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Speaker 1: He's not there anymore. He's elsewhere in the league. Just

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Speaker 1: signed somewhere else the other day. Isaiah win offensive tackle,

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Speaker 1: good player, Gonna probably play right tackle for them this year.

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Speaker 1: Sony Michelle a running back, fine on his rookie deal.

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Speaker 1: Jowan Bentley still on the roster. Not necessarily a starter

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Speaker 1: he was last year due to all the opt outs.

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Speaker 1: But you get what I'm saying. Top pick in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: n Harry, I mean, first round draft choice. Guys got

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Speaker 1: to contribute, right, and they're just not getting instant impact

435
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Speaker 1: out of their top draft choices and it's killing them.

436
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Speaker 1: And that is why they have spent two hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty five million dollars in the first week of free agency.

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Speaker 1: So they've got some guys like this twenty nineteen draft

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Speaker 1: class with a possible sixty four games not including playoffs

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Speaker 1: from two years ago. Chase Winovic has got thirty two

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Speaker 1: of the games. Yeah, decent player, Jake Bailey has got

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Speaker 1: thirty two of the games. Everybody else is yeah, right.

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Speaker 1: Then they've got you know, jo Juwan, Joan Williams, Juan Williams.

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Speaker 1: You know, Damien Harris has played twelve guys player Byron

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Speaker 1: Cowart nineteen games. I'm not saying they've missed or they

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Speaker 1: have busts, but they certainly have not pulled major contributors

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Speaker 1: out of the draft aside from offensive linemen. Yeah, I

448
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Speaker 1: mean it is killing them. And I'll tell you this

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Speaker 1: about offensive lineman Dante Scarnetia, who's now retired again, retired

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Speaker 1: for the second time. He had. You talked to those guys.

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Speaker 1: Dante gets is a brilliant offensive line coach and has

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Speaker 1: been for a long long time. When I played back

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Speaker 1: in the nineties, Dante was a special team's coach and

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Speaker 1: he also had some other roles for the Patriots. When

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick took over, Dante stayed with him, has been

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Speaker 1: there forever and has been a real integral part of

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Speaker 1: what made that offensive line tick. It'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see how they perform without him. It'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see how they perform without Dante, you know, getting those

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Speaker 1: guys ready, because when he left the first time, they stunk.

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Speaker 1: I think offensive line, though, is the least of their concerns.

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Speaker 1: Now their defense should be fine, but it's the skill

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Speaker 1: positions that are hurting them on offense. That's what's killing

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Speaker 1: them right now. Now they've tried to address it with

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Speaker 1: the tight end signings that they made and they will

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Speaker 1: be better there, unquestionably, But man oh Man wide receiver

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Speaker 1: has been an abyss. Running back is kind of a

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Speaker 1: wholesale position that they've used by committee. That's fine, that's

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Speaker 1: your approach. They don't have game breakers, they just don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and maybe the tight ends become that for them and

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Speaker 1: John U. Smith and Hunter Henry, but they are woefully

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Speaker 1: deficient in game breaking type players. So that's where that's at.

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Speaker 1: We're going to take a break here because when we

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Speaker 1: come back in the weeds broke well, I know we are,

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Speaker 1: but we're talking to a FC East and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do more of that here when we come back, because

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have NFL Networks Mike Giardi joining us, who's

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Speaker 1: got his ear to the ground on the AFC East,

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Speaker 1: will get his thoughts on what he thinks the division

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Speaker 1: has done thus far in free agency and who has

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Speaker 1: closed the gap on the Bills. When we return here

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Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live presented by a Lot of Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and joining us on

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Speaker 1: the line right now is the man who said Brandon

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Speaker 1: Bean was on a heater in the early stages of

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Speaker 1: free agency, and looks like this guy was on the

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Speaker 1: same wavelength as Steve and I with regard to one

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Speaker 1: aspect of the approach of one Brandon Bean from NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: It is Mike Giardi joining us on the line, and Mike,

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Speaker 1: thanks for making some time for us. As always, we're

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Speaker 1: sure you'll be on the conference call later this afternoon

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Speaker 1: with Brandon Bean and Coach McDermott when it comes everybody's

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Speaker 1: way at around two pm. But I was interested in

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Speaker 1: the end of that tweet that I'm referring to that

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Speaker 1: you made earlier this week, and that was, now, get

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Speaker 1: a couple of players to do one year let's win

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Speaker 1: it deals, And they did that with one Emmanuel Sanders

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Speaker 1: this week, and we're kind of anticipating they'll probably be

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Speaker 1: a few more. Yeah, I would think so too, Chris,

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Speaker 1: and I would say tight end to me remains a position.

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Speaker 1: And I know there's been some discussion about zach Ertz,

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Speaker 1: at least on the social media waves. I don't know

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and Philadelphia are actually talking about that, but it

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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to me. I think this year,

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Speaker 1: because of the cab some teams not having the money

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Speaker 1: that now players are looking and say, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: I can't get what I thought I was gonna get.

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00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: This isn't shaping out the way I wanted to. So

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Speaker 1: because of that, now, let me look at places that

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Speaker 1: can win, because you know what, you know, what can

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Speaker 1: really enhance my value playing well for a team that

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Speaker 1: goes deep into the playoffs and maybe wins the whole

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Speaker 1: damn thing. And I think just makes a ton of

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Speaker 1: sense for so many of these guys that are currently

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Speaker 1: like where's my market or where's the dollars? I thought?

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Speaker 1: You know, and I just the bills are poised I

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Speaker 1: think to snatch a couple of these guys that they can.

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Speaker 1: So what are some of the free agent tight ends

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Speaker 1: that you think are worthy of it? I mean we've heard,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously zach Ertz, you get on him, maybe

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Speaker 1: with a trade with Philadelphia. Kyle Rudolph is out there

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Speaker 1: with you know, formerly the Vikings and some of the

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Speaker 1: usual suspects that have been on the list. For a while. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like Rudolph a lot. I still think he has

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Speaker 1: good football left in him, and he's one of those

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Speaker 1: guys he's versatile, right, I mean you're not just talking about, oh,

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Speaker 1: he's only a pass catching tight. I know he blocks

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Speaker 1: like a tackle at times, which can only help your

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Speaker 1: run game, which, as we well know, is something that

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Speaker 1: Brandon Being and Sean McDermot have talked about that they'd

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Speaker 1: like to improve. So to me, he's probably the cheaper

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Speaker 1: option of the two between he and ERTs, because you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to give up capital to get Hurts, it

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Speaker 1: would seem as well. And honestly, when I look at Ertz,

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Speaker 1: I like Ertz. That's fit in the offense. But there's

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Speaker 1: been a decrease in his production the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: There's been some injuries there, and that's sort of to

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Speaker 1: me a little bit of a I don't want to say,

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Speaker 1: but I guess a little bit of a buyers beware,

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Speaker 1: right that he just hasn't been the same player that

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Speaker 1: he was a couple of years ago. And look, there

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Speaker 1: could be a ton of reasons for that beyond the injury. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: they struggled the quarterback last year. But even when he

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Speaker 1: was healthy and Goddard was healthy, and you figure, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: at least they have the two targets to dominate the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field. He wasn't dominating, So you know,

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Speaker 1: I think they'll have to get to the heart of

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Speaker 1: the matter. And who better than to study the taped

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Speaker 1: and Brian dayball and decide, yeah, this guy's still got

551
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: a lot left in the tank, or you know what,

552
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Speaker 1: maybe we need to move to a different option. Before

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Speaker 1: we dive deeper here into what's happened in the afcast

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Speaker 1: here in this first week a free agency. Just wanted

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Speaker 1: to get your take on the wide receiver market and

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Speaker 1: what you're hearing as to why the top of the

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Speaker 1: market has been so soft for the players. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like what they're looking to get is not matching up

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Speaker 1: with what teams are willing to pay. Is that? Is

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Speaker 1: it as simple as that, or is there something else

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Speaker 1: to play there? I think there are two factors here,

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Speaker 1: and one is the way the draft is shaped out

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years with the wide receiver position.

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Speaker 1: You're getting guys to come in on rookie contracts and

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Speaker 1: in some cases second, third, fourth rounders and be productive

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Speaker 1: football players and catch on at the NFL system quickly.

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Speaker 1: And we've sort of seen the marrying of the college

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Speaker 1: game in the pro game, especially over these last five

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Speaker 1: to ten years, and receivers seems to be in a

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Speaker 1: position that those guys are able to step in right

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Speaker 1: away and make an impact. So I think that's certainly

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Speaker 1: part of it, because why pay big money where you

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Speaker 1: can get a guy on a rookie contract. And I

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Speaker 1: think the other thing is the guys that are on

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Speaker 1: in this market that are still out there, and even

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Speaker 1: some of the guys that signed like Curtis Samuel yesterday,

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Speaker 1: they're not viewed as number one receivers. Their viewed as

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Speaker 1: number two's. So they're getting into the market thinking I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna get number one dollars because people spend like idiots

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Speaker 1: when it comes to free agency and wide receivers, and

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Speaker 1: that's just not the case this year, combination of the

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Speaker 1: COVID obviously, and the reduction and cap and then just

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Speaker 1: people view these players as Okay, they kind of are

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Speaker 1: what they are, and they're good players, don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you'd like to have a ju Ju Smith

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Speaker 1: Schuster on your team or Kenny Galladay on your team,

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Speaker 1: but not a fifteen, sixteen, seventeen million dollars, more like eight, ten,

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Speaker 1: twelve million dollars. And I think those guys got to

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Speaker 1: wrap their head around the way this offseason is working

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Speaker 1: and maybe just take that shorter term deal and hit

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Speaker 1: the market when the cap is expected to explode in

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Speaker 1: a year or two. And it's not so much for

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Speaker 1: fans sitting around the NFL watching their team, who they sign,

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Speaker 1: who they release, or who they lose to free agency.

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Speaker 1: It's also about other teams that they know they got

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Speaker 1: to play. The Bills are sitting here looking at the

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Speaker 1: AFC East with the Patriots, the Jets, the Dolphins. The

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Speaker 1: Bills swept the division last year. That may be a

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Speaker 1: little bit more difficult this year with what the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots most notably have done, and of course the Dolphins. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's never easy to run through the division.

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Speaker 1: I know the Patriots had some years where they did that,

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Speaker 1: and even then, if you ask them, some of the

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Speaker 1: toughest games they played were that second time against an

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Speaker 1: opponent of going having to go into Buffalo or going

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Speaker 1: into New York and trying to be one of those

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Speaker 1: teams even when they weren't at the height of their powers.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, there's certainly I still think Buffalo is the

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Speaker 1: class of the AFC East and maybe the class of

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Speaker 1: the AFC period. But the Patriots certainly have closed the

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Speaker 1: gap with some of the additions they made. Now how

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Speaker 1: that all plays out long term, two three years down

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Speaker 1: the line with some of these contracts, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But for now, clearly they said we can't be seven

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Speaker 1: and nine again. We just can't. We're not used to it,

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Speaker 1: We're not going to do it again. And we have

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Speaker 1: an opportunity with the cap money that they had to

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Speaker 1: go out and spend a little bit crazy ball, a

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Speaker 1: little bit a lot crazier than they ever had before. Right,

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Speaker 1: So that's definitely a tightening of the window between Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and New England. Miami has been interesting to me because

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Speaker 1: they didn't have a ton of cap room, and obviously

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Speaker 1: last year they went they went all in on free agency.

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Speaker 1: A couple of those have already proven to be Missus

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Speaker 1: Shack Lawson, Kyle van Noy, But with some of the

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Speaker 1: stuff that they're doing, it still makes me wonder if

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Speaker 1: they're saving a little cash in the back of their

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Speaker 1: brain in case Deshaun Watson becomes available, and I know

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Speaker 1: they're they're committed to TUA. But as I've said this

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Speaker 1: a million times, twenty six twenty seven teams in the

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Speaker 1: league would move mountains to get to Shaun Watson. And again,

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Speaker 1: I know there's some some stuff circulating around Watson right now,

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Speaker 1: off the field, stuff which people will have to get

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Speaker 1: to the bottom of and the legal system will have

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Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of. But in terms of

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Speaker 1: the player and what he brings to the table, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams that would kick their quarterback to

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Speaker 1: the curb to get to Shaun Watson in Miami, I

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Speaker 1: think would be one of them. Circling back to New England, Mike,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking to Mike Giorready from NFL Network, circling

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Speaker 1: back to New England. You know, you look at the

642
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty five million dollars they've already spent

643
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Speaker 1: on free agents, and you're right, it is exorbitant. Are

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Speaker 1: they in a cycle now where I know they had

645
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Speaker 1: money to spend, so yeah, spend it. But the amount

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Speaker 1: of spending I have to believe, at least to some extent,

647
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Speaker 1: ties back to the misses they've had in the draft.

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Speaker 1: They've they've been able to draft some offensive linemen who

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Speaker 1: have come in and been solid contributors, if not, you know,

650
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Speaker 1: not spectacular, but at least solid contributors, starters, you know,

651
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: Shaq Mason, Isaiah when you know, you go down the list.

652
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Speaker 1: I know they were very happy with on when you

653
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: last year as a sixth rounder, but beyond that, even

654
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: their high draft picks Mike have not come in and

655
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Speaker 1: been in impact players, if not right away, even two

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Speaker 1: or three years down the line. I know there are

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00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 1: exceptions j C. Jackson. I know they think Kyle Dugger

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Speaker 1: will be a player in time here. But all those

659
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Speaker 1: misses is part of the reason why they have to

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Speaker 1: spend so much, isn't it. Yeah. I mean I look

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Speaker 1: at their last two drafts and you'd never want to

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Speaker 1: you know, I would say, at least wait three years

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Speaker 1: before you grade a draft. And I think there's plenty

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Speaker 1: of talent in the last two drafts, but it was

665
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Speaker 1: three and four years ago where there were some five

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00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: years ago where there's some serious swings and misses. And

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Speaker 1: even when I'm talking about the last two drafts and

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Speaker 1: feeling better about it, Nikkil Harry in the first round.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Nikil Harry's gonna get traded. I would assume

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Speaker 1: I think that both parties are kind of looking to

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Speaker 1: part ways at this point. Patriots are just trying to

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Speaker 1: ascertain what value is and can we get enough value

673
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Speaker 1: to say, well, we're going to ship them off rather

674
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Speaker 1: than just bring them back and see if maybe in

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Speaker 1: year three it clicks. And those are the things that

676
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: they haven't normally missed on. So I would agree with

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Speaker 1: you that they're part of this is when they assess

678
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: what the roster looked like at the end of last year,

679
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: they were like, man, we don't have talent in spots

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00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: that we need to have talent to be the kind

681
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: of team that we've always been. Like, They've always dominated

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00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, They've always dominated in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the field in the passing game. Well, in the last

684
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: two years, their tight ends have been non existent. I've

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00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: dropped the stats a million times. I think they had

686
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: eighteen catches last year from their tight ends in sixteen games,

687
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: and they took two guys in the third round Dalton Keenan,

688
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: Devin Asiassi, And you know, Belichick has talked about how

689
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Speaker 1: difficult it was for rookies to assimilate, and I think

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00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: that's fair to a certain point. However, we saw rookies

691
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Speaker 1: assimilate across the league in various spots. So maybe those

692
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: guys just aren't up to it. I don't know. I mean, again,

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Speaker 1: the jury is still out, we're still very early in

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Speaker 1: their career. But so that's why you go out and

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Speaker 1: get a Hunter Henry and a John U. Smith, Like,

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Speaker 1: we need to be a team that can dominate the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field, and that's what we've done, and

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Speaker 1: when we've been at our best, we've been able to

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Speaker 1: do that. In the last couple of years, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's been a massive, massive hole for them, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you kind of look at it two. You're building, you're

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Speaker 1: building for Cam Newton. But Cam Newton's not the long

703
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Speaker 1: term answer. So even if you go young and you

704
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Speaker 1: draft a rookie quarterback, hey, you've given him some security

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Speaker 1: blankets that can work the middle of the field and

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Speaker 1: some veteran guys on the outside that have been productive

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Speaker 1: in this league. Again, something that they lack. I mean,

708
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: their best receiver last year was Jacobe Myers, undrafted free agent.

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Speaker 1: Great story, nice football player, he's a four, maybe a three,

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Speaker 1: you know, like and he I think I'll be in

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Speaker 1: the league for amount of time. But he's not someone

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Speaker 1: that defenses go, we have to stop Jacobe Myers. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have anybody on their offense that anybody said we

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Speaker 1: have to stop that guy. So they we're sitting here,

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Speaker 1: do you think what are the chances in your gut

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Speaker 1: that Cam Newton is their guy opening day? I would

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Speaker 1: say I'll put it at sixty percent. He's the guy

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Speaker 1: for opening day. I think there's a couple of things

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Speaker 1: to look at here. One Jimmy Garoppolo. They've been connected

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Speaker 1: to him, obviously, they drafted him, they loved them, they

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Speaker 1: didn't want to trade him. Bill Belichick famously said, if

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Speaker 1: you close your eyes in practice and you didn't know

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Speaker 1: what you were looking at, or you had no idea,

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Speaker 1: Tom and Jimmy look exactly the same, the way they process,

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Speaker 1: the way they move, the way they throw the football.

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Speaker 1: So they have a great deal of respect for him,

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Speaker 1: but San Francisco clearly needs to upgrade if they're gonna

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Speaker 1: move on from Jimmy. I don't know if they feel

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Speaker 1: like that there's that chip in the draft. If Justin

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Speaker 1: Fields or a Trey Lance is that guy for them.

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Speaker 1: But right now, judging on how they're approaching free agency

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, they've been looking more at guys to sort

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Speaker 1: of give them depth at the position in case Jimmy

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Speaker 1: is unable to finish the season, which has been part

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Speaker 1: of his problem in San Francisco. And I think the

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Speaker 1: other thing is Belichick's never spent a first round pick

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Speaker 1: on a quarterback, but maybe this is the year. You know,

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Speaker 1: he has the great relationship with Nick Saban and maybe

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Speaker 1: Nick tells him, hey, Mac Jones is better than what

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Speaker 1: two is. And you've heard some of the receivers in

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00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: Alabama say, oh yeah, Mac better than twa. Maybe that

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Speaker 1: sort of the relationship that says, all right at fifteen

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Speaker 1: or maybe if we have to trade up the thirteen

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Speaker 1: or twelve, that that's the guy I want to go get.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be fascinating over the next six weeks

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00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: or so because again for the second year in a row,

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Speaker 1: there's uncertainty at that position for the Patriots after two

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Speaker 1: decades of being completely certain on who the guy was. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I think everybody sees Cam as a bridge. The

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Speaker 1: question is how long is he the bridge, and you know,

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Speaker 1: when does he turn the keys over. Some people think

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Speaker 1: maybe by opening day if they draft the right guy

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Speaker 1: or if they trade for the right guy. But it's

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Speaker 1: all so uncertain right now. I can't imagine what it's

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Speaker 1: like up there among New England fans. They must be

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Speaker 1: pulling their hair out try. I mean, they seem pretty sad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think they're over the moon about

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Speaker 1: Cam coming back. But still in all I think they

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Speaker 1: to on a hole, want want better than Cam after

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Speaker 1: what they witnessed last year, because there were times last

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Speaker 1: year where that was just god awful of Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Patriots when they took the look at

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Speaker 1: their team over the last couple of months, I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, look, part of it is there's no question

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Speaker 1: didn't throw the ball as well as they had hoped.

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Speaker 1: But again they felt like, more to the point, we

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Speaker 1: don't have pieces in place to make life better for

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Speaker 1: our quarterback. And that was their chief goal this offseason

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Speaker 1: to do that, adding Agila or adding Kendrick Bourne, John

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Speaker 1: Who Smith Hunter, Henry that now they feel like we

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Speaker 1: have professional guys. The teams are gonna have to look

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Speaker 1: at and say, no, you know what, when they're in

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Speaker 1: that two tight end set. We got to figure out

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Speaker 1: a way to defend a hunter Henry and John who Smith.

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Speaker 1: And if we want to go heavy, then we're creating

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Speaker 1: mismatches with those two guys. And if we want to

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00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: go light because we want to cover them, then we

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00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: know the Patriots will turn around and run the ball

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Speaker 1: until you stop it. So it gives them more options,

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Speaker 1: if you will. And Josh McDaniels, I think last year

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00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 1: kind of added coaches the offense with one hand tied

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Speaker 1: behind his back. They don't believe that's going to be

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Speaker 1: the case this year. Last one for me, you know,

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00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: we heard the report of the Chicago Bears went all

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Speaker 1: in to try and get Russell Wilson away from Seattle,

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Speaker 1: and Seattle said no way to three ones, a three

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Speaker 1: and two starters, one of which was Khalil Mack reportedly,

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Speaker 1: if that's a turn down by every GM, what will

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Speaker 1: it take to get de Shaun Watson, who's four years

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Speaker 1: or five years younger out of Houston. It's a great question, right,

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Speaker 1: and you've got to believe that the price is similar.

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00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: Now here's my thing with the Watson scenario again, never

793
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: minding the stuff that's going on off the field. That again,

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00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: that's pretty important. It's gonna have to be sorted out.

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Speaker 1: But the on the field stuff, Houston, that organization is

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00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 1: basically crumbled to the ground in the last whatever six months.

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00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: I mean, they signed him less than a year ago

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00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: to that massive contract. He's crying, everybody's excited, and what

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00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: the heck happened between then and now that the guy

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Speaker 1: doesn't even want to show up in the building. Those stories,

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Speaker 1: when they finally come out, are going to be fascinating

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00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: to me. But it's risky for them to say. I

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00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: know they have the hammer and can tell him, you

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00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: got to sit there and we'll find you, and you know,

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00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: we'll play Tyrod Taylor and you're gonna have to pay

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00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: us back the signing bonus and all these sorts of things.

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Speaker 1: But I think that only hurts their position with players

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00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: around the league who will say, well, why the heck

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Speaker 1: would I ever want to go to play to Houston.

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Speaker 1: If Houston's going to do that to Deshaun Watson, If

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do that to DeShawn, I'm not the player

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Speaker 1: that DeShawn is. They'll what's to stop them from doing

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00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: the same thing? To me. So I still think that

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Speaker 1: the draft, right around the draft makes the most sense

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Speaker 1: because look, turn the page, trade him, get as many

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Speaker 1: assets as possible, and then you're just starting to rebuild,

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00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: you know, Nickossario coming in with David Culley as the

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Speaker 1: head coach, first year for both of them there, like,

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Speaker 1: let's just burn it all down and let's start all over. Mike,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the time as always. Well I'm sure we'll

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Speaker 1: see you over there on the press conference later this

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Speaker 1: afternoon with being in McDermott. But thanks for bringing us

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Speaker 1: up to speed on the division here. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Mike. Thanks and happy birthday, Chris. Yeah, thank you, Mike.

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Speaker 1: That's Mike Gilardi from NFL Network and we have to

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Speaker 1: take a break, but when we come back, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get your thoughts on the tweet sheet because the question

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Speaker 1: we're asking today which Bill's free agent move will pay

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Speaker 1: off the most in twenty twenty one, And look at

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Speaker 1: the choices that we've put up there at one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live because we've kind of paired some people up in

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Speaker 1: terms of some of the transactions that the Bills have

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Speaker 1: completed thus far in free agency. So which Bill free

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Speaker 1: agent move will pay off the most in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one of the moves they've made thus far in terms

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Speaker 1: of the guys they've resigned and Emmanuel Sanders who they've

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Speaker 1: brought on board. Let us know at eight oh three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty we're back in a moment here on

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Speaker 1: Radio lighting. Back to one Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: task we would do. Closing up our number one we

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Speaker 1: remind you. Hour number three of the show will be

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Speaker 1: the Brandon Bean Sean McDermott press conference as they bring

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Speaker 1: the local media up to speed on the who, what, when,

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Speaker 1: where and why with regard to the first week of

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Speaker 1: free agency for the club and the decision made therein.

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Speaker 1: There is an update on the zach Ertz front. As

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Speaker 1: we know, the Philadelphia Eagles have given Arts and his

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00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:12,799
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Speaker 1: that he did want a contract extension after the trade

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00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: was completed. He has since rescinded that, agreeing to play

852
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: under the final year of his contract terms, which is

853
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: eight and a quarter million dollars. So with that in mind,

854
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: Mike Garafolo from NFL Network has an update as Eagles

855
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: GM Howarree Roseman, when asked about zach Ertz, said the following.

856
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: For us to trade any player, it's got to make

857
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 1: sense for both sides. None of us had the year

858
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: we wanted to have last year, but that doesn't define us.

859
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: We know who he is on and off the field,

860
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 1: and we value that. So the translation here is the

861
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: offers that they fielded aren't good enough as the Eagles

862
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: see it, And Garafolo said, as he mentioned the other day,

863
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: the Eagles are in no rush to move Arts and

864
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: will keep him until they get an offer that makes

865
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: them do a deal. So not just gonna take any

866
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: fly by night deal. They're looking for considerable assets in

867
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:18,720
Speaker 1: return for Art's who turns thirty this year. I believe

868
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: what's your take on that? Yeah, well, I gotta come

869
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: out with something. You know the team is and you're

870
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: right there that Phillies the guy played well for them,

871
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: and it's it serves Philly's best interest to paint him

872
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: in the best light possible so they can get the

873
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: best trade value for him. And ERT's is the same thing.

874
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think there's no animosity between these

875
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: two Organs. You know, there's no animosity between Arts and

876
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: the Eagles. He played well for him, they won a

877
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: world championship together. But things change, and they obviously while

878
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: they value who the guy is and what he is,

879
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: they know he's not gonna be worth that eight point

880
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: whatever million buck price tag he's on, and they got

881
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: they gotta move him, and Arts is fine with that,

882
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: I would think, particularly since he said, yeah, I don't

883
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: even need a new deal. I think it's for Arts.

884
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: It makes sense because he's not going to get anything

885
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: out on the open market. Everybody's signed on one year deals.

886
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: There's no money out there. The markets repressed, although for

887
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: his position it got a little bit less thin when

888
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: the Patriots signed the top two guys. So now he

889
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: may go in a little bit higher on the rung.

890
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: So it may hurt him, but I wouldn't be surprised

891
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: if there's a team out there willing to trade and

892
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: still give him an extension, even though he's not asking

893
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: for it or demanding it. The Dolphins have their center.

894
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: There was a lot of talk that they were going

895
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: to pursue ardently free agent New England center David Andrews

896
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: and they were talking to him, but nothing came of that,

897
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: And so they have turned around and signed Baltimore free

898
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: agent center Matt Skura to a one year deal that

899
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: according to multiple sources and Scura, if you remember, was

900
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: injured for most of last season. Late in the season,

901
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 1: he came back healthy, but the Ravens did not put

902
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: him Steve back into the starting lineup. It cost them

903
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: in the playoff game against the Bills because the backup

904
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: center continued to play even in the playoffs and snapped

905
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: the ball over Lamar Jackson's head into their own end zone,

906
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: which effectively knocked Lamar Jackson out of the game as

907
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: he went to recover the ball and was subsequently tackled

908
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: and whipped his head into the ground rather viciously and

909
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: suffered a concussion. So I still remember Ravens fans stark

910
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: raving mad on Twitter right after that play. This is

911
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: why you should have put Scora back in the starting

912
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: lineup at center. He had been their center for years.

913
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:58,439
Speaker 1: And yeah, Ravens fans were livid, especially after that play

914
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 1: when the ball got snapped over his head and essentially

915
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: seal the game for the Bills. Yeah, and so Scura

916
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: and once again. It's another one. It's a one year

917
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: deal the whole. We're gonna go through this again next year.

918
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna see more one year deals this year than

919
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,760
Speaker 1: we've ever seen before. Usually we don't see these kinds

920
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 1: of one year deal, Steve, until like week two, late

921
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: week two, week three, week four, or free agency guys

922
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: that have said, all right, well I've waited long enough,

923
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 1: let me just take one year somewhere and we'll jump

924
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: back in free agency next year. Yeah, you're seeing, Steve.

925
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: The league year opened yesterday at four o'clock. It's not

926
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: even twenty four hours of the new league year, and

927
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: you've got guys taken one year deals left and right.

928
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: And it's also because it's you know, it's the salary cap.

929
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: Next year, it'll be really I'll be really keen to

930
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: hear how the CAP's gonna jump. If it's gonna jump

931
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 1: up to where it was supposed to be this year

932
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: or even past that, certainly there's no excuse for it.

933
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: Given if you throw everything back to as it was

934
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: pre pandemic, where you're gonna have full stadiums, everything is

935
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: going to go back to as close to normal as

936
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 1: it could be. How much the cap will jump in

937
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Yeah, that's gonna be a real fun

938
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: exercise and I think that's gonna be I mean, not

939
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: to me. NFL Network needs to put a reveal show

940
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, there's some debate, see that that's an announcement.

941
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: There's some debate as to how much they're going to

942
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: push the number up because they don't want to artificially

943
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: inflate it too much to make up for this year,

944
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: and there are some losses that are still not going

945
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: to be made up even in this salary cap strapped

946
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: year that the owners are going to be looking to

947
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: make up next year. So it might be curbed somewhat.

948
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: Even next year it'll go up, but maybe not to

949
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,320
Speaker 1: the to the levels that some are anticipating because the

950
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: owners are still trying to hedge and make some money

951
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: back in terms of the lost revenues twenty year. But

952
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: we'll have to see it's they like to spend. It's

953
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: set in stone though, But as to what they have

954
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: to have it at right, I mean that the revenue

955
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: is what it is now. There there may be some

956
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: payback for whatever lines of credit the owners, but that

957
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: that would be more on an individual basis rather than

958
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: a collective. NFL taken out a line of credit so

959
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: it's owners can spend the money. So I'm thinking they

960
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:21,240
Speaker 1: can't hinder it except by what's written in the language

961
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: of the CBA. It has to get negotiated, right, But

962
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: that's that should already be back in place once this

963
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: all the you know, all the extra negotiations they did

964
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: to get through the season with COVID, after all that

965
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 1: goes away. After the league gear they start from scratching.

966
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: They go from there. It'll be interesting to see where

967
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 1: it goes and what they feel like. What the league

968
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: may come to the union say, hey, can we sit

969
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 1: down and talk about this. I think it's it's gonna

970
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: be fascinating break time for us when we come back.

971
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: We want to get your thoughts on the tweet sheet

972
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: as we're asking you which of the bill's free agent

973
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,399
Speaker 1: moves will pay off the most in twenty twenty one

974
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: us know or get on the phone lines eight three

975
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: five fifty. We've got open segments for you to be

976
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: a part of the show here in the one o'clock hour,

977
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: So hop on the phones. We got an open line

978
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: for you eight three oh five fifty Back in a flash.

979
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live, hour number two of

980
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: the show. Coming up, hour number three, the press conference

981
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: by one Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott as they address

982
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: some of the team's most recent transactions in free agency.

983
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 1: So we'll be bringing that to you live in the

984
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: third hour of the show, but for now we want

985
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: to hear from you at eight three five fifty one

986
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty which Bill's free

987
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: agent move will pay off the most in twenty twenty one.

988
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 1: It's been a relatively balanced poll so far, Steve, as

989
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: we have paired some of the resignings together right to

990
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 1: kind of group this in kind of stages here, so

991
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: we have is it Williams and Feliciano that will pay

992
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: off the most in twenty twenty one? Is it Emmanuel

993
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: Sanders or is it Levi Wallace and Matt Milano. So

994
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: those are your choices on the tweetcheet to one Bills Live,

995
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: so way in there or give us a call eight

996
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty and you see that Williams

997
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: and Feliciano are out in front as Buffalo like no

998
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: other town. Steve respects offensive line play more than anyone.

999
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,320
Speaker 1: I think it's our listeners because I've been pounding that

1000
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:37,959
Speaker 1: drum for like a month now. When Williams and Feliciano

1001
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: and I Bud carral off the roster waiting to be

1002
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: signed or resigned Milano and Wallace, I think those are

1003
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: I think they're under written. Now eighty percent of the

1004
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 1: people are saying the guys that we all know resigning Williams, Feliciano,

1005
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: Milana Wallace, Well, we all know those guys. Emmanuel Sanders

1006
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: is new to the party. It's only fifteen and a

1007
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: half percent people are saying, yeah, that might make the difference.

1008
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: But I think that is after Williams, Feliciano, Milano wall

1009
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: I mean getting these guys back in the door. And

1010
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: I think this too. I mean, there's always you're always

1011
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: wringing your hands over the thing. How do you get

1012
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: better when you have the same roster Milano, Wallace, Williams,

1013
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: felician Or, We're gonna get any better, you know? And

1014
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: I think most people realize, like Sean McDermott and this crew,

1015
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: they all realize this is a league where you got

1016
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: to continue to improve. But signing those guys back gives

1017
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: you a chance to enhance what goes on around them,

1018
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: and you can bring in some guys, particularly in the

1019
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: draft and in the rest of free agency. Is this

1020
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: thing shakes out, you give yourself a chance to get

1021
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,720
Speaker 1: guys in here who are going to be very hungry

1022
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: and very motivated to get back out on the market.

1023
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: In a year, Buffalo has become with the words of

1024
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, he didn't want to entertain any other offers.

1025
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: He wanted to come back here. This is a moment. Yeah,

1026
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: this is a particular moment in time where Buffalo is

1027
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: a great destination for free agents to land, and there's

1028
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: gonna be a ton of them out there. There's a

1029
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 1: it's a great it has a great sales pitch at

1030
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: this current moment in history. One they're they're on the

1031
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 1: precipice of going one more step and get into the

1032
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: super Bowl. And two, they got a guy pulling the

1033
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 1: trigger who's gonna keep you in every game and he's

1034
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: one of the few quarterbacks in the league that you

1035
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: win games because he's your quarterback. Those are two huge

1036
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 1: points when you're talking about a free agent market. So

1037
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:33,839
Speaker 1: even though the Bills have resigned a lot of their

1038
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: guys and you're trying to get them to improve, and

1039
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: it's hard to improve with the same guys and not

1040
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: getting better guys. I still think they're sitting in a

1041
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: spot where as long as the New England Pagers are

1042
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: gonna field Cam Newton and the Dolphins are gonna feel

1043
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: two a tanga Iloa and the Jets are the Jets,

1044
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: you gotta feel like you gotta feel like you got

1045
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 1: the best guys in the league. This is the best

1046
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: spot in the division and that's that's where you gotta

1047
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: sit if you're Bills fan. Now, certainly McDermott and Bean

1048
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: are gonna sit there and go on, we gotta get

1049
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,800
Speaker 1: better now, we got to improve, and that's always the mindset.

1050
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: So it's going to be fun to see what the

1051
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,439
Speaker 1: rest of this free agency brings. And I know they've

1052
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: got their own guys sign and I think provided they

1053
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: stay healthy, you could make the argument that the offensive line,

1054
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: even with the same five, will be better just by

1055
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: virtue of the fact that they really weren't together for

1056
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 1: any respectable length of time at all in the twenty

1057
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: twenty season. So the presumed starting five can stay healthy,

1058
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: take the field and not miss anybody for long stretches,

1059
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: you know, nothing more than a game or two. They

1060
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: could really be significantly better than they were last year,

1061
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: and that's what John Feliciano and Daryl Williams told us

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Speaker 1: when we had him on the show over the past

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Speaker 1: week or so. So you know, going forward, they certainly

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00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: think they can be better, and it's clear that the

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Speaker 1: front office believes that to a certain extent as well,

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Speaker 1: bringing them both back in the fold and not seeking

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Speaker 1: up grades elsewhere. And that's not to say they won't

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Speaker 1: bring in a better and here or there on a

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Speaker 1: one year deal to compete. I mean, they did that

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Speaker 1: as late as July last year when they brought up

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Speaker 1: Brian Winners in, so anything can happen, and they probably will.

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Speaker 1: Add I mean, they still need a couple of extra

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Speaker 1: bodies up there, just by virtue of the fact that

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Speaker 1: Tie and sekis now signed in Dallas and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: look like Brian Winners is coming back, so there's still

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Speaker 1: some holes to fill there. Yeah, I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 1: certainly you can say, you know, we're kind of spinning

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Speaker 1: it positive if you look at it that way, that

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00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: these guys played five snap three snaps together, last year,

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00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: and they were never the five they thought they were

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00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:32,439
Speaker 1: going to be at the beginning of the season because

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00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: remember Quentin Spain was here and he played two games,

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00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: signed the deal, and for whatever reason, he took it

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00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: out of gear. He was not as highly motivated. He

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00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: wasn't the same player coming back into twenty twenties. He

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00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: wasn't twenty nineteen where he didn't give up a sack

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Speaker 1: at left guard. The amazon A one year and he

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00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: sat and then was benched, then was deactivated, then he

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00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: was out the door. He played in two games and

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00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: Felicianos the first six, and Feliciano wasn't there Cody Ford,

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Speaker 1: so they get these guys in. Feliciano finally comes back

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00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: in week seven, plays three snaps, Mitch Morse goes down

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00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: with a concussion before the end of that game, Cody

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00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: Ford gets his knee hurt, he's out. I think it

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00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: was the same game, and he's out for the year.

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Speaker 1: So now Mitch Moore's Luckily, Mitch Morse comes back the

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00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 1: next week, Feliciano goes back to guard. Now they got

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00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: like Butker Brian Winners trying to fill it. They never

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00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: had the five guys they wanted. If that happens, maybe

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00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: they get a chance to do that this year, but

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00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: they got they gotta play. I mean, you can't have

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00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: a guy coming back and playing like Quentin Spain did

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00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: last year in the first couple of weeks. Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: It just wasn't good enough. So we'll see. We will

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Speaker 1: take a break here, but we will get to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet when we return. Which Bills free agent move

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Speaker 1: we'll pay off the most in twenty twenty one. Let

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Speaker 1: us know at eighth three, five fifty one, eighty eight,

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Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty Back with that and more

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Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live, presented by Collid to Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo be Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker back

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Speaker 1: with you here on this Thursday edition of One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Coming your way in about forty minutes or so, will

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Speaker 1: be the press conference by general manager Brandon Being head

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Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermott. Is they share their thoughts on their

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Speaker 1: free agency dealings to this point and what might be

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Speaker 1: on the horizon. We'll be bringing that to you alive

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Speaker 1: right here in the third hour of the show. But

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Speaker 1: right now we want to get to the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: to see what you have to say about which Bill's

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Speaker 1: free agent move will pay off the most in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, And as always, tweet sheet brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Jack leading us off today saying keeping

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Speaker 1: Milano on our d really helps to not create holes

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Speaker 1: so they can focus elsewhere in the draft. But Sanders

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00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: speed and ability to run routes and get off press coverage.

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Speaker 1: He will give Alan another reliable target to beat. Blitz Is.

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Speaker 1: Now go get some tight end help. Any interest in

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Speaker 1: running backs Lindsay or White. He's talking about James White

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01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: and Philip Lindsay, who was just given unrestricted free agent status.

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Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos had tendered him a qualifying offer as

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Speaker 1: a restricted free agent, but have since rescinded it after

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01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: talking to Lindsay and his representatives came to a mutual agreement.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna part ways with the Broncos now. Philip Lindsay,

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Speaker 1: I was read today. I don't know if I didn't

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Speaker 1: check it. I hope it's true. He's the only undrafted

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Speaker 1: rookie to make the Pro Bowl as an offensive player.

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01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: It's impressive. That's really impressive young guy, only three years

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Speaker 1: in the league. There'll be a market for him. Not

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01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:51,439
Speaker 1: a tremendous market, but there'll be a market for him someone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's a running back, so and he's not

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01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 1: going to break the bank, but he's gonna make pretty

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01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: good money and he may go right to the top

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01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: of some team's depth chart. Interesting. I know we touched

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01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: on this yesterday, but just getting to Jack's comment about

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01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: sanders ability to run routes and get off press coverage.

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01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: I know we mentioned him as an elite route runner yesterday.

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01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: The Bills now have three at the top of their

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01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: receiver depth chart in Digs, Beasley and Sanders, and to

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Speaker 1: have I said yesterday, they have three of probably the

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Speaker 1: top fifteen route runners in all of football on the

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Speaker 1: same roster. That is going to do wonders for Josh Allen.

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01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 1: You even went out on a limb and put a

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Speaker 1: fat number up there for Josh's total passing yards this season.

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Speaker 1: If those three guys stay healthy. Oh, here's the way,

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Speaker 1: here's what I'm looking at. And I'm I'm no prognosticator,

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01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: but I will, you know, throw something up against run

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Speaker 1: something up the fire flagpoles, hefit flies. But I think

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Speaker 1: Josh can have an enormous year next year with those

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Speaker 1: three guys, if everybody stays healthy and all that yigity

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Speaker 1: act of the offensive line hold up. And because here's why,

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Speaker 1: I think the running game of the Buffalo Bills is

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Speaker 1: a throw in. I think this is a they think

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Speaker 1: it's a throwing league. They got a guy that pulls

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Speaker 1: the trigger. He can run. Their running game can be

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Speaker 1: him scrambling a handoff to keep Monest and let's throw

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Speaker 1: it all over the yard. Josh, after the year he

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Speaker 1: put up this year, with Sanders in the mix, with

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis and all the guys they've got, it would

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Speaker 1: not surprise me that the Bills throw it higher than

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Speaker 1: sixty forty this year. And if they do, if they

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Speaker 1: go up significantly, like to sixty five percent, or throw

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Speaker 1: it more than that between sixty five and seventy percent

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Speaker 1: of the time, which is kind of outlandish. But if

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Speaker 1: they do that, Josh could throw it for five grand

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Speaker 1: I mean, because they're gonna have some guys getting separation,

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Speaker 1: and Josh, if he works hard this offseason, takes another

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Speaker 1: step forward, works on what he think he needs to

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Speaker 1: work on, what they've talked about, Yeah, they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be throwing the ball all over the yard,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be hard to get off the field

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Speaker 1: on third down, and whether they run the ball well

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Speaker 1: or not, they're gonna be a handful. They're gonna be

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Speaker 1: a real handful because as good as John Brown was,

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Speaker 1: the difference in John Brown and Emmanuel Sanders is that

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders is going to be running open underneath the

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Speaker 1: top of the defense, just like Steph Diggs was. I

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Speaker 1: just think it's going to be really good. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you can spend any way you want to, but I

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01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: think Emmanuel Sanders makes the Bills offense even more difficult

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Speaker 1: to defend and to get off the field. And we'll

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Speaker 1: be addressing this in our weekly podcast, One Bill's Light,

1194
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 1: that you can find on any of your podcast platform.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I do one of those a week, and

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Speaker 1: we addressed Emmanuel Sanders true catch rate, which is an

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Speaker 1: advanced metric that basically measures a receiver's reception rating on

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Speaker 1: what is deemed to be catchable passes. Only Emmanuel Sanders

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty led the NFL in that metric with

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Speaker 1: a market like one ten point nine, which is nuts

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Speaker 1: And for what it's worth, Beasley was sixteenth in the

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Speaker 1: league and Diggs was twenty fifth. Usually the higher volume

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Speaker 1: target guys are lower on that list because they have

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Speaker 1: more opportunities. They also have more drops, so but number one,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's a little bit. It's a little bit

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Speaker 1: subjective as you think he should catch this ball or

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Speaker 1: you think he should drop that football, and that goes

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Speaker 1: into the ratings, of course, and when you're talking so

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Speaker 1: many targets for some of these guys, the subjectivity gets

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Speaker 1: a little bit dicey muddied. Yeah. Charlie on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet says best individual move is Milano, especially with New

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Speaker 1: England adding Smith and Henry, but as a whole, keeping

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Speaker 1: Josh upright and healthy is arguably the most important thing

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Speaker 1: for this team. Mango and Williams are forty percent responsible

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Speaker 1: for that building cohesion up front. His paramount for Josh

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Speaker 1: and the offense. I like his Milano point, Yeah a lot,

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Speaker 1: good one because John U Smith and Hunter Henry. I

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Speaker 1: think Milano's got no problem covering Hunter Henry. I think

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Speaker 1: he's more athletic than Hunter Henry Craige. Frankly, John new

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Speaker 1: Smith might be a different story. That guy's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a tough matchup for anybody in the league. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: his linebacker or safety, you're gonna have to You're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to bear up on him. But I'll tell you this,

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Speaker 1: So everybody's saying, Hey, if the Patriots are gonna run

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Speaker 1: this two tight end offense, and if you if you

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Speaker 1: come up and go big and hold them up, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna start to throw the football. If you can bet that,

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Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna go big against him, because if

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton's the guy pulling the trigger, they'd rather have

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Speaker 1: him doing that than having him hand it off and

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01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 1: giving up four and a half five yards a pop

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Speaker 1: in the run game. They'd be more than happy to

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Speaker 1: have Cam Newton try and beat him through the air

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Speaker 1: and keep up with Josh Allen. I don't think that

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Speaker 1: can happen even with the weapon the added weapons in

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Speaker 1: those two tight ends, because the Bills are gonna come

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Speaker 1: out and they're gonna air it out and the Patriots

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Speaker 1: wild you know, they have to keep up with him.

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to see more collisions at the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage on these guys too, especially if you're gonna

1241
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Speaker 1: go big, use your size and strength to your advantage

1242
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Speaker 1: right at the line of scrimmage, knock them off their

1243
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Speaker 1: route a little bit, or at least force them to reroute,

1244
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: and maybe it disrupts the timing of the play ever

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01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: so slightly. I'm not saying do it every every play,

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Speaker 1: but when you got your big people out there, tell

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Speaker 1: them collision that guy at the line of scrimmage before

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Speaker 1: you go after the quarterback, or even if you're dropping

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01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: into coverage, crack him at the line first. That extra

1250
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: half second can sometimes be the difference and throwing the

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Speaker 1: timing of the pattern on, particularly if they're going to

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Speaker 1: run those two tight ends and you do that to

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Speaker 1: the if they're targeting the tight ends, they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to wait on them to get off the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: which gives Jerry Hughes and whoever else is rushing the

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Speaker 1: pass or an extra half second to get there. That's

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Speaker 1: that's a problem. But I'm totally with you, even harping

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Speaker 1: on that for ever since I've known yet. So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if the Bills there's there's gotta be an

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Speaker 1: easy answer as to why they don't feel comfortable doing that.

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Speaker 1: I have to because it's and maybe it's an open

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Speaker 1: it's probably and I'm not going to claim to be

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01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: the trained, you know, film reviewer that the Bill's coaching

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01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: staff or any experienced coaches in this league. Far be

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01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: it for me to stamp myself as something like that.

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01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 1: But it just seems like something that should at least

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Speaker 1: be attempted. But there must be an easy reason why

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01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 1: that is not used more often. But the Ravens did

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Speaker 1: it with success, that Bucks did it in the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl against Kelsey and Hill. So I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: just I think it's something that should at least be

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Speaker 1: explored next season. Rachel on the tweet sheet says getting

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Speaker 1: Feliciano and Williams back was huge. You convinced me that

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Speaker 1: are a lot save. You convinced me that our line

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01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:40,760
Speaker 1: should be better now that they're healthy. So having the

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Speaker 1: consistency of returning our starting five from last year is great.

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Speaker 1: Now we can draft a lineman to develop rather than

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Speaker 1: needing him to start right away, and that is still

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Speaker 1: on the docket. As far as I'm concerned, I would

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Speaker 1: draft your swing tackle somewhere on the first two days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would draft an offensive lineman as well, and right

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Speaker 1: now everything sits a draft. No lineman, draft a corner,

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Speaker 1: and then take the best player. You know, I'm they

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Speaker 1: don't really have a positional emergency today, but I still

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm more depth and more more talent

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Speaker 1: at the offensive line. You got to get better and

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Speaker 1: stay stay really good up front, Tiffany says. Sanders adds

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01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,200
Speaker 1: another weapon to an already loaded wide receiver group. The

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Speaker 1: Bills success on offense last year was the pass game.

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Speaker 1: Looking ahead to twenty twenty one, it appears to be

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Speaker 1: even stronger. Most teams have a hard time fielding two

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Speaker 1: solid corners, let alone three or four advantage Bills now.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, I think the Bills have to

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Speaker 1: look at that on the flip side as well, which

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Speaker 1: is why you and I are in the camp of

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Speaker 1: drafting a corner, because I'm sure they love Dradevious White.

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01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:54,719
Speaker 1: They have Levi Wallace back, who at the very least

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01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,880
Speaker 1: is your fault second corner, and that's a pretty good

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Speaker 1: one to have since he start of the last two years,

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Speaker 1: and Johnson's played well, he's your nickel. You have Cam

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Speaker 1: Lewis is a backup nickel. Dane Jackson. Now you have

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01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson, who's probably going to compete for that second corner,

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01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 1: you draft another one that you know is good enough

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01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 1: to make your roster. Now we're talking right, But I'll

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Speaker 1: say this too. If you're if you're thinking about the

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots, and you know and some of you

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01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: know today we are, you're not going to cover those

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01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:27,960
Speaker 1: tight ends with corners. You're not gonna throw four corners

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01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 1: on play, you know, play the outside. And then if

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01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: they have those two tight ends in there, you're not

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01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: gonna put corners on there. You gotta have somebody else.

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Speaker 1: So that doesn't apply to the New England Patriots and

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01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 1: the offense that they run twelve or thirteen personnel, that's

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Speaker 1: a different animal and that's got to be in the

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Speaker 1: mix as well. So it's interesting because other the other

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Speaker 1: two teams in the division, the Jets and the Dolphins,

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01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:51,680
Speaker 1: they are going to have that problem. They've got to

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01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 1: go four deep in corners for the Bills and they

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01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:58,680
Speaker 1: got to go heavy to stop the run game of

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Speaker 1: the Patriots with two tight end on the field. So

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Speaker 1: you got two teams that are on different ends of

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Speaker 1: the spectrum that you have to play twice a year.

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Speaker 1: If you have the Jets of the Dolphins, it's like

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Speaker 1: trying to be in a division with the old Houston

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Speaker 1: Oilers running the run and shoot and the Baltimore Ravens

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Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson. Right, you got one team that is

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01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 1: like it's a Sherman tank. You got to like build

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01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 1: a wall to stop him. And then the other one

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01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 1: you gotta have anti aircraft weapon right right, So it's

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01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: it's a completely different thing. And that's a little bit

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01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: of that where the Bills and the Patriots are. And

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Speaker 1: we will also talk about what Steve just touched on

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Speaker 1: when we come back, the lack of Nickel personnel when

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Speaker 1: you play the Patriots, but when you do have to

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Speaker 1: go Nickel or against Nickel, not play Nickel, who is

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01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 1: that hybrid guy that lines up with Milano and Edmonds.

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01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:46,599
Speaker 1: Dean Marlowe is a free agent this year. You still

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Speaker 1: have Siran Neil Steve and I will discuss that when

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Speaker 1: we return here on One Bills Live presented by Collid

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Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you coming up

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01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:12,679
Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes we will have the press conference

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01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: being held by jam Brandon bean head coach Sean McDermott.

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01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 1: Is they address the local media and bring everybody up

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01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 1: to speed on their thoughts, plans and perhaps future dealings

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01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 1: down the line with respect to their roster in free agency.

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01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: So we'll be here carrying that live for you in

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Speaker 1: the third hour of the show, So stay tuned for

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01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:36,760
Speaker 1: that question and answer session and of course when it's over,

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Speaker 1: Steve and Ile react to it before we say goodbye

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Speaker 1: for the day. We are getting your comments on the

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01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: tweet sheet right now, as we've been asking you today

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01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:49,840
Speaker 1: which Bills free agent move do you think will pay

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01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:52,560
Speaker 1: off the most in twenty twenty one. We've kind of

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01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: grouped some people together Feliciano and Williams getting resigned. Is

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01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,680
Speaker 1: it Milano and Wallace on the defensive side of the

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01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,760
Speaker 1: ball or is it the new Dan Emmanuel Sanders eight

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Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty. If you want to give

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01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 1: us a call otherwise, hit us up on the tweet

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01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 1: sheet at one Bills Live. Christian on the tweet sheet

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01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: says tough one Williams and Feliciano as they are both

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Speaker 1: proven starters that are familiar with everything. Also, I am

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Speaker 1: hoping a full offseason will allow the line to gel

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01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:22,719
Speaker 1: and get the run game going. As you said, Steve,

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01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 1: the run game is kind of a complimentary piece to

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01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: the identity of this offense, but they have to be

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Speaker 1: able to do it with some measure of success when

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Speaker 1: they turned to it. I think it was in telling.

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Speaker 1: We had John Feliciano on the show early in the

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Speaker 1: week right after he saw on the day signed and

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Speaker 1: Fund conversation. But one of the things he said when

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Speaker 1: we asked him about the run game and how important

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Speaker 1: it was and what, you know, some of the ways

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01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 1: they could improve it, answer was really interesting because we've

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Speaker 1: had the conversation about you know, they are they a

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Speaker 1: zone blocking team, outsigned zone guys, or are they man

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01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: blocking up of the power run game? What is it?

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Speaker 1: And Feliciano kind of said, he goes, well, Dabo's offense

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01:12:59,479 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: is vast, you know, it's really big, and so they

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Speaker 1: do all a little of all of that stuff, and

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Speaker 1: I think that speaks to a large menu of philosophies

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01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 1: and plays that they can go to given what they

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01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:16,679
Speaker 1: see in a defense. Now, having said that, it's hard

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01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 1: for an offensive line to go back and forth to

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01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: go from an outside zone run to a power run

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01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: game down inside to a you know, to a straight

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01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,720
Speaker 1: you know, come off the ball right at your run game.

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01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: You know, all these different run games are all part

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Speaker 1: of the Bill's offense. So it's really big, big menu.

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Speaker 1: And I think for a you know, an atmosphere like that,

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01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,479
Speaker 1: for for an offensive line is hard to get a

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01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:45,720
Speaker 1: hand on what you've got to do unless you play

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01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps together. Keeping these guys together may

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01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 1: help them overcome that. But I thought was really telling

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01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: the Feliciano said, you know, day balls offense, we got

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Speaker 1: all that in there. It's it's all in there. We

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Speaker 1: run all of it, and that's hard to master. For

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Speaker 1: of course, in the next breath he said, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: throw it. Yeah, he said, we're a throwing team. You

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01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, we're gonna throw it. So think about it.

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01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 1: They don't get those reps and they're throwing the ball

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01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:12,840
Speaker 1: in practice, they're doing all that, and then the game

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01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:15,599
Speaker 1: they're throwing a you know, forty percent or sixty percent

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01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 1: of the time, running at forty percent of the time,

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01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:22,599
Speaker 1: and some of those runs are with the quarterback. There's

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01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: not a lot of practice and a lot of reps,

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01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:28,240
Speaker 1: and a lot of depth of experience on any of

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01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: those guys playing together and running the offense, the running offense,

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01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:33,640
Speaker 1: the running game. They just don't get that much in it.

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01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:39,440
Speaker 1: So I think another year together doing it may pay dividends.

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01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 1: But I still don't think this is going to be

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01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:44,960
Speaker 1: a team that rushes for a buck seventy two a

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01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: game and like they did against the Patriots and hands

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Speaker 1: it off to one guy thirty five times like the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. This is gonna be. This is a team

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Speaker 1: is gonna throw it at thirty five to fifty times

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01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 1: a game. A veteran tight end is now off the market.

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01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, free agent for the Saints, is now signing

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01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: with the LA Chargers as the Chargers look to replace

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01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,679
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry, who they lost to New England in free agency.

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01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: It's a one year deal for six million dollars. I

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01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:16,479
Speaker 1: believe this is his age thirty four season. What do

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01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: you think of that first blush justin Herbert. Now you

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01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 1: have a veteran tight end there for him, kind of

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01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: have that security blanket underneath. I'm all about it. I mean,

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01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 1: that's that's what they got to do that. And that's

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01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 1: the right move for Cook, that's for sure. Oh he'll

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01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: get opportunities. Yeah, yeah, you got Justin Herbert can throw it.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's a perfect spot for him as

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Speaker 1: a veteran tied end to go in there and you know,

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01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: assert himself as a guy that he can the young

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01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 1: quarterback can trust. Think about this. He comes in, he

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Speaker 1: has like a say, for instance, a really good season,

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01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: a sixty catch season, sixty five catch season, and Justin

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01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: Herbert loves him, and Herbert says, listen, I don't let

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Speaker 1: that guy walk in free agency. You know, were Harri's brother.

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01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,160
Speaker 1: Just get some get some wide outs, to get another

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01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: wide out to go with Keenan Allen and this and

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01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 1: Cook and let's go. And they got Mike Williams, Sue,

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01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:10,799
Speaker 1: I mean, who had a nice season. He battled injuries

1441
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 1: early in his career, but he's been productive. And they've

1442
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 1: got a couple of kids who can really run. Jalen

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01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 1: guyten was their three last year. Kid runs a four

1444
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: to three flat. I think. So they have some guys,

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01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:26,360
Speaker 1: but I don't know that they have quite the receiving

1446
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 1: corps as that of the Bills. But nobody should sneeze

1447
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: at the fact that Justin Herbert, who was the Rookie

1448
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 1: of the Year, had thirty one touchdown passes as a

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01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:39,720
Speaker 1: wet behind the ears rookie. And if you asked me,

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01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:42,640
Speaker 1: of all the quarterbacks drafted in the last two or

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01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:45,640
Speaker 1: three years, the guy that most resembles Josh Allen to

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01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 1: me is Justin Herbert. Goes six six, two thirty, runs

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01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:51,880
Speaker 1: just as well as he does, and his arm is

1454
01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:55,759
Speaker 1: pretty close. It's close. It's not quite, but it's close.

1455
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 1: Chargers build around him the right way. They could be

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01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: winning a lot of games in the AFC West going forward.

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01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 1: And we're in the midst of this where all these

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01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: teams are spending a ton of money on free agency,

1459
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:08,639
Speaker 1: or those are the ones who were making the splash headlines.

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01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 1: Ralph Acquiano of the Sporting News, he said this, I

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Speaker 1: believe it's not supporting units. I'm not sure where he's

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01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 1: what venue. He covers the Giants Right there you go.

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01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:22,400
Speaker 1: He says, the last ten Super Bowl winners, they spent

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01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:24,559
Speaker 1: in free agency and where they ranked in the league

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01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: when they spent in free agency. So the last two

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01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 1: Super Bowl winners, the highest Super Bowl winner who spent

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01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 1: the most money was tenth in the league that year

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01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl money in New England, I mean in

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01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: new money spent on free agents that year. So you're

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01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 1: gonna win. This means if you're gonna win the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl this year, don't be in the top ten in

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Speaker 1: free agency spending. Because the last ten Super Bowl winners,

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01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 1: it was Baltimore they were tenth, then it was Tampa Bay.

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01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 1: This last year they were fourteenth. Kansas City was thirteenth

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01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:01,000
Speaker 1: two years ago. In twenty eighteen, New England was twenty third,

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia before them was twenty first, New England before them

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01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:07,679
Speaker 1: was twenty second, Denver was twenty sixth, New England again

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01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:11,760
Speaker 1: was fifteenth, Seattle was twenty fifth, and of course at

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Speaker 1: the end of twenty eleven, the Giants were eighteenth. So

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Speaker 1: all these teams that were in the middle of the

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01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 1: pack from twenty fifth through the tenth in the league,

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01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 1: those are the ones that are winning the Super Bowl,

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01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 1: the guys that are in the top ten spending, right,

1484
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 1: And I guess that would make sense because you feel

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01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: good about what your roster has, You've been competitive with

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01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 1: that roster, and you don't need to make wholesale changes

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01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:38,640
Speaker 1: to feel like you need you don't feel like you

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01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 1: got to make wholesale changes just to compete. And there's

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01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: some continuity there too. Some team you're where you bring

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01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:45,680
Speaker 1: in a ton of a ton of new guys at

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01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:49,000
Speaker 1: significant roles, it's hard to get them get it together

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01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 1: to get off to a fast start, you know, to

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01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:56,599
Speaker 1: give yourself a chance down the stretch to continue to develop. Yeah,

1494
01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 1: it's and the other teams that are flipping their roster

1495
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: over a ton by buying talent are the ones that

1496
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: are usually drafting well too. They don't have to go

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01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:09,040
Speaker 1: out and find free agent talent because they're grooming their

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01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:11,559
Speaker 1: own talent right on their own roster because they've been

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01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: successful in mining talent in the draft. So yeah, there

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01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:19,519
Speaker 1: are reasons for that, right, I mean, I think in

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01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:23,599
Speaker 1: the early years of free agency, you know, we kind

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01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: of saw the Washington franchise, especially under Daniel Snyder, used

1503
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 1: to buy every free agent under the sun, and every

1504
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:34,600
Speaker 1: year they'd finished seven and not somewhere between seven and

1505
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 1: nine and nine and seven because they couldn't pull it

1506
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 1: all together fast enough in a sixteen game season because

1507
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:43,720
Speaker 1: the changes were so vast, pulling it all together in

1508
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 1: that first year was hard, and then they'd lose patients,

1509
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:49,759
Speaker 1: cut half of them, resigned, sign some more new guys,

1510
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: and the process would repeat itself and they didn't get anywhere. Yeah,

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01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 1: you get into these death spirals where you can't get

1512
01:19:57,280 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 1: out of it either. You're by over space, ending on

1513
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:03,720
Speaker 1: too few people who can't earn that money, and then

1514
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 1: there's nobody else on the roster because you can't afford

1515
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: to pay him and they, and it gets even worse.

1516
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, and then then you have to clear the

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01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: cap space and you take another year to get out

1518
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:15,800
Speaker 1: of that, and then you do the exact same thing

1519
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:18,639
Speaker 1: again when you think there's one guy out there who's

1520
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 1: going to change your fortunes. Break time for us when

1521
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 1: we return more of your comments on the tweet sheet

1522
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:26,120
Speaker 1: as we get ready for the Brandon Being Sean McDermott

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01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:28,400
Speaker 1: press conference at the top of the hour. It's about

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01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty minutes away. Stay tuned for that, along with

1525
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 1: some of your comments. Next here on One Bills Live

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01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

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01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here with you,

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01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 1: getting set for hour number three of the show. Shortly,

1529
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 1: we did just get an update. The Bills have sent

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01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 1: out a press conference adjustment to the start time for

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01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: the press conference for GM Brandon being a head coach

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01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: Seaw McDermott. It will now be at three pm, so

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01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: it'll be an hour from about ten minutes from now,

1534
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 1: so about an hour and ten minutes both Brandon being

1535
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,679
Speaker 1: in Seau McDermott will address the media at that time.

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01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 1: So that's coming your way in a little over an hour. Now.

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01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: It's been pushed back an hour. You know, we don't

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01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:26,360
Speaker 1: have the reasons why, but I'm sure there's a good

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01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 1: reason as to why. So they move the schedule back

1540
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:32,120
Speaker 1: an hour for their press conference eight oh three oh

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01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty

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01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:36,559
Speaker 1: To get on board with us, let us know which

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01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:39,720
Speaker 1: free agent move to this point do you think will

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01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: pay off the most. In twenty twenty one had a

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01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: relatively balanced voting results thus far in the poll. I

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01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:52,440
Speaker 1: know out in front was Williams and Feliciano. That combination

1547
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:55,559
Speaker 1: which we grouped together has been leading the voting thus far.

1548
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: And then we had also grouped together on the defensive

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01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,040
Speaker 1: side of the all the resigning of Matt Milano and

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01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:05,280
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, and then Emmanuel Sanders was all by himself

1551
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:09,200
Speaker 1: as the third option. So, you know, you can weigh

1552
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:11,479
Speaker 1: it in a lot of different ways. I think people

1553
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 1: look at the offensive line in Williams and Feliciano, Steven.

1554
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 1: They're voting there because they know that spells protection for

1555
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:21,320
Speaker 1: the number one asset, which is Josh Allen. No question,

1556
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:25,880
Speaker 1: most of the most of the you know, and I

1557
01:22:26,040 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: said this a little earlier, eighty percent of the respondents

1558
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 1: like the guys they've already got Milano, Williams, Milano, Wallace, Williams, Feliciano.

1559
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:38,200
Speaker 1: Eighty percent of the fans say, at least we got

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01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 1: our guys, and we're not gonna get any worse. If

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01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 1: we got all the guys we had last year. We're

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01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:44,519
Speaker 1: gonna we got a chance here now, right. So because

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01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders is a little bit of an unknown for

1564
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: Bills fans, they can you can say what you want

1565
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:50,560
Speaker 1: about him. We don't know what he looks like in

1566
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:52,800
Speaker 1: this offense, So I think that's a little bit of

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01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:54,800
Speaker 1: what's going on. And of course there's I don't know

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01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:57,000
Speaker 1: what else there is. The other was three point four

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01:22:57,080 --> 01:22:58,960
Speaker 1: percent of our respondence. I don't know what else there is.

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01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:01,640
Speaker 1: Less you're talking about the punter, which a couple of

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01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 1: people on the tweet sheet have brought up. I mean,

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01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 1: I'm I don't want this just ten. I mean I

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01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 1: I I'm not one against special teams. I'm just saying

1574
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:15,880
Speaker 1: that's not on the same plane as your right side

1575
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 1: of your offensive line. Right. In fact, I was especially

1576
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:21,080
Speaker 1: with with as little work as the punter seems to

1577
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,759
Speaker 1: get here. I mean, if the offense is as productive

1578
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 1: this year as it was last year, that guy's only

1579
01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: stepping on the field about forty times to actually kick.

1580
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:31,559
Speaker 1: I said, if we're gonna do this right, you should

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01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 1: put Emmanuel Sanders and Hack the punter together. Right, you

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01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: got Williams and Feliciano and Milano and wall Less, you

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01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:43,000
Speaker 1: should put Emmanuel Sanders and and uh, you're you're in

1584
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:45,639
Speaker 1: the punter. Your special team's true colors were shining through

1585
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 1: with that suggestion that you were you were Andy, you

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01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:51,160
Speaker 1: were Summarily that would have put him in at twenty

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01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 1: percent of the total vote. If the three point four

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01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: percent is off for the punter. Yeah, so you know

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01:23:56,880 --> 01:23:59,560
Speaker 1: I wasn't totally out on an island by myself. No,

1590
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:03,560
Speaker 1: not an island, not at all. So okay, do you

1591
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:06,879
Speaker 1: think it says anything that Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott

1592
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 1: pushed their press confertition. Well, I know, speculation is already running.

1593
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:13,240
Speaker 1: Why they're social media is what are they gonna do?

1594
01:24:13,439 --> 01:24:17,799
Speaker 1: Often running m's gonna happen. There was an interesting tweet.

1595
01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:21,280
Speaker 1: Some people are of the opinion that with the Chargers

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01:24:21,360 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 1: signing Jared Cook that they are now out. Uh. They

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01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:27,479
Speaker 1: were rumored to be one of the teams interested in

1598
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: a zach Ertz trade, but now that they've signed Jared Cook,

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01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 1: they believe that. Some believe that the Chargers would be

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01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: out of the running for that. I don't know if

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01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: I'm buying that, because to do it in New England

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01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:43,360
Speaker 1: page well, right, that's number one, number two, it's Jared

1603
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 1: Cook on a one year deal in his age thirty

1604
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: fourth season. I don't know if that sews up your

1605
01:24:47,880 --> 01:24:51,679
Speaker 1: tight end position necessarily, So be interesting to see where

1606
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: they go with that, and if, in fact, you know,

1607
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:55,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers would be out of the running. That's what

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01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: some people in the know around the league are speculating

1609
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:02,920
Speaker 1: right now. So we'll just have to see where that goes.

1610
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,479
Speaker 1: And it looks like the Eagles are more than willing

1611
01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 1: to wait and hold out for the best possible offer

1612
01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 1: because they said the offers they fielded to this point

1613
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:13,720
Speaker 1: have not been up to snuff. And as we said,

1614
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: this has been a different environment for free agency that

1615
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 1: John Ledyard also from who covers the NFL Draft. He says,

1616
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,200
Speaker 1: he says he shouldn't be but he is very stunted

1617
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:27,360
Speaker 1: how slow moving Wednesday and Thursday a free agency have been.

1618
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:30,760
Speaker 1: There's a ton of good players who haven't signed anywhere yet,

1619
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:36,280
Speaker 1: but he thinks there might be a flurry of shoppers

1620
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: going on here in the next week or so. They're

1621
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 1: going to get guys that are you know, these good

1622
01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: players who are like what about me, just looking to

1623
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:47,280
Speaker 1: sign anywhere. Like I said, this musical chairs and there

1624
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: are seemed to me might be more players than there

1625
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,200
Speaker 1: is money to spend on them. So guys are going

1626
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 1: to get left standing when the song stops. Back on

1627
01:25:56,280 --> 01:26:01,559
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, JT says, everything signing our core players

1628
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: back the bean Master is not done yet. He's an

1629
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:09,600
Speaker 1: offseason genius. Love this team's unselfishness to restructure contracts to

1630
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:12,880
Speaker 1: bring in players to complete the Super Bowl push. Do

1631
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 1: we still need a corner even with Levi back, also

1632
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: still need an edge rusher. Yeah, you know what, Steve,

1633
01:26:19,360 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: I think it has gone by the board a little

1634
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:23,760
Speaker 1: too much. We've we've mentioned how some of the guys

1635
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:26,800
Speaker 1: that did resign probably took a little less money to

1636
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:29,800
Speaker 1: come back to the Bills, but maybe more importantly, the

1637
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 1: guys that just took outright pay cuts or restructure their

1638
01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 1: contracts to help the Bills retain some of those players

1639
01:26:36,479 --> 01:26:38,519
Speaker 1: should tip your hat to those guys too. I mean

1640
01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:41,120
Speaker 1: that's the ultimate of being a team player. I think

1641
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:43,760
Speaker 1: they're you're taking a shot in your own wallet to

1642
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:46,800
Speaker 1: kind of keep the crew together. Well, restructure is different

1643
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 1: than a reaches. The restructure means it's not a big

1644
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:52,040
Speaker 1: deal for the player that I should get the money.

1645
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 1: You're gonna get the money up front. I think it's

1646
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:56,560
Speaker 1: more of a tip of the hat to Sean McDermott.

1647
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: He's got an environment where players really want to be

1648
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 1: a part of it, they really want to thrive in it.

1649
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:06,800
Speaker 1: They feel like they are thriving in it. This stuff

1650
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 1: you hear about it, and winning is good, I mean,

1651
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 1: no question and it's a little bit of like, are

1652
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:13,559
Speaker 1: they do they want to be here because they're winning,

1653
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:15,599
Speaker 1: or are they winning because it's such a good environment

1654
01:27:15,600 --> 01:27:17,680
Speaker 1: and they want to be here. Okay, you can have

1655
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:21,800
Speaker 1: that debate all you want. I know this, there's a

1656
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:23,720
Speaker 1: lot of teams who are winning a lot and guys

1657
01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:26,720
Speaker 1: aren't doing what the Bills are doing. Players aren't doing

1658
01:27:26,760 --> 01:27:31,560
Speaker 1: what the Bills are doing. That says something about Sean McDermott,

1659
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:34,640
Speaker 1: and I think when players come in and it's not

1660
01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 1: only about having a place where you can't wait to

1661
01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: get to work in the morning, it's a lot of fun.

1662
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 1: You love the guys you're playing with, you're winning, you're

1663
01:27:40,439 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: playing well. You got a lot of great players who

1664
01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:44,000
Speaker 1: are fun to be around, a great coaching staff. I

1665
01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: get all of that, but I think it's also something

1666
01:27:46,439 --> 01:27:48,040
Speaker 1: when a guy looks in the mirror in the morning

1667
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 1: and he says, man, this is when you know in

1668
01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: your heart, like, this is the spot for me. This

1669
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:54,240
Speaker 1: is where I'm going to be the happiest. This is

1670
01:27:54,280 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 1: where I'm going to have the most success, whether it's

1671
01:27:56,520 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 1: monetarily or otherwise. I'm certainly loving who I am now

1672
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:02,240
Speaker 1: and what this team does for me, and then the

1673
01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:05,000
Speaker 1: money I'm making and the you know, so there's a

1674
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:06,479
Speaker 1: little bit of that when you look in the mirror

1675
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:10,800
Speaker 1: in the morning and you think it'd be a mistake

1676
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,680
Speaker 1: to leave. Well, and I don't know about you, but

1677
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:15,679
Speaker 1: that's the vibe we kind of got from Matt Milano

1678
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: when we had him on the show. He essentially said,

1679
01:28:19,479 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 1: I want to see this through because he's been here

1680
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:26,880
Speaker 1: for the whole manifestation of this roster build, this team build.

1681
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: I mean, he was here when they were a seven

1682
01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:31,040
Speaker 1: or a nine win team. He was here when they

1683
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: were a six win team, and then a ten win

1684
01:28:33,240 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 1: team and a thirteen win team in the regular season.

1685
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:38,800
Speaker 1: He wants to finish it off now. He sees the

1686
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: trajectory everybody does, especially the guys that are here every

1687
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 1: day or have been for the better part of the

1688
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,439
Speaker 1: last three or four years. They're invested and it's a

1689
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:49,200
Speaker 1: it's a good chunk of their lives that are invested

1690
01:28:49,240 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 1: in this team's success, and it's hard to walk away

1691
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 1: over a paycheck, no matter how sweet it is, and

1692
01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: particularly if you got a pretty good win waiting for

1693
01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:58,080
Speaker 1: you to come back. What do you think of the

1694
01:28:58,200 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 1: concept that JT. Brought up also need an edge rusher.

1695
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 1: Where do you come down on that? Because I think

1696
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:06,720
Speaker 1: we can all agree that rushing with just the front

1697
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:10,000
Speaker 1: four it just did not have any means of consistent

1698
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 1: effectiveness last season, to the point where Leslie Fraser had

1699
01:29:13,200 --> 01:29:16,080
Speaker 1: to get creative with some blitz calls week to week.

1700
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 1: I hear it, I hear it. They're not just falling

1701
01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:24,320
Speaker 1: out of trees. But I'll say this, for whatever reason,

1702
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:29,360
Speaker 1: I like the way they handle their rotation. It says

1703
01:29:29,439 --> 01:29:33,640
Speaker 1: a lot about the guys that are actually on the

1704
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 1: field for the team. And I think it's really huge

1705
01:29:36,160 --> 01:29:37,680
Speaker 1: and I think it's part of what we've just been

1706
01:29:37,720 --> 01:29:41,040
Speaker 1: talking about with Levy Wallace and Matt Milano. Trent Murphy

1707
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: got benched and was benched inactive for the bulk of

1708
01:29:46,400 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 1: the season. There are a lot of NFL football teams

1709
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:55,160
Speaker 1: and ownerships groups who would not allow that to happen

1710
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:59,000
Speaker 1: with a guy who's making the paycheck that Trent Murphy is. Yeah,

1711
01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:03,000
Speaker 1: and the fact that the Bills do that and got

1712
01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:04,599
Speaker 1: I don't know if they got any, but they got

1713
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:08,280
Speaker 1: zero pushback from ownership about a guy making that kind

1714
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 1: of money not being on the field, says a lot

1715
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:14,320
Speaker 1: about the respect that they have from the ownership group.

1716
01:30:14,400 --> 01:30:19,200
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, that echoes through the locker room.

1717
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what you're making. If you're not bringing

1718
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,400
Speaker 1: it to play, you're not playing, you're not even getting active.

1719
01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:32,599
Speaker 1: That screams in the locker room about what it takes

1720
01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:35,840
Speaker 1: to get on the field. Screams it. And when you've

1721
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:37,840
Speaker 1: got a guy who just signed a two year deal,

1722
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:40,120
Speaker 1: comes out, plays two games, who didn't give up a

1723
01:30:40,160 --> 01:30:44,440
Speaker 1: sack of the year before, and gets released, it screams

1724
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:50,800
Speaker 1: the seriousness with which they take player evaluations, to me,

1725
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:55,320
Speaker 1: is the most telling and undeniable feature that sets the

1726
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:57,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills culture apart from every other one in the

1727
01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 1: league that you can observe they mean it, and it

1728
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:07,000
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who you are. When you don't perform, don't

1729
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:11,679
Speaker 1: practice and don't prepare or aren't as good as somebody else,

1730
01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: you get benched. And if you're and if that doesn't work,

1731
01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:19,840
Speaker 1: you get released. Man oh man. And they've done it

1732
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:23,519
Speaker 1: time and time and time again. It screams that message

1733
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 1: in the lie. You can't miss it. If you're a player.

1734
01:31:26,040 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: It's like you're sitting at your locker by yourself talking

1735
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:31,680
Speaker 1: yourself back when we went, oh god, I gotta go man,

1736
01:31:31,760 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 1: and that you talk about elevating, Oh yeah, that's what

1737
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 1: does it. It's a clear message. It's like an anvil

1738
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:40,960
Speaker 1: over the head. I mean, you can't and they do.

1739
01:31:41,439 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 1: They have done it consistently, year after year, week after week.

1740
01:31:46,360 --> 01:31:48,879
Speaker 1: And I mean I think more so than that players

1741
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:51,720
Speaker 1: love it and respect it. They did it before they

1742
01:31:51,800 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 1: even played a damn game. Ronald Darby and Sammy Watkins,

1743
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:56,960
Speaker 1: we're on a rail out of here, before they even

1744
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 1: played a preseason game. That's right. They traded. They traded

1745
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:06,880
Speaker 1: Cordy Glenn, Marcel Darius. I mean, you go down the list,

1746
01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:11,639
Speaker 1: and you know, and I'll say this too, we we've

1747
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: gone down there. Jordan Phillips had a great year in Arizona.

1748
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: Maybe that might be the one guy they thought, well,

1749
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:19,599
Speaker 1: maybe he's not gonna but he was on a pretty

1750
01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:22,040
Speaker 1: good defensive line in Arizona, had some opportunities. Hadn't like

1751
01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 1: ten sacks, No, No, he did not have a product.

1752
01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:27,840
Speaker 1: But he had a half sacks with the Bills last year.

1753
01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:30,479
Speaker 1: I think two and a half sacks with the Cardinals.

1754
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 1: Missed some games. Um No, did not have a super

1755
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:37,640
Speaker 1: productive year last year, they uh, they struggled on the

1756
01:32:37,680 --> 01:32:40,880
Speaker 1: defensive interior. At least the last time I checked his stats,

1757
01:32:42,080 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 1: I think he only had a couple of couple of sacks,

1758
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:47,640
Speaker 1: maybe three and two sacks. Two sacks. Yeah, So not

1759
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:50,800
Speaker 1: duplicate his performance of last year or his last year

1760
01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:52,920
Speaker 1: with the Bills. And that was the fear. And I'll

1761
01:32:52,920 --> 01:32:56,639
Speaker 1: give him a giant contract, and you know, the zest

1762
01:32:57,479 --> 01:33:00,240
Speaker 1: for winning on every snap kind of goes away. Little

1763
01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 1: bit can't get rid of him either because he's his No,

1764
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:04,479
Speaker 1: not this he hit him. He'd hit him for a

1765
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:07,120
Speaker 1: dozen million dot twelve million bucks if they cut a

1766
01:33:07,240 --> 01:33:10,479
Speaker 1: dozen million. I like that. All right, break time for us, Steve,

1767
01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:13,200
Speaker 1: and I'll come back with some more as we continue

1768
01:33:13,240 --> 01:33:16,120
Speaker 1: our journey through free agency and your comments on the

1769
01:33:16,120 --> 01:33:18,599
Speaker 1: tweet sheet about which Bills free agent move we'll pay

1770
01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:21,040
Speaker 1: off the most in twenty twenty one. Back in a

1771
01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:23,200
Speaker 1: moment here on One Bills Live presented by Kellid to health,

1772
01:33:23,240 --> 01:33:36,720
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Lug him back to One Bills Live,

1773
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:38,840
Speaker 1: hour number three of the show. If you are just

1774
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:42,960
Speaker 1: joining us looking for the press conference between General manager

1775
01:33:43,400 --> 01:33:45,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and head coach Sean McDermott. It has been

1776
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:51,679
Speaker 1: pushed back an hour. It will begin now at three pm. So, okay,

1777
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:56,680
Speaker 1: what do we picture is the reason? Don't fan the

1778
01:33:56,800 --> 01:34:01,439
Speaker 1: flames come on? They're they're talking to but he look

1779
01:34:01,439 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 1: at Steve Fanning the flames here. They're talking to somebody.

1780
01:34:04,400 --> 01:34:07,560
Speaker 1: Who's he gonna be? Who's it gonna be? I don't know.

1781
01:34:07,960 --> 01:34:15,599
Speaker 1: Could be anybody, Rudolph, Rudolph, could be some other guy

1782
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:20,720
Speaker 1: their corner. There is some NFL news. Ian Rappaport of

1783
01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:24,160
Speaker 1: NFL Network is saying a decision is coming. The Raiders

1784
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:26,880
Speaker 1: have asked quarterback Marcus Mariota to take a pay cut

1785
01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 1: down to just three million dollars this year from his

1786
01:34:30,160 --> 01:34:33,160
Speaker 1: ten point seven million dollars salary for twenty twenty one,

1787
01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 1: and if he refuses, the team will move on. While

1788
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 1: a release is likely, the team has been able to

1789
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 1: trade players they would normally cut. That remains possible. He's

1790
01:34:44,280 --> 01:34:47,680
Speaker 1: due ten point seven two five million dollars from the

1791
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:50,360
Speaker 1: Raiders this year. They've traded Gabe Jackson, who they were

1792
01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:55,439
Speaker 1: going to cut, They traded Trent Brown, and they just

1793
01:34:55,520 --> 01:35:02,479
Speaker 1: traded Rodney Hudson Arizona. So they're there. They don't. They

1794
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:04,640
Speaker 1: don't shy away from trading guys they want to move

1795
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:06,920
Speaker 1: on from if they think they have some kind of

1796
01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:10,000
Speaker 1: market value. And to this point, the ones they've the

1797
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:12,200
Speaker 1: ones they were planning on cutting, they have been able

1798
01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:16,080
Speaker 1: to trade, right, And there's a market for Mariota, Don't

1799
01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:20,360
Speaker 1: make no mistake about that. He's a backup, right, But

1800
01:35:21,000 --> 01:35:23,280
Speaker 1: New England has been rumored to be interested in guy.

1801
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: That's a guy that could compete with Cam Newton conceivably.

1802
01:35:26,439 --> 01:35:28,400
Speaker 1: I think he's good enough to compete with Newton. Who

1803
01:35:28,439 --> 01:35:32,479
Speaker 1: would you rather have Newton and Mariota right now? Wow,

1804
01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:34,360
Speaker 1: that's a really good question, Isn't that a tough one?

1805
01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:36,720
Speaker 1: That's why I think Patriots are interested because he could

1806
01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:38,920
Speaker 1: do better than Newton. I think he'd throw it better,

1807
01:35:40,160 --> 01:35:42,280
Speaker 1: especially if you're gonna run that short passing game with

1808
01:35:42,439 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 1: McDaniel not see, you'd have to tailor your offense around

1809
01:35:45,160 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 1: him because he's limited. He didn't have the huge army,

1810
01:35:48,280 --> 01:35:50,200
Speaker 1: and he's not running around anywhere. He's I mean, he

1811
01:35:50,240 --> 01:35:54,479
Speaker 1: could escape, but he's not running like Camera man. Oh Man,

1812
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:59,320
Speaker 1: I think Cam's obviously he's Cam's more dynamic physically, and

1813
01:35:59,720 --> 01:36:01,680
Speaker 1: you know, can can can give you so much in

1814
01:36:01,720 --> 01:36:06,160
Speaker 1: the running game. Um wow, that's a good question. But

1815
01:36:06,320 --> 01:36:09,679
Speaker 1: Mariota is a guy I'm I'm intrigued by I'm intrigued

1816
01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:14,439
Speaker 1: by him. I he's not. He's kind of a perfect

1817
01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:16,719
Speaker 1: backup in his person out the one that the personality

1818
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:18,760
Speaker 1: that I'm familiar with it, which is limited. Of course.

1819
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:22,600
Speaker 1: He's not one of those big, strong, follow me, let's go,

1820
01:36:22,920 --> 01:36:28,440
Speaker 1: let's you know. He is a quiet lead by example.

1821
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:31,640
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm I'm doing this. You guys do

1822
01:36:31,760 --> 01:36:33,120
Speaker 1: your you know what I mean. He's not a guy

1823
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:36,000
Speaker 1: that rallies the troops. He's the perfect guy to be

1824
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:37,760
Speaker 1: a voice when you come off the feet. He's a

1825
01:36:37,800 --> 01:36:41,920
Speaker 1: perfect backup kind of personality. He's with the starter. You know,

1826
01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:44,439
Speaker 1: he's got all that in there with him. You know.

1827
01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:46,960
Speaker 1: I just he's in there, in there, in the in

1828
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:49,200
Speaker 1: the trenches with the starter. He's you know, he's kind

1829
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:52,479
Speaker 1: of a good friend, a good player, a good person.

1830
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:55,559
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys you want on your team. Um,

1831
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:59,639
Speaker 1: but he's not the guy that's gonna take your offense

1832
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 1: and lead it. You're conflicted. I am conflicted about him

1833
01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:08,680
Speaker 1: as a backup. He's your guy I think he might

1834
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:12,000
Speaker 1: be my favorite guy out there as a backup. Okay, yeah,

1835
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:14,400
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones at eight oh three h

1836
01:37:14,520 --> 01:37:18,040
Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty

1837
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:21,000
Speaker 1: open line for you there but here leading this off

1838
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:23,360
Speaker 1: in this segment is Alan and Lancaster. Alan, what do

1839
01:37:23,400 --> 01:37:25,880
Speaker 1: you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Yeah,

1840
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:28,439
Speaker 1: I had a comment that I wanted to make in

1841
01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 1: regard to in regard to free agency, sure, I think

1842
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:37,280
Speaker 1: that the Bills should go after a corner, and the

1843
01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:41,639
Speaker 1: corner they should go after is Richard Sherman Paul Long,

1844
01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:46,519
Speaker 1: and he could play one up on either Travis Kelsey

1845
01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:49,120
Speaker 1: where they're gonna have to go through, They're gonna have

1846
01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:51,559
Speaker 1: to go through Kse and they could also he could

1847
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:55,479
Speaker 1: also do the same when they play when they play

1848
01:37:57,280 --> 01:38:02,559
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Okay, I don't mind that. The question will

1849
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:05,479
Speaker 1: be at what cost does it come? Typically when they

1850
01:38:05,880 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: signed veteran corners, and thanks Alan for the call. Typically

1851
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:11,960
Speaker 1: when they signed corners, they do it on a one

1852
01:38:12,080 --> 01:38:15,240
Speaker 1: year deal, and the vast majority of them have been

1853
01:38:15,439 --> 01:38:18,639
Speaker 1: somewhere between three and five million dollars six million dollars

1854
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:22,000
Speaker 1: a season. What is Sherman willing to play for I

1855
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:24,439
Speaker 1: would tend to think based on his resume, even at

1856
01:38:24,439 --> 01:38:27,160
Speaker 1: his advanced age, he's looking for around seven or eight

1857
01:38:27,200 --> 01:38:30,800
Speaker 1: million dollars. Do the bills go that high? I don't know. Well,

1858
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:33,560
Speaker 1: he's still out there, and certainly there's going to be

1859
01:38:33,640 --> 01:38:42,040
Speaker 1: some team's interest. He is a smart, strong, leaders ve.

1860
01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 1: He's a juice guy too. He's a juice guy and

1861
01:38:45,479 --> 01:38:50,519
Speaker 1: he has a level of credibility that not a lot

1862
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:54,000
Speaker 1: of free agents have. That guy is a is a

1863
01:38:54,280 --> 01:38:56,800
Speaker 1: name in the National Football League and has earned it

1864
01:38:56,920 --> 01:39:01,679
Speaker 1: on and off the field. He's really in eligant. Guys

1865
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: would learn a lot from him. Certainly, he's not at

1866
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:07,720
Speaker 1: the peak of his physical prowess as he once was,

1867
01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:12,200
Speaker 1: but and that's you know, that's the reason he's still

1868
01:39:12,280 --> 01:39:15,599
Speaker 1: on the on the street. And I think he's still

1869
01:39:15,640 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 1: got some football left in him. So I think he's

1870
01:39:17,439 --> 01:39:20,400
Speaker 1: very intriguing. MA. There are some that have speculated that

1871
01:39:20,479 --> 01:39:23,559
Speaker 1: he would be interested in going to the Jets continue

1872
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:27,519
Speaker 1: to play under Robert Sala, but Richard Chairman's looking to

1873
01:39:27,560 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 1: win somewhere and that's not going to happen with the

1874
01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:32,040
Speaker 1: Jets in twenty twenty one. And he's running out a time,

1875
01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:34,639
Speaker 1: So I would tend to think he looks to land

1876
01:39:34,800 --> 01:39:38,360
Speaker 1: somewhere that is a winning team with a chance to

1877
01:39:38,479 --> 01:39:40,880
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl this year, which would put

1878
01:39:40,960 --> 01:39:43,720
Speaker 1: the Bills in the mix, you would think. But he could.

1879
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:46,120
Speaker 1: You could see him taking a swing at the Patriots.

1880
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:48,679
Speaker 1: You could see him taking a swing at the Buffalo Bills.

1881
01:39:49,040 --> 01:39:51,920
Speaker 1: You could see it even for a team like Kansas

1882
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:54,200
Speaker 1: City or at Tampa Bay to go down there and

1883
01:39:54,280 --> 01:40:00,840
Speaker 1: play with Tom Brady. Yeah, he's gonna go, and he

1884
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:03,760
Speaker 1: wants to take a shot at some place where they're

1885
01:40:03,760 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 1: gonna win. He may want to stay right there in

1886
01:40:06,880 --> 01:40:10,000
Speaker 1: San Francisco and hope that that team stays healthy. Yeah,

1887
01:40:10,200 --> 01:40:14,840
Speaker 1: I mean they're they get healthy again, They'll be all right.

1888
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:17,920
Speaker 1: Although they did just lose Solomon Thomas, who was signed

1889
01:40:17,960 --> 01:40:21,920
Speaker 1: away from them. Granted he's coming off a major knee injury.

1890
01:40:22,320 --> 01:40:25,000
Speaker 1: That was a strong interior player for them. And he

1891
01:40:25,040 --> 01:40:27,479
Speaker 1: could see You could see Richard Sherman taking a swing

1892
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:30,160
Speaker 1: and taking a deal, a one year deal at Green Bay,

1893
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:34,240
Speaker 1: you know, to play with Aaron Rodgers. But he is

1894
01:40:34,280 --> 01:40:36,000
Speaker 1: a guy he would bring in no question, And it's

1895
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:39,680
Speaker 1: a good call by Alan Sherman is a guy. That's

1896
01:40:39,760 --> 01:40:43,719
Speaker 1: very intriguing to me. And his point about Alan matching

1897
01:40:43,800 --> 01:40:46,439
Speaker 1: up with a tight end holds a lot of water

1898
01:40:46,520 --> 01:40:49,559
Speaker 1: because physically and Sherman, he could, he could hold up.

1899
01:40:50,439 --> 01:40:51,920
Speaker 1: He may not be able to run with guys like

1900
01:40:52,080 --> 01:40:54,840
Speaker 1: John Brown or Tyreek Hill or any of those guys

1901
01:40:54,960 --> 01:40:56,720
Speaker 1: all the tired Steph Diggs all the time. But I'll

1902
01:40:56,760 --> 01:40:58,240
Speaker 1: tell you what, he could keep up with a tight end,

1903
01:40:58,560 --> 01:41:00,479
Speaker 1: even at this advanced age of his care and he's

1904
01:41:00,520 --> 01:41:04,519
Speaker 1: long enough to cover him up. That's intriguing to me.

1905
01:41:05,439 --> 01:41:08,120
Speaker 1: So I think it's a good call. But you know,

1906
01:41:09,400 --> 01:41:15,439
Speaker 1: money's the question. I yeah, I wonder what he what

1907
01:41:15,640 --> 01:41:18,080
Speaker 1: he thinks his market value is. I gotta believe he

1908
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 1: thinks it's somewhere between seven and eight. You just saw

1909
01:41:20,120 --> 01:41:23,360
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson today one a one year deal for ten

1910
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:27,840
Speaker 1: million from Minnesota Richard Numb. Now he's only thirty years old,

1911
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:31,599
Speaker 1: I believe Sherman. I think turns thirty three this season,

1912
01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:35,639
Speaker 1: if he hasn't already, so three, that's that's an important

1913
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:37,960
Speaker 1: three years on the wrong side of thirty. Yeah, So

1914
01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:42,280
Speaker 1: I think that knocks his value down a little bit

1915
01:41:42,360 --> 01:41:46,439
Speaker 1: from that of Peterson. But we'll have to see we'll

1916
01:41:46,479 --> 01:41:49,120
Speaker 1: have to see. And you know, there's an argument to

1917
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:53,559
Speaker 1: me made two that the Bills can maybe invest more

1918
01:41:54,240 --> 01:41:58,080
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position with youth. As I was making

1919
01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:01,840
Speaker 1: a point of yesterday, Judavious White is now in his

1920
01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:04,120
Speaker 1: fifth season. He's not a young player anymore. He's like

1921
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:08,559
Speaker 1: a young vet. Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer veteran players.

1922
01:42:09,320 --> 01:42:12,720
Speaker 1: Even tarn Johnson is entering his fourth season. If you

1923
01:42:12,880 --> 01:42:14,760
Speaker 1: have to put a young player over there at the

1924
01:42:14,840 --> 01:42:18,400
Speaker 1: second corner position on the outside, I don't think it's

1925
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:21,400
Speaker 1: a terrible thing, provided the guy's got the talent and

1926
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:24,559
Speaker 1: can lean on those veterans that are playing alongside him

1927
01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:27,439
Speaker 1: in the secondary. So a youth movement I don't think

1928
01:42:27,479 --> 01:42:30,559
Speaker 1: would be out of line at all at that position.

1929
01:42:30,600 --> 01:42:32,040
Speaker 1: Whether you do it in the form of a draft

1930
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 1: pick that you bring in to compete with Jane Dane

1931
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:38,040
Speaker 1: Jackson or or I mean I get or the veteran route.

1932
01:42:38,080 --> 01:42:39,840
Speaker 1: That's that's what they've done the better part of the

1933
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 1: last three years. It's always been a veteran on a

1934
01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:44,960
Speaker 1: one year deal to come in and compete. And you

1935
01:42:45,560 --> 01:42:48,519
Speaker 1: just brought Levi Wallace back into the fold. So maybe

1936
01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:51,800
Speaker 1: it's Levi Wallace, Dane Jackson in a draft choice, or

1937
01:42:51,840 --> 01:42:53,920
Speaker 1: maybe they bring another veteran in. I think it's an

1938
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 1: either or situation. There might be all of them if

1939
01:42:56,560 --> 01:42:58,640
Speaker 1: they if they feel like it's that important and you

1940
01:42:58,720 --> 01:43:00,640
Speaker 1: get down to them. You know, even on some of

1941
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:03,160
Speaker 1: these websites. Rashaan Melvin is out there. He's a coin.

1942
01:43:03,280 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 1: He just he just signed with Carolina today as one

1943
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:12,360
Speaker 1: year deal, as did Levi Wallace, Tony Brown, Cincinnati, Genrris Jenkins. Um,

1944
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:16,920
Speaker 1: these guys are all you know, they're going to these

1945
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:21,160
Speaker 1: other teams. Genorris Jenkins looks like he's gonna go to Tennessee. Yeah,

1946
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:23,439
Speaker 1: he just signed with that Sidney Jones. They just cleaned

1947
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:25,920
Speaker 1: house in their whole second. The only guy's out top

1948
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:28,120
Speaker 1: name on the list that's still out there right now,

1949
01:43:28,200 --> 01:43:31,200
Speaker 1: at least that this says is a J Boyer out

1950
01:43:31,240 --> 01:43:32,960
Speaker 1: of Denver. He is still out there. Yeah, he is

1951
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:37,160
Speaker 1: not signed. Malcolm Butler was right out there, Casey Hayward,

1952
01:43:37,479 --> 01:43:40,519
Speaker 1: Desmond Truffont and of course Richard Sherman, d J. Hayden,

1953
01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:43,639
Speaker 1: Josh Norman, Uh you get. And that's Josh Norman who's

1954
01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:45,320
Speaker 1: just left Buffalo at thirty four years of age, and

1955
01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:49,960
Speaker 1: everybody's below him. Um. And I don't know that they

1956
01:43:50,080 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 1: ranked him that that way, right, but that's you know,

1957
01:43:52,240 --> 01:43:54,920
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at, you know. Uh, Levi Wallace

1958
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:58,880
Speaker 1: was way up that list. Uh And and you got

1959
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: to think there's a good reason for it. I mean,

1960
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 1: Levi sitting there, Levi Wallace is sitting there at twenty six,

1961
01:44:06,040 --> 01:44:08,040
Speaker 1: and he's just he just signed a one year deal

1962
01:44:08,120 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 1: with Buffalo before. He is in a great spot, an

1963
01:44:14,439 --> 01:44:18,160
Speaker 1: absolutely great spot. Show out this year and make money

1964
01:44:18,240 --> 01:44:20,920
Speaker 1: next year. He is, and particularly if the Bills really

1965
01:44:20,960 --> 01:44:22,599
Speaker 1: do make an effort to replace him with a draft

1966
01:44:22,680 --> 01:44:25,400
Speaker 1: pick or with Dane Jackson or a veteran and he

1967
01:44:25,520 --> 01:44:31,080
Speaker 1: holds that spot down again on this team, on this team, Yeah, yeah,

1968
01:44:31,160 --> 01:44:33,400
Speaker 1: that says something for him that he's in a great spot.

1969
01:44:33,479 --> 01:44:35,479
Speaker 1: He's in a great spot not only to make some

1970
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:38,920
Speaker 1: money this year, but also to hit a home run

1971
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:41,120
Speaker 1: next year. Let's go back to the phones. We go

1972
01:44:41,200 --> 01:44:43,519
Speaker 1: to Jim in Rochester, who's got a comment on this

1973
01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:45,800
Speaker 1: cornerback situation. Jim, what do you have for us year?

1974
01:44:45,800 --> 01:44:49,680
Speaker 1: On one of Bill's Live I felt, if I'm in

1975
01:44:49,760 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 1: the situation, I think I think we go JC Jackson

1976
01:44:53,280 --> 01:44:55,439
Speaker 1: and we take away somebody from New England since they've

1977
01:44:55,439 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 1: been taken from us for so many years. I know

1978
01:44:58,439 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: you got to give a second our second. This year's

1979
01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:04,760
Speaker 1: number sixty. I think it's a good way to go.

1980
01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:06,960
Speaker 1: Offer him three years, twenty four or something like that,

1981
01:45:07,120 --> 01:45:12,800
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty five, eight picks last year. He's the

1982
01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:15,760
Speaker 1: best one out there. I know it's restricted, but give

1983
01:45:15,840 --> 01:45:18,599
Speaker 1: up sixty, then you still got your number one. That's

1984
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:21,800
Speaker 1: all all right. He was tendered at the second round level,

1985
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:25,040
Speaker 1: so there is something to part with there, as we know.

1986
01:45:25,680 --> 01:45:28,160
Speaker 1: So give us a specifics about tendering him at a

1987
01:45:28,200 --> 01:45:29,920
Speaker 1: second round pick. So the Bills would give up their

1988
01:45:29,960 --> 01:45:31,600
Speaker 1: second round or this year if they signed him, and

1989
01:45:31,600 --> 01:45:33,560
Speaker 1: they got to sign him to a deal, right, that

1990
01:45:33,760 --> 01:45:38,160
Speaker 1: is correct? What's that mean to the Patriots? Means, yeah,

1991
01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:40,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots get the Bills second round pick next year

1992
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:43,000
Speaker 1: or do they get to refuse that or match it? Well,

1993
01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:44,640
Speaker 1: they can match it, they would have They would have

1994
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:47,479
Speaker 1: a week to match so that they can match it

1995
01:45:47,520 --> 01:45:49,760
Speaker 1: if they wish. And they have money to spend, you

1996
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:52,280
Speaker 1: know that, So you force him to spend it on

1997
01:45:52,439 --> 01:45:56,360
Speaker 1: that guy. Uh yeah, maybe he's just a mess. With him,

1998
01:45:57,320 --> 01:45:59,040
Speaker 1: you could do that. But I'll tell you what, Jay

1999
01:45:59,800 --> 01:46:02,800
Speaker 1: Jay see Jackson and LEVI that I think J. C.

2000
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:06,840
Speaker 1: Jackson isn't upgrade right there. He's he's a good player.

2001
01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:10,000
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna deny it for a second. You are

2002
01:46:10,080 --> 01:46:13,679
Speaker 1: given up a two, and would he be He's twenty

2003
01:46:13,720 --> 01:46:15,800
Speaker 1: five years old. If you drafted a two and he

2004
01:46:15,880 --> 01:46:18,280
Speaker 1: can't turned into jac Jackson, what are the chance that

2005
01:46:18,360 --> 01:46:21,920
Speaker 1: that would be him in this first year of his deal? Yeah?

2006
01:46:22,120 --> 01:46:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean you're right, because then then you could release

2007
01:46:27,640 --> 01:46:31,600
Speaker 1: Levy Wallace, save his three point five million, and it

2008
01:46:31,720 --> 01:46:34,280
Speaker 1: only costs you three overall. You know what I mean. Yeah,

2009
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:38,280
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. Uh, there's decisions to be

2010
01:46:38,400 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 1: made there. Yeah, I don't. I don't debate that for

2011
01:46:42,160 --> 01:46:44,840
Speaker 1: a second, but all yeah, I'm gonna need them second

2012
01:46:44,880 --> 01:46:47,120
Speaker 1: round draft picks pretty big though. I'm gonna need some

2013
01:46:47,240 --> 01:46:49,720
Speaker 1: help in disconnecting from Jim there because I've lost my

2014
01:46:49,840 --> 01:46:54,320
Speaker 1: power here on the laptop to control the calls. So

2015
01:46:54,400 --> 01:46:56,200
Speaker 1: if we can get some assistance there, And thanks for

2016
01:46:56,280 --> 01:46:59,760
Speaker 1: the call, Jim, we appreciate it because we got to

2017
01:46:59,800 --> 01:47:01,840
Speaker 1: move on here and I'm trying to get the phone

2018
01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:03,479
Speaker 1: bank back and I don't have it right now, so

2019
01:47:03,600 --> 01:47:05,280
Speaker 1: we'll just have to hang on there. So hang on

2020
01:47:05,320 --> 01:47:07,400
Speaker 1: if you're waiting at eight oh three oh five fifty

2021
01:47:08,320 --> 01:47:11,840
Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty, and I'll

2022
01:47:12,240 --> 01:47:14,960
Speaker 1: try to bring him up again. I don't have the

2023
01:47:15,040 --> 01:47:17,080
Speaker 1: queue at all at this point, Guys, who're gonna have

2024
01:47:17,120 --> 01:47:19,840
Speaker 1: to tell me who's up next? So I don't have

2025
01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:22,800
Speaker 1: that right now. I'm trying to log back in here

2026
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:25,800
Speaker 1: and see if it'll connect me, but it disconnected me Nick,

2027
01:47:26,200 --> 01:47:28,519
Speaker 1: So we got Nick next here on One Bill's Live. Nick,

2028
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:32,160
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Hi? Um, you guys

2029
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:35,439
Speaker 1: were talking about the backup quarterback situation, and I was

2030
01:47:35,560 --> 01:47:38,759
Speaker 1: just wondering, what Matt Barkley not being on a roster,

2031
01:47:39,680 --> 01:47:43,920
Speaker 1: what is Buffalo's plan moving toward? Yeah, I think it's

2032
01:47:43,960 --> 01:47:46,840
Speaker 1: something they'll have to address. I mean, they have Davis

2033
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:49,639
Speaker 1: Webb and as we know, Jake from the draft choice

2034
01:47:49,680 --> 01:47:51,800
Speaker 1: from last year are still on the roster. I know

2035
01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:54,280
Speaker 1: they think a lot of Davis Webb as a guy

2036
01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:57,800
Speaker 1: to serve as a sounding board in the room, much

2037
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:02,599
Speaker 1: the way Barkeley did. He actually ran and put together

2038
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:05,360
Speaker 1: a lot of the scripts that they use down in

2039
01:48:05,439 --> 01:48:08,320
Speaker 1: South Florida when they had those offensive workouts down there.

2040
01:48:08,760 --> 01:48:10,800
Speaker 1: So I know the coaching staff thinks a lot of him.

2041
01:48:11,040 --> 01:48:14,240
Speaker 1: They actually believe he's going to be coaching someday when

2042
01:48:14,280 --> 01:48:17,760
Speaker 1: his playing career is over. But I still think you

2043
01:48:17,920 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 1: need a better option there in the event that God

2044
01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:23,479
Speaker 1: forbid Josh has to miss a couple of games due

2045
01:48:23,479 --> 01:48:25,840
Speaker 1: to injury. You know a guy that can at least

2046
01:48:25,880 --> 01:48:29,840
Speaker 1: hold the fort. Now, could you could get Barkley back

2047
01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:31,680
Speaker 1: in the fold, perhaps, But if you think there's an

2048
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:34,680
Speaker 1: upgrade out there, yeah, take a look at it and

2049
01:48:34,720 --> 01:48:37,479
Speaker 1: see what it would cost you. Yeah. And I would

2050
01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:39,680
Speaker 1: say that they're probably shaking the trees to find us

2051
01:48:39,720 --> 01:48:41,840
Speaker 1: some guys to come in and compete for the backups job,

2052
01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:46,479
Speaker 1: and I think they will have. Let's face it, it

2053
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:48,680
Speaker 1: is a role, a specific role that they're looking for.

2054
01:48:48,920 --> 01:48:51,160
Speaker 1: They're not looking for anybody to come in and push Josh.

2055
01:48:51,200 --> 01:48:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for anybody to come in and make

2056
01:48:53,160 --> 01:48:55,759
Speaker 1: a splash in the media. They're not looking for anybody

2057
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:59,080
Speaker 1: to come in and walk around trying to get on

2058
01:48:59,160 --> 01:49:01,400
Speaker 1: the field as the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills. They're

2059
01:49:01,439 --> 01:49:06,000
Speaker 1: looking for a guy who can play, but also who

2060
01:49:07,200 --> 01:49:09,960
Speaker 1: will help their number one guy get ready every week.

2061
01:49:11,080 --> 01:49:14,400
Speaker 1: Those guys have. That's a certain skill set that not

2062
01:49:14,520 --> 01:49:16,439
Speaker 1: everybody has. And it's also you gotta have a guy

2063
01:49:16,439 --> 01:49:18,439
Speaker 1: who's willing to do it. A lot of these guys

2064
01:49:18,560 --> 01:49:20,400
Speaker 1: come in there, walk in with an ego and they say,

2065
01:49:20,640 --> 01:49:24,400
Speaker 1: least gotta give me a chance. That's not gonna happen

2066
01:49:24,439 --> 01:49:27,160
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, they've got a specific role.

2067
01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:29,679
Speaker 1: And that's why I was so high on Marcus Mariota.

2068
01:49:29,720 --> 01:49:32,880
Speaker 1: He willingly signed with the Raiders as a backup after

2069
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:36,120
Speaker 1: being a first pick. Yeah. I just you think about

2070
01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:39,680
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley. His physical skill set is in star contrast

2071
01:49:39,760 --> 01:49:41,800
Speaker 1: to that of Josh Allen. Now I'm not claiming there

2072
01:49:41,800 --> 01:49:43,040
Speaker 1: are a lot of people out there that can do

2073
01:49:43,120 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: what Josh Allen can't athletically, but I guess what I

2074
01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:47,680
Speaker 1: mean is somebody who's a little bit more mobile. I

2075
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:49,639
Speaker 1: wonder if they look at a quarterback and say, let's

2076
01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:51,559
Speaker 1: get somebody a little bit more mobile to serve as

2077
01:49:51,640 --> 01:49:53,439
Speaker 1: the backup so we can run a lot of the

2078
01:49:53,520 --> 01:49:56,680
Speaker 1: same stuff. If God forbid, Josh goes down for a

2079
01:49:56,720 --> 01:49:58,720
Speaker 1: couple of games and we need somebody to spell him,

2080
01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:01,320
Speaker 1: let's get somebody that is more in line with that

2081
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:04,519
Speaker 1: skill set physically, so we can run a lot of

2082
01:50:04,560 --> 01:50:07,639
Speaker 1: the same stuff offensively. I know there are some coaches

2083
01:50:07,760 --> 01:50:12,120
Speaker 1: that that prioritize that more than others, and you don't

2084
01:50:12,120 --> 01:50:13,800
Speaker 1: want to change as much. I mean, you want to

2085
01:50:13,880 --> 01:50:15,800
Speaker 1: change as little as possible when your starter goes out

2086
01:50:15,840 --> 01:50:18,000
Speaker 1: of the lineup if you can, if you can pull

2087
01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:19,920
Speaker 1: it off, that's not always the case. It's hard to do.

2088
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:21,680
Speaker 1: I mean, think about a team that's had like in

2089
01:50:21,760 --> 01:50:25,479
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen when the Carolina Panthers had Cam Newton, right,

2090
01:50:25,600 --> 01:50:27,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you ain't running that offense with anybody else,

2091
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:30,040
Speaker 1: same thing, you know, And now it's a little bit

2092
01:50:30,080 --> 01:50:34,519
Speaker 1: of that with Josh Allen. It is you're right, but

2093
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:36,880
Speaker 1: I think more so than anything, what it gets down

2094
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:38,920
Speaker 1: to is can you win with the guy if your

2095
01:50:38,920 --> 01:50:43,639
Speaker 1: starter goes down. Certainly with this roster of the Buffalo Bills,

2096
01:50:43,760 --> 01:50:47,000
Speaker 1: you think he probably could, although it would look different

2097
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:48,960
Speaker 1: everybody else. You know, the roster is strong enough to

2098
01:50:49,240 --> 01:50:51,280
Speaker 1: give a guy options if you can find them, you know,

2099
01:50:52,960 --> 01:50:54,719
Speaker 1: but it is going to be a throw first offense

2100
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:56,840
Speaker 1: and they're not going to automatically go with Josh Allen

2101
01:50:56,880 --> 01:50:58,679
Speaker 1: comes out. They're not gonna start handing it off thirty

2102
01:50:58,720 --> 01:51:02,320
Speaker 1: five times a game. So it's an interesting problem to

2103
01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:04,400
Speaker 1: have for the Buffalo Bills. If you're looking, you know,

2104
01:51:04,600 --> 01:51:08,080
Speaker 1: for somebody who's got maybe a little experience starting some

2105
01:51:08,360 --> 01:51:11,639
Speaker 1: some snaps under their belt that it hasn't gone well

2106
01:51:11,720 --> 01:51:15,160
Speaker 1: on another team, or a guy who has who has

2107
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Speaker 1: just convinces you with his film yea, or with his

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Speaker 1: athletic ability. Maybe you bring him in and work him out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's go to David in Wheatfield next. David,

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Speaker 1: you're on one Bills live. What do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: Can we pull David up there? Please? Hey David, what

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? Hey? Um, I just want

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Speaker 1: to say I was actually a little surprised if they

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Speaker 1: resigned Lee by Wallace. I thought he was definitely the

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Speaker 1: weak link on the defense last year. I mean made

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01:51:42,840 --> 01:51:45,040
Speaker 1: me I'm being a little high, but it seemed like

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Speaker 1: almost every game he was getting towards a couple three

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Speaker 1: times a game, And I just wonder, do you think

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Speaker 1: that they're just signing him because he's, you know, been

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Speaker 1: with the team, he's familiar with the system, and he's

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01:51:57,120 --> 01:51:58,920
Speaker 1: going to be a backup and that they're gonna look

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01:51:59,240 --> 01:52:01,720
Speaker 1: for a quarterback in the first round, or do you

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01:52:01,840 --> 01:52:04,240
Speaker 1: think that they still think that maybe you know, he

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01:52:04,360 --> 01:52:07,599
Speaker 1: hasn't reached his full potentiat I mean I'm with them

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01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:11,439
Speaker 1: locking up the offensive find knowledge I'm extanted about. I

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01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:15,160
Speaker 1: think their true prime needs are number one ed rusher

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Speaker 1: a number two cornerback. I just want to get your

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01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:20,479
Speaker 1: thoughts on that. Yeah, I mean, you can interpret the

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace contract however you wish. It's just a one

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01:52:23,320 --> 01:52:25,360
Speaker 1: year deal to come back, so it's certainly not a

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01:52:25,439 --> 01:52:28,479
Speaker 1: long term commitment of any sort. But I think they

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01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:30,800
Speaker 1: do respect what Levi has been able to do here

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01:52:31,160 --> 01:52:34,400
Speaker 1: the last three seasons, especially the last two seasons when

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Speaker 1: he effectively fought off veteran corners to keep the starting job.

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01:52:39,840 --> 01:52:43,880
Speaker 1: I think everybody can blatantly see that he is not

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01:52:44,080 --> 01:52:49,479
Speaker 1: an elite athlete with elite physical traits. That is why

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01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:52,839
Speaker 1: he was an undrafted rookie. I mean, we're just being honest.

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Speaker 1: But the guy gets the job done more often than not,

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01:52:56,360 --> 01:52:59,920
Speaker 1: and that deserves some respect, and I think this coach

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01:53:00,160 --> 01:53:02,760
Speaker 1: staff respects that. Otherwise they wouldn't be putting him out

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01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:04,519
Speaker 1: on the field starting all those games he has the

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01:53:04,600 --> 01:53:09,120
Speaker 1: last three seasons, so there is there are redeeming qualities

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01:53:09,520 --> 01:53:11,920
Speaker 1: to Levi Wallace's game. You could do a lot worse

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01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:15,280
Speaker 1: than Levi Wallace. Now, in an ideal world, what do

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01:53:15,360 --> 01:53:17,760
Speaker 1: you have. You have somebody with a superior skill set

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01:53:18,240 --> 01:53:21,160
Speaker 1: out there playing on the corner. And yes, if they

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01:53:21,240 --> 01:53:24,439
Speaker 1: don't address cornerback again in free agency, I could see

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01:53:24,479 --> 01:53:27,360
Speaker 1: them using a draft pick in one of the first

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Speaker 1: two days of the draft on a corner. So yes,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're done at the cornerback position. I

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01:53:33,760 --> 01:53:35,880
Speaker 1: think they'll address it in some way, shape or form.

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01:53:36,800 --> 01:53:38,800
Speaker 1: And I think Levi once again is going to have

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01:53:38,920 --> 01:53:40,920
Speaker 1: to compete if he wants to hold on to that

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01:53:41,040 --> 01:53:46,719
Speaker 1: starting job. Why don't you address David's concerns with edge rusher.

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01:53:46,800 --> 01:53:50,400
Speaker 1: He's thinks edge rusher in the second corner. Yeah, I

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01:53:50,439 --> 01:53:52,360
Speaker 1: mean edge rusher is what he'd like to get as

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01:53:52,840 --> 01:53:54,760
Speaker 1: as good at edge rusher as you can. Those guys

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01:53:54,800 --> 01:53:57,960
Speaker 1: are expensive and they're not really prevalent, and they're hard

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01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:01,240
Speaker 1: to find. Those guys stand out in a room of people,

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01:54:01,320 --> 01:54:07,400
Speaker 1: those like Miles Garrett, Chase Young, you know those guys.

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01:54:07,800 --> 01:54:12,639
Speaker 1: You know, it's like Julius Peppers, Jadeveon Clowney. These guys

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01:54:12,680 --> 01:54:15,360
Speaker 1: are off the charts physically gifted. Those guys just don't

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01:54:15,720 --> 01:54:18,240
Speaker 1: come along very often. But when you're talking about second

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01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:20,360
Speaker 1: corner Levi Wallace, you know he may get beat a

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01:54:20,400 --> 01:54:22,880
Speaker 1: couple of times a game. He gets thrown at three

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01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:26,240
Speaker 1: times more than Davious White. I'm exaggerating, I'm not. I

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01:54:26,240 --> 01:54:27,800
Speaker 1: don't know exactly. Then he gets thrown out a lot

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01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:30,439
Speaker 1: because Davious White's on the other side. It's a it's

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01:54:30,439 --> 01:54:34,720
Speaker 1: a problem that is, you know, it's it's a common

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Speaker 1: in the NFL to have a corner that gets picked

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01:54:37,240 --> 01:54:40,600
Speaker 1: on because the other guy's really good. M Levi's done that.

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01:54:41,040 --> 01:54:43,760
Speaker 1: They have tried to replace Levi for three years and

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01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:45,840
Speaker 1: they can't get it done. He wasn't supposed to play

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01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:48,360
Speaker 1: in the beginning, but he got his he got on

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01:54:48,400 --> 01:54:50,560
Speaker 1: the football field. I've said this a ton if you know,

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01:54:50,640 --> 01:54:52,320
Speaker 1: you can talk all you want about him, but let's

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01:54:52,320 --> 01:54:53,920
Speaker 1: come up with a better option. And as soon as

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01:54:53,960 --> 01:54:56,440
Speaker 1: the Bills do, that guy will see the field. But

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01:54:56,600 --> 01:55:02,440
Speaker 1: they have thrown some assets at that position. I don't

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01:55:02,480 --> 01:55:05,320
Speaker 1: think they're unhappy with the way Levi Wallace has played.

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01:55:06,520 --> 01:55:11,080
Speaker 1: He's a smart player. He's a technician. But like Brownie says,

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01:55:11,160 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 1: he's he was not drafted because he doesn't have elite

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01:55:14,240 --> 01:55:17,920
Speaker 1: physical abilities. He's a good athlete, he's not great like

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01:55:18,120 --> 01:55:21,200
Speaker 1: those you know, an all pro corner stands out just

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01:55:21,360 --> 01:55:23,320
Speaker 1: like you know sometimes an edge rusher does. I mean,

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01:55:23,360 --> 01:55:27,360
Speaker 1: those guys are set apart physically. But Levi Wallace is smart,

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01:55:27,360 --> 01:55:28,880
Speaker 1: and he's in the right spot, and he holds that

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01:55:28,960 --> 01:55:31,360
Speaker 1: spot down pretty well. He gets picked on a lot

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01:55:31,440 --> 01:55:34,960
Speaker 1: because he's not Tradavious White in this defense, and the

2190
01:55:35,080 --> 01:55:38,200
Speaker 1: Bills haven't gone all in to try and replace him.

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01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:41,520
Speaker 1: Maybe that's because they've always had maybe other things they

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01:55:41,600 --> 01:55:44,680
Speaker 1: thought were more important at the time. Maybe that changes

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01:55:44,720 --> 01:55:47,360
Speaker 1: this year. Maybe they drop a number thirty pick overall

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01:55:47,800 --> 01:55:50,280
Speaker 1: on a corner and they and they think, Okay, now

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01:55:50,320 --> 01:55:52,839
Speaker 1: we're gonna put this guy in there. Maybe that happens.

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01:55:52,960 --> 01:55:56,000
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're wringing their hands thinking they've

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Speaker 1: got to replace Levi Wallace. Certainly they'd like to upgrade,

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01:55:59,040 --> 01:56:01,920
Speaker 1: like they'd like to great old positions, But I don't

2199
01:56:01,960 --> 01:56:04,200
Speaker 1: think Levi Wallace screams at them saying they've got to

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01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:07,360
Speaker 1: find somebody new. So until they decide that that's the

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01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,960
Speaker 1: problem and they're gonna throw some more assets at it.

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace is the cornerback of the Buffalo Bills. Break

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01:56:14,240 --> 01:56:15,840
Speaker 1: time for us. But when we come back, more of

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01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 1: your phone calls at eight oh three five fifty one,

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01:56:18,760 --> 01:56:22,240
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty Which free agent moved

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01:56:22,360 --> 01:56:24,400
Speaker 1: us far? Do you think it's gonna pay off the

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01:56:24,480 --> 01:56:26,880
Speaker 1: most come twenty twenty one, Whether it's some of the

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01:56:26,920 --> 01:56:29,920
Speaker 1: guys they've resigned from their own roster, or maybe somebody

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Speaker 1: like Emmanuel Sanders. Let us know, open line for you

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Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty back in a moment

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Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live. Another running back is off the market.

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Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake, Arizona free agent running back twenty six years old,

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01:56:59,400 --> 01:57:03,480
Speaker 1: as just find a two year, eleven million dollars deal

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01:57:03,560 --> 01:57:09,480
Speaker 1: with the Las Vegas Raiders. So Kenyan Drake and Josh

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01:57:09,600 --> 01:57:13,200
Speaker 1: Jacobs will man the backfield for the Raiders next season.

2218
01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:19,880
Speaker 1: A lot of speedback there. I can see it went

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01:57:19,920 --> 01:57:21,960
Speaker 1: over like a lead balloon on Tasker's side of the

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01:57:22,040 --> 01:57:26,360
Speaker 1: desk here. Um, Yeah that, Yeah, I don't like that

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01:57:26,520 --> 01:57:30,880
Speaker 1: team because of the hail Murray. Well, Arizona lost Kenyan Drake,

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01:57:31,000 --> 01:57:33,880
Speaker 1: Las Vegas got him. Yeah, well that goes for Kenyan

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Speaker 1: Drake two. Okay, but fair enough. I'm that's not much

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01:57:39,280 --> 01:57:41,680
Speaker 1: money for a guy. If the guy's gone, it's a

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01:57:41,720 --> 01:57:43,840
Speaker 1: short deal. Yeah. If the guy's gonna carry the ball

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01:57:43,920 --> 01:57:46,400
Speaker 1: for you, that's pretty good money if he's your number

2227
01:57:46,440 --> 01:57:48,480
Speaker 1: one guy. I think I think I think they realized

2228
01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:50,280
Speaker 1: they gotta take the load off at Josh Jacobs too.

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01:57:50,360 --> 01:57:53,000
Speaker 1: That guy's got a lot of carries his first two years,

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01:57:53,040 --> 01:57:55,600
Speaker 1: and I think they I think they've noticed that towards

2231
01:57:55,640 --> 01:57:58,680
Speaker 1: the end of the season Jacobs is just out of gas. Yeah,

2232
01:57:58,720 --> 01:58:01,280
Speaker 1: he's getting twenty six carries a game. I mean, nobody

2233
01:58:01,320 --> 01:58:04,080
Speaker 1: does that anymore except for Derrick Henry and the Raiders

2234
01:58:04,160 --> 01:58:09,880
Speaker 1: have always to me, I'm not always under John John Gruden.

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01:58:10,200 --> 01:58:14,960
Speaker 1: They react, they react to their own problems, and I

2236
01:58:15,120 --> 01:58:18,760
Speaker 1: get that, but I'm much more a guy that says,

2237
01:58:18,760 --> 01:58:21,680
Speaker 1: you gotta have a plan and carry it out, you know,

2238
01:58:22,080 --> 01:58:27,320
Speaker 1: go and do this and don't backtrack or reset or

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01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, they just keep going. You gotta have a

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01:58:30,240 --> 01:58:33,840
Speaker 1: and I and I get it. It's all about winning

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01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:38,200
Speaker 1: a super Bowl, but you gotta have a plan long

2242
01:58:38,360 --> 01:58:41,160
Speaker 1: term about getting there and giving yourself multiple chances year

2243
01:58:41,200 --> 01:58:43,360
Speaker 1: after year after year after year to be good enough.

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01:58:43,800 --> 01:58:45,640
Speaker 1: So you gotta have a system that's in place that

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01:58:45,760 --> 01:58:47,920
Speaker 1: gets you. They can get you good enough and keep

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01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:50,760
Speaker 1: you good enough to be in that conversation every year,

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01:58:51,480 --> 01:58:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, on for the most part. So and I know,

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01:58:55,120 --> 01:58:57,520
Speaker 1: I know, injuries could come into that or whatever, you know,

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01:58:57,680 --> 01:59:00,320
Speaker 1: or a guy you lose a guy here and there,

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01:59:00,360 --> 01:59:04,040
Speaker 1: But to just kind of react and you're kind of

2251
01:59:04,080 --> 01:59:06,000
Speaker 1: like one of those little science projects where you got

2252
01:59:06,120 --> 01:59:07,520
Speaker 1: a maze in front of you got a mouse at

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01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:09,080
Speaker 1: one and he goes to the end of the hallway

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01:59:09,120 --> 01:59:12,560
Speaker 1: and then turns right or left whichever way he just randomly,

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01:59:12,640 --> 01:59:14,720
Speaker 1: he just it's something stoption. That's kind of what some

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01:59:14,800 --> 01:59:17,240
Speaker 1: of the teams do. They go down, all right, we

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01:59:17,320 --> 01:59:18,920
Speaker 1: are a running back, ran out of gas. Well, you

2258
01:59:18,920 --> 01:59:20,520
Speaker 1: know what, let's spend some money on and buy a

2259
01:59:20,600 --> 01:59:24,920
Speaker 1: second one and we'll get him. All right, Well, you know,

2260
01:59:24,960 --> 01:59:29,880
Speaker 1: it's your philosophy that's wearing the guy out. If you

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01:59:29,960 --> 01:59:32,040
Speaker 1: did if that was if your philosophy was that. Why

2262
01:59:32,040 --> 01:59:33,880
Speaker 1: didn't you know that you're gonna need more than one

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01:59:34,040 --> 01:59:37,200
Speaker 1: guy to carry the ball three hundred and fifty times

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01:59:37,240 --> 01:59:40,360
Speaker 1: a year. Now you're like, okay, now we're back to school.

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01:59:40,400 --> 01:59:43,400
Speaker 1: You know. I think you've just likened the Raiders offseason

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01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:47,320
Speaker 1: approach to a rat and amaze. You gotta stand up

2267
01:59:47,320 --> 01:59:50,840
Speaker 1: and look over the top of the thing, right, you

2268
01:59:50,920 --> 01:59:54,240
Speaker 1: gotta map your plan out and go, oh my love it? Right,

2269
01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:57,480
Speaker 1: you got you gotta go. You look out ahead of

2270
01:59:57,520 --> 01:59:59,760
Speaker 1: you and see where you want to go and get there.

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02:00:01,320 --> 02:00:04,000
Speaker 1: Don't just like, Okay, well, wow, this didn't work. Where

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02:00:04,000 --> 02:00:06,520
Speaker 1: should we turn to next? You know, it's it's not

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02:00:06,640 --> 02:00:12,360
Speaker 1: a plan. Yeah, it's interesting. Let's get back to the phones.

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02:00:12,360 --> 02:00:13,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to try this again and see if I

2275
02:00:13,960 --> 02:00:16,840
Speaker 1: can pull up our next callers. I think we've repaired

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02:00:16,920 --> 02:00:21,200
Speaker 1: this phone calling issue. But Kevin on a cell is

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02:00:21,320 --> 02:00:24,840
Speaker 1: next here, and can I get him? Hold on? Yep,

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02:00:24,960 --> 02:00:26,440
Speaker 1: there he is, Kevin. What do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's Live. Kevin? Are you there? Yeah?

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02:00:32,000 --> 02:00:35,040
Speaker 1: I'm here. What do you got for us? Hey? I

2281
02:00:35,200 --> 02:00:39,440
Speaker 1: just like to talk about the Bill's tight end position.

2282
02:00:40,160 --> 02:00:43,840
Speaker 1: That's really the biggest need. Um. You know, the draft

2283
02:00:44,000 --> 02:00:46,920
Speaker 1: is not very strong this year and we've lost Tyler

2284
02:00:47,000 --> 02:00:50,160
Speaker 1: Croft and Lisa Neff, and knowing that they made a

2285
02:00:50,280 --> 02:00:53,080
Speaker 1: push for a Gronk, I really look to see him

2286
02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:55,839
Speaker 1: go for like a Kyle rudolphel a bigger a veterans

2287
02:00:56,640 --> 02:01:00,600
Speaker 1: he can block, and you know Muffalo tried last for Olson.

2288
02:01:00,680 --> 02:01:04,840
Speaker 1: I think they're looking for that veteran leadership for Dawson Knox. Yeah.

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02:01:05,000 --> 02:01:08,280
Speaker 1: I think what you're looking for Kevin is somebody that

2290
02:01:08,320 --> 02:01:10,480
Speaker 1: can help you right away. The Bills are in go

2291
02:01:10,680 --> 02:01:12,480
Speaker 1: for it mode. They're trying to get to the top

2292
02:01:12,560 --> 02:01:14,640
Speaker 1: of the mountain here after you get into the AFC

2293
02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:17,640
Speaker 1: title game last year. They can't draft somebody and hope

2294
02:01:17,680 --> 02:01:21,640
Speaker 1: he develops into a reliable contributor. So they have to

2295
02:01:21,720 --> 02:01:24,520
Speaker 1: go to the veteran route there if they want to

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02:01:24,800 --> 02:01:28,840
Speaker 1: add at the position, And I agree, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: need a veteran player there where you know what you're

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02:01:31,280 --> 02:01:33,360
Speaker 1: gonna get, a guy that's been around the block in

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Speaker 1: the league, has some measure of proven production. That's the

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Speaker 1: route you have to go now if you if you

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Speaker 1: feel you need a second weapon there to pair with

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox. Yeah, I think they're they're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 1: get some more tight ends on the roster, no question

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02:01:50,480 --> 02:01:52,360
Speaker 1: about it, whether they draft one where they go out

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Speaker 1: on the free agent market. They've got Dawson Knox and

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Speaker 1: Tommy Sweeney and Reggie Gilliam. Reggie Gilliam. Um, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: need two more guys to compete for training camp at least.

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Speaker 1: And you know, and there's guys out there there. This

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Speaker 1: is the top of the conversation right now. There's you know,

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Speaker 1: we've got this whole scenario mapped out there. Because Brandon

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02:02:12,600 --> 02:02:15,240
Speaker 1: Bean and Sean McDermott aren't doing their presser right now.

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Speaker 1: We think they're on the phone with with somebody about

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Speaker 1: finalizing something or Kyle Rudolph for whatever. So, um, yeah,

2314
02:02:25,520 --> 02:02:27,720
Speaker 1: you can kind of just feel it that that the

2315
02:02:27,840 --> 02:02:31,040
Speaker 1: tight end is a spot they're talking about today. Um,

2316
02:02:32,200 --> 02:02:35,400
Speaker 1: but that's just me and Brownie conjuring it up falling

2317
02:02:35,480 --> 02:02:38,760
Speaker 1: here right so we'll see. I don't know, I uh, yes,

2318
02:02:39,080 --> 02:02:41,080
Speaker 1: tight end is a spot where they're going to bolster

2319
02:02:41,160 --> 02:02:43,760
Speaker 1: their roster. They have from a pure number state, yes,

2320
02:02:43,960 --> 02:02:46,520
Speaker 1: and that's that's it. From a pure number standpoint. I

2321
02:02:46,600 --> 02:02:50,839
Speaker 1: think that gives them, um a little bit of angst

2322
02:02:50,960 --> 02:02:52,960
Speaker 1: about how many guys they've got at that position and

2323
02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:55,080
Speaker 1: the experience they have. Certainly they like Dawson Knox and

2324
02:02:55,080 --> 02:02:56,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna go There'd be perfectly willing to go into

2325
02:02:56,960 --> 02:02:58,960
Speaker 1: a seat right now. They'd be perfectly willing to go

2326
02:02:59,040 --> 02:03:01,040
Speaker 1: into a season with Austin Knox is they're a one

2327
02:03:01,080 --> 02:03:03,600
Speaker 1: tight end. Now, some Bills fans might think they can

2328
02:03:03,720 --> 02:03:06,280
Speaker 1: upgrade that, But I also think that Dawson Knox is

2329
02:03:06,320 --> 02:03:07,920
Speaker 1: going to play better this year than he has because

2330
02:03:07,960 --> 02:03:11,160
Speaker 1: it's kind of that magical third year and he's been

2331
02:03:11,200 --> 02:03:15,560
Speaker 1: in the position longer, and you know his role, any

2332
02:03:15,720 --> 02:03:17,560
Speaker 1: role of the tight end has in this offense. I mean,

2333
02:03:17,560 --> 02:03:20,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna come behind Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley, Gabe Davis,

2334
02:03:20,840 --> 02:03:23,720
Speaker 1: and now Emmanuel Sanders. Tight end's gonna be down the

2335
02:03:23,800 --> 02:03:28,480
Speaker 1: list a little bit there. But if if the guy

2336
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:31,320
Speaker 1: starts being efficient and catching all the all the balls

2337
02:03:31,360 --> 02:03:33,440
Speaker 1: that are thrown to him and getting yards after the

2338
02:03:33,520 --> 02:03:36,720
Speaker 1: catch and being efficient, he gets more opportunities. Yeah, and

2339
02:03:36,840 --> 02:03:38,720
Speaker 1: I think that's a what you gotta I think that's

2340
02:03:38,760 --> 02:03:41,480
Speaker 1: the best case scenario for Dawson Knox this season. But

2341
02:03:43,920 --> 02:03:46,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna get some more guys. I think, yeah,

2342
02:03:46,320 --> 02:03:47,960
Speaker 1: they have to. They don't have enough people at the

2343
02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:50,800
Speaker 1: position right now. And even with Tommy Sweeney, you know,

2344
02:03:50,880 --> 02:03:53,920
Speaker 1: we don't know what you know, his situation is with

2345
02:03:54,240 --> 02:03:57,400
Speaker 1: the medical condition on the heels of dealing with COVID,

2346
02:03:57,480 --> 02:04:00,960
Speaker 1: with the myocarditis that coach McDermott tol this he was

2347
02:04:01,080 --> 02:04:03,200
Speaker 1: dealing with that cost him the rest of the season.

2348
02:04:03,240 --> 02:04:06,480
Speaker 1: He never came back after he had COVID because of

2349
02:04:06,560 --> 02:04:08,800
Speaker 1: the condition that he was dealing with. And hopefully it

2350
02:04:08,880 --> 02:04:11,240
Speaker 1: can be controlled by medication. But whether you're on whether

2351
02:04:11,360 --> 02:04:14,840
Speaker 1: or not you can carry on a professional career where

2352
02:04:15,080 --> 02:04:18,040
Speaker 1: you know you're pushing your cardio vascular system to the max.

2353
02:04:18,120 --> 02:04:21,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a doctor, so you know

2354
02:04:21,080 --> 02:04:23,640
Speaker 1: there could be some concern there too. Back to the

2355
02:04:23,680 --> 02:04:26,400
Speaker 1: phones at eight oh three, five fifty one, eight eight

2356
02:04:26,520 --> 02:04:29,440
Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty we go to Joe in Buffalo. Joe,

2357
02:04:29,480 --> 02:04:31,040
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live,

2358
02:04:31,760 --> 02:04:35,080
Speaker 1: Good Afternoon. He may have covered this earlier in the week,

2359
02:04:35,240 --> 02:04:38,680
Speaker 1: but I was confused by the non tender to their

2360
02:04:38,720 --> 02:04:44,160
Speaker 1: current punter, Corey bus Boscas Horkz. Yeah and signing of

2361
02:04:44,280 --> 02:04:47,160
Speaker 1: the Miami guy. Guy looked like he kicked pretty well.

2362
02:04:47,240 --> 02:04:49,960
Speaker 1: To me, I think he've had the best average of

2363
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:52,920
Speaker 1: any Bills punter, you know, in the long period of time.

2364
02:04:53,400 --> 02:04:55,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was analytics. I don't know

2365
02:04:55,640 --> 02:04:58,360
Speaker 1: if it was money, but you know, in terms of

2366
02:04:59,360 --> 02:05:01,880
Speaker 1: you know, kicking in Miami is one thing. Kicking in

2367
02:05:01,960 --> 02:05:04,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo in November and December is something else. So if

2368
02:05:04,960 --> 02:05:07,560
Speaker 1: you if you've addressed this mind but just interested in

2369
02:05:07,640 --> 02:05:10,240
Speaker 1: your insight, thank you. Yeah, it's something we have not addressed,

2370
02:05:10,520 --> 02:05:12,800
Speaker 1: at least at any great length. And I couldn't tell

2371
02:05:12,880 --> 02:05:15,240
Speaker 1: you what their philosophy was, whether they like because Corey

2372
02:05:15,280 --> 02:05:17,680
Speaker 1: but Orchz didn't work very hard last year. He was

2373
02:05:17,720 --> 02:05:20,000
Speaker 1: the least used punter in the league. The Bill's offense

2374
02:05:20,320 --> 02:05:21,720
Speaker 1: went off the charts, and I thought there was a

2375
02:05:21,800 --> 02:05:24,840
Speaker 1: couple of punts last year where he was a phenomenal.

2376
02:05:26,200 --> 02:05:28,680
Speaker 1: In the Miami game, he hit I think a sixty

2377
02:05:28,760 --> 02:05:31,080
Speaker 1: yard punt that went out of bounds inside the one

2378
02:05:32,840 --> 02:05:34,840
Speaker 1: he had. He had some great moments and he's been

2379
02:05:34,880 --> 02:05:37,200
Speaker 1: a he was a solid holder for a rookie kicker

2380
02:05:37,280 --> 02:05:41,280
Speaker 1: as well. But I think when you when you ask

2381
02:05:41,400 --> 02:05:44,280
Speaker 1: why they didn't tender him. I don't know that it's

2382
02:05:44,280 --> 02:05:51,600
Speaker 1: all about last year. I couldn't tell you. It's whether

2383
02:05:52,040 --> 02:05:54,360
Speaker 1: he was going to come back, or whether they thought

2384
02:05:54,520 --> 02:05:57,440
Speaker 1: maybe he was not going to get any interest on

2385
02:05:57,480 --> 02:05:59,600
Speaker 1: the free agent market, and whether they thought that he

2386
02:05:59,680 --> 02:06:02,600
Speaker 1: would not get the tin and they could bring him back,

2387
02:06:03,880 --> 02:06:06,240
Speaker 1: or maybe they thought or maybe as they did what

2388
02:06:06,400 --> 02:06:09,600
Speaker 1: we thought with Levi Wallace. He's earned the right maybe

2389
02:06:09,640 --> 02:06:12,560
Speaker 1: to find out what he's worth. Certainly, the market for

2390
02:06:12,600 --> 02:06:16,880
Speaker 1: a punter is not high, and they probably thought that

2391
02:06:17,080 --> 02:06:20,680
Speaker 1: if he didn't get that kind of attention that he wanted,

2392
02:06:20,720 --> 02:06:23,320
Speaker 1: they'd be able to get him back. He's still out

2393
02:06:23,400 --> 02:06:26,760
Speaker 1: there as far as I know, so that strategy has

2394
02:06:26,800 --> 02:06:29,640
Speaker 1: worked so far. He just became an unrestricted free agent

2395
02:06:30,160 --> 02:06:32,640
Speaker 1: yesterday at four pm because the Bills, as we know,

2396
02:06:32,800 --> 02:06:35,560
Speaker 1: did not tender him a qualifying offers a restricted free agent.

2397
02:06:35,920 --> 02:06:38,400
Speaker 1: So yes, he is out there now. It's interesting Houston

2398
02:06:38,480 --> 02:06:43,120
Speaker 1: just cut their punter, Brian Anger, so you wonder maybe

2399
02:06:43,160 --> 02:06:46,880
Speaker 1: a team like Houston could be interested after releasing the

2400
02:06:46,960 --> 02:06:51,000
Speaker 1: punter that was on their roster and under contract. I

2401
02:06:51,120 --> 02:06:53,520
Speaker 1: think the other thing here too is we kind of

2402
02:06:53,560 --> 02:06:56,840
Speaker 1: got the sense that they might be moving on from

2403
02:06:56,960 --> 02:06:59,640
Speaker 1: Bjorkez because if you remember, about a week or so,

2404
02:07:00,600 --> 02:07:04,560
Speaker 1: they had Mike Pollardi in, the free agent punter who

2405
02:07:04,680 --> 02:07:07,360
Speaker 1: last played with Carolina but missed all of last season

2406
02:07:07,480 --> 02:07:10,440
Speaker 1: after an ACL injury. Naturally they're going to bring a

2407
02:07:10,480 --> 02:07:12,520
Speaker 1: player like that in to give him a physical, see

2408
02:07:12,520 --> 02:07:15,280
Speaker 1: how the knee is healing, etc. Etc. But once we

2409
02:07:15,360 --> 02:07:18,680
Speaker 1: saw that, and this was before you know, the free

2410
02:07:18,720 --> 02:07:21,440
Speaker 1: agent market even opened, he was available because he had

2411
02:07:21,480 --> 02:07:24,320
Speaker 1: been cut, so he was available to sign at any

2412
02:07:24,360 --> 02:07:27,360
Speaker 1: time before the free agent market even opened, and they

2413
02:07:27,400 --> 02:07:30,240
Speaker 1: were kicking the tires on him. And then he subsequently

2414
02:07:30,320 --> 02:07:34,400
Speaker 1: signed with Miami, which let everybody know that, you know,

2415
02:07:34,560 --> 02:07:37,560
Speaker 1: Matt Hawk wasn't going to be back with Miami next season,

2416
02:07:38,200 --> 02:07:41,240
Speaker 1: so we had an inkling that they were looking at

2417
02:07:41,280 --> 02:07:44,120
Speaker 1: other options even before we got to this point with

2418
02:07:44,280 --> 02:07:48,040
Speaker 1: Matt Hawk. So I'm not going to pretend to know

2419
02:07:48,120 --> 02:07:51,280
Speaker 1: what the situation is. I'm sure when the press conference

2420
02:07:51,880 --> 02:07:54,720
Speaker 1: gets rolling with Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott at the

2421
02:07:54,800 --> 02:07:57,880
Speaker 1: top of the hour that they'll be asked that very question.

2422
02:07:58,320 --> 02:08:01,240
Speaker 1: Why was Corey Bork has not retained? Why did you

2423
02:08:01,360 --> 02:08:03,480
Speaker 1: choose to go in another direction there to see what

2424
02:08:03,560 --> 02:08:05,400
Speaker 1: the answer is I think he laid it out perfectly.

2425
02:08:05,440 --> 02:08:07,120
Speaker 1: I think there's a reason to believe they weren't happy

2426
02:08:07,160 --> 02:08:09,160
Speaker 1: with way he played. And I think the only thing

2427
02:08:09,200 --> 02:08:12,720
Speaker 1: I can say, because the Orkes has a strong leg,

2428
02:08:13,400 --> 02:08:15,800
Speaker 1: would be the thing that we've been talking about since

2429
02:08:15,880 --> 02:08:22,000
Speaker 1: the beginning with Corey's inconsistency. He was more consistent last year,

2430
02:08:22,200 --> 02:08:25,520
Speaker 1: very much so. Last year was by far his best season.

2431
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:31,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was enough to convince them

2432
02:08:31,240 --> 02:08:33,200
Speaker 1: that he would be consistent over a sixteen game year

2433
02:08:33,240 --> 02:08:35,720
Speaker 1: where he was going to punt more during games, But

2434
02:08:37,120 --> 02:08:40,120
Speaker 1: that was the one thing that I you could see

2435
02:08:40,200 --> 02:08:42,800
Speaker 1: from the outside. Forget about what goes on in the

2436
02:08:42,880 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 1: locker room. The kind of guy is or you know

2437
02:08:44,600 --> 02:08:46,560
Speaker 1: all that, I have no reason to believe he's anything

2438
02:08:46,560 --> 02:08:50,360
Speaker 1: but a great teammate. So, but you're right. The moves

2439
02:08:50,520 --> 02:08:53,440
Speaker 1: and the fact that the Bills have been looking around

2440
02:08:53,520 --> 02:08:56,240
Speaker 1: already even before free agency. We'll tell you all you

2441
02:08:56,320 --> 02:08:58,600
Speaker 1: need know about where they think they're punter is too

2442
02:08:58,840 --> 02:09:01,080
Speaker 1: Mike and Rochester, go Mike, what do you have for us?

2443
02:09:01,120 --> 02:09:05,000
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Hey, guys puposed to be here.

2444
02:09:05,080 --> 02:09:11,840
Speaker 1: I'm just confused by the John Brown move for Emmanuel

2445
02:09:11,920 --> 02:09:16,320
Speaker 1: Sanders essentially the same money, maybe less when we have

2446
02:09:16,480 --> 02:09:21,000
Speaker 1: other needs. And the excuse was we have talent in

2447
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:23,800
Speaker 1: the wide receiver corps. What do we need a thirty

2448
02:09:23,840 --> 02:09:26,600
Speaker 1: four year old bride receiver when we have a John Brown?

2449
02:09:26,720 --> 02:09:29,280
Speaker 1: We probably could have signed for less money. I'll leave

2450
02:09:29,320 --> 02:09:32,840
Speaker 1: that to you, guys. Yeah, that's that's a good it's

2451
02:09:32,840 --> 02:09:34,760
Speaker 1: a good point, and you can make that argument because

2452
02:09:34,760 --> 02:09:37,560
Speaker 1: they're kind of even if the money was the same,

2453
02:09:37,600 --> 02:09:40,160
Speaker 1: I think they saved what was the deal one year

2454
02:09:40,240 --> 02:09:43,360
Speaker 1: for five, one year for six for Sanders million, so

2455
02:09:43,400 --> 02:09:46,320
Speaker 1: they saved one point or two million? What was a

2456
02:09:46,360 --> 02:09:49,240
Speaker 1: two and a half million? Yeah, on the cap, save

2457
02:09:49,320 --> 02:09:51,280
Speaker 1: two and a half million on the cap. John Brown

2458
02:09:51,360 --> 02:09:54,960
Speaker 1: signed a one year deal with the Raiders for three

2459
02:09:55,000 --> 02:09:58,200
Speaker 1: and a half so he's way less than Emmanuel Sanders.

2460
02:09:58,720 --> 02:10:00,600
Speaker 1: Don't know if he was even interest. Didn't doing that

2461
02:10:00,640 --> 02:10:02,280
Speaker 1: with the bills. I don't know if he was even asked.

2462
02:10:02,320 --> 02:10:03,960
Speaker 1: Don't even know if he was asked. But I think

2463
02:10:04,000 --> 02:10:08,400
Speaker 1: there's something you'll you can compare those two guys with

2464
02:10:08,560 --> 02:10:10,400
Speaker 1: what they bring to the table, and you're right, and

2465
02:10:10,960 --> 02:10:13,120
Speaker 1: you can make the argument that they're very similar guys,

2466
02:10:14,120 --> 02:10:18,200
Speaker 1: different skill sets That may be the biggest difference. Sanders

2467
02:10:18,240 --> 02:10:21,280
Speaker 1: as a route runner, John Brown's a speed guy. Both

2468
02:10:22,000 --> 02:10:25,640
Speaker 1: quality receivers. The Bills saved a couple of million bucks

2469
02:10:25,680 --> 02:10:28,120
Speaker 1: and John Brown left and took even less money. So

2470
02:10:29,080 --> 02:10:31,440
Speaker 1: you're right in the aftermath john Brown sign him for

2471
02:10:31,480 --> 02:10:33,720
Speaker 1: the less money that he did. Maybe the Bills wished

2472
02:10:33,720 --> 02:10:35,360
Speaker 1: they would have done it, or maybe John Brown was

2473
02:10:35,440 --> 02:10:37,960
Speaker 1: never given that opportunity. I don't know. Yah, yeah, I mean,

2474
02:10:38,000 --> 02:10:39,800
Speaker 1: in hindsight, it makes you wonder did the Bills ever

2475
02:10:39,840 --> 02:10:41,440
Speaker 1: go to John Brown and say, would you take less

2476
02:10:41,440 --> 02:10:45,200
Speaker 1: money to stay? And I don't know if that conversation

2477
02:10:45,360 --> 02:10:48,040
Speaker 1: was had. And again that's another question. I think that

2478
02:10:48,120 --> 02:10:50,320
Speaker 1: Brandon might have been and Sean McDermot are gonna be

2479
02:10:50,320 --> 02:10:52,800
Speaker 1: asked next hour here. It might have been a timing

2480
02:10:52,920 --> 02:10:56,160
Speaker 1: thing as well, because this stuff moves fast. Where you know,

2481
02:10:56,240 --> 02:10:58,520
Speaker 1: they released John Brown to save the cap money in

2482
02:10:58,800 --> 02:11:02,440
Speaker 1: order to have enough money the bank to agree to

2483
02:11:02,520 --> 02:11:05,520
Speaker 1: terms with somebody else, you know, Feliciano or Daryl Williams

2484
02:11:05,600 --> 02:11:07,400
Speaker 1: or whatever. They they free that money up so they

2485
02:11:07,400 --> 02:11:09,320
Speaker 1: can do that, and then once those deals are done,

2486
02:11:09,400 --> 02:11:11,560
Speaker 1: they can reassess say, okay, we got this much money

2487
02:11:11,600 --> 02:11:13,400
Speaker 1: now we got to replace the guy, and then they

2488
02:11:13,480 --> 02:11:16,919
Speaker 1: go back and find a guy and in the interim,

2489
02:11:17,480 --> 02:11:21,640
Speaker 1: you know they they like Emmanuel Sanders either better than

2490
02:11:21,760 --> 02:11:26,520
Speaker 1: John John Brown or it just deal didn't present itself.

2491
02:11:26,720 --> 02:11:29,400
Speaker 1: But the timing could have been what that was about.

2492
02:11:29,440 --> 02:11:32,360
Speaker 1: But I kind of, you know, when they when they

2493
02:11:32,480 --> 02:11:35,280
Speaker 1: cleared John Brown's cap money, I think there were other

2494
02:11:35,400 --> 02:11:38,480
Speaker 1: things on their plate, like the offensive lineman getting Feliciano

2495
02:11:38,480 --> 02:11:41,400
Speaker 1: and Darryl Williams signed, so they might have had that

2496
02:11:41,560 --> 02:11:44,320
Speaker 1: on their mind rather than redoing the deal for John Brown.

2497
02:11:44,840 --> 02:11:47,160
Speaker 1: But I don't know. It's a good it's a good question.

2498
02:11:47,840 --> 02:11:49,920
Speaker 1: It's a good question because John Brown's got some cache

2499
02:11:50,040 --> 02:11:51,440
Speaker 1: in the league and has played well for the club

2500
02:11:51,480 --> 02:11:56,320
Speaker 1: for two years. And to sign Emmanuel Sanders for six

2501
02:11:56,440 --> 02:11:58,680
Speaker 1: million a year for one year deal, no, no doubt

2502
02:11:59,440 --> 02:12:01,280
Speaker 1: you saved them money on the cap. Maybe it is

2503
02:12:01,320 --> 02:12:03,840
Speaker 1: a trade straight across, but then when John Brown signs

2504
02:12:03,880 --> 02:12:06,760
Speaker 1: for half of that, it's like, ah, yeah, that's hard.

2505
02:12:06,960 --> 02:12:09,640
Speaker 1: That is That's a good question. Time now though, for

2506
02:12:09,840 --> 02:12:12,920
Speaker 1: what have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the

2507
02:12:13,000 --> 02:12:18,080
Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills, we

2508
02:12:18,280 --> 02:12:20,800
Speaker 1: had NFL Networks. Mike Giardi on with us in the

2509
02:12:20,880 --> 02:12:23,720
Speaker 1: first hour of the show, and he commented on whether

2510
02:12:23,880 --> 02:12:27,560
Speaker 1: or not Zach Ertz could be a possible fit via

2511
02:12:27,760 --> 02:12:32,000
Speaker 1: trade for the Bills. I like Ertz, that's fit in

2512
02:12:32,040 --> 02:12:35,360
Speaker 1: the offense, but there's been a decrease in his production

2513
02:12:35,440 --> 02:12:37,400
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. There's been some injuries there,

2514
02:12:37,680 --> 02:12:39,280
Speaker 1: and that's sort of to me, a little bit of

2515
02:12:39,360 --> 02:12:41,800
Speaker 1: a I don't want to see guy, I guess, a

2516
02:12:41,800 --> 02:12:44,480
Speaker 1: little bit of a buyers beware, right, he just hasn't

2517
02:12:44,520 --> 02:12:47,160
Speaker 1: been the same player that he was a couple of

2518
02:12:47,240 --> 02:12:48,600
Speaker 1: years ago. And look, there could be a ton of

2519
02:12:48,680 --> 02:12:51,400
Speaker 1: reasons for that beyond the injuries. Obviously, they struggled the

2520
02:12:51,480 --> 02:12:54,080
Speaker 1: quarterback last year. But even when he was healthy and

2521
02:12:54,160 --> 02:12:56,360
Speaker 1: Goddard was healthy, and you figure out, well, at least

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Speaker 1: they have the two targets to dominate the middle of

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Speaker 1: the field, he wasn't dominating. So you know, I think

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Speaker 1: they'll have to get to the heart of the matter.

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Speaker 1: And who better than to study the tape and Brian

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Speaker 1: day ball and decide, yeah, this guy's still got a

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Speaker 1: lot left in the tank, or you know what, maybe

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Speaker 1: we need to move to a different option and Brian,

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Speaker 1: and there is news on the tight end front on

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Speaker 1: the free agent market. Kyle Rudolph has just signed a

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Speaker 1: two year deal with the New York Giants, according to

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Speaker 1: Adam Schefter and a couple of other sources. So Kyle

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Speaker 1: Rudolph effectively off the market, going to the g MET

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Speaker 1: and we'll be catching passes from one Daniel Jones presumably

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Speaker 1: for the next two seasons. So the tight end market

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Speaker 1: heating up. Jared Cook and Kyle Rudolph both signing today.

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Speaker 1: Market's moving, it is moving, and you know these are

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a ton of one year deals and

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Speaker 1: it's amazing because you look down the road and you

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Speaker 1: can tell the NFL is going to be right back

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Speaker 1: in the same spot at twelve months from now when

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Speaker 1: all these guys go back on the market with a

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Speaker 1: bigger cap, big show tomorrow, New Tasker's Teammate installment coming

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Speaker 1: your way, among others Greg Cosell as well. Stay tuned

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Speaker 1: for Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott next