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Speaker 1: But there is no way in hell he is telling

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, a division opponent two weeks before this is

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Speaker 1: my starting quarterback, because, as we've mentioned on this show

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Speaker 1: time and again, these are two totally different players in

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Speaker 1: terms of skill set. So if they know going in

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton's starting, well, now your whole game plan changes

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Speaker 1: defensively as a to Mac Jones. So Belichick is not

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Speaker 1: saying anything about who's starting this game until he probably

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Speaker 1: does his Wednesday press conference four days before the game starts.

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Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen. But you think it's Mac,

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Speaker 1: I do just because he'sas than year well last year. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen Cam in camp this year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: all indications are he's better. I can't believe I'm being

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Speaker 1: an apologist for Cam Newton because I was telling him

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Speaker 1: he should retire after last year. Um, but I guess

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Speaker 1: he's played better. He's executed the offense better, He's had

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Speaker 1: more command of the system and has performed more effectively. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know much to the much to the comments we

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Speaker 1: were making at the top of the show, Steve in

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Speaker 1: terms of how much stock to put in how great

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's offense looked at the start of the preseason game Saturday.

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Speaker 1: How much stock do you put in the fact that

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones is law actually going against second and third

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Speaker 1: team or is the entire preseason I don't know, not much, apparently,

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Speaker 1: since you've already tapped him the start, right, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't trust Cam, and I haven't seen him. I get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you know how many times I mean, how many?

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Speaker 1: How many little video clips have we seen on social

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Speaker 1: media throwing warm ups where he drops back. He's back

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Speaker 1: on the Hey, Cam's back on the field. It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: He's off for COVID. You know stuff. Now he's got.

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Speaker 1: He comes back in and he throws a little quick

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Speaker 1: slant and the thing is like the receiver can't even

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Speaker 1: get a finger on. I showed it to you last

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Speaker 1: The receiver looks like Charlie Brown watching a fly ball

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Speaker 1: go over his head. And he was like, and it

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Speaker 1: was like, last day, what are you doing? That looks horrible?

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Speaker 1: Last Thursday? Excuse me? Last Thursday. Cam's back from the

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Speaker 1: COVID list after the five day re entry test. That snaffoo.

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Speaker 1: And there's a clip I see on social media chaos

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Speaker 1: back at practice, first throw route on air. Guys ten

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Speaker 1: yards away from airmails it like three yards over his head,

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Speaker 1: can't even get a fingertip on it. And And I show

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Speaker 1: it to Steve. Steve gives me the eye roll, so

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Speaker 1: I know I know where you're coming from. I just, uh,

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Speaker 1: I wonder about it. I wonder about it. I do

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Speaker 1: I think mac Jones has shown to be more consistent

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Speaker 1: and right now. That is what that offense sorely needs.

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Speaker 1: And I think they have a commitment to the run

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Speaker 1: game that is such that will not put an overwhelming

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Speaker 1: burden on mac Jones if they decide he's the starter, right,

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Speaker 1: I think with what we have seen New England do

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Speaker 1: with their offense, how versatile it is, how complicated it

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Speaker 1: is with you know, they get the ball out quick.

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Speaker 1: When Brady is there, the ball was out every single snap.

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Speaker 1: It was out on time. He never had to pat

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Speaker 1: the ball. I think mac Jones is capable of doing

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Speaker 1: the exact same thing. Now. I'm not saying he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Tom Brady, but he hadn't. Think he can play

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Speaker 1: that style of football in the ball will come out,

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Speaker 1: they won't you won't sack him, He'll throw it to

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Speaker 1: the right guy. They'll give him options in the passing game.

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Speaker 1: He'll have two tight end offense that will be able

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Speaker 1: to run the football effectively. I just think they that

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Speaker 1: you'll win enough games early on with mac Jones, particularly

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Speaker 1: since they play what the Jets and the Dolphins fell

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Speaker 1: out of the gate one Jets Week two. I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna feel like, well, listen the Dolphins and we

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Speaker 1: feel like we can beat you. Gotta feel like you

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Speaker 1: can beat two on opening day with the defense you're

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Speaker 1: gonna unfold or you know your field on the on

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Speaker 1: opening day. If you don't think your quarterback with your roster,

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback with your roster can beat the Jets rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterback with their roster, what are you doing? So you

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Speaker 1: go two and oh right out of the gate with

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Speaker 1: your rookie quarterbacks so you can win enough games with

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Speaker 1: him and then start building on what he's doing well

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Speaker 1: and evolve into where he's going to closer where you

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Speaker 1: want him in the long run. I I just think

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Speaker 1: they can get off to a fast enough start with

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Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule to give him enough margin of

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Speaker 1: air to say, you know what, we're gonna go with

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Speaker 1: this young guy, and we're gonna make it work and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get there faster if we play him. So

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Speaker 1: that's what I think. I just I got a lot

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Speaker 1: of faith in their defense and their ability to play it,

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Speaker 1: and I just you know, that's what I think they

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Speaker 1: would do. Yeah, well, maybe mac Jones is not nearly

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Speaker 1: as far along as it looks like he is. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: but that's where I'm at right now. That's where I'm

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Speaker 1: at today. I get it. I totally get it. There

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Speaker 1: is a former Bill who has played in the division,

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Speaker 1: and apparently we'll not miss any time playing in the division.

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Speaker 1: He was traded out of the division earlier this offseason.

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Speaker 1: He has been traded back into the division just this weekend.

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Speaker 1: We told you last week that the Jets were in

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Speaker 1: the market for pass rush help after losing big free

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Speaker 1: agent pickup Carl Lawson to a season ending achilles tendon injury. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Jets did it. They landed Shacked Lawson in a

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Speaker 1: trade with the Texans. They gave up a sixth round

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Speaker 1: pick I believe to acquire Shack. So Shack is back

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East. No relation to Carl Lawson, who's No,

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Speaker 1: they are not related, and they couldn't be. They couldn't

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Speaker 1: be more different as pass rushers. Carl Lawson is a

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Speaker 1: bend the edge speed guy that uses length and speed link.

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Speaker 1: He's like a Rousseau kind of guy. He's one of

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Speaker 1: those long guys to get to the quarterback. And everybody

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Speaker 1: here knows Shacks game. He's more of a speed to

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Speaker 1: power rusher and wins with power more than anything else.

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Speaker 1: Probably had one of his best seasons in his last

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Speaker 1: year with the Bills, signs the big deal with Miami.

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Speaker 1: For whatever reason, they're not enamored with him after one

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Speaker 1: season and everybody else they signed. He gets traded to Houston,

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Speaker 1: I want to say, for like a four and a

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Speaker 1: six or something, I don't know, and then he gets

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Speaker 1: he gets traded twice in the same offseason. So he

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Speaker 1: goes to the Jets, but at least he knows he'll

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Speaker 1: get on the field there for sure and play a

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Speaker 1: role for them, so different kind of pass rusher. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if he'll be as effective as Carl Lawson

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Speaker 1: was anticipated to be, So we'll just have to see

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Speaker 1: where that goes. But Jack's got a job back in

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Speaker 1: the division and he's I mean, that guy's a treat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a Riot. So that'll be interesting to see that

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Speaker 1: play out in New York with the Jets. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to some of the other news and notes when we

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Speaker 1: come back. We also want to set the table quickly

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Speaker 1: for our Twitter conversation today. Now that the preseason is over.

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Speaker 1: What is your biggest reason for optimism and your biggest

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Speaker 1: reason for concern with respect to the Buffalo Bills and

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Speaker 1: what they showed you through three preseason games. You can

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Speaker 1: file your comments at one Bills Live on Twitter, or

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Speaker 1: you can give us a call eight five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty to get on board.

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Speaker 1: Let Steve and I know what you feel is your

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Speaker 1: biggest reason for optimism and your biggest reason for concern

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Speaker 1: concerning this Bills team. Just two weeks away from the

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Speaker 1: regular season opener. Steve and I back with more here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Well, we were just talking about it, not

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Speaker 1: the first time earlier in the show. We were talking

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Speaker 1: about it last week. With such a surplus of defensive ends,

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Speaker 1: might they be in the trade market? Brandon, being on

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Speaker 1: during the third quarter with Steve and Andrew Catalan on

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Speaker 1: the preseason broadcast, said we've fielded the most calls at

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Speaker 1: the defensive end position. According to NFL Networks Ian Rappaport,

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Speaker 1: the Bills are trading defensive end Darryl Johnson. Darryl Bam

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Speaker 1: Johnson to the Panthers. So we'll find out what the

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Speaker 1: compensation is, I'm sure in due time, but they are

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Speaker 1: moving defensive end Bam Johnson, according to Ian Rappaport, to

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Speaker 1: the Panthers via a trade jam. Scott Fitterer is known

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Speaker 1: to be a wheeler dealer down there with Carolina, and

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Speaker 1: they need edge help. A lot of teams do, and

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Speaker 1: so it's it's not surprising that a deal like this

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Speaker 1: has been done because you'd hate to just lose a

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Speaker 1: player that you can't keep on your roster due to

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Speaker 1: a surplus and get nothing in return. So the Bills

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Speaker 1: choose to be proactive here according to these reports for

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Speaker 1: me and Rappaport and swing a deal with the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: It's nice for Bam Johnson went to NCA and t

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00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: he's a Georgia native, so he's a lot closer to

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Speaker 1: home now and he'll get he'll probably get more playing

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Speaker 1: time there than he would have gotten here. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: probably will us. And he's a guy that's flashed for

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Speaker 1: the Bills. Yeah, he had a great preseason. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he's a tremendous special teams player. The guy can play

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Speaker 1: yep um Bam Johnson here, he's gonna have a twelve

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Speaker 1: year career, you know what I mean, He's already in

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Speaker 1: what this will be his fourth year, So I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's just he's he's going to hang in there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that guy can play, he knows how to stay on

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Speaker 1: a roster. And now he's so valuable, you know, teams

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Speaker 1: are calling about him, want him on their team. The

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Speaker 1: Bills used a seventh round pick in twenty eighteen to

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Speaker 1: draft Bam Johnson, so be interesting to see what they

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Speaker 1: get in return for him once the terms are known.

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Speaker 1: So there's that that's sitting out there. Nf case, you're

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Speaker 1: just joining us NFL networks again. Rap report reporting the

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Speaker 1: Bills have traded defensive end Bam Johnson to the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: So that certainly frees things up Steve in terms of

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Speaker 1: coming to your total number at the defensive line position,

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Speaker 1: particularly at defensive end. So now that probably that allows

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Speaker 1: you to carry five ends there, which is probably Hughes, Rousseau, Epinessa, Addison,

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Speaker 1: and Basham. I would think those are probably your top

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Speaker 1: five there. Anyway, I don't know if you're going any

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Speaker 1: fatter than I got Russo, Hughes Epanessa, Basham and Addison,

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Speaker 1: I got, yeah, And then that leaves you the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to carry four defensive tackles. I've got eleven guys, I've got.

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Speaker 1: You're keeping eleven. Geez you three four? You're still keeping eleven? Nine? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm keeping Harrison Phillips, Starlotu Lal Mario, Addison, Boogie, Basham,

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Speaker 1: Vernon Butler, fa Obada, Ed, Oliver, Brandon, Bryant, aj Epanessa,

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Speaker 1: Hughes and Russo. That's eleven. That's eleven and that heavy.

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Speaker 1: Then I'm keeping four safeties. I'm keeping how many linebackers,

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Speaker 1: like five linebackers, and then I'm keeping five corners Tarn Johnson,

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Speaker 1: Tradavious White, Rashad Wild Goose, Nick mcle out and leave

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Speaker 1: by Wallace. That means Cam Lewis and Dane Jackson don't

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Speaker 1: make the squad, or you can do that another some

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Speaker 1: other way. But I think on the active roster, I

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Speaker 1: keep five corners and four safeties. That's nine dbs. That's

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Speaker 1: a little light, no question. But you can always fill

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Speaker 1: out your practice squad, which again this year is sixteen players.

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Speaker 1: You can keep, you know, keep Dane Jackson and you

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Speaker 1: know that means siran Neil's not on the squad. Oh

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Speaker 1: really yeah, Oh, I don't know if that's happening. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: two valuable on special teams as I see. Eleven's heavy,

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Speaker 1: no question on the defensive front. But they got to

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Speaker 1: find a way to generate it. I don't think you've

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Speaker 1: got to be more than ten poorer and hide are

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Speaker 1: gonna take one hundred percent of the snaps. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're just gonna They're just always there. So those two

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Speaker 1: Demore Handling and Josh Thomas, I guess behind them, I mean,

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Speaker 1: those guys need to play teams because they're not going

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Speaker 1: to even get on the field, right, Yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: get it. I I think Sir and Neil's on this

642
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Speaker 1: football team though. He's just he's too good a gun

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00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: He's a good idea, he's too good a gunner. So

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00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: that puts six and you can go down to ten.

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Speaker 1: And who do you take off? Probably Brandon Bryant or

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Speaker 1: Vernon Butler maybe I don't know. If you take one

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Speaker 1: of the defensive tackles off, well, you can practice squad, Brian,

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Speaker 1: if you wanted to practice squad anybody. Yeah these days,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's interesting, but that's where I'm at. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that could change the dynamics at the position. Conversation

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Speaker 1: we're having with you. We'll get to in a second.

652
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: There are other there's other news and notes around the

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Speaker 1: league that we didn't get to in our opening segment there,

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Speaker 1: one of which is, you know, we told you about

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Speaker 1: the shack laws and trade already. We told you about

656
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: the Cam Newton mac Jones quarterback competition, which is continuing

657
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: to stretch ever closer to the start of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: After Bill Belichick declined on giving any but a firm

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Speaker 1: decision on that, San Francisco has taken much the same approach.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan would not definitively name a starter between Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo or Trey Lance. And there was an interesting development

662
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:16,240
Speaker 1: in that game, Steve. Early on they rotated Trey Lance

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Speaker 1: in and out with the starters, which is now leading

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Speaker 1: to speculation that Kyle Shanahan might be considering a platoon situation.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: likely that is. It's unconventional. Well, we saw, at least

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Speaker 1: in today's football. We saw it happened in New Orleans

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Speaker 1: with Taysom Hill and Drew Brees. If teams see it

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Speaker 1: or play against it and it causes them some problems

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Speaker 1: they don't really like and have a hard time overcoming,

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Speaker 1: then they'll turn it on, turn it in their own favor.

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Speaker 1: They'll put two quarterbacks out there for the same reason.

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Speaker 1: So if Kyle Shanahan sees the New Orleans Saints doing

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Speaker 1: that in the NFC, and he's seen them run through

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Speaker 1: that to the playoffs and get a lot of mileage

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Speaker 1: out of it, and then you know has had to

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Speaker 1: compete again a platoon quarterback and it gives them problems,

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Speaker 1: they'll want to give those problems to their opponents. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can see that. You can see that happening. Also,

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Speaker 1: we had this huge conversation about Cam Newton and mac Jones.

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Speaker 1: You could easily see that in New England where Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton and Mac Jones share the offense or platoon or whatever,

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Speaker 1: have a two quarterback thing, or Mac Jones comes in

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Speaker 1: for trick plays or vice versas Cam Newton comes in

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Speaker 1: for a package of plays. I think teams haven't done

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Speaker 1: it in the past because they get pushed back from

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Speaker 1: play back. In the old days, they get pushed back

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Speaker 1: from the players Roger Stauback doesn't want to come off

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Speaker 1: the field. Terry Bradshaw didn't, you know, those guys that

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Speaker 1: needs to established quarterbacks don't want to come off the field.

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Speaker 1: But it's a different environment today, and it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a hot it's high level xs and o's and matchups,

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Speaker 1: and when the players start to see the matchup capabilities

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Speaker 1: and they're on board with they want to win. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you right now, I could totally see Trey Lance

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Speaker 1: coming in once that team's anywhere inside the five or

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Speaker 1: six yard line. I mean, because he is a threat.

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Speaker 1: Much the same way Josh Allen is here with his

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Speaker 1: legs in the red for a touchdown in their last

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Speaker 1: preseason game over the weekend. Same thing with Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: those guys Cam Newton, Josh Allen, those running quarterbacks, Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: of course their red zone nightmares. You know that it's

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00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: really puts pressure on the defensive He drops back to

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Speaker 1: throw it and you're trying to cover it up. All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden he just tucks it and it's a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: He runs, he walks in that kind of that kind

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Speaker 1: of matchup problem for these quarterbacks that can really scoot

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Speaker 1: is you, Kyler Murray, same thing. You know. So he

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Speaker 1: gave the Bills all kinds of headaches in that game.

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Speaker 1: They're really that's a real issue. So if you start

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Speaker 1: to expand that and say, well, how about let's do

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Speaker 1: that on every third down and third and one to five, yeah,

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Speaker 1: or third and one to four, every time we're in

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Speaker 1: third or four or less. Cam you're in the you're

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Speaker 1: in the field, or whatever, you know, glance you're in

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Speaker 1: the field. Maybe maybe we have uncovered why one Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick said, they have a lot of decisions to make.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're considering a platoon situation. If you can get

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Speaker 1: past if you can get to your quarterbacks and convince

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Speaker 1: him it's the way to go, and you start winning

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Speaker 1: games because of it. If you're when you're winning, everybody's

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Speaker 1: on board with everything. Yeah, but you got to convince

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Speaker 1: him it's the best way to do that. Not an

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Speaker 1: easy ask, for sure. Let's go to the phones at

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Speaker 1: eight o three oh five fifty. We've got Gary and

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Speaker 1: Buffalo leading us off today. Gary, what do you have

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Speaker 1: for us? You're on one. Bill's live, Harry there, Carrie's

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Speaker 1: listening to the We're gonna have to put you on

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Speaker 1: hold sorry, Gary, Uh, you gotta listen to your phone,

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Speaker 1: not the radio which is on delay. We'll hold up.

