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Speaker 1: This one Bill's Live, presented by Callida Health.

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Speaker 2: All right, we made it to Friday, amazing. Of course

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Speaker 2: the snow came with us. I don't know what the

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Speaker 2: heck's going on here in Western New York, but I

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Speaker 2: am officially done.

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Speaker 1: Done.

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Speaker 2: Wake up and there's snow on my lawn.

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Speaker 3: The weather's so drunk.

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Speaker 2: What the hell? I am just done with this garbage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say this. It was a little soul crushing

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: This morning, man, I know it's only it's not We're

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Speaker 2: almost a month into what is on the calendar spring, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know how it works here, believe me,

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Speaker 2: but it doesn't make it any easier to tolerate it. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: sorry to start the show off on a grumpy note,

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Speaker 2: but I was. I was grumpy today.

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Speaker 3: With that garbage.

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, let's turn already.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, it'll be nice though. We'll have a

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Speaker 1: We'll have an eclipse on Monday. An eclipse, an eclipse

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Speaker 1: on Monday?

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Speaker 2: Is that like any Claire?

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Speaker 1: This was like a vehicle and eclipse on Monday. And

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Speaker 1: I remember back in the day we had the eight

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Speaker 1: we had an eighty five percent eclipse. At some point

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Speaker 1: during my time here in Buffalo. We were living in

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Speaker 1: like twenty five years. Like in the nineties it was

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Speaker 1: an eighty five percent eclipse and it got cold when

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Speaker 1: the you know, at the eighty five percent point where

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Speaker 1: it was, it's it's gonna get cold on Monday during

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Speaker 1: that eclipment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, bundle up.

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Speaker 2: I just hope for the sake of the people that

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Speaker 2: have spent money to come here to see this of

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Speaker 2: it are able to see the event, I think. But

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Speaker 2: what I mean is cloud cover, right.

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Speaker 1: I think Buffalonians are going to be like, well, we

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Speaker 1: thought it might happen. Everybody else is going to be.

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Speaker 2: Like what what the heck? I came all the way

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Speaker 2: people live here to Luca to see this, and now

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Speaker 2: I've got clouds.

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Speaker 1: And all the all the hotels are booked. I mean,

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Speaker 1: everything is supposed to be, really because you and I

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Speaker 1: are going to be on till three the darn thing

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Speaker 1: happens like three eighteen, three twenty At.

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Speaker 2: The time, I haven't even looked, right, so.

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Speaker 1: Are we gonna be able to drive out of here?

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Speaker 2: Is there gonna be like, oh, you're already looking to

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Speaker 2: go home? You don't even want to wait around for it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I got plans man on a Monday. I'm a

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Speaker 1: social butter Well for the eclipse, I've got.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh oh oh oh, I see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a social butterfly. I got you know,

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Speaker 1: I got a social eventstance to land on, just.

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Speaker 2: Like everybody else kind of flutter around.

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Speaker 1: Do you anticipate at the time of the eclipse? Now,

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Speaker 1: certainly everybody's gonna be outside. But are they gonna be

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Speaker 1: looking or are they gonna be like people.

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Speaker 2: I guess if they're driving their car and yeah, but

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Speaker 2: the world suddenly turns dark, that might prompt them to

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's happening, right, But.

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Speaker 2: Probably driving at that time would not be advisable because

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Speaker 2: I'm probably staying put here after the show until the

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Speaker 2: event is over.

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Speaker 1: I might do that. I kind of doubt it, though,

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Speaker 1: I got we're gonna have I think it's like three

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Speaker 1: gonna have. You know, here in Buffalo, you if the

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Speaker 3: Where we want.

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Speaker 2: I just yeah, I mean I understand. In fact, I

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Speaker 2: understand they've been tracking the popularity of this and people

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Speaker 2: But it's like people are in anticipating borderline armageddon in

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Speaker 2: vim and vigor with which people are treating this. I mean,

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Speaker 2: by how gaga some people are going over this. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing, full eclips no, full eclips. I

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Speaker 1: guess it's the real thing. It's the real Like.

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Speaker 2: Cool, yeah, because everything goes dark.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and everybody around it gets part of it, right,

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Speaker 3: Sure, but you're right.

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Speaker 1: The thing is only gonna even if you're in the

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Speaker 2: Now you make it out there. Yeah, so you know

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Speaker 2: it's it's Lunar eclipses only occur on average one or

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Speaker 2: two times a year.

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Speaker 3: That's somewhere on the planet. Oh somewhere on the planet. Yes, right, okay,

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Speaker 3: all right, well there you go.

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Speaker 1: I'm we're doing that. Somebody at asked if we're doing

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Speaker 1: the show on Monday.

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Speaker 3: I was like, well, yeah, yes.

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Speaker 2: I remember being asked that yesterday and I was like.

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Speaker 1: Are you doing to show Monday? I was like, of course,

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Speaker 1: we're not doing the show on Monday. There's no way

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Speaker 1: we can do it on Monday. Why would we not

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Speaker 1: do it on Monday. First you say no, we're not

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Speaker 1: doing it on Monday. Then it's like, why wouldn't we, Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the eclipse. Now we are doing the show on Monday,

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Speaker 1: Yes we are.

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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't we because of an eclipse?

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Speaker 3: Really, come on, man, it's kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: It's not a big deal. It's two big deals, the

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Speaker 1: sun and the moon and the Yeah, it's the three

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Speaker 1: big deals, the Sun.

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Speaker 3: Moon, and the Earth. I mean, that's in our little

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Speaker 1: It's a big deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure, I hope everybody that's looking forward to it

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Speaker 2: gets to enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I sense you are less than enthusiastic, Like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's cool. Sure, here's the thing. I friend of mine

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Speaker 1: there was one like in seventeen down and it went

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Speaker 1: friend of mine went down there and he couldn't stop

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Speaker 1: talking about it. Yeah, it full eclipse in it. You

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Speaker 1: owls hooting. The whole thing. The whole thing is like

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Speaker 1: instant midnight. Okay, and then it's gone and your back

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Speaker 1: and you're back. So for that, he hot. But my

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Speaker 1: buddy thought it was the coolest thing ever. And plus

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Speaker 1: you can see if you're sitting there in the crowd

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Speaker 1: of like if you're if like here, if there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a gazillion people here at the Staium, which I

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Speaker 1: don't think there are, but whatever, every open space out

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Speaker 1: here that people are gonna about looking at it, you

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Speaker 1: can imagine people are gonna start cheering, right or something,

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Speaker 2: Like like for the moon and the sun, because.

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Speaker 1: You know, the big build up, it's like, all right, cool,

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Speaker 1: here we are, and then what that's it? Then it starts.

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Speaker 2: Now you're expecting applause?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know, don't you cheering something?

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Speaker 1: You know, little something for the effort, you know, I

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Speaker 2: Effort noisemakers like New Year's Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: How does it? What is the what is the appropriate

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Speaker 3: It's got to be like, yeah, like at least golf

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Speaker 3: applause something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I mean, you know, what's.

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Speaker 1: The appropriate response to a full eclipse?

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Speaker 2: I really I haven't a thought. I haven't thought one

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Speaker 1: I haven't either, So I just I didn't think about

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you just look at it and oh

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Speaker 2: that's cool.

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Speaker 1: Don't you try and take a picture of the halo,

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Speaker 1: you know, the bright ring around the moon. You know,

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Speaker 1: you take a picture of that, I would guess and

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Speaker 1: call it a day. Yeah, pop a cold one.

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Speaker 3: Cheers to you. Here's to you, mister moon.

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you know, I don't know, I really, I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: maybe just stand there and stun silence.

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Speaker 1: I stunned silent.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's where we were, that's were what is the etiquette?

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Speaker 1: We were in the office the other day when Steph

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Speaker 1: Diggs got traded. There was stunned silence. That was not

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Speaker 1: an eclipse.

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Speaker 2: How I want to see what comes up if I so,

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Speaker 2: I've typed in eclipse etiquette.

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Speaker 1: All it's.

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Speaker 2: Glasses with solar filters.

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Speaker 1: Wear the glasses.

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Speaker 2: That's all. It's say. It stands still, stand still, cover

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Speaker 2: your eyes with your eclipse glasses or solar viewer before

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Speaker 2: looking up at the bright sun. That's really all.

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Speaker 1: Let's just hope. Let's just hope that we can look

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Speaker 1: up at the bright sun and not the overcast. Guys.

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Speaker 2: Right, So, yeah, it's coming up. People are pumped about it.

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Speaker 2: get it. Meteor I guess meteorologists, you know, and scientists

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Speaker 2: you know, we're all on the planet together. I get it.

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Speaker 1: We're all in it together.

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Speaker 3: Sure, it's everybody's thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to appreciate every sunrise because

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Speaker 1: it happens every day. But you know this happens once everybody,

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Speaker 1: you say, twice a year somewhere on the planet. That's

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Speaker 1: a little little different. And this this one's Hey, let's

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Speaker 1: take it. This one's ours.

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Speaker 3: Let's appreciate it fair enough.

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Speaker 2: I'll do my best on Monday.

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Speaker 1: I would appreciate a little effort. I I do not

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Speaker 1: need your negativity about my solar eclipse.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's yours now, I thought just a second ago,

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Speaker 2: as everyone's.

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Speaker 1: What the hell happened? It belongs to us, all.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well that don't call it yours.

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Speaker 1: It's like the national anthem. It belongs to all of us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, let's get this. NFL news, there is more

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Speaker 2: news on the Stefan Diggs trade. According to multiple reports,

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Speaker 2: the Houston Texans tore up the last three years of

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Speaker 2: Digg's existing contract paid him three and a half million

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Speaker 3: For you.

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Speaker 2: Any question that you have on your mind about the Bills,

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Speaker 2: It's not like the roster's destitute by any means. But

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Speaker 1: I think the defensive side of the ball is going

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not cavalier about the changes that have

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this upcoming draft, it's so heavy with wide receivers

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Dennis, I'll tell you this, though I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're never good enough in any position group

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Speaker 1: Last year that had every all five guys start every game.

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Speaker 1: And you've got quality death behind him that you feel like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not to mention the fact that it is not

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna get rid of Dion Dawkins. I mean

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Speaker 1: Spencer Brown, maybe you don't like the way he played

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. But that's where the That's the

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Speaker 1: one place on this roster where yeah, you got stable,

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Speaker 1: you just signed a really quality tackle back. People up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lyle Collins, So I mean that's reported.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's line is as strong as it's been

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Speaker 2: in the McDermott being air in my opinion.

