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Speaker 1: I broadcast from the Seneca Studios in Orchard Park out

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Speaker 1: to you in Bills fan land, It's problem, man. Nothing

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Speaker 1: Nothing happened, nothing happened. It is a it's a good

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Speaker 1: As I would say safely, Steve, much to the surprise

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Speaker 1: Twenty two point five four seven. They just signed yesterday

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Speaker 1: their kicker, Cairo Santos, to a five year, sixteen million

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Speaker 1: dollar contract. Cairo Santos has been cut by five teams

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Speaker 1: in this league. Now, to his credit, he did have

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Speaker 1: a career year this past season. And we know the

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Speaker 1: subject of kickers is still a little sensitive for Bears

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Speaker 1: fans after double doink in the playoffs a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago with Cody Parkey, so Kiro Santos came in

435
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Speaker 1: in a competition, beat out Eddie Pinero for the kicking

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Speaker 1: job and then had a career season this year. But

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Speaker 1: a five now, from what I understand, it's a three

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Speaker 1: year deal with two voidable years in essence. But as

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Speaker 1: Steve mentioned, you've got a gaping hole at quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: I think you could argue that you could probably land

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Speaker 1: a kicker at any point in times. You could bring

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00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: you twenty. It's wait twenty. I knew I could get

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Speaker 1: him fired up twenty. There are kicking There are kicking

444
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Speaker 1: coaches who have twenty pro caliber legs training with them

445
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: around the country. They're everywhere. You can't you can't swing

446
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: a dead cat without hitting a kicker that's available. I

447
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: knew I could get them on this. The Bears are

448
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: a wreck. What do they do? I'm three million bucks

449
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Speaker 1: for kicker, and let me just say the words that

450
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Speaker 1: we all here in this economy, well, I mean, I

451
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: guess you gotta have one. I mean that's the Bears.

452
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: Man they gotten, So there they are. Look at Khalil

453
00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: Mack twenty six million cap hit, Kyle Fuller twenty million,

454
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: good Potton Robinson seventeen point eight on a on a

455
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Speaker 1: on a franchise tag, Robert Quinn fourteen point seven a,

456
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Speaker 1: Kim Hicks twelve, Eddie Jackson eleven point four, good play,

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00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: Charles Leno eleven point three, Yeah, Jimmy Graham ten million, No,

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Speaker 1: Cody Whitehair nine point six, Bobby Massey nine point three,

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Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman seven point eight, Nick Foles six and a half,

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Speaker 1: Rokuan Smith six, Danny Trevathan five and the and then

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00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: they got they got Santos thirty five guys and Steve

462
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, and Kiros Santo Santos, Yeah, I

463
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: got it. Let's not forget because I believe it was

464
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: Kiro Santos that missed the three field goals two years

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Speaker 1: ago against the Bills in the game that they won

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Speaker 1: fourteen seven. That guy, that guy just got signed. So

467
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: the Bears have some work to do next week, they'll

468
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: probably clip two or three of those players you mentioned

469
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Speaker 1: at the top of their salary structure. There are many

470
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 1: who believe that Bobby Massey, the veteran offensive tackle, will

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Speaker 1: be thrust into free agency. There are some he'll save

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00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: him two point six. Yeah, there are some. What were

473
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: some of the other names you were given there at

474
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: the very top, white Hair, no center, Jimmy Graham, Yeah,

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00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham was another name because he's overpaid a ten

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Speaker 1: million a year at his age. Left tackle, they ain't

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Speaker 1: getting rid of that guy, or left tackle, free safety

478
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson. He's a really good player, though he can't

479
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: cut him making eleven point four he'll cost you eighteen fans,

480
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: so they're not cutting him. I think they just extended

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00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: him last year. I mean, these guys are barely good.

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00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: One Steve barely I like that. That was very nice. Yeah,

483
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: ro Kuwan Smith, he's gone. He'll save him six million.

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Speaker 1: What are your former first round draft choice they should sign?

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00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: Treva can't be cut, which is bad because he's old.

486
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: Terry Cohen can't be cut, good player, injured last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're an absolute reck. Yeah, they're an

488
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: absolute reck there. Yeah they are. They're set a kicker though,

489
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: you know they wake up over I'm just I'm just

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00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: gonna tell the listeners out there, you know, like you

491
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: got people that you can very easily press buttons. I

492
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: knew I would get Steven. Let me tell you something,

493
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is going to the Hall of Fame in

494
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: large measure because he's in a in a division with

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00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,239
Speaker 1: the Lions, with the Lions and the Bears. I mean,

496
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: you can say what you want about where the Bills

497
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: and the Jets were for twenty years with Brady. With Brady,

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00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: that's fine, That's what it is. I mean, you get

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00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: these guys head coaches. Nobody wants to be the head

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00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: coach of Houston because you knew Jacksonville was gonna bring

501
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: in a Ringer, and you got Frank Reich in the

502
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: other spot, and you got Mike Mike Vrabel of the

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00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: Houston's gonna get out coached for twenty years or until

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00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: they get one. And they got and they got and whatever.

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00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: I don't even want to get into this. He got

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00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,719
Speaker 1: him amped up all right. Well, with Steve's blood flowing

507
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: its Friday, I'll take a nap with Steve's blood flowing.

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00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: We will take a break now, but we know that

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00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: will make him very ready for the latest installment of

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Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate, which comes your way next when we return

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's five.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Taster with you here on a Friday.

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Speaker 1: I did forget to mention that every Friday is the

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00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: ob L Fan Friday mail Bag, So any questions you

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00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: have about the team, the league, free agency, the draft,

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00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: future plans, best vacation spot this timing year, Steve and

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00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: I can try to help as best weekend, So fire

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00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: those off at One bills Live on Twitter, or you

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00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: can give us a call eight oh three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty. But

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Speaker 1: right now it is time for us to begin the

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Speaker 1: latest edition of Tasker's Teammates. And every time we do this,

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Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate is brought to you by Wegman's Meals to

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Speaker 1: Go Delicious Meals delivered download the Wegman's app Today, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I will lessen the pressure on you this week because

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Speaker 1: we were unable to get in touch with our tasker's

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00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: teammate this week, so he is not on the line.

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Speaker 1: So that's part of the as a clue that you

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Speaker 1: have to get me because I know somebody's got to

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Speaker 1: be off the grid. Well, I know sometimes you get

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00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: a little you know, you feel the heat because you

533
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: know the person's listening and you want to guess the

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00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: person and you feel terrible when you don't. So the

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Speaker 1: pressure is off this week. So I will begin with

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Speaker 1: clue number one. Born on Groundhogs Day in nineteen sixty five,

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Speaker 1: I was raised in Sturgis, Mississippi. Played my college ball

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00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: in the Magnolia State as well. Russell Copeland it is

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00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: not Russell Copeland. Clue number two. A three year starter

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00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, I performed well enough to

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Speaker 1: become a fifth round draft choice of another AFC East team,

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00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: Mississippi States. Kent Hole. It is not Kent Hollis from

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00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: greens Though I was drafted by an AFC East team,

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00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: I never suited up for that squad. Instead, I spent

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Speaker 1: my rookie season with an NFC West club and appeared

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00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: in fourteen games, but wound up on Buffalo's roster in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, my first year as a teammate of

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Speaker 1: Steve's Missus E Stags one. Leonard Smith. It is not

549
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: Leonard Smith. I had it clue number four. I did

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00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: not become a starter for the Bills until nineteen eighty nine,

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00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: where I started thirteen games and had a touchdown off

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00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: an interception in a thirty one seventeen win over Miami.

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00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: Not a NATO the first year, NTO. It's gotta be

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00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: Mickey Washington. It is not Mickey Washington. My best season

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00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: would come in nineteen ninety one, when I was second

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00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: on the team in interceptions and had three more picks

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00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, including a pair in the divisional playoff

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Speaker 1: win over Kansas City. He had two interceptions against Kansas

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Speaker 1: City divisional playoff win in nineteen ninety one in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's what the stats say, so ninety one playoffs. This

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Speaker 1: first playoff game that year against one against the first

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Speaker 1: playoff the divisional round of playoffs it thirty one seventeen. Well,

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Speaker 1: it might have been the wild card. I got a check.

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Speaker 1: It might have been wild No, you guys were you

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00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been in the wild card. You guys were

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Speaker 1: thirteen and three that year. Okay, so it's been divisional

567
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: round playoffs. It's Kansas City here? Who was that's before

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00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: Montana was with them because he didn't get there until

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Speaker 1: ninety two? Who's there? Gerbach? Elvis Grbach? I don't know.

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00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend Mississippi State two? Who could

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Speaker 1: that be? Who am I'm missing? And I'll give you

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Speaker 1: His rookie year was nineteen eighty seven, right and yeah, okay,

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00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: I got that because he was drafted and then played

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00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: on the NFC West year in fourteen games in the strike.

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00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: Yere Nate Clemens. It's not Nate Clemens. Um, so here

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00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: is clue? What are we up to here? One? Two?

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00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: All told. I was a teammate of Steve's for five seasons,

578
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: but moved on to an AFC West team after the

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two campaign with Buffalo, but an injury prevented

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00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: me from playing that season and I ultimately retired. Natodams

581
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: is not Nat he went, but he was going. He

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00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 1: went to Seattle after Buffalo and then hurt his name. Okay,

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00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna get this guy. Okay, Well

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00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: I will make it. I got this next for the

585
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: which you should get. My jersey number was forty seven. Oh,

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00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: Kirby Jackson. Kirby Jackson is correct. Did not know any

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00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: of that about Kirby Jackson. I didn't know who was

588
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: he within the NFC West, the LA Rams nineteen eighty seven.

589
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: Appeared in fourteen games with the La Rams and then

590
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: came to you guys the year end. And then who

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00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: did he go after that? In Seattle? And he got

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00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: injured before the season started, never suited up for them,

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00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: never played for them. Didn't that happen to Nate Odams

594
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: as well? Yeah, did the same thing. I got hurt

595
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: like in the offseason. Yeah. I think that's why they

596
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: stopped signing Buffalo Bills and agents. Kirby Jackson, Great, dude, man,

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00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: I did not know. I did not remember that he

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Speaker 1: had here's the pick in eighty nine. Oh, that was

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00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 1: the Raiders, though he said it was a Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Miami. That's Miami, isn't Oh it's Miami. Yeah, you

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00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: said it was the Chiefs. Now that was in the playoffs.

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00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,240
Speaker 1: I said in eighty nine, when he became a starter,

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00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: he had an interception return for a touchdown in a

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00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: win over Miami, and this is the play. So I

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00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: that right there seems like the first time I've ever

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00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: seen that play Sturgeons. I was on the team Mississippi.

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00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 1: I did not know that Kirby Jackson, Kurby Ray Jackson,

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00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: Mississippi ra teammate. It's one of those guys here. And

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00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: you know, I remember at Kirby you were all around

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00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: it too, you were guessing bbs. Here's all. Here's what

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Speaker 1: I remember about Kirby, uh, because he was you know,

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00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: it was Kelso and it was Nate Odam's and all

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00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 1: those guys and during that during those runs and stuff,

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00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: and Kirby is on the team because I was like

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00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: behind you know, Andre Reid and James Lofton and Don

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Speaker 1: Beebe and and whoever the fourth guy was, which would

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00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: have been you know, you know, Russell Copeland or Brad

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00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: Lamb or one of the you know, the X guy

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Speaker 1: or Al Edwards. When you go through practice, you always

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00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: go on on ones, right, Kirby and I were down

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00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: to Peggy. I would go one on one with Kirby

622
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, all the time. So yeah, I um,

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Speaker 1: now he also had a pick. I didn't realize Kirby

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00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: was only was there for that long, and he had

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00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 1: a pick in Super Bowl twenty six as well against

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Speaker 1: Washington Mark Rippin. Yeah, he had an interception in that

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00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: game as well. You know, didn't really factor in to

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00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: the final score, but he was an he was active

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Speaker 1: an athlete, but he had three picks in that playoff season.

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Speaker 1: He heard his knee one time guarding me one on

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Speaker 1: one in practice, I remember. So, Yeah, Kirby Jackson, your

632
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: latest answer for Tasker's Teammate. Yeah, we had trouble getting

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00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: a hold of him, so hopefully he's doing well. Sturgish, Mississippi.

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00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: That's right, that once that's where he lives. Now, did

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00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: he think, Yeah, I don't know. I gotta tell you.

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00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: Information on him on the Worldwide Web is scant and

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00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: few and far between, right, So yeah, well, our best

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Speaker 1: wishes to him. Yeah. So, Kirby Jackson, your latest edition

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Speaker 1: of Tasker's Teammate, brought to you by Meals to Go. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you don't guess him again, right? So yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was good. Um, maybe it's kind of good. We didn't

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Speaker 1: have a fun You got all the way to the

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Speaker 1: bottom of my clueless and it took me that long

644
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 1: you were all around it though, like you were guessing

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Speaker 1: DBS and and he didn't get into the starting lineup

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Speaker 1: until eighty nine when Derek Burrow's career that's right to

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Speaker 1: an end. That is exactly why he got into the

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Speaker 1: starting lineup. Yeah, well because Derek Burrows. What did he

649
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Speaker 1: have the neck injury? I think, well, he had spinal stenosis.

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00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: They found out he had sin spinal suffering after getting dinged,

651
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: and he got some numbness in his extremities. Um, it

652
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: was pretty scary and none of us knew what that

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Speaker 1: was really at that time. Yeah, it was kind of

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00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't there were then in subsequent years,

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Speaker 1: all these teams were checking guys at the combine for

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00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: spinal stenosis after guys like I had a couple of

657
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: teammates that were, uh that way. In fact, the defensive

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00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: coordinator of the New York Jets this last year, when

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00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: Greg Williams was ousted and all those guys were ousted,

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00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: Frank Bush, Yeah, became the them defensive coordinator. He was

661
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: a draft made of mine with the Houston Oilers his

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00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: rookie season, got dinged, found out the exact same thing,

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Speaker 1: and that's how he became a coach with spinals tenosis,

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Speaker 1: and that's what i'd a kirby getting into the lineup.

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00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: That sucks, like you get because the NFL normal. Yeah,

666
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: I mean there's you never know you had to hit

667
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: with that. You have no idea that you have and

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Speaker 1: until its discovered. But yeah, at the same time, you're like, man,

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Speaker 1: but what in my whole life to get to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm here and now I can't play what I

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Speaker 1: The way I understand what spinals tenosis is is just

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Speaker 1: your skeletal structure of your spine, the opening that your

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Speaker 1: spinal cord and all the nerve nerves go down through

674
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Speaker 1: your spinal cord or to your spine bones. Yeah, those

675
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: openings are not big enough or not normally as big

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00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: as they show, a narrowing of the spine, narrowing of

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Speaker 1: the spinal column. It's a I guess it's a genetic predisposition.

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Speaker 1: It basically leaves less room in there for your spinal cord.

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Speaker 1: So if you get dinged hard enough, you're more susceptible

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Speaker 1: to being rout because of that, and because you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not that your your nerves get cut, it's

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Speaker 1: that your spinal cord. Yeah, it gets pitched by the vertebrae,

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Speaker 1: and there's no room for that to happen in a

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Speaker 1: guy with stenosis. So yeah, that was you're of greater

685
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Speaker 1: risk playing football, and guys, it's ended a ton of careers,

686
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Speaker 1: a ton of careers, just as precautionary movie. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: and that is a tragic thing. That's too bad. All right,

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Speaker 1: break time for us. When we come back, we will

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Speaker 1: open up the obl fan Friday mail bag to see

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Speaker 1: what questions you have for us. And as a reminder,

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Speaker 1: in about fifteen minutes time, we will have the Matt

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Speaker 1: Milano press conference here as well as streaming live on

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Speaker 1: all of Buffalo bills dot com platforms, so be sure

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Speaker 1: to stay tuned for that Matt Milano coming up in

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Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes. Steve and I are back here in

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Speaker 1: a flash on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome the one Bills Live. As

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Speaker 1: we close up our number one of the program, we

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Speaker 1: remind you that the beginning of our number two in

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Speaker 1: about ten minutes time, we'll have one Matt Milano on

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Speaker 1: as he is made available to the media in the

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Speaker 1: second hour of our show, we will carry that for

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00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 1: you live question and answer, so stay tuned for that.

704
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Speaker 1: But while we wait for that to come up here

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Speaker 1: on the docket, we go to the OBL Friday fan

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Speaker 1: mail bag, where you have submitted questions for Steve and

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00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: I to answer, and Kevin leads us off this week

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00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: and he says, if the Bills truly are a great culture,

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00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: do you think they will get any more hometown discount

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00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: for free agent signings? Now. I don't know if he

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00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: sent that question in after the Milano deal was done

712
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: or before, but I think many people are of the

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00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 1: opinion that the Bills were able to land Milano at

714
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: maybe less than what he would have gotten out on

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Speaker 1: the open market. I don't know if you call that

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00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: a hometown discount. Necessarily you got to consider it a

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00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: hometown discount because he did it before he actually even

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00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: became a free agent. Yeah, so you don't even know,

719
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: and he was willing to forego that possibility. That's a discount.

720
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Speaker 1: Quentin Spain did it last year, and although ultimately we

721
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 1: know it didn't work out for Quentin Spain here in Buffalo,

722
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: he did the same thing, right, So yeah, it does

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00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: mean something to guys out there, and I know you

724
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: know every guy's different, but it does. It obviously means something.

725
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: It's meant something for two years straight with different players

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00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,959
Speaker 1: who were set to become free agents. So it means

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00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: something for these guys to play for an organization with

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00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: the atmosphere in the work environment that they have. Will

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00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: it happen in the future, probably, Will it happen to

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00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: every guy? No, No, I don't think so. No. I

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00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: think it's it's easier. It's probably easier to convince guys

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Speaker 1: to come back if they're not going to be part

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Speaker 1: of a frenzied open market, like if if there their

734
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: agent knows they're going to be in high, high, high demand.

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Speaker 1: It's almost something you don't want to turn away from.

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00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: You want to test the market, which is I think

737
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: what we thought was going to be the case with

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Speaker 1: Milano to a great degree, and which is why seeing

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00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: him resign here was such a pleasant surprise. The shrinking

740
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: cap changes things from the players perspective, Mike, this year, yeah,

741
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: next year, if the cap goes back to where it

742
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 1: was going to be at two twelve, and then beyond

743
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: that with the new television money, and it's like you

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00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: get instead of getting it like a ten or eight

745
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: percent rise in the cap, you get a thirty percent

746
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: rise in the cap or a twenty percent rise in

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00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: the cap. You won't be having guys taken discounts. So

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Speaker 1: the short answer, Kevin, is it depends. It can't. It

749
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: will happen again, no question, But will it happen all

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Speaker 1: the time? And a lot of ton of guys depends

751
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: on the guy, depends on the band at the position,

752
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 1: depends on what the salary cap structure is of the

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Speaker 1: team you're talking about. So it's it depends. All right,

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Speaker 1: we have to take a break, but when we return,

755
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Speaker 1: we will have one Matt Mulano on as he will

756
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: be answering questions of the media. Here next on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio at a Steve tester who has but all of

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00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: the fields kind of unique. He was kind of a

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00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: dual role player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not

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Speaker 1: even in the strated fere of normalcy here. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: our number two of one Bills Live, where we are

763
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: waiting for the Matt Milano press conference to get under

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Speaker 1: way with the local media as he will be answering

765
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: questions about his new four year, reported four year, forty

766
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: four million dollar contract to rejoin the Buffalo Bills and

767
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: be a starting linebacker for them for the foreseeable future.

