some sound from GM Brandon being last night

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Speaker 1: following the pick of Greg Rousseau, and we will hear

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Speaker 1: from the first round pick himself some of his comments

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Speaker 1: as he met the media. We'll be back in a second.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid of Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

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Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

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Speaker 1: kind of a dual roll fighter for you, Steve, Steve

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Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strated fere of normalcy.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get it rolling. It's our number two

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Speaker 1: on Day number two of the NFL Draft, twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one edition. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you breaking down

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Speaker 1: night number one. Also taking a look ahead to night

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Speaker 1: number two of the NFL Draft. What's on the board,

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Speaker 1: what the possibilities could be for the Bills. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to all of that in short order. We want to

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Speaker 1: get to the phones though, again, as Mike is waiting

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Speaker 1: patiently in Carthage, Mike, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: You're on One Bills Live. Yeah, Hi, Steve, Hi Brownie,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. Sure, I'm excited about the Rosu pick

993
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Speaker 1: and you know, I know he's a big offensive line guy.

994
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Speaker 1: I wanted to get your take on Quinn Miners and

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Speaker 1: where do you think the chances of him still be

996
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Speaker 1: in there late in the second round of I think

997
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Speaker 1: it's a decent chance. This is the Wisconsin Whitewater Division

998
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Speaker 1: three kid who was completely off the radar until he

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Speaker 1: got invited to the Senior Bowl. Obviously, Division three did

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Speaker 1: not play in the fall. They basically canceled football, so

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Speaker 1: he was out of luck. But fortunately some people started

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Speaker 1: stumping for him. With Jim Nagge, the executive director of

1003
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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, they invited him. Kid had a monster week.

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Speaker 1: He played guard at Wisconsin Whitewater, and I have to

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Speaker 1: tell you just watching the film, when you're a lower

1006
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Speaker 1: level guy, you have to dominate the competition. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this guy is three hundred and twenty pounds. He's I

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Speaker 1: mean he's literally throwing human beings out of the way,

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Speaker 1: like because Division three football players aren't going two eighty

1010
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Speaker 1: on the defensive line, they're not going two thirty at linebacker.

1011
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Speaker 1: They're like two ten. And he's getting to the second

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Speaker 1: level and he's lifting people off the ground. And you

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Speaker 1: remember the movie The blind Side when they had the

1014
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Speaker 1: guy running the guy off the field. That's what he

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Speaker 1: looks like at Division three. So the challenge for him

1016
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Speaker 1: was do it at the Senior Bowl. Had a good week,

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Speaker 1: and they also, I thought that was very interesting. They

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Speaker 1: lined him up at center as well and had him

1019
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Speaker 1: snapped the ball some and all accounts are he fared

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Speaker 1: fairly well there also, So he really helped himself and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna make himself a Day two pick sometime today. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Division three football are guys that are not on scholarship.

1023
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Speaker 1: They want to play college football and they're willing to

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Speaker 1: just go to school to do love the game. They

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Speaker 1: love the game, and so you're getting guys who are

1026
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Speaker 1: pretty good high school players that go on and they

1027
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Speaker 1: want to play college football. And that's the kind of

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Speaker 1: guys he's playing against. So there was some questions about

1029
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Speaker 1: the level of competition for him to take the next step.

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Speaker 1: But he's obviously he's got some physical skills at three twenty,

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Speaker 1: and he's an athletic enough. And when you go to

1032
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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, some guys thinking, I don't know it's

1033
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Speaker 1: worth it. It's a good a good contextual evaluation because

1034
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Speaker 1: you're in with all the rest of the guys and

1035
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Speaker 1: if you flash at the Senior Bowl, it's like, well,

1036
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Speaker 1: these these are the guys or even hold your own

1037
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Speaker 1: like right, yeah, and you belong and he did that.

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Speaker 1: He proved he belonged in the NFL draft, and he's

1039
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Speaker 1: gonna get drafted. I expect him to come off the

1040
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Speaker 1: board sometime today. He's kind of a lot like Ali Marpet,

1041
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Speaker 1: the kid that went to Hobart, went down to the

1042
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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, had a great week, was a Day two pick.

1043
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Speaker 1: So does he last his sixty one? I think it

1044
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Speaker 1: depends on where the old line run starts here today.

1045
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Speaker 1: And knowing that you had what five offensive tackles going

1046
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Speaker 1: round one and a total of six offensive lineman? What

1047
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Speaker 1: was the total here? One? Here, two, three, four? Five

1048
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Speaker 1: offensive linemen in round one? So there's gonna be a

1049
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Speaker 1: run here in round two on offensive lineman. The question is, Mike,

1050
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Speaker 1: where does it start? And does it start early enough

1051
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Speaker 1: where Buffalo is going to be left out the outside

1052
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Speaker 1: looking in? That's that's the big question. If you want

1053
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Speaker 1: to break this down, and I guess I will. You

1054
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Speaker 1: want to know where the league's in the league's headed.

1055
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Speaker 1: And I said this to Brownies, just we get off

1056
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Speaker 1: the air. There were five qbs taken, five wide receivers

1057
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Speaker 1: taken in five corners taken. That's half the draft in

1058
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Speaker 1: three spots. And five offensive linement and five offensive linemen

1059
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Speaker 1: and the other and the other big one was the

1060
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Speaker 1: defensive ends. The passive defensive that's where it is. It's

1061
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Speaker 1: about the passing game. The quarterback, the guy's catching the

1062
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: ball from the quarterback, the guys defending those passes, the

1063
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: guys protecting that quarterback, and the guys rushing the quarterback.

1064
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: That's the game right now. You got one tight end taken,

1065
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: and that's a talent issue. In this particular draft, you'd

1066
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: see more tight ends taken usually, but just one tight end,

1067
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: two running backs, and five inside or outside linebackers, and

1068
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: those outside linebackers are actually defensive end their pass rushers.

1069
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: There's seven pass rushers that were taken, and that's where

1070
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: the game is. Zero safeties, you know, there's been like

1071
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: and two inside linebackers. Two. I mean, that's just it's

1072
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: you can see where the value is for these positions

1073
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: and the importance in which teams and the whole league

1074
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: attaches to it and taking it a step further, A

1075
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: lot of those are the high priced positions in the league. Quarterback,

1076
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: pass rusher, wide receiver, corner, offensive tackle, corner. Those are

1077
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: all the high pay scale positions. In the league, and

1078
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: you say, well, why are you drafting them so you

1079
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: can pay them a rookie salary for five years? That's why.

1080
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: And then to take it a step further, if you

1081
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 1: don't draft those guys and you need them on your roster,

1082
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to overpay in free agency to add

1083
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: them to your roster. And now you run into Capron.

1084
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: Now it's a negative ripple effect because now you gotta

1085
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: pay one guy too much and you can't spend another

1086
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: places and your team is weaker another roster spots because

1087
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,439
Speaker 1: you have to pay some other guy to do it. Now,

1088
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: a couple of the other things, the ones that are

1089
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: not being paid, the positions that are not being paid,

1090
00:57:56,680 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: the inside linebackers and the safeties. Buffalo got maybe as

1091
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: good as safety tandem as anybody in the league. They're

1092
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: not making together what an elite what an elite defensive

1093
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: end is. You know, they're just not. And but where

1094
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: would this team be without Micae Hyde and Jordan Poyer

1095
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: that game that that entire position group back there in

1096
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: this free safety strong safety crew, and the Buffalo's got

1097
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: it really good with poor Year and hide. They they're interchangeable.

1098
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who's doing what now they they work it.

1099
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: So they they played to their strengths poor years, a

1100
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 1: really good run block, a run stuffer. He's a nice

1101
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: pass rusher. He had a phenomenal yearized stuff around the line.

1102
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: So they accentuate what they do well. But they get

1103
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: to decide between the two of them. That position is

1104
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: played from the neck up almost exclusively because they've got

1105
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 1: to line people up. And this is me from the

1106
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: old guy. I'm an old guy, Mark Kelso, who was

1107
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, ended up being a school teacher. Now he's

1108
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: an executive. The guy's a thinker. You gotta be ahead

1109
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: of it mentally. Guys like Ed Reid, who was here

1110
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: in Buffalo as a as an intern with Rex Ryan,

1111
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: that guy was way ahead of it mentally. Troy Paulamala

1112
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: was way ahead of it. Mentally. These guys, the great guys,

1113
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: weren't known. They were known for their playmaking, but their

1114
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: playmaking when you watch him on film and study him,

1115
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: was because they were clarivoyant in their ability to anticipate

1116
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: what was going to happen. Ed Reid. The story goes

1117
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: for three weeks played at coverage that they called a

1118
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: lot they for three weeks. He played it wrong because

1119
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 1: he knew the fourth week they were playing Peyton Manning,

1120
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: and it got him an interception in the fourth game

1121
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: because he was setting Peyton Manning up for three weeks

1122
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: of film. He was playing the wrong technique so that

1123
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: he could get him. He'd tell me, that's not played

1124
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: from the next guy, that's next level, that's hall of

1125
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: Fame stuff, and that you got to do that kind

1126
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: of stuff to beat a Hall of Fame quarterback. And yet,

1127
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: so those guys don't have these physics, they don't need

1128
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: these physical traits, they need the mental traits. And so

1129
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: you know that position group, for whatever reason, is undervalued

1130
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: because you don't need the elite physical traits that are

1131
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: so hard to find. But when you find those physical

1132
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: traits coupled with that mentality, you get a Hall of

1133
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: Fame guy. So it's really strange you to break this

1134
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: draft down. It really it's quarterback, wide receiver, corner, and

1135
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: pass rusher. No safeties off the board in round one.

1136
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: Two running backs off the board in round one. No

1137
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: tight ends off the board. A one tight end, I'm sorry,

1138
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts. One tight end off the transcendent tight end

1139
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: and the highest the tight end has ever been drafted too.

1140
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: On top of that, back to the phones and to

1141
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: Tim in Rochester, Tim, what do you have for us?

1142
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live, Tim, turn your radio down, buddy,

1143
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, let me get that. What do you got

1144
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: for us? Tim? I just got a question for you.

1145
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: I see a lot of people say and they and

1146
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: you know, there were a couple of guys that were

1147
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 1: maybe above you know, Russo at that spot, and I'm wondering,

1148
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: if you know, was that a that we really needed

1149
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: defense in that? I mean, we got a j last year.

1150
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, was that kind of a size pick you need.

1151
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: You can't teach six to seven. We're probably gonna bulk

1152
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: them up. So I'm wondering what you guys thoughts on

1153
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: that are. Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I mean we've we've

1154
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: talked about this on the show before, Steve and I

1155
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: that we heard Brandon being discussed. You know, we look

1156
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 1: at this draft a little bit more long term than

1157
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: short term, meaning they're not necessarily looking for guys to

1158
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 1: plug right into the starting lineup right away, even at

1159
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 1: the bottom of round one. They're drafting this late the

1160
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: chances of getting a Day one starter are pretty tough

1161
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: to come by unless you get really lucky and somebody

1162
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: slides for some unknown reason or a medical reason or

1163
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: whatever it is. You've got two starting defensive ends, and

1164
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: Mario Addison and Jerry Hughes who are in the last

1165
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: year of their respective contracts and are thirty three and

1166
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: thirty four years old before the season starts this year.

1167
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: You need a guy that you believe can be a

1168
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: starting caliber player a year from now for the twenty

1169
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: twenty two season. And so you had to go edge

1170
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: rusher early in this draft, somewhere on the first two days,

1171
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: for sure. And the value was there at the bottom

1172
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: of round one, as we anticipated. And evidence of that

1173
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,840
Speaker 1: is four defensive ends going off the board in the

1174
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: last five picks. They needed an edge rusher. They had

1175
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 1: to get one in the pipeline that was that had

1176
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,440
Speaker 1: the talent level, the work ethic, the ability to develop

1177
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: into a starting player by next year. They believe they

1178
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: have that now and in Rousseau here I'll just put it.

1179
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: I'll boil it down as far as I can. They

1180
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: got a guy with elite traits, like you said, six seven,

1181
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: two sixty and athletic and in the last time, and

1182
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: with a really big upside young in the position, he's

1183
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: learning and he's got a thirst learn intangibles or everything

1184
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: you want him to be. And also the last time

1185
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: he played, he produced at the highest level. So all

1186
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:14,919
Speaker 1: those things together, I mean said to the Bills, that's

1187
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: our guy. He produced at the highest level last time

1188
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: he was on the field in twenty nineteen. He's got

1189
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:24,920
Speaker 1: physically elite traits and he has displayed not just on

1190
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 1: the football field, but in his personal life as a

1191
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 1: high school student, the ability to really grind and work

1192
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: hard at something that had nothing to do with football,

1193
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: and that's his ability to graduate early from high school

1194
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 1: so that he could get up take part in spring

1195
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: football the University of Miami. He registered six months early.

1196
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: So that kind of work ethic and commitment attached to

1197
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: those elite physical skills, and the last time we saw

1198
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: him play he was producing at a really high rate.

1199
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: All of those things together make him a perfect fit,

1200
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 1: particularly at that point in the first round where two

1201
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: years ago, if he was a junior, he would have

1202
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: been a top ten pick, or even if he just

1203
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: came back this year and came close to the production

1204
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: of the year before. If you would have kept the

1205
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: exact same moment, God, yes, he would have been he

1206
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: would have been gone. He would have been better than

1207
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: Jayleen Phillips. Yeah, he would have been playing with Jane.

1208
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: He would have been thinking about Think about that. Those

1209
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: two guys on either side of that, who that would

1210
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: have been something. We go back to the phones and

1211
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 1: we go to Kurt and Menden. Kurt, what do you

1212
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys,

1213
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: I was wondering if there is a player available in

1214
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 1: the second round that would be worth trading up for. Well,

1215
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: I mean there's you could come up with a lot

1216
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 1: of examples. Yeah. I think the bigger question here, Kurt

1217
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: is how far can Buffalo realistically climb up the board

1218
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: and what are they willing to part with to do that?

1219
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean, how much conviction do they have about a

1220
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: player to make a move like that, Because, as we

1221
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,480
Speaker 1: were discussing earlier in the show, they would have to

1222
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: give up their third round pick to get up around

1223
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: forty eight, where Las Vegas is. They'd have to give

1224
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: up their third round pick and both of their fives

1225
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: to get up in the mid forties. Forty three five,

1226
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: so they would have they would have virtually one draft pick,

1227
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: one seventh round draft pick left if they moved up

1228
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 1: twelve spots. Yeah, so you really got to feel good

1229
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 1: about that guy, because now you're sacrificing your third round

1230
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: pick and almost everything on Day three just to get

1231
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 1: up there and get that one guy. So I don't

1232
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 1: know if they are willing to go that far to

1233
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: do that. I suppose if somebody that they have, you know,

1234
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 1: ranked as a high two on their board is sliding, sliding, sliding,

1235
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:53,920
Speaker 1: and is still there at fifty, then maybe they get

1236
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 1: up there and do something. But yeah, I think there

1237
01:05:56,840 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 1: is a range of players that is going to here

1238
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: at the bottom of round two, particularly at the cornerback position,

1239
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: that the Bills are going to find very appealing. And

1240
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 1: I think there could be some offensive line depth that

1241
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:11,200
Speaker 1: slides to them at the bottom of the second round two. So,

1242
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 1: knowing what the primary needs are for the Bills today

1243
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 1: corner oh line, I think the value of the board

1244
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 1: favors those needs today. And I don't know that the

1245
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: Bills are going to have to make any giant climbs

1246
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: up the board to satisfy the right Just like we

1247
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: didn't know who would be left on the board at

1248
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 1: number thirty. I think the Bills are really happy with Rousseau.

1249
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 1: I think they feel like there was and plus there

1250
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:36,680
Speaker 1: was a ton of it. There's this ton of guys

1251
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: still left on the board at the bottom of the first,

1252
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 1: top of the second that the Bills would have been.

1253
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about, Hey, this guy's not

1254
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: going to be there and the like, there's a handful

1255
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: of guys that are there. I think it'll be the

1256
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: same thing at sixty one. There'll be some guys there

1257
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: that are like, Okay, I could see that guy contributing.

