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Speaker 1: good run blocking guard, Pro Bowl level as a matter

429
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Speaker 1: of fact, even when he was here, and they say, well,

430
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Speaker 1: that's what needs fixing, so why not entertain it. I

431
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: don't know where do you kind of come down on this.

432
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Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if they do kick the

433
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Speaker 1: tires on him and bring him in to compete at least. Yeah,

434
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Speaker 1: I would like to see that. I haven't watched that

435
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: much Raider film and evaluated how he played last year.

436
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,360
Speaker 1: If if there's something left in the tank, you come back,

437
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Speaker 1: bring him on one of those one years and just

438
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Speaker 1: see if he and bring him back. Say, and we're

439
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Speaker 1: not going to give you a starting job. You can compete,

440
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: but you're you're gonna take the veteran minimum and it's

441
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Speaker 1: gonna be based on how many games you play for us,

442
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: and you could get up to up to seven figures

443
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Speaker 1: and all of that. You could make your have yourself

444
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Speaker 1: a nice year. If you can get on the field

445
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: and stay on the field, then we'll pay you. Um

446
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Speaker 1: that's what I would do. But I wouldn't be surprised

447
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Speaker 1: at all if the Bills did exactly that. They lost

448
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: him when he got pride, when you know he um

449
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 1: decided he was going to retire, then unretire. Maybe they

450
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Speaker 1: don't go back, take a step back. It depends on

451
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Speaker 1: the market where the interior offensive lineman are in free agency.

452
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Speaker 1: As to whether the Bills will kick the tires, they'll

453
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Speaker 1: they'll evaluate him, they'll place a value on him, and well,

454
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Speaker 1: you know they'll no doubt they'll they have already probably

455
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Speaker 1: got a file on him and have had a conversation

456
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Speaker 1: about him briefly or more extensively. If he played really

457
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Speaker 1: well last year for the Raiders, you don't look the

458
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Speaker 1: other way. Yeah, they'll explore it. The only the only

459
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Speaker 1: reason I was given I had pause on it was

460
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Speaker 1: because of how it was a strange parting. Yes, you

461
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: know at the end where between him and the Bills.

462
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Speaker 1: I don't think it was adversarial, but it was. I

463
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Speaker 1: don't know, it was peculiar. It was all on Ritchie though.

464
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Speaker 1: Well that's correct, and and that's why I wonder about it,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I think it's it's

466
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Speaker 1: a situation where I'm not saying anybody deceived anybody else,

467
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Speaker 1: But I don't think it was. I'm trying to find

468
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Speaker 1: the proper phrasing for this. It was just very cryptic

469
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Speaker 1: kind of the way it all unfolded, And I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend to know either how that

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Speaker 1: was received in the front office and whether it was

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Speaker 1: something that burned a bridge. I don't think it did,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to speculate that it did. It

474
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Speaker 1: just leaves me wondering did that compromise the relationship in

475
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Speaker 1: any way? I guess that's the only thing I'm I'm

476
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Speaker 1: wondering openly about. What I remember about that aspect of

477
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Speaker 1: it Brownie, is that I think at that point, well,

478
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Speaker 1: remember it was Richie and then it was Eric. Yes,

479
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: and they weren't They weren't really planning on either one

480
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Speaker 1: of those guys, leaven But when it happened the way

481
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Speaker 1: it did with Richie, I remember, at least fans and

482
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Speaker 1: I think maybe even the guys here on the show

483
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Speaker 1: and are we were like going, yeah, okay, you know

484
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Speaker 1: what that's that's okay, because it was because Richie was

485
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Speaker 1: having you know, Richie's got issues. Yeah, he's had mental

486
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Speaker 1: health questions and other issues. You know, the bullying incidents

487
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Speaker 1: down in Miami when he was down there, all of

488
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: that stuff was on the table, and it's and we've

489
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Speaker 1: had Eric Wood. Eric Wood's a good friend of his,

490
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Speaker 1: and even he says, you know, Rickie's got I mean,

491
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Speaker 1: Richie's got stuff he has to deal with, and you

492
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: got to have really solid people around him to keep

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Speaker 1: him between the lines. So there's problem. There was a

494
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Speaker 1: little bit of the not our problem anymore frame of

495
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 1: mind when Richie did say goodbye here in Buffalo. But

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Speaker 1: I know this, when Richie Incognito was a Buffalo Bill,

497
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: he played really well well, yes, very well. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know it's I mean, as you stated

499
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Speaker 1: and laid it all out, it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: And if if he performed admirably for Las Vegas, yeah,

501
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: they'll look at it, put a value on him and

502
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Speaker 1: take it from there. I think they'll also be a

503
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: lot of vetting though as to just where as to

504
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Speaker 1: just where his head is at, if he's in the

505
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: right frame of mind to be part of this daily grind.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he is all football all the time. I

507
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question about that. And as you mentioned,

508
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Speaker 1: when he's on the field and the lights are on,

509
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: you know what you're going to get out of that guy.

510
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Speaker 1: I think what we're what we're talking about here Brownie

511
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: the Bills evaluating him, putting a positive spin on the

512
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: way he played last year for the Raiders everything and

513
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Speaker 1: bringing him in, getting him for the right price, throwing

514
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Speaker 1: some incentives, telling him he can compete. I think that

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Speaker 1: from Richie Incognito's perspective, that's the best case scenario for

516
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. It might be way less than the

517
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Speaker 1: Bills might have just said, you know what, no, thank

518
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Speaker 1: you already. You know, we don't know, they'll never tell us.

519
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Speaker 1: But I think the best case scenario is the one

520
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: we're laying out that you know, they get him for

521
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Speaker 1: the right price, let him come in and compete, and

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Speaker 1: give him some incentives on a short term deal where

523
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Speaker 1: they don't have anything invested in him and he can

524
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Speaker 1: come out and prove it again that I think that's

525
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Speaker 1: the best case scenario for the Richie Incognito scenario for Richie.

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Speaker 1: For the Bills, I think that's the same the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, I think everything is like it's they're

528
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: like kind of like, you know, not is not for us.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to go back there, all right. So

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Speaker 1: with all of that covered, all that ground covered, including

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Speaker 1: the two year extension for one Micah Hide, it got

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Speaker 1: Steve and I to thinking about what the Bill's next

533
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: move should be with respect to their secondary. Obviously, it's

534
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: a pretty tied up group when you think about it,

535
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: because you now have hide and power locked up for

536
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Speaker 1: the next couple of seasons. You've got Tredevious White locked

537
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: up for four more seasons, but that pesky second cornerback

538
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: position is still undecided. I mean, even your slot corner

539
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: is essentially locked down with Tarren Johnson, although he's entering

540
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: the last year of his contract this year. So with

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00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: all of that in mind, we got to thinking, like,

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Speaker 1: what do you do next in the secondary? If anything,

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Speaker 1: the second cornerback position. The reason that that's in a

544
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: state of flux, maybe now more than ever, is because

545
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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace is now a restricted free agent, and we

546
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Speaker 1: know Josh Norman is an unrestricted free agent. Came in

547
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: here on a one year deal last year, and that's

548
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: a position that I think we all believe that they

549
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Speaker 1: want to kind of solidify and bring stability to in

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Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. Not to say that Levi

551
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: Wallace wasn't a stable player, but he was constantly battling

552
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,959
Speaker 1: other people for the right to play the position. So

553
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: with that in mind, our Twitter poll today was what

554
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: should be the Bill's next move with their secondary and

555
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: the choices are there for you at one Bill's Live,

556
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: so file your comments on the tweet sheet there accordingly.

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Speaker 1: But is it a sign a cost effective veteran corner

558
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Speaker 1: b take a starting corner early in the draft? See

559
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: count on the roster as is or d resigned Wallace

560
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: and or Josh Norman and some pretty balanced voting here

561
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Speaker 1: in the early going, Steve. But a cost effective veteran

562
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: corner is the play right now that's leading the way

563
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Speaker 1: as far as Bills fans are concerned. Yeah, And I'm

564
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Speaker 1: kind of in the mind or I think, And obviously

565
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Speaker 1: it's hard to say take a corner early in the draft.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they should take a corner if if

567
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Speaker 1: they haven't fixed their offensive line, if they've got some

568
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: offensive lineman they like and all that, I could take

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Speaker 1: a corner in the second round. I think you take

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Speaker 1: an offensive lineman in the first. And if they can

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Speaker 1: do that, then I'm up for a corner at any

572
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Speaker 1: point along the line. I do believe they'll draft one somewhere.

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Speaker 1: It might be the seventh or the sixth round. You

574
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: know they've got they've got a pick in every round

575
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Speaker 1: except the seventh. They got two fifths, so one of

576
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Speaker 1: the fifth rounders, a fourth round or even even as

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Speaker 1: high as a third or a second. I'm great with

578
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Speaker 1: that if the guy can go. And if and certainly

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Speaker 1: it may come down to it, if they sign enough

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Speaker 1: free agents, if you if you do sign a guy

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Speaker 1: like Richie Incognito or get a tent you know, Trent

582
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: Williams or something, you know, somebody they got, like, wow,

583
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: look at this offensive lineman they signed. Then maybe even

584
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: at thirty, if they get the guy, I'm totally about that. Yeah,

585
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: they've got to fix some other things too. I guess

586
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Speaker 1: when I looked at the choices on tweet sheet, I

587
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: was thinking when I saw take a start in corner

588
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Speaker 1: early in the draft, I guess I count Day two

589
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: now as early in the draft. Anybody in your first

590
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: three rounds, you're essentially counting on providing some level of

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Speaker 1: impact their first year. I don't know if it's necessarily

592
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Speaker 1: a starter if you're draft in a corner in the

593
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Speaker 1: third round, but it's certainly possible. So when I saw

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Speaker 1: the choice of b take a start in corner early

595
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Speaker 1: in the draft, I was kind of thinking somewhere on

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Speaker 1: the first two days, not necessarily round one. So I

597
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: was kind of landing there and we can kind of

598
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: get into the wise when we come back, but we

599
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: have to take a break now, but get on board.

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty one eight eight five fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty What should the Bills next move in their

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00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: secondary be? On the heels of signing Mica Hive to

603
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,479
Speaker 1: a two year contract extension this past weekend, take your

604
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: phone calls there with open lines available to you. It's

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Collat of Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown,

607
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: Steve Caski with you here on a Monday, and the

608
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Speaker 1: player cap casualties continue in the NFL. Adam Schefter reporting

609
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Speaker 1: moments ago. The Seahawks are releasing defensive end Carlos Dunlap

610
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Speaker 1: today and he was, of course the player that they

611
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Speaker 1: acquired from the Bengals in their go for Its season

612
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: this past year, and now they have to shed him

613
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Speaker 1: from the roster to kind of help their cap situation along.

614
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: So Dunlap will be out there in free agency capable

615
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Speaker 1: player long athlete a little bit longer in the tooth

616
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Speaker 1: long long time veteran of the Bengals before going up

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Speaker 1: to Seattle. Here's half more than halfway through the season.

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Speaker 1: Just another name that's gonna he's not gonna be alone

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Speaker 1: very soon. Carlos Dunlap is an athlete. He can play, Yeah,

620
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Speaker 1: he can play. But I believe this is this will

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Speaker 1: be his age thirty season. Getting around Dunlap is a long,

622
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Speaker 1: a long, lean defensive end with a lot of reach,

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Speaker 1: real athleticum. Has been a really good player for the

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Speaker 1: Bengals for a long time. And this is age thirty season.

625
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Speaker 1: You say, actually, he's thirty two years old already, right.

626
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: I think that guy will help somebody if they can

627
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Speaker 1: get him. That guy screens one year deal, doesn't he

628
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: that's the kind of guy you're gonna get one year deal. Yeah, Yeah,

629
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Speaker 1: he'll come in and parachute in for a year and

630
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: give you the kind of year that Darryl Williams did

631
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills last year at right tackle. A

632
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, really good solid play sixteen games. Go, Um,

633
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Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at. And he's a he's a

634
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Speaker 1: really good player both of the run pass. He's an

635
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Speaker 1: every down defensive end. Really good guy. And he would

636
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Speaker 1: benefit from the philosophy of the Bills of the rotational thing.

637
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: He keep him, you know, fresh, keep his reps down,

638
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 1: keep him fresh. He'd played very well. I think we

639
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Speaker 1: are talking about the Bills secondary here. What should be

640
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Speaker 1: next on their list in terms of moves to fortify

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Speaker 1: the secondary on that elusive cornerback position opposite Tradevius White.

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Speaker 1: They extended Micah Hyde. We know that player's under contract.

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Speaker 1: White was just extended. Taran Johnson is got another year

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Speaker 1: on his contract, and the nickel cam Lewis sits behind

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Speaker 1: him on the depth chart. So if you had to

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Speaker 1: make a next move with the secondary, what would it be.

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Speaker 1: Your choices are there on the tweet sheet at one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, so feel free to chime in there or

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Speaker 1: on the phones at eight oh three five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight, five fifty two, five fifty And that's where

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Speaker 1: we have rich In Tonawanda waiting for us. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: lead us off today. Rich what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: You're on one Bills Live. I would just like to

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Speaker 1: voice my opinion on how the Bills should address some

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Speaker 1: of the issues with free agency. Yeah. Sure. First of all,

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Speaker 1: their most important player obviously is josh Yellen, and in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, I would do anything possible and try to improve,

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Speaker 1: particularly the interior of that offensive line. In Pro Football Focus,

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Speaker 1: they didn't have one of their interior linemen in the

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Speaker 1: top twenty five. There's obviously the kid from or Denver

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Speaker 1: out there in New England. The pair of guards they

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Speaker 1: can certainly lop off some of these contracts. Mario Edison's

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Speaker 1: is I think the worst under team. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: Mitch Morris is. You know, he's highly overpaid and obviously

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Speaker 1: a couple of other defensive linemen where they can grab

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Speaker 1: a lot of calf space. I would do whatever possible

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Speaker 1: to try and improve that interior offense. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: think Fever, I would disagree with you for a second. Rich.

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Speaker 1: I think with respect to our Twitter poll today, though,

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Speaker 1: we're kind of creating this scenario like let's just say,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I are you know, the Pagoulas and your

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and we come to you and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: great job getting Mica, you know, signed to the extension.

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Speaker 1: What else do you plan to do in the secondary,

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Speaker 1: if anything, going forward with this roster? What would be

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Speaker 1: your answer to that? Knowing three quarters of that starting secondary,

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Speaker 1: he's locked up with contracts, like, what would be your

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Speaker 1: next move there. I had the pleasure of talking to

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Speaker 1: Brandon a year and a half ago at one of

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Speaker 1: the meetings dinners, and I was confused why they cut Derby.

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Speaker 1: Now I realized he's out there as a free agent,

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Speaker 1: and he has had certainly some injuries. He might be

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Speaker 1: a possibility. As you have mentioned, I would definitely if

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Speaker 1: the right players there at the right time, I would

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Speaker 1: draft the defensive pack and try and bring back Wallace

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Speaker 1: as well. Okay, that's what we're looking for, Rich, Thanks

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Speaker 1: very much. We appreciate the input on that. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could do a lot worse than Levi Wallace, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy has been a steady player. I

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Speaker 1: don't think anybody would say he's of the same athletic

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Speaker 1: ilk as a trade Avious White, but he gets the

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Speaker 1: job done more often than not. And we know that

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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator on this staff, Leslie Frasier, certainly respects

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Speaker 1: his game. I just wonder where that goes, or if

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Speaker 1: they say let's upgrade that because we want to play

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Speaker 1: some more man coverage this year. I wonder if the

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Speaker 1: scheme and the potential changes therein could change who they

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Speaker 1: feel is the best fit in that role. Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 1: And one of the choices on arts poll is obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, the roster has isn't developed. The guy like

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Speaker 1: Dane Jackson, get him going, you know, Taryn Johnson, get

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Speaker 1: him perhaps maybe he can play outside. You know, all

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Speaker 1: of that stuff develop the gun. That kind of goes

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Speaker 1: without saying because this this coaching staff has always done that.

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Speaker 1: And I told you this just a second ago. I

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Speaker 1: think they will draft a corner in this draft someplace.

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Speaker 1: Don't know that it'll be second, third, or first day

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Speaker 1: of the draft, but I think they will come home

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Speaker 1: with a corner from this draft. I think there's some

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Speaker 1: guys that fit really well in the scheme that the

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Speaker 1: Bills want to play and ask him to do kind

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Speaker 1: of the tradevious White kind of thing. But here's what happens,

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Speaker 1: and this is why Levi Wallace was a rookie free

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Speaker 1: agent instead of a draft pick. The higher you get

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Speaker 1: a guy in the draft, the more tangible boxes he

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Speaker 1: is gonna check. He's gonna be big, strong, fast, and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be bigger. He's gonna be stronger, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be faster, and he's gonna be more athletic the higher

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Speaker 1: in the draft you take him, and maybe more polished too, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and maybe more polished and maybe have better instincts all

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. That the boxes, the more more boxes

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Speaker 1: will be checked, the higher you take the guy in

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Speaker 1: the draft. That's the reason the draft is what it

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Speaker 1: is now. Having said that Kevin Johnson was a first

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Speaker 1: round draft pick and he could not get Levi Wallace

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Speaker 1: off the field, you know that you run into that.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing that says you take a guy at thirty.

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Speaker 1: If the Bills stand Patton picked the thirtieth pick of

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Speaker 1: the draft, that they're gonna and they take the best

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Speaker 1: corner overall, there's nothing that says in two years, you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna say, you know what, he's just not the guy, right.

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Speaker 1: So um, like I said before, coaches love the guys.

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Speaker 1: They actually know everything about what they can count on,

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Speaker 1: how good they are. They gonna get the committed to

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Speaker 1: be right. So yeah, the high but like I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not going to change the fact that

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Speaker 1: they evaluate these guys on the boxes that they check

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Speaker 1: off because they don't get them in their system and

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Speaker 1: in their building and watching them every day until they

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Speaker 1: draft him or sign them. So there's no guarantees that

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Speaker 1: taking a guy at thirty is going to be any

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Speaker 1: better than the rookie free agent that's been starting for

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Speaker 1: you for three years. All Right, we gotta take a break,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll get to some of

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Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet, and we want to

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Speaker 1: remind you that coming up in about twenty minutes, we'll

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Speaker 1: have NFL Networks Cynthia Freeland with us. We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: through one of her recent mock drafts, to which she

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Speaker 1: applied one of her analytic models based on a number

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Speaker 1: of factors including team needs, statistical success from the year prior,

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Speaker 1: and a host of other metrics, all crammed and jammed

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Speaker 1: into a multilayered approach that spit out the most likely

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Speaker 1: draft picks for each and every team in round number one.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to her in about fifteen minutes time, but

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Speaker 1: your tweet sheet comments next here on One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Chaster with you.

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Speaker 1: If we are closing up our number one hour number

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Speaker 1: two will begin with NFL Network Cynthia Freeland joining us,

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Speaker 1: so be sure to stay tuned for that. But we

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Speaker 1: want to get to some of your comments on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. We saw that Micah hid signed a two

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Speaker 1: year extension just before the weekend got under way, and

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Speaker 1: it locks up another piece in their secondary. But knowing

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Speaker 1: that Levi Wallace is a restricted free agent, knowing that

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Speaker 1: Dean Marlowe is an unrestricted free agent, Josh Norman unrestricted

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Speaker 1: free agent, there has to be some movement there in

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Speaker 1: terms of a next move. By what route should the

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Speaker 1: Bills travel to make their next move in their secondary?

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Speaker 1: And your choices are there on the tweet sheet at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. So the tweet sheet brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and Jack leads us off today by saying,

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Speaker 1: resign Levi Wallace. He is a solid and affordable restricted

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Speaker 1: free agent. He's not elite, but he is good short

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Speaker 1: term while you developed Dane Jackson and use a second

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Speaker 1: or third rounder on a dB in what appears to

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Speaker 1: be a deep defensive back class for the future, but

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Speaker 1: have to get Wallace inked up at least short term

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Speaker 1: to hold down the spot. Well. Jack technically answered with

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Speaker 1: two choices because he wants a draft one too, but

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Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't see a second or a third rounder

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Speaker 1: as an early draft choice. I think if you draft

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Speaker 1: anybody on the first two days, it's an early investment.

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Speaker 1: But that's just me. Yeah, I don't know if it is,

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Speaker 1: or I don't know if I agree. I think an

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Speaker 1: early investment is a first or second rounder. Of those

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Speaker 1: guys have got to be you would think those guys

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Speaker 1: are going to be starting caliber NFL players. Yeah, if

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Speaker 1: you get him on the first or second day, and

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Speaker 1: if you get him on the first day, yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: definitely you're thinking that they're gonna be. If they're in

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Speaker 1: the first round, you got to think they can step in,

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Speaker 1: plug in and play at least play a significant role.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not be on the field like Day one, opening day,

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Speaker 1: but if the Bills drafted a guy like that, he

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Speaker 1: would for sure be being rotated in. He would have

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Speaker 1: to be that. They would have to think he could

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Speaker 1: do that. So I that's what I think. And first,

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Speaker 1: it's got to be a first or second rounder for

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Speaker 1: me to be an early round pick. Third round, yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he might be able to compete and get in there,

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Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, I don't think their

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Speaker 1: expectations obviously would be as high. I think if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get an invest and you think it's a priority,

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Speaker 1: it's got to be a first or second round pick

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Speaker 1: for a guy to be good enough physically to say

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Speaker 1: this guy's gonna be able to compete right away. So

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Speaker 1: that's where I'm at. And I know this too, and

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Speaker 1: we said that I was getting after Jay when we

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Speaker 1: were talking about the poll. They're going to develop all

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Speaker 1: these guys on the roster. All the player Levi Wallace

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Speaker 1: is a is a textbook example of a guy developing.

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Speaker 1: And there are others as well on the on the roster,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna Dane Jackson. Tarren Johnson is a great

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Speaker 1: guy that that seems to be have developed out of

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Speaker 1: nowhere to become a guy they depend on. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a given the development factor for this franchise.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, if you're gonna lose Levi Wallace, I think

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Speaker 1: it's a first or it's got to be first, second

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Speaker 1: on draft. I mean it the way jack describes it

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Speaker 1: in resigning Wallace and then talking about drafting and developing

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Speaker 1: Dane Jackson, it sounds like he sees Levi Wallace as

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Speaker 1: like a bridge player to your full time, long term starter.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of how he framed it in pretty long

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Speaker 1: long bridge Well the three Well, yeah, but I think

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Speaker 1: he's thinking in terms of this year, this is your

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Speaker 1: one year bridge to your next guy. But where is

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Speaker 1: that next guy? Is it Dane Jackson or is it

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Speaker 1: a second or third round pick, or maybe it's you know,

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Speaker 1: some other veteran that you add on a one year deal.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but you'd like to think that question

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Speaker 1: they want to define to answer there eventually, and maybe

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Speaker 1: they don't. I think a lot of gms in this

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Speaker 1: league have come to the realization that with the salary

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Speaker 1: cap where it is, and with the salary structure of

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Speaker 1: some of these positions like corner, which is a high

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Speaker 1: priced position, if you're dealing with veteran players, that you're

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Speaker 1: not going to be able to fill everyone with a

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Speaker 1: long term answer. And maybe one is always in a

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Speaker 1: state of flux until you find somebody that's so good

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Speaker 1: you want to keep them there year over year. Over

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Speaker 1: year over year, you know, like a Micah Hyde. So

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Speaker 1: I just wonder in the mind of Brandon being in

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Speaker 1: his front office and you know, Sean McDermott, if they

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Speaker 1: kind of accept the fact that we're going to have

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Speaker 1: some long term answers at some positions. Those are our

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Speaker 1: true core players, but a lot of our other positions

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Speaker 1: are going to be in, for lack of a better term,

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Speaker 1: some state of flux where we're just trying to find

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Speaker 1: an answer for this year, and we're trying to find

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Speaker 1: an answer for this year and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 1: You can't fill every position long term. The salary structure

855
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: doesn't allow you to do that. But right, I don't know. Yeah,

856
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: I agree, And it's interesting too. I was thinking about this.

857
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: You know, the number one scoring defense in the league

858
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: last year was Miami or well it was going into

859
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: Week seventeen before the Bills lit them up. But you

860
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: know they had two solid starting quarter by price corners

861
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: high priced. I had a first round draft pick was

862
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: their nickel. Right, there's some investment there. Now they got

863
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: a great defense out of it. They had you know,

864
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Speaker 1: top five where they were the top scoring defense in

865
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Speaker 1: the league going into Week seventeen, like I said, and

866
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Speaker 1: then when they lost their heart in week seventeen, they

867
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: gave it up. They ended up what fifth or six

868
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: at the end of the day because you know, Matt

869
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: Barkley and Josh Allen lit them up and scored fifty

870
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: six points on them and it and it crushed their

871
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Speaker 1: their ranking for the season. But think about this, Brennan,

872
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is right. I do think

873
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: you want as good at players as you can get

874
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: at corner particularly and the secondary. I think analytics is

875
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: shown as made a believer out of me that that

876
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: coverage is more important than even pressure because your coverage

877
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: has to hold up even when the quarterback breaks contain

878
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: So think about this. Though the Bills had a secondary

879
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: even for the last three or four years, has been really,

880
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: really good. Does an offense become more predictable when you

881
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: have a corner that's vert, that's substantially more vulnerable than

882
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: your other corner. Do they come become predictably because they

883
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: know they're not going to attack that corner. You know

884
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna attack this corner. And like the Bills showed

885
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen, if you got two good corners, they

886
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: both have to be on every play. And if you

887
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: go a little bit deeper than their third than your

888
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 1: second corner on our defense, and you got a third

889
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: corner that you can attack, your offense becomes less predictable.

890
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: Well yeah, maybe, but that's part of the reason why. Well,

891
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: they are the reason that I think there has to

892
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: be a move here are twofold number one. I think

893
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: they learned last year that their secondary has to be

894
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: more versatile across the board when it comes to zone

895
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: or man coverage calls to give their coordinator more to

896
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,919
Speaker 1: work with. So you need a guy that can play

897
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: press man at each year, at least at both of

898
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: your top two corner positions. And then secondarily, you look

899
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Speaker 1: at the potential turnover with the guys whose contracts are up,

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00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: and I think you have to address the position just

901
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: from a pure numbers standpoint. So that's what's at play here,

902
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: and that's why we're asking this question today. We do

903
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: have to take a break, though, because when we come back,

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Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland from NFL Network, your analytics guru, will be

905
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: with us. We'll be talking to her about her most

906
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: recent mock draft, which applied one of her statistical models

907
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: and outspit the names of players for each of the

908
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: teams with a first round draft choice. Will see who

909
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 1: she had or the Bills pick at number thirty amongst

910
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: some of the others. When we return here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Line, presented by Kalaida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio,

912
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Date, your sports update from One

913
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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The long schedule deadline for teams to apply

914
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Speaker 1: the franchise and transition tags depending free agent players has

915
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,720
Speaker 1: been Tuesday, March ninth, but some uncertainty with a final

916
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: number for the twenty twenty one salary camp could push

917
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: the deadline back a couple of days. In Rappaboard of

918
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Speaker 1: NFL Network reported on Monday that the failure of the

919
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 1: league to determine the actual hard salary cap figure could

920
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: move the deadline. Tom Brady signed a two year contract

921
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: to join the Bucks last March, and the quarterback may

922
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: be signing another contract with the team this March. Adam

923
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: Schefter of ESPN reporting Monday that the two sides have

924
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: made good momentum toward an agreement that would extend Brady's

925
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: stay with the team. Doing so put him on track

926
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Speaker 1: to continue playing beyond his forty fifth birthday in August

927
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 1: of twenty to twenty two. Salary cap casualties around the

928
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 1: league are widely anticipated over the next week and a half,

929
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: and the latest comes from Seattle Adam Schefter reporting that

930
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: defensive end Carlos Dunlap will be released today by the Seahawks.

931
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: The thirty two year old was acquired from Cincinnati via

932
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: trade this past season, with the Seahawks sending offensive lineman

933
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: b J. Finney in a seventh round pick to the Bengals. Ironically,

934
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,959
Speaker 1: the Bengals just released Finney last week. Tight End Zach

935
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: Ertz maybe the next Philadelphia Eagle on the move. Multiple

936
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: teams have called the Eagles about the possibility of trading

937
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: for ERTs, and a deal could happen in the coming days.

938
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: According to NFL Network, the potential trade of Ertz would

939
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: exemplify the ongoing change in Philadelphia after the team agreed

940
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: to trade quarterback Carson Wentz to the Indianapolis Colts last month.

941
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: And the Sabers are off today following back to back

942
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: losses to the Islanders. Buffalo continues its road trip by

943
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: heading to Philadelphia for a matchup with the Flyers tomorrow

944
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 1: night face off. There is set or seven pm. That

945
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: is your sports update from one Bill's Drive. Chris Brown,

946
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you our number two of the program

947
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Speaker 1: here on a Monday and joining us now on the line.

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Speaker 1: NFL network Analytics analyst, expert, whatever you want to label her.

949
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: She is the number cruncher Guru and contributor to NFL

950
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: Fantasy Live as well as NFL Game Day Morning. Hosted

951
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: a numbers game on Twitch, which is an application I

952
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: still have to get a handle on because I know

953
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: nothing about it. My kids are telling me I got

954
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: to do that, but that is neither here nor there.

955
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: It is Cynthia Freeland joining us on the line. Cynthia,

956
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 1: thanks for taking some time here on a Monday. We

957
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me. You know,

958
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: I always get a special sense of happiness when I can,

959
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: like appeal to Bill's mafia, you know, anything good. But

960
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: it's my favorite because they are the loudest group on

961
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: Twitter and I really want to go to a game

962
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: whenever I can there, So you know, there's a lot

963
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: of things I like about Bill. Yeah, it's a good idea.

964
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: It is a good idea not to cross them. I've

965
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: seen it happen, and it'll ruin your day to day. Yeah,

966
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: it was a little more than day sometimes. Yeah. Well,

967
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: as we know, Cynthia, this is you know, mock draft season,

968
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: and you're you always take a completely different approach than

969
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: other people mock drafts. You know, personnel decisions. You take

970
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 1: a numbers based approach to everything, and tell us, walk

971
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: us through how you got to the to the point

972
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 1: where you know this this tackle out of Oklahoma State,

973
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: Tevin Jenkins decided you decided numbers wise, that's a guy

974
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: that makes sense for Buffalo. Tell us how you got

975
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: there and why him. So we make the premise of

976
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: my model a little different for a couple of reasons.

977
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Speaker 1: The first reason is, if you werena if you were

978
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: gonna have an analytics person do it mock draft, I

979
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: would trade every single pick until it was like the

980
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: right one that we was so in waiting for my

981
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: editor to try to figure out. So no trades allowed.

982
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two. Then we have to say, okay,

983
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,439
Speaker 1: we gotta draw the line somewhere. So there are free

984
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: agents out there, and there are like you got to

985
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: kind of map the free agent situation to what are

986
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 1: the draft picks in this season more than any other.

987
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,439
Speaker 1: We have a lot of question marks around these kids

988
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 1: in the draft. We don't know what we're seeing. Often

989
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: they opted out, or they didn't play a full season.

990
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: They played it weird times. They're just not the normal

991
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: set of it. We don't even combine data, which you

992
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: know that is what it is, no matter what. But

993
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: like at the end of the day, you know you

994
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: have a lot of things that are different this season

995
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: compared to others. So we took an approach of Okay,

996
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 1: let's figure out, like how to map the highest value

997
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one wins using the available free agents

998
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: and draft pool. Now, for the Bills, this is a

999
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: good problem to have. You're picking at thirties, so you

1000
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: don't get the best tackle, you don't get the best

1001
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: wide receiver. You don't even need a wide receiver, but

1002
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: you don't get the number one. You have to kind

1003
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 1: of figure out those people who strategically fit, what's the

1004
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: game plan and how it might be executed. So for me,

1005
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: it came down to you or you're going to add

1006
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: to defense or are you going to add at the

1007
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: O line? And Tevin Jenkins came up the interesting thing

1008
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: about him is Okay, so in Oklahoma State, when I

1009
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,320
Speaker 1: read all my all my notes on him, I measure

1010
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: tackles and guards for how they get pushed back. You

1011
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: have to remember, with a guy like Josh now And

1012
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: who's really good at throwing off platform throws, it's not

1013
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,439
Speaker 1: quite as important to have a tackle that can set

1014
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: the edge like for a true pocket passer. What really

1015
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 1: is important is to be able to disguise in running

1016
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: situations and on those pass play action and the passes

1017
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,959
Speaker 1: that are disguised as runs. And that's actually where Tevin

1018
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,760
Speaker 1: he was nasty against when when they was stopping people

1019
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: from run, against his quarterback and against his running back,

1020
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: he was nasty at that, like he would level people.

1021
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 1: So when you look to see what he can do

1022
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: specifically helping run and pass, he has a high blend

1023
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: of both. So you know, PFF says he allowed four

1024
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 1: total pressures and two hundred and eleven pass blocking snaps

1025
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 1: in college. Okay, that's great, But for me, it was

1026
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: more about holding his blocks on runs, pushing the potential

1027
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: defenders out of the way so that the run game

1028
00:55:56,800 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: had chance to really to develop. That really made him special. Yeah,

1029
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: I mean Resetting the line of scrimmage is something that

1030
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: you know this team is looking to improve upon to

1031
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: help with their run game. I think a lot of

1032
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: people are mocking running backs to the Bills, and Steve

1033
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: and I are of the opinion that they're not doing

1034
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: that in round one. They're getting alignment to kind of

1035
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: help reset the line of scrimmage on a more consistent basis,

1036
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: more consistent holes and things of that nature. So can

1037
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 1: we and tell I'm trying. I don't want to get

1038
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: too deep in the weeds with your model making and whatnot,

1039
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: but can we assume your model for the Bills took

1040
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: into account maybe they're low run game grades from twenty twenty,

1041
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 1: as well as the fact that five of their nine

1042
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: offensive linemen are set to become free agents. Did that

1043
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: get factored in at all with the whole model here?

1044
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: I mean the mock draft that comes out after free

1045
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: agencies a little bit clearer will be better, Like the

1046
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: closer the draft we get, just like anything else, will

1047
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,479
Speaker 1: have more data and more information who's on the team,

1048
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: who's not, what do they do with their free agents?

1049
00:56:57,680 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: You know, as soon as we see a little bit

1050
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 1: more at all, start to still this says that the

1051
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: highest return on investment is bolstering the O line and

1052
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: especially being cognizant of the run game. That's what this

1053
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: is saying, right, and we've been talking about the exact

1054
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: same thing. I don't have a problem with Devin Singletary

1055
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: or Zach Moss. I think they're a great combination. They

1056
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: are similar, and some people like to have two different

1057
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: types of backs, so you can, but I think that

1058
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: makes you more predictable when one of those guys is

1059
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: on the field. So I like the way the Bills

1060
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: are doing it, and I think those guys are good

1061
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: enough if your offensive line, you know, gets better up

1062
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: front as well. So and also one of the things

1063
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: about the mock draft, yet four quarterbacks picked in the

1064
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: in the first round. Talking us a little bit about

1065
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: and obviously you got to get a guy if you're

1066
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: a team looking for one, and you whether you have

1067
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: to jump up to get him or not, you got

1068
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: to grab him. So is that part of what goes

1069
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: into four guys going in the first round. Yeah. The

1070
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 1: interesting part there is that you know a lot of

1071
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: teams in order to get a quarterback, you have the

1072
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: fear of someone else trading again, there's no trades in

1073
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: my MOX, so that that changes things a little bit. Like,

1074
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: for example, I would tell the Jets to trade out

1075
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: of two to get more draft picks, because the Jets

1076
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: aren't one player away, They're like fifty players away, you know,

1077
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: so they need they need more, not just one, right Like,

1078
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: So that's kind of you don't have that opportunity in

1079
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: this in this format. The other thing there, the interesting

1080
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: party is there are a number of really good quarterbacks

1081
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: that are on the market, and these free agents they

1082
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: will provide disproportionate value. So you really got to see

1083
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 1: maybe the order and obviously you know, look, you know

1084
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and the opportunity to take a quarterback and

1085
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: it's for a team that doesn't have a quarterback, and

1086
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: we kind of have heard that. Yes, of course you

1087
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: take the most valuable position first. But then when you

1088
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: get to eight and nine and you get to the

1089
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: difference between the Broncos and the Panthers, I don't think

1090
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: I think one of those teams won't be in the market, right,

1091
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think they'll I think the

1092
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: Panthers might make a move or maybe we'll see something,

1093
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: you know, weird happen from Las Vegas where maybe the

1094
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine or so. You know, that's where

1095
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: it becomes a little murky. And then the difference between

1096
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson and Justin Fields, which are my number two

1097
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: and number three quarterbacks in terms of how I would

1098
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: overall kind of rank them. It's kind of a style

1099
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: format thing. It's you know, if you look at if

1100
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: you look at what happened at BYU with Zach Wilson,

1101
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: he's good at those off platform throws, just like we're

1102
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: talking about throws you know, where he's not completely set.

1103
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: He's more accurate on those, whereas Justin Fields he's more

1104
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: of a true like you know, threat with a read option.