768
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: As his resigning with the Bills was a little surprising,

769
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Speaker 1: especially when you know GM Brandon being kind of laid

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00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: it out there in his season ending press conference in

771
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 1: a way that was very similar to the way he

772
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: described the contract the impending contract situations with Jordan Phillips

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00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: and Shack Law and from a year ago he described

774
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: it in much the same way, this guy's earned the

775
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: right to go see what his value is on the

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Speaker 1: open market. We'd love to keep him, but we know

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Speaker 1: that it's it's his choice to go look on the

778
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 1: open market and whatnot. And so we all heard that

779
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: and naturally said, oh boy, it may be really hard

780
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: for the Bills to get him back in the fold.

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00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: But credit to the to the Bills front office for

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00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: clearing the cap space necessary to make a deal like

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Speaker 1: this come to fruition and a deal that both sides

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00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: could agree to. So good on the Bills front office

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00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: for keeping a very important piece in place for a

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00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: team that's trying to get one step further than they

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00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: did last year in the playoffs. Yeah, they've it's a

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00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: it's a weird year. A lot of teams are going

789
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: to suffer for this. We've been talking about the Bears

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00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: and the Saints and the Rams and Eagles. Eagles that

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00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: these teams that are just absolutely strangled by the cap

792
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: because of you know, the unexpected nature year of where

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00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: it came from. The Bills are trying to do what

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00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 1: they can to navigate it as well. And in a

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00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 1: perfect world, you know, you kind of trimmed the fat

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00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: off your roster financially and production wise, financially, from the

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00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 1: from the club's end of it, from the GM personnel department,

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Speaker 1: you trim the fat off and from the production side

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00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 1: of it, on the football side of it, and say, yeah, okay,

800
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: we can trim you know this guy or that guy

801
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: certainly means you're gonna let go of some pretty good

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00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: football players, but you're trying to streamline it so because

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00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: you got to fill your roster, maybe get guys who

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00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: can outperform. Um Milano is a guy that was going

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00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: to hit the open market. I think the Bills had

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00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: to be looking at They probably had a value. Well,

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00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: there's no doubt they had a value on him. And

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00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: when they floated that and had conversations with him, and

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00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: they and Milano's agents got out there and said, well, listen,

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Speaker 1: the market's gonna be big, but it's it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: flooded too. So you're getting the neighborhood or at least

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00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,919
Speaker 1: then shouting distance of what maybe the best possible offer

813
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: you could get is what do you think Milano's going?

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00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: I like it here? Yeah, and he took it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that there's what I mean. Obviously this was

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00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:15,959
Speaker 1: the best offer he had on the table because nobody

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00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: else was free to make him an offer. Correct. But

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00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: those agents they would money. Yeah, and the the agent

819
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: and all these they've got their ear to the ground.

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00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: They've talked. They're looking at the writing on the wall

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00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: around the league and which teams and what all this

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00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: other stuff that's out there. You throw Milano's name into

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Speaker 1: a hat with what a half a dozen other linebackers

824
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: are going to be out there, and maybe this is

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00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: about the Deally would have gotten anyway, right, And I

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Speaker 1: think the big, the big weighty decision is weighing the

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Speaker 1: possibility of more money against a very comfortable and familiar

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Speaker 1: I know what my role is here kind of situation,

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00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: and that's the back and forth that to have and

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00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: chance to hit a home run on a good team

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00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: in a system that has given you it's perfect for you.

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00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: I mean, they're building it around your skill set. You've

833
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: carved it out so and to go to someplace else

834
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: and take a chance that now you're going to be

835
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: asked to do something a little different and now you

836
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: fade off into the background, you know, And that uncertainty

837
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: is disconcerting for a lot of players because they know

838
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: that their play on the field may not come across

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00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: as valuable as it has in a place where they've

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00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: enjoyed good success. And I'm telling you right now, if

841
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: Matt Milano can stay healthy and get through a sixteen

842
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: game season and play the way he has played the

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00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: last two years, he will go to a Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: That will happen. But it's all about him suiting up

845
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,280
Speaker 1: for sixteen games and playing the way he does whenever

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00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: he usually is on the field. You think about it,

847
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:53,800
Speaker 1: we've had that. We were having these conversations in the

848
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: break about Tremaine Edmonds. You know, the two the only

849
00:49:55,719 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: play two linebackers in the Bill system predominantly, And and

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Speaker 1: we get calls all the time, and I listen to

851
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: other radio shows, you know, locally, and they're getting calls

852
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: all the time on Tremaine Edmonds and everybody, every person

853
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: that calls in says, you know, they should put him

854
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: a defensive end or outside linebacker. And you know they're

855
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: not gonna go to a three four just for Tremaine Edmonds, right,

856
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: They're play a four three, Tremaine Edmonds is the inside

857
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 1: linebacker and a four to three where they only played

858
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: two linebackers and the other guys in nickel. That's it.

859
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 1: And they're not gonna go to a three four just

860
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 1: so they can move Tremaine Edmonds up in front so

861
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: he can play a position he hasn't played ever as

862
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: a professional football player, and take him from a position

863
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: where he's gone to two count him two straight Pro

864
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: Bowls at inside linebacker. So whatever, how And I'm just

865
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: gonna overstate it to make a point. These all of

866
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: Bills fans who call in to think he's played crappy

867
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: as an inside linebacker. He's ill fit for the position.

868
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: He's got a funky skill set, he's too long, he's

869
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: too link. He gone to the Pro Bowl twice. You

870
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna pick up that fifth year option.

871
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: You bet they will. Ye. That guy's gonna be a

872
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: Bill for a long time, and he's gonna play right

873
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:12,919
Speaker 1: in that spot. They've got him in right now, whether

874
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: you like it or not. As a Bills fan, he's

875
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: gone to two straight Pro Bowls, voted on by players.

876
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: He plays against coaches who try and game plan against him.

877
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: They're putting the guy out on their team. The Bills

878
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: are set at that spot. Yeah, and he and Milano

879
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: have already been on the field together for three seasons.

880
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: Three straight seasons. Those two guys have played together. I mean,

881
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: they know what the other guys gonna do like the

882
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: back of their hand. That's valuable. That's valuable. I think

883
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: too many teams don't value that continuity enough. I think

884
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: a lot of teams do in terms of offensive line play,

885
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,799
Speaker 1: just because those guys are always they have to work

886
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: together for anything to work. But I think sometimes it

887
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: gets lost on coaches and organizations about how important it

888
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,359
Speaker 1: is on the defensive side of the ball as well,

889
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: particularly at that second level with all the ground those

890
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: guys after cover and I'll try and put it in.

891
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: You get a guy that you're playing next to and

892
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: you know him and you talked to him and you

893
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: think about it, and to me, it would be you know,

894
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: in the brief time that I was on the field

895
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: as a wide out, when you're and like Steph Diggs

896
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen, would be like me and Jim who

897
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: I was playing with m Keller. Jim like throwing the

898
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: ball to me because I knew how he thought. I

899
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: did what he wanted me to do, because I knew

900
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: because I was I watched him in practice every day

901
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: for like eight years before I actually even got on

902
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: the field to catch a pass from him, right, So

903
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: that's all I did all day was learn about him,

904
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: watching him throw to Andrea, watching him through to James

905
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: Lofton and Don Beebe and all the other guys that

906
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,399
Speaker 1: you know, Billy, all the guys. So when I got

907
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 1: out there, he knew where I was gonna be, trust

908
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: and just throwing me. It was easy, right as on

909
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball, same thing. Defense, you've

910
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: got a guy, you got a gap that you're gonna

911
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: go in, and you know you've got a guy beside you,

912
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: you know, without looking what he's doing and where he's at.

913
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: And it's interesting to say, I can do this, and

914
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: if I do this, I'm gonna help him make the tackle. There,

915
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: got it? Okay? Cool? If I take this block on

916
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: right here and push this, this is it now, he's

917
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: gonna come in there he is. And Milana the same way.

918
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: If I take this outside shoulder and set the edge

919
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: out here, I know Tremaine's right there, got it? You know?

920
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: And then also you'll laugh when they come back to

921
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: after they give up a play, they come back and

922
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: they'll look at each other go, I know they had

923
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: us on that one though they could both tell halfway

924
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: through the plays like, oh we're we're screwed, right, They

925
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: know that early on too. It's all of that stuff.

926
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: Plus when they give they were there for three years,

927
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: like you say, Milan has been there for four, they've

928
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: been there for three years together. They commune. They don't

929
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 1: have to talk, or they've evolved to a point now

930
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: because they can go back and bring out things in

931
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 1: the past, say hey, run this, remember this that I'd

932
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: run it, And that's about as fast as it takes

933
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: for them to do something off the pay times. It's nonverbal, right, right,

934
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: It's absolutely nonverbal, and it gives them just a little

935
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: added dimension in certain, not very often scenarios where they

936
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: can make a quick call or quick glance or say

937
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: something and they'll know exactly what they're talking about, and

938
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: in the split second of a game, it can make

939
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: the difference between a tackle for loss or a touchdown

940
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: given up. All right, it looks like we are ready

941
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: now to go to the Matt Milano press conference with

942
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: the local media. We want to welcome in all of

943
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: our bills viewers on our streaming platforms. Chris Brown, Steve

944
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: Tasker here with you from One Bill's Live, which you

945
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 1: can find on MSG. But let's go to Matt Milano. Now.

946
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: It's been reported that the culture in Buffalo was a

947
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: big reason why you decided to stay. Wondering if that's

948
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: the reason why, if you are ever considering going anywhere else,

949
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:55,919
Speaker 1: and just what the process of you deciding to stay

950
00:54:56,239 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: in Western New York was. Yeah. Absolute. Basically, I just

951
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: told my agent, I love Buffalo. I want to be

952
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:04,839
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I love what they got going on there,

953
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 1: and see if we can make something happen. And I

954
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: think that's what we did. It was a fair deal

955
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: kind of for both sides. And yeah, I mean the

956
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: culture that's brewing there right now is unreal. We got

957
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 1: a little taste of the last year in the past

958
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: four years, but it's cool, man, something I want to

959
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 1: be a part of and something I want to continue

960
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: on for the next four years. Is there any sense

961
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: of relief after, you know, kind of not waiting till

962
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: the last minute, but waiting till right before free agency

963
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: for something to really materialize. Not really. I was always

964
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: confident and that something would work out, whether it was

965
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: here with the Builders somewhere else. So I'm glad. I'm

966
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: glad it did work out here though. Awesome. Congrats once

967
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:52,800
Speaker 1: Agamma appreciate it. Hey, Matt, congrats on staying in Buffalo.

968
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: I know we're all pumped to have you here for

969
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: more years in the future. But when you looked at

970
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: what was important to you, even beyond culture, what were

971
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,399
Speaker 1: some of the things that were important to you, whether

972
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 1: it was in Buffalo or another team that you wanted

973
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: in your next contract that you signed. Yeah, So basically

974
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: it came down to from the beginning, I mean, the

975
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 1: Pagoulas McDermott being they all believed in me from the

976
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: beginning and giving me that opportunity from the jump meant

977
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: a lot to me. And you know, I just I

978
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: just couldn't pass that over. You know, I built a

979
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: great relationships with everybody in Buffalo, and I just want

980
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 1: to continue to do that. And we're on a winning team.

981
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: The trajectory is going up, so it's all it's all

982
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: positive things there. So I'm just happy, happy to be

983
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: a part of it. And then along with that, what

984
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: did you what did your teammates tell you when you

985
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: told them that you were going to stay in Buffalo?

986
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: What were some of those first reactions that you got

987
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: from teammates? They were hyped. I had Shadavia's FaceTime and me, Dion, Micah, everybody,

988
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 1: everybody shouted out to me. It was awesome, man. And

989
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: just just that alone shows you how how the culture

990
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:03,439
Speaker 1: is crazy there. You know, I feel like you don't.

991
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: You don't see that everywhere else. Um, guys kind of

992
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: congratulating you when good things happen. So it's awesome. It's

993
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: awesome to see that and I'm happy to be a

994
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: part of it. Thanks Matt. Also, you had an epic tweet.

995
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: By the way. You had had to help with some

996
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: with some friends on that one, but it was good.

997
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, Maddie steals my thunder. I completely agree

998
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: you don't tweet much, but your last few have been

999
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: elite fire, so appreciate it. You don't you don't need

1000
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: an outsource for social media team. I think you're doing

1001
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: pretty fine. Um, you're part of a small ish group

1002
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: that's been here since seventeen. That was kind of the

1003
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: building blocks here you mentioned for Davis, Mica and those

1004
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: guys to get that close AFC Championship game and fall

1005
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 1: just at least a game short of where you want

1006
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: to be. How much of a factor was that of

1007
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: wanting to see this through some that you are part

1008
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: of a small group that was here at the beginning. Absolutely,

1009
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: I mean you hit the you hit the nail on

1010
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: the head. We we kind of started it out when

1011
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: Sean Frescott here, and I think Mica kind of mentioned

1012
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: it in his interviews as well. Um, I just want

1013
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: to see it, see it through the finish line. You know,

1014
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,919
Speaker 1: I'm not kind of guaranteeing anything, but to see where

1015
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: we were last year and how close we came and

1016
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: to be on the other side of that somewhere else

1017
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: and to see that happened again. I didn't want that

1018
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: to happen. So I'm glad I have that chance again

1019
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: for the next four years. Understandably, you were probably focusing

1020
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: on the contract or you know, wondering where your future was.

1021
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: But what have the conversation's been like with teammates that

1022
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 1: you'll now be sticking with after the game as the

1023
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: months since you guys have allowed yourselves to decompress from

1024
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: the season and how it ended. Yeah, I mean we

1025
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: have a closed group of guys. We've stayed in contact.

1026
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: There was nothing official before this, there was no talks

1027
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: of anything anything like that, but we've all kept in

1028
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: in close contact. Our linebacker room, Um still has a

1029
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: group chat going and all that. So it's been nothing

1030
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: but positives. Everybody wants the best for everybody. You know,

1031
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: there's not m Nobody gets looked at differently if you

1032
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: choose to go on a certain path. But the way

1033
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: it worked out, I think it's I think it's great

1034
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 1: with Poyer getting extended, Mica as well, Um, Shadeves Dion,

1035
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 1: kind of those those core group of guys who who've

1036
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: been here from the beginning. It's kind of awesome to

1037
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: see that. Okay, congrats, Matt, thank you, Hey, Matt, Hey,

1038
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: Matt sal Capaccio, w G are good to see a

1039
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: congratulations man, Thank you appreciate it. Um. Where are you

1040
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: right now? Just so we know, are you in Orlando?

1041
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: You got a lot of sunshine there now. I'm in

1042
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 1: Southwest Florida at the moment. All right, awesome, just a

1043
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: lot of sunshine right there coming through. Um. What about

1044
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: your relationship with your coaches Sean McDermott, Leslie Frazier, Bob Babbitch,

1045
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: the people you've been around, You know, there's been some

1046
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: continuity there since you've come into the league. How much

1047
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: did that factor into this? Yeah, it's been huge. I

1048
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 1: mean all those people you just mentioned, um starting out,

1049
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: as you know, I can't even thank them enough. Um

1050
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: down on there, from being some McDermot to Fraser, it's

1051
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: Bob Babvitch, you know, the whole the whole whole coaching

1052
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: staff pretty much. We've we formed a tremendous relationship over

1053
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: the last four years. I mean that's something that you

1054
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: can't can't really go go to another team that quickly

1055
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 1: and build that that quickly. But um, it's been it's

1056
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: been pretty crazy. Um. I love getting coached by Bob.

1057
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: He's a great guy. He's coach some elite linebackers in

1058
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: his time, and he's had a couple more with me

1059
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: and Shamaine. Hopefully we can we can keep it going.

1060
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Speaker 1: I remember last summer doing a zoom call with you

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01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 1: just like this, and um, you said, you know, people

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01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: asked you a lot about you're going into the last

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01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: year of your contract, and you said, yep, you know,

1064
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: I'd love to be in Buffalo'll take care of itself.

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01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: There was also a lot of questions. They hadn't resigned Dion,

1066
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: they hadn't resigned Tredevious, you know, would they have enough

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01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: resources to be able to do everything? Thinking back, how

1068
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: much did it did you think about it, especially after

1069
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: those guys sign How much did you think at all

1070
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: this year kind of about this or did you just

1071
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: simply have to put that aside? Yeah, you know, I

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01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: kind of I kind of put it aside. I didn't

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01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: want to get distracted by the whole situation. Um, I

1074
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: didn't want to let us take my play. You know,

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01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: that's a big thing. Um, with something that big on

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01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: your mind. So I just kind of left it to

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01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: my agent and left it up to uh kind of

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01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: just whatever happens happens, and uh and this is what

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01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 1: I wanted to happen. So I'm glad it worked out

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01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: all right. Congratulations again, Thank you, Hey Matt, thanks for

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01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: taking the time. Congratulations. Um you you mentioned Tremaine. He

1082
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: was on Good Morning Football this week and you know,

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01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: talked about his growth. And I think one of the

1084
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 1: things that people forget about sometimes we've pretty well covered

1085
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: up social media is how young he is. I'm curious

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01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: for you. How much did you know Getting a chance

1087
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: to tag with him going forward play into your decision.

1088
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 1: How excited excited are you you get to continue playing

1089
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: with them. I mean, I feel like Tremaine and myself

1090
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 1: haven't even reached our our best ball yet. UM, so

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01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: that's still still um still on his way to come.

1092
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: But now been great. I mean, Jermaine's an outstanding player

1093
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: UM and me and him feed off each other pretty well.

1094
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 1: So having that relationship continue on for however many years

1095
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: were we're together definitely played into the played into the

1096
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: factor a little bit. But yeah, I'm excited excited to

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01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: get back to work with him, and we're expecting some big,

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01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: some big things that year. Thanks Mac, congrats, Thank you

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01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: money man. What's up man, Hey Mookie, we can't hear you, man, Yeah,

1100
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm getting them getting no audio on this end. So um,

1101
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: thank you giving himself accent. Mom Mule didn't now maybe

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01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 1: it was the stunt range You got me, now, Matt,

1103
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: I got you. What's going on? Great man? Hey, In

1104
01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 1: this day and age, market value is that's what it's

1105
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: all about at this point, and in this case it's

1106
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: very rare because basically you chose to stay and you

1107
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: gave bills the family discounting. You know, coming into that

1108
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: first mcdermish drag class, did you know you're signing guys

1109
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: like Dion and Trey? What did that really lead until

1110
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: you resign in this point around Hello being Buffalo. I'm

1111
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 1: excited to be here. Um. I love the fans, I

1112
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: love the culture that got going on there, everything about it.

