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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Friday edition of one of Bill's Lives,

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Speaker 1: Steeve Tasker. Maddie Glab here till three o'clock. So good

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Speaker 1: to see everybody on this beautiful, bright, sunny, record breaking

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Speaker 1: But I feel like we're just about to get rained

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Speaker 1: social media. So it's it is so nice to be

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Speaker 1: out and about in Buffalo these days. Although I've tried

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Speaker 1: and we sucked so bad at playing golf we just

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Speaker 1: an atrocious back nine. It was. Yeah, we didn't finish.

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Speaker 1: I want to fess up, I could. I could do it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: there never met me before and ever and were you know,

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Speaker 1: We're also going to have busy first hour here Stefania

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us, And the first question

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Speaker 1: bit like cramming for finals in a course of COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 1: But it's really fascinating because you see that some of

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Speaker 1: the similarities in some of the differences depending on the sport.

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Speaker 1: But in the background, a lot of the different leagues

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Speaker 1: have been cooperating and collaborating on what are best practices.

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Speaker 1: So in terms of the testing protocols and the very

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Speaker 1: detail it's not worth going into the detail here, but

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Speaker 1: a lot between the NBA, for example, the NFL, MLB,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of similarities in terms of the

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Speaker 1: frequency of testing, what happens if you have a positive test, etc.

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Speaker 1: But because the nature of the sports are very different,

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Speaker 1: they're going to be different challenges for each sport as

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Speaker 1: they try to return. For example, you know, the NBA

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Speaker 1: is in a bubble, so to speak, in this campus

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Speaker 1: down in the Orando. That's not going to be the

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Speaker 1: case for baseball and it's not going to be the

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Speaker 1: case for football. So there are unique challenges to each sport,

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Speaker 1: and the case to the NFL. The protocols as far

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Speaker 1: as game day, my understanding, are not yet formally agreed to.

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Speaker 1: They're still a work in progress. Yeah, coming through all

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Speaker 1: the protocols for every league, I think most of us

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Speaker 1: know some of the protocols that we've seen on Twitter

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Speaker 1: or that athletes have common innted on from the MLB

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Speaker 1: to the NBA to the NFL. When looking into the

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Speaker 1: fine print of all of this, was there anything that

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Speaker 1: struck you as interesting or is very different from league

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Speaker 1: to league that you think could impact the NFL or

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Speaker 1: another league. Well, I think the things that are that

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Speaker 1: are interesting to me are sort of the level of

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Speaker 1: what happens, the detail of what happens if someone tests positive,

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Speaker 1: all the leagues immediately go into an isolation plan. For

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Speaker 1: an Apple you would potentially test positive. Because the key

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Speaker 1: is really if you let's say you initiate a sport,

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Speaker 1: you initiate a return to that sport. The key is

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Speaker 1: not having an outbreak. I think everyone understands that it's

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Speaker 1: virtually impossible to guarantee that everybody could stay healthy and

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Speaker 1: safe from the virus. But what will shut a sport

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Speaker 1: down is if there is an outbreak, so that is

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Speaker 1: consistent across the league, that there's like there's an immediate

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Speaker 1: isolation if someone test positive, and then the follow up

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Speaker 1: testing is appropriate thereafter. I think another thing that people

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Speaker 1: may not be aware of that's important are some of

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Speaker 1: the medical follow ups to somebody who contracts the COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen and has to be out, for example, in order

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Speaker 1: to return to place. It's not just being cleared from

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Speaker 1: the virus, but you have to go through a cardio

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Speaker 1: screen to be eligible to be cleared to practice. And

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Speaker 1: that's because there have been some noted cardiac symptoms I

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Speaker 1: should say associated with the disease, and so one of

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Speaker 1: the things which required is is a player has to

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Speaker 1: go through a full cardiac screen consultation with a cardiologist

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Speaker 1: before they can be cleared to return to place that

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Speaker 1: I think something like that just reflects the seriousness with

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Speaker 1: which everyone who's involved in putting it together is taking

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Speaker 1: the disease. We're talking with Stefania Belle ESPN injury analysts

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Speaker 1: about the protocols in place for the National Football League

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Speaker 1: and other leagues as well. And one of the things

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Speaker 1: that well, the thing that's frightening about the the virus

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Speaker 1: for all of us is being the person who or

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Speaker 1: person who spreads it to someone who is vulnerable. And

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Speaker 1: for instance, last season, the Patriots had a player named

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Speaker 1: David Andrews. He missed the entire season because he had

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Speaker 1: blood clots in his lungs with this virus. Are there

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Speaker 1: players like David Andrews or others whose conditions we may

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Speaker 1: not know about. How smart is it for them to

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Speaker 1: even you know, play? You know, it really is relative

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Speaker 1: to the moment in time, and from everything I understand,

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Speaker 1: Andrews has been scared to return and might be considered

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Speaker 1: fully healthy right now. There is a list that the

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Speaker 1: CBT is put out of ulmorbidities essentially that would place

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Speaker 1: people at an increased risk, and then there's another list

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Speaker 1: of mummabilities that would place someone at a possibly elevated risk,

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Speaker 1: and then beyond that, it really comes down to the

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Speaker 1: player's individual medical history. And thus we're having a relationship

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Speaker 1: with the team physicians and having thorough screening before the

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Speaker 1: start of the season becomes imperative. Certainly, if there were

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Speaker 1: anything that would compromise your lung capacity or the health

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Speaker 1: of your lungs, it could certainly be complicated by this virus.

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Speaker 1: But as we were just talking about, there's cardiac potential complications,

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Speaker 1: whether circulatory system complications associated with it. So it's much

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Speaker 1: more broad in terms of associated elevated risk. And I

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Speaker 1: think in football in particular, there is an association with obesity,

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Speaker 1: which in terms of definition, they reference a body mass index. Now,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people will say that you can't rely

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Speaker 1: on body mass index or being m definitive for a

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Speaker 1: number of reasons. It is somewhat flawed, but at least

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Speaker 1: on the baseline level, larger folks are more at risk,

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Speaker 1: and that certainly there's there's a number of those in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. JJ Watt is someone who came out and

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Speaker 1: said he would think about possibly opting out depending on

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Speaker 1: what the helmets and face face masks and shields look

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Speaker 1: like that these players will be wearing once they're on

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Speaker 1: the field, because he said that he has a hard

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Speaker 1: time breathing already and that by having a huge helmet

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Speaker 1: that you know, covers your face and your mouth may

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Speaker 1: limit his ability to breathe. How much do you think

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Speaker 1: this is a part of the conversations for players that

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Speaker 1: do have a tougher time to breathe When looking at

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Speaker 1: how these helmets could be structured this season, it's really interesting.

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Speaker 1: I think this is going to be one of the

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Speaker 1: more fascinating topics in the next few weeks. And all

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Speaker 1: I've heard up to this point is that there's been

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Speaker 1: various things that are being looked at, tested, if you will,

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Speaker 1: to design possibilities in terms of face shields that would

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Speaker 1: be attached to a helmet to essentially try and control

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Speaker 1: what you could transmit through you know, sitting breathing heavy, etc.

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Speaker 1: But that is the consistent complaint with the players. They

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Speaker 1: don't they don't like too much around their face because

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Speaker 1: it makes it hard to breathe. You can imagine that

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Speaker 1: its fogs up. Some players just like they don't like

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Speaker 1: goggle or any kind of eye covering because they feel

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Speaker 1: like they fog up. So that the difficulty in changing

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Speaker 1: equipment like that is that you have to find some

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Speaker 1: balance for the athlete to be able to perform and

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Speaker 1: yet have the equipment provide the protection is designed to provide.

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Speaker 1: So as of right now that's not established, but I

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Speaker 1: could certainly see some players saying this isn't the way

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Speaker 1: I can perform, and ultimately that's going to remain an

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Speaker 1: option for every individual, just like it is in every

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Speaker 1: other sport. We're talking with Stefania Bell ESPN injury analysts.

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Speaker 1: Let's I want to explore your injury expertise and talk

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Speaker 1: about some guys who may affect the Buffalo Bills seasons

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Speaker 1: just because their opponents. First of all, Cam Newton signs

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Speaker 1: with the New England Patriots. The Bills will probably see

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Speaker 1: him twice this season. Is he you know, what are

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Speaker 1: the chances that he comes back health He's had a

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Speaker 1: foot injury, He's had a shoulder injury, he had other

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Speaker 1: injuries before this. This last season, he's had trouble staying

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Speaker 1: injury free the last twenty four months or So where

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Speaker 1: do you see Cam Newton coming back and how healthy

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Speaker 1: does he have to be and how healthy will he be?

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Speaker 1: If you know, last year, I was expecting him to

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Speaker 1: have a bounce back season until we got a few

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Speaker 1: weeks in spree season and he injured his foot. Well,

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Speaker 1: barring another injury, I actually I think the same thing

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Speaker 1: is still likely now, maybe even more so because he's

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Speaker 1: had a good amount of time to rest his legs

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Speaker 1: and to really get healthy. And you know how it is,

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Speaker 1: He's a player who thought he would have a lot

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Speaker 1: of options. I think the combination of the pandemic and

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Speaker 1: him not being able to get a physical and meet

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Speaker 1: with teams impacted how long it took him to get signed.

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Speaker 1: But everything I've heard from people who were very close

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Speaker 1: to the situation was that he was not There was

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Speaker 1: no worry about his shoulder going into last year. He

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Speaker 1: had gotten his full range of motion back pain free something.

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Speaker 1: If you look when he prior to him having that

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Speaker 1: cleanup surgery and his shoulder, he really couldn't complete a

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Speaker 1: normal arc of motion. He was having to completely contort

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Speaker 1: his body to try and put the ball down the field.

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Speaker 1: If you look at last year, before he injured his foot.

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Speaker 1: He was actually throwing the ball quite well, and the

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Speaker 1: issues after the foot brain were that he really had

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Speaker 1: no confidence landing on that foot. The type of surgery

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Speaker 1: he had was a modified procedure, not as extensive in

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Speaker 1: terms of complexity and therefore not as long to recover

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Speaker 1: from and other pass go through his Instagram workouts, and

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Speaker 1: for me as a pt looking at some of the

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Speaker 1: things the ways he challenged that foot, going up and down,

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Speaker 1: doing stadium fagility drives, I don't see an issue there.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think there's any any risks for him

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Speaker 1: in terms of re injury of those things. But the

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00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: physical style of Cam's play is part of what got

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Speaker 1: him into this predicament, so there's there's always that risk

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Speaker 1: for him. Just being the guy who tries to extend

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00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: plays and dives on an outstretched arm, he put himself

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Speaker 1: a little bit more risk than a typical pocket style quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The Bills play the Steelers this year. They faced him

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Speaker 1: last year too, but there was no Ben Roethlisberger on

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Speaker 1: the field. He is healthy as of right now entering

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season, and just with his age he's

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Speaker 1: thirty eight, he's entering his seventeenth season. How much do

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Speaker 1: you think he could be affected by the rehab that

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Speaker 1: he's had to do on that elbow injury. Could it

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Speaker 1: be anything that is a problem this season or do

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Speaker 1: you think he will be back to his old ways

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Speaker 1: this year. I actually think he could have a really

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Speaker 1: good year as well. You know. Part of the advantage

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Speaker 1: for him and it was how early he had this

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Speaker 1: elbow problem address. I mean, he didn't continue to play

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Speaker 1: on it being a problem, essentially missed the season, so

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Speaker 1: that gave him a nice long recovery time. He's already

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Speaker 1: proven that he can throw the body. He's been out

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00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: throwing throwing distance without any problem whatsoever. And his age,

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Speaker 1: you certainly look at that tough to say. Thirty eight

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00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: is old. So my perspective son in football years and

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Speaker 1: certainly is one thing is and someone that the Steelers

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00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 1: told me why and see how been deceptive because he's

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Speaker 1: such a big guy. But he's got remarkable feat which

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Speaker 1: they who comes from him being a three sport athlete

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Speaker 1: and being a really good baseball player when he was younger.

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Speaker 1: And that mobility is somewhat surprising, but that mobility could

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Speaker 1: be really important in terms of protecting him. So if

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Speaker 1: he's able to retain that, and I don't see why not. Again,

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Speaker 1: the year off sometimes helps these guys to come in

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Speaker 1: a little bit more retreshed. He has the potential to

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Speaker 1: be very strong this year. I actually like him going

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Speaker 1: into the season. Stefania, thanks so much for joining us,

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Speaker 1: and we appreciate your time and we wish you the

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Speaker 1: best and the rest of what this pandemic has to

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Speaker 1: offer us safety and wellness to your family. Thanks, thanks,

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Speaker 1: thanks to you both. Stefania Bell ESPN injury analysts contributor

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Speaker 1: to Sports Center, Fantasy Football Now, and the Fantasy Focused

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Speaker 1: Football podcast. She's also a licensed physical therapist and she

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00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: digs deep into all the injuries that surround football and

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Speaker 1: all the fantasy implications that has. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go back to a break and when we

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Speaker 1: come back. Eric Wood, Buffalo Bill's radio color analyst, is

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Speaker 1: going to join us. He's a former first round pick

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Speaker 1: of the Bills. He's the guy that we all listen

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Speaker 1: for his cell phone to kick on. He's out of service,

642
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 1: which is kind of typically my problem, Mattie, when I'm

643
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: out and about all of a sudden, and maybe this

644
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: happens to you, all of a sudden. My you know,

645
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: I live close to you know, the village center, you know,

646
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, one day my phone, my

647
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: wife's want nobody's cell phone works inside my house. Let's

648
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: never happened either. That is interesting. Do you have like

649
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: no service? It's not that interesting. I'm just waiting for

650
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: nic Wood's phone to kick on. But yeah, I mean

651
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: we had we got a cell tower that's like five

652
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: hundred yards from the house and I and doesn't that

653
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 1: like automatically catch our signal? I mean, you know, what's

654
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: the deal? You'd think, so maybe that cell tower is broken,

655
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: But it all just went away. We had great, we

656
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: had great cell service up until just a minute. But

657
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: we'll ask it. We'll ask hey, We'll ask Eric woodd

658
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: He thinks about Eric Wood coming on with us right

659
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: now to join us one Bill's life. Eric, thanks for

660
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: coming on. How you are you doing okay in the pandemic?

661
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: Everything cool? I see you're growing a little bit of

662
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: a beard. Nice. Yeah, a little little beard, I guess

663
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: since we're back in quarantine of grow it back out. Good.

664
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: Every the family safe and well, yeah, we're all well,

665
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: how about you, guys, We're all doing good. We're all

666
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: doing good. I gotta ask you two about you know,

667
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: we had Emily Kaplan on earlier in the week. She's

668
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: an ESPN writer, and she did this story about off

669
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: and forgive me for throwing this on your lap, but

670
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: she did a story about offensive lineman who trimmed down

671
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: after they after they retired, and for those of people

672
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 1: who don't know, Eric turned into a coat hanger after

673
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: he played in the NFL like three hundred plus. Now

674
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 1: I'm just teasing you look great, But you trimmed down

675
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: pretty fast. Yeah, I did. I lost fifty three pounds

676
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: in the first four months I was out of the

677
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: league and kind of just maintained from there. I knew

678
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: I wanted to lose the weight quick. It's hard on

679
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,479
Speaker 1: your knees and hard on your joyce and I had

680
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,280
Speaker 1: six lower body surgeries while I was playing in the NFL,

681
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: so I figured the sooner I could get the weight off,

682
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: the better. And it was amazing how well I could

683
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: relate to that article. And I actually got it forwarded

684
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: to me by a number of people, a lot of

685
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: people asking why I wasn't included, and I said, well,

686
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: U one, those guys are all generally bigger names than me,

687
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: and I guess I don't post enough pictures of my

688
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: shirt off. Yeah, that maybe we got to change that.

689
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: You can do that from now on. We'll look for

690
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: that and we'll retweet that. When you do that, me

691
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: and you will do side by sides. Yeah, how did you?

692
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: How did you do it? How did you lose it?

693
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: What was your what was your thing? Cut the calories?

694
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: I had to eat a lot, you know. In the

695
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,720
Speaker 1: article it talks about how some guys had to struggle

696
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: to keep the weight on and some struggle to keep

697
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: it off. I was one of those guys that struggled

698
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: to keep it on. We would go on vacation in

699
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: the offseason and I would inevitably lose weight. And this

700
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: is you know, go to Mexico and eat and drink

701
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: bad for five or six days. And I would come

702
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: back lighter because I wasn't drinking shakes the second I

703
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: woke up. I wasn't lifting in high volume to keep

704
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: quantities of muscle on that were I don't want to

705
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: say artificial, but you know, my body was. My body

706
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 1: didn't like being three hundred and six three hundred ten pounds,

707
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: but paid the bills for a long time. It allowed me,

708
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: you know, to play at fairly high level. And then

709
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: whatever I was done, I knew I wanted to take

710
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: it off this book if possible. Yeah, that article was

711
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 1: wild to read through what these players were eating throughout

712
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: the day and almost as much as two in two

713
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: hour increments of when they had to have a snack

714
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 1: or a meal or something. I don't think I could

715
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: do that. It's incredible that offensive linemen can do that

716
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: and retain that weight is what they need to do

717
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: to be able to play on the field. But I

718
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about what's been going on

719
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: in the college football landscape. We saw the IVY League

720
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: pushed their fall sports, including football, to possibly spring or

721
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,760
Speaker 1: next fall. They'll make a decision on that. One's January hits.

722
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: But the IVY League doesn't make any money on college football,

723
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: so they're really not losing out on anything. They actually

724
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: lose money on college football. College basketball is their moneymaker.

725
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: But then we saw the Big Ten say they're only

726
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: going to play conference games and they'll do the ten

727
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: games in the thirteen to fourteen weeks fans, so if

728
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: the season has to get paused or anything like that,

729
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: they have some time to work with. What is your

730
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: thoughts on maybe some of these other Power five conferences

731
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: coming out and adopting what the Big Ten is doing

732
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 1: or something similar. Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me to see

733
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: more small schools take the IVY League route in delay

734
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: the season because if they aren't a high revenue team already,

735
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: you take out our high revenue program, you take out

736
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 1: the fans and attendance, so you lose the ticket sales there,

737
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: and then you think about all the measures you're gonna

738
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: have to go through. I saw an estimation for eighty

739
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: five scholarship players, or most of these rosters are bigger

740
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: than that. But let's say you want to test your

741
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: eighty five scholarship players twice a week. Based upon the

742
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: current cost of tests, that'd be seventeen thousand dollars a week,

743
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: and a lot of programs can't afford stuff like that.

744
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: So would I be surprised if a lot, if a

745
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: lot of smaller schools canceled football altogether for this fall. No,

746
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me. What the crazy thing is going to come?

747
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: And then if you allow, are you going to allow

748
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: those guys to transfer and try and make bigger schools?

749
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: Do the other schools want to take them and take

750
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: the risk of maybe one of them bring them to

751
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: COVID Because a lot of programs, like University Louisville fifteen

752
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 1: minutes from a house, they have everybody on campus working

753
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: out now, and so you know they're in segmented workout

754
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: groups and they're being very careful. But I don't know

755
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 1: that you just want to let a bunch of transfers

756
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: in right now, even if there are so many talented

757
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: players around the small schools that could impact these big programs.

758
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: But you know, I think it's in everybody's hopes that

759
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: at least we have some college football this season. The

760
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: ten game season would work. The funny thing is if

761
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: the ACC goes to just conference games this year, the

762
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: three games Louisville gets canceled are three games against in

763
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: state schools. So those would have been the easiest ones

764
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: to travel. That's that's a bus trip, that's no hotels,

765
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: you could travel same day. But we have those games canceled.

766
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: How likely is it? Forget about college players doing this,

767
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: how about pro players being disciplined enough on game day

768
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: not to go over and hug an opponent or a

769
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: you know, an old teammate, not switch jerseys, you know,

770
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: not stand close together on the sidelines, you know, and

771
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: whatever else the myriad of protocols call for. How discipline

772
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: do you think the players are going to be able

773
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: to be? You know, I don't even know that any

774
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:38,879
Speaker 1: of those would be that big a deal. If they're

775
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: doing day of game or day before the game testing,

776
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, if they can get these

777
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: instant results, because then you would say everyone on the

778
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: field does not have the coronavirus. Now you guys can

779
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: go out and kind of play freely, but you have

780
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: to have the timing of the tests be appropriate. I

781
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: think pro football has a lot better chance of looking

782
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: closer to normal because these are grown men that can

783
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 1: essentially make the decisions for themselves. Yes, I'm will to

784
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: play if you don't want to play. Then we'll have

785
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: to work it out with your contract. How that all works.

786
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: How does that affect the cap if one of your

787
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: big guys wants to sit out this year. There's a

788
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: number of things that still need to be settled. But

789
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: these are grown men that can make decisions for themselves

790
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: in college and even high school. And as you go

791
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 1: down there's a lot of liability that falls on the

792
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: shoulders of those in charge. And that's where it disappointed me.

793
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: But I understood where the NCAA kind of said they puntished.

794
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: The NCAA punted and said, well, we'll leave it up

795
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: to the conferences the states, and then you know, now

796
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: it's now it's turned into okay, now this conference can

797
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: be shut down. Maybe we'll just play ourselves. We'll be

798
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: able to police it better if we just play ourselves.

799
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: But I mean, you talk about an acc schedule, and

800
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: I know I keep referring back to Louisville, but I've

801
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: talked on this a number of times, so it's it's

802
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: easy for me to keep referencing it. Louisville has games

803
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: that could that are going to be all along the

804
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: East Coast and the Carolinas in Florida. You know, you

805
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: go up up to Syracuse, it's you know, these are

806
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: games that are not going to be easy to travel to.

807
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to stay at hotels. Just saying in

808
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: conference does not mean lack of travel. You are a

809
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: part of the NFL pretty recently, a part of the

810
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,479
Speaker 1: lockout year. I mean, with the protocols that you've seen,

811
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: with the language that you've seen the NFL release things,

812
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: it seems like players, i mean, they're not agreeing right

813
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: now on preseason games, the NFLP and the NFL. They're

814
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: not agreeing on a thirty five percent escrow that has

815
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: been mentioned. What is your take on how the NFL

816
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: has handled this. Another thing that I'm seeing on Twitter,

817
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: at least from players who are speaking out, is that

818
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: they're three weeks away from training camp and there are

819
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: still so many basic questions that haven't been answered to

820
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: these players who are supposed to report soon. Yeah, for

821
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 1: the longest time, the best thing the NFL had was time,

822
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: and now we're running out of that asset. You know,

823
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,479
Speaker 1: when all this hit in March and basketball is getting

824
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: shut down and then baseball is getting ready to start

825
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: up at the end of March and they got shut down.

826
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: Everyone just kind of headed in their hopes that everything

827
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: will be back to normal by the time football rolls around,

828
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: and the fact that it's not it has left us

829
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: where we are now. But there was no way of

830
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: the players or the owners knowing that was going to

831
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: be the case. And it's just been a wait and see,

832
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: wait and see, wait and see. Well, now we're at

833
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,439
Speaker 1: the time where some real decisions need to be made,

834
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: and any time that the owners and the players have

835
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: to come to an agreement on anything, it takes a while.

836
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: There's just so much give and take, and there's so

837
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: much money at stake. And you know, I had this

838
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 1: conversation with my wife last night. If I'm a second

839
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: year guy in the league and they say, hey, we

840
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: want to tell you, we want to hold thirty five

841
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: percent year salary, I'm telling you know, you know, if

842
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 1: I'm you know, living in one of these expensive cities

843
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: making league minimum on a second year guy, make five

844
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: hundred grand, cut it in half for taxes, pay your age,

845
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: and pay your financial advisor, have a residence where you're at.

846
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just not that much left. Would say,

847
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: oh yeah, hold thirty five percent of the police. Yeah,

848
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: and there's a lot that goes into that because you're right,

849
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm it's not like they get a ton you get

850
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: all of it up front either. I mean it trickles

851
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: in over the course of the season. You're right, you

852
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: gotta you have gotta have a residence. You gotta have

853
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: a place to stay. Uh And in place like San Francisco,

854
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: it's a chunk, it's a big chunk, and it's a problem. Yeah,

855
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: you're out in California, you're paying thirteen percent state tax,

856
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 1: you're paying thirty nine percent federal tax. Then you have

857
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: to have a residence somewhere near the facility, which is

858
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: gonna be super expensive. And there's just you know, the

859
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: overall um, the amount that you're left with at the

860
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: end of the year. If you're a young guy on

861
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 1: a smaller deal, it's not that much to where and

862
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: where all those guys um. And it's easy to say, oh,

863
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: you have these billionaire owners that why should we worry

864
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,360
Speaker 1: about their bills and their revenue? And you know it's um.

865
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: You know, not every franchise is owned by you know,

866
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: a family like the Pagouls, where they own an outright

867
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: a lot of these are owned by minority shares, and

868
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,919
Speaker 1: I don't know that they're looking to front the bill

869
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: on this. We're talking with Eric Woodbill's radio color analysts. Eric,

870
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on this preseason? Obviously it seems

871
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: likely that they're going to shorten the preseason. The league

872
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: wants two preseason games, the players wants zero preseason games.

873
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 1: What's your stance on what's needed, what would help, what

874
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: would hurt? You know, just how many preseason games you

875
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: think is feasible and if they don't have any, what's

876
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: that going to look like? Yeah, if they if they

877
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: don't have any, that definitely favors the veterans making the

878
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 1: team because you've seen them on field in the game before.

879
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: So it doesn't surprise me that the player reps have

880
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: interest in eliminating all the preseason games. But also, why

881
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: waste your bullets? Why waste you know, potential COVID cases

882
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: from actually playing games on preseason games. I get that

883
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: there is a lot of value to preseason games for

884
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: evaluation to players. There's a ton of value in it

885
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: for the players. I didn't love playing in preseason games,

886
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: but I was glad I always got some action when

887
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: it came Week one and I was able to put

888
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, start the season pretty sharp, and then there

889
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: would be a few plays inevitably every year in the

890
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 1: preseason where you you know, you're just getting your feedback

891
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,479
Speaker 1: under a little embarrassing that you're thanking God that didn't

892
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,240
Speaker 1: happen Week one. So there is a lot of value

893
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: in the preseason. But in this current time we're in,

894
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: you know, I have to kind of be on the

895
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: side of the players, especially, you know, if you're not

896
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: going to be playing with fans in there anyways, maybe

897
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: there's an alternative where, you know, Buffalo and Pittsburgh do

898
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: an inner scritch scrimmage where you can control the environment,

899
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: control the numbers, and you're driving to the game. You know,

900
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: do it at a wide open facility. You know, the

901
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: Bill's practice facility even at the stadium has multiple fields.

902
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: You know, space it outright. However you're going to do it,

903
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: That to me would make a lot more sense. Player

904
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,399
Speaker 1: opts out to have been a topic of conversation. We've

905
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: seen NBA players and MLB players opt out of this

906
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: year and participating. Would you want that to be offered

907
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: to NFL players And have you had any conversations with

908
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: players who are considering weighing that as an option if

909
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: it's given to them. I haven't. I haven't asked anybody personally.

910
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: I've respected try to respect everyone's privacy from the player's

911
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: perspective on this subject. But it wouldn't surprise me to see,

912
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 1: especially some of the language that I'm seeing from social

913
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: media posts from a number of players. There's a lot

914
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: of concern around the coronavirus and contracting it. So I

915
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: think I think the agreement has to allow for the

916
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: opt out because, like I said before, in college, you're

917
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: you're liable for your players. In the NFL, essentially with

918
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: the players Union, you're liable for yourself, and so I

919
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: think at that point you have to give these guys

920
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: the option not to play this year if they're worried

921
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: about contracting the virus. What would what would it have

922
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: taken for you to opt out of a season down

923
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,720
Speaker 1: these lines of a pandemic. Wow, that's a great question,

924
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: and for me, UM, I would want to as enough research,

925
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: as much research as I could um to figure out

926
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: what measures we're going to to make sure we as

927
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: players are not going to contract it. That you know,

928
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: because just living in normal society. Unless you're truly in

929
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: an absolute strict quarantine, which I would imagine ninety nine

930
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: point nine percent of NFL players are not, then you

931
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: have the risk of contracting it every single day just living.

932
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: You have the risk of contracting other things just living

933
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: your life. Okay, what are we doing is as an organization,

934
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: as a league, to put us in the best position.

935
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: And I always kind of operated as the company guy, like, Okay,

936
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: I trust, I trust that you're providing us with the

937
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: best resources everything else. So I would imagine me as

938
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: a player, I would be itching to get back to

939
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: football if all the measures, the appropriate measures were taking place. Now,

940
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: some NFL teams have came out and said we're going

941
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: to have fans in our stands. It's going to be

942
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: a limited amount. They're going to have to wear masks.

943
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: But as as it is right now, the Bills won't

944
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,479
Speaker 1: be able to have any fans in their stands, which

945
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: we've seen some players take to social media and just

946
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: kind of describe how weird of a feeling that would be.

947
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: How much would that change home field advantage if it

948
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: stands with what Cuomo has said. Where As of right now,

949
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: they can't have any fans. Yeah, it would. It would

950
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: definitely hurt the Bills because the crowd noise is so

951
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 1: loud and Buffalo they're so rowdy that it affects the

952
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: other team's offense. You build momentum from that, you know.

953
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,760
Speaker 1: I think you've got to figure out some way of

954
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: calculating what you either go by overall league decibels, like

955
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: with the limited U sound decibels with the limited fans,

956
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 1: what does that eeople out to? Okay, teams that don't

957
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: have fans, you can you can use crowd noise up

958
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: to this level. I think that makes sense. I've heard

959
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 1: of people trying to make apps where you have seventy

960
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: something thousand people at home that can make noise into

961
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: their cell phone. And that seems like you're relying on

962
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: a lot of technology that could get real finicky um

963
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: at at the at the appropriate time. But I don't

964
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: know the exact answer on what needs to happen. But

965
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,439
Speaker 1: I can't imagine you could say, well, since Buffalo, since

966
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: New York said that Buffalo can't have any fans, they

967
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: just get no crowd noise at all this season. Hey Eric,

968
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: you're you're what's next? Pot What's Next with Eric Wood podcast.

969
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: You had Jerry Butler on the on your latest edition.

970
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,280
Speaker 1: Tell us about that. Yeah, So, Jerry Butler I've gotten

971
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: to know through a mutual friend and what a what

972
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: a tremendous man he is. But one of the main

973
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: reasons I wanted to have him on there is he started.

974
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: He was a part of the six initial guys that

975
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: started the player dement Player. It's also called the player

976
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: Engagement Job in the NFL, and he was one of

977
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: the six original ones. For me, I wanted to know

978
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: what his advice would be to guys in the current

979
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: culture of one the coronavirus, in two the Black Lives

980
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:26,240
Speaker 1: Matter movement. So in regards to the coronavirus, he said,

981
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: you know, as a player development guy, player engagement guy,

982
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: he would be telling them you need to come in

983
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 1: an incredible shape. You know, you don't want to let

984
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: your body get worn down because then you're more susceptible

985
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 1: to contracting a virus. That's just general rules with getting sick.

986
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: But also want to you want to stand out when

987
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: you get there. And he told a story about how

988
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: he started running long distance with the track team at

989
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: a school at Clemson in his NFL offseasons to get

990
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: in immaculate shape, and that allowed him to have really

991
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: productive seasons early in his career, make a Pro Bowl

992
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: and all that, and then all so on the Black

993
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: Lives Matter move and he had some great takes. And

994
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: I'll let listeners tune in and let him say him exactly,

995
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,839
Speaker 1: so I don't paraphrase something differently than he would want

996
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: to express. But he had incredible insights as a black

997
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: man himself, who is a strong Christian man, extremely intelligent.

998
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: I just thought he had incredible words on both matters. Eric.

999
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking some time, man. I appreciate it's great

1000
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: to see you look great. We can see you on Skype.

1001
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: Our listeners camp, but they'll have to take our word forward.

1002
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well and thanks for coming on. No,

1003
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. At some point we got to get

1004
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: some golfing in Steve, and I'm assuming now with the

1005
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: one bills a live that that cuts into some of

1006
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: your golf car but actually, h a little bit. I

1007
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: actually went out, yes, I had to stop. I was

1008
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: playing so bad yesterday. Do you have an embarrassing moment

1009
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: from the golf course just in passing? Do you have

1010
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: anything that you can confess to us that you did

1011
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: on the golf course that you rather people didn't know, well,

1012
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: I admitted two days ago. So I had a match

1013
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: we do this like NCAA tournament style bracket at my

1014
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: country club and me an apartment. Were playing guys. We

1015
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: were playing off a scratching of five, and then they

1016
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: were off of the seventeen and the nineteen. So one

1017
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: of the holes, one of the guys got two strokes,

1018
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: and they stroked on every other hole, both of them,

1019
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: and so we were up by two holes with four

1020
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: to go, and it starts pouring down rain and they

1021
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: make four consecutive pars and close us out. And like,

1022
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: I came home and I was still so mad, Like

1023
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: an hour and a half later, I was telling my

1024
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,879
Speaker 1: wife was like I don't quite remember like how mad

1025
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: I got after each individual Bill's loss, but I would

1026
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: argue that they're that I'm more mad about this right

1027
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: now than maybe one of the losses in my career,

1028
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: and that's so good. But like that's what I got

1029
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: to compete at nowadays. And I mean, like I'm still mad.

1030
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: I feel it, bro, I feel your pain. It happens

1031
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 1: to me. All the time as well. It's great, Hey,

1032
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on, man, appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely, thanks

1033
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: for having me on. Guys. Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab coming

1034
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: back with one Bill's Live right after the break one

1035
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: of Bill's Live, presented by Clida Health. This is Buffalo

1036
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Oh a good time by Steve Glaspers. Down Down,

1037
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: Down Time. Walk back to one of Bill's Lives. Keep

1038
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,240
Speaker 1: task along with Maddi Glab. We're here till three o'clock.

1039
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: We've had Stefania Bell ESPN injury analysts on with us

1040
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: today and also Bill's radio color analyst, Eric Would just

1041
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 1: left the program. We had him on for a few

1042
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: minutes as well. Maddie. We've got also the Friday tradition

1043
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: of the fan mail bag today and uh, it's gonna

1044
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: be We got a lot of questions from fans, a

1045
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,879
Speaker 1: lot of comments from fans about what they think about

1046
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 1: the season ward and that stuff they're asking us as well.

1047
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 1: The first one from the obl Friday from mail bag

1048
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: is from Tiffany and she says, I was thinking, if

1049
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: there's no college football this season, what will next year's

1050
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: NFL draft look like? Will college athletes receive a red

1051
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: shirt year, extending their eligibility. It would seem difficult for

1052
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: gms to evaluate college talent during these challenging times. Well,

1053
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: it's always a challenge to evaluate these guys, even if

1054
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: they have all access to them, because you never know

1055
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: what's going to happen when you hand them a check.

1056
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: But she's right, it's gonna throw a wrench into things.

1057
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see how NFL gms

1058
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: decide they're going to get their hands on these college

1059
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: recruits or college prospects and evaluate them. Yeah, as of

1060
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: right now, the IVY League is the only conference who

1061
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: has pulled out of college football this fall, So if

1062
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: they stay the only conference, I wonder if they will

1063
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: get some type of special treatment in regards to the

1064
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft and training for it. The IVY League is

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00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: not looked upon as one of the most talented conferences

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00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: when it comes to college football. Now basketball is a

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00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: different story, so I would imagine there's probably only a

1068
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: handful of players that would get drafted out of the

1069
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: IVY League. Anyways, It's not highly represented in the Combine

1070
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: or in the NFL Draft every year, so maybe a

1071
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: few of those players would think about transferring to a

1072
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: different team if that's allowed, like Eric Wood was talking about,

1073
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: or maybe they would be able to bow out of

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00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: the season early if their eyes and hopes and sights

1075
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: are really set on making it to the NFL. Yeah,

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00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: I don't know my advice. I think they're probably smart

1077
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: enough to know this that I think most college athletes

1078
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: would know that if you're on a Division one or

1079
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: an IVY league or in playing college football, at some

1080
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: point some NFL evaluators going to lay eyes on you,

1081
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: and you got to trust that if they see something

1082
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: they like, they'll explored a little further and sooner or

1083
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: later you get the opportunity. I played on on a

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00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: Northwestern football team that was like we were I think

1085
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: we were seven and twenty five or seven and twenty six.

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00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: Over my three years there, we were three and eight. Yeah,

1087
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 1: three and eight, two and nine, two and nine. So

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00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: whatever that adds up to, I don't want to do

1089
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: public mass. So that's what it was. For three season.

1090
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: We were bad. And at the time when I was there,

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00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: because it was a Big ten school they had and

1092
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: there was no combine at that time, so the scout

1093
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: well there was, but it was different and I certainly

1094
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna get invited. So there would be scouts trapsing

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00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: through Evanston, Illinois every week or two or two weeks

1096
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: that during the spring, and during the spring and the

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00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: fall and the winter. In the spring after the football

1098
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: season was over, and they'd just be asking for the

1099
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: guys coming out of college who were done with their

1100
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: eligibility to come in and hey, run a forty do

1101
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: your vertical to see a bench, Let's let you run

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00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 1: through a cone drill, and let's let's see you know.

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Speaker 1: And it was my it's been my advice to young

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Speaker 1: players for a long long time, Maddie that listen, if

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01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: you're good enough, they'll find you. You're going to give

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01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: you a chance to prove it. And that's really what

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01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: you have to bank on as a kid, even in

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01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: the time during a pandemic when you may not have

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Speaker 1: a senior season. But by the same token, nobody is

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Speaker 1: going to have a senior season or junior season, right,

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01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they're you know, all these guys are going

1112
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: to be there in the same boat. So don't think

1113
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: you're going to be at a disadvantage because everybody has

1114
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: the same disadvantage that you do. If the IVY League

1115
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: pushed as their season to the spring, and you are

1116
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: a football player who is going to get drafted this year,

1117
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: would you rather play at least part of your season

1118
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: to where you know scouts are coming and we'll see you.

1119
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: Or would you rather not play the season and train

1120
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: the entire season for the NFL draft. It's a good question.

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01:00:58,000 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: It wouldn't matter as long as I wasn't the only

1122
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: guy doing it. You know, if I was the only

1123
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: guy relegated to not being able to play, then that

1124
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: would be different. That puts me at a disadvantage because

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Speaker 1: I'm so different than everybody else I'd be I would

1126
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: feel like I was off the radar. But because everybody

1127
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: else is in the same boat, the radar is going

1128
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: to look different, right. They're gonna have their you know,

1129
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: their antennae looking for great future NFL players are going

1130
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 1: to be calibrated differently to look for different things. So

1131
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: you got to think that you're going to be at

1132
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: the same disadvantage everybody else and the same advantage as

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01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 1: everybody else, and even more so probably in this offseason.

1134
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: If that were all the case, it would come down

1135
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 1: to your drive and your desire and your commitment, which

1136
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: you got to think is going to show through big

1137
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 1: time if you show up at all these workouts in

1138
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: tip top shape, where all these other guys of you know,

1139
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: they they stayed on their couch a little too many

1140
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: times during workouts or during a workout season, during a

1141
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: fault whatever. You know, they aren't as good as shape

1142
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: as you are because there's no coach with his thumb

1143
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 1: on them. You know, there's nobody lighting a fire on

1144
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: him every morning. If you have that fire and you're

1145
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: the guy that goes out and does it on your own,

1146
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 1: that speaks volumes about where your commitment will be at

1147
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: the next level, and I think coaches look for that. Yeah.

1148
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 1: I mean the IVY League could be at a disadvantage though,

1149
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: because if if all these Power five schools get the

1150
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 1: season off during fall, whether that's just conference games or

1151
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: all their games, and then they have that spring to

1152
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: move to wherever they move to, to train for the

1153
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, to then go through pro days and go

1154
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 1: through the combine and not have to worry about a season.

1155
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: An IVY League player who is probably less noticeable than

1156
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 1: other Power five student athletes, you know, they could be

1157
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 1: playing through a season in March, when there's Pro days

1158
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: going on, and when the Combine is about to take place. Yeah,

1159
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: a lot going on in the college ranks, particularly when

1160
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: you know they are going to at least the IVY

1161
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 1: League is totally thrown it out. They're not going to

1162
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 1: do it at all in the fall. I imagine, Maddie

1163
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: that as the as the obstacles mount in front of

1164
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: these schools who don't have the budget, you know, to

1165
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: make this testing happen, or don't want to. Wouldn't like

1166
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 1: the look of going into a season with a team

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01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: that you're not going to test at all, Right, I

1168
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:30,919
Speaker 1: mean they don't have you know, nobody's got the money

1169
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: for like Eric Wood just said, you know, seventeen grand

1170
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: a week to test eighty five guys. They're just they

1171
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: don't have the budget for that. There's a lot of

1172
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: schools like that. And besides that, even if they did

1173
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 1: who they're going to play, there's got to be like

1174
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 1: a bunch of other schools doing the same thing. I

1175
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: just think they're headed towards a total non starter as

1176
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: a season in college in college football this fall. And

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Speaker 1: if if that's the case, wow, amazing that would be

1178
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: an amazing situation that sports, the sports world in America

1179
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: finds itself. I want to tap I want to tap

1180
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: into three months from now, look into the crystal ball,

1181
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:14,360
Speaker 1: see what it will all look like. But Joseph has

1182
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 1: a great mail bag remark comment. He said, I just

1183
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: want to know when I can get Steve Tasker to

1184
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: give me an autograph the same Joseph. He was one

1185
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 1: of the players I was never able to get one

1186
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 1: from hell, I'd love it even more if I can

1187
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 1: meet him, just saying he was a Swiss army knife

1188
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: type type of player. Can't wait to see another like him.

1189
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: Hook Tasker, Well, yeah, where what planet does Joseph live on.

1190
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: It's like I've been in the same place for well

1191
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: right now, for three and a half months. I've been

1192
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 1: in this office doing this radio show. Somebody tweeted at

1193
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: me today as a joke on the mail I guess

1194
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: it was a joke on the mail bag. It is

1195
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:58,920
Speaker 1: what is he still doing this from his house right

1196
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 1: simbody just check in for me. He's like, oh my gosh,

1197
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: he's still in this, you know. So yeah, I mean

1198
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: we we'd love to get back on the air and

1199
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: love for everything to get back to normal. It doesn't

1200
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 1: look like it's going to happen very soon for us.

1201
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't. They don't want us anywhere near

1202
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: the players. If they come back and they're testing all

1203
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: these people, that means we'd have to get tested and

1204
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: all of that. I mean, certainly they put you know,

1205
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: barriers up, and we'd have to stay in a little

1206
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 1: part of our building. But we're nowhere near Aaron MSG

1207
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: I mean radio. Yeah, it's easy enough for us to

1208
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 1: do this over skype. But you know, I don't know

1209
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 1: where Joseph's been living. Then he doesn't know how to

1210
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 1: get a hold of me or whatever, you know, get

1211
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,320
Speaker 1: an autograph, good grief. I don't know what. I don't

1212
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: know why. I don't know. I don't know why that

1213
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 1: sticks with him. I mean, I you know, there's a

1214
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:46,920
Speaker 1: lot more valuable things on this earth than my autograph.

1215
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 1: But there you go. Appreciate I appreciate the thought in

1216
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: the sentiment. That's nice. I appreciate it. From Tim and

1217
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: the mail bag from Friday, he says, who do the

1218
01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 1: bills sign? This is a great question. Who do the

1219
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 1: bills sign? First? Josh or Tremaine? And the worst thing

1220
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: I did on the golf course, was get a golf

1221
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 1: cart stuck in muck and was asked to leave the course,

1222
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 1: And of course there was a dare involved and adult

1223
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 1: beverages of course. So uh, there he is. He got

1224
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:19,800
Speaker 1: he somebody dared him to do something with a golf cart,

1225
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: he got it stuck and then he had to leave

1226
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,160
Speaker 1: the course as well. You should have been Tim. But

1227
01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 1: who do the bills signed first, Maddie, Josh or Tremaine.

1228
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 1: That's that's a really good question. That's tough. I think

1229
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 1: it's probably Tremaine. I mean, there's those numbers. If if

1230
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: Josh continues to develop and get better and better and better,

1231
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: his number is going to be ginormous. Yeah, and so

1232
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 1: it's easier to sign a smaller number, which is which

1233
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:50,840
Speaker 1: exactly not that Tremaine. We don't love and love and

1234
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: respect Tremaine a lot too, but middle linebackers just don't

1235
01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 1: make what quarterbacks do. Yeah, you get a smaller deal

1236
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 1: out of the way first, and then you you see

1237
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 1: how the chips fall and what you have left and

1238
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: what you've saved the last few years for this big

1239
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 1: deal that Josh should be able to get here soon. Yeah,

1240
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 1: Well he's not going to sign out a Holmes deal.

1241
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 1: I don't think, although if he's the kind of guy,

1242
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: if he's the kind of guy, maybe you do. Maybe

1243
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 1: you do sign him to a long term deal, like

1244
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 1: you know, five plus years, that's a long deal. Five

1245
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: and a half, five or six years or longer, that's

1246
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: a really long deal. But I think maybe in this

1247
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: climate at that, with the timing of the pandemic and

1248
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 1: the salary cap what it is, the Mahomes deal makes

1249
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 1: more and more sense for the Chiefs because they're off

1250
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: the hook for a couple of years. They don't have

1251
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: to cough up big money on the salary cap for

1252
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: a while, and that'll give the cap and give everything

1253
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 1: a chance to financially bounce back from the pandemic or

1254
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: a shrunken salary cap because of it. Right, I think

1255
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:57,000
Speaker 1: the Mahomes deal maybe hasn't reset the quarterback market by

1256
01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: any means. I mean, we'll see what Dak gets if

1257
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: he it's it, within the next couple weeks before training

1258
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: camp starts. But I think what it does, and since

1259
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:09,800
Speaker 1: it was ten years, I think it's easier to argue

1260
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 1: quarterbacks getting four or five or six year contracts now

1261
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:16,560
Speaker 1: because hey, you have a ten year one going on

1262
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,760
Speaker 1: right now, and it's it's easier to finagle that than

1263
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:22,720
Speaker 1: maybe five hundred million dollars over to right. Well, the

1264
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 1: ten years. The ten years is the thing. It almost

1265
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: makes it a non starter for most teams. They just

1266
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 1: don't want to tie themselves to a guy that long,

1267
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 1: particularly for that kind of money. And I think both

1268
01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 1: clubs it was so important to them, Well, it was

1269
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 1: important for the Chiefs anyway. If you got a guy,

1270
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 1: tie him up, get him and don't let him go

1271
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 1: anywhere so you don't have to worry about it. Structure

1272
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 1: the deal as nicely as you can and guarantee as

1273
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: much of it as you have to to get the

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Speaker 1: guy to sign it. Most players wouldn't touch a ten

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Speaker 1: year deal unless it was for big money, guaranteed big

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Speaker 1: percentage of that money. That's just the way it is,

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Speaker 1: because you know, you want to swing at the you

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01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: know you want to swing at the home run again

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Speaker 1: on a second contract, which is going to be even

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Speaker 1: bigger maybe right, so you don't get a chance to

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Speaker 1: do that. Really, if it's a ten year deal, that

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01:09:15,280 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 1: one of those kind of contracts where you can't you know,

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Speaker 1: the bills probably aren't going to get Josh Allen a

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01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 1: ten year deal, right. The Browns wouldn't give Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: a deal like that. None of these teams are going

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Speaker 1: to do that. So I'm thinking it's a really smart

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Speaker 1: deal by Kansas City to get him for that long.

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Speaker 1: And that also makes it easy for other teams to say,

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Speaker 1: you know, no, we can't do that because ten years

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01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:39,679
Speaker 1: is too long for us. So that's a pretty smart

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Speaker 1: contract by the Chiefs and obviously a lucrative one for

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Speaker 1: from a home's right, we'll see if it's smart to

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Speaker 1: give him a sixty million dollars that one year, that

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Speaker 1: seven to be yeah, to have that money. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: go one more from the mailbag or here July tenth

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Speaker 1: from Bills far for re, he says, if Vashon Joseph

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01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 1: develops as a beast, should the Bills move Edmonds to

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Speaker 1: an edge rusher. Well, if Vashon Joseph develops as a beast,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have to be a bigger beast than Edmonds

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01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: is inside, he's gonna have to play that position better

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Speaker 1: than Tremaine Edmonds. Now, if he does that, I don't

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01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 1: know how he would. I don't know how he would

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01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: prove it, first of all in this preseason, but even

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01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 1: whatever if he does, if he proves he's a better

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01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 1: inside linebacker than Tremaine Edmonds, they will put him in

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01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 1: the game and if because that's just the way it works.

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Speaker 1: They may love Tremaine Edmund like their own son, but

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01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 1: it's their responsibility to play the better player, and then

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01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,479
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds it will be his job to work hard,

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Speaker 1: either to get back on the field in that spot

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01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 1: or to be willing to play whatever they tell him

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Speaker 1: to play or wherever they tell him to play, whether

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01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:56,759
Speaker 1: it's playing an edge rusher or a different linebacker spot,

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01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: or who can prefer covering kicks? Who care? You know,

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01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,760
Speaker 1: who knows. But that's the way it works in a

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01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: perfect world. And I've seen the discipline that this coaching

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01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 1: staff in front office have and I'm pretty sure that

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01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 1: if one guy is playing better than another, he's going

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01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: to get on the field no matter who it is.

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Speaker 1: I have a hard time seeing Vashan Joseph out play

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01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds. But you know, if we're talking from Bill's

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01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,679
Speaker 1: for real or Friday mail bag question, if it happens,

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01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 1: he's got to play the better guy's got to play.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it is in the locker rooms. That's

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01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: and because if if there's a guy out there who's

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01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: better than another guy, the players in the locker room

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01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 1: expect the coaches to play the guy that gives them

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01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 1: the best chance to win. Period. If they're not doing that,

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01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: that's the quickest way for a coach to lose. A

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01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 1: locker room is the quickest way to have a divisive

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01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,640
Speaker 1: atmosphere in the locker room. It's the quickest way to

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01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:55,680
Speaker 1: self destruct your team play the wrong guys. So if

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Speaker 1: Vashan Joseph becomes the right guy in front of Tremaine Edmunds,

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Speaker 1: that's the way it'll be hand handled, and you can

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01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:02,360
Speaker 1: bet on it. I don't know how likely it is

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Speaker 1: that'll happen, but that's how it should be handled if

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Speaker 1: it does. I think it's tough to believe that Vashon

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Speaker 1: Joseph can outplay Tremaine Edmunds just because of Tremaine Edmund's size, stature,

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01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:17,760
Speaker 1: the player that he has developed into, experienced suspected of him. Yeah,

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01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: But if Vashon Joseph proves that he can be in

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01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:24,759
Speaker 1: the rotation and maybe have a few snaps in certain games.

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01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: What that does is gives Leslie Fraser the ability to

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01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 1: move Tremaine Edmunds about the field, and he could probably

1344
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: do that because he's a really talented defensive player to

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01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: where you can offset the opposing offense and win some

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01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: one on one mashups. Yeah, it's right. Tremaine has played

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01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 1: very well, and I know that we've over the course

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01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:50,080
Speaker 1: of the last couple of years. We've particularly in his

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01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 1: rookie season, people are like, I don't know, maybe because

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01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 1: he doesn't look like a middle linebacker, right, I mean,

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01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 1: he's just too tall and too lanky to look like

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01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 1: a middle linebacker. People are caught up in that, I

1353
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 1: think a lot, and we get a lot of calls

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01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: and a lot of opinions in our feedback like this

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01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: Friday mailbag. There's this underlying current that people still believe

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01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:14,680
Speaker 1: that Tremaine Edmonds is playing out a position as an

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01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: inside linebacker. They think he should be outside. They think

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01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 1: he should be playing more in space because of his

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01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,679
Speaker 1: ability to run and do all of that. And there's

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01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 1: still that underlying current that he would have been better

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01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 1: or the Bills would be better with him playing in

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01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:30,599
Speaker 1: a different spot. And I gotta tell you I don't

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01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 1: subscribe to that right off the tip. I just I

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01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: just can't do it. It's been my observation, like I

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01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: just said a minute ago, that this coaching staff puts

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01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:44,600
Speaker 1: guys in a position where every week they give the

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01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: guys they have on the field are going to give

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01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 1: them the best chance to win doing the things they're

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01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 1: asking them to do. And that's why Tremaine Edmonds is

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01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: on the field and doing exactly right in the middle

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01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:57,280
Speaker 1: of it, right where they want him to be. So

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Speaker 1: I think and I trust that their judgment. It's been

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01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,640
Speaker 1: pretty good in the last three years with Sean McDermott

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01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: and Brandon Bean, and I expect it to continue as well.

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01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: So that's Friday mail Bag. We'll get back to that

1376
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: as well. You can continue to tweet at us or

1377
01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:16,080
Speaker 1: send us emails or you can give us a call

1378
01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:18,680
Speaker 1: at eight three fifty if you like. We're gonna take

1379
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:20,960
Speaker 1: a break later on in the program two o'clock hour.

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01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: Kevin Connors, he's a if you don't know him, he's

1381
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 1: the ESPN Sports Center host. It's been with the ESPN

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01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight, and he's big Bills fan.

1383
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: Want to come on and talk bills for us. He's

1384
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Coming up at the top of the hour,

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01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Mattie Glab of One Bills Live, and this

1386
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live,

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01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Matty Glab here till three o'clock. Coming up

1388
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,639
Speaker 1: at the two o'clock hour, Kevin Connors at the ESPN.

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01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 1: He's a host of Sports Center. Mattie. We let's right

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01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 1: before the break, we went to the mail bag. We've

1391
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 1: invited our listeners. That means all of you you out there,

1392
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 1: you can tweet at us or call us and give

1393
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:07,559
Speaker 1: us your Friday question about what's going on with the Bills,

1394
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,080
Speaker 1: what's going on with their players, what's going on with

1395
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,000
Speaker 1: the protocols, what's going on with the virus, what's going

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01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: on with the training camp, what's going on with the

1397
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:14,880
Speaker 1: NFL ask us anything you want to ask us, and

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01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: we'll do our best to answer it. We have one

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01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: last one we got to get to from Seth. Maddie,

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01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:22,640
Speaker 1: why don't you go ahead and read Seth's question of

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01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:25,760
Speaker 1: the day. So Seth says, is t J Yelden on

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01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:28,559
Speaker 1: the roster again? This year. Tough to see Wade making

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01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 1: it and Jones is primarily a special teams guy that

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01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,799
Speaker 1: can play regular down and distance in a pinch. Yelden

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01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 1: has veteran talent to offer in a crowded room. Does

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01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: being sacrifice depth elsewhere for a real solid RB three?

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01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 1: I hope? So yeah. T J. Yelden was a guy

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01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: who he was the number three all last year. You

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01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:55,560
Speaker 1: see him get on the field at all. For I

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01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 1: have heard stuff around the building and you've probably heard

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01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 1: it too many. They really like t J. Yelden and

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01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 1: his personality and his leadership and his veteran presence. He's

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01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: got the right DNA that they like and that goes

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01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: a long way, particularly for a guy of his with

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01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: his credentials. And you know, the one knock on t J.

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01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:16,560
Speaker 1: Yelden is he fumbles it a little too often, and

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01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 1: that's hard to live with for a team that doesn't

1418
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:21,880
Speaker 1: like to turn it over at all because of you know,

1419
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:24,600
Speaker 1: they struggle to score points and they can't afford to

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01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 1: lose possessions at all. So I get it. But they

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01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:32,560
Speaker 1: like him for a reason, and he's still on the

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01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 1: team for a reason. And it's going to be interesting

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01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:36,519
Speaker 1: It is going to be interesting to see how the

1424
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 1: quarter the running backs shake out behind Zack Moss and

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01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:43,679
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. Yeah, I do see them keeping three running

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01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:46,600
Speaker 1: backs on this roster. Who that third one is is

1427
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:51,160
Speaker 1: to be determined now. Like I said yesterday, when Being

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01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:53,439
Speaker 1: and McDermot are asked about t J Yelden, they do

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01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:56,639
Speaker 1: have good things to say about him all the time.

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01:16:56,720 --> 01:17:00,200
Speaker 1: I think they like the size that he had as

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01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:02,760
Speaker 1: in a running back room where he kind of offsets

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01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:05,879
Speaker 1: single Tarren Zach Moss, who are known as being smaller

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01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:09,320
Speaker 1: running backs. He's six to one, two twenty three, so

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01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: he brings a different wrinkle to that room if he's

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01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 1: on the field. Now, that third running back is going

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01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: to make the roster because of what he can do

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01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 1: on special teams. Just like with pretty much every other

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01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:25,280
Speaker 1: position group, those perimeter players are going to be the

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01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 1: ones who make the roster because they're great on special teams.

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01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:32,120
Speaker 1: That's right. So I'm totally with you. I think they

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01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: want to get better on special teams. That would give

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01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:37,080
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones a leg up because he's a He's a

1443
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 1: top flight special teams guy around the National Football League

1444
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:41,639
Speaker 1: and he does give you a little something that running

1445
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: back is Bill's fans found out last year in the

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01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:45,680
Speaker 1: playoff game in Houston when he made that play at

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01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: the very end of the game. Have imagine that he

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01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: was actually on the field in that situation in overtime

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01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 1: on a drive where they you know, they're going for

1450
01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: the win, and Taiwan Jones not always on the field.

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01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,679
Speaker 1: They got the guy throwing to him. So certainly Houston

1452
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 1: trusted Taiwan Jones enough to be on the field in

1453
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: a critical situation. The Bills probably figure they can too.

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01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 1: Plus he gives them an enormous boost on special team.

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01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: So it's a good question about the running back room

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01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:16,000
Speaker 1: and what it's gonna shake out too, and Tea, whether

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01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 1: t J. Yeldon will be in that mix or not,

1458
01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 1: in Christian Wade and the rest. It's gonna be interesting.

1459
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,320
Speaker 1: Matt that was the mailbag for Friday, and we can

1460
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 1: still get address. We're gonna be here till three o'clock

1461
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: and we'll answer your questions if you want to send

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01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: them to us or give us a call at eight

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01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty Mattie, ready, four, what's for lunch?

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Speaker 1: Let's do it all right? All right? What's for lunch?

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01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 1: Here we go. This is the items on the menu.

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01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 1: We give you choices A or B. Column A or

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Speaker 1: column B. Just choose the one you like better. Doesn't

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01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 1: mean you dislike either of them. But if you're gonna

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01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:51,479
Speaker 1: on today, right now, for this lunch, this is what

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Speaker 1: you like better. Okay, we're gonna start out with a

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes question. We talked about this earlier in the

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01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: show about some of the things. You know, the five

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01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:00,840
Speaker 1: hundred million in the contract that he signed is the

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01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 1: big news, but there's some other stuff in there that's

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01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 1: not such big news. It's pretty interesting. And here's what

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01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:08,759
Speaker 1: this what item on the menu looks like Patrick Mahomes

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01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: contract details limits to these two activities? What's more of

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01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: an injury threat? Playing basketball or jet skiing? Those are

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01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 1: the items on the menu. Which which is more dangerous?

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01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:26,280
Speaker 1: Jet ski or basketball? I would have to say basketball

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Speaker 1: is a bigger injury threat than jet skiing, especially if

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01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 1: you're playing against other people. Now, if you're just playing

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01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:36,519
Speaker 1: by just shooting some hoops with yourself, not that big

1484
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:39,920
Speaker 1: of an injury threat, But when you get other people

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01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 1: involved in the equation, I think there is harm that

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01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:46,960
Speaker 1: could be done to your body. Yeah. My take on this,

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01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: I said it earlier in the show. Here's you're not

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Speaker 1: really competing against somebody, and when you're jet skiing, you're

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01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:54,599
Speaker 1: out there, you know, And now certainly it's a it's

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01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: a machine and it goes fast, but you are on

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01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: water and should be wearing a life jacket anyway, So

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01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, the only time you get in trouble is

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01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 1: when you run that. You know, you've seen all the

1494
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 1: YouTube videos or the Twitter things where guys run those

1495
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: up on the beach or run over. You know. Yeah,

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01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:13,439
Speaker 1: bad things can happen when you jet ski, but usually

1497
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: it's a little more rare, although when it does happen,

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01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:21,960
Speaker 1: maybe you know, much worse injury. But basketball, to me

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01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: is more of a danger for an NFL football player

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01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons. One, you're competing, which is

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01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 1: what they do. And when you compete, the intensity gets

1502
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 1: ratcheted up, and ratchet it up and ratchet it up

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01:20:34,920 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: until you're in a cage match with these guys on

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01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: a basketball court half court, right, I mean, these guys

1505
01:20:39,880 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 1: go hard and it's happened. And I gave the illustration

1506
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: of a former teammate of mind Nate Odams who blew

1507
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:48,560
Speaker 1: his knee out playing offseason pick up basketball. They go

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01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 1: hard when they compete, and I think you for a contract,

1509
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: if you're going to try and protect the guy and

1510
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: protect your investment as a football team, you don't want

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01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 1: that guy competing for something that doesn't mean anything, right.

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01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:04,640
Speaker 1: But if they're right, they should limit both those activities.

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01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: But basketball, I think is the more. And I don't

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01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 1: know Patrick Mahomes, maybe he doesn't even touch basketball, but man,

1515
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: oh man, don't let him do it. And I think

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01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 1: it's the right move by the Chiefs. So I'm going

1517
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,280
Speaker 1: to take basketball as well. All right, here we go,

1518
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:24,559
Speaker 1: true NFL. What's for lunch? Number two? Dak Prescott, Dallas

1519
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: Cowboys quarterback or Deshaun Watson the Houston Texans quarterback. We'll

1520
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: get it next the next major contract. Dak or Deshaun

1521
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: will get the next big contract as a quarterback. I

1522
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:41,720
Speaker 1: think Dak will get the next major contract. But I

1523
01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 1: do think Deshaun Watson is a better quarterback in my opinion.

1524
01:21:45,360 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 1: No really, yep, take did you see Dak's numbers last year?

1525
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 1: I did. I still think that is better. He was

1526
01:21:57,439 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 1: killing it, all right? Okay, that's I agree with this.

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01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:04,240
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is going to sign another deal. In fact,

1528
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:06,719
Speaker 1: they may get it done before this next week because

1529
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 1: the deadline's coming and he signed his UH franchise tender,

1530
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:13,080
Speaker 1: so he's on the hook for thirty million anyway. But

1531
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:15,160
Speaker 1: I think they want to get a deal done. And

1532
01:22:15,240 --> 01:22:17,600
Speaker 1: once the Mahomes deal got done and they got a

1533
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:20,559
Speaker 1: look at what they could possibly do, um, they got

1534
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 1: an idea of what the numbers are. Now now Doc

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01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:25,760
Speaker 1: Dak has been said to have turned down a couple

1536
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 1: of offers, a couple of really big offers from Jerry,

1537
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:32,120
Speaker 1: But I still think he's the one that gets it done.

1538
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, I don't think they're in any hurry to

1539
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: do him, uh, but sooner or later, both those guys

1540
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 1: are going to get a new contract. But I think Dak,

1541
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: and because he plays for the for the finger quotes

1542
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:49,679
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, I think team exactly that that you said

1543
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: it exactly right, all right. That's so that's I think

1544
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: we both think. Dak Prescott. Okay, here's the next here's

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01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,599
Speaker 1: the next site. I'm on the menu, next two items.

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01:22:56,680 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: Choose between them. Bigger what if? If? Robe Coleman was

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01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: called for past interference two three years ago in the

1548
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:13,160
Speaker 1: Rams Saints NFC championship game. That's a bigger what if? Then,

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01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:16,720
Speaker 1: if Robert Griffin the third had never gotten injured in Washington,

1550
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:24,519
Speaker 1: I mean that past interference call lack of call, that

1551
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:28,120
Speaker 1: was a big moment that could have That would have

1552
01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:31,960
Speaker 1: completely changed the game for sure. But that's a game.

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01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:34,680
Speaker 1: I know it was in the playoffs, but it is

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01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:39,559
Speaker 1: one game. If RG three never got hurt, that could

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01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 1: have changed his entire career. So I'm gonna say RG three,

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01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:53,599
Speaker 1: bigger what if? What about you? I will totally disagree. Okay,

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01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: here's why I get that, Robert Griffin the third never

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01:23:57,040 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: got hurt in Washington, maybe turns into a pretty good

1559
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: quarterback or you know, a good or great quarterback, starting

1560
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: quality kind of a guy like that. Here's the problem.

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01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:09,800
Speaker 1: RG three got hurt in Washington. Washington is as dysfunctional

1562
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: franchise as there is in the National Football League. One

1563
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:17,479
Speaker 1: good player cannot overcome dysfunction. That's what the Washington Redskins

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01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:19,640
Speaker 1: have displayed. I'm not saying they're bad guys on the

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01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:21,639
Speaker 1: team or anything like that. I'm not even saying nothing

1566
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 1: about their ownership where for whatever reason, it's been a

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01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:28,839
Speaker 1: dysfunctional franchise. They don't win, and it's systemic the problems.

1568
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 1: So Robert Griffin the third would not have been able

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01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: to overcome the systemic issues facing Washington Redskins. Therefore, Robie Coleman, say,

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01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: the Saints go to the playoffs, go to the super Bowl,

1571
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 1: they play the New England Patriots, and they win, they lose,

1572
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 1: whatever happens. It was, you know, it was like the

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01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 1: thirteen to three Super Bowl between the Patriots and the Rams,

1574
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 1: and the Patriots win it. Say, for instance, they do

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01:24:56,560 --> 01:24:59,040
Speaker 1: it and say the Rams the Saints do go to

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01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl and they win that one. So they've

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01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: won two with Sean Payton and Drew Brees. No way,

1578
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is still playing in the National Football League.

1579
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,719
Speaker 1: The New Orleans States are in a completely different spot

1580
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:15,879
Speaker 1: because Drew Brees is no longer they're starting quarterback the Rams.

1581
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: The shine is worn off Sean McVeigh to the point

1582
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 1: he may not even have a job now. They there's

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01:25:24,320 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 1: no super Bowl in there. Goff is probably not on

1584
01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:29,560
Speaker 1: the Rams because he's you know, now he doesn't have

1585
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 1: that super Bowl thing. They decide they don't want to

1586
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 1: sign it. All that stuff happens as a result of

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01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:39,560
Speaker 1: that one missed pass interference call. I think that's the

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01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: bigger what if? Dane, Yeah, right down the rabbit hole

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01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:46,680
Speaker 1: with that one. Yeah. I was in over my head

1590
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:48,519
Speaker 1: there for a minute, but I fought my way out.

1591
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:52,280
Speaker 1: I'm buying it though. All right, that's what I think,

1592
01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's why I think the Robie

1593
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 1: Coleman play was a much bigger what if. All right,

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01:25:57,160 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: here we go and menu item. Now we don't have

1595
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:01,920
Speaker 1: time for one more? Do we gotta go? All right? Wait,

1596
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:05,080
Speaker 1: one more? Here we go. Here's a bigger surprise offensive

1597
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:08,639
Speaker 1: breakon real quick, Maddie, Who is it the bigger surprise

1598
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:11,680
Speaker 1: with an offensive breakout in twenty twenty, It's gonna be

1599
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 1: the Lions or the Chargers if if both those teams

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01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 1: have a breakout season offensively, which is the bigger surprise?

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01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:25,719
Speaker 1: There's Matt Stafford with the Lions, A lot of question

1602
01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 1: with him, Chargers no more Philip Rivers, got Tyrod Taylor

1603
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:38,200
Speaker 1: justin Herbert m I'm gonna say the Lions. I'm gonna

1604
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 1: say the surprise would be Chargers. Matt Stafford can play

1605
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:45,760
Speaker 1: really good quarterback. Can he be healthy? Well, that's the

1606
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:49,320
Speaker 1: thing that would a guy stays healthy, that's not, you know, unusual.

1607
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:51,760
Speaker 1: I mean for Stafford it might be, but you know

1608
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 1: we've seen it happen before. But the Chargers with Tyrod

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01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: you can do it would be a surprise. Now, if

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01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 1: it's justin Herbert he comes in and lights it up,

1611
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 1: that's different. But I still think it's a surprise with

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01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:09,519
Speaker 1: if a rookie quarterback comes in and he lights it

1613
01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:13,639
Speaker 1: up in the AFC West, now, I think the Charger're

1614
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 1: a bigger surprise. That's what I think. All right, Coming up,

1615
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:20,800
Speaker 1: Thanks Mattie, good lunