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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live, presented by Called Light a

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Speaker 1: Health Who Doggie, It is Friday. Welcome to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as we will be

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Speaker 1: motoring into the weekend with a heck of a show

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Speaker 1: for you today. We before we get into the nuts

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Speaker 1: and bolts, some pretty cool stuff going on around the league.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into that in just a second, but we're

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Speaker 1: getting close here, Steve. To the Easter holiday. And Uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, man, but I have a

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Speaker 1: wife who's a chocoholic. Um, it's all it's already begun

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Speaker 1: in earnest. Uh, what's going on? Where? Where does where?

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Speaker 1: Does your lovely wife land on the candy spectrum? As

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Speaker 1: she got a major sweet tooth or no? Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: she's training for a half marathon, so she ain't doing it.

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Speaker 1: I mean I couldn't even get her like, yes, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what I was doing, Yester. I could even

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Speaker 1: So she's wow, yeah, training for a half marathon. She's

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Speaker 1: gonna burn all that off anyway, what does she do?

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Speaker 1: I know you're talking preaching the choir bro I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're running every day, you know, it

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Speaker 1: kind of pretty much takes the limits off your diet, right.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you don't even need a governor for

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Speaker 1: the caloric intake, right, exactly so. But still that's you know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's the shape I'm in now. I haven't heard

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything about that, you know, that part

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Speaker 1: of the calendar as of yet. But yeah, Easter, well

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Speaker 1: not as much as Halloween, but Easter is a candy holiday, right,

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Speaker 1: It is a close second to Halloween in terms of candy.

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Speaker 1: And my problem is I don't have a giant sweet tooth,

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Speaker 1: but because my wife does, It's it's around. It's just

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Speaker 1: it's everywhere, Yeah, and I can't avoid it. And then

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Speaker 1: you know, you're you're cruising by the jelly bean dish

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Speaker 1: and you're like, ah, I'll just take a couple, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not pass it again. You take a few more.

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Speaker 1: By the fifth pass, You're like, what the heck have

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Speaker 1: I done? Right? I'm not a big candy I'm a

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan of candy. I'm just not you know, like,

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Speaker 1: I don't buy it and bring it to the house

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Speaker 1: And I don't. Yeah, so I'm with you, though, I'm

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Speaker 1: you get to certain points of the season, like Halloween,

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Speaker 1: right just after Halloween, when you know, you get bags

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. Or East Easter I think is a

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Speaker 1: much better holiday for candy than than Halloween. Not not

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Speaker 1: in the quantity, of course, Halloween trumps everything, but I

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Speaker 1: love Easter candy as a general rule. The little candy,

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Speaker 1: malted eggs, and the chocolate bunnies, I kind of do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of the little little yellow marshmallow.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, gag. Those are horrible. You can those

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Speaker 1: things gag? They could gag a maggot, those things little

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Speaker 1: what are they called tweety birds? Peep peeps, that's it, peeps.

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Speaker 1: My my wife and kids scarf those downs seriously there

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Speaker 1: like there's a shortage, man like that? Good? No, that

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Speaker 1: is not my thing at all. I am not a

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Speaker 1: but peeps are like peeps and the little like the

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Speaker 1: discovered on social media. Steve, and I don't know about you,

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Speaker 1: but when I saw this, I just said, that's pretty

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Speaker 1: dang cool. Um. Tomorrow, Amlin gets to meet President Biden,

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Speaker 1: who lauded him for his courage in light of his circumstances.

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Speaker 1: He was on Capitol Hill and trying to support a

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Speaker 1: bill to get more defibrillators into schools nationwide. Apparently this

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Speaker 1: for that, and obviously a defibrillator was instrumental in saving

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Speaker 1: for that and guy got to sit in the Oval

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Speaker 1: Office with the President. Yeah, and I'm look, I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be the least bit political here,

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Speaker 1: with the head of state, it's big. That's pretty that's

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. And I'm I'm twenty five years old, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm the most a political guy out there.

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Speaker 1: it's very cool for DeMar to be up there speaking

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Speaker 1: so that more people will have access to something that

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Speaker 1: So yeah, a perfect perfect advocate for that, you know,

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Speaker 1: So if God forbid, something like that happens somewhere in

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Speaker 1: I want one last thing on the Damar Hamlin thing.

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Speaker 1: Steve I was scrolling down in the comments from his

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Speaker 1: all right, way to get the lay of the land

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Speaker 1: for us, Damar when we're there visiting him next year

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Speaker 1: and she's like, stop kicking me, stop kicking me. I'm

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Speaker 1: like I'm not, so I jump up. It's a round

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Speaker 1: in the bed, it's a rat and she loses her mind.

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Speaker 1: Barrow story short. I found out what the couch was. Guys,

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Speaker 1: enjoy your day. Yeah, thanks, see Jay, I could have

427
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Speaker 1: told you how that one was gonna end. Uh you

428
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: got a death wish man? Uh wow? Okay? Yea you

429
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: you like uh you like to live on the edge

430
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: far more than I do, so you're just asking for

431
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: it on that one. But as far as the defensive

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Speaker 1: tackles go, I would probably say quinnin Williams I'd probably

433
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Speaker 1: put in the top spot, with Wilkins right behind him.

434
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: They're like one in one a for me, right, and

435
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,239
Speaker 1: then bar Moore has still got a ways to go,

436
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 1: I think to catch those guys. He definitely has physical tools.

437
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: I just don't know if he's as consistent as those

438
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: other two in terms of game wrecking ability. And Ed

439
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: is just a completely different player because all of those

440
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 1: guys have prototype measurables. Ed does not. He brings other

441
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: things to the table, but he's he's a much different

442
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: player that relies on getting upfield and penetration to be

443
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Speaker 1: an effective player at his position. Those other guys have everything, right,

444
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: and you're talking about you know, and then you go

445
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Speaker 1: to the Jets. They've got like Sheldon Rankins. Well Rankins

446
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: actually signed elsewhere in free ah Houston, that's right. So

447
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: they've got there's some guys around um and who knows

448
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: where it's going to settle in. But I'm with Brownie.

449
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins is really good and uh, you know, and

450
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Speaker 1: you look at the Bills with Ed de Quon reportedly

451
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,199
Speaker 1: look like Jordan Phillips is gonna sign, although it's not

452
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: official yet. Um, Tim Settle, although Settle still here, is

453
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: he in her contract? He is? Right? Yeah, yeah, okay.

454
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: I like where they're sitting as a group, But you're

455
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: looking for a guy who's a home run hit or

456
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Bills have one of those

457
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Speaker 1: unless one of these guys has a breakout game, which

458
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 1: they have done from time to time. Phillips ed Oliver

459
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: as as well, so um, but not a consistent one.

460
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: So uh. I think quinnin Williams is the class of it,

461
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 1: and and the guy Wilkins also in Miami. I gotta

462
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Speaker 1: I'm with Brownie on that. Um. Now, as a group,

463
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo more than holds its own. Remember this

464
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: is the team that gave up fewer yards in knee

465
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Speaker 1: of those teams last year, so they still do a

466
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Speaker 1: pretty good job of it, right Um yeah? I mean,

467
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: and look, when you have bigger bodied guys next to Ed,

468
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Speaker 1: it can help Ed maximize what he does well, which

469
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Speaker 1: I think was the thinking at this time last year

470
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Speaker 1: when they signed all three of those guys who are bigger,

471
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: girthier interior defensive lineman, hoping to draw the double team

472
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: so Ed could get more one on ones and make

473
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Speaker 1: more plays. It didn't necessarily materialize on a week by

474
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Speaker 1: week basis. We'll have to see if it changes for

475
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: the better this year, knowing that injury kind of compromised

476
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Speaker 1: that to some degree, both with Ed suffering and injury

477
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Speaker 1: in week one and missing some time, and then Jordan

478
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Speaker 1: Phillips and Tim Settle missing time early in the season.

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Speaker 1: Back to the phones we go, and to Dennis in Lewiston.

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Speaker 1: What do you offer as Dennis? Hey, guys, how's it going? Good? Good?

481
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: A long time no talk. It's been a while since

482
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,959
Speaker 1: I've talked to you, guys. Look, I've got a question.

483
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 1: I just finished watching the re airing of Today's Good

484
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Speaker 1: Morning Football, and I'm gonna say I really like this

485
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Speaker 1: Trey Thomlinson. I really like I mean, I don't know

486
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Speaker 1: if it will be available at twenty seven, but I

487
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: know Porter. I mean, both of these guys come from

488
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: NFL bloodline, Okay, and they're both playing cornerback. Now, can

489
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Speaker 1: you see us possibly if he's available at twenty seven,

490
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Speaker 1: us picking him up? Or do you think the Bills

491
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: value him at a second or third rounder. But if

492
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Speaker 1: he's still available in a second, do you see us

493
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Speaker 1: maybe trading up to go get him. We'll have trade

494
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: damn one side and trade t on the other. I'll

495
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: hang up. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you right now, I

496
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: don't think Trey Tomlinson is even a top one hundred prospects.

497
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Speaker 1: He has great bloodlines Dennis. There's no question about it

498
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: being related to Ladanian Tomlinson. But the issue here is size.

499
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Speaker 1: Many people believe he is a nickel corner only. He's

500
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Speaker 1: five eight, one seventy eight. He's only got twenty nine

501
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Speaker 1: inch arms. The last areas they're physical number one. Do

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Speaker 1: you want to expand Yeah, I mean, and just a

503
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: little expand on it to Steve, But this guy is

504
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: a nickel corner only. And I you know, while he

505
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: played on a great team and had a defined role

506
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: there and tested well, don't get me wrong, he's an athlete.

