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Speaker 1: We're happy to have you with us, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: Joe Harris, Jay Harris suit put all this together today

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Speaker 1: But really, Jay Harris has done the yeoman's work, and

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Speaker 1: Thanks everybody really for just bailing it. Thanks for our audience.

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Speaker 1: We're sick of with us, Steve right, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll get better. And we're going to continue to start

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Speaker 1: to talk Buffalo Bills in the midst of all this

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Speaker 1: They've done a lot. We got Chris Brown Bills Inside

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Speaker 1: from Buffalo Bills dot Com coming by at twelve thirty.

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Speaker 1: Mike JANETI of spottrack dot com. It's an Orchard Park

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. But the AFC East, I think, is still

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Speaker 1: give Tady Bridgewater, you know, A what was it? A

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Speaker 1: it was a huge it was a long, long term deal,

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Speaker 1: him very early. Either way, tom Brady's going to Tampa Bay,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think they're a great team either now.

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Speaker 1: But they got some weapons. They've got, They've got some guys.

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Speaker 1: get some things done. I like Tampa Bay in that

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Speaker 1: from Cam Newton. I don't know, you know how it is, Murph.

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Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. These are gonna there's gonna get

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see eight guys down there, and they're all

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Speaker 1: gonna roll through there. They're all gonna get, you know,

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Speaker 1: like what we say, between forty and sixty percent of

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Speaker 1: the snaps, and they're going to rotate through and when

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Speaker 1: they when the Bills decide to stop doing that, I

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Speaker 1: think it'll be a bigger story than the guys whose

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Speaker 1: names we read about who's doing it. You think about

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Speaker 1: the guy's life. There's a ton of guys and they

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Speaker 1: all rolled through there, and Vernon Butler was one of

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Speaker 1: those guys, and I just I just like the way

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Speaker 1: they do it. It gives everybody a chance. Vernon Butler

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Speaker 1: is the big body six four three thirty that I

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Speaker 1: was talking about age, he's gonna he's twenty five. I

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Speaker 1: just like their thought process through this. They don't go

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Speaker 1: out there and get these guys that aren't going to

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Speaker 1: be able to live up to the contracts they're signing

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Speaker 1: them too. I thought, once again, I'm really impressed with,

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Speaker 1: you know, the job that Brandon Bean has done. They

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Speaker 1: stay inside the lines, they stay financially responsible, and they

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Speaker 1: continue to build the team in a way that makes

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Speaker 1: them really tough to beat on Sundays. And that's what

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Speaker 1: this is all about. Hey, what's left in Cree? I

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Speaker 1: do want to talk about Philip Rivers in the second

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Speaker 1: ere he signed with the Colts LaDue yesterday. Well let's

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Speaker 1: talk about that now. We only got a few minutes

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Speaker 1: left before where you take a break and get the brownie.

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Speaker 1: The day was released by the Chargers, we both talked

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Speaker 1: about what a great fit it was from Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: to go to Indianapolis Teave and it took a little while,

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Speaker 1: but there is yeah, and he's signed a one year

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Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars year or twenty three million dollar

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact number. A one year deal.

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Speaker 1: I could see it coming, although there's always, you know,

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Speaker 1: reasons why you could doubt why you think it may happen.

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Speaker 1: I know I've spoken to Frank Reich privately, and he

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Speaker 1: when he was the quarterback coach and the offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: of the San Diego Chargers with Philip Rivers, and he

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Speaker 1: used to shruggish. He was really impressed with Philip and

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Speaker 1: Phillip's ability to run the offense, worked the offensive line

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Speaker 1: protections and give himself the best chance on every play

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Speaker 1: to be successful and be protected in the pocket. He

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Speaker 1: was it. I used the word a bunch and this

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Speaker 1: is what and I use it because Frank told me this.

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is a savant in past protection schemes. They

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Speaker 1: can't fool it. He always has a helmet on a helmet.

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Speaker 1: He always has a big body on a big body.

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Speaker 1: He rarely gets a big guy coming in matched up

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Speaker 1: on a running back. You know, he'll have a big

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Speaker 1: body on a big body and put the running back

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Speaker 1: on a dB. It's that kind of He's that good

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Speaker 1: and that gives him the best chance to deliver the ball. Now,

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Speaker 1: whether he can still deliver the ball the way he

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Speaker 1: needs to all the time, maybe not at thirty eight,

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Speaker 1: but the guy still can sling it. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of the problems he had last year with the

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Speaker 1: twenty interceptions were trying to do too much with a

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Speaker 1: team that was underperforming. You know. I think his offensive

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Speaker 1: line was a train wreck last year, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they were playing as much as well

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Speaker 1: as he needed in the play. And I think frank

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Speaker 1: Reich will understand that Frank Reich's got a really good

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Speaker 1: or at least a much better offensive line in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: And they didn't say and saying LA. So I think

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Speaker 1: that'll show through this year. I think the Colts have

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Speaker 1: every reason to be very positive and very optimistic about

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Speaker 1: what Philip Rivers is gonna give them this year. They'll

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Speaker 1: contend in that division, Don't you think they'll contend with Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: I really think they'll contend with Tennessee and Houston perhaps,

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Speaker 1: and that I think they will. I think they will

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Speaker 1: in a big way. I think they have got to

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Speaker 1: feel really good about their ability to compete in that division. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville is in full full rebuild mode, but Tennessee, they've

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Speaker 1: got to think they're trying to keep that that magic, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that they caught with Ryan Tannehill last year. They resigned

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Speaker 1: him their franchising Derrick Henry, and they're gonna keep on

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Speaker 1: keeping on. And of course Houston is trying to hold

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Speaker 1: it together. Even though DeAndre Hopkins is going to leave

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Speaker 1: a huge void in their offense. Houston's gonna think they

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Speaker 1: can compete as long as they've got to Shaun Watson

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. So yeah, I think there's three teams in

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Speaker 1: the South that all think they've got a pretty good

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Speaker 1: chance to win that division. So freends he opens today

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Speaker 1: at four. Are really quiet down around the league. Danny Shelton,

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Speaker 1: former Patriots defensive linement, signed a two year contract today.

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Speaker 1: Um signed to Detroit with Detroit two years, eight million

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Speaker 1: dollars with the Detroit Lions former first round pick Nick Foles.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the Colts. Uh. They didn't admit it, but the

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Speaker 1: Colts were talking about trading for Nick Foles before they

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Speaker 1: acquired Philip Rivers. I'm just going over today's news of

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Speaker 1: the day, and again it's it's pretty quiet today. Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl defensive tackle Jarell Casey being traded from the Titans

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Speaker 1: of the Broncos in exchange for a seventh round pick.

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Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney is still out there available. Wide receiver Emmanuel

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Speaker 1: Sanders is out there and available, and there's one guy.

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Speaker 1: I think it's kind of let me see. Well, there

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Speaker 1: are a couple of players that may enterest the Bills,

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Speaker 1: but I think right now, Steve, the goal is to

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Speaker 1: let's let the market quiet down right there, I don't

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Speaker 1: anticipate any more moves for the Bills. I think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna let the market quiet down. I agree. Yet, one

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Speaker 1: thing I think the Bills might do is exactly what

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Speaker 1: they did twelve months ago with Quentin Spain. They'll let

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Speaker 1: the dust clear, let some time pass, and then they'll

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Speaker 1: go look at where they want to get guys, maybe

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Speaker 1: there who are looking for a place or just for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, haven't found a landing spot yet. But I

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Speaker 1: think for me, I think the Bills will exactly do

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Speaker 1: exactly that, and it'll probably be probably be a tackle,

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Speaker 1: an offensive tackle. And there's guys out there from US.

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Speaker 1: Guy Chris Clark from Houston, Jordan Mills from Arizona, cedric

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Speaker 1: A boy He from Jacksonville, O'mama from New Orleans. There's

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Speaker 1: some guys out there, and the Bills will probably look

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Speaker 1: at them and evaluate and pick the one they want.

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Speaker 1: And when and when the guys, those guys start to

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Speaker 1: get antsy to sign with the team because free agency

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Speaker 1: started and their phone hasn't been ringing off the hook,

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Speaker 1: the Bills will find a guy that they think that

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Speaker 1: can do it and give them a chance to be

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Speaker 1: their best. That's what they do. And uh so I

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Speaker 1: think it is gonna get quiet Murph for the Bills

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Speaker 1: until maybe a week or ten days into free agency

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Speaker 1: and you know it was out there and again at

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Speaker 1: whatever price he's asking for now is going to come down.

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Speaker 1: But Robbie Anderson wide receiver for the Jets, it could

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Speaker 1: be a good value addition for the Bills. And also

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Speaker 1: I want to say I do expect that they're going

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Speaker 1: to be looking at the veteran running backs to kind

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Speaker 1: of fill out the running back room right to give

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Speaker 1: a relief guy for um Um, Devin Singletary. Devin Singletary.

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna happen soon. And there's gonna there's

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Speaker 1: some guys out there. Um, you know my feelings on

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Speaker 1: running backs. Um, you get a big, strong, tough athlete

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Speaker 1: who's used to having the ball in his hands and

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Speaker 1: and you hand it to him. It's that simple. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Those guys are out there and there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them, and I think the Bills are gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to find a guy that's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: great addition. Now. And we just talked about the two

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Speaker 1: guys hide and uh from Houston to two running backs

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Speaker 1: usual just read yeah and Lamar Miller and yeah and

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Speaker 1: Mark and Carlos hide, not Carlos hide. Yeah, Carlos hide. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those two guys got released from Houston's there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: quality running back, thousand yard rushers out there. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: be an afterthought, and I think the Bills will pick

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Speaker 1: one up for a song, maybe even veteran minimum, a

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Speaker 1: guy who'll come in and outplay that contract. And so

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Speaker 1: I would look for that to be one of those

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Speaker 1: a week into free agency, two weeks into free agency

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Speaker 1: guys that they signed. Hey, we're gonna get to your

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Speaker 1: phone calls in a moment. I'm sure you got a

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Speaker 1: lot of thoughts on this. Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. What's

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Speaker 1: if the Bills take over the AFC East now with

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Speaker 1: Brady gone? What's the biggest factor in that? Would it

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Speaker 1: be free agent signings trades made by the Bills the

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Speaker 1: last couple of days. Would it be Brady leaving the Patriots?

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Speaker 1: Or is it gonna because Josh Allen improves? Take a guess,

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five do you bear

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Speaker 1: with us today? Steve's at home. I'm at my home.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. I just thought, Steve, remember I told you

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Speaker 1: that time I was buying something at the drug store

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Speaker 1: in East Roar and the kids said to me, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you work with Steve Tasker? Huh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you live with Steve? You guys live around the corner. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing together. It's amazing what people think, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing what they get into their minds about it.

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Speaker 1: Like you and I live, you know, I go, I've

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Speaker 1: stroll over to your house in my in my bathrobe

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Speaker 1: and slippers and we drink coffee over you know about

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Speaker 1: the show. Anyway, we're each in our ound home doing

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Speaker 1: the show today. Thanks for baron with us. We may

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Speaker 1: have a few technical issues as we move along, so

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Speaker 1: bear with us if you would. We're here until three.

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Speaker 1: We've got the good guests coming up. We've got Mike

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Speaker 1: Genetia spot Track to make sense out of some of

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Speaker 1: these contracts come up. But at one we've got Matt Channon.

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Speaker 1: We'll coming to Patriots where the Athletic dot com A

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Speaker 1: two and I mean Chris Brown Bills Inside or Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown from Buffalo Bills dot Com East standing body to

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. It's One Goes Live.

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Speaker 1: One goes Live in Orchard Park, One Goes Live in

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Speaker 1: East Aurora. Steve and I are at our. It's just weird.

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Speaker 1: It's a weird set up today, but we're happy to

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Speaker 1: have you with us. Chris Brown's gonna join us in

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Speaker 1: a moment. Bills Inside fro Buffalo Bills dot Com our

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Speaker 1: twitterfold today. If the Bills should become the Beasts of

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Speaker 1: the East, the team to win the AFC East, what

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Speaker 1: would be the biggest factor? Just a guest on your

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Speaker 1: part a speculative question. Would it be the free agent

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Speaker 1: signings and trades they made over the last forty eight hours.

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Speaker 1: Would it be the fact that Tom Brady has left

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, or would it be just improvement

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Speaker 1: by the Bills in Josh Allen in particular, give us

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Speaker 1: in Toronto. Although Robert you're on the air, you're coming

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Speaker 1: in a loud and clear here in Toronto. I got

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Speaker 1: three points for you guys today. Okay, Brady, bring us

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Speaker 1: out of the accum fantastic. I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: our receivers though getting digs with Browne and Beasley. I

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Speaker 1: think we got our answer for our fourth receiver if

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Speaker 1: we ever go for wide Oats and he's on the

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Speaker 1: team already, that Williams might be might be. And lastly, guys,

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Speaker 1: I think in the draft, I think we got to

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Speaker 1: go for old line, and I think old line helps

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Speaker 1: in either the second or third round, we're going to

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Speaker 1: get a good tackle. And lastly, I love the show

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Speaker 1: with the three of you. One with Brownie, with Steve

641
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Speaker 1: and with you John. Thanks and I'll listen, Okay, thanks Romer. Yeah,

642
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Speaker 1: Brownie's gonna be with us in a moment. I think

643
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: that is a good segment of the show, and it's

644
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: just good to get another viewpoint in there. Um the Diggs,

645
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Speaker 1: See he brought up the the trade for no I

646
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: know what he brought up. I wrote it down. The

647
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: offensive line and the draft. If the draft, now, look,

648
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: now here are the Bills without a first rounder right

649
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: because of Diggs. If the draft were full of offensive lineman,

650
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Speaker 1: I'd say, Okay, yeah, I see that, But it's really

651
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: Steve right, I mean, there's not a whole lot offensive

652
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: I'm been available. No, there's not. But then again, I

653
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: mean that's what we thought about Quentin Spain last year.

654
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: He was out there for two weeks and you know,

655
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: we had Pete you and I were laughing. We had

656
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: people tell us he couldn't play. Um, So there's there's

657
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna fill this roster out and they're gonna do

658
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: it with the best guys they can find, and they're

659
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: gonna be guys that are full of potential, um or

660
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Speaker 1: whatever those are out there. And then plus two I

661
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: mean they can they can think about the draft, picking

662
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Speaker 1: a guy up from the draft that they liked that

663
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: may fly under the radar. I don't know. It's interesting too.

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Speaker 1: Now where do they draft? What are they gonna draft?

665
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Speaker 1: Their first pick is fifty four, So if it's fifty four,

666
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Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna get one of the top

667
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: players at any position. So it's it's gonna be a draft.

668
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be you're gonna have to shrug your shoulders

669
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Speaker 1: and say, gosh, I hope we get somebody. Yeah, and

670
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Speaker 1: I depended, Well, let me kind of amplify what you're saying.

671
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Speaker 1: To think that you're gonna get a starting caliber off

672
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Speaker 1: and some lineman at fifty four is kind of wishful thinking, right,

673
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't count on that. Right, that's exactly right. And

674
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Speaker 1: I don't know what other you know, what are the

675
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Speaker 1: position you're gonna grab at fifty four and still and

676
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Speaker 1: get one. But really, I think what you're doing is

677
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to get a contributor or maybe getting a

678
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Speaker 1: guy or if it's an offensive lineman, Murph, it's gonna

679
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: be a guy that's like, all right, he's not going

680
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: to start forth this for us this year. But he's

681
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 1: got a great upside and we're gonna try and develop

682
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: him and then by the end of the year maybe

683
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: he'll be good enough to get on the field or

684
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Speaker 1: at least rotate in off the field, or you know

685
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So maybe that's what they're thinking for

686
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Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. That's certainly possible. Got a special guest

687
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Speaker 1: down the line with us right now from his home,

688
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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bills insider Buffalo Bills dot Com. Out on

689
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Speaker 1: the line with us. Hello, Chris, come in, Chris, can

690
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Speaker 1: you hear me? Chris? Yeah? What are we playing? We

691
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: got stringing in some cans here? What are we doing?

692
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Speaker 1: That's tomorrow so that's us. Oh wow, okay, I look

693
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Speaker 1: forward to that. Good to have you, Chris. Good to

694
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Speaker 1: be talking in. Everything's good right at home. Everybody healthy,

695
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Speaker 1: so cool, good, and everybody good good. All right. Now,

696
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Speaker 1: let's get to free agency. And let me say this, Chrissy.

697
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Speaker 1: You can agree or disagree as always, but I said

698
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Speaker 1: this to Stephen. I really mean this. Ay. I'm surprised

699
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: that the Bills have been so aggressive in free agency

700
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: and it just opens up officially at four pm this afternoon.

701
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: But there they are with one, two, three, four or

702
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: five six players all of the defensive side of the ball.

703
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: No big names, but guys who have important roles to play.

704
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Speaker 1: I'm impressed with what the Bills have done, and I'm

705
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: not talking about the Digs trade yet today, but they've

706
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Speaker 1: done a lot I think in free agency so far.

707
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Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Yes, they've been aggressive, and this says to

708
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Speaker 1: me that twenty twenty is unquestionably a go for a

709
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Speaker 1: year to win this division, and maybe even more. I

710
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: think they're trying to take advantage of being able to

711
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: spend money in free agency in the rookie quarter in

712
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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks on the quarterbacks rookie deal when he is affordable,

713
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Speaker 1: because if Josh Allen progresses like the organization hopes he

714
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: will and earns the second contract. You see where the

715
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Speaker 1: money is already for quarterbacks. In a couple of years time,

716
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Speaker 1: it's going to be even higher, and it's going to

717
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Speaker 1: be even more difficult for the franchise to find ways

718
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Speaker 1: to keep a strong roster intact, at least at at

719
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Speaker 1: a championship caliber level. And so I think Brandon Bean

720
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Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott have made the decision to go for it,

721
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Speaker 1: so to speak, in this two year window. Here man,

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Speaker 1: ask one more question credits before we get into the

723
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Speaker 1: specific players the bill signed. You know last night left

724
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. That strategy of taking advantage of Josh

725
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Speaker 1: and his rookie contract. When do you think they came

726
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: up with that? I mean, is that something that they

727
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: decided you know, January fifth, after this season ended. Was

728
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: this the plan all along a couple of years now? Well,

729
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: I think they had eyes on a plan like this

730
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: for sure, but I think they also needed some convincing

731
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Speaker 1: from Josh Allen. Chiefly, can he take a step in

732
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Speaker 1: year two? Can he handle more of what we want

733
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: to put on its played offensively? And then if that's

734
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Speaker 1: the case, can we put enough support around him that

735
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: is going to advance his game even further being an

736
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Speaker 1: offensive line, be a talent, it's skill positions. And if so,

737
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Speaker 1: we're going to load up on defense and make sure

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Speaker 1: we remain a top five unit, if not one of

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00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: the best units of football. Guys. You look at the

740
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: beef that they added to their defensive front according to

741
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Speaker 1: multiple media reports, and I mean you can make the

742
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: argument that they have one of the best defensive fronts

743
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Speaker 1: in the AFC. With all that they've added here and

744
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: all that they already had on the roster, I mean,

745
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: my goodness. And this was a team that was a

746
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: top ten run deefense last year at number ten. They

747
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: could be in the top five against the run this

748
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: year if the players that they have you know, reportedly

749
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: acquired come and play their best football. And Brian, that's

750
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: kind of the way they've got to structure it though, right,

751
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: I mean, there's still we know, I mean, even bold

752
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: we put out today, it's really coming down to how

753
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: well Josh Allen can play, how efficient he can make

754
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: the offense, and can they score enough points that they

755
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: don't need their defense to be a top three defense.

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00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, you certainly hope that the passing

757
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: game equates a little bit more effectively with their rushing attack,

758
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: which was eighth in the league last year, and Josh

759
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,439
Speaker 1: used his legs to be a part of that for sure,

760
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: But you would hope that his decision making and his

761
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: arm balance this offense out a bit more and they

762
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: can win games by throwing of football more often, because

763
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: I think what Patrick Mahomes showed the entire league was

764
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter if you're facing a number two defense,

765
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: which San Francisco had. If you've got the trigger man

766
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: that can make plays for you, you can overcome just

767
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: about anything. I mean, look at what the Chiefs did

768
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year. I mean, they came from

769
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: behind in double digit deficits in their last three playoff wins,

770
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: including the Super Bowl. So if you've got the right

771
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: guy pulling the trigger, there's nothing you can't overcome. Chris,

772
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Speaker 1: one more question, a general question before we get to

773
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Speaker 1: the specifics about the Jefferson and Butler, And that's this

774
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: six free agent signings, including Josh Norman, all on defense.

775
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: Last year, free agency focus was on offense, and last

776
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: year the Bills did that, picked up some starters in

777
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: the draft. But I think they're probably happy that they

778
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: feel like they've filled some needs here and now they

779
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: go into the draft and we can apply the best

780
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: player available strategy. Your thoughts on that, Yeah, I would

781
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: agree with that one hundred percent. And yeah, I mean

782
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: they just they just flipped sides of the ball here

783
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: in the free agent market. And you know, we saw

784
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Speaker 1: what they did in the draft last year after making

785
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: all those moves on offense. You know, with Ed Oliver

786
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 1: as their top draft choice, you know, but I think

787
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: what we can anticipate going into the draft is that

788
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 1: the best player available philosophy will be employed. I don't

789
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: know that we can anticipate the Bills being as aggressive

790
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: as they have been the past three drafts in terms

791
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: of moving up and down the board. Now that they're

792
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: down to seven draft choices, two of which are in

793
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: the seventh round, and then one each and the fifth

794
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: and the sixth, that doesn't give you a ton of ammo.

795
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Speaker 1: Although I think if there's some player they feel has

796
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: slipped and they really covet that player, you know, maybe

797
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: they pool those late round picks together to try to

798
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: make a minor move up, you know, maybe four or

799
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Speaker 1: five spots or what have you. I think the good

800
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: news is this, there is uncommon depth in the draft

801
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: from rounds two through five at the wide receiver position,

802
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position, and at the running back position.

803
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: And I think those are three positions where the Bills

804
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: do need to add depth. Maybe not frontline starting players,

805
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: but certainly depth players. And those are positions that quite

806
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: frankly could use a little bit of youth. Maybe not

807
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: offensive tackle necessarily, but that's probably where they're headed in

808
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: the draft, knowing that they're not going to be able

809
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Speaker 1: to spend appreciable money at this point on an offensive tackle.

810
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: In free agency, I really don't anticipate them making any

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Speaker 1: big swings in the free agent market from here on out. Hey,

812
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Speaker 1: can you wait for a couple of minut I want

813
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Speaker 1: to ask you about specifically Quentin Jefferson and Burning Butler.

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Speaker 1: Can we get take a break? Gebeckings that? All right?

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Speaker 1: We gonna do that, Okay, a break here. It's one

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819
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Speaker 1: to do radio. And Chris Brown on the air with

820
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: us right now, builds inside from Buffalo Bills dot Com. Steve,

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Speaker 1: what do you got? You got a question for Chris? Right? Yeah?

822
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Speaker 1: I was. I was gonna ask you about one of

823
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Speaker 1: the signings, and we're gonna go down the list and

824
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Speaker 1: see what your thoughts are. Let's start with Seattle Seahawks.

825
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 1: Quintin Jefferson. He's twenty six six four two hundred ninety

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Speaker 1: one pounds. He's kind of a guy that, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of one of those was one of those developmental guys.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and sixteen for the Seahawks, he played in

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Speaker 1: three games. They didn't play in any games. In two

830
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Speaker 1: thousand and seventies when he was with the Rams. Back

831
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Speaker 1: to the Seahawks, he got into six games, and then

832
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: the last two years two thousand and eighteen two thousand nineteen,

833
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Speaker 1: he played a ton and was pretty productive for those guys.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Quentin Jefferson. Yeah, I mean

835
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: he was kind of a rotational guy that moved up

836
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Speaker 1: and down the front for them, started some games last year,

837
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: and you know, trying to take him out of that

838
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: situation and plug him into the Bills situation. I see

839
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Speaker 1: him in kind of a similar role. A guy that

840
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: can move up and down the line, whether he's you know,

841
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: backing up at Oliver as a three technique, whether you

842
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: want to put him on the edge maybe in a

843
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: run heavy situation where you know the run's coming and

844
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: set the edge for you. This is a guy that

845
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: you can move up and down the line. Really kind

846
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: of a chess piece for Leslie Frasier knowing how much

847
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: he likes to rotate those guys up front. Chris The

848
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: other defensive lineman signed by the Bills last night, Vernon Butler.

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Speaker 1: What do you know about him? What do you like

850
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: about him? Yeah, it's interesting because you know, this guy

851
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: was a late first round pick in twenty sixteen and

852
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: was playing behind a lot of veteran players couldn't get

853
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: on the field. You know, he's playing behind guys like

854
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: Khan Short, you know, a Pro Bowl type of fative

855
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:04,919
Speaker 1: tackle and Starletoula when he first started his career there

856
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: and simply could not crack the starting lineup, and you

857
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: understand why. But last year he did get into the

858
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 1: starting lineup under Bill's current defensive line coach, Eric Washington,

859
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: who was a defensive coordinator down there in Carolina the

860
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: last two seasons, and really put together a solid year

861
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: to the point where I think this coaching staff, obviously

862
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 1: with Eric Washington now a part of it and intimately

863
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: familiar with what Butler can bring to the table, I

864
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: think this is a guy who can be you know,

865
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: he's going to be in a position where I think

866
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna push Star for that one technique role in

867
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: this four to three. I mean he set career highs

868
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: last year in sacks with six, quarterback hits with eight,

869
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: and tackles for loss with seven. Now those aren't off

870
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: the charts numbers, but we got to remember, this is

871
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: a mountain of a human being at six foot four

872
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: and three hundred and thirty pounds takes up space. So

873
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: I think this guy is going to be in that mix,

874
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: in that one technique spot. And you think about it, guys,

875
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: I think Harrison Phillips last year open the coaching staff's

876
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: eyes to what he could be. I think they saw

877
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: him as a one technique plugger type and I think

878
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: he proved he could be more than that for this

879
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: football team. And so it wouldn't surprise me if they

880
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 1: look at Butler and Star strictly as one technique guys

881
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: and move Harrison Phillips back and forth, and maybe he

882
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: plays a little more three technique in rotation with Ed Oliver.

883
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: And I wonder, guys too, if this isn't a possibility

884
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: ed Oliver moving out to the edge of the formation

885
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 1: and coming off of the edge. I know he doesn't

886
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: have length and so his time out there might be

887
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 1: somewhat limited, but it wouldn't shock me to see some

888
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: pass rush packages with Harrison Phillips inside and Ed Oliver

889
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: maybe getting some snaps on the edge here and there.

890
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,879
Speaker 1: I'd like to where you're thinking, Chris. One more thing, Chris.

891
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: The extending contract for Jordan Poyer obviously expected, anticipated and deserved,

892
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: and I think all of us now wait for the

893
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: next move with for Davious White and Matt Malano. Maybe

894
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: after the draft. What do you think, Yeah, I'm getting

895
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: the sense that it's going to be after the draft.

896
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: I think the focus now, although they'll still be an

897
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: earner the ground in free agency, should something unexpected, you know,

898
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: shake out of the trees and become available that they

899
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: weren't anticipating, I think the focus does now shift to

900
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 1: the draft for the Bills, And granted it's they're not

901
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: going to be doing a whole heck of a lot.

902
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: Brandon Being will probably have his feet up on the

903
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: desk for Night one with no first round pick now,

904
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: but I think that they'll be readily prepared for what

905
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: the depth of this draft has to offer, as I

906
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: mention in the last segment, and then after that, I

907
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 1: think they'll let the dust settle and say Okay, let's

908
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: see what we can do here. And I think we

909
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: also have to look at the history of what the

910
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: Bills have done in terms of getting their guys under

911
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: contract signed to extensions. The vast majority of them have

912
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 1: taken place in late August and early September. Whether you're

913
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: talking about Eric Wood when he signed his extension in

914
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: his last year, there have been other players last year.

915
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: It's slipping my mind, but somebody signed an extension right

916
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 1: before the season last year. So more often than not,

917
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: they have re upped players closer to the regular season

918
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: than in the true off season per se. But I

919
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: gotta tell you what this reported extension of pay. I

920
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: can't think of a guy who deserves it more. I mean,

921
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,439
Speaker 1: he's been dynamic. I don't think people even now, maybe

922
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, but around the league, I still don't think

923
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: they understand what a difference maker he has been. I mean,

924
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: over the last three seasons, Payer is tied for second

925
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: in the league among safeties and intercept with eleven and

926
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: he's also second on the Bills in interception since twenty seventeen.

927
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: The only guy he's trailing is Tredevious White, who has twelve.

928
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: I mean he has been all over the place, an

929
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: excellent run filler, you know, sometimes even serving as a

930
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: third linebacker with the way he fills. And I just

931
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: think it's well deserved and I'm happy to see the

932
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: organization award a guy like that. Brownie, with all the

933
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: things that have happened, is completely in murph And I've

934
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: been talking about it for weeks and I'll bring in

935
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: on it. You probably we've probably talked to you a

936
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: little bit about this. The Bills are in a completely

937
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: different spot than they were a year ago, where they

938
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: had to bring in nine new starters on the offense

939
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball from Week seventeen of twenty

940
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: eighteen to week one of two nineteen nine news starters.

941
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: It's not that way this year. So they and they've

942
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: now they've continued to fill holes with six defensive signings

943
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: and this free agent they've traded for Stefan Diggs. Now, now,

944
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: where are their holes where? If everything stays as is

945
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: until the draft, what position do you think that they're

946
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: going to be like pining for if somebody falls to

947
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: them at whatever position may be. Yeah, I mean I

948
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: think to a large degree it's depth. And you know,

949
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: I mentioned that running back you need depth there. Although

950
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: I think t j Elsen is a more than capable

951
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: backup to Devin Singletary. I just think he didn't get

952
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: an opportunity all that much last year and still a

953
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: relatively young player at twenty six years of age, even

954
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: at the running back position. But I think they need

955
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: depth there. I anticipate they'll find that in the form

956
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: of youth in the draft. They need size at wide receiver.

957
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: I think they'll find that in the draft, where there

958
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: are plenty of big, tall, range type receivers that can

959
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: be a mismatch in the passing game. And then beyond that,

960
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: I'd like to see them invest in some youth at

961
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: offensive tackle and on the defensive side. When you think

962
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: about it, guys, they have their youth depth type players

963
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 1: on the ostro already, whether you're talking about Sir rand Neil,

964
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:09,240
Speaker 1: whether you're talking about Jaquan Johnson. Everybody forgets about Vashon Joseph,

965
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: who was their fifth round pick last year at the

966
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: linebacker spot but was on ir all last year. He

967
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: comes back healthy. They resigned the undrafted linebacker as a

968
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: future free agent. Hodson or Dodson sorry, who I think

969
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: is going to be in play to be a backup

970
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: middle linebacker prospect. And then you know another guy who

971
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people have forgotten about, who was on

972
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: IR last year as well, who was having a monster

973
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: training camp before he suffered an injury. Mike Love. Guys

974
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: at the defensive end position, I think is going to

975
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: be in play to fight for a role as well.

976
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 1: So when you're thinking about an influx of youth really

977
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: on defense, the only place they got to do that

978
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: is at cornerback, as I see it, somebody who can

979
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 1: play on the boundary or field side, and then on offense,

980
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: that's where you got to find some young players. And

981
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: I think all of that guy to a vast degree

982
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: comes in the draft. Everybody should cross their fingers now

983
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: and start rooting the Chase Claypool last until fifty four.

984
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 1: He looked good at the senior ball man. I like him,

985
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: but I mean that guy's looked a little bit too good. Yeah,

986
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: I'm afraid problem. I'm a yeah, I don't where are

987
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: the bills fifty four or fifty eight? I keep mixing

988
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: those numbers up in round two fifty Yeah, I don't

989
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: think he gets there, guys, I think he's gone in

990
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: the first forty forty five picks. I think the appeal

991
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: and the shine on him is only going to get

992
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: better as we get closer to the draft, because he

993
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: is just a freakish mismatch. I mean, you put him

994
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: on the field and I don't know, I don't know

995
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: who you put up against him, knowing he runs a

996
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: four four two and his six foot five with a

997
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, he's got a shooting guard's body, and he's

998
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: he's a super He was a super basketball player up

999
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was unbelievable. He was getting

1000
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: D one offers left and right for basketball and I

1001
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: just think he's a he's a supremely unique player. And

1002
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: he was one of two receivers that really caught my

1003
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: eye at the Senior Bowl down in Mobile back in January.

1004
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: And Chris, thanks, maybe we'll talk to you in tomorrow.

1005
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All right, guys, be good and

1006
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: a tip of the hat to your producer Jay Harris.

1007
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: He is the lone wolf and one Bill's drive. I

1008
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: called him our braveheart because they'll never take away his freedom. Yeah,

1009
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: he got us down the air today. I don't know,

1010
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: and you know, what the cool thing is, They'll come

1011
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: up with a new way to do it tomorrow. He's

1012
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: I look forward to that cancer string. Yeah, there you go.

1013
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bills Insider, Buffalo Bills dot Com. We got

1014
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: a break here, we come back. We'll talk dollars and

1015
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,839
Speaker 1: cents with Mike Janitty from spottrack dot com. It's John

1016
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: Murphy at his home, Chris Steve Tasker at his home.

1017
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: Chris Brown was at us home. It's one Bill's Live

1018
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio, Littles Radio Network, Sports Update, Sports

1019
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: Update on One Bills Live. The Bills reached agreements with

1020
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,399
Speaker 1: a couple of other defensive players last night. A couple

1021
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: of defensive lineman defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson agreed to terms

1022
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: with the Bills. Jefferson said to be ready to try

1023
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: to replace Jason Phillips, who left earlier this week. Jefferson

1024
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: started twenty four games the last two seasons with Seattle,

1025
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,359
Speaker 1: played on the edge and in the interior of their

1026
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: defensive line. He had a career best three and a

1027
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: half sacks last year. He turns twenty seven years old

1028
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: on March thirty first, and the Bills have agreed to

1029
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: terms on a contract with defensive tackle Vernon Butler, former

1030
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,720
Speaker 1: first round pick of the Carolina Panthers. Two year contract

1031
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: were sixteen million. Butler a former first round pick of

1032
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: the Panthers. This first season in the NFL was twenty sixteen.

1033
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: That year that the Sean McDermott was the Panthers defensive coordinator.

1034
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: Were told that things may be quiet now for the

1035
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills as they as free agency is set to

1036
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,800
Speaker 1: open up at four o'clock. That maybe all of their moves,

1037
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: but we'll stay tuned to see if anything else happens

1038
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: over the next few hours. Four o'clock is when free

1039
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: agency begins. Late yesterday, the Bills reached the two year

1040
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: contract extension with safety Jordan Poyer, locking up under their

1041
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: defensive leaders through the twenty twenty two season. Tom Brady

1042
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 1: found his next destination, TV is. On his way to TV,

1043
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: he finalized an agreement to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

1044
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: a deal worth nearly thirty million dollars per year. Brady's

1045
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: big move comes after a whirlwind day of speculation. Some

1046
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: reports say that Tampa Bay was his first choice overall.

1047
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers agreed to a one year deal with the

1048
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts, where twenty five million dollars after winding up

1049
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: his stint with the Chargers in Los Angeles, the Cowboys

1050
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: are great the terms with defensive lineman Jerald McCoy a

1051
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 1: three year contract. The Jets are going to release quarterback

1052
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: Trevain Johnson after a disappointing tenure a two year tender

1053
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: with tenure with the New York Jets. And that is

1054
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: the update from One Bills Live. Good afternoon. We're a

1055
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Speaker 1: radio only today. Apologize for that, John Murphy. I'm at home.

1056
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker is at home as we quarantine uh self distance.

1057
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: What do you call it? The social social distancing? Yeah,

1058
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 1: we're doing that right. I don't think I've been further

1059
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: away from you. Steve to me not like him not

1060
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: and had a conversation. It's more comfortable than the Seneca studio.

1061
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: But still, hey, we got the so freedoms. He begins

1062
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Speaker 1: at four, And as usual in the wacky world of

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00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,959
Speaker 1: the NFL, we know most of the big free agency deals,

1064
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: we know what the money is said to be looking like,

1065
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: and we got a man on the air to talk

1066
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: about all of that. Is the CEO, the man behind

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00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: a spottrack dot com, spot r ac dot com, Mike

1068
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: Jannetti Orchard Parks owned Mike Janitty on the line with us. Hello, Mike,

1069
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker on the line with you. Thanks,

1070
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: coming on, good answer you guys. You bet yep. Give

1071
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: me your general characterization of this year's free agency so far.

1072
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, you laid it out pretty

1073
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: nicely there. There's been, uh, you know, ebbs and flows.

1074
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,399
Speaker 1: I think generally speaking, if I'm just kind of looking

1075
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: through my glasses, nothing's really striking me as crazy. Generally

1076
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: by this time, I have two or three contracts that

1077
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: are standing out like stret of thumb that just seem

1078
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 1: really crazy. I don't have that seems pretty fair across

1079
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: the board, Logical destinations, even Brady doesn't sound like that

1080
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: contract is going to be north of thirty million, which

1081
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: means pretty pretty decent fair money. Just sounds like you

1082
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,720
Speaker 1: wanted out into England and just was the logical next step.

1083
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: So from a from a money standpoint, pretty pretty fair

1084
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: market value across the board here, and it hasn't been

1085
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: all just free agency. What are your take? What's your

1086
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: take on the huge deal that the bills pulled off

1087
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: with Stefon Digs. Lots of draft capital went away, but

1088
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: they got maybe a really good receiver for To me,

1089
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: it seems like a bargain price. Yeah, I don't know

1090
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,439
Speaker 1: if I classifyed bargain, Steve. I think it's probably fair price.

1091
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: It's probably the going rate for a top wide receiver

1092
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: right now outside of whatever Houston just did. But you

1093
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: know the fact that there's that there's so much term

1094
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: left on that contract, and it is such a valued

1095
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: contract you're gonna have to overpay from a compensation standpoint.

1096
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: So I understand the draft picks that were given up,

1097
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: and I understand why they did it, and I think

1098
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: it's all systems go. There no complaints at all with

1099
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: the move. Let's talk about the Diggs contract. What you

1100
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: know about it anyway, Micah. You've got it down for

1101
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: an eleven and a half million doll there cap hit

1102
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: and eleven to twelve million dollars for the remaining each

1103
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: of the remaining years. And you think that's about what

1104
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: it should be, because I mean, Amari Cooper is making

1105
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars. We were Jones twenty two, So you

1106
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 1: can understand why. You know, you're hearing rumblings about Diggs

1107
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: and DeAndre Hopkins wine or a new contract. Here's my pushback,

1108
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: and it's a pushback that a lot of GM's probably

1109
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: will have as well. They signed these deals, all right,

1110
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: They signed these long term extensions fully knowing that every

1111
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: year it was going to look worse and worse. And

1112
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: now these guys are two three years into these contracts

1113
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: and they're half of what they probably should be. So

1114
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: I understand if Brandon being you know, says, hey, we

1115
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: got to wait at least a year to even talk

1116
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: about this contract, even though yeah, like you're like, you're

1117
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: saying it's ten million below probably or a wide receiver

1118
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: one should be right now, Well, let me let me

1119
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: play management guy for a second. When this came up

1120
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: among our little discussion yesterday, how can Digs plausibly argue

1121
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: for a renegotiated contract. He's one year and you're going

1122
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 1: into a second year. That's number one. Number two, his

1123
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: production kind of went down last year. What's what's his

1124
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: argument for getting I'm not saying it won't happen, because

1125
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,720
Speaker 1: crazy things happen, but what would be his strongest argument

1126
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: towards the getting a new contract digs nothing. It's just

1127
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: he's in a new destination and he sees what everybody

1128
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: else is making. And if Hopkins gets paid, that'll be

1129
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: another contention point for him. But I don't think he

1130
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 1: has any leverage right now. In my opinion, this has

1131
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: to wait an entire year for everything you just said.

1132
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: He's got to make sure that it's a fit here.

1133
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: His production has to get back up to a true

1134
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: one wide receiver one level, which he'll be given the

1135
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: opportunity to do here for sure. And if all things

1136
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 1: go well, like I said, after twenty twenty, I'm guessing

1137
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: they'll be a discussion to be had. But there's no

1138
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: leverage right now. He's got four years left. You know.

1139
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: The fact that that they're bargaining years in terms of

1140
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: what wide receivers are making right now, it's just something

1141
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to live with for at least a year. Yeah,

1142
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: And what do you think about the bills finally getting

1143
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,919
Speaker 1: around to resigning Jordan Poor? I don't know if thats

1144
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: exactly what the terms of the deal are, how does

1145
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: that affect the rest of the secondary or the bill's

1146
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: salary structure on the defensive side. Yeah, I think it's

1147
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: a smart move to get it done. Now. You got

1148
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: that out of the way, but before I think a

1149
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: couple of these big contracts that are coming down on

1150
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: the pipeline lecture Dabs White. Of course, they basically doubled

1151
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 1: this compensation. It's two years, sixteen million dollars, pretty much

1152
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed, even though really it's just one year guaranteed

1153
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: to start. They can get out after this year if

1154
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: they need to. But you know, I don't think any

1155
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: of us expects that to happen. So you get this

1156
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: one in the gate, and then you got Micah Hyde

1157
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: on the back end of this, so you're gonna have

1158
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,919
Speaker 1: to probably lock both these guys into the next twelve months.

1159
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: Get this one done now before what we expect to

1160
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: be a crazy increase in salary cap next year for

1161
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: the league. My guess is they're going to start working

1162
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: on Mica Hyde pretty much right right after right after

1163
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: this if unless tradevious becomes a priority. But structurally financially,

1164
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: it's a great move for the Bills and for Jordan

1165
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: player on the line with Mike Chinnidy, he is the

1166
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: man behind spottrack dot com where you can check all

1167
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: these contracts. He keeps up, especially this time of year

1168
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: with what's going on in free agency. Let me ask

1169
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: you about some of the other Bills signings. If I

1170
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: made Mike just last night, they signed a couple of

1171
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, Quentin Jefferson and Vernon Butler, and I see

1172
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: the numbers reported are somewhere around eight million per year

1173
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: average for each of them. That's more in line compared

1174
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: to what Jordan Phillips or even Check Lawson got. Right,

1175
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: Phillips and Lawson were getting ten million a year as

1176
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: as modified free agents, maybe first tier free agents. I guess, yeah,

1177
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, the numbers that Butler and

1178
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: Jefferson got were exactly the offers that Lawson and Phillips

1179
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: were given, and it was basically take it or leave it.

1180
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: We've got back up plans for both. It sounds like

1181
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: for sure Lawson was made an offer and he basically

1182
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: just said I couldn't refuse the Dolphins offer, which was

1183
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: three million more three year, thirty million appairs. It appears

1184
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: to be the median contract if there's about seven of

1185
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: them right now in free agency, so that appears to

1186
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: be the second tier free agency contract that many of

1187
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: these guys are getting Buffalo just didn't want to budge

1188
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't blame them. These are two

1189
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: solid players that they got it what I would consider

1190
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: for low market average. And by the way, I don't

1191
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: blame Jordan Phillips or Shack Lawson either for going for

1192
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: the bigger money, right, No, of course not. This was

1193
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 1: there probably one opportunity to go out and get a

1194
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: deal like this, and obviously they can they can extend

1195
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: that deal on two years they need to. But but

1196
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 1: but right now that's where they're living and those are

1197
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: above market values for those players, So go and get paid. Well.

1198
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: The Bills still have on their on their plate a

1199
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: guy that's near and dear to them in tradavious way.

1200
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: Soon or later they're gonna have to get around and

1201
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: resigning him. No, no doubt they're going to. But the

1202
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: market has been set with Byron Jones. He h forty

1203
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: six million of his eighty two point five million dollar

1204
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: contract is guaranteed. He's signed with the Dolphins. It's a

1205
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: three year of about eighteen point one per year. I

1206
00:59:58,120 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: mean that kind of sets the market, does it not?

1207
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a total reset and it's fully expected.

1208
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: This was this was going to happen, whether it was

1209
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: Byron Jones or Jalen Ramsey in the next couple of

1210
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: months here. So, yeah, this is a new bar. It's

1211
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: a it's a really nice full first three years. It's

1212
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: strongly guaranteed, it's well structured. This is the model for

1213
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: what Tredavious way it's going to be expecting now and

1214
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: then some I mean using Byron Jones as a new variable.

1215
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: Turnavious now puts himself up in the seventeen million per

1216
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: year range on a long term average, and it's going

1217
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 1: to be they're gonna have to talk about probably eighteen

1218
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: nineteen million over the first three years, fully guaranteed, three years,

1219
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed. So it's big boy money. It's sixty million

1220
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: dollars fully guaranteed most likely, and that it's gonna be

1221
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: worth it. This is gonna be the franchise of your

1222
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: defense now for the next four years. The question is

1223
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: do you do it now this offseason or ard you

1224
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: test the waters a little bit and then wait until

1225
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: next offseason when I when I think there's gonna be,

1226
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: like I said, a significant jump in the salary cap.

1227
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,880
Speaker 1: I don't know who turn Avius agent is Mike, but

1228
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure he would maybe consider advising him to sit

1229
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: tight and maybe wait for next offseason. And I would

1230
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 1: imagine the Bills still think the numbers only going up,

1231
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: and they may sit tight let the dust settle a

1232
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: little bit after free agency. But to me, it would

1233
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:13,959
Speaker 1: make sense to get that done before the twenty twenty

1234
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: season with tradevious. No, yeah, I don't think there's too

1235
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 1: much leverage from the Bill standpoint. I think you just

1236
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 1: get it done. You make him top market cornerback, you

1237
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 1: reset that market once again ahead of Byron Jones, and

1238
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: you get it done. Will he agree to it? That's

1239
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 1: the different question. I agree you They're probably gonna wait

1240
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: as long as possible to see what else happens. For instance,

1241
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: if Jilly Ramsey does get locked in, this thing could

1242
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: push even higher and higher. So it'll be a waiting game.

1243
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: It'll be back and forth. But I think Brandon Bean

1244
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: has done enough for the past eighteen months to prove

1245
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: he knows what the heck he's doing over there. Yeah.

1246
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: What did you think about Tom Brady's deal with the

1247
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I kind of thought it might be

1248
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 1: a little bit higher, but it became evident later on

1249
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 1: that Brady was going to leave New England. I was

1250
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: surprised by that. And when when push came to Chevy

1251
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: chose Tampa Bay. It sounds like that was his first

1252
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 1: choice and quite obviously he was gonna go wherever he wanted.

1253
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I had three years, one hundred

1254
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: million written down for him pretty much to pass six

1255
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: weeks or so, because I thought it was more about

1256
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:16,920
Speaker 1: going to get going to cash in before this thing

1257
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 1: finishes up too. It clearly was not. It clearly was

1258
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: about getting out of the Bill Belichick system and trying

1259
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 1: something new. And he appears to be taking right around

1260
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: thirty million a year to do it, which you know,

1261
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: that's not a crazy discount off of what we expected

1262
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: him to get. But yeah, it sounds like two for six.

1263
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: He's going to be the number. I would imagine that's

1264
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: pretty much fully guaranteed. So it's more about fit a

1265
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: system and a lot of fun weapons to playlist. Do

1266
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: you think there was any chance that Brady would have

1267
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: signed for a shorter term than two years, Mike, what

1268
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: do you think? No? I don't because that's the kind

1269
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: of the runaround he's been getting with the new England system,

1270
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,479
Speaker 1: which has been we'll give you a nice signing bonus,

1271
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 1: but we're not going to guarantee you anything more after that.

1272
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: It's going to be, you know, a cast, cash in pocket,

1273
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: no stability. It sounds like he just got set up

1274
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: with that mention. I think this is a lot about football.

1275
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: It sounds like from some of these reports that he

1276
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: just wasn't being asked to open up and have a

1277
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: huge passing game, and he thinks he can still do

1278
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: that even at forty three years old. He will certainly

1279
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 1: be able to open up an air attack in Tampa Bay.

1280
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: What about the deal that Teddy Bridgewater signed in Carolina?

1281
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: No surprises that he was one of the maybe the

1282
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 1: most coveted guy, maybe most long term answer, of any

1283
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks available. No surprise that he went to Carolina,

1284
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 1: particularly since they had behind the scenes moved off from

1285
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. What do you think about the deal and

1286
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 1: what does it mean for their team? Or it's perfect.

1287
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 1: It's perfect, And it leads me to believe that he

1288
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 1: didn't have too many offers like this out there because

1289
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't It doesn't appear like Carolina had to push

1290
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,919
Speaker 1: the envelope too much on these numbers. I mean, twenty

1291
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 1: one million a year is nice. Forty two million pretty

1292
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: much fully guaranteed over two years, that's perfect. Let's pay

1293
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: this guy, lower tier starting quarterback Marty to make sure

1294
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 1: that he can get this thing together and if not,

1295
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 1: we're going to draft somebody and he'll be He'll be

1296
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 1: the mentor for a year and a half. That's that's

1297
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: the way I look at this. I still think they're

1298
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: going to take a quarterback, be it this year or

1299
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 1: next year. And unless Teddy bridge Rider turns into you know,

1300
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 1: the second coming here, this is just a bridge deal

1301
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: right now. That's all this, No no pun intendant on

1302
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 1: a bridge rod deal. Two years, forty two million. It

1303
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 1: just makes perfect sense for a team that really doesn't

1304
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: know who they are right now in Carolina. With Mike Jinitty,

1305
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: he is a man behind spot track spot rac dot

1306
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 1: com talking about some of the free agent contracts. Is

1307
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 1: there anybody around the league whose contract has reset the

1308
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: market for their position yet? And again, we're still waiting

1309
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: for the official opening of free agency about two and

1310
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: a half hours away. But what's been the one contract

1311
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: that's jumped out at you so far? Mike anything. Yeah,

1312
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: the Bomb and Jones one was expected, so I wouldn't

1313
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: say that really blew me away. The entire DeForest Buckner

1314
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,440
Speaker 1: situation was pretty was pretty impressive. The fact that San

1315
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 1: Francisco is able to pull back the number thirteen overall

1316
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: pick for essentially a one year player that was going

1317
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 1: to need a contract anyway, and that turned into four

1318
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 1: years eighty four million, pretty much forty five million fully guaranteed.

1319
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 1: So it's that's a lot coin for a guy who

1320
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:12,919
Speaker 1: was trending towards the bust until about midway through last

1321
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: year and really put himself back in the driver's seat.

1322
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: So from San Francisco side of it, I think it's

1323
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 1: a huge win because they can now fill his spot

1324
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: with a couple of smaller pieces, which they've already started

1325
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: to do, and now a really really good team gets

1326
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:28,439
Speaker 1: the number thirteen pick to go with another fresh round

1327
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: pick and has some hammel in the draft this offseason.

1328
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: I just think that entire situation makes a lot of

1329
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 1: sense for both sides. It's a little bit of an

1330
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 1: overpaying maybe for Indie, but you can understand why they're

1331
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: doing that where they've gone all in on Philip Rivers

1332
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:42,919
Speaker 1: for a one year term. They're gonna make twenty twenty

1333
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: a big push year for them, right hey, Mike, A

1334
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: couple of other things. What's the Bill's cap situation the

1335
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: best you can put it together right now? And does

1336
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,560
Speaker 1: that leave them some flexibility to get anything else done?

1337
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: Maybe not nothing major? But where's their cap right now?

1338
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: Yeahs uth to tell I've got a couple of holes still.

1339
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: You mentioned that Jefferson Dill deal on the aja Kin

1340
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 1: dealer are going to be the two that pick up

1341
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: a decent amount of caps. So just efforting here, I'd

1342
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: say they're probably had a round thirty million to work

1343
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: with right now, which, after all the moves they've made,

1344
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 1: decent amount of coin. I mean, I wouldn't say there's

1345
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: there's another big free agent contract coming, but I think

1346
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: some of these extensions we've talked about internally could be

1347
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:27,000
Speaker 1: on the table now, Matt Melano, maybe Tredavious White, maybe

1348
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 1: like a hide in the coming months. Here. To me,

1349
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:30,800
Speaker 1: that's where the rest of this cap is going to

1350
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 1: go towards, because I think they've they've filled the whole

1351
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 1: necessary and of course there's a there's a draft class coming,

1352
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: there's a decent amount of picks to go. It's about

1353
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,360
Speaker 1: eight million worth of draft pool there, so they knocked

1354
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: that off the cap as well. So thirty million minus

1355
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: the eight year eight million of draft pool, you're talking

1356
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 1: still over twenty million to work with. I think there's

1357
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 1: extensions to come. I wonder, and I don't want to

1358
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 1: dwell on this, but you sound you said maybe Tredavious White.

1359
01:06:56,720 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: I guess some of us thought it was more than

1360
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: like you get an extension. You think it's just the

1361
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 1: mark the reset of the market, and maybe his agent

1362
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:06,960
Speaker 1: will say, let's wait. Is that what you think? Oh yeah,

1363
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: I absolutely think now there's going to be a bit

1364
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: of a waiting game, a bit of a back and

1365
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: forth with I mean, unless the Bills come in swinging right,

1366
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean, if the Bills decide, you know, we're not

1367
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: even to screw around with this, we know what the

1368
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: numbers should be. Here's what the numbers are. Let's get

1369
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: it done. Unless that's the case, I do think there'll

1370
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: be a bit of a waiting game. And I think

1371
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 1: that's that's where it starts, too, is tradevious White? I mean,

1372
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the biggest number. There's some other guys

1373
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: that they want to sign Matt Milano of Dion Dawkins

1374
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: is coming, You know those kind of guys. What do

1375
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 1: you think when you talk about Dion Dawkins Matt Milano,

1376
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: what kind of salaries are you looking at for a guy? Well, Dawkins,

1377
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: who has been a left tackle since he came in,

1378
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 1: he started earning his rookie season, has not left and

1379
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 1: Matt Milano has really surpassed his fifth round draft status.

1380
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: What do you think about those two guys. Yeah, there's

1381
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,919
Speaker 1: no question those two are on the list. I don't

1382
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: have either of those valuing top top of the market,

1383
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean they're not going to be expensive. Fact,

1384
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 1: Matt Milana went from about eight and a half million

1385
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 1: of valuation to it basically thirteen ninth in the past

1386
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 1: six months, and it's really because some of these these

1387
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: non rushing edge edge edge linebackers just kind of jumped

1388
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 1: the gun a little bit. There's twelve twelve and a

1389
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:18,719
Speaker 1: half million dollars contracts out there that make him work

1390
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 1: north of that at this point, so about thirteen million

1391
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,559
Speaker 1: from Matt Milana on an annual basis. Dane Dawkins isn't

1392
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: going to get up to that sixteen seventeen million dollars

1393
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 1: mark I don't believe, which is where your top left

1394
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: tackles live right now. I've got him a little over

1395
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 1: fourteen million a year, pretty much what DJ Humphrey has

1396
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:35,920
Speaker 1: just locked in in Arizona. So I think that's probably

1397
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:39,680
Speaker 1: the right number for him. Hey, Mike, question for you,

1398
01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:42,800
Speaker 1: and I guess it's a method dollar question for you.

1399
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: I love how you do market value and it was

1400
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 1: very helpful in the last months before free agency began

1401
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:51,200
Speaker 1: on Monday, to look at market value. For instance, I

1402
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: believe you had a Jordan Phillips estimated market value at

1403
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,599
Speaker 1: six point seven million a year. He signs for about

1404
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 1: ten million a year. Immediately you look at that and say, well,

1405
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: he's getting way overpaid. But how do you get to

1406
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: market value? How do you You just looking at what

1407
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 1: other contracts are and you must build in inflation, I guess.

1408
01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: So when you set those market values, yeah, but not

1409
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:13,760
Speaker 1: as much as we probably should because it's too hard

1410
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:15,600
Speaker 1: to gauge. It's really too hard to gauge. What we

1411
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 1: do is we build that I'm based on a percent

1412
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 1: of the cap So, for instance, of defensive tackles are

1413
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: averaging six percent of the league's salary cap, and the

1414
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 1: cap continues to jump ten million per year, then that's

1415
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 1: that's pretty much the slide that we'll make with these projections.

1416
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: What we don't factor in is the an internal extension

1417
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: versus free agency. It's just always going to cost more

1418
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 1: to get a guide of free agency. That's just how

1419
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,640
Speaker 1: it works, so that you can understand a two to

1420
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 1: three million increase on any kind of valuation when it

1421
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: gets to the to the open market. But there's no

1422
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: question that both Phillips and loss And went at least

1423
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 1: two million above where they probably belonged, and that's why

1424
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:53,599
Speaker 1: they left Buffalo. Yeah, and I love that, and that's

1425
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,759
Speaker 1: a great feature of your thing. I have one more question,

1426
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: and I asked Steve or you got no go ahead?

1427
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:03,679
Speaker 1: Go ahead? It's a it's a it's a difficult question

1428
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:06,840
Speaker 1: to ask. But we're currently witnessing in the country, in

1429
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: the world, those serious economic drop off here. How are

1430
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:13,720
Speaker 1: these teams so confident to pay these huge numbers to

1431
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,719
Speaker 1: these free agents, not knowing really what the TV deals

1432
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: will be and how the same goes to you. I

1433
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: guess you know you're you're estimating the market value. I

1434
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:24,800
Speaker 1: just wonder, does anybody think we might be in for

1435
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 1: a major recession here that could affect some of these

1436
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: deals and maybe the offers that are going out. There's

1437
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: no question, There's no question, and I'll reverse that on you, John.

1438
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 1: I have to I have to think that I opened

1439
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 1: up the conversation here by saying none of these duck

1440
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: contracts really blew me away. From a player standpoint, I

1441
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 1: have to think that players are going into it thinking,

1442
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 1: let me just get my coin, let's just get paid

1443
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:47,720
Speaker 1: right now, whatever, whatever the you know, whatever the best

1444
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 1: offer is, let's pretty much just take it at this

1445
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 1: point and Locker sells in because these next two years

1446
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:54,920
Speaker 1: could be rocky um from a from an owner standpoint,

1447
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,760
Speaker 1: you know, I I tend to side with the fact

1448
01:10:57,800 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: that they've got enough to cover themselves. However, it's going

1449
01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: to You're gonna work out here, but there's no question

1450
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 1: that we're all going to be pitched down. I'll say

1451
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,519
Speaker 1: this too, having done the structure work on a lot

1452
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:09,680
Speaker 1: of these contracts over the past twenty four hours. Here

1453
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: we're seeing a lot of frontload of deals, a lot,

1454
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: and I think that has something to say about two things.

1455
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: Number One, teams are building their teams in shorter windows,

1456
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:22,599
Speaker 1: which is smarter. Players are accepting shorter contracts in order

1457
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 1: to frontload bigger bonuses or bigger first er salaries. And

1458
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:29,599
Speaker 1: it ties into this conversation whereas we don't really want

1459
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 1: to have to budget three, four, or five years down

1460
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:35,559
Speaker 1: the road because who knows. Yeah, and I got one

1461
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 1: last question for it. Philip Rivers looks like he's going

1462
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. Tom Brady, we've spoken about, Teddy Bridgewater, we've

1463
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 1: spoken about. But there's a lot of quarterbacks out there,

1464
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:47,719
Speaker 1: and it looks like there's not gonna be enough seats

1465
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:50,720
Speaker 1: for everybody to sit down with musical chairs stops. Which

1466
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: one of these quarterbacks? Is it? What's Cam Newton gonna do?

1467
01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 1: Is Andy Dalton gonna be traded from Cincinnati? There's other

1468
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:01,720
Speaker 1: guys out there as well. Who's gonna be the odd

1469
01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 1: man out in the quarterbacks that we all know about? Yeah,

1470
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: it's a great question. It's kind of been the fun

1471
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:10,200
Speaker 1: game to play all year here. Um, it sure sounds

1472
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: like Cam Newton isn't long for Chicago, which puts him

1473
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:14,880
Speaker 1: into at least the driver's seat to compete for a

1474
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 1: starting gig. I have absolutely no idea what the New

1475
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,640
Speaker 1: England Patriots they're doing. Andy Dalton makes a ton of

1476
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:24,839
Speaker 1: sense there. I'm hearing no on that. Um Jamis Winston

1477
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:26,759
Speaker 1: doesn't make a ton of sense there. I would imagine

1478
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:28,320
Speaker 1: he's one of the ad men out. In terms of

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Speaker 1: a starting gig, I have to think there's a spot

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Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton somewhere, whether it's a bridge contract with

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers. But to me, all three of

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Speaker 1: those those players could be without a true starting gig

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Speaker 1: to start twenty twenty. They could be competing. And and

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Speaker 1: also that Nick Foles is also on the trading block,

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Speaker 1: and it's amazing that they paid him all that money

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Speaker 1: and they've got Gardner Minshew that they seem to like better.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about about the guys that are

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Speaker 1: still there, like like the situation in Jacksonville. We've heard

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Speaker 1: talks and maybe Nick Foles was gonna get traded to

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis if the Philip Rivers things fell through. What about

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Speaker 1: those guys that may still be there, like Andy Dalton

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Speaker 1: and Nick Foles who seemed to be on the trading blow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I believe it or not. Breaking news. Nick Foles has

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Speaker 1: just been traded to the Chicago Bears. So I take

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Speaker 1: everything I just said back. That's the They're gonna restructure

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Speaker 1: as contract and he's gonna compete with mister Bisky for

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Speaker 1: the starting againt Chicago. So to me, that's mind blowing.

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Speaker 1: It's mind blowing because Jacksonville really slow contract and they're

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Speaker 1: they're paying a lot of money to have him basically

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Speaker 1: set out with an injury last year. So the fact

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Speaker 1: that he's getting a second life fare in Chicago is

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01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 1: absolutely mind blowing. Knowing that Andy Dalton and Cam Newton

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Speaker 1: are available. But there you go, Nick Foles Chicago. Mike,

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01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 1: when are you gonna get your own team? You're wasting

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01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:54,640
Speaker 1: your time just doing this on the website. I like

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01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:59,639
Speaker 1: these conversations too much. Mike. Thanks for this. The website

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01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 1: is great. It is an invaluable tool the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks and I'm sure for the next several weeks.

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01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 1: We appreciate you spending some time with us today. Thanks

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Speaker 1: take it easy again. Thank you. Mike Jannetti is the

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Speaker 1: man behind spot track, spot r ac spot track dot com.

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01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 1: He's an Orchard Park native. He's run around the corner.

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01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:19,720
Speaker 1: I see his mother at the grocery store every once

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01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: in a while. And it's amazing to me the guy

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01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:26,719
Speaker 1: with that many resources, that much interest in this topic

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01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 1: can spend that time and he lives right down the corner.

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01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 1: I think it's great because he came through. He's right.

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01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: Nick Foles has been traded to Chicago Bears. This comes

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01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: from Adam Schefter and that you know what, the Jaguars

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01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:41,200
Speaker 1: got a fourth rounder for Nick Foles. That story pick

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Speaker 1: D of the fourth round. Wow, ESPN says. Bears coaches

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01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:47,720
Speaker 1: like Mattnegie have worked with Folds in the past. They

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01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 1: know him well. Now to me, it says, now the

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Speaker 1: Bears have two questionable quarterbacks, Nick Foles and they and

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01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 1: mister Risky. Yeah, yeah, don't get embarrassed. I've got a

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01:14:57,560 --> 01:14:59,560
Speaker 1: break here. Hey, give us a call. We've got a

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01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 1: Twitter hole up. We'll reset that in a moment. What's

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01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 1: the biggest factor if the Bills are going to take

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01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,479
Speaker 1: over the AFC East, What's the biggest factor is that

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01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,519
Speaker 1: the free agent signings and trades they've made so far

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01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: this week, is that the fact that Tom Brady's leading

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01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:15,639
Speaker 1: New England is that maybe just continued improvement of Josh

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01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 1: Allen and others, give us a call eight oh three

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Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Let's get the phone line going. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to your calls right when we return. We're working

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01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:28,320
Speaker 1: from home today. We're on the radio only and we're

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Speaker 1: doing okay. It's One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show,

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01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:43,439
Speaker 1: John Murf, you see tasker. It's One Bills Live radio

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01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 1: only today. Apologize for that. There's a deal. Our crew

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01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: is down to a skeleton crew. I was in there

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01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 1: briefly this morning. It's Jay Harris, our producer, and Tom

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01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 1: Hollanderer who was basically putting our show together. Everybody else

1545
01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: is working from home these days, so bear with us

1546
01:15:58,280 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 1: for a while. Let may take a little while. We'll

1547
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: get back up to normal. Hopefully you get back on

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01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 1: MSG in the meantime. We're radio only. I gotta say,

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01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: Mike Tiney, I was only half kidding Steve when I

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01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 1: said to him, we aren't you gonna get your own team?

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01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:11,640
Speaker 1: The attention to by the way, he does it for

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01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:14,839
Speaker 1: NBA and baseball and hockey as well. But the attention

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01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 1: to detail he has when it comes to NFL contracts

1554
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: is is stunning. I mean, he's so into it, And

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01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:22,680
Speaker 1: if you're interested in finding out more, you can go

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01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 1: to the his website, spotrek dot com, spot r ac

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01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: dot com. I don't you always impressed? I'm always impressed

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01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: with Mike Tinnity. Yeah. And I'm also impressed with how

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01:16:32,479 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 1: he gets the infra, how fast he gets the information,

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01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,439
Speaker 1: how timely and up to date it is. It's pretty good.

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01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 1: And plus his it's not just numbers to him either.

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01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 1: He understands the nuance of how those contracts are worked

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01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 1: and why they're worked the way they are, and it's

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01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:47,080
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty informative to have him on so um

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01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: good guess And this is the time of year where

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Speaker 1: websites like his are. You know, you can't live without him, Yeah,

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01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: you know, because you gotta keep up with it somehow,

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01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: and there's just no other way to do it. You

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01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: know what else he got when I asked them, I guess.

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01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:04,160
Speaker 1: I think it was the final question about we're in

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01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:09,679
Speaker 1: a weird economic situation in America and the world these days,

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01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 1: these contracts might be out of whack soon, and he

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01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:14,120
Speaker 1: gets it, and he pointed out, maybe that's why some

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01:17:14,200 --> 01:17:16,920
Speaker 1: of these deals aren't you know, uh, you know, lighting

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01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 1: up the airways, that people guys are taking a little

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01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: bit less than they might have, and guys want to

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01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: sign before things get much worse. I think that was

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01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 1: a good point that I had not considered, But Mike

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01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:28,040
Speaker 1: Janette kind of looks at the whole thing globally. I

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01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 1: think that's really good, really important. I think I think

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01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:32,040
Speaker 1: he could be a cap guy for a team. I

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01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 1: really yeah. And I'll tell you this, I as a

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01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 1: thinking back to the way it was as a player

1584
01:17:36,280 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 1: for me, it is an an uncertain time like this

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01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:44,640
Speaker 1: is when we're also disoriented with what's going on, and

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01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,759
Speaker 1: we have so many things we got to think about

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01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: that have nothing to do with our work. Having that

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Speaker 1: security and that contract is a big relief to these guys,

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01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: you know, get being able to have that done and

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Speaker 1: then move on with all the important stuff that we're

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Speaker 1: all dealing with at the present time. There is a

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Speaker 1: huge relief to a lot of guys, and I think

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Speaker 1: that probably in some way, shape or form, kind of

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01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 1: greased the rails of free agency this year and all

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01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: these contracts. I think guys are ready to get this

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01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: done and not have a drag on through the summer

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01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:20,200
Speaker 1: when you know they all maybe cooped up for two months,

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01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:24,120
Speaker 1: you know, or you know, or get sick or whatever.

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Speaker 1: To have this done is really, really, I think a relief. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, anybody knows what the NFL calendar would

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01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:34,439
Speaker 1: look like when so they went ahead of the league year,

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01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: and the league year is underway officially in a four

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Speaker 1: o'clock this afternoon. But what does that mean for workouts?

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01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills were scheduled to come back to

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01:18:42,479 --> 01:18:46,040
Speaker 1: begin betteran scheduled to come back April twentieth. That's only

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01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:48,000
Speaker 1: what a month away or and a half weeks away.

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01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to happen though, So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right, there is uncertainty about what the off season,

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Speaker 1: the off season, workouts, the beginning to training camp. What's

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Speaker 1: that all gonna look like? Right, we don't know, We

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Speaker 1: don't have any answers. You gotta think about how much

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Speaker 1: it's changed just in the last seven days here for

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Speaker 1: us in Buffalo. I mean it was seven days ago

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Speaker 1: today that the NBA player tested p Schoubert. Yeah, so

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01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 1: that was you know, I mean it's that we've we've

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01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 1: come miles from that, and uh it's instead of reading

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01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:24,000
Speaker 1: the daily paper, you're going on you're getting live press conferences.

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01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 1: I mean, murph, it just occurred to me, the live

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Speaker 1: press conferences on television or what we're turned to instead

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01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: of live sports. It's live up to the minute updates

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Speaker 1: about the state of the the you know, the H coronavirus,

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01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:42,640
Speaker 1: rather than live sports. And you and I are the

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Speaker 1: ones who are kind of doing press conce we've turned

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Speaker 1: into the you know, the lesser the lesser of it.

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01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's, uh, it's really weird, um that you

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Speaker 1: know that our attention has been drawn so much away

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01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 1: from for everybody's attention has been drawn some much away

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Speaker 1: from the day to day life we're used to. Yep,

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Speaker 1: I know, thanks for sitting with us, audience listeners, radio listeners.

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01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,560
Speaker 1: We're doing the best we can. Hey, we got a

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01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 1: good twitter poll. I think we'd like to get some

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Speaker 1: something going on that on. The phones are on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. Eight oh three five fifty is a number

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Speaker 1: two call toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. Here's a question, what's so many people

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Speaker 1: think now, and we're gonna have a lot of polls

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Speaker 1: about this in the future. The Bills taken over domination

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Speaker 1: of the AFC. He's now that Brady's gone and the

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01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,680
Speaker 1: Bills build pretty well so far, and free agency. What

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01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 1: is the if the Bills do become the Beasts of

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01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,800
Speaker 1: the East. What is the biggest factor in the Bills

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01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 1: taking over the East Division? Is it the free agent

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01:20:40,479 --> 01:20:42,640
Speaker 1: signings they've done? Is it Tom Brady has gone? Is

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Speaker 1: it improvement of Josh Allen? On our Twitter poll with

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Speaker 1: eight hundred fifty votes in so far, we got I

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Speaker 1: think it's really I think it's significant sixty one percent

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01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 1: of our response and say continued improvement of Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: I think that's really good. I think that's the right answer.

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Speaker 1: Twenty percent say it's the free agent signings and trades.

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01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,360
Speaker 1: Uh Stefan Diggs included that they made the last forty

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Speaker 1: eight hours, nineteen percent they say it's Brady leaving the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from you eight h three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty years sending a tweet for the tweet sheet. Let's

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01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: take a phone call here Let's go to Jay in

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01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: Niagara Naca Falls. Jay, Where are you? Yes, Naga Falls?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking gay will comments for you. M Yeah,

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01:21:25,080 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 1: that's the Twitter. I do believe it's all about Josh

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01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,639
Speaker 1: getting better. But New England had a big advantage having

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01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:33,960
Speaker 1: Bredy there. A lot of free agents would go there.

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01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 1: Maybe we're for less than what they were just to

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01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: try and win, So I think that goes out the

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01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: window a bit now with him leaving. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they'll have the benefit of that. Um, I don't think.

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Speaker 1: But I love the fact they got Diggs, especially at

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Speaker 1: twelve million dollars. If you see if Cooper get twenty,

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01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: is that after eight million dollars really helped out. I've

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01:21:54,200 --> 01:21:56,800
Speaker 1: hope they signed a tight end or running back. Do

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01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,639
Speaker 1: you think with all the stuff on defense for free

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01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 1: hidens that'll be um that dress in the draft or

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01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:06,720
Speaker 1: you think there's one more move that way. I'll go

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01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:08,400
Speaker 1: first and then Steve will talk. I think they're going

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01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:11,080
Speaker 1: to sign a running back in the near future, and

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Speaker 1: from the free agency ranks. May not be a name

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01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 1: that'll jump out at you, but I do think that's

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01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 1: where their interest lies. Getting a veteran running back who

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Speaker 1: they can trust to be a decent player, maybe can

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Speaker 1: help out on special teams as well. So I think

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Speaker 1: they're they're looking that way. I don't I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they want to use a draft pick on a

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Speaker 1: running back. They've got a good young running back in Singletary.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they need another one. Your thoughts, Steve, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking they're going to probably do that as well.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I think they may pick up less

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Speaker 1: than a handful more guys, but it'll be deep into

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01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:42,680
Speaker 1: free agency. I've said this a couple of times. I

1687
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: think they will get a week or ten days into

1688
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:47,960
Speaker 1: free agency pick up a running back, quality running back

1689
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: if they can, And I think they're gonna. I still

1690
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: think they're gonna add to the offensive line depth. They're

1691
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:54,720
Speaker 1: gonna bring some guys into compete. They had those five guys,

1692
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 1: and they've got their five starters from last year back.

1693
01:22:57,479 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: I don't know that they won't bring you in some

1694
01:23:00,479 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: players to compete with those guys, and so I think

1695
01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:07,760
Speaker 1: that's what what I look for them to do. They'll

1696
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,640
Speaker 1: they'll add some depth at the offensive line and some competition.

1697
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:13,560
Speaker 1: They'll bring in another running back to go with t J.

1698
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:16,760
Speaker 1: Yelden and Devin Singletary, and I think then they'll kind

1699
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 1: of sit tight for the draft. Thanks for your call.

1700
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: Let's go to a gym in Rochester. Hello, Jim, you're

1701
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:25,559
Speaker 1: on the air. Yeah, I think you guys are missing

1702
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 1: something on your Twitter pall. I want what the mad

1703
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:33,040
Speaker 1: scientist got up his cutoff sleeves up there in New

1704
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: England before I crown the Bills the next coming. Yeah,

1705
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 1: there's kind of I wouldn't go ahead finish your thoughts

1706
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 1: from Boston College. You whether it's Danny Ainge or Bill Belischeck,

1707
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:48,040
Speaker 1: don't answer the phone. You're gonna get the short end

1708
01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:52,640
Speaker 1: of the stick. Is he a man scientist? And I

1709
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 1: know he's a good He's a great coach, by far,

1710
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: the best coach in the game has been for twenty years.

1711
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: Steve and I are going to disagree on this. Without Brady,

1712
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: instead of six Super Bowls, team might have won two. There.

1713
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:06,639
Speaker 1: How do you like that one, Steve, I think you're nuts.

1714
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 1: They have never and this is what I said at

1715
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: the top of the show, they have never undergone the

1716
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:14,360
Speaker 1: kind of quarterback anks that we have had here in

1717
01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:17,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo for up until two years ago. For twenty years

1718
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:20,720
Speaker 1: that they've had in twenty five other NFL outposts, the

1719
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 1: kind of quarterback worry is this the right guy? So

1720
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:24,640
Speaker 1: you think, do we have our franchise guy. They've never

1721
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 1: had to deal with that for twenty years. It's a

1722
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: huge advantage they had. Yeah, Tom Brady's an advantage, There's

1723
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:33,599
Speaker 1: no question about it. That's why the guy is who

1724
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 1: he is. But I give Bill Belichick an enormous amount

1725
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 1: of credit for the program that they put together. You

1726
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:43,720
Speaker 1: look at every place other than that, all the other

1727
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:46,720
Speaker 1: aspects of that team outside the quarterback, and they've been

1728
01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:49,639
Speaker 1: They've been stellar over the years as well. Their defense

1729
01:24:49,920 --> 01:24:52,599
Speaker 1: was the number one defense in the league this last year,

1730
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:57,639
Speaker 1: and they continue to win games every kind of way

1731
01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 1: you can imagine. They're the only team team in the

1732
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 1: league and still the only team in the league that

1733
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:05,760
Speaker 1: changes their identity from week to week. They're hard to beat,

1734
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: and they win almost all the close games that they're in,

1735
01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: and that's hard to do. And you can certainly give

1736
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:15,479
Speaker 1: Tom Brady his amount the amount of credit he deserves

1737
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 1: being the quarterback. But I don't think they're gonna fall

1738
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 1: off the cliff in any way, shape or form, and

1739
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:24,560
Speaker 1: I still think that, depending on what happens in the

1740
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 1: next month or so, they're still the favorites to win

1741
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:32,160
Speaker 1: the division. Okay, I'm not so sure about that fall

1742
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:34,479
Speaker 1: off the cliff. What they're not gonna go to two wins? No,

1743
01:25:34,560 --> 01:25:36,479
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Either. They're not gonna go to

1744
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: They're not gonna win twelve again. I can tell you that,

1745
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 1: can you. Yeah, I don't believe they're gonna. Yeah, We're

1746
01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:46,800
Speaker 1: gonna have a great discussion about this. That's gonna be

1747
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:48,800
Speaker 1: interesting to you, because I really believe. I don't think

1748
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham is going to be their guy. They say

1749
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 1: it all the time, and they may believe it, and

1750
01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:55,920
Speaker 1: maybe he had Maybe he's the next Tom Brady or

1751
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:59,360
Speaker 1: the next whoever, whoever. I think they're gonna there's too

1752
01:25:59,439 --> 01:26:03,639
Speaker 1: many quality quarterbacks available right now for them to just say,

1753
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:05,679
Speaker 1: you know what, we're good with our guy, Jared Sidham.

1754
01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:09,560
Speaker 1: I think they'll they I think that Jamis Winston and

1755
01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: won twelve games next year. Who they're gonna bring in,

1756
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:16,639
Speaker 1: I don't know who's left that's gonna that's a good question.

1757
01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's out there, Andy Dalton's on the trade block,

1758
01:26:19,160 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 1: Although we've heard from a couple of sources. Now that

1759
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: that's kind of cooled off. Um, I would not have

1760
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:26,920
Speaker 1: put it past them outside of the realm of possibility.

1761
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:30,240
Speaker 1: If the Nick Folesting hadn't gone down for Chicago, maybe

1762
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:33,439
Speaker 1: he's in the mix for them. Um Oh well, let's see.

1763
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: Let me let's look down the list of free agent

1764
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: quarterbacks available and the Jeff Driscoll, Chase Daniel h a

1765
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: j mc No, this isn't even an updated list. Uh,

1766
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 1: there's nobody left in free agency that will get them

1767
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 1: to twelve wins. Yeah, but you're right. Uh, nobody though,

1768
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:57,240
Speaker 1: you would hang your hat on for sure. So you

1769
01:26:57,320 --> 01:27:03,719
Speaker 1: need players, well even put sweatshirted genius. You need good players.

1770
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:07,240
Speaker 1: They've been winning, They've been going to and winning Super

1771
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:09,720
Speaker 1: Bowls with guys we've never heard of except for some

1772
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:12,599
Speaker 1: guys except for Tom Brady. So what makes you think

1773
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:14,720
Speaker 1: they aren't gonna get a couple of guys and win

1774
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:18,040
Speaker 1: a different way? They'll win. They're not gonna win twelve.

1775
01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:20,560
Speaker 1: All they're all you're gonna do is win enough to

1776
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs and then win three more. So

1777
01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 1: you got to win in the AFC East. Patriots, I

1778
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: want to see what. Yeah, I think we've got a

1779
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 1: long way to go before we even play a game.

1780
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 1: So and them losing one guy, now, they've also got

1781
01:27:34,920 --> 01:27:36,760
Speaker 1: some other guys that are crucial that they're trying to be.

1782
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: They just franchised the left guard Thuney, so they they

1783
01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:44,160
Speaker 1: there's some guys over there they think very highly of.

1784
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:47,400
Speaker 1: So I'm Kyle van Noy, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.

1785
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 1: I'm not bailing on them. I think they're really they

1786
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: got a good program and a really good coach and

1787
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna um and their coaches every bit as good

1788
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:58,559
Speaker 1: as the one the Buffalo Bills have as well. So um,

1789
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:01,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna build a team. Gotta take a break. It's

1790
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:03,639
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, coming to you from our homes. I'm

1791
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 1: at home, Steves at home. Give us a call eight

1792
01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 1: three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

1793
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 1: two five fifty. If the Bills take over the AFC

1794
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:14,320
Speaker 1: East will be the biggest factor. That's a question we're asking.

1795
01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 1: Give us a call, let us know what you think.

1796
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:17,760
Speaker 1: We're back with more in a moment. One Bills Live

1797
01:28:18,120 --> 01:28:31,320
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio Sports Update. The update on one

1798
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:33,640
Speaker 1: Bills Live. The Bills have just announced that they have

1799
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:37,160
Speaker 1: officially reached agreement on a free agent contract with cornerback

1800
01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: Josh Norman. Thirty two year old veteran has agreed terms

1801
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 1: to sign with the Buffalo Bills. Last night, the Bills

1802
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:45,120
Speaker 1: reached agreement with a couple of defensive linemen. Defensive tackle

1803
01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 1: Quinton Jefferson agreed to a two year deal. Defensive tackle

1804
01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:50,840
Speaker 1: Vernon Butler agreed to a deal with the Bills as well.

1805
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 1: The additions come after the Bills lost Jordan Phillips and

1806
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, and they lost Shack Laws into the

1807
01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:59,400
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. So Jefferson, the starter of twenty four games

1808
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 1: over the last two seasons where the Seattle Seahawks, is

1809
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 1: now with the Buffalo Bills. Vernon Butler's former first round

1810
01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:07,360
Speaker 1: pick in Carolina. That's a two year contract where sixteen

1811
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:10,680
Speaker 1: million dollars in two sixteen, his first season in the

1812
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:13,880
Speaker 1: NFL was the last year Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott

1813
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:18,120
Speaker 1: was the Carolina defensive coordinator. Elsewhere, the Bills have locked

1814
01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:20,800
Speaker 1: up safety Jordan Poyer a two year contract extension for

1815
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 1: one of the best safeties in the game. He came

1816
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:25,240
Speaker 1: to the Bills as part of Sean mcdermot's first free

1817
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 1: agent class back in twenty seventeen. Tom Brady found his destination.

1818
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,080
Speaker 1: He's on his way to Tampa, finalized an agreement to

1819
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:36,000
Speaker 1: join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a deal worth roughly thirty

1820
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: million dollars per year. Has moved down South. Comes after

1821
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 1: a whirlwin day yesterday of speculation he expected to sign

1822
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:44,680
Speaker 1: with the Buccaneers. We'll talk about that with our next

1823
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:47,120
Speaker 1: guest in a moment. Philip Rivers and the Indianapolis Colts

1824
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: have agreed to a one year, twenty five million dollar contract.

1825
01:29:50,600 --> 01:29:52,760
Speaker 1: His time with the Chargers ended earlier this year. The

1826
01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:55,759
Speaker 1: Cowboys reached the three year deal with defensive lineman Gerald McCoy,

1827
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 1: and the Jets have released coquarterback Trumaine Johnson after two

1828
01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:02,600
Speaker 1: disappointed seasons. And that is the update. Welcome back. It

1829
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:05,320
Speaker 1: is our number three of one Bills Live. John Murphy's

1830
01:30:05,320 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 1: team task around the Line Radio only today, no simulcast

1831
01:30:08,240 --> 01:30:11,639
Speaker 1: today because of complications, and we're joined on the line

1832
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 1: to talk about the Patriots. That's right, more Patriot Stalk.

1833
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:16,760
Speaker 1: We're joined by former Patriots linebacker Matt Chat. I'm three

1834
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:19,920
Speaker 1: time Super Bowl champion, contributed to the Athletic and NESSA

1835
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:21,720
Speaker 1: Matt Chat. H'm hello, thanks coming on the air with

1836
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:23,720
Speaker 1: us today. What's up, guys. It's good to be with you.

1837
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:26,639
Speaker 1: I think you're wearing a black shirt. If a screen

1838
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:29,280
Speaker 1: is correct, you're decked out in black today. We'll maybe

1839
01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:33,519
Speaker 1: more bluish, We'll go on. What's going on? What is

1840
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:35,800
Speaker 1: the mood? I know that's a dumb question, but what

1841
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:37,680
Speaker 1: are people thinking about Brady leaving? They got to be

1842
01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 1: a little upset right. The way I've sort of tried

1843
01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:44,160
Speaker 1: to look at this is there would certainly be feelings.

1844
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:46,559
Speaker 1: I think more of a freer say if say, had

1845
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:50,439
Speaker 1: this happened around you're fourteen, maybe you're sixteen, maybe you're eighteen.

1846
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:53,680
Speaker 1: There's a sadness component I would say to the old

1847
01:30:53,720 --> 01:30:56,840
Speaker 1: Patriots Nation thing. But the straight up anger part, I

1848
01:30:56,920 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 1: think is a far minority. This has been twenty years.

1849
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:02,160
Speaker 1: You know, if we even look at sort of the

1850
01:31:02,240 --> 01:31:04,360
Speaker 1: greats of our game, they're the real big quarterbacks have

1851
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:06,479
Speaker 1: come through over the last twenty thirty years. You know

1852
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 1: your Farms, you're Mannings, You're Joe montana Elway go down,

1853
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:12,920
Speaker 1: the list, Kelly, any of these guys they're at twelve

1854
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:16,280
Speaker 1: years or at fourteen years sixteen, potentially we're talking about

1855
01:31:16,320 --> 01:31:18,400
Speaker 1: what a guy's gonna do in his twenty first year.

1856
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 1: I think the cup is runneth over, and you know

1857
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:24,160
Speaker 1: many maybe Bill fancy it that way as well. It's

1858
01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 1: he's been here a long time. We've more exponentially got

1859
01:31:28,200 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 1: his worth, I think than any any organization could really

1860
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: reasonably expect to get from a player. So it's sad.

1861
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:37,400
Speaker 1: It'll be weird seeing them in another uniform for some people,

1862
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:40,080
Speaker 1: but I just I feel like they've gotten so much

1863
01:31:40,560 --> 01:31:42,720
Speaker 1: it's stuff to be too upset. How do you think

1864
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:45,719
Speaker 1: it will work out in Tampa Bay. It's a great question,

1865
01:31:46,040 --> 01:31:48,799
Speaker 1: I think, in part because it's a seven and nineteen.

1866
01:31:49,720 --> 01:31:52,080
Speaker 1: Yet it was kind of interesting to go back and looking.

1867
01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:54,200
Speaker 1: I know, obviously one of the biggest talking points is

1868
01:31:54,280 --> 01:31:58,000
Speaker 1: Jameis Winson's interceptions a year ago. But you have to

1869
01:31:58,080 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 1: remember in some of those multi interceptions games, they still

1870
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: had wins. So it wasn't just simply, hey, we get

1871
01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:05,960
Speaker 1: better quarterback play and we're no longer a seven nineteen.

1872
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:08,120
Speaker 1: Maybe they're nine and seven with Tom, maybe they're a

1873
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: ten and six a year ago. Maybe it's even better

1874
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:12,280
Speaker 1: than that, but we're not talking about a team or

1875
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 1: an organization that was on the cusp of going as

1876
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:17,439
Speaker 1: deep as Tom has used to going, So I think

1877
01:32:17,479 --> 01:32:19,679
Speaker 1: that'll be a challenge. I think there are some interesting

1878
01:32:19,720 --> 01:32:22,080
Speaker 1: pieces on the offense, obviously. I think O. J. Howard,

1879
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:24,560
Speaker 1: for people out there are fantasy football fans, will be

1880
01:32:25,320 --> 01:32:27,680
Speaker 1: excited because he came in with a lot of fanfare

1881
01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:30,880
Speaker 1: into the NFL and has been a modestly used guy.

1882
01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:33,880
Speaker 1: And Tom loves to work the middle of the field

1883
01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:36,479
Speaker 1: and with Titans it can stretch things vertically up up

1884
01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:38,760
Speaker 1: those teams, so it'll be interesting to see if he

1885
01:32:38,840 --> 01:32:41,760
Speaker 1: gets a greater bump, Tom will make their team better.

1886
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:45,040
Speaker 1: But it's still football, still team game. There's fifty three guys.

1887
01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:47,240
Speaker 1: There are many other reasons or a seven nine team

1888
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:49,840
Speaker 1: short of the quarterback position there a year ago. Man,

1889
01:32:50,040 --> 01:32:52,880
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember Joe Namath finishing up in

1890
01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:56,280
Speaker 1: his career with the Rams, and Johnny united with the Chargers,

1891
01:32:56,320 --> 01:33:00,040
Speaker 1: and Steve played against Joe Montana with the Chiefs. I

1892
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:02,080
Speaker 1: just can't help but I just can't help but feel

1893
01:33:02,120 --> 01:33:03,640
Speaker 1: that this is going to happen again, this sort of

1894
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 1: an endgame for the great one of the greatest quarterbacks

1895
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 1: in the game. What do you think, Yeah, well, I

1896
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:13,400
Speaker 1: mean again, I would say the heat would it would

1897
01:33:13,400 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 1: feel different. I feel a little more invasive. I guess

1898
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:17,680
Speaker 1: if you were watching him run through the last three

1899
01:33:17,720 --> 01:33:19,320
Speaker 1: to four to five years of his career in his

1900
01:33:19,439 --> 01:33:21,639
Speaker 1: late thirties or something like that. But again, I think

1901
01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:24,960
Speaker 1: this is a guy the list goes to. It's pretty bizarre. Ye.

1902
01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:27,639
Speaker 1: You go to Jackie Slater, you go to Darryl Green.

1903
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:30,960
Speaker 1: There are very few players in the NFL, certainly not

1904
01:33:31,120 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks did twenty years stent with any one organization. So

1905
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:36,759
Speaker 1: I kind of look at it. I use this metaphor

1906
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:40,519
Speaker 1: in my athletic column yesterday. I kind of look at it, like,

1907
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:42,800
Speaker 1: you know, we often talk about the nineteenth hole of

1908
01:33:43,080 --> 01:33:45,760
Speaker 1: someone's career. I look at his Tom who's had really

1909
01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:48,439
Speaker 1: two Hall of Fame careers. He played eighteen dominated, played

1910
01:33:48,439 --> 01:33:51,679
Speaker 1: another eighteen dominated, and he still wants to go play

1911
01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 1: a couple holes before dark. So I just I just

1912
01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:58,040
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to affect his legacy much. And

1913
01:33:58,280 --> 01:34:00,840
Speaker 1: I just think I'm happy if he's happy. Let's put

1914
01:34:00,880 --> 01:34:02,640
Speaker 1: it that way, What do you think the Patriots do

1915
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 1: a quarterback. I'm a big advocate at this point, if

1916
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:09,559
Speaker 1: you're not gonna go with your franchise level type guy,

1917
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 1: Tom or someone else. If you've made that decision, it's

1918
01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:15,360
Speaker 1: time to make us savings at the position. And I

1919
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:18,160
Speaker 1: think a lot of teams operate at that advantage over

1920
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:20,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots over a lot of the other organizations, and

1921
01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 1: I think they're in that stage now. So I think

1922
01:34:22,360 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham, their fourth round pick from Auburn a year ago,

1923
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:29,000
Speaker 1: showed some promise. We're not necessarily talking franchise stuff yet.

1924
01:34:29,040 --> 01:34:32,280
Speaker 1: It were many, many, many steps from going there. But

1925
01:34:32,439 --> 01:34:34,639
Speaker 1: I think in the event that you've made the non

1926
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:38,040
Speaker 1: Brady decision, you know, going to say Andy Dalton, are

1927
01:34:38,080 --> 01:34:40,800
Speaker 1: going to say Cam Newton or something like that. That's

1928
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:45,080
Speaker 1: presuming another pretty significant quarterback position investment, and it's a

1929
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:47,960
Speaker 1: step down from where you were. I personally would rather

1930
01:34:48,040 --> 01:34:51,120
Speaker 1: see go to development route. Make sure that your break

1931
01:34:51,200 --> 01:34:54,880
Speaker 1: glass option behind them is, you know, maybe something like

1932
01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:57,799
Speaker 1: Cody Kessler that's there now. I'd say a very comfortable

1933
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:00,240
Speaker 1: situation was when Tom first took over the job two

1934
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:02,479
Speaker 1: thousand and two, after the Super Bowl run. They made

1935
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:05,080
Speaker 1: the decision to let Drew go up north to you guys,

1936
01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:09,360
Speaker 1: and Damon. Damon Howard was the backup, and Damon was

1937
01:35:09,400 --> 01:35:12,519
Speaker 1: a really well respected guy, had gotten starts in Marino's

1938
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:14,559
Speaker 1: absence down there in Miami, had done a really nice

1939
01:35:14,640 --> 01:35:17,760
Speaker 1: job and extremely well respected pro. But they weren't going

1940
01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:21,519
Speaker 1: to pay you a former starting quarterback type price behind

1941
01:35:21,560 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 1: the developmental project. I think that's kind of where they

1942
01:35:24,120 --> 01:35:27,120
Speaker 1: are now with Matt Chatt I'm former Patriots linebacker. Rights

1943
01:35:27,160 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: for the athletic to Tom and does work with Nesson

1944
01:35:29,640 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: in Boston. At can they have Ford to get a

1945
01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:36,519
Speaker 1: franchise type quarterbacks? I've read that Brady leaves him with

1946
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:39,240
Speaker 1: a thirteen and a half million dollars hit on the cap,

1947
01:35:39,280 --> 01:35:41,560
Speaker 1: and then maybe they wouldn't really want to invest a

1948
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:43,920
Speaker 1: ton of money with that hanging over their head too.

1949
01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:45,560
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think? Yeah, I think the

1950
01:35:45,640 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 1: cap situation is something you have to acknowledge and sort

1951
01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:50,439
Speaker 1: of that was that was part of what last year's

1952
01:35:50,479 --> 01:35:53,719
Speaker 1: deal was going to do here. You know, the decision

1953
01:35:53,760 --> 01:35:55,120
Speaker 1: to keep him in house was going to have a

1954
01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:57,680
Speaker 1: carry of some sort of either the thirteen if he's

1955
01:35:57,720 --> 01:35:59,800
Speaker 1: gone or the six of the six or seven ish

1956
01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 1: on most if they were able to get something done

1957
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:04,160
Speaker 1: and they didn't. But I think you have to acknowledge

1958
01:36:04,200 --> 01:36:05,640
Speaker 1: that when you go forward and try to make the

1959
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:08,519
Speaker 1: next decision. I think in part because you're looking to

1960
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:11,560
Speaker 1: other options. There are not multi year options. You know,

1961
01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:13,479
Speaker 1: say again we'll go back to cam or you go

1962
01:36:13,560 --> 01:36:16,360
Speaker 1: back to say Andy Dalton, or either these guys going

1963
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:18,559
Speaker 1: to do one year, twenty five million dollars tech deals.

1964
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 1: I just don't think the team's cap situation is really

1965
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:24,040
Speaker 1: amendable to that, So I think you're probably looking at

1966
01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:26,599
Speaker 1: something else entirely. And you have to also remember Joe Tooney,

1967
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:28,760
Speaker 1: great player for them, they just franchised him with the

1968
01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:32,000
Speaker 1: guard position that carries a big number. We're all a

1969
01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:33,639
Speaker 1: little in the dark year. We don't know if that's

1970
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 1: with an intention to do an extension which would massively

1971
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:38,960
Speaker 1: lower that year one count number, or if it's to trade,

1972
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:41,960
Speaker 1: so that'll really affect cap space that they have, and

1973
01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:43,960
Speaker 1: if there was a different quarterback decision. I think those

1974
01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:46,960
Speaker 1: things will be connected, Matt. Before we get to what

1975
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:49,800
Speaker 1: happens next, like this next year. One more question about

1976
01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:51,960
Speaker 1: how this went down. Do you think it went down

1977
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:54,880
Speaker 1: like over the weekend. Was there an eleventh hour meeting

1978
01:36:54,960 --> 01:36:58,200
Speaker 1: between Brady and Craft or Brady and Belichick that kind

1979
01:36:58,240 --> 01:37:00,080
Speaker 1: of settled how this is going to work out? How

1980
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:03,600
Speaker 1: do you think the end game happened there? Well, what

1981
01:37:03,760 --> 01:37:05,639
Speaker 1: we had heard was that just two evenings ago Tom

1982
01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:08,680
Speaker 1: reached out to mister Kraft and coach Belichick and they

1983
01:37:08,720 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 1: had sort of the meeting of the minds. I think

1984
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:11,960
Speaker 1: it was more of a matter of respect with mister Kraft.

1985
01:37:12,040 --> 01:37:14,599
Speaker 1: They have very much similar to sort of a father

1986
01:37:14,680 --> 01:37:19,040
Speaker 1: son kind of deal, and Bill and Tom's mutual respect

1987
01:37:19,080 --> 01:37:22,360
Speaker 1: again runs twenty years, and I think they just it

1988
01:37:22,600 --> 01:37:24,760
Speaker 1: had come to the point where it wasn't so much

1989
01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:27,880
Speaker 1: what New England was really able we're willing to offer.

1990
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:31,680
Speaker 1: But I think Tom at least appears from from from

1991
01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:34,040
Speaker 1: the reporting that he was ready to move on, you know.

1992
01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:36,839
Speaker 1: And I think again, I think it's such an unusual situation.

1993
01:37:37,160 --> 01:37:39,800
Speaker 1: Me personally, it's the only point of reference I actually have,

1994
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 1: as I had six years here and we had three

1995
01:37:43,200 --> 01:37:45,559
Speaker 1: Super Bowls in four years, and then I went down

1996
01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:46,960
Speaker 1: to the Jets for a few years and I was

1997
01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:49,439
Speaker 1: tired at six. I can't even imagine what a human

1998
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 1: beings thinking at twenty years. It's just such a different

1999
01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:54,160
Speaker 1: it's just such a different frame of mind than Innew

2000
01:37:54,240 --> 01:37:56,680
Speaker 1: US ever been. And I don't think it rises the

2001
01:37:56,840 --> 01:38:00,560
Speaker 1: level of any acrimony. It's just sometimes twenty years you

2002
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:02,679
Speaker 1: still feel like you got a little left in your tank.

2003
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 1: It just he might be happy for a couple of

2004
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:07,599
Speaker 1: years just to try something else. I think it may

2005
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:10,680
Speaker 1: be just as simple as that, all things considered, So

2006
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:13,679
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is plucked out of the midst of after

2007
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:16,479
Speaker 1: being the guy for all those years that he just mentioned,

2008
01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 1: all things considered on the field, off the field, his

2009
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 1: production last year, his abilities as a forty two year old,

2010
01:38:23,080 --> 01:38:26,719
Speaker 1: the presence that he had, the icon the iconic nature

2011
01:38:26,800 --> 01:38:29,320
Speaker 1: of him just being on the team, and all the

2012
01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:31,600
Speaker 1: stuff that he brings with it. What does all of

2013
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:35,760
Speaker 1: that being taken away, his production and all the intangibles,

2014
01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:38,680
Speaker 1: what's that due to the Patriots next year. One of

2015
01:38:38,720 --> 01:38:40,720
Speaker 1: the first things that popped into my head it kind

2016
01:38:40,760 --> 01:38:42,760
Speaker 1: of as this was done and we're trying to figure

2017
01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 1: out what's left in the aftermath, is if you knew

2018
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:49,639
Speaker 1: this might happen, knowing that locker room and knowing sort

2019
01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: of the makeup the team. You're not going to have

2020
01:38:52,120 --> 01:38:54,640
Speaker 1: your team leader be under center anymore. That's I mean,

2021
01:38:54,680 --> 01:38:58,719
Speaker 1: that's pretty clear. That's why when they got Matthew Slayer

2022
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:01,799
Speaker 1: back under contract, when they got Devin mcquartery back under contract,

2023
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: that's sort of your Tom's obviously won by himself, but

2024
01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:06,920
Speaker 1: there's your two in your three. Those are the leaders

2025
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:09,080
Speaker 1: on this team. So if you're looking for sort of

2026
01:39:09,160 --> 01:39:11,720
Speaker 1: a bridge situation to keep the culture alive, to keep

2027
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:13,640
Speaker 1: sort of the well, let's put it this way to

2028
01:39:13,800 --> 01:39:15,479
Speaker 1: Tom was the last one of the three timers from

2029
01:39:15,479 --> 01:39:17,080
Speaker 1: the first group. I mean, obviously he's got his six

2030
01:39:17,120 --> 01:39:19,720
Speaker 1: super Bowls, but there's nobody left from the early era.

2031
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:23,559
Speaker 1: There's nobody left to continue that message. So I think

2032
01:39:23,640 --> 01:39:27,000
Speaker 1: you're really nice culture bridge guys are guys like like

2033
01:39:27,360 --> 01:39:31,160
Speaker 1: like Slate and like Deva mccuordy. So I thought that

2034
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:33,080
Speaker 1: was pretty operpul when he found out that they hung

2035
01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:36,080
Speaker 1: onto those guys. It's gonna be a defensive that team.

2036
01:39:36,120 --> 01:39:38,560
Speaker 1: Presumably they're going to be in a transition stage offensively,

2037
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:40,599
Speaker 1: but it's good to have those other defensive special teams

2038
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:43,040
Speaker 1: leader leaders still in that locker room. And man, I've

2039
01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:45,839
Speaker 1: always thought that one of the great things Brady provides

2040
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:48,439
Speaker 1: along with his play was the leadership and the fact

2041
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:50,600
Speaker 1: that guys could point to him as look at that

2042
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: guy Hall of Famer and looking at how hard he's working,

2043
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:55,160
Speaker 1: look at how he shows up here, you know and

2044
01:39:55,280 --> 01:39:58,360
Speaker 1: works extra and first man named, last man out that's gone. Now,

2045
01:39:58,439 --> 01:40:01,720
Speaker 1: that should affect him. I think miss that, won't they? Yeah,

2046
01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:04,000
Speaker 1: it's a good point. I mean, I don't know Jared

2047
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:06,160
Speaker 1: Stidham personally, but I think obviously, if you have a

2048
01:40:06,280 --> 01:40:09,479
Speaker 1: room that have been the offensive lineman obviously, but also

2049
01:40:09,479 --> 01:40:11,720
Speaker 1: all of your receivers and your backs and people are

2050
01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:13,920
Speaker 1: used to working with Tom on a regular basis, or

2051
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:17,080
Speaker 1: we used to working around him. If there's a slippage

2052
01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, it's a strong enough room that

2053
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:21,120
Speaker 1: they'll let the quarterback know that they're not going to

2054
01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:23,080
Speaker 1: allow someone to be in that room that that isn't

2055
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:24,920
Speaker 1: a first guy and last got to leave kind of type.

2056
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:27,760
Speaker 1: So those are the kind of personalities that tend to

2057
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:31,000
Speaker 1: flourish there. I highly doubt it would be attracted to

2058
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:32,600
Speaker 1: someone who allows it to be that much of a

2059
01:40:32,680 --> 01:40:34,360
Speaker 1: drop of it. In saying that, it's not as if

2060
01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:36,360
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham's got to jump up from the front of

2061
01:40:36,400 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 1: the room and give a bunch of speeches now, or

2062
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: lead lift groups or anything like that. That's just not

2063
01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:43,600
Speaker 1: that's just not what's going to happen. But you're right,

2064
01:40:43,680 --> 01:40:47,560
Speaker 1: it's obviously a big vacancy. Tom is as big a

2065
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:50,280
Speaker 1: figure as you have in any NFL locker room. So

2066
01:40:50,400 --> 01:40:53,160
Speaker 1: if they're going to go with Jared Stidham, what else

2067
01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:57,320
Speaker 1: do they need? A good question, obviously. I think the

2068
01:40:57,400 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 1: tight end position is one that with or without Tom

2069
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:02,240
Speaker 1: was going to need to be addressed. Ben Watson did

2070
01:41:02,640 --> 01:41:05,160
Speaker 1: a very admirable job, especially as old as he was,

2071
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:07,920
Speaker 1: to come in and provide production for them for a

2072
01:41:08,000 --> 01:41:11,040
Speaker 1: portion of the season, but beyond that they were really

2073
01:41:11,120 --> 01:41:13,639
Speaker 1: thin and it's been sort of a tight end led group,

2074
01:41:14,360 --> 01:41:16,200
Speaker 1: you know, for for a new years with the Gronk.

2075
01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:17,559
Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean you have to go find your

2076
01:41:17,600 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 1: next Bronk, but they were a team that really strived

2077
01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:22,439
Speaker 1: in two tight end situations for a long long time,

2078
01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:24,800
Speaker 1: and they couldn't be much of a twelve team but

2079
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:26,519
Speaker 1: for a portion of the season a year ago, and

2080
01:41:26,560 --> 01:41:30,000
Speaker 1: that may mean two full new guys. Matt Lacost did

2081
01:41:30,040 --> 01:41:32,120
Speaker 1: an admirable job. I assume he keeps some role of

2082
01:41:32,240 --> 01:41:35,320
Speaker 1: some sort, but it may be veteran free agent that's

2083
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:39,679
Speaker 1: a relatively you know, appealing option that's out there. Maybe

2084
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:42,920
Speaker 1: Riki runs something like that. Again, we talked cap earlier.

2085
01:41:42,920 --> 01:41:44,320
Speaker 1: You're going to have to make moves there to make

2086
01:41:44,400 --> 01:41:47,439
Speaker 1: that possible. But a possible target at tight end, and

2087
01:41:47,479 --> 01:41:49,920
Speaker 1: maybe draft equity there as well. It's just a spot

2088
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:51,519
Speaker 1: that would had to have been upgraded one way or

2089
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:54,680
Speaker 1: the other. With Matt Chatham, former Patriots linebacker. Right for

2090
01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:56,800
Speaker 1: the Athletic dot Com, Matt, Steve and I are going

2091
01:41:56,840 --> 01:41:59,200
Speaker 1: to fight the next six months. I think over this question.

2092
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:02,000
Speaker 1: We started it already. I'm not saying the Patriots fall

2093
01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:04,720
Speaker 1: off the table here. I think they'll be competitive, but

2094
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 1: the balance of power is affected in the AFC East, right,

2095
01:42:08,040 --> 01:42:10,479
Speaker 1: I mean the Bills have to be considered a real

2096
01:42:11,240 --> 01:42:13,680
Speaker 1: strong candidate to win the division now this year. Right,

2097
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:16,439
Speaker 1: Don't think I think it's affected. I think we're definitely

2098
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:19,000
Speaker 1: talking neck and neck there. I would I would have

2099
01:42:19,080 --> 01:42:21,160
Speaker 1: presumed that most people are going to come back well

2100
01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:23,600
Speaker 1: well before we go there. I would also say I

2101
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:25,479
Speaker 1: kind of like to know who's playing for the Pats,

2102
01:42:25,840 --> 01:42:27,439
Speaker 1: and we kind of sit here in a part in

2103
01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:30,720
Speaker 1: March where I can name five six positions or I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure who's going to stand in them, and that'll

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Speaker 1: probably answer some of those questions. But no Buffalo has

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Speaker 1: done had a great season a year ago. The Dig's

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Speaker 1: edition is something that I could easily see myself getting

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Speaker 1: excited about if I were up there in Buffalo. As

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Speaker 1: much as anything, I think, I think the absence of

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Speaker 1: Sammy watkinsult these years, who always was a head scratcher

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Speaker 1: to me, and he seems like Sammy type kind of

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Speaker 1: back in the house, and we should should marry Dick

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01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 1: should marry really well with Josh Allen, So I think

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Speaker 1: that's exciting from their point of from their point of view,

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Speaker 1: not overlook Miami either, as much as anything. Miami has

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Speaker 1: been an aggravation for New England all these years, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily how their their net wins end up being, but

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Speaker 1: just the one on the one to one kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: So the Jets have said a little more in weight

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Speaker 1: here and the early early portion of free agency, so

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01:43:15,840 --> 01:43:17,800
Speaker 1: maybe we're not talking about them as much, but I

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01:43:17,920 --> 01:43:21,040
Speaker 1: see some tightening in the division for sure, And can

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01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:24,360
Speaker 1: I see this man, and I mean no animosity in

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01:43:24,520 --> 01:43:28,439
Speaker 1: this statement at all. But for twenty years, the Bills

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01:43:28,479 --> 01:43:31,680
Speaker 1: and several other of NFL's thirty two teams have had

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01:43:31,680 --> 01:43:34,840
Speaker 1: a lot offseasons where people are scratching their you know, head, saying,

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Speaker 1: who's going to be our quarterback? Is he the guy?