1105
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: So it's it's um stylistic. It's not as it's not

1106
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: like that could be like, oh, you know, they're they're

1107
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: not that significantly different in kind of skill set. And

1108
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: then Trey Lance is like the next step down for

1109
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: me there from that standpoint, So it's really more about,

1110
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's like Trevor Lawrence. Yep, that's you got

1111
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: to swing for the fences with him because he has

1112
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: the indicators of being great. We don't know if he's

1113
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 1: going to be good or not, but he has the

1114
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: indicators they're there. Then we got the Zach Wilson justin fields.

1115
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: Those guys are like around below, and those are stylistic differences.

1116
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 1: I don't see much difference in terms of upside. It's

1117
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: all gonna matter. Every quarterback's the system quarterback, so it's

1118
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: gonna matter what system they go to. And then Trey Lance,

1119
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,439
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a big example set. He could be great.

1120
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of development to figure out. And

1121
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: so maybe at a place like the Patriots, with the

1122
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: system where they really do understand how to develop talent

1123
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: and kind of they to make average into above average

1124
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: really well like for a lot of players and a

1125
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: lot of positions, maybe that's the best fit. But I

1126
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: don't anticipate I anticipate either Carolina or Denver making some moves.

1127
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: I anticipate, you know, the Niners and the and the

1128
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: Raiders both doing something that maybe we don't know what

1129
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: they're doing yet. And I think we'll see the Patriots

1130
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: make a move before drafting a quarterback. So again I

1131
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: don't I don't think it's realistic. I think it's it's

1132
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,439
Speaker 1: just right now what it would currently map to Talking

1133
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: to Cynthia Freeland from NFL Network, I only had one

1134
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: other question with respect to your method. Here are we

1135
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 1: So these names that you have in each of these

1136
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: respective slots and round one of the mock are are

1137
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: these the names that how many? I guess I'm asking

1138
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: is did you run this model like thousands of times?

1139
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: And these are the most popular names for each of

1140
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: the picks? Like what are we talking? Ten thousand simulations?

1141
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: How many did you run here with? Here? Oh? Yeah,

1142
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: so in order to figure out the twenty twenty one season.

1143
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 1: This is this is where things get tricky because we

1144
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: don't have full understandings of people's of people's rosters yet.

1145
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: So you run the simulations ten thousand times for each game,

1146
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 1: so two hundred and fifty six games, right, So there's

1147
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: a lot of simulations to run, and there's I mean,

1148
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 1: it's a lot to do. It just takes a while, right,

1149
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,280
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, then what happens

1150
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: is is it's not just like who's my best quarterback?

1151
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 1: It's also stylistic fits, right, like the Bills need a

1152
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 1: quarterback or I need an alignment that can help in

1153
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 1: the run game. That that's more valuable in their scheme,

1154
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 1: given their current personnel, given their current needs, and their

1155
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: opponents that they play. And Brian Dable architects architecting this offense,

1156
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: so it takes into account as much as we know, right,

1157
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: So some of these guys might not be in the

1158
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 1: same order as other people have of them. Like I

1159
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: have a much higher return on investment for a QUITTI

1160
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: pay than a lot of people because I think a

1161
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: pass rusher who's as raw as him, he's not very

1162
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: well developed. If he goes to a place like Atlanta,

1163
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: where you've got the good development factor. Dean Peas is

1164
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: well known for being able to develop talent that isn't

1165
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: maybe a prototype, he's more valuable there than he would

1166
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: be at say, you know a different type of situation

1167
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: where you are a more offensive minded head coach with

1168
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: like he wouldn't be as good an Arizona right where

1169
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 1: I like their their defensive coordinator, but they're probably a

1170
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 1: far better understanding of offense than defense, right and they

1171
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: have they have JJ Watt, they don't need it, so gotcha.

1172
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: And as this offseason, you know carries through where every

1173
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: team is going to have holes on their roster because

1174
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: a free agency because of the reduced cap. The Bills

1175
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 1: seem to be set at their offensive skill positions. All

1176
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: their wide receivers are set, They've got their running backs crew,

1177
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: seems to be set. Their tight ends. I think they're

1178
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: gonna roll with Dawson Knox, although his backup with Tyler

1179
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: Croft Lee Smith doesn't. It's a little bit iffy, but

1180
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: I think they like Dawson Knox and they think this

1181
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: this year, his third year is going to be the

1182
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: one where he takes a step forward. All of that stuff.

1183
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: But you had the Bill's wide receiving corps and for

1184
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: a good thing, they should stay in tech because they

1185
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: were one of the top units in the league. How

1186
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: did you come to that and what all goes into

1187
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: that evaluation? Sure, so it's not just what a wide

1188
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: receiver does on the routes when they're targeted with the football.

1189
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: It's also what happens when they're not targeted. So, yes,

1190
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: stefend Diggs had the most receptions in the NFL this season,

1191
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 1: but also he was incredibly valuable when he didn't when

1192
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: he wasn't the subject of the past because that's how

1193
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: you saw deep touchdowns to other people occur, Right and

1194
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: it was interesting when you look to see all the

1195
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: way things map together, like the Cole Beasley drawing people

1196
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: into the middle of the field and Stefandiggs drawing people away. Well,

1197
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 1: you open it up for the other situations to happen.

1198
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 1: So that kind of like think of a triangle. Like

1199
01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about basketball, and you can talk

1200
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 1: about this space that's created. The type of space you're

1201
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: able to create. It was perfectly suited to Josh Allen's

1202
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 1: skill set. And you didn't show this offense, this defense,

1203
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 1: the same offense over and over again. Like part of

1204
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: part of that is that's a really that's art. It's

1205
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: an artwork because there is something too. You know, you

1206
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: have to practice something enough time for people to get

1207
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: good at it, but you have to not over use

1208
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: it such that defenses can scout it. I mean, we

1209
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: saw that happen with the Ravens this season. The Ravens

1210
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:28,240
Speaker 1: did not have enough diversity in their playbook. They were

1211
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: also missing pieces. Their tight end, who was a big

1212
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: function of that. He wasn't he was not healthy for

1213
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 1: the most of the season. You know that, you saw

1214
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: they go back to the same bag of tricks and

1215
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't always work. So the amount of diversity and

1216
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: play calling and the ability to you know, use those

1217
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 1: receivers in different sets, in different ways and mix it

1218
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: up enough to trick a defense, but not so much

1219
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 1: to trick the offense. That was it was masterful. They're

1220
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 1: in such good the Bills are in really great shape

1221
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: and a lot of in a lot of ways and

1222
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: a lot of areas. And you know that Stefon Digs trade.

1223
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 1: I'll tell you you know it. Last year it looked

1224
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: like they weren't getting as good of a deal because

1225
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: you know, DeAndre Hopkins got traded for a song, But

1226
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 1: then you look to see what happened and how he

1227
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 1: delivered beyond that expectation, and that's a great trade. Like

1228
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: I think every Bill's fan and every Bill's front office

1229
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: member would make that trade again and again. I think

1230
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: it's notable that in the day an analytics expert on

1231
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: our show talks about the art of all of it,

1232
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 1: where the number you can't you can't quantify all of it.

1233
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 1: And and I think there was something between when when

1234
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs became a Bill and he got his relationship

1235
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 1: going with Josh Allen, it blossomed into something that he

1236
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: didn't have in Minnesota. That made him so valuable to

1237
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:36,800
Speaker 1: everybody in Minnesota. It got even better that I think

1238
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 1: because he helped Josh. Josh helped him, and I don't

1239
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: know that he would have been the same receiver on

1240
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 1: any other team that he was for the Buffalo Bills. Absolutely.

1241
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: Look I like the analytics can get you to a

1242
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: certain part, right, Like if you have a good analytics staff,

1243
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 1: which the Bills do, you have the opportunity to take

1244
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 1: the brilliance that's in the brain of your coach and

1245
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 1: coaches and the people who are the architects of it,

1246
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 1: and then find the pieces that really make that happen best.

1247
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: It's not about being prescriptive about you know, to do

1248
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: this or do that, like a lot of times you

1249
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: hear on TV, Oh the analytics say to go for it, Like,

1250
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, because I would argue

1251
01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: that the analytics can give you a framework to work from,

1252
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: but they don't. They don't tell you what to do.

1253
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:21,800
Speaker 1: They tell you you know this is this has worked

1254
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: in the past against these types of defenses. If you

1255
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 1: but you could get into this situation and that wide

1256
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 1: receiver can you know, be a little tight in as

1257
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: hamstring and not tight enough to not play, but like

1258
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent speed. So it's really about the

1259
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: the the brilliance of finding the types of receivers that

1260
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 1: complement each other. Because even though like Stefan Diggs, he

1261
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: obviously had a good thing with you know, Adam Feelin's

1262
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: another great, another great wide receiver, but the way that

1263
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 1: their play action worked or didn't worked, and the routes

1264
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 1: he was asked to run or wasn't asked to run,

1265
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: and the situations with you know, Adam Feeling commanding other

1266
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: people's attention or not. It didn't create the same space

1267
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: for him and it didn't create the same opportunity. So

1268
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: it was really like kind of a blending of kind

1269
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: of all of the different things. You didn't have redundant receivers,

1270
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: you didn't have people who ran the same route. You Also,

1271
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: you know, on Minnesota's offense there Kirk Cousins has some

1272
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 1: weird numbers. Josh Allen, the way that they're calling plays

1273
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: it makes him better, you know, like it's not just

1274
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's skill, which he's very skilled, but you couldn't

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Speaker 1: and I say this for every quarterback. You can't PLoP

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, push them on a new team and expect

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Speaker 1: this all of the things have to fit. Lamar Jackson's

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Speaker 1: a better example of this, just because his style is

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Speaker 1: so different. But basically, you go you go here to there,

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Speaker 1: you don't go you know what I mean, like you

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Speaker 1: don't go, you don't go like one to one. It

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Speaker 1: has to be the whole sum of all of the parts,

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Speaker 1: not just you know, this one thing plopped over. So

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Speaker 1: taking that a step further, Cynthia, in this a very

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Speaker 1: unusual offseason with the cap sliding backwards, I'm curious just

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Speaker 1: for your take on how the people in the analytics

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Speaker 1: departments of NFL front offices that have to navigate this

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Speaker 1: in a capped strapped year for probably half the league.

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Speaker 1: So let's just say for the sixteen teams that have

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Speaker 1: cap issues. Aside from just saying, well, throw these high

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Speaker 1: salaried guys overboard, what might be applicable in terms of

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Speaker 1: applying some of those analytics to free agent bargains fines

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Speaker 1: guys that are going to be thrust out into the market,

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01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: but arguably fewer teams are going to be able to

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Speaker 1: pay top dollar four. Is there a way to kind

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Speaker 1: of navigate your way through that with an analytic model

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Speaker 1: of sorts. Yeah, you have to know what average is

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Speaker 1: on your team and what you know because an average

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Speaker 1: player like the Patriots, people talk about we want to

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Speaker 1: do what the Patriots do. They have a bunch of

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01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: average players and it's just next man up. But people

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01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:57,240
Speaker 1: are forgetting a really really big part of that, and

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01:08:57,280 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: that's identifying what is average in my system. Just like

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Speaker 1: I said, you can't PLoP one piece to a different

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01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,759
Speaker 1: piece and etc. You have to what has to happen

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01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,560
Speaker 1: is it? It has to be in out. The expectations

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Speaker 1: of player X are this. We're paying for these expectations,

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01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: and in our system that nets to more wins. So

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Speaker 1: it's really about being very honest and transparent about what

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Speaker 1: your expectations are and being diligent about If you have

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01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 1: bad contracts, you gotta cut them before they hamstring you

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Speaker 1: so badly that you're now in a situation we have

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Speaker 1: to cut like seven people in order to accommodate two

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01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 1: bad deals, and those teams are screwed. Those teams are

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Speaker 1: going to have a hard time because even harder this year,

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Speaker 1: it's even harder. You can't just buy your way out

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Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, well, and that's that you get into.

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Speaker 1: These teams get themselves into this these situations where it

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Speaker 1: they paint themselves into a corner where they have no leverage,

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Speaker 1: the player has leverage, or they've got a desperate situation

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01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: like the Dallas Cowboys and Dak Prescott. I mean, think

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01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 1: think about how far they've come from the now to

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01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 1: their credit, Dak said no, one, pretty good deal a

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01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 1: couple of years ago at that I know, thirty three

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01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 1: million a year, all that kind of stuff, and he

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01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: said no, right, and so now he comes back bets

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Speaker 1: on himself, gets hurt. Now the Cowboys they don't have

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01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:17,519
Speaker 1: any other answers and they're in a division where they could,

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Speaker 1: with the right quarterback play win it for the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 1: So Dallas has painted themselves into a corner financially, and

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Speaker 1: with this the leverage on the contract negotiation with DAC,

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Speaker 1: how do you see that playing out going forward? What's

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Speaker 1: going to happen? You know, this isn't We've seen this.

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Speaker 1: We've seen this story from the Cowboys before. They get

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01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:41,599
Speaker 1: themselves into what seems like a bad situation and then

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01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: they'll just restructure everyone's deal to make him happy. The

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01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: Cowboys have something that every team wants, but not every

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01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 1: team has, and that's the fact that people want to

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01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: play there. Like you heard Amari Cooper come out and say,

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Speaker 1: I want to be a Cowboy for a life. People don't.

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01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,599
Speaker 1: They don't want to leave there. You don't often hear

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01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 1: that story. They're well taking era of there's you know,

1343
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:02,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of goodness in Texas. You don't have

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01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:05,720
Speaker 1: state income tax. I mean, she's that's a that's a

1345
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 1: that's a nice little raise right in and of itself.

1346
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 1: And Dad doesn't really need to say anything right now.

1347
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 1: They could franchise tag him again and he gets paid

1348
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:16,120
Speaker 1: a lot of money. People talk about maybe he's offended

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01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: by that. I was like, I wouldn't be offended with

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01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 1: thirty eight million, like no, thank you, like and you

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01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 1: get it all that year. So I think we're seeing

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01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 1: it slow played because for in large part, when you

1353
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:29,840
Speaker 1: look at the situation of quarterbacks around the league, like

1354
01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 1: there just is no rush that you know, they don't

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01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:36,599
Speaker 1: they don't feel rushed, and they kind of shouldn't because

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, both sides here they need Dallas needs

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01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 1: to figure out a number of other things like they

1358
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 1: need to restructure some stuff, their defense needs some help

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01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: in certain areas. They've got two corners that are up

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Speaker 1: for free agency, and you know, I think both of

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01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:52,680
Speaker 1: them could easily be go to different teams. So I

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Speaker 1: think they're I just think they're slow playing it because

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01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,719
Speaker 1: they don't have to, like they can tag him tomorrow

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01:11:58,000 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 1: or whenever that you know, we get near when that

1365
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: number gets figured out, they could tag him and then

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01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 1: you know, renegotiate before the season starts. There's no they

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01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: just don't it just it sounds it's more of like

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01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 1: a media narrative to rush it than it is too.

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01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 1: They don't care, and Dak doesn't care. He's like, I'm

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Speaker 1: getting like, I'm gonna have a really nice paycheck kind

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01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 1: of no matter what. So yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

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Speaker 1: Last one for me real quick, Cynthia. I mean, I

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01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 1: know you finished your education at Northwestern, which, as you know,

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01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,599
Speaker 1: Steve has also finished his education there too, But I'm

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01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: curious if you have your ear to the ground on

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01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 1: where Matt Mlano could potentially end up because I know

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01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 1: you were a BC undergrid. You know, if Matt wants

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01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:40,760
Speaker 1: to call me and give me the inside scoop. I'd

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01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 1: love to hear it. Not really my like, pass that

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01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: along to us if he does that, right, Yeah, it's

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01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 1: not really my beat. Like I don't I don't really

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01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: report right, but um, you know, obviously that's gonna be it.

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Speaker 1: That's why when I talk about defense, like, that's a

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Speaker 1: really interesting look. How fierce he looks there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't have that in me. I gotta get some

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01:12:58,320 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 1: of that. But also he's gonna this is gonna be

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01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 1: an interesting one. He's going to be one that there's

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01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 1: a lot of value, especially for where he lines up,

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Speaker 1: what he can defend, the versatility of his play. This

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01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 1: is an interesting one because as you're looking at you know,

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Speaker 1: linebackers that look like defensive backs and defensive backs that

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01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:18,479
Speaker 1: look like linebackers, and the kind of melding of what

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01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: goes on in the middle of the field. You know,

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01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 1: he's he's a big part of that. You guys, the

1395
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 1: middle of your the middle and back of your defense

1396
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: is a real special part of that defense. So it's

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01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,760
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see what happens with that one,

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01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: because you know that this is there's some scarcity the two.

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Speaker 1: The interesting part linebackers and you know, like off you know,

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Speaker 1: coverage linebackers and defensive tackle seems to be uh not,

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01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: You've got to go deep in this draft class for it.

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01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 1: So I think that will drive up value for you know,

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01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 1: there's like maybe one two right, It's it's not like

1404
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:54,679
Speaker 1: an incredibly deep class of them. So he maybe drives

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01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: up the value and free agency, but we'll have to see,

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01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: all right, One last thing for me, I know that

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Speaker 1: you must had a a heyday with the Baltimore Ravens

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01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: proposal of spot and choose to go into overtime, and

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01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:11,640
Speaker 1: Brownie and I made ourselves nauseous talking about the possibilities

1410
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,599
Speaker 1: because we didn't get that if you, I mean, why

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01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't you put the ball on their one yard line

1412
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 1: and force them to play offense? But we didn't realize

1413
01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:24,599
Speaker 1: that you picked a direction of the field as well.

1414
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: And I don't know whether they're going to pick an ant.

1415
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 1: You have to pick an ant who picks the end

1416
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:30,639
Speaker 1: of the field, who picks you know, and who wins

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01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:33,639
Speaker 1: the coin flip, who who decides first, that kind of thing.

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01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: So what do your numbers? I know you've it's been

1419
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:38,920
Speaker 1: fun for us to think about what do the numbers

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01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: say about spot and choose in the Baltimore Ravens overtime proposal,

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01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:46,200
Speaker 1: I think that Baltimore Ravens are flexing on everyone. They

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01:14:46,240 --> 01:14:49,600
Speaker 1: have a really good analytics department and they spend a

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01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: lot of time with it. I do actually think if

1424
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: people could easily understand I went through it a couple

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01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:58,200
Speaker 1: of times to easily understand kind of what would what

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01:14:58,240 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 1: would potentially happen in how the mode that they have

1427
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 1: that show that it's more fair because they they it

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01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: really it does. If everyone clearly understood it, then it

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01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: and by the way they would figure it out. It's

1430
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: not like teams would be would not figure it out

1431
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:13,640
Speaker 1: but by the time that the season started. But you know,

1432
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,960
Speaker 1: it's confusing and convoluted in how it's sort of stated.

1433
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 1: But ultimately the theory would be that you're accentuating the

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01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: thing that you do best and you're giving yourself a

1435
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 1: little bit better chance. But you're also kind of you're

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01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: also kind of acknowledging that you're that you have to

1437
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: like stop them too. So it's it's an interesting it's

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01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 1: an interesting proposal. I don't think it will pass. It's

1439
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: too tricky for kind of especially there's a lot of

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01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: things this season that are you know, we you know,

1441
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: but it's weird to have the cap go down. It's

1442
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:48,759
Speaker 1: weird to have you know, like I would just argue

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01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 1: that I would probably side I would err on the

1444
01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 1: side of conservativism from like new rules standpoints. So you know,

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01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:56,640
Speaker 1: it's just it's fun and it kind of it just

1446
01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:58,800
Speaker 1: makes you laugh. But you know when you when you

1447
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 1: talk about it and talk it through, it's like, well,

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01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:03,599
Speaker 1: how many times? How how would this happen? And what

1449
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:05,840
Speaker 1: would happen in it? Because then when you look back

1450
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 1: to see plays that were similar, what what how did

1451
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 1: they net out? And it's true that they did net

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01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 1: out more fairly. It's just it's it's a it's a

1453
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:16,680
Speaker 1: it's a lot to process and would be a lot

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01:16:16,680 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: to process, especially at the end of a game. A

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01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 1: hell of a lot of content for you though on

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01:16:20,280 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com if it did go through, right, Yeah,

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01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, yeah, Like we have a Big Data

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01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:28,760
Speaker 1: Bowl and I interviewed John Harbaugh for a Big Data

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01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: Bowl and um, you know, I I told him that

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01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: he was seventy percent better at interviewing than I thought.

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01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 1: So that was that was kind of my that was

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01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:42,000
Speaker 1: my best best part because you know, we were talking

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01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 1: about the rule and I'm like, you know, this one

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01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 1: seventy percent better than we thought. Yea. Well, listen, Cynthia,

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Speaker 1: thank you for the time. As always, we bent your

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01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: ear on a lot of different topics there. Thanks for

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01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 1: fielding all of that and for making us feel a

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01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 1: little bit smarter today. So thanks very much, We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having We have a great day. All right.

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Speaker 1: That's Cynthia Freeland from NFL Network. She knows her stuff.

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Speaker 1: For sure. We have to take a break, but when

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Speaker 1: Steve and I come back, we'll get back to your

1473
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: comments on the tweet sheet. As we are asking you

1474
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 1: what should be the bills next move with their secondary

1475
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:11,360
Speaker 1: who saw them sign Mica Hide to a two year

1476
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 1: contract extension over the weekend. Is there anything else that

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01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: has to be done there? Knowing they have some players

1478
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 1: who are up for free agency from their twenty twenty roster,

1479
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 1: we'll talk with you about that and when we return

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Collid to Help,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve task me with you here on a Monday.

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Speaker 1: Second half of the show now under way, and we

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Speaker 1: want to get back to some of your comments on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet as we are asking you. We've saw

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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde sign a two year extension on Friday, and

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Speaker 1: it leaves us asking, okay, with the free agents they

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Speaker 1: still have, namely Josh Norman, Levi, Wallace Heck, even safety

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Speaker 1: Dean Marlowe who spelled people at an important time in

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Speaker 1: games and plays a role on special teams, where should

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Speaker 1: their next move be. We understand that offensive line is

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Speaker 1: a primary need. If Matt Milano departs, obviously, linebacker becomes

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Speaker 1: a need. So we're aware of those things, but kind

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Speaker 1: of picture yourself in the GM's chair and Steve and

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Speaker 1: I are coming to you saying, okay, what are we

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Speaker 1: doing next in the secondary? What needs to be done there?

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Speaker 1: Let's just treat that in a vacuum right now and

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Speaker 1: tell us what you think needs to be done to

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Speaker 1: kind of fortify that group along with the three rock

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Speaker 1: solid veteran starters that they already have in Traudevious White,

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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde, and Jordan Poyer eight oh three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty open line for you there one eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. But we are going to go

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Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet now for some of your

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Speaker 1: comments there. And Rachel says, the best corner available in

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Speaker 1: the first round and put him at CB two across

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Speaker 1: from White White, Pawyer Hide and a first round draft

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Speaker 1: pick would make for a ridiculously good secondary. The D

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Speaker 1: line talent in the draft isn't great, so I don't

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Speaker 1: even see a first round pick making an impact on

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Speaker 1: the line. Rachel is right about that, Steve. The edge

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Speaker 1: talent is not great. The DT talent is even thinner.

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Speaker 1: But I wonder if that prompts them to take a

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Speaker 1: pick like that early, knowing the pool. If talent is thinner,

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Speaker 1: than maybe it is a corner. Yeah, I see the

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Speaker 1: logic in that, but I think it all comes down

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Speaker 1: to that moment in the draft when you see who

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Speaker 1: is available. There might be a guy who can play.

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Speaker 1: There's certainly there are a couple in this draft. There

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Speaker 1: may not be ten or twelve of them, but there's

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Speaker 1: got to be more than a handful of and you

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Speaker 1: don't know of them that can do it, and you

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Speaker 1: don't know where they're gonna fall. And I'm I've said

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Speaker 1: it before, I'll keep saying it, that's where it all

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Speaker 1: starts up front. Now, having said that, the Bills have

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Speaker 1: got a ton of guys up front already, and if

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Speaker 1: you bring a guy in high in the draft, somebody's

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Speaker 1: got to go just because of the numbers. And this

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Speaker 1: particularly now that we got start a little to lay

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Speaker 1: back on the roster as well, so you got you know,

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Speaker 1: that'll be two different guys that are coming back in

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Speaker 1: and only one left, Trent Murphy. So that's where it

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Speaker 1: all begins for me. But I'm I think you have

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Speaker 1: to wait and see who's there when you do pick. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem if they pick a corner first,

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Speaker 1: if they've got other the other holes in their roster.

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Speaker 1: But right now, the way it sits, they got a

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Speaker 1: positional emergency at the offensive line, and that's first and foremost.

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Speaker 1: Then I think we all agree the defensive line underperformed

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Speaker 1: their cap number this year. They're spending fifty five million

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Speaker 1: dollars on their d line, and you know they were

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Speaker 1: middle of the road against the run and against the

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Speaker 1: past as well. And it started up front. The secondary

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Speaker 1: laid very well, at least in my mind, So I

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Speaker 1: think for all of those things When you get to

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Speaker 1: that point, it becomes obvious what you got to do.

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Speaker 1: Fill all your positional emergencies. And then if you can

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Speaker 1: get there, Man, if there's a guy at thirty and

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Speaker 1: you're picking thirtieth in the draft, grab him, Grab him,

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Speaker 1: particularly a guy who you think is going to be

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Speaker 1: plug in and play because this team. If you can

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Speaker 1: come in and play on this team after a fifteen

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Speaker 1: win season, you're a pretty good player and you're going

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Speaker 1: to be a problem for the opponents no matter which

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Speaker 1: side of the football you're Yeah, and let's not forget

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Speaker 1: I mean Dredevious White was picked twenty seven in the

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Speaker 1: draft and the guy started from day one. Now, that's

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Speaker 1: not always going to be the case, we know that,

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Speaker 1: but the possibility exists for that to be one path

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Speaker 1: to answering your cornerback number two position, not only for

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Speaker 1: the right now, but potentially the long term. And again,

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Speaker 1: I still think it goes back to what do they

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Speaker 1: want to do in terms of the defensive play calling.

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Speaker 1: What did they pull from the Kansas City game, the

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Speaker 1: AFC title game that may prompt them to say we

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Speaker 1: got to play more man coverage or mix in more

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Speaker 1: man coverage more often we need, you know, DB's capable

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Speaker 1: of doing that. You know, maybe we play half field this,

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Speaker 1: half field that, and we need guys that can adapt

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Speaker 1: and adjust and be more versatile in being able to

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Speaker 1: play every call that I've gotten my playbook. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it gets to that, it may not. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they can keep on keeping on with the guys that

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Speaker 1: they have, which is what Tiffany is hinting at here

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Speaker 1: in her comment on the tweet sheet. I would like

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Speaker 1: to see Levi return. He may not be flashy, but

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Speaker 1: he's a solid number two at a reasonable price, especially

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Speaker 1: the way the team's salary cap currently sits. Dane Jackson

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Speaker 1: showed promise, but he still needs some time to develop.

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Speaker 1: Could be a future starter, just not yet. So that

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Speaker 1: gets back Steve, this is the second person on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet that's kind of hinted at Levi as kind

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Speaker 1: of a bridge to your long term answer. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: Dane Jackson, maybe it's some other young player that you

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Speaker 1: bring into the fold. But I think they see Levi

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Speaker 1: in the interim as the placeholder. Yeah, and I think

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Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about the length placeholder. Yeah, um

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Speaker 1: that maybe you know the guy if if there's somebody

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Speaker 1: going to be replaced in the secondary. He's the he's

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Speaker 1: the name. I mean, he's the guy that's gonna get replaced.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be poor your hide or tardavius um.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna upgrade, that's the spot where you would

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Speaker 1: look to do that. He's a rookie free agent that

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Speaker 1: has been on the field for his entire career and

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Speaker 1: has and has fended off every attempt to replace him,

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Speaker 1: and he brings something to the table. He's a he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a four year veteran, right, I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is this is not a guy who just fell off

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Speaker 1: off a you know, a turnip truck from the farm.

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Speaker 1: This guy's been around the block. He's been on the

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs two out of his three years, and

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Speaker 1: he's been a starter for two out of those three years.

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Speaker 1: And he brings something to the table. He's a really

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Speaker 1: good football player. And one of the problems I think

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Speaker 1: Bills fans have is when you talk about Levi Wallace,

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Speaker 1: you're not comparing him to the starting corner backs of

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, or you're not comparing him the starting corners

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Speaker 1: of you know of you know Houston Texans or you

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Speaker 1: know Carolina Panthers. You're comparing him to Turnavious White and

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Speaker 1: Poyer and Hide. That's a pretty tough thing to measure

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Speaker 1: up to. Will. It'll be interesting to see what other

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Speaker 1: teams see in Levi Wallace, and it may surprise a

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Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans that some other teams are willing

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Speaker 1: to pay some really big money to a three year

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Speaker 1: starter on a really good defense in a really good

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Speaker 1: defensive scheme, who has fended off lot of both challengers

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Speaker 1: to a spot and a lot of traffic thrown at him.

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Speaker 1: Because of the guys he's played with, Levi Wallace is

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Speaker 1: not bereft of talent, or experience or value. I think

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Speaker 1: Bills fans are going to be surprised at what he

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Speaker 1: brings on the market because he is. He is certainly

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Speaker 1: outplayed his spot of not being drafted right, and he

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Speaker 1: doesn't get out into the market if the Bills tender

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Speaker 1: I'M a qualifying offer, which the deadline for that is

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Speaker 1: approaching as well, because if you don't have your restricted

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Speaker 1: free agents tendered by March seventeenth, they then become unrestricted

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Speaker 1: free agents. And then, yes, he would be exposed to

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Speaker 1: the full market of the other thirty one teams. I

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Speaker 1: think there's no question the Bills will tender him and

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Speaker 1: all their restricted free agents. Makes no sense not to

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Speaker 1: because they might, they might, they might keep them. And

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Speaker 1: I think they'll wait till March sixteenth to do it

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Speaker 1: because they always do that. They give themselves all the

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Speaker 1: time they can just in case something drastic changes, and

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Speaker 1: I think the players will understand that's going to happen

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Speaker 1: and we'll see it. The level of the tender is

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Speaker 1: going to be the interesting part for me. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I anticipate just because of their cap strap nature,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be the low tender. Now that doesn't

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Speaker 1: provide them It only provides them with right or first refusal.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to provide them with any compensation in return.

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Speaker 1: Should another team sign a player like that to an

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Speaker 1: offer sheet and then the Bills don't match, they're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get anything in return with a low tender because,

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Speaker 1: as we've mentioned, Levi's undrafted. It would be the same

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Speaker 1: thing with Corey Boorkiz. He's undrafted too, So you low

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Speaker 1: tender them qualifying offers, you're not getting any compensation if

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01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: you lose them. To another team signing them to an

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Speaker 1: offer sheet. So yeah, it'll be it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see what what they do there. Um, Steve, So you

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Speaker 1: tend to think they're gonna tend or every one of them. Um,

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Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense at some level. I think

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Speaker 1: unless they can get them signed before that, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's that's the way I owe is kind of lean,

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01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:12,360
Speaker 1: especially if you would prefer to have them, you know,

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Speaker 1: on your roster. If you're If that's the case, well

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01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: then just make the commitment with a new deal that

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01:27:19,160 --> 01:27:22,280
Speaker 1: completely takes them off the table to anybody anyway. I

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Speaker 1: think this may be a place where the shrunken salary

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Speaker 1: cap may serve them. Well, they just give them a

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Speaker 1: good deal for a one year deal. Yeah, just sign

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Speaker 1: them to a one year deal, because then those guys

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01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 1: could be will become free agents at the end of

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Speaker 1: next year in a much more robust financial market. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can make the argument that you could sign Levi

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Speaker 1: now to the same kind of one year deals they've

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Speaker 1: been signing veteran free agents too for the last two years.

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Speaker 1: You can go that route and see if it works,

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01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: and then Levi's got the opportunity to jump back into

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01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:54,080
Speaker 1: the market next year when the CAP's a lot healthier.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we got a break because we're up against

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Speaker 1: the clock here, but Steve and I will come back

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Speaker 1: with more of your comments open line for you at

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Speaker 1: eight three, five fifty. What's your best next move to

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Speaker 1: shore up the secondary? That's what's on the table for you.

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Speaker 1: Put your GM hat on for us today. It's one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Collid to help. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker on a Monday, and we are talking about

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Speaker 1: making moves in the secondary to improve that group. We

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Speaker 1: know that Levi Wallace is a restricted free agent, Dean

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Speaker 1: Marlow unrestricted, Josh Norman unrestricted. They released DJ Gaines in January,

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Speaker 1: so he's no longer part of the equation. So after

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Speaker 1: signing Micah High to a two year extension, what is

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Speaker 1: your next move there? Put your GM hat for the

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Speaker 1: Bills on for today and let us know the choices

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Speaker 1: are there for you at one Bills Live on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet and among the choices for you, we've got

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Speaker 1: basically stand pat and essentially count on the roster as

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Speaker 1: is developed. Some of the young talent, sign a cost

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Speaker 1: effective veteran corner, take a starting corner early in the draft,

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Speaker 1: or resigned Wallace and or Josh Norman. Those are your choices.

1693
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:28,920
Speaker 1: And let me see here. I'm going to update the

1694
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 1: voting and oh there it is. So still out in

1695
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:35,000
Speaker 1: front is sign a cost effective veteran corner, which has

1696
01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:38,640
Speaker 1: been their mo each of the last few years. I

1697
01:29:38,640 --> 01:29:42,200
Speaker 1: mean EJ. Gaines was signed in twenty seventeen, and then

1698
01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:45,919
Speaker 1: after that they brought Kevin Johnson in in twenty nineteen,

1699
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: and then Josh Norman this past year, and they've gone

1700
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:52,720
Speaker 1: that route, but none of those players on a consistent

1701
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: basis was able to unseat Lee VI Wallace after he

1702
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:58,679
Speaker 1: got here. EJ. Gaines did play the majority of games

1703
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:03,200
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen before injury slowed him down, but that's

1704
01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:07,840
Speaker 1: where that's the route that they have taken. Obviously, a

1705
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 1: cost of effective veteran corner is still a possibility, Steve,

1706
01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:13,679
Speaker 1: even in a shrunken cap situation, because they're not breaking

1707
01:30:13,680 --> 01:30:15,840
Speaker 1: the bank on a player like that. I mean, Josh

1708
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: Norman only got five million last year. Kevin Johnson got

1709
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:22,760
Speaker 1: four million the year before on a one year deal,

1710
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:26,679
Speaker 1: so it's certainly doable. I just wonder if they look

1711
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:30,920
Speaker 1: at their secondary now, Steve and say, well, we've got

1712
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:35,200
Speaker 1: two veteran safeties who are either at thirty or nearing

1713
01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:38,639
Speaker 1: thirty years of age, and we've got a corner entering

1714
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 1: the prime of his career and no longer a truly

1715
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:47,320
Speaker 1: like youngish player. So the appeal for me with the

1716
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:50,439
Speaker 1: draft in terms of addressing the cornerback position that way

1717
01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:53,559
Speaker 1: a second corner spot is you get a guy on

1718
01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 1: a cheap labor deal that hopefully is giving you a

1719
01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:59,880
Speaker 1: high rate of return as a talented player, even very

1720
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:03,120
Speaker 1: young in his career, and with the other players in

1721
01:31:03,160 --> 01:31:06,799
Speaker 1: your secondary older and more experienced. I think the mentor

1722
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:10,240
Speaker 1: factor there is very valuable as well. Yeah, that's a

1723
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:13,040
Speaker 1: good point to The mentor mentorship is great because he'll

1724
01:31:13,160 --> 01:31:15,920
Speaker 1: step into a really fully formed secondary and learn a

1725
01:31:15,960 --> 01:31:19,479
Speaker 1: lot in the first year of his career by watching

1726
01:31:19,479 --> 01:31:21,960
Speaker 1: those guys go about their business and hearing the conversations

1727
01:31:21,960 --> 01:31:23,799
Speaker 1: in the meeting rooms and that kind of thing. Second

1728
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:29,800
Speaker 1: thing is this you kind of got away. The investment

1729
01:31:29,880 --> 01:31:33,200
Speaker 1: of the draft picks are gold, Brownie. I mean, particularly

1730
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 1: the first three picks of your draft are just absolute gold.

1731
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 1: You gotta get those and hit him right. So if

1732
01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:42,040
Speaker 1: you think you're gonna do that, you want to get

1733
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 1: a guy, whether it's a corner or d lineman, offensive,

1734
01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:50,519
Speaker 1: whatever the difference is this though, in this environment it

1735
01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:54,160
Speaker 1: may give you pause of spending those assets on a

1736
01:31:54,280 --> 01:31:57,439
Speaker 1: corner where you think you've got some guys that can play.

1737
01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:01,040
Speaker 1: But if you can get like we said, this shrunken

1738
01:32:01,080 --> 01:32:04,120
Speaker 1: cap in certain situation's gonna help teams because there's gonna

1739
01:32:04,120 --> 01:32:06,840
Speaker 1: be more quality players out there. Yeah, there'll be more

1740
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:10,719
Speaker 1: willing to sign a short term cash in, cash out deal.

1741
01:32:10,880 --> 01:32:12,559
Speaker 1: There'll be a one year deal and you're back to

1742
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:14,560
Speaker 1: square one the next year. Certainly, it doesn't set you

1743
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:17,519
Speaker 1: up long term, but it does get you through and

1744
01:32:17,560 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 1: maybe an upgrade, and that guy's gonna play highly motivated.

1745
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:22,960
Speaker 1: He's gonna know what it is to be a pro.

1746
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 1: You won't need to mentor him so much, particularly if

1747
01:32:25,320 --> 01:32:29,360
Speaker 1: the vetting process does his job. So in an environment

1748
01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:31,559
Speaker 1: like this, if you want to get a guy who's

1749
01:32:31,560 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 1: a starter that you can depend on, I think the

1750
01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:36,639
Speaker 1: veteran free agent may be the way to go. Offer

1751
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:40,160
Speaker 1: him not a blockbuster deal, but just a one year

1752
01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 1: deal where he says, that's pretty good money, and I'm

1753
01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:44,559
Speaker 1: gonna take another swing out of particularly playing with these

1754
01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:47,280
Speaker 1: guys in this secondary. And for the most part, you

1755
01:32:47,280 --> 01:32:50,760
Speaker 1: know what, let's say it again, for the most part,

1756
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 1: you know what he is too exactly. Plus he'll get

1757
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:56,559
Speaker 1: his He'll think to himself, you know, there's a there's

1758
01:32:56,560 --> 01:32:58,880
Speaker 1: an outside chance I get a ring out here too,

1759
01:32:59,240 --> 01:33:01,920
Speaker 1: and come off a super Bowl team and then hit

1760
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:05,439
Speaker 1: the free agent market. And that's that is a brass

1761
01:33:05,560 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 1: ring attempt right there, and you'd forget about the Super

1762
01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:11,559
Speaker 1: Bowl ring. You'd get the brass ring right financially after

1763
01:33:11,680 --> 01:33:13,439
Speaker 1: a season like that, and that's all on the table

1764
01:33:13,479 --> 01:33:15,080
Speaker 1: for a guy who thinks he's going to sign with

1765
01:33:15,080 --> 01:33:18,880
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, you on a deal like that. Nick

1766
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:21,960
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet says, take our rosters. Is our

1767
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:24,960
Speaker 1: cornerback number two spot is questionable, but white Hide and

1768
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:27,760
Speaker 1: Poyer still make for a great secondary, and right now,

1769
01:33:27,800 --> 01:33:30,519
Speaker 1: the D line should take priority. If we can't rush

1770
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:32,880
Speaker 1: the passer, it doesn't matter who's in our secondary. Even

1771
01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:35,760
Speaker 1: the best dB can only cover a wide receiver for

1772
01:33:35,800 --> 01:33:39,479
Speaker 1: so long. While that is true coming from Nick Steve,

1773
01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:42,840
Speaker 1: I think the question on the d line is a

1774
01:33:42,840 --> 01:33:48,240
Speaker 1: bit different. If anything. You could argue that they're overinvested

1775
01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:53,439
Speaker 1: there and the return on investment probably doesn't meet the cost.

1776
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:59,479
Speaker 1: And so do you make hard decisions and you know,

1777
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:05,559
Speaker 1: trim the investment in terms of the dollars that you're

1778
01:34:05,600 --> 01:34:09,519
Speaker 1: spending on your defensive line performance and make changes there

1779
01:34:09,560 --> 01:34:12,880
Speaker 1: with cheaper labor that you think has the potential, if

1780
01:34:12,920 --> 01:34:15,880
Speaker 1: not immediately, but the potential to give you a better

1781
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:20,679
Speaker 1: return in terms of product on the field. We've stated

1782
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:23,920
Speaker 1: it more than once, Steve. It's they're top heavy there

1783
01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:28,360
Speaker 1: in terms of investment, right, and that's what it's all about.

1784
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: I mean, if you spend, if you're maxed out on

1785
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 1: the cap, even if you've gotten coming up in the

1786
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:36,400
Speaker 1: next year, you've got plenty of room. The question is,

1787
01:34:36,560 --> 01:34:41,559
Speaker 1: can you get the most the biggest number of players

1788
01:34:41,560 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 1: on your roster outperforming their contract on the field. If

1789
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:47,320
Speaker 1: you can get that done, you're going to be deep

1790
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:49,040
Speaker 1: in the playoffs all the time, because that's really hard

1791
01:34:49,040 --> 01:34:51,600
Speaker 1: to do because you've always got some guy who's you know,

1792
01:34:51,600 --> 01:34:53,680
Speaker 1: somebody's in a fat contract at the end. They just

1793
01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:55,240
Speaker 1: don't have an you know, they don't have enough left

1794
01:34:55,240 --> 01:34:57,040
Speaker 1: in the tank to earn that kind of money, but

1795
01:34:57,360 --> 01:35:00,200
Speaker 1: they're important in other ways. If you can get the

1796
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:07,200
Speaker 1: biggest percentage of your roster performing above their financial level, Yeah,

1797
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:09,559
Speaker 1: that's that's the holy grail right there. You know you're

1798
01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:11,360
Speaker 1: going to be deep in the playoffs every year, and

1799
01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:13,280
Speaker 1: that's what you have to weigh. You have to bring

1800
01:35:13,320 --> 01:35:17,320
Speaker 1: these guys in there knowing a you're paying them the

1801
01:35:17,360 --> 01:35:19,519
Speaker 1: market rate or less and be they're going to be

1802
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:21,720
Speaker 1: highly motivated to earn every cent of it because they

1803
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:23,559
Speaker 1: got something on the back end. Or they're just that

1804
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:26,160
Speaker 1: kind of guy who won't do anything but give their

1805
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:28,519
Speaker 1: absolute best. And that's the kind of guys you kind

1806
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 1: of look for anyway. But you know, if you that's

1807
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:38,479
Speaker 1: why we're looking at this from there's two glaring offseason issues.

1808
01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:43,880
Speaker 1: One the defensive line didn't didn't earn fifty five million

1809
01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:46,960
Speaker 1: dollars between them, which is what they were all paid.

1810
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:50,280
Speaker 1: And two, the offensive line now is bereft of bodies

1811
01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:53,920
Speaker 1: there they're starter They have three starters that are free agents,

1812
01:35:54,200 --> 01:35:56,679
Speaker 1: and that's that. Those are the two issues right there.

1813
01:35:57,760 --> 01:35:59,800
Speaker 1: All right, we gotta take a break, but our number

1814
01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:02,240
Speaker 1: three coming your way. Next open line for you at

1815
01:36:02,240 --> 01:36:04,960
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty. Put your GM had

1816
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:07,000
Speaker 1: on today. Let us know what is your next move

1817
01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:11,280
Speaker 1: in the secondary. That cornerback two spots got a blinking

1818
01:36:11,320 --> 01:36:14,080
Speaker 1: red light next to it saying fill me, film me,

1819
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:17,040
Speaker 1: fill me. So we want to know how you would

1820
01:36:17,040 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 1: address it. Choices on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live.

1821
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:22,320
Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. Open line for you

1822
01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:25,519
Speaker 1: eight three five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two

1823
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:27,920
Speaker 1: five fifty back in a flash here on one Bill's Live,

1824
01:36:27,960 --> 01:36:39,719
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Falo Bills

1825
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:44,800
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Sports Date your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1826
01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: The long schedule deadline for teams to apply the franchise

1827
01:36:48,120 --> 01:36:52,720
Speaker 1: and transition tags depending free agent players has been Tuesday,

1828
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:55,920
Speaker 1: March ninth, but some uncertainty with a final number for

1829
01:36:55,960 --> 01:36:59,360
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one salary cap could push that deadline

1830
01:36:59,400 --> 01:37:02,480
Speaker 1: back a cup of the days. NFL Networks ian Rappaport

1831
01:37:02,800 --> 01:37:05,439
Speaker 1: saying on Monday that the failure of the league to

1832
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:08,960
Speaker 1: determine the actual hard salary cap figure could in fact

1833
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:12,480
Speaker 1: move the deadline. Tom Brady signed a two year contract

1834
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:15,280
Speaker 1: to join the Bucks last year. At this time, now

1835
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:18,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback may be signing another deal with the team

1836
01:37:18,439 --> 01:37:22,479
Speaker 1: this March. Adam Schefter of ESPN reporting that the two

1837
01:37:22,560 --> 01:37:26,080
Speaker 1: sides have made good momentum towards a new agreement that

1838
01:37:26,120 --> 01:37:29,519
Speaker 1: would extend Brady's contract with the team. Doing so would

1839
01:37:29,760 --> 01:37:32,639
Speaker 1: put him on track to continue playing beyond his forty

1840
01:37:32,640 --> 01:37:36,880
Speaker 1: fifth birthday in August twenty twenty two. As a reminder

1841
01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:39,960
Speaker 1: of Bills who play the Bucks this season in Tampa,

1842
01:37:40,240 --> 01:37:43,639
Speaker 1: salary cap casualties around the league are widely anticipated over

1843
01:37:43,680 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 1: the next ten days to two weeks, and the latest

1844
01:37:46,400 --> 01:37:49,760
Speaker 1: comes from Seattle. Adam Schefter reporting to Carlos Dunlap will

1845
01:37:49,800 --> 01:37:52,800
Speaker 1: be released by the Seahawks today. Thirty two year old

1846
01:37:52,880 --> 01:37:56,280
Speaker 1: was acquired from Cincinnati via trade this past season, as

1847
01:37:56,280 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 1: the Seahawks sent offensive lineman B. J. Finney in a

1848
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 1: seventh round pick to the Bengals for the pass rusher. Ironically,

1849
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 1: the Bengals released Finnie just last week. Tight End zach

1850
01:38:06,600 --> 01:38:09,559
Speaker 1: Ertz maybe the next Philadelphia Eagle on the move. Multiple

1851
01:38:09,600 --> 01:38:12,320
Speaker 1: teams have called the Eagles about the possibility of trading Firts,

1852
01:38:12,320 --> 01:38:14,879
Speaker 1: and a deal could happen in the coming days. Sources

1853
01:38:14,920 --> 01:38:18,840
Speaker 1: telling NFL Network the potential trade of Arts would exemplify

1854
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:21,360
Speaker 1: the ongoing change in Philly after the team agreed to

1855
01:38:21,360 --> 01:38:24,960
Speaker 1: trade quarterback Carson Wentz to the Colts last month. Ertz,

1856
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:27,479
Speaker 1: though is coming off a down year thirty six catches,

1857
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:30,080
Speaker 1: three hundred thirty five yards and a touchdown in eleven games.

1858
01:38:30,080 --> 01:38:33,840
Speaker 1: Those are all season lows in all three categories for

1859
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:36,720
Speaker 1: the three time Pro Bowlers and the Sabers are off

1860
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:40,120
Speaker 1: today following back to back losses to the Islanders. They

1861
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:43,160
Speaker 1: continue their road trip in Philadelphia for a matchup with

1862
01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:46,880
Speaker 1: the Flyers tomorrow night. Face off there set for seven pm.

1863
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:50,200
Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown,

1864
01:38:50,240 --> 01:38:52,559
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on a Monday third hour

1865
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:56,240
Speaker 1: of the program kicking off here and Steve. Something that

1866
01:38:56,600 --> 01:39:01,160
Speaker 1: Tom Pellicero just put together on NFL dot com a

1867
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:04,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one free agency feature saying players who could

1868
01:39:04,880 --> 01:39:07,760
Speaker 1: get more money than you think. And among them on

1869
01:39:07,800 --> 01:39:10,280
Speaker 1: the list of about oh i'd say eighteen to twenty

1870
01:39:10,280 --> 01:39:15,920
Speaker 1: players is one Matt Milano, who I think everybody anticipates

1871
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:18,960
Speaker 1: will be the guy that probably has the biggest money

1872
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 1: deal of Buffalo's free agents should he hit the open market.

1873
01:39:22,360 --> 01:39:26,320
Speaker 1: Maybe Darryl Williams comes close to him. But I think

1874
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:29,200
Speaker 1: we're probably looking at upwards of eleven and a half.

1875
01:39:29,280 --> 01:39:34,000
Speaker 1: Eleven maybe twelve a year could be. Yes, it's been conjared.

1876
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:35,760
Speaker 1: He might be one of those guys's thirteen and a

1877
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:38,200
Speaker 1: half or fourteen million dollars as well. That's the upper

1878
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:41,840
Speaker 1: end I think he'll probably settle. I think twelve million

1879
01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:45,080
Speaker 1: dollars a years is the low, depending on how much

1880
01:39:45,200 --> 01:39:47,719
Speaker 1: he's guaranteed. He could go as low as what you're saying,

1881
01:39:47,760 --> 01:39:50,160
Speaker 1: ten or eleven million dollars if he gets like a

1882
01:39:50,200 --> 01:39:53,600
Speaker 1: four year deal, plus you know eighty percent of that

1883
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:57,320
Speaker 1: money is guaranteed. He would take less per year if

1884
01:39:57,320 --> 01:40:01,360
Speaker 1: I'm his agent, But anything that gets down that low,

1885
01:40:01,400 --> 01:40:04,240
Speaker 1: you've got to guarantee more of it, uh, I think

1886
01:40:04,240 --> 01:40:05,760
Speaker 1: to get your guy to sign it. I think if

1887
01:40:05,760 --> 01:40:08,080
Speaker 1: he goes in he bets on himself, it could be

1888
01:40:08,120 --> 01:40:10,880
Speaker 1: as high as fourteen million a year. So yeah, I agree,

1889
01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:15,720
Speaker 1: Milano is gonna be sought after a lot because he plays,

1890
01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:17,800
Speaker 1: because he can do so much, and when we've been

1891
01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:19,960
Speaker 1: talking about it, and and Bill's fans know, the guy

1892
01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:22,639
Speaker 1: can rush the passer, he can blitz, he can cover.

1893
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:27,200
Speaker 1: He's a phenomenal open field tackler. Um, you know, quarterbacks

1894
01:40:27,240 --> 01:40:30,280
Speaker 1: bust out and you know, and you know Stidham is

1895
01:40:30,360 --> 01:40:33,639
Speaker 1: rushing out in against the Patriots and Milano tackles him

1896
01:40:33,640 --> 01:40:35,439
Speaker 1: in the open field on a big third down they

1897
01:40:35,520 --> 01:40:41,880
Speaker 1: got side. Yeah, Um, those guys are rare and it's

1898
01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:45,559
Speaker 1: just um, you know, so he does so much. He's

1899
01:40:45,640 --> 01:40:48,719
Speaker 1: on the field every down as a defense as a defender,

1900
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:51,320
Speaker 1: so he's gonna get enough snaps to earn that money.

1901
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm I'm all about it. I think Milano is,

1902
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, the least likely to take a discounted deal

1903
01:41:01,080 --> 01:41:05,519
Speaker 1: from the Buffalo Bills to hang around because the money

1904
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:10,479
Speaker 1: he's looking at for his value on the market is

1905
01:41:10,520 --> 01:41:12,760
Speaker 1: life changing. And I you know, he's he's got to

1906
01:41:12,840 --> 01:41:15,760
Speaker 1: take it. Yeah, And I don't know about you, but

1907
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 1: I just fully expect him to be one of these

1908
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:20,439
Speaker 1: guys signed in the first wave of free agency. I mean,

1909
01:41:20,479 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 1: he's he's probably gonna have a contract in hand before

1910
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:26,080
Speaker 1: the weekend's over. I mean that's just yeah. I think

1911
01:41:26,160 --> 01:41:28,840
Speaker 1: he's day one. Yeah, that's how we probably hear sac.

1912
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:31,639
Speaker 1: We'll hear about. We'll hear about his deal, Brownie before

1913
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:35,439
Speaker 1: free agency opens. Up right and three tampering window thing. Yes,

1914
01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:37,760
Speaker 1: when they can start talking to these guys three days

1915
01:41:37,760 --> 01:41:39,680
Speaker 1: before free agency opens up, we're gonna hear about the

1916
01:41:39,720 --> 01:41:44,640
Speaker 1: deal Matt Milanos agreed to. Yeah, so that's tough. U.

1917
01:41:44,960 --> 01:41:47,280
Speaker 1: I know Richard Tonawanda, one of our callers at eight

1918
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:49,200
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty where we have an open

1919
01:41:49,240 --> 01:41:51,919
Speaker 1: line for you right now, he was talking about addressing

1920
01:41:51,960 --> 01:41:53,600
Speaker 1: the offensive line and he wanted to do it with

1921
01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:55,880
Speaker 1: a free agent. He was talking about the Patriots Joe Tuoney.

1922
01:41:55,960 --> 01:41:58,840
Speaker 1: I mean that guy is gonna get sixteen million a year.

1923
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:00,679
Speaker 1: I mean he just played on a fran ranchise tag

1924
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:04,479
Speaker 1: for about that amount last year, so he's gonna probably

1925
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:07,360
Speaker 1: command the same money, especially as only being twenty eight

1926
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:11,599
Speaker 1: years old. I don't think a guard is gonna make

1927
01:42:11,640 --> 01:42:14,400
Speaker 1: sixteen million a year? Or what am I saying? Did

1928
01:42:14,400 --> 01:42:16,400
Speaker 1: I say sixteen million? I didn't mean that. Yeah, what

1929
01:42:16,439 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 1: did he play on the tag last year? Hold on,

1930
01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:21,040
Speaker 1: I gotta find this an. I think I'm over I'm

1931
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:26,639
Speaker 1: over stating it. Yeah, that's too much for guard. Let me. Yeah,

1932
01:42:26,720 --> 01:42:28,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've got him sitting right here and

1933
01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:30,800
Speaker 1: not I can't find his tach contract numbers, but the

1934
01:42:30,840 --> 01:42:32,760
Speaker 1: simple fact that matters. You're right, Brown, I mean that

1935
01:42:32,920 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 1: he's gonna get top dollar, and it's gonna be an

1936
01:42:36,080 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 1: interesting question as to whether you know anybody can jump

1937
01:42:40,080 --> 01:42:41,719
Speaker 1: up that high to get him. Certainly the bills won't.

1938
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:45,240
Speaker 1: He made fourteen seven last year. He might make sixteen.

1939
01:42:45,280 --> 01:42:47,639
Speaker 1: He might. I don't think anybody's gonna give him sixteen,

1940
01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:55,280
Speaker 1: but he might be near that. Well maybe maybe if

1941
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:59,160
Speaker 1: there's demand for him. But they hint his market value.

1942
01:42:59,600 --> 01:43:04,280
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's market advice. About fourteen million. That

1943
01:43:04,439 --> 01:43:06,240
Speaker 1: strikes me as a little high for a guard. Yeah,

1944
01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:08,760
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't I don't know if I could

1945
01:43:08,760 --> 01:43:11,559
Speaker 1: stomach paying a guard that much money. No offense to guards,

1946
01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:15,080
Speaker 1: but I know, right, the numbers get I'm with the

1947
01:43:15,120 --> 01:43:19,679
Speaker 1: money getting stupid. It's just getting Yeah, the numbers are number.

1948
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:22,559
Speaker 1: It is stupid money. But here's the problem. Here's here's

1949
01:43:22,560 --> 01:43:24,519
Speaker 1: the thing. You got to remember. Whatever it is, that's fine,

1950
01:43:24,560 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 1: but he's got he can't be making more than a

1951
01:43:27,439 --> 01:43:30,160
Speaker 1: lot of tackles in the league, you know, left tackles,

1952
01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:32,960
Speaker 1: right tackles. That guy he's not gonna be making I

1953
01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:38,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't pay that myself as a gm. Um, not that

1954
01:43:38,200 --> 01:43:41,519
Speaker 1: I don't think the position is important, but you, I mean,

1955
01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:45,920
Speaker 1: what are you gonna that it's hard for him to

1956
01:43:46,040 --> 01:43:48,960
Speaker 1: out to play up to that contract. Yeah, not that

1957
01:43:49,080 --> 01:43:51,840
Speaker 1: anybody's hand all that much attention to guards. Again, no

1958
01:43:51,920 --> 01:43:55,360
Speaker 1: offense to guards, but um yeah, I mean the only

1959
01:43:55,400 --> 01:43:59,080
Speaker 1: time I particulate his door is blown off by a

1960
01:43:59,080 --> 01:44:03,040
Speaker 1: pass rusher. Yeah, I mean, and a guard's got less

1961
01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:05,920
Speaker 1: space to worry about. A tackles got the whole edge

1962
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:07,959
Speaker 1: to worry about and all the guys that coming outside.

1963
01:44:08,000 --> 01:44:12,200
Speaker 1: So I think guards and centers are about the run

1964
01:44:12,240 --> 01:44:14,240
Speaker 1: game and getting up to the second level and being

1965
01:44:14,240 --> 01:44:16,120
Speaker 1: out in front of screen passes and that kind of thing,

1966
01:44:16,120 --> 01:44:18,720
Speaker 1: and tackles you need a guy that can that can

1967
01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:21,080
Speaker 1: back up and pick up an edge rusher with speed.

1968
01:44:23,160 --> 01:44:27,439
Speaker 1: And that's a totally, you know, over generalization of how

1969
01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:31,759
Speaker 1: difficult it is to play both those positions. But yeah,

1970
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:35,519
Speaker 1: Joe Tuney is a great a great player, but that

1971
01:44:35,680 --> 01:44:39,000
Speaker 1: to me is not a premier position. And I'll give

1972
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:41,640
Speaker 1: you an example. The Bills won thirteen games large in

1973
01:44:41,800 --> 01:44:45,160
Speaker 1: dupe lay won fifteen games in large measure because of

1974
01:44:45,200 --> 01:44:47,120
Speaker 1: the quality of their offense, right, I mean, they scored

1975
01:44:47,160 --> 01:44:50,680
Speaker 1: twenty nine and a half points a game. Right, They

1976
01:44:50,720 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 1: never had the same guard and center combination for the

1977
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:55,639
Speaker 1: first eleven or twelve weeks of the season, and when

1978
01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:58,679
Speaker 1: they did get it, it wasn't the one they wanted

1979
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:09,840
Speaker 1: because Cody Ford was hurt. So what are we talking about? Yeah, yeah,

1980
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:13,000
Speaker 1: I mean we can slice it a thousand ways. We

1981
01:45:13,080 --> 01:45:16,800
Speaker 1: know that, m but you gotta have somebody playing up there,

1982
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:19,080
Speaker 1: that's for sure. And the Bills ain't got nobody to

1983
01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 1: put it mind. Hey, you're preaching to the choir on that. Um.

1984
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:29,680
Speaker 1: I just think it's gonna be yeah, there, I'm concerned

1985
01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:36,080
Speaker 1: that they're not going to I think it's gonna be hard,

1986
01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:40,759
Speaker 1: harder than people realize to get Feliciano and Daryl Williams

1987
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:44,200
Speaker 1: back in the fold, both of them. I'm saying, I

1988
01:45:44,200 --> 01:45:48,920
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be tricky unless Feliciano wants to be

1989
01:45:49,000 --> 01:45:53,680
Speaker 1: here so badly that he doesn't become unreasonable with his

1990
01:45:53,760 --> 01:45:59,680
Speaker 1: contract demands. We've had callers and tweeters and mail bag

1991
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:04,400
Speaker 1: pe boll asking about Feliciano sliding down to center at

1992
01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:07,400
Speaker 1: a reduced rate from what Mitch Morse was making, or

1993
01:46:07,520 --> 01:46:11,519
Speaker 1: maybe about the same money. I don't care. Save Mitch

1994
01:46:11,640 --> 01:46:18,519
Speaker 1: Morse's money, give it to Feliciano and give and then

1995
01:46:18,760 --> 01:46:26,920
Speaker 1: do what you want with Addison, Jefferson and the rest

1996
01:46:26,920 --> 01:46:29,800
Speaker 1: of the D line. Free up that cap money and

1997
01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:32,840
Speaker 1: spend it on offensive lineman free agency that are available,

1998
01:46:33,080 --> 01:46:34,880
Speaker 1: and get one of those guys, and then you know,

1999
01:46:35,200 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 1: you got Cody Ford coming back, You have Feliciano who's

2000
01:46:38,040 --> 01:46:41,400
Speaker 1: moved down to center. Then you get a guard tackle combinent.

2001
01:46:41,479 --> 01:46:46,680
Speaker 1: Maybe you do resign Darryl Williams. You know, yeah, if

2002
01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:49,599
Speaker 1: there's so many moving parts and with a restrictive cap,

2003
01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:52,200
Speaker 1: I just think it makes it makes the whole thing

2004
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:55,479
Speaker 1: so much harder to predict in terms of which direction

2005
01:46:55,479 --> 01:46:59,080
Speaker 1: it's going to go. And even after you have your

2006
01:46:59,120 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 1: best laid plan ends like let's just say hypothetically, they decide, okay,

2007
01:47:05,479 --> 01:47:07,960
Speaker 1: our number one target here in terms of resigning our

2008
01:47:08,000 --> 01:47:10,360
Speaker 1: own is Daryl Williams, and we got to move heaven

2009
01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 1: and earth to make that happen. Maybe they say, well,

2010
01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:16,439
Speaker 1: we'll sign him and lop somebody else off the roster

2011
01:47:16,520 --> 01:47:19,160
Speaker 1: on the D line to make it happen, and then

2012
01:47:19,240 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 1: for whatever reason they don't get him, Like he gets

2013
01:47:21,920 --> 01:47:25,439
Speaker 1: to the market they didn't get him, the bidding gets

2014
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:27,920
Speaker 1: way beyond their value for him, and now you've got

2015
01:47:27,920 --> 01:47:31,240
Speaker 1: to pick another direction because your initial plan didn't work.

2016
01:47:31,560 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 1: And I know they have contingencies and everything, but you

2017
01:47:35,479 --> 01:47:38,439
Speaker 1: gotta pivot fast. And the number of people in the

2018
01:47:38,439 --> 01:47:43,800
Speaker 1: pool that you may be able to sign is smaller

2019
01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:47,960
Speaker 1: because your cap number is cost prohibitive. I just think

2020
01:47:47,960 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 1: the whole operation is going to have to function differently,

2021
01:47:50,840 --> 01:47:53,479
Speaker 1: not just for the bills, but for the other fifteen

2022
01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:56,479
Speaker 1: sixteen teams that still have to stay under the number

2023
01:47:56,560 --> 01:47:58,960
Speaker 1: and are tight against it. And I'm sure in the

2024
01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:00,880
Speaker 1: next week, I'm sure the next week, we're going to

2025
01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:04,120
Speaker 1: see a lot of these teams make the tough decisions

2026
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:06,720
Speaker 1: and lop some people off their roster and throw somebodies

2027
01:48:06,760 --> 01:48:10,240
Speaker 1: overboard because of the restrictive cap, so they're in a

2028
01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:15,400
Speaker 1: position where they're not as hamstrung by the dollars and

2029
01:48:15,479 --> 01:48:21,800
Speaker 1: cents figures. Yeah, and I would anticipate the bills are

2030
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 1: leaving no stone unturned trying to get guys to restructure,

2031
01:48:28,080 --> 01:48:30,639
Speaker 1: placing values on guys that are going to be free agents,

2032
01:48:31,080 --> 01:48:34,040
Speaker 1: also trying to get through phone calls or through just

2033
01:48:35,160 --> 01:48:39,200
Speaker 1: educated guesses at other rosters around the league of who's

2034
01:48:39,240 --> 01:48:41,680
Speaker 1: going to be available and who they think teams have

2035
01:48:41,800 --> 01:48:46,040
Speaker 1: gotta cut, like allowed JJ Watt. Yeah, and I think too, Steve,

2036
01:48:46,439 --> 01:48:51,000
Speaker 1: that they already have those people lined up, because if

2037
01:48:51,040 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 1: they didn't, don't you think they would have had the

2038
01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:59,800
Speaker 1: extension for Micah Hyde include something in this year of

2039
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:04,360
Speaker 1: his contract that kind of eased the burden. Not that

2040
01:49:04,400 --> 01:49:09,559
Speaker 1: he was necessarily breaking the bank, but I mean, they

2041
01:49:09,600 --> 01:49:12,000
Speaker 1: didn't do anything with the final year of his deal

2042
01:49:13,200 --> 01:49:16,639
Speaker 1: this year, and I think they would have if they

2043
01:49:16,680 --> 01:49:21,200
Speaker 1: needed some help there. So my thinking is they've already

2044
01:49:21,240 --> 01:49:25,840
Speaker 1: got move one, Move two, Move three, and Move four

2045
01:49:26,920 --> 01:49:29,920
Speaker 1: already lined up ready to go. Whenever they find out

2046
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:32,960
Speaker 1: what the cap number is. Yeah, I think so too.

2047
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:35,360
Speaker 1: I think that's the final domino that's going to fall

2048
01:49:35,400 --> 01:49:39,679
Speaker 1: before we see more signings or releases or restructures, whatever

2049
01:49:39,680 --> 01:49:43,639
Speaker 1: that moves those are. When that final cap number comes out,

2050
01:49:44,160 --> 01:49:46,200
Speaker 1: they'll know exactly what they have to deal with and

2051
01:49:46,240 --> 01:49:49,240
Speaker 1: then they'll go from there and we'll we'll get an

2052
01:49:49,240 --> 01:49:51,240
Speaker 1: inkling as to what they've been We've been talking about

2053
01:49:51,240 --> 01:49:53,640
Speaker 1: every possible scenario under the sun, you and I for

2054
01:49:53,640 --> 01:49:56,160
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, and we'll finally get an inkling

2055
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:58,920
Speaker 1: as to what they were thinking when they finally find

2056
01:49:58,920 --> 01:50:01,679
Speaker 1: out the final cap number. And then you know, obviously,

2057
01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:05,679
Speaker 1: and I think too, this club has been particularly early

2058
01:50:05,720 --> 01:50:10,280
Speaker 1: on in McDermott's tenure. Remember, every decision that had to

2059
01:50:10,320 --> 01:50:14,040
Speaker 1: be made on a player was made at the eleventh hour.

2060
01:50:14,520 --> 01:50:17,280
Speaker 1: They had to designate or franchise, or release or sign

2061
01:50:17,439 --> 01:50:20,320
Speaker 1: or to extend or whatever. It was always done at

2062
01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:23,120
Speaker 1: the very last possible moment, giving them all the information

2063
01:50:23,120 --> 01:50:26,200
Speaker 1: they could need and in case something changed. And I

2064
01:50:26,200 --> 01:50:28,960
Speaker 1: would expect a lot of these moves to be the same.

2065
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:32,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it'll be eleven thirty at night on March

2066
01:50:32,439 --> 01:50:36,439
Speaker 1: sixteenth before some of these deals are put in. Getting

2067
01:50:36,479 --> 01:50:41,360
Speaker 1: back to the tweet, the Twitter poll, which deals with

2068
01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:43,480
Speaker 1: what should be the Bill's next move in the secondary,

2069
01:50:43,960 --> 01:50:47,479
Speaker 1: I hadn't really thought about this, Steve, in terms of

2070
01:50:47,520 --> 01:50:50,880
Speaker 1: how they address it, because we know the restrictive cap,

2071
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, could complicate things to a certain extent. But

2072
01:50:55,040 --> 01:50:59,240
Speaker 1: what about the pre draft process and the greater uncertainty

2073
01:50:59,320 --> 01:51:04,720
Speaker 1: that lies there. I mean, between if you're looking at

2074
01:51:04,720 --> 01:51:08,160
Speaker 1: the cornerback pool in this year's draft, you're looking at

2075
01:51:08,800 --> 01:51:11,639
Speaker 1: the best guy in the class. The Virginia Tech kid

2076
01:51:11,680 --> 01:51:14,960
Speaker 1: Caleb Farley. He opted out, didn't even play this year,

2077
01:51:15,720 --> 01:51:18,200
Speaker 1: and that's the best guy in the class by most

2078
01:51:18,200 --> 01:51:21,720
Speaker 1: people's accounts. You didn't have a combine to get face

2079
01:51:21,760 --> 01:51:24,840
Speaker 1: to face with some of these guys. Pro days are

2080
01:51:24,880 --> 01:51:26,880
Speaker 1: going to be the only means by which you do

2081
01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:28,600
Speaker 1: that if they didn't go to the Senior Bowl and

2082
01:51:28,600 --> 01:51:31,640
Speaker 1: they're an underclassman coming out. You have some players that

2083
01:51:31,680 --> 01:51:36,720
Speaker 1: haven't set foot on a field since early December of

2084
01:51:37,680 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nineteen, like if their team didn't go to

2085
01:51:42,360 --> 01:51:44,880
Speaker 1: a bowl game, they haven't been on a competitive field

2086
01:51:45,520 --> 01:51:51,920
Speaker 1: since like late November, early December twenty nineteen. I wonder

2087
01:51:51,920 --> 01:51:55,400
Speaker 1: if the uncertainty of the draft pushes more teams to

2088
01:51:55,439 --> 01:51:59,879
Speaker 1: sign veteran free agents for what you were alluding to earlier,

2089
01:52:00,360 --> 01:52:03,200
Speaker 1: the thing you know the most, the thing that you

2090
01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:06,759
Speaker 1: can trust because you've seen this veteran player not only

2091
01:52:06,800 --> 01:52:11,040
Speaker 1: on tape recently, but playing in the league. Yeah, I

2092
01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:13,800
Speaker 1: think you'll see a lot of player free agents trying to,

2093
01:52:14,640 --> 01:52:16,559
Speaker 1: you know, trying to take an intelligent approach to this

2094
01:52:16,600 --> 01:52:18,639
Speaker 1: and kind of outsmart the system a little bit where

2095
01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:23,760
Speaker 1: they'll say, they'll say, see exactly what you saw, they

2096
01:52:23,800 --> 01:52:26,200
Speaker 1: will know that if they if they can get a

2097
01:52:26,240 --> 01:52:28,439
Speaker 1: contract with a team that's one less spot where they're

2098
01:52:28,439 --> 01:52:30,519
Speaker 1: going to draft a guy, or at least one less

2099
01:52:30,600 --> 01:52:35,200
Speaker 1: roster spot that's available to another dB, if they can

2100
01:52:35,280 --> 01:52:38,240
Speaker 1: find a team where at the outset they think they

2101
01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:41,280
Speaker 1: can least compete and do it on a one year

2102
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 1: deal or even a short term two year deal with

2103
01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:46,920
Speaker 1: nothing guaranteed in the second year, that kind of thing

2104
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:50,240
Speaker 1: where they know they can if it doesn't go well,

2105
01:52:50,280 --> 01:52:54,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna get cut or released or whatever, and if not,

2106
01:52:54,040 --> 01:52:56,240
Speaker 1: they still get the money to come back and play,

2107
01:52:57,360 --> 01:53:01,639
Speaker 1: but in a financial situation that's much different than this year.

2108
01:53:01,680 --> 01:53:04,160
Speaker 1: So I think there'll be a lot of free agents

2109
01:53:04,200 --> 01:53:08,839
Speaker 1: at every position who will say, you know, if I want,

2110
01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:12,240
Speaker 1: I can take a little less money this year, and

2111
01:53:12,280 --> 01:53:16,720
Speaker 1: if I pick my spot right, yeah, I can hit

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Speaker 1: a home run next year. They'll be guys who will

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Speaker 1: think that, or at least will justify their signing by that.

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Speaker 1: And I think if if you can be one of

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Speaker 1: those teams that gives the guy a chance, you can

2116
01:53:28,240 --> 01:53:31,160
Speaker 1: sell them on what you're what you're doing, and your system,

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01:53:31,520 --> 01:53:34,439
Speaker 1: your scheme, your program or whatever you want to sell them. On.

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01:53:35,400 --> 01:53:38,400
Speaker 1: You know that in that scenario, I think Buffalo becomes

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Speaker 1: really really attractive and much more attractive because, you know,

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Speaker 1: forget it. Even if these guys, these these hammer heads

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01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:46,800
Speaker 1: out there that don't like snow and they think Buffalo's

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01:53:47,720 --> 01:53:53,360
Speaker 1: one year, they'll do right, and so all of those guys, yeah, yeah,

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01:53:53,360 --> 01:53:55,479
Speaker 1: one of those guys will sign, Yeah, all for Buffalo

2124
01:53:55,560 --> 01:53:57,040
Speaker 1: for one year. I can do anything for one year.

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01:53:57,120 --> 01:54:01,559
Speaker 1: Let's go, even those hammerheads, you can, you can. And

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01:54:01,600 --> 01:54:05,200
Speaker 1: if I'm the agent, that's the exact thing that I'm selling.

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01:54:05,240 --> 01:54:08,559
Speaker 1: I'm selling. Hey, do you want my twenty nine year

2128
01:54:08,560 --> 01:54:10,800
Speaker 1: old corner who's played in this league for six years

2129
01:54:10,880 --> 01:54:13,080
Speaker 1: that you can see on tape from last season? Or

2130
01:54:13,120 --> 01:54:14,759
Speaker 1: do you want to take some kid in the draft

2131
01:54:15,120 --> 01:54:17,720
Speaker 1: who hasn't set foot on a college field in a

2132
01:54:17,800 --> 01:54:19,680
Speaker 1: year and a half and now is going to play

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01:54:19,720 --> 01:54:21,600
Speaker 1: at the highest level and be ready for you in

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01:54:21,680 --> 01:54:24,080
Speaker 1: a year where you're going for it like talking to

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01:54:24,120 --> 01:54:26,320
Speaker 1: the Bills. Of course, then if I'm Brandon being I'm

2136
01:54:26,320 --> 01:54:27,800
Speaker 1: coming back and say, hey, we'd love to have him.

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01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:30,439
Speaker 1: Here's the number. We got a restrictive cap situation. Can

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01:54:30,479 --> 01:54:34,880
Speaker 1: you play for four million? That's right, That's right. But

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01:54:34,920 --> 01:54:38,440
Speaker 1: that's but the other guy says, you know, hey, yeah,

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01:54:38,560 --> 01:54:42,640
Speaker 1: we'll do it for one year. Um, it's and if

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01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:45,040
Speaker 1: he won't, that guy over there will yeah, you know

2142
01:54:45,080 --> 01:54:47,480
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and he'll say, well, we got this guy,

2143
01:54:47,520 --> 01:54:51,960
Speaker 1: we like him, and this is our number. We'll give

2144
01:54:52,000 --> 01:54:54,080
Speaker 1: you this much more than that guy if you want

2145
01:54:54,080 --> 01:54:56,960
Speaker 1: to come over and play. And that that you know

2146
01:54:57,000 --> 01:54:59,000
Speaker 1: that strokes the guy at the same time is offering

2147
01:54:59,080 --> 01:55:02,320
Speaker 1: him a low number. So, um, you know, all of

2148
01:55:02,320 --> 01:55:07,240
Speaker 1: that stuff's in play. And most gms, particularly a GM

2149
01:55:07,280 --> 01:55:09,360
Speaker 1: like Brandon Bean, who's you know now in is what

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01:55:09,560 --> 01:55:15,040
Speaker 1: third Foulton. This will be his fourth offseason right, he's

2151
01:55:15,280 --> 01:55:17,760
Speaker 1: He's had phone conversations with a lot of agents, already

2152
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:22,280
Speaker 1: has working relationships with ton of representation, so they'll be

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01:55:22,280 --> 01:55:24,200
Speaker 1: able to say, hey, here's the deal, you know and now,

2154
01:55:24,240 --> 01:55:27,560
Speaker 1: and they'll they'll make some hay like that from Jeremy

2155
01:55:27,600 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. With regard to the next move

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01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:31,720
Speaker 1: in the secondary, he said, I'd like it to be

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01:55:31,760 --> 01:55:34,160
Speaker 1: an early signing, but the D line needs to be

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01:55:34,200 --> 01:55:37,280
Speaker 1: addressed first. Hopefully we can get a bargain in free agency.

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01:55:37,680 --> 01:55:40,800
Speaker 1: I'd like to see Wallace stay, but the position needs

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01:55:40,840 --> 01:55:46,000
Speaker 1: an upgrade, and logic would have it. With all of

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01:55:46,000 --> 01:55:49,280
Speaker 1: these veterans expected to be thrust into the free agent market,

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01:55:49,640 --> 01:55:53,640
Speaker 1: there will be opportunities to sign somebody at a bargain

2163
01:55:54,040 --> 01:55:56,160
Speaker 1: on a one year deal, maybe even more so this

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01:55:56,240 --> 01:55:58,200
Speaker 1: year than the past few years when the Bills have

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01:55:58,320 --> 01:56:01,000
Speaker 1: been able to find some So be interesting to see

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01:56:01,000 --> 01:56:05,240
Speaker 1: where that goes. JT says, pass on drafting one. We

2167
01:56:05,280 --> 01:56:07,960
Speaker 1: still have Dane Jackson. He looks promising, So stick with

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01:56:08,000 --> 01:56:10,480
Speaker 1: what we've got, build on what we have with Trey

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01:56:10,720 --> 01:56:14,680
Speaker 1: arn Jackson, and bring back Levi and maybe bring in

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Speaker 1: one big name starter opposite Trey, maybe Peterson. He's talking

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01:56:18,520 --> 01:56:23,920
Speaker 1: about Patrick Peterson, Hilton or Shaquille Griffin from Seattle who

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01:56:24,040 --> 01:56:28,160
Speaker 1: is set to become a free agent. Where you sit

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01:56:28,240 --> 01:56:31,160
Speaker 1: on that, I mean there will be There will be

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Speaker 1: a long list of free agent corners, presumably the high

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01:56:35,480 --> 01:56:37,879
Speaker 1: priced ones that teams can't keep on their roster anymore,

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01:56:38,680 --> 01:56:41,000
Speaker 1: and other guys that are just going to get thrust

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Speaker 1: into the free agent market that are in that middle

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01:56:43,840 --> 01:56:46,640
Speaker 1: market that are making between somewhere between five and ten

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Speaker 1: million a year and they get lopped off the roster. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. That guys, all those guys that we've

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01:56:53,560 --> 01:56:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, got our site set on, are going to

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Speaker 1: be available. I have my doubts as whether Patrick Peterson,

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01:56:58,320 --> 01:57:01,320
Speaker 1: you know that ras Zona won't just say no, no, no,

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01:57:01,400 --> 01:57:03,480
Speaker 1: he's our guys, always been, our guys, only going to

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01:57:03,560 --> 01:57:06,280
Speaker 1: be an Arizona Cardinal those kind of a situations. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they have a tough cap situation too though, especially after

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01:57:09,240 --> 01:57:13,120
Speaker 1: signing Watt to that deal. So, I mean it already

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01:57:13,160 --> 01:57:14,800
Speaker 1: signaled that they're not going to be bringing a son

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01:57:14,880 --> 01:57:17,960
Speaker 1: Reddick back after a twelve and a half sack season. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And there's been talk out there that they're gonna part

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01:57:20,280 --> 01:57:22,640
Speaker 1: ways with Peterson now as he's entering I think what

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01:57:22,800 --> 01:57:28,880
Speaker 1: is his age, thirty seasons? So yeah, how it to

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01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:34,920
Speaker 1: me that the other shack um Barrett is that you're

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01:57:34,920 --> 01:57:39,720
Speaker 1: talking about Seattle. No, no, no, no no, no, I'm talking

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01:57:39,720 --> 01:57:45,360
Speaker 1: about the defensive lineman that they signed that Arizona has

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01:57:45,480 --> 01:57:47,800
Speaker 1: the twelve and a half sack guy. Oh, Hassan Reddick.

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Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick to me signed the Arizona Cardinals signing JJ

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Speaker 1: Watt is crazy. If you got Hassan Reddick there coming

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Speaker 1: off a twelve and a half sack season, right, that's

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01:58:03,720 --> 01:58:06,840
Speaker 1: crazy to me. Yeah, give me the twenty six year

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01:58:07,640 --> 01:58:09,600
Speaker 1: prime of his career. Don't give me the thirty two

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01:58:09,720 --> 01:58:13,720
Speaker 1: year old that whose best years are behind him. That's

2203
01:58:14,040 --> 01:58:15,880
Speaker 1: where do they go? Why do these teams go off

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01:58:15,880 --> 01:58:18,640
Speaker 1: the rails? To me, that's going off the rails almost. Yeah,

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01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:21,160
Speaker 1: I mean I get the shiny new toy. And JJ's

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01:58:21,200 --> 01:58:23,920
Speaker 1: a big name, he's a star. The guy's thirty two.

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01:58:24,880 --> 01:58:28,000
Speaker 1: He's played one full seed, two full seasons out of

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01:58:28,000 --> 01:58:32,160
Speaker 1: the last four. Yeah, and he had five sacks last year.

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Speaker 1: I don't I just to me, and he gave him

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01:58:36,240 --> 01:58:41,040
Speaker 1: fifteen and a half. Why you got a guy guaranteed? Yeah?

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01:58:41,080 --> 01:58:43,080
Speaker 1: And you you got that guy on already on your

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01:58:43,160 --> 01:58:46,000
Speaker 1: roster and he's gonna walk. Yeah. Now, if they can

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01:58:46,040 --> 01:58:47,800
Speaker 1: find a way to sign him. Okay, I hear you,

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01:58:47,880 --> 01:58:50,920
Speaker 1: But I don't do that, not because you also have

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01:58:51,000 --> 01:58:54,360
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones, who's got a cap number like twenty point

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01:58:54,400 --> 01:58:59,000
Speaker 1: eight million. I mean you're chasing now. I'll tell you

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01:58:59,000 --> 01:59:03,640
Speaker 1: that if they can find a way to keep those

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01:59:04,280 --> 01:59:09,080
Speaker 1: three or four guys, like we've said, that's kind of

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01:59:09,080 --> 01:59:12,040
Speaker 1: a magic elixer. If you've got if you've got four

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01:59:12,080 --> 01:59:14,480
Speaker 1: guys that can rush the passer and get there right now.

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01:59:15,280 --> 01:59:16,800
Speaker 1: You're gonna win a lot of games with those gates.

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01:59:16,840 --> 01:59:18,920
Speaker 1: Should have a nice pass rush. I mean, just Chandler

2223
01:59:19,000 --> 01:59:21,800
Speaker 1: Jones and JJ Watt alone, and maybe you can and

2224
01:59:21,840 --> 01:59:23,840
Speaker 1: you can even kick JJ Watt inside to give you

2225
01:59:23,880 --> 01:59:26,160
Speaker 1: an interior push. And you still have Jordan Phillips on

2226
01:59:26,200 --> 01:59:29,360
Speaker 1: your roster. So Jordan Phillips is gonna see you awful

2227
01:59:29,360 --> 01:59:31,680
Speaker 1: lot of one on ones, and at three hundred and

2228
01:59:31,760 --> 01:59:35,040
Speaker 1: forty pounds, he's gonna probably win a good number of those.

2229
01:59:35,120 --> 01:59:38,640
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying they're bereft of talent. They've certainly

2230
01:59:38,680 --> 01:59:41,480
Speaker 1: got talent, but their books are going to get a

2231
01:59:41,480 --> 01:59:44,280
Speaker 1: little tricky pretty fast. And to say goodbye to a

2232
01:59:44,280 --> 01:59:46,280
Speaker 1: twelve and a half sack player who's entering his age

2233
01:59:46,320 --> 01:59:49,760
Speaker 1: twenty sixth season, okay, maybe you can't afford him, But

2234
01:59:49,760 --> 01:59:51,680
Speaker 1: then you just handed fifteen and a half million a

2235
01:59:51,760 --> 01:59:54,720
Speaker 1: year to a thirty two year old pass rusher whose

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01:59:54,720 --> 01:59:57,200
Speaker 1: best years are probably behind him. And I agree with you,

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01:59:57,280 --> 02:00:00,320
Speaker 1: it doesn't wash. Just doesn't wash. All right, We've got

2238
02:00:00,320 --> 02:00:02,480
Speaker 1: to take him. I'd rather have I would rather have

2239
02:00:02,600 --> 02:00:05,280
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, yeah, give me

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Speaker 1: the young guy that you can work with for another

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02:00:07,920 --> 02:00:09,920
Speaker 1: five years. And you're telling me, Hassan Reddick wouldn't have

2242
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Speaker 1: signed for fifteen and a half. I think you would have.

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02:00:12,640 --> 02:00:16,080
Speaker 1: I think you would right that. It defies logic, it

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02:00:16,120 --> 02:00:18,280
Speaker 1: really does. We have to take a break, but when

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Speaker 1: we return, we'll finish up the comments on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet and we'll also get to a little NFL true false.

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Speaker 1: As we enter the final half hour of the program

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Speaker 1: here on a Monday, I'm One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Wife. Chris Brown, Steve Chaste with you final

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Speaker 1: half hour of the show, and we're wrapping up your

2252
02:00:45,600 --> 02:00:47,640
Speaker 1: comments on the tweet sheet in terms of the bills

2253
02:00:47,720 --> 02:00:50,040
Speaker 1: next move and what you think it should be in

2254
02:00:50,120 --> 02:00:53,160
Speaker 1: the secondary on the heels of the two year extension

2255
02:00:53,760 --> 02:00:57,560
Speaker 1: signed by Micah Hyde over the weekend. So Nick on

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02:00:57,560 --> 02:01:01,680
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, can it be in a for choices,

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02:01:02,320 --> 02:01:06,640
Speaker 1: retain Wallace? Bring in a vet for competition between him,

2258
02:01:06,840 --> 02:01:11,320
Speaker 1: the Vet, Cam Lewis and Dane Jackson. It'll probably push Wallace,

2259
02:01:11,720 --> 02:01:15,480
Speaker 1: So you get your best out of him, Well, competition

2260
02:01:15,520 --> 02:01:17,960
Speaker 1: always brings the best out in everybody, so I get

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02:01:18,000 --> 02:01:22,440
Speaker 1: the logic there from Nick, but he wants to retain

2262
02:01:22,600 --> 02:01:27,120
Speaker 1: Wallace and also sign a VET in free agency. Here's

2263
02:01:27,120 --> 02:01:29,840
Speaker 1: what I think and here's how I voted. I said

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02:01:29,840 --> 02:01:31,880
Speaker 1: they should take one early in the draft. And the

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02:01:31,920 --> 02:01:33,840
Speaker 1: reason I say that is because if they're free to

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02:01:33,880 --> 02:01:35,800
Speaker 1: take a corner early in the draft, that means they've

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02:01:35,800 --> 02:01:38,160
Speaker 1: addressed all the other issues we've been talking about. Means

2268
02:01:38,320 --> 02:01:40,600
Speaker 1: they've addressed the old line, They've addressed the D line.

2269
02:01:41,440 --> 02:01:43,680
Speaker 1: The cap situation is sitting what it is. And if

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02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:46,120
Speaker 1: if you're telling me they've got all that other stuff

2271
02:01:46,160 --> 02:01:47,840
Speaker 1: taken care of so they can take the best player

2272
02:01:47,840 --> 02:01:49,440
Speaker 1: on the board. I hope the best player on the

2273
02:01:49,440 --> 02:01:53,839
Speaker 1: board's a corner because that'll help them immensely in their defense,

2274
02:01:53,840 --> 02:01:56,160
Speaker 1: and I think it'll change some things about what they

2275
02:01:56,160 --> 02:01:59,720
Speaker 1: are able to do defensively. And I think if you've

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02:01:59,720 --> 02:02:01,400
Speaker 1: get a second to think about it, if you get

2277
02:02:01,400 --> 02:02:03,720
Speaker 1: a second corner, and you think your coverage is just

2278
02:02:03,880 --> 02:02:08,360
Speaker 1: that much better, even if your D line is the

2279
02:02:08,400 --> 02:02:10,960
Speaker 1: same as it was last year, the extra pressure packages

2280
02:02:11,040 --> 02:02:13,480
Speaker 1: that you bring will be more effective because you'll you

2281
02:02:13,520 --> 02:02:15,480
Speaker 1: won't have as many outlets to go to because they'll

2282
02:02:15,480 --> 02:02:19,840
Speaker 1: be covered up better. So I think if they do

2283
02:02:20,800 --> 02:02:23,880
Speaker 1: take a corner in the draft on the first day,

2284
02:02:23,920 --> 02:02:26,640
Speaker 1: for like at thirty or sixty four wherever it is,

2285
02:02:27,640 --> 02:02:29,720
Speaker 1: I think it's because they have all their other issues

2286
02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:32,560
Speaker 1: covered up and they'll be good to go. So I'm

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02:02:32,920 --> 02:02:35,600
Speaker 1: if all things being equal, if they were as it

2288
02:02:35,680 --> 02:02:37,480
Speaker 1: was last year at the end of the regular season,

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02:02:38,280 --> 02:02:41,080
Speaker 1: I think it's corner all day. Mike on the tweet

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02:02:41,120 --> 02:02:43,800
Speaker 1: sheet says, I'll go with E Was that a choice.

2291
02:02:44,000 --> 02:02:46,600
Speaker 1: I think he's making his own choice here. Last year,

2292
02:02:46,640 --> 02:02:49,720
Speaker 1: the Bills were rumored to be highly interested in Kyle Dugger.

2293
02:02:50,360 --> 02:02:53,040
Speaker 1: They have been trying to find a hybrid safety type

2294
02:02:53,080 --> 02:02:55,240
Speaker 1: who can cover tight ends, running backs, and play in

2295
02:02:55,280 --> 02:02:58,480
Speaker 1: the box. Draft a hybrid safety type that can fill

2296
02:02:58,520 --> 02:03:03,440
Speaker 1: all those roles, includings on passing downs. Yeah, I mean

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02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:06,240
Speaker 1: Kyle Dugger was seen as that kind of player. New

2298
02:03:06,280 --> 02:03:08,280
Speaker 1: England drafted him. I think it was the second round

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02:03:08,320 --> 02:03:13,240
Speaker 1: they did that. I haven't gotten to the safety position

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02:03:13,360 --> 02:03:16,120
Speaker 1: yet in terms of the prospects in this year's draft

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02:03:16,120 --> 02:03:21,040
Speaker 1: class to know if somebody like that exists. They've used

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Speaker 1: players in that role already Dean Marlowe, Siran Neil have

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02:03:26,600 --> 02:03:31,560
Speaker 1: been utilized in that fashion already. I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: do you want to he's going. I mean, he thinks

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02:03:34,640 --> 02:03:38,920
Speaker 1: he can answer the secondary with that position being filled.

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Speaker 1: While I don't disagree that it would give you great

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02:03:41,480 --> 02:03:46,360
Speaker 1: position and scheme flexibility, I still think the number two

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02:03:46,400 --> 02:03:50,800
Speaker 1: corner spot is more important. So I would be inclined

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02:03:50,840 --> 02:03:54,680
Speaker 1: to go that address that first before trying to find

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Speaker 1: some kind of unicorn in the draft. Right, hard find

2311
02:04:00,280 --> 02:04:07,280
Speaker 1: a unicorn picking thirtieth? Well, that too, good point. So yeah,

2312
02:04:07,320 --> 02:04:11,720
Speaker 1: so I get it. Here's what's gonna have. And I

2313
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Speaker 1: think generally speaking, and I know this sounds like football

2314
02:04:14,920 --> 02:04:16,480
Speaker 1: one on one, I'm just gonna say it anyway. I

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02:04:16,480 --> 02:04:18,600
Speaker 1: hope I don't bore people. But they're gonna try and

2316
02:04:18,640 --> 02:04:20,920
Speaker 1: get the best football players they can and then see

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Speaker 1: what their team looks like after that. Certainly they've got

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Speaker 1: a vision of what they want it to look like,

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Speaker 1: but that may be off the table be given the

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Speaker 1: choices that they have to make because of the shrunken

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02:04:31,520 --> 02:04:34,000
Speaker 1: salary cap and the free agents that they have lost,

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02:04:34,240 --> 02:04:36,560
Speaker 1: and what it costs them to replace those players with

2323
02:04:36,640 --> 02:04:39,200
Speaker 1: whatever they replace them with. Now, if they replace them

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02:04:39,200 --> 02:04:41,600
Speaker 1: at a high level, then they can start from there

2325
02:04:41,600 --> 02:04:43,320
Speaker 1: and start to build them what they did last year.

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Speaker 1: But if they don't replace those high level players or

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02:04:46,200 --> 02:04:52,480
Speaker 1: they replace them with you know, bargain basement free agents. Well,

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02:04:52,520 --> 02:04:54,400
Speaker 1: if you know, if they do that on the offensive line,

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02:04:54,400 --> 02:04:56,160
Speaker 1: that means three of the guys on the offensive line

2330
02:04:56,160 --> 02:04:58,640
Speaker 1: are going to be substandard and Josh Allen's gonna be

2331
02:04:58,680 --> 02:05:00,400
Speaker 1: running for his life and you're Offen is going to

2332
02:05:00,480 --> 02:05:04,240
Speaker 1: look completely different than it did this last year. That's

2333
02:05:04,280 --> 02:05:07,720
Speaker 1: where you start from. But it will be better because

2334
02:05:07,720 --> 02:05:09,920
Speaker 1: they have that money that they spend on other places.

2335
02:05:09,960 --> 02:05:12,200
Speaker 1: They you know, they should be stronger in other places

2336
02:05:12,200 --> 02:05:15,760
Speaker 1: because they got their money's worth out of that. That's

2337
02:05:15,760 --> 02:05:18,920
Speaker 1: where we're at. So they're gonna do what they can

2338
02:05:19,000 --> 02:05:21,840
Speaker 1: to replace everybody on their roster who's a free agent,

2339
02:05:21,960 --> 02:05:25,920
Speaker 1: or if not, resign them, draft somebody or replace them

2340
02:05:25,960 --> 02:05:29,120
Speaker 1: with somebody who is highly motivated to get another deal

2341
02:05:29,240 --> 02:05:32,680
Speaker 1: or at least highly motivated, motivated intrinsically that all the

2342
02:05:32,760 --> 02:05:36,800
Speaker 1: time to play their best. Then they've got Then we

2343
02:05:36,880 --> 02:05:38,960
Speaker 1: go to training camp, we go to OTAs, we go

2344
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:42,040
Speaker 1: to mini camps, and we find out how good they are,

2345
02:05:42,560 --> 02:05:45,000
Speaker 1: and we won't you and I and every else. We

2346
02:05:45,040 --> 02:05:46,760
Speaker 1: are going to find out how well they did until

2347
02:05:46,800 --> 02:05:48,400
Speaker 1: you know, week one next year and see what it

2348
02:05:48,440 --> 02:05:51,760
Speaker 1: looks like in the first week. But the question, they're

2349
02:05:51,760 --> 02:05:54,760
Speaker 1: gonna get the best team, best football players they can

2350
02:05:54,760 --> 02:05:58,440
Speaker 1: afford at every position, spend the money where they think

2351
02:05:58,480 --> 02:06:01,000
Speaker 1: they need to, trim it where they think they need to,

2352
02:06:01,560 --> 02:06:04,360
Speaker 1: and they're gonna go into next year and this team

2353
02:06:04,440 --> 02:06:07,480
Speaker 1: is gonna look very, I think, very different than it

2354
02:06:07,560 --> 02:06:11,080
Speaker 1: did this last year. Very different. Don't know what that

2355
02:06:11,120 --> 02:06:14,400
Speaker 1: means or how to articulate it or what it you know,

2356
02:06:14,400 --> 02:06:17,120
Speaker 1: how different and what's going to look different, But it's

2357
02:06:17,160 --> 02:06:19,160
Speaker 1: gonna be different because they're gonna have a lot of

2358
02:06:19,160 --> 02:06:21,600
Speaker 1: new players just by the simple fact that that's the

2359
02:06:21,600 --> 02:06:24,560
Speaker 1: way the contracts fell and the free agency fell and

2360
02:06:24,600 --> 02:06:27,800
Speaker 1: the salary cap fell. So that's all that stuff mixed

2361
02:06:27,800 --> 02:06:30,120
Speaker 1: in together is what this team's gonna be. The great

2362
02:06:30,160 --> 02:06:35,760
Speaker 1: part is McDermott and Bean and McDermott is staff are

2363
02:06:35,760 --> 02:06:38,920
Speaker 1: going to build it from the ground up again and

2364
02:06:38,960 --> 02:06:41,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna get the most out of this roster.

2365
02:06:41,520 --> 02:06:43,480
Speaker 1: That's what they do well, and that's gonna be the

2366
02:06:43,480 --> 02:06:44,840
Speaker 1: fun part of it, I think, for all of us

2367
02:06:44,840 --> 02:06:47,840
Speaker 1: to get to know them again. Whatever, this twenty twenty

2368
02:06:47,880 --> 02:06:50,560
Speaker 1: one Bills team is gonna look like last one. On

2369
02:06:50,600 --> 02:06:52,880
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, Red Knight Kids said, put a second

2370
02:06:52,960 --> 02:06:55,879
Speaker 1: round tender on Wallace around three to four million dollars.

2371
02:06:55,880 --> 02:06:58,240
Speaker 1: The tender amounts are not out for this year yet

2372
02:06:58,320 --> 02:07:00,640
Speaker 1: because there is no salary cap number. That'll be the

2373
02:07:00,640 --> 02:07:02,560
Speaker 1: first number to come down the pike, and then those

2374
02:07:03,120 --> 02:07:06,240
Speaker 1: are anticipated to follow. Word on the street is the

2375
02:07:06,360 --> 02:07:10,280
Speaker 1: low tender from last year will be largely the same.

2376
02:07:10,320 --> 02:07:13,120
Speaker 1: That was two point one three three million dollars. The

2377
02:07:13,240 --> 02:07:15,640
Speaker 1: question now is on the second round tender level and

2378
02:07:15,680 --> 02:07:18,080
Speaker 1: the first round tender level. So a second round tender

2379
02:07:18,160 --> 02:07:22,680
Speaker 1: last year was three point three eight million dollars. Again,

2380
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:26,520
Speaker 1: this is why I get into the argument that, well,

2381
02:07:26,560 --> 02:07:29,800
Speaker 1: if you're gonna tender him at that level for this year,

2382
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:32,960
Speaker 1: just signed him to a regular contract for two years

2383
02:07:33,040 --> 02:07:35,720
Speaker 1: and just do two years and six million or two

2384
02:07:35,800 --> 02:07:38,240
Speaker 1: years and eight million, whatever the hell it is, and

2385
02:07:38,520 --> 02:07:42,120
Speaker 1: doing that with guarantee. Signed him for two year, seven

2386
02:07:42,160 --> 02:07:46,240
Speaker 1: million dollars deal and guarantee six million of it. Yeah,

2387
02:07:46,280 --> 02:07:48,960
Speaker 1: you know, he gets he gets the salary this year

2388
02:07:49,000 --> 02:07:51,680
Speaker 1: and then most of next year's is guaranteed too. That way,

2389
02:07:51,720 --> 02:07:56,640
Speaker 1: if you cut him, you only you're only out two million. Yeah,

2390
02:07:56,680 --> 02:07:59,560
Speaker 1: I do have some good news on the NFL news

2391
02:07:59,600 --> 02:08:03,480
Speaker 1: and note front Ian Rappidport from NFL Network just tweeted,

2392
02:08:03,520 --> 02:08:07,640
Speaker 1: for whatever it's worth, former Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick does

2393
02:08:07,720 --> 02:08:09,920
Speaker 1: plan on playing in twenty twenty one, and he should

2394
02:08:09,960 --> 02:08:12,240
Speaker 1: have a solid free agent market for his role. There's

2395
02:08:12,240 --> 02:08:14,320
Speaker 1: been some public debate about his future, but he does

2396
02:08:14,400 --> 02:08:17,000
Speaker 1: intend to play this year. So it sounds like that

2397
02:08:17,080 --> 02:08:20,280
Speaker 1: report that he was leaning towards retirement was erroneous, which

2398
02:08:20,760 --> 02:08:22,800
Speaker 1: it didn't make sense to me either, because I thought

2399
02:08:22,960 --> 02:08:25,720
Speaker 1: he was singing a very different tune at the end

2400
02:08:25,760 --> 02:08:29,480
Speaker 1: of the season. So I think I think he will

2401
02:08:29,520 --> 02:08:33,600
Speaker 1: be somewhere come next fall, and I don't think the

2402
02:08:33,640 --> 02:08:37,640
Speaker 1: circumstance of what the chances of starting will will impact

2403
02:08:37,680 --> 02:08:40,960
Speaker 1: that decision. I mean, sure, he'd like to prefer to

2404
02:08:41,000 --> 02:08:43,600
Speaker 1: compete to start somewhere, and believe it or not, I

2405
02:08:43,640 --> 02:08:45,680
Speaker 1: think there will be opportunities for him to do that.

2406
02:08:45,840 --> 02:08:48,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was That's why I was so surprised

2407
02:08:48,800 --> 02:08:51,560
Speaker 1: by the initial report out there that you know he

2408
02:08:51,640 --> 02:08:54,840
Speaker 1: was considering retirement that I just don't think that's in

2409
02:08:54,880 --> 02:08:56,920
Speaker 1: the cards. I think he wants to play in twenty one.

2410
02:08:57,920 --> 02:09:00,840
Speaker 1: So glad to hear it. There's one other thing that

2411
02:09:00,920 --> 02:09:02,320
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about. I don't know if

2412
02:09:02,320 --> 02:09:06,520
Speaker 1: you are you a trading card guy? Uh? Not, Well,

2413
02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:08,800
Speaker 1: I used to be back in the day. I'm not.

2414
02:09:09,240 --> 02:09:11,640
Speaker 1: We were talking about it last week. There's a from

2415
02:09:11,640 --> 02:09:14,320
Speaker 1: Golden Auctions and it's got a blue check mark on

2416
02:09:14,400 --> 02:09:17,680
Speaker 1: the on the on the Twitter handle. So did you

2417
02:09:17,720 --> 02:09:21,040
Speaker 1: see the Josh Allen card just sold for I did not.

2418
02:09:22,800 --> 02:09:27,240
Speaker 1: The final sale price for a Josh Allen autographed card

2419
02:09:27,880 --> 02:09:31,360
Speaker 1: this particular card that I'm looking at was two hundred

2420
02:09:31,400 --> 02:09:34,840
Speaker 1: and ten thousand, three hundred and thirty dollars. Yeah. Well,

2421
02:09:34,880 --> 02:09:37,960
Speaker 1: because they're expecting him to kind of build on this

2422
02:09:38,000 --> 02:09:40,360
Speaker 1: season with more successful seasons, and they saw he was

2423
02:09:40,440 --> 02:09:45,280
Speaker 1: runner up in MVP voting. So that's a that's a

2424
02:09:45,360 --> 02:09:49,320
Speaker 1: high price to pay. But that that buyer is anticipating

2425
02:09:49,880 --> 02:09:54,440
Speaker 1: the thing going up, up and up and up. Um,

2426
02:09:54,520 --> 02:09:58,520
Speaker 1: that's that's amazing. That is are you kidding me? Big?

2427
02:09:59,400 --> 02:10:03,840
Speaker 1: That's really Now. There are specific cards that go for

2428
02:10:04,120 --> 02:10:10,920
Speaker 1: more money because they're either limited quantities based on how

2429
02:10:10,920 --> 02:10:14,520
Speaker 1: many were printed, and there are others that are just

2430
02:10:14,600 --> 02:10:18,560
Speaker 1: in higher demand, believe it or not because they just

2431
02:10:18,640 --> 02:10:22,440
Speaker 1: look cool. This is what my son has communicated to

2432
02:10:22,480 --> 02:10:25,240
Speaker 1: me because he's he's on the cutting edge of some

2433
02:10:25,280 --> 02:10:28,040
Speaker 1: of this stuff. But yeah, so, yeah, sales for six

2434
02:10:28,120 --> 02:10:31,320
Speaker 1: figures over the weekend, two hundred ten thousand dollars. I'd

2435
02:10:31,360 --> 02:10:33,080
Speaker 1: like to know the exact card that it was. That

2436
02:10:33,160 --> 02:10:36,280
Speaker 1: might help me. Okay, So it's a National Treasure's Edition

2437
02:10:37,800 --> 02:10:41,840
Speaker 1: that includes a rookie patch from one of his actual jerseys.

2438
02:10:42,160 --> 02:10:46,600
Speaker 1: It's embedded within the card, so those are popular, and

2439
02:10:46,680 --> 02:10:49,440
Speaker 1: it's got a grating of a nine that goes as

2440
02:10:49,520 --> 02:10:52,280
Speaker 1: high as ten. So the card is in good shape

2441
02:10:52,280 --> 02:10:54,320
Speaker 1: as well. You know, you have rounded corners or some

2442
02:10:54,400 --> 02:10:57,880
Speaker 1: crease somewhere, you're screwed. I got it. Two hundred and

2443
02:10:57,920 --> 02:11:02,560
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. That is something I know. My son's

2444
02:11:02,600 --> 02:11:04,960
Speaker 1: got a couple of autograph cards from Josh Allen, but

2445
02:11:04,960 --> 02:11:06,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's one of these, and I

2446
02:11:06,680 --> 02:11:08,640
Speaker 1: don't know that it's in mint condition because he'd be

2447
02:11:08,640 --> 02:11:11,000
Speaker 1: holding it in his sweaty hand a training camp waiting.

2448
02:11:12,640 --> 02:11:15,520
Speaker 1: He didn't protect the integrity of the card. It's gonna

2449
02:11:15,560 --> 02:11:17,760
Speaker 1: cost you. All Right, we got a break, but when

2450
02:11:17,760 --> 02:11:20,560
Speaker 1: we come back. What have we learned from today's show?

2451
02:11:20,680 --> 02:11:22,760
Speaker 1: I know we learned a few things from Cynthia Freeland

2452
02:11:22,800 --> 02:11:25,720
Speaker 1: my hunches. She's gonna be laying down the knowledge. Next

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02:11:25,760 --> 02:11:28,000
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, It's

2454
02:11:28,000 --> 02:11:40,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned? Brought to you

2455
02:11:40,400 --> 02:11:43,600
Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of the

2456
02:11:43,600 --> 02:11:47,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Had NFL Network analytics guru Cynthia Freeland on

2457
02:11:48,000 --> 02:11:50,320
Speaker 1: with us in the second hour of the show, shared

2458
02:11:50,360 --> 02:11:54,480
Speaker 1: her mock draft that she applied an analytics model too

2459
02:11:54,520 --> 02:11:57,280
Speaker 1: to spit out some names, and she commented on her

2460
02:11:57,360 --> 02:12:01,520
Speaker 1: mock draft pick of offensive tackle Heavin Jenkins for the Bills.

2461
02:12:02,640 --> 02:12:05,000
Speaker 1: What really is important is to be able to disguise

2462
02:12:05,120 --> 02:12:08,960
Speaker 1: in running situations and on those pass play action and

2463
02:12:09,160 --> 02:12:11,800
Speaker 1: the passes that are disguised as runs. And that's actually

2464
02:12:11,800 --> 02:12:15,800
Speaker 1: where he was nasty against when when they was stopping

2465
02:12:15,800 --> 02:12:19,040
Speaker 1: people from run, against his quarterback and against his running back,

2466
02:12:19,280 --> 02:12:22,120
Speaker 1: he was nasty at that, like he would level people.

2467
02:12:22,160 --> 02:12:25,040
Speaker 1: So when you look to see what he can do specifically,

2468
02:12:25,160 --> 02:12:28,840
Speaker 1: helping run and pass. He has a high blend of both,

2469
02:12:28,920 --> 02:12:32,040
Speaker 1: so you know, PFF says he allowed four total pressures

2470
02:12:32,040 --> 02:12:35,040
Speaker 1: and two hundred and eleven pass blocking snaffs in college. Okay,

2471
02:12:35,080 --> 02:12:37,560
Speaker 1: that's great, But for me, it was more about holding

2472
02:12:37,600 --> 02:12:40,560
Speaker 1: his blocks on runs, fishing the potential defenders out of

2473
02:12:40,560 --> 02:12:42,800
Speaker 1: the way so that the run game had chance to

2474
02:12:42,920 --> 02:12:48,120
Speaker 1: really to develop. That really made him special. I don't

2475
02:12:48,160 --> 02:12:50,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll sign up for Tevin Jenkins. I mean,

2476
02:12:52,080 --> 02:12:55,440
Speaker 1: I don't have any problem with them drafting an offensive lineman. Obviously,

2477
02:12:55,520 --> 02:12:58,520
Speaker 1: the picture will come into clearer focus, Steve when we

2478
02:12:58,560 --> 02:13:02,040
Speaker 1: get through this free agency period, to know what areas

2479
02:13:02,040 --> 02:13:05,920
Speaker 1: are still in need of some reinforcements. Yeah, but I

2480
02:13:05,960 --> 02:13:09,680
Speaker 1: think when you get it thirty and you got a

2481
02:13:09,760 --> 02:13:11,400
Speaker 1: chance to get a guy, and I like the fact

2482
02:13:11,480 --> 02:13:13,680
Speaker 1: that and that's what I've heard about Tevin Jenkson is

2483
02:13:13,720 --> 02:13:17,760
Speaker 1: just Jenkins is just what Cynthia said. He's got an attitude.

2484
02:13:17,800 --> 02:13:21,200
Speaker 1: He's a little bit like John Feliciano. He's he's one

2485
02:13:21,240 --> 02:13:22,840
Speaker 1: of those guys. If he's not in the middle of

2486
02:13:22,840 --> 02:13:25,520
Speaker 1: the fray, he's trying to get to the middle of it, right,

2487
02:13:25,560 --> 02:13:28,640
Speaker 1: And uh, I think that adds something to the club,

2488
02:13:28,640 --> 02:13:30,920
Speaker 1: and it's something they need to foster a little bit.

2489
02:13:30,960 --> 02:13:34,840
Speaker 1: And you know, I like John Feliciano on this squad.

2490
02:13:34,880 --> 02:13:36,440
Speaker 1: I like him a lot. I think they need to

2491
02:13:36,480 --> 02:13:38,680
Speaker 1: find a way to keep him. But if you can

2492
02:13:39,520 --> 02:13:44,040
Speaker 1: get to the point where Tevin Jenkins is the guy,

2493
02:13:45,080 --> 02:13:48,040
Speaker 1: that guy, to me is one of those guys that, yes,

2494
02:13:48,800 --> 02:13:51,520
Speaker 1: he's a starter on opening day. If if the Bills

2495
02:13:51,680 --> 02:13:54,720
Speaker 1: get him in the back, all right, we'll be back tomorrow.

2496
02:13:54,760 --> 02:13:57,440
Speaker 1: We got Antonio Williams running back for the Bills on

2497
02:13:57,480 --> 02:14:01,000
Speaker 1: the show. Don't miss it, We'll see it. Then he

2498
02:14:01,840 --> 02:14:02,320
Speaker 1: be old