507
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Speaker 1: He tested well four four one forty. He ran a

508
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Speaker 1: one five ten yards split. Steve, I mean, he's an

509
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: explosive kid thirty nine in vertical eleven foot broad jump.

510
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Speaker 1: But the issue here is sized and limited role He

511
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: cannot play outside. Bigger receivers will eat him alive. And

512
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Speaker 1: so when you have limitations in your skill set, it

513
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Speaker 1: affects your draft value. I'd be very surprised. Maybe he

514
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: comes off the board late day two, but he's probably

515
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Speaker 1: an early day three pick, you know, maybe, I mean

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Speaker 1: he might be fourth fifth round material here right. Yes,

517
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: you're not gonna he will be there at twenty seven,

518
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: no question about it, you know, I mean, but he's

519
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: gone exactly. He's also he's gonna be there for a

520
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: while just because he's five seven or five eight and

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00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: he only weighs a buck seventy eight. Um. He's certainly

522
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: he's an athlete. Uh, certainly, he's athletic and can do

523
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Speaker 1: some things. He brings something to the table and there,

524
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Speaker 1: and he may carve out a really nice pro career.

525
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Speaker 1: But you know, nobody can project him Trey Tomlinson as

526
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Speaker 1: a thirteen year corner. Uh, particularly a day He is

527
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: not gonna start day one in the NFL of his

528
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: rookie season for anybody. He's just not. He's just not

529
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Speaker 1: gonna be ready. There's That's not to say he can't

530
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Speaker 1: work his way into a starting position at some point,

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Speaker 1: but at five eight or he's listed here at five

532
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Speaker 1: to seven, but five to seven buck seven less than

533
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty pounds, You're gonna get man handled.

534
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: And the fact that he can broad jump eleven feet

535
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: and vertical thirty seven is not going to help him enough,

536
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: and he won't be able to be strong enough to

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00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: dominate physically. Yeah. Plus he has twenty nine h arms,

538
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: which might be some of the shortest arms I've ever

539
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: seen measured at the combine. It's unusually short, even for

540
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: a dB. So yeah, we'll see where he goes, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's a first round consideration. We got

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Speaker 1: to take a break here. When we come back, more

543
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: of your phone calls, more of your tweets. As it

544
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: is in obl fan Friday Mailbag Day, we do want

545
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Speaker 1: to remind you that coming up an hour number two,

546
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Speaker 1: we'll get our weekly visit with senior producer from NFL Films,

547
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: Greg co Sell. As we go position by position through

548
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: the draft class. With linebackers on tap, the Bills have

549
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: a gaping hole in the middle of their defense after

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00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: the departure of Tremaine Edmonds, and there will be a

551
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: competition on the roster, but might they add to that.

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00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: We'll discuss that with Great Cosell an hour number two

553
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: of the show. But more are your phone calls? Next

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by a lot of

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Speaker 1: health It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve tasks with you here

557
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: on a Friday, our number two. We'll have Great co

558
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: Sell joining us, will be talking linebacker prospects at that

559
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: point in time, see what the film is telling him.

560
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, back to the phones we go,

561
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: and from one Dennis to another. Is leading us off

562
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: in this segment is Dennis in Tonawanda? What do you

563
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: got for us? Dennis? You're on One Bills Live afternoon.

564
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: What were we doing? What's the status on Josh's elbow?

565
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: I know baseball pictures take like a year and a half,

566
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: So where are we at with Josh? I think his

567
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: elbows one hundred percent probably at this point. I don't

568
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: think that I think he was trending that way right

569
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. He certainly went through

570
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: a slump in the middle of the season, and you

571
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: can chalk up with maybe some of his decision making

572
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: to the elbow, but I don't think it's physically now.

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00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: I think it's probably one hundred percent. I haven't heard

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00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: him talk about it or anything like that, and he's

575
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: playing golf and he's doing fine, So I think he

576
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: anticipates being able to throw and do everything in the

577
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: off season he's going to be asked to do. I

578
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: think the elbow is a thing in the past. Yeah,

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00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: it was. He did not tear his UCL. That's the

580
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: ligament that baseball pitchers tear, which requires Tommy John surgery

581
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: and puts them out for over a year. So Dennis,

582
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: just to explain it, Josh did not tear his UCL ligament.

583
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: So because of that, all it required, at least from

584
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: what the Bills told us at the end of the season,

585
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: was rest and it would fully heal on its own.

586
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: So I mean, look, if he tore it, he would

587
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: have been out for the season. He wouldn't have been

588
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: playing football. I mean, he did sustain some damage in there,

589
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: to what extent we don't exactly know, but he was

590
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: able to play through it. If you tear your UCL,

591
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: you're not throwing anything, let alone a football. So right

592
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: then and there, you knew that he was not suffering

593
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: from the same ailment that we see so many baseball

594
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 1: pitchers suffer from and miss a full season for it.

595
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: So that's the good news, and all indications that we've

596
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: gotten is he'll be good as new come OTAs in

597
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: May when they're back on the field again. Let's go

598
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: back to the phones here and we go to Phil

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00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. What do you got for his filure on

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00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Yeah? Thanks, Hey, Steve, I always loved

601
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: to do when you played football special teams you were

602
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: pretty awesome. Thanks. I appreciate it. I just wanted to know, Okay,

603
00:34:54,120 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: my question is, I know our linebacking. I think Milano

604
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: is going to be a good, uh middle linebacker because

605
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, taking over for Edmonds as a

606
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 1: play you know, being a play caller and uh keeping

607
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: him in line. I think he's going to make the

608
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: right calls and you know, hope everything's gonna go good.

609
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: But I also wanted to know who do you think

610
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: for on the offensive line? What do you think about

611
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: that Cyrus Torrance? I think from what I've heard, both

612
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: of those guys, you know, the two big guys there

613
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: that Tyris and I think Campbell was the other one.

614
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: They both look pretty good and from what I've seen,

615
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: I think they can that's just the spot and help

616
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 1: al Alan out and um pass protection and or run protection. Yeah,

617
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: um yeah, I mean I would. I would say as

618
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: far as the draft options there. You know, we were

619
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: talking about Osirius Torrance yesterday Steve and how the teams

620
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: that were meeting with him at Florida Pro Day this

621
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: week had high to mid second round picks, and because

622
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: all of them were in about a ten pick range,

623
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Speaker 1: we surmise that that might be where a majority of

624
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: NFL clubs have Osirius Torrance on their board as a

625
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:29,479
Speaker 1: top half of the second round grade. So logic says

626
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: he would be on the board if the Bills liked

627
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 1: him even more than that and hadn't even higher grade

628
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 1: on him and wanted to take him at twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Jack Campbell, a linebacker from Iowa's the other guy that

630
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: he mentioned, and that's a guy too that some people

631
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: have projected in the second round top half again, so

632
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: it becomes a matter of what is your grade on

633
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: him and where do you need to get to on

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Speaker 1: the board to match the value with the pick. Obviously,

635
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: the Bills pick at the bottom of round one and

636
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: the bottom of round two, and the consensus, at least

637
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: from the draft knicks is that Campbell fits somewhere in

638
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: between those two picks. So do the Bills, if they

639
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: don't like anything on the board at twenty seven, slide

640
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: back to a place where the value matches what Campbell

641
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: is as a player in terms of a draft grade.

642
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: Or do they take somebody they like at twenty seven

643
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: and then try to get up in the top half

644
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: of round two and get Bull there or anybody they'll

645
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: snatches him up, right, they're gonna try. I think it's

646
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: gonna be a guy like Osirius Torrens or somebody near him.

647
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: You know, you go down the list of prospects and

648
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: Torrence fits in there somewhere, and anybody who is around him,

649
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: above him, or maybe even below him, is going to

650
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: be the guy they're gonna grab. He's, you know, from

651
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: this end of the draft, he's as good as a

652
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: lot of those guys, better than most. He's not one

653
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: of the top elite guys that you're gonna grab in

654
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: this draft, but if you're thinking offensive lineman, he's certainly

655
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: got to be on your short list, because he falls

656
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: right in the draft range of where the Bills are

657
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 1: gonna pick at twenty seven. Now, there's nothing that says if,

658
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: for instance, like a Scronsky from Northwestern or Paris Johnson

659
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 1: or broad Rick Jones, or one of these guys comes

660
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,720
Speaker 1: down and they're available at like twenty five or twenty three,

661
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: that the Bills don't make a move and flip flop

662
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: with somebody and go up and get one of those guys,

663
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: a guy who is an elite prospect. That could happen.

664
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: But if Osirius Torrens is there at twenty seven, it

665
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: would be at the top end of his range in

666
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: this draft, but certainly not a big reach. Yeah, not

667
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,439
Speaker 1: a big reach, but it would be considered a little

668
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: bit of reach. The bottom five picks of the first round. Yeah,

669
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some guys available. It's gonna be him

670
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: or maybe somebody like him, probably somebody who's even higher

671
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: on this list. Yeah, we went over it yesterday. The

672
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: four teams that met with Osiris Torrance at the Florida

673
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 1: Pro Day either had dinner with him the night before

674
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: dinner with him after the Pro day were the Titans,

675
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 1: the Rams, the Falcons, and the Saints. They pick thirty sixty,

676
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: forty first, and forty fourth in round two. Some of

677
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: those teams picked very high in round one Falcons eight,

678
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: Titans eleven, and the Rams don't have a first round pick.