1113
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: You know, I just I just couldn't see myself somewhere

1114
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:33,440
Speaker 1: else right now at the moment, especially what we've been

1115
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: building over the past four years, right and man, coming

1116
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: out of Doctor Phillips High School, Man, did you ever

1117
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: picture yourself having this much success in the NFL. I did.

1118
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 1: I always believed it from the beginning. Um, it's always

1119
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: a little uncertain in your mind, but I feel like

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01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: if you personally can't believe it from the get go,

1121
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: you have no chance of doing anything. That's just not

1122
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: with football, that's with basically anything in life. If you

1123
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 1: if you don't believe it, who else is going to

1124
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 1: believe it? So I always had that belief, and it's

1125
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: just about executing it and continue continuing to work for it.

1126
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: But it's definitely a blessing. You know, not everybody has

1127
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 1: this opportunity, so it's definitely. Uh. I just sometimes sit

1128
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: sit down and remind myself how how blessed I am.

1129
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I always I always believed it

1130
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: from the beginning. Absolutely, Man, wish you nothing but the best.

1131
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 1: And uh, at least you get to put up with

1132
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: us for another four years, right and bring that wrecking

1133
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: ball too, Man, appreciate it. We'll do. Hey Matt, Matt

1134
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: over with Channel seven, Like everybody said, congrats on the deal,

1135
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, kind of going off with Muky just said,

1136
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: you know, you're a late round pick in twenty seventeen.

1137
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: You get an extension Tredevious gets an extension, don gets

1138
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: an extension. I'm just wondering, from the time that you

1139
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,919
Speaker 1: got to Buffalo until now the point when you sign

1140
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: an extension, how have you evolved as a player, What

1141
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 1: strides have you made? Where do you think you're better

1142
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 1: now than you were obviously when you came into the league. Yeah,

1143
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean obviously just being anywhere for four years, you're

1144
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna grow dramatically. But yeah, I mean I

1145
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: think just this overall as a football player, understanding the

1146
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 1: game more the ins and outs of the defense, kind

1147
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 1: of now shifting my mindset over to how we're being

1148
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 1: attacked and that kind of thing. Once you kind of

1149
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: have the defense down, you can kind of think about

1150
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 1: other things, and that's how you kind of move to

1151
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: that next level. But like I said before, you know,

1152
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: I think I'm nowhere near where I want to be

1153
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 1: or my where I've been before. But I'm just I'm

1154
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:28,439
Speaker 1: just gonna continue to work and keep training. I'm gonna

1155
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 1: go harder than ever right now and kind of earn

1156
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 1: this contract. But I'm excited. You know, as free agent

1157
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 1: gets around, everybody wants to talk about this is what

1158
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 1: this team needs to add. This is what this team

1159
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 1: needs to add to ultimately take them to the next level.

1160
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: Obviously for the Bills, it was a priority to keep

1161
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 1: you around. But from your vantage point, where does the

1162
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: defense need to grow to maybe take it to the

1163
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 1: next level and you know, ultimately get over that hump

1164
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: that you know, the one game hump. I guess that

1165
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: you guys came up short last year. That's a great question.

1166
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: It might be better for coach McDermott to that one.

1167
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 1: I just gotta focus on myself and getting myself better

1168
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: and making the guys around me better. Cool. Thanks, Matt,

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01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you. Hey Matt Josh right here with

1170
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: the CBS station in Buffalo. Congrats on the new deal. Um,

1171
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: obviously thank you. Played through some injuries last season. How

1172
01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: are you feeling right now physically? And did you have

1173
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: to get anything done postseason? Now? I'm feeling I'm feeling

1174
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: great right now, Stronger than ever, faster than ever. So

1175
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good, feeling good, and no, no, no postseason

1176
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: surgeries or whatever. Okay, good d My last question is

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01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: how does this getting this deal done so early before

1178
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 1: you even get hit free agency? How does it change

1179
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: your mindset as far as you don't you can completely

1180
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: put away. You know, I gotta be on a zoom

1181
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: with this GM or that GM. How does that change

1182
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: things now, even from a day to day kind of

1183
01:06:57,160 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 1: scheduling basis free you up? I'm assuming Yeah, it just

1184
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 1: basically fees everything up and I can now focus on

1185
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: my training in getting myself better. I don't got to

1186
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: learn a whole new defense or make friends with a

1187
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 1: whole new team or anything like that. So it's pretty

1188
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: cool situation. I'm in appreciate it, Matt, Thanks, have a

1189
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: good offseason. Appreciate it all right. That is Bills linebacker

1190
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 1: Matt Mlano, his first comments since agreeing to the four

1191
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: year contract with the Buffalo Bills to remain here in

1192
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo for the foreseeable future. Steve and I will take

1193
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 1: a break now, but when we return, we'll have Matt

1194
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 1: on here with us on One Bills Live presented by

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01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:52,960
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and

1197
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 1: as promised, the man who's responsible for probably the best

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01:07:56,960 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 1: news of the week for any Bills fan anywhere. Matt

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01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 1: Milano joining us on the line. Here the Bills linebacker

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01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 1: now signed up for the next four years. Matt, thanks

1201
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: for taking the time to join us. We won't keep

1202
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: you along. We know you answered a lot of questions already,

1203
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 1: but congratulations. My first question for you is what kind

1204
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 1: of feelings did this first experience with free agency kind

1205
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: of stir up in you? From late January when the

1206
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: season ended to getting things done? Now, what was kind

1207
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: of running through your head? How are you feeling about

1208
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 1: this whole thing? Um? Appreciate you guys having me on

1209
01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:34,400
Speaker 1: by the way, but um, yeah, I mean a lot

1210
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: of a lot of uncertainty I was going on in

1211
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: my head. But I always had faith and what I

1212
01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 1: had done in the previous four years and knew I

1213
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 1: would end up somewhere. But um, I wanted to deal

1214
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 1: with the Bills and I'm glad. I'm glad we got

1215
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: something worked out. When did the When did the conver

1216
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: I know that they you know, in passing, you have conversations, Hey,

1217
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:52,680
Speaker 1: we want to talk to you, we will be you

1218
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 1: know all of that. When did the conversation with your

1219
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 1: agent start in earnest and how long did it take

1220
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: from you know, from your perspective from beginning to end,

1221
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,720
Speaker 1: and you know, like give us a little a snapshot

1222
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,760
Speaker 1: of the timeline and your thoughts about it. Yeah, it

1223
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: was it was fairly quick how the whole thing happened.

1224
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I just I left it all

1225
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 1: to my agent and I told him I want to

1226
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 1: be in Buffalo and I want to be with the Bills,

1227
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 1: and um, whatever you got to do to make that happen. Um,

1228
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: So it came to an agreement, and h here here

1229
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 1: we are today. But it's been cool. It's been a

1230
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: cool experience. And UM, I'm glad. I'm glad I ended

1231
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,920
Speaker 1: up back in Buffalo. I know that you know, you're

1232
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,680
Speaker 1: You've got a good support system with your family and

1233
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: your parents. They make it to a lot of your games.

1234
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: How many people were on the Matt Milano consulting committee

1235
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 1: with this, with this decision or or was this something

1236
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:45,720
Speaker 1: that they left you to your own devices and say,

1237
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:47,800
Speaker 1: you know, you do what you feel is best for

1238
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 1: you and we'll support you. It was basically that best

1239
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: second answer you just gave. Um, I had a couple

1240
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 1: close family members with me the whole way. Um, since

1241
01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 1: it actually started out of high school and call college

1242
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:02,600
Speaker 1: into the NFL. But um, yeah, it was kind of

1243
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:04,640
Speaker 1: it was kind of left up to me. And at

1244
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm the one making those decisions,

1245
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: and I'm the one being in that sound and I'm

1246
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 1: the one playing. So that's what it came down to.

1247
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: But it definitely had some great support from the family. Yeah,

1248
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: and now I kind of from way back in the

1249
01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: day when I played, you can kind I gotta get

1250
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 1: a feeling that what are your thoughts kind of turned?

1251
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: Now your focus turns into the next six months, what

1252
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:25,560
Speaker 1: it's going to take to get on the field with

1253
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: your guys. And I know you said in your press

1254
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 1: conference in your Zoom meeting just a minute ago that

1255
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: you got a bunch of shout outs from your teammates.

1256
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:36,639
Speaker 1: How excited are you to get back together with those

1257
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: guys and what have you? What do you know about

1258
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 1: when that might happen. Yeah, I mean so excited. You know,

1259
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 1: those are the guys that I came in with, We've

1260
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: built great relationships on and off the field. Those are

1261
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: some of my closest friends other day, So just to

1262
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 1: be able to be back out there with them and

1263
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 1: get this ball, get this ball moving again, but I

1264
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 1: hope it's soon. I don't really have a word yet

1265
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: when we're all getting back together. A little uncertainty with

1266
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,680
Speaker 1: the whole COVID situation still going on and OTAs and

1267
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:06,080
Speaker 1: all that stuff, So I think we'll find out here shortly.

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Speaker 1: I know coach is always preaching the growth mindset and

1269
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: you know, never being satisfied with your game. Do you

1270
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 1: have some things on your own personal to do list

1271
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: Matt this offseason with respect to your individual game and

1272
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: what you want to bring to the field next fall. Yeah,

1273
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: I'm just continuing and get stronger, get faster. I'm more

1274
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 1: hungrier than ever right now. I got a chip on

1275
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: my shoulders, so I'm ready to go. I'm ready to

1276
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:33,280
Speaker 1: ready to prove to everybody else what the Bills have

1277
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,599
Speaker 1: one or just one question for me? The last one

1278
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: and in two parts. One, you know it's a contract year,

1279
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 1: this last season, the team's playing extremely well, and you

1280
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 1: you kin't you pull the peck muscle and you can't

1281
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: get on the field, and then all the COVID complications

1282
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 1: with the entire team. Tell us how dark it got

1283
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 1: for you, knowing that how important of a year this

1284
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 1: last year was for you? On the same time as

1285
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,760
Speaker 1: being on a team that won thirteen games the regular season.

1286
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: All that good stuff's going on. But how dark did

1287
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: it get for you personally? Know and um that you

1288
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: couldn't help them when you wanted to because of the injuries,

1289
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:09,680
Speaker 1: and now to have this thing happen the way it did,

1290
01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 1: how relieving it must be. Yeah, it was never. It

1291
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:17,959
Speaker 1: was never dark as what you were what you were describing.

1292
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 1: I was definitely upset at myself, but some things you

1293
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:23,759
Speaker 1: can't control in life, and I always believe to myself

1294
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:25,280
Speaker 1: and I believe to my abilities and I know what

1295
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: I can do when I get back out on that field.

1296
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: So that was the That was the things that kept

1297
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:31,560
Speaker 1: kept kind of running through my head. Um, and I

1298
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 1: also had great support from everybody everybody in the building

1299
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:37,920
Speaker 1: from chainers to UM, coaches to players to everybody. So

1300
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: it never really got to that point where you here

1301
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 1: some guys go through some tough times. But it was

1302
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:47,599
Speaker 1: definitely tough, but not not the not the dark dark

1303
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 1: days we're talking about. Last one for me, Man, I

1304
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: know you're a self described minimalist, So are you going

1305
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 1: to treat yourself? Are you going to treat yourself in

1306
01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 1: any way with your new found wealth or is it

1307
01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 1: all just going right in the bank here, It's all

1308
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: going into the bank. It's a couple of investments. But

1309
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: for me, it's not really about the money, man. I'm

1310
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: just trying to I love playing football. I love doing it.

1311
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 1: You know. That's why I think I've been so successful

1312
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: because I love it. It's it's not a job for me.

1313
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 1: It's something I enjoyed doing every day, day in and

1314
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 1: day out. So I'm excited. I'm excited to get back

1315
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: to work and excited to be a buffalo. Bill. Do

1316
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:22,599
Speaker 1: you remember what it's like to come to work here

1317
01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 1: at the stadium and one Bill's drive, you'd pull in,

1318
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:26,720
Speaker 1: you go back around the back of the building, you'd

1319
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:28,839
Speaker 1: walk in lone. Do you remember what it's like without

1320
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:32,600
Speaker 1: the COVID complications and you just walk in and you

1321
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 1: can be in the locker room and you don't have

1322
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 1: to get your temperature taken. Are you kind of ready

1323
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,080
Speaker 1: for that to happen. I'm ready for that, man. We

1324
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 1: need that ace out hopefully hopefully next year. But we'll see,

1325
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: we will see, all right, Matt, Listen, thanks for the time.

1326
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 1: We appreciate you giving us a few minutes here. I

1327
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:51,519
Speaker 1: know the fans are happy. They're over the moon here

1328
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 1: in Buffalo and going bananas that they know you're gonna

1329
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 1: be back in that fifty eight jersey. Kudos to you

1330
01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:59,599
Speaker 1: on your social media gifts. You are a registered pro

1331
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,799
Speaker 1: fantastic stuff. I mean, it's getting a lot of positive

1332
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:05,960
Speaker 1: feedback here. People were rip roaring about it. I was

1333
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 1: getting my phone was blowing up just from the stuff

1334
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:10,360
Speaker 1: you were putting out there. But congrats to you, man,

1335
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 1: best to luckt to you on a successful offseason here.

1336
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 1: We can't wait to see you back up here. And

1337
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:16,840
Speaker 1: all the best of your parents as well. All right, man,

1338
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate you guys. All right, thanks. Matt

1339
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 1: Milano joining us here fresh off his four year contract

1340
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: to stay a Buffalo Bill. I can feel the just

1341
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 1: you almost like quiver inside when you signed something like

1342
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: that and it's like, let's go. Yeah. You know, well,

1343
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: you heard Micah Hyde on the Zoom call last week.

1344
01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 1: You know, it was a week ago he signed his

1345
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 1: contract extension for a couple more years in a Bill's uniform.

1346
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 1: He was entering the last year of his deal and

1347
01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,160
Speaker 1: he's I'm ready to go now. He's like I'm ready

1348
01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:54,679
Speaker 1: to come to practice today, like I. You could speak

1349
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:57,160
Speaker 1: to it certainly better than I can, Steve. But when

1350
01:14:57,200 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: you sign the deal, you basically cement your at the

1351
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:04,639
Speaker 1: very least short term future and it's in the same

1352
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 1: place that you've been. Just walk us through how jacked

1353
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:09,560
Speaker 1: up you get. Know when you're gonna be with the

1354
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,679
Speaker 1: same guys and the same system, with the same coaches,

1355
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: the value of that and the feelings that it gives you.

1356
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: I signed one big contract in my career's three year thing.

1357
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 1: I was right around planed B and I get it

1358
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: and UH got a bunch of money up front. And

1359
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:27,559
Speaker 1: I was actually at that time our kids were little

1360
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:30,120
Speaker 1: and we were going back and letting them living with

1361
01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 1: our grant my parents, my wife's parents. First offseasons, we

1362
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 1: go back there for four or five months and live

1363
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 1: back in Kansas with my family, hurt my wife's family

1364
01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:41,960
Speaker 1: as well, and I would train back there at my

1365
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 1: high school. And I'll never forget. We're talking about doing

1366
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: the deal and they give me the contract is done. Great,

1367
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: and he goes and they FedEx me a contract to

1368
01:15:56,800 --> 01:16:00,600
Speaker 1: it's one one stoplight and it's not gonna stoplight and

1369
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 1: going out. It's a blinking it might be the only

1370
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 1: FedEx package going to that town. You're with me, So

1371
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 1: I'm actually in they I have him send it to

1372
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: the school because you know, they can't find they can't

1373
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 1: find my parents, my in law's house out in the middle, right,

1374
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:18,599
Speaker 1: So they send it and I get it and I'm

1375
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:22,880
Speaker 1: working out with actually the wrestling coach oddly enough, so

1376
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there. I go, you want to see the contract?

1377
01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, yeah, So I show him the contract,

1378
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, and and the numbers are on and I

1379
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 1: signed the things, stick it back in the envelope and

1380
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 1: off it goes, and you know, it's one of the

1381
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 1: best workouts in my life. Right. So I'm like, the

1382
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 1: adrenaline's like just through the roof, through the roof, and

1383
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:45,680
Speaker 1: it was Yeah, It's just it's one of those things

1384
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 1: where it's like, Wow, you just hit the accelerator button.

1385
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:50,880
Speaker 1: You can't wait to get back to I want to

1386
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:52,640
Speaker 1: go back to Buffalo right now. I want all the

1387
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 1: guys to show up and let's start practicing. It's it's

1388
01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: one of those moments where you know, it's one of

1389
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 1: those rare moments where you feel empowered motivated, inspired and

1390
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 1: responsible and respected and yeah, and and response and like

1391
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:12,080
Speaker 1: my efforts are valued. Yeah, you feel like this team.

1392
01:17:12,200 --> 01:17:14,040
Speaker 1: You feel like, for the first time in your life,

1393
01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:18,120
Speaker 1: you're one of those guys that people read about where

1394
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 1: you make a lot of money. You're in this great team.

1395
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: You're associated with that great team even and then of

1396
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: yourself and you feel you know, a guy like me

1397
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,679
Speaker 1: and Milano too, obviously you feel like, man, you feel

1398
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 1: responsible to go like be your part of that team.

1399
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: So it's doing it. Doing it in March is a

1400
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 1: downer because you gotta wait like three months before you

1401
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 1: can even show up. So I'm kudos to Matt Milano,

1402
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 1: those guys. It's it's a great time a year for

1403
01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:52,560
Speaker 1: these guys. It gives there it's a great sense of

1404
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:58,600
Speaker 1: joy and pride for their families and especially for a

1405
01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 1: guy like Milana. We've been talking about he was gone. Yeah,

1406
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: well he was, we were all we've been writing him

1407
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:09,559
Speaker 1: off for weeks. Well, I don't know that writing him off.

1408
01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 1: I think we just were of the opinion that the

1409
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:14,480
Speaker 1: market value for him was going to enter the stratosphere

1410
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,679
Speaker 1: where the bills just couldn't compete for services and overpay

1411
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:19,600
Speaker 1: for him to get him back. So yeah, he was

1412
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: gone that he was interested. Well, what we didn't know

1413
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 1: was this was his first priority. My first priority was

1414
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:28,719
Speaker 1: let's see if we and the Bills can get something

1415
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 1: done that's fair for me and works for the bill

1416
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: and structure it for the Bills. And fortunately they got

1417
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: to that point. So good on Milano in his camp,

1418
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,519
Speaker 1: and good on the Bills for finding that common ground,

1419
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 1: because sometimes it's harder to find than in some other

1420
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 1: situations fortune. And you heard Matt say when you asked him,

1421
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 1: he said, it came together pretty quickly. And I think

1422
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: the only reason that it took this long was because

1423
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: I think the Bills were waiting, like a lot of

1424
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: other teams, were on a hard and fast number is

1425
01:18:58,240 --> 01:18:59,320
Speaker 1: to what the hell the cap was going to be,

1426
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 1: and they had and they figured, if that was what

1427
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 1: it's going to be, we need to have this at

1428
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 1: least this much space, and as soon as we get it,

1429
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:07,920
Speaker 1: we'll do the deal, you know. And that and with

1430
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:12,160
Speaker 1: the release of Quentin Jefferson and John Brown, the money's

1431
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 1: there all of a sudden and away they go. Yeah.

1432
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,240
Speaker 1: And I was fortunate enough to meet Matt's parents a

1433
01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:19,680
Speaker 1: couple of years ago found out that they grew up

1434
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 1: in the same hometown than I did, which was so crazy.

1435
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:25,439
Speaker 1: I mean, they live in Orlando now, which is where

1436
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 1: they raised Matt and his siblings. But just you know,

1437
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:32,240
Speaker 1: when you talk to people or people's parents and it's

1438
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:34,720
Speaker 1: like you hear that comment from scouts all the time. Oh,

1439
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:38,719
Speaker 1: they come from good stock. Matt Malanta comes from good stock,

1440
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 1: and that resonates in the player and the kind of

1441
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: player you get out on the field. And we see

1442
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,560
Speaker 1: that when Matt plays. So it's just good all the

1443
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:49,840
Speaker 1: way around for the Bill's organization. So kudos to the

1444
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: Pagoulas for chilling out the money, for being in his crew,

1445
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:56,559
Speaker 1: for negotiating the contract, and it's going to benefit coach.

1446
01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: And I think the way coach and Bob Babbage and

1447
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: Leslie f Asier have helped him blossom into the player

1448
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 1: He's become weighed on Matt Milano's mind. These guys made

1449
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:08,679
Speaker 1: me into the player I am at this level now

1450
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:12,559
Speaker 1: and I want to keep, you know, excelling and getting better.

1451
01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: And I think he firmly believes that this coaching staff

1452
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:18,600
Speaker 1: and his head coach will enable him to do that

1453
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,679
Speaker 1: or give him the tools and the means by which

1454
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:23,840
Speaker 1: to do that. It's interesting too. You know, we've been

1455
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 1: talking also about the growth mindset. There was the documentary

1456
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:30,639
Speaker 1: that was on and McDermott always says, you know, it's

1457
01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 1: it's in these guys DNA. They want to be better

1458
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 1: every day. It's kind of that's what we look for.

1459
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: We don't recruit football players, we recruit people. Matt Milano.

1460
01:20:38,800 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: You could say what you want about being hyperbole. The

1461
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:43,680
Speaker 1: DNA is there for Milano. It's it's part of who

1462
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 1: he is, and that's evident. That's why they excel inside

1463
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:53,360
Speaker 1: a culture that cultivates that, and it seems to be

1464
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:56,559
Speaker 1: working here in Buffalo. Yeah. So it's a good week,

1465
01:20:56,920 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 1: a good day all the way around if you're a

1466
01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 1: Bills fan, or if you're the Buffalo Bills. Because they've

1467
01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 1: got number fifty eight, who's going to be on the

1468
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:06,960
Speaker 1: field for this team for the foreseeable future in the

1469
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 1: front seven of that defense, and knowing this defense plays

1470
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,559
Speaker 1: ninety percent nickel, or at least that was the percentage

1471
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: they played last year, highest ever for the Bills as

1472
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 1: a team, and the highest percentage in the entire league

1473
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: last year. And as we mentioned. Tremaine Edmunds and Matt

1474
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 1: Milano have lined up alongside each other the last three seasons,

1475
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:33,599
Speaker 1: so too is Tarn Johnson. So going into this season, Edmonds,

1476
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:37,479
Speaker 1: Milano and tarn Johnson as the nickel corner going into

1477
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: their fourth season together as the set at the second

1478
01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:43,760
Speaker 1: level of the defense, right, I mean that counts for something. Yeah,

1479
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: it goes a long way. Can It gives a coaching

1480
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:49,800
Speaker 1: staff a lot of flexibility to be able to reach

1481
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: back a couple of years and say, hey, remember this

1482
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:53,680
Speaker 1: and how we evolved out of it, and they just

1483
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: remember where they came from terminology wise and scheme wise.

1484
01:21:57,240 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 1: I said this a little earlier with Milano and Edmonds,

1485
01:22:00,080 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 1: but it just streamlines the process and gives so much

1486
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: flexibility to their ability to prepare in new and different

1487
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: ways because they all start from a base and a

1488
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 1: foundation where they know a way, they know the roots

1489
01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: of the wrinkles that they've put in the defense over

1490
01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: the course of months and months and years and years

1491
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: and season after season, and it just streamlines the process

1492
01:22:20,439 --> 01:22:23,200
Speaker 1: so well that you can say, hey, you know how

1493
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 1: we got to this, Now we're gonna tweak it just

1494
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 1: this much for this game. And it's just streamlines it.

1495
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,760
Speaker 1: They come out more prepared on a week to week

1496
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 1: basis with less effort and less time, and it just

1497
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:38,599
Speaker 1: gives them that little extra edge that some teams don't.

1498
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:40,720
Speaker 1: They have to go back and reteach something or teach

1499
01:22:40,800 --> 01:22:43,320
Speaker 1: something new to some guys who haven't been there, and

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01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: they don't have to do that. There are instances where

1501
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: Leslie Frazier on a giving game day at halftime can

1502
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:51,640
Speaker 1: probably be like, right, hey, remember when we flip this

1503
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 1: and we played it this way against Indianapolis. Yeah, we're

1504
01:22:56,200 --> 01:22:58,280
Speaker 1: gonna do that here coming out on the first series

1505
01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:00,639
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Oh okay, yeah, so I gotta

1506
01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:02,720
Speaker 1: do this. Yep, let's do it. We gotta everybody good?

1507
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 1: Yeah good. That's what you get from that kind of content.

1508
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:08,519
Speaker 1: That's exactly right, and it it just and on and

1509
01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 1: everything's done on the fly these days. I mean, this

1510
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:15,240
Speaker 1: coaching staff is renowned. It's it's not halftime adjustments, it's

1511
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:17,360
Speaker 1: what they do last series. Okay, here's what we're gonna

1512
01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: do this series and then this series and the next series.

1513
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:24,720
Speaker 1: So that communication and the economy with which experience in

1514
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:27,679
Speaker 1: the system gives you makes you that much more ready.

1515
01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:30,160
Speaker 1: To adjust on the fly, and what else could make

1516
01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:34,640
Speaker 1: your week better than getting FaceTime by Trudavious White. Can

1517
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:37,000
Speaker 1: you imagine that guy on FaceTime ringing you up? Blah

1518
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 1: blah la la. You're like you can't you see it?

1519
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:44,280
Speaker 1: Can't you see it? That? Yeah, and same thing with you.

1520
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 1: You can get a better phone called Dion doc and

1521
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:50,800
Speaker 1: same thing. Oh yeah, yeah, just the snowman, it'd be great.

1522
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: Trudavius is a hoot, though, Man. Can you imagine the

1523
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 1: stuff he was saying on FaceTime? Yeah you got you

1524
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 1: got money? Like me? Now? I could I could just

1525
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:01,599
Speaker 1: hear him screaming at him unbelieved. Oh my gosh, the best,

1526
01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:04,759
Speaker 1: really good good week for the Bills for sure. Micah

1527
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:07,640
Speaker 1: Hide seven days ago two year extension and now Matt

1528
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:11,639
Speaker 1: Milano in the fold for the next four years. Steve

1529
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 1: and I are going to take a break here, but

1530
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll get to more of your

1531
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 1: comments or questions I should say in the obil fan

1532
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: Friday mail bag to answer when we come back here.

1533
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 1: On One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's

1534
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris

1535
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:43,960
Speaker 1: Brown Speak Faster with you here on a Happy Friday,

1536
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:47,560
Speaker 1: and Jess got off the line with Matt Milano. We

1537
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:50,759
Speaker 1: thank him again for joining us, and thanks to Bill's

1538
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: media relations for helping us out and making that connection

1539
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:56,439
Speaker 1: so we could share his feelings with you the fans

1540
01:24:57,360 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: on the air here on one Bills Live. That was

1541
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:02,080
Speaker 1: really good that, you know, Matt was able to kind

1542
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:04,680
Speaker 1: of just express how much he wanted to be back

1543
01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I think that was important for fans to hear.

1544
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 1: So that was good and among some of the other highlights,

1545
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, wanting to see this through was a factor

1546
01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, meaning the trajectory of the team. He

1547
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:20,880
Speaker 1: wanted to see. He wanted to be there when this

1548
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: team gets to the finish line, and he clearly thinks

1549
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 1: that's going to happen sometime in the next four years.

1550
01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 1: So sign me up. When you when you tell your agent, hey,

1551
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:34,040
Speaker 1: work something out with the team, the agent will go

1552
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 1: in and do just that. He'll get the best deal

1553
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 1: he can. He won't he won't tell that. He certainly

1554
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:41,679
Speaker 1: didn't tell the Bills that Milano doesn't want to leave.

1555
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 1: He wants to work out whatever deal you'll give him.

1556
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 1: He went and said, listen, Matt's willing to give you

1557
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:49,080
Speaker 1: a shot at this. What do you think if you

1558
01:25:49,240 --> 01:25:52,400
Speaker 1: you know he's not going to sit there and take

1559
01:25:52,439 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: the veteran minimum. What's your value on him? The guy's

1560
01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 1: you know, he's playing at a pro Bowl caliber when

1561
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: he's on the field. Grant he's been injured, but you know,

1562
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 1: so give it, Give me an idea. What are you thinking?

1563
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:04,439
Speaker 1: And the Bills come back with a B and C.

1564
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:10,760
Speaker 1: They counter offer. Presto chango. The deal's done when the

1565
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:14,080
Speaker 1: player tells his agent to get the best deal possible,

1566
01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 1: and that deal is in the ballpark of his market value.

1567
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,400
Speaker 1: There you go. And if it's fair, if it's fair,

1568
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: forget about being inflated or deflated or discount if it's

1569
01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 1: just fair, the player going, yeah, that's fair, I'll do it.

1570
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 1: So they do. And and it's interesting too because a club,

1571
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 1: when they overpay for a guy, fans think, there you

1572
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 1: gotta apologize for that. They almost have to like make

1573
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: amends for making a bad choice. Player never has to

1574
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:49,799
Speaker 1: do that because the player says, listen, this is important

1575
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:52,840
Speaker 1: to me. Yep, you can. I'm playing for the money

1576
01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 1: I'm playing for And I said, yes, let's go. So

1577
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:59,280
Speaker 1: I'm it's it's different on both ends of it, but

1578
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:02,880
Speaker 1: I think that's what Malana said. Hey, it's fair deal,

1579
01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:07,599
Speaker 1: fair for us certainly, and fair for the club. It's

1580
01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 1: it's a it's a Buffalo Bills friendly deal, particularly this

1581
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:15,240
Speaker 1: season in a bad cap here. So I'm that's how

1582
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be, and I'm not for nothing. We're

1583
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 1: seeing that a lot in the Buffalo Bills organization. They

1584
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,400
Speaker 1: do it how supposed to be, and it looks like

1585
01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:28,720
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills may not be done. Ian Rappaport from

1586
01:27:28,840 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 1: NFL Network is reporting that the Bills have agreed to

1587
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:36,519
Speaker 1: terms on a three year deal with starting offensive tackle

1588
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:42,640
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams. No way, Yeah, so that is who's reporting that.

1589
01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:47,759
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport, who is a pretty reliable source. Also Jeremy

1590
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:51,600
Speaker 1: Fowler from ESPN. He is reporting that the Bills and

1591
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:54,240
Speaker 1: right tackle Darryl Williams have agreed to terms on a

1592
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 1: three year contract extension. So Matt Milano yesterday and now

1593
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:03,640
Speaker 1: it appears, and we'll wait for official confirmation from the team. Now,

1594
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:07,640
Speaker 1: how it appears that the Bills have agreed to a

1595
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:12,160
Speaker 1: three year deal with starting right tackle Darryl Williams. This

1596
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:17,960
Speaker 1: is turning into a phenomenal week for Bills fans. That's

1597
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:23,639
Speaker 1: a good thing. They don't tell us this stuff. That's

1598
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:27,679
Speaker 1: all like, why is that? I'd be like the cat

1599
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:30,720
Speaker 1: who swallowed the canary right if I had told us

1600
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 1: that they were had a chance to sign Darryl Williams

1601
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:37,719
Speaker 1: and Matt Milano twenty four hours apart. I think this week,

1602
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 1: I think you could safely argue that going into this offseason,

1603
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 1: the two most important components on Buffalo's free ancent list

1604
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:54,720
Speaker 1: in terms of talent potentially coming off the roster, where

1605
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 1: Matt Milano and Daryl Williams. Would you agree with that? Yeah? Yeah,

1606
01:28:59,040 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 1: and I know fully Sia was a big part of

1607
01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:03,320
Speaker 1: that kind of his personality in the way, but play

1608
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:06,479
Speaker 1: wise and production wise, yeah, those are the guys. It's

1609
01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:10,360
Speaker 1: the right tackle and you're you know, Matt Milano who

1610
01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 1: has been a home run. Um, I gotta get my

1611
01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:21,960
Speaker 1: mind around. So the Daryl Williams thing three years that's great, Well,

1612
01:29:23,960 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 1: this and't I don't want to go out this for

1613
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:28,360
Speaker 1: me looking around getting my mind around it, seeing the

1614
01:29:28,439 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 1: backside of it from and I don't know any numbers

1615
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:33,640
Speaker 1: if it's true or whatever, but whatever, a three year

1616
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:37,240
Speaker 1: deal for a right tackle in the NFL, and the

1617
01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:39,519
Speaker 1: fact that they just did Matt Milano in the manner

1618
01:29:39,560 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 1: in which they did, and the with the cap situation

1619
01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:49,240
Speaker 1: around the NFL the way it is now this is

1620
01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 1: this falls at the at. This falls right at the feet.

1621
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 1: You can say Brandon being yesterday it is and it's

1622
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 1: him doing it. It's it's Terry Pogoula and Kim. They

1623
01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:02,559
Speaker 1: they said, listen, if if we need these guys, make

1624
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 1: it happen. Because here's what it is. You can say, oh,

1625
01:30:04,479 --> 01:30:06,160
Speaker 1: you want about the capital, but you gotta have cash

1626
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,760
Speaker 1: to pay these guys, and the owner's got to be

1627
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 1: willing to do that. And it's not like that for

1628
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:21,240
Speaker 1: all these teams. And kudos to them for saying, if

1629
01:30:21,320 --> 01:30:27,479
Speaker 1: you can make it fit, do it. Um. Wow, that's

1630
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 1: pretty amazing because that and that's kudos to the to

1631
01:30:31,280 --> 01:30:34,519
Speaker 1: the Pagoulas and to Brandon and to Sean and to

1632
01:30:34,680 --> 01:30:36,680
Speaker 1: them if they if they're doing that, which it's been

1633
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:42,519
Speaker 1: reported that they are. Yeah, an update, now this goes

1634
01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:44,560
Speaker 1: right at the feet. He's got an update. Now. The

1635
01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:48,040
Speaker 1: bill are giving Daryl Williams a three year deal worth

1636
01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:50,800
Speaker 1: twenty eight point two million dollars, which is nine point

1637
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:54,400
Speaker 1: four on average, with almost fourteen million guaranteed. So again

1638
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:57,880
Speaker 1: half the money guaranteed and the contract a nice deal

1639
01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:00,880
Speaker 1: for Daryl Williams for sure. So that is the report

1640
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:05,400
Speaker 1: from NFL Networks Ian Rapaport. We will await confirmation on

1641
01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:09,240
Speaker 1: this from the club as to when and if it

1642
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:13,560
Speaker 1: is official, but this is certainly good news and what

1643
01:31:13,680 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 1: an end to the week. And you know you got

1644
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:19,759
Speaker 1: to say this too, Steve. The teams in this league

1645
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:25,560
Speaker 1: were waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for the

1646
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:29,639
Speaker 1: cap number to be communicated. This is a cap number,

1647
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:34,160
Speaker 1: lockstock and barrel. You have to believe that this was

1648
01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:38,360
Speaker 1: unnerving for a lot of teams front offices because the

1649
01:31:38,520 --> 01:31:42,160
Speaker 1: window of negotiating time before the legal tampering window begins

1650
01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:46,240
Speaker 1: on Monday was getting shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter,

1651
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:49,280
Speaker 1: and you didn't know what your parameters were in terms

1652
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:52,799
Speaker 1: of being clearly defined, and so you had an idea,

1653
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:56,360
Speaker 1: But I mean, how about the bills front office jumping

1654
01:31:56,439 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 1: into action as soon as that number was made clear.

1655
01:31:59,560 --> 01:32:07,160
Speaker 1: Kudo to Kim and Terry and Brandon and over Jim Overdorf. Wow, Um,

1656
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:12,120
Speaker 1: Joe Shane, all those guys. I me, yeah, Dan Morgan,

1657
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 1: that whole crew at the top of the pyramid. Here

1658
01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 1: at one Bill's Drive, Uh, we have you. And I

1659
01:32:23,160 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 1: just spent the better part of a month just you know, saying,

1660
01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:30,519
Speaker 1: you know, wow, it was great while it lasted. Right,

1661
01:32:31,400 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 1: Milano's gonna be gone, Daryl Williams. And I was panicking

1662
01:32:34,240 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 1: about the offensive line. You had your heart and your

1663
01:32:37,040 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: throat about the offensive line for the better part of

1664
01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:44,439
Speaker 1: the Get why now they got both tackles, They got

1665
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 1: their center and and Cody Ford coming back. So they

1666
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:53,920
Speaker 1: went from having two to having four, um with Cody

1667
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:58,800
Speaker 1: Ford being counted coming back. And wow, I feel a lot.

1668
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:01,880
Speaker 1: I feel a lot better. In the weekend, I might

1669
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 1: have to go three deep tonight. That is awesome. Three

1670
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:13,320
Speaker 1: deep be throwing them back at the Tasker household tonight.

1671
01:33:14,240 --> 01:33:17,240
Speaker 1: That is so good. Daryl, there you go both sides

1672
01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:19,880
Speaker 1: of the I will say that, you know, going into

1673
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:21,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, you have to feel a whole lot

1674
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:26,360
Speaker 1: better about the prospects. You've got one of your top

1675
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:29,280
Speaker 1: I think you could argue one of your top four

1676
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:31,479
Speaker 1: players on the defensive side of the ball back in

1677
01:33:31,560 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 1: the fold for four years, and you have one of

1678
01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: your top two offensive alignment back in the fold for

1679
01:33:38,400 --> 01:33:43,840
Speaker 1: the next three years. So that's huge. That is huge.

1680
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:49,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's big news and we're glad it

1681
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:52,439
Speaker 1: involves the Buffalo Bills here this week. So back to

1682
01:33:52,560 --> 01:33:55,840
Speaker 1: back days with fantastic news as far as who is

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Speaker 1: remaining in the fold for a team that made it

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Speaker 1: all the way to the AFC title game this past season.

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Speaker 1: So we will take a break here shortly, we do

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Speaker 1: want to remind you that we've got mister Scofield coming

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Speaker 1: up here. Mark Scofield, USA Today Touchdown Wire, NFL writer.

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01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:19,799
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll have something to say about this latest

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Speaker 1: news as well as the resigning of Matt Milano. So

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking with Mark about that along with some

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Speaker 1: of the things he's recently put up on the USA

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Speaker 1: Today Touchdown Wire. When we return here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health, He's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Network, Sports Date, your sports update from One

1695
01:34:51,120 --> 01:34:53,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bill's front office putting together a hell

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01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:55,639
Speaker 1: of a week as they have just agreed to terms

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01:34:55,720 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 1: on a three year contract with impending free agent right

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01:34:58,439 --> 01:35:02,560
Speaker 1: tackle General Williams. Williams solidified the right tackle position for

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01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:04,840
Speaker 1: the Bills this pass season after coming to the club

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01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:09,799
Speaker 1: on a one year free agent deal from Carolina NFL Networks.

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01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:11,800
Speaker 1: He and RAP reporters reporting the deal to be a

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01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:15,439
Speaker 1: three year contract worth twenty eight million dollars, fourteen million

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01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:18,720
Speaker 1: of which is guarantee. It was just a month ago

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01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:22,799
Speaker 1: that linebacker Matt Milano was expected to hit the open

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01:35:22,880 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: market rather than resigned with the Bills, but Mulana won't

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01:35:26,040 --> 01:35:28,360
Speaker 1: be leaving Buffalo after all. He's agreed to a four

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Speaker 1: year deal to remain with the club. The total value

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01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:34,240
Speaker 1: are reported forty four million, including twenty four million dollars

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Speaker 1: in guaranteed money. Cam Newton and the Patriots are running

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Speaker 1: it back the quarterback, resigning with New England on a

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Speaker 1: one year deal worth a reported fourteen million. Newton signed

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Speaker 1: with the Patriots in July of last year, also on

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01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:49,360
Speaker 1: a one year contract, started fifteen games for eight touchdowns

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Speaker 1: and ten interceptions. His eighty two point nine passer rating

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01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:57,440
Speaker 1: was twenty eighth among thirty five qualified passers. The Patriots

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01:35:57,479 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 1: are expected to further address the quarterback position at some

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01:36:02,600 --> 01:36:06,160
Speaker 1: point this offseason, Tampa Bay Bucks have agreed to terms

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01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:08,640
Speaker 1: on a one year extension for Tom Brady. It's a

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01:36:08,760 --> 01:36:11,439
Speaker 1: four year deal with three voidable years on the back

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01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 1: end of it, and it gives the Super Bowl champ

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01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:16,360
Speaker 1: some cap room as a result and locks Brady in

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01:36:16,439 --> 01:36:19,320
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty two if they choose to go that way.

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01:36:19,760 --> 01:36:23,120
Speaker 1: The Sabers dropped to OZ seven and two in their

1724
01:36:23,200 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 1: last nine games, following another five two loss on the

1725
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:29,160
Speaker 1: ice last night in their first of two games with

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Penguins. College Hoops Virginia will not play Georgia

1727
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:37,360
Speaker 1: Tech in the ACC Tournament is scheduled. The conference announced

1728
01:36:37,439 --> 01:36:40,560
Speaker 1: this morning that the Cavs semi final game against the

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01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:43,599
Speaker 1: Yellow Jackets have been canceled because of a COVID nineteen

1730
01:36:43,680 --> 01:36:48,200
Speaker 1: positive test for the number sixteen Cavaliers. Cancelation means that

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Speaker 1: Georgia Tech will play the winner of Florida State and

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Speaker 1: North Carolina for the ACC title on Saturday. That is

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Speaker 1: your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you for our number three of Friday edition

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Speaker 1: of the show. It's been busy, but here joining us

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Speaker 1: and nice enough to move his schedule around amid all

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Speaker 1: the things that are happening here in Orchard Park this week.

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Speaker 1: It is one Mark Schofield from USA Today's Touchdown Wire.

1739
01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:17,240
Speaker 1: He's an NFL writer for them, also hosts the Touchdown

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01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 1: Wire podcast. Mark, thanks for moving the schedule around for us.

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01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:23,920
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. How you doing. I'm doing while you

1742
01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:25,920
Speaker 1: guys have been busy this week and busy in the

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01:37:25,960 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 1: past couple of hours. So happy we could make it

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01:37:28,160 --> 01:37:29,679
Speaker 1: work it It's great to be with you guys again.

1745
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 1: We just spent the last three weeks of our live

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01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:35,920
Speaker 1: mourning the fact that Matt Milano and Darryl Williams were

1747
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:37,439
Speaker 1: not going to be a part of the Bills. And

1748
01:37:37,760 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 1: you know, this came out of left field. For yesterday,

1749
01:37:40,600 --> 01:37:43,840
Speaker 1: Milano signing was huge, and then to find out that

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01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:46,920
Speaker 1: God Darryl Williams signed up for three years as well.

1751
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:51,200
Speaker 1: Is it was just really unexpected given the environment that

1752
01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:52,880
Speaker 1: was going to be out there for these guys, and

1753
01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:54,800
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of teams with some

1754
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:58,680
Speaker 1: money to spend. These guys are really good players, and

1755
01:37:58,920 --> 01:38:01,519
Speaker 1: yet for some reason, neither one of them even felt

1756
01:38:01,560 --> 01:38:03,799
Speaker 1: the need to even get into free agency. It's pretty amazing.

1757
01:38:05,160 --> 01:38:07,840
Speaker 1: I think it's evidence and you know, you hear the

1758
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:11,160
Speaker 1: term culture a lot thrown around with the professional sports teams,

1759
01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:13,799
Speaker 1: but it does matter. And the fact that both Mulana

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Speaker 1: and Williams rather than tested free agency when you do

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01:38:16,760 --> 01:38:19,120
Speaker 1: have teams that have a lot of money in terms

1762
01:38:19,160 --> 01:38:21,519
Speaker 1: of the salary cap out their disposal that they're going

1763
01:38:21,560 --> 01:38:23,200
Speaker 1: to come back and try to ask you say run

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01:38:23,280 --> 01:38:25,600
Speaker 1: it back. You heard Matt Mulano when he was on

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01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: with You Guys and the video he posted a social

1766
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:30,240
Speaker 1: media a little while ago talking about how he believes

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Speaker 1: that Buffalo is building something. I'm sure Daryl Williams will

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01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:35,280
Speaker 1: say the same things, you know when he sort of

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01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:38,360
Speaker 1: speaks with the media. It's evidence that Buffalo is indeed

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01:38:38,400 --> 01:38:40,760
Speaker 1: building something with the players in this locker room and

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01:38:40,880 --> 01:38:43,760
Speaker 1: this organization believes that they are close to sort of

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01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:46,520
Speaker 1: get it over the hump, getting beyond the AFC Championship

1773
01:38:46,520 --> 01:38:48,040
Speaker 1: game and make it a run at a Super Bowl.

1774
01:38:48,280 --> 01:38:50,800
Speaker 1: And would you have that ability to bring players back.

1775
01:38:51,320 --> 01:38:53,559
Speaker 1: It speaks well to what's being built. It speaks well

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01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:55,599
Speaker 1: to the future of this team. I think it's pas

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01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:57,760
Speaker 1: volumes about where this organization and the players in dot

1778
01:38:57,800 --> 01:39:00,800
Speaker 1: locker room think this team can go next season. So, Mark,

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01:39:01,360 --> 01:39:04,479
Speaker 1: I know you had Darryl Williams ranked as high as

1780
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Speaker 1: number two on your most underrated offensive free agent list,

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01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:13,599
Speaker 1: you know, with USA today. So what kind of market

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01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:16,360
Speaker 1: do you think he could have walked into had he

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01:39:16,479 --> 01:39:19,080
Speaker 1: not been sided before? You know, this legal tampa here

1784
01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:22,240
Speaker 1: in period begins next week, right. I think he would

1785
01:39:22,280 --> 01:39:24,600
Speaker 1: have had a very attractive market on sort of the

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Speaker 1: open free agent market. When you look at a lot

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Speaker 1: of teams that sort of have money to spend and

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01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:32,360
Speaker 1: need to address the offensive line, you have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: where you as a free agent, you could walk into

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01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:36,720
Speaker 1: situations to command a big time contract. You look at

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01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:39,679
Speaker 1: a team like say the Cincinnati Bengals that obviously wants

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Speaker 1: to protect Joe Burrow. They lost Burrow to an injury

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Speaker 1: last season. We all expect them to address offensive line

1794
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Speaker 1: of the draft. A lot of people look at you know,

1795
01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:49,840
Speaker 1: perhaps Penny Soul or you know Rare Shaun Slater, the

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01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: two offensive tackles that are on many, you know, watch

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Speaker 1: lists for the upcoming draft. People assume Cincinnati might address

1798
01:39:56,200 --> 01:39:57,920
Speaker 1: offensive line of the draft, but they could have looked

1799
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Speaker 1: at Williams as an you know, a high option in

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01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:02,720
Speaker 1: their mind and put a big contract in front of them.

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Speaker 1: You know, other teams that look to address offensive line

1802
01:40:04,960 --> 01:40:07,120
Speaker 1: or have needs at that position could have made a

1803
01:40:07,200 --> 01:40:10,040
Speaker 1: move for Williams on the open market instead, you know,

1804
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:12,640
Speaker 1: they've builded them back and it again, it speaks to

1805
01:40:12,840 --> 01:40:15,479
Speaker 1: what the Buffalo Bills are building and it speaks to

1806
01:40:15,640 --> 01:40:18,720
Speaker 1: I think the draw in free agency right now, as

1807
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:21,040
Speaker 1: we all know, is the quarterback. Right you know, if

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01:40:21,080 --> 01:40:22,960
Speaker 1: you can go to a team and catch passes for

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01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:25,360
Speaker 1: a great quarterback, if you could protect for a great quarterback,

1810
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:28,880
Speaker 1: that's attractive and free agency Josh Allot is becoming an

1811
01:40:28,920 --> 01:40:32,640
Speaker 1: attractive player that teams that the Buffalo Bills realize that

1812
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:34,800
Speaker 1: they can build around and that players either want to

1813
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:37,479
Speaker 1: come to Buffalo to play for or stay in Buffalo

1814
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:40,439
Speaker 1: and play with. And I think that's an important development

1815
01:40:40,479 --> 01:40:43,160
Speaker 1: for this organization. When Josh Allen now as seen as

1816
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:45,519
Speaker 1: that quarterback that players want to go play with or

1817
01:40:45,600 --> 01:40:48,080
Speaker 1: stay in town to play with, that's a big thing

1818
01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:50,560
Speaker 1: for a team. Is it a risk for Buffalo and

1819
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:55,040
Speaker 1: it maybe the educated risk they wanted to take. Darryl Williams,

1820
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:57,960
Speaker 1: you know, he just finished his sixth year first five

1821
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 1: were in Carolina, but the two best years he had

1822
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:04,479
Speaker 1: were the two years that he played a full season

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Speaker 1: at right tackle. This last year twenty twenty, and then

1824
01:41:07,160 --> 01:41:10,599
Speaker 1: you go back to twenty seventeen with Carolina, But those

1825
01:41:10,640 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: were his best years as a second team All Pro,

1826
01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:15,559
Speaker 1: that right best years as a pro. And they got him,

1827
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Speaker 1: gave him a chance to stay at right tackle and

1828
01:41:17,560 --> 01:41:19,680
Speaker 1: not move from this guy this position that you know,

1829
01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:22,400
Speaker 1: they moved him all over the joint in the other years.

1830
01:41:23,160 --> 01:41:26,800
Speaker 1: Does that say something about a recognizing that and be

1831
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:28,960
Speaker 1: taking a little bit of a risk given the guy

1832
01:41:29,080 --> 01:41:32,040
Speaker 1: three year deal who's had, you know, really two good seasons.

1833
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Speaker 1: You know, I think it is a risk of it's

1834
01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 1: an educated risk of the Buffalo is made here, an

1835
01:41:37,240 --> 01:41:39,800
Speaker 1: educated gamble here, and I think it's a sign of

1836
01:41:39,840 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 1: an organization that's doing things the right way. Instead of asking,

1837
01:41:43,160 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 1: you know, what can't this guy, to ask the better question,

1838
01:41:46,200 --> 01:41:48,360
Speaker 1: the more important question is what can he do? And

1839
01:41:48,479 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 1: would you see Williams have that success at right tackle

1840
01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 1: both with Carolina and his past season with the Buffalo

1841
01:41:53,720 --> 01:41:55,920
Speaker 1: Bills and have the kind of season that he had,

1842
01:41:56,320 --> 01:41:58,920
Speaker 1: you know, right tackle is just as important Today's NFL

1843
01:41:58,960 --> 01:42:01,080
Speaker 1: that left tackle. The all thought would be, you need

1844
01:42:01,120 --> 01:42:03,240
Speaker 1: a left tackle. Those who were the good pass rushers

1845
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 1: are now teams are moving pass rushers around. You're not

1846
01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: going to see Von Miller or Khalil Mack lined up

1847
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:10,599
Speaker 1: across from the left tackle fifty snaps a game. They're

1848
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:12,599
Speaker 1: going to move them around. You'll see those guys line

1849
01:42:12,680 --> 01:42:14,920
Speaker 1: up perhaps more over the right tackle. You need to

1850
01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:17,880
Speaker 1: book end tackles. A right tackle is very important, and

1851
01:42:18,040 --> 01:42:20,200
Speaker 1: Williams is two good years at right tackle. I think

1852
01:42:20,280 --> 01:42:23,280
Speaker 1: our evidence enough. The Buffalo has decided to look, we

1853
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:25,559
Speaker 1: can make this decision. We can make this little educated

1854
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:27,720
Speaker 1: gamble here, because you need a good right tackle. He

1855
01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:30,040
Speaker 1: was a very good one for us last year. Maybe

1856
01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:31,920
Speaker 1: three years might seem a little long, but if you've

1857
01:42:31,960 --> 01:42:34,920
Speaker 1: got three years of excellent right tackle play, that matters

1858
01:42:34,920 --> 01:42:39,200
Speaker 1: in today's NFL. So with the address of the right

1859
01:42:39,280 --> 01:42:42,439
Speaker 1: tackle position for them, as well as their impending hole

1860
01:42:42,479 --> 01:42:44,719
Speaker 1: in linebacker now filled by the guy that they feared

1861
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:48,320
Speaker 1: would vacate it, Bills fans are gonna be looking at

1862
01:42:48,360 --> 01:42:51,280
Speaker 1: some other positions now here. Mark and I know they

1863
01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:53,840
Speaker 1: are looking for the pass rush to improve after what

1864
01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:57,040
Speaker 1: was largely a down season. As you know, this is

1865
01:42:57,080 --> 01:43:01,400
Speaker 1: a defensive scheme who's fullosophy is to get pressure just

1866
01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:04,720
Speaker 1: by rushing their front four. That did not happen in

1867
01:43:04,880 --> 01:43:08,640
Speaker 1: many games for them last season. So if they do

1868
01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:12,280
Speaker 1: decide to kind of take a look and you know,

1869
01:43:13,040 --> 01:43:15,280
Speaker 1: shake the trees and see what falls out in free

1870
01:43:15,320 --> 01:43:18,599
Speaker 1: agency there that you know they can afford to compete

1871
01:43:18,640 --> 01:43:22,479
Speaker 1: for what might be some I'm not looking for top

1872
01:43:22,520 --> 01:43:24,040
Speaker 1: of the market here because I just don't think they

1873
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:26,200
Speaker 1: have the money to do that. But somewhere in the

1874
01:43:26,240 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 1: middle tier, is there anybody that strikes your fancy that

1875
01:43:29,400 --> 01:43:31,799
Speaker 1: you could see being a pass rushing fit for the Bills.

1876
01:43:33,080 --> 01:43:34,519
Speaker 1: I mean, I think a player to keep in mind

1877
01:43:34,600 --> 01:43:37,920
Speaker 1: might be Romeo Akara from the Detroit Lions, who puts

1878
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:40,200
Speaker 1: together a very good pass Russian plant, who was shown

1879
01:43:40,280 --> 01:43:42,719
Speaker 1: on film that he can win those one on one matchups.

1880
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:44,840
Speaker 1: They are so critical off the edge, and he can

1881
01:43:44,920 --> 01:43:48,120
Speaker 1: get pressure and you don't have to scheme up pressure

1882
01:43:48,160 --> 01:43:50,360
Speaker 1: for him. He's a player that can win those one

1883
01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:52,719
Speaker 1: on one matchups, has a good array of pass Russian moves,

1884
01:43:52,760 --> 01:43:55,360
Speaker 1: puts together that pass Russian plan off the edge, and

1885
01:43:55,400 --> 01:43:57,360
Speaker 1: he's one of those players that I think is going

1886
01:43:57,439 --> 01:44:00,719
Speaker 1: to be available on sort of that secondary free agency market.

1887
01:44:00,960 --> 01:44:03,439
Speaker 1: You know the names of the top right, with Shaquille Barrett,

1888
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:06,519
Speaker 1: with Carl Lawson, who are too fantastic pass rushers, And

1889
01:44:06,640 --> 01:44:08,400
Speaker 1: certainly if Buffalo can find a way to get a

1890
01:44:08,439 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 1: deal done with one of those players, that would be great,

1891
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:14,160
Speaker 1: but it might be cost prohibitive. Barrett might command somewhere

1892
01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:16,920
Speaker 1: close to twenty million per Lawson's going to command a

1893
01:44:16,960 --> 01:44:19,519
Speaker 1: pretty good contract. I think those are both great players.

1894
01:44:19,800 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 1: But when you have to sort of think about that

1895
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:24,200
Speaker 1: second tier of pass rushers, this might be a very

1896
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:26,880
Speaker 1: good option for the Buffalo Bills to explore. I think

1897
01:44:26,880 --> 01:44:28,600
Speaker 1: he could win off the edge, He can win on

1898
01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:31,000
Speaker 1: those one out one moment, so you can just get

1899
01:44:31,080 --> 01:44:33,439
Speaker 1: pressure with four, which, as you said, is critical to

1900
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:35,680
Speaker 1: what they want to do defensively, And this might be

1901
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:37,960
Speaker 1: a smart move for the Bills to make as we

1902
01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:40,960
Speaker 1: get into the true free agency period. What about the

1903
01:44:41,160 --> 01:44:44,559
Speaker 1: same kind of question regarding the bills second corner spot

1904
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:46,639
Speaker 1: they've got written. You know, Richard Sherman is out there.

1905
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,240
Speaker 1: It looks like Marcus Peters may have a shot at

1906
01:44:49,280 --> 01:44:53,280
Speaker 1: being out there. Others as well. The Bills have tried

1907
01:44:53,400 --> 01:44:55,840
Speaker 1: to for a long time replace a guy like Levi

1908
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:58,760
Speaker 1: Wallace on the opposite side of Tredavious White. They haven't

1909
01:44:58,760 --> 01:45:01,760
Speaker 1: been able to get it done. Levi has played extremely well,

1910
01:45:01,840 --> 01:45:05,360
Speaker 1: he's fought off all the comers, and now he's a

1911
01:45:05,439 --> 01:45:09,320
Speaker 1: free agent, So the Bills may be forced to put

1912
01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:11,240
Speaker 1: a guy over there who's the best option for the

1913
01:45:11,360 --> 01:45:13,320
Speaker 1: same kind of level that we're talking about with a

1914
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:16,360
Speaker 1: pass rusher, a guy that maybe isn't that first elite

1915
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:18,760
Speaker 1: guy that's going to be sitting out there. Who else

1916
01:45:18,840 --> 01:45:20,479
Speaker 1: might be down the list for the Buffalo Bills to

1917
01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:23,599
Speaker 1: have a shot at. You know, I think you fascinated him.

1918
01:45:23,600 --> 01:45:26,160
Speaker 1: Got named guys is William Jackson from the Cincinnati Bengals,

1919
01:45:26,200 --> 01:45:28,200
Speaker 1: who has showed over the past couple of seasons, and

1920
01:45:28,280 --> 01:45:30,439
Speaker 1: he can be that sort of man coverage corner. He's

1921
01:45:30,479 --> 01:45:32,559
Speaker 1: a versatile corner with a varied skill set that can

1922
01:45:32,600 --> 01:45:35,160
Speaker 1: do both man and zone coverage things. But I think

1923
01:45:35,200 --> 01:45:36,840
Speaker 1: you can leave him in an island of times. You

1924
01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:39,280
Speaker 1: can trust him in one on one situations, in those

1925
01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:41,600
Speaker 1: man coverage moments, it's not a situation where you have

1926
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:43,720
Speaker 1: to protect him. You have to play say cover two,

1927
01:45:43,760 --> 01:45:45,880
Speaker 1: Cover four, try to give him some safety help. You

1928
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:47,760
Speaker 1: could perhaps look at him at the top of that

1929
01:45:47,920 --> 01:45:51,120
Speaker 1: board as you get a little bit down that sort

1930
01:45:51,120 --> 01:45:53,519
Speaker 1: of list. I think you have to be smart scheme wise,

1931
01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:56,240
Speaker 1: would say a player like Desmond King, he might be

1932
01:45:56,320 --> 01:45:58,320
Speaker 1: a player that would be intrigued, but you might want

1933
01:45:58,320 --> 01:46:00,719
Speaker 1: to use him in some different zone cover ridge techniques

1934
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:02,559
Speaker 1: that might be where he could be at his best

1935
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:05,880
Speaker 1: or even down father Quinton Dunbar who took that deal

1936
01:46:05,960 --> 01:46:08,640
Speaker 1: with Seattle and it didn't quite come together for him,

1937
01:46:08,680 --> 01:46:10,920
Speaker 1: and as such he might be in a situation where

1938
01:46:11,080 --> 01:46:13,439
Speaker 1: as we're going to see a lot of players this offseason,

1939
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:15,640
Speaker 1: I think take those one year sort of bet on

1940
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:18,280
Speaker 1: me type of deals and hope they can translate at

1941
01:46:18,360 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 1: into a perhaps a bigger deal in twenty twenty two

1942
01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:22,720
Speaker 1: when we expect the salary cap to go up and

1943
01:46:22,760 --> 01:46:24,880
Speaker 1: teams might have more money to spend. So that could

1944
01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:28,559
Speaker 1: be a situation where Brandon Bean can find a player

1945
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:31,200
Speaker 1: in Quintin Dunbar who might have to take that kind

1946
01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:32,920
Speaker 1: of one year bet on me deal of sort of

1947
01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:35,120
Speaker 1: incentive lad and deal where you could get that to

1948
01:46:35,240 --> 01:46:37,559
Speaker 1: work under the cap and you could get a very

1949
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:40,080
Speaker 1: good player, perhaps for pennies on the dollar because he

1950
01:46:40,240 --> 01:46:42,160
Speaker 1: has to go through that process. He has to sort

1951
01:46:42,200 --> 01:46:44,439
Speaker 1: of take that kind of deal given what happened last

1952
01:46:44,479 --> 01:46:48,160
Speaker 1: year in Seattle. Talking with Mark Scofield, NFL writer for

1953
01:46:48,280 --> 01:46:52,960
Speaker 1: USA Today's Touchdown Wire, and Mark, what is your interpretation

1954
01:46:53,200 --> 01:46:56,560
Speaker 1: as to how this first wave of free agency is

1955
01:46:56,560 --> 01:46:59,639
Speaker 1: going to go? We know the restrictive caps has put

1956
01:46:59,720 --> 01:47:02,000
Speaker 1: this ruse to a number of teams in this league

1957
01:47:02,040 --> 01:47:04,160
Speaker 1: in terms of cap space with which to work. Heck,

1958
01:47:04,520 --> 01:47:06,760
Speaker 1: I mean the New Orleans Saints. We've been joking all

1959
01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:09,200
Speaker 1: this week like ESPN should have gotten in there with

1960
01:47:09,280 --> 01:47:11,360
Speaker 1: their cameras and done a thirty for thirty on how

1961
01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:13,920
Speaker 1: the hell Mickey Loomis is going to shed upwards a

1962
01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:16,839
Speaker 1: seventy million dollars off the cap between now and Wednesday.

1963
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:21,040
Speaker 1: But teams like them, the Eagles, which have shouldered a

1964
01:47:21,080 --> 01:47:24,479
Speaker 1: lot of dead cap, the Rams too, with those teams

1965
01:47:24,600 --> 01:47:27,680
Speaker 1: kind of somewhat on the sidelines at least for the

1966
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:31,360
Speaker 1: top name free agents. Are we expecting big money to

1967
01:47:31,439 --> 01:47:33,960
Speaker 1: still get shelled out the way it normally does here

1968
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:36,599
Speaker 1: in this first wave of free agency? How might free

1969
01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:41,360
Speaker 1: agency differ with this restrictive cap if at all? You know,

1970
01:47:41,439 --> 01:47:43,880
Speaker 1: I do think we'll still see some big money spent

1971
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:45,840
Speaker 1: in the next week or so. You look at teams

1972
01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:49,040
Speaker 1: at the top, Jacksonville, the Jets, the Patriots, those three

1973
01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:51,760
Speaker 1: teams have the most in terms of cap space, and

1974
01:47:52,120 --> 01:47:54,240
Speaker 1: they'll be able to put some very attractive offers in

1975
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:56,400
Speaker 1: front of some of these players. You think about, you know,

1976
01:47:56,560 --> 01:47:58,680
Speaker 1: both the Jets and the Patriots, and even to an

1977
01:47:58,720 --> 01:48:01,200
Speaker 1: extent of Jaguars they might ever need a wide receiver.

1978
01:48:01,360 --> 01:48:03,800
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay looks to be the most attractive free agent

1979
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:06,640
Speaker 1: wide receiver option available. I'm sure he will get some

1980
01:48:06,840 --> 01:48:10,320
Speaker 1: interactive offers from his perspective on the free agency market.

1981
01:48:10,400 --> 01:48:13,479
Speaker 1: But I do think because of the unique circumstances of

1982
01:48:13,520 --> 01:48:16,479
Speaker 1: this offseason, you might see a lot more players willing

1983
01:48:16,560 --> 01:48:18,960
Speaker 1: to take that smaller deal on a one year term

1984
01:48:19,360 --> 01:48:22,360
Speaker 1: to if they could find an environment where they think

1985
01:48:22,640 --> 01:48:25,200
Speaker 1: they'll be in a good position to build themselves up

1986
01:48:25,200 --> 01:48:27,240
Speaker 1: for a bigger deal in twenty twenty two. You know,

1987
01:48:27,360 --> 01:48:30,880
Speaker 1: whether it's a better scheme, fit, better coaching staff, maybe

1988
01:48:31,000 --> 01:48:33,479
Speaker 1: even just an opportunity to play into the playoffs, to

1989
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:36,439
Speaker 1: put more film on tape for teams to then evaluate

1990
01:48:36,520 --> 01:48:38,760
Speaker 1: in the next free agency cycle. And so I think

1991
01:48:39,040 --> 01:48:41,400
Speaker 1: you'll still see some money spent, particularly by those teams

1992
01:48:41,439 --> 01:48:44,479
Speaker 1: that have the resources to put free agency dollars out there.

1993
01:48:44,800 --> 01:48:46,439
Speaker 1: But I do think we'll also go to see that

1994
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:50,040
Speaker 1: cycle of one year contracts, those bet on me contracts

1995
01:48:50,120 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 1: that some of these players might take thinking I'll you know,

1996
01:48:53,120 --> 01:48:55,120
Speaker 1: I'll get my big payday next year, but I want

1997
01:48:55,120 --> 01:48:57,240
Speaker 1: to be in an environment in this upcoming season where

1998
01:48:57,600 --> 01:49:01,000
Speaker 1: I can maximize my potential to hit that. So smart

1999
01:49:01,080 --> 01:49:03,280
Speaker 1: teams will take advantage. I think of this set of

2000
01:49:03,360 --> 01:49:05,880
Speaker 1: circumstances and free agency. Yeah, this is a year in

2001
01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:08,519
Speaker 1: the offseason where you almost need an economics degree to

2002
01:49:08,640 --> 01:49:10,920
Speaker 1: kind of weave your way through, because there's there's some

2003
01:49:11,160 --> 01:49:13,560
Speaker 1: stuff we don't know. Could it be certainly there's some

2004
01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:17,400
Speaker 1: teams with money to spend and some that don't. Is

2005
01:49:17,479 --> 01:49:20,719
Speaker 1: it possible that, because even if there's teams to spend money,

2006
01:49:20,920 --> 01:49:23,720
Speaker 1: there's gonna be so many guys out there that they're

2007
01:49:23,760 --> 01:49:25,600
Speaker 1: not gonna have to spend that man because they can

2008
01:49:25,720 --> 01:49:28,160
Speaker 1: play the guy. And for the first time and free agency,

2009
01:49:28,160 --> 01:49:31,080
Speaker 1: the teams can play the guys against themselves rather than

2010
01:49:31,120 --> 01:49:34,280
Speaker 1: the players leveraging teams against themselves because they just you know,

2011
01:49:34,880 --> 01:49:37,840
Speaker 1: if you're a significantly great guy, there's gonna be other

2012
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:41,559
Speaker 1: significantly great guys who may play for significantly less money,

2013
01:49:41,680 --> 01:49:47,080
Speaker 1: or at least considerable less money. So it's really an

2014
01:49:47,200 --> 01:49:49,360
Speaker 1: environment where for the first time, it looks like the

2015
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:53,719
Speaker 1: clubs could leverage guys against each other, not just players,

2016
01:49:53,840 --> 01:49:57,680
Speaker 1: leveraging teams against themselves. I think that's exactly right. It's

2017
01:49:57,680 --> 01:50:01,160
Speaker 1: a great point. That's that economics argument of supply and demand, right,

2018
01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:03,600
Speaker 1: when you have all of these players out there, and

2019
01:50:03,720 --> 01:50:05,600
Speaker 1: you have an income and draft class as well, and

2020
01:50:05,680 --> 01:50:07,759
Speaker 1: we all know, given those structure of the rookie deals,

2021
01:50:08,080 --> 01:50:10,840
Speaker 1: that sometimes it's cheaper to find a rookie via the

2022
01:50:10,920 --> 01:50:14,160
Speaker 1: draft if you get to pick right. We might see

2023
01:50:14,200 --> 01:50:16,280
Speaker 1: a situation where teams have a bit more leverage, and

2024
01:50:16,320 --> 01:50:18,880
Speaker 1: when you've got a deep position to free agency, like

2025
01:50:18,920 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 1: say wide receiver or say cornerback, when you've got the

2026
01:50:22,400 --> 01:50:25,400
Speaker 1: opportunity to sort of pick between different players, perhaps a

2027
01:50:25,479 --> 01:50:28,600
Speaker 1: leverage them against themselves. Teams might be able to capitalize

2028
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:31,240
Speaker 1: in this sort of different set of circumstances. You know,

2029
01:50:31,280 --> 01:50:32,840
Speaker 1: I think next year I'll sort of return to the

2030
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:35,240
Speaker 1: norm when the salary caps higher and teams a bit

2031
01:50:35,320 --> 01:50:37,559
Speaker 1: more money to spend, but this might be the year

2032
01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:39,479
Speaker 1: for teams to sort of call bargain hunted a bit

2033
01:50:39,680 --> 01:50:41,680
Speaker 1: and take advantage of these circumstances. I think that's a

2034
01:50:41,760 --> 01:50:44,719
Speaker 1: great point. And then you know, you recently put together

2035
01:50:44,840 --> 01:50:49,280
Speaker 1: a piece on the future of offensive football in this league,

2036
01:50:49,360 --> 01:50:52,439
Speaker 1: and you know Patrick Mahomes and quarterbacks like Josh Allen,

2037
01:50:52,960 --> 01:50:56,240
Speaker 1: and I mean, heck, even Arizona using you know, ten

2038
01:50:56,320 --> 01:50:58,760
Speaker 1: personnel as much as they did, and you know the

2039
01:50:58,840 --> 01:51:02,360
Speaker 1: Bills weren't far behind in that category. Maybe just lay

2040
01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:06,080
Speaker 1: out number one the impetus that kind of inspired you

2041
01:51:06,160 --> 01:51:07,960
Speaker 1: to put that piece together. And then where you do

2042
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:11,600
Speaker 1: think things are headed here? Right? And a lot of

2043
01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:14,280
Speaker 1: the genesis of that was, you know, last week, the

2044
01:51:14,600 --> 01:51:18,000
Speaker 1: minds over at Huddle, the video website that stores film

2045
01:51:18,160 --> 01:51:20,920
Speaker 1: for all sports, not just football, put together their virtual

2046
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:24,680
Speaker 1: clinic and there were some roundtables of defensive coordinators led

2047
01:51:24,720 --> 01:51:27,519
Speaker 1: by Chris vass Or you can find on Twitter at

2048
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:30,639
Speaker 1: coach vass and he was talking with high school defensive coordinators.

2049
01:51:30,640 --> 01:51:32,000
Speaker 1: And I often believe that if you want to know

2050
01:51:32,040 --> 01:51:34,479
Speaker 1: where the game is headed, watch high school football, watch

2051
01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:37,160
Speaker 1: college football, because that's the stuff let's coming and all

2052
01:51:37,200 --> 01:51:40,240
Speaker 1: of these high school defensive coordinators said when they face RPOs,

2053
01:51:40,520 --> 01:51:42,439
Speaker 1: they want to force teams to run the ball. You know,

2054
01:51:42,520 --> 01:51:44,720
Speaker 1: they don't want deep. They don't want offenses throwing the

2055
01:51:44,800 --> 01:51:47,479
Speaker 1: ball against him. And you're seeing some of that creep

2056
01:51:47,520 --> 01:51:50,599
Speaker 1: into the NFL. You look at like the Los Angeles

2057
01:51:50,760 --> 01:51:53,080
Speaker 1: Rams last year and the number of two high safety

2058
01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:55,960
Speaker 1: looks they showed pre snap. Keep those two safeties deep,

2059
01:51:56,000 --> 01:51:58,240
Speaker 1: give the offense the numbers of disadvantage in the box,

2060
01:51:58,600 --> 01:52:00,680
Speaker 1: dare them to run the ball because pass it might

2061
01:52:00,720 --> 01:52:03,879
Speaker 1: be more explosive, might be more effective, and so offenses

2062
01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:05,840
Speaker 1: will have to adjust. They'll have to find ways to

2063
01:52:05,920 --> 01:52:08,400
Speaker 1: throw against two high coverages. But I also think they're

2064
01:52:08,400 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to find ways to be effective and efficient

2065
01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: running the football. I don't think you have to swim

2066
01:52:13,479 --> 01:52:16,920
Speaker 1: wildly back and become a twenty one personnel I formation

2067
01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:20,080
Speaker 1: team anytime soon. But you might want to find ways

2068
01:52:20,120 --> 01:52:22,600
Speaker 1: to design running plays like the Bills did in the

2069
01:52:22,640 --> 01:52:25,720
Speaker 1: playoffs against the Colts, where Indianapolis showed them those two

2070
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:28,280
Speaker 1: high looks. You Ransom designed runs with Josh Allen. You

2071
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 1: try to force them to get out of it, and

2072
01:52:30,320 --> 01:52:32,679
Speaker 1: once they bring that safety down into the box, you'll

2073
01:52:32,720 --> 01:52:36,760
Speaker 1: have better numbers to throw downfield against those one high looks. Yeah.

2074
01:52:37,080 --> 01:52:42,280
Speaker 1: And also I thought you're gonna follow up, Yeah, well

2075
01:52:42,320 --> 01:52:45,720
Speaker 1: I will. I will from this standpoint, saying what you

2076
01:52:45,800 --> 01:52:48,880
Speaker 1: said and forcing teams to run the ball in those

2077
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:51,479
Speaker 1: rpo situations that would tend to I would tend to

2078
01:52:51,560 --> 01:52:54,439
Speaker 1: think that that would favor a team like Baltimore or heck,

2079
01:52:54,520 --> 01:52:57,400
Speaker 1: even a team like New England, who you know certainly

2080
01:52:57,479 --> 01:53:00,720
Speaker 1: knows how to run at a traditional power formations but

2081
01:53:00,840 --> 01:53:05,160
Speaker 1: also is very quietly assembling an offensive line to do

2082
01:53:05,320 --> 01:53:07,439
Speaker 1: more running. And now Cam Newton back in the fold

2083
01:53:07,560 --> 01:53:11,719
Speaker 1: is well up there. Do you think that those kinds

2084
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,920
Speaker 1: of trends favor those kinds of teams or will defense

2085
01:53:15,040 --> 01:53:17,320
Speaker 1: is handle those two teams a little bit differently knowing

2086
01:53:17,360 --> 01:53:21,160
Speaker 1: their rushing prowess. Well, I mean, I think you can

2087
01:53:21,280 --> 01:53:23,839
Speaker 1: find your spots as an offense to pick and shoes.

2088
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:26,680
Speaker 1: You know, when the numbers are truly favorable upfront for you,

2089
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:28,639
Speaker 1: you can keep the ball on the ground and be efficient.

2090
01:53:28,720 --> 01:53:32,120
Speaker 1: But I think, given what we've seen from offenses league

2091
01:53:32,160 --> 01:53:34,559
Speaker 1: wide and from you know, what studies have shown us,

2092
01:53:34,600 --> 01:53:37,759
Speaker 1: a pass it is still more effective even the teams

2093
01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:41,600
Speaker 1: that have run the ball extremely well Tennessee Baltimore. You

2094
01:53:41,720 --> 01:53:43,920
Speaker 1: still need that passing game. In the modern NFL, the

2095
01:53:44,040 --> 01:53:46,160
Speaker 1: rules are such that throwing the ball is going to

2096
01:53:46,240 --> 01:53:48,639
Speaker 1: remain more efficient. So I think teams will still find

2097
01:53:48,720 --> 01:53:50,640
Speaker 1: a way to use the run game as a compliment

2098
01:53:50,720 --> 01:53:53,320
Speaker 1: to what they're doing in terms of throwing the football downfield.

2099
01:53:53,600 --> 01:53:55,840
Speaker 1: Now in defense is facing those two units, you know

2100
01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:58,639
Speaker 1: Baltimore in New England's you know, they'll they'll find ways

2101
01:53:58,680 --> 01:54:00,640
Speaker 1: to stop the run. They'll on ways to do it.

2102
01:54:00,720 --> 01:54:04,280
Speaker 1: And I think what you're seeing is defenses are going

2103
01:54:04,360 --> 01:54:05,920
Speaker 1: to say, look, if you want to run the football,

2104
01:54:05,960 --> 01:54:07,920
Speaker 1: that's fine. We're gonna make you earn it. We're gonna

2105
01:54:07,960 --> 01:54:10,599
Speaker 1: make you put together ten twelve four team play drives.

2106
01:54:11,040 --> 01:54:12,920
Speaker 1: But then we could turn around and be explosive and

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Speaker 1: scoring a hurry. I think that's another way that teams

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Speaker 1: are going to sort of counteract these sort of run

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01:54:18,160 --> 01:54:20,160
Speaker 1: game ball control offense and say, if you want to

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01:54:20,200 --> 01:54:22,400
Speaker 1: do that, fine, but you're gonna have to fight for

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Speaker 1: every yard and then we'll try to turn around and

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Speaker 1: scoring you in a hurry. So the New England Patriots

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Speaker 1: trade for Trent Brown. They also signed Cam Newton what

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01:54:30,439 --> 01:54:34,800
Speaker 1: do you think that logic behind Newton's new deal is

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Speaker 1: for the Patriots. Certainly they don't want to and I

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01:54:36,800 --> 01:54:38,440
Speaker 1: mentioned this to Brownie Order in the show. They don't

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Speaker 1: want to get into free agency, but no quarterback on

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Speaker 1: their roster. Is that the only logic behind this move?

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Speaker 1: Because we're shocked that they want him back, right. I

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Speaker 1: think Steve, you're writing that they wanted to make sure

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01:54:51,440 --> 01:54:54,520
Speaker 1: they had a quarterback in place before we hit free agency,

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01:54:54,520 --> 01:54:56,480
Speaker 1: because if you're gonna go out and try to attract

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01:54:56,760 --> 01:54:59,839
Speaker 1: a Kenny Galladay on the open market or Curtis Samuel

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01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:02,120
Speaker 1: the open market, or t Y Hilton, you have to

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01:55:02,160 --> 01:55:03,520
Speaker 1: be able to tell them, look, this is who you're

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01:55:03,520 --> 01:55:05,720
Speaker 1: gonna be catching passes from. And I think we'll see

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01:55:05,760 --> 01:55:08,320
Speaker 1: in the next, you know, seven to ten days, how

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01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:11,280
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's peers feel about him as a quarterback. Because

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01:55:11,320 --> 01:55:14,080
Speaker 1: if they're able to attract those types of players without

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01:55:14,080 --> 01:55:17,040
Speaker 1: paying an absolute high dollar premium for them, then that

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01:55:17,080 --> 01:55:20,120
Speaker 1: will tell us a look teammates, potential teammates think he

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01:55:20,160 --> 01:55:22,320
Speaker 1: could still be an effective quarterback in the league. They

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01:55:22,400 --> 01:55:24,160
Speaker 1: need to have a quarterback in place. I don't think

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01:55:24,200 --> 01:55:26,440
Speaker 1: they could have gone into free agency would that be

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01:55:26,560 --> 01:55:29,160
Speaker 1: in an unsettled question. But I also don't think this

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01:55:29,320 --> 01:55:32,960
Speaker 1: precludes them from addressing quarterback either again via trade or

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Speaker 1: free agency, you know, Marcus Mariota perhaps, or somebody else,

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Speaker 1: or into the draft. I think this was a move

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01:55:39,240 --> 01:55:41,800
Speaker 1: to shore up the position a little bit headed into

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01:55:41,840 --> 01:55:44,280
Speaker 1: free agency, to at least have something in place to

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01:55:44,320 --> 01:55:46,960
Speaker 1: put in front of potential players. But it also gives

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01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:49,320
Speaker 1: them the flexibility where they can go out and draft

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Speaker 1: somebody at fifteen if a quarterback falls, or even move

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01:55:52,040 --> 01:55:54,080
Speaker 1: up a couple of spots in the draft to nine

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01:55:54,200 --> 01:55:56,160
Speaker 1: ten or so if there's a quarterback that they like

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01:55:56,240 --> 01:55:58,200
Speaker 1: who slip in a little bit, and so they'll have

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01:55:58,280 --> 01:56:01,160
Speaker 1: that flexibility. Now I think they're looking at what Cam

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01:56:01,240 --> 01:56:03,680
Speaker 1: Newton did last season as a you know, it was

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01:56:03,680 --> 01:56:06,240
Speaker 1: a strange set of circumstances. Obviously they hope he'll be

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01:56:06,360 --> 01:56:08,640
Speaker 1: better if he does earn that starting job, But I

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Speaker 1: don't think this locks them into Cam Newton being their

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Speaker 1: Week one starter unless things truly come together. For Mark,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the insight. We appreciate you giving us some time.

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01:56:17,680 --> 01:56:19,560
Speaker 1: We know you've got a busy week lined up next week,

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01:56:19,600 --> 01:56:22,840
Speaker 1: so good luck keeping your ear to the ground on stuff. Thanks. Mark.

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01:56:22,960 --> 01:56:25,040
Speaker 1: Won't be getting much sleep, guys, but it's always fun.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me. Yeah, that's Mark Scofield,

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Speaker 1: NFL writer for USA Today's Touchdown Wire, joining us. And

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Speaker 1: there's a little bit more Bills news. This also coming

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Speaker 1: from NFL Networks Ian Rappaport. He's explaining the reason the

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Speaker 1: Bills have had the ability to keep their core together.

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01:56:43,040 --> 01:56:46,640
Speaker 1: Several players have agreed to small pay cuts. We already

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01:56:46,680 --> 01:56:49,680
Speaker 1: knew Mitch Morrison, Vernon Butler did that, according to reports.

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Speaker 1: He's also now reporting the Mario Addison recently took a

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Speaker 1: small contract restructure to help out and keep the core

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01:56:57,920 --> 01:57:01,120
Speaker 1: of the roster together. So good on those plays, doing

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01:57:01,240 --> 01:57:04,800
Speaker 1: right by the team and taking some contract restructures or

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01:57:04,920 --> 01:57:08,280
Speaker 1: even some pay cuts in some cases to make that happen.

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Speaker 1: That's NFL Network's Ian Rappaport reporting on that. So not

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Speaker 1: only Mitch Morris and Vernon Butler, but Mario Addison as well,

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01:57:16,720 --> 01:57:19,760
Speaker 1: who enters his age thirty fourth season this coming fall.

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01:57:20,240 --> 01:57:25,760
Speaker 1: So everybody's pulling on the rope here, Steve. That's what happens.

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01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:27,640
Speaker 1: It has to happen if you're gonna if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a step and be deep in the playoffs and

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01:57:29,480 --> 01:57:32,160
Speaker 1: be a contender every year. That's what you gotta do.

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01:57:32,200 --> 01:57:34,120
Speaker 1: And I've said this before, and it's easy to say

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Speaker 1: that now because you know you just missed the Super

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01:57:35,960 --> 01:57:37,840
Speaker 1: Bowls as the Buffalo Bills. You gotta be by a

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01:57:37,920 --> 01:57:40,520
Speaker 1: really good team in Kansas City, and it's easy to

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01:57:40,600 --> 01:57:42,240
Speaker 1: focus on the fact that that's the team you gotta

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01:57:42,280 --> 01:57:45,520
Speaker 1: beat going forward. They've been in three last three AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship games, has been to the last two Super Bowls,

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Speaker 1: one one of them. They got an MVP quarterback eating

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01:57:50,560 --> 01:57:51,960
Speaker 1: That's the team needs you gotta beat, and you gotta

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01:57:51,960 --> 01:57:56,240
Speaker 1: build it. I don't buy into necessarily building your team

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01:57:56,280 --> 01:57:59,600
Speaker 1: specifically to beat that team. I think I buy into

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01:58:00,040 --> 01:58:02,120
Speaker 1: making your team as good as it can possibly be

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01:58:02,680 --> 01:58:06,600
Speaker 1: and then play well on that day. You're gonna have

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01:58:06,720 --> 01:58:09,040
Speaker 1: to get through a lot of really good football teams

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01:58:09,080 --> 01:58:10,680
Speaker 1: to get to the Kansas City Chiefs. You may you

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01:58:10,720 --> 01:58:12,320
Speaker 1: can build your team to beat the Chiefs, you may

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01:58:12,360 --> 01:58:15,160
Speaker 1: never see him. You got to build your team as

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01:58:15,200 --> 01:58:17,560
Speaker 1: good as you can build it. There's nothing that says

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01:58:17,560 --> 01:58:18,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are gonna make it back there for a

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01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:21,320
Speaker 1: fourth straight year. You got to build your team as

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01:58:21,360 --> 01:58:23,000
Speaker 1: good as you can build it and then play well

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Speaker 1: on that day. The Bills were there last year. They

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Speaker 1: were within a hair's breadth of being as good as

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Speaker 1: they were at times as good or better than anybody

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01:58:30,960 --> 01:58:33,040
Speaker 1: in the league on any given Sunday in the last

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Speaker 1: month and a half of the season. That's where you

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01:58:35,280 --> 01:58:37,640
Speaker 1: gotta think. You gotta get to again. Don't worry about

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01:58:37,680 --> 01:58:40,080
Speaker 1: the way it's gonna look, or how it's gonna feel,

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01:58:40,200 --> 01:58:42,880
Speaker 1: or how it compares to last year's team. Even Yeah,

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01:58:43,120 --> 01:58:45,400
Speaker 1: you gotta take it in context of what you got

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01:58:45,480 --> 01:58:47,280
Speaker 1: this year and get the most out of it. And

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01:58:47,720 --> 01:58:50,920
Speaker 1: that's the philosophy. Some other league news, the Chargers are

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01:58:50,960 --> 01:58:53,720
Speaker 1: releasing Pro Bowl guard Trade Turner. They had been trying

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Speaker 1: to trade him this week, but his release will save

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01:58:56,800 --> 01:59:00,280
Speaker 1: the Chargers eleven million dollars on the cap. That is

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01:59:00,320 --> 01:59:06,000
Speaker 1: a fat number. Wow, eleven million dollars savings on a guard.

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01:59:06,680 --> 01:59:08,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever thought i'd speak those words.

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01:59:08,760 --> 01:59:11,560
Speaker 1: The Chargers were thirty million dollars under the cap the

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01:59:11,640 --> 01:59:14,240
Speaker 1: way it was, and that'll help them. But they could

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01:59:14,240 --> 01:59:16,920
Speaker 1: be aggressive next week. They want to. Yeah, they got

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01:59:16,960 --> 01:59:18,720
Speaker 1: some things they want to get done. There's no question

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01:59:18,760 --> 01:59:21,200
Speaker 1: they're trying to make a move. And then think about it, Well,

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01:59:21,240 --> 01:59:23,400
Speaker 1: they have a really good corner. They have to resign

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01:59:23,480 --> 01:59:26,040
Speaker 1: in Mike Davis, who really had a big season for

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01:59:26,160 --> 01:59:28,760
Speaker 1: them this year. Hey, I know they want to bring

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01:59:28,880 --> 01:59:32,200
Speaker 1: him back. And corner is an expensive position. You got

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01:59:32,280 --> 01:59:35,520
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's on his rookie deal. Yeah, and they're

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01:59:35,560 --> 01:59:38,080
Speaker 1: in the same division with the Chiefs, same division as

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01:59:38,120 --> 01:59:41,120
Speaker 1: the Raiders and Denver and they're in They're in a

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01:59:41,200 --> 01:59:45,160
Speaker 1: division where and Bill's fans can relate to it. You

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01:59:45,280 --> 01:59:48,480
Speaker 1: got you gotta a big bully in the division, and

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01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:50,480
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta contend with him. You better take

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01:59:50,520 --> 01:59:52,920
Speaker 1: a step up. The Chargers almost did that last year.

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01:59:52,960 --> 01:59:56,800
Speaker 1: They gotta love the way Justin Herbert played, Oh my god,

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01:59:56,840 --> 01:59:59,240
Speaker 1: and they gotta think, oh, one touchdown passes for him

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01:59:59,240 --> 02:00:03,800
Speaker 1: a rookie. It's like Dan Marino territory. If anybody, if

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Speaker 1: maybe they are, I'm just saying, you want to see

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Speaker 1: a blueprint of how the Charges should do their business.

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02:00:13,000 --> 02:00:16,400
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive should be their blueprint. The template. Yeah,

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02:00:16,600 --> 02:00:21,240
Speaker 1: that's the template. Just look at it and follow along.

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Speaker 1: Looks like Tom Brady isn't going to be the only

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Speaker 1: quarterback trying to provide cap relief to his team. Patrick

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02:00:26,680 --> 02:00:30,280
Speaker 1: Mahomes contract, according to NFL Networks, Tom Pella Sero has

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02:00:30,320 --> 02:00:34,320
Speaker 1: automatic conversion language that allows the team to convert salary

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Speaker 1: or bonuses to a signing bonus at any time to

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Speaker 1: create cap space, and it's anticipated Kansas City is going

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02:00:40,720 --> 02:00:42,920
Speaker 1: to do that in the coming days to get some

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02:00:43,080 --> 02:00:47,200
Speaker 1: cap relief from their quarterbacks almost half a billion dollar contract.

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02:00:47,280 --> 02:00:49,720
Speaker 1: What that does is it's he's got a seventeen million

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02:00:49,800 --> 02:00:54,160
Speaker 1: dollar roster bonus coming up. They can convert that and

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02:00:54,720 --> 02:00:56,960
Speaker 1: if it's a roster bonus, it's not the same as

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Speaker 1: a signing bonus. They can give that to him as

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02:00:59,680 --> 02:01:01,400
Speaker 1: a sign mining bonus that he's already done, and they

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02:01:01,480 --> 02:01:06,000
Speaker 1: can throw seventeen million dollars divided by nine and that

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Speaker 1: goes in. That's like less than two million every year.

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Speaker 1: The CapMan that that gives them seventeen oil it would

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Speaker 1: be fifteen. No, it's a twenty one million dollars roster bonus.

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Speaker 1: So give him like that much money back in cap

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02:01:21,280 --> 02:01:25,280
Speaker 1: space this year. So they're so that combined with the

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Speaker 1: cut of their two offensive tackles, both of whom may

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Speaker 1: not play this year, coming off of major injuries, a

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Speaker 1: back surgery and an achilles injury. They'll be in at

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Speaker 1: least position to try to get some of their own

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02:01:37,400 --> 02:01:40,600
Speaker 1: people back as well as be players on the free

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Speaker 1: agent market. We have to take a break, but when

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Speaker 1: we come back more of your questions from the obl

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Speaker 1: fan mail bag. We'll do that when we return. Here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. One Bills Live, final half hour of

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Speaker 1: a Friday edition is Steve and I are broadcasting from

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Speaker 1: the Seneca Studios here in Orchard Park. Big day, Big

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02:02:09,680 --> 02:02:14,600
Speaker 1: day to the Bills. Yeah, Brandon being cracked open the

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02:02:14,640 --> 02:02:16,520
Speaker 1: first can on a six pack. Yet I think he

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02:02:16,600 --> 02:02:19,000
Speaker 1: has learned it right. Yes, I will admit to a

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02:02:19,080 --> 02:02:21,720
Speaker 1: little bit of an adrenaline rush here on One Bills

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02:02:21,800 --> 02:02:25,160
Speaker 1: Live Studio and the control room. It's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun today. In case you're just joining us, you

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02:02:30,240 --> 02:02:32,800
Speaker 1: probably know Hi. Matt Mulano has resigned with the Bills.

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02:02:32,840 --> 02:02:36,920
Speaker 1: So too has Darryl Williams, the right tackle for the Bills,

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02:02:37,040 --> 02:02:39,879
Speaker 1: back in the fold for the next three seasons. According

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Speaker 1: to NFL Networks. In Rappaport, those are the contract terms.

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02:02:44,520 --> 02:02:46,480
Speaker 1: The Bills have made an official that he has that

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02:02:46,560 --> 02:02:49,240
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams has agreed to terms on a three year contract.

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02:02:50,520 --> 02:02:55,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a good week, good week. The probably

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02:02:55,280 --> 02:02:59,440
Speaker 1: the two most talented players on Buffalo's free agent list

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02:03:00,040 --> 02:03:02,240
Speaker 1: are now off the market and back with the club,

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02:03:02,960 --> 02:03:05,560
Speaker 1: and there's still some work to do there. I know

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02:03:05,640 --> 02:03:07,520
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fans out there, and we'll count

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02:03:07,560 --> 02:03:10,040
Speaker 1: ourselves in this group. Be nice to get Feliciano back

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02:03:10,080 --> 02:03:14,440
Speaker 1: in the fold. That guy is the juice that drives

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02:03:14,480 --> 02:03:18,520
Speaker 1: that offensive line, and I would venture to guess that

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02:03:18,600 --> 02:03:20,360
Speaker 1: he would want to be back in a Bill's uniform

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02:03:20,880 --> 02:03:23,760
Speaker 1: next season and beyond. We'll see if something can come

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02:03:23,800 --> 02:03:27,480
Speaker 1: to fruition there. We want to remind you that the

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Speaker 1: legal tampering window for teams to contact prospective free agents

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02:03:33,200 --> 02:03:37,440
Speaker 1: opens on Monday, so talks will begin in earnest for

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02:03:37,560 --> 02:03:40,160
Speaker 1: some of the most popular players out there on the

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02:03:40,240 --> 02:03:43,360
Speaker 1: free agent market. If it comes to it, and if

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02:03:43,400 --> 02:03:48,720
Speaker 1: it's in normal years, your agents get involved and their

2295
02:03:48,840 --> 02:03:51,160
Speaker 1: job is to trumpet whatever they're talking about. So you're

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02:03:51,200 --> 02:03:54,520
Speaker 1: gonna hear about the conversations going on. Yeah, and it'll

2297
02:03:54,560 --> 02:04:00,240
Speaker 1: be like the think about this. The Matt stafford Ard

2298
02:04:00,320 --> 02:04:03,040
Speaker 1: golf trade between the Detroit Lions and the La Rams

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02:04:03,120 --> 02:04:05,840
Speaker 1: that happened a month ago hasn't even been finalized yet

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02:04:06,360 --> 02:04:09,520
Speaker 1: because the New Right. It's the same thing with these

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Speaker 1: these early talks in free agency. You're gonna hear about

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Speaker 1: every deal is going to be agreed to, and they

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02:04:15,280 --> 02:04:17,760
Speaker 1: just won't sign it for two days. But that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear stuff like that. The tampering, I will venture

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Speaker 1: to say. The conversations are already being had right now.

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Speaker 1: They're they're saying, Hey, we're gonna call you in two hours,

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Speaker 1: and here's what we're gonna offer you. Right, it's not yet,

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Speaker 1: but we're in two hours. We're gonna call you, and

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Speaker 1: these are the numbers we're gonna offer you. And your

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Speaker 1: guy says, we'll take those if you offer it to

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Speaker 1: us in two hours. That's kind of what you're talking

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Speaker 1: about here. And so then free agency comes, the tampering

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Speaker 1: period begins. The deals agreed to ten minutes into it,

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Speaker 1: you wait three days and you signed the deal. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear about it. Yeah. Speaking of John Feliciano, he

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Speaker 1: did just recently tweet from Torreia Baja Puerto Rico. That

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Speaker 1: is where he is right now, on a beach somewhere,

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02:05:01,120 --> 02:05:05,280
Speaker 1: and he tweeted a three word tweet, fam deserves it.

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02:05:05,920 --> 02:05:09,240
Speaker 1: And I would imagine he's replying to the recent deal

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Speaker 1: that his linemate, one Daryl Williams gott who we lined

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02:05:13,200 --> 02:05:16,320
Speaker 1: up next to for a good portion of the season.

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02:05:16,920 --> 02:05:20,880
Speaker 1: And you know, I think he respects Darryl Williams game.

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02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:22,920
Speaker 1: I think he knew that he deserved to get paid

2324
02:05:23,440 --> 02:05:28,280
Speaker 1: and said as much. Naturally, the response from Bills fans are, oh,

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02:05:28,600 --> 02:05:30,440
Speaker 1: you gotta resign too, and we want you back, and

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02:05:30,480 --> 02:05:32,760
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So Bills fans doing their best to

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02:05:32,760 --> 02:05:34,840
Speaker 1: show him the love, and we'll just have to see

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02:05:34,880 --> 02:05:38,840
Speaker 1: where it goes here because the number of holes to

2329
02:05:38,920 --> 02:05:43,960
Speaker 1: fill is plentiful even now on Buffalo's roster, and you

2330
02:05:44,080 --> 02:05:47,000
Speaker 1: can't you can't pay everybody. I think we know that.

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02:05:47,680 --> 02:05:51,200
Speaker 1: So you know, if I'm sure, if the Bills had

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02:05:51,240 --> 02:05:54,520
Speaker 1: their druthers and the salary cap structure worked, they would

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02:05:54,520 --> 02:05:58,200
Speaker 1: have John Feliciano back in a Bill's uniform in a second. Yeah,

2334
02:05:58,360 --> 02:06:02,720
Speaker 1: But I think every GM in the league would tell you,

2335
02:06:02,840 --> 02:06:06,720
Speaker 1: you can't bring everybody back, So we just have to

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02:06:06,760 --> 02:06:09,640
Speaker 1: see where everything goes here. And then John Felice at guard,

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02:06:11,560 --> 02:06:14,520
Speaker 1: particularly when you set the market just you know, ten

2338
02:06:14,600 --> 02:06:19,840
Speaker 1: minutes ago with Daryl Williams, Tackles are more of a

2339
02:06:19,920 --> 02:06:22,720
Speaker 1: premium to get than guards are, so that kind of

2340
02:06:22,760 --> 02:06:25,560
Speaker 1: sets a ceiling on a deal. Feliciano whatever, even think

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02:06:25,600 --> 02:06:29,800
Speaker 1: about getting with the Bills and putting that in perspective.

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02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:32,200
Speaker 1: Feliciano's going, you know, that's cool. Even if the Bills

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02:06:32,240 --> 02:06:34,600
Speaker 1: are talking to me or we're talking, let's let's put

2344
02:06:34,640 --> 02:06:38,400
Speaker 1: them off for fifteen minutes, wait till Monday, see if

2345
02:06:38,520 --> 02:06:41,560
Speaker 1: you know, see if anybody does call, if the phone

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02:06:41,600 --> 02:06:43,680
Speaker 1: does ring, and if not, we'll come back, see what

2347
02:06:43,760 --> 02:06:47,360
Speaker 1: the Bills have, and we'll go. Feliciano doesn't owe the

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02:06:47,400 --> 02:06:52,720
Speaker 1: Bills anything right now, just because they've signed Feliciano and

2349
02:06:52,720 --> 02:06:56,840
Speaker 1: they've signed Darryl Williams. In fact, probably less so because

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02:06:56,880 --> 02:06:59,320
Speaker 1: now that's you know all that, you know, we'll just

2351
02:06:59,400 --> 02:07:03,640
Speaker 1: wait and see. The Saints are still working. They've released

2352
02:07:03,680 --> 02:07:07,480
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Malcolm Brown. That's what's brought them to twelve

2353
02:07:07,560 --> 02:07:09,680
Speaker 1: million over the number. I think he referenced a similar

2354
02:07:09,760 --> 02:07:14,080
Speaker 1: number on spot track. So defensive tackle Malcolm Brown, formerly

2355
02:07:14,120 --> 02:07:17,560
Speaker 1: of the Patriots and sign with the Saints last season,

2356
02:07:18,360 --> 02:07:22,160
Speaker 1: he clipped by the Saints as they try to feverishly

2357
02:07:22,640 --> 02:07:25,720
Speaker 1: get under the cap. Malcolm Brown only twenty seven years old.

2358
02:07:26,400 --> 02:07:31,240
Speaker 1: That guy's a space eater. Carl Lawson, as reported by

2359
02:07:31,280 --> 02:07:34,480
Speaker 1: The Athletic, has said that the Bengals are the front

2360
02:07:34,560 --> 02:07:39,360
Speaker 1: runners to resign him, but he will listen to other teams.

2361
02:07:39,440 --> 02:07:41,800
Speaker 1: So that would be an indication that he is going

2362
02:07:41,880 --> 02:07:44,800
Speaker 1: to wait until Monday and see who decides to ring

2363
02:07:44,840 --> 02:07:47,040
Speaker 1: the phone of his agent and how much money they're

2364
02:07:47,040 --> 02:07:49,839
Speaker 1: willing to tell about Carl Lawson. That is a smart

2365
02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:55,480
Speaker 1: sentence to utter. That's a really intelligent The Bengals are

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02:07:55,480 --> 02:07:57,800
Speaker 1: the front runners to resign him, but he will listen

2367
02:07:58,360 --> 02:08:02,959
Speaker 1: to that is it is absolutely as an absolute genius

2368
02:08:03,600 --> 02:08:07,360
Speaker 1: statement by Carl Lawson because it it gives a warm

2369
02:08:07,480 --> 02:08:10,440
Speaker 1: hug to the team that you've played for, whether you

2370
02:08:10,600 --> 02:08:14,800
Speaker 1: like him or not. And it says, it says, but

2371
02:08:14,880 --> 02:08:18,080
Speaker 1: if anybody'll all listen, But I really you know, the

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02:08:18,200 --> 02:08:20,360
Speaker 1: Cincinnat Bengals are the front runners. I let's face it.

2373
02:08:20,480 --> 02:08:24,200
Speaker 1: You know that that means you know, so that's that

2374
02:08:24,360 --> 02:08:27,200
Speaker 1: is so smart. Yeah, so many times you see these

2375
02:08:27,240 --> 02:08:29,480
Speaker 1: guys just flippantly say something out that that is a

2376
02:08:29,680 --> 02:08:32,280
Speaker 1: that is a very nice statement by Carl Lawson. Some

2377
02:08:32,680 --> 02:08:36,440
Speaker 1: bit of housekeeping too. You remember that free agent punter

2378
02:08:36,640 --> 02:08:40,600
Speaker 1: Michael Pollardi, formerly of the Carolina Panthers, visited the Bills

2379
02:08:40,720 --> 02:08:43,800
Speaker 1: last week presumably to take a physical after tearing his

2380
02:08:43,880 --> 02:08:46,400
Speaker 1: ACL last summer. Just about any team that's interested in him,

2381
02:08:46,400 --> 02:08:48,480
Speaker 1: it is probably gonna put him through a physical here

2382
02:08:48,600 --> 02:08:52,120
Speaker 1: last week on a visit, presumably took a physical. But

2383
02:08:52,400 --> 02:08:55,760
Speaker 1: he has signed with the Dolphins. He has a Fort

2384
02:08:55,840 --> 02:08:59,760
Speaker 1: Lauderdale native and sign with the Dolphins. It's a one

2385
02:09:00,040 --> 02:09:06,160
Speaker 1: y deal. So the Dolphins punter Matt Hawk schedule to

2386
02:09:06,200 --> 02:09:08,320
Speaker 1: become a free agent. He's probably not going to be

2387
02:09:08,360 --> 02:09:10,240
Speaker 1: back with the Dolphins now that they have Polardi on

2388
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:12,800
Speaker 1: the roster. Yeah, you gotta say, wow, good for Polarity.

2389
02:09:12,800 --> 02:09:14,040
Speaker 1: He gets a chance to go home and play in

2390
02:09:14,080 --> 02:09:16,760
Speaker 1: front of the you know, hometown, in the hometown. Yet

2391
02:09:17,440 --> 02:09:20,080
Speaker 1: something about it doesn't happen all that often in the NFL.

2392
02:09:20,320 --> 02:09:23,720
Speaker 1: It does not good for him, you know, good for him.

2393
02:09:23,760 --> 02:09:27,839
Speaker 1: I'm suffered a really rough injury last year and ACL injuries.

2394
02:09:27,880 --> 02:09:31,080
Speaker 1: Coming back from that was a very very good punter.

2395
02:09:32,640 --> 02:09:36,600
Speaker 1: Before that, the official numbers are out on the dollar

2396
02:09:36,640 --> 02:09:40,840
Speaker 1: amounts for the restricted free agent tender amounts. As we know,

2397
02:09:41,120 --> 02:09:45,400
Speaker 1: the Bills still have three restricted free agents Levi Wallace,

2398
02:09:46,040 --> 02:09:51,640
Speaker 1: Corey Bojorquez, and Ike Butcker, So they have until this

2399
02:09:51,880 --> 02:09:57,400
Speaker 1: Wednesday to tender them qualifying offers. And here are their options.

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02:09:58,080 --> 02:10:01,840
Speaker 1: The right of first refusal only. Okay, that is two

2401
02:10:01,920 --> 02:10:05,360
Speaker 1: point one three three million dollars that is unchanged from

2402
02:10:05,480 --> 02:10:08,640
Speaker 1: last year if you choose to go with an original

2403
02:10:08,800 --> 02:10:11,600
Speaker 1: round tender, which really doesn't apply to any of the

2404
02:10:11,680 --> 02:10:14,520
Speaker 1: bills three restricted free agents because they are all undrafteds.

2405
02:10:15,640 --> 02:10:17,800
Speaker 1: So say a player was drafted in the fifth round

2406
02:10:17,920 --> 02:10:20,520
Speaker 1: and you want to get that form of compensation back

2407
02:10:20,560 --> 02:10:23,120
Speaker 1: should another team sign them away, It'll cost you two

2408
02:10:23,160 --> 02:10:26,080
Speaker 1: point one eight three million dollars. If you want to

2409
02:10:26,080 --> 02:10:29,320
Speaker 1: put a second round tender on a restricted free agent

2410
02:10:29,400 --> 02:10:32,720
Speaker 1: on your roster, three point three eight million dollars, and

2411
02:10:33,120 --> 02:10:37,240
Speaker 1: the high first round restricted free agent tender amounts to

2412
02:10:37,360 --> 02:10:42,520
Speaker 1: four point seven six six million dollars. This season, the

2413
02:10:42,600 --> 02:10:45,879
Speaker 1: Bills had one restricted free agent that they have resigned already.

2414
02:10:46,320 --> 02:10:49,760
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Andre Smith, who was resigned to a

2415
02:10:49,840 --> 02:10:53,080
Speaker 1: two year three million dollar contract. So it'll be interesting

2416
02:10:53,160 --> 02:10:55,920
Speaker 1: to see what the Bills do there with there's three

2417
02:10:56,480 --> 02:10:59,360
Speaker 1: restricted free agents. We knew they were interested in, certainly

2418
02:10:59,440 --> 02:11:01,360
Speaker 1: bringing like Sucker back in the fold when he was

2419
02:11:01,440 --> 02:11:05,920
Speaker 1: referenced specifically in the season ending press conference by Brandon being. Yeah,

2420
02:11:05,920 --> 02:11:08,720
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I think for one year deals for

2421
02:11:08,800 --> 02:11:11,360
Speaker 1: all those guys, even the three there, you make the

2422
02:11:11,440 --> 02:11:14,000
Speaker 1: tender offer at least, if not a better one. If

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02:11:14,000 --> 02:11:16,760
Speaker 1: you're the Buffalo Bills, particularly with Ike Butcker and uh

2424
02:11:17,200 --> 02:11:19,920
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, certainly you got to make a tender offer

2425
02:11:19,960 --> 02:11:22,240
Speaker 1: to those guys. They've they've played extremely well for you.

2426
02:11:22,640 --> 02:11:26,840
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace has been a lot of snaps. He's played

2427
02:11:26,880 --> 02:11:29,400
Speaker 1: as many snaps as what Trdavious White probably right, I

2428
02:11:29,480 --> 02:11:34,320
Speaker 1: always think about it, and so it's um, yeah, good

2429
02:11:34,320 --> 02:11:37,040
Speaker 1: for him and the Bills. In my opinion, we've been

2430
02:11:37,080 --> 02:11:39,640
Speaker 1: wrong at every turn. Well, if they'll either tend to

2431
02:11:39,720 --> 02:11:42,120
Speaker 1: them or they'll try to sign them to a short

2432
02:11:42,720 --> 02:11:45,600
Speaker 1: deal that's less cap dollars on the cap this year,

2433
02:11:45,680 --> 02:11:48,080
Speaker 1: which is probably what they did with Andre Smith. Well,

2434
02:11:48,080 --> 02:11:50,920
Speaker 1: we haven't got any special, we haven't gotten anything right yet, Brownie.

2435
02:11:50,960 --> 02:11:54,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we're Matt Malani. We'll keep swinging. We'll keep swinging.

2436
02:11:54,320 --> 02:11:56,200
Speaker 1: We gotta take a break. We'll wrap it up when

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Speaker 1: we return here on One Bills Live, presented by Collid

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02:11:58,520 --> 02:12:13,360
Speaker 1: to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. A gentleman, it's

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02:12:13,400 --> 02:12:16,880
Speaker 1: time for what have we learned from today's show? Brought

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02:12:16,960 --> 02:12:20,280
Speaker 1: to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company

2441
02:12:20,280 --> 02:12:25,200
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Chris Sims Steve from NBC Sports

2442
02:12:25,280 --> 02:12:29,720
Speaker 1: tweeting this, Darryl Williams has all the attributes of a

2443
02:12:29,920 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 1: special right tackle size, athleticism, arm length, He is damn legit.

2444
02:12:37,600 --> 02:12:40,160
Speaker 1: Great job by the Bills to keep him, especially for

2445
02:12:40,280 --> 02:12:43,760
Speaker 1: my boy Blue Josh Allen. That's from Chris Sims on

2446
02:12:44,480 --> 02:12:48,400
Speaker 1: the tweeter. Yeah, right, Well, they still got work to do.

2447
02:12:48,480 --> 02:12:50,120
Speaker 1: They still you know, they still got to bring back

2448
02:12:50,240 --> 02:12:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, they still got some got to fill in

2449
02:12:52,280 --> 02:12:55,360
Speaker 1: the spots. You know, Feliciano's spot at right guard is

2450
02:12:55,360 --> 02:12:57,680
Speaker 1: still up in the air. You got to bring in

2451
02:12:57,760 --> 02:13:00,760
Speaker 1: a guy behind all of those. I Butt Kirk certainly

2452
02:13:00,840 --> 02:13:03,120
Speaker 1: can really play for this team. He was really good

2453
02:13:03,200 --> 02:13:06,959
Speaker 1: this year. He turned into the best guy between Brian Winters,

2454
02:13:07,640 --> 02:13:13,040
Speaker 1: I Butker and the other option. I can't remember the

2455
02:13:14,160 --> 02:13:16,880
Speaker 1: not Cody Ford. It was the depth chart, but you know,

2456
02:13:17,200 --> 02:13:20,000
Speaker 1: Butker kind of rose up through the ranks when Feliciano

2457
02:13:20,040 --> 02:13:22,160
Speaker 1: wasn't in there. Cody Ford was in, then he was out,

2458
02:13:22,760 --> 02:13:25,240
Speaker 1: and then uh Mitch Morse was in and out, and

2459
02:13:25,440 --> 02:13:29,000
Speaker 1: they started switching around Winters and Butker. Butker kind of

2460
02:13:29,040 --> 02:13:32,640
Speaker 1: won that competition when when Feliciano got in there and

2461
02:13:32,720 --> 02:13:36,640
Speaker 1: Ford went out, so they'd probably like to have him in.

2462
02:13:36,840 --> 02:13:42,480
Speaker 1: So it lots going on. What a day, unbelievable. Knock

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02:13:42,560 --> 02:13:43,960
Speaker 1: me over with a feather. I could not, but I

2464
02:13:44,000 --> 02:13:46,120
Speaker 1: didn't think they'd signed either one of those guys. And

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02:13:46,240 --> 02:13:49,640
Speaker 1: here today Milano and Darryl Williams both on the club

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02:13:49,680 --> 02:13:52,160
Speaker 1: for the Fesieva future. I mean, nice weekend for Bills fans.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully there's more in store next week legal tampering window opens,

2468
02:13:55,720 --> 02:13:57,680
Speaker 1: then we'll be here to cover it all for you

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02:13:57,840 --> 02:14:00,280
Speaker 1: all week long here on one Bills Live our thanks

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02:14:00,320 --> 02:14:02,680
Speaker 1: to our crack staff on the other side of the door,

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02:14:03,120 --> 02:14:05,760
Speaker 1: Jay Harris, Jeff Colton, Act, Tom Hollander, and George Bloss.

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Speaker 1: Good job this week, guys. We will catch you on Monday.

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02:14:08,880 --> 02:14:10,680
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. We got a busy week in the

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02:14:10,800 --> 02:14:12,760
Speaker 1: NFL coming your way. We'll be here to cover it all.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you then, have a great weekend