439
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think in twenty nineteen they learned a big lesson.

440
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 2: And then whatever as good as it is now.

441
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Speaker 1: And they've never forgotten. Well, twenty nineteen is second Josh

442
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 1: is second ear. When they got the playoffs, it wasn't good,

443
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: and then they said, listen, we're not going to have

444
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: that happen anymore. And they've kept they've made a concerted

445
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,919
Speaker 1: effort to get it good and keep it good the

446
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: entire time, you know, drafting these guys, you know, Cody Ford,

447
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown, and then signing you know, guys like Connor

448
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 1: McGovern and you know, keeping it David Ryan trading for

449
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Speaker 1: Bates Edwards, David Edwards, Tyna Seki, who was a really

450
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: good swing tackle for this team. I mean, they've never

451
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 1: forgotten the lesson they learned in twenty nineteen. Now they've

452
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Speaker 1: they've done better some years than others. But this this

453
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: group is pretty much. I think he can get the

454
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Speaker 1: hammer and chisel out and carve it into stone. They're

455
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Speaker 1: not doing too much.

456
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Rick on a sale next. What's up Rick?

457
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Speaker 5: Hey, guys, So are you good? So I got I

458
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Speaker 5: got two comments for you?

459
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Speaker 1: Can you hear me?

460
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Speaker 5: Okay?

461
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, we're wa ahead, all right?

462
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 5: Sorry about that. So I got twin boys.

463
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Speaker 6: One's a quarterback, one's a receiver. When the Digs trade

464
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 6: went down, a quarterback locked himself in the bathroom for

465
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Speaker 6: an hour and tried his little eyes out.

466
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Speaker 5: I felt horrible.

467
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Speaker 6: I think we've all gotten over it now, and I

468
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 6: think the higher trust that Bill's one, Bill's drive probably

469
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 6: has the right plan and in tention for what we're

470
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Speaker 6: going to be going forward to do. So I'm not

471
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Speaker 6: that upset about the trade.

472
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Speaker 7: I think we're going to be.

473
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Speaker 6: Second point is the eclipse that we're gonna be having

474
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Speaker 6: here Monday in Buffalo. Unfortunately I won't be able to

475
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Speaker 6: see it. I'm going to be out of town, but

476
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Speaker 6: it looks like it's gonna be cloudy here other otherwise.

477
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Speaker 6: But I just wanted the point, especially to Steve. I

478
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 6: will be enjoying it from the Masters where they're handing

479
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Speaker 6: out free glasses to observe it.

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Speaker 2: MM, so you'll be in Augusta. Good for you.

481
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Speaker 6: I know Steve's a big golf fan. I will be

482
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Speaker 6: in Augusta.

483
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Speaker 2: He's been there.

484
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Speaker 3: I know he's been there.

485
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Speaker 6: They didn't even know it was gonna didn't even know

486
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Speaker 6: it was going to pass overhead, but got an email

487
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Speaker 6: from the Masters. I said, we'll be handing out glasses.

488
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Speaker 1: You're too far south in Augusta's seat. You'll get a

489
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: partial for sure. Yeah, yeah that. I have been to

490
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Speaker 1: the Master's a hand not less than a handful of times.

491
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Speaker 1: But it's it's worth it. Congratulations, you'll love it.

492
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Speaker 2: And to no one's surprised they have their bases covered

493
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Speaker 2: in terms of having solar glasses for everybody that's on

494
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Speaker 2: the course. Shocking that they're overly prepared.

495
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Speaker 1: It is not shocking. It is actually like being yeah

496
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: they yeah, they're yeah there. It's it's when Jim Nant

497
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: says it's a tradition unlike any other he's right.

498
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Speaker 2: Yes to Gary in Lancaster, next, what's up, Gary?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're doing looking at the thing after the dust settles.

500
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Speaker 5: Because the instant reaction is crazy. A lot of more

501
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,719
Speaker 5: analysts coming back and saying, Okay, it does kind of

502
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 5: make sense. The thirty one million is tough, but this

503
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 5: is a re load, not a rebuild, and we still

504
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 5: have an opportunity. So based upon that, I think going

505
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 5: in the draft will be pretty good. It'll be a

506
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Speaker 5: chance to reload with maybe a receiver or something like that.

507
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 5: It's not a bad position. So all in all, when

508
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Speaker 5: we calm down, I think we'll be fine.

509
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I would agree.

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Speaker 1: Gary is the voice of reason for and there's you know,

511
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 1: if you want to spend it completely positive and you

512
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: want to say, okay, blah blah blah, this is a

513
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: team that notoriously and even Bills fans are saying, we

514
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: got to get over that hump, you know, and the

515
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 1: one that I always say doesn't exist. You just got

516
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: to play well on that day if you're looking. There's

517
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: no question this is gonna shake things up this offseason

518
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: and it will change at least slightly the vibe in

519
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: the locker room because you've got some strong and some

520
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 1: prominent players moving on. Other players are going.

521
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 3: To evolve into that vacuum of leadership.

522
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: Just that's just the way it is. That's that's human nature,

523
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: and that's the way locker rooms work. Somebody is gonna

524
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: have to speak up in that locker room, be the man. Now.

525
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,719
Speaker 1: Certainly Josh is still there, Vaughan is still there. You're

526
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: gonna have some of those guys. But it's a big group.

527
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: It's a big group, and it will help some guys

528
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Speaker 1: in that on the roster, maybe who have been here,

529
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Speaker 1: or maybe who are just arriving here, whatever, whoever that

530
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: group is, they're going to emerge and evolve, and that

531
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:12,479
Speaker 1: growth can make you better or worse. I think if

532
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna spin it positive, maybe this is a hard

533
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: off season that needed to happen. Maybe. And you know,

534
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 1: there's always the there's always the social media side of

535
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: this where everybody's like, ah, yeah, it was a big

536
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: disc steph Diggs was a big distraction, YadA, YadA, YadA.

537
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, but there's no question this is

538
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: gonna be a different locker room going forward. That's not

539
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: always bad. I've experienced it where it was a good thing,

540
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: but it's not always And I think if you're gonna

541
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: question it, that's that's where the real question here is.

542
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna have some really good football players on this

543
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: team going forward, good enough to win games, good enough

544
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: to win a division, good enough to get in the playoffs,

545
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: good enough to take a swing at anybody in the

546
00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: conference and certainly the league. But we got to see

547
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: it now, you know, there's there's it's new, and they

548
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: got to come together and find their own This new

549
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 1: team's gonna have to find its own way to win games,

550
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: and that's what it's kind of the fun of it,

551
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: but it's also the challenge.

552
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 2: Let's go to George in Buffalo here. What do you

553
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 2: got for us? George?

554
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 8: Yeah, Hi, Yeah, I have a brief question. I'm not into, like,

555
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 8: you know, like a lot of proposed trades and everything

556
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 8: like that, but if Buffalo traded their number one this year,

557
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 8: their number two this year, and their number two next year,

558
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 8: could they move up in a draft and get the

559
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 8: third best receiver. I'll hang up and I'll listen for

560
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 8: your answer.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

562
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 2: I think they can do better than that, I guess.

563
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 2: I kind of told Steve about a draft chart that's

564
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 2: more widely utilized by gms across the league. It's a

565
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 2: Rich Hill model, and by that model, if you take

566
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: their one at twenty eight, and they're second at sixty

567
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 2: and package the pick they just got from Houston, which

568
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: I think is safe to anticipate, will wind up in

569
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Speaker 2: the top twelve of round two next year. If you

570
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 2: take that low pick, it's one hundred you know, by

571
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 2: their model, it's one hundred and thirty five points. And

572
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: if you use the high to next year, they're one

573
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 2: and two this year, you can get up to pick seven.

574
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 2: Now you're probably not getting the first receiver off the board,

575
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: but you have a good chance of getting the second

576
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Speaker 2: one or the third one at the.

577
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Speaker 1: Worst, depending too on how far you want to go.

578
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Speaker 1: If you want to take say next this year's one

579
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: and two and one of next year, like a third

580
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: next year or something like that, you could get all

581
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: the way up inside the top ten. Yeah, you can

582
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: get all the way up inside the top ten this year.

583
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: Now you're taught, all right, So you're talking about you're

584
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: not going to get inside the top three or four,

585
00:30:58,560 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: probably not even the top five.

586
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: No, not unless you're giving up your one est year.

587
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: Now if you get to if you get to the Giants,

588
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: to the Titans, to the Falcons, the Bears, and then

589
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: a number ten is the Jets, they're not talking to you.

590
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,239
Speaker 1: The Jets are not doing a deal with right, all right,

591
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: So that's where it kind of ends. So you're talking.

592
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 2: About you can get in that six to nine range.

593
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: Six to nine maybe, yeah, if you and here's the

594
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: thing too, think about this. Yeah, the draft picks might

595
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: get you there, but you might get there with less

596
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: draft picks. And if there's a guy on your roster

597
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: you want to do, if there's a guy that you

598
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: haven't had, don't have a plant or whatever. Like you know,

599
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: they did it with Steph Diggs, So you're telling me

600
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: somebody else's off limits because they traded Steph Diggs. Yeah,

601
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: so that's in the mix as well. So another team

602
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: like a Sandy A la The New York Giants. The

603
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: New York Giants, who by the way, would probably be

604
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: really familiar with some of the players on this roster,

605
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: could probably salivate and say, yeah, we'd love to have

606
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: that guy. We know him. So there you go, that's

607
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. But yes, it would cost you

608
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Speaker 1: this year's twenty eighth pick, maybe this year's sixtieth pick,

609
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: and a pick in the future, probably at least a

610
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: second or a third. You can do it. Yeah, you

611
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: can do it, but it's a big price to pay

612
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: for a guy who has never taken an NFL snap.

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Speaker 1: Gotta takete that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta take a break here, but more of

615
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 2: your phone calls when we return. So if you're holding

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Speaker 2: at eight oh three oh five to fifty, we'll get

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Speaker 2: to you when we return. You're on an OBL Friday

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Speaker 2: fan mail bag on One Bill's Live, presented by col

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Speaker 2: Oida of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right back

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Speaker 2: here on one Bill's Live OBL Friday fan mail Bag.

621
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Speaker 2: Let's get right back to the phones where we have

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Speaker 2: people waiting at ato three oh five fifty. I got

623
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Speaker 2: a couple of lines open for you, so chime in

624
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Speaker 2: if you wish. And to Dave in Buffalo next, what

625
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 2: do you got for us?

626
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 3: Dave?