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Speaker 1: Hold you on there, Gary. We'll get to you after

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Speaker 1: the break, which we will take here now, so we

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Speaker 1: will talk to Gary and whoever else is on the

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Speaker 1: line at eight O three oh five fifty two five fifties.

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Speaker 1: We're asking you what's your biggest reason for optimism biggest

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Speaker 1: reason for concern now that the preseason has been put

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Speaker 1: to bed for your bills. We may also get into

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Speaker 1: which team is still buzzing the phone lines in seeking

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Really really, We'll get to that when we

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Speaker 1: return here. On one Bill's Line, presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Gosh takes the snamp, looks to

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Speaker 1: throw Coxes arm fires into the end zone. Touchdown Zach Boss,

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Speaker 1: touchdown Buffalo a preer touchdown pass from Josh Allen. That's

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Speaker 1: estate needs a little dart in there to Zach Moss,

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Speaker 1: that was that was a tight squeeze, wasn't it? You know?

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Speaker 1: I got I really thought a lot of that play

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Speaker 1: because of what Josh did. He stood in there, looked

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Speaker 1: and came back to him and the defenser. I think

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Speaker 1: it's Hensley coming out up right up the pipe and

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Speaker 1: Josh's grill and Josh kind of stood there and sure

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Speaker 1: enough he except he threw it, accepted the hit. Helfl

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Speaker 1: and Jack Heflin is who it was. And you know

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Speaker 1: the quarter you know, Heflin comes right up right. You

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00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: can see it right there. Boom, Josh throws it and

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00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: get Heflin puts him right on the ground, turns into

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. That's what a quarterback has to do. Yeah,

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00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: he took a hit for it. That's what a quarterback

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Speaker 1: has to do. And it's me. I'm like running towards

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Speaker 1: my own goal line away from that guy coming through

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Speaker 1: you right, But he just stands there, waits, he throws it,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, that's just a great play on both ends.

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Speaker 1: Nice catch by Moss getting open, throws it down away

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Speaker 1: from the defender, takes the hit from the defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: who's bearing down in on him. It was very nice.

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00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: It was really well done. So good on him. And

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Speaker 1: the trade is now official. The Bills have traded defensive

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Speaker 1: end Darryl Johnson to the Carolina Panthers for a sixth

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Speaker 1: round draft choice in twenty twenty two. I gotta say this, Steve,

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Speaker 1: This is an example of not only the front office,

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Speaker 1: but the coaching staff maximizing return on investment. And what

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Speaker 1: I mean by that is Darryl Johnson was drafted by

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Speaker 1: this team in twenty nineteen as a seventh round draft

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Speaker 1: choice out of nca and t Okay small school player

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Speaker 1: and was developed by this coaching staff into a capable

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Speaker 1: pass rusher and a premier special teams player for a

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Speaker 1: big man. And they took a player who they invested

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Speaker 1: a seventh round pick in, moved him because it is

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Speaker 1: now a position of surplus, and got a sixth round

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Speaker 1: pick in return in what is probably going to be

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Speaker 1: the deepest draft in twenty years because of all the

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Speaker 1: players who got the extra year of college eligibility from

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Speaker 1: the NCAA due to the pandemic and went back to school.

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Speaker 1: We talked last spring about how shallow the pool was

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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty one draft class. It is going

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Speaker 1: to be a third deeper, if not more, next year.

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Speaker 1: And you can make the argument and I think most

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Speaker 1: NFL scouts would agree that a sixth round pick in

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Speaker 1: this Springs draft in twenty twenty two is more like

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Speaker 1: a fifth round pick in most drafts because of how

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Speaker 1: deep the pool of talent four is going to be

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Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, it's yeah, think about it. It's it's

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of names in the draft

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Speaker 1: this year, no question about it. And that and Bam Joe.

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Speaker 1: I hate to see Bam Johnson go. Of course, I

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00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: have a soft spot in my hard for special teams guys. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: but he came in his first training and this is

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Speaker 1: going to be his third year. Earlier I said it

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Speaker 1: was going to be his fourth and we didn't know

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Speaker 1: it's his third year coming up. He's been here two

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Speaker 1: full years. His first preseason every he had like two

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Speaker 1: sacks in his first preseason, much like Greg Russo has

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Speaker 1: had this year. Bam Johnson. And it was late in

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Speaker 1: these games, in the games and stuff, but Bam Johnson

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00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: rushed the pack. He was a pass rusher and decided

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Speaker 1: he could play special teams so he could really run

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Speaker 1: and he lit some people up on special teams. Was

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Speaker 1: a real four four phase special teams player. Pump pump return, kickoff,

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Speaker 1: kickoff return, He was huge for that, and then he's

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Speaker 1: also given him some reps at pass rush as well.

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Speaker 1: You gotta love that guy the versatility. As a seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick, he knew what he was, worked hard to

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Speaker 1: get better and has done so. Now he's going to

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Speaker 1: Carolina where they're going to give him more opportunities on

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Speaker 1: a He's in a little bit more of a shallower

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Speaker 1: gene pool down there as far as pass rushers go,

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Speaker 1: and we'll probably get more reps. Yeah, and not for nothing.

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Speaker 1: But after the Chicago game, which I thought he played

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Speaker 1: maybe even better than he did in the Detroit gam

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Speaker 1: I was like, well, Darrel Johnson has made the team

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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, I thought he did enough

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Speaker 1: to make the roster. And I think that's where the

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00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: Bills found themselves between a rock and a hard place.

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Speaker 1: They did not want to just cut Darryl Johnson if

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Speaker 1: or somebody else depending on how they wanted to work

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Speaker 1: out the numbers. So instead they go proactive here and

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Speaker 1: they move a player to get something in return for

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Speaker 1: a player who probably wasn't going to make their roster

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Speaker 1: because of the syrplus at the position. Also, now Heath

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Speaker 1: Farwell has probably saw this if the internal workings are

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Speaker 1: what I think they are. They probably gave Heath Farwell

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Speaker 1: tap and said, hey, Heath, we're getting calls about your

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Speaker 1: boy Bam. Heath Farwell being the special teams coordinator for

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Speaker 1: the Bill, so he knows as a possibility he may

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Speaker 1: not have that guy this year because he's too he

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00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: become too valuable and the roster has become too deep.

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00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: So he now has probably gone down the roster looking

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Speaker 1: for guys to replace Bam Johnson on punt punt return,

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Speaker 1: kickoff kickoff return. I'mna saying it's gonna be one for one.

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Speaker 1: It might be two for one though you might have

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Speaker 1: two guys, one on the punt punt return aspect of

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Speaker 1: another one on the kickoff kickoff return. Either way, he's

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Speaker 1: got to replace those reps if he hasn't already, which

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Speaker 1: he probably has got a plan for it now. That's

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Speaker 1: how the ripple effect works. And when he probably when

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Speaker 1: he found out that, which was well before this, obviously

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Speaker 1: that Bam Johnson was going to, uh, there's a there's

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Speaker 1: a risk of Bam Johnson because other teams are gonna

850
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: want to trade for him, he probably started auditioning guys

851
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: quickly and not only seeing what they could do on film,

852
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: but setting him down in his office and saying, look here, bro,

853
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: you you got to pick it up. If you want

854
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: to make this team. I can make sure it happens,

855
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: but you got to give me a B and C

856
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: on on specialty. If you do, you're in the running

857
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: to make this team just for me. And that's you know,

858
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: you gotta have conversations like that with these guys to

859
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: get them the message through to them that, like, if

860
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be here that Keith Farwell's the reason. That's

861
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 1: a big step. So Heath Farwell has been scouring that.

862
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: They got to replace Bam Johnson in a multitude of ways.

863
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: You think about a seventh round draft picked two years ago,

864
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 1: that's big. Yeah, it leaves a big void in your

865
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,959
Speaker 1: special teams, it does, and they're gonna have to find

866
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: other people to fill it. It makes you wonder if

867
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: this now opens the door at another position where a

868
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: special team's ace type player now makes the roster when

869
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,439
Speaker 1: they may have been considered a bubble type player, whether

870
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: it's at linebacker or maybe defensive back. Does somebody else

871
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: make the roster because of their special team's prowess. Now

872
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: that a two for one player like Darryl Johnson is

873
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: no longer on the roster, that's going to be interesting.

874
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: It's like, you know what, I kind of like, can

875
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: the roster decisions to Steve. Do you remember those little

876
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: shuffle puzzles that used to come on a contained board

877
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: and it had one open slide and you had to

878
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 1: move everything over to get the design. You had to

879
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: move this up and over. You only had one open

880
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,839
Speaker 1: space to work with to get the picture to come out. Right,

881
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 1: that's what you're doing here. Yeah, that's really what you're doing.

882
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 1: What the hell do they call those things? I can't

883
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: even remember. It's like a puzzle slide or something you

884
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: had to get. Yeah, yeah, you gotta if you move

885
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: one piece. The ripple effect is widely felt around the

886
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: roster and you think, Bam Johnson goes. What does that

887
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: mean Taiwan Jones is more likely to make the roster

888
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: but running back, you know, a guy that plays on

889
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball but is a core

890
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: special teamer and plays most of his snaps there. Does

891
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: that make it easier for Taiwan Jones to hang around

892
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: because they're you know, they don't have that the other guy. Certainly,

893
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: it makes more space on the defensive line, but that's

894
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 1: one where they they're, you know, gonna keep a bunch

895
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:08,439
Speaker 1: of guys anyway. There's there's core special teamers are a Metakevic, Yeah,

896
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: he's got to make this team right and a Japanessa

897
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: long Snapp And what happens if freed Ferguson goes down.

898
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: It wasn't all that great now they got it done

899
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: except for the one field goal. But man, oh man,

900
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: this there's a lot of moving parts here today, and

901
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: when you take out one of the variables sometimes I

902
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: don't know how much less complicated it gets. I don't

903
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: think it does, right. I yeah, it makes the decisions

904
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: a little easier at the defensive end position. It may

905
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: complicate the decisions at special teams. I mean that's the

906
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: bottom line here. Um, I just wonder if they have

907
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: another two for one player on their right well, there

908
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:55,959
Speaker 1: probably isn't a two for one player on their roster

909
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: that they were considering lopping off the roster. It was

910
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: just like, how do we find a spot for him?

911
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: And I think that's where they came down here on

912
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: Bam Johnson. It was, for instance, we want to have

913
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: him on the roster, but man, we've got all this

914
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: talent at the position. As much as we'd like to

915
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,240
Speaker 1: keep him, I don't see a way we can. Okay,

916
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: what can we get as a future asset? Knowing we're

917
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 1: gonna have to probably part ways with him, and so

918
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: good on them for being proactive here and getting something

919
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 1: in returning. They can't prove to be more valuable, right

920
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 1: That draft pool next year is going to be stupid deep,

921
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: like stupid deep. Yeah. This year, the pool of players

922
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: that were in the in the NFL draft wars were

923
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: somewhere around six, between six hundred and six hundred and

924
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: fifty guys. Usually it's around twelve. Next year, they're thinking

925
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be around eighteen nineteen hundred because of

926
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: the opt outs, because of COVID, because of the you know,

927
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: the two guys going back for the extra years. Just

928
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: think about that for a second. There are only two

929
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six fifty seven picks in the whole draft, right,

930
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: I mean, alrighty then, so that's yeah, all right, we

931
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: have to take a break. When we come back, we

932
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: will touch on that other team in the league that

933
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 1: is still buzzing up the phone lines supposedly or reportedly

934
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: in an interest in acquiring Deshaun Watson despite all his

935
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: legal issues, shall we say so? We'll get to that,

936
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: and we also want to get to the tweet sheet

937
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: as well as your phone calls at eight three five

938
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: fifty as we want to know what your biggest reason

939
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: for optimism and the biggest reason concern is for the

940
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 1: Bills after the preseason has now been put to bed.

941
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: You can let us know at e three fifty one

942
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty or on the tweet sheet at

943
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Steve and I back in a second

944
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: at a Steve Tasker who has been all all were

945
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: of a field kind of unique. He was kind of

946
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:08,399
Speaker 1: a dual role player for state. Steve a blimp. We're

947
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 1: not even in the straged fear of normalcy and welcome

948
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: back our number two one Bills Live Chris Brown, Steve

949
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: to ask her with you and before we get to

950
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:21,800
Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet, as we're asking you,

951
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: with the preseason now wrapped up, what is your greatest

952
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: reason for optimism and greatest concern with just two weeks

953
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: before the regular season openers, So feel free to chime

954
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: in add one bills live on Twitter or on the

955
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: phones at eight O three five fifty one eight eight

956
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. This happened early heading

957
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 1: into the weekend this past weekend, but Charles Robinson from

958
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: Yahoo Sports was reporting that sources were telling him that

959
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,280
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have emerged as the front runner in trade

960
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: discussions with the Texans for quarterback to Shaun Watson. The Texans,

961
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: according to the report, we're seeking three first round picks

962
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: and two second round picks in negotiations. That's according to

963
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: a team that dropped out of the trade talks. The

964
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: interesting thing to me that came out of this Steve.

965
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: It was reported by more than one person. It was

966
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 1: first Charles Robinson, and then there were two Miami Beat reporters,

967
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: including our friend Armando Salguero, who tweeted about it as well,

968
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: lending credence to this talk. Barry Jackson was the other

969
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: reporter down there. He said the Dolphins spoke excitedly about

970
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: Watson in an interview with a coaching candidate earlier this year,

971
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:44,280
Speaker 1: and Watson's ability to refuse trades to other suitors. Houston

972
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: radio stations reporting that he won't go to Philadelphia is

973
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: a factor in these trade discussions, We'll see. And then

974
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: there was another person who got in touch with who

975
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 1: had Drew Rosenhaw's on for an interview. I can't remember

976
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 1: if it's a radio or a pod cast thing, and

977
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: Drew told the interviewer he would not be surprised to

978
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: see Deshaun Watson with the Dolphins for the first game

979
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: of the regular season. So it's not even like now

980
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: where that starts to run off the rails for me

981
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: is you don't even know if this guy can play well,

982
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: I mean, if he'll be eligible to play exactly. So

983
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: let me restate that that is a hornet's nest of

984
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: a mess. Why are you like, here's the thing, Steve, Okay,

985
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 1: if Tuah looked horrendous in the preseason, you know what

986
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, no improvement from last year was just awful,

987
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: not doing anything. By all accounts, He's had a pretty

988
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: solid preseason. I don't know if you'd say spectacular, but

989
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: he's shown marked improvement, better arm strength, better mobility, better

990
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,399
Speaker 1: anticipatory skills, better across the board for the most part.

991
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 1: And yet this is still rumbling under the surface. Now,

992
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: look as a player. I will not debate anybody. Deshaun

993
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: Watson is a far greater player than I think Tuah

994
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,880
Speaker 1: will ever be even at his best at his peak,

995
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is miles better than twa Yes, the problem

996
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: here is there are there's a line of twenty women

997
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 1: accusing twenty two sorry, accusing him of some of the

998
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: most egregious offenses you can imagine in the realm of

999
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: sexual assault, harassment and the like. Why are you even

1000
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: entertaining this? I don't know, what's a huge mistake. The

1001
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: cost benefit analysis here just doesn't work for me in

1002
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 1: any way. I understand he's a better quarterback on the field,

1003
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: but there is so much other stuff surrounding this. Why

1004
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: are you even going down that road? That is like

1005
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 1: sticking your hand into a furnace. I mean, why are

1006
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: you going to do that? I just think if you

1007
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: do this, you got it. You could take a shower

1008
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: every day for the next ten days, five times a day,

1009
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: and you're still gonna feel dirty. How do you even

1010
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: do that? It is so bad. In fact, now it's

1011
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: been reported that Brian Flores is telling his players to

1012
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: block out that stuff that you're hearing about You know,

1013
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: Deshaun watch just block all that stuff out. What do

1014
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: we do when he shows up? Yeah? Yeah right, how

1015
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: are they gonna? Nobody wants to talk about anything else.

1016
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: It is so it is so bad in Houston with

1017
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. It was bad before Deshaun Watson became this thing.

1018
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: He wanted out of there before saw broke. Yeah, he

1019
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: wanted traded. He was never gonna And he has said it,

1020
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: he has reiterated it during this whole ordeal that he

1021
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: is never going to play another snap for the Houston Texans.

1022
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: He hates he hates their GM. They're the Nick Cassario guy.

1023
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: He hates everybody. He wants nothing to do with him

1024
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 1: and the only reason he's in training camp and so

1025
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 1: he won't get fined. And they're on the hook for

1026
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: like umpteen millions of dollars paying this guy who refuses

1027
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,479
Speaker 1: to take the field. Yeah. Well, year ago he signed

1028
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: a four year extension his big second contract. Yeah, forty

1029
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: million bucks a year. I mean that's so it is

1030
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: so bad in Houston. And I'll say this nothing against

1031
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: nothing against David Culley, but if you've got an NFL

1032
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: head coaching opening, and with all the the candidates that

1033
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: are out there that have a lot of like recent

1034
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 1: accolades success, they are being they've been groomed to be

1035
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: a head coach, not just here in Buffalo Brian Dable,

1036
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: but also in Kansas City with Frasier, Leslie Frasier, Brian

1037
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: Dable and the guy in Kansas City Eric b Enemy

1038
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: there and there's a ton of other guys around. And

1039
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: David Culley is basically the guy who said I'll do it.

1040
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: He said yes, Um, I think there's a number of

1041
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:34,439
Speaker 1: guys who gave the old the old nobody goes say nothing, thanks, thanks,

1042
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: thank you, but I'm going to remove my name from consideration.

1043
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: I think there's a ton of guys who did that.

1044
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: That's how bad it is for a like a minimum

1045
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: it's a five million dollars a year job. And I

1046
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this, but Sports Illustrated to

1047
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: Albert Brier who does his Monday column, it's reporting that

1048
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans are willing to listen to offers for

1049
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: pretty much any of their veteran players, any of them. Now,

1050
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: obviously the most attractive player is Watson. And if you're

1051
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: playing perspective, yes, that's all this other stuff surrounding him.

1052
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 1: I mean, think about what happened with ray Rice. Now,

1053
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: ray Rice initially got suspended six games. He never played

1054
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: in the league again, and I realized running backs are

1055
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: a different commodity than quarterbacks, don't get me wrong. And

1056
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: there was, but that shouldn't change the narrative here, which is,

1057
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: if you're a NFL club, I don't care how good

1058
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: he is radioactive. Yeah yeah, well, well yeah it is different.

1059
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: And it had a video of it. Well yeah, yeah, yeah,

1060
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: it's still domestic violence, right, and this is a little different,

1061
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: but it's just it's probably worse. Yeah, well, they're all bad.

1062
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna quantify which this is. It's it's just creepy,

1063
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: ugly uncomfortable to talk about. Here we are talking about it,

1064
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 1: but it's just uncomfortable. And it starts at the top

1065
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 1: of that organization and goes all the way down to

1066
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 1: the players in the locker room, and now it's spreading

1067
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: over to the what appears to be the Miami Dolphins.

1068
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: But why I've inserted themselves into that conversation, Why do

1069
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: you want to sign up for being associated with that

1070
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. Don't you just don't

1071
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 1: get it, don't you just drafted to a fifth overall,

1072
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: Like to me that that reeks of we made a

1073
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: mistake and we're gonna compound it by doing this. Yeah,

1074
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: but we're gonna we're gonna second down on this mistake,

1075
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 1: and we're gonna make this other mistake that will trump

1076
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: Let's just think about. Let's just the other mistake is

1077
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: gonna look really good compared to this mistake. The Bills

1078
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: haven't had a great quarterback history themselves over the better

1079
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 1: part of the last twenty five years until Josh Allen

1080
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: came to town. Um. They were several reasons why that

1081
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 1: existed in many circumstances, which we're not going to get

1082
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: into here. But you look at this Dolphins quarterback history.

1083
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's just I don't know, It's just

1084
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: they seem to make it worse with each passing. Turn

1085
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 1: two is finally demonstrating some progress, and now you're gonna

1086
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 1: bring this on the organization like that doesn't help tah,

1087
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: It doesn't help your players in the locker room. And

1088
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,480
Speaker 1: if somehow, some way you give up a king's ransom

1089
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 1: to acquire this guy, I gotta tell you, I don't

1090
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 1: think I don't think it's gonna go over that well.

1091
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 1: I mean, there will be ignorant fans who will be

1092
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: happy that the Dolphins have Deshaun Watson. But are you Yeah,

1093
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: but people saying saying do anything when it comes. Oh,

1094
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 1: I get it, But that's just that's that's a road

1095
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: I don't even remotely entertain. It almost seems even from

1096
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: a competitive standpoint, Steve, you don't know when this guy

1097
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 1: is gonna play. What if you give up three first

1098
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: round picks and two seconds for a guy who gets

1099
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 1: convicted and goes to jail for eight years. Oh well,

1100
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 1: we got him. We just won't have him on the

1101
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: field until he's thirty four, right, Like, it really reeks

1102
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: of desperation for the Miami Dolphins. This is Yes, I

1103
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: don't see a reason why they have to be that desperate. Like,

1104
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 1: see what two has got for you? This? You won

1105
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,439
Speaker 1: ten games last year. I know too, it didn't start

1106
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: many of them, but I mean, come here to me.

1107
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 1: And they gutted their roster too. They're all six of

1108
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: their eight captains or whatever it was, there's four, they're

1109
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: six or all six captains are gone. Now, Yeah, it

1110
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: just seems very they seem like a very knee jerk

1111
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 1: organization under Chris Green Brian Flores. I'm yeah, there's yeah,

1112
01:03:56,320 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: who knows, wouldn't you say like this it reeks of spiration,

1113
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: which I'm like, well, you won ten games last year.

1114
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: You had the number one scoring defense in football until

1115
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: you played the Bills in Week seventeen and wound up

1116
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 1: six and then you jettisoned a bunch of guys right

1117
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: off of that unit, and including five of your eight

1118
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 1: captains and fresh free agent signings too. So they're they're

1119
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 1: getting crushed in the salary cap issue with money by

1120
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:32,439
Speaker 1: all those guys Shack Lawson, Ted Carriss, Rashad Jones. Yeah,

1121
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 1: there's a long list. And then you got your Then

1122
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: you got the guy who's almost defensive MVP of the

1123
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: of the league, squawking, and they finally they gave him

1124
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 1: some more money. Yeah, Oh my gosh. Maybe maybe that

1125
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 1: says and maybe both those organizations are in upheaval right now.

1126
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of I'm dumbfounded by it. I just

1127
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 1: don't get It'd be one thing like you're the Denver

1128
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 1: Broncos before they traded for Bridgewater and you got Drew

1129
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: Lock and nobody else, Like, at least you could find

1130
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 1: the logic behind them trying to upgrade their quarterback position.

1131
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: I still wouldn't consider it a good idea, just because

1132
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 1: of everything that surrounds Deshaun Watson off the field. It's

1133
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 1: just it's too ugly to even want to bring that

1134
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: to your organization in any way shape. There have been

1135
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: there have been other cases around, you know, in the

1136
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 1: history of the league. You know, you know, the bad

1137
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: and most egregious one. I'm not saying that the one

1138
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: where you see saw a guy due time was Mike Vick. Yeah,

1139
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson was suspended VIC. I mean he went to

1140
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 1: federal prison, right, Ray Rice is the one you mentioned.

1141
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 1: I mean they've never played again. There's been, you know,

1142
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 1: precedents where guys like, wow, it's like to me, to me,

1143
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 1: having read up on all these charges that are facing

1144
01:05:55,720 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: Watson from twenty two women, um, I just don't know

1145
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: how if you're the Dolphins organization, you don't look at

1146
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: past history in this league with off field offenses similar

1147
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: in nature and not look at the history of how

1148
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 1: the league has handled those things with the same commissioner,

1149
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 1: by the way, and not say great player, but it's

1150
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 1: not worth it. I don't know how you don't reach

1151
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: that conclusion in short order. I just it blows me away,

1152
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:37,840
Speaker 1: it really does. Yeah, it's the Here's what I don't

1153
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: He may never played yes for the next five, six,

1154
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: seven years. You don't know what his prison sentence could be.

1155
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 1: There is no light at the end of the Deshaun

1156
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: Watson tunnel, and even gone to trial, it isn't there's

1157
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: no light. And what happens if he settles with twenty

1158
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 1: two women? Dark now as it was the day it broke. Yeah,

1159
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: it is not improved. And what happens if he settles

1160
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 1: out of court? Do you think everything's going to go away?

1161
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: Do you think you're oh no, yeah, yeah, it's crazy

1162
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 1: and it shouldn't, right, it shouldn't. So it's just it's ugly.

1163
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 1: It's really ugly, and I'm surprised they're even entertaining it.

1164
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 1: So that Uh, it's just it's weird. It's just weird,

1165
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:29,240
Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm shocked that the dolphins are still

1166
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 1: entertaining the thought of that. We want to get to

1167
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:35,680
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the tweet sheet here as we shift

1168
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 1: gears and ask what's your biggest reason for optimism, biggest

1169
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: reason for concern with two weeks remaining before the Bills

1170
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: regular season opener, now that the preseason has been put

1171
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 1: to bed, and can give us a call. Also at

1172
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,439
Speaker 1: eight O three oh five fifty, Steve leaves Is often

1173
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:55,400
Speaker 1: says optimism is the offense is a juggernaut concern. The

1174
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: starting defense was vulnerable between the tackles against the run

1175
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 1: and gave up long sustain drives against the Packers second stringers.

1176
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 1: No points, but it keeps our juggernaut offense off the field.

1177
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: We talked about that last hour, Steve. Yeah, it's a

1178
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: little spotty. The Bill's offense looked really good. They moved

1179
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:18,600
Speaker 1: the football and hung onto They had one They had

1180
01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: a six play drive, which a seven play drive is

1181
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:24,240
Speaker 1: considered effective. It means you you change field position, you

1182
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: get them, you know, you possessed the ball, you have

1183
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 1: some success, makes some first downs, and then they came

1184
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:32,560
Speaker 1: back with a fifteen play drive. So they had a

1185
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 1: twelve play drive, six play drive, then a fifteen play drive.

1186
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: They led and they led to you know, scores. So

1187
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 1: not the six play drive. You punted that one. But

1188
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: so it's you know, good things for their offense. No question.

1189
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, the defense gave up some drives as well,

1190
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:55,559
Speaker 1: although they didn't give up any points. Yeah, it's always

1191
01:08:56,360 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: very disconcerting when your team gives up run plays well.

1192
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 1: And as we were saying last hour, they're going to

1193
01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: face some teams with a run first philosophy. Whether it's

1194
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:09,320
Speaker 1: the Jets who are going to run it first to

1195
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:13,920
Speaker 1: kind of take the burden off of Zach Wilson, whether

1196
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 1: it's the Patriots that will probably be ironing out their

1197
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 1: quarterback situation but clearly want to run the football, or

1198
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 1: you know, some other team that they're going to be

1199
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: facing through the course of the season that has a

1200
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: run first philosophy in the playoffs, maybe Baltimore again, you know,

1201
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 1: it could be, could be any one of these teams.

1202
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 1: Cleveland runs the ball with their two headed monster of

1203
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 1: Hunt and Chubb, So that's got to get tightened up

1204
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: in these next couple of weeks here. I mean, the

1205
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: team they're gonna play Week one, they're gonna run Nagi Harris.

1206
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no debating that that is going to happen.

1207
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 1: They want It's very clear seeing some of the comments

1208
01:09:57,400 --> 01:10:01,760
Speaker 1: from Mike Tomlin in training camp that they want a

1209
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 1: more balanced approach to their offense. And Matt Canada is

1210
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator who's falling in line with that

1211
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: by all accounts. So the proof will be in the

1212
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 1: pudding in Week one. But that sounds like it's the plan.

1213
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: And when this Pittsburgh team needed offensive line help desperately,

1214
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: they went running back in round one and then doubled

1215
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 1: down and went tight end in round two. So they

1216
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:30,560
Speaker 1: do have four news starters on their offensive line and

1217
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 1: the fifth guy is flipping tackles from right to left. Right,

1218
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 1: I don't I disagree with that. If they're if they're

1219
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: executing a philosophy, I disagree with it. Yeah. To me,

1220
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 1: you don't go better running back to fix your run game,

1221
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,720
Speaker 1: you go offensive line. Right, I agree. You just need

1222
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:50,680
Speaker 1: a because the United You've got five guys that are

1223
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 1: playing at a higher level, not just one. That's the

1224
01:10:53,439 --> 01:10:55,840
Speaker 1: that's the philosophy I did pick. But it gets back

1225
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 1: to our great spoused in the off season. Yeah, And

1226
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: it gets back to our getting back to our great point.

1227
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 1: It's the run defense is spotty. It was spotty on Saturday, Yeah,

1228
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 1: and it wasn't against starters, So they got to get

1229
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,160
Speaker 1: that cleaned. Up. They gotta get that cleaned up. And

1230
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: then the other thing that coach McDermott addressed was some

1231
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: of the sloppy operation that they experienced. They burned some

1232
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 1: time outs because they couldn't get the play either changed

1233
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: at the line or up to the line in short order.

1234
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: And they also had some unforced error penalties pre snap penalties,

1235
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:37,560
Speaker 1: not effort penalties, you know, mental error penalties, neutral zone infractions,

1236
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: things like that. Three neutral zone infractions in the first half, right,

1237
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,799
Speaker 1: So that's got to get cleaned up as well. Andrew

1238
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet says, the biggest reason for optimism

1239
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: is the way that Josh Allen's reading the field and

1240
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: making the right plays at the right time and making

1241
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: some incredible throws. Biggest concern and always a concern, is

1242
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: staying healthy. If we can stay healthy, it could turn

1243
01:11:56,760 --> 01:12:00,639
Speaker 1: into a great season. Everybody's concerned about injuries every week

1244
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: because it's one hundred percent injury sport. We know that. Yeah,

1245
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 1: Josh is a big reason for optimism. I think that

1246
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:11,240
Speaker 1: was reinforced with his performance on Saturday, albeit against backups,

1247
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 1: but that's how he should look against backups, and it

1248
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 1: looked a lot like we've reported from when we've watched

1249
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:22,599
Speaker 1: training camp practice. The ball rarely hits the ground when

1250
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:26,400
Speaker 1: Josh in the first team offense is out there executing

1251
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:28,599
Speaker 1: plays in practice. We saw that again in the game.

1252
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 1: We said it before. I mean I've said it the

1253
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: entire offseason. We've been talking about where Josh Allen's gonna be.

1254
01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 1: Is he gonna take a what's this step forward? What

1255
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 1: would it look like? That's what it would look like

1256
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 1: if you can if you take the top thirty one

1257
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: players off everybody else's squad and let Josh Allen play

1258
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 1: offense against them, He's gonna complete seventy five percent of

1259
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:53,840
Speaker 1: his passes, not sixty nine. Seventy five. Yeah, I mean

1260
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 1: that's what that looked like last week, last on Saturday.

1261
01:12:57,800 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 1: That's what a step forward is gonna look like for

1262
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:01,960
Speaker 1: this offense. We've never seen anybody do that. Drew Brees

1263
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: had it went seventy percent one year. Actually he's got

1264
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:10,559
Speaker 1: four seasons of seventy percent or higher. So you could think, well,

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01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: and that's and that's about what Josh looked like last year.

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Speaker 1: He was sixty nine point two. So you'll go, you'll

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Speaker 1: go a game where John you know where Josh wasn't know.

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01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: Maybe it was in the Dolphins game at the end

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01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 1: of the season or maybe what what game was it?

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01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: Maybe the Denver game where he was like Seattle eight, right,

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Speaker 1: that's it, eighteen of twenty one. Oh, you'll have a

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Speaker 1: game like that, and then you'll have a game where

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Speaker 1: you're you know, when you're a sixty two percent of

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01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 1: sixty percent, you know you kind of have those two

1275
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 1: in there. They didn't have many of them, No, he didn't.

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Speaker 1: But that's what a step forward would look like. You're

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01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 1: gonna have pop those games out of there where you

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01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:44,640
Speaker 1: go through stretches where he the ball doesn't touch the

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Speaker 1: ground like it didn't in the first quarter of that

1280
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 1: Packer game over the weekend. That's what a step forward

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01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:54,320
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen will look like. What you hope is

1282
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 1: you don't have to do that to win games, that

1283
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 1: your running game will be better and you're defense will

1284
01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 1: have some run defense and they won't be, you know,

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01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 1: on the field for fifteen play drives the way the

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01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:09,719
Speaker 1: Packer defense was. That's what you hope. Give Josh little

1287
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:16,679
Speaker 1: help and you know, we'll see, we'll see the Steelers

1288
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:19,400
Speaker 1: are gonna be a really tough test. And I know

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01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: the people are all giddy over what the Bills look like,

1290
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 1: and they're thinking this is gonna be like a cakewalk

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01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:25,600
Speaker 1: on opening Day because the crowd's gonna be nuts, and

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01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 1: it will be. The Steelers aren't gonna lay down. Ben

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01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger is a Hall of Fame quarterback. He's gonna be

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01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: Opening Day fresh. They're gonna have some things they're gonna

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01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 1: show that they haven't shown anybody. Got a new offensive coordinator,

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01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 1: and their defense is gonna come out with t J. Watt,

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01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:44,800
Speaker 1: one of the best edge rushers in the league. Yeah,

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01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna bring it. It's gonna be a

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01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:50,479
Speaker 1: tough game on opening Day. That will be a tough game.

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01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 1: So you know, say what you want because Bill, I

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01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 1: don't know if you see Bill's fans on Twitter or

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01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: they are drunk with they are drunk with optimism. I

1303
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 1: guess all of us are a little bit. I get

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01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: it after a thirteen when regular season last year, I

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01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 1: get why they're optimistic, and they should be optimistic. They

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01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:14,880
Speaker 1: just we don't want to have unbridled optimism a vacuum. Yeah,

1307
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:18,920
Speaker 1: and this just in the NFL is pretty damn competitively.

1308
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, there are there are a few cake walks

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01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,760
Speaker 1: out there, and I know the Bills really lump people

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01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 1: up in the second half of the season last year

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01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 1: after the loss to lost to Arizona on the hail

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01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:36,240
Speaker 1: mar under him, No question, it did, um And I'm

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01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 1: encouraged that it'll happen to some degree or a similar

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01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 1: degree again this year, especially after Levi Wallace in an

1315
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:45,519
Speaker 1: interview said what you know when asked what's different about

1316
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: the team this year, he said, there's anger, right, there's anger.

1317
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 1: Now that anger has got to be controlled because runaway

1318
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: anger can lead to mistakes and mental errors. I remember

1319
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 1: feeling that as well. We got beat in Cincinnati in

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01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:03,439
Speaker 1: a chance AFC champions and that's it sticks with you.

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01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:07,640
Speaker 1: It really does. Um. It does take you to a

1322
01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 1: different place. You gotta you know, you gotta churn it

1323
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:12,560
Speaker 1: up inside and turn it towards energy and let a

1324
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:14,680
Speaker 1: fewel you're going forward. And that's what that's what that

1325
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 1: team did. But there's gonna be a ton This team

1326
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 1: is going to be different than it was last year.

1327
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: It's going to be different than it was two years ago.

1328
01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 1: What this team is going to look like exactly We

1329
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 1: won't know until after we look back on it, you know,

1330
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: in in March. Hopefully we'll see what this team really

1331
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:33,720
Speaker 1: was and what it could do. We don't know what

1332
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: this defense is going to look like. We don't know

1333
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:37,040
Speaker 1: what this offense is going to look like. With Emmanuel

1334
01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:40,799
Speaker 1: Sanders and the offensive line changing it up with different

1335
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: tight end group. Who knows what this offensive identity is

1336
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 1: going to be. And defensively, we'll see, but it's They're

1337
01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:51,560
Speaker 1: gonna be a good football team, no question about it.

1338
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: There are going to be a lot of player transactions

1339
01:16:55,360 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: coming up in the next couple of days. An NFL

1340
01:16:58,439 --> 01:17:02,479
Speaker 1: starting quarterback has usin put on the COVID reserve list.

1341
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:04,800
Speaker 1: We'll tell you who that is when we return. And

1342
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:07,880
Speaker 1: the Bengals and Giants have swung a trade. We'll tell

1343
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 1: you who's involved when we return. Here on One Bill's

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01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:22,640
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. We

1345
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:26,640
Speaker 1: welcome back. One Bills Live is the show, And we

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01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: told you about a couple of developments on the league front.

1347
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 1: And Carson wentz As landed on the COVID reserve list

1348
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: for the Colts. He joins wide receiver Zach Pascal and

1349
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 1: center Ryan Kelly on said list for the Colts, and man,

1350
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: this guy can't catch a break. First, he's got a

1351
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:53,600
Speaker 1: foot injury. He has a miraculous recovery from that and

1352
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 1: is back on the practice field. Now he's off again.

1353
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 1: So on the COVID reserve list? What is the this

1354
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 1: is Eve? I just gotta tell you, this is an

1355
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: ominous sign. How what is your level of confidence now

1356
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: that year one with the Colts is gonna go well

1357
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz. These things happen in threes. That's two.

1358
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:12,640
Speaker 1: What is what's the third one? I put it to

1359
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:16,760
Speaker 1: tweet a tweet, a meme or gift about what is

1360
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: the most unlucky character in all of you know, he's

1361
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: the Charlie Brown is the NFL, the NFL, It's what

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01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 1: he is. He's got to be that. It's either Charlie

1363
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 1: Brown or who is it like Leon Spinks? Maybe I

1364
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, somebody's really unlucky? Right? Who name

1365
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,560
Speaker 1: somebody that's more unlucky than Carson Wentz. I'll have to

1366
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: think about it. I might be able to come up

1367
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:43,519
Speaker 1: with somebody, But that's rough. That's I mean, that's like

1368
01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 1: stepping on a rake and hitting yourself in the face

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01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 1: twice the same rake. Yeah, Like you hit it, you

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: walk away from it, you're stunned. You're like holding your face,

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01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:56,880
Speaker 1: and so then you finally like recover and you walk

1372
01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 1: in the same direction you get hit by the same

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01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 1: damn rake. That's what's happened here. That is so I'm

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01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: just gonna tell you, like, look, I'm only half Italian,

1375
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: but you know, Italian people worry about these these curses

1376
01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:11,840
Speaker 1: and stuff and superstitions. And you know, my grandmother used

1377
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:14,360
Speaker 1: to always say when bad stuff, these things happen in threes,

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01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,240
Speaker 1: you know, she they happen in threes, the third ones.

1379
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 1: Got what's the third one? Look out? You know, my buddy,

1380
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: my friend, Frank Breks, you gotta be looking as I

1381
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 1: was like, dude, what's your deal? Like, come on, man, like,

1382
01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: what's your deal? What are you gonna have hives? Next week?

1383
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna break out in hives? Like, what's going on?

1384
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: I don't know? It's uh. I mean, fortunately, it's still

1385
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:41,200
Speaker 1: two weeks before the regular season opener. And that's not

1386
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 1: the only problem he's got Frank Braik's dealing with, because

1387
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton's got a disc problem in his neck.

1388
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:50,840
Speaker 1: That's never good. Nelson's back off the he was on

1389
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: the COVID list, now back off. But he's still got

1390
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:57,680
Speaker 1: a foot injury as well. You know Carson Winson, the

1391
01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 1: two you know two that they're you know, there's center

1392
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly's still on the COVID. You know billboard offensive

1393
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:12,519
Speaker 1: players Winston, Quentin, Nelson, both those guys are and now

1394
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:17,559
Speaker 1: you got Ty Hilt problem. She Um and Zach Pascal,

1395
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:20,160
Speaker 1: the other wide receiver is on the COVID list. I mean, man,

1396
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 1: who are you rolling with? What are you doing? It's

1397
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 1: not good? Um. And then we mentioned Cincinnati and the

1398
01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 1: Giants swing a trade, Cincinnati trading former first round center

1399
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:39,719
Speaker 1: from their twenty eighteen draft Billy Price to the Giants

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01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: for third year defensive lineman b J. Hill. Now, Billy

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01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:48,080
Speaker 1: Price fell out of favor in Cincinnati pretty quickly, was

1402
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 1: out of the starting lineup last year, and you know,

1403
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: was essentially a reserve. You know, people in Cincinnati were

1404
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:59,200
Speaker 1: calling him a bust. This is how bad the offensive

1405
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:01,639
Speaker 1: line is for the Giants. They've given up eleven sacks

1406
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: in three preseason games. Now, I understand some of those

1407
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:06,840
Speaker 1: are garbage plays at the end of the preseason game

1408
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: when you got third stringers in what have you. But

1409
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:12,680
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has been knocked around a little bit in

1410
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 1: the preseason time he has had. The New York media

1411
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: has reigned hell down upon the offensive line for the Giants.

1412
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: There there's even a write up today that says, will

1413
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:28,200
Speaker 1: the Giants offensive line ruin their season? We're not even

1414
01:21:28,240 --> 01:21:30,640
Speaker 1: at Week one yet, Steve, So that'll give you an

1415
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 1: idea on how the Giants offensive line has looked. And

1416
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:36,600
Speaker 1: apparently Dave Kettleman, the GM for the Giants, believes the

1417
01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:40,600
Speaker 1: same thing. We've got a problem. So he traded for

1418
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:45,519
Speaker 1: a center today in Billy Price, who who knows, may

1419
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 1: start right away. If you thought enough to trade for him,

1420
01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 1: he's probably on the field for you, right right right.

1421
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:57,519
Speaker 1: So there's that I knew I could count on it.

1422
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: Now people are saying that Carson Wentz is the is

1423
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:04,759
Speaker 1: wild e coyote, And that's a good love the wily

1424
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: coyote who set that in Mac. You are on it, Mac.

1425
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:14,920
Speaker 1: That is a perfect while e coyote. Steve Noble says,

1426
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:19,200
Speaker 1: last year Tyrod Taylor was very unlucky. That's true. Oh,

1427
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna puncture my lung as you try to give

1428
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:23,960
Speaker 1: me a painkiller. Thanks for that. I guess I can't

1429
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 1: play today, and then lost his starting job. Well that

1430
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: was a Wally Pip situation too. I mean you got

1431
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:32,640
Speaker 1: you got set down for a week, and because my

1432
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: doctor punctured my lung right and then which is now deflated,

1433
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,040
Speaker 1: I can't play. I want to talk about we can

1434
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: go into that. This is off topic because you go

1435
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 1: you want to go into the Tyrod Taylor thing and

1436
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:47,120
Speaker 1: our guy Anthony Lynn, who by the way, is with

1437
01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: the Detroit How do you watch Tyrod Taylor practice for

1438
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:55,719
Speaker 1: an entire training camp and then watch Justin Herbert practice

1439
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:58,960
Speaker 1: alongside him and decide that Tyrod Taylor is your guy

1440
01:22:59,120 --> 01:23:03,680
Speaker 1: and only play Justin Herbert as a last resort when

1441
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: your doctor punctures the lung of Tyrod. So you put

1442
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert in fifteen seconds before you play the hottest

1443
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: team in football, and he almost beats him. Well, what

1444
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 1: were you looking at for six weeks? I mean they

1445
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 1: almost had to. They almost had to hold him over

1446
01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:27,400
Speaker 1: the fire to get him to play. That kid, and

1447
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 1: he's offensive Rookie of the Year in spite of a

1448
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,680
Speaker 1: head coach, you didn't even want to play him. I

1449
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:35,479
Speaker 1: like Anthony Lynn, but bro, what he was come on

1450
01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: a little alarming in terms of the avout and I

1451
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 1: get it, Tyrod Taylor is. I love the guy. He

1452
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: is a solid, hard working, smart player, but he is

1453
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: not as good as most of the starting quarterbacks in

1454
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 1: the NFL. In fact, he may not be a starting

1455
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL, but Anthony Lynn would not take

1456
01:23:57,400 --> 01:23:59,760
Speaker 1: him out of the off the field until he was

1457
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:04,280
Speaker 1: forced to for the Offensive Rookie of the Year, Buy

1458
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot. That's amazing to me. When you

1459
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,080
Speaker 1: start making decisions for personal reasons rather than what you

1460
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:18,560
Speaker 1: see on the film or in the practice field, that

1461
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 1: you got a problem. Things go sideways. They do, and

1462
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:26,200
Speaker 1: they can we see it. They think about what we've

1463
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:28,599
Speaker 1: been talking about. That's exactly what's happened to all these places.

1464
01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:33,800
Speaker 1: They're making decisions for the wrong reasons, with the wrong motivations,

1465
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:36,799
Speaker 1: and it caused them to make the not great decisions.

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01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:43,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think this is the last

1467
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:48,360
Speaker 1: we're going to see as some of these poor decisions. Unfortunately. Yeah,

1468
01:24:48,439 --> 01:24:51,080
Speaker 1: as much as it pains me to say that, and

1469
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 1: I don't think this is the last of the transactions

1470
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: we'll see. I think some of these gems in the

1471
01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 1: league are going to continue to make trades in advance

1472
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,840
Speaker 1: of the cutdown to fifty three because they don't want

1473
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:05,760
Speaker 1: to compete in a frenzied atmosphere for the services of

1474
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:08,720
Speaker 1: a player they know can help them. They'd rather give

1475
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 1: up a late round pick and ensure they get the

1476
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:14,679
Speaker 1: player to help their roster right away without wondering, well,

1477
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: if you don't get him, we'll have to look at

1478
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:17,560
Speaker 1: this guy, and if we don't get that guy, this

1479
01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:19,400
Speaker 1: is our third option. If we don't get that guy,

1480
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:25,719
Speaker 1: you know. So going to be a real interesting twenty

1481
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:28,080
Speaker 1: four to thirty six hours here coming up on the

1482
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:32,560
Speaker 1: NFL landscape with respect to roster formation, practice, squad formation,

1483
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:35,880
Speaker 1: and traits. I think there are going to be trades. Yeah,

1484
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 1: I think it's really going to be interesting over the

1485
01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 1: next twenty four hours or so for twenty four to

1486
01:25:40,400 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 1: twenty eight hours, I guess whatever it is or twenty

1487
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:47,479
Speaker 1: six hours, it's you don't want these guys if you've

1488
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:49,760
Speaker 1: got a guy, particularly in the team. I don't like

1489
01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:52,439
Speaker 1: any other team where you think you kind of you're

1490
01:25:52,479 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: like one piece away, or a piece that's really going

1491
01:25:55,479 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 1: to be the difference between maybe a four win season

1492
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 1: and an eight win season, or an eight win he's

1493
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 1: in a ten or eleven win season. You know, you

1494
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:04,000
Speaker 1: got a guy who's really going to make a difference

1495
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:05,920
Speaker 1: for you at a place where you really are desperate

1496
01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: for some help, and you can get a quality player there.

1497
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: You don't want to take a chance on that guy

1498
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:12,800
Speaker 1: just picking some other team at random than you when

1499
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:14,560
Speaker 1: you go out there and trying sales pitch him to

1500
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 1: come play for you. You want to trade him to

1501
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:19,600
Speaker 1: you where he has no choice, get him involved, and

1502
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:22,519
Speaker 1: get him on the field, and then you think about it.

1503
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 1: This happens like this afternoon or tomorrow. It's ten it's

1504
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:31,840
Speaker 1: twelve days before you play. That's an eternity in the

1505
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:34,720
Speaker 1: pro football. So you can get that guy up and

1506
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: running ready to go by opening day if you trade

1507
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 1: for him and get him in. But you know he's

1508
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 1: sprinkling a couple of days where okay, he got cut.

1509
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 1: Now he's talking to you, he's also talking to Team B.

1510
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 1: He's talking to Team CE, Team D, E, and F

1511
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:52,559
Speaker 1: chime in see what they're offering. He's like, not interested.

1512
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:54,160
Speaker 1: There you get back, all right, Now he's back talking

1513
01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:56,320
Speaker 1: to you from it. You know, a couple of days later,

1514
01:26:56,439 --> 01:27:00,439
Speaker 1: now you're deep into practice starting. It's too late or

1515
01:27:00,479 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 1: it's later. You want to get that guy in. And

1516
01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 1: I think smart smart gms have been laying the groundwork

1517
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:12,120
Speaker 1: for that for over a week now, and the Carolina

1518
01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:15,040
Speaker 1: Panthers did that today with the Bills acquiring defensive end

1519
01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: Bam Johnson in exchange for a six round draft choice

1520
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:20,479
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty two draft. Incidentally, the Bills will

1521
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 1: see Bam Johnson in week fifteen when the Bills host

1522
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 1: the Panthers that week of the regular season. That's the

1523
01:27:29,479 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 1: TVD game. By the way, I don't know if that's

1524
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:33,479
Speaker 1: a Saturday or a Sunday game yet, as is the

1525
01:27:33,520 --> 01:27:35,840
Speaker 1: case for speaking speaking of scheduled games. And I know

1526
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:38,760
Speaker 1: all of us are aware of the Hurricane Ida's hitting

1527
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:43,599
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and then I'm you know, I don't want

1528
01:27:43,640 --> 01:27:46,200
Speaker 1: to get in how tragic it is. Sixteen years ago

1529
01:27:46,560 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: Hurricane Katrina hit and almost leveled the city, and this

1530
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 1: one was supposed to be just as bad, and it

1531
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: is bad. So if you can check out, if you

1532
01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:58,639
Speaker 1: can help, please help in some way, shape or form.

1533
01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 1: But the football side of it and what we talk

1534
01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:06,639
Speaker 1: about the Saints game against as a Dallas, the Week

1535
01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:08,240
Speaker 1: one game may have to be moved, may have to

1536
01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 1: be moved. There is a report that there was no

1537
01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 1: structural damage to the Superdome right now, which is good

1538
01:28:13,600 --> 01:28:15,439
Speaker 1: right now, though it might not be about the Superdome.

1539
01:28:16,479 --> 01:28:21,120
Speaker 1: It's against the Packers, they might move. It's it's the

1540
01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 1: Packers at the Saints, they may move it. Yeah, And

1541
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,920
Speaker 1: obviously you hope that it's not about it's not about

1542
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: the dome. Obviously become domes come through, but it might

1543
01:28:32,240 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 1: be about the city itself not being listen, list being

1544
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:36,680
Speaker 1: ready to does not have a football with the infrastructure,

1545
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: hotels and whatnot. We got to take a break. When

1546
01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:41,679
Speaker 1: we come back. We'll touch on that a little bit more.

1547
01:28:42,320 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 1: And don't forget. We've got NFL films Greg co Sell

1548
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:46,880
Speaker 1: coming up in the third hour of our show to

1549
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:50,400
Speaker 1: break down the Packers Bills game, so stay tuned for that.

1550
01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:52,360
Speaker 1: It's all coming your way next on One Bill's Live

1551
01:28:52,400 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: presented by Colli to help, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. One

1552
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:09,879
Speaker 1: Bills Live is the show and Charles Robinson has fired

1553
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:12,599
Speaker 1: back from Yahoo Sports. He was the guy I mentioned

1554
01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:16,280
Speaker 1: earlier this hour who was reporting that the Dolphins maintain

1555
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: an interest in trying to acquire Deshaun Watson via trade. Now,

1556
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:26,560
Speaker 1: Brian floor Is apparently, in his press conference today basically

1557
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:29,920
Speaker 1: said we are only interested in bringing in players when

1558
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:33,400
Speaker 1: it comes to acquisitions who are of high character, which

1559
01:29:33,439 --> 01:29:38,479
Speaker 1: obviously would run counter to the charges that have been

1560
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 1: levied against Deshaun Watson by twenty two women. Charles Robinson

1561
01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:48,879
Speaker 1: responds by saying, I can't state it any more clearly.

1562
01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 1: My Watson reporting is from high level sourcing on five teams,

1563
01:29:56,080 --> 01:30:01,559
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, the Texans, the Broncos, the Eagles, and the Panthers,

1564
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:06,520
Speaker 1: as well as inside Watson's camp. I challenged the Dolphins

1565
01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:10,720
Speaker 1: to state on the record that they haven't spoken to

1566
01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 1: Houston about a Watson deal in camp. WHOA, oh you go,

1567
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 1: Charles Robinson. How about that smoke coming out of the

1568
01:30:25,760 --> 01:30:30,240
Speaker 1: Yahoo's Sports corner, Steve look out. Yeah, if Juck are,

1569
01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: You're gonna get hit with that they don't have. The

1570
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 1: Dolphins don't have to acknowledge that they don't, and they

1571
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:40,280
Speaker 1: probably won't. No, they don't, and there's no reason they

1572
01:30:40,320 --> 01:30:42,840
Speaker 1: should and he can say whatever he wants and maybe,

1573
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:46,320
Speaker 1: and it's probably true. I'll believe the guy, But what

1574
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:50,120
Speaker 1: do you think the Dolphins are gonna say anyway? Yeah, Well,

1575
01:30:50,240 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 1: and Michael Giardi is the guy that tweeted this because

1576
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 1: he was at or was listening to the Brian Flores

1577
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 1: press conference, and he said Brian Flores, head coach of

1578
01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, didn't specifically reference to Shaun Watson, but when

1579
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:04,519
Speaker 1: asked about player acquisitions, set in part quote, we want

1580
01:31:04,560 --> 01:31:08,040
Speaker 1: people with high character throughout the building. Then Glady lays

1581
01:31:08,080 --> 01:31:10,519
Speaker 1: out the facts, which is Watson's been accused of sexual

1582
01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:12,760
Speaker 1: assault and harassment in a series of lawsuits filed by

1583
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:20,320
Speaker 1: twenty two women. So so that story is going to

1584
01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:23,720
Speaker 1: continue to spend I'm telling you right now, until the

1585
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:26,519
Speaker 1: Houston Texans come out and say we are not moving

1586
01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:31,759
Speaker 1: to Shaun Watson this season, it will continue to percolate.

1587
01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 1: It's just going to continue to happen because you got

1588
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:40,360
Speaker 1: respectable reporters like Charles Robinson from Yeah Who Sports clearly

1589
01:31:40,479 --> 01:31:43,920
Speaker 1: stating that he is standing behind his reporting that the

1590
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:46,720
Speaker 1: Dolphins have made phone calls to the Texans through the

1591
01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:51,360
Speaker 1: course of training camp. So we'll see where it goes,

1592
01:31:52,280 --> 01:31:55,599
Speaker 1: we will see where it goes. It's very interesting, though.

1593
01:31:56,479 --> 01:32:00,160
Speaker 1: I'm just stunned that they're still entertaining that. I really am.

1594
01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:05,280
Speaker 1: I get the talent involved, but everything else that's involved

1595
01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:08,400
Speaker 1: with the Shaun Watson right now, I don't understand the pursuit.

1596
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:15,519
Speaker 1: I just haven't. I just can't wrap my head around it. Right. Yeah,

1597
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:21,080
Speaker 1: here's what the thing. Because the Texans are purportedly lasting

1598
01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:25,719
Speaker 1: for three ones and two twos, five top draft picks.

1599
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 1: If you're going to talk about this, if you're the Dolphins,

1600
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:33,519
Speaker 1: you're talking about just the opposite of that. You're saying, listen,

1601
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:36,479
Speaker 1: I'll take the guy, but you almost have to pay

1602
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:38,760
Speaker 1: me to do it. And they're not doing And they're

1603
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:41,839
Speaker 1: not doing that because they recognize there are people desperate

1604
01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:44,760
Speaker 1: enough for a top five franchise quarterback that they're willing

1605
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 1: to do almost anything, no matter the consequences and the

1606
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:50,479
Speaker 1: poor optics for their own fan basis. I mean, what

1607
01:32:50,560 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: do you say to every female fan of your team

1608
01:32:53,720 --> 01:32:56,320
Speaker 1: if you acquire a guy like this, What does that say? Yeah,

1609
01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:59,800
Speaker 1: it's bad. It says you don't give one iota about

1610
01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 1: what the charges are, what the ramifications are, and what

1611
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:06,040
Speaker 1: it means to the female population of your fan base,

1612
01:33:06,120 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 1: he's virtually the only guy that played well for them

1613
01:33:08,240 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 1: last year, and then four win season, people are making

1614
01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:13,599
Speaker 1: a big and there's no question you can't take away

1615
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:15,680
Speaker 1: guys numbers. Guy put up great numbers for a team

1616
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:17,720
Speaker 1: that only won four games. But let's you know, we

1617
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 1: all know what it looks like when you got a

1618
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:21,439
Speaker 1: really good quarterback and he's playing on a bad team.

1619
01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:23,719
Speaker 1: He lights it up. He's gonna throw it for great numbers.

1620
01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a lot of touchdown, he's gonna have

1621
01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:26,959
Speaker 1: a lot of yards, gonna have a lot of attempts.

1622
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the guy that everybody focuses on. And

1623
01:33:31,960 --> 01:33:34,160
Speaker 1: let's phase it two. He was also the quarterback when

1624
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:39,720
Speaker 1: that team beat the Bills in a playoff game, So

1625
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:45,840
Speaker 1: that's you know, he's a good quarterback. But he was

1626
01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:48,720
Speaker 1: on in the perfect situation to put up numbers last year,

1627
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:51,600
Speaker 1: unless you say he was on unless he was on

1628
01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:54,920
Speaker 1: a good team. But that team was in desperation mode

1629
01:33:55,040 --> 01:33:57,720
Speaker 1: from start to finish about every game they played last year.

1630
01:33:58,120 --> 01:34:01,519
Speaker 1: So he's gonna light it up. I don't know that

1631
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:03,519
Speaker 1: you and I get it too. He was he's a

1632
01:34:03,560 --> 01:34:05,479
Speaker 1: good quarterback, but I don't know that he's going to

1633
01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:07,920
Speaker 1: be some magic elixir for some of the teams the

1634
01:34:07,960 --> 01:34:10,120
Speaker 1: way they purport him to be, or may may anticipate

1635
01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:13,240
Speaker 1: him being. He may be an upgrade, no question, even

1636
01:34:13,280 --> 01:34:17,599
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. But yeah, I don't I don't

1637
01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:21,800
Speaker 1: know that he's worth it to be, Just to say

1638
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:24,759
Speaker 1: it bluntly, I don't know that he's worth the headaches,

1639
01:34:25,080 --> 01:34:35,240
Speaker 1: the draft picks, any of it. Yeah. Yeah, I think

1640
01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 1: I've said what I can say on this. I can't

1641
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 1: say anymore. I'm just I'm very surprised that Dolphins are

1642
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 1: pursuing it. But it does, truthfully that as the guys

1643
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:48,559
Speaker 1: that are reporting it or doubling down on their assertion, Yeah,

1644
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:50,560
Speaker 1: you gotta think, Okay, well, he must have talked to

1645
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:54,840
Speaker 1: somebody who says it's true. Charles Robinson is pretty much

1646
01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:57,120
Speaker 1: putting his reputation as a reporter on the line here.

1647
01:34:57,200 --> 01:35:00,160
Speaker 1: It's amazing with what he's done, So I think he's

1648
01:35:00,200 --> 01:35:04,759
Speaker 1: pretty pretty convinced that what he has heard has merit

1649
01:35:05,040 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 1: to hit. We take a break here, but when we

1650
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:10,240
Speaker 1: come back, we get back to the x's and oh's

1651
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:14,080
Speaker 1: of Saturday's preseason game between the Packers and the Bills.

1652
01:35:14,160 --> 01:35:17,160
Speaker 1: Because senior producer from NFL Films, Greg cose Sal is

1653
01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:19,720
Speaker 1: joining us as he will break down the play of

1654
01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:23,000
Speaker 1: some individual players from that game when we return here

1655
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:25,280
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Line presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo

1656
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

1657
01:35:44,920 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of

1658
01:35:46,920 --> 01:35:52,519
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

1659
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated sphere of normalcy. All right,

1660
01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:02,000
Speaker 1: our number three are here on a Monday, Chris Brown,

1661
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:05,639
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and the preseason has been put

1662
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:07,840
Speaker 1: to bed, but time to do a little post mortem.

1663
01:36:08,479 --> 01:36:10,880
Speaker 1: And here to help us with that is NFL Film

1664
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:14,439
Speaker 1: senior producer co host the ESPN's NFL Matchup Show, which

1665
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:16,960
Speaker 1: will be making its triumphant return in short order. It

1666
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:19,840
Speaker 1: is one Greg coo Sell joining us. Greg, thanks for

1667
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:22,559
Speaker 1: the time. We're ready to roll here with Bill's Packers,

1668
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:26,599
Speaker 1: are you. I'm really excited about Bill's Packers. I want

1669
01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:29,639
Speaker 1: to spend the entire time just talking about that seed

1670
01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:33,800
Speaker 1: by Josh Allen to Gabriel Davis. Come on, now, that

1671
01:36:33,880 --> 01:36:35,479
Speaker 1: was a pretty good It's one of those throws you

1672
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 1: know where you got kind of go oh, that's pretty good. Yeah, Yeah,

1673
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:42,400
Speaker 1: I noticed at two and I've seen that. I've seen

1674
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:45,679
Speaker 1: that play like six thousand time exaggerating, you know, dozens

1675
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:48,280
Speaker 1: of times because everybody wants to see it. I noticed

1676
01:36:48,320 --> 01:36:50,040
Speaker 1: it and said on the on the broadcast, the thing

1677
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:53,320
Speaker 1: never got ten feet off the ground. No. And you know,

1678
01:36:53,479 --> 01:36:56,759
Speaker 1: the thing that really strikes me about Josh, and we've

1679
01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:58,920
Speaker 1: noticed a last year, which is why you had such

1680
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 1: a great year, is now all of a sudden, his

1681
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:04,920
Speaker 1: ball location is so much better. I mean, he's always

1682
01:37:04,960 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: had a big gun. He could always just drive the football,

1683
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:08,840
Speaker 1: but you look at a throw like that which we

1684
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:11,880
Speaker 1: just saw, and you couldn't place that ball any better

1685
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:14,200
Speaker 1: to Gabriel Davis if you handed it to him. Yeah.

1686
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:16,920
Speaker 1: And I thought it was interesting what Josh said after

1687
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:21,000
Speaker 1: the game about that play, because he said, this is

1688
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 1: an example of why it's important to get preseason reps

1689
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:29,439
Speaker 1: against another NFL opponent. He said, because all throughout training

1690
01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:33,800
Speaker 1: camp they did not get that defensive look on that

1691
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:38,040
Speaker 1: play call, and he had not thrown that ball once

1692
01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:42,320
Speaker 1: the entire training camp in preseason that's the first time

1693
01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:45,240
Speaker 1: they got the look that gave him the opportunity to

1694
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:47,960
Speaker 1: throw that pass on that play, you know, Chris, And

1695
01:37:48,040 --> 01:37:50,200
Speaker 1: that's a great point because I've talked to some gms

1696
01:37:50,880 --> 01:37:53,360
Speaker 1: and the first thing they say to me when I asked,

1697
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 1: what's the purpose of preseason universally, you here to find

1698
01:37:58,080 --> 01:38:01,639
Speaker 1: the best fifty three man roster. That's what they say.

1699
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:04,280
Speaker 1: They don't say, oh, we want to see, you know,

1700
01:38:04,400 --> 01:38:07,000
Speaker 1: how our offense does on third down against you know,

1701
01:38:07,040 --> 01:38:09,519
Speaker 1: a blitz. They don't say things like that. The goal

1702
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:12,320
Speaker 1: is to get the best fifty three. And it's funny

1703
01:38:12,320 --> 01:38:15,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned that about the look, because he's practicing against

1704
01:38:15,120 --> 01:38:17,760
Speaker 1: his own defense for the most part, you know, I

1705
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:20,320
Speaker 1: know they have some joint practices, but for the most part,

1706
01:38:20,360 --> 01:38:23,160
Speaker 1: you're practicing against your own defense, and so your own

1707
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:26,200
Speaker 1: defense is working on what they do. And here they're

1708
01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:28,960
Speaker 1: playing a different team which does some different things, and

1709
01:38:29,160 --> 01:38:31,760
Speaker 1: so they got a different look and that helps Josh.

1710
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,479
Speaker 1: You know, he's still you know, people forget because he's

1711
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:37,880
Speaker 1: such a good player, but he's only going into his

1712
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:40,600
Speaker 1: fourth year, so there's still things that he needs to

1713
01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:42,880
Speaker 1: see that he needs to learn. You know, we kind

1714
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:44,519
Speaker 1: of got lost in the fact because he's such a

1715
01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:46,880
Speaker 1: high level talent, and you guys know, I'm on record

1716
01:38:46,920 --> 01:38:50,160
Speaker 1: of saying I think just in terms of pure physical talent,

1717
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:52,840
Speaker 1: that he's the most gifted quarterback in the league. But

1718
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:55,759
Speaker 1: there's still things to learn going into his fourth season.

1719
01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:58,479
Speaker 1: One of the things about this preseam, we knew we

1720
01:38:58,520 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 1: were going to get a chance to seat Josh Adam

1721
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:01,960
Speaker 1: for the first time, but we also got a chance

1722
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:04,000
Speaker 1: to see for the first time in a Bill's uniform.

1723
01:39:04,520 --> 01:39:08,879
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders got targeted like eight times, had four catches.

1724
01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:12,559
Speaker 1: It didn't really ipop, But what did you see about

1725
01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:14,800
Speaker 1: Sanders and what do you think about what he'll bring

1726
01:39:14,840 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: to the offense. Well, Sanders has a big track record

1727
01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:19,600
Speaker 1: in the league, so it's not as if this was

1728
01:39:19,680 --> 01:39:23,759
Speaker 1: brand new material. My guess is he's probably really excited

1729
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:26,960
Speaker 1: about playing in this style of offense. It's a quick paced,

1730
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:30,880
Speaker 1: fast tempo offense, spread offense. Throughout his career, he's been

1731
01:39:30,920 --> 01:39:33,440
Speaker 1: able to line up both in this slot and outside.

1732
01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 1: He's got kind of deceptive speed. You wouldn't call him

1733
01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 1: a burner, but he can get on top of the defense.

1734
01:39:39,720 --> 01:39:42,920
Speaker 1: He's essentially a three level route runner. He can work short,

1735
01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:45,360
Speaker 1: he can work intermediate, and he can work long, and

1736
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:48,200
Speaker 1: he can work the screen game. So he's a complete

1737
01:39:48,240 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: receiver who my guess is And obviously there's only only

1738
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:55,000
Speaker 1: so many targets to go around. Three receivers are not

1739
01:39:55,040 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 1: going to all get one hundred and fifty targets, and

1740
01:39:57,160 --> 01:40:00,439
Speaker 1: Diggs is obviously the main guy. But I would bet

1741
01:40:00,479 --> 01:40:02,720
Speaker 1: he's thrilled to be in this offense. And I think

1742
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:06,320
Speaker 1: this offense fits him because he's not big, He's certain

1743
01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 1: enough tiny. He's not big, but he's got great quickness.

1744
01:40:09,439 --> 01:40:12,800
Speaker 1: He's got route quickness, and he's got separation quickness. There

1745
01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:16,840
Speaker 1: is another receiver who has considerably less experienced and is

1746
01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:19,400
Speaker 1: not as complete as Emmanuel Sanders, but he has flashed

1747
01:40:19,439 --> 01:40:22,200
Speaker 1: on special teams. He has flashed on offense through the

1748
01:40:22,280 --> 01:40:25,000
Speaker 1: course of this preseason. Got nicked up in the Bears

1749
01:40:25,040 --> 01:40:27,400
Speaker 1: game last week, but was healthy enough to play this week.

1750
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:32,000
Speaker 1: Stevenson has made a case to be on this roster

1751
01:40:32,200 --> 01:40:35,080
Speaker 1: despite how deep it is at receiver. Steve and I

1752
01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 1: believe he would have to be the seventh receiver the

1753
01:40:38,200 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: team would have to decide to keep seven, which may

1754
01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:44,160
Speaker 1: sound outlandish, but I did look it up. There were

1755
01:40:44,240 --> 01:40:46,720
Speaker 1: seven teams in the league that had seven receivers on

1756
01:40:46,800 --> 01:40:49,880
Speaker 1: their roster last season. It seems like this could be

1757
01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:52,559
Speaker 1: a trend, so the Bills might not be completely out

1758
01:40:52,600 --> 01:40:55,720
Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility to consider that, because I think, Greg,

1759
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:58,040
Speaker 1: I think this guy would get poached if you put

1760
01:40:58,120 --> 01:41:01,519
Speaker 1: him on your practice squad. I do too. Oh. I

1761
01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:04,880
Speaker 1: watched him both in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, and this

1762
01:41:05,040 --> 01:41:08,760
Speaker 1: kid could run, and speed is always big. Teams will

1763
01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:13,759
Speaker 1: always look for speed, and I think I remember watching

1764
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 1: him and thinking, this guy's a really intriguing prospect. So,

1765
01:41:17,320 --> 01:41:19,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we pretty much know who the

1766
01:41:19,439 --> 01:41:22,360
Speaker 1: receivers are ahead of him, but the boy would be

1767
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:24,360
Speaker 1: tough to lose a kid like that, particularly in this

1768
01:41:24,560 --> 01:41:27,680
Speaker 1: style of offense. You spread the field and you get

1769
01:41:27,720 --> 01:41:29,360
Speaker 1: a lot of one all ones, and he can run.

1770
01:41:30,520 --> 01:41:32,280
Speaker 1: We saw it, We talked about it that the throw

1771
01:41:32,400 --> 01:41:36,320
Speaker 1: from from Josh Allen to Gabriel Davis and Gabriel Davis

1772
01:41:36,479 --> 01:41:38,760
Speaker 1: really burst onto the scene last year and was the

1773
01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:42,160
Speaker 1: main reason that the Bills played so much for wide,

1774
01:41:42,160 --> 01:41:43,880
Speaker 1: at least when they had their guys healthy. They played

1775
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:46,040
Speaker 1: a lot more for wide than most other teams. Did.