1258
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: I could see him competing, particularly on the offensive side

1259
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: of this thing. And also the cornerback spot. You're still

1260
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: going to get some guy who are bigger, faster, stronger

1261
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: than the cornerbacks we have opposite Tredavious White and Levi

1262
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: Wallace and Dane Jackson. There you're gonna get a guy

1263
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 1: that's more physically gifted than the two of those guys

1264
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 1: at sixty one, if you want, maybe even at ninety three.

1265
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's going to be necessary to

1266
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 1: at least and on the surface superficially to say we

1267
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: upgraded the competition at these areas by waiting to pick.

1268
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna have to trade up to

1269
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,800
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, And here's the thing that although they

1270
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Speaker 1: might yeah, I mean, you never know. Here's the thing

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Speaker 1: to think about too. You know, you have you you

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Speaker 1: need a swing tackle right because right now, yes, you

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Speaker 1: have Darryl Williams and Dion Dawkins locked up long term,

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Speaker 1: but you really don't have a player on the roster

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Speaker 1: who is primarily an offensive tackle first to back them

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Speaker 1: up in any capacity right now? Could Ryan Bates go

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Speaker 1: out there and play a game or two? Yes, you know,

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01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 1: could one of the guards kick out and help you

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Speaker 1: for a game? Sure, it's not ideal. I think they

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Speaker 1: want a better answer there, So I think you should

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Speaker 1: be looking at players like that. Steve has mentioned Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame's Liam Eichenberg, a right tackle at Notre Dame on

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Speaker 1: a very very strong offensive line, one of the better

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Speaker 1: ones in football. He's still on the board. How fast

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01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:20,600
Speaker 1: does he come off? He lacks a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the athleticism that you typically see at the top of

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Speaker 1: the draft, but he's a steady guy, plays hard. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people like him. Devin Jenkins is a road grader.

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Speaker 1: Do you want that on your offensive line or do

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01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: you want a guy that's more adept at pass protection?

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01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 1: If you're a passing offense like the Bills, we'll have

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01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 1: to see. Dylan Radoon's from North Dakota State. There's some

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Speaker 1: teams that absolutely love that guy. I think he's gone

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Speaker 1: probably somewhere in the first five or six picks. Creed

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01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 1: Humphrey we talked about yesterday as a possible wildcards bought

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Speaker 1: around one for Buffalo. He's not a tackle. He's not

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Speaker 1: a tackle, but he's the best center in the draft

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01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,640
Speaker 1: and can play guard as well. Country strong kid has

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Speaker 1: played about forty some odd games in college and is

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01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: an excellent communicator. You can drop him right in there

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Speaker 1: as one of the guard center swing player. Creed Humphrey

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01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:08,520
Speaker 1: is also a guy a little bit like John Feliciano

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01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: for Bills fans. He's got a little bit of an

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01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: edge on him. He's got a nasty streak, and that's

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01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 1: that's a good thing for your offensive line to have

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01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: an identity of that nature. When he got a guy

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Speaker 1: like Creed Humphrey and a John Feliciano, two guys that

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01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: are in the middle of every scuffle. Yeah, it's a

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01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:29,680
Speaker 1: good thing, and he's like that. Having him come in

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01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 1: and start to get ready to play is huge. And

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Speaker 1: there's the guy we've been talking about, Quinn Miners from

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01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Whitewater. He is a really good run blocker. Don't

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Speaker 1: know if he can translate to the pros, but he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be playing inside so he'll be able to get

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Speaker 1: a little help. So that and two players that I

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Speaker 1: like Steve at the bottom of the list that our

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Speaker 1: MSG viewers are seeing, the Texas tackle Sam Cosme and

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Speaker 1: the offensive tackle from Northern Iowa, Spencer Brown. There's another

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Speaker 1: guy Northern Iowa season canceled FCS and he gets an

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Speaker 1: invite to the Senior Bowl and kills it. So he's

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01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:07,759
Speaker 1: now in the conversation I think late day two, early

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Speaker 1: day three. And the kid is an absolute giant six

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Speaker 1: foot seven, six ft eight, three hundred fourteen pounds, primarily

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01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,559
Speaker 1: a right tackle, little stiff in the hips, but he bends. Okay,

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01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: they're a run first offense at Northern Iowa, so not

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Speaker 1: much pass pro work to review there. Long athlete, long torso,

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01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: long legs, long arms, so the speed rushers sometimes can

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Speaker 1: get the better of him change of direction. Guys pose problems.

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01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,680
Speaker 1: What do the Bills want on the edge. Do they

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01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:39,160
Speaker 1: want an athlete or do they want a giant human

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01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:41,559
Speaker 1: being that can just get hands on people and steer

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01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:45,840
Speaker 1: him around the pocket. But Spencer Brown, tenacious player, looks

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01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,679
Speaker 1: to find extra work. He's kind of in that feisty

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01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 1: Feliciano mold the thing I like about Cosme, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna ask Greg Cosell an hour number three of the

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Speaker 1: show about some of these guys for a more in

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01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 1: depth look at them. Cosmi is an athlete. He's got

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01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,759
Speaker 1: good feat that keep moving even after he's initially engaged.

1339
01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: I like the way he resets his hands in pass

1340
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: pro plays through the whistle. Loves to finish, whether it's

1341
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 1: run game or pass pro, adjust swell to twists and stunts.

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01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 1: He rarely gets overpowered, which means he's really good because

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01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:22,680
Speaker 1: he's he's six. He's six seven three ten. He's not

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01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 1: a heavy guy despite being a big guy, but he

1345
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:29,280
Speaker 1: can sit and because of that, people rarely lift him

1346
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:32,080
Speaker 1: and win the leverage game against him despite being so tall.

1347
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 1: And I like the way he handled the speed rush

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01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 1: there in the Big twelve conference, So that Cosmi is

1349
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: a guy that I think could be there late in round.

1350
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: Now there's gonna be some of these guys there, and

1351
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 1: think about this. You're gonna get a guy Tevin Jenkins,

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01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: he's six six three seventeen. Liam Eichenberg, the other kids

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01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:49,040
Speaker 1: six six three h six, Dylan Raidens from North Dakota State,

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01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 1: six six three zh one Walker Little from Stanford six

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01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: seven three thirteen. Samuel Cosmi, your guy six six three fourteen.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have a ton of guys that are gonna

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01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: be there. H Spencer Brown, the guy that you said

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01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: from Northern Iowa. He's six eight three eleven. The next

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01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 1: guy down would be a from Cincinnati, James Huddon. He's

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01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 1: six five three thirteen. There are plenty of guys there.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have the physical attributes that the Bills are

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01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 1: looking for. What you gotta think is the Bills see

1363
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: the exact same thing we do. They see physical traits. Okay,

1364
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 1: is this and they watch the guys on film, the

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01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 1: guys they like. Then they start to say, okay, is

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Speaker 1: he or is it important to him? Is he a

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01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:34,639
Speaker 1: hard worker? Is this gonna be a guy that fits

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01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: our DNA and of all of these players that we're

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01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 1: looking at right here that I just went down, they're

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Speaker 1: all six five sixty six, six seven, six eight. Which

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Speaker 1: one of those guys is a guy like Tremaine Edmonds

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01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 1: and Tredavious White and Dion Dawkins, you know those high

1373
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 1: level you know Micah Hie, Jordan Poyer, you know Coleby,

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01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 1: who are guys like that? And if they when they

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01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 1: find those guys, that's where they start their depth chart.

1376
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: And when those guys are on the board and they

1377
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:10,599
Speaker 1: come to them, then it be it's just a matter

1378
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 1: of writing the name down and picking him. But that's

1379
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: the work that I don't. We don't know, right, we don't.

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01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm not going to Cincinnati and asking about James Hudson. Yeah,

1381
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 1: you know their their tackle, but the Bills do. And

1382
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 1: I that's what separates these guys we're looking at, because

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01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: all of these guys are gonna be on Most of

1384
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna be sitting here at sixty one.

1385
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: The question is which one is the guy the Bills

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01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: have pegged and saying listen that this guy because of

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01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: because he graduated from high school early, he was a

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01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 1: four year starter at his high school. He was a

1389
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 1: team team captain. He was he's a valedictorian of his class.

1390
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 1: He graduated Suma, come aloud from Cincinnati University. He's got

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01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:55,320
Speaker 1: you know, he graduating three. That kind of stuff, and

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01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: those are the things you don't know about, but those

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01:13:57,240 --> 01:14:00,000
Speaker 1: are the things, and those things above every anything else.

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01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,760
Speaker 1: Set these guys apart in a group that I just

1395
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 1: described that are kind of all the same, you know,

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Speaker 1: on a surface in their stats. Break time for us.

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Speaker 1: When we return, we'll play some of the comments from

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean from night one of the draft after they

1399
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:17,719
Speaker 1: picked Greg Greg Russo, and from the pass rusher himself,

1400
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 1: stretch Greg Russo six seven, two sixty six. We'll hear

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01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 1: from the tall Man as well when we return here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid of Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio start Going back to One Bills Live.

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01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 1: Second half of the show underway here on day two

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01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft, Steve Tasker Chris Brown with you

1406
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:50,599
Speaker 1: as always in time now to hear from Bills General

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01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 1: manager Brandon Bean. Spoke to the media late last night

1408
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: after the Greg Russo pick was made at the end

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01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:00,080
Speaker 1: of round one, and here is what he had to

1410
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:06,439
Speaker 1: say about making the selection of Greg Rousseau. He kind

1411
01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:08,680
Speaker 1: of grew late, more of a skill player growing up

1412
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: and just still growing in his body. But he played

1413
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: even when he got those sacks in the two forties,

1414
01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 1: maybe two forty five, two forty six. He's added twenty

1415
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 1: pounds since then. He'll continue to grow into that. And

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01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 1: we're just no, anytime you can affect the quarterback, and

1417
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:29,400
Speaker 1: you saw two teams in our division take new quarterbacks,

1418
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, we definitely wanted to add there at the

1419
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: right time. And we're really excited about Greg. Yeah, not surprising.

1420
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:41,680
Speaker 1: And the tape that we have of Greg Russel, that's

1421
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:43,760
Speaker 1: him a two hundred and forty five pounds. He's now

1422
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 1: two sixty six. So and he said on the conference call, oh,

1423
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: I've been working. I wasn't just sitting around. And Brandon

1424
01:15:53,560 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: Bean even talked about how he kept watching film to

1425
01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 1: prepare for Miami's game. So even though he had opted out,

1426
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: and just so everybody's clear, the reason he opted out

1427
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:13,720
Speaker 1: was he was concerned that if he contracted COVID. His mom,

1428
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: who was a frontline worker, a nurse that works in

1429
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:20,880
Speaker 1: an ICU and was working with COVID patients combined with

1430
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:26,200
Speaker 1: his younger brother I believe, who has asthma. He was

1431
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:29,800
Speaker 1: worried if he's around fellow college students and teammates that

1432
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: he could potentially contract the virus. And then he did

1433
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,639
Speaker 1: not want to because if you have respiratory problems, it's

1434
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,760
Speaker 1: an underlying condition with COVID. That is why he made

1435
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:40,360
Speaker 1: the decision to opt out. All indications are he did

1436
01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 1: not want to do it. He wanted to play football desperately,

1437
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: but didn't think it was the best thing for his family.

1438
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: So totally get that. But he wanted to stay involved

1439
01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: with the University of Miami football team, kept in touch

1440
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: with his teammates, watched film to help them get ready

1441
01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: for games. Who was plugged in. To his credit, he

1442
01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: stayed engaged. He tried his best to be ready to

1443
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,680
Speaker 1: play mentally, even though he wasn't taking reps on the

1444
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:07,600
Speaker 1: field or all that. Plus he was working out obviously diligently.

1445
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 1: You don't put on twenty pounds of them that without

1446
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 1: you knowing hard every day. Yeah, he's not eating wings

1447
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 1: and burt cheeseburgers. He's working out now. I think it's

1448
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 1: the right kind of weight, So and I think he's right,

1449
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean say, he's still grown into that extra twenty

1450
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 1: pounds you got. Your body has to learn how to

1451
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 1: work with that athletically, So I think he'll probably have

1452
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 1: some adjusting to do. If if they do come in

1453
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 1: and do some offseason workouts here, If if the league

1454
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:37,560
Speaker 1: and the players settle that and they come in for

1455
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 1: OTAs and make rookie mini camps and that kind of thing,

1456
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: he's going to get a chance to get on the

1457
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: field and start to feel more normal with the added weight,

1458
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 1: and they'll probably get a sense of where exactly they

1459
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,600
Speaker 1: want him. Brandon Bean was also asked about you know,

1460
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:52,080
Speaker 1: they had a japan as a drop weight last year

1461
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:55,559
Speaker 1: after they drafted him. What are they gonna ask Rousseau

1462
01:17:55,680 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 1: to do. Maybe nothing, but if they'll watch the guy

1463
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:03,519
Speaker 1: play and see how he feels, see what his statistics say,

1464
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:06,479
Speaker 1: and what is what the technology tells him about his

1465
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: workload and that kind of thing, and they'll make their

1466
01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: decision from that. But he's still getting used to the

1467
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 1: new weight that he put on since the last time

1468
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:14,560
Speaker 1: he was on the field a little bit, and I

1469
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: think that probably affected him a little bit in his

1470
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:20,599
Speaker 1: pro day we wondered how NFL clubs, including the Bills,

1471
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 1: were going to grade and vet players like Greg Rousseau

1472
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: who opted out last year. So here is Brandon bean

1473
01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 1: On dealing with the opt out decision by Rousseau and

1474
01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: having and trying to grade him properly and feeling good

1475
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:42,520
Speaker 1: about making him the thirty first selection last night. Anybody

1476
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 1: that did opt out that was on our board, we

1477
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 1: definitely tried to find out what their reasoning was, just

1478
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:52,000
Speaker 1: so we understood. And again it's it's hard to start

1479
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: judging these guys. You know, COVID affected so many people

1480
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:58,840
Speaker 1: in so many different ways. You'd lose a lot of

1481
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 1: guys on your board if you just ruled them all out.

1482
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:04,400
Speaker 1: And we think Gregg is an a the comnel, you know,

1483
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:07,880
Speaker 1: a rising player that will continue to grow into his body,

1484
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: continue to add strength and told you added twenty pounds

1485
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: to me. He didn't just sit at home. He was

1486
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 1: training and getting ready for this, you know, this next

1487
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 1: step and then being also you heard him touch earlier

1488
01:19:19,439 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: on the AFC East as a whole, he was asked,

1489
01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: what are your impressions after Night one of the draft

1490
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:28,240
Speaker 1: with respect to what the rest of the division has done.

1491
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 1: They were five picks made, all in front of Buffalo

1492
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: by the Jets, the Dolphins, and the Patriots. Patriots had

1493
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:39,160
Speaker 1: one pick, Dolphins and Jets had two each. Two of

1494
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:43,719
Speaker 1: those teams drafted quarterbacks. So what does Brandon Bean think

1495
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:48,439
Speaker 1: after Night one about the landscape of the AFC East.

1496
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: They all got better. They got some some young talent.

1497
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:56,720
Speaker 1: Obviously I mentioned earlier, you know, to one with quarterbacks,

1498
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 1: very good quarterbacks, and so you know they'll they'll definitely

1499
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: be guys that will have to contend with us and

1500
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 1: stop guys that had great success. And uh, you know,

1501
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: the Jets went up and out of alignment as well,

1502
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:14,639
Speaker 1: and Miami added a pass rusher. So it's our division

1503
01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: from free agency and what already has been added tonight

1504
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:21,479
Speaker 1: in the first round. Um, it's it's gonna be really tough,

1505
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 1: and we know it would be, but that's what makes

1506
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:27,040
Speaker 1: it fun. And we got to do our job to

1507
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:32,679
Speaker 1: continue to find players to to offset what they've done. So, yeah,

1508
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: there's work to do. And you never want to stand

1509
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:39,200
Speaker 1: pat in this league because you'll get run over from behind. Right.

1510
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,640
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, because you've got to be smart enough

1511
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:46,720
Speaker 1: to know that you're He's right. You can't treat all

1512
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:51,080
Speaker 1: the opt outs the same way because even though guys

1513
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 1: do the same thing in this case opting out, they

1514
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:58,439
Speaker 1: opt out for completely different reasons. And getting to the

1515
01:20:58,439 --> 01:21:01,280
Speaker 1: bottom of those reasons tells you as much about the

1516
01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: guy as an interview with him on zoom right. You're

1517
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:05,640
Speaker 1: to find out what made him take Why do you

1518
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: make because it none of these young players made these

1519
01:21:09,479 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: decisions without thinking about or without advice, and without exercising

1520
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 1: their core you know, their core advisory group whoever that

1521
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 1: makes me, whether it's their agent or whether it's their

1522
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 1: family or whoever. You get an idea of how they

1523
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:25,960
Speaker 1: handled that decision, and that tells you a lot about

1524
01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 1: how they'll handle being a professional athlete, because this is

1525
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: really a professional athlete decision. Do you opt out or not? Well?

1526
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:33,800
Speaker 1: And what were you doing when you opted out? Were

1527
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 1: you're working on your personal game, where you're working on

1528
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 1: your body composition like Rousseau did adding twenty pounds, or

1529
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:42,799
Speaker 1: were you just a couch potato for the last seven months?

1530
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 1: What were you so? And these teams vet that out.

1531
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 1: And if you're not internally motivated to be the best

1532
01:21:51,040 --> 01:21:54,400
Speaker 1: that you can be, every day away from coaching on

1533
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:56,160
Speaker 1: the field every day where you have to go to

1534
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: practice and you have to get ready for games and

1535
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: you have coaches behind you kicking you in the pants.

1536
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 1: How do you do on your own or how do

1537
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 1: you do with a personal trainer? When you're paying that

1538
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:08,519
Speaker 1: guy or your agents paying that guy to get you ready,

1539
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:12,760
Speaker 1: sometimes the motivation changes a little bit because you're not

1540
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 1: beholden to a coach and have to earn his trust

1541
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:18,200
Speaker 1: to get playing time on the field. Now it's well,

1542
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 1: I'm paying you to get me ready, Like all right,

1543
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:22,040
Speaker 1: it's all right if from five minutes late, you know

1544
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: what I mean? That kind of thing that's important to

1545
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 1: NFL clubs and they try to pull that out of

1546
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 1: players and vet that to see just what they're getting

1547
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 1: because it's a big investment. All right. On to Greg Rousseau,

1548
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:37,280
Speaker 1: happy as a clam that he was a first round

1549
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 1: pick with the thirtieth overall pick by Buffalo. For those

1550
01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: that don't know already, this guy was a wide receiver

1551
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:48,000
Speaker 1: and a safety in high school before his body filled

1552
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: out and he shot up six inches, so started playing

1553
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:54,680
Speaker 1: defensive end late in high school. So he's still very

1554
01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: young at the position. Here he is talking about that

1555
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: position change. It's been smooth for sure. You know, it's

1556
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:05,519
Speaker 1: all about setting your mind to something and all of

1557
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: it's really it sounds cliche, but it's all about hard working, dedication,

1558
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 1: knowing that you have a goal. It is knowing knowing

1559
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 1: the steps that you have to take to succeed in

1560
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,600
Speaker 1: that goal. So for me, it was just definitely I

1561
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 1: had the game wait for sure, and also I knew

1562
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:19,719
Speaker 1: I had to just learn the techniques to play defensive

1563
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: end and learn ins and outs the game. And that's

1564
01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: what I've been doing. That's what I'm gonna continue to

1565
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 1: do on the next level. If they ever needed you

1566
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:29,719
Speaker 1: to play receiver, you still got it in here. Yeah,

1567
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:33,040
Speaker 1: of course, any day, any day. Put him out on

1568
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:37,920
Speaker 1: a fade route, oh in the red zone, yeah, kids

1569
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:42,240
Speaker 1: got a seven foot wingspan. Yeah, oh well yeah, put

1570
01:23:42,280 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: his hand over his head without even jumping these at

1571
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,960
Speaker 1: nine and a half, you don't even have to ask that.

1572
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: That will be on. That will be talked about at

1573
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: coaches meetings. Bran Dable in the label, they will absolutely

1574
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: talk about it. They will absolutely talk about it, and

1575
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 1: they will give him a shot at it too. In practice.

1576
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: Just for and giggles. I said, what do you think

1577
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:05,360
Speaker 1: you know? And you know why not? You know they

1578
01:24:05,360 --> 01:24:07,560
Speaker 1: will or put them out on the field at the

1579
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 1: end of a game on a hail Mary knocked the

1580
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:13,240
Speaker 1: ball down. Put Yeah, put poor yarn hide up front.

1581
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 1: Put put Tremaine Edmonds and that and Russo back in

1582
01:24:16,360 --> 01:24:19,000
Speaker 1: the back. Yeah, put the condors back in the back.

1583
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:25,360
Speaker 1: Rousseau also shed some light on the fact that his family,

1584
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 1: most notably his parents, are very familiar with Buffalo, even

1585
01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: though he was born and raised in Miami, his older

1586
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: brother was born here and his parents lived here for

1587
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 1: a short time. Here's Rousseau on the team on the

1588
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:43,120
Speaker 1: on the family's familiarity with the Queen City. I know

1589
01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:46,759
Speaker 1: there's Niagara Falls there. It's pretty much bord his Canada.

1590
01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:49,800
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure his Lake Erie, so the same lake

1591
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 1: in Cleveland is over there. Because my mom had my

1592
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: older brother in Buffalo, so that my parents lives in

1593
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo for like, like I think five years, four years,

1594
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: So I'm very familiar with it with Buffalo. Yeah, and

1595
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 1: I have a about that your mom being up here,

1596
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:03,640
Speaker 1: she lived here. Yes, you lived there, and like I

1597
01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 1: don't want to say, like the from maybe like ninety five,

1598
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 1: around ninety eight, ninety nine, something like that. Okay, Okay,

1599
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,880
Speaker 1: so you guys know all about she knows all about

1600
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: what Buffalo Bills fans and right, yeah, definitely me too,

1601
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 1: I know all about it. Jim Kelly, the whole nine

1602
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 1: yards and and they got to mind the connection for sure,

1603
01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: already talking Jim Kelly University in Miami. So he's up

1604
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:30,760
Speaker 1: to speed Man, well he's Yeah, he's a head of

1605
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:33,680
Speaker 1: where Thurman Thomas was when he started that. He was

1606
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:37,799
Speaker 1: gonna go see the next game, right, So yeah, that's interesting,

1607
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:41,840
Speaker 1: and uh, it'll serve him well in his acclamation of

1608
01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:44,000
Speaker 1: the city. His family will be more comfortable here. That

1609
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:46,679
Speaker 1: good for him, That's awesome, And it's it's a little

1610
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:49,760
Speaker 1: unexpected serendipity for a first round draft pick to come

1611
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:52,479
Speaker 1: back to a city that his parents wants to live. Yeah,

1612
01:25:52,479 --> 01:25:54,600
Speaker 1: and he's still got distant family members living here, just

1613
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: having that air of familiarity, and you know, and a

1614
01:25:58,360 --> 01:26:01,320
Speaker 1: lot of people don't think about this too. A player

1615
01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:05,400
Speaker 1: gets drafted, everybody's excited, but there's still the parents are

1616
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:07,840
Speaker 1: still sending a twenty one year old kid to another

1617
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:11,680
Speaker 1: state to work somewhere. Um, This has to be very

1618
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:14,599
Speaker 1: reassuring for his parents too. They know the area, they

1619
01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:16,600
Speaker 1: know the type of people that live here. They know

1620
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: he's going to be welcome with open arms. That's got

1621
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:20,680
Speaker 1: to be very reassuring for them. He mentioned that his

1622
01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:23,080
Speaker 1: mother said Buffalo is really quiet and the people are

1623
01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:25,280
Speaker 1: like what she said, it's really not on Sundays. Well,

1624
01:26:25,280 --> 01:26:28,800
Speaker 1: the simpli facing matters his mother that they moved to

1625
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo from New York City. Yeah, it's more quiet than

1626
01:26:32,920 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: the New York City. But they moved to South Florida

1627
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:38,519
Speaker 1: and that's where Greg was born and raised. So they've

1628
01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 1: they've lived in some different places, but they came to

1629
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:43,720
Speaker 1: Buffalo from New York City. And he thought, and I

1630
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 1: don't know if we've gotten the final word on this,

1631
01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 1: that his mom got her nursing degree here. So all

1632
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 1: of that goes into the basket as a little bit

1633
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:55,680
Speaker 1: of added fun to the first round draft pick. In

1634
01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:58,560
Speaker 1: his background, yeah, just an upstanding blue collar family. His

1635
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:01,760
Speaker 1: mom's and ICEE you nurse. His dad's a mechanic. He

1636
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:05,599
Speaker 1: repairs fire trucks down there in South Florida. So good

1637
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 1: solid background, and that's what you know. The bill's front

1638
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:10,760
Speaker 1: off his values. We have to take a break when

1639
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:14,240
Speaker 1: we come back more on Night one, but we start

1640
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 1: taking a closer peek at Night two of the draft

1641
01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 1: and what opportunities could be on the board for Buffalo.

1642
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:23,599
Speaker 1: Then we're also about ten minutes away from talking to one.

1643
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:26,599
Speaker 1: Greg Cosell of NFL Films will break down a lot

1644
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 1: of the prospects still sitting out there for Round two tonight.

1645
01:27:30,479 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 1: Back in a flash here on One Bill's Live. So

1646
01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: welcome back One Bill's Live. Steve spotted this from a

1647
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:51,800
Speaker 1: guest we had on the show earlier in the week

1648
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:55,679
Speaker 1: on his NFL Draft Rumors page. It concerns the Las

1649
01:27:55,760 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. Tony Pauline, who we had from the Pro

1650
01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:08,720
Speaker 1: Football Network in his Rumors and Buzz column just a

1651
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: few hours ago, is reporting that the pick of Alex

1652
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:19,719
Speaker 1: Leatherwood last night, which did have some head scratching because

1653
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:24,800
Speaker 1: they didn't have him rated that high, it's going to

1654
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 1: lead to a major shake up in the Raiders front

1655
01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 1: office after the draft. Significant heads are expected to roll.

1656
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:36,479
Speaker 1: This is from Tony Pauline Pro Football Network. He said

1657
01:28:36,479 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 1: the pick of Alex Leatherwood in the middle of Round

1658
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: one last night a player they could have traded down

1659
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:43,839
Speaker 1: and selected. Is opening a lot of wounds and seems

1660
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 1: to be the final straw. I'm also hearing about a

1661
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 1: lot of friction between major players in their front office.

1662
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 1: This follows the selection of Damon Arnette in the middle

1663
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:56,760
Speaker 1: of round one last year, which was also considered to

1664
01:28:56,840 --> 01:29:00,080
Speaker 1: be a major reach pick, a player that meant he

1665
01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 1: thought would be a second round pick. There are reports

1666
01:29:03,320 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 1: that he is a player that has one foot out

1667
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:08,879
Speaker 1: the door. And then there was also the surprise selection

1668
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:11,519
Speaker 1: of Cleveland Ferrell with the fourth overall pick in the

1669
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:17,280
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen draft. So you saw it first. I don't

1670
01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: know where that's gonna go, but people are certainly gonna

1671
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:21,479
Speaker 1: have their eyeballs on the Raiders after the draft has

1672
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:23,799
Speaker 1: done this week. Know this. They showed the Raiders briefly

1673
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:26,680
Speaker 1: after they made the pick, and Mike Mayock was there.

1674
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 1: They were but fist bumping and all that. Mark Davis

1675
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:32,759
Speaker 1: was sitting at the table behind him and he was unmoving.

1676
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:35,720
Speaker 1: He was sitting there just casually. And I didn't see

1677
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:39,840
Speaker 1: John Gruden in the room. I don't know well whether

1678
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 1: he just wasn't there, or a bathroom bree or that

1679
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:47,000
Speaker 1: might have been him. I'm not watching this pick. I'm

1680
01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 1: so done. Maybe he was mad at it, you know,

1681
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:53,720
Speaker 1: I do not know, but that was brought out that

1682
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: not everybody was happy with him and last year, that

1683
01:29:56,479 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 1: last year's first round or was a little bit of

1684
01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:01,240
Speaker 1: a headscratcher as well. Yeah, they took at twelve I

1685
01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 1: think I think it was twelve, and then our Nette

1686
01:30:03,560 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: later in the round. But a lot of people thought

1687
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:07,720
Speaker 1: Ournette was a second round pick. I think they had

1688
01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 1: other corners ranked higher than him and they took our Neett,

1689
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:13,280
Speaker 1: who you know, it was Okay, last year wasn't great

1690
01:30:13,320 --> 01:30:15,040
Speaker 1: and he had some injury issues as well, I think

1691
01:30:15,160 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 1: missed a few games. So yeah. Tony Pauline also was reporting,

1692
01:30:21,040 --> 01:30:22,880
Speaker 1: and he's based in New Jersey, so he's got good

1693
01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:25,960
Speaker 1: contacts with the Jets and the Giants. He thinks that

1694
01:30:26,040 --> 01:30:29,719
Speaker 1: the Jets will be leaning toward aziz Ojilari with pick

1695
01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:35,640
Speaker 1: thirty four, so provided the Jaguars do not take aziz Ojilari,

1696
01:30:35,720 --> 01:30:38,639
Speaker 1: that he thinks that the Jets will make the Georgia

1697
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:41,720
Speaker 1: pass Rusher their pick at thirty four. There were some

1698
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 1: medical concerns with him surrounding a knee injury, and many

1699
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:49,240
Speaker 1: people feel that's why he slipped, So we'll see how

1700
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:51,200
Speaker 1: far and if the slide continues for him, or if

1701
01:30:51,200 --> 01:30:53,200
Speaker 1: the Jets go ahead and make him the pick. You

1702
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 1: gotta believe they're going defense at pick thirty four, especially

1703
01:30:56,560 --> 01:30:59,200
Speaker 1: knowing they have no third round picks anymore. That's their

1704
01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:03,519
Speaker 1: only pick today or tonight. Yeah, I would be more

1705
01:31:03,560 --> 01:31:09,320
Speaker 1: impressed if they got another offensive lineman. Yeah, because there's

1706
01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:11,559
Speaker 1: gonna be a real equality guy there, because you got

1707
01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:14,559
Speaker 1: mckaybecked in now and Elijah Vera Tucker who they traded

1708
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:16,640
Speaker 1: up to get last night. The best guard on the

1709
01:31:16,720 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 1: board in this draft, and some people think he should be.

1710
01:31:18,920 --> 01:31:22,080
Speaker 1: He's good enough to play tackling right tackle, maybe right tackle.

1711
01:31:23,439 --> 01:31:27,559
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't protect a rookie quarterback too much.

1712
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:32,120
Speaker 1: I'm talking about physically now, play selection and what you're

1713
01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:34,519
Speaker 1: asking him to do offensively, you can protect him. But

1714
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:41,000
Speaker 1: other than that physically, because I'll say it again, you

1715
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 1: get a good offensive line. He doesn't have to throw

1716
01:31:43,240 --> 01:31:46,680
Speaker 1: the ball forty times a game. You can. You can

1717
01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 1: go back and do it like the Ravens did it.

1718
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:50,640
Speaker 1: You can do it like the Steelers did it with

1719
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:53,160
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger in his rookie season when they were throwing

1720
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:57,080
Speaker 1: it less than twenty times a game and beaten teams

1721
01:31:57,080 --> 01:32:00,040
Speaker 1: with a running game and a defense. Yeah. Now the

1722
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:02,280
Speaker 1: Jets don't have that kind of defensive Pittsburgh had, but

1723
01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:05,759
Speaker 1: you know, live with that while you learn to score

1724
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 1: points and keep teams off the field. I mean, that's

1725
01:32:08,760 --> 01:32:11,559
Speaker 1: get a running game with an offensive line and protect

1726
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:15,559
Speaker 1: the young quarterback with a good pass pro. And so

1727
01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: I don't think the Jets will do that. I'm kind

1728
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 1: of with you. I think they'll probably turn their sites

1729
01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:21,640
Speaker 1: focused to the other side of the ball. But I

1730
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: don't know. We have to take a break here. When

1731
01:32:24,520 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 1: we come back, though, it's NFL Films senior producer Greg

1732
01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:31,040
Speaker 1: ko Sell joining us. We're gonna bounce some player names

1733
01:32:31,040 --> 01:32:34,000
Speaker 1: off him that we think will still be on the

1734
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:37,040
Speaker 1: board possibly when the Bills pick at sixty one, and

1735
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 1: what he thinks of them as fits for Buffalo. Will

1736
01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:42,000
Speaker 1: do that when we return here on one Bills Live

1737
01:32:42,080 --> 01:33:00,760
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio had

1738
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field.

1739
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:06,000
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1740
01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:12,559
Speaker 1: player for Seed. Steve a blimp we're not even in

1741
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:19,120
Speaker 1: the straded here of normalcy. Here we go our number

1742
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 1: three in advance of Day two of the NFL Draft,

1743
01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and here to join

1744
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:28,240
Speaker 1: us to break down some of the prospects that are

1745
01:33:28,320 --> 01:33:33,160
Speaker 1: still on the board. Is the senior producer from NFL Films, one,

1746
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:38,160
Speaker 1: Greg co Sell, sliding in to join us, and first

1747
01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:42,320
Speaker 1: and foremost, Greg, I do want to say, I think

1748
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:44,679
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise for us is some of the talent

1749
01:33:44,760 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 1: that is still sitting out there right now. You know,

1750
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 1: you talk about elite physical traits a lot when we

1751
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:53,719
Speaker 1: ask you about players. We know Jeremiah Usu Coromoa has

1752
01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:57,439
Speaker 1: those in plentiful supply, and yet he is still sitting

1753
01:33:57,479 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 1: there and probably won't sit there for long today. But

1754
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:03,760
Speaker 1: what do you think is the rub there? Steve and

1755
01:34:03,800 --> 01:34:07,280
Speaker 1: I were surmising that it might be because there are

1756
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:10,479
Speaker 1: some coaching staffs that maybe aren't convinced as to what

1757
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:12,720
Speaker 1: he is or how to use them. Do you think

1758
01:34:12,800 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 1: that's the main reason or is there something else? Boy,

1759
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,240
Speaker 1: that's such a tough question, Chris, because you know, you

1760
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 1: get to specific teams when you get a little later

1761
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:25,719
Speaker 1: in the first round and maybe based on needs, maybe

1762
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:30,760
Speaker 1: based on their particular schemes, they pick someone else. That's

1763
01:34:30,800 --> 01:34:34,280
Speaker 1: hard to know. I mean, ultimately, what we found out

1764
01:34:34,439 --> 01:34:36,880
Speaker 1: is he's not viewed as a transcendent player. He's not

1765
01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:39,320
Speaker 1: viewed as a player you have to have because if

1766
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: he was viewed as that guy, he would have been drafted.

1767
01:34:42,479 --> 01:34:46,480
Speaker 1: So even though he seems to have a lot of traits,

1768
01:34:46,479 --> 01:34:50,920
Speaker 1: both explosive dynamic traits and the ability to cover, which

1769
01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:55,080
Speaker 1: is very important today's passing NFL, for some reason, he

1770
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 1: just was not taken off the board. You could be right,

1771
01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:01,040
Speaker 1: it could be a case where people are just not

1772
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:05,320
Speaker 1: exactly sure what he is within the context of their defense.

1773
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:09,480
Speaker 1: And as we look at how the first round shook out,

1774
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:12,559
Speaker 1: you know, the Bills looking for guys with elite trades,

1775
01:35:12,600 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 1: they settled on Greg Rousseau. We have spoken about Greg

1776
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:18,200
Speaker 1: Rousseau and weeks past when we went over the defensive

1777
01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:21,439
Speaker 1: edge rushers, he came up in our conversation and at

1778
01:35:21,439 --> 01:35:23,080
Speaker 1: that time we thought he was a little limited and

1779
01:35:23,080 --> 01:35:24,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we didn't know about him.

1780
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:27,519
Speaker 1: But the more we heard about what he was like

1781
01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:29,479
Speaker 1: off the field and some of the things he'd been through,

1782
01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:33,240
Speaker 1: it became obvious it was as much about his culture

1783
01:35:33,720 --> 01:35:37,360
Speaker 1: traits as well as his elite physical traits. For the

1784
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:40,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, he had a great, a very productive twenty

1785
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:43,559
Speaker 1: nineteen and then opted out, seemed to keep working and

1786
01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 1: put on some weight to get into the draft this year.

1787
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:50,040
Speaker 1: Did not wow people at his pro day, but the

1788
01:35:50,080 --> 01:35:52,679
Speaker 1: production that he put on tape and his physical trades

1789
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:56,160
Speaker 1: seemed to carry him to the Bills at number thirty. Well,

1790
01:35:56,200 --> 01:35:59,200
Speaker 1: it seems to me that they have a type and

1791
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:02,840
Speaker 1: probably extrapolating because I'm not in the meetings, but they

1792
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:05,800
Speaker 1: have a type of individual they want, because I think

1793
01:36:05,800 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 1: he's probably very much like aj epiness in terms of

1794
01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:11,759
Speaker 1: the kind of person that he is. And my guess

1795
01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:15,839
Speaker 1: is they'll probably become fast friends. And they're similar players

1796
01:36:16,439 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: in the sense that they're both big. Probably Rousseau is

1797
01:36:21,160 --> 01:36:25,719
Speaker 1: a higher ceiling athlete, whereas epinessa probably uses his hands

1798
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:30,439
Speaker 1: and is more refined at this moment. But Rousseau, you know,

1799
01:36:30,479 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 1: it's really interesting, Rousseau. I think you're drafting for what

1800
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:37,720
Speaker 1: you believe he can become, because he did the majority

1801
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:41,720
Speaker 1: of his really good work in twenty nineteen. Guys on

1802
01:36:41,760 --> 01:36:46,599
Speaker 1: the inside when he was reduced and when they when

1803
01:36:46,600 --> 01:36:49,120
Speaker 1: Miami that year was in their sub fronts, they played

1804
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:52,360
Speaker 1: a lot of three man fronts. Rousseau was actually a

1805
01:36:52,520 --> 01:36:56,439
Speaker 1: zero technique lining up over the offensive center, and he

1806
01:36:56,520 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: did a lot of his work working against centers and guards.

1807
01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 1: He has some work to do to really become an

1808
01:37:02,280 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 1: edge player. But the athletic traits. Look, you can't teach

1809
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 1: the size. He's a good athlete. He's not an explosive athlete.

1810
01:37:11,160 --> 01:37:15,200
Speaker 1: He's not a bender. He's not a flexible guy. And

1811
01:37:15,280 --> 01:37:19,200
Speaker 1: I think that he needs work on the fact that

1812
01:37:19,240 --> 01:37:21,280
Speaker 1: at times he'll play a little bit too high. And

1813
01:37:21,320 --> 01:37:23,680
Speaker 1: if you play too high, what happens is he gets

1814
01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:25,600
Speaker 1: a little stiff legged, he gets a little rigid in

1815
01:37:25,680 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 1: his lower body, and then he loses the athletic traits

1816
01:37:28,960 --> 01:37:31,080
Speaker 1: that he does have. So there are some things he

1817
01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:32,800
Speaker 1: needs to work on. The Other thing I have to

1818
01:37:32,840 --> 01:37:35,599
Speaker 1: remember is he was a wide receiver in high school,

1819
01:37:36,080 --> 01:37:39,479
Speaker 1: so he hasn't played defensive line very much. So he's

1820
01:37:39,520 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 1: he's a work in progress. Uh, you know, to use

1821
01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 1: the scouting term, he's a high He's a high ceiling guy.

1822
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 1: If he can get the most out of him you'll

1823
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: really be happy. Yeah, you've mimicked what Brandon Bean had

1824
01:37:50,400 --> 01:37:54,120
Speaker 1: to say about him. He's um, he's like like a Japanessa.

1825
01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 1: They're a big, tall guy who they had. They got

1826
01:37:57,479 --> 01:37:59,920
Speaker 1: him down to a more of a fighting weight after

1827
01:38:00,040 --> 01:38:02,160
Speaker 1: they drafted him from two eighty down to two fifty

1828
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:06,160
Speaker 1: five to sixty a little almost too much, too far down,

1829
01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:08,640
Speaker 1: but a Japaness, a kind of the same build. And

1830
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:10,960
Speaker 1: then of course the other guy they've got his Bam Johnson,

1831
01:38:11,080 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 1: also a long, high cut guy, later round draft pick,

1832
01:38:14,160 --> 01:38:17,200
Speaker 1: but also a very tall guy. The free agents they

1833
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:19,719
Speaker 1: brought in with Trent Murphy was a six four plus

1834
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:23,639
Speaker 1: guy as well, and then they just signed fa Obada

1835
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:27,800
Speaker 1: who is also a big range, tall athlete. So when

1836
01:38:27,880 --> 01:38:32,160
Speaker 1: you say they've got a type, you're exactly right. They

1837
01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:34,080
Speaker 1: look for those guys, and then they look for the

1838
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:37,120
Speaker 1: one of those guys that fits their culture and they

1839
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:39,240
Speaker 1: don't hold back. Those are the guys they seem to

1840
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:43,519
Speaker 1: gravitate to. Well, you know, a very good friend of

1841
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:45,200
Speaker 1: mine who worked on the Matchup Show with me the

1842
01:38:45,280 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 1: last two years, was actually at the University of Miami

1843
01:38:47,840 --> 01:38:50,320
Speaker 1: prior to working with me on the Matchup Show, and

1844
01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:53,960
Speaker 1: he was part of the recruitment of Rousseau, and he said,

1845
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:57,160
Speaker 1: he's just a special, special kid. And you know, I

1846
01:38:57,200 --> 01:39:00,920
Speaker 1: think that that's really important to Brandon beanshow McDermott Leslie

1847
01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:04,160
Speaker 1: Frasier if you're speaking on the defensive side. So I

1848
01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:07,439
Speaker 1: think they and the kid's talented. Russo's got traits. It's

1849
01:39:07,479 --> 01:39:09,599
Speaker 1: not as if he doesn't have traits. You know, he's

1850
01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:14,200
Speaker 1: got sized, he's got outstanding length. He's definitely a plus athlete.

1851
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 1: He's got great arm extension to his arm length is

1852
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:21,160
Speaker 1: really really good. That's a trait I would say as

1853
01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:24,960
Speaker 1: functional flexibility. He's not a bender, but he's not Steff.

1854
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:28,880
Speaker 1: He's a speed to power guy. It's it's like Epanessa.

1855
01:39:29,040 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 1: There's speed to power rushers. They're not gonna wow you

1856
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:34,599
Speaker 1: with you know what we call motorcycle lean where they

1857
01:39:34,600 --> 01:39:37,240
Speaker 1: get really low to the ground. There are certain types

1858
01:39:37,800 --> 01:39:40,400
Speaker 1: and they can line up all across your front and

1859
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:45,960
Speaker 1: I obviously that's an important element as well. So let's

1860
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:47,920
Speaker 1: jump into some of these guys that are still on

1861
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 1: the board that Steve and I think could possibly be

1862
01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:56,120
Speaker 1: fits for the Bills. And I'll start with a center

1863
01:39:56,200 --> 01:39:59,280
Speaker 1: that I actually thought was kind of a wildcard possibility

1864
01:39:59,320 --> 01:40:02,040
Speaker 1: at the bottom of round one. But Creed Humphrey, the

1865
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:06,559
Speaker 1: three year starter at Oklahoma, this is a country strong kid.

1866
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:10,080
Speaker 1: I mean, his core strength is unbelievable. He doesn't even

1867
01:40:10,479 --> 01:40:13,000
Speaker 1: even when he doesn't get the perfect rep or set

1868
01:40:13,520 --> 01:40:16,920
Speaker 1: greg I mean, he still somehow wins and get himself

1869
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:19,519
Speaker 1: back in position to stay between the rusher and the quarterback.

1870
01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. You know what, Chris, I'm not going to

1871
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:25,639
Speaker 1: sit here and say a mister offensive line guru, but

1872
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:27,920
Speaker 1: you know, I've been doing this for quite a few

1873
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,639
Speaker 1: years and I've learned a lot. I was hard pressed

1874
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:33,320
Speaker 1: to find plays where he made a mistake. I mean,

1875
01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:38,959
Speaker 1: this kid is just really a good center prospect. He's poised,

1876
01:40:39,000 --> 01:40:43,479
Speaker 1: he's aware. His execution efficiency, to me, was off the charts.

1877
01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:47,639
Speaker 1: The only thing I could say. And again, these are

1878
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:50,760
Speaker 1: things that different teams have different views on. He's got

1879
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:53,599
Speaker 1: very short arms for his height and his overall size.

1880
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:58,040
Speaker 1: That might mean something to some teams. I think that

1881
01:40:58,040 --> 01:41:02,200
Speaker 1: he's more of a strength and leverage guy in terms

1882
01:41:02,240 --> 01:41:04,800
Speaker 1: of his technique and his hand usage. I think he

1883
01:41:04,920 --> 01:41:08,240
Speaker 1: just knows how to use his hands and that makes

1884
01:41:08,320 --> 01:41:12,200
Speaker 1: him play really strong he wasn't asked that Oklahoma to

1885
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:14,200
Speaker 1: play with a lot of movement in rain, so he

1886
01:41:14,280 --> 01:41:18,320
Speaker 1: was kind of a phone booth, confined space offensive center. Now,

1887
01:41:19,320 --> 01:41:21,519
Speaker 1: those are just things I noticed watching a lot of

1888
01:41:21,560 --> 01:41:26,240
Speaker 1: his tape. But overall, this guy plays with unbelievable balance

1889
01:41:26,280 --> 01:41:29,160
Speaker 1: and body control. I'd be hard pressed to count on

1890
01:41:29,160 --> 01:41:31,080
Speaker 1: one hand a number of times he was on the ground.

1891
01:41:32,400 --> 01:41:39,080
Speaker 1: He's just a really solid prospect who is so execution efficient. Yeah,

1892
01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:41,200
Speaker 1: and I would agree with you, And that's kind of

1893
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:46,200
Speaker 1: I'm leaning towards offensive line or maybe cornerback. At the

1894
01:41:46,240 --> 01:41:48,479
Speaker 1: bottom of this the bottom of number two of the

1895
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 1: round and kite Tyson Campbell was Brownie thought he might

1896
01:41:52,560 --> 01:41:54,280
Speaker 1: go a little bit higher than that than he did.

1897
01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:58,439
Speaker 1: I thought Tyson Campbell, along with his running mate Stokes,

1898
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 1: might both go a little earlier than they have. But

1899
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:03,400
Speaker 1: what are you what are your thoughts about a cornerback

1900
01:42:03,439 --> 01:42:08,960
Speaker 1: Tyson Campbell? Yeah, I think the issue with Campbell is

1901
01:42:09,160 --> 01:42:12,160
Speaker 1: his ball production. He did not seem to have a

1902
01:42:12,240 --> 01:42:17,160
Speaker 1: feel for the throne ball. But other than that, he's

1903
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:20,760
Speaker 1: a high level trades guy. I mean, he came out.

1904
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:23,640
Speaker 1: He played corner in high school at American Heritage with

1905
01:42:23,720 --> 01:42:26,880
Speaker 1: Patrick Surtan, and there were schools that had Campbell rated

1906
01:42:27,120 --> 01:42:29,680
Speaker 1: as the better recruit. So you're talking about a kid

1907
01:42:29,680 --> 01:42:33,439
Speaker 1: who's long at sixth one. He can run, not quite

1908
01:42:33,439 --> 01:42:36,840
Speaker 1: as much as Stokes, but he can run. I thought

1909
01:42:36,880 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 1: that he played Mirrormatch press Man really well. There are

1910
01:42:40,520 --> 01:42:43,519
Speaker 1: some who believe as well that in zone that he

1911
01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:47,800
Speaker 1: doesn't quite see the route concepts as well as he

1912
01:42:48,280 --> 01:42:51,120
Speaker 1: ultimately needs to. So I would say the two reasons why,

1913
01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:55,600
Speaker 1: given his physical and athletic trade Steve that he's not

1914
01:42:55,680 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 1: a pure first round pick because we know he's not

1915
01:42:58,560 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: is the ball production and the feeling that maybe in

1916
01:43:01,520 --> 01:43:05,800
Speaker 1: zone he just is not quite as aware and disciplineage

1917
01:43:05,800 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 1: you need to be. But he's got tremendous traits to

1918
01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:12,200
Speaker 1: play on the outside. I heard another guy that watches

1919
01:43:12,360 --> 01:43:15,000
Speaker 1: that you know, kind of evaluates these prospects. I can't

1920
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:16,479
Speaker 1: remember who it was for the life of me. They

1921
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:19,080
Speaker 1: said one of his main issues in man is just

1922
01:43:19,160 --> 01:43:21,160
Speaker 1: not being able to get his head around in time

1923
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:24,840
Speaker 1: to make more plays on the ball. The question to you, Greg,

1924
01:43:24,960 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 1: is is that a very coachable technique? Though I've heard

1925
01:43:29,240 --> 01:43:31,679
Speaker 1: both ways from people I've spoken to over the years.

1926
01:43:31,920 --> 01:43:36,680
Speaker 1: I've heard. Who was I speaking two years ago? Might

1927
01:43:36,720 --> 01:43:39,439
Speaker 1: have been Gilbird, you remember him? Yeah, Yeah, there's sun

1928
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:45,280
Speaker 1: played here. Yeah, who super believed that that's not something

1929
01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:46,639
Speaker 1: you could I think it was him. I don't want

1930
01:43:46,640 --> 01:43:48,560
Speaker 1: to sign something to him that he didn't say, so

1931
01:43:48,640 --> 01:43:50,200
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. But the point I'm trying to make

1932
01:43:50,320 --> 01:43:53,559
Speaker 1: is some believe that if you just don't have if

1933
01:43:53,560 --> 01:43:55,920
Speaker 1: you're not a ball production guy, it's very hard to

1934
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:59,679
Speaker 1: teach that that it's an instinct more than a coaching

1935
01:43:59,680 --> 01:44:02,760
Speaker 1: tech neat. Others believe you can coach it. So I

1936
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:04,920
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to that. I'm not a dB coach,

1937
01:44:05,280 --> 01:44:07,280
Speaker 1: but you hit it right on the head. That's one

1938
01:44:07,320 --> 01:44:10,120
Speaker 1: of the main issues with Campbell is he's really good,

1939
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,920
Speaker 1: impressed man. He locks right onto receivers, gets in their

1940
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:16,320
Speaker 1: hip pocket, but he doesn't find the football. He doesn't

1941
01:44:16,360 --> 01:44:19,559
Speaker 1: locate the football. And you know that's that scene as

1942
01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:22,040
Speaker 1: a negative when you're going through your strengths and weaknesses

1943
01:44:22,040 --> 01:44:24,960
Speaker 1: and evaluating tape, that's in your negative box. Let's talk

1944
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:28,000
Speaker 1: another about another defensive back of corner Aaron Robinson at

1945
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: a University of Central Florida. What are your thoughts on

1946
01:44:32,280 --> 01:44:36,880
Speaker 1: him and what his availability might be at number sixty one. Yeah,

1947
01:44:36,880 --> 01:44:39,360
Speaker 1: I love this kid. I loved watching his tape. I mean,

1948
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:43,519
Speaker 1: he's he is a high level computer. I mean, he's

1949
01:44:43,560 --> 01:44:47,200
Speaker 1: so much fun to watch. He plays with intensity, he's aggressive,

1950
01:44:48,080 --> 01:44:51,200
Speaker 1: he embraced the contact nature of the game. He played

1951
01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:54,240
Speaker 1: both outside in the slot, probably more snaps in the slot.

1952
01:44:55,479 --> 01:44:58,280
Speaker 1: I think more people will see him as a slot corner,

1953
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:01,640
Speaker 1: just given that he's five eleven and a half in

1954
01:45:01,680 --> 01:45:05,559
Speaker 1: the one eighty six. But I guess you could play

1955
01:45:05,600 --> 01:45:08,680
Speaker 1: him on the outside depending on how you see him.

1956
01:45:08,720 --> 01:45:12,240
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it comes Asny Samuel's in a similar situation.

1957
01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:16,360
Speaker 1: He's ten one eighty, so it depends on those guys

1958
01:45:16,400 --> 01:45:18,600
Speaker 1: who are smaller are in the eye of the beholder.

1959
01:45:18,960 --> 01:45:22,519
Speaker 1: But this kid is willing and tough to help play

1960
01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:26,640
Speaker 1: the run. There's a lot of eleven personnel in this league, obviously,

1961
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:28,960
Speaker 1: so you play with the slot corner. Now. I think

1962
01:45:29,000 --> 01:45:31,000
Speaker 1: the Bills have a very good slot corner, so I

1963
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:33,160
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe they see him as an outside corner.

1964
01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:37,000
Speaker 1: He can play. We saw him on the outside play

1965
01:45:37,080 --> 01:45:40,160
Speaker 1: mirrormatch press man and physical press man. He likes to

1966
01:45:40,200 --> 01:45:43,160
Speaker 1: be a physical player, so I think you're dealing with

1967
01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:45,760
Speaker 1: a guy that has extensive experience both outside and in

1968
01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:47,840
Speaker 1: the slot, and then it just depends on how you

1969
01:45:47,920 --> 01:45:51,640
Speaker 1: see him within the context of your defense and the

1970
01:45:51,760 --> 01:45:55,800
Speaker 1: personnel you have. Yeah, and it's funny you use the

1971
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:58,240
Speaker 1: word intensity. It's the same word I wrote down when

1972
01:45:58,240 --> 01:46:00,559
Speaker 1: I watched a couple of his games. Watch as much

1973
01:46:00,600 --> 01:46:03,160
Speaker 1: as you do, Chris, this kid's fun to watch. Yeah,

1974
01:46:03,200 --> 01:46:06,439
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he's juiced up to play like

1975
01:46:06,479 --> 01:46:08,760
Speaker 1: you can just see it on film like he is.

1976
01:46:09,120 --> 01:46:11,720
Speaker 1: He's every single snap. And just so some of our

1977
01:46:11,760 --> 01:46:14,880
Speaker 1: listeners know, this is a kid that was recruited to Alabama,

1978
01:46:15,200 --> 01:46:18,760
Speaker 1: UM before he ended up at Central Florida. So it's

1979
01:46:18,800 --> 01:46:22,800
Speaker 1: correct he transferred from Alabama. Yeah, so uh you got

1980
01:46:23,200 --> 01:46:25,000
Speaker 1: you got a school like that coming after you know,

1981
01:46:25,080 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 1: you know you have traits that are a high end. No, yeah,

1982
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:30,160
Speaker 1: you're a big time recruit then. But the term I

1983
01:46:30,280 --> 01:46:32,759
Speaker 1: used from players like that with the way he plays

1984
01:46:32,920 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 1: out is playing personality. He's got an outstanding playing personality. Yeah.

1985
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:40,080
Speaker 1: Let's go from one corner to another one right down

1986
01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:43,080
Speaker 1: the thru away from us and if Ayatu melifon Wu.

1987
01:46:43,200 --> 01:46:46,920
Speaker 1: We know that his older brother was drafted into the league.

1988
01:46:46,960 --> 01:46:48,639
Speaker 1: I believe he was the second round pick. I still

1989
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:50,519
Speaker 1: remember seeing him at the Senior Bowl at a Yukon.

1990
01:46:50,680 --> 01:46:54,719
Speaker 1: He was Yeah, he was a safety. He had elite

1991
01:46:54,760 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 1: physical traits, but his instincts were the problem in terms of,

1992
01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:02,920
Speaker 1: you know, getting on the field with regularity. Where do

1993
01:47:02,960 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: you feel like teams are going to come down on

1994
01:47:05,560 --> 01:47:09,439
Speaker 1: Malafon with respect to the instincts because a lot of

1995
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:13,759
Speaker 1: the same physical traits are there. Yeah, the physical traits

1996
01:47:13,760 --> 01:47:16,240
Speaker 1: are clearly there. I mean you're talking about a size,

1997
01:47:16,280 --> 01:47:22,400
Speaker 1: speed plus athleticism competitiveness profile that's there. I think he's

1998
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:25,920
Speaker 1: got some limitations though, Chris, I think that he's not

1999
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:28,880
Speaker 1: really fluid. I think he's got a little bit of

2000
01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:34,400
Speaker 1: course stiffness. So while while he's got the measurables that

2001
01:47:34,479 --> 01:47:37,200
Speaker 1: you like, I think just in terms of actually playing

2002
01:47:37,240 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: the position where you need to flip your hips and

2003
01:47:40,200 --> 01:47:44,360
Speaker 1: you need to transition with your body, I'm not sure.

2004
01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:48,360
Speaker 1: But the reality is this, big corners who can run

2005
01:47:49,040 --> 01:47:51,640
Speaker 1: and play press man are always in demand, and I

2006
01:47:51,680 --> 01:47:55,040
Speaker 1: think his baseline athletic parameters and style of play fit that.

2007
01:47:55,720 --> 01:47:58,320
Speaker 1: But I think he's more of a press man corner

2008
01:47:58,479 --> 01:48:01,840
Speaker 1: to me anyway than an off coverage zone corner. So

2009
01:48:02,520 --> 01:48:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, again, that's the way I see him coming

2010
01:48:06,360 --> 01:48:09,080
Speaker 1: into this draft. We knew that the interior defensive line

2011
01:48:09,120 --> 01:48:12,320
Speaker 1: group was a little bit shallow, to say the least.

2012
01:48:12,640 --> 01:48:14,640
Speaker 1: But the Bills looking at their roster in the way

2013
01:48:14,640 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 1: they're constructor if they want to look down the road,

2014
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:19,280
Speaker 1: maybe get somebody who's a project on the defensive line,

2015
01:48:19,280 --> 01:48:22,400
Speaker 1: interior defensive tackle, they may look to a guy at

2016
01:48:22,400 --> 01:48:24,439
Speaker 1: this point of the draft. Let's talk about a couple

2017
01:48:24,479 --> 01:48:30,080
Speaker 1: of defensive tackles. Davian Nixon from Iowa. What do you see? Yeah,

2018
01:48:30,080 --> 01:48:32,559
Speaker 1: he's fascinating because he's two hundred and thirteen pounds. He's

2019
01:48:32,600 --> 01:48:35,200
Speaker 1: a great athlete. He plays D tackle like a running back.

2020
01:48:35,400 --> 01:48:37,400
Speaker 1: He doesn't play D tackle with a whole lot of

2021
01:48:37,479 --> 01:48:42,320
Speaker 1: physical physicality. He plays it more to move around. So

2022
01:48:42,640 --> 01:48:44,360
Speaker 1: the question is can you get him to be more

2023
01:48:44,400 --> 01:48:47,200
Speaker 1: physical within the context of your scheme. But this guy

2024
01:48:47,400 --> 01:48:50,840
Speaker 1: is he is the kind of natural athleticism and quickness

2025
01:48:50,880 --> 01:48:54,160
Speaker 1: that you can't really teach. So he kind of looks

2026
01:48:54,160 --> 01:48:57,720
Speaker 1: like a pure three technique. You know, he did play

2027
01:48:57,800 --> 01:49:01,880
Speaker 1: multiple D tackle positions at Iowa. He's a gap penetrator,

2028
01:49:01,880 --> 01:49:04,360
Speaker 1: he's a movement d tackle if you slam a lot,

2029
01:49:04,439 --> 01:49:07,640
Speaker 1: if you have stunt schemes, but there was almost no

2030
01:49:07,680 --> 01:49:10,599
Speaker 1: physicality and power to his game. And and I would

2031
01:49:10,640 --> 01:49:13,680
Speaker 1: say watching the tape, not a whole lot of commitment

2032
01:49:13,720 --> 01:49:17,280
Speaker 1: to wanting to play that way. But my guess is

2033
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:19,080
Speaker 1: he'll find a place in the league since there's not

2034
01:49:19,240 --> 01:49:22,880
Speaker 1: many three hundred and thirteen pounds defensive tackles that moved

2035
01:49:22,920 --> 01:49:25,800
Speaker 1: the way he does. So the question is can he

2036
01:49:25,840 --> 01:49:28,240
Speaker 1: become a more physical player or is it just in

2037
01:49:28,280 --> 01:49:31,000
Speaker 1: his DNA the way he plays the guy that I like,

2038
01:49:31,640 --> 01:49:34,160
Speaker 1: and I know it's a thin defensive tackle class, Greg,

2039
01:49:34,240 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 1: but Allie McNeil, you were just talking about how dave

2040
01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:40,080
Speaker 1: On Nixon plays like a running back. This guy wasn't

2041
01:49:40,160 --> 01:49:43,160
Speaker 1: running back before right now, high school, before he put

2042
01:49:43,200 --> 01:49:46,000
Speaker 1: on a ton of weight, and he's I don't know,

2043
01:49:46,080 --> 01:49:49,920
Speaker 1: he's he's intriguing to me, like the athleticism he has,

2044
01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:53,280
Speaker 1: even though he shaped like a round. He looks like

2045
01:49:53,560 --> 01:49:57,479
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley out there playing defensive tackle. He was a

2046
01:49:57,479 --> 01:49:59,840
Speaker 1: baseball player too, but later or not in high school.

2047
01:50:00,920 --> 01:50:02,920
Speaker 1: I think he'll be fascinating because the way he was

2048
01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:05,880
Speaker 1: used in North Carolina State Chris Is. He lined up

2049
01:50:05,920 --> 01:50:08,080
Speaker 1: basically is what we call zero technique hit up on

2050
01:50:08,120 --> 01:50:11,040
Speaker 1: the center. So when you're lining up like that, you

2051
01:50:11,240 --> 01:50:14,800
Speaker 1: in a sense of two gap. You have to fight

2052
01:50:14,920 --> 01:50:17,479
Speaker 1: the offensive center. You've got to engage him, you've got

2053
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:20,679
Speaker 1: to control him. Then you've got to displace him. That's

2054
01:50:20,720 --> 01:50:23,560
Speaker 1: what two gap means, and that's what he did predominantly

2055
01:50:23,720 --> 01:50:27,439
Speaker 1: at North Carolina State. I personally think he's got the

2056
01:50:27,479 --> 01:50:30,280
Speaker 1: physical and athletic traits to be a one gap player.

2057
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:32,679
Speaker 1: I think this guy could be easily be a three

2058
01:50:32,720 --> 01:50:37,320
Speaker 1: technique defensive tackle, you know. To me, I watched him

2059
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:39,400
Speaker 1: and the guy that came to my mind just in

2060
01:50:39,520 --> 01:50:42,160
Speaker 1: terms of his the way he's built because he's short

2061
01:50:42,200 --> 01:50:44,599
Speaker 1: in terms of height. I kind of thought of Grady

2062
01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:48,679
Speaker 1: Jarrett of the Atlanta Falcons, who's a really good three technique.

2063
01:50:48,720 --> 01:50:53,360
Speaker 1: I think McNeil can become that guy with coaching and experience,

2064
01:50:53,360 --> 01:50:55,840
Speaker 1: and I was really intrigued by him. Chris, what about

2065
01:50:55,880 --> 01:50:58,080
Speaker 1: the one tech? I mean, I he was like one

2066
01:50:58,120 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 1: of the most funny guys I got to watch one time.

2067
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:03,080
Speaker 1: He could probably do that too. I mean, he weighs

2068
01:51:03,080 --> 01:51:07,160
Speaker 1: three seventeen Okay, he's six two three seventeen. Yeah, he

2069
01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:09,640
Speaker 1: could probably do that as well. My point is, I

2070
01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:12,200
Speaker 1: think I think you can make him a gap penetrator,

2071
01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:15,320
Speaker 1: you know, a gap player, a one gap player, and

2072
01:51:15,360 --> 01:51:18,080
Speaker 1: he'd be fine. I think he has the overall trades

2073
01:51:18,120 --> 01:51:20,080
Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah. I don't watch nearly as many

2074
01:51:20,080 --> 01:51:22,040
Speaker 1: players as you do, Greg, but when I watched him,

2075
01:51:22,080 --> 01:51:24,360
Speaker 1: he's like one of these guys that you know, after

2076
01:51:24,360 --> 01:51:27,080
Speaker 1: you've watched about ten fifteen guys in a row, you're

2077
01:51:27,120 --> 01:51:29,320
Speaker 1: kind of you know, you're drifting a little bit. This

2078
01:51:29,360 --> 01:51:31,680
Speaker 1: guy makes this guy makes you sit back up in

2079
01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:35,320
Speaker 1: your chair. Yeah. Yeah, No, this guy was a lot

2080
01:51:35,320 --> 01:51:37,960
Speaker 1: of fun to watch. I I you know, and see,

2081
01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 1: there's a perfect example when people talk about production. This

2082
01:51:41,400 --> 01:51:43,479
Speaker 1: guy didn't make a lot of tackles, but you got

2083
01:51:43,479 --> 01:51:45,120
Speaker 1: to watch the tape, you know, so you got to

2084
01:51:45,160 --> 01:51:47,920
Speaker 1: see him play every snap because he didn't have a

2085
01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:49,920
Speaker 1: lot of If you just looked at a stat sheet,

2086
01:51:49,960 --> 01:51:52,280
Speaker 1: you'd go, this guy's never very good. But that's not

2087
01:51:52,320 --> 01:51:54,639
Speaker 1: true at all when you put the tape on. Last

2088
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:56,360
Speaker 1: one from me, Greg, I want to talk to you

2089
01:51:56,360 --> 01:51:58,840
Speaker 1: about offensive tackle a lot of Texas Samuel caused me,

2090
01:51:59,320 --> 01:52:03,240
Speaker 1: caused me, what about we've been talking about offensive line

2091
01:52:03,280 --> 01:52:06,880
Speaker 1: a lot, and obviously defensive tie in corner. We went

2092
01:52:06,920 --> 01:52:11,400
Speaker 1: in the top three needs or positions we thought were corner, edge, rusher,

2093
01:52:11,439 --> 01:52:15,960
Speaker 1: and offensive line. Let's end it with Sam Cosmi. Yeah,

2094
01:52:15,960 --> 01:52:17,840
Speaker 1: I mean he might fit because to me, he was

2095
01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:21,160
Speaker 1: much more of a finesse offensive tackle than a power player.

2096
01:52:21,160 --> 01:52:25,120
Speaker 1: He's got really good athleticism. He's tall, he's long, good

2097
01:52:25,200 --> 01:52:28,880
Speaker 1: arm length, he's got good movement. I think he probably

2098
01:52:28,920 --> 01:52:30,519
Speaker 1: needs to get a little stronger, but you know, you

2099
01:52:30,560 --> 01:52:33,800
Speaker 1: can make guys stronger in an NFL weight room, you

2100
01:52:33,800 --> 01:52:37,280
Speaker 1: can't make them more athletic for the most part, you know.

2101
01:52:37,320 --> 01:52:39,439
Speaker 1: I think he needs to be taught a few things

2102
01:52:39,479 --> 01:52:42,760
Speaker 1: regarding a vertical pass set, which you do see the

2103
01:52:42,800 --> 01:52:44,479
Speaker 1: Bills use a lot of because they want to push

2104
01:52:44,479 --> 01:52:46,599
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. But I think he's got

2105
01:52:46,600 --> 01:52:50,960
Speaker 1: tools and traits to work with. I think he's a

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01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:53,600
Speaker 1: really solid prospect. I'm not surprised he didn't go in

2107
01:52:53,640 --> 01:52:55,479
Speaker 1: the first round because I think there's some work to

2108
01:52:55,520 --> 01:52:58,599
Speaker 1: be done. But you're you're dealing with a guy. Look,

2109
01:52:58,680 --> 01:53:01,240
Speaker 1: everybody would love to have a guy that has length

2110
01:53:01,479 --> 01:53:05,040
Speaker 1: and sweet feet at left tackle. He kind of approaches

2111
01:53:05,080 --> 01:53:08,680
Speaker 1: that he's kind of that guy. So you know, to me,

2112
01:53:08,760 --> 01:53:11,639
Speaker 1: he's a really fascinating prospect, and my guess is he'll

2113
01:53:11,640 --> 01:53:14,960
Speaker 1: come off the board tonight before we get to pick sixty.

2114
01:53:15,360 --> 01:53:18,360
Speaker 1: So just so fans are clear on what you're saying.

2115
01:53:18,360 --> 01:53:20,800
Speaker 1: With the vertical pass set, you're talking about a kick

2116
01:53:20,840 --> 01:53:23,559
Speaker 1: slide here and more often he just kind of turns

2117
01:53:23,560 --> 01:53:27,120
Speaker 1: his hips and hinges. Right. Well, there's kind of I mean, again,

2118
01:53:27,160 --> 01:53:29,040
Speaker 1: this probably requires more time than we have, and I

2119
01:53:29,080 --> 01:53:32,000
Speaker 1: was taught this by my good buddy Jeff Schwartz. You know,

2120
01:53:32,040 --> 01:53:34,679
Speaker 1: there's really three kinds of pass sets. There's a short set,

2121
01:53:34,920 --> 01:53:37,000
Speaker 1: which is on quick drops, there's kind of what they

2122
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:39,479
Speaker 1: call a forty five degree angle set, and then there's

2123
01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:42,599
Speaker 1: a vertical set on deeper drops, where for the most part,

2124
01:53:42,640 --> 01:53:46,519
Speaker 1: you keep your inside leg square for two steps as

2125
01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:48,800
Speaker 1: you kick slide, and then you have to turn a

2126
01:53:48,800 --> 01:53:51,120
Speaker 1: little bit. You don't want to turn square to the sideline,

2127
01:53:51,520 --> 01:53:54,200
Speaker 1: but you have to turn a little bit because if

2128
01:53:54,200 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 1: it's a true edge rusher, if it's a guy who's

2129
01:53:56,360 --> 01:53:59,120
Speaker 1: outside of you, he's trying to beat you to the edge,

2130
01:53:59,240 --> 01:54:01,000
Speaker 1: so you've got to turn in your body a little bit.

2131
01:54:01,200 --> 01:54:03,599
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what's called a vertical that's what would

2132
01:54:03,600 --> 01:54:07,160
Speaker 1: be called a vertical set. Greg, thanks as always for

2133
01:54:07,200 --> 01:54:10,479
Speaker 1: the insight here. We got two rounds tonight. Enjoy it.

2134
01:54:10,600 --> 01:54:14,880
Speaker 1: I know you'll be paying very close attention probably I

2135
01:54:14,880 --> 01:54:17,960
Speaker 1: imagine I will be doing it. Yes, thanks Greg, enjoy it.

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01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:21,120
Speaker 1: We'll see you soon. Thanks guys. All right, that's great

2137
01:54:21,120 --> 01:54:25,040
Speaker 1: Cosell from NFL Films, And yeah, he thinks Cosmi is

2138
01:54:25,040 --> 01:54:26,759
Speaker 1: going to be off the board long before the Bills

2139
01:54:26,800 --> 01:54:30,360
Speaker 1: pick at sixty one. There's other offensive lineman. You know,

2140
01:54:30,400 --> 01:54:32,480
Speaker 1: you and I were kind of knocking some names around

2141
01:54:32,520 --> 01:54:35,320
Speaker 1: and you know whether it's the Leam Eikenberg's of the world,

2142
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:39,800
Speaker 1: Jalen Mayfield from Michigan. Is he a tackle? Is he

2143
01:54:39,880 --> 01:54:42,240
Speaker 1: a guard? We don't know. And some of our MSG

2144
01:54:42,360 --> 01:54:45,160
Speaker 1: viewers are seeing, you know, the list of guys that

2145
01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:47,360
Speaker 1: are out there. Landon Dickerson is a guy that a

2146
01:54:47,360 --> 01:54:50,600
Speaker 1: lot of people think the Giants might grab at pick

2147
01:54:50,680 --> 01:54:54,480
Speaker 1: forty two. We know that Dave Getlman is a huge

2148
01:54:54,560 --> 01:54:59,360
Speaker 1: fan of Lineman. He calls him the big Uglies Dickerson.

2149
01:54:59,400 --> 01:55:02,480
Speaker 1: Dough does have an injury concern with the knee injury

2150
01:55:02,560 --> 01:55:06,600
Speaker 1: suffered in the SEC title game and where his medical

2151
01:55:06,680 --> 01:55:09,280
Speaker 1: says he will become training camp is probably a big

2152
01:55:09,400 --> 01:55:12,680
Speaker 1: question that teams want answered. I'm sure they have those answers. Yeah,

2153
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:15,120
Speaker 1: in this day and age, though the guy's a committed guy.

2154
01:55:16,680 --> 01:55:19,480
Speaker 1: It's a little bit like change in attire. You see

2155
01:55:19,520 --> 01:55:22,360
Speaker 1: a lot of acls in football. Yeah, you just do so.

2156
01:55:22,920 --> 01:55:26,680
Speaker 1: And the medical technology has come far enough so that

2157
01:55:27,080 --> 01:55:29,240
Speaker 1: if you give the guy enough time in the proper rehab,

2158
01:55:29,360 --> 01:55:31,800
Speaker 1: he should be able to move ahead with his career

2159
01:55:33,520 --> 01:55:36,720
Speaker 1: and just lose time not ability. Yeah. So, and then

2160
01:55:36,760 --> 01:55:39,240
Speaker 1: the other interesting thing, Steve, and the reason we threw

2161
01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:41,640
Speaker 1: a couple at him is because I wonder, like, where

2162
01:55:41,800 --> 01:55:46,160
Speaker 1: do they consider a defensive tackle, particularly someone who could

2163
01:55:46,160 --> 01:55:51,839
Speaker 1: play the one technique like Harrison Phillips and like Star Latula.

2164
01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:56,400
Speaker 1: Because Latula thirty two year old, age season. I think

2165
01:55:56,400 --> 01:55:58,760
Speaker 1: he has one more year on his deal after this year.

2166
01:55:58,800 --> 01:56:01,760
Speaker 1: But again, we know the financial commitments that are coming

2167
01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:05,760
Speaker 1: down the pike to Josh Allen and presumably to a

2168
01:56:05,840 --> 01:56:10,320
Speaker 1: lesser degree but still significant in Tremaine Edmonds. And when

2169
01:56:10,360 --> 01:56:13,440
Speaker 1: those commitments have to be made, some difficult decisions have

2170
01:56:13,520 --> 01:56:15,720
Speaker 1: to be made elsewhere on the roster, and the team

2171
01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:18,840
Speaker 1: is the most heavily invested in the defensive line positions.

2172
01:56:19,160 --> 01:56:22,080
Speaker 1: They've already started the youth movement with AJP and sl

2173
01:56:22,160 --> 01:56:25,440
Speaker 1: last year, Greg Russo this year, do they go to

2174
01:56:25,480 --> 01:56:27,880
Speaker 1: the well again? Before that? And Oliver the year before

2175
01:56:27,920 --> 01:56:32,240
Speaker 1: that absolutely sore that. That's right. So do you go

2176
01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:35,040
Speaker 1: to that well again? Even in a year where the

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01:56:35,120 --> 01:56:38,040
Speaker 1: talent pool is considered to be weak at the defensive

2178
01:56:38,040 --> 01:56:40,880
Speaker 1: tackle position, do you take a swing? Maybe at the

2179
01:56:41,000 --> 01:56:43,680
Speaker 1: end of round three when a guy like Allen McNeil

2180
01:56:43,760 --> 01:56:45,440
Speaker 1: could still be on the board. I'm telling you, he

2181
01:56:45,480 --> 01:56:47,600
Speaker 1: was so much fun to watch. He's like an energetic

2182
01:56:47,680 --> 01:56:50,520
Speaker 1: juice type player. He looked. I mean, he's like Charles

2183
01:56:50,560 --> 01:56:53,960
Speaker 1: Barkley playing defensive tackle. It's he's hilarious. I actually laughed

2184
01:56:53,960 --> 01:56:56,080
Speaker 1: out loud a couple of times watching him because he

2185
01:56:56,120 --> 01:57:01,560
Speaker 1: had a fumble return interception he ran it in what

2186
01:57:02,080 --> 01:57:06,720
Speaker 1: That was fun to watch. So, yeah, big guy rumbling. Yeah,

2187
01:57:06,760 --> 01:57:10,960
Speaker 1: he's a fun player to watch because he looks nimble

2188
01:57:11,080 --> 01:57:14,000
Speaker 1: and energetic for a big, heavy guy. Looks like he

2189
01:57:14,080 --> 01:57:16,840
Speaker 1: loves it. It looks like his body language when he

2190
01:57:16,880 --> 01:57:20,080
Speaker 1: moves makes him look like he's a happy football player.

2191
01:57:22,480 --> 01:57:24,400
Speaker 1: I say that, but that's exactly what it looks like.

2192
01:57:24,480 --> 01:57:28,920
Speaker 1: He looks like Santa Claus out there coming down the chimney. Yeah,

2193
01:57:29,200 --> 01:57:33,000
Speaker 1: passing out press at, passing out tackles instead of presence.

2194
01:57:33,160 --> 01:57:35,280
Speaker 1: I watched like two more games of his because he

2195
01:57:35,480 --> 01:57:37,040
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I watched you more of this guy.

2196
01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:39,280
Speaker 1: He's fun. He was great. He was great to watch.

2197
01:57:39,320 --> 01:57:40,840
Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta take a break because when we

2198
01:57:40,880 --> 01:57:43,880
Speaker 1: come back, we have the University of Miami head coach

2199
01:57:44,240 --> 01:57:46,920
Speaker 1: Nanny Diaz joining us on the line to talk to

2200
01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:51,040
Speaker 1: us more, obviously about one Greg Rousseau. We'll do that next.

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Speaker 1: Here on one Bill's Line, presented by Kalata Health, it's

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01:57:53,160 --> 01:58:09,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

2203
01:58:09,520 --> 01:58:11,800
Speaker 1: here and joined now by the head coach of the

2204
01:58:11,880 --> 01:58:15,880
Speaker 1: University of Miami and obviously now former coach of one,

2205
01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:19,000
Speaker 1: Greg Russo. It is Manning Daz joining us on the

2206
01:58:19,040 --> 01:58:21,520
Speaker 1: line here on One Bills Live. Coach, thanks for giving

2207
01:58:21,600 --> 01:58:23,560
Speaker 1: us some time again. I know we only had a

2208
01:58:23,560 --> 01:58:25,440
Speaker 1: brief time with you last night, so we wanted to

2209
01:58:25,480 --> 01:58:28,120
Speaker 1: help give you the opportunity to elaborate and share a

2210
01:58:28,120 --> 01:58:32,520
Speaker 1: little bit more information on Greg. And I was interested

2211
01:58:32,560 --> 01:58:34,360
Speaker 1: when I read this and I need you to kind

2212
01:58:34,360 --> 01:58:36,680
Speaker 1: of corroborate it for me. It was talking I was

2213
01:58:36,720 --> 01:58:40,440
Speaker 1: reading about his recruitment down there at the University of

2214
01:58:40,480 --> 01:58:43,040
Speaker 1: Miami and it said that you kind of sold him

2215
01:58:43,080 --> 01:58:45,760
Speaker 1: on becoming the next Mario Williams, a player you were

2216
01:58:45,800 --> 01:58:49,839
Speaker 1: around earlier in your coaching career at NC State. First,

2217
01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:53,600
Speaker 1: Was that true? And do you see similar traits in

2218
01:58:53,680 --> 01:58:58,800
Speaker 1: Greg's skill set to that of Mario? Well, it's ironic.

2219
01:58:58,840 --> 01:59:01,600
Speaker 1: We had Mario Manny Lawson and I think that's the

2220
01:59:01,680 --> 01:59:04,560
Speaker 1: last two defensive ends taken from the same school the

2221
01:59:04,640 --> 01:59:08,040
Speaker 1: same year, and it was really Manny. I mean, he

2222
01:59:08,160 --> 01:59:09,920
Speaker 1: ended up going into being more like Mario, but it

2223
01:59:09,960 --> 01:59:13,440
Speaker 1: was Manny at first. The long length, kind of narrow body,

2224
01:59:13,480 --> 01:59:15,600
Speaker 1: the long levers that you really knew could grow and

2225
01:59:15,640 --> 01:59:18,480
Speaker 1: develop when Greg was one hundred and ninety five pounds

2226
01:59:19,000 --> 01:59:20,520
Speaker 1: when we signed him out of high school. And then

2227
01:59:20,520 --> 01:59:24,400
Speaker 1: what happened to his body. He completely transformed, you know,

2228
01:59:24,480 --> 01:59:28,040
Speaker 1: really turned into what we thought he would, you know,

2229
01:59:28,120 --> 01:59:31,680
Speaker 1: and just an elite skill set. His ability to bend

2230
01:59:32,200 --> 01:59:35,560
Speaker 1: at that length it's pretty unique and rare. And then

2231
01:59:35,560 --> 01:59:38,240
Speaker 1: he was for the physicality of playing defensive end, you know,

2232
01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:40,560
Speaker 1: because he's a guy that played wide receiver. He's catching

2233
01:59:40,560 --> 01:59:43,080
Speaker 1: fades in high school, he's playing safety's playing all over

2234
01:59:43,080 --> 01:59:46,480
Speaker 1: the place. But he was really really dominant for us,

2235
01:59:46,520 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 1: and what a shame here gonna play last year. But

2236
01:59:48,480 --> 01:59:50,560
Speaker 1: we supported his decision that it was you know, it

2237
01:59:50,600 --> 01:59:52,760
Speaker 1: was a very uncertain time, and he made a very

2238
01:59:52,800 --> 01:59:56,280
Speaker 1: grave choice with his family in mind, because there's no

2239
01:59:56,320 --> 01:59:58,080
Speaker 1: telling what his film will look like in twenty twenty.

2240
01:59:58,080 --> 01:59:59,840
Speaker 1: It had been fun to have him, but I think

2241
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:02,760
Speaker 1: Affalo got to steal for sure. And interestingly enough, we

2242
02:00:02,840 --> 02:00:05,000
Speaker 1: found this out. It's hard for us to dig deep

2243
02:00:05,080 --> 02:00:08,120
Speaker 1: on all of these prospects, but it's really what tells

2244
02:00:08,120 --> 02:00:10,640
Speaker 1: you exactly who these guys are. We've heard he has.

2245
02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:13,360
Speaker 1: He was a special guy. I mean, he graduated early

2246
02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:17,280
Speaker 1: so that he could come to the you and start

2247
02:00:17,400 --> 02:00:19,360
Speaker 1: quick because he knew he had so much to learn.

2248
02:00:19,360 --> 02:00:21,120
Speaker 1: He put in a lot of extra work to make

2249
02:00:21,160 --> 02:00:26,000
Speaker 1: that happen, that that spring football before his freshman year. Yeah,

2250
02:00:26,040 --> 02:00:28,240
Speaker 1: I know, I know. You know, it's a coaching cliche

2251
02:00:28,360 --> 02:00:31,839
Speaker 1: to talk about how specially your guys are, but gregor

2252
02:00:31,920 --> 02:00:34,400
Speaker 1: So is special. They're not all like Greg and and

2253
02:00:34,720 --> 02:00:38,360
Speaker 1: you're not just adding a great Bill, you're adding a

2254
02:00:38,360 --> 02:00:40,600
Speaker 1: great guy to the community of Buffalo. I mean, this

2255
02:00:40,680 --> 02:00:43,080
Speaker 1: is this is a really really special human being. He's

2256
02:00:43,320 --> 02:00:46,800
Speaker 1: he's selfless, he's all about his teammates, he's about others,

2257
02:00:47,640 --> 02:00:49,360
Speaker 1: want to do really well. He was raised it right

2258
02:00:49,440 --> 02:00:51,920
Speaker 1: way and and uh, I mean just a fun guy

2259
02:00:51,920 --> 02:00:53,960
Speaker 1: to have walking around your building. Where we will miss

2260
02:00:54,000 --> 02:00:56,240
Speaker 1: him for sure, not just the player, but we've missed

2261
02:00:56,240 --> 02:00:59,720
Speaker 1: Greg the person. Uh. I know that Brandon, being the

2262
02:00:59,760 --> 02:01:02,640
Speaker 1: general manager for the Bills, last night, was talking about

2263
02:01:02,680 --> 02:01:06,959
Speaker 1: how even though he opted out, that Greg stayed very engaged.

2264
02:01:07,080 --> 02:01:09,920
Speaker 1: He talked about how Greg said he was even you know,

2265
02:01:10,200 --> 02:01:14,840
Speaker 1: watching tape, staying in contact with his Miami teammates. Can

2266
02:01:14,880 --> 02:01:18,280
Speaker 1: you just elaborate on how engaged he was even though

2267
02:01:18,280 --> 02:01:21,920
Speaker 1: he made the difficult decision to opt out. Well, our

2268
02:01:22,680 --> 02:01:25,400
Speaker 1: players loved Gregor, so, our staff loff Gregor so, so,

2269
02:01:25,920 --> 02:01:27,520
Speaker 1: you know, and I wanted to make sure he felt

2270
02:01:27,560 --> 02:01:29,720
Speaker 1: that when you know, we again, when he made the

2271
02:01:29,720 --> 02:01:31,160
Speaker 1: decision to opt out, we didn't even know if we

2272
02:01:31,160 --> 02:01:32,640
Speaker 1: were gonna have a season. We have to remember what

2273
02:01:32,680 --> 02:01:35,040
Speaker 1: it was like last summer. You know, the season was

2274
02:01:35,080 --> 02:01:37,720
Speaker 1: not promised us. And I wanted to make sure that

2275
02:01:37,760 --> 02:01:40,760
Speaker 1: he knew that it was not going to be uh okay, see,

2276
02:01:41,080 --> 02:01:42,680
Speaker 1: you know you're not You're not one of us anymore.

2277
02:01:42,720 --> 02:01:44,440
Speaker 1: I wanted him to know that he was still a

2278
02:01:44,480 --> 02:01:47,760
Speaker 1: Miami Hurricane. And and like I said, the way he

2279
02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:49,760
Speaker 1: is popular as he was with our players and staff,

2280
02:01:49,920 --> 02:01:53,040
Speaker 1: that doesn't surprise me at all. He had the one year,

2281
02:01:53,080 --> 02:01:56,320
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen year where he put together fifteen and

2282
02:01:56,400 --> 02:01:59,200
Speaker 1: a half sacks and you guys moved him all over

2283
02:01:59,280 --> 02:02:04,520
Speaker 1: the front, even down to the zero technique. What tells

2284
02:02:04,560 --> 02:02:07,520
Speaker 1: us a little bit about his versatility how fast he

2285
02:02:07,600 --> 02:02:11,240
Speaker 1: picked up the defensive end spot. How high of a

2286
02:02:11,400 --> 02:02:16,000
Speaker 1: draft pick would he have been had twenty nineteen been, say,

2287
02:02:16,080 --> 02:02:21,040
Speaker 1: his senior year. That's that's interesting because I still think

2288
02:02:21,200 --> 02:02:24,360
Speaker 1: his twenty nineteen film had some things that we had

2289
02:02:24,480 --> 02:02:26,560
Speaker 1: had good conversations with him last you know, the off

2290
02:02:26,600 --> 02:02:29,400
Speaker 1: season before that going to twenty twenty that we really

2291
02:02:29,400 --> 02:02:31,280
Speaker 1: wanted to show show her up. You know, I mean,

2292
02:02:31,360 --> 02:02:33,440
Speaker 1: he's he made a lot of play to his length.

2293
02:02:33,520 --> 02:02:36,040
Speaker 1: You know, he's got great get off and he plays

2294
02:02:36,080 --> 02:02:38,560
Speaker 1: extraordinarily hard, so he's relentless. So he made a lot

2295
02:02:38,560 --> 02:02:40,360
Speaker 1: of plays that way. But we knew that there was

2296
02:02:40,440 --> 02:02:42,360
Speaker 1: some thing versus the run. He could be more consistent

2297
02:02:42,360 --> 02:02:45,360
Speaker 1: at getting more comfortable with his pass rush moves. And

2298
02:02:45,400 --> 02:02:47,520
Speaker 1: you're talking about a guy that was a redshirt freshman.

2299
02:02:48,640 --> 02:02:50,320
Speaker 1: But if you had to put a twenty twenty tape

2300
02:02:50,360 --> 02:02:52,400
Speaker 1: out there, I don't think he had been around at thirty.

2301
02:02:52,440 --> 02:02:55,200
Speaker 1: And that's why I think Buffalo made the steel of

2302
02:02:55,240 --> 02:02:57,880
Speaker 1: the first round, because they're getting a guy that should

2303
02:02:57,880 --> 02:03:02,120
Speaker 1: not be available at thirty simply because because of COVID.

2304
02:03:02,120 --> 02:03:04,240
Speaker 1: If there not have been COVID, he would have not

2305
02:03:04,320 --> 02:03:06,440
Speaker 1: been a Buffalo Bill. But I also think it's great

2306
02:03:06,480 --> 02:03:09,040
Speaker 1: for Greg because I do think that Buffalo is a

2307
02:03:09,040 --> 02:03:12,360
Speaker 1: great culture, a great organization, the guys that they've already

2308
02:03:12,360 --> 02:03:16,280
Speaker 1: got ahead of him on defense, the way that coach McDermott,

2309
02:03:16,320 --> 02:03:19,560
Speaker 1: you know Preacher's defense there, I think it's the perfect

2310
02:03:19,640 --> 02:03:22,800
Speaker 1: landing spot for Greg as well. Talking to Miami had

2311
02:03:22,840 --> 02:03:25,920
Speaker 1: football coach man he has about Greg Russou here on

2312
02:03:25,920 --> 02:03:30,240
Speaker 1: one Bill's Live and Coach, we heard that, you know,

2313
02:03:30,280 --> 02:03:32,760
Speaker 1: even though he did opt out, this guy got right

2314
02:03:32,800 --> 02:03:37,520
Speaker 1: to work on himself and his body composition. He was

2315
02:03:37,560 --> 02:03:40,680
Speaker 1: listed at his pro day at two sixty six, and

2316
02:03:41,080 --> 02:03:43,760
Speaker 1: there were some that said he played as light in

2317
02:03:43,840 --> 02:03:46,760
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen as two forty five. Did he really add

2318
02:03:47,400 --> 02:03:50,680
Speaker 1: twenty pounds to his frame in this last calendar year

2319
02:03:50,720 --> 02:03:54,360
Speaker 1: even though he wasn't playing. Yeah, And I don't think

2320
02:03:54,440 --> 02:03:59,000
Speaker 1: that's actually surprising because Greg is so tall, and he's

2321
02:03:59,040 --> 02:04:01,880
Speaker 1: so long, and he's got broad shoulders, so he has

2322
02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:03,720
Speaker 1: such you know, if you see him and you say,

2323
02:04:03,760 --> 02:04:05,680
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even say that's a guy that's two sixty

2324
02:04:05,680 --> 02:04:08,280
Speaker 1: five because he looks two forty five. You know he

2325
02:04:08,320 --> 02:04:10,280
Speaker 1: can carry the weight so easily. So you can't think

2326
02:04:10,280 --> 02:04:13,160
Speaker 1: of weight as a number the same way you do

2327
02:04:13,200 --> 02:04:16,840
Speaker 1: with other people when you're talking about Greg. So that

2328
02:04:16,920 --> 02:04:19,080
Speaker 1: just means that you know, he's dedicated, he worked out.

2329
02:04:19,080 --> 02:04:21,720
Speaker 1: We had expected the exact same growth and development if

2330
02:04:21,720 --> 02:04:24,160
Speaker 1: you just stayed in our strength and conducing program here

2331
02:04:24,160 --> 02:04:26,400
Speaker 1: at Miami. So just so who he is, man, guy's

2332
02:04:26,400 --> 02:04:29,400
Speaker 1: gonna eat up the weight room. So coach, having been

2333
02:04:29,440 --> 02:04:32,360
Speaker 1: around him, knowing his body type as well as you do,

2334
02:04:32,920 --> 02:04:35,120
Speaker 1: what do you think is you know, and I know

2335
02:04:35,160 --> 02:04:37,080
Speaker 1: the bills will help him decide this, but just in

2336
02:04:37,120 --> 02:04:40,640
Speaker 1: your opinion, what do you think is the best fill

2337
02:04:40,680 --> 02:04:43,160
Speaker 1: out weight for lack of a better term, for him

2338
02:04:43,280 --> 02:04:45,600
Speaker 1: to play at this level and you know, be able

2339
02:04:45,640 --> 02:04:48,240
Speaker 1: to set the edge anchor down in the run front

2340
02:04:48,320 --> 02:04:51,600
Speaker 1: while still being the accomplished pass rusher that they hope

2341
02:04:51,600 --> 02:04:54,120
Speaker 1: he can be. Yeah, I would think he could do

2342
02:04:54,200 --> 02:04:56,120
Speaker 1: that between two sixty five and two seventy five. I

2343
02:04:56,120 --> 02:04:58,760
Speaker 1: don't think he's got to get a ton bigger because

2344
02:04:58,760 --> 02:05:02,240
Speaker 1: he can bend and you know, you know, I stunk

2345
02:05:02,280 --> 02:05:04,120
Speaker 1: in physics in high school, but I know that that

2346
02:05:04,240 --> 02:05:06,640
Speaker 1: you know something about levers and when you bend those

2347
02:05:06,760 --> 02:05:09,240
Speaker 1: arms and you bend those legs, he creates a lot

2348
02:05:09,280 --> 02:05:12,200
Speaker 1: of force. So in terms of setting an edge for

2349
02:05:12,280 --> 02:05:15,240
Speaker 1: a guy his tall, for his height, his ability to

2350
02:05:15,280 --> 02:05:18,400
Speaker 1: ben creates a lot of power, and so we I

2351
02:05:18,400 --> 02:05:21,320
Speaker 1: would expect him to be as absolutely as physical as

2352
02:05:21,320 --> 02:05:23,760
Speaker 1: he needs to be without gaining much more weight than

2353
02:05:23,800 --> 02:05:27,160
Speaker 1: he has now. He's as a guy you can compare

2354
02:05:27,280 --> 02:05:29,400
Speaker 1: him to coming out. I think keep thinking of a

2355
02:05:29,440 --> 02:05:32,040
Speaker 1: guy like Jason Taylor in Miami, a big, tall guy

2356
02:05:32,120 --> 02:05:34,680
Speaker 1: who played with great He played on the outside predominantly.

2357
02:05:34,680 --> 02:05:38,120
Speaker 1: What are some other athletes that are as tall as

2358
02:05:38,200 --> 02:05:41,320
Speaker 1: Greg but also or that prode and play that kind

2359
02:05:41,360 --> 02:05:43,240
Speaker 1: of position. And the only one I could think of

2360
02:05:43,360 --> 02:05:45,200
Speaker 1: was Jason Taylor because of the way he was built.

2361
02:05:45,240 --> 02:05:48,000
Speaker 1: Anybody else you can think of, Yeah, I mean, other

2362
02:05:48,040 --> 02:05:50,040
Speaker 1: than like I mentioned, Manny Lawson, I think there's similar

2363
02:05:50,160 --> 02:05:53,000
Speaker 1: SIMILARI lists. I mean, obviously a Miami Hurricane is Kolias Campbell,

2364
02:05:53,000 --> 02:05:55,800
Speaker 1: but cli is so tall. But Clias is just a

2365
02:05:55,920 --> 02:05:57,680
Speaker 1: much more of a monster of a man than Greg.

2366
02:05:57,720 --> 02:06:02,160
Speaker 1: He's so much thicker than Greg. So that's it's it's

2367
02:06:02,160 --> 02:06:04,600
Speaker 1: an interesting question. He's a very unique guy. And uh

2368
02:06:04,640 --> 02:06:06,960
Speaker 1: and I think that's why he's a first rounder. And

2369
02:06:07,080 --> 02:06:08,680
Speaker 1: uh and it's going to get a lot more fun

2370
02:06:08,760 --> 02:06:10,760
Speaker 1: because this guy's going to be he made a hell

2371
02:06:10,760 --> 02:06:12,440
Speaker 1: of a football player when it's all said and done,

2372
02:06:12,600 --> 02:06:14,600
Speaker 1: last one for me, coach, Um, and I know you

2373
02:06:14,680 --> 02:06:17,000
Speaker 1: already touched on this to a certain degree in speaking

2374
02:06:17,040 --> 02:06:20,280
Speaker 1: about his character. We know that the Bills look for

2375
02:06:20,320 --> 02:06:23,520
Speaker 1: what they call players that have their DNA, you know,

2376
02:06:23,560 --> 02:06:27,880
Speaker 1: guys that are always striving to be even infinitesimal amount

2377
02:06:27,920 --> 02:06:30,720
Speaker 1: better the next day. And you bring your lunch pail

2378
02:06:30,760 --> 02:06:33,280
Speaker 1: every day, whether it's week one or the first day

2379
02:06:33,280 --> 02:06:36,600
Speaker 1: of training camp or the Thursday in week seventeen. Um,

2380
02:06:37,080 --> 02:06:39,879
Speaker 1: you've probably you are members of your coaching staff probably

2381
02:06:39,920 --> 02:06:43,280
Speaker 1: sat in his family's living room when you were recruiting him.