679
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: So if you look at where all four of those

680
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: teams picking round two, I think it gives you a

681
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: picture of where a lot of teams feel the value

682
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: of Osiris Torrance is. So to pick him at twenty seven,

683
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it would be wrong, but it seems

684
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: like other teams have his great a little bit lower,

685
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: and so you wonder if that guy maybe isn't as

686
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: attractive an option at twenty seven is maybe we may

687
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: have all initially anticipated. Incidentally, it is official the Bills

688
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: have Taylor Rapp to a one year contract, so that

689
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: is officially a done deal, Lucille. We heard the reports

690
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, but it is now official he

691
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: has signed the contract. Steve said he actually met him

692
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: earlier today. He was in the facility, so hopefully we

693
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: can speak to him as well here before we're off

694
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: the air today. There's a fall. Look at that. We

695
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: got a photo right there at the ready um so

696
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: Steve and a nice chat with him. We hope we

697
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: can talk to him a little bit more. Uh here

698
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: on the air, we'll see if we can they can

699
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: squeeze us in. Hopefully they can, and you guys can

700
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: all get to meet Taylor Rapp as well. But let's

701
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: get back to the phones at eight oh three five

702
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: fifty one, eight fifty two fifty and we go to

703
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: Roy in Lockport. Next. What do you got for us?

704
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: Royer on one Bill's Live, Not much, Bronnie doing good

705
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: to see it back Brownie and Steve, you got holds

706
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: on it on the hall, you got hold on the

707
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: house seed bag dight, Okay, I let to trade back

708
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: in the first round, get higher picks of the sacron

709
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: over at Jack Campbell and and the and the big

710
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: and the big tight end I think helped. I don't

711
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: a lot tight end? Do you talk about Mayor No,

712
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: no walking day, the big one Darnell Washington? Okay, Yeah,

713
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: I like that guy can turn them into office line

714
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: and down Rome. They they maybe like Jack Jason Peters.

715
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: We did. I hangs to you guys, Yeah, okay, thanks, Roy,

716
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean that that's gonna be

717
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: the rub here, Steve. If they really like Jack Campbell

718
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: to fill the whole at middle linebacker. You're in a

719
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: tough spot because, as they said, a lot of people

720
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: see his values somewhere in the high thirties low forties.

721
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: Bills pick at twenty seven, do they just say, well,

722
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: the heck with it, let's just take him here because

723
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: we like him that much, or do they try to

724
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: line up the value with the pick. I mean, if

725
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,439
Speaker 1: you like the guy enough, you usual really just take

726
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: the guy. Um, yes, as long as it's not you know,

727
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: around difference unless you have yeah, unless that really confident case,

728
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 1: unless you're really confident you can get him later, really confident,

729
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: like you know you're gonna get him later, and there's

730
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: no way to know that. And if you're gonna get

731
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: a guy, what ten picks or fifteen picks above where

732
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: he was slotted at the top of the draft, that

733
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: means a little something. At the middle of the draft

734
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: or bottom of the draft. It really doesn't mean that

735
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 1: much those ten picks. But here's the thing. If you're

736
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna get him and he ends up playing for you

737
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: and being a starter for five straight years, like Termaine Edmonds,

738
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: did you take him? Huh? They got Edmonds at at seventeen,

739
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: the seventeenth pick of the draft. If you can get,

740
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: if you can get, if you can get that career

741
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: from Tremaine Edmonds out of Jack Campbell, take him at

742
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Take him, don't mess around with it. And

743
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: by all accounts to me, Brownie, that's exactly who this

744
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: Jack Campbell guy is. And there there may be one

745
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: or two others, although I like the measurables that Campbell brings.

746
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: He's a big, tall guy. The rest of these guys,

747
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: like Trenty sends him, Drew Sanders, Dorian Williams, they're not

748
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: very big. Um Sanders is, Sanders is the other Sanders

749
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: is a little big. But the other guys are. There

750
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: are these six foot six one two twenty guys, and

751
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: that's hard to play in the NFL at middle linebacker

752
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: at that size. So I'm if Jack Campbell's there and

753
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: he's your guy, taking him ten picks or fifteen picks early,

754
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: it means something at that high in the draft, up

755
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: in the back into the first round. But but it

756
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: doesn't mean as much as it did if it's in

757
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: the middle of the last part of the round. So

758
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: you know, so I'm as for Jarl Washington, his value

759
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: is going to be a little harder to ascertain, only

760
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: because he's very raw as a prospect, but his elite

761
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: physical traits are eye popping, and some teams covet the

762
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: traits far greater than others. And you know, there are

763
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: some that say, well, on's he gonna actually be contributing

764
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: for us in a major way? Is it going to

765
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: take two years? Well, I don't know if I want

766
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: to put a first round grade on a guy who's

767
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: going to take two years before he's actively contributing to

768
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: what we're going to do on offense. So I think

769
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: there is going to be somewhat of a variance on

770
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: draft grades for Washington, not tremendously, but I think once

771
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: you get past you know, pick twenty, all bets are off.

772
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he is a supreme physical talent. I think

773
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: you have to assess all of the other stuff that

774
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: goes along with it. What's his character makeup, what's his

775
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: level of self motivation? Is he a guy that wants

776
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: to be great? You know, it's all of those things

777
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: that roll into that that's going to ultimately shape the

778
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: kind of player he's going to become. And how much

779
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 1: of his potential he's going to fulfill. And that's why

780
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: these guys do homework for ten months on these players

781
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: so they have a better sense of those types of things.

782
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: Because the physical traits are obvious. Anybody can see him

783
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: on film. He's hurdling linebackers at six foot seven tw

784
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: in sixty eight pounds. That's insane. Anybody can see that.

785
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: It's all the other stuff that they do the homework

786
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: on to see if. Yeah, these traits are great, but

787
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: are they going to pan out at the NFL level

788
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: where you got to live football twenty four seven? Right,

789
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: that's right. We are up against the clock here, so

790
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: we got to take a break. But more of your

791
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: phone calls next year. On One Bills Live, presented by

792
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: a lot of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right

793
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: back here on One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

794
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: with you. Right back to the phones here as we're

795
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: a little tight on time. When we go to Trevor

796
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: in or Rochester next, well, hold on, what do you

797
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: got for us, Trevor? You're on One Bills Live. Hey,

798
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 1: guys are just curious if it's been any talk around

799
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: where we draft players from, because what I mean I

800
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: think the Bills have done what I think Brandon Bean

801
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: has done exactly what he's done in the last few

802
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 1: years and fills our depth and needs in the free

803
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: agency so we can draft for talent when draft day

804
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: comes around. However, I just wonder about, like where we

805
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,240
Speaker 1: get our guys from because I love all the Bills players, However,

806
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: when we get to those cold weather games, I just

807
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: feel like we have I mean, looking at the defensive

808
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: line alone, we like half of them at least are

809
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: from either Miami or Texas, somewhere in Texas, like at

810
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: Olivers out of Houston. Von Miller's out of Texas, A

811
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: and m He's played in Denver, so he has experienced

812
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: in the cold. But just I feel like Buffalo over

813
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 1: the last few years, well, we've built a dynamite program.

814
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: That's a program built to operate in a warm weather state,

815
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: not Western New York. And so do you think that

816
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: has been any talk of looking at guys like Jack

817
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: Campbell is a great guy because he's out of Iowa.

818
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: It's a little bit older state. But yeah, yeah, I

819
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: get what you mean. I think probably Trevor Moore, so

820
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: they do probably look at that sometimes and they see

821
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: how the guy played. I mean that Josh played in Wyoming,

822
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. I think they probably

823
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: look more at the competition and the type of program

824
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: they were in rather than the climate that they were in.

825
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: I think that would probably have more to do with it.

826
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: Brownie has strong feelings about the defense they play in

827
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: the was it the Big twelve, Brownie or something that

828
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: you say they don't play defense in or the Pac

829
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: twelve the Pac twelve. Yeah, you get these conferences that

830
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: are win that are playing games and it's always forty

831
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: two thirty eight. Nobody plays defense down there. Those are

832
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: probably more concerning getting defenders from those kind of conferences,

833
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: or offensive players who come from programs that don't score

834
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. I think that's more of a consideration. Certainly,

835
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: there is something to be serious for a guy that

836
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: has played in cold weather and who has not. Yeah,

837
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: And the reason they all come from Florida and Texas

838
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: is because those are two of the biggest football producing

839
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: states in the country and have been for the better

840
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: part of the last thirty years. You throw California in

841
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: Louisiana in there, and those are the next two after that.

842
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: The only northern states that come closer, like Ohio and Pennsylvania,

843
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: and they're distant in the number of players they produce

844
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 1: for the NFL level, So naturally more of your players

845
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: are going to be from the South anyway, because they

846
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: can play year round and all this other stuff, and

847
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,959
Speaker 1: it's just where the better athletes are, and the number

848
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: one job is to take the best players. It's not nothing.

849
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: Weather conditions be damned right, it's not nothing. There is

850
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: some consideration put into that, but they'll never let that

851
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: be a deciding factor because take it from a guy,

852
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: I grew up in Kansas or whatever you can, and

853
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: I went to Chicago to play football. You can learn

854
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: how to play in cold weather. It's not that difficult,

855
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: certainly on game Dame Plus, the player on the sidelines

856
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: and in the game have it better than anybody in

857
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: the stands. So don't think it's that it's you know,

858
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: a deal breaker by any sense. Senior producer from NFL Films,

859
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: Great Cosale coming up for our number two, he joins

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Speaker 1: us after the break. Here on one Bills Live, presented

861
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: by Collat of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Rode all right

862
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,800
Speaker 1: back here we all are our number two on a Friday,

863
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: and you know what that means. Senior producer from NFL Films,

864
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: Great co Sale, joining us as we dive into the

865
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: position groups of the draft prospects for the twenty twenty

866
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: three NFL Draft. Greg here to help us chop up

867
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: the tape on some of these guys. Before we get

868
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: to these prospects, Greg, it is official now Taylor Raps

869
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: signed to a one year contract by the Bills, which

870
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: gives them an interesting trio of veteran players at the

871
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: position now with Poyer, Hide and rap Now. Steve and

872
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: I have been kind of commiserating on this, wondering a

873
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: player of Tailor Raps caliber is going to get on

874
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,919
Speaker 1: the field in some capacity. And we know the last

875
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: year in Carolina, defensive coordinator Sean McDermott made use of

876
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: some three safety looks. Do we think we could see

877
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,240
Speaker 1: the return of that with a player of Raps caliber

878
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 1: now on Buffalo's roster, The old big nickel with three safeties,

879
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:39,879
Speaker 1: you wonder about that. Obviously, they've been literally not quite

880
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: but close in terms of playing conventional nickel with Johnson

881
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 1: in the slot. You wonder didn't they play a little

882
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: bit big nickel a few years ago with Marlowe. Yeah,

883
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: with Marlowe Seran Neil sometimes Yeah, it was kind of

884
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: m a corner's safety hybrid. Yeah, so I mean this

885
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: wouldn't be brand new. You know. Rap is certainly more

886
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: a closer to the line of scrimmage player than he

887
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 1: is a back end player, you know, just given the

888
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: way in which he plays. But you're right, I mean,

889
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 1: he's not necessarily a guy you sign if you're just

890
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: gonna play him on special teams. You know. So they

891
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: must have a plan. And we know obviously because Leslie

892
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: is not there this year, you know, maybe Sean has

893
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: some different ideas about some things he wants to do

894
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: that he you know, hasn't done in the last couple

895
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: of years. So maybe we will see some big Nickel, which,

896
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: as you said, Chris, he's done before. What does that

897
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: mean who comes off the field. Well, if you're gonna

898
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: go big Nicol, you're probably gonna bring Johnson off the field,

899
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: I would think, I mean, you know, or well let's

900
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: think of it. Um. You know, obviously it's been a

901
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: team that they played two linebackers for the most part,

902
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 1: so they've been playing two linebackers and Nicols, so you know,

903
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: they've been playing a four two five, So does the

904
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 1: four two five now become big nicol on Johnson's off

905
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: the field unless they see him as good enough to

906
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: in a sense phill a linebacker role. But I would

907
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: doubt that. I would doubt that. Yeah, I mean, the

908
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: only other thing you do is go pure dime with

909
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: just Milano on the field and with six. But you're

910
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: not going to do that on first down or second

911
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could do that.

912
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: I mean, certainly, you know, depending on how they see

913
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: the linebacker position or obviously going to get to talk

914
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: about some now, right, depending on who the second linebacker is.

915
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: With Milano, you know, it's very possible you could move

916
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: to play dime because they were not a dime team,

917
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: you know, with Edmonds and Milano, they I don't think

918
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: they played ten snaps a dime all year. Right, Right,

919
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: Let's let's begin with every Bills fans favorite linebacker in

920
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: the draft, Jack Campbell out of Iowa, a guy who

921
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: we found out is actually working in the pre draft

922
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: process with Luke Keakley, who has only you know, it's

923
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: only gotten Bills fans more excited knowing the connection. Obviously

924
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 1: between Luke Keakley and Sean McDermott. Having played under Sean.

925
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: Now this guy is tutoring Jack Campbell in the pre

926
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: draft process. Is he a complete linebacker for the NFL game? Well,

927
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 1: it's funny because in many ways he's like Keiley. He's

928
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: just not quite as athletic. Keickley was special, obviously a

929
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: top ten pick in a draft if memory serves me

930
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: correct or certainly top twelve. Campbell is not quite that

931
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: level of athlete. But he was one of my most

932
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: enjoyable players to watch on tape because he just knows

933
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: how to play. He played stacked backer. He's six five,

934
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: but legit, six five, that's what he was at the combine.

935
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: He was two forty nine. You know, he ran. His

936
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: measurables were a lot better I think guys than people thought.

937
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: Although you wouldn't say he's a twitchy, sudden mover. He's

938
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: not that guy, but then again, most six five guys

939
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: are not. But he's really good against the run. I mean,

940
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that has size, as we said,

941
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 1: and that's a trait. He's got physicality. I mean, he's

942
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: got that stack and shed ability. He sees things really quickly,

943
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: which is what Keekle he was. So it's high level

944
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: key and diagnosed and then he reacts. And he had

945
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: a really good mix in the run game of being

946
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: patient when he needed to, but then being decisive when

947
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 1: he saw it and he triggered. He had an innate

948
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: feel for when to attack with aggressiveness and when to

949
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: play with patients and assignment integrity. I thought he was

950
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,959
Speaker 1: a really good prospect, you know. And again the knock

951
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: on him will be that he's not a twitchy athlete,

952
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have, you know, the hip fluidity that

953
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: everybody talks about that you'd ideally like to see. But

954
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: I think that he's just a really smart, good football player.

955
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: How about when he's in past coverage. Now I've seen

956
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: a couple of clips where his eyes seem to be

957
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: really disciplined, he knows where to look. Yes, he's got

958
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: good ball instincts. He can you know, he plays the

959
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: ball well for a linebacker. What about his coverage skills

960
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: and his ability to drop into the coverage in zone, Steve,

961
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: he's really good that that's his thing. The question with

962
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: him would be if and and maybe it's not a

963
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: question if the Bills were to draft him because Edmonds

964
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: rarely matched up to the tight end. It was Milano, right,

965
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure Campbell, despite his height and his size,

966
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,879
Speaker 1: would be considered at this moment in time a really

967
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: good tight end matchup. Maybe over time because he does

968
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: have the size. But again, you know, if the Bills

969
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: were to draft him and to stay with you know,

970
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: the four two five, he would not likely be the

971
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:34,840
Speaker 1: tight end matchup, But I think the concern would be

972
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: man to man on tight ends. He's a really good

973
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:41,839
Speaker 1: underneath his own defender. Another linebacker that people have high

974
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: on draft boards is Drew Sanders, the Alabama transfer who

975
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: went to Arkansas, you know, and then pretty much turned

976
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: into a dominant pass rusher. He was more up on

977
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: the line, but some people are wondering he should be

978
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 1: an off the ball guy because they worry he doesn't

979
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: have enough sand in the pants to play up on

980
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage in the NFL. Number one, Greg,

981
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: where do you see him lining up in the NFL?

982
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: And if it is at off the ball linebacker, what

983
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 1: are we anticipating in terms of a transition. Well, Brownie,

984
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: that's where he predominantly played at Arkansas. He was an

985
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: off the ball linebacker. He only lined up on the

986
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage on third down and in selected situations.

987
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: He was an off the ball backer, okay, and he

988
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: almost always aligned to the passing strength of the offensive formation.

989
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: And you know, this is a new position for him

990
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: because he went to Alabama and it was there for

991
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: two years, and he was recruited as a pass rusher.

992
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 1: But obviously they will Anderson and Dallas Turner, who's the

993
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: next guy. He'll probably be a top fifteen pick next year.

994
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: So he was an off the ball backer, and you know,

995
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: he shows a really quick trigger in the run game.

996
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: I thought, given that he doesn't have a lot of experience,

997
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 1: he saw things pretty well and pretty cleanly. I think

998
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: he needs to improve as a tackler, which isn't surprising

999
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: given that he didn't have to make those kinds of

1000
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: tackles as an edge player in his background. But he

1001
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: took on blocks with strength, with arm extension. He played

1002
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: off blocks and made tackles in the run game. He's

1003
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: got great play speed in pursuit range. He's a really

1004
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: interesting guy. He's physically tough. You could tell he's mentally tough.

1005
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: He's a football player, you know, when he's got really

1006
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,439
Speaker 1: good size. He's he's over sixty four, he's two thirty five.

1007
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: I would bet he could get to two forty five

1008
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: and probably not lose much of his movement ability because

1009
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: he's got that kind of frame. And again, he can

1010
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: be used as a pass rusher. He showed some really

1011
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: good pass rush trades. But I would say, and I

1012
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: don't have the number right in front of him, I

1013
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: would bet he played seventy five eight percent excuse me,

1014
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: of his snaps as an off the ball linebacker. And

1015
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 1: then you talk about guys like Jack Campbell and Drew Sanders,

1016
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,439
Speaker 1: and you know they're big, two hundred and forty pound guy, Bass,

1017
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: Sanders bigger. Then you get to the other guys on

1018
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: this list, like a Trenton Simpson who's six two, two

1019
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: thirty five out of Clemson, who's coming out as a junior.

1020
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about him? The rest of

1021
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: these these prospects we're gonna talk about are a little

1022
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: bit undersized by these standards. Yeah, and then it depends

1023
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: what they're looking for. Because Milano is obviously a really

1024
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: good athlete, and he's sort of the guy who does

1025
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: everything for them. Um, you know, Simpson is one of

1026
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: those really really good athletes. He's a he's a long,

1027
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: fluid athlete. He played multiple positions at Clemson, but I

1028
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: think he's going to be a stacked linebacker in the NFL.

1029
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 1: That's what I think. If you draft Trenton Simpson, to me,

1030
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: you're drafting him to be a stackbacker. And ultimately you

1031
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: know he's he's got athletic movement. Um, he's a running

1032
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: chase guy. He's one of those guys that can play

1033
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: inside out, sidelines to sideline with great play speed and range.

1034
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: You know, I think that he plays really well in space.

1035
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: You know, he's an active players. He's just a really

1036
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 1: really good athlete. Plays with a high energy level. And

1037
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: because he's such a good athlete, you kind of get

1038
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: that that impact playmaking dimension to his game, which I

1039
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 1: think will be further cultivated at the NFL level. So,

1040
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of those guys that he has

1041
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: that desirable size, speed, athleticism profile that obviously everybody wants.

1042
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: And if you're six two two thirty five, that's pretty

1043
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: good because you know a lot of the guys who

1044
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: have that profile are six feet in two twenty five.

1045
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: He's six two two thirty five, which is good enough size, right,

1046
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: but then the next guy takes a step down even

1047
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: from that six one two twenty five. Diane Henley from

1048
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: Washington State. He makes a lot of plays, but getting

1049
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: are we getting into a concerning area with the size

1050
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 1: or does he just make so many plays that it

1051
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I would say it's for the Bills, it'd

1052
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: be concerning because I don't think you want Milano and Henley.

1053
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: You know, then you don't have any size linebacker. So again,

1054
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how they feel about it. You know,

1055
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I think you're probably would not

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Speaker 1: want to be in that situation. But maybe they're okay

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Speaker 1: with that. But yeah, Henley's two twenty five. He's a

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Speaker 1: really fun guy to watch. You know, he's only played

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Speaker 1: two seasons at stack linebacker. I mean, this guy came

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Speaker 1: out of Crenshaw High School in LA. He was a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. He went to Nevada, played wide receivers first

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Speaker 1: two years, then they moved him to safety, then linebacker,

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Speaker 1: and then he played his last year just one year

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Speaker 1: at Washington State in the Pac twelve. So he has

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Speaker 1: still much to learn and understand from a play recognition perspective.

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Speaker 1: But this guy is a compact, sudden super charge competitive athlete.

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Speaker 1: I mean, his good plays, he just looks like he

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Speaker 1: shot out of a cannon. He's got really good play

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Speaker 1: speed and range, really high activity level. You know. But

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Speaker 1: but Brownie, he's six feet seven eighths and two twenty five.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's not really big. So you have that's

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Speaker 1: a decision that becomes a team in schemes, specific decision

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Speaker 1: for the teams that are that are interested in him.

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Speaker 1: You know, do you want a guy who's basically six

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Speaker 1: one two twenty five? You know, now, if if Edmonds

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Speaker 1: was your other linebacker, you might say that's fine. But

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Speaker 1: you know, with Edmund's gone and Milano, who's a smaller

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Speaker 1: line because Milano was a kind of a safety in college,

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Speaker 1: he's not a six four guy. So you know, the

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Speaker 1: question is do you want two shorter guys like that? Steve,

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Speaker 1: did you have anybody else on the list there? No?

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Speaker 1: I think no. I think we're gonna take a break here, Greg,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being on with us, appreciate it, and uh,

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Speaker 1: we'll see again next hopefully next week before the draft. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll be around all right here, I'll be in my

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Speaker 1: office watching tape right now. We'll hit you up with

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Speaker 1: another position group. So thanks Greg as old as we'll

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Speaker 1: be sure you'll be on it for us next week.

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Speaker 1: So thanks for the time and the insight. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. All right, that's great. Co Sale, senior producer

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Speaker 1: from NFL Films joining us. Let's we take a quick

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Speaker 1: break when we come back. The newest sign he of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills one Tailor rep. Next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, present Abody a lot of health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and joining Stevens Studio

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Speaker 1: right now is the newest Buffalo Bill officially putting pen

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Speaker 1: to paper this afternoon at One Bills Drive, Buffalo's newest

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Speaker 1: safety Taylor Rap Taylor First, congratulations, welcome to Buffalo. And

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Speaker 1: I guess what kind of free agency process would you

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Speaker 1: call this for yourself? How did it all kind of

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Speaker 1: work your way? How did you work your way through it?

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Speaker 1: What kind of tricks, if at all, was it playing

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Speaker 1: on your brain? Any anxious moments? Etc? Oh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean all all the above, you know, all the all

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Speaker 1: the emotions that you know, it's kind of I guess

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Speaker 1: the because I've never been through free agency, so it

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Speaker 1: is my first time going through and so I mean

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Speaker 1: another process. It was kind of like the draft, even

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Speaker 1: though I guess the free agency process you have a

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Speaker 1: little more say, you might have a little more choice, um,

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Speaker 1: and where you end up. And you know obviously the

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01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 1: draft and you you don't have really any choice of

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Speaker 1: where you end up. But um, you know, it was

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Speaker 1: it was a whirlwind for sure. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think Buffalo was was at at the top of

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Speaker 1: my list. Um. You know, as as we uh you know,

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Speaker 1: finished up last season, I knew it was going to

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Speaker 1: hit free agency. Um, it's definitely, uh, you know one

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Speaker 1: of the teams that I knew I was going to

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Speaker 1: have a strong interest as well. Um and so um

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Speaker 1: obviously you know Jordan, he ended up signing back here,

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Speaker 1: and um you know that that obviously a little change

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Speaker 1: changed things a little bit for for us. But ultimately,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, everyone here still still wanted

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Speaker 1: to sign me and um, you know, still wanted to

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Speaker 1: be a part of it, and so um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it just came down to at the end of the process,

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Speaker 1: just trying to find the right fit and the right opportunity,

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Speaker 1: um and the and the best situation for you know,

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01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: myself and my family and my my future family as well.

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Speaker 1: We we spoke a little bit earlier today and I

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Speaker 1: and I tried to relate this to listeners. But give

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Speaker 1: us an idea of you know, you're out in free agency,

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Speaker 1: and you know, for a guy, an old guy like me,

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Speaker 1: when I was a free agent, I was out of work.

1137
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Speaker 1: I mean I was just looking for a job, right,

1138
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: But for a guy like you, there was some interest,

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01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 1: there was a market out there. How important was it

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Speaker 1: for you to go because you you've won a World championship, right,

1141
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: and then you went through strutting in your team struggled

1142
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: this last year, the RAM struggled this last year with

1143
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 1: everything else had happened. How important it is it for

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01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: you to be on a team that's gonna have a

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01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 1: chance at the end. How much did that play a

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01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 1: factor in your decision? Yeah? I mean, like like I

1147
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Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, it played a huge factor. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was definitely at the top of my list, and

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01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 1: in factors um that that ultimately ended up making me

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Speaker 1: making making this the right decision for me. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: just like you said, obviously, I've won a championship and

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01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: I've tasted it before, and UM, you know that's something

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Speaker 1: that I I want to continue to do for the

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Speaker 1: rest of my career. And you know, obviously, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: this whole organization and the you know, this staff has

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Speaker 1: built something very special. Um, you know, in the whole

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Speaker 1: entire building. And this is you know, uh, it's my

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Speaker 1: first time being here in the building, and I can

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01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: already tell that's you know, very very special people in

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Speaker 1: this building. Um. You know, from coaching staff to performance

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Speaker 1: staff to you know, training staff, to strength coaches to

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Speaker 1: coaching staff to the players. I already know the you know,

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Speaker 1: the the culture here is amazing. UM. You know, a

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys that just want to grind and you know,

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Speaker 1: get to work, put their head down and you know,

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01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: ultimately just win at the end of the day. And

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Speaker 1: you know, that's all that's all I'm about, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm all about and just putting my head down

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Speaker 1: and working hard, and you know, ultimately just trying to

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Speaker 1: win games, doesn't matter how how it's won. Or you know,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how um, you know, how much success

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Speaker 1: you personally have, but um, you know, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, it's just about winning. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm excited to be a part of this,

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Speaker 1: this organization and you know, some some specials definitely brewing here. Taylor.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned that you know, Jordan is back in the mix,

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Speaker 1: which obviously affects things. But you've been probably a Swiss

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Speaker 1: Army knife to a certain in you know, some of

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Speaker 1: the roles that you played for the Rams. Is there

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Speaker 1: a chance that I mean, I don't know if you've

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01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: been told a whole lot yet as far as a

1182
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 1: role is concerned, But do you think you could be

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Speaker 1: almost the same kind of versatile piece for Buffalo's defense? Yeah,

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01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: I mean definitely, you know, I think, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: just going back to the last question and what I

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Speaker 1: kind of touched on, you know, ultimately it's about winning games,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, I just want to come in

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Speaker 1: here and contribute any way possible, whether that's playing special

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Speaker 1: teams to playing you know dime where we have five

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Speaker 1: dbs on the grass, a third safety, or you know,

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01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: different packages where you know, Coach McDermott and the defense, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, develops and integrates throughout this offseason program and

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Speaker 1: throughout the season. You know, just just any way I

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Speaker 1: can get on the field and help contribute UM to

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Speaker 1: this team winning. UM. I think that's the ultimate goal.

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Speaker 1: And you know, that's all I'm looking forward to, and

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Speaker 1: you know, learning from you know, it came back to,

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Speaker 1: you know, throughout this whole free agency process, the best situation,

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Speaker 1: best opportunity, but also you know, the opportunity to come

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Speaker 1: in to a great defensive defensive unit dB room back seven.

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Speaker 1: But also you know in the safety room in Micah

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Speaker 1: and Jordan, you know, those are two all pro safeties

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Speaker 1: that have great established careers, that are great human beings

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Speaker 1: from what I've heard, UM, And you know, just looking

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Speaker 1: forward to coming in and you know, soaking up everything

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Speaker 1: I can from those guys. And you know, obviously they

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Speaker 1: have a lot of veteran experience and they played at

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Speaker 1: a high level throughout their whole entire careers. So I'm

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Speaker 1: just super excited to come in and you know, learn

1210
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Speaker 1: develop my game under them and helped contribute to this

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Speaker 1: team to win games and ultimately championships. So a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, you win a championship and for a

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Speaker 1: hot minute last half of that season, Von Miller was

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Speaker 1: on your squad. Yeah, you and vaugh were teammates, and

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01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 1: there was a lot said thing and and and obj

1216
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Speaker 1: came in. Odell Beckham Junior was signed as well, and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about those guys is helping

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Speaker 1: the Rams, you know, kind of get over the hump

1219
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Speaker 1: to get there. Matt Stafford had his first year there,

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Speaker 1: and you guys and you won the won the championship.

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Speaker 1: How much um is there toward to the thought of

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Speaker 1: somebody or something or some player being that one last

1223
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Speaker 1: missing piece? What does that mean? Uh? Is it a

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Speaker 1: real thing or is it something that you know, it

1225
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Speaker 1: just kind of turns out the way it seems to,

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Speaker 1: you know what, give us an idea about ob j

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Speaker 1: and Vaughan being added to your roster? Did it help?

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Speaker 1: Did it hurt? Did it you know what it mean? Yeah? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean you know those guys right there, they're incredible players.

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Speaker 1: And obviously the addition of Vaughan and obj Uh in

1231
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: our second half of the season was it was interesting

1232
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Speaker 1: instrumental and and uh, you know how how the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season played out for us, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I think those those two guys played huge parts and um,

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Speaker 1: you know us us even getting to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: you know, making the deep run in the playoffs and

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01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: then ultimately winning the Super Bowl. I think those guys,

1238
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 1: um had had huge um factors in that as well.

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01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: You know, two two great players, but also two great

1240
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Speaker 1: locker room guys that came in and um, you know,

1241
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,720
Speaker 1: helped help the culture and help help the locker room

1242
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 1: kind of you know, be one cohesive piece and everyone

1243
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: kind of bought in, uh you know, after we kind

1244
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 1: of uh you know, made those transactions to get to

1245
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: get those two guys you already mentioned, you know, now

1246
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Speaker 1: being in the locker room in a position room with

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Speaker 1: Jordan and Mica, you know, two established vets as you mentioned.

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Speaker 1: But I mean you came in the door with the

1249
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Speaker 1: Rams and there's Eric Weddle and John Johnson. I mean

1250
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Speaker 1: how much did those guys kind of shorten your learning

1251
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 1: curve and put you wise beyond your years in your younger,

1252
01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:46,000
Speaker 1: more formative professional years with the Rams, Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: I mean I came in my first rookie year. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously e Dub like you said, and John

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Speaker 1: Johnson JJ. You know those those two incredible guys UM

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Speaker 1: that I've I've came into the room and you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously they they helped me develop as a you know,

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01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: because rookie year is tough. You know, it's such a

1259
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: such a long grind and season. Um. You know, you

1260
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Speaker 1: come straight from your last season to college football and

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Speaker 1: then straight to training, then the Combine and then the

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Speaker 1: draft and then rookie minicamp OTAs Uh, you play a

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Speaker 1: whole long NFL season which is like twice as long

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Speaker 1: as a college season. So rookie year is a grind.

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Speaker 1: And you know, E Dub and you know JJ, they

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Speaker 1: got me through that, and UM, they definitely shortened their

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Speaker 1: learning curve for me as a rookie. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I I you know, I own that I owe both

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01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: of them tremendously for for kind of taking me in

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Speaker 1: under the under the wing and you know, teaching me, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know what it is like to be a UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, professional football player. UM. One of the things

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01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:45,559
Speaker 1: that happened, and we talk a lot about the World

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01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: Championship you won and stuff, one of the you know,

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Speaker 1: the after effects of that game was we have video

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Speaker 1: of you and and Danny over here. You proposed to

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Speaker 1: your wife. Danny, she's over here watching us in the background.

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Speaker 1: You proposed her after the game and the champion you

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01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: were you gonna do that if you lost? No? No,

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Speaker 1: So we actually so funny story. So I actually, um,

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Speaker 1: we had a trip plan out to Hawaii. I was

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Speaker 1: actually I just came back from Hawaii right now. So

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01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:14,640
Speaker 1: as you can see, it looks like I have a

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01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: freaking spray tan. I got some nice color, but Hawaii

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01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 1: does that to you. Yeah, so I I got some

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01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 1: nice color out in Hawaii. But yeah, we we spend

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Speaker 1: a lot of off seasons out in Hawaii. So we

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Speaker 1: had a trip planned out to Hawaii, um, two weeks

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Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl, and so I was originally going

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Speaker 1: to propose then. And so I mean, I you know,

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Speaker 1: we made the Super Bowl, and so I was figuring

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Speaker 1: out I had you know, I had a um a

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Speaker 1: guy do a personalized ring, so I could you know,

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Speaker 1: propose and all that stuff. Kid, they'll figured out. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I had my ring guy um working on

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Speaker 1: it on the on the East Coast, and so I

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Speaker 1: was like, you know, one of these days, whatever thought

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01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 1: that just came up in my head. I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, what if I just like do it

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01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 1: after if we you know, if we win. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was like, what am I going to give this

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01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 1: opportunity again? Like I'm we're gonna get this opportunity out

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01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:03,919
Speaker 1: like so like it was a once a lifetime opportunity.

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01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,439
Speaker 1: So absolutely I called him. I was like, hey, man, like,

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01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 1: any way you can get the ring done? Um, you know,

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01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: a few days before we played in the Super Bowl,

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01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: like I might want to like propose to her if

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Speaker 1: you win, right right? You can't just wait to Hawaii,

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01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: right right? So I had I had, I had planned

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Speaker 1: A and then Plan I guess B. But it was

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01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: really like Plan one A, Plan one B, which too great.

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Speaker 1: You can't lose, yeah, Um, except I mean in in Hawaii.

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01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 1: I think I think she would have probably definitely known

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01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: what was coming. And so this way I did a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. She knows me as a type of person.

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Speaker 1: I'm not one to kind of do this type of stuff,

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01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 1: and so she had absolutely no idea, which is kind

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Speaker 1: of what I want. So I flew out her whole family.

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Speaker 1: Everything I asked for, um, you know, the father's blessing,

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Speaker 1: the mom's blessing, the night before at the hotel, the

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Speaker 1: team hotel, because they're all staying at the team hotel. Um,

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Speaker 1: her mom almost gave it away though. She was like bawling, crying,

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Speaker 1: and and Danny was right there in the in the

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Speaker 1: hotel as well. So her mom almost gave it away

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01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: the night before, but luckily we got through that. But

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Speaker 1: she had absolutely no idea. You didn't have any idea,

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Speaker 1: Danny none, Okay, she says, no, she's that. Yeah, no,

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01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:17,800
Speaker 1: she actually had She had no idea. So it all

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Speaker 1: worked out. Smart move though, because you gotta have it

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01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: if it doesn't if the game doesn't go well, yeah,

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01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: you gotta be like, okay, just yeah, we'll wait a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Exactly. Super Bowl is the super Bowl

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01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:32,960
Speaker 1: is the best cover though, because you're bringing her whole

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01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:35,559
Speaker 1: family and she's like, she's not gonna suspect, well, why

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Speaker 1: is he bringing the family? And exactly, of course, you

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Speaker 1: know what's the whole family's there? So that that was

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01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 1: a great cover. Speaking of your family, just to kind

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01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: of let Bills fans know a little bit more about you,

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01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:50,120
Speaker 1: Taylor uh born in Atlanta, but you grew up in

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01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: the Seattle area and your your dad is a Native Canadian, right,

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01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:58,880
Speaker 1: so you have like dual citizenship number one. Now is

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01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 1: he a Western Canadian native or is he an Eastern

1343
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 1: Canadian native? Because we're right near the border here now

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01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: in Buffalo as well too, Eastern, so just a little

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01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: bit north of you guys in Toronto. He actually grew

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01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 1: up in Petersborough. Att Yeah, oh yeah, so I spent

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01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 1: some time out in Toronto. So I'm assuming my wife

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Speaker 1: and my wife and I are gonna take trips out

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01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 1: to tell your dad. Whisper to your dad saying, tell

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01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 1: him to tell everybody he's always been a lifelong Bills

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01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: fans because he grew up here. Yeah, yeah, yeah you

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01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 1: say that now? Is that true? Yes? Yeah, just now

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01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 1: you're telling me him and his friends actually would always

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01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 1: come down to Buffalo games. There you go, Yeah, full circle.

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01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,680
Speaker 1: I saw some I also saw some photos of you,

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01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 1: Taylor in a boat with a pretty big fish. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if anybody's told you yet, but the fishing

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01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:46,799
Speaker 1: is really good here. I mean they got king salmon

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Speaker 1: up in Lake Ontario. Oh wait, I didn't want the fishing.

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01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 1: Did you usually do out west? Yeah? No way, yeah,

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01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 1: salmon like because you know Pacific Northwest Oregon and Washington

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01:14:57,439 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 1: has some of the greatest salmon runs. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: they had king salmon out here. That's that's awesome. They

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01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:07,120
Speaker 1: actually stock Lake Ontario with king salmon. They use it

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01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 1: to control a bait fish population in Lake Ontario. So

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Speaker 1: there are king salmon in Lake Ontario, which is north

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Speaker 1: of US here. Um, you gotta drive a little bit

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01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 1: of away. It's from Buffalo, but you're talking like forty

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01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: five minute drive. You hop in the marina, you're on

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Speaker 1: a boat, and you're on Lake Ontario and you're salmon

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Speaker 1: fisher melody. You know you can't get anywhere in forty

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Speaker 1: five minutes. No, yeah, forty five minutes here is nothing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's awesome. I appreciate that. I'll definitely look into that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I got a guy I can hook you up with

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Speaker 1: Squared Away. Yeah, awesome, Taylor, Man, it's great meeting you. Man. Congratulations.

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Speaker 1: I know you're you're you're taking off. You're gonna go

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01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: back tyol Loosens. What's your what's your off season? When's

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01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: your schedule bringing you back to Buffalo? What have they

1379
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 1: told you about the off season? You know? Yeah, so

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01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: off season program starts April seventeenth, that Monday, and so

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01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: I'll probably be out here that that week before or

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01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 1: you know, that weekend before, and um, you know, we'll

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01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 1: figure out living situation and you know, my wife will

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01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 1: be back home in LA trying to soak up as

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01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 1: much sun as you can and bring it back here

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01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 1: for But yeah, no, I'll be out here all offseason programs.

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01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 1: So I'll be back. You know, we'll go we'll be

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01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 1: going back to LA and kind of tie up loose ends,

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01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:15,879
Speaker 1: like you said, and you know, figure out living situation

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01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 1: and you know, I'll pack up some stuff and I'll

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01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 1: be out here, um, all offseason program and you know

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01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: I'm planning to be out here in the summer training

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01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 1: with the strength staff as well. Awesome. I appreciate you

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01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: stopping by and joining us, Taylor. Glad the fans got

1395
01:16:30,520 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: to get to know you a little bit. I know

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01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 1: they'll be eager to be cheering you on out there

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01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:36,880
Speaker 1: on the field on Sundays, Monday nights, Thursday nights. Whatever.

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01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 1: So safe travels back to the West Coast and then

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01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: we'll see you here soon enough. Thanks man, Thanks for

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01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: having me on. All right. That's Taylor Wrap. Buffalo's News

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Speaker 1: Safety joining us here on one of Bill's Live. We'll

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Speaker 1: take a break, be back with more in just a second,

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01:16:48,920 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 1: Stay tune come back to one Bill's Live. Chris Brown

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01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you one segment to go and wanted

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01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 1: to get some of the thoughts on the tweet sheet

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01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 1: from OBIL fan mailbag Friday and b Hicks starts us

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01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:19,599
Speaker 1: off Steve with the following, who would you rather extend

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01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:23,360
Speaker 1: day Quan Jones or At Oliver? If day Quan, what

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01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 1: do you see as the average annual value being? And

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01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 1: if it's Oliver, what do you see the average annual

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01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:32,640
Speaker 1: value being. I think we can kind of spell this

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01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: one out pretty easily. At Oliver heading to his second

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01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 1: contract wants to make a boatload of money as he

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Speaker 1: enters his prime. Or day Kuan Jones, who I believe

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01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:45,840
Speaker 1: is entering his age thirty one season. Steve is playing

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01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:47,720
Speaker 1: for four and a half million a year on his

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01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:51,760
Speaker 1: current deal, and I think even if he dominates in

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01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 1: the last year of his contract, probably you could get

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01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: him back for comparable money to his current deal. He

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01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 1: would be the much more affordable option, even though he

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01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:03,760
Speaker 1: doesn't have as much of his career in front of

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Speaker 1: him as Ed does. Absolutely, even if he plays better

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01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 1: than Ed, he's going to afford less money because he's

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01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: closer to the end of his career. And when he

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01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,280
Speaker 1: talked about extending him, you know, he comes the question

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01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 1: comes in, how long are you going to extend him?

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01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:20,679
Speaker 1: I'm going into his thirty one season if you extend him, Okay,

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01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 1: he's going to be in his thirty second He's gonna

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01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:25,200
Speaker 1: be thirty two or thirty three at the end of

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01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: the contract, playing one of the most physically demanding positions

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01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 1: in all of sports. So yeah, he d Quan Jones,

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01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 1: and even last year he was a better value player.

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01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 1: The team was much better with him on the field.

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01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,720
Speaker 1: All the guys around him played better. He seems to

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01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:45,720
Speaker 1: have the ability to elevate players around him because of

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01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: his play, commanding's double teams, dominating single blockers. Just you know,

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01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 1: so de Quan is by far the better valued player

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01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 1: at this point. That doesn't mean he's got the bigger

1439
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:04,400
Speaker 1: or upside possibility. Ed has always been an athlete loaded

1440
01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 1: with potential and has shown it at times fulfilled it

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01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:10,640
Speaker 1: at time, just not consistently enough. And that's been the

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01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 1: big knock on ed right, and not only that, he's

1443
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: gonna be looking for big time money. He's currently playing

1444
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: for ten point seven this year on the fifth year option,

1445
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: and logic would say he'd be looking for even better

1446
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,920
Speaker 1: than that on an average annual value. And while the

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01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: cap is probably going to go up next year, I

1448
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:30,400
Speaker 1: know so too are the contracts of some players on

1449
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:33,519
Speaker 1: the roster, like Stefan Diggs, who I think is contract

1450
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: balloons to like a twenty eight million dollar cap hit. Now,

1451
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 1: you can restructure that if you want, but we know

1452
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:40,800
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean only wants to do that so much. I

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01:19:41,280 --> 01:19:42,880
Speaker 1: guess what I'm saying is, I don't know there's gonna

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01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 1: be room for a contract that size that he wants,

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01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:48,920
Speaker 1: and he would have to put together a whale of

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01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 1: a season to justify it. That's far more consistent than

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01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: what we've seen from him thus far. Andrew in the

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01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: mail bag asks do the Bills have a shot at

1459
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,880
Speaker 1: drafting Jack Campbell? I think they do. Based on an

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01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: earlier conversation Steve, there are some that believe that Campbell

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01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:11,040
Speaker 1: could be could get a draft grade from teams anywhere

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01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: from the bottom round one to the top half of

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01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 1: round two, and the Bills are in that area. They're

1464
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:21,240
Speaker 1: at the top of that range at twenty seven, so yeah,

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01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:23,559
Speaker 1: they could certainly get him, especially if they use their

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01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:25,800
Speaker 1: first round pick. If they're gonna wait until the second round,

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01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:28,639
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna have to move up to go get them. Yeah.

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01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:33,879
Speaker 1: I think that most teams as well value other positions

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01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:36,240
Speaker 1: more than middle linebacker. Middle linebackers a little bit like

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Speaker 1: running back in this day and age. Yeah, if you

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01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:41,560
Speaker 1: get a good one, you love it, and they do

1472
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:44,599
Speaker 1: make a difference, but you don't want to pay him

1473
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and you want to get them

1474
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: cheap if you can. The Bills are a perfect example

1475
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: of drafting Tremaine Edmonds and letting him walking. Who's now

1476
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,800
Speaker 1: He's making fifteen million dollars a year and they're gonna

1477
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 1: try and draft every replace seventeen million dollars a year,

1478
01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 1: and they're gonna try and draft his replacement. It looks

1479
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 1: like at this point, certain they've got some guys that

1480
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 1: are finger quotes good enough in Dotson and meta Kevich

1481
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: and you know other guy other free agents out there available,

1482
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 1: but Jack Campbell at twenties, if he's there at pick

1483
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 1: number twenty seven, I don't even blame that guy is

1484
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 1: just like Tremaine Edmonds is going to be treated exactly

1485
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:23,840
Speaker 1: like Tremaine Edmonds was. You're gonna take him and plug

1486
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 1: him in and let him play for five years to

1487
01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 1: see how he does. That's like from the word go

1488
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 1: and I don't. And this is from a staff that

1489
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:34,200
Speaker 1: doesn't really play rookies, as we've all noted, particularly on

1490
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:37,160
Speaker 1: the offensive side. They certainly did with Tremaine Edmonds and

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01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: they never regretted it. I don't think right from John,

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01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:52,639
Speaker 1: what's in the ultimate buffalo tailgate buffet? Wings? Bear, Yeah,

1493
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:58,280
Speaker 1: some sort of meat product, Yeah, smoked meat, smoke brisket.

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01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: All of that stuff is park pork. Yeah. I think

1495
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:06,639
Speaker 1: it starts with beef and it's light on vegetables, right.

1496
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: I think that's unless you want celery and carrots with

1497
01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:14,160
Speaker 1: your wings, and yeah, you dip you dip them into yeah,

1498
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 1: blue cheese, right. Yeah. I mean there's a number of

1499
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: different things. A lot of people might say beef on

1500
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 1: whack two for a true buffalo buffet, but yeah, it's

1501
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 1: usually some kind of long cooked you know, slow cooked meat.

1502
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: Wings are usually pressed. Salem's hot dogs are a big,

1503
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: big plus two. You can get by with at as well.

1504
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,800
Speaker 1: That's usually the hot dog thing is usually a post

1505
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: game thing, right you come in, you've already been cooking

1506
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 1: the meat for your pregame, and you eat that early

1507
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:45,880
Speaker 1: in the day, and then after the game, you get

1508
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 1: back and while the traffic is clear, and you throw

1509
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:49,680
Speaker 1: some dogs on the fire and get them cooked up

1510
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:54,919
Speaker 1: and have something before you go home. Usually, yeah, Gerald

1511
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:57,760
Speaker 1: in the middle. Elbeg asked, with the twenty seventh pick

1512
01:22:57,760 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: in the first round of the draft, what position could

1513
01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 1: be best addressed. I think that's a hard thing to

1514
01:23:02,720 --> 01:23:05,880
Speaker 1: call when you're picking all the way down at twenty seven,

1515
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 1: because it's really what's available to you. It is hard

1516
01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: to predict, so it's it's totally predicated on what comes

1517
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 1: off the board in front of you to determine where

1518
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 1: the best value is at a certain position. Like the

1519
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: Bills could be all about drafting an offensive tackle. Let's

1520
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 1: just say, and if four tackles go before they pick,

1521
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 1: the value suddenly goes to hell in a handbasket. So

1522
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:34,320
Speaker 1: now you have to pivot and look at another position

1523
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: where there might be better value because you don't have

1524
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:39,639
Speaker 1: any more first round grade tackles because they're all gone. Yeah,

1525
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:41,639
Speaker 1: you say it again. You don't want to go into

1526
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:45,960
Speaker 1: the draft needing a position because it rarely lines up

1527
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 1: with where you're picking and who's available. Brian Bill, like

1528
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: the former coach of the of the Baltimore Ravens who

1529
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,599
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl there and the year two thousand,

1530
01:23:57,680 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 1: he said it best. He says, need is a terrible

1531
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: draft evaluator. You don't want to go into the draft

1532
01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:09,639
Speaker 1: needing to address a position. So if you do, better

1533
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:12,280
Speaker 1: be ready. You better be ready to draft a player

1534
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:15,479
Speaker 1: well above where he's projected. Otherwise you run a huge

1535
01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:17,560
Speaker 1: risk of going out with him and coming out of

1536
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: the draft within it's still a positional emergency. So you

1537
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:24,800
Speaker 1: can't do that. So right now, though, I mean, we've

1538
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 1: still got a ways to go before the draft. Right now,

1539
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:29,800
Speaker 1: I think the guys we talked about the position group

1540
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 1: we spoke about today with Greg Cosell, middle linebacker, inside

1541
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:35,840
Speaker 1: linebacker would be the best guy to get because there's

1542
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 1: a great one. There are two great ones, and they'd

1543
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 1: fall at value right where the Bills are, or maybe

1544
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 1: a little below, which means they're probably going to be

1545
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:48,800
Speaker 1: there when the Bills pick. That's my guess today Yeah,

1546
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 1: and that kind of answers this next question to some

1547
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:53,840
Speaker 1: extent from ed in your estimation, what roster holes are

1548
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:55,880
Speaker 1: left to fill and will it be only draft picks

1549
01:24:56,439 --> 01:25:01,040
Speaker 1: to fill those needs? Linebacker is Steve is one with

1550
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 1: the departure of Tremaine Edmonds. Yes, there are players on

1551
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: the roster, but you'd like to think they want to

1552
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:10,720
Speaker 1: fortify that with other options in the draft primarily. And

1553
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:16,840
Speaker 1: then you also have I would say cornerback as a

1554
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 1: position that needs more numbers, and you could argue that

1555
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:27,760
Speaker 1: they could add another receiver tight end. Right now, you

1556
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:30,599
Speaker 1: have two guys that were on the roster last year

1557
01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 1: and Quintin Morris and Dawson Knox. Tommy Sweeney just signed

1558
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 1: with the Giants, so there's a spot there you could

1559
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:42,759
Speaker 1: argue as well. As far as the draft, yeah, probably

1560
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:46,920
Speaker 1: is gonna be largely filled that way. Don't you think

1561
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: we're creeping towards the draft being more of the focus

1562
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 1: as a roster filler than free agency. Yeah. I'm still

1563
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:57,200
Speaker 1: a big believer in measurables. If you're drafting at the

1564
01:25:57,240 --> 01:26:00,560
Speaker 1: top of the draft in first and second round, I

1565
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:02,600
Speaker 1: want to go with some money positions, and I know

1566
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 1: people who don't want to hear it. I want to

1567
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:08,479
Speaker 1: go either offensive tackle, defensive end or tackle offensive line,

1568
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:13,800
Speaker 1: defensive line, corner, and then do what you can with it,

1569
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 1: maybe maybe a tight end. Like you said, I think

1570
01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:18,559
Speaker 1: those are the money positions in this draft. Tight Ends

1571
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,880
Speaker 1: a money spot in this draft. So if they get

1572
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 1: to the point where they've got enough corners and they've

1573
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 1: got enough offensive lineman and don't want to do a

1574
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:29,760
Speaker 1: defensive lineman again, tight end might be a perfect spot

1575
01:26:29,800 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: at twenty seven to pick up one of these top

1576
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:34,600
Speaker 1: four guys who have projected to be really good pro

1577
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: football players. It addresses a slight need because of the

1578
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:41,599
Speaker 1: two guys you only two guys you've got on your roster,

1579
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 1: and it also gives you a chance at a guy

1580
01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:47,559
Speaker 1: who is maybe as projected to be a really good

1581
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 1: pro tight end. So I'm still about the D line,

1582
01:26:52,360 --> 01:26:55,920
Speaker 1: O line, wide out, corner, and tight end. I mean,

1583
01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 1: you said it, Brownie, That's where I'm sitting today. Oh

1584
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:02,280
Speaker 1: he's throwing a wide receiver. But in this draft, I

1585
01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:05,920
Speaker 1: don't know that there's going to be a guy good

1586
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:10,240
Speaker 1: enough available to be quite frank right. My only concern

1587
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:14,080
Speaker 1: with that old line need as you mentioned is I

1588
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:16,679
Speaker 1: was going through the teams that are picking in front

1589
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:20,719
Speaker 1: of Buffalo, you know, one through twenty six, I would

1590
01:27:20,760 --> 01:27:24,800
Speaker 1: say about eighteen of them have offensive line as a need.

1591
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 1: I know. I think the cupboard's gonna be bear too

1592
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:29,760
Speaker 1: by the time you get down to the Bills at

1593
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:31,559
Speaker 1: twenty seven, so I think it's gonna be very hard

1594
01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:33,599
Speaker 1: for them to fill it in round one. Right now.

1595
01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 1: I say this too, Brownie. We've talked about this. If

1596
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:38,040
Speaker 1: it gets to the point where a guy they really

1597
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:43,559
Speaker 1: want is available at twenty four instead of twenty seven,

1598
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:47,360
Speaker 1: you could see the Bills package in their third pick

1599
01:27:47,439 --> 01:27:49,960
Speaker 1: or their fourth pick and their twenty seven pick and

1600
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:53,200
Speaker 1: jumping up there to get the guy if they really

1601
01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 1: feel strongly about him and they got a taker. I

1602
01:27:56,720 --> 01:27:59,160
Speaker 1: haven't even I couldn't even check that the draft ord

1603
01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 1: of hoop would be in the early twenties that would

1604
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 1: have that pick. But that's something I could see happening.

1605
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:09,200
Speaker 1: If they get antsy about not having a guy that

1606
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 1: they like left over at the offensive line at twenty

1607
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:16,200
Speaker 1: seven and they get panicky, they would have that scenario

1608
01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:18,880
Speaker 1: available to him to throw their third pick of the

1609
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:21,439
Speaker 1: draft or their fourth pick of the draft in with

1610
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:24,640
Speaker 1: that twenty seventh pick and move up four spots to

1611
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:28,760
Speaker 1: get the guy. Yeah. Yeah, And e Horst was asking us,

1612
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:32,040
Speaker 1: you know, positions you rank highest the lowest in terms

1613
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 1: of needs on the draft board. You pretty much just

1614
01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:36,599
Speaker 1: did that. He also threw in his favorite Easter candy

1615
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:41,120
Speaker 1: for him, chocolate coated malted milk balls. Those are underrated.

1616
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: I like him. I like him. Are those? Do those

1617
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:47,000
Speaker 1: qualify as an Easter candy? Though? I guess they do

1618
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,679
Speaker 1: if that's kind of a year round can If they're

1619
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:53,760
Speaker 1: wrapped individually with an Easter egg design, yes, they're an

1620
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 1: Easter candy, okay, or like a foil wrapper. Yeah, they

1621
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:00,519
Speaker 1: make them bigger, They make them bigger, you know, for

1622
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 1: Easter you can make you can make any candy fit

1623
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:06,559
Speaker 1: any holiday. Let's be honest. All right, all right, good,

1624
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,600
Speaker 1: good with me, Steve. I'll be back in studio with

1625
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 1: you on Monday, so look forward to that. Everybody, have

1626
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 1: a good weekend. We'll see on Monday at one