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Speaker 1: Oh a great time, Taskers, Down time. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live Keep Tasker along with Chris Brown here

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Speaker 1: from noon till three today talking about the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: and a lot of things going on for us. Today,

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Speaker 1: we've got Dean Blandino, former vice president of the National

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Speaker 1: Football League Rules of officially is also the rules the

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Speaker 1: I think the PAC twelve as well. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: on the UH. I don't know what do you call

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown? You jump in here? What do you call

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Speaker 1: sports trainer extraordinaire? There you go, That's what That's kind

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Speaker 1: of the logo I was looking for. Pete Bama has

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Speaker 1: as Dean Blandine will be at one. Chris Brown, what

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Speaker 1: do you think, man, you're ready for the weekend or

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Speaker 1: you know, we'll knock this out for three hours and

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Speaker 1: then beyond our way. Yeah, I mean I'm ready for

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Speaker 1: the weekend, but I'm not in any hurry to get outside.

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Speaker 1: It is coming down in buckets right now where I live,

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Speaker 1: an interesting one here. I had some really earlier in

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Speaker 1: same for the weekend as per usual here in Easter

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Speaker 1: a rory. It is perfect. Sun's out, Oh come, it

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Speaker 1: is suns out. I could turn my camera to my

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Speaker 1: and it's it's spectacularly gorgeous here in God's Country. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, So Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here untill three

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Speaker 1: o'clock one Bills Live. You can give us a call

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Speaker 1: if you want to get on this conversation at eight

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Speaker 1: or three oh five fifty or one eight eight five

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Speaker 1: The first day we were on Brownie, it took me

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Speaker 1: forever to get to the tweet to Twitter poll. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do it right off the top of the show today.

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go, because everybody hasn't been in

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Speaker 1: a pandemic, and now we're starting. As we get ready

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Speaker 1: for this show, we're always seeing videos of all these

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Speaker 1: right now, limited on field reps is running away with

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Speaker 1: proponent of this this rule going through, because that's what

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Speaker 1: you don't want some obscure kicker that you've hired on

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Speaker 1: Thursday because your kicker pulled a growing You don't want

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Speaker 1: some obscure kicker kicking the ball in overtime trying to

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Speaker 1: get the ball back for your team. You want the

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Speaker 1: MVP on the field, both for the competitive rules and

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Speaker 1: for the television ratings that it get you. They don't

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Speaker 1: want to see that guy on the field. They want

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Speaker 1: to see Mahomes on the field. They want to see

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson on the field. They want to see Josh Allen,

437
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott on the field. That's just the games played

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Speaker 1: is because of the stars. I just found it interesting

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Speaker 1: that there were owners that had a genuine concern and

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Speaker 1: undoubtedly in their head were picturing seventy five yard touchdown

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Speaker 1: plays on fourth and fifteen from their own twenty five

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Speaker 1: untimed down. Yeah, right down. It's bizarre where where they're

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Speaker 1: thinking goes when they're contemplating, well, you know, this season,

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Speaker 1: I've I've got to play Aaron Rodgers and DeShawn Watson

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Speaker 1: and Jak Prescott, and man, what if what if I

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Speaker 1: get in a situation where I got to face all

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Speaker 1: of those guys in a two or die situation on

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Speaker 1: a fourth and fifteen at my own twenty five, and

449
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Speaker 1: I know I've got the twentieth ranked defense in football.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the owner that's putting his hand up saying,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I don't think we want to vote

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Speaker 1: on this yet. Yeah, you think about it, and it

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Speaker 1: comes down you got to play defense. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know why it always comes down to on these rule

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Speaker 1: things like well, gosh, I don't know what if my

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Speaker 1: defense isn't very good, Well, that's your fault. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's like the Chiefs when they when they got beat

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Speaker 1: by the Patriots and never got to see the ball

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Speaker 1: in overtime three years ago. That's your fault for having

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Speaker 1: a defense that stinks. Fix it, you know, fix it

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Speaker 1: before you get into an overtime game. You know, I

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Speaker 1: just and I get it. I mean, these you know,

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Speaker 1: every some of the owners, and I have a hard

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Speaker 1: time believing and maybe I'm maybe I'm naive. How can

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Speaker 1: they not see the big picture here? You know, it's

466
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: not about their team this year. What are they going

467
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Speaker 1: to do when they don't make that rule change and

468
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they draft Pat Mahomes, you know,

469
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Speaker 1: and they now they don't get the advantage of it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just crazy talk to me. It's crazy talk,

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Speaker 1: right and correct me if I'm wrong. There was language

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Speaker 1: in there that they got to be down by fifteen

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Speaker 1: with under a certain amount of time to play, and

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Speaker 1: you can only do it twice, and you can only

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Speaker 1: do it twice. I mean, what they should be doing

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Speaker 1: is putting their analytics departments to work and saying how

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Speaker 1: often is this going to come up over the course

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Speaker 1: of a sixteen game season, Like, what are the percentages

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Speaker 1: that it turns up on a per game basis, and

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Speaker 1: what are the percentages as to how many times this

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Speaker 1: may actually be employed over a sixteen game season for

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Speaker 1: our club against these opponents. There's a way to devise that.

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Speaker 1: And sure, I would venture to guess you're looking at

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Speaker 1: a play for a single NFL team over the course

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Speaker 1: of sixteen games that's coming up what twice a season,

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Speaker 1: maybe three times? Maybe it's if it happened ten times,

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Speaker 1: one and a half of those times would be successful

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Speaker 1: between one and a half and two times, so you're

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Speaker 1: talking about two out of ten, one out of five times,

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Speaker 1: which to me seems yeah, okay, I can live with that,

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Speaker 1: for it doesn't sound like a catastrophic thing. But hey,

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Speaker 1: I know right, so it's like everybody half the league

493
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Speaker 1: turned into Chicken Little yesterday. This guy's falling. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe it, all right, Steve Tasher, Chris Brown, we're in

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Speaker 1: one bills live. Yeah. And also that he said this,

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Speaker 1: And here's why the league moves like a glacier sometimes, right, Brownie,

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Speaker 1: particularly in the rules last year. I think they're still

498
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Speaker 1: licking their wounds from botching it last OPI right here,

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Speaker 1: think think back about this, Brownie. Back in my career,

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Speaker 1: instant replay got killed in nineteen ninety one. They did

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Speaker 1: away with it, Then they tested it again five years

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Speaker 1: later in nineteen ninety six. Then it was voted down

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety seven and brought back in eighteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: And in the two decades since they've started, you know,

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Speaker 1: they've ordered a third challenge. Scoring plays were automatically reviewed,

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Speaker 1: turnovers were automatically reviewed, and the delays caused by those

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Speaker 1: reviews have steadily decreased because you can pick and choose

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Speaker 1: which plays are the most controversial, and that has helped.

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Speaker 1: So you're talking about from nineteen ninety one till twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty that they're dealing with this, and that's twenty nine

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Speaker 1: years that they've been tinkering with this. One thing we

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Speaker 1: should also mention is, in addition to the scoring plays

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Speaker 1: negated by penalty being subject to automatic review, they're also

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Speaker 1: going to be doing the point after tries. There are times,

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Speaker 1: Steve where you see that field goal attempt and the

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Speaker 1: ball goes over seemingly the very top of the upright

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Speaker 1: poll right, and you're like, that is that did that

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Speaker 1: get a part of the Was it even with the

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Speaker 1: top of the upright or was it wide? You know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes the angles on TV or where you're sitting stay

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Speaker 1: watching the game are awful. But man and I know

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Speaker 1: they've got an official under each upright looking straight up

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Speaker 1: at that thing to make sure that it that it

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Speaker 1: covers at least part of the upright if it goes

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Speaker 1: straight over the top of one of the poles, right,

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Speaker 1: But it's interesting that those are going to be reviewed

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Speaker 1: also if it seems like a close call. And here's

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Speaker 1: the thing that you got to know. The thing that's

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Speaker 1: amazing after the uprights go up and then they stop

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Speaker 1: with you know those yellow pipes that we've seen at

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Speaker 1: gazillion times, we all know what they look like. They

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Speaker 1: get wider after they stop, meaning that if the ball

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Speaker 1: goes over the top of the upright, it's good. It

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Speaker 1: is a good field goal. If the like, if the

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Speaker 1: inside edge of the football goes inside the outside edge

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Speaker 1: of that pipe, that field goal is good. That's the

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Speaker 1: thing that people miss. So the ball could just so

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Speaker 1: for instance, if the ball went below the top of

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Speaker 1: the upright and just skipped off the out side of

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Speaker 1: the upright, that would have been good. Had it gone

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Speaker 1: over the top of the pipe, So you almost had

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Speaker 1: more leeway if you get more height on the kicks. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: if it was if it was below the top of

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Speaker 1: the pipe, it would hit the it would hit the

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Speaker 1: upright and care them off and be no good. That's right,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, that's so. That is interesting. The other thing, Steve,

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Speaker 1: before we get to the break, because we're quickly up

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Speaker 1: on the bottom of the hour here, that we should

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Speaker 1: mention before we close this first segment is the memo

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Speaker 1: from Commissioner Goodell to the NFL clubs that was circulated

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Speaker 1: by a bunch of national reporters as well, which basically

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Speaker 1: indicated the strong possibility that coaches are going to be

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Speaker 1: back in the building as early as next week, and

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Speaker 1: the Bills could be part of that conversation as well,

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Speaker 1: because there is a chance, a very a decent chance anyway,

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Speaker 1: from everything we've been reading that New York State will

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Speaker 1: Interface two on Monday, provided the data and the numbers

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Speaker 1: hold as they have currently been going, they are going

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Speaker 1: to make coaches a part of Phase two to get

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Speaker 1: back in the building, but no players yet. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: as we said earlier in the broadcast as well, Texas

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Speaker 1: looks like in a couple of weeks they're going to

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Speaker 1: open up their pro sports leagues. You can have games

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Speaker 1: without fans and as much as twenty to twenty five

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Speaker 1: percent of your fans in the stadium. So that'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting to track that these states copen up. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: let's see what I had twenty five before we go

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Speaker 1: to break here. Twenty five states were decreasing in their

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Speaker 1: coronavirus numbers, ten of them were stagnant, and fifteen I

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Speaker 1: think those numbers are at fifteen were actually increasing in

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Speaker 1: their coronavirus cases. So we're still on a roller coaster

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Speaker 1: right here, and I think it's gonna it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: interesting to see how it happens state to state, so

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Speaker 1: we'll keep track of it. We're gonna take a break.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown and One Bills Live. We've got

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Speaker 1: Dean Blandino from Fox Sports. He's the rules analyst for

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Speaker 1: them and also a former NFL VP of Officiating. Y'all

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Speaker 1: know who Dean Blandino is. And of course Pete bomb Rito,

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Speaker 1: owner and president of bomb Rito Performance Systems, training does

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Speaker 1: of pro athletes. And we're gonna get into those challenges

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Speaker 1: that are happening as we progressed through this offseason. Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, One Bills Live from our homes and this

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Lives.

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Speaker 1: See Tasker along with Chris Brown, Brownie m Mark. This

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Speaker 1: marks a very monumental day in the radio broadcast between

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Speaker 1: you and me. We've got a call on the phone

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Speaker 1: at twelve to thirty. This is the earliest we've ever

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Speaker 1: taken a call, So mark that down chairs Derek online

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Speaker 1: One Derek, you got something to say about our Twitter

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Speaker 1: handle or a Twitter poll or whatever else. Is on

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Speaker 1: your mind. Go ahead, Derek, thanks for calling. Hey, Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you for taking the call here. You know you're

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Speaker 1: talking about the rule changes. And I was wondering if

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Speaker 1: the league consider based on the virus and based on

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Speaker 1: the chance to the rookies aren't really getting a free

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Speaker 1: run this year, and the fans aren't going to see

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Speaker 1: the rookies as much this year, and the teams aren't

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Speaker 1: getting a chance to work them out this year, if

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Speaker 1: the NFL considered some type of exemption for the rookies

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Speaker 1: this first year so they can stay with these clubs,

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Speaker 1: almost like the collegiate sports have done with the red

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Speaker 1: shirting of players. Because I think there's going to be

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Speaker 1: some premature cuts to some pretty good people because they

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Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to work out with the coaches

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Speaker 1: and the systems. And I really thought that they would

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Speaker 1: perhaps let these first year players get a chance to

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Speaker 1: work with these teams for another year, kind of like

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Speaker 1: a trial and balanced type thing. And and did you

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Speaker 1: hear anything like that or would you think that'd be

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Speaker 1: a good idea? Yeah, I could see that happening, Derek,

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Speaker 1: is a good as a good question. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Now is not the time for that, they don't even

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Speaker 1: know how difficult it will be. I mean, you can

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Speaker 1: anticipate that, but for the simple fact is there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of things about this, and Brownie you can chime

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Speaker 1: in here too, yep. I hear a lot of coaches

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Speaker 1: going through training camp, and one of the laments they

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Speaker 1: have is that they spend their time coaching these kids

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Speaker 1: up who they know are not gonna make the team,

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Speaker 1: and for them, it's a waste of time. They know

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Speaker 1: who's gonna make their squad pretty well pretty early, but

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Speaker 1: they got these guys around that they're helping. They'll do

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Speaker 1: what they can for them, but they're not gonna make

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Speaker 1: this team. And so going the other way, saying that

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Speaker 1: you're gonna cut guys who might have a chance or

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Speaker 1: would have developed into I think it's too early to

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Speaker 1: think about that now. I don't know that you're going

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Speaker 1: to see a rash or a rise in the number

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Speaker 1: of guys in that situation that you would any other year,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So while this year is

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Speaker 1: a different in the offseason, I don't know that the

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Speaker 1: results are going to be all that different as to

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Speaker 1: which guys made the team. Maybe the guys that make

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Speaker 1: the team won't be playing as well as they would

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Speaker 1: have with a full off season. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: at this point we can go so far as say

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Speaker 1: the roster would have been vastly different than it will

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Speaker 1: be on opening day this year. I'm just gonna say,

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Speaker 1: under the new CBA, you're already going to have two

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Speaker 1: more players in the locker room after you reduce the

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Speaker 1: roster to fifty three, because practice squad numbers go up

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Speaker 1: from ten to twelve this year, So you're already going

643
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Speaker 1: to have two more spots to have a young player

644
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: hang around, granted not on the active roster, but on

645
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: the practice squad. And I understand they're not completely protected there.

646
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: They could be signed away by another club, But every

647
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: other club has twelve guys on their practice squad two

648
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: so I think that's going to probably suffice in terms

649
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Speaker 1: of taking care of that concern that you expressed, Derek.

650
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Speaker 1: I know it's only two spots and it doesn't seem

651
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: like much, but if you talk to teams in personnel departments,

652
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: they say being able to keep two extra guys on

653
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Speaker 1: a practice squad to groom and develop and give them

654
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: the extra time through the course of the season, when

655
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: everybody's back will be invaluable, and then to take it

656
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Speaker 1: a step further, knowing they're probably still going to be

657
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: dealing with coronavirus precautions and protocol through the chorus of

658
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: the regular season, knowing a vaccine at the earliest is

659
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Speaker 1: coming at year's end. I don't know if you want

660
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Speaker 1: to have extra people around, as callous as that may sound,

661
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to increase your numbers

662
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: if you don't have to. So it's just an extra

663
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Speaker 1: person that can contract and spread the virus. And here's

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Speaker 1: another thing too, I've fallen victim, and I'll call it that,

665
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: just like Derek the caller did too, saying, you know,

666
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be some guys who may or may not

667
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Speaker 1: be able to evaluate what I don't think it's gonna

668
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: come to that as I think more about it. My

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00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: experience has been listen, the guys are gonna make the team.

670
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: Are gonna make the team. It's easy enough to find

671
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Speaker 1: that out and see that there may be there are

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00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 1: less than a handful of guys, let alone positions that

673
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Speaker 1: are on that. Well, do we keep this guy or

674
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: that guy, this guy or that guy, and it's it's

675
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Speaker 1: not It's less than a handful on every team of eyes,

676
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: let alone position. So I don't think it's gonna be

677
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: a question of which guys make the team. The question

678
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: becomes this, how good are the young guys gonna be

679
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: early in the season when they haven't had as much

680
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: preparation as we've seen young guys have in years past.

681
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Speaker 1: Are the good young guys gonna be good enough quick

682
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Speaker 1: enough to contribute? And Sean McDermott said it the other day, Brownie,

683
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,760
Speaker 1: when he said, you listen, we're gonna try best case scenario.

684
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Speaker 1: We're gonna ease aj Epanessa into the light, you know

685
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: what I mean. He kind of sees it coming. We're

686
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Speaker 1: gonna ease him in. Hopefully he'll get good enough, fast enough,

687
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: and we'll be able to get do that, you know,

688
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: give him a full rotation early. But he doesn't anticipate

689
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Speaker 1: that being the case and a perfect as And as

690
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Speaker 1: you said earlier in the week on the show, Ed

691
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Speaker 1: Oliver was the ninth pick in the draft and he

692
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: was kind of on that same track, and that was

693
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Speaker 1: with a full off season with OTAs and mini camp

694
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Speaker 1: and training camp, so without the coronavirus. That's what I mean. Yeah, so,

695
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: and he was the ninth pick in the draft, so

696
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Speaker 1: you would tend to think certainly going to do that

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Speaker 1: with aj S. Thanks for the call, Derek. Anybody else

698
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Speaker 1: can chime in as well. Eight three five fifty or

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Speaker 1: one eight eight, eight five fifty two, five fifty. Give

700
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: us a call. What are the greatest challenges for the

701
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: for NFL players this offseason? Is it conditioning and staying

702
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: in shape? Is it limited on field rips, not getting

703
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: being able to get together as a team, or is

704
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: it just the plant the chemistry that comes from that.

705
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: Chime in, let us know how you vote. Almost fifty

706
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Speaker 1: percent of you think it's limited on field rips. The

707
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: fact that the team can't get together and walk through stuff.

708
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Speaker 1: Do you think is the biggest challenge. I might have

709
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Speaker 1: to agree with that in a long term, although that's

710
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Speaker 1: not what I voted. Eight three fifty one eight eight

711
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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Give us a call. We

712
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: also want to talk about this. Things are changing all

713
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: the time. Brownie and h Field. Yates came out and

714
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: reiterated what the governor of Texas said on announced for

715
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Speaker 1: his state coming up in just a couple of weeks, well,

716
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: a couple of weekends, I guess mid June, they're gonna say, okay,

717
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: outdoor stadiums and professional sports are opened up. If you

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00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: want to go out there, if you can put games on,

719
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: you are able to do that if you so desire,

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Speaker 1: and you can have what I don't know what percentage.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact person he said on the crowds,

722
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Speaker 1: but he said right outdoor stadiums will be allowed to

723
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Speaker 1: host fans up to twenty five percent of their capacity. Now, Steve,

724
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Speaker 1: I've I haven't seen everything that's out there and been

725
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: said by the governors of all fifty states, but this

726
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: is the first that I can remember seeing where a

727
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: govern a governor of a state specifically listed fans in

728
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Speaker 1: the stands and a percentage on top of that. There

729
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: may have been another instance here or there where that

730
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: was the case, but seeing this for the first time,

731
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Speaker 1: I have to believe is pretty encouraging. Because he put

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Speaker 1: a number on it and said fans in the stands

733
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Speaker 1: mid June, not a temper Rocktober in two weeks. That's

734
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: a massive concession that really takes the pressure off the

735
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: sports leagues and the and the franchises say, well, what

736
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Speaker 1: are we gonna do. What if we open our stadiums

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Speaker 1: to twenty five percent of the fans and everybody starts

738
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Speaker 1: coming down with the virus, are we liable? You know?

739
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: I you know, trying to take precautions and all of that.

740
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Speaker 1: But by saying it listen to government given us posi permission,

741
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: we're following their guidelines. That takes the impetus off the

742
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: clubs and says, Okay, we're gonna do this. We're gonna

743
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Speaker 1: take all the precautions we can that are reasonable, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna stagger the people coming into and out of

745
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Speaker 1: the state and a half. We're gonna do all of that. Yeah,

746
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: all of that stuff that we've talked about. Everybody needs

747
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: to have a mask on. I don't know how they're

748
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: gonna enforce it. Once people get into the stadium and

749
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: they're sitting two chaios apart, what's going to keep people

750
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: from hugging if a touchdown happens or a home run happens.

751
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: How are they're gonna enforce that? Are they just gonna

752
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 1: go with a public address announcers saying hey, guys, break

753
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: it up. You know the section two right, you're too

754
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: close to one another, please have dispersed. But it's a

755
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: massive relinquishing of those responsibilities on the clubs. They've been

756
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 1: given permission to do this, so now they can probably

757
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: do it without the liability that would come from just

758
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: being an individual franchise making the decision. And I know,

759
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: talking to you before we went on the air, this

760
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: was another thing that I had kind of thought of

761
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 1: with respect to getting these fans in the stadium. Albeit

762
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: at twenty five percent capacity, as you said, you're still

763
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: going to have to stagger the entry times for these

764
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: play For these fans, you're gonna have to print on

765
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: their ticket or send them some kind of text communication

766
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Speaker 1: that says you are part of entry Group A. You

767
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: will enter at eleven thirty AM for a one pm game.

768
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: You must do it at eleven thirty or between eleven

769
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: thirty eleven forty five, or you were going to have

770
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Speaker 1: to wait until after kickoff to enter said stadium. The

771
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 1: other thing they're gonna have to go over is Concession Steve.

772
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: Because you can't have twenty people standing next to each

773
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Speaker 1: other in line waiting for a hot dog. You're gonna

774
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: have to set up some kind of ordering system where

775
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: you can order on your phone and they bring it

776
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: to you. But remember Brown, you gonna have twenty people

777
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Speaker 1: in the line for a Beatbert, Remember there won't be twenty,

778
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: There'll only be five because you're only a twenty five

779
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Speaker 1: percent capacity. Well, well, I guess that depends on how

780
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: many concessions stands you have at your stadium. But you

781
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: think about this, the timing of the entrance into the stadium.

782
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: You're gonna have twenty five percent of the people you

783
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: normally do going through one hundred percent of the gates

784
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: that you have usually have open. So that's going to

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Speaker 1: be reduced too, So it won't be as certainly they'll

786
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: have to do it, but it won't be as difficult

787
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: seemingly as it usually is to stagger them in because

788
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: there'll be that many less people coming to the game,

789
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: and you'll have the exact same infrastructure to allow them

790
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: to come in, you know, So that'll help. But here's

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00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: the thing thing, you know, here's the thing. There are

792
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: people that you know, fans or creatures have had it too.

793
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: They tail gate till a certain amount of time and

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00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: then they say, hey, twelve twelve fifteen, we're heading in well,

795
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: if you have too many people that idea, you got

796
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: a problem. So you gotta stagger it. So I think

797
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: you do have to police it and give them certain times.

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00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: I think there's I hate to say this, but it's

799
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: gonna get down to these kinds of specifics. When do

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Speaker 1: a lot of people like to use the restrooms halftime?

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00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: You may not all can't said to everybody in the

802
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: restroom and halftime anymore. I mean, that's a closed, tight area.

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00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: It's an enclosed space. People are close together in there

804
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: at halftime. It's bumper or bumper, So you gotta you

805
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: gotta figure that out too. Yeah, you might listen. I

806
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: was kind of joking, but the PA system might be

807
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: the your greatest ally just have the guys, say, listen,

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00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: guys on the on the end zone side the scoreboard,

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00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: into the stadium between sections such and such and such

810
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: and such, bathroom break. Yeah it sounds not but it

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Speaker 1: think about it. However, they can do it. They'll do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's this is a slippery slope and

813
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: a can of worms that you can talk about all day.

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00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: We can't do it all. We're gonna take a break

815
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: right now before we before well we can get back

816
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Speaker 1: to the Give us a call eight O three oh

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Speaker 1: five fifty or one eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: If you have an idea about how to do the

819
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: entrance and egress of the stadium with twenty five percent capacity,

820
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: give us a call. We'd like to hear about that.

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Speaker 1: And also, if you have an idea as to what

822
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Speaker 1: the biggest challenge for NFL players it is this offseason,

823
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Speaker 1: give us a call on that as well. Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, We're here here till three. This is Buffalo

825
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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio and this is One Bills Live. Welcome back

826
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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. We're gonna having an interesting conversation

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Speaker 1: about the local wildlife during this pandemic. And there's a

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Speaker 1: lot going on. I've had red foxes on my property. Brownie,

829
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Speaker 1: you said you had this behemoth raccoon. It was a

830
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: raccoon that looked like an overweight dog, just sitting on

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Speaker 1: the back stoop by my sliding door. It's like it

832
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: was waiting for a handout right. That was like, hey,

833
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Speaker 1: you got you got where's my where's my meal? Here?

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Speaker 1: I called for curbside pickup. What's going on? And I

835
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Speaker 1: was just like my dogs staring at at this thing, like,

836
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: who the heck is this guy's unbelievable. We got into

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Speaker 1: this conversation because there's a story coming out of India

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00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: that they got these coronavirus tests that that got Pilford

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Speaker 1: and stolen by these macaque monkeys that you you've kind

840
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: of seen if you've seen National wild Life stuff. These

841
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: monkeys are like pigeons. They're like little human beings that

842
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: are pigeons that they steal any food that you leave out,

843
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: and they'll break into stuff, and they broke they accosted

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Speaker 1: this medical worker, took all this coronavirus blood tests that

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Speaker 1: they had taken from people, and ran off with them.

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Speaker 1: Basically they had to retest everybody because they had to

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00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: retest the so and then that you know, the these

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Speaker 1: monkeys that everybody's locked down, so nobody's out and about

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Speaker 1: leaving food around for these monkeys. So now they're getting

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00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: a little bit aggressive. Anybody they do see seems to

851
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: be fair game. So the wiles and the trials and

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00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: tribulations of the pandemic world. We've had Red Fox out

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Speaker 1: here to Steve and like I said, the raccoon, we've

854
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: had deer trapesing through here. I got a redtail hawk

855
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: looking for field mice around here. I guess because he

856
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: circles my house all the time. There's got to be

857
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: something flying, you know, running around out here that he

858
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: that he likes so well. We ended the last segment

859
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: talking about the opening and the Texas governor coming out

860
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 1: and saying that they were going to open up their

861
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: pro sports leagues and their outdoor stadiums twenty five percent

862
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: capacity in mid June. Also, the Rams have announced that

863
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 1: August fourteenth the opening of the SOFI stadiums. So they're

864
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: gonna that probably won't be a preseason game, right Brownie,

865
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: that'll be like a concert or something. That's the way

866
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: they were gonna open it. Is that I was going

867
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 1: to be. I would think, Well, the Rams made the announcement,

868
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: so it's not you know what I mean. So it's

869
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,479
Speaker 1: got to be a football thing, right if the Rams

870
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: are going to open it. And then of course hard

871
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,439
Speaker 1: Rock stay if you haven't heard about this this, Oh

872
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: my gosh. The Miami Dolphins. They're making their stadium into

873
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: a drive in theater, which they said they can accommodate

874
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: up to two hundred and thirty cars on field there?

875
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: What what, what's the movie gonna be? Uh Acepentura. Right,

876
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: that's got a Dolphins tie in. Right, that's a good one.

877
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: That is absolutely a good one that we should have

878
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: a we should have a playlist for what the movie

879
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: should be for the opening of a hard rock stadium. Um.

880
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, they said thirty cars in there so people

881
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: can quote unquote go to the movies and they're gonna

882
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: provide restrooms, which again I think you got to worry

883
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: about too many people congregating in the restroom. They just

884
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: know about an hour, about an hour after the big

885
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: gulps have been consumed, there's gonna be a bad dash there.

886
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: So right, I don't know how they're gonna work that.

887
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,760
Speaker 1: And Steve I thought about this too. I can't imagine

888
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: the groundskeepers thrilled with this arrangement. You know, the head groundskeeper.

889
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: Here's hard rock stadium, Brownie. Here's what happens. The Bills

890
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: Mafia have a tailgate before this opening of this and

891
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: they go in on a in a big four wheel

892
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: drive mud eater and just spin donuts all the way

893
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: across that state. Right with the build flying right, they

894
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: laid down but like plastic flooring. I think it's yeah,

895
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: they plywoods what it is. They laid down plywood and

896
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: they do that and then they cover it with whatever.

897
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: But they laid out sheets of plywood usually. But wouldn't

898
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: that like ruin the ambiance of the whole thing. If

899
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: you don't get a drive you know, you get to

900
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: sit on the grass while you're in the drive in.

901
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: I don't think people are looking for perfection these days.

902
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: They're just looking to get the heck out of the house.

903
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: But they are. But granted, we're talking about these stadiums

904
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: that are going to open up and your people are

905
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: gonna start to be able to congregate together for events

906
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: like this. But don't forget the one they're talking about

907
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: in La so Fi Stadium. That's ten weeks away. That's

908
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: ten and a half weeks away, that's all of June,

909
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: all of July, and two weeks into August. It's a

910
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: long way away, and anything could happen between now and then.

911
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: And that's in construction while though as construction calendars go, though,

912
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: that's pretty tight in terms of all they got to

913
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: get done out there. I think they're on we heard

914
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: there on schedule because they kept going. That's one of

915
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: the construction was one of the essential things that they

916
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 1: kept going. And they've they've had a handful of people

917
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:14,240
Speaker 1: test positive on site, and they just kept rolling along much.

918
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's like the Hoover Dam. You know, a

919
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: guy falls into the concrete create you know, hey, you

920
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: just keep going. So um yeah, that never happened, by

921
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: the way, that's that's a myth. But you know what

922
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I mean, the wheels of progress kept grinding

923
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: out in southern cow with a Sofi Stadium and also

924
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: with Allegiant Stadium in Vegas as well. Vegas States is

925
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: going to be on time. So when that opens up

926
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: is we have not heard anything about that. But the

927
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,760
Speaker 1: LA stadiums opening up mid August and the rat announce

928
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: doesn't make a difference that the Rams made that this

929
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: you know, announcement. Does that mean it's a football Pro

930
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: preseason game? It could be if it's mid August, yeah,

931
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: because that's when the preseason schedule starts. It's right around

932
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, It's right in there, so yeah,

933
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: it could be all right, coming up at the top

934
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: of the hour. Dean Blandino, former VP of Officiating for

935
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: the National Football League and also he is this Fox

936
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: Sports UH rules analysts as well as the NCAA rules

937
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: analysts as well Dean Blandino. Coming up after this break

938
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Chris Brown One Bills Live. This is Buffalo

939
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio, presented by Kalidah Health Oh a great time,

940
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: old by Steve Blaspers, t bus Do Basno Buffalo Time.

941
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Steve Tasker, along with

942
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,439
Speaker 1: Chris Brown here in Buffalo. We are pleased right now

943
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: to have with us through Skype. We're watching him. You

944
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: can't see him, but on the radio. Dean Blandino, Fox Sports,

945
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: an NCAA rules analysts, former NFL VP of Officiating from

946
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen twenty seventeen. Dean, Steve and Chris here in Buffalo.

947
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for coming on. I know it's it's

948
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: not I know, not too much as going on, but

949
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: thanks for taking some time to be with us. Yeah. Yeah,

950
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: it's good to get to have something to do today.

951
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: You know, we're laughing off the air. I said, like

952
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: there's been times it's been so great to be worthless.

953
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you too. I go in waves

954
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: I've been really productive at times here and it really

955
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: has been a nice rest. But have you been holding

956
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: up okay under the pandemic as have you found any

957
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: silver linings? Yeah, you know, there have been silver lines. Obviously,

958
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: everybody's healthy with me, so that's number one. But with

959
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: all of you know, whether it's Zoom or Microsoft teams,

960
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: all these video conferencing platforms, we're actually getting more done

961
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 1: now with training our replay officials on the college side,

962
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: and where you don't have to travel and get into

963
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: a room together. You can just you know, hop on

964
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: a video conference and we're doing it every week and

965
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: it's actually been it's been a real good process. Hey,

966
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you about that. We've taught, we've heard

967
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: and you've heard it even on our update just a

968
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: minute ago, the fourth and fifteen thing that the NFL

969
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: was thinking about as opposed to the onside kick as

970
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 1: another alternative. Can you give us some insight with your

971
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: experience as to what they might have been thinking about. Listen,

972
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: it's too early for this. We don't want this to happen.

973
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: We're not set up. We're what are the reasons for that?

974
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: And how do we get there? Yeah? I think this

975
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: this got obviously, this was a proposal from the Eagles,

976
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: and it got a real push late recently because I

977
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: think there's some people at the league office that like

978
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: this idea. They feel like it's an exciting play and

979
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 1: it could it could infuse some excitement to the end

980
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: of the game. And uh and obviously you know, help us,

981
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, keep the games closer, which which obviously is

982
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: the goal. I think there was some some debate in

983
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: the room, you know, the membership met virtually, and I

984
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: think there are just some people that are fundamental, fundamentally

985
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: opposed to this type of a change. I mean, this

986
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: is a drastic change. You think about the onside kick.

987
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,280
Speaker 1: The onside kick was a tactic that teams used within

988
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: an existing rule, right, they didn't have to change anything.

989
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: It was look, you could get the ball after it

990
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: goes ten yards. So let's try this tactic, and let's

991
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: try this technique. I think there's some people that are

992
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: that are opposed to creating it having a major change.

993
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: And then what are the unintended consequences? You know, you

994
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: think about a fourth and fifteen. Now you have, you know,

995
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,760
Speaker 1: a five yard holding penalty that results in the first

996
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: down or illegal contact. Maybe it's there, maybe it isn't.

997
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: So I think there's still some work to be done

998
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: on this. I know that. I think they were pretty

999
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: much split in the room sixteen sixteen on this, so

1000
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: you got to get twenty four. So in order to

1001
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: get this back in front of them, there's some work

1002
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: to be done. Do you think it, Dan? Do you

1003
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: think it's rooted primarily in the fact that this is

1004
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: a down where the ball can be advanced an unlimited

1005
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: number of yards and the on side kick is strictly

1006
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: trying to get possession back. You can't advance the ball.

1007
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 1: Do you think that's the biggest rub there. I think

1008
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 1: it's part of it, absolutely, right, like you said, because fourth,

1009
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 1: it's just a regular play from scrimmage, so you could

1010
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: get you can get ten yards, you could get no yards,

1011
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: you could get a touchdown, versus the onside kick where

1012
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: you can't advance that kick. So I think that was

1013
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: part of it. I think penalties was part of it.

1014
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 1: You know, how complicated are we going to get the

1015
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: timing of the play that how many times you can

1016
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: use it? There's just a lot of variables, and uh,

1017
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: you know, is it is it worth it is the

1018
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: onside kick. You know, you looked at the onside kick

1019
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: last year. Obviously one team Atlanta was very successful with it.

1020
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: They've got a kicker that that that is is really

1021
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: adept at it. But you know it was it was

1022
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: a twelve thirteen percent play, which is where it's been historically.

1023
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: And I know they were concerned in twenty eighteen because

1024
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: of the changes and it dropped, you know, down to

1025
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,760
Speaker 1: about four or five percent. But there's still a chance.

1026
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,240
Speaker 1: It's still an exciting play as an onside kick play,

1027
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot of variables to it.

1028
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 1: We're talking with Dean Blandino, Fox Sports and nca rules analysts,

1029
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: also former NFL VP of Officiating. Dean, I gotta ask

1030
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: you this too. One of the things that's been hovering

1031
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,439
Speaker 1: out there, particularly since the XFL was out there, and

1032
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: you mentioned yourself. The NCAA has some of the sky

1033
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: judge stuff that is out there. The NFL doesn't go there.

1034
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons I heard for this was

1035
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: they didn't think that enough time to train these guys

1036
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: last year right there, and they were undermanned. They didn't

1037
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: have guys who would qualify to do this kind of thing.

1038
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: And that's is that still maybe the real reason they

1039
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: haven't implemented it. Yeah, I don't know. I think I

1040
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: think the last year, right, the coaches were all in

1041
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: favor of a sky Judge. They voted thirty two oh

1042
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: at the league meeting for sky Judge, the Competition Committee

1043
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: and the and the vote went went a different direction.

1044
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: We ended up with past an afference review. You see

1045
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: how that played out. So we're back to sky Judge. Look,

1046
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: if we weren't ready a year ago, then we should

1047
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: have been getting ready because this is coming, right, this

1048
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: is the sky Judge will happen in the NFL at

1049
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: some point, and they've got to figure it out. They're

1050
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:46,399
Speaker 1: going to experiment in the preseason. There's quality people out there,

1051
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: there's quality people on the staff. You got to figure

1052
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: out when you can use it, how you can use it,

1053
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: and who's going to do it. And they've got to

1054
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: figure that out because because you're going to see a

1055
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: sky Judge concept in the NFL at some point. I

1056
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: gotta believe Dean, there's got to be a defined, strictly

1057
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: defined set of parameters there because you can't have the

1058
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: sky Judge. The sky just got to be looking at

1059
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: what the head ref is looking at. I would think

1060
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: his eyeballs have to be in the same place. He

1061
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: can't be looking at some backside corner away from the play,

1062
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: who's maybe mugging somebody. It has nothing to do with

1063
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: the play. But under the letter of the law, it's

1064
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: defensive holding down field. He can't be flagging that, saying ah,

1065
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: that touchdown is no good because we got this guy

1066
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: over here, you know, thirty yards away from the football. Right, yeah,

1067
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: no question, and right now. The way the experiment is

1068
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: set up, it doesn't deal with any kind of subjective foul.

1069
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: It doesn't deal with holding or pass an afference anything

1070
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: like that. It's it's still reviewable plays catch, no catch, fumbled,

1071
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: down by contact, you know, a boundary stepping out and

1072
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: the sky jidge can provide input to the onfield officials

1073
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,439
Speaker 1: when the onfield officials ask for it, and they got

1074
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: to do it before twenty five seconds is on the

1075
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: play clock, so it's quick. The onfield officials have to

1076
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: recognize an issue, ask and then there has to be

1077
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: a video available for the sky judge to even provide input.

1078
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see how it

1079
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: plays out. But right now, you know, there's no mechanism

1080
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: to review pass interference or holding. That's that's all in

1081
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: the hands of the officials on the field. Dean, how

1082
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: much backlash or pushback do you think happened with all

1083
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: of these rules, all of these rule changes and every

1084
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 1: rule that they considered this year in the NFL? How

1085
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 1: much how much pushback did they feel because of they

1086
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: blundered the pass interference reviews? Like I mean, they they

1087
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 1: absolutely botched it from start to finish. It was pushed through.

1088
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: It was something that we hadn't seen for a long

1089
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: time and probably won't see for a while because of

1090
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: how it went. How much of that was in the

1091
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: room you think I think it was. I think you know,

1092
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: we talked about it last year that there was going

1093
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,439
Speaker 1: to be unattended consequences, and they the way they put

1094
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,959
Speaker 1: that rule in it obviously, Yeah, it's a big play

1095
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: what happened in that championship game. But if you start

1096
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: changing rules for one play, this is what we end

1097
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: up with, and we saw it play out. They never

1098
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,959
Speaker 1: could find into consistent standard. And I have never seen

1099
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 1: in my time a rule change go in for one

1100
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: year and it doesn't even come up for a vote

1101
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,399
Speaker 1: the next year. I mean that's unheard of. You heard

1102
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: Troy Vincent say it was an absolute failure. That definitely

1103
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: is part of the thinking when you're sitting there as

1104
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: a you know, as as a club president or an owner,

1105
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,240
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, what happened with past in afference review?

1106
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: Do we want to do? We want to put something

1107
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 1: else in that could be that could be even worse.

1108
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: So that's definitely part of it. Dan, what about the

1109
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: new guy's name to positions in the officiating office? You know,

1110
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,280
Speaker 1: longtime head ref Walt Anderson Senior VP of Officiating, Training

1111
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 1: and Development, Perry Fuel, of the former coach in the

1112
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,839
Speaker 1: league for a long time, is now handling officiating administration

1113
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: quote unquote day to day operations. And then Al Rivern

1114
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 1: still senior VP of Officiating. What does the addition of

1115
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: a guy with Perry Fuel's coaching resume, perhaps due to

1116
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: maybe serve as a sounding board for officials, a different

1117
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: kind of a voice that's readily available. How might that help? Yeah?

1118
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: I like the idea of adding a coach. We've done

1119
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 1: that when I was at the League office. We brought

1120
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: in we brought in coaches that weren't that weren't working

1121
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: that year on a consulting basis, and they were invaluable.

1122
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: They would sit in with us. We had Jeff Fisher,

1123
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 1: Ken Woods and Hunt, Jim Schwartz, Lovey Smith. We had

1124
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 1: a host of coaches come in and spend a season

1125
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: with us and look at film with us, because they

1126
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: see the game from a different perspective and they obviously

1127
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: understand the game on a level that officials don't, and

1128
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: it was invaluable to listen to them, use them as

1129
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: a sounding barts board. So I like the addition of Perry.

1130
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: I think he's a smart guy and I think he'll

1131
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: provide value. Walt is a hard worker, He's a smart guy.

1132
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 1: Al Riverns still going to be in charge of replay.

1133
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: I think there's work to be done there, and uh yeah,

1134
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: I like the idea of having a team approach. But again,

1135
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you have to have someone,

1136
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: you know, where does the buck stop? And that I

1137
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: think is going to be the question a lot of

1138
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: clubs ask, you know, who do I go to? Who's

1139
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: ultimately gonna take the call from Bill Belichick or Bill

1140
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: O'Brien or you know, Brian Flores and and answer that question.

1141
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: I think that that remains to be seen. We're with

1142
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: Dean Blandino, Fox Sports and NCAA rules analyst. Dean, I

1143
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: gotta ask you about some of the specific rule changes

1144
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 1: they did implement. We've talked about what they you know,

1145
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: the sky judge is not there, the fourth and fifteen

1146
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: is tabled now. So one of the things that and

1147
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: maybe you can get specific because we're having a hard

1148
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: time getting our mind around it, the multi dead ball

1149
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: fouls and also the enhanced defenseless parent player protections on

1150
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: kickoff returners and punt returners. But the one I want

1151
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 1: to ask you about is the touchdowns and turnovers that

1152
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: are always reviewed, but now they're also going to add

1153
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: the plays that we're negated by penalty. What is the

1154
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: you know, best worst case scenario that the negated by

1155
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: penalty caveat adds to that scenario? I don't get it. Yeah,

1156
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: it's just it's it doesn't happen very often. This was

1157
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: in last year, a one year change, and then they

1158
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: just made it permanent. So all that means is, you know,

1159
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: the Bills score a touchdown and there's a holding penalty

1160
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: that that takes the touchdown off the board. Well, if

1161
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: there's anything reviewable on that play, it's not a coach's

1162
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 1: challenge because of the touchdown that was scored on the play.

1163
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 1: It goes to an automatic review, So so it takes

1164
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: it out of the coach's hands. It happened. I've probably

1165
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: happened maybe ten or twelve times last year. I don't

1166
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 1: think this is a major deal. It's just that that

1167
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: turnover or that score that happens. But then, oh wait,

1168
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: there's a flag it's coming back. If there's anything reviewable,

1169
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: it would be an automatic review. The coach wouldn't have

1170
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: to challenge it. So it is what allows the coach

1171
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: to save that challenge. The one, the one that Steve mentioned,

1172
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: was the one that was puzzling to me. With expanding

1173
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: the protections for the defense defenseless player on the returns.

1174
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: There's already it seems like it's describing the halo rule

1175
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: that already seems to exist. It's in an expansion of that.

1176
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: I couldn't make head or tails of it. This is

1177
00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: not the player's safety is of the utmost important, and

1178
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: this was this is a minor, minor change. This is

1179
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: the kick returner, right, the punt returner that's sitting back there.

1180
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: That doesn't call for a fair catch. The rule before

1181
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: said as soon as he caught the ball, he was

1182
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: no longer protected. You could hit him in the head

1183
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: or neck area. Now what this rule says is, Okay,

1184
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: he catches the ball, but he still has to have

1185
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: time to protect himself, so he has to become a runner.

1186
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: So it's just extending that protection until not the moment

1187
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: he catches it, the moment he now becomes a runner

1188
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: has the ability to ward off or avoid that contact.

1189
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: That's how it's been officiated for years. Anyway, it just

1190
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: made the rule, the language in the book in line

1191
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: with how it's being applied on the field. It just

1192
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: seems to compromise the timing of you know, a gunner

1193
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,439
Speaker 1: coming down the field if you read it a certain way,

1194
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: And I wonder if they have to adjust now and

1195
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: you know, you see a guy screaming down the field.

1196
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: He finally beats the jammer on his play, and now

1197
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: he's got to put the brakes on and then hit

1198
01:00:58,120 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: the gas again. I don't know. I don't know how

1199
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 1: listening that is for a gunner, There's no question, And

1200
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 1: that was the reason behind, you know, not extending that

1201
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: protection because, right, the punt returner has something that the

1202
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: receiver doesn't. Right, the punt returner can call for a

1203
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: fair catch. He has that ability the receiver doesn't. So

1204
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: people felt like, okay, if it's that close, call for

1205
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: the fair catch, because once you catch it, you're gonna

1206
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: get hit. This does put a little more pressure on

1207
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: the gunner. And you know, obviously Steve played that position. Yeah,

1208
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 1: Steve speak up, even know better than us. But but

1209
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: it does. You know, I'm sure they can adjust their

1210
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: tremendous athletes. But but now the timing is gonna be

1211
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: you gotta wait another second or two before you can

1212
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: make that contact, right, And I think it a lot

1213
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: of it has to do with a body contact. If

1214
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,479
Speaker 1: the guy catches it, crouches down and gets his eyes

1215
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 1: down and can flinch or you know, cover up before

1216
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: the hit gets there, that's what you're talking about. That's

1217
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: really the moment. And you say a second or two,

1218
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,919
Speaker 1: it's actually probably a quarter or half a second at most,

1219
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: and it's just you know, you you'll see you know

1220
01:01:57,640 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 1: it when you see it, And that's that's kind of

1221
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: the way it should be. Officiating probably will be I

1222
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 1: got the one. The one really got changed that we

1223
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 1: all knew was coming was the multiple dead ball fouls

1224
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: we saw the New England Patriots used against the Jets

1225
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: to run the clock out in the game they had,

1226
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: and then in the playoffs, Mike Vrabel turned the tables

1227
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: like we've never seen it happen to Bill Belichick. He

1228
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: did it to his old coach, Bill Belichick, and the

1229
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans took foul after foul to run the play

1230
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 1: the play clock down and that the game clock down

1231
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 1: to shut that game out. That was for a lot

1232
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: of fans having it done to Bill Belichick was pretty delicious,

1233
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: But we all knew it wasn't gonna last. And this

1234
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: was a pretty obvious change. Yeah, it was. You know

1235
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: that that's a you know, coaches are really good, whether

1236
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: it's coach Belichick or others that are really good, that

1237
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: are finding, you know, ways to um do things within

1238
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: the rules that are legal to gain an advantage. Right,

1239
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: That's that's the goal. You're trying to gain an advantage.

1240
01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 1: And it was a smart play. Um the league you know,

1241
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: close that up and they said, now now if you

1242
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: take that tall start of that delay game the clock

1243
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: is going to go on the snap and you can't.

1244
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: You can't take another twenty five seconds off the play clock.

1245
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: And which makes sense because we don't want you know,

1246
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: the couple of situations where it happened. You know, there's

1247
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: a minute and a half to two minutes of no action,

1248
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: no football in a close game, and that's not what

1249
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: we want, right And I get that too. I got

1250
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: one last question for you, Dean, and it has to

1251
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: do with the current climate around officiating. Certainly, nobody in

1252
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: there who's more than just a casual fan is holding

1253
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: the officials responsible for what happened with OPI DPI last

1254
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: year and the reviews and how silly it was for

1255
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: the for the coaches to try it, even when it,

1256
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: by a letter of the law, was past interference. Nobody

1257
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: wants that called. And with the scrutiny that's on officiating today,

1258
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: with all the replays and everybody's an armchair official, how

1259
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,439
Speaker 1: do you strike the balance between letting the guys play

1260
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: and making it fair and watchable for everybody out there. Yeah,

1261
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: it's tough. I mean, that's that's been the that's been

1262
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: the challenge for many years. It's the scrutiny is so great,

1263
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: and it's hard because you sit there and you say, okay,

1264
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: we want the fouls to jump out, we want to

1265
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 1: make it, we want to make it have an impact,

1266
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: and you officiate that way and the game flows and

1267
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: everybody's happy. And then and then you know, the coach

1268
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: sends in fifteen questions and said, you should have called this,

1269
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: you should have called this, you should have called this.

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Speaker 1: And then and then if you call too much, they say, well,

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Speaker 1: we're being too strict. These are tikie tack fouls. So

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Speaker 1: it is a balance. What's amazing is that you look

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Speaker 1: at the numbers and with all of the rules that

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Speaker 1: have been added over the last twenty to twenty five years, players,

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Speaker 1: safety rules, all of these other changes, we're still averaging

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Speaker 1: fifteen to sixteen fouls a game. So so when you

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Speaker 1: when you think of it in the long run, you

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Speaker 1: know that has still been a historical number since since

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. And there's been a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: a couple of down years. Maybe you're up a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but that's been the range. So the officials have done

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Speaker 1: a really nice job. It's just like you said, the

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Speaker 1: the intense scrutiny that they're under. And everybody's an arm

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Speaker 1: chair official, and everybody has a you know, has a

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Speaker 1: DVR at home and high definition, and they say, well

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Speaker 1: what about that? And what about that? You know, you

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Speaker 1: played the game? You know, you know, go out, I say,

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Speaker 1: when I watch a game and I see a replay

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Speaker 1: and you go, what, man, how did he miss that call?

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Speaker 1: Go watch it on the on the sideline live and

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Speaker 1: you go, how do they ever get one right? It's

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Speaker 1: it's amazing how good they are. And uh, and it's

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Speaker 1: just it's just part of the deal. And we just

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Speaker 1: got to continue to to strike that balance being Before

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Speaker 1: we let you go, we do have to ask you

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Speaker 1: about a certain Thanksgiving incidents that we read about, uh

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Speaker 1: in the NFL office, between a microwave and the replay system.

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Speaker 1: What the So yeah, so here's what happened. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're trying. It's Thanksgiving, everybody. We got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: people that got to take time away from their families,

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01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: and that's what you do, right when you're in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And uh, and so we we invited some of the

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Speaker 1: families in and we were gonna have turkey and all

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01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: the good stuff and we ended up taking a microwave

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Speaker 1: from one of the kind of the pantries, one of

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01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: the you know, the break rooms in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: and they just happened to plug it into the same

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Speaker 1: circuit that I was sitting watching the game doing the replay,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they hit the microwave to

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Speaker 1: to heat up some stuffing, and the thing just goes

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Speaker 1: and I'm going, what the just happened? And you know

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Speaker 1: the thing is, Look, we still have replay at the stadium,

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01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 1: so replay the replay official was still at the same

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Speaker 1: so we weren't down completely, but we couldn't come to

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Speaker 1: New York. Uh. And the guys did a great job

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Speaker 1: getting it up and running. Uh. You know, it was

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Speaker 1: down about two minutes and I said, plugged that microwave

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Speaker 1: somewhere else, please far away. We had a good meal

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Speaker 1: after that. Dean, thanks for coming on. It's been great

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Speaker 1: talking to you. Appreciate your time, and stay well and

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Speaker 1: you and your family. All our best to you and

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Speaker 1: your family. The same to you guys. Thanks. Dean Blandino,

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports and nc A rules analyst. He's also former

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Speaker 1: NFL VP of Officiating from twenty thirteen to two two

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Speaker 1: seventeen and a lot of us wish he was still there. Man, Yeah,

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01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,479
Speaker 1: he was great. He was great. Steve Tasker and Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: we're going to take a break here One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: and presented by Kalida Health. What we're gonna do next,

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01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the mail bag. We put out

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Speaker 1: there a tweet that said, Tyson, if you've got questions

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01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: you want to ask Brownie and I, we will answer

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna do that right after this break. Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, One Bills Live. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker along with Chris Brown. Welcome back to one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Just before we move on to to the

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Speaker 1: mail bags that people have been sending in the mail

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Speaker 1: in quarter, He's they've got questions for Brownie and I.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna try our answer best to answer the email questions.

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01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 1: You can also just call us if you wanted a

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Speaker 1: three h five fifty or one eighty to eighty five

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01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. You can also go online and

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Speaker 1: answer our tweet Twitter poll for the day. What the

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Speaker 1: what the biggest challenge is for NFL players this offseason?

1344
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: And if you can't catch us now or you don't

1345
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: If you want to go back to us, come back

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01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 1: and listen to parts of the show. We had Dean

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01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: Blandino on just a minute ago. You can stream it

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01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 1: live using the Buffalo Bills app, the show ports and

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01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:19,839
Speaker 1: portions of the show, or podcasting on Buffalo bills dot Com,

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01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:25,559
Speaker 1: the Bills App, Spotify, Google Play, Apple Podcasts, and when

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01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 1: we get back on tv UH somewhere in the distant future,

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01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 1: you can go back and watch those things as well.

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Speaker 1: Pete Bomrito's coming up at two thirty. Uh. He's the

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Speaker 1: owner operator of Bomarrito Performance System. He's the guy, one

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Speaker 1: of those guys, maybe one of the most prominent guys

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Speaker 1: who trains athletes and he's doing that this offseason with

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Speaker 1: a bunch of Bills guys. So we're gonna talk to

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Speaker 1: him at two thirty. So, Chris Brown, you're ready to

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01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 1: talk about the mail inquiries we got the it's a

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Speaker 1: mail bag. It seems to to eat I don't know. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll just call it the mailbag. So yea, all right,

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Speaker 1: here we go. The mailbag from the first ones for

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Speaker 1: me from Kevin. It says, my question is for Steve.

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Speaker 1: It's been eating at me since I heard Steve and

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01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: Murph talk about how can you say Rob Johnson was

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01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:13,920
Speaker 1: better than Doug Flutie. Flutie was a nightmare to plan for.

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Speaker 1: The only stat Johnson leads and over Fluti was injuries.

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Speaker 1: The guy was a walking chandelier. Uh yeah, So why

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Speaker 1: the reason I say is because he was a better

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Speaker 1: throw or that's all. He might have been a worse guy.

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Speaker 1: You might not have liked him. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: if the club, if the team won more under Flutie

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Speaker 1: or one more under Rob Johnson. Yeah, all I can

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Speaker 1: say is that that, for whatever reason, for me, Rob

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Speaker 1: Johnson checked a lot more of the boxes. I think

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Speaker 1: Flutie was a better leader in the on the field.

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Speaker 1: I think that goes without Sam Brand. What are you

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Speaker 1: what are your recollections about which guy was a better quarterback? Yeah?

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01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 1: I I covered the team as the beat reporter for

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01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:57,719
Speaker 1: w GR during this time, so I was there every

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Speaker 1: single day for the three years that this quarterback controversy

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01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: dragged on. It was endless and it completely overshadowed anything

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01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 1: else that had to do with the team. You know, Eric,

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Speaker 1: So I think what you had here was a superior

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Speaker 1: physical specimen in Rob Johnson, who was almost six foot

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Speaker 1: four and had a rocket for an arm and could

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Speaker 1: still run around and buy some time and make some

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01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 1: plays off script. The problem was he held onto the

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Speaker 1: ball too long and as a result took injuries as

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Speaker 1: a result and could not stay on the field. And

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Speaker 1: the number one a number one ability in the NFL

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01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:43,599
Speaker 1: is availability, and he was horribly not available, and Fluty,

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Speaker 1: to his credit, took advantage of a situation, and he

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01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a wild card in terms

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Speaker 1: of game planning against But I think for the teams

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Speaker 1: that were able to hem him into the pocket and

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Speaker 1: not give him escape routes or throwing lanes proved to

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Speaker 1: be pretty effective against him him. And we have to

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Speaker 1: remember the offense under Flutie was not a juggernaut offense.

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Speaker 1: That was a team that largely relied on their defense.

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01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,599
Speaker 1: The ninety nine team had the number one defense in football,

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01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:19,120
Speaker 1: and so as much as Flute kind of helped them

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01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 1: win games and made enough plays to win, he wasn't

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01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:28,440
Speaker 1: some juggernaut offensive machine either, but he was more successful

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01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: and in two minute drills he was pretty effective, and

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Speaker 1: his one loss record speaks for itself. I believe he

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Speaker 1: was twenty and nine in his starts for the Bills,

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Speaker 1: and Rob Johnson was something like seven and five. So

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Speaker 1: the props on the putting on the field, there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a whole other dynamic in terms of off the field,

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Speaker 1: because I don't think Flutie was as good a teammate

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Speaker 1: as Rob Johnson was, and Flutie was roundly accused of

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Speaker 1: being the one putting quotes in the media with anonymous

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Speaker 1: sources discrediting Rob, you think, and that was that was

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01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 1: widely the tough I gotta tell you, Steve the toughest

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01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 1: thing as a reporter at that time. It's going back

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01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:19,000
Speaker 1: and forth, was trying to get anyone to go on

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Speaker 1: record and say Fluti's talking crap about Johnson. No one

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01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: would do it, but everyone seemed to believe that was

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01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: the case. And oh my god. It was just back

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01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 1: and forth every week. And then you know Wade with

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01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: the playoff game name and Rob the starter. That was

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01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: a whole nother layer for the what ended up being

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Speaker 1: the Music City Miracle game. And oh, it was just endless,

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01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,560
Speaker 1: and it dragged into the two thousand season. It was just,

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01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and and the best part was Wade

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Speaker 1: blame the media. He called he said, the quarterback This

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Speaker 1: is a direct quote. The quarterback controversy is media generated.

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Speaker 1: It was not media generated. It was stoked in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, and the media ran with it. The media

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01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 1: may have expanded it, but they did not generate it.

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Speaker 1: And Wade, as good a person as he was, and

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01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:15,600
Speaker 1: as great a defensive mind as he was, did a

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01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: did a deplorable job in rectifying the situation and laying

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Speaker 1: out a clear and defined course going forward with those

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Speaker 1: two quarterbacks. And it left the locker room in a

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Speaker 1: complete quandary and they were forced to pick side. Right, Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean so you did have a thought or two

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Speaker 1: on which okay, so as sorry, that's right, though, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the fascinating part of Phil's story. Though. It is.

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Speaker 1: It is, and it was, and I think too, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty widely accepted by the people I've talked to that

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01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 1: Ralph had a voice and everything that went on the

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01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 1: Wade did, and I don't even know that it waged

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01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 1: with the guy who was saying, hey, I want Rob

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01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: Johnson's that was Ralph's. I think it was Ralph's call,

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01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:03,640
Speaker 1: and right, And you know, Ralph doesn't have to apologize

1448
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 1: for that. He owns the team. He gets to make

1449
01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 1: those calls. But he I don't think he Ralph had

1450
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: a louder voice than people gave him credit for. He

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01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 1: was a passionate owner as much as distant as he

1452
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: was for a lot of people who you know, he

1453
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 1: lived in Detroit and all that stuff. That guy was

1454
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 1: was in it every day for the Buffalo Bills, and

1455
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:26,800
Speaker 1: in the late he was still making some appearances at once.

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01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: He'll drive at the time, not not as frequently as

1457
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: he was when you were playing, but he was still

1458
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:34,000
Speaker 1: getting out there every so often and checking out practice

1459
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: and the like. Right, So there you go. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: that's right. So that appreciate that question from Kevin. We've

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Speaker 1: got another one here from Robin and I've heard some

1462
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 1: some rhetoric on this issue that Robin's gonna bring up

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01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: and is pretty interesting. What's the issue with getting Zach

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01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 1: Moss signed? Is this an issue similar to the past

1465
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 1: where mid round selections are often the last to be

1466
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 1: signed because they are the last to have their price set.

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01:14:58,240 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: Seems like running backs in mid rounds or often a

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Speaker 1: challenge to get signed. It is exactly what it is.

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Speaker 1: Mid round guy. Here's the thing, when you get to

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01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 1: the third round of the NFL draft. The first two

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Speaker 1: rounds have some pretty specific language in the CBA, the

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Speaker 1: Collective Bargain Agreement as to how much you can waiver

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01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 1: on their numbers and what you're allowed to do for them.

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01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: The language starts to relax in the third round. And

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Speaker 1: that's why the third round guys, that's why last year

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01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: with Dawson Knox it took him a while to get signed,

1477
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: is because the language in the CBA allows agents to

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Speaker 1: fight a little bit more for their client and what

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Speaker 1: he's going to get that season. Now, that's why sometimes

1480
01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:42,320
Speaker 1: are in recent years third rounders. Starting with third rounders,

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01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,600
Speaker 1: it's been more difficult to sign those guys. Yeah, they

1482
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:47,200
Speaker 1: don't sign this quickly because there's some base salary that

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01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: can be negotiated there. So while you have a slotted

1484
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: signing bonus that's pretty much set and done, agents can

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Speaker 1: negotiate the base salaries with their third round draft choices.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why that's in horton is because even

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01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: though every player that's a rookie has the proven performance escalator,

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01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 1: you know for compensation, like you know, let's say, for example,

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Speaker 1: Matt Milano. Yeah, Matt Milano becomes a starter second half

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01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 1: of the year, lights it up as an extraordinary stats

1491
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 1: that far away his base salary is a fifth round

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01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:24,559
Speaker 1: draft choice, he gets performance pool money. Well, the proven

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01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: performance escalator for someone like Zach Moss is not going

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01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 1: to be beneficial for him because at best, he's sharing

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Speaker 1: carries and what's going to be at least a two

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Speaker 1: man backfield, So he doesn't know what kind of performance

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Speaker 1: base pay he's going to be able to get as

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01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:43,840
Speaker 1: arguably the second string running back. So yeah, I could

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01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:47,720
Speaker 1: see why his agent is trying to negotiate maximum base

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01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:51,919
Speaker 1: salary compensation right exactly, because it's impossible, and the agents

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01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:54,200
Speaker 1: know this, and players know it, and even us, as

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01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:56,680
Speaker 1: you know, casual fans would be able to understand. When

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01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: you're coming into the league as a rookie, you don't

1504
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:00,640
Speaker 1: know what's gonna you know who's gonna be throwing to

1505
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:01,760
Speaker 1: you the ball. You don't even know if you're gonna

1506
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: make the team. You don't know if you're gonna play

1507
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 1: a lot or a little, if you're gonna be covering

1508
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:06,720
Speaker 1: kicks or whatever. And you want to get as much

1509
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 1: money just for showing up on time and being on

1510
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 1: the team as you can, because if you have a

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01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 1: great year, that's gravy. But the first things first, you

1512
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: just want to be on the team, and that's and

1513
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: you want to get the most you can just for

1514
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 1: that fact. So that's why all those things are one

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01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:24,640
Speaker 1: of the reasons why it takes those guys. When the

1516
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 1: language gets vague, the negotiations get more contested, and that's

1517
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 1: that's simply the reason why starting with third rounders, it

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01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 1: gets a little more difficult. Also from a mailbag, another

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01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,400
Speaker 1: question from Pat. Thank you for that question, by the way, Robin.

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01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 1: From Pat, what are the odds that Tyler Bass becomes

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01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:43,519
Speaker 1: the new place kicker this year? Also, what are your

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01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:46,759
Speaker 1: thoughts on Christian Wade? I know his age has something

1523
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:48,280
Speaker 1: against him, but he seems to have a lot of

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01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:52,160
Speaker 1: athletic ability, durability and toughness. Rugby is a very demanding game.

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01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 1: Could he be a diamond in the rough? A couple

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Speaker 1: of questions from Pat there. First start with Tyler Bass

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01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: the kicker. What do what do you think, Brownie? I

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01:18:01,439 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: think he's got unquestioned leg strength. I mean, we've seen

1529
01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:08,719
Speaker 1: the social media posts of him taking a one step

1530
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:13,600
Speaker 1: run up and hitting sixty yarders. That's insane. It's like

1531
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:17,560
Speaker 1: he's got a bionic leg. I think he has a

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01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:19,920
Speaker 1: chance because what he offers you is a two for

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01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:24,360
Speaker 1: one ability in terms of being a kickoff guy and

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01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 1: a place kicker. What it's going to come down to

1535
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:31,719
Speaker 1: for him is consistency. If he can demonstrate and prove

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01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:35,759
Speaker 1: to the coaching staff I'm not only a big legged kicker,

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01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: I am a consistent kicker, then I think he's got

1538
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 1: a shot. I do, but that remains to be seen.

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01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 1: The problem here is Stephen haushs at a point in

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01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:49,680
Speaker 1: his career where I think what you need on kickoffs

1541
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:53,200
Speaker 1: is something that he cannot always deliver, particularly when you

1542
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: get in the second half of the season. The weather's colder,

1543
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: the ball doesn't travel as far, Your leg strength or

1544
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: lack thereof, is more pronounced on kickoffs. Now that could

1545
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 1: be remedied if perhaps they go with Kari Vedvik, who's

1546
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: trying out for this roster as a punter but has

1547
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:12,240
Speaker 1: a giant kickoff leg. And if you want to keep Houshka,

1548
01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:16,080
Speaker 1: you're probably keeping Vedvik to handle the kickoffs. But if

1549
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:18,640
Speaker 1: Vedvik does not prove to be a prolific punter or

1550
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: a better punter than Corey Bojorquez. You may have to

1551
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 1: think long and hard about Tyler Bass, who gives you

1552
01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:27,480
Speaker 1: the kickoff availability kenn He provides you with the consistency

1553
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:30,080
Speaker 1: on place kicks if he can, there's a good chance

1554
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: he's on the roster. As far as Christian Wade, you know,

1555
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:36,240
Speaker 1: he's got another year to kind of prove himself and

1556
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:38,680
Speaker 1: serve on the practice squad again. He is going to

1557
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:41,719
Speaker 1: turn twenty nine years old before the season starts, I believe,

1558
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:47,120
Speaker 1: and he's an interesting guy, but it's the nuances of

1559
01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 1: the game that I think are tricky for him. Yes,

1560
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:53,599
Speaker 1: rugby's a demanding game, but it's not as scripted an

1561
01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: assignment heavy as football is, particularly at the running back position, right,

1562
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:02,720
Speaker 1: And I think it'll happen. My call is that, in

1563
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 1: my prediction is they're gonna force Christian Wade, probably to

1564
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 1: prove how badly he wants it. He's gonna have to

1565
01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:14,200
Speaker 1: exhaust every concession that the league has made for foreign players,

1566
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 1: you know, and for him coming over, they gave him

1567
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: an exemption last year. He could be the eleventh guy

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01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,600
Speaker 1: on the practice squad and the fifty fourth guy on

1569
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,560
Speaker 1: the roster that kind of thing, or you know, the

1570
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: extra guy on their team. Same thing here. He's got

1571
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: a roster exemption for training camp and he could probably

1572
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:32,439
Speaker 1: do it. They'll probably make him just prove that he's

1573
01:20:32,479 --> 01:20:34,200
Speaker 1: gonna do it, and he's got to work hard and

1574
01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:36,080
Speaker 1: do everything he can to get on the field, and

1575
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: then at the end of that they probably will if

1576
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 1: they can reward him with a roster spot at least

1577
01:20:41,400 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: for a year, if he can earn it. But they're

1578
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:45,400
Speaker 1: gonna give him every chance to do that, but he's

1579
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to prove it on the field. And for

1580
01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 1: the kicker, You're right, it's an interesting dynamic. You alluded

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01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: to it there, Brownie. You've got to balance what your

1582
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 1: needs are on the field during a game with the

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01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:59,120
Speaker 1: skill sets of the three guys that you're taught talking about.

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01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:02,120
Speaker 1: It's it's the hunter kicker thing and the kickoff field

1585
01:21:02,160 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 1: goal thing. Certainly, it's gonna be tough for somebody to

1586
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:09,840
Speaker 1: out accurate Houshka. Yeah, that's Bass is going to do.

1587
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: And he had and he had a rough stretch at

1588
01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:14,599
Speaker 1: one point in the season where he was missing some kicks.

1589
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:16,160
Speaker 1: But you look at the way he ended the year.

1590
01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:17,920
Speaker 1: I think he hit his last eleven in a row.

1591
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 1: And people forget the guy nutted a forty nine yard

1592
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:25,439
Speaker 1: or with five seconds left in regulation to force overtime

1593
01:21:25,479 --> 01:21:27,639
Speaker 1: in the wild card game. I mean, that's a pressure

1594
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:30,280
Speaker 1: kick's money. That was his eleventh in a row to

1595
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: finish the season. That's and that's huge, right, I mean,

1596
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:36,560
Speaker 1: so you can't look away from that. M Certainly he

1597
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: is everything you want in an accurate, reliable guy. Certainly

1598
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 1: you can say, oh, I don't know, is plus fifty yards? Well,

1599
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:46,599
Speaker 1: the best kickers in the league are a coin flip

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01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 1: from fifty plus. That was has always been the kind

1601
01:21:49,439 --> 01:21:53,360
Speaker 1: of baseline. If you're above fifty percent, how far above

1602
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:57,320
Speaker 1: fifty percent you are? Says how elite you are, because

1603
01:21:57,360 --> 01:22:00,639
Speaker 1: that's really what it takes. Let's lighten round. Let's lightning

1604
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:02,599
Speaker 1: around these fan mail bags here so we can get

1605
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: to everybody, Steve, let's try to teard answers for four

1606
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:07,440
Speaker 1: or five and six? All right, here we go, Medakevich

1607
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:10,799
Speaker 1: Joseph are seemingly locks to make the roster. Do Thompson,

1608
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:12,960
Speaker 1: Bell or Dodson have the best chance to get the

1609
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 1: last linebacker spot. I'm leaning towards Thompson myself, all right,

1610
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:21,640
Speaker 1: So quick Ansonpsonvijohn the roster Voshan Joseph I do not

1611
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: think is a lock. I think they think a lot

1612
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: of Corey Thompson. I think they believe a lot in

1613
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 1: Tyrell Dodson, who's a guy they kind of kept around

1614
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 1: even after an off the field incident. I think they

1615
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 1: believe he could be a future backup Mike, perhaps to

1616
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:38,600
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds. So that's gonna be an interesting one to

1617
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:41,240
Speaker 1: work at. Step out. Everybody talks about the receiver competition, Steve,

1618
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 1: the linebacker competition on the back end is going to

1619
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:48,120
Speaker 1: be very compelling. Yeah. I think Dodson and Joseph are

1620
01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 1: the guys that are going to be in a competition.

1621
01:22:50,080 --> 01:22:51,760
Speaker 1: Not I don't know if Joseph is there. So I

1622
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: think if Dodson and Joseph are the guys in the

1623
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:57,120
Speaker 1: competition with Medakevich, I think both those guys make it.

1624
01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: Maybe Thompson and Bell do not. We'll have that's it.

1625
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:03,799
Speaker 1: We'll see, all right from Rick Steve, if you were elected,

1626
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:06,599
Speaker 1: now forget that one. Uh. He's one of those Hall

1627
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: of Fame crazies. Uh from Kyle bigger breakout candidate in

1628
01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: your opinion, Josh Allen or Devin Singletary. I think Josh

1629
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:17,479
Speaker 1: Allen has kind of broken out already. I guess they

1630
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:19,680
Speaker 1: want people. I guess they're talking about him getting to

1631
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: the elite level. Single Terry I think kind of broke

1632
01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:26,519
Speaker 1: onto the scene last year, But can he take it

1633
01:23:26,560 --> 01:23:28,840
Speaker 1: another step? I think Josh has got the better opportunity

1634
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 1: to do so here Steve, just by virtual of the

1635
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:32,240
Speaker 1: fact that he's got the ball in his hand every

1636
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: down and knowing Devon's probably not gonna be a three

1637
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:38,760
Speaker 1: hundred touch guy. He's gonna be probably around one eighty

1638
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 1: to two hundred touches. Knowing that Zach Moss is probably

1639
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 1: gonna good get a good deal of the work this year,

1640
01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:46,839
Speaker 1: don't you. If Devin Singletary touches the ball two hundred

1641
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 1: and twenty five times, that's because he busted out. He's

1642
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: gonna have twelve hundred yards. If he hasn't one hundred

1643
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: and eighty times, it's because Zach Moss and the running

1644
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 1: game and has been a balancing act. But here's here's

1645
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:00,200
Speaker 1: how it's gonna work. If one of those two guys,

1646
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 1: whether it's Devin or Zach, gets in there and starts

1647
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:06,599
Speaker 1: busting it up. That's the guy that gets the carries.

1648
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: That's all there is to it. They don't care if

1649
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary is designated a number one or a number two.

1650
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 1: The guy who's playing well at that position gets the ball.

1651
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:19,120
Speaker 1: And so if yes, and if if it's consistently Devin Singletary,

1652
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:21,680
Speaker 1: you can bet he'll have two hundred and twenty five

1653
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 1: carries and Zach Masse will have one hundred or one

1654
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,599
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty, you know, one hundred and twenty five carries.

1655
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 1: And that's the way it's gonna be. They'll he'll have

1656
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:32,560
Speaker 1: less than ten carries a game, maybe less than that.

1657
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 1: Even so, if Devin Singletary is the guy and he's

1658
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:38,680
Speaker 1: having a bust out season, it will reflect that in

1659
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: the number of touches he gets. That's my take. Yeah,

1660
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:44,439
Speaker 1: all right, busy on that. Yeah, So that's our that's

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01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 1: our mail bag. Thanks everybody for doing that. If you

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01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:48,080
Speaker 1: want to get in on this conversation at eight o

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01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:50,400
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty, please feel free to do that.

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Speaker 1: Eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. If you're

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Speaker 1: away from Buffalo. Coming up at two thirty. Pete Bamba Rito.

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Speaker 1: He's the owner and president of Bomberrito Performance Systems. If

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Speaker 1: you don't know who that is, he's the guy that

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01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 1: trains hundreds of professional athletes, thousands of youth athletes, high

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Speaker 1: school college athletes, and he's currently working with a bunch

1670
01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 1: of Bills guys. He's coming on at two thirty. Stay

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01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:11,439
Speaker 1: with us. We'll be right back Steve Tasker and Chris Brown.

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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live presented by Kalidah Health and

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Life.

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01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: Since asking all this pos ground, we just had ten

1675
01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:24,560
Speaker 1: Plantino on. He went over the rules changes and some

1676
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:26,360
Speaker 1: of the interesting things that are going on around the

1677
01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:29,439
Speaker 1: NFL and what have been going on for years with

1678
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:31,760
Speaker 1: the officiating. It's interesting you go back and listen to that.

1679
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 1: Earlier in the show, We've got to tweet a Twitter

1680
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:37,639
Speaker 1: poll that's been going on about some of the challenges

1681
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: that are the players are going on and what you

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01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 1: think the biggest challenge for them is this offseason. Our

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01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 1: poll is it a conditioning staying in shape, be no

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01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:49,599
Speaker 1: limited on field reps, no limited or on field reps.

1685
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 1: Team chemistry was another one that may be a challenge

1686
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:56,400
Speaker 1: for them or something else. Fifty percent of you, almost well,

1687
01:25:56,479 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 1: forty seven and a half percent of you think it's

1688
01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 1: the fact that they can get on the field together

1689
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 1: as being the thing. They can't practice football together, that's

1690
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:06,320
Speaker 1: the biggest change. Another thirty percent of you think it's

1691
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 1: team chemistry. You can't get together. That means you can't

1692
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 1: be friends, you can't play like a team, and all

1693
01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:12,800
Speaker 1: that stuff. What are your thoughts? Eight or three h

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01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five

1695
01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:18,120
Speaker 1: fifty If you're outside of Buffalo, you can call us

1696
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 1: and we'll get you on the air. Brownie, We've got

1697
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:23,160
Speaker 1: this some tweets coming at us that are pretty interesting.

1698
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 1: In response to this poll that I just mentioned from

1699
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: Jack K, he says about the challenges for NFL players

1700
01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:32,639
Speaker 1: this offseason, He says, I trust these guys as pros

1701
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: to work out and keep themselves in shape. I really

1702
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:38,240
Speaker 1: think the biggest challenge is not working together as a

1703
01:26:38,320 --> 01:26:41,120
Speaker 1: team to develop chemistry. Be in the playbook with the staff,

1704
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 1: form a well oiled machine when it comes time for

1705
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 1: camp and the season whenever it starts. I think we

1706
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:48,600
Speaker 1: get there's a lot of that, and it makes a

1707
01:26:48,640 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: lot of sense when you think about it about and

1708
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:55,719
Speaker 1: particularly in Buffalo for us here, we've seen this team

1709
01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:59,799
Speaker 1: be something a little bit different on the field together

1710
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:02,639
Speaker 1: when they cheer for each other the sidelines, when they're

1711
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:06,280
Speaker 1: they're cohesiveness right, and so if that's not there, that

1712
01:27:06,439 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: may be one of the assets we've seen the Bills

1713
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:11,960
Speaker 1: used this to win games, not be as sharp. You

1714
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:14,400
Speaker 1: know what this tweet says to me though, what sparked

1715
01:27:14,439 --> 01:27:17,360
Speaker 1: in my head when when you were reading it. How

1716
01:27:17,479 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: fortunate are the Bills that they're not revamping their offensive

1717
01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 1: line this year and they did it last year because

1718
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 1: you want to talk about on field chemistry and reps,

1719
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:30,160
Speaker 1: and you were going to change eighty percent of your

1720
01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:33,160
Speaker 1: offensive line four out of five news starters in an

1721
01:27:33,200 --> 01:27:36,479
Speaker 1: offseason like this, Best of luck with that. Guess who's

1722
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:40,800
Speaker 1: doing that. The Dolphins and the Jets. They've revamped their

1723
01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:45,360
Speaker 1: offensive lines. Best of luck having that in sync Week one. Yeah,

1724
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: hopefully the Dolphins and Jets botch it. But what's gonna

1725
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:51,560
Speaker 1: take time. You can't take. You can't take it for

1726
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:53,519
Speaker 1: granted that they will. But the players are going to

1727
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: know that that's a hard thing to do and they're

1728
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: gonna take steps towards it. We got another tweet as well,

1729
01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:00,760
Speaker 1: and another response to our Twitter pole from Bills and

1730
01:28:00,840 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 1: Mets fans. A lot of us have put weight on

1731
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:05,640
Speaker 1: put on well, a lot of us have put on

1732
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 1: weight during the past few months the pandemic. I'm sure

1733
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:12,640
Speaker 1: even athletes get bored during quarantine and find staying in

1734
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 1: top shape a challenge. I expect early play to be

1735
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 1: sluggish as everyone struggles to get up to speed. There's

1736
01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:24,040
Speaker 1: a lot of things working against good looking football when

1737
01:28:24,080 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: the season starts, right, Brownie, I mean, it starts with

1738
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 1: the guys being in shape. And another one is like

1739
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: the rest of it is not knowing the plays or

1740
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:34,120
Speaker 1: timing in the passing, get all that stuff. Things like that.

1741
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 1: The finer points. But here's the thing that I think

1742
01:28:38,439 --> 01:28:41,240
Speaker 1: about when I read this, because I think, to a

1743
01:28:41,320 --> 01:28:43,600
Speaker 1: certain degree this is true, and you can corroborate this

1744
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 1: or refute this if you want, Steve, the guys you

1745
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:49,360
Speaker 1: got to really worry about when you're in this virtual

1746
01:28:49,479 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: setting are the big guys, because there's some offensive lineman

1747
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 1: that will gain ten pounds just thinking about a cheeseburger.

1748
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:02,920
Speaker 1: And those are the guys who's weight can dangerously fluctuate

1749
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:07,080
Speaker 1: in a circumstance like this, where they're on their own,

1750
01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:10,639
Speaker 1: left to their own devices, left to their own food

1751
01:29:10,760 --> 01:29:15,680
Speaker 1: choices and workout regiment. You can police it as much

1752
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:17,840
Speaker 1: you as much as you want at arm's length in

1753
01:29:17,880 --> 01:29:21,760
Speaker 1: a virtual setting. But you might not think it's a

1754
01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:23,760
Speaker 1: big deal for one of these big men to kind

1755
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:26,680
Speaker 1: of go off the wagon for lack of a better term,

1756
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 1: for a week. But they don't do the right things

1757
01:29:29,240 --> 01:29:31,280
Speaker 1: for the span of a week when they're left to

1758
01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: their own devices, they could be fifteen pounds overweight by

1759
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:36,559
Speaker 1: the time they come back. I mean, that's how quick

1760
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:39,760
Speaker 1: it changes for the big guys, doesn't it. Yeah. Absolutely,

1761
01:29:39,920 --> 01:29:44,040
Speaker 1: And the offensive lineman, defensive lineman, defensive tackles. Those big

1762
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 1: guys are kind they kind of fall in two categories

1763
01:29:47,160 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: brown and you know this, when they quit playing, they

1764
01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:55,439
Speaker 1: either get rail fin slip door or they turn into

1765
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 1: jab of the Hut, right, I mean they turn into

1766
01:29:57,520 --> 01:30:00,880
Speaker 1: these guys that are like they're so big. Yeah, yeah,

1767
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:03,679
Speaker 1: they turned into Haystack Haynes, right, I mean they're just huge,

1768
01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 1: and so that's that's what they fight against. There'll be

1769
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 1: certain guys who are working hard and they're saying, man,

1770
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:14,519
Speaker 1: I got I gotta put on another fifteen pounds a lean.

1771
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:17,840
Speaker 1: You know, I gotta get balked or I'm not gonna

1772
01:30:17,840 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 1: be able to push anybody around when the season starts.

1773
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:22,120
Speaker 1: And these other guys are saying, listen, if I don't

1774
01:30:22,280 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 1: drop fifteen or twenty, you know, I'm gonna keel over

1775
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 1: on day one. I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna be

1776
01:30:28,439 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 1: off the side, not being able to practice because I'm

1777
01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:33,360
Speaker 1: so out of shape. So there's it's both sides of that,

1778
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:35,760
Speaker 1: and it's a challenge for either one and whichever way

1779
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:37,519
Speaker 1: you want to take it. But I and I've seen

1780
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:43,040
Speaker 1: you know, I remember Jerry Kraft Condo was one of those.

1781
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:45,040
Speaker 1: He was one of those that fell into the into

1782
01:30:45,120 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: the sign that listen, I gotta It was hard for

1783
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 1: him to keep the weight down. They won. Condo was

1784
01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:55,640
Speaker 1: so big. They incentivized it so that they wanted him

1785
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:57,840
Speaker 1: to play and get this. They wanted him to be

1786
01:30:58,120 --> 01:31:03,400
Speaker 1: under three seven and d and it was a struggle

1787
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:06,080
Speaker 1: for him, right, It was a real struggle for him.

1788
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:09,280
Speaker 1: I think that's a similar thing for Jamie nails. Right,

1789
01:31:09,400 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 1: So they had this thing going on and some of

1790
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:13,080
Speaker 1: the guy we were laughing about it. He's just and

1791
01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:15,320
Speaker 1: he's bumming. You know some you know, some people are

1792
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 1: just not happy if they don't get to eat what

1793
01:31:18,400 --> 01:31:20,360
Speaker 1: they want. Right. So Jerry's one of those guys. So

1794
01:31:20,439 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 1: he's bumming. They're talking about it, you know, and then

1795
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:23,960
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of in it with him, you know, they

1796
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:26,840
Speaker 1: wanted to be successful. And they go, Jerry, tell the

1797
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:29,439
Speaker 1: truth if and he's this is a guy's sitting at

1798
01:31:29,479 --> 01:31:32,040
Speaker 1: three to sixty or something like that, right, And they go, Jerry,

1799
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:35,040
Speaker 1: so it's thirty pounds to go to four hund You go,

1800
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:38,000
Speaker 1: how fast could you would it hat take? He goes,

1801
01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:40,280
Speaker 1: He goes, I'm well over four hundred when I'm eating

1802
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: what they were how fast we're to taking to get

1803
01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:44,559
Speaker 1: to four hundred? You know, if they said, like today,

1804
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:48,439
Speaker 1: like you can weigh whatever you want, how fast would

1805
01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:50,400
Speaker 1: you get to four hundred? And he said it would

1806
01:31:50,479 --> 01:31:55,840
Speaker 1: take seventy two hours. Seventy two hours, that's what he

1807
01:31:55,920 --> 01:32:00,840
Speaker 1: said with a straight face. Well say, when he finished

1808
01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:03,200
Speaker 1: playing in the NFL, he bounced around the Arena League

1809
01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:05,800
Speaker 1: and I was doing Buffalo Destroyer's games when they were

1810
01:32:05,880 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 1: here in town, and he got signed because Ray Bentley

1811
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,560
Speaker 1: was coaching the team and he brought Condo on to

1812
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:14,240
Speaker 1: just line up and get in the way basically. And

1813
01:32:14,600 --> 01:32:16,639
Speaker 1: let me just tell you there was no nutrition plan

1814
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:20,280
Speaker 1: for Arena Football League on the road. So we're on

1815
01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:23,360
Speaker 1: the road and I'd usually eat with the players because

1816
01:32:23,360 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm traveling as the play by play broadcaster, and and

1817
01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 1: you even did some games with me, Steve, I remember.

1818
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:32,760
Speaker 1: So I'm watching him eat and it is just it's

1819
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:37,480
Speaker 1: it's like a conveyor belt. It is mind numbing. It's insane.

1820
01:32:37,640 --> 01:32:39,400
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen anything you want to

1821
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:42,240
Speaker 1: talk about competitive eating. That that should have been his

1822
01:32:42,320 --> 01:32:45,680
Speaker 1: second career. It was in there with Joey Chestnutt and

1823
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 1: all those guys, because it was impressive under the table.

1824
01:32:49,439 --> 01:32:53,400
Speaker 1: It was un it was absolutely impressive. It really was.

1825
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:56,280
Speaker 1: So there there's that. Um, all right, we're gonna take

1826
01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:58,000
Speaker 1: a break. You can give us a call. We got

1827
01:32:58,080 --> 01:32:59,640
Speaker 1: the next half of our We'll take calls from two

1828
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:01,120
Speaker 1: to two thirty if you want to give it to us.

1829
01:33:01,320 --> 01:33:03,720
Speaker 1: Eight O three oh five fifty or one eight eight

1830
01:33:03,760 --> 01:33:06,240
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty what's the biggest challenge

1831
01:33:06,280 --> 01:33:09,439
Speaker 1: for NFL players this offseason? We had Dean Blandino on

1832
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,640
Speaker 1: the Fox Sports and NCAA Rules Analyst. He had some

1833
01:33:12,920 --> 01:33:14,640
Speaker 1: great things to say about what's going on with the

1834
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:17,200
Speaker 1: rule changes. Also coming up at the bottom of the hour,

1835
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 1: Pete Bomber Rito the owner and operator of Bomba Rito

1836
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:25,439
Speaker 1: Performance Systems. He trains hundreds of professional athletes and thousands

1837
01:33:25,479 --> 01:33:27,439
Speaker 1: of youth in high school and college athletes, and he's

1838
01:33:27,439 --> 01:33:29,880
Speaker 1: working with a bunch of Bills guys at the current time.

1839
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:31,720
Speaker 1: Come back and join us eight O three oh five

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01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:34,320
Speaker 1: fifty or one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:36,880
Speaker 1: fifty This Steve Task or Chris Brown. We're here till three.

1842
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,760
Speaker 1: This is one Bills Live presented by Kalidah Health and

1843
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:45,400
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Oh A great time. Oh

1844
01:33:45,479 --> 01:34:05,400
Speaker 1: by Steve Blaspers. Time down time. Welcome back to one

1845
01:34:05,400 --> 01:34:07,559
Speaker 1: of Bill's Live Steve Task. Along with Chris Brown, we've

1846
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:09,479
Speaker 1: been having this Twitter poll goal on what's the biggest

1847
01:34:09,560 --> 01:34:13,560
Speaker 1: challenge for NFL players this offseason? Forty seven percent of

1848
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:15,560
Speaker 1: you say it's the fact that they can't practice on

1849
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:17,800
Speaker 1: the field together. Seems a little bit obvious, but there

1850
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:19,800
Speaker 1: are some other choices as well. Thirty percent of you

1851
01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:23,320
Speaker 1: say it's team chemistry. Something about the Bills team that

1852
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:25,120
Speaker 1: made its pretty special in the last couple of years

1853
01:34:25,160 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 1: has been the chemistry they have displayed. I think that's

1854
01:34:27,200 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 1: the biggest challenge to get that back without being together.

1855
01:34:30,400 --> 01:34:34,479
Speaker 1: And then, of course, another another option, option A was

1856
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:37,000
Speaker 1: nineteen percent of you said it's just trying to stay

1857
01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:39,920
Speaker 1: in shape. Those three three point or four percent of

1858
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:41,960
Speaker 1: you thought it was something other than those three options.

1859
01:34:42,160 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 1: Give us a call eight h three oh five fifty

1860
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:47,840
Speaker 1: or one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty. Speaking

1861
01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: about challenging challenges for the players, a lot of players

1862
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:54,000
Speaker 1: really kind of brownie. They kind of seek out and

1863
01:34:54,040 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 1: they kind of and it is a vote of confidence

1864
01:34:55,960 --> 01:34:57,559
Speaker 1: and it's a little bit of affirmation of what you're

1865
01:34:57,560 --> 01:34:59,640
Speaker 1: doing in your career when you get acknowledged by not

1866
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:04,639
Speaker 1: just your peers and opposing coaches, but fans and national

1867
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:08,439
Speaker 1: media members as well. And Pro Football Focus came out

1868
01:35:08,560 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 1: and said that Micah Hide, the Bill's safety, is the

1869
01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:16,360
Speaker 1: most underrated player on the Bill's roster. And then conversely

1870
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:21,080
Speaker 1: to that, NFL network Cynthia Freeland, who's an analytics person

1871
01:35:21,720 --> 01:35:25,519
Speaker 1: said that Jordan Poyer was the most underrated player on

1872
01:35:25,640 --> 01:35:28,880
Speaker 1: the Bill's roster. Pretty interesting that both those safeties come

1873
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:32,080
Speaker 1: across and for a secondary that's pretty accepted as a

1874
01:35:32,160 --> 01:35:36,240
Speaker 1: as a really good secondary, both safeties are rated separately

1875
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:39,080
Speaker 1: as the most underrated player on the team is pretty interesting. Yeah.

1876
01:35:39,160 --> 01:35:41,479
Speaker 1: I mean, those two guys have been pretty instrumental in

1877
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:44,720
Speaker 1: this team, ranking second and third against the past each

1878
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:48,719
Speaker 1: of the last two years, and they've made an awful

1879
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 1: lot of plays on the ball. In fact, Payer, I believe,

1880
01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:56,120
Speaker 1: since he joined the team in twenty seventeen, is either

1881
01:35:56,280 --> 01:36:02,280
Speaker 1: first or second in total turnovers worst. So he's been

1882
01:36:02,320 --> 01:36:05,960
Speaker 1: around the ball an awful lot. And I think they

1883
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:09,599
Speaker 1: compliment each other extremely well. As a matter of fact,

1884
01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:13,360
Speaker 1: I think you could make the argument, and I'm not

1885
01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:15,559
Speaker 1: going to pretend to be that Nexes and Oh's guru

1886
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:22,759
Speaker 1: to completely confirm this, but I would say that Hide

1887
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:26,160
Speaker 1: makes Poyer a better player, and Payer makes Hide a

1888
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,040
Speaker 1: better player. The sum of the parts makes them more valuable,

1889
01:36:29,080 --> 01:36:32,000
Speaker 1: I guess, is what I'm saying. Yeah, exactly, and I

1890
01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 1: would agree with that. And plus they're they're both so

1891
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:40,920
Speaker 1: um you know, intertwined in the success of the secondary

1892
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:45,160
Speaker 1: that has been so good, and they've been also they're

1893
01:36:45,200 --> 01:36:47,680
Speaker 1: the secondary is the heartbeat of a defense that's been

1894
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 1: in the top two or three the league for a

1895
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:52,640
Speaker 1: couple of straight years um and for a team that

1896
01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:54,280
Speaker 1: has gone to the playoffs once in the last two

1897
01:36:54,360 --> 01:36:57,400
Speaker 1: years of although two in the last three years. The

1898
01:36:57,520 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 1: defense really doesn't get enough. I said this, Brownie. The

1899
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:05,080
Speaker 1: defense for the Buffalo Bills is fantastic. I mean, it's

1900
01:37:05,120 --> 01:37:08,800
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic, But it doesn't get the credit it deserves,

1901
01:37:08,920 --> 01:37:12,559
Speaker 1: mostly because for me, it doesn't make spectacular splash plays

1902
01:37:12,600 --> 01:37:14,680
Speaker 1: a lot. No pick six you know, it's not they

1903
01:37:14,720 --> 01:37:16,800
Speaker 1: don't have eight pick sixes on the year. They don't

1904
01:37:16,840 --> 01:37:20,240
Speaker 1: have ninety seven sacks. They don't have you know, all

1905
01:37:20,280 --> 01:37:22,479
Speaker 1: these big hitters and these big plays that are going

1906
01:37:22,560 --> 01:37:25,080
Speaker 1: on all over. You know, they're more just solid as

1907
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:27,240
Speaker 1: a rock, hard to move it on. Pretty, you know,

1908
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: pretty they seem pretty pedestrian until you look at the

1909
01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:32,799
Speaker 1: stat sheet and the win loss record. Then they shine

1910
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:35,680
Speaker 1: pretty big. And what's interesting about that, Steve, is the

1911
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 1: fact that Sean McDermott defenses in Carolina were largely known

1912
01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:48,440
Speaker 1: as ones that ranked high in sacks and in takeaways

1913
01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:53,040
Speaker 1: and the Bills in the three years under McDermott have

1914
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:57,320
Speaker 1: dabbled in being high ranked in those categories, but they

1915
01:37:57,400 --> 01:38:01,479
Speaker 1: haven't been league leaders in those categories. And I wonder

1916
01:38:01,680 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 1: if the defense is in a position now to maybe

1917
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:09,519
Speaker 1: take a step forward in some of those categories, knowing

1918
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:12,519
Speaker 1: how sacks, if they don't force turnovers at the very

1919
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:16,439
Speaker 1: least forced punts because you put offenses in long down

1920
01:38:16,520 --> 01:38:20,759
Speaker 1: and distant situations, and if the secondary and back seven

1921
01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:24,320
Speaker 1: can get to a place where more turnovers are possible

1922
01:38:24,439 --> 01:38:27,320
Speaker 1: with that improved pass rush, I wonder if that's the

1923
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:31,479
Speaker 1: next step that this defense takes to become more of

1924
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:35,960
Speaker 1: what coach McDermott defenses have been in the past, particularly

1925
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:38,960
Speaker 1: in Carolina. Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean,

1926
01:38:39,040 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: I taking another step well, I mean they're a top

1927
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:45,800
Speaker 1: defense in the least, they're right there already. Yeah. All

1928
01:38:46,400 --> 01:38:49,000
Speaker 1: you can do is maybe what grab more attention, you know,

1929
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: get more wins, get more defensive wins, more shutouts, that

1930
01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:54,080
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Yeah. And one thing that I know

1931
01:38:54,160 --> 01:38:56,240
Speaker 1: a lot of the players harp on in terms of

1932
01:38:56,280 --> 01:38:58,160
Speaker 1: an area where they want to be better is red

1933
01:38:58,280 --> 01:39:02,400
Speaker 1: zone defense in terms of touchdown percentage allow, they've been

1934
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:05,880
Speaker 1: around the middle of the league, too close to the

1935
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:08,479
Speaker 1: edge of the top third. I know they want to

1936
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: be top ten in that going forward. Where they were

1937
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:14,680
Speaker 1: there last year top you know, kind of the top

1938
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:16,759
Speaker 1: of the bottom, top of the middle third or bottom

1939
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:19,120
Speaker 1: of the top third or whatever. They were way worse

1940
01:39:19,200 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 1: than that the year before, so they made great strides

1941
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:23,880
Speaker 1: to get there, and they knew it too in training camp.

1942
01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:26,120
Speaker 1: That's all we heard out of these guys. We had

1943
01:39:26,160 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 1: poorer and hide on at separate times they both echoed

1944
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:32,479
Speaker 1: the exact same sentiment. So interesting stuff there about. You know,

1945
01:39:32,520 --> 01:39:34,800
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that we all know and love

1946
01:39:34,880 --> 01:39:37,240
Speaker 1: here and love and respect here in Buffalo, the safeties

1947
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 1: for the Bills. Now they're getting some love from maybe

1948
01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:43,840
Speaker 1: some of the analytics websites that cover so closely, and

1949
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:46,400
Speaker 1: it's reassuring to know. Poyer just signed the extension, so

1950
01:39:46,520 --> 01:39:49,080
Speaker 1: he'll be around a while. Right all right now, Brannan,

1951
01:39:49,120 --> 01:39:52,080
Speaker 1: let's do the NFL True false brought to you by

1952
01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:56,040
Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and Cheese. There's

1953
01:39:56,080 --> 01:39:58,080
Speaker 1: some true false stuff we're gonna do right here. Brownie

1954
01:39:58,160 --> 01:40:01,200
Speaker 1: and are you ready for this? I'm ready? Well, here

1955
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:02,280
Speaker 1: we go, all right, here are you? And this is

1956
01:40:02,360 --> 01:40:04,920
Speaker 1: kind of an interesting one. And with the fact that

1957
01:40:05,080 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 1: Frank Gore was here last year and has so many

1958
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:10,240
Speaker 1: yards to his name, there's another guy in the league

1959
01:40:10,360 --> 01:40:13,599
Speaker 1: kind of in the same boat, Adrian Peterson. Will Adrian

1960
01:40:13,720 --> 01:40:19,120
Speaker 1: Peterson pass Barry Sanders for fourth all time on the

1961
01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:23,400
Speaker 1: rushing list. The difference between them is just one thousand

1962
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:26,479
Speaker 1: and fifty four yards? Is the difference Adrian Peterson has

1963
01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:29,439
Speaker 1: to get that to take over fourth place all the time?

1964
01:40:29,439 --> 01:40:31,599
Speaker 1: Do you think Adrian Peterson's got enough in the tank

1965
01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:34,800
Speaker 1: with the Washington Redskins to do that. We're saying that

1966
01:40:35,280 --> 01:40:37,960
Speaker 1: that's going to happen this year? Is that true? True? False?

1967
01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:42,040
Speaker 1: It says he will pass Barry Sanders with a thousand

1968
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:47,439
Speaker 1: and fifty four yards this season. Man, I don't over

1969
01:40:47,600 --> 01:40:50,639
Speaker 1: under right there. I don't like betting against all day,

1970
01:40:50,800 --> 01:40:56,080
Speaker 1: but man, I'm I'm gonna say false. And here's why

1971
01:40:57,600 --> 01:41:02,040
Speaker 1: I don't think their offensive line is except they still

1972
01:41:02,160 --> 01:41:06,840
Speaker 1: have a young quarterback who still does not have the

1973
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:13,800
Speaker 1: full respect of NFL defenses. And so I think and

1974
01:41:14,320 --> 01:41:17,680
Speaker 1: I'll give it a third example, Ron Rivera is a

1975
01:41:17,720 --> 01:41:20,759
Speaker 1: new coach. I think he does respect what Adrian Peterson

1976
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:23,720
Speaker 1: can do, but is he going to give him the

1977
01:41:23,800 --> 01:41:27,160
Speaker 1: ball as much as he would need it to get

1978
01:41:27,200 --> 01:41:30,320
Speaker 1: to a thousand yards? So with all of those rolling,

1979
01:41:30,360 --> 01:41:34,200
Speaker 1: all of those unknowns together, I'm gonna have to say false.

1980
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:37,679
Speaker 1: I hate betting against Adrian Peterson, but I'm gonna say false.

1981
01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:41,320
Speaker 1: I'll say false as well if it would require him

1982
01:41:41,360 --> 01:41:44,479
Speaker 1: to gain that thousand and fifty four yards and he

1983
01:41:44,600 --> 01:41:46,240
Speaker 1: has not been able to gain them many yards since

1984
01:41:46,280 --> 01:41:51,120
Speaker 1: two fifteen. And this just in that's five years ago,

1985
01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:55,240
Speaker 1: and he is five years removed from that. And not

1986
01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:57,080
Speaker 1: only that, I think there's a lot of other team

1987
01:41:57,120 --> 01:41:59,439
Speaker 1: elements here that are weighing against him. That doesn't help

1988
01:41:59,479 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: his call. Is you know, no offseason practice is offensive

1989
01:42:04,439 --> 01:42:06,400
Speaker 1: line that's in a state of flux. They just traded

1990
01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:08,519
Speaker 1: away their best lineman, Trent Williams, who didn't play for

1991
01:42:08,560 --> 01:42:11,840
Speaker 1: him last year either, and the quarterback situation which is

1992
01:42:11,880 --> 01:42:15,040
Speaker 1: still unfolding, and Dwayne Haskins is still developing as a player.

1993
01:42:15,160 --> 01:42:18,439
Speaker 1: So they're gonna load up the box, stop Peterson, force

1994
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:20,479
Speaker 1: Haskins to beat him. That's gonna be the plan every week.

1995
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:25,920
Speaker 1: I'll say this, though, na force, they're gonna bottle up

1996
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:28,080
Speaker 1: Peterson first. That's true and all that, But he may

1997
01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:30,559
Speaker 1: be from a guy like Ron RIVERI he made. Peterson

1998
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:32,560
Speaker 1: may be the only guy he thinks he can depend on,

1999
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:34,960
Speaker 1: So he may get a few touches early. But you

2000
01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:37,639
Speaker 1: know this too, that if you go to that if yeah,

2001
01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:40,120
Speaker 1: but if you hand it to him enough and nothing's happening,

2002
01:42:41,080 --> 01:42:42,840
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get you know what I mean, It's

2003
01:42:42,880 --> 01:42:45,080
Speaker 1: gonna become pretty evident as to whether he's gonna be

2004
01:42:45,120 --> 01:42:46,920
Speaker 1: able to carry it along. So we both say false

2005
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:49,679
Speaker 1: to that. Adrian Peterson. Probably we don't think he will

2006
01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:51,960
Speaker 1: pass Barry Sanders. He won't came one thousand and fifty

2007
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:55,160
Speaker 1: four yards this season, all right, NFL true false. Number

2008
01:42:55,200 --> 01:42:58,559
Speaker 1: two Former Buffalo Bills coach Perry Fuel. His new position

2009
01:42:59,439 --> 01:43:02,840
Speaker 1: will with supervising officiating, is going to help reduce the

2010
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:08,160
Speaker 1: blunders on the field. I think we're asking a lot

2011
01:43:08,240 --> 01:43:10,560
Speaker 1: of Perry Fuel with the way that I'll say this,

2012
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: He's not gonna hurt. He's gonna help. The more voices

2013
01:43:13,200 --> 01:43:16,160
Speaker 1: they have in their particular guy with Perry Fuel's resume,

2014
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:18,280
Speaker 1: he's a great position coach. He didn't. It wasn't very

2015
01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:20,960
Speaker 1: successful as a head coach. But the guy's lights are on.

2016
01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:23,560
Speaker 1: I've spoken with him. He's a really sharp guy. And

2017
01:43:23,760 --> 01:43:26,880
Speaker 1: the more smart people you have in that building, the

2018
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:30,160
Speaker 1: better it's gonna be. Plus, the new rule changes were

2019
01:43:30,320 --> 01:43:35,040
Speaker 1: designed anyway to reduce the blunders and the officiating, particularly

2020
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:39,719
Speaker 1: with the DPIOPI review. Now that that's gone, the blunders

2021
01:43:39,760 --> 01:43:43,400
Speaker 1: will be much fewer and much less intrusive. And if

2022
01:43:43,439 --> 01:43:45,559
Speaker 1: you want to give Perry Fuel that credit, I will,

2023
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:48,040
Speaker 1: so I'll say true. Yeah, I mean I think a

2024
01:43:48,120 --> 01:43:49,720
Speaker 1: lot of Perry. I mean I remember when he was

2025
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:51,760
Speaker 1: here on Dick Giron's staff and even took over his

2026
01:43:51,840 --> 01:43:55,800
Speaker 1: interim head coach, you know, after Geron was fired in

2027
01:43:55,880 --> 01:44:00,200
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. But and I think he'll help help.

2028
01:44:00,400 --> 01:44:03,439
Speaker 1: And even Dean Blandino, who we had on the show earlier,

2029
01:44:03,680 --> 01:44:08,080
Speaker 1: talked about how having a football mind a coach in

2030
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:12,240
Speaker 1: there as a sounding board is valuable. But to think

2031
01:44:12,400 --> 01:44:16,559
Speaker 1: he's going to help officials reduce blunders on the field,

2032
01:44:16,640 --> 01:44:20,240
Speaker 1: I think you're counting a Perry Fuel to improve officials execution.

2033
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 1: He might help their viewpoint on how to officiate. I

2034
01:44:25,600 --> 01:44:27,280
Speaker 1: just don't know if he can do enough to help

2035
01:44:27,320 --> 01:44:30,400
Speaker 1: them reduce their blunders. So I'll say false. Well, this

2036
01:44:30,520 --> 01:44:32,799
Speaker 1: is interesting too because Perry Fuel when he was announced,

2037
01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:35,840
Speaker 1: he said he acknowledged this, and he said there are

2038
01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:38,719
Speaker 1: real There are roughly forty thousand plays in a typical

2039
01:44:38,760 --> 01:44:42,439
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six game regular season in twenty nineteen,

2040
01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:46,879
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventeen plays are about one percent required

2041
01:44:46,920 --> 01:44:50,080
Speaker 1: a timeout for referees to review a play. Of those

2042
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:53,759
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety six, way less than half resulted

2043
01:44:53,760 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 1: in a reversal of the call on field. Of the

2044
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:59,760
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventeen reviews, one hundred and one, or

2045
01:45:00,040 --> 01:45:04,840
Speaker 1: just under one quarter of those reviewed involved pass interference plays,

2046
01:45:05,200 --> 01:45:08,080
Speaker 1: and just twenty four of those reviews resulted in a

2047
01:45:08,160 --> 01:45:10,599
Speaker 1: call's reversal. So it really is, and you talk about

2048
01:45:10,600 --> 01:45:15,280
Speaker 1: it statistically speaking, it is a minute number of plays

2049
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:17,519
Speaker 1: that we're talking about as being those ones that are

2050
01:45:17,640 --> 01:45:20,920
Speaker 1: kind of maddening and furiating for fans. Yeah, they just

2051
01:45:21,080 --> 01:45:24,799
Speaker 1: stick out horribly, that's why, and that's why they're remembered

2052
01:45:24,880 --> 01:45:28,160
Speaker 1: so well, and I draw the ire of fans, all right,

2053
01:45:28,240 --> 01:45:30,600
Speaker 1: that's right. So we both think coach Perry if you

2054
01:45:30,680 --> 01:45:34,720
Speaker 1: will probably help at the NFL level as officiating supervisor. Right,

2055
01:45:35,080 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 1: NFL true falls number three. The Cardinals are the best

2056
01:45:38,560 --> 01:45:42,920
Speaker 1: team for a best candidates, I guess for a worst

2057
01:45:43,400 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 1: to first turnaround, the Cardinals of the NFC West are

2058
01:45:48,280 --> 01:45:51,840
Speaker 1: the most primed to be the team that goes from

2059
01:45:51,920 --> 01:45:58,559
Speaker 1: worst to first, meaning in the standings of the NFL. Yeah,

2060
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:01,519
Speaker 1: you know, I initially took a look at this, Steve,

2061
01:46:01,600 --> 01:46:04,599
Speaker 1: and I said, oh, they're the best shot we've got

2062
01:46:04,720 --> 01:46:07,040
Speaker 1: in the entire league. The NFC West is a bear

2063
01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:10,880
Speaker 1: of a division. You know. I think Arizona will be

2064
01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:15,120
Speaker 1: a much improved football team this year completely. I mean,

2065
01:46:15,200 --> 01:46:17,720
Speaker 1: I think they will have a winning record this year.

2066
01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:20,800
Speaker 1: I don't know to what degree, but I do believe

2067
01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:22,439
Speaker 1: they will have a winning record. I think they will

2068
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: be a tough out. I think their offense will be

2069
01:46:24,320 --> 01:46:29,000
Speaker 1: high flying. DeAndre Hopkins the most notable addition there. But

2070
01:46:29,120 --> 01:46:31,679
Speaker 1: they play in an awfully tough division. So I started

2071
01:46:32,000 --> 01:46:34,880
Speaker 1: hunting around. I was like, Okay, who are the other

2072
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:37,240
Speaker 1: last place teams from last year? Right, that's exactly what

2073
01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:41,320
Speaker 1: and who's got a better shot at it? And I

2074
01:46:41,400 --> 01:46:44,120
Speaker 1: mean I like the Chargers to make a jump this year.

2075
01:46:44,200 --> 01:46:46,679
Speaker 1: But are they leap frog in Kansas City? No Way,

2076
01:46:47,840 --> 01:46:54,160
Speaker 1: No Way, Cincinnati, No, Jacksonville not in that division. I mean,

2077
01:46:54,240 --> 01:46:56,080
Speaker 1: they gutted their team. They're not going to be better.

2078
01:46:56,160 --> 01:46:59,719
Speaker 1: They might be worse. Washington is not in a position

2079
01:46:59,800 --> 01:47:04,840
Speaker 1: to do it. Neither is Detroit Carolina. Too much rebuilding there.

2080
01:47:05,280 --> 01:47:07,640
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say true, I think it is Arizona.

2081
01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:10,000
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll happen, but I think they're the

2082
01:47:10,080 --> 01:47:14,080
Speaker 1: best chance to happen. It's it's less than forty percent

2083
01:47:14,160 --> 01:47:17,559
Speaker 1: in my mind, but they've probably got the best chance

2084
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:19,639
Speaker 1: at the last place. Teams you have to choose. Yeah,

2085
01:47:19,720 --> 01:47:22,800
Speaker 1: let's face it, you're not. You're not picking the favorites here, right,

2086
01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:26,559
Speaker 1: You're you're picking It's not about picking the best team

2087
01:47:26,760 --> 01:47:28,800
Speaker 1: that's gonna do. It's about picking out of the of

2088
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:31,840
Speaker 1: a bunch of bad football teams. I think if you're

2089
01:47:31,840 --> 01:47:33,800
Speaker 1: gonna if I was gonna make a case, there's two

2090
01:47:33,840 --> 01:47:37,040
Speaker 1: teams that I would look at, uh Arizona would be

2091
01:47:37,120 --> 01:47:38,960
Speaker 1: one of them. Yes, But if I'm looking at the

2092
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:43,160
Speaker 1: others of the other seven divisions in the in the league,

2093
01:47:43,680 --> 01:47:45,760
Speaker 1: the other two that jump out to me are also

2094
01:47:45,920 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: in the NFC and it's Carolina and Detroit. Detroit's got

2095
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:54,519
Speaker 1: a little bit of continuity coming back. Stafford comes back healthy.

2096
01:47:54,680 --> 01:47:57,280
Speaker 1: I like him as a quarterback. I still don't think

2097
01:47:57,400 --> 01:47:59,639
Speaker 1: Detroit's gonna have what it takes. I don't think they've

2098
01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:02,200
Speaker 1: got the whole horses to get there. But Stafford is

2099
01:48:02,200 --> 01:48:05,960
Speaker 1: going to make a difference for them, and that's big.

2100
01:48:06,080 --> 01:48:10,360
Speaker 1: And also Carolina, I think Matt Rule coming in. You

2101
01:48:10,439 --> 01:48:12,360
Speaker 1: can tell when you talk to him he's a real leader,

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Speaker 1: and I think there's a chance that he may have

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Speaker 1: the kind of effect on the Carolina Panthers that Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott did here his first year, where he took a

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Speaker 1: team that some accused of tanking when they made those

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Speaker 1: two or three moves right at the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: season after training camp, they said, oh, they're tanking, and

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Speaker 1: then they end up making the playoffs. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a chance that Matt Rule has there in Carolina. I

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Speaker 1: like Teddy Bridgewater. I think the team will rally around

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Speaker 1: him offensively. I think without Cam Newton there Brownie, I

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Speaker 1: think that's a it's a little bit of a burden

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Speaker 1: of personality that the team doesn't have to carry around

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Speaker 1: with it, you know, with a quarterback who gets into

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Speaker 1: costume for his postgame press conferences, I think I think

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Speaker 1: that takes a little load of like distraction and a

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Speaker 1: little bit of off of the team's head. So look

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Speaker 1: at I don't yeah exactly. So I think all those

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Speaker 1: things are pluses for Carolina, and I would give them

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Speaker 1: a chance. Now they're in with New Orleans, Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Matt Ryan has been an MVP New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees is maybe the best prolific passer in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: And who's the other guy at Tampa Bay. I can't remember, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, they just got a guy Tom Brady. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's a tough division for Teddy Bridgewater bust In. But

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Speaker 1: if you've got to say a team that's got a

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Speaker 1: chance to go way better, I think that may be

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Speaker 1: the reason because they I think it's like I'd argue

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Speaker 1: you're Detroit Card before I went Carolina. I just think

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Speaker 1: that NFC salas divisions too stacked to overcome it, and

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Speaker 1: the NFC North is kind of a murky division. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Green Bay didn't do much to help themselves this offseason. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they still have Rogers and DeVante Adams, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they've got the horses to go thirteen and

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Speaker 1: three again this year. And Minnesota, I think they've got

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Speaker 1: good pieces there, but they're kind of a team in transition.

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Speaker 1: They got rid of some of their older players and

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01:50:03,920 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 1: they're counting. They're going to be counting an awful lot

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Speaker 1: on some young players to make it happen for them.

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Speaker 1: And Chicago could be in a quarterback quandary again if

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles doesn't pan out the way they're hoping he can't.

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Speaker 1: So Detroit could really make a move there in what

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Speaker 1: is kind of a division in flux, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: So I actually like your Detroit pick better than your

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Speaker 1: Carolina pick. All right, well, neither one of them is that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not picking a Super Bowl champion. I know that's

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Speaker 1: going through with Arizona. Yeah, all right, Steve Chaster, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: we're one bill with one Bills live. We'll be racked

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Speaker 1: back after this. We've got Pete bomber Rito coming on

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Speaker 1: the program. He is the trainer who trains hundreds of

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Speaker 1: professional athletes, thousands of youth and high school athletes. He's

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Speaker 1: working with a bunch of Buffalo Bills players right now.

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Speaker 1: He's coming up right after the break. This is one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health, and you're listening

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one of Bill's

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Speaker 1: live steep tasker Chris Brown here in Western New York

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Speaker 1: and on the line. Now, we've got owner and president

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Speaker 1: of bomber Rito Performance Systems. Pete and his staff run

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Speaker 1: hundreds of train hundreds of professional athletes, thousands of youth

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Speaker 1: and high school athletes, college athletes, and more importantly to

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Speaker 1: people here in Western New York. Pete bomber Rito is

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Speaker 1: currently working with a bunch of Bills guys down I

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Speaker 1: guess in Florida as well. Pete Bamrito Steve Tasker Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown here in Buffalo. Thanks for coming on with us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you got thank you. What kind of I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many Bills players are down there? Can you give

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Speaker 1: us a quick synopsis of who that is and how

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Speaker 1: that thing got started and initiated? Yeah, I mean, well,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of different things we're doing right now,

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Speaker 1: so obviously a very unique time. I mean, we've got

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Speaker 1: our you know, standard players that always come in like

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Speaker 1: Delshan Phillips, Spencon Taylor, Jordan Poyer, you know, Stefan dig

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Speaker 1: you know, Devin Singletary are our usual guy that that

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Speaker 1: trained with us in the office seasons. One thing that

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Speaker 1: we're doing a little different this year is, you know,

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Speaker 1: especially because Stepan Digs and there are so close and

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Speaker 1: work together for so long, I think we need to

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Speaker 1: join the team. They're looking for a spot to kind

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Speaker 1: of run their you know, offensive system, to come down

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Speaker 1: and just get guys together and make it simplistics. So

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Speaker 1: you know, they reached out to me. So now all

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Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks, receivers, tight ends, running backs, pretty much

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Speaker 1: every offensive skill player is here right now. And now

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Speaker 1: you know they're doing their thing like just you know,

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Speaker 1: implementing their their playbooks and getting on my field and

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01:52:35,560 --> 01:52:39,639
Speaker 1: things like that. And you know, obviously if they want

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01:52:39,640 --> 01:52:42,160
Speaker 1: to after the football stuff, load them are coming in

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Speaker 1: using my medical systems, my nutrition system, you know, doing

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Speaker 1: the weight training stuff with us. But right now, you know,

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01:52:48,160 --> 01:52:50,519
Speaker 1: trying to simulate as much of the football stuff as possible.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously we have our usual guys, like I said,

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Speaker 1: even like Dion Dawkins, you know, some of the line

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Speaker 1: like Vincent Taylors, that typically challenge the sing offseason or here.

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Speaker 1: So we were doing what we normally do with guys

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Speaker 1: in the off season with all the Bills players that

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Speaker 1: we normally work with, and obviously picked up some more guys.

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Speaker 1: But then, as I said, I mean, the interesting thing is,

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of players just need a place

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Speaker 1: to go to do their football specific stuff. And I

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Speaker 1: think to hold the quarterbacks, hey reach out to Pete's

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01:53:19,680 --> 01:53:21,960
Speaker 1: got a perfect setup and got a lined NFL field,

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Speaker 1: it's private, we have security of the whole things we have.

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01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:28,200
Speaker 1: We have a very unique, great setup for guys to

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Speaker 1: come in. We actually got two more teams they're going

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01:53:30,240 --> 01:53:31,760
Speaker 1: to be coming in with the next couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: doing something very very similar. So you know, obviously it's

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Speaker 1: it's a unique time and we're just trying to get

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Speaker 1: through it as best we can. But most importantly is

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Speaker 1: offer players to support they need, not just from the

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Speaker 1: training side, but a facility and a setup and all

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Speaker 1: the amenities in order to get the football side in.

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Speaker 1: You know. So Pete, with respect to you know, the

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Speaker 1: offseason regiment that you put your clients through, obviously that

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Speaker 1: had to be adjusted to some degree, not only because

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Speaker 1: of the pandemic that we're all dealing with. But also

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Speaker 1: because we're at a time on the calend, on the

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Speaker 1: NFL calendar where most of these guys are in the

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Speaker 1: second week of OTAs. So how have you kind of

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Speaker 1: adjusted the regiment that you give these guys knowing they're

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Speaker 1: they're with you almost one hundred percent of the time

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Speaker 1: now as opposed to being in their respective NFL cities practicing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's probably about four different answers I can

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Speaker 1: give you. I mean number one most importantly is, you know,

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Speaker 1: in terms of the pandemic, of course, things have just changed.

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Speaker 1: I mean with the social distancing as a must all

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Speaker 1: my staff where masks if we're inside a roof over

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Speaker 1: our head. You know, we have our different facility setup

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Speaker 1: that's unique where we have the physical therapy clinic, how

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Speaker 1: practic massas therapy and or a must or therapy, all

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Speaker 1: the medical rooms. We have fourteen different medical disciplines here

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Speaker 1: that a lot of it's indoors, but you know, we

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Speaker 1: space everything out. We open up all the doors, all

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Speaker 1: the windows, get the fans going. And what we did

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Speaker 1: was just kind of set up tents all the way

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Speaker 1: as an extension from my building. It's usually our medical

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Speaker 1: center to my field, so that way, even guys that

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01:55:08,720 --> 01:55:10,840
Speaker 1: are a little bit nervous about this, they want to

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Speaker 1: do it outside. So we just got therapy tense, we

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Speaker 1: got the AC fans blowing on the therapy tense. So

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Speaker 1: we're doing a lot of stuff outside with regards to

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Speaker 1: the medical prep. And as I said, it's not just rehab.

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01:55:21,920 --> 01:55:25,760
Speaker 1: I do things differently, So even players that are completely healthy,

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01:55:25,920 --> 01:55:30,680
Speaker 1: we still integrate them into my medical recovery regeneration centers

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01:55:30,680 --> 01:55:33,880
Speaker 1: because we believe that's how NFL players should train. You

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01:55:33,960 --> 01:55:37,080
Speaker 1: do your joint prep, joint alignment, go right into the training,

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01:55:37,120 --> 01:55:39,880
Speaker 1: and base your training on how your body's aligned, you know,

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01:55:40,040 --> 01:55:43,360
Speaker 1: not necessarily just always your sport and position, but your

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01:55:43,400 --> 01:55:46,480
Speaker 1: body alignment, and then we do recovery after. So the

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Speaker 1: other thing is the weight room. Obviously, you know, my

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Speaker 1: field's opened up finally about four weeks ago, but we

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Speaker 1: just were allowed to open up our weight room, you know,

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Speaker 1: three days ago, so we've been doing it's just moving

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Speaker 1: the weightroom outside to the turf, getting proper social distancing

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Speaker 1: and all that. And it's easy for me because my

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Speaker 1: field's right next to my weight room, so We just

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Speaker 1: literally moved the whole thing out, spaced it all out.

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Speaker 1: It's little extra logistical time, but it makes guys feel

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01:56:12,880 --> 01:56:15,760
Speaker 1: safe and feel comfortable that we're taking this seriously. You know,

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01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:18,440
Speaker 1: everybody wears gloves. The players obviously can't wear masks in

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Speaker 1: their training, but when they're entering exiting, they wear masks,

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Speaker 1: you know. And and we just make sure that we

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Speaker 1: don't share equipment, you know, it's not like, hey, these

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Speaker 1: three guys working on this bench. You know, everybody's got

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Speaker 1: their own bench on band stations, so we disinfect everything.

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Speaker 1: They do their little complex of however long with the

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Speaker 1: complex is for when they're done, they sanitize, we disinfect,

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Speaker 1: and the next tract comes into the station. So it's

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Speaker 1: just different programming, logistical setup. But we're getting through it

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Speaker 1: in that aspect, so we haven't really slowed down the training.

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Speaker 1: We've just made adjustments on the fly according to the

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Speaker 1: government mandates and we're following it to the t. Now,

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Speaker 1: the other part of your question was the football side.

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Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I mean I have league guys are

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Speaker 1: in virtual Ota, so I'm just very blessed to have

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Speaker 1: these great facilities, and we just have a lot of

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Speaker 1: offices a lot of private rooms. So some guys are

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Speaker 1: literally here eight hours a day. They'll come in, do breakfast,

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Speaker 1: do the medical stuff, do training, they got a clock in,

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01:57:18,280 --> 01:57:20,960
Speaker 1: do virtual meetings with their teams. So they just bring

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Speaker 1: all their electronics, all their equipment. We kind of Kevin

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Speaker 1: spaced out inside under tenth. They're all doing their virtual

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01:57:27,480 --> 01:57:29,760
Speaker 1: team meetings. They get out, they go lift weights. I mean,

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Speaker 1: every team's different, everybody's doing things differently now, so we

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01:57:33,720 --> 01:57:36,600
Speaker 1: just tell players, bring all your electronics, all your iPads,

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01:57:36,680 --> 01:57:39,400
Speaker 1: so that way you're not like having to drive here

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01:57:39,440 --> 01:57:41,400
Speaker 1: and rush home to get your virtual meetings. I mean

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01:57:41,480 --> 01:57:44,040
Speaker 1: this stuff is important. I mean there's there's guys we

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01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:47,440
Speaker 1: have here that are literally doing live virtual programs with

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01:57:47,520 --> 01:57:50,960
Speaker 1: their team strength coach, using my field, using my equipment,

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01:57:51,000 --> 01:57:53,920
Speaker 1: and we're just helping assist them as a coach is

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01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:56,240
Speaker 1: watching them live, and we're trying to assist them by

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01:57:56,400 --> 01:57:59,200
Speaker 1: by doing different things. So what we're trying to do

2293
01:57:59,400 --> 01:58:02,280
Speaker 1: is just get everybody to do what the team wants

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01:58:02,360 --> 01:58:05,400
Speaker 1: them to do, but at the same time give the

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01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:08,960
Speaker 1: players the proper structure, but most important to keep everybody safe,

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01:58:09,320 --> 01:58:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, so it's not as big of a change

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01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:15,560
Speaker 1: as people think we just have to follow the government mandates. Understand,

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01:58:15,640 --> 01:58:18,840
Speaker 1: this is football time, not training time. But obviously with

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01:58:18,960 --> 01:58:20,840
Speaker 1: any type of football period, you got to have the

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01:58:20,960 --> 01:58:23,920
Speaker 1: training in order to stay healthy. So that's really when

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Speaker 1: our focus. We're technically and what we call Phase three.

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Speaker 1: Phase three is supposedly ots. We're just trying to help

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Speaker 1: guys simulate that as much as we can. We're talking

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Speaker 1: to Pete Bomber Rito, owner and president of Bomba Rito

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Speaker 1: Performance Systems, who's one of the pre eminent athletic trainers

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Speaker 1: around the country. I gotta ask you this, Pete, how

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Speaker 1: often or if at all, do you have direct contact

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Speaker 1: with any or all NFL teams with which your guys play,

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Speaker 1: with their coaching staff and all that you mentioned that,

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01:58:51,880 --> 01:58:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of eavesdrop. You're kind of there

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01:58:53,760 --> 01:58:57,560
Speaker 1: providing equipment and the facilities for some of these guys

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01:58:57,600 --> 01:59:00,160
Speaker 1: to use it, and they have some live interaction. The

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01:59:00,240 --> 01:59:03,280
Speaker 1: players and their coaches are the virtual offseasons. How much

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01:59:03,360 --> 01:59:05,800
Speaker 1: direct contact do you have or do you just or

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01:59:05,880 --> 01:59:08,000
Speaker 1: do the teams just trust their players and trust you

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01:59:09,800 --> 01:59:12,880
Speaker 1: in kind? I mean, it's a good question, you know,

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01:59:12,880 --> 01:59:14,960
Speaker 1: I got to be very clear on this. There's distinct

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01:59:15,120 --> 01:59:17,240
Speaker 1: rules about this stuff. You know, we got to follow

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01:59:17,360 --> 01:59:20,080
Speaker 1: to the team. I mean, the NFLPA has very very

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01:59:20,120 --> 01:59:22,560
Speaker 1: strict rules in terms of you know, I think that

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01:59:22,880 --> 01:59:27,320
Speaker 1: the mandate is teams can't mandate what somebody does. They

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01:59:27,360 --> 01:59:29,840
Speaker 1: can't say, okay, well we can't even in a normal

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01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:32,880
Speaker 1: non pandemic season or allowed to see a player until

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01:59:33,760 --> 01:59:37,920
Speaker 1: usually April twentieth. They can't dictate what they do during

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01:59:37,960 --> 01:59:41,280
Speaker 1: that time. So it's not like I can get direct

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01:59:41,440 --> 01:59:43,400
Speaker 1: orders from teams and say this is what we're doing.

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01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:46,520
Speaker 1: It's it's it's against the NFLPA regulations who have to

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01:59:46,560 --> 01:59:49,760
Speaker 1: follow that. However, if something is on the medical side,

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01:59:49,880 --> 01:59:52,720
Speaker 1: we have a lot of integration with teams that have

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01:59:52,880 --> 01:59:55,920
Speaker 1: got players set up down here and postop rehab and

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01:59:56,000 --> 01:59:58,760
Speaker 1: things like that. And as I said, that's happening a

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01:59:58,880 --> 02:00:01,400
Speaker 1: ton now, but that's normal for us. Every year we

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02:00:01,480 --> 02:00:04,720
Speaker 1: get those things so medical people can coordinate. It's just

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02:00:05,080 --> 02:00:08,400
Speaker 1: a very fine line about us getting direct programs from

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Speaker 1: teams and saying do it. So having said that, obviously

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02:00:11,120 --> 02:00:12,480
Speaker 1: I've been around a while and I have a lot

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02:00:12,520 --> 02:00:15,120
Speaker 1: of friends in this league, and I know just from

2338
02:00:15,200 --> 02:00:19,280
Speaker 1: my basic friendships, how different strength coaches like to operate

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02:00:19,360 --> 02:00:22,040
Speaker 1: in different philosophies and things like that, So when players

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02:00:22,080 --> 02:00:26,240
Speaker 1: come in without me getting direct knowledge of things, I

2341
02:00:26,400 --> 02:00:29,800
Speaker 1: know philosophically kind of what they're looking for and what

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02:00:29,920 --> 02:00:32,280
Speaker 1: they want to do. So and that's again whether it's

2343
02:00:32,280 --> 02:00:34,920
Speaker 1: a pandemic year or not. So we try to be

2344
02:00:35,120 --> 02:00:37,800
Speaker 1: very very respectful to teams and just make sure that

2345
02:00:38,080 --> 02:00:40,760
Speaker 1: our number one job is to keep them in shape,

2346
02:00:40,880 --> 02:00:43,880
Speaker 1: get them strong, get them fast, get them agile, but

2347
02:00:44,200 --> 02:00:48,760
Speaker 1: not bombard them with tons of position work, whether bodies

2348
02:00:48,800 --> 02:00:50,800
Speaker 1: just wrecked by the time they get the OTAs or

2349
02:00:50,880 --> 02:00:53,960
Speaker 1: training camp. I mean, you know, football is a taxing sport,

2350
02:00:54,080 --> 02:00:56,320
Speaker 1: not just because it's physical, but because of the motions.

2351
02:00:56,520 --> 02:00:59,680
Speaker 1: So you got to have a good balance of just

2352
02:01:00,200 --> 02:01:04,280
Speaker 1: muscle prep, joint prep and unloading the joints so the

2353
02:01:04,360 --> 02:01:06,920
Speaker 1: body's not wrecked in the season. And it's a very

2354
02:01:07,000 --> 02:01:10,360
Speaker 1: fine line of trying to get people to do training

2355
02:01:10,440 --> 02:01:13,560
Speaker 1: that might not mimic the exact motions in sport, but

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02:01:13,720 --> 02:01:15,800
Speaker 1: you're doing it for joint alignment, you're doing it for

2357
02:01:15,920 --> 02:01:19,320
Speaker 1: muscle prep, and it's hard to do that because football

2358
02:01:19,360 --> 02:01:22,160
Speaker 1: players are passionate about playing football and doing motions specific

2359
02:01:22,200 --> 02:01:24,760
Speaker 1: with football, So then you got to have the psychological

2360
02:01:24,880 --> 02:01:27,600
Speaker 1: side of selling them on hey, sometimes we just got

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02:01:27,720 --> 02:01:30,200
Speaker 1: to do linear speed training. There's not very many times

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02:01:30,200 --> 02:01:32,240
Speaker 1: you run a straight line during football, but it's essential.

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02:01:32,640 --> 02:01:35,120
Speaker 1: So that having said that, you know, we got to

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02:01:35,200 --> 02:01:37,240
Speaker 1: kind of incorporate everything. So I know it's a long

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02:01:37,280 --> 02:01:39,520
Speaker 1: answer your question, but you know, you got to be

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02:01:39,640 --> 02:01:43,400
Speaker 1: very very careful with you know, direct communication versus just

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02:01:44,040 --> 02:01:47,840
Speaker 1: training guys that know and people respect the fact that

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02:01:47,920 --> 02:01:50,120
Speaker 1: you know what you're doing and getting back healthy again,

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02:01:50,200 --> 02:01:52,600
Speaker 1: even in a non pandemic time. Because we're usually with

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02:01:52,720 --> 02:01:57,240
Speaker 1: these guys from January till April twentieth until oh Is anyway,

2371
02:01:57,280 --> 02:01:58,960
Speaker 1: so it's kind of the same thing. It's just more

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02:01:59,000 --> 02:02:01,160
Speaker 1: extended this year. I mean, I was telling you the

2373
02:02:01,240 --> 02:02:03,280
Speaker 1: other day, it's very similar to what we experienced during

2374
02:02:03,280 --> 02:02:05,720
Speaker 1: the twenty eleven lockouts. You know, guys were with us

2375
02:02:05,840 --> 02:02:10,600
Speaker 1: from January until late August. There was nothing during that year,

2376
02:02:10,720 --> 02:02:13,160
Speaker 1: so we just kind of had to have our different

2377
02:02:13,200 --> 02:02:16,240
Speaker 1: phases and simulate, Okay, this is the time we're doing

2378
02:02:16,280 --> 02:02:18,080
Speaker 1: more football motions. Now we got to back off and

2379
02:02:18,160 --> 02:02:21,800
Speaker 1: do more athletic training, you know, things like that, And

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02:02:22,360 --> 02:02:25,280
Speaker 1: just one last thing for me. You know, you mentioned

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02:02:25,320 --> 02:02:27,160
Speaker 1: the Bills players that are down there, who was kind

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02:02:27,200 --> 02:02:29,560
Speaker 1: of the ring leader that the kind of set this

2383
02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:32,280
Speaker 1: up and work most in conjunction with you to get

2384
02:02:32,360 --> 02:02:36,400
Speaker 1: this organized. Yeah, I'm not really sure. I mean, you know,

2385
02:02:36,520 --> 02:02:40,440
Speaker 1: obviously the quarterbacks called me and said, hey, Stepan Diggs

2386
02:02:40,440 --> 02:02:44,560
Speaker 1: told us to call you, you know, so yeah, you know,

2387
02:02:44,720 --> 02:02:47,120
Speaker 1: Diggs is already here, Single Terrors already here. A lot

2388
02:02:47,120 --> 02:02:49,680
Speaker 1: of these guys, you know, John Brown's been my guy,

2389
02:02:49,800 --> 02:02:52,120
Speaker 1: he lives down here. A lot of these guys live here,

2390
02:02:52,280 --> 02:02:54,960
Speaker 1: train here, and stay here in the off season, and

2391
02:02:55,200 --> 02:02:57,240
Speaker 1: I think goes a good way for people to get away.

2392
02:02:58,120 --> 02:03:01,800
Speaker 1: It's easy to find safe housing down here. My facility

2393
02:03:01,880 --> 02:03:04,720
Speaker 1: is very accessible, it's in a safe neighborhood, and I

2394
02:03:04,800 --> 02:03:06,760
Speaker 1: think everybody just likes the fact that I have a

2395
02:03:06,880 --> 02:03:10,880
Speaker 1: fully lined NFL field that's completely secluded in private. There's

2396
02:03:10,960 --> 02:03:13,800
Speaker 1: heavy security to even get on this campus here, and

2397
02:03:14,000 --> 02:03:16,840
Speaker 1: there's nobody here except for me and my clients. So

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02:03:17,520 --> 02:03:19,120
Speaker 1: I think it was just a good way for them

2399
02:03:19,120 --> 02:03:22,320
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, let's go do this, but let's do

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02:03:22,440 --> 02:03:24,560
Speaker 1: it at a safe, private environment where we can just

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02:03:24,800 --> 02:03:27,160
Speaker 1: do our thing and not you know, try to go

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02:03:27,280 --> 02:03:29,600
Speaker 1: to a local park and have tons of people there

2403
02:03:29,640 --> 02:03:31,320
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get kicked off or not. I mean,

2404
02:03:31,400 --> 02:03:34,400
Speaker 1: it's great weather down here, in great environment, so I

2405
02:03:34,520 --> 02:03:36,720
Speaker 1: think Digs kind of put it in people's ear and

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02:03:36,720 --> 02:03:38,520
Speaker 1: everybody's like, yeah, let's do it. And then we went

2407
02:03:38,600 --> 02:03:41,520
Speaker 1: from there. Pete, thanks for coming on. We appreciate you

2408
02:03:41,600 --> 02:03:43,920
Speaker 1: taking time out and we're so interested in the stuff

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02:03:43,920 --> 02:03:45,720
Speaker 1: that's going on with these guys away from us. We

2410
02:03:45,760 --> 02:03:47,720
Speaker 1: don't get to see him as often as we would normally.

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02:03:47,840 --> 02:03:50,120
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking care of our guys and good luck

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02:03:50,160 --> 02:03:52,920
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, for sure, man, Thanks for having me on.

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02:03:53,840 --> 02:03:57,800
Speaker 1: Pete Bomarrito, owner and president of Bomarrito Performance Systems, training

2414
02:03:58,160 --> 02:04:00,880
Speaker 1: hundreds of professional athletes, as you tell, thousands of youth

2415
02:04:00,960 --> 02:04:03,520
Speaker 1: high school college athletes, and a bunch of guys down

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02:04:03,560 --> 02:04:06,320
Speaker 1: there working right now. Thanks to Pete for coming on

2417
02:04:06,400 --> 02:04:07,680
Speaker 1: with this. You can come on with us as well.

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02:04:07,760 --> 02:04:09,600
Speaker 1: Give us a call at eight o three oh five fifty.

2419
02:04:10,400 --> 02:04:12,520
Speaker 1: We've got a Twitter pull out that has been going

2420
02:04:12,680 --> 02:04:14,440
Speaker 1: on and on and on. What do you think the

2421
02:04:14,480 --> 02:04:18,560
Speaker 1: biggest challenge for NFL players is this offseason? Conditioning, no

2422
02:04:18,760 --> 02:04:22,120
Speaker 1: practice on the field, team chemistry or something else. You

2423
02:04:22,200 --> 02:04:24,320
Speaker 1: can chime in on that if you want as well.

2424
02:04:24,360 --> 02:04:26,520
Speaker 1: We're going to take a break. Steve Tasker, Chris Brown.

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02:04:26,600 --> 02:04:29,560
Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live, Buffalo Bills Radio, presented by

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02:04:29,640 --> 02:04:38,320
Speaker 1: Kalidah Health. We'll be right back. What do we learned?

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

2428
02:04:42,320 --> 02:04:44,840
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. We were a pleasured. We

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02:04:44,960 --> 02:04:48,760
Speaker 1: were pleased to have Dean Blandino on earlier today, the

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02:04:48,880 --> 02:04:52,400
Speaker 1: former vice president of officiating for the National Football League.

2431
02:04:52,680 --> 02:04:55,360
Speaker 1: He had something to say about not only the rule

2432
02:04:55,440 --> 02:04:57,480
Speaker 1: changes that we're implemented this year, but also one that

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Speaker 1: was tabled and is not going to be implemented, the

2434
02:04:59,760 --> 02:05:03,280
Speaker 1: four fifteen play. This is what Landino had to say

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02:05:03,680 --> 02:05:08,640
Speaker 1: about that proposition being delayed. And I think there are

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02:05:08,760 --> 02:05:13,200
Speaker 1: just some people that are fundamentally opposed to this type

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Speaker 1: of a change. I mean, this is a drastic change.

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02:05:15,120 --> 02:05:18,120
Speaker 1: You think about the onside kick. The onside kick was

2439
02:05:18,200 --> 02:05:21,680
Speaker 1: a tactic that teams used within an existing rule, right,

2440
02:05:21,960 --> 02:05:24,120
Speaker 1: they didn't have to change anything. It was Look, you

2441
02:05:24,200 --> 02:05:26,440
Speaker 1: could get the ball after it goes ten yards. So

2442
02:05:26,640 --> 02:05:29,880
Speaker 1: let's try this tactic, and let's try this technique. I

2443
02:05:29,960 --> 02:05:32,080
Speaker 1: think there's some people that are that are opposed to

2444
02:05:32,600 --> 02:05:35,160
Speaker 1: creating it, having a major change, and then what are

2445
02:05:35,160 --> 02:05:37,840
Speaker 1: the unintended consequences? You know, you think about a fourth

2446
02:05:37,880 --> 02:05:40,360
Speaker 1: and fifteen now you have, you know, a five yard

2447
02:05:40,800 --> 02:05:44,000
Speaker 1: holding penalty that results in the first down or illegal contact.

2448
02:05:44,080 --> 02:05:46,600
Speaker 1: Maybe it's there, maybe it isn't. So I think there's

2449
02:05:46,600 --> 02:05:51,040
Speaker 1: still some work to be done on this. That's Dean Blandino,

2450
02:05:51,120 --> 02:05:54,080
Speaker 1: former vice president, officiating on the fourth and fifteen play

2451
02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:57,200
Speaker 1: that was tabled by the NFL. Brownie before we go yesterday,

2452
02:05:57,240 --> 02:05:59,280
Speaker 1: you told me this was like quite the special day

2453
02:06:00,040 --> 02:06:02,600
Speaker 1: in the brown household. What's going on over there today,

2454
02:06:02,680 --> 02:06:07,520
Speaker 1: can you? Yes, We've got an eighteenth birthday for my daughter,

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02:06:07,760 --> 02:06:12,280
Speaker 1: my firstborn, So a special happy birthday to Serena, who's

2456
02:06:12,320 --> 02:06:15,360
Speaker 1: celebrating number eighteen today. And she's one of those high

2457
02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:18,080
Speaker 1: school seniors that's lost a lot here this spring. But

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02:06:18,480 --> 02:06:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm just proud of the way she's kind of handled

2459
02:06:20,240 --> 02:06:23,360
Speaker 1: all of it with the grace and poise that she

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Speaker 1: has and a pretty special person who's going to do

2461
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Speaker 1: some pretty special things in this world. So just a

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02:06:28,280 --> 02:06:31,920
Speaker 1: happy birthday to Serena today. Awesome congratulations to her from

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02:06:31,920 --> 02:06:34,160
Speaker 1: all of us here One Bills Live. We'd also like

2464
02:06:34,240 --> 02:06:37,600
Speaker 1: to thank Jay Harris for his erstwhile producing as as

2465
02:06:37,680 --> 02:06:41,280
Speaker 1: always spotlessly done. Kelly Rude also helping us out in

2466
02:06:41,400 --> 02:06:45,240
Speaker 1: Joe Dibias back at at the Control Center, Steve Tasker

2467
02:06:45,320 --> 02:06:48,440
Speaker 1: on with Chris Brown. Thanks for this, have a great weekend, everybody.

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02:06:48,800 --> 02:06:51,840
Speaker 1: We will be back on Monday, and I believe Maddie

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02:06:51,880 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 1: glab will be the co host on Monday for next week.

2470
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Speaker 1: So Chris Brown, thanks for your hard work this week.

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02:06:56,800 --> 02:06:58,480
Speaker 1: It was fun working with you. You're gonna be back

2472
02:06:58,520 --> 02:07:00,560
Speaker 1: and you'll we'll be doing this kind of every other week.

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02:07:00,600 --> 02:07:04,280
Speaker 1: I guess maybe something like that. I appreciate you man,

2474
02:07:04,360 --> 02:07:06,240
Speaker 1: you were working hard. I appreciate it was fun doing

2475
02:07:06,240 --> 02:07:07,640
Speaker 1: the show with you. We'll be but we'll see you

2476
02:07:07,760 --> 02:07:10,840
Speaker 1: down the road as well. Kelly Rude, thank you for

2477
02:07:10,920 --> 02:07:13,360
Speaker 1: your hard working there. I haven't seen Kelly for a

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02:07:13,480 --> 02:07:15,600
Speaker 1: couple of months now. I'm sure she's working hard, but

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Speaker 1: for us at One Bill's Live, thank you so much, everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back to with you after the weekend.