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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live, presented by called Lida Health.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into One Bill's Live, a Thursday edition of One

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live. Another short show for us today, just one

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Speaker 2: hour as the Sabers are in their NHL Draft. You

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Speaker 2: guys heard from Marty and Duffer. They've been doing a

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Speaker 2: great job covering the draft over in Nashville. Matti Glab

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Speaker 2: here with you today alongside CBS Sports Draft and NFL

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Speaker 2: analyst Chris trepass So, who joins us for the next

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Speaker 2: two days. Excited to have you next to me. I

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Speaker 2: know it's a little bit of an off season for

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Speaker 2: you as well. You were onlike crazy during the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 2: We had you on a bunch and fast forward to

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Speaker 2: the end of June and here we are, and I

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Speaker 2: hope you're getting a nice break, as a lot of

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Speaker 2: our other colleagues in the industry are right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely time to play some golf, to be

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Speaker 3: with the family a little more. There's times during the

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Speaker 3: football season and for me during the draft season where

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Speaker 3: it's like I don't see my family as much as

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Speaker 3: I would like to. But it's kind of like a

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Speaker 3: fun feeling right now because the last season is behind us.

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Speaker 3: You're kind of looking ahead to September. The weather's nice,

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Speaker 3: so it's kind of like a fresh start that I'm

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Speaker 3: really looking forward to. I think like all football fans

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Speaker 3: are for this upcoming season.

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Speaker 2: I know, I love having this time where there's not

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Speaker 2: much going on, where there's not too much to talk about,

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Speaker 2: but I also equally am just as excited for a

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Speaker 2: training camp to get to Rochester, to get to really

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Speaker 2: start to see this roster take shape and take We've

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Speaker 2: been talking so much about it in the last few

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Speaker 2: weeks as we're doing previews for position groups, for players

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Speaker 2: for the team as a whole. It just gets you

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Speaker 2: really ready to go for the end of July, which

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Speaker 2: you know is like a month away. At this point,

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Speaker 2: we'll be in training camp, which is a little bit

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Speaker 2: wild to think about, I know, and.

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Speaker 3: I think Pittsford is an awesome locale for the Bills

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Speaker 3: training camp. And I'm someone that we get so many

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Speaker 3: of those cold weather games in December into January now

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Speaker 3: with the regular season being lengthened, that those September nice

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Speaker 3: weather eighty and ninety degree kind of feels like the

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Speaker 3: surface of the sun. Sometimes Bills games are not that

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Speaker 3: far away. It's always fun to stop out at training camp. First,

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Speaker 3: the fact that there's only three preseason games I think

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Speaker 3: we're not that far away from those nice weather games

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Speaker 3: where at the beginning of the broadcast, whether it is

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Speaker 3: on CBS or another network, they're not making a mention

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Speaker 3: of it being cold and windy.

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Speaker 4: Here in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 2: I know the NF released dates a couple days ago

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Speaker 2: for training camp report dates for each team, when the

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Speaker 2: rookies report and when the veterans report. So the rookies

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Speaker 2: for the Bills, they'll report on July eighteenth, and the

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Speaker 2: veterans will report on July twenty fifth. I would assume

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Speaker 2: the rookies will be here for a few days before

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Speaker 2: they head to Rochester. I know they'll probably get there

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Speaker 2: a topic today. Our topic is based off a conversation

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Speaker 2: that we had with Kevin Clark on yesterday's show, Where

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Speaker 2: do you see the Bill's Super Bowl window? We asked

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Speaker 2: him about, you know, what the window for the Bills

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Speaker 2: is if he believes it's closing if he believes it's

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Speaker 2: wide open. And he said, this window is wide open

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Speaker 2: as long as Josh Allen is your quarterback. So we

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Speaker 2: want to ask you guys that question. How do you

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Speaker 2: believe it's wide open? Do you believe that they need

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Speaker 2: This is a litle little bit smaller than maybe wide

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Speaker 2: this past week on NFL dot com from Danhansis and

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Speaker 2: it kind of goes along with this topic that we'll

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Speaker 2: meter number ten as high as you can get. Number

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Speaker 2: three the Philadelphia Eagles were nine point six. Urgency meter

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Speaker 3: I think they're elite in the urgency meter that they

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Speaker 3: if Josh Allen was thirty six, thirty seven, close to

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Speaker 4: But like Kevin Clark said yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Very astuteley, as long as Josh Allen is the Bill's quarterback.

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Speaker 4: I know Joe Burrow and some.

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Speaker 3: Of the Cincinnati Bengals said that earlier this offseason that

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Speaker 4: Bill's super Bowl window is open. The Bengals the chief

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Speaker 4: same thing.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of differences that can take shape with

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen's only entering his age twenty seven season. He

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Speaker 3: just turned twenty seven and a Bill's related point to this,

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Speaker 3: Jim Kelly's first season in Buffalo, he was twenty six remember.

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Speaker 2: Those, that's a good point.

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Speaker 3: There a few seasons with the Houston Gamblers of the

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Speaker 3: he was twenty seven years old.

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Speaker 4: This is going to be Josh allen sixth season. It's

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Speaker 3: I think urgency wise, there are some other teams. I

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Speaker 3: right for this urgency meter, the Cincinnati Bengals would have, Yes,

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Speaker 3: that one super Bowl appearance, and they got close, they

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Speaker 3: then suddenly Joe Burrow's contract extension becomes a big talking point.

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Speaker 3: Tee Higgins his contract extension is already a major talking point,

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Speaker 3: and you certainly have Jamar Chase, who's gonna want and

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Speaker 3: So I think it's easy to kind of be in

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Speaker 4: This point, So the Bill should be up there.

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Speaker 3: I just don't know if I would put them at

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Speaker 3: number ten because Josh Allen's twenty seven year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good point, and I think for

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Speaker 2: you have to look at other teams as well, because

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Speaker 2: the Bills are not alone in the fact that there's

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Speaker 2: some urgency to the season that they're about to play

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Speaker 2: in come September. Of course, there's urgency because of the

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Speaker 2: to break it down in Okay, the roster, makeup, that

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Speaker 2: you have, the coaching staff, that you have, the division

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Speaker 2: that you're playing in. Yeah, talk about the division first.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the division has only gotten harder for this

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Speaker 2: split as No, this is the Jets year to take

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Speaker 2: last few years, and now they have Vic Fangio calling

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Speaker 2: Tua's learning these things, so he's not going to take

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Speaker 2: division gets tougher. I believe the urgency is there for them,

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Speaker 2: the urgency to win your division, which is the first

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Speaker 2: this is gonna be a gauntlet. These teams are gonna

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Speaker 2: And it didn't end up being that way, but I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's certainly on paper a much more challenging division,

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Speaker 3: and I think what that all that does is sharpen

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Speaker 3: the Bill's focus. To use a golf analogy, it's kind

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Speaker 3: of like you have a wide open power four that's

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Speaker 3: A lot of times you actually hit your better shot

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Speaker 3: chalk up, you know, both games against the Dolphins, Josh

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Speaker 3: Allen to have a huge game, they're gonna win both

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Speaker 3: those games. The Jets are down, the quarterback play is bad,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna win both those games. Pencil those in as

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Speaker 3: w's that's not the case anymore. So I think that

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Speaker 3: helps the Bills maybe even in some of those other

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Speaker 3: games against the Chargers and the Chiefs and the Bengals,

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Speaker 3: that they've had those other six games against more difficult

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Speaker 3: all the little things right to win those contests.

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Speaker 2: That's true. It gets you ready playing against really good

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Speaker 4: You don't get better playing worse teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, you improve as a unit, as an offense,

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Speaker 3: as a defense, coaching, game management by facing better competition.

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Speaker 2: offenses are ever changing in the NFL, as new quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: come into the NFL, is as different wide receivers come

438
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Speaker 2: into the NFL, as we've seen over the last five years,

439
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Speaker 2: and this change to pass heavy offenses, the running backs

440
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Speaker 2: aren't as used as much depending on the team that

441
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Speaker 2: you're a part of, and the titands are now becoming

442
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Speaker 2: this like secret weapon to some offenses. And it might

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Speaker 2: be the case for the Buffalo Bills this year with

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Speaker 2: Dalton kin Kaid. But why wouldn't you want a defensive

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Speaker 2: minded head coach who who understands the evolution of the NFL,

446
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Speaker 2: as you said, who knows who knows how to call

447
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Speaker 2: things that will put offenses in positions where they can't succeed.

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Speaker 2: Because you have a great mind and you have great

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Speaker 2: players on defense. I would always want that on a team.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to do away with the defense because

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Speaker 2: I think that's a big identity of this group as

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Speaker 2: a whole. Like you said, since twenty seventeen, if you

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Speaker 2: go back the stats where they rank. I wrote the

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Speaker 2: story when Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean signed extensions a

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Speaker 2: week ago, and since twenty seventeen they rank number one

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Speaker 2: in a few categories. I know one of those is

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Speaker 2: passing touchdowns allowed and passer rating allowed, number one in

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Speaker 2: the NFL since twenty seventeen. They're able to shut that

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Speaker 2: down that is so important to a team's success and

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Speaker 2: to a team making it to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: And one point that I kind of want to touch

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Speaker 3: on about. Even if you're a skeptic of kendor so

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Speaker 3: you think he's too young, he wasn't great last year,

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Speaker 3: the Bills were third in points per game last season,

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Speaker 3: So that is kind of speaking to your point that

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Speaker 3: even if you're watching the games and saying, you know,

467
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Speaker 3: Ken Dorsey's not it, I don't like it, whatever, the

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Speaker 3: Bills still almost scored twenty eight points per game and

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Speaker 3: they allowed the fourth fewest points per game. So even

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Speaker 3: if you didn't like Leslie Frasier it was to you know,

471
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Speaker 3: too conservative, not aggressive enough, they were still scoring a

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Speaker 3: lot and not allowing a lot of points. So that

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Speaker 3: again Ying and Yang, that is why the Bills have

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Speaker 3: been in this wide open Super Bowl window, not just

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Speaker 3: because hey, they have a great offense, but they can't

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Speaker 3: stop anyone or vice versa. And that's why I think

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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl window is not closing, because you still

478
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Speaker 3: have those key pieces Sean McDermott, Josh Allen chief among them,

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Speaker 3: in those key roles on this Bills team.

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Speaker 2: And then to your point with Brandon Bean, not every

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Speaker 2: GM acts as Brandon Bean acts. And the way that

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Speaker 2: he's able to see down the road when it comes

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Speaker 2: to salary cap when it comes to moving things around,

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Speaker 2: when it comes to making a big splash signing von Miller,

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Speaker 2: but knowing what he has to do with the salary

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Speaker 2: cap with salaries over the next five years and being

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Speaker 2: able to see that far and being able to make

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Speaker 2: adjustments like that when it comes to changing up salaries

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Speaker 2: for players when it comes to seeing, hey, we have

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Speaker 2: this much, let's sign a guy like Leonard Floyd because

491
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Speaker 2: maybe he can help on the defensive line alongside Von

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Speaker 2: Miller or alongside Greg Russ. I think it takes a

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Speaker 2: very smart individual like Brandon Bean to be able to

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Speaker 2: make decisions like that and not be afraid to spend

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Speaker 2: money when you need to spend money on players like

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Speaker 2: Von Miller and Stefan Diggs. Now he's not the GM

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Speaker 2: that's going to spend money on everybody. He's smart with

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Speaker 2: the way that he uses the money available in terms

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Speaker 2: of the salary cap. And then he's also smart in

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Speaker 2: the draft. He's not trading away draft picks. He's not

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Speaker 2: doing what a team did like the La Rams who's saying,

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Speaker 2: screw the picks, We're just going to go all in

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Speaker 2: on the vet market. But then we're going to screw

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Speaker 2: ourselves down the road because now we don't have anything,

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Speaker 2: and now we don't have first round picks. He does

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Speaker 2: a really good job of balancing out free agency and

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Speaker 2: the importance of the NFL Draft and making it work

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Speaker 2: together and also being able to make it work for

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Speaker 2: five to ten years down the road. There's gms who

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Speaker 2: lose their jobs because they can't figure that out, and

511
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Speaker 2: he's figured it out year after year after year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, before we hit this break, I want to mention too,

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Speaker 3: and I think it's important the analytics department that the

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Speaker 3: Bills have one of the biggest, most robust in the league.

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Speaker 3: That matters too when you're trying to compete with the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs and the Bengals and all these really good teams.

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Speaker 3: Being near the top of the league in first down

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Speaker 3: pass right, that's huge. Being to not try to get

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Speaker 3: to second and eight, try to get that first down

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Speaker 3: before third down, that's huge. The Bills have shown that

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Speaker 3: they are among or at the top of the league

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Speaker 3: in passing on first down utilizing play action. I think

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Speaker 3: they're going to use a lot more twelve personnel with

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Speaker 3: two tight ends on the field, and that has proven

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Speaker 3: to be a better formation or personnel package to efficiently

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Speaker 3: move the football. Sean McDermott went from a coach that

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Speaker 3: was pretty tentative in those fourth down situations to one

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Speaker 3: of the most aggressive fourth DOWND decision makers in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: That analytics department kind of behind the scenes, we don't

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Speaker 3: see or hear about them too much. That's another area

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Speaker 3: where they're trying to get every advantage roster wise, signing

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Speaker 3: a Leonard Floyd for cheaper, Damian Harris, a Taylor ratt

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Speaker 3: but also during the games with in game management and

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Speaker 3: deciding when and where and how to call specific plays. Yes,

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Speaker 3: that comes from the offensive coordinator and Sean McDermott this season.

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Speaker 3: But it really is rooted in the analytics department saying, hey,

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Speaker 3: look we're going to present to you coaching like all

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Speaker 3: of the coaches, Hey, this is where you should ultimately

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Speaker 3: make these decisions. And the Bills have really incorporated that

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Speaker 3: as well as any other team.

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Speaker 4: In the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I think to that one quick point, it shows that

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Speaker 2: Brandon Being and Sean McDermott aren't too proud exactly. They're evolving. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're ready to evolve. They're ready to change. If something

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00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 2: didn't go right this past season, they're ready to correct

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Speaker 2: it the next season. And I think that shows you

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Speaker 2: the type of people that we have in this building

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Speaker 2: that we have here at One Bill's Drive. All right,

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Speaker 2: break time for us. When we come back, we'll deep in,

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Speaker 2: We'll dip into the tweet sheet. How do you see

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Speaker 2: the Bill's Super Bowl window. You can tweet at us

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00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 2: or give us a call at eighth three oh five fifty.

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Speaker 2: The phone lines are open for you. Where One Bill's

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Speaker 2: Live presented by Clydahalth on Buffalo Bills Radio. We're back

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Speaker 2: here on One Bill's Live. We've got a fun topic today.

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Speaker 2: Why not think all the way into February as we're

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Speaker 2: at the end of June, how do you see the

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Speaker 2: Bill's Super Bowl window? Is it wide open, is it closing?

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Speaker 2: Is it going to be wide open for the next

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Speaker 2: ten years? Do you think they need to win? And

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Speaker 2: now what do you think? Give us a call at eighth, three,

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Speaker 2: five fifty, or you can tweet at us. We'll start

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Speaker 2: first here with Mark and Mark says this is a

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Speaker 2: super Bowl or bust year. Bean has improved every position

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Speaker 2: group with free agency and the draft. The only question

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Speaker 2: is linebacker. We have all the assets to bring home

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Speaker 2: a championship. If not now, then win.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, Mark.

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Speaker 3: This is a perfect jumping off point to something that

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Speaker 3: I wanted to talk about coming in here today, that

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Speaker 3: the improvement at every position in terms of in some

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Speaker 3: spots the top end talent and most of them the

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Speaker 3: depth that is I think you cannot argue it.

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Speaker 4: It's unequivocal.

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Speaker 3: He mentions linebacker being the only one obviously going from

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Speaker 3: Tremaine Edmunds to a bunch of you know, younger pieces

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Speaker 3: that are unproven. That is the one spot where you're like, hey,

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Speaker 3: that's a question mark. But the running back position is

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Speaker 3: unequivocally deeper for sure. Offensive and defensive lines. Last year,

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Speaker 3: you had some pieces up front, especially Von Miller. You know,

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Speaker 3: Mitch Morse is there, Dean Dawkins on the offensive side,

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Speaker 3: I don't think you could get anyone to agree to say, hey,

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Speaker 3: they're not quite as deep.

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Speaker 4: This year, they're certainly much deeper.

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Speaker 3: And then the defensive back room to go from all

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Speaker 3: the uncertainty of when is Tradevious White going to return?

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Speaker 3: Are you going to start kyer Elam, Are you gonna

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Speaker 3: start Christian Benford a sixth rounder, which they ultimately did

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Speaker 3: to Now Tredevius White is well removed from that ACL injury.

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00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: Christian Benford was hurt last year, but he got that

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Speaker 3: very valuable experience. Kyer Elam down the stretch played like

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Speaker 3: a first rounder. You signed Taylor Rapp again, who we

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Speaker 3: thought was going to be this three year, twenty million

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Speaker 3: dollar safety and they got him on the cheap. You

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Speaker 3: signed Cam Dantzler that has made plays early in his

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Speaker 3: career in Minnesota. That room is unequivocally deeper. So I

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Speaker 3: can see where Mark is coming from. Where it's like

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl or bus because this is a roster that

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Speaker 3: is unequivocally better from one of the best rosters a

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Speaker 3: season ago. I think again at the end, and we

601
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Speaker 3: are starting to see some of this from some outside

602
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Speaker 3: media that hey, the Bills were really banged up. They

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Speaker 3: played one bad playoff game in a blizzard, and everyone

604
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Speaker 3: wanted to say that, you know what's wrong in Buffalo.

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Speaker 3: They were second in point differential last season one hundred

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Speaker 3: plus one hundred and sixty nine points. But the roster

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Speaker 3: is better, which it seemed like a pretty challenging task to.

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Speaker 4: Make it better. I think it certainly is.

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Speaker 3: So if you're thinking that Mark, or if you just

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Speaker 3: believe what Mark does, you're not crazy because this is

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Speaker 3: I think the best roster in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: And there was so much hype for this team going

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Speaker 2: into last season, and rightfully so, it's like, okay, it's

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Speaker 2: the it's Buffalo's time to win this one. And then

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Speaker 2: a lot of things happened during the season, Like you said,

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Speaker 2: one bad playoff game, maybe not maybe not the best

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Speaker 2: weather to play in. They're banged up, and they were

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Speaker 2: banged up. They were so banged up. But then you

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Speaker 2: add to the roster, and I agree, I think the

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Speaker 2: roster that they have this year is better than last

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Speaker 2: year's and the hype is just gone away. It's not

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Speaker 2: there anymore for this team. There is a little bit

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Speaker 2: of hype of course because their playoff contender, super Bowl contender,

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Speaker 2: for sure, but all the hype, at least in the

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Speaker 2: AFC East, is going to the New York Jets, which

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Speaker 2: I am fine with. You can get the hype. This

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00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: team loves to be underdogs. They'll be a little bit

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Speaker 2: of that this season, a little bit more than they

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Speaker 2: were last season. I think one position group that I'm

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Speaker 2: really interested to see how it pans out as the

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Speaker 2: wide receivers room, because there are so many new faces

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Speaker 2: in the wide receivers room this season. I mean you

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Speaker 2: say by the familiar faces like Isaiah McKenzie and Jay Coomero,

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Speaker 2: and I know Cole Beasley was on the roster for

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Speaker 2: just a little bit last year, same as John Brown.

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Speaker 2: But it'll be interesting to see the turnover with what

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Speaker 2: they do, how they use these guys. We know Stefan

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Speaker 2: Diggs will be in the full. We know Gabe Davis

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Speaker 2: will be in the fold. Hopefully he'll have a better

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Speaker 2: season since he knock On Wood is not going to

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Speaker 2: be dealing with any injuries like he had that ankle

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Speaker 2: Sprain last year, but Deontay Hart I think can add

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Speaker 2: Trent Surefield definitely can. It'll be interesting to see how

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Speaker 2: they use Justin Shorter. Can Khalil Shakir take another step

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Speaker 2: forward in year two in the NFL? So I think

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Speaker 2: that's alongside the linebackers group, the wide receiver's room. I'm like, man,

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Speaker 2: I want to look into like I want to look

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Speaker 2: into the future to see what this group is going

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Speaker 2: to look like and to see how they use all

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Speaker 2: of these guys, because it's also going to be hard

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Speaker 2: to make some roster decisions decisions too for that room.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they decide to keep an extra wide receiver, just

653
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Speaker 2: like maybe they decide to keep an extra running back

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Speaker 2: on the fifty three man squad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two specific players that I want to highlight from

656
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Speaker 3: that wide receiver room. I was a big fan of

657
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Speaker 3: Khalil Shakir coming out of Boise State as a draft guy.

658
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Speaker 3: I've harped on this that I think the Bills need

659
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 3: to be drastically better in the yards after the catch.

660
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 3: They were thirty second in the league and yards after

661
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Speaker 3: the catch per reception in twenty twenty one, and they

662
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 3: improved last year to thirty first, so I think they

663
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Speaker 3: need to be better in that regard. This scheme is

664
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Speaker 3: a little different than Kansas City and Philadelphia. But I

665
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 3: think Shakir his contact balance, his vision, his cutting ability

666
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Speaker 3: in space, that was like a plus to his game

667
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Speaker 3: coming out of Boise State watching all of that film,

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Speaker 3: so I think he can be that guy. And then

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Speaker 3: Justin Shorter, I think you mentioned about Gabe Davis that

670
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 3: he was dealing with that ankle injury last season, didn't

671
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Speaker 3: play up too. I think what was unfair hype coming

672
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 3: off the thirteen second game with four.

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Speaker 2: Touchdowns, two undred yards game.

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Speaker 3: Justin Shorter, even though he's a rookie, he's not perfect.

675
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Speaker 3: He's not going to give you Stefan Diggs level separation.

676
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 3: He's not going to give you Khalil Shakier yards after

677
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Speaker 3: the catch. He's not going to be Cole Beasley. But

678
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Speaker 3: I think he can be someone that plays that Gabe

679
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Speaker 3: Davis role if Gabe Davis does have a nanggy nagging

680
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 3: injury again, or the Bills aren't just liking how he's producing.

681
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 3: He was, you know, a big time recruit. We heard

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Speaker 3: about all that after the draft. He is a down

683
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:58,479
Speaker 3: the field, vertical go route post route wide receiver that

684
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Speaker 3: is six ' five, two hundred thirty pounds, has that

685
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 3: build up speed, not a lot of burst. I think

686
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Speaker 3: that's kind of the same deal with Gabe Davis. So

687
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Speaker 3: I think there was a reason, there was kind of

688
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 3: a very specific reason why the Bills drafted Justin Shorter,

689
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Speaker 3: where you could say, hey, there was probably four or

690
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 3: five other more complete wide receivers on the board when

691
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 3: they picked him. But if you're looking for insurance for

692
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 3: Gabe Davis or an air apparent to Gabe Davis, that

693
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 3: can be Justin Shorter.

694
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Speaker 4: He can get down the football field.

695
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 2: Getting more depth for this team in case some of

696
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Speaker 2: your starters go down. That's something that Brandon Bean has

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Speaker 2: definitely done this offseason, through the draft and through free agency.

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Speaker 2: We've got a caller hanging on the line. It's Robert

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Speaker 2: from Amhurst. So let's get to Robert from Amhurst. You're

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Speaker 2: on with us now, Hey, Robert, what do you think

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Speaker 2: of the Bill's Super Bowl window?

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Speaker 1: I think the bill super Bowl window is as long

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00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: as our quarterback Josh Allen stays healthy and the length

704
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Speaker 1: of his career. The same thing was asked about a

705
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: week or two ago to Cincinnati, and the answer from

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Speaker 1: the Bengals was the length of Joe Burrow's career. The

707
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Speaker 1: window is not just one season or one set of draft.

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Speaker 1: It's as long as you have a top playoff quarterback.

709
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Speaker 1: You can keep bringing in receivers, you can keep bringing

710
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: in defensive players until you get the right combination and

711
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: the right thing happens in the playoffs. If you make

712
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs every single year, and you do it for

713
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Speaker 1: ten years, you're likely to strike it once. It'll happen.

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Speaker 2: Awesome.

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Speaker 1: That's all I got.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for the call, Robert. We appreciate

717
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 2: it and spot on with what we were thinking as well.

718
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 2: It's as long as you've got Josh Allen as your quarterback.

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Speaker 2: And just like he said, you can add more weapons

720
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Speaker 2: to the wide receivers room, you can add more weapons

721
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 2: to offense, you can add more guys on defense, but

722
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Speaker 2: the most important piece is there, and.

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Speaker 3: With Josh Allen two, he's I mean, we all understand

724
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 3: that quarterback is the most valuable position on the football field.

725
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Speaker 3: I think to branch that out into the impact, the

726
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 3: ripple effect that he has. He's a player that makes

727
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 3: everyone around him better. Isaiah McKenzie was a street free

728
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 3: agent who was mostly a punt returner, and he became

729
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:13,959
Speaker 3: I know, he didn't play as well as the Bills

730
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 3: were hoping in a lot of the fans were, but

731
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 3: that one hundred yard game two years ago in New

732
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 3: England late in the season, that was, you know, with

733
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Speaker 3: no Cole Beasley on the field, that was huge. I

734
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 3: think someone like Deanta Hardy who's flashed but has been injured,

735
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 3: Trent Sherfield, who's always been like a number four, number

736
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 3: five receiver, don't be surprised if they have, maybe not

737
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: this year, but in their time in Buffalo, have career

738
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 3: seasons because of the guy who's throwing them the football.

739
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Andrews says, well, they have to stay healthy

740
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 2: the whole season and they have to have a steady

741
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 2: game plan for each game. If they do that, their

742
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 2: chances of hitting the Super Bowl are great, if not

743
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,280
Speaker 2: always next year. Yeah, health is something that you can't predict.

744
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 2: You hope it's going to be on your side. It

745
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 2: wasn't last season for the Bills. If you look beyond

746
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 2: last season, twenty twenty and twenty twenty one were healthy

747
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 2: years for the Bills. Twenty twenty two. Last year not

748
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 2: so much. I don't know. I just think like you've

749
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 2: already had that season last year. It can happen two

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Speaker 2: years in a row.

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Speaker 3: And in the NFL it's like you can't obviously, like

752
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 3: no one can predict injuries.

753
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 4: They're gonna happen.

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00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 3: Like you said in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, the

755
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 3: Bills were very healthy.

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Speaker 4: I think the strength and conditioning staff has done a

757
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 4: good job.

758
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 3: And the overarching philosophy of being very precautious with injuries

759
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 3: and not rushing guys back onto the field to get

760
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 3: re injured. That's a key core philosophy that I think

761
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 3: has helped the Bills in the Sean McDermott and Brandon

762
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 3: bean Era stay very healthy last year, though I think

763
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Speaker 3: it wasn't even just that they were banged up.

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Speaker 4: It was the.

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Speaker 3: Really key piece is especially on defense, went down to

766
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Speaker 3: lose Mike Hyde in the second week of the season,

767
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 3: to have Jordan Poyer out the defensive lineman obviously Von Miller.

768
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Speaker 4: You're gonna have injuries.

769
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 3: It's just the Bills need to have better luck with Hey,

770
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 3: if we have some injury, maybe it's our number four

771
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 3: corner or our backup linebacker, not von Miller and our

772
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 3: all pro safety like my god, yeah.

773
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Speaker 2: A couple games here and there, think gets injured, not

774
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Speaker 2: like the whole season, not the last six games of

775
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: the season. And then you had guys like Gabe Davis

776
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 2: who who maybe just missed one game, but then you're

777
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,399
Speaker 2: dealing with an ankle injury for four games. And you know,

778
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 2: there were a lot of big names who dealt with

779
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 2: stuff even if they weren't out for the entire season,

780
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 2: like Micah Hyde and the last half of the season,

781
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 2: like von Miller was. Ed says, it's wide open as

782
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 2: long as we have a healthy Josh Allen as captain

783
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 2: and McDermott and Bean are steering the ship. Yes, that

784
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 2: is what we've been saying as well. Ryan says window

785
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 2: question Mark, We're going to have a generation of fans

786
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 2: blessed to have had a perennial contender for the championship.

787
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: Drought survivors rejoice and enjoy the ride.

788
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Speaker 3: There's one point to that that I want to make

789
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 3: that's such a great point from him, is that for

790
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Speaker 3: as much as me growing up here in Western New York,

791
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 3: I have the Zubaz pants, my dad has all the

792
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 3: you know, nineties Super Bowl sweatshirts. It was kind of

793
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 3: getting to the point where, like, being twenty five to

794
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 3: thirty years removed from that, it was almost not silly

795
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 3: to wear it. I'm a big nostalgic guy, but I

796
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 3: remember one of my uncles texting me when the Bills

797
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 3: won that first AFC East title in twenty twenty and

798
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 3: twenty five years that he said that he realized that

799
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 3: this Bills team finally arrived because when that happened, when

800
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 3: they clinched, they certainly mentioned that it hadn't happened since

801
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety five, but they weren't just referencing Andre Reid

802
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 3: and Jim Kelly and Therman Thomas throughout that broadcast that

803
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 3: this is the new era.

804
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 4: So it's like the.

805
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 3: Drought survivors can certainly rejoice, but now a new generation

806
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 3: of Bills fans can not just be clinging to you know,

807
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 3: Super Bowl twenty five and twenty six and those four

808
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 3: straight AFC titles. It's a new era that we don't

809
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 3: always have to just cling to what happened, which is now,

810
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 3: you know, thirty thirty five years ago.

811
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Speaker 2: You can cling to the present now, yes, and then

812
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: Jeremy says, it's I'd open as long as number seventeen

813
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 2: is behind center. I just hope to find our missing

814
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 2: link and have it filled whatever that may be, whether

815
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 2: it's a coaching disconnect or players on the field. Either way,

816
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: seventeen gives us the best chance. So that's an interesting point.

817
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 2: Is there a missing link to this team or has

818
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 2: the missing link? Maybe it's on the team, It just

819
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 2: hasn't been figured out yet, who that key piece is,

820
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 2: who that unsung hero is, who that X factor will

821
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 2: be this year on offense or defense, And maybe that

822
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 2: just hasn't revealed itself yet.

823
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think again that goes back to depth

824
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 3: that if you're speaking on that to last season to say, hey,

825
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 3: what went wrong? Where was that missing piece? It was

826
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 3: that lack of depth that was just not there. That

827
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Speaker 3: when Daikwon Jones, when I saw him on that inactive list.

828
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Speaker 4: Right before it like oh God, healthy scratch.

829
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Speaker 3: It was like, man, they're gonna be starting back a

830
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Speaker 3: practice squad defensive lineman to face Joe Burrow in the

831
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals. Yes, they were down some offensive linemen as well,

832
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 3: but the pass rush was a little bit mitigated because

833
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 3: of the pretty I thought severe snow that was falling

834
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 3: in Orchard Park that day. That again, that's where Brandon

835
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 3: Bean said, hey, we can't go into a situation. Maybe

836
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 3: you can beat a middle of the road team, maybe

837
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 3: even you can beat one of the better teams when

838
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 3: you don't have a ton of depth, but once you

839
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 3: get to the playoffs and you're facing an elite team

840
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 3: with a quarterback that's been to a Super Bowl, you

841
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 3: need to have that depth. So I think the Bills

842
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 3: are more equipped to if they have that missing piece

843
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 3: that the next person up is not asking someone that

844
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 3: is a low end of the roster player to have

845
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 3: the game of his life against Patrick Mahomes or Joe

846
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 3: Burrow or Aaron Rodgers and the Jets or Justin Herbert

847
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 3: and the Chargers. And that's really important because of the

848
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 3: length of the season and how much of an arduous,

849
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 3: long journey it is to go from you know, Labor

850
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: Day weekend all the way until you know, the second

851
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 3: or third week in January when those playoffs start. It's

852
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 3: a long road, and then you're getting all the way

853
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 3: into February. It's really a war of attrition to stay

854
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 3: healthy and to again have those depth pieces. I always

855
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 3: say you can tell how good a roster is by

856
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,720
Speaker 3: not even just the top end pieces.

857
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 4: How is the bottom of the roster? Where is that?

858
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Speaker 3: And I think the Bills have raised the floor of

859
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 3: the bottom of the roster.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a great point and great points from

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Speaker 2: the tweet sheet as well. We're going to take a

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Speaker 2: break when we come back, We're gonna close up shop

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Speaker 2: that violated the gambling policy, so some names have came

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Speaker 2: out on that. Isaiah Rodgers, Rashad Berry from the Colts,

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Speaker 2: and then former Alliance defensive tackled Demetrius Taylor have all

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Speaker 2: been suspended in definitely through at least the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: three season for betting on NFL games. Rogers and Barry

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Speaker 2: were waived by the Colts today, and then Titan's offensive

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Speaker 2: tackle Nicholas petite Frere was also suspended for six games

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Speaker 2: for betting on non NFL sports at the team facility.

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Speaker 2: Other news is the Patriots have signed a couple players

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Speaker 2: to extensions. They've reached a new three year, thirty three

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Speaker 2: million dollar deal with wide receiver Devonte Parker, according to reports,

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Speaker 2: as well as Juwan Bentley signing an extension as well.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about those two guys being in

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Speaker 2: New England for a little bit longer?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Quick Scotting reports Devonte Parker does not get open

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Speaker 3: very much. He's not a separator, but he did have

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Speaker 3: that big touchdown kind of diving in the end zone.

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Speaker 4: That's his game.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of weird, a weird fit. That's really usually

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Speaker 3: not what New England likes to do. And Juwan Bentley

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Speaker 3: is that classic Bill Belichick overhang linebacker. Not surprised that

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Speaker 3: either of these two we're extended because the Patriots just

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Speaker 3: need weapons on offense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, former NFL pass rusher JJ Watt is making

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Speaker 2: the move to the CBS studio Endless.

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Speaker 3: Wow, look at you.

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Speaker 2: You got JJ Watt as a counterpart to what you

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Speaker 2: do all Right Tomorrow, We've got Marcellus Wiley who will

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Speaker 2: be joining us on the show. We're also going to

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Speaker 2: be back to a two hour show tomorrow, so our

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Speaker 2: full time length. We're looking forward to forward to seeing

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Speaker 2: you tomorrow on Friday as we close out the week.

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Speaker 2: We hope you guys have a good rest of your day.

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Speaker 2: We will see you tomorrow