1776
01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:49,360
Speaker 1: What kind of step can we expect from Gabe Davis

1777
01:41:49,479 --> 01:41:53,439
Speaker 1: this year after his rookie year was so successful, Steve,

1778
01:41:53,479 --> 01:41:55,760
Speaker 1: I would expect a big one for this reason. I

1779
01:41:55,880 --> 01:41:57,840
Speaker 1: don't know him. You guys know him, obviously, he must

1780
01:41:57,840 --> 01:41:59,479
Speaker 1: be a pretty sharp kid, and I'll tell you why,

1781
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:02,479
Speaker 1: because when he came out of college, he basically lined

1782
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:06,200
Speaker 1: up in one spot in college on every play, he

1783
01:42:06,360 --> 01:42:09,640
Speaker 1: was outside the numbers, to the left side of the formation,

1784
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:12,840
Speaker 1: and he was literally two yards from the sideline. And

1785
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:15,240
Speaker 1: that's the only spot he lined up in college in

1786
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:18,080
Speaker 1: his last season. So here he comes into the NFL

1787
01:42:18,560 --> 01:42:21,280
Speaker 1: and he's lining up in the slot outside. So he

1788
01:42:21,479 --> 01:42:24,479
Speaker 1: must be a smart, savvy kid who picks things up

1789
01:42:24,920 --> 01:42:28,439
Speaker 1: pretty quickly, and I would expect him to continue to improve. Now,

1790
01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:30,360
Speaker 1: as I said, I don't know what that means in

1791
01:42:30,479 --> 01:42:32,799
Speaker 1: terms of target share. They have a lot of receivers,

1792
01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:36,639
Speaker 1: but I would expect him to really continue to get better.

1793
01:42:36,720 --> 01:42:39,920
Speaker 1: And he's a good sized kid too. Matt Brad is

1794
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:41,920
Speaker 1: a guy that I think is still trying to find

1795
01:42:42,040 --> 01:42:44,519
Speaker 1: his role in the scope of this offense, and I

1796
01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:48,719
Speaker 1: guess that'll become clearer as we get into the regular season.

1797
01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:52,519
Speaker 1: But found it interesting that they used him on a

1798
01:42:52,640 --> 01:42:54,840
Speaker 1: jet sweep in this game, similar to the way they

1799
01:42:55,000 --> 01:43:00,240
Speaker 1: use Isaiah McKenzie who was out injured. So as we

1800
01:43:00,400 --> 01:43:02,599
Speaker 1: kind of try to figure out and read the tea

1801
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:06,240
Speaker 1: leaves on running bag usage, it looks like they're looking

1802
01:43:06,360 --> 01:43:09,559
Speaker 1: for other ways to deploy breed it, or at least

1803
01:43:09,640 --> 01:43:11,920
Speaker 1: see in the preseason if there are other things he

1804
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:15,040
Speaker 1: can do. That Is that the sense you got from

1805
01:43:15,120 --> 01:43:18,439
Speaker 1: his usage on Saturday. Yeah, I think it's a matter

1806
01:43:18,520 --> 01:43:22,080
Speaker 1: of taking advantage of speed because you run that kind

1807
01:43:22,120 --> 01:43:23,600
Speaker 1: of play with Breeda and what are you hoping for?

1808
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:26,840
Speaker 1: You're hoping to get him on the edge, outflanking the

1809
01:43:26,960 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 1: defense because he can run. You know, one of the

1810
01:43:29,560 --> 01:43:33,040
Speaker 1: things about this Bill's offense now is they're getting guys

1811
01:43:33,080 --> 01:43:36,000
Speaker 1: who can run, and boy, that becomes hard to do.

1812
01:43:36,160 --> 01:43:38,920
Speaker 1: You know, Steve mentioned the four wide receivers. If I'm

1813
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:41,559
Speaker 1: not mistaken, they lined up with four wide receivers more

1814
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:44,160
Speaker 1: than any team in the league last year, probably something

1815
01:43:44,200 --> 01:43:46,759
Speaker 1: like eighteen or nineteen percent if memory serves me correctly.

1816
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:49,519
Speaker 1: And I don't really see that dramatically changing. I know

1817
01:43:49,640 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 1: Greed is not a receiver, but what you're trying to

1818
01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:56,560
Speaker 1: do is really stretched the defense horizontally, and you do

1819
01:43:56,680 --> 01:43:59,320
Speaker 1: that yet sweep stuff and it doesn't matter who you

1820
01:43:59,400 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 1: do it with. If he can run, you can outflank

1821
01:44:01,280 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 1: the defense. Yeah, I mean they've they ran it on Saturday,

1822
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:07,080
Speaker 1: but they did it last year too, where they just

1823
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:10,599
Speaker 1: go five wide out of eleven personnel and they put

1824
01:44:10,680 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 1: singletary outside the numbers. So now you got a linebacker

1825
01:44:13,320 --> 01:44:15,360
Speaker 1: who's pulled out of the middle of the field and

1826
01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:17,200
Speaker 1: that just opens it up for the quick guys in

1827
01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 1: the slots and it works like it works wonders for them.

1828
01:44:20,200 --> 01:44:23,200
Speaker 1: Somebody's always open, you know. And the other factory with

1829
01:44:23,320 --> 01:44:24,960
Speaker 1: spreading it out like that too, and not that you

1830
01:44:25,040 --> 01:44:27,240
Speaker 1: want this to happen a lot, but he's, as we know,

1831
01:44:27,360 --> 01:44:29,880
Speaker 1: more than capable of it. Is that also gives Josh

1832
01:44:29,920 --> 01:44:32,000
Speaker 1: Allen if he sees a lane, it gives him an

1833
01:44:32,040 --> 01:44:35,120
Speaker 1: opportunity to run because the defense has to spread out

1834
01:44:35,680 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 1: because they have to they have to defend the whole field.

1835
01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:41,559
Speaker 1: Is there something missing from Breeda's game? I mean, because

1836
01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:43,760
Speaker 1: we saw him in San Francisco, had some good years

1837
01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:45,960
Speaker 1: and then they let him go. He went to Miami

1838
01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:49,080
Speaker 1: and then what for whatever reason, which is what I'm asking.

1839
01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:51,519
Speaker 1: I guess he fell out a favor in Miami, in

1840
01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:54,280
Speaker 1: favor of Gaskin. Now he's in Buffalo and we saw

1841
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:57,120
Speaker 1: him like last week in Chicago. We kind of tried

1842
01:44:57,160 --> 01:44:59,440
Speaker 1: to get to the corner, didn't get the ball inside

1843
01:44:59,479 --> 01:45:01,599
Speaker 1: the pilo where you think, well, gosh, that's where you'd

1844
01:45:01,600 --> 01:45:04,760
Speaker 1: like to see him score. Is there anything from your

1845
01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: film study that you can discern that is missing from

1846
01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:12,960
Speaker 1: Breeda's game that you can even put your finger on. Boy,

1847
01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:15,880
Speaker 1: that's a hard question. I mean, obviously, you know San Francisco,

1848
01:45:15,920 --> 01:45:17,680
Speaker 1: a lot of backs do really well that that run

1849
01:45:17,800 --> 01:45:20,280
Speaker 1: game is arguably the best in the NFL with Kyle

1850
01:45:20,320 --> 01:45:24,679
Speaker 1: Shanahan and Mike McDaniel THEOC, so a lot of guys

1851
01:45:25,160 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 1: put up yards in that run game. You know. My

1852
01:45:29,560 --> 01:45:32,880
Speaker 1: guess is with Breeda, he's probably mostly a speed guy,

1853
01:45:33,360 --> 01:45:35,479
Speaker 1: and I don't think even when he was in San

1854
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 1: Francisco anybody thought he was really a volume back. So

1855
01:45:39,080 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 1: therefore he becomes a committee back, and then it becomes

1856
01:45:42,200 --> 01:45:45,519
Speaker 1: team specific. Steve, I think I think that it depends

1857
01:45:45,560 --> 01:45:49,719
Speaker 1: on the makeup of your your backfield and who's there

1858
01:45:50,080 --> 01:45:53,000
Speaker 1: and how you decide to deploy them. There's no question.

1859
01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:56,760
Speaker 1: He's got burst and accelerating speed, but he's not a

1860
01:45:56,800 --> 01:46:00,160
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty carry a year back, So how

1861
01:46:00,200 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 1: does he fit? I mean, Singletary seems to be the

1862
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:05,200
Speaker 1: clear number one unless you guys tell me otherwise. And

1863
01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:07,519
Speaker 1: the Moss was what a third round pick a year ago.

1864
01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:11,000
Speaker 1: And there's not going to be a ton of carries

1865
01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 1: on this team because this is a passing team. Yeah,

1866
01:46:14,360 --> 01:46:19,040
Speaker 1: no question about it. Jake from comes in after Josh

1867
01:46:19,120 --> 01:46:22,040
Speaker 1: Allen's day is done, gets a healthy dose of work.

1868
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:24,439
Speaker 1: We saw the drive that he led at the end

1869
01:46:24,479 --> 01:46:26,640
Speaker 1: of the Detroit game in week one of the preseason.

1870
01:46:27,080 --> 01:46:30,040
Speaker 1: He's shown well and he actually showed some legs running

1871
01:46:30,040 --> 01:46:32,760
Speaker 1: for a thirteen yard touchdown on a scramble, which you know,

1872
01:46:32,840 --> 01:46:35,120
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us were anticipating, at least

1873
01:46:35,400 --> 01:46:37,840
Speaker 1: not running that far, and he got to the end zone.

1874
01:46:37,880 --> 01:46:39,760
Speaker 1: So good on him for that. My question to you,

1875
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:45,320
Speaker 1: Greg is how difficult a decision has he now given

1876
01:46:45,800 --> 01:46:49,519
Speaker 1: the Bill's coaching staff, because I think at the outset

1877
01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:52,080
Speaker 1: of camp we were all saying, ah, it's a two

1878
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:54,760
Speaker 1: quarterback roster. It's Allan and Trubisky. He could put the

1879
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,439
Speaker 1: other guys on the practice squad. I just wonder if

1880
01:46:57,479 --> 01:47:00,679
Speaker 1: he's shown almost too much in the preseason in terms

1881
01:47:00,720 --> 01:47:03,920
Speaker 1: of ability to manage a team, run an offense, execute

1882
01:47:04,360 --> 01:47:06,880
Speaker 1: where there might be some teams, you know, keeping an

1883
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:10,280
Speaker 1: eye out for a quarterback getting set free before being

1884
01:47:10,320 --> 01:47:15,240
Speaker 1: put on a practice squad. Well, to me, and I've

1885
01:47:15,320 --> 01:47:17,200
Speaker 1: been around Jake From and he's another one of those

1886
01:47:17,240 --> 01:47:20,320
Speaker 1: guys that's a great, great kid. And I think you

1887
01:47:20,520 --> 01:47:23,160
Speaker 1: nailed at Chris just as to what he is. I

1888
01:47:23,479 --> 01:47:28,719
Speaker 1: don't personally believe anybody would grab From to compete to start.

1889
01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:32,200
Speaker 1: Oh I'm wrong. Yeah, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't

1890
01:47:32,240 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 1: think that would be the case. So to me in Buffalo,

1891
01:47:36,520 --> 01:47:38,680
Speaker 1: the question becomes this, And Steve could speak to this

1892
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:41,080
Speaker 1: better than I because I've not been in meeting rooms

1893
01:47:41,120 --> 01:47:44,599
Speaker 1: like this is what you feel about your quarterback meeting room?

1894
01:47:44,760 --> 01:47:48,280
Speaker 1: Because obviously Josh has won Drubisky's too. Who's the third

1895
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:50,719
Speaker 1: guy you won in that meeting room that you feel

1896
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:54,240
Speaker 1: can help Josh the best? Because it's you know, when

1897
01:47:54,240 --> 01:47:57,160
Speaker 1: a player can help another player on some level, that

1898
01:47:57,240 --> 01:47:59,679
Speaker 1: can be better than a coach talking to a player.

1899
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: So who can do that best? Is it From or

1900
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:06,000
Speaker 1: is it Davis Webb and my senses, if they keep

1901
01:48:06,120 --> 01:48:09,920
Speaker 1: three and you know who knows when the roster is

1902
01:48:09,960 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 1: finally constructed, If they do, my senses, it would come

1903
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:16,400
Speaker 1: down to who is better in a day to day

1904
01:48:16,439 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 1: basis in the meeting room, on the practice field, just

1905
01:48:19,280 --> 01:48:23,040
Speaker 1: to make sure that Josh is at his absolute best

1906
01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:26,280
Speaker 1: mentally and physically all the time. Because the follow up

1907
01:48:26,320 --> 01:48:29,559
Speaker 1: to that is, you know, GM zero is looking into

1908
01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:32,080
Speaker 1: the future. Also, they have the future to consider two,

1909
01:48:32,680 --> 01:48:35,800
Speaker 1: and I think we all are pretty confident that come

1910
01:48:35,880 --> 01:48:38,320
Speaker 1: this time next year, Mitchell Trubisky is not going to

1911
01:48:38,439 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 1: be here, and so the other point, Yeah, So I

1912
01:48:41,560 --> 01:48:45,280
Speaker 1: just wonder how that weighs into this decision, because you

1913
01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 1: don't want to if you like Davis Webb and when

1914
01:48:47,040 --> 01:48:48,640
Speaker 1: he brings the room, that's great, and he showed some

1915
01:48:48,720 --> 01:48:51,479
Speaker 1: ability in the preseason two I think from has availed

1916
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:53,760
Speaker 1: himself quite well. They kept both of those guys on

1917
01:48:53,840 --> 01:48:56,720
Speaker 1: the practice squad last year. I'm just really intrigued in

1918
01:48:56,880 --> 01:49:00,120
Speaker 1: how they approach this knowing Trubisky's probably here just a

1919
01:49:00,160 --> 01:49:02,599
Speaker 1: brief stopover. That's That's the only reason. Funny you mentioned

1920
01:49:02,600 --> 01:49:05,800
Speaker 1: Trubisky because the league told him this year that he

1921
01:49:05,920 --> 01:49:09,559
Speaker 1: was a backup. So in an ideal world, Trubisky doesn't

1922
01:49:09,600 --> 01:49:11,920
Speaker 1: play any snaps this year except maybe to go into

1923
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:15,040
Speaker 1: victory formation a couple of times. So that's the ideal

1924
01:49:15,120 --> 01:49:17,760
Speaker 1: world this year. So if that happens, he's not going

1925
01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: to get anything else on tape other than that twenty

1926
01:49:20,520 --> 01:49:23,639
Speaker 1: for twenty eight performance in that second preseason game where

1927
01:49:23,720 --> 01:49:26,479
Speaker 1: obviously he looked very sharp in an offensive game, playing

1928
01:49:26,560 --> 01:49:30,680
Speaker 1: geared specifically for him. So you wonder, Chris Steve, if

1929
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:33,799
Speaker 1: after this year, if he doesn't take any meaningful snaps,

1930
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:36,439
Speaker 1: if the league will see him differently than they did

1931
01:49:36,479 --> 01:49:40,280
Speaker 1: a year ago. That's a valid point. Yeah, what about

1932
01:49:40,360 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 1: going further down about a guy like we were talking

1933
01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:46,520
Speaker 1: about how many dbs the Bills will keep maybe four safeties,

1934
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:49,639
Speaker 1: five corners, or maybe five and five or maybe four

1935
01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:52,240
Speaker 1: and six if it gets to that point where they

1936
01:49:52,360 --> 01:49:55,479
Speaker 1: keep that many. But a guy like sarand Neil, who

1937
01:49:56,000 --> 01:49:59,320
Speaker 1: is as athletic as anybody on the squad, yeah, and

1938
01:49:59,479 --> 01:50:01,920
Speaker 1: can play special teams and can help him in a

1939
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:05,679
Speaker 1: number of ways. How did he look against the Packers?

1940
01:50:05,720 --> 01:50:08,120
Speaker 1: He had a ton of tackles. I know that. Well,

1941
01:50:08,120 --> 01:50:10,400
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what he's got physicality, There's no question

1942
01:50:10,479 --> 01:50:12,040
Speaker 1: about that. When he was either lined up in the

1943
01:50:12,080 --> 01:50:14,800
Speaker 1: slot or outside, he would go after people and that's

1944
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:18,240
Speaker 1: always impressive, and for a defensive guy like Sean McDermott

1945
01:50:18,240 --> 01:50:20,760
Speaker 1: and obviously Leslie Frasier, that's a big deal and you

1946
01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:22,559
Speaker 1: hit it on the head with a special team Steve.

1947
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:25,559
Speaker 1: What really struck me in this game was how much

1948
01:50:25,600 --> 01:50:28,600
Speaker 1: he played on the outside. Maybe you guys remember, but

1949
01:50:28,640 --> 01:50:31,120
Speaker 1: I don't remember him playing that much on the outside

1950
01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:34,280
Speaker 1: unless it was in a preseason a year ago. But

1951
01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:36,599
Speaker 1: he played a lot of snaps in this game against

1952
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:40,240
Speaker 1: the Packers, both at the at the field corner when

1953
01:50:40,280 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 1: he was on the field with Tredavious Wright White and

1954
01:50:43,240 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 1: then at the boundary corner when the subs were in.

1955
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:48,400
Speaker 1: So he got a lot of snaps in this game

1956
01:50:48,479 --> 01:50:51,519
Speaker 1: at outside corner. And I don't know did they see

1957
01:50:51,640 --> 01:50:54,800
Speaker 1: him that way? Well, he's listed on the roster as

1958
01:50:54,920 --> 01:51:00,760
Speaker 1: a corner, right he spent the majority of the preseason inside.

1959
01:51:02,240 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 1: We've seen him pretty much coming on after Tarren Johnson

1960
01:51:05,160 --> 01:51:08,599
Speaker 1: was out there, so they're looking at him in that way.

1961
01:51:08,680 --> 01:51:11,200
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be surprised if they're putting him everywhere

1962
01:51:11,240 --> 01:51:13,720
Speaker 1: in an effort to see, well, can he be like

1963
01:51:13,800 --> 01:51:17,240
Speaker 1: a Swiss army knife for us in the defensive backfield?

1964
01:51:17,320 --> 01:51:19,280
Speaker 1: So I think they're exposing him to all of it

1965
01:51:19,439 --> 01:51:25,200
Speaker 1: to see how just how much he can handle. Mentally, Yeah,

1966
01:51:25,479 --> 01:51:28,240
Speaker 1: I think that's the aim there. And then if they

1967
01:51:28,280 --> 01:51:30,360
Speaker 1: feel they have to scale it back and he's only

1968
01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:33,280
Speaker 1: got a singular role on defense, well, then so be it.

1969
01:51:33,439 --> 01:51:36,080
Speaker 1: Or if he's solely a backup two player X, well,

1970
01:51:36,160 --> 01:51:37,800
Speaker 1: then that's what he is. But I think they were

1971
01:51:37,880 --> 01:51:42,320
Speaker 1: trying to see how much can this guy really handle? Well.

1972
01:51:42,320 --> 01:51:45,439
Speaker 1: The other factor too, is they played meaningful snaps of

1973
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:47,960
Speaker 1: what I call big Nickel with three safeties a year ago.

1974
01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:50,599
Speaker 1: Marlowe is the guy last year. Could you see Neil

1975
01:51:50,680 --> 01:51:52,479
Speaker 1: in that role if they decide to go big Nicol

1976
01:51:52,520 --> 01:51:54,600
Speaker 1: I think he could. Yeah, He's got similar size and

1977
01:51:54,720 --> 01:51:58,000
Speaker 1: probably more athleticism, which safe. Yeah, he's a better athlete.

1978
01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:01,280
Speaker 1: He's a better athlete. It'll down probably to the mental

1979
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:03,160
Speaker 1: part of it. And if he can execute the defense

1980
01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:05,160
Speaker 1: the way they want him to, more so than if

1981
01:52:05,360 --> 01:52:09,759
Speaker 1: limit his physical capabilities. I mean that's a given because

1982
01:52:09,800 --> 01:52:13,320
Speaker 1: he can. He's got the athleticism plenty to go around

1983
01:52:13,400 --> 01:52:15,280
Speaker 1: it's just going to be more about his execution, which

1984
01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:18,320
Speaker 1: is probably what they're trying to find out yesterday or Saturday,

1985
01:52:18,400 --> 01:52:20,680
Speaker 1: that is when they put him in the game at

1986
01:52:20,680 --> 01:52:24,519
Speaker 1: all those different places. So put putting enough mentally on

1987
01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:26,320
Speaker 1: his plate to see if he can sort through it

1988
01:52:26,400 --> 01:52:29,120
Speaker 1: and come out on top. So what about on the

1989
01:52:29,240 --> 01:52:32,000
Speaker 1: defensive on the defensive line, we Brownie and I've been

1990
01:52:32,040 --> 01:52:38,200
Speaker 1: having this conversation, and they traded Darryl Johnson today to Carolina.

1991
01:52:39,680 --> 01:52:41,960
Speaker 1: Justin Zimmer is a guy who seems to be a

1992
01:52:42,040 --> 01:52:45,439
Speaker 1: guy who helped them a lot a year ago, came through,

1993
01:52:45,520 --> 01:52:49,840
Speaker 1: made his signature plays, a high effort guy in a

1994
01:52:49,960 --> 01:52:53,439
Speaker 1: year where they struggled inside. He gave him some quality snaps,

1995
01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:57,400
Speaker 1: but now may get squeezed out unless he shows up big.

1996
01:52:57,479 --> 01:53:01,400
Speaker 1: How did he play against the Packers? I like Zimmer.

1997
01:53:01,479 --> 01:53:04,439
Speaker 1: I think when you mentioned getting squeezed out, I think

1998
01:53:04,600 --> 01:53:07,879
Speaker 1: much of that depends on how they see Carlos Basham

1999
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:10,559
Speaker 1: going forward, because I think Zimmer is a little more

2000
01:53:10,680 --> 01:53:14,280
Speaker 1: than just a try hard guy. He makes plays. He's

2001
01:53:14,320 --> 01:53:17,200
Speaker 1: not obviously a high high level athlete, but he makes

2002
01:53:17,280 --> 01:53:19,680
Speaker 1: plays on the move. To me, he's not just one

2003
01:53:19,720 --> 01:53:21,840
Speaker 1: of those guys you say, wow, he plays hard, I

2004
01:53:21,880 --> 01:53:23,720
Speaker 1: think he's a little more than that. And plus his

2005
01:53:23,800 --> 01:53:25,920
Speaker 1: track record in Buffalo is pretty good. I thought he

2006
01:53:26,040 --> 01:53:30,240
Speaker 1: played well a year ago. So we'll see. But I

2007
01:53:30,320 --> 01:53:34,000
Speaker 1: think I mentioned Basham because I'm curious to see as

2008
01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:37,080
Speaker 1: they really settle this roster and decide how they want

2009
01:53:37,080 --> 01:53:40,360
Speaker 1: to play once the regular season hits. If Basham is

2010
01:53:40,439 --> 01:53:42,839
Speaker 1: mostly going to be a d N or if Bashim

2011
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:45,439
Speaker 1: is going to play a lot more snaps inside, Yeah,

2012
01:53:45,920 --> 01:53:48,840
Speaker 1: I think. And just speaking of Basham, I think he's

2013
01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:51,680
Speaker 1: a guy that has kind of come on with each

2014
01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:54,560
Speaker 1: passing week. In the preseason, I think he kind of

2015
01:53:54,600 --> 01:53:56,559
Speaker 1: needed a little kick in the pans at the start,

2016
01:53:57,120 --> 01:53:59,800
Speaker 1: but I think he's really come on, especially since the

2017
01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:02,840
Speaker 1: Teran's got in his ear before the Chicago game and

2018
01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:05,519
Speaker 1: told him, Hey, you better show us what you got here,

2019
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:08,200
Speaker 1: and it seemed to light a fire under him a

2020
01:54:08,240 --> 01:54:10,479
Speaker 1: little bit. And I think he's played with a lot

2021
01:54:10,560 --> 01:54:15,040
Speaker 1: more urgency these last two games. Yeah. And it's funny

2022
01:54:15,040 --> 01:54:17,320
Speaker 1: because when I watched him coming out of Wake, I

2023
01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:20,840
Speaker 1: in my notes, my transition notes, I thought that he

2024
01:54:20,960 --> 01:54:25,320
Speaker 1: could actually work better inside as an NFL player than

2025
01:54:25,400 --> 01:54:28,240
Speaker 1: as a true DN because He's not a sudden, twitchy,

2026
01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:31,240
Speaker 1: flexible guy. To me, his game has built more on

2027
01:54:31,360 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: power technique and hand usage, and I think he can

2028
01:54:35,040 --> 01:54:38,560
Speaker 1: probably be two eighty without any real issue. So I

2029
01:54:38,760 --> 01:54:41,320
Speaker 1: just wonder again. I don't know how Sean and Leslie

2030
01:54:41,400 --> 01:54:44,400
Speaker 1: see him, but I think that if they did see

2031
01:54:44,520 --> 01:54:48,120
Speaker 1: him more inside Chris, that could impact someone like Justin Zimmer. Yeah.

2032
01:54:48,240 --> 01:54:50,960
Speaker 1: The last one I've got for you, Andre Smith linebacker

2033
01:54:51,040 --> 01:54:53,640
Speaker 1: has showed a big time. He showed up first right

2034
01:54:53,680 --> 01:54:57,000
Speaker 1: out of the gate in Detroit. He and Joe Giles

2035
01:54:57,080 --> 01:54:59,160
Speaker 1: Harris were all over the field in that game and

2036
01:54:59,240 --> 01:55:01,480
Speaker 1: he played extreme well. And you know you're probably gonna

2037
01:55:01,560 --> 01:55:06,160
Speaker 1: keep If there's one group that you can probably afford

2038
01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:08,720
Speaker 1: to keep fewer people than most teams do, it's the

2039
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:10,840
Speaker 1: Bills at linebacker because they only played two at a

2040
01:55:10,920 --> 01:55:13,760
Speaker 1: time ninety percent of the time. But they did. Yeah,

2041
01:55:13,760 --> 01:55:16,880
Speaker 1: you're right a year ago. So you know, if you're

2042
01:55:16,880 --> 01:55:18,920
Speaker 1: gonna make that team, it's because you can either play

2043
01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:21,640
Speaker 1: special teams and you can play maybe either one or

2044
01:55:21,720 --> 01:55:25,480
Speaker 1: both of those spots, most notably probably the Tremaine Edmund spot.

2045
01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:29,280
Speaker 1: What about Andre Smith and the way he's playing linebacker. Yeah,

2046
01:55:29,400 --> 01:55:31,240
Speaker 1: and I think you hit it on the head because

2047
01:55:31,280 --> 01:55:34,360
Speaker 1: I think to really be a factor in the Bill's defense,

2048
01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:37,240
Speaker 1: not just special teams, you have to be able to

2049
01:55:37,280 --> 01:55:39,480
Speaker 1: play in the nickel. And I know even when Andre

2050
01:55:39,600 --> 01:55:41,520
Speaker 1: Smith came out of North Carolina he got hurt his

2051
01:55:41,600 --> 01:55:44,360
Speaker 1: last year there, he was much more of kind of

2052
01:55:44,440 --> 01:55:47,640
Speaker 1: an in the box grinder. So the question is if

2053
01:55:47,680 --> 01:55:49,880
Speaker 1: you have to play in place of either Edmonds or

2054
01:55:49,920 --> 01:55:52,720
Speaker 1: Milano because last year when Molano got hurt, obviously AJ

2055
01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:55,520
Speaker 1: Klein playing. He's still there. And aj Clin to me,

2056
01:55:55,640 --> 01:55:57,600
Speaker 1: is just one of those really good veterans. I mean,

2057
01:55:57,640 --> 01:55:59,560
Speaker 1: he's obviously not a Hall of Famer, but he's gonna

2058
01:55:59,560 --> 01:56:01,960
Speaker 1: have a great ten to twelve year career in this league.

2059
01:56:02,280 --> 01:56:04,320
Speaker 1: And you know, you, to me, you have to be

2060
01:56:04,440 --> 01:56:07,839
Speaker 1: able to play in the nickel to get meaningful snaps

2061
01:56:07,920 --> 01:56:11,440
Speaker 1: as a linebacker. Um, so we'll see, because obviously Dotson

2062
01:56:11,560 --> 01:56:13,560
Speaker 1: played meaningful snaps a year ago. I don't know where

2063
01:56:13,600 --> 01:56:15,560
Speaker 1: he stands in the pecking order. He's like someone like

2064
01:56:15,680 --> 01:56:18,360
Speaker 1: Andrea Smith is ahead of him. But Smith to me,

2065
01:56:18,600 --> 01:56:21,280
Speaker 1: is much more of an in the box, stacked run

2066
01:56:21,480 --> 01:56:26,440
Speaker 1: stuffing player than he is a fluid coverage player. Like

2067
01:56:26,560 --> 01:56:29,600
Speaker 1: I'm not sure you'd feel comfortable with Andre Smith matching

2068
01:56:29,720 --> 01:56:33,560
Speaker 1: up to top tight ends in the league. Yeah, all right, Greg, listen,

2069
01:56:33,640 --> 01:56:35,760
Speaker 1: we've run the gamut with you on this game. Thanks

2070
01:56:35,800 --> 01:56:38,400
Speaker 1: for filling us in on what you saw from the tape.

2071
01:56:38,920 --> 01:56:40,440
Speaker 1: I think the next time we talked to you, we're

2072
01:56:40,440 --> 01:56:43,920
Speaker 1: gonna have a regular season football Well, we'll do a

2073
01:56:44,000 --> 01:56:47,200
Speaker 1: little preview of the Steelers Bills, you know, a rematch

2074
01:56:47,240 --> 01:56:49,160
Speaker 1: of the late season game last year. Let me let

2075
01:56:49,160 --> 01:56:51,200
Speaker 1: me just let me just take your temperature here, because

2076
01:56:51,480 --> 01:56:54,080
Speaker 1: I've accused all the Bills fans of being a little

2077
01:56:54,120 --> 01:56:56,680
Speaker 1: bit drunk with optimism about how this season is going

2078
01:56:56,720 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 1: to go for Buffalo. How how much of the koup

2079
01:56:59,240 --> 01:57:03,760
Speaker 1: ai do you drink? People talk big about the Bills. Well,

2080
01:57:03,800 --> 01:57:05,680
Speaker 1: I think it'll be a tough seventeen and oh but

2081
01:57:05,720 --> 01:57:13,600
Speaker 1: I'm thinking seventeen. Oh, so you're a serious drunk. They're

2082
01:57:13,640 --> 01:57:15,800
Speaker 1: a really good team. I mean, you know, I'm a

2083
01:57:15,960 --> 01:57:18,960
Speaker 1: terrible prognosticator, that is the thing I do the least.

2084
01:57:19,800 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 1: But I mean they're a really solid football team. I

2085
01:57:23,080 --> 01:57:25,400
Speaker 1: can't imagine their offense would be any worse than it

2086
01:57:25,600 --> 01:57:28,600
Speaker 1: was a year ago when it was really good. I

2087
01:57:28,720 --> 01:57:32,120
Speaker 1: think one of the big questions becomes pass rush. Can

2088
01:57:32,160 --> 01:57:34,640
Speaker 1: they generate pass rush without blitz? I think that's one

2089
01:57:34,680 --> 01:57:37,280
Speaker 1: of the things they keep hoping that they'll get better at.

2090
01:57:37,360 --> 01:57:40,200
Speaker 1: With the people they've drafted. I think they've got a

2091
01:57:40,320 --> 01:57:43,160
Speaker 1: safety duo that's as good as any safety duo in

2092
01:57:43,240 --> 01:57:47,040
Speaker 1: the league. So it's a really solid team. I'm terrible

2093
01:57:47,120 --> 01:57:50,080
Speaker 1: here as saying what they'll do. Obviously it's a really

2094
01:57:50,200 --> 01:57:52,800
Speaker 1: tough open or Pittsburgh is a good, good football team.

2095
01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:56,840
Speaker 1: I was gonna say this as well. I mean, I'm

2096
01:57:57,000 --> 01:58:00,120
Speaker 1: kind of with you that it's impossible to say how

2097
01:58:00,160 --> 01:58:02,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna do, but there's no question that there's reason

2098
01:58:02,760 --> 01:58:04,760
Speaker 1: for optimism and this is a good team. Now I'll

2099
01:58:04,760 --> 01:58:06,720
Speaker 1: ask you this how I don't know if you can

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Speaker 1: even tell when you because it's kind of analytical what

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Speaker 1: you do with the film, But how are they coached?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've said a lot that I think this

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Speaker 1: coaching staff from McDermott all the way through day Ball

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Speaker 1: and Frazier and all the way down, seems to maximize

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Speaker 1: their talent as well as any coaching staff around. Can

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Speaker 1: you get any sense of that with your film study? Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what I'll say, I'll give you two things that

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Speaker 1: to me stand out on film that have to do

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Speaker 1: with coaching. I think their route concepts in the passing

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Speaker 1: game are really really strong. That's one thing. And number two,

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Speaker 1: I think when I watched the defense, because you could

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Speaker 1: argue that, particularly upfront, they haven't had a dominant, dominant

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Speaker 1: guy where you know, Terry Use has been a nice player,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I don't think you'd say they've been dominant.

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Speaker 1: But I think that what they do defensively, they're far

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Speaker 1: more multiple than people might think they are, particularly with

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Speaker 1: pressure concepts, and they're very fundamentally sounds deep. They do

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Speaker 1: not make defensive mistakes, and I think the two safeties

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Speaker 1: have an awful lot to do with that, because if

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Speaker 1: you talk to defensive coaches, they will always tell you

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Speaker 1: that the safeties potentially clean up anything. And I think

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Speaker 1: these two safeties they're overlooked, I think nationally by media.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee they're not overlooked by the offensive coaches that

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Speaker 1: game playing against the Bills. All right, Greg, great stuff.

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Speaker 1: As always, we will catch up with you when regular

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Speaker 1: season football comes around. Enjoy your Labor Day holiday, Try

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01:59:33,160 --> 01:59:34,760
Speaker 1: not to spend it all in the film room. All right,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch a lot of college football. There's some

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Speaker 1: big games as yeah, there are. You're right about that.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, Greg. We appreciate it, as always

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, guys. Thanks all right, that's great. Coach Sell,

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Speaker 1: senior producer from NFL Films Clemson Georgia this weekend. Dude,

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Speaker 1: how about that out of the box boom Clemson Georgia. Yep,

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01:59:54,000 --> 01:59:56,480
Speaker 1: that's like a college football playoff game. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 1: a one hundred meter dash Week one right out of

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Speaker 1: the box Georgia Clemson. Were they playing? I think it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a GEORGI yeah, I think is at

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Speaker 1: the door? Is it at the dome or is it

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Speaker 1: at the in between the hedges? I think it. I

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Speaker 1: want to say it's at the Dome, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure it would make sure that would make sense. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, like prime time and tell me that game, man, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's an opener. And I know brand and I

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Speaker 1: know Brandon was talking to you guys in the booth

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02:00:28,640 --> 02:00:31,480
Speaker 1: out he's going to a going to five games as home.

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Speaker 1: I think it's Friday, two, on Saturday, one on Sunday

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Speaker 1: one on me there if it's possible to get drunk

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Speaker 1: on college football, Brandon will be drunk on college football

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Speaker 1: after five games. Yeah, that's a lot of football. Well,

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Speaker 1: like that might even be too much because it's because

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Speaker 1: it's Labor Day weekend and it's the first time they

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Speaker 1: can go watch these Power five guys play, and the

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Speaker 1: roster will be initially set for all intents and purposes here, Yes,

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02:00:59,160 --> 02:01:01,040
Speaker 1: so you can just go and kind of plus it's

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02:01:02,880 --> 02:01:05,480
Speaker 1: well yes, usually yeah, so all the all their guys

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Speaker 1: are deployed across the country in full force. Nobody's kind

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02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:12,160
Speaker 1: of hanging around doing some last minute touch ups on

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Speaker 1: the roster or or film evaluation of the Blast preseason game.

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Speaker 1: It's that's all done. So they're all they're all going

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Speaker 1: to be on the road watching college football. It's it's

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Speaker 1: a loaded That's when it sounds That's when being a

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Speaker 1: scout sounds fun. That's right. I gotta go to the

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Speaker 1: Georgia Clemson games, sitting the press box, eat free food

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Speaker 1: and watching it. You know, it sounds great. Let me

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Speaker 1: just tell you something, the nuts and bolts of that job.

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Speaker 1: You gotta love. You gotta love that A lot of

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Speaker 1: driving to It's not all airplane. It's not Oh, and

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Speaker 1: it's not like New York, LA, Chicago, Houston. It's Darksville

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Speaker 1: and it's yeah, it's Clemson, it's you know, Evans, Indiana.

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Speaker 1: They go down the list, right, you know, it's all

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Speaker 1: those towns that I remember. You wanted to take a

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Speaker 1: big plane to a smaller plane, to a to a

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Speaker 1: go kart with wings, and then rent a car and

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Speaker 1: d and then drive two and a half hours. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's yeah. I remember. I was doing a story for

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Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com. I was interviewing one of our scouts,

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Speaker 1: and he said, to give you an idea. Anybody who

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Speaker 1: says we have an overpopulation problem in this country is

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent wrong. He goes, because there have been

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Speaker 1: times I have driven in my car from one college,

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Speaker 1: you know way point to another. He goes, I have

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Speaker 1: driven seven hours and not seeing a human being. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he goes, that's where I drive. I drove out, drove

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Speaker 1: out to drive out in West Texas. You're alone, You're alone.

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Speaker 1: It's where I came from, where I came from. You

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Speaker 1: go west on I seventy out of Kansas City, Topeka. Bro,

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Speaker 1: you're waving at a semi going the other way in

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Speaker 1: a two on a four lane going the other way

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Speaker 1: you're going. Is the world still clicking out there? I mean,

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Speaker 1: are we the last two people? I mean you're and

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Speaker 1: a horizon that's five hundred miles away and there's nothing

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Speaker 1: between you. Yeah, it is. It's an amazing Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: come from flat territory. I know, bro, sleep, I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you it's listen. I'll say this. It has a beauty

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Speaker 1: all its own. You get up and there's some desolate

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Speaker 1: there's some moments out there where it just takes your

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Speaker 1: breath away. It's so beautiful. The sky is so enormous

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Speaker 1: and so spectacular, like a sunset and a sunrise. But

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Speaker 1: then there's other times you're like, is it just me?

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02:03:37,920 --> 02:03:44,400
Speaker 1: When yes, it's like hello, It's like hello, It's it

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Speaker 1: really is like a movie that's something else. All right,

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Speaker 1: break time for us here. When we return, we'll get

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Speaker 1: some of your final thoughts on the tweet sheet in

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Speaker 1: terms of what is leaving you most optimistic about the

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Speaker 1: upcoming season based on the preseason results we've witnessed, and

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Speaker 1: what are you a little bit concerned heading into week one?

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Speaker 1: So we'll get some of those and maybe a time

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Speaker 1: for a little NFL true false. When we return here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Line, presented by Collid to Health, it's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and we want to get back

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet where we were asking you to

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Speaker 1: give us your biggest reason for optimism and biggest reason

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Speaker 1: for concern coming out of the preseason and in preparation

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Speaker 1: for the season opener on September twelfth. And Andrew or

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Speaker 1: sorry we did Andrew. Eric says the idea that Alan

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Speaker 1: could be even better in year four has me very

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Speaker 1: optimistic about the coming season. Concerned about lower vaccination rates

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Speaker 1: and how some players may not be available for us

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Speaker 1: and how that can affect chemistry and overall team production.

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Speaker 1: I am with Eric on that, especially after what we

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Speaker 1: saw last week. It's not going to take much Steve

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Speaker 1: to run the risk of not having a player or

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Speaker 1: three for a game if they have to go through

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Speaker 1: the five day reentry period. Yeah, that's my biggest concern.

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Speaker 1: It's right up there with injuries for me. Well, it

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Speaker 1: is it's exactly like injuries. Yeah, it's exactly what it is,

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Speaker 1: and it's amazing, how you can, how we can all

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Speaker 1: It's hard to make the jump from being sick as

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Speaker 1: to being like an injury. But that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's a concern, no question about it. Absolutely concerned. But

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Speaker 1: it's a concern for everybody, not just well, yes, that's true.

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Speaker 1: Concern for everybody, the vaxed players and the unvaxed players.

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Speaker 1: It's concerned. It has less of an impact though on

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Speaker 1: the teams that are one hundred percent vaccinated, like the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, well, because of the because of the rules,

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Speaker 1: it's less concerned for any vaccinated player because they it's

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Speaker 1: easier for them to get back on. Yes, for the

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Speaker 1: unvaxed guys, yeah, it's gonna be a long, a long

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Speaker 1: reacclamation process. I mean that happens on a Thursday. For

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Speaker 1: your guys are unvaccinated, you're not, You're not playing in

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Speaker 1: the game. You're done. I mean, think about the Bills

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Speaker 1: going into a game without Star Latoula A, Cole Beasley,

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Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis, and Vernon Butler. Yeah, that's significant. That'll hurt.

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Speaker 1: So that's what that scares the Jesus out of me.

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Speaker 1: That may be a question for Brandon um and sean

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Speaker 1: as well. Do you structure your practice squad with vaxed

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Speaker 1: unvaxed guys in mind? So, if you got unvaxed guys,

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Speaker 1: you want it backups for them because it'll take they

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Speaker 1: you may lose them for a game if they get

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Speaker 1: a stray, right, So, I'm not sure I understand what

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Speaker 1: you're saying. Are you saying put more unvaxed players on

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Speaker 1: the practice squad or more vaxed players on them? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying that if you have guys in a position

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Speaker 1: group that are unvaxed, you need vaxed backups that are

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Speaker 1: on the practice because more guys unvaxed guys get get

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Speaker 1: clipped or get hit with an infection or whatever you exposure,

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Speaker 1: and they're out of the building, You've got guys who

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Speaker 1: are vacted that can step in basically, so essentially, more

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Speaker 1: vaccinated players on the practice squad at positions where you

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Speaker 1: may have unvaccinated players on your roster. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that's that's that might be a luxury. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's far fetched. I don't think you can do it, though,

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Speaker 1: I mean you got because it comes down to who

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Speaker 1: can play more first. That is always going to come

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Speaker 1: and you can't really pay any situation about it. Who

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Speaker 1: can play by conversation? You know why what we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: why whether the vaxed or not, you know what I'm saying. So,

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Speaker 1: but it's got to be a consideration. You gotta start.

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Speaker 1: You gotta start wondering. Okay, that's okay. So we got like, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's say half our D line. Well, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just saying this. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: this is all true. I'm just saying this as an example,

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Speaker 1: this hypothetical. Say half your defensive line is not vaxed.

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Speaker 1: So and you you're going to go into the season

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Speaker 1: like you are whatever. You got to start thinking, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what if our D lineman room gets decimated? Then what

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Speaker 1: will we do? And you gotta have a plan for

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Speaker 1: that you do. So that's kind of the gymnastics you

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Speaker 1: have to jump through thinking about it, because it's possible

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Speaker 1: that if everybody's vaxed, whether they get tested on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: or Thursday or whatever, they're they're gonna be back anyway. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because they're asymptomatic, they're gonna test negative twice in twenty

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Speaker 1: over twenty four hours or forty eight hours, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be back in the building. I just think your thoughts

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Speaker 1: about having more VAX players on the practice squad has

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Speaker 1: some merit because, let's not forget you get the free

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Speaker 1: two call ups as late as ninety minutes before a

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Speaker 1: game or a COVID situation, right, So you'd probably want

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Speaker 1: a VAX player in that six Well, you probably want

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Speaker 1: a VAX player in any situation because it's better based

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Speaker 1: on the rules. What about this, though, the fact from

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Speaker 1: Erica about the fact that Alan could be even better.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's unrealistic. I think he could be better.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he takes the same leap that

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02:09:04,160 --> 02:09:05,720
Speaker 1: he did last year, because if he did, he'd be

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Speaker 1: completing almost of his past Here's the thing I've said it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I've said we haven't seen a quarterback

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Speaker 1: play like that. But I'll say this and I'll say

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Speaker 1: it again. Pat mahomes through fifty touchdowns and had like

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Speaker 1: five interceptions in his MVP year two years ago or

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Speaker 1: three year whatever it was. Right his first year as

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Speaker 1: a start he was the MVP, had fifty touchdown passes

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Speaker 1: or fifty touchdown total, and was the MVP. The next

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Speaker 1: year he only had twenty six. But he's the same guy,

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02:09:39,680 --> 02:09:41,120
Speaker 1: and they won the Super Bowl, and then he was

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02:09:41,160 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and he was at Super Bowl MVP. So

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02:09:43,560 --> 02:09:46,040
Speaker 1: if Josh Allen comes out he threw forty six touchdowns

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02:09:46,160 --> 02:09:48,720
Speaker 1: last year and was or had forty six total touchdowns

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02:09:48,840 --> 02:09:52,600
Speaker 1: last year and was responsible, you know, for most of

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02:09:52,680 --> 02:09:56,080
Speaker 1: the offense. What if he you know, what if he

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02:09:56,120 --> 02:09:59,320
Speaker 1: only throws for twenty six touchdowns next year this year

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02:10:00,280 --> 02:10:03,400
Speaker 1: and you know, six interceptions or whatever. But the you know,

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02:10:03,480 --> 02:10:06,080
Speaker 1: the team is better in different ways. They go to

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Speaker 1: the Super bowling's MVP. Of course everybody would sign up

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02:10:08,360 --> 02:10:09,720
Speaker 1: for that. But if you tell him he's gonna cut

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02:10:09,760 --> 02:10:11,880
Speaker 1: his touchdowns in half, they're gonna say, see, I told

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Speaker 1: you it's a regression. Okay, not that anybody cares about whatever,

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02:10:15,920 --> 02:10:18,560
Speaker 1: you know, some wah who says, but that's you can

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Speaker 1: expect it. I mean the reason I say all that

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Speaker 1: is this, and I you know you and I I

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02:10:25,800 --> 02:10:29,040
Speaker 1: mean we've watched this team with a microscope all the time.

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02:10:29,200 --> 02:10:32,720
Speaker 1: I mean we see all of it. Josh is who

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02:10:32,840 --> 02:10:36,280
Speaker 1: he was last year. That is not a fluke. It

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02:10:36,480 --> 02:10:39,200
Speaker 1: is not a one off. It is not something that

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02:10:39,360 --> 02:10:46,080
Speaker 1: happened because of a confluence of unduplicatable events happened duplicatable.

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02:10:46,200 --> 02:10:49,200
Speaker 1: Look at that, the guy you saw last year and

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02:10:49,240 --> 02:10:51,320
Speaker 1: we're in number seventeen for the Buffalo Bill is gonna

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02:10:51,320 --> 02:10:53,120
Speaker 1: be the exact same guy you see that year. He

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02:10:53,280 --> 02:10:55,360
Speaker 1: is that guy. He is a good He is a

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02:10:55,560 --> 02:10:59,200
Speaker 1: top elite quarterback in the National Football League. So whatever

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02:10:59,280 --> 02:11:04,120
Speaker 1: that looks like totistically is irrelevant because whatever elite quarterback

2333
02:11:04,160 --> 02:11:06,200
Speaker 1: you plug into this what it isn't that's what he's

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Speaker 1: going to look like. Yeah, So I don't care what

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Speaker 1: his numbers are, whether it's whether he completes seventy five

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Speaker 1: percent of his passengers seasonine, because he's the guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, last tweet real quick from Rick because it's

2338
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Speaker 1: a different perspective. Biggest reason for optimism is going into

2339
02:11:22,880 --> 02:11:26,240
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one season with the same coordinators, both

2340
02:11:26,320 --> 02:11:28,600
Speaker 1: of whom we expected to lose to head coaching jobs

2341
02:11:28,680 --> 02:11:31,240
Speaker 1: this past offseason. Biggest fear is the same as it

2342
02:11:31,280 --> 02:11:33,720
Speaker 1: ever is injuries. They'll destroy a season in the blink

2343
02:11:33,760 --> 02:11:37,440
Speaker 1: of an eye. I am in wholehearted agreement with Rick.

2344
02:11:38,520 --> 02:11:41,640
Speaker 1: Having Brian Dabo and Leslie Frasier back here. This is

2345
02:11:41,760 --> 02:11:46,080
Speaker 1: house money that the Bills are playing with. And I

2346
02:11:46,160 --> 02:11:49,080
Speaker 1: think Dabel has already shown in the preseason the difference

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02:11:49,160 --> 02:11:51,040
Speaker 1: that he makes on a weekly basis. He is in

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02:11:51,160 --> 02:11:54,160
Speaker 1: lockstep with his quarterback. There are no two coordinators that

2349
02:11:54,280 --> 02:11:57,080
Speaker 1: call games the same. I think it leaves me even

2350
02:11:57,160 --> 02:11:59,720
Speaker 1: more optimistic that the offense can do even more things

2351
02:12:00,160 --> 02:12:03,600
Speaker 1: this year because Dable's here. I agree. I'm we said somebody.

2352
02:12:03,640 --> 02:12:05,280
Speaker 1: It wasn't me who said it, but some of the

2353
02:12:05,320 --> 02:12:09,360
Speaker 1: guy who's watching the Bears game and watching Mitch Drubisky

2354
02:12:09,480 --> 02:12:12,640
Speaker 1: play well in Chicago and all that. And it was

2355
02:12:12,720 --> 02:12:15,280
Speaker 1: noted by somebody in the national media that you see

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02:12:15,400 --> 02:12:18,960
Speaker 1: brand Dable call him plays. He's head and shoulders above

2357
02:12:19,000 --> 02:12:22,520
Speaker 1: Matt Nagge, head coach of the Bears. Brian Dable is

2358
02:12:22,560 --> 02:12:26,720
Speaker 1: an elite play caller. Ye, and it makes a difference,

2359
02:12:26,800 --> 02:12:28,760
Speaker 1: makes a huge It makes a huge difference. We gotta

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02:12:28,800 --> 02:12:30,520
Speaker 1: take a break, Steve, and I will close it up

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Speaker 1: when we return here with a little what have we learned?

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned all right, save time for what have we learned?

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Speaker 1: We learned? Today, the NFL announced agreements with four approved

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Speaker 1: sports book operators. The NFL announced its reaching agreement with

2365
02:12:54,160 --> 02:12:57,000
Speaker 1: Fox bet, Bet, MGM, points Bet, and wind Bet to

2366
02:12:57,080 --> 02:13:00,080
Speaker 1: become approved sports book operators for the twenty twenty in

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Speaker 1: NFL A season. These agreements make all four operators eligible

2368
02:13:03,800 --> 02:13:06,960
Speaker 1: to purchase NFL in game commercial units and other select

2369
02:13:07,200 --> 02:13:12,800
Speaker 1: NFL media inventory. They were already previous sports book partnerships

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Speaker 1: with Caesar's Entertainment, DraftKings, and Fan Duel. So we learned

2371
02:13:16,760 --> 02:13:19,920
Speaker 1: that betting is on a fast track now in its

2372
02:13:20,000 --> 02:13:23,320
Speaker 1: relationship with the NFL. That's number one. Number two. We

2373
02:13:23,440 --> 02:13:27,400
Speaker 1: also learned what not to do when covering a punt,

2374
02:13:28,000 --> 02:13:33,080
Speaker 1: especially Joe Brown's Falcons and gunner aj Green. Not that

2375
02:13:33,280 --> 02:13:36,440
Speaker 1: aj Green decides to do this on a punt return

2376
02:13:36,880 --> 02:13:39,200
Speaker 1: or punt coverage play guys trying to catch the punt

2377
02:13:39,240 --> 02:13:42,520
Speaker 1: for the Falcons and the Browns, aj Green just jumps

2378
02:13:42,520 --> 02:13:44,360
Speaker 1: in and just jumps in front of him and catches it,

2379
02:13:44,560 --> 02:13:47,240
Speaker 1: just takes it away from him. So but coverage team, Yeah,

2380
02:13:47,280 --> 02:13:49,879
Speaker 1: so what is your reaction to this? Why are you doing?

2381
02:13:54,320 --> 02:13:58,520
Speaker 1: Hit off by football field and Jerome Boger. Why the

2382
02:13:58,600 --> 02:14:00,840
Speaker 1: officials are looking around each other going that ain't right?

2383
02:14:00,960 --> 02:14:02,600
Speaker 1: What's he doing? How do they call this how do

2384
02:14:02,680 --> 02:14:06,240
Speaker 1: I call it? What's the what? Hopefully it's looking over time.

2385
02:14:06,880 --> 02:14:09,560
Speaker 1: He's looking over Kevin's to fancy, going hey do better, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll see you tomorrow.