2382
02:06:43,360 --> 02:06:46,160
Speaker 1: It looks like he comes from a hard working, blue

2383
02:06:46,160 --> 02:06:48,480
Speaker 1: collar type family with his mom being his nurse and

2384
02:06:48,480 --> 02:06:50,840
Speaker 1: a dad being a mechanic. What what can you just

2385
02:06:50,880 --> 02:06:54,640
Speaker 1: share with us about the family upbringing that he experienced

2386
02:06:54,640 --> 02:06:59,320
Speaker 1: that makes him the young man he is now. Yeah, Uh,

2387
02:07:00,200 --> 02:07:02,640
Speaker 1: his family's awesome. You know, he's he's he's at. He's

2388
02:07:02,640 --> 02:07:05,400
Speaker 1: been raised the right way. Uh. He understands a value

2389
02:07:05,400 --> 02:07:08,040
Speaker 1: and work. He was that way in our program. He

2390
02:07:08,080 --> 02:07:12,200
Speaker 1: was extraordinarily hard worker in our program. And um and

2391
02:07:12,200 --> 02:07:13,920
Speaker 1: and I think the coolest probably Greg. It's not just

2392
02:07:13,960 --> 02:07:17,200
Speaker 1: all about him. He wants to be one of the guys.

2393
02:07:17,240 --> 02:07:20,320
Speaker 1: He wants to be a great teammate. Um. He's a

2394
02:07:20,320 --> 02:07:22,600
Speaker 1: guy that spends a lot of time thinking about others,

2395
02:07:22,760 --> 02:07:25,800
Speaker 1: you know, which is not always the case. Um and

2396
02:07:25,800 --> 02:07:28,200
Speaker 1: And is not very self absorbed. He doesn't, you know,

2397
02:07:28,240 --> 02:07:30,840
Speaker 1: he's not a very selfish guy. He really wants us

2398
02:07:30,880 --> 02:07:32,640
Speaker 1: to be part of a team and be a cog.

2399
02:07:33,160 --> 02:07:34,760
Speaker 1: And every time he hit a sack, he was always

2400
02:07:34,800 --> 02:07:36,800
Speaker 1: quick to give credit to somebody else, either somebody else

2401
02:07:36,840 --> 02:07:39,920
Speaker 1: flushing the quarterback or somebody covering and making the quarterback

2402
02:07:40,000 --> 02:07:42,080
Speaker 1: along the ball, so he had a chance to get there.

2403
02:07:42,120 --> 02:07:45,400
Speaker 1: So that's just that's that's who Gregory so is um man.

2404
02:07:45,480 --> 02:07:47,600
Speaker 1: One last question. We know that you had another guy

2405
02:07:47,800 --> 02:07:50,920
Speaker 1: from this year's class, Jayalen Phillips, who came in and

2406
02:07:51,760 --> 02:07:54,400
Speaker 1: we were we were kind of enamored with him as well.

2407
02:07:54,560 --> 02:07:56,600
Speaker 1: You've got and I just want to ask you about

2408
02:07:56,600 --> 02:07:58,800
Speaker 1: your program. He got guys coming out, they're getting drafted

2409
02:07:58,800 --> 02:08:00,800
Speaker 1: in the first round. Give this a little low down

2410
02:08:00,800 --> 02:08:02,400
Speaker 1: on what we can expect from your program in the

2411
02:08:02,440 --> 02:08:06,320
Speaker 1: next year or two. You got some guys down there, Well,

2412
02:08:06,080 --> 02:08:08,680
Speaker 1: we believe we should always have guys at the University

2413
02:08:08,680 --> 02:08:10,840
Speaker 1: of Miami. That's something that we feel like we should do.

2414
02:08:11,320 --> 02:08:12,920
Speaker 1: But I think it's very similar to what you mentioned

2415
02:08:12,920 --> 02:08:15,880
Speaker 1: about how coach McDermott's building the program there. You got

2416
02:08:15,880 --> 02:08:18,360
Speaker 1: to get the right type of guys. You gotta get

2417
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:20,600
Speaker 1: them to buy into the right things. And I think

2418
02:08:20,600 --> 02:08:22,760
Speaker 1: our players are starting to see that. And I'll tell

2419
02:08:22,800 --> 02:08:25,480
Speaker 1: you gregors So and Jaylen Phillips, you want to tell

2420
02:08:25,480 --> 02:08:27,000
Speaker 1: about someone that you could roll model. You're a game

2421
02:08:27,040 --> 02:08:28,680
Speaker 1: after and I don't even meet as a defensive end.

2422
02:08:29,040 --> 02:08:30,920
Speaker 1: You may be a wide receiver, you can be a

2423
02:08:30,960 --> 02:08:32,919
Speaker 1: tight end. You can be anybody your our football team.

2424
02:08:33,040 --> 02:08:36,600
Speaker 1: They watched those two guys work in this program the

2425
02:08:36,680 --> 02:08:39,320
Speaker 1: last few years. You know, Jaylen Phillips didn't play football

2426
02:08:39,520 --> 02:08:41,200
Speaker 1: his first year in our program, didn't do anything but

2427
02:08:41,360 --> 02:08:43,640
Speaker 1: sitting there and eat every weight in our weight room.

2428
02:08:43,840 --> 02:08:46,520
Speaker 1: And to see both those guys walk across the stage

2429
02:08:46,600 --> 02:08:51,000
Speaker 1: last night and shake a commissioner's hand, they get it now.

2430
02:08:51,080 --> 02:08:53,760
Speaker 1: So you hope to see guys like that that can

2431
02:08:53,800 --> 02:08:56,400
Speaker 1: transform your program and maybe give a little bit more

2432
02:08:56,400 --> 02:09:00,160
Speaker 1: inspiration for somebody to do things the right way and

2433
02:09:00,160 --> 02:09:01,960
Speaker 1: helpfully know that the reward will be his high a

2434
02:09:02,040 --> 02:09:04,040
Speaker 1: draft choice and maybe in the first round like what

2435
02:09:04,120 --> 02:09:06,600
Speaker 1: we saw last night. Coach, Thanks for the time. We

2436
02:09:06,640 --> 02:09:09,320
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Good luck next season, hopefully it's a more

2437
02:09:09,360 --> 02:09:12,120
Speaker 1: regular season that we're all kind of used to. Thanks Manny,

2438
02:09:12,360 --> 02:09:16,080
Speaker 1: no question. Can't wait for that. And I mean, you know,

2439
02:09:16,160 --> 02:09:19,160
Speaker 1: a home playoff game in Buffalo in front of a

2440
02:09:19,160 --> 02:09:22,000
Speaker 1: full stadium is what you know. I mean, that's that's

2441
02:09:22,000 --> 02:09:24,080
Speaker 1: been along, That's that's where the thing's all about. Now.

2442
02:09:24,120 --> 02:09:26,240
Speaker 1: I can't wait to have football back the way we

2443
02:09:26,280 --> 02:09:28,480
Speaker 1: all know and love it. All right, take care coach again,

2444
02:09:28,520 --> 02:09:31,640
Speaker 1: thanks for the time, have a great day, all right.

2445
02:09:31,680 --> 02:09:34,640
Speaker 1: That's Miami head football coach Manny Diaz talking to us

2446
02:09:34,680 --> 02:09:37,640
Speaker 1: a little bit about Greg Russo, the person and the player,

2447
02:09:38,120 --> 02:09:41,960
Speaker 1: and he thinks he's pretty much close to being filled

2448
02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:44,560
Speaker 1: out where he's at, like he's at two sixty six

2449
02:09:44,640 --> 02:09:46,600
Speaker 1: right now. He thinks he should be somewhere around two

2450
02:09:46,720 --> 02:09:49,720
Speaker 1: sixty five to seventy. Obviously, the Bills will have their

2451
02:09:49,720 --> 02:09:55,040
Speaker 1: own plan for for Greg, so we'll see where that goes.

2452
02:09:55,120 --> 02:09:59,160
Speaker 1: But talking about you're talking about two percent of his

2453
02:09:59,240 --> 02:10:02,200
Speaker 1: body weight, maybe up or down if it's the right

2454
02:10:02,280 --> 02:10:05,040
Speaker 1: kind of weight. Yeah, and that's that's about right, that's

2455
02:10:05,080 --> 02:10:07,720
Speaker 1: about right. Um, if you can put it on in

2456
02:10:07,760 --> 02:10:09,560
Speaker 1: the right way, that'll make a difference for him. But

2457
02:10:09,720 --> 02:10:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, you're talking we're splitting hairs here right now.

2458
02:10:12,320 --> 02:10:17,160
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's gonna he's always gonna look lean, lean

2459
02:10:17,480 --> 02:10:20,520
Speaker 1: at least. But it's a question of how well he

2460
02:10:20,560 --> 02:10:23,000
Speaker 1: stands up to the physicality of the game down inside

2461
02:10:23,000 --> 02:10:26,040
Speaker 1: and whether it standing up in standing up to the

2462
02:10:26,040 --> 02:10:29,640
Speaker 1: physicality with his weight, does it detract from his ability

2463
02:10:29,680 --> 02:10:32,560
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback? Yeah, because Brandon being said

2464
02:10:32,640 --> 02:10:34,880
Speaker 1: last night, oh no, we're we're gonna use him in

2465
02:10:34,960 --> 02:10:37,240
Speaker 1: some of the same ways that Miami did. We will

2466
02:10:37,440 --> 02:10:41,960
Speaker 1: reduce him down inside in obvious passing situations. I think

2467
02:10:42,000 --> 02:10:45,640
Speaker 1: they were their eyes were opened to the way that

2468
02:10:46,080 --> 02:10:49,000
Speaker 1: Rousseau was able to use his length on the interior

2469
02:10:49,360 --> 02:10:52,760
Speaker 1: against lineman that even at the NFL level, are gonna

2470
02:10:52,760 --> 02:10:56,240
Speaker 1: have shorter arms than him. Right, it's just having advantage

2471
02:10:56,240 --> 02:10:58,120
Speaker 1: in there. I saw it a couple of times. We've

2472
02:10:58,120 --> 02:11:00,360
Speaker 1: seen it in his highlights where he gaed ages the

2473
02:11:00,360 --> 02:11:02,480
Speaker 1: guard or whatever and moves to the side and then

2474
02:11:02,680 --> 02:11:05,680
Speaker 1: kind of slithers through. You see Aaron Donald do that.

2475
02:11:05,720 --> 02:11:07,840
Speaker 1: It's hard for a herder, for a guy like Aaron

2476
02:11:07,880 --> 02:11:09,240
Speaker 1: Donald to do it than it is for a guy

2477
02:11:09,320 --> 02:11:12,920
Speaker 1: like Rousseau because he's tall and skip. But they just

2478
02:11:12,920 --> 02:11:15,800
Speaker 1: seem to like slide in between the gaps. It's like

2479
02:11:15,840 --> 02:11:18,840
Speaker 1: they get skinny and slippery where they slide through the

2480
02:11:18,880 --> 02:11:21,960
Speaker 1: gaps between the offensive linemen and get men make plays

2481
02:11:21,960 --> 02:11:24,520
Speaker 1: and disrupt the pocket because of it. Not everybody can

2482
02:11:24,560 --> 02:11:27,920
Speaker 1: do that, and you know they're different, completely different body types.

2483
02:11:28,000 --> 02:11:30,520
Speaker 1: But that's what you're looking at, and that's what that's

2484
02:11:30,560 --> 02:11:33,160
Speaker 1: the one thing that Rousseau does seem to have at

2485
02:11:33,200 --> 02:11:37,360
Speaker 1: an early age in his position. Aside from the technical

2486
02:11:37,400 --> 02:11:39,920
Speaker 1: stuff where a hand placement and angles and all of that,

2487
02:11:40,120 --> 02:11:42,480
Speaker 1: he seems to have a knack for finding gaps and

2488
02:11:42,520 --> 02:11:45,680
Speaker 1: being able to slither through a small space to make

2489
02:11:45,720 --> 02:11:49,320
Speaker 1: a play. Not everybody does the instinctive stuff, but you

2490
02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:52,200
Speaker 1: can teach the other. Yeah, break time for us, Steve

2491
02:11:52,280 --> 02:11:55,120
Speaker 1: and I close it up right before we get ready

2492
02:11:55,160 --> 02:11:58,320
Speaker 1: for Day two of the NFL Draft. See in a

2493
02:11:58,360 --> 02:12:12,520
Speaker 1: second here on one Bill's life. What have we learned?

2494
02:12:12,960 --> 02:12:17,360
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equimin rental

2495
02:12:17,440 --> 02:12:22,400
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. Steve Tasker, Night two of

2496
02:12:22,480 --> 02:12:26,760
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft Bills Pick sixty one and ninety three.

2497
02:12:27,520 --> 02:12:31,720
Speaker 1: Who you got? It's between two guys at sixty one

2498
02:12:32,000 --> 02:12:38,000
Speaker 1: at sixty one Okay, if iato melephone will from sulize

2499
02:12:38,120 --> 02:12:41,840
Speaker 1: him right ye, Benjamin Saint Jut out of Minnesota. Okay,

2500
02:12:42,040 --> 02:12:47,360
Speaker 1: two very tall and six three six two two melephone

2501
02:12:47,360 --> 02:12:50,320
Speaker 1: will sixty three two O five anyone for round three, Steve,

2502
02:12:50,440 --> 02:12:53,080
Speaker 1: anyone at all? It might be one of these two.

2503
02:12:53,160 --> 02:12:54,680
Speaker 1: It could be one of those two. Take one of

2504
02:12:54,680 --> 02:12:57,000
Speaker 1: these two guys at either spot. Okay, I'm gonna give

2505
02:12:57,000 --> 02:13:00,600
Speaker 1: you a couple of names too, so tonight this might

2506
02:13:00,640 --> 02:13:02,480
Speaker 1: be a little high for him at sixty one. But

2507
02:13:02,560 --> 02:13:06,200
Speaker 1: I like Paulson Adebo a lot the Stanford corner. I

2508
02:13:06,320 --> 02:13:09,120
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm crossing my fingers that Samuel Cozmi can

2509
02:13:09,160 --> 02:13:11,840
Speaker 1: get down there in athletic tackle. That's good. In pass

2510
02:13:11,960 --> 02:13:14,240
Speaker 1: pro I think would be great for the Bills at

2511
02:13:14,280 --> 02:13:18,200
Speaker 1: the bottom. Around two's coming around three. I'm going wildcard

2512
02:13:18,240 --> 02:13:22,240
Speaker 1: all the way here. I either want Okay my Man

2513
02:13:22,320 --> 02:13:28,760
Speaker 1: from Virginia Tech Divine Diablo, that is the all name

2514
02:13:28,840 --> 02:13:33,040
Speaker 1: team when things open up. He's our first guest, yeah uh.

2515
02:13:33,160 --> 02:13:37,000
Speaker 1: And then a wildcard here, a slot guy with returnability

2516
02:13:37,520 --> 02:13:42,880
Speaker 1: who's really fast, Dwayne Eskridge from Western Michigan. They've got

2517
02:13:42,920 --> 02:13:46,480
Speaker 1: a good history of pumping out receivers, so we'll see

2518
02:13:46,520 --> 02:13:48,440
Speaker 1: what happens. But those are the names I'm just throwing down.

2519
02:13:49,000 --> 02:13:52,200
Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see what darts hit the target tonight,

2520
02:13:52,560 --> 02:13:55,520
Speaker 1: and if we strike another bull's eye like Tasker did yesterday,

2521
02:13:55,920 --> 02:13:59,120
Speaker 1: we will see you on Monday to recap the entire draft.

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Speaker 1: Our pre draft special tonight, six thirty. Maddie glabbing myself

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Speaker 1: on the streams