627
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 2: Dave? Are you with us? All right, we'll put Dave

628
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Speaker 2: on hold and see if we can check back in

629
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Speaker 2: with him. We go to Judy in Buffalo next. What's

630
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Speaker 2: up Judy?

631
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Speaker 9: You know you brought up the eclipse and fortunately or unfortunately,

632
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 9: I'm a member of family who is going to some

633
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 9: sort of extremes to observe the eclipse and everything else

634
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Speaker 9: that's not my point, I would like to mention or

635
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 9: bring to the attention of people that there are two

636
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 9: cities in the direct half of the eclipse who have

637
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Speaker 9: shared a Calambus experience. One is Buffalo, New York, and

638
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 9: the other is Evolved, Texas. Forgive me, That's all I

639
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 9: have to say.

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Speaker 2: All right, I understand Judy.

641
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Speaker 3: Thanks Judy.

642
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 2: Sorry that brings up some difficult memories for you. So

643
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 2: hopefully you got people around you to kind of bring

644
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: out of that.

645
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 3: That's right.

646
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're just gonna move on and we'll

647
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 2: go to Rob in Connecticut next.

648
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Speaker 10: What's up, Rob, Hi, Chris Hi, Steve. I hope you're

649
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 10: having a great day today. All right. So I was

650
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 10: listening to Steve and one of the things he mentioned

651
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 10: was he's not panicking. And that was the first thing

652
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 10: I didn't do when I heard on Wednesday. I was

653
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 10: actually listening to Josh and Zach when it happened. When

654
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 10: this all went down with the trade with Diggs.

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Speaker 5: My first.

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Speaker 10: My first response was and thought was, when the Kansas

657
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Speaker 10: City Chiefs got rid of Tyreek Hill, everybody panicked in

658
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Speaker 10: Kansas City. We're not going to win without Tyreek Hill.

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Speaker 10: Think of it. This way, we still have Josh Allen.

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Speaker 10: He has plenty of weapons to throw to all right,

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Speaker 10: Plus we're gonna have two other targets coming in. Definitely,

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Speaker 10: I know that Bean is definitely going to do the

663
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Speaker 10: right thing. I trust the process. They're not going to

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Speaker 10: make me doubters.

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Speaker 5: They're going to make me believers.

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Speaker 10: It's you know, nothing changes if nothing changes. So not

667
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Speaker 10: once did I ever panic. I think it was a

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Speaker 10: great move that they had traded Digs to Houston, and

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Speaker 10: I did not panic. My wife was not happy because

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Speaker 10: I told her and she says, I don't want to

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Speaker 10: talk about it. I says, well, it's time for him

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Speaker 10: to go. It's time for new.

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Speaker 5: We need new.

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Speaker 10: But we still have Josh, just like Steve was talking about.

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Speaker 10: And also the locker rooms. I mean, Steve probably experienced

676
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Speaker 10: a lot of stuff inside the locker room, and sometimes

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Speaker 10: it was a person that was just a cancer in

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Speaker 10: there and he didn't belong. So I mean, I don't

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Speaker 10: want to call it dig the cancer. He did a

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Speaker 10: lot of great things for us, but it was time

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Speaker 10: for him to go. Now we got something ahead of us,

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Speaker 10: and let's believe in it and not doubt it and

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Speaker 10: trust the process. With that, I'll let you guys go.

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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks, Rob, Thanks, there's a lot in that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And it comes down to this, and I think

686
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: we all realize this, and it's it generalizes it and

687
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to belittle it or whatever, but here's

688
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: the thing. It's it's some things never change. It doesn't

689
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: matter who walks out the door, whether it's Poyer and

690
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Speaker 1: Hide and Mitch Morris or it's Steph Diggs or all

691
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: of them. What really matters now is who comes in

692
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Speaker 1: the door and who's left behind when those guys leave,

693
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Speaker 1: and what happens to those guys and how they handle

694
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Speaker 1: it inside the locker room. That's what it's about. It's

695
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: not about what losing all the it's what who's going

696
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: to replace them? Who we bring it in. Bean and

697
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: McDermott will not change their process of evaluating players and

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00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: which kind of guys are going to bring in. They're

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00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: going to bring in the guys that fit that that

700
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: finger quotes. We hear it all the time and it

701
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: becomes repetitive, is that DNA. They're gonna bring guys in

702
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: who do that and guys who have the right DNA,

703
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: even if they're not as good at players as the

704
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Speaker 1: players that departed their presence in the locker room elevates

705
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: guys who have been here for even longer than they have.

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Speaker 1: Good guys around you in the right atmosphere, elevates the

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Speaker 1: guys who are in it to be better than they

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00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: have been and bringing guys in from the outside who

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00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: needed an environment like that elevate those guys. That's the

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Speaker 1: kind of thing you have to trust that Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: is going to spend this offseason doing. I was in

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Speaker 1: a part. I was in that locker room in all

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it sounds like a long time ago,

714
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, and this team was labeled as the

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Speaker 1: Bickering Bills. I was right in the middle of it,

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Speaker 1: and I remember saying it was the least fun I

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00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: ever had playing in a football season. It was hard

718
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Speaker 1: because it was a toxic environment. And then, as we

719
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Speaker 1: all know and all the Bills fans will know, that

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Speaker 1: things change. The dynamic changed. They released a couple of

721
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Speaker 1: less than a handful of really good players, older players,

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Speaker 1: replaced them with different guys, and some of the great

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Speaker 1: players who were in the room had a chance to

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Speaker 1: fill the leadership void. That was created by those older

725
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: guys moving on and the team became really special, really quickly.

726
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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying I'm not predicting anything or whatever,

727
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: but that's what can happen. When you change the emotional

728
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: atmosphere of a locker room, it means something and it

729
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: changes things drastically. So there's no doubt that there's going

730
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Speaker 1: to be a change in the tone of the locker

731
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Speaker 1: room for the Buffalo Bills this coming season. And know

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Speaker 1: this too, that if there was anything wrong with it

733
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Speaker 1: before this, that's part of the focus going forward of

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Speaker 1: getting that right this time. So, and make no mistake,

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00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: they won't mince words about it. Sean McDermott will tell

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Speaker 1: the leader like Josh and Vaughan and Milano and Bernard

737
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: and Benford and Elam and Rausulle Douglas, all those guys

738
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Speaker 1: are going to get the word loud and clear that hey,

739
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: we's it's time to freshen this up. They did it

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Speaker 1: early on with Steph Diggs when they made him a captain.

741
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Speaker 1: There have been other instances around, you know, in the

742
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Speaker 1: in the timeline of Sean mcdermot's era here in Buffalo,

743
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Speaker 1: where you've seen that early on. They traded a couple

744
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,320
Speaker 1: of dudes early in Sean mcdermot's tenure here, and people

745
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: thought they were tanking, and it turns out he was right,

746
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: and he took a drought roster to the playoffs. So

747
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: that's the difference it can make. And that's what you know.

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Speaker 1: For me, that's what I carry forward with all of this,

749
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Speaker 1: And that's what I think a lot of Bills fans

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00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: are trying to get himself to do.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: I hope I articulated that right.

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Speaker 2: I think he did fine, well done.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you. Let's appreciating me.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's go to Cameron in Buffalo next. What's up, Cameron?

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Speaker 5: How are we doing? Boys?

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Speaker 1: Good good?

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Speaker 11: I just want to talk about how Stephen Diggs just

759
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 11: he's ruining the legacy. Him and Josh Allen. We're gonna

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00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 11: have with McDermott, you know what I'm saying. You know

761
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 11: you're talking about that locker room man. Big wasn't even

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Speaker 11: in the locker room.

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Speaker 6: He's too busy looking at the.

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Speaker 11: Scoreboard, still being a crybabe, instead of getting back and

765
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Speaker 11: patching a plan, popping a beer with Josh Allen McDermott

766
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Speaker 11: in the locker room. I mean, come on, now, he

767
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 11: wasn't even looking. He wasn't even looking at the right thing.

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Speaker 11: He start looking side, not back outside there on the field.

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Speaker 2: Game's over, man, I'm guessing you're referring to the AFC

770
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 2: Championship game at the end of the twenty twenty season,

771
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Speaker 2: when Diggs was clearly distraught about losing that game and

772
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Speaker 2: opportunity to go to the Super Bowl UH and stayed

773
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Speaker 2: out on the field much longer than everyone else, to

774
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Speaker 2: the point where head coach Sean mcderman had to go

775
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 2: out and bring him into the locker room so they

776
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 2: could break things down. I don't think that means he's

777
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Speaker 2: ruining their legacy together. Look, I understand if some people

778
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 2: are sore about maybe some of the things they've heard

779
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 2: about Stefan Diggs and how he handled some situations here

780
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: with this organization, But you cannot deny the fact that

781
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 2: he elevated the level of play of this team. Can't

782
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 2: deny it. Whether you like him or you don't. The

783
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: results are the results, and they won a lot of games,

784
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Speaker 2: and they won playoff games, which hadn't happened for a

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Speaker 2: long time around.

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Speaker 1: He won a playoff game every year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's you know.

788
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Speaker 2: Went to the playoffshitch in the last five years.

789
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Speaker 1: Listen, Steph Diggs was a monster when he was here.

790
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: You don't slice it any other way. The guy led

791
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: the league in touchdowns, yards, receptions for three years while

792
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: he was here. He was a monster.

793
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 2: Only receiver in Bill's history to have a thousand yards

794
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 2: in four consecutive seasons and only one.

795
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Speaker 1: And in that way, you gotta think you're gonna miss him. Now,

796
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: certainly you're not gonna get zero yards, zero receptions, and

797
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: zero touchdowns with the guy who replaces him. But that difference,

798
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, is is you know what we're

799
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: worried about, what you're worried about, because you just Steph Diggs.

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00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: Guys with that kind of production don't fall off trees.

801
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: You don't just go to the store and pick up

802
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: another one off the shelf. They're hard to find. A

803
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: fifth He's a fifth round draft pick. Those guys are.

804
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: And what made him special obviously wasn't his athletic ability.

805
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: He would have been a first rounder. The guy was

806
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: a fifth round athlete athlete, but man, oh man, he's

807
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: he's an all pro caliber guy and that's what you know,

808
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: what happens in between guy's ears and inside their chest,

809
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: their heart and their brain make them special. That's hard

810
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: to find. That's why guys like him fall to the

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00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: fifth round because you can't really tell until you get

812
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 1: him in the building. So, but they're out there, and

813
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: so I'm not here to throw dirt on Steph Diggs.

814
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: That guy was a monster while I was here, and

815
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Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia loved him. They loved him, and for good reason.

816
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 1: But whoever they get to come in here for him,

817
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get zero and zero and zero. The

818
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: guy's gonna do something, and he's gonna have one of

819
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: them still an elite quarterback throwing to him. And it's

820
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: an opportunity here on Buffalo's offense for somebody out there

821
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Speaker 1: to step into that wide receiver number one or wide

822
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Speaker 1: receiver number two. Take your pick and have a career year.

823
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Speaker 1: And believe me, people around the league and in this

824
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: draft class are salivating over being the guy that takes

825
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: over for number fourteen in the Bill's uniform.

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Speaker 2: Gotta take a break here, more of your phone call

827
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Speaker 2: when we come back on one. Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 2: co Lot of Health it's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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Speaker 2: here we are on a Friday, One Bill's Live, Chris Brown,

830
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 2: Steve Tasker with you, and it's an obl Friday fan

831
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Speaker 2: mail bag, which means any question on your mind is

832
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 2: fair game to throw at us. And we go back

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Speaker 2: to the phones where people are waiting patiently and too.

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Speaker 2: Michael in Rochester, next, what's up, Michael?

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Speaker 7: Hey, guys love the show. My thing about Stefon Diggs is,

836
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Speaker 7: you know what, he is a great player. He has

837
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Speaker 7: passion to win, but his tantrums stop around like a

838
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 7: six year old. But then the biggest play of the season,

839
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 7: he dropped the ball. So why do you want to

840
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 7: like pay all his money or whatever. It's like you

841
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 7: know what cans from the locker room and the biggest

842
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 7: play you dropped the ball. It's like baseball, like horn

843
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 7: hinters like Daryl Strawberry and home runs in there by

844
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 7: five runs or down by five runs like okay, goodbye,

845
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 7: and uh, they don't need everybody. He's gone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. It's it's easy to I don't know,

847
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to define Steph Diggs by the drop

848
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: in Kansas City that everybody's a lot of guys are

849
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: bringing up, no question about it, because he made a

850
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: lot of clutch catches for the club over the course

851
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: of the of his career here, so it's hard for

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00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: me to define him by you know, and as important

853
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: as that catch was, I mean, good grief, there isn't

854
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: one that's any more important than that. You you got

855
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: to pull it in. And I think it's unfair to Steph,

856
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: even if he deserved it. It's unfair to him to

857
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: define his career and write him off because of the

858
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: one that he missed. I get it. It was. It's

859
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: incredibly frustrating, and when you look across it's I get it.

860
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: People remember that stuff. But it has been it has

861
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: been a characteristic of the Sean McDermott era here. They

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00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: have gotten. They got so good in twenty twenty that

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00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: ever since twenty twenty, for the last three years, they

864
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: lose so infrequently, and when they do lose, it's by

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00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: such a narrow margin. All those losses almost have nicknames,

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00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: you know, like that Kate, like Steph's drop thirteen seconds

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00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,280
Speaker 1: the heat game in Miami, hal Murray, the Hail Murray.

868
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: The losses are so infrequent they have names. It's amazing,

869
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: and yet here they are still trying to get passed

870
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: once again, try to get past the division round of

871
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and you have you know, the guy who

872
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: you would depend on the most or trust the most, is,

873
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 1: you know, drop the ball. It's hard to It's hard

874
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 1: for me to pin all of Steph's career and say

875
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: good riddance because of that play.

876
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 2: Now that being said, there is a fact that should

877
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 2: be noted. In his four years in a Bill's uniform,

878
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 2: his catch right in the playoffs is fifty eight percent. Yeah,

879
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 2: that's not what you need from a number one.

880
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: That's right. And yeah, but let's face it, the entire

881
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: and the entire club underperformed in the playoffs, or at

882
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: least in the last game of the playoff. They they

883
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: played really well in the in the wildcard round, and

884
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: they played pretty good in those losses too. Let's face it,

885
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: they're hard to beat.

886
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 2: They played poorly against the Chiefs the game's twenty seven

887
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 2: to twenty four, there were execution issues, they didn't play

888
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 2: their best.

889
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: And they're still hard to beat. So yeah, I get it,

890
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: I get it, Michael. It guys like people like that,

891
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,399
Speaker 1: you're ready to move on, and I am too. I mean,

892
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's I'm excited about the future of this club.

893
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this coming season. I'm excited about this draft.

894
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: There's a lot to be excited about here. And it

895
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: starts with Bean McDermott and Josh Allen and the rest.

896
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: It starts with Bobby Babbage, and it does start with

897
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: a refurbering, refurbishing of the roster with some guys that

898
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: we can get behind. We love those guys that left here.

899
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: Let's not say we didn't. We did, but that doesn't

900
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: mean it's not gonna be even better going forward with

901
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 1: some new faces.

902
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 2: We are gonna step aside. Take a break here, because

903
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 2: when we come back in our number two, it is

904
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,240
Speaker 2: time for our weekly look at the Mock Draft Watch.

905
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 2: And here to do that with us is resident Mock

906
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 2: Draft Watch bookkeeper and Bill's reporter Matdi Gleabs. She will

907
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Speaker 2: be joining us here for our number two for the

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00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,600
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00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,000
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Speaker 2: colleague Mandy clab who has had her ear to the

921
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 2: ground on this since one point zero. So any headlines

922
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 2: this time around, Maddie, because we're kind of caught in

923
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 2: the middle, right between the drafts that you're tracking pre

924
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 2: Dig's trade post digs trade here kind of sandwiched around

925
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,479
Speaker 2: it since it happened right in the middle of the week.

926
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Speaker 12: Yeah, most definitely. If we look back to mock Draft

927
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 12: Watch six point zero, we started tracking that end of March,

928
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 12: and so we're into April fifth today and a few

929
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 12: mock drafts reflect the post digs trade, and as you

930
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 12: would guess, not much has changed because the Bills have

931
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 12: been getting mocked wide receivers left and right since I

932
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 12: started tracking these mock drafts at the end of January.

933
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 12: That remains the same. I'm still seeing a lot of

934
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 12: the same names pop up. Ad Ni Mitchell has been

935
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 12: a huge favorite heading to Buffalo at the twenty eighth

936
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 12: overall pick. He's almost up there right now with Brian

937
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 12: Thomas Junior. If you look back at all of the

938
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 12: mock drafts in track who's getting mocked to the Bills

939
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 12: the most, the two favorites right now are Adni Mitchell

940
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 12: and Brian Thomas Junior. As of late, ad Ni Mitchell

941
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 12: has been the favorite heading to the Bills at twenty eight.

942
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 12: I would assume we are going to see some mock

943
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 12: drafts next week that have the Bills trading up to

944
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 12: go get a wide receiver. Is that Brian Thomas Junior?

945
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 12: Is that Romo Doonze, Is that Malik Neighbors?

946
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 9: I'm not sure.

947
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 12: We saw Joe Biscalia release a mock draft from the

948
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 12: Athletic today and he had the Bills heading up to

949
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 12: the seventh spot trading with the Titans trading away a

950
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 12: few picks from this year as well as their first

951
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 12: next year. Their first this year, their second this year.

952
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 12: I believe it was their fourth this year in addition

953
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,280
Speaker 12: to their first next year to go get Malik Neighbors

954
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 12: at number seven.

955
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: So I would guess we may see a.

956
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 12: Few more mock drafts that look like that, just because

957
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 12: because with the departure of Stephan Diggs, you're not just

958
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 12: needing to fill an X wide receiver role anymore. You're

959
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 12: also having to fill the spot of your former number

960
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 12: one wide receiver who did lots and lots and lots

961
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 12: of incredible productive things when he was here with the

962
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 12: Buffalo Bills. I mean, four straight one thousand yard seasons

963
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 12: helping the Bills get to four straight AFC East titles.

964
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 12: That is going to be very hard to replace. In

965
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 12: the first year of whatever this iteration is going to

966
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 12: look like for the Buffalo Bills. You got to ask

967
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,800
Speaker 12: the question, what will this offense look like in twenty

968
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 12: twenty four? Is Joe Brady going to have a new

969
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 12: vision for how they fill the role of Stephan Diggs.

970
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 12: Could it be with a player that the Bills get

971
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 12: in a trade. Could it be with the player of

972
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 12: the Bills getting free agency that's still out there, Could

973
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 12: it be in the draft, or could it be with

974
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 12: volume of wide receivers that are already on this roster.

975
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 12: We're not exactly sure yet.

976
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of these things about these mock drafts, ad

977
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 1: Mitchell's steps up as being the four runner now really

978
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: because Brian Thomas Junior, you feel like he's gonna get

979
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 1: taken earlier, right because he start Brian Thomas Junior has

980
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: started to move into that up rational one of those

981
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: top three league neighbors Marvin Harrison Junior and the like, and.

982
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Junior.

983
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: Is almost there, so you never feel like he's gonna

984
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 1: get to twenty eight, which is why ad Mitchell all

985
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: of a sudden becomes the Bills go to guy or

986
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: the one that's getting mocked to the Bills so often.

987
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: Is that you think that's right? Yeah, I would say

988
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: that's right.

989
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 12: You see Brian Thomas Junior heading off the board in

990
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 12: several knock drafts before the Bills are even at their pick,

991
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 12: whether it's a few spots before twenty eight, whether it's

992
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 12: in the teens, that's kind of the range where I

993
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 12: see him heading off of the board. And a lot

994
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 12: of mock drafts that we've been looking at. Another new

995
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 12: favorite name, I don't want to say favorite, but another

996
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 12: name that I've seen pop up a few times. Wide

997
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 12: receiver Xavier Worthy and Lad McConkie I've seen twice over

998
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 12: the last two weeks being mocked to the Bills at

999
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 12: number twenty eight. Those are two other interesting names for

1000
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 12: the Bills if they decide to stay put at twenty eight.

1001
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 12: So I want to talk about those guys. Should we

1002
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 12: get into a couple of wide receivers here?

1003
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 13: Sure?

1004
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, all right, So let's go with Xavier Worthy first.

1005
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 12: He's the other wide receiver out of Texas. We've talked

1006
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 12: about ad Ni Mitchell quite a bit already. So Xavier

1007
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 12: Worthy five eleven one sixty five a junior, he ran

1008
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 12: a four two one forty at the Combine. If you

1009
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 12: guys remember, he broke the record set by John Ross.

1010
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 12: He started in thirty nine games over his career at Texas.

1011
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 12: He also has time as a punt returner. This could

1012
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 12: be looked at as a plus if you're looking for

1013
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 12: somebody to fill the whole of Deontay Hardy. He had

1014
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:42,320
Speaker 12: over one thousand receiving yards in twenty twenty three, along

1015
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 12: with twelve touchdowns in twenty twenty one. If you look

1016
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 12: at his career, almost two hundred receptions, twenty seven hundred

1017
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 12: receiving yards twenty six touchdowns. He averaged seventy point six

1018
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 12: receiving yards per game during his time at Texas. He

1019
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 12: ranks fourth all time in Texas football history in career

1020
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 12: receiving yards. He had a reception in thirty nine consecutive games.

1021
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 12: That's the third longest streak in UT history. That says

1022
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 12: he is a consistent receiver. He was first team All

1023
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 12: Big Twelve in twenty twenty three, second team All America

1024
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 12: honors as a punt returner as well. And when you

1025
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 12: turn on the tape on this guy, he is a

1026
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,280
Speaker 12: cheetah once he gets going. Good luck trying to catch

1027
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 12: up with this receiver. I think he's pretty good at

1028
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 12: tracking the ball. With the speed that he possesses, he

1029
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 12: can make adjustments to catch a ball in stride. He's

1030
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 12: a field stretcher and he's somebody that's going to require

1031
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 12: the attention of a defense, which could open things up

1032
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 12: for other players. He's got a decent catch radius. The

1033
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 12: knock on this guy is his size. He's got a

1034
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 12: skinny frame. Is he going to be able to be

1035
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 12: that contested catch guy at the next level with having

1036
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 12: a five to eleven one sixty five frame I'm not sure.

1037
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 9: I think if.

1038
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 12: Speed is really important to your team and you're looking

1039
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,360
Speaker 12: for somebody who can possess that, and you don't mind

1040
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 12: having a skin your frame, then this is your receiver.

1041
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 12: What do you guys think about the traits that Xavier

1042
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 12: Worthy possessed it.

1043
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: I think he's got all you need except and extra

1044
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: twenty pounds he's I mean, twenty pounds might get him

1045
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: to the edge of being durable enough. It really is

1046
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: a concern at one hundred and sixty five pounds. Most

1047
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: of the big guys on the field could do one

1048
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: arm curls with one hundred and sixty five pounds, And

1049
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 1: it's if and he's tough, he can be tough and

1050
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: all that, and that's really the Durability is the one

1051
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: thing that he really worries you. And other than that,

1052
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: I like everything about it. He catches the ball well enough,

1053
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: runs good routes, drops his hips, gets in and out

1054
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: of breaks, tracks the ball well on deep routes. But

1055
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: it's a real thing. Size is a real thing, and

1056
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: durability is a real thing. And I don't know that

1057
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: you can quantify it any other way other than just

1058
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: to look and say, man, thirty nine games. There's a

1059
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: lot of games, and he does not have an injury history,

1060
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: So there's that and some guys, yeah, that size is

1061
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 1: never a problem there. They just somehow stay healthy. But

1062
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: they're rare. They're rare, and sooner or later it seems

1063
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: to catch up with you.

1064
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that. A lot of people might

1065
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,919
Speaker 2: point to Tank Dell last year in the draft and say, hey,

1066
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 2: there's a little guy. But to me, they're two different players.

1067
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 2: I think Tank Dell is an outstanding route runner and

1068
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 2: is a separator where Worthy is a field stretcher, which

1069
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 2: you know Maddie described already, And to me, they're two

1070
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 2: different guys, both small and Tank Dell. Yes, it was

1071
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 2: a freak injury, but he snapped his leg in half

1072
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 2: and the Houston Texans didn't happen to the playoffs. Seventeen

1073
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 2: games in the NFL is different than playing twelve games

1074
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 2: in college because you're dealing with the biggest and the best,

1075
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, it is a

1076
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 2: big man's game. So I think it is a concern.

1077
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 2: From what I'm hearing, there is a mixed bag of

1078
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 2: opinions on him. Some people really like him for obvious reasons,

1079
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 2: and some people are a little concerned based on some

1080
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 2: of the stuff that Steve and I are discussing. It's interesting,

1081
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 2: too that his touchdown total went down every single season.

1082
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 2: He went from twelve to nine to five. Maybe that's

1083
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 2: because ad Mitchell gets added to the roster last year.

1084
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 2: Maybe that's a part of it, but that's something that

1085
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 2: prompts you to look at the tape a little bit more.

1086
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 2: I think the thing that I like is he can

1087
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 2: make plays outside and inside. More often on the inside

1088
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 2: he won and was open because he would work off

1089
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 2: the back of clear out routes and just run off

1090
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 2: somebody's rear end and get open that way. He's too

1091
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 2: slight framed to be a tackle breaker. The only time

1092
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 2: I saw him break tackles after the catch was when

1093
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 2: he would spin off an arm tackle. You know, a

1094
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 2: defender's out of position because he's so fast he can

1095
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 2: get an arm on him. He can roll out of

1096
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 2: those for extra yardage. But if someone's got him wrapped,

1097
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,919
Speaker 2: he's going down because he's only won sixty five. Let's

1098
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 2: not forget Isaiah McKenzie was one hundred and sixty five pounds.

1099
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy's a little taller, but it's a

1100
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 2: very very light play.

1101
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing about like guys is it's been universally true,

1102
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,959
Speaker 1: even back in the days when I played. Smaller guys

1103
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: don't break tackles. You know, Bigger guys can pull them down,

1104
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 1: get a handful of jersey and pull them to the ground.

1105
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to really wrap up, and

1106
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: kind of nobody is like gathering themselves to tackle the guy.

1107
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: They just run in there and grab him and get

1108
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: him down. So they're susceptible to getting tackled at a

1109
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: higher rate because the fact that you know, nobody is

1110
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: not wrapping them up, they're not afraid of getting hurt

1111
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: tackling the guy, so they're going in there with some aggression,

1112
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: so they get tackled at a higher rate. Plus their

1113
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: strength and slight in a frame means they can't withstand

1114
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: the collision or the or the violence of it as

1115
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: well either. So all of that, for all those reasons,

1116
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: light guys like this struggle to break tackles. And that's

1117
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: just that's another part and parcel of why you know,

1118
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: the concerns of him have less to do with his

1119
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: skill set than they do his just his actual size.

1120
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 12: Well, let's add twenty pounds here in an inch and

1121
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 12: we get a wide receiver called Lad McConkey out of Georgia.

1122
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 12: And this is a wide receiver who has been mocked

1123
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 12: to the Bills post Stephan Diggs trade. So he has

1124
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 12: popped up once since Stefan Diggs was traded. An interesting

1125
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 12: wide receiver. I like what he offers. Last season, he

1126
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 12: had just under five hundred receiving yards, two touchdowns, average

1127
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 12: fifteen point nine yards per catch. But in his career

1128
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 12: he goes over one hundred receiving yards over sixteen over

1129
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 12: sixteen hundred receiving yards over one hundred receptions, fourteen touchdowns.

1130
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 12: He played in thirty nine games in his three seasons

1131
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 12: with Georgia. He ran a four three nine forty. His

1132
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 12: back injury and ankle injury that he had last season

1133
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 12: allowed him to only play in nine games, and so

1134
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 12: that's why you may see five hundred receiving yards for

1135
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 12: twenty twenty three just under that nine. He played in

1136
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 12: big games in Georgia, which you love getting a receiver

1137
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 12: who played in a Power five conference, especially in the

1138
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 12: SEC where you're playing against really really good defenses. He

1139
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 12: has experienced as a punt returner as well. If you

1140
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 12: watch the tape on him, he is a shifty, quick

1141
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 12: receiver who's a good route runner. He can trick defenders

1142
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 12: with his quick and soft feet. The speed definitely shows

1143
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 12: up on tape on him. He's dynamic and the way

1144
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 12: that he plays the position, he knows how to find

1145
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 12: creases and get open. It just looks easy to him,

1146
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 12: and I think this is something that's going to go

1147
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 12: with him into the NFL. I feel like he's going

1148
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 12: to be the type of receiver who can get open

1149
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 12: and who you can trust with the ball. When you

1150
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 12: watch him, you just get a sense of the fact

1151
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 12: that this player understands the game. With how he plays

1152
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 12: the wide receiver role, I think he's going to make

1153
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 12: whatever team he goes to better. He can line up

1154
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 12: in multiple positions, but I believe his home is as

1155
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 12: a slot receiver. Another question for him size and play strength.

1156
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 12: Six feet that's okay, one to eighty six. Is that

1157
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 12: a little too light? Do you like him at that spot?

1158
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 2: He holds up in.

1159
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 12: What I've seen on tape in Georgia. But then you

1160
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 12: you think about the next level, you think about the NFL.

1161
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 12: You think about guys pressing him. What does that look like?

1162
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think he's playing in the best

1163
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 2: conference in terms of physical defenders, in terms of comparison

1164
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 2: and projection to the NFL. I think what's gonna hurt

1165
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 2: him a little bit is I think there are gonna

1166
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 2: be some teams that see him as a slot only

1167
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 2: and nothing more. And then there are gonna be other

1168
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 2: people that like him more that say, you know what,

1169
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 2: he won outside enough. I mean, he wins on outbreaking

1170
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 2: routes pretty consistently. And there are gonna be some people

1171
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 2: that feel like he can play inside or outside and

1172
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 2: they'll obviously have him higher on their board. And all

1173
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 2: it takes is one team. So I'll just say this,

1174
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 2: if you're talking about these two guys, Worthy and McConkie,

1175
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 2: I take McConkie ten times out of ten. I will

1176
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 2: always take the separator over the speedster ten times out

1177
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 2: of ten, one hundred times out of one hundred. So

1178
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 2: if you're pitting these two guys against one another, I

1179
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 2: take McConkie every single time. I think the only other

1180
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:19,439
Speaker 2: thing that hurts him a little bit is his catch

1181
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:21,960
Speaker 2: radius is not big. You've got a lot of big,

1182
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 2: tall targets in this draft class, which is why I

1183
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 2: think he's going to be down the board a little bit,

1184
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 2: not terribly. He could sneak into the bottom of the

1185
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 2: first round if somebody likes him, but just not having

1186
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 2: that large catch radius hurt him. I think what helped

1187
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 2: him was his combine workout. I mean the fact that

1188
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 2: he clocks a four to three nine and goes thirty

1189
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 2: six inches on the vertical leap. I think it showed

1190
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 2: some explosiveness that I think some people weren't convinced that

1191
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 2: he had, you know, and then he had a good

1192
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 2: week at the Senior Bowl as well, So I think

1193
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 2: he put it all together in the pre draft process

1194
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 2: and that's why I think he could creep into the

1195
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 2: bottom around one.

1196
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with both those things. It doesn't bother me.

1197
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: Maybe that he's got the similar skill set to Khalil Shakir.

1198
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: Separators are always going to have a place to play,

1199
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 1: and that's what he is. And I think maybe you

1200
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 1: could say as a downside, where maybe it's an upside.

1201
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think he can contribute to

1202
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: whoever drafts him this year. He's going to get on

1203
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: the field and he's going to contribute. He may be

1204
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: the same guy in three years that he is today.

1205
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 1: I don't know that he can go any further. I

1206
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: think he is as his potential limited ceiling. Yeah, he's

1207
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: got a limited ceiling, but he's pretty good right now.

1208
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 1: He can get open. I think he gets open, and

1209
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 1: I think that's really key. So and I'm with you.

1210
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,440
Speaker 1: I like him better than Worthy because of his ability

1211
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: to find a spot and get open. Plus, guys like

1212
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 1: this who run really good routes come across as being

1213
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: really intelligent football players. And the more smart guys you

1214
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 1: have on your team, the higher above expectations you can perform.

1215
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: And I think that's what Maconky is. He exceeds expectations

1216
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 1: at every turn. And I think that's why he's an

1217
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: intriguing prospect. And I think, yeah, if he he's there.

1218
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: If it's between those two, Worthy and McConkie had take

1219
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:07,439
Speaker 1: McConkie two, and if they're both there, they may both

1220
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 1: be there at twenty eight if they don't trade up.

1221
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 12: Yeah. I think lad McConkie offers more as a wide

1222
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:17,040
Speaker 12: receiver in terms of what he's giving you with being

1223
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 12: able to play in multiple positions. If you're worthy, can

1224
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 12: also do that. But I just think he's a more

1225
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 12: well rounded receiver at this point in his career, in

1226
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 12: his football career heading into the NFL. And if you

1227
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 12: look at number twenty eight and you think about what

1228
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:36,000
Speaker 12: wide receivers could be available, do those wide receivers give

1229
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:39,440
Speaker 12: you a wide receiver one potential compared to the guys

1230
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:41,440
Speaker 12: at the top of the draft who we've been talking

1231
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,720
Speaker 12: about as well in Marvin Harrison Junior, Romo Dunze, and

1232
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 12: Malik Neighbors. And I think the answer is there could

1233
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 12: be potential there, but I don't think it's as much

1234
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:55,520
Speaker 12: of a guarantee as if you were up at the

1235
01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 12: top of the draft being able to select one of

1236
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 12: those top three guys. Look back at Round one in

1237
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 12: years and some of those guys hanging out at the

1238
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 12: bottom of the first round or the second round or

1239
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 12: third round. You never know what a player is going

1240
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 12: to turn into once you attach that player to a

1241
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 12: coaching staff. Look at Stefan Diggs, fifth round ride receiver.

1242
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 12: Look at what he turned into. I think that capability

1243
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 12: is out there for several players, but you never truly

1244
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 12: know what you're getting. You can see it on tape.

1245
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 12: You can scout it, you can have meetings with these guys,

1246
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 12: you can get them at the combine, you can host

1247
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 12: them on a thirty visit. But sometimes players don't turn

1248
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 12: out how you wanted them to. I think being if

1249
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 12: you were able to move up into the top of

1250
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 12: the first round, I think that percentage goes up in

1251
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 12: your belief in a guy being able to be a

1252
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 12: difference maker in his first season. That's what I'm talking about,

1253
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 12: rather than hanging out at number twenty eight. How does

1254
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 12: the coaching staff feel about doing something like that. Are

1255
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 12: they looking for somebody in the draft to be a

1256
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 12: huge difference maker in the first season or not. I

1257
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 12: think these are definitely a few questions, several questions that

1258
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 12: the coaching staff and the scouting department are talking about

1259
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:10,440
Speaker 12: right now as they look at the roster for the

1260
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 12: twenty twenty four season.

1261
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: Right I think yeah, And I think that change when

1262
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: they traded Steph Diggs. I think now it's like, yeah,

1263
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: we need somebody to come in. We need And I'll

1264
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: say this too about mconkie. I see him more as

1265
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: a guy that can go outside to the wide side

1266
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: of the field outside of slot and also to the

1267
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 1: boundary as an X and anywhere in there motion, slot, receiver,

1268
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 1: wing back. He has played in a lot of different

1269
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: spots and seem to be productive in all of them.

1270
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with him. He seems versatile

1271
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: and that lends itself also once again to his intelligence

1272
01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 1: as a football player. But I think his versatility sets

1273
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: him apart from a guy like Worthy or and some

1274
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 1: of the other guys further down the list.

1275
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I might put Brian Thomas Junior in

1276
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 2: with those three, be sure, one absolutely right away. Maybe

1277
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 2: not week one, but maybe by week six or seven.

1278
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 2: He's more accustomed to filling that role, provided he's swift

1279
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 2: on the uptake with the scheme. I think ad Mitchell

1280
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 2: is a guy that it might take a year. Could

1281
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 2: he be a number one in twenty twenty five, Yeah,

1282
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:15,920
Speaker 2: but in twenty twenty four you're maybe not as certain. So,

1283
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 2: and that's why they kind of get slotted where they do.

1284
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:20,640
Speaker 1: Any of these guys could surprise you as well. I

1285
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 1: mean they come out and say, wow, look at this,

1286
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: we didn't know. But you can't count on being some

1287
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 1: You don't count on being surprised. You're surprised when you're right,

1288
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: you don't expect him to surprise you. That's yeah. Any

1289
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:35,920
Speaker 1: of these guys could turn out to be a guy

1290
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 1: as good as Steph Diggs has been because they're all

1291
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: athletically right there in Steph's wheelhouse because he was Steph

1292
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Speaker 1: was a fifth rounder. So all of these guys, depending

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Speaker 1: on what's between their ears and their motivation, all the

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01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 1: all the the intangibles could elevate when they get to

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Speaker 1: the next level. But the higher you get to the draft,

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Speaker 1: the more you rely on measurables. When you get to

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Speaker 1: the very top of the draft, it's not only the measurables,

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Speaker 1: but it's also the intangibles meshed with the measurables. Those guys,

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Speaker 1: these guys come off as being leaders, professional professionals at

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01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: a young age, old souls, These guys that are mature

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Speaker 1: emotionally on and off the field, who've got a sense

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Speaker 1: about them as a human being that goes beyond the

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01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: sidelines of a football field and beyond the weight room

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01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: and beyond all that stuff. That's what these teams kind

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01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 1: of see in these very elite guys coming out of

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01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: the draft. And once you get off of those guys,

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01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 1: then the differences become almost as an evaluator, you almost

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01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:44,640
Speaker 1: exaggerate the differences in so order to differentiate. And I

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01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 1: think sometimes in those exaggerations you kind of go too

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01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: far and maybe there's not that much difference between them.

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01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 1: But that's why it's an art rather than a science.

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01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:57,799
Speaker 12: Well, let's talk about one of those guys who's hanging

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01:09:57,840 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 12: up at the top of round one, and if the

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Speaker 12: Bills do choose to go find their wide receiver one

1315
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:07,800
Speaker 12: in the NFL Draft, maybe this is somebody that's worth drafting,

1316
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 12: worth sending a lot of picks from this year maybe

1317
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 12: next year to whatever team to go up and get

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Speaker 12: that guy. His name is Malik Neighbors out of LSU.

1319
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:19,360
Speaker 12: He's six feet tall, two hundred pounds. Is a junior

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Speaker 12: coming out of LSU. He's a consensus All America Honors receiver,

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01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 12: first team All SEC in twenty twenty three. He was

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Speaker 12: the Citrus Bowl MVP in twenty twenty three. He played

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01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 12: in thirty eight games, started in thirty He had two

1324
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 12: one thousand yard receiving seasons. In his career. He had

1325
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:42,559
Speaker 12: one hundred and eighty nine receptions over three thousand receiving

1326
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 12: yards twenty one touchdowns, average fifteen point nine yards per

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01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:49,760
Speaker 12: reception and average seventy nine receiving yards per game. Guys,

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Speaker 12: if you look at his season last year, he was

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Speaker 12: a productive wide receiver. Over fifteen hundred receiving yards averaged

1330
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:01,200
Speaker 12: one hundred and twenty receiving yards per game last season,

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Speaker 12: which is a huge number, along with fourteen receiving touchdowns.

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Speaker 9: And when you.

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Speaker 12: Watch this player on film, he is scary with the

1334
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 12: ball in his hands. You can line him up anywhere

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01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:13,400
Speaker 12: and he will win the one on ones. He's an

1336
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:17,440
Speaker 12: explosive deep threat. He can shake defenders and get separation.

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Speaker 12: He makes playing the position just look easy. He looks

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Speaker 12: like he's playing at a different level of ball than

1339
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 12: his defenders are playing. And he can make catches in traffic.

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01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 12: He plays strong, He's great at tracking the ball. He

1341
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 12: can make mid air adjustments to catch a ball, and

1342
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Speaker 12: he has the ability to get yakyards, which I think

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01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 12: is really important in this offense. We've heard this coaching

1344
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 12: staff and the offensive coaches harp on how important yakyards is,

1345
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 12: and he is a yak receiver. He has that wide

1346
01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 12: receiver one potential.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's any debate about that.

1348
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Speaker 2: You know, certainly tested well as expected, super explosive numbers.

1349
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 2: You know, the Bills felt they needed more explosive type

1350
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 2: plays in their offense to shorten drives put points on

1351
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:11,800
Speaker 2: the board faster, and this guy would check all those boxes.

1352
01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 2: You know, as far as that requirement's concerned, I would

1353
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 2: just say what I found interesting was he and he

1354
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 2: and Brian Thomas Jr. Are so talented that they didn't

1355
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 2: really have to dive into deep scheme with that offense

1356
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 2: because those guys could just flat out win against just

1357
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 2: about anybody, and so scheming them open, doing all that

1358
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:40,599
Speaker 2: other stuff, it wasn't really necessary because these guys were

1359
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 2: just so gifted it was easy for them. I mean,

1360
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Speaker 2: you said it looked like they were playing another sport

1361
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 2: because they are that much more gifted than a lot

1362
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 2: of other people. And we're talking about players in the

1363
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 2: SEC here, which should not be dismissed. The thing I

1364
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:58,160
Speaker 2: like best is the are the double moves. Like he

1365
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,799
Speaker 2: double moves people and like some of them have fallen down,

1366
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 2: some of them have turned and looked like corkscrews. He

1367
01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:09,160
Speaker 2: really sets people up, sets DB's up well, and then

1368
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 2: he's wide open for the throw that's not gonna happen

1369
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 2: in the NFL. But size, speed, you know, catchability. I mean,

1370
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Speaker 2: he's a full total package, which is why he's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a top ten pick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're gonna have to jump very high to

1373
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: get Molik Neighbors on your team. But he is a

1374
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:30,840
Speaker 1: guy that is going to come in and contribute right away.

1375
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: He's going to be a tough matchup for teams now,

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01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 1: certainly playing with Brian Thomas Junior and the quarterback they

1377
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 1: had there as well. I mean, he had some dudes

1378
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 1: around him, no question about it, but he made the

1379
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:47,400
Speaker 1: most of some opportunities. He's got a great athleticism, catches

1380
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 1: the ball well, and he you know, I think I

1381
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: like about him. And this part of what I was

1382
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 1: talking about in the last segment is that, you know,

1383
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 1: I like guys who don't shy away from it, you know,

1384
01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: I mean, throwing the ball in any situation. They're gonna

1385
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna compete, and they're gonna feel like they're the

1386
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: guy that's big, particularly at this level, because when you

1387
01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: get up there and you're at the top of the

1388
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:14,760
Speaker 1: game and you're playing in a playoff game or a

1389
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,920
Speaker 1: Monday night game at primetime game. A lot of guys,

1390
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 1: all they can think about is the fact that they

1391
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:25,719
Speaker 1: finally made it to a game that neighbors and guys

1392
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 1: like him realize that this is where they belong, you know,

1393
01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: and that's that's and they rise to it's and it's

1394
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 1: a special quality.

1395
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 3: So and he seems to have it.

1396
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 1: I have never met the guy, but his body language,

1397
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: his play style, everything lends itself to him being an

1398
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 1: elite wide out. And that's why he's That's why we're

1399
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:44,679
Speaker 1: talking about it, all.

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01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 2: Right, Maddie, thanks for the latest updates on mock Draft

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01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:49,639
Speaker 2: watch seven point oh. We'll wait for eight point zero

1402
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 2: next week.

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01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 12: Three more coming before the NFL Draft, guys.

1404
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: Buckle u.

1405
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:56,720
Speaker 2: We have to take a break, but we're back to

1406
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 2: your phone calls when we return here on this OBL

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01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 2: Friday fan mail But on One Bills Live present about

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01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 2: a lot of health.

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01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 13: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 2: All right, final half hour here on One Bill's Live.

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01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve task you with you and I'm going

1412
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 2: to get right back to the phones on this OBL

1413
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:22,760
Speaker 2: Friday fan mail bag. Got some people waiting patiently. We

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01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 2: go to Mark and Williamsville.

1415
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:28,599
Speaker 14: What's up Mark, Hi, gentlemen, I have a rather radical

1416
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 14: question that I like to see your insight on. I

1417
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 14: just feel that enough talk about Digs, We're done with him.

1418
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:41,120
Speaker 14: But going forward, what would you consider a trade of

1419
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 14: Josh Allen, Say, for instance, Chicago Bears get their two

1420
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 14: ones this year, a one next year and rebuild this

1421
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 14: team really quickly with the good parts that we have left.

1422
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 14: I'm not a Josh Alan hater by no means, but

1423
01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:59,439
Speaker 14: I just think we could save a lot of money,

1424
01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 14: get a lot of young talent under reasonable contracts, and

1425
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 14: move forward with say, Caleb Williams and Maleak neighbors and whoever.

1426
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thank you respectfully. Mark. My insight on it is,

1427
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:19,639
Speaker 2: how about no? How about no? No, never say this No.

1428
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:27,840
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears would do just about anything to get

1429
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:29,559
Speaker 1: to the level where the Bills are at right now

1430
01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, go and go forward with what they've

1431
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:35,639
Speaker 1: got now, and they you know, they would do anything.

1432
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 2: And the most important thing, Mark, that you have to

1433
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 2: remember in this whole equation is you're expecting Caleb Williams

1434
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 2: to be every bit as good as Josh Allen. There's

1435
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 2: no way to know that definitively you have a definitive

1436
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 2: franchise level quarterback who's one of the two best signal

1437
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 2: callers in the game right now, and you want to

1438
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 2: throw them overboard so you can add a quarterback at

1439
01:16:58,280 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 2: the top of the draft and one of the three

1440
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:03,720
Speaker 2: best receivers in this year's class. I don't understand how

1441
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:07,719
Speaker 2: that computes. It doesn't for me any way shaped form

1442
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 2: on any planet in this universe. I don't do it.

1443
01:17:11,800 --> 01:17:14,400
Speaker 1: No, I don't either. I'm maybe and.

1444
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:19,799
Speaker 2: Maybe you haven't. Maybe you haven't experienced the seventeen years

1445
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 2: sojourn in the barren wasteland desert that we all trudged

1446
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:27,280
Speaker 2: for seventeen years searching for one of these quarterbacks. But

1447
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:29,840
Speaker 2: you actually have one now and he's going to play

1448
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:33,719
Speaker 2: arguably for another ten seasons for you, right, Josh John,

1449
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:35,080
Speaker 2: get off of that boat.

1450
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 1: Josh has at least as long left in his career

1451
01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 1: as he has already played, maybe way more, given the

1452
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: constraints of the protection rules and all of that.

1453
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 3: You just, yeah, you do not change that horse.

1454
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:53,600
Speaker 2: Know, with a capitol no and seventeen exclamation points after it.

1455
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, you would, Yes, And here's.

1456
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 2: We got to move on. We spend enough time on that.

1457
01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:04,760
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. Sorry, it's ridiculous. We go to Mark in

1458
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:06,080
Speaker 2: Jersey City. What's up Mark?

1459
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 15: Oh boy, I'll be the better Mark here. That was crazy.

1460
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 15: I would like to see being a hold as water.

1461
01:18:18,120 --> 01:18:20,519
Speaker 15: I know he gets a little anxious. He gets itchy by.

1462
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:21,400
Speaker 5: His own admission.

1463
01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 15: Just two thousand the better wide receivers you could argue

1464
01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:29,639
Speaker 15: with the last two out of a very thick wide

1465
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 15: receiver class, Lamb, Judy Rugs and god Jalen Rager went

1466
01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 15: ahead of Ayuk and Justin Jefferson. Just stay at twenty eight.

1467
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 15: You need a lot of depth all over this roster

1468
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 15: and take the best guy. My favorite wide receiver in

1469
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 15: this draft is Malik Neighbors because of all the things

1470
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 15: you guys mentioned, the guy that mirrors him the most

1471
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 15: in play style to me is Xavier. Look at like

1472
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 15: the run in a bigger frame, you know, the explosiveness

1473
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:05,880
Speaker 15: to run after catch. Just and then you read his

1474
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 15: story and this wild dovetail into my next point. He

1475
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 15: took the long road he you know, changing positions, the

1476
01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:16,759
Speaker 15: COVID year, everything, and then finally getting with a quarterback

1477
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 15: they could give him play in Rattler and you saw

1478
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:21,640
Speaker 15: him like, I feel like he's a player that's on

1479
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:24,720
Speaker 15: the ascents, and if they're going to turn over that

1480
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 15: room with young people, I think they just got to

1481
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 15: a point. I don't know if it was after last season,

1482
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 15: or maybe it was during last season, or you know,

1483
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:34,960
Speaker 15: with the subsequent tweeting, I should have known something as

1484
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 15: up when he was back training in Miami trying to

1485
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 15: play nice for his new team instead of being on

1486
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 15: some fashion runway. They didn't want that voice or that

1487
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 15: leading the room anymore, especially for a young room.

1488
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:48,360
Speaker 9: Thanks for taking my call.

1489
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 2: Guys, all right, yep, we're fans of xaviular look yet too,

1490
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 2: And if you do stay at twenty eight, I think

1491
01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 2: he's a viable option. As a matter of fact, I

1492
01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 2: would take him over McConkey uh and Xavier Worthy. The

1493
01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:05,640
Speaker 2: only guy wouldn't take him over is ad Mitchell. It

1494
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 2: kind of works like this for me four five and six,

1495
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:12,599
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, A. D Mitchell, Xavier Leget. That's the order

1496
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 2: that I have.

1497
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:15,720
Speaker 1: I like, I think Leget's going to be a really

1498
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: good pro, but I think he'll be a more prominent

1499
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 1: professional player than he was college player. A little raw,

1500
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: and I yes, and I don't know, I've never And

1501
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:26,360
Speaker 1: this is where you find out where we don't know.

1502
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: When you sit down and talk to the guy say

1503
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:31,639
Speaker 1: and find out you know, like you say, the long

1504
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 1: story of what his backstory has.

1505
01:20:33,080 --> 01:20:35,080
Speaker 2: Had some hardships in his life. Both of his parents

1506
01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:35,719
Speaker 2: have passed.

1507
01:20:35,840 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: How hard does he work? What motivates him? What does

1508
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: he Is he playing football because he wants to be

1509
01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: famous and being a Madden game or is he playing

1510
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 1: football because he wants to be the best he can

1511
01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 1: be and be a legendary player, and what motivates him?

1512
01:20:49,439 --> 01:20:52,600
Speaker 2: Well? And when he stayed at South Carolina instead of

1513
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 2: in this transfer portal era, he couldn't get on the field.

1514
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:58,680
Speaker 2: He's buried on the depth chart. He never transferred, he

1515
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 2: stayed there, And then even when he did get on

1516
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:03,120
Speaker 2: the field, he's not playing with a top flight quarterback

1517
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:05,800
Speaker 2: until this past season with Rattler on a transfer. So

1518
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, he's got a twelve hundred

1519
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:10,200
Speaker 2: and fifty five yard season and eight touchdowns.

1520
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 1: So if he's one of those kind of guys that

1521
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: has that inside of him, he very well could end

1522
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:18,800
Speaker 1: up being a professional player who's way more prominent than

1523
01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: he was in college. And a guy like Deebo Samuel,

1524
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: a versatile player because of his build, can play in

1525
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 1: other spots and unexpected to do unexpected things from a

1526
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: guy who's listed as a wide receiver. I'm I'm kind

1527
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:40,640
Speaker 1: of high on xavierly get myself, so I'm right with you,

1528
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 1: Mark from Jersey City. I'm there is gonna be a

1529
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 1: guy on there at twenty eight. And if you want

1530
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: to take a receiver whatever, and who may not be

1531
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,519
Speaker 1: taken until pick one to ten by some guy by

1532
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: some team, and he may turn out to be the

1533
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:57,679
Speaker 1: best guy in the draft. We don't know, but you're right. History,

1534
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,160
Speaker 1: recent history in fact, has proven that they're going to

1535
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 1: be guys like that in this draft, like the guys

1536
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 1: you mentioned. So you know, justin Jefferson was still sitting

1537
01:22:07,560 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 1: there after all these other guys were off the board,

1538
01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: and he's as good as any of them, probably better

1539
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:18,000
Speaker 1: than most. That's gonna happen, And at twenty eight, all

1540
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 1: you got to do is figure out which guy it is.

1541
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:22,840
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones and we go to

1542
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 2: Cindy and Niagara Falls next.

1543
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 16: What's up Cindy, Hi, guys, I just wanted to say

1544
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 16: I love ninety percent of what you guys say. I agree,

1545
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:38,200
Speaker 16: but you know what, and I don't want to keep

1546
01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:45,080
Speaker 16: beating this dead horse. But Stefon Diggs lost focus. Okay,

1547
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:49,600
Speaker 16: the numbers can say what they say, but he lost focus.

1548
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:55,560
Speaker 16: And to me, I don't think that that's the environment

1549
01:22:56,360 --> 01:23:01,519
Speaker 16: that coach McDermott wants in his locker room. So you

1550
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 16: know what, I'm glad he's gone.

1551
01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 5: Thank you all right?

1552
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:09,400
Speaker 2: Fair enough. Entitled to your opinion, Cindy. You know, I

1553
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:12,400
Speaker 2: suppose the criticism is easier to make now that he's

1554
01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 2: out the door, and I know that there will be

1555
01:23:15,479 --> 01:23:18,679
Speaker 2: people that want to do that, and that's fine. You're

1556
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:21,559
Speaker 2: entitled to your opinion. I don't know. There's too many

1557
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:24,120
Speaker 2: people that work harder at the craft of football than

1558
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs. I give him credit for that. I'm not

1559
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 2: saying he was the best teammate ever to walk through

1560
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 2: these doors here at one Bill's Drive. I'm not saying

1561
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 2: he didn't get bent out of shape over some silly

1562
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 2: things from time to time. But you knew what you

1563
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 2: were getting every Sunday from him between the lines. He

1564
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:44,640
Speaker 2: wasn't going to be perfect, because it's very hard to

1565
01:23:44,640 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 2: be perfect in this game at this level. I think

1566
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:54,919
Speaker 2: the positives greatly outweigh the negatives in his four year stature.

1567
01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:56,760
Speaker 1: Think about it, and I get it too. I mean

1568
01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 1: that just because he's moving on doesn't mean all this

1569
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: stuff can be true. He was fantastic why I was here.

1570
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: It could be time for him to move on now,

1571
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean we have to hate him out

1572
01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 1: the door. Because let me, let me just remind you

1573
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 1: remember back in the day he caught the go ahead

1574
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,560
Speaker 1: touchdown just before the hail Murray happened.

1575
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 2: Uh.

1576
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: He's the guy that was on the field, part of

1577
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 1: the part of the crew that was ringing up the

1578
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: New England Patriots for the first time in two decades

1579
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: and had Bill Belichick throwing the phone on the sideline.

1580
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 1: He's the guy who looked at the guys in the

1581
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 1: back of the New England end zone and said you

1582
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: and you and you shut up. He's the guy that

1583
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: torched Kyle Duggar time and time again for the New

1584
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:50,280
Speaker 1: England Patriots. Jac Jackson time and time again for the

1585
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. He's the guy that showed no, no

1586
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 1: mercy towards the team that was the bane of our

1587
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 1: existence for two decades. He crushed the Patriots and for

1588
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:05,880
Speaker 1: all the times that you know the Dolphins crush the

1589
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: Dolphins too.

1590
01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:09,599
Speaker 17: He's the guy on our opening day in twenty twenty

1591
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 17: three or twenty twenty two when the Bills were the

1592
01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 17: darlings to go to the whole thing in an opening

1593
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 17: day was tapping the top of his helmet as he

1594
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:20,559
Speaker 17: ran right by Jalen Ramsey for the Rams and caught

1595
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 17: the deep one to put him away for good.

1596
01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:27,360
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs time and time again was the dude, and

1597
01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 1: he did it with an attitude, and he brought the

1598
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:35,480
Speaker 1: Bills back to not just respectability, but to absolute heavyweight

1599
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 1: contender championship contender level. He was a big part of it. So, yes,

1600
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: he may be gone and it may have been time

1601
01:25:44,560 --> 01:25:49,880
Speaker 1: for him to move on, but let's not forget how

1602
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:54,280
Speaker 1: fun it was to have him on our team and

1603
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 1: watch him do his thing. He crushed the Dolphins when

1604
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:00,640
Speaker 1: he played against him, just like Josh did. He was

1605
01:26:00,800 --> 01:26:03,719
Speaker 1: the dude against the New England Patriots when we played

1606
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,759
Speaker 1: him and started lumping them up after years of getting

1607
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 1: lumped up by them, and for a team that since night,

1608
01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:14,880
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty has lost so infrequently as to have

1609
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 1: nicknames for the losses that we've suffered. He was a

1610
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:20,760
Speaker 1: big part of that. So yes, Steph Diggs, you're out

1611
01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: the door. You're down in Houston, and it probably was

1612
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 1: time for you to move on from the Buffalo Bills.

1613
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, what a thrill ride it was

1614
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 1: to have you on our team. And I got nothing

1615
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 1: but fond memories of him.

1616
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 2: Gotta take a break here. We'll try to take a

1617
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 2: call or too when we come back on One Bill's Live.

1618
01:26:36,120 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 2: Stay tuned all right back here on One Bill's Live.

1619
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:57,680
Speaker 2: One final segment to go, and we're gonna try to

1620
01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:00,120
Speaker 2: squeeze a phone call in or two if we can. Here,

1621
01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:02,680
Speaker 2: going to go to Jeff in Buffalo next. We got

1622
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 2: first Jeff.

1623
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:10,080
Speaker 18: Hi, guys, don't I don't know Curtis Samuels very well?

1624
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 18: I don't I knew his name, but that's really about it.

1625
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:17,559
Speaker 18: And I'm just wondering if in picking up Curtis Samuels,

1626
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 18: do they possibly the Bean and mcdernot possibly think that

1627
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:25,599
Speaker 18: they have a number one there? Or is he clearly

1628
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 18: a number two guy? But could he possibly be the

1629
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 18: number one that allowed them to, you know, to part

1630
01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:37,120
Speaker 18: with Steph and and they think that, you know, because

1631
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 18: he didn't have any quarterback really throwing to him, that

1632
01:27:41,080 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 18: Josh could turn him into a number one, which would

1633
01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:49,400
Speaker 18: free up the twenty eight spot for you know, for

1634
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:51,600
Speaker 18: a center, you know, to replace Mitch Morris, or a

1635
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:55,880
Speaker 18: defensive tackle that they need something like that. And that's

1636
01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:58,120
Speaker 18: that's really my question. I don't know if they how

1637
01:27:58,160 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 18: they really think of him.

1638
01:28:00,280 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's part of the problem we have and

1639
01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 1: everybody does. We don't really know what the Bills think

1640
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 1: about the guys they've already got in the room. Now

1641
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:09,800
Speaker 1: I'll say this too, I think Curtis Samuel. They signed

1642
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:11,920
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel because they wanted to get the best guy

1643
01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:13,920
Speaker 1: they thought would fit, and Curtis Samuel is a guy

1644
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:16,479
Speaker 1: like that. Now, he may be a number two or

1645
01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:19,040
Speaker 1: a very good number two. I don't know that anybody

1646
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:21,160
Speaker 1: out there is thinking he's a number one, except maybe

1647
01:28:21,200 --> 01:28:24,639
Speaker 1: if the Bills do, considering he's been catching balls from

1648
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:27,480
Speaker 1: Billy Bag of Donuts and Charlie Sixpack.

1649
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:30,600
Speaker 2: Sam Howel, Taylor Heineke, Teddy Bridgewater, I mean catching.

1650
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 1: Balls from Josh Allen With this offense is going to

1651
01:28:32,479 --> 01:28:34,680
Speaker 1: be a little different animal. Maybe Curtis Samuel's going to

1652
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:36,519
Speaker 1: have the year of his life. Maybe, but there's no

1653
01:28:36,600 --> 01:28:39,439
Speaker 1: question the Bills still need a guy to line up

1654
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:44,640
Speaker 1: a wide receiver other than Khalil Shakir and Mack Hollins

1655
01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 1: and Justin Shorter and whoever. And you know, so let's see,

1656
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:54,600
Speaker 1: maybe no question you have you should have high expectations

1657
01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 1: for Curtis Samuel if you're Curtis Samuel anybody else, because

1658
01:28:57,360 --> 01:28:59,639
Speaker 1: he's going to a team like he has never played

1659
01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:01,760
Speaker 1: on before, right, and.

1660
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:04,679
Speaker 2: He does have juice, and he can provide explosive plays

1661
01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:08,720
Speaker 2: thanks to four to three one forty speed, and for

1662
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 2: the vast majority of his career he's been a two

1663
01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 2: or three in a receiving pecking order. I think at

1664
01:29:14,240 --> 01:29:16,559
Speaker 2: the very least, he will have an opportunity to compete

1665
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,720
Speaker 2: for the number one receiver role in this offense. And

1666
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 2: that's going to be predicated on a couple of things. Obviously,

1667
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:23,760
Speaker 2: how he does on the field during training camp in

1668
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 2: the preseason, and also how his chemistry with Josh Allen

1669
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,400
Speaker 2: develops through the course of this offseason. That plays a

1670
01:29:31,439 --> 01:29:34,800
Speaker 2: major role in how he's going to factor in to

1671
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 2: the passing game this coming fall.

1672
01:29:36,560 --> 01:29:39,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, all that goes into the mix. But yeah, Curtis

1673
01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:41,479
Speaker 1: Samuel is a key element to this, no question.

1674
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:44,760
Speaker 2: That's it for us today. We will tell you to

1675
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 2: have a good weekend and we'll see you on Eclipse

1676
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:48,240
Speaker 2: Monday for a show right here. We'll see it.

1677
01:29:48,320 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 3: Won