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01:43:37,120 --> 01:43:39,040
Speaker 1: Is he a franchise guy. I have to say I

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01:43:39,120 --> 01:43:41,439
Speaker 1: have no problem with Patriots fans maybe sitting through some

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01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:43,320
Speaker 1: of that this offseason. No, and I don't mean that

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01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:46,240
Speaker 1: in all, but you know what I mean, it's good

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01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:48,120
Speaker 1: to have people they're worried about who their quarterback is.

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Speaker 1: I think, well, I'll say this as you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm as much removed as an analysis. I was a

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Speaker 1: player nine playing, but I've been out since twenty eleven,

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Speaker 1: so we're I'm I've never done this personally as am

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Speaker 1: with a particular team. I haven't had to spend a

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01:44:01,960 --> 01:44:05,439
Speaker 1: week to week analyzing the quarterback play. Quite frankly, usually

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Speaker 1: had an accepted standard. It was always going to be

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Speaker 1: at or around that, and now we have an evaluation

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Speaker 1: on going to the position that we usually don't deal with,

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01:44:12,840 --> 01:44:15,880
Speaker 1: so it'll be new and different. I'm not yet sold

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Speaker 1: that we're talking multi win swings here with the organization

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Speaker 1: in part, but it could happen, you know, we just

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01:44:22,560 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 1: don't know. I think one of the big things that's

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01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:26,920
Speaker 1: helped them in the last couple of seasons, they've migrated

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Speaker 1: away from a pastor's offense. It's been very heavily rundependent.

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01:44:30,720 --> 01:44:32,880
Speaker 1: The Gronk year a year ago, where you get a

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Speaker 1: thirteenth three Super Bowl and they running the heck out

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01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:36,960
Speaker 1: of the football for many games in a row. That

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01:44:37,320 --> 01:44:40,880
Speaker 1: may help the transition. The offensive line stays presumably intact.

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01:44:40,920 --> 01:44:43,040
Speaker 1: They've got a great group of backs. They should be

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01:44:43,120 --> 01:44:46,360
Speaker 1: able to still have competency there. You're not going to

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01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:48,640
Speaker 1: have the same pass proficiency. That would just be unrealistic

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Speaker 1: to expect it. But if they do find some way

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01:44:51,760 --> 01:44:55,080
Speaker 1: to get some weapons around a young quarterback, the weapons

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01:44:55,120 --> 01:44:57,960
Speaker 1: will elevate his play to a point where maybe they

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Speaker 1: do have a passing attack at least as good as

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01:45:00,880 --> 01:45:03,400
Speaker 1: last year's when Tom Brady had nobody to work with.

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Speaker 1: They had a couple of great games when they did

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Speaker 1: have Antonio Brown on the roster and they fed him

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01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:11,519
Speaker 1: the ball before they had to ultimately release him. There

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Speaker 1: are ways for them to piece together an offense that

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01:45:14,479 --> 01:45:16,320
Speaker 1: in some ways could be even better than the one

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Speaker 1: they had last year and they won twelve games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the part they dealt with all year last year,

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01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:24,920
Speaker 1: Steve was really it's hard to put your finger on

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01:45:25,000 --> 01:45:26,960
Speaker 1: because it wasn't a one to one game, but losing

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Speaker 1: to Kiel Harry, your first round draft pick for half

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Speaker 1: the season stunk. You go out and invest in Muhammad Sanu.

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01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:34,639
Speaker 1: Everyone loved that move. And he blows his ankle out

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01:45:34,680 --> 01:45:36,519
Speaker 1: two weeks into it, and he plays through it and

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01:45:36,560 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 1: he has offseason surgery. So they invest an end season's

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Speaker 1: second round pick, and you lose Josh Word end season

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Speaker 1: and you lose Brown. So I think they were They

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Speaker 1: were in scrambled mode a lot, but with a healthy

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Speaker 1: Sinou kind of like that move with Nikkil Harry now

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01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:53,720
Speaker 1: in less of sort of. Again, we're obviously projecting here

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Speaker 1: if Stidham's the guy. Stidham is more of a little

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Speaker 1: bit of mobility. I mean, I think we've seen him,

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01:45:58,400 --> 01:46:00,200
Speaker 1: at least there was preseason games as a guy that

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Speaker 1: will leave the pocket and can make throws on the run.

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01:46:02,600 --> 01:46:06,120
Speaker 1: That's an entirely different kind of route consideration for for

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01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:08,439
Speaker 1: a downfield guy. You'll see more scrambled players. You'll see

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01:46:08,479 --> 01:46:11,000
Speaker 1: more just athleta go get an ability, which you saw

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01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:12,920
Speaker 1: a lot of them to Quil Harry at Arizona State.

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01:46:13,000 --> 01:46:15,160
Speaker 1: So if we're talking a little less of the pattern

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01:46:15,240 --> 01:46:17,519
Speaker 1: based stuff which he struggled with his you know, young

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01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:21,000
Speaker 1: players often do, and it'll be interested to see how

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01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:24,720
Speaker 1: it affects them. So those two an upgrade or more

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01:46:24,840 --> 01:46:27,280
Speaker 1: production from the keel Harry side and the healthy Mohammed

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01:46:27,360 --> 01:46:30,360
Speaker 1: Knew alongside Jules. You address the tight end position, and

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01:46:30,439 --> 01:46:32,840
Speaker 1: I don't think the receiver group is quite as bereft

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Speaker 1: as it may have. Look. Hey, mat, thanks for this.

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Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. We appreciate it. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: my pleasures. This guy how mager? Excuse me? He says,

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Speaker 1: I met Yadam, former Patriots linebacker, right for the Athletic

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Speaker 1: dot Com. And it does work with Nesson in New England.

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Speaker 1: That's all right to ask him, right, I mean, it's

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01:46:50,040 --> 01:46:53,799
Speaker 1: about the look he's level headed. There are many Patriots

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Speaker 1: fans who would be mad if I asked him, But

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Speaker 1: I don't mind the fact that they're scratching their heads

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01:46:58,439 --> 01:47:01,000
Speaker 1: this march, worrying about where they're quarterback plays coming from

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01:47:01,040 --> 01:47:04,200
Speaker 1: I kind of like it. It's something different. Yeah, it's

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01:47:04,280 --> 01:47:10,200
Speaker 1: something different, that's for sure. It's about time. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's fine that it was the same thing when Dan

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01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:16,519
Speaker 1: Marino played for seventeen years too, it was different. Da

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01:47:16,600 --> 01:47:19,519
Speaker 1: Marino won one championship. These guys have won six. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they've been to nine Super Bowls and won six of them.

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Speaker 1: And they've been to they've won the division for ten

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01:47:24,600 --> 01:47:27,880
Speaker 1: straight years. Even when he was in one Super Bowl,

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01:47:27,880 --> 01:47:30,760
Speaker 1: he didn't even win it, right And uh, and then

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01:47:30,840 --> 01:47:33,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots of one tended division titles in a row.

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01:47:33,960 --> 01:47:41,439
Speaker 1: Um My, in in my experience, that doesn't that doesn't

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Speaker 1: just go away because one guy goes away, even he's

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Speaker 1: a forty two year old quarterback. Uh, they're gonna be

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01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:53,280
Speaker 1: good this year. So don't think you're gonna sweep the

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Speaker 1: division because one guy left. They're gonna win the division.

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01:47:57,200 --> 01:47:59,240
Speaker 1: I think is that's I'm not doing this, be in it.

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01:47:59,439 --> 01:48:01,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna be The Bills are gonna be tough. Don't

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Speaker 1: get me wrong. The Bills are gonna be really, really tough.

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Speaker 1: And I think and now Miami looks like they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a different football team. Uh, it's it went from

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Speaker 1: h I mean just a few years ago, three years,

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Speaker 1: four years ago, and I'm just saying, if Miami gets

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Speaker 1: significantly better than they were to say, if they get

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Speaker 1: up into the eight and eight range, nine and seven range,

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01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:24,400
Speaker 1: and the Bills can stay at their current ten and

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01:48:24,520 --> 01:48:27,479
Speaker 1: six range, and with the Patriots mixed in there, somewhere,

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01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:30,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the AFC East becomes a really

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01:48:30,160 --> 01:48:34,840
Speaker 1: competitive division. And the NFC West that all those teams

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01:48:34,880 --> 01:48:36,800
Speaker 1: are gonna play has got to be looking at saying, Wow,

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01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:38,840
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna be such a good schedule. After all,

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01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:41,519
Speaker 1: they were thinking maybe they just have to plow through

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Speaker 1: the Patriots in their out of division, out of conference schedule,

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01:48:47,280 --> 01:48:48,960
Speaker 1: and now it looks like a little bit rougher than

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01:48:49,040 --> 01:48:50,559
Speaker 1: that for all these teams that are going to play

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01:48:50,560 --> 01:48:54,760
Speaker 1: the in AFC East. Mister Sunshine, you are usually mister

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01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:57,200
Speaker 1: blue Skies. You surprise me, Steve. I gotta say, why,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean? Look, I don't know how you

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01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:02,519
Speaker 1: at the twelve wins for the Patriots. If they win ten,

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01:49:02,640 --> 01:49:05,040
Speaker 1: that'll be and that'll be an achievement for them, and

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01:49:05,120 --> 01:49:09,679
Speaker 1: the Bills I think can fry and maybe being handcuffed

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01:49:09,680 --> 01:49:11,160
Speaker 1: a little bit by the schedule, but they should be

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01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:14,400
Speaker 1: able to get to eleven or twelve wins, shouldn't they. Yeah,

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01:49:14,439 --> 01:49:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's too early to tell Murph. We don't

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01:49:16,320 --> 01:49:18,080
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna look like when they when they

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01:49:18,200 --> 01:49:20,320
Speaker 1: step up. But certainly you got to think right now

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Speaker 1: the Bills are going to be a better football team

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Speaker 1: than they were a year ago. But as you said,

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Speaker 1: the one thing that you don't have control over is

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01:49:27,360 --> 01:49:30,320
Speaker 1: the schedule. You're gonna play a much some teams that

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01:49:30,439 --> 01:49:34,040
Speaker 1: are coming off much better seasons than the teams the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills played, particularly in the first half of last season. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know we're playing Cincinnati in Miami. You know we're

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Speaker 1: playing uh, some teams that you know, quite frankly, we're struggling.

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01:49:48,920 --> 01:49:52,639
Speaker 1: So it was we'll see the Bills. And I've said

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01:49:52,680 --> 01:49:54,719
Speaker 1: it before, the Bills could be a much better football

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01:49:54,760 --> 01:49:57,600
Speaker 1: team in twenty twenty and win fewer games than they

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Speaker 1: did in twenty nineteen. And all I'm saying is we

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Speaker 1: know a lot more today about the twenty twenty prospects

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots than

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01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:07,519
Speaker 1: we knew a week and go from today. Do you

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Speaker 1: agree with that? Oh, yeah, that's true. And and I

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01:50:10,160 --> 01:50:12,400
Speaker 1: think we can get our hand we will get our handle,

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Speaker 1: our hands on or our heads around what you know,

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Speaker 1: what it's going to look like. But all these teams

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Speaker 1: that you know, we can always you know, we can

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Speaker 1: always make our make our predictions the way we can.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know, I've not, I've I've I've been

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Speaker 1: I've seen it too often where that team comes through big,

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01:50:37,960 --> 01:50:40,160
Speaker 1: that that new England team comes through big. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think Bill Beller Takes got a plan. I think

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01:50:42,320 --> 01:50:44,679
Speaker 1: they got a program. I think they got their own process,

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01:50:45,160 --> 01:50:47,880
Speaker 1: just like we do here one Bills drive, and I

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01:50:47,960 --> 01:50:50,080
Speaker 1: think they're still gonna be a you know, a tough

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Speaker 1: team to beat for the division title. Competitive, But their

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01:50:53,600 --> 01:50:57,120
Speaker 1: process for twenty years has included maybe the greatest quarterback

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Speaker 1: of all times. Maybe. Yeah, they've had the easiest position. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they've had the easiest, most difficult, then the most difficult

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01:51:02,680 --> 01:51:07,519
Speaker 1: position to fill. Filled to the top for twenty years,

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Speaker 1: no question, and that's gone all right. What's the biggest

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Speaker 1: factor if the Bills do take over the AFC? So

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Speaker 1: we've got phone lines wide open, love to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Eight O three five fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty, nine hundred votes in

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll so far, sixty one percent you say

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Speaker 1: the number one factor in the Bill is taken over

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01:51:25,600 --> 01:51:29,360
Speaker 1: the division would be the improvement continued improvement to Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: I love that answer. That's where I would go. Twenty

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Speaker 1: percent say the Bills free agent signings and the trade

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01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:37,200
Speaker 1: Stefan digs they made would be the number one factor

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Speaker 1: and the Bills taking over the division. Nineteen percent say

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Speaker 1: Rady leaving the Patriots to be the number one factor.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear it from you. Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. We're radio only today, Radio only,

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Speaker 1: I believe for the foreseeable future, will do the best

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Speaker 1: need to hear from people here from Bills fans eight

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Speaker 1: question of the day. What's the biggest factor if the

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Speaker 1: Bills are going to take over the AFC East, now,

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Speaker 1: what will be the biggest factor? Sixty one percent you

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Speaker 1: say it's continued improving them, Josh Allen. Twenty percent say

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01:52:35,120 --> 01:52:37,720
Speaker 1: it's the Bills free agent signings and the trade they

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01:52:37,800 --> 01:52:40,519
Speaker 1: made the other day. And nineteen percent say Tom Brady

2314
01:52:40,600 --> 01:52:42,280
Speaker 1: leaving the Patriots is going to make the big difference.

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01:52:42,320 --> 01:52:45,240
Speaker 1: What do you think? Eight three five fifty toll free

2316
01:52:45,360 --> 01:52:48,880
Speaker 1: from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two

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01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:51,679
Speaker 1: five fifty. Let us know what do you think. Let's

2318
01:52:51,840 --> 01:52:53,960
Speaker 1: read some of the tweets from the tweet sheet. The

2319
01:52:53,960 --> 01:52:57,320
Speaker 1: tweet sheet brocu by Corgan Moving Systems, the official moves

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01:52:57,320 --> 01:53:00,320
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Kevin Dolney says, looking at brady

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01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:03,080
Speaker 1: stats against the Bills last year, him being the Patriots

2322
01:53:03,160 --> 01:53:05,799
Speaker 1: quarterback was not the reason we lost. So I expect

2323
01:53:05,840 --> 01:53:08,599
Speaker 1: two hard games against them this year. Well I do too, Steve,

2324
01:53:08,640 --> 01:53:10,960
Speaker 1: don't you? Yeah, I'm sure you do. Yeah, you know,

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01:53:11,120 --> 01:53:13,200
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be really good. I don't think

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01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:15,880
Speaker 1: there's any question that the Patriots is going to be

2327
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:18,320
Speaker 1: a good football team. And I still think the division

2328
01:53:18,360 --> 01:53:20,320
Speaker 1: titles got You gotta think it's gonna go through there.

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01:53:21,200 --> 01:53:23,840
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. They swept us last year

2330
01:53:23,960 --> 01:53:27,559
Speaker 1: and we were a much better team than we had been.

2331
01:53:28,280 --> 01:53:32,400
Speaker 1: We'll see. They didn't beat us with offense last year.

2332
01:53:32,760 --> 01:53:37,559
Speaker 1: They beat us with a block punt and the fact

2333
01:53:37,600 --> 01:53:39,160
Speaker 1: that we couldn't get in the end zone. They beat

2334
01:53:39,200 --> 01:53:42,680
Speaker 1: us with a defense, at least in Orchard Park. That's

2335
01:53:42,680 --> 01:53:45,320
Speaker 1: the way it went down. So you know, you got

2336
01:53:45,400 --> 01:53:48,200
Speaker 1: to overcome those you're the offense has got to find

2337
01:53:48,240 --> 01:53:50,040
Speaker 1: a way to score more points, and if they do,

2338
01:53:51,680 --> 01:53:53,640
Speaker 1: maybe they will. Maybe the Bills do turn into the

2339
01:53:53,760 --> 01:53:56,760
Speaker 1: division favorite. Nick Blake tweets us and New England is

2340
01:53:56,840 --> 01:54:00,679
Speaker 1: so cocky, He says, just the fact that Patriots fans

2341
01:54:00,760 --> 01:54:03,280
Speaker 1: think they can win the division with Stidham, who's never

2342
01:54:03,360 --> 01:54:06,120
Speaker 1: played it down in the NFL, it's crazy doing that.

2343
01:54:06,240 --> 01:54:09,160
Speaker 1: They's finished deal with it. Patriots stink again like they

2344
01:54:09,240 --> 01:54:12,400
Speaker 1: did in the nineties. You know that's not unreasonable. You

2345
01:54:12,600 --> 01:54:15,280
Speaker 1: probably think it is, Steve, but I'm again, I'm old

2346
01:54:15,400 --> 01:54:17,960
Speaker 1: enough to remember the Steve Grogan Patriots, who the Bills

2347
01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:21,240
Speaker 1: regularly manhandled on on a regular basis. You played against

2348
01:54:21,240 --> 01:54:23,519
Speaker 1: some of those teams. They were awful for a long time,

2349
01:54:23,960 --> 01:54:27,320
Speaker 1: and they could take a step back that way. I

2350
01:54:27,400 --> 01:54:29,719
Speaker 1: know Bettlechick is a good coach, but you need players.

2351
01:54:29,840 --> 01:54:33,240
Speaker 1: He's lost some big ones this year. The reason those

2352
01:54:33,280 --> 01:54:38,800
Speaker 1: teams were bad was because they had poor leadership at

2353
01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:40,760
Speaker 1: the top and they didn't have the kind of pro

2354
01:54:40,960 --> 01:54:44,520
Speaker 1: they had. They've got, They've got everything a good franchise needs.

2355
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:47,760
Speaker 1: A winning franchise and you think got great ownership, great leadership,

2356
01:54:47,840 --> 01:54:50,560
Speaker 1: a good coach, who's the quarter program? They don't have

2357
01:54:50,640 --> 01:54:54,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback? Who's their quarterback? Well that's that's a big

2358
01:54:54,480 --> 01:54:58,360
Speaker 1: thing that a great franchise needs. No, Well, what happened

2359
01:54:58,360 --> 01:55:00,400
Speaker 1: to the Pittsburgh Steelers when they you know, I mean

2360
01:55:00,440 --> 01:55:07,560
Speaker 1: without listen, good franchises win games. And while every every team,

2361
01:55:07,600 --> 01:55:10,000
Speaker 1: you'd like to think every team has a great quarterback

2362
01:55:10,040 --> 01:55:11,640
Speaker 1: that wins the Super Bowl, and a lot of them do.

2363
01:55:12,560 --> 01:55:14,520
Speaker 1: And certainly I think it takes a great quarterback to

2364
01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:16,640
Speaker 1: get to the Super Bowl. They can still have a

2365
01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:19,040
Speaker 1: really good football team and not win the Super Bowl.

2366
01:55:20,280 --> 01:55:22,600
Speaker 1: The Patriots are gonna be good. Just mark my words

2367
01:55:22,680 --> 01:55:24,800
Speaker 1: right now. They're gonna be really good. They're gonna win

2368
01:55:24,880 --> 01:55:29,640
Speaker 1: double digit games in twenty twenty. Go to Andrew and Stafford.

2369
01:55:29,680 --> 01:55:31,320
Speaker 1: Hello Andrew, you're on the air with us. Go ahead,

2370
01:55:32,640 --> 01:55:36,200
Speaker 1: Hey John, Hey Steve calling in. UM, just got a

2371
01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:39,840
Speaker 1: couple of questions or really concerns about some of the moves.

2372
01:55:40,520 --> 01:55:43,040
Speaker 1: I'm not really jumping on their bandwagon with some of

2373
01:55:43,080 --> 01:55:47,600
Speaker 1: their free agency decisions. One of my biggest ones that

2374
01:55:47,880 --> 01:55:53,400
Speaker 1: I questioned is the Mario Addison signing at thirty two

2375
01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:56,400
Speaker 1: years old for a three year, thirty million over Shack

2376
01:55:56,520 --> 01:55:59,680
Speaker 1: Lawson and twenty five years old three years thirty million.

2377
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:04,840
Speaker 1: Like Mario Addison's had better production. Yeah, but he's seven

2378
01:56:04,960 --> 01:56:08,840
Speaker 1: years older and Shack Lawson was an in house guy.

2379
01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:11,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just get kind of annoyed with

2380
01:56:12,200 --> 01:56:14,960
Speaker 1: coaches bringing in their guys from their former teams. Really

2381
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:16,880
Speaker 1: didn't work out that well with Rex Ryan in the

2382
01:56:16,960 --> 01:56:19,640
Speaker 1: New York Jets, so that one kind of confused me.

2383
01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:24,080
Speaker 1: And then Quintin Jefferson one. People are saying he's a

2384
01:56:24,160 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 1: defensive end, but at two hundred and ninety pounds and

2385
01:56:27,200 --> 01:56:30,360
Speaker 1: watching his films, he always lined up at the inside.

2386
01:56:30,440 --> 01:56:34,840
Speaker 1: So I mean, you're leaving us short at end. I

2387
01:56:34,960 --> 01:56:38,440
Speaker 1: feel like and aging and Jerry Hughes thirty one, Mario

2388
01:56:38,520 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: Addison thirty two, Trent Murphy twenty nine. I just I'm

2389
01:56:42,800 --> 01:56:45,080
Speaker 1: very confused about some of those decisions. Yeah, if you

2390
01:56:45,120 --> 01:56:48,480
Speaker 1: could talk about some of the man those are good questions,

2391
01:56:48,800 --> 01:56:51,240
Speaker 1: and I don't think you can expect every problem to

2392
01:56:51,360 --> 01:56:54,840
Speaker 1: be solved in free agency, like aged defensive end, but

2393
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 1: I do think this, uh you know, Addison, I think

2394
01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:02,120
Speaker 1: provides more, if not ultimate pass brush pressure, more pass

2395
01:57:02,200 --> 01:57:05,000
Speaker 1: rush pressure than they ever got from Shack Lawson. I mean,

2396
01:57:05,120 --> 01:57:08,400
Speaker 1: let's face it, Shack Lawson was a multi talented run

2397
01:57:08,440 --> 01:57:11,840
Speaker 1: defender and a passprush guy, but mostly a run defender.

2398
01:57:11,920 --> 01:57:13,720
Speaker 1: So I think that might be what they're looking at there.

2399
01:57:14,080 --> 01:57:16,680
Speaker 1: And you're right, the money looks like it's pretty similar

2400
01:57:16,680 --> 01:57:19,959
Speaker 1: anything to add there. Steve No he's had more productive

2401
01:57:20,000 --> 01:57:23,080
Speaker 1: seasons the last four years. Mario Addison has had nine

2402
01:57:23,120 --> 01:57:26,400
Speaker 1: and a half nine sacks at least in every single

2403
01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:29,680
Speaker 1: one of the last four years. Shack Lawson hasn't gotten

2404
01:57:29,680 --> 01:57:32,560
Speaker 1: a whiff of that, that's all. And this and this

2405
01:57:32,720 --> 01:57:35,360
Speaker 1: is a short term contract, is not a very long contract.

2406
01:57:35,440 --> 01:57:37,920
Speaker 1: They can wash their hands of it if they want,

2407
01:57:37,960 --> 01:57:42,760
Speaker 1: if he doesn't work out from all accounts and purposes

2408
01:57:43,400 --> 01:57:46,320
Speaker 1: or from all accounts, he's a great locker room guy,

2409
01:57:46,400 --> 01:57:49,320
Speaker 1: great leader, great kind of mentorship kind of guy. So

2410
01:57:49,560 --> 01:57:51,840
Speaker 1: if you're gonna swap him out, they swapped out for

2411
01:57:51,920 --> 01:57:54,360
Speaker 1: the strictly for the production and you can say which

2412
01:57:54,400 --> 01:57:56,960
Speaker 1: you want. About thirty plus years old, the guy had

2413
01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:59,080
Speaker 1: a better year than Shack Lawson did last year. Rushing

2414
01:57:59,160 --> 01:58:01,600
Speaker 1: the passer. A couple of news items are going to

2415
01:58:01,680 --> 01:58:03,680
Speaker 1: get back to the phone. So Andrew Brandt, good friend

2416
01:58:03,720 --> 01:58:06,120
Speaker 1: of the show, makes a good point we told you about.

2417
01:58:06,640 --> 01:58:10,280
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is trading away quarterback Nick Foles to Chicago. Andrew

2418
01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:14,480
Speaker 1: Brant points out last year's most expensive free agent, Nick Foles.

2419
01:58:14,760 --> 01:58:19,240
Speaker 1: It's traded to Chicago for a twenty twenty compensatory fourth rounder. Man.

2420
01:58:19,760 --> 01:58:22,200
Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's how crazy things are. That's how bad

2421
01:58:22,320 --> 01:58:26,120
Speaker 1: Jacksonville decision making is, I think. And one more, yeah,

2422
01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:30,280
Speaker 1: one more news note. Rams free agent pass rusher Dante

2423
01:58:30,400 --> 01:58:33,520
Speaker 1: Fowler expected to sign with the Atlanta Falcons. High end

2424
01:58:33,560 --> 01:58:36,560
Speaker 1: pass rusher lands in Atlanta coach Dan Quinn had him

2425
01:58:36,560 --> 01:58:39,400
Speaker 1: a little bit when Fowler was at Florida. Sixty seven

2426
01:58:39,480 --> 01:58:42,600
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures tied for twelfth in the regular season last year.

2427
01:58:42,640 --> 01:58:44,880
Speaker 1: He's a good player. Dante foul probably came with a

2428
01:58:44,920 --> 01:58:47,840
Speaker 1: big price too. Yeah, we'll see the terms of that

2429
01:58:47,960 --> 01:58:51,720
Speaker 1: when it comes through, But no question that and and

2430
01:58:52,200 --> 01:58:56,200
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I get it, there's gonna be some That's

2431
01:58:56,240 --> 01:58:58,960
Speaker 1: the first unhappy person I've heard call into the show

2432
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,880
Speaker 1: about the free agents of the Buffalo Bills and he's

2433
01:59:01,920 --> 01:59:04,640
Speaker 1: talking about the age of the guys that they're talking about.

2434
01:59:04,880 --> 01:59:07,720
Speaker 1: And I get it, no question. You think they're all

2435
01:59:07,840 --> 01:59:09,520
Speaker 1: used up and they don't have any tread on their

2436
01:59:09,560 --> 01:59:11,440
Speaker 1: tire and they're gonna they don't have any gas in

2437
01:59:11,480 --> 01:59:13,880
Speaker 1: the tank, whatever analogy you want to use. The simple

2438
01:59:13,960 --> 01:59:15,360
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is this a lot of these

2439
01:59:15,440 --> 01:59:18,120
Speaker 1: guys and the guys that have the right DNA that

2440
01:59:18,240 --> 01:59:22,280
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott Brandon being looked for, they are long term

2441
01:59:22,440 --> 01:59:25,720
Speaker 1: veterans because they have the right attitude all the time,

2442
01:59:25,840 --> 01:59:28,080
Speaker 1: and they prepare to play well. They know how to

2443
01:59:28,880 --> 01:59:32,920
Speaker 1: make themselves ready to play. They're highly motivated. They have

2444
01:59:33,080 --> 01:59:35,560
Speaker 1: all the stuff that you want and whatever tread they

2445
01:59:35,640 --> 01:59:38,360
Speaker 1: do have on the tires, they're gonna give to you

2446
01:59:38,480 --> 01:59:40,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon, and they're gonna be ready to give

2447
01:59:40,400 --> 01:59:43,360
Speaker 1: it their best. So I don't shy away from the

2448
01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:46,760
Speaker 1: older guys that the Bills have signed, because I know too.

2449
01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 1: They just signed a couple of guys that are in

2450
01:59:48,440 --> 01:59:51,480
Speaker 1: their mid twenties as well, so they'll have plenty of

2451
01:59:51,560 --> 01:59:53,680
Speaker 1: fresh legs if they get to that point. Take one

2452
01:59:53,720 --> 01:59:55,960
Speaker 1: more quick phone call, we'll go to Tim and Charlotte. Hello,

2453
01:59:56,000 --> 01:59:58,600
Speaker 1: Timmy are on the here? Hey, how are you guying?

2454
01:59:59,600 --> 02:00:03,280
Speaker 1: Good points? Uh? Yeah? First one is regarding the last caller,

2455
02:00:03,520 --> 02:00:06,000
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson, Good riddance. The guy had a good year

2456
02:00:06,080 --> 02:00:08,080
Speaker 1: last year, but he only he made it very clear

2457
02:00:08,160 --> 02:00:11,000
Speaker 1: he was trying during a contract year and didn't do

2458
02:00:11,080 --> 02:00:14,120
Speaker 1: too much before then. As far as Tom Brady, I

2459
02:00:14,160 --> 02:00:16,440
Speaker 1: don't even know why it's an option that we should

2460
02:00:16,440 --> 02:00:18,480
Speaker 1: be glad he's gone. He wasn't that good last year.

2461
02:00:19,360 --> 02:00:21,400
Speaker 1: Having him be forty two tying up a lot of

2462
02:00:21,480 --> 02:00:24,120
Speaker 1: money so they can improve other positions. It'd be so

2463
02:00:24,240 --> 02:00:26,680
Speaker 1: much more satisfying watching the Bills to actually take down

2464
02:00:26,680 --> 02:00:29,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots with Belichick and Brady than without Brady. So

2465
02:00:30,120 --> 02:00:32,400
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen's growth was great. You can see

2466
02:00:32,440 --> 02:00:34,800
Speaker 1: a game over game. We actually won games for the

2467
02:00:34,880 --> 02:00:38,000
Speaker 1: first time since I can remember because of our quarterback

2468
02:00:38,040 --> 02:00:41,120
Speaker 1: play and so having that coupled with great moves with

2469
02:00:42,560 --> 02:00:46,240
Speaker 1: McBean in place, we're in business. So Brady, now we

2470
02:00:46,320 --> 02:00:49,520
Speaker 1: are in business. We are in business. Okay. We've heard

2471
02:00:49,520 --> 02:00:51,360
Speaker 1: other people say that as well. We had a poll

2472
02:00:51,440 --> 02:00:53,160
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago where people were chiming in

2473
02:00:53,280 --> 02:00:55,400
Speaker 1: with their feedback saying, listen, I want Tom Brady to

2474
02:00:55,400 --> 02:00:57,240
Speaker 1: stay in New England so we can beat him finally

2475
02:00:57,880 --> 02:01:00,280
Speaker 1: because they felt his time had finally come. We'll see

2476
02:01:00,280 --> 02:01:02,240
Speaker 1: if it does. In Tampa Bay. We'll see if he's

2477
02:01:02,280 --> 02:01:05,120
Speaker 1: a systemt quarterback, or see if the success of the

2478
02:01:05,320 --> 02:01:08,080
Speaker 1: Patriots had were due in party or in all in

2479
02:01:08,160 --> 02:01:11,680
Speaker 1: part to him or to Bill Belichick. We'll see if

2480
02:01:11,800 --> 02:01:15,960
Speaker 1: which one has the better season this next year. Swandoll's

2481
02:01:16,000 --> 02:01:19,320
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health and this is Buffalo Bills

2482
02:01:19,400 --> 02:01:26,280
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2483
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2484
02:01:29,200 --> 02:01:31,160
Speaker 1: Bills inside of Buffalo Bills dot Com. On the show

2485
02:01:31,200 --> 02:01:33,760
Speaker 1: earlier today. Talked about the news last night about the

2486
02:01:33,800 --> 02:01:37,600
Speaker 1: contract extension for safety Jordan Poyer. I gotta tell you

2487
02:01:38,600 --> 02:01:42,120
Speaker 1: reported extension of Poyer, I can't think of a guy

2488
02:01:42,160 --> 02:01:45,960
Speaker 1: who deserves it more. I mean, he's been dynamic. I

2489
02:01:46,080 --> 02:01:50,280
Speaker 1: don't think people even now, maybe in Buffalo, but around

2490
02:01:50,320 --> 02:01:52,960
Speaker 1: the league, I still don't think they understand what a

2491
02:01:53,040 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: difference maker he has been. I mean, over the last

2492
02:01:55,720 --> 02:01:59,240
Speaker 1: three seasons, Payer is tied for second in the league

2493
02:01:59,280 --> 02:02:02,800
Speaker 1: amongst safety. He's in interceptions with eleven, and he's also

2494
02:02:03,440 --> 02:02:06,320
Speaker 1: second on the Bills in interception since twenty seventeen. The

2495
02:02:06,400 --> 02:02:09,560
Speaker 1: only guy he's trailing is Tredavious White, who has twelve.

2496
02:02:09,720 --> 02:02:13,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he has been all over the place, an

2497
02:02:13,240 --> 02:02:16,720
Speaker 1: excellent run filler, you know, sometimes even serving as a

2498
02:02:16,760 --> 02:02:20,240
Speaker 1: third linebacker with the way he fills. And I just

2499
02:02:20,360 --> 02:02:22,920
Speaker 1: think it's well deserved and I'm happy to see the

2500
02:02:23,080 --> 02:02:27,000
Speaker 1: organization reward a guy like that Chris Brown. We also

2501
02:02:27,080 --> 02:02:29,600
Speaker 1: had Mike Jannitti on the show today. He's the founder

2502
02:02:29,640 --> 02:02:32,160
Speaker 1: and the man behind spottrack dot com. He talked about

2503
02:02:32,160 --> 02:02:34,680
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins signing of quarterback Byron Jones, a big

2504
02:02:34,720 --> 02:02:40,200
Speaker 1: deal he got, could impact Tredavious White's next contract. Yeah right,

2505
02:02:40,360 --> 02:02:42,920
Speaker 1: it's a it's a really nice full first three years,

2506
02:02:43,000 --> 02:02:46,000
Speaker 1: it's strongly guaranteed, it's well structured. This is the model

2507
02:02:46,040 --> 02:02:48,560
Speaker 1: for what Trdavious White's going to be expecting now and

2508
02:02:48,960 --> 02:02:51,480
Speaker 1: then some I mean using Byron Jones as a new

2509
02:02:51,560 --> 02:02:54,720
Speaker 1: variable Tradevius now puts himself up in the seventeen million

2510
02:02:54,760 --> 02:02:57,520
Speaker 1: for your range on a long term average, and it's

2511
02:02:57,520 --> 02:02:59,680
Speaker 1: going to be You're gonna have to talk about probably

2512
02:02:59,760 --> 02:03:02,880
Speaker 1: eight nineteen million over the first three years, fully guaranteed,

2513
02:03:02,920 --> 02:03:06,480
Speaker 1: three years, fully guaranteed. So it's big boy money. It's

2514
02:03:06,520 --> 02:03:10,400
Speaker 1: sixty million dollars fully guaranteed most likely, and that it's

2515
02:03:10,440 --> 02:03:12,879
Speaker 1: gonna be worth it. This is gonna be the franchise

2516
02:03:12,960 --> 02:03:15,880
Speaker 1: of your defense now for the next four years. The

2517
02:03:16,000 --> 02:03:18,000
Speaker 1: question is do you do it now this offseason or

2518
02:03:18,280 --> 02:03:20,320
Speaker 1: do you test the waters a little bit and then

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Speaker 1: wait until next off season when I when I think

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Speaker 1: there's going to be, like I said, a significant jump

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Speaker 1: in the salary cap. I don't know, Steve. I would

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Speaker 1: love some day for somebody to refer to my deal

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Speaker 1: as big boy money, you know what I mean. That's

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Speaker 1: a good way to put it. That's great too. About

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Speaker 1: gets again tomorrow. We are a good job today to

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Speaker 1: you and especially to our producer Jay Harris, who really

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Speaker 1: struggled along with Tom Hollander and everybody to get us

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Speaker 1: on the air. Great work by them, and yeah, we'll

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Speaker 1: do something tomorrow. They said, maybe'll go underwater tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: try to do the show underwater. The degree of difficulty.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Hey. We want to thank our production assistance,

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Speaker 1: even those who aren't there, they're working at home. They're

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Speaker 1: hard workers and we appreciate them all. George Blast, Jeff Coltnick,

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Speaker 1: the aforementioned, Tom Hollander, Kelly Rude, JJ Curito, Kevin Kartis,

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Speaker 1: James Robols, Stay healthy, stay well everybody, and a special

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Speaker 1: thanks for our producer Jay Harris. We're back tomorrow at

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Speaker 1: twelve noon with another installment of One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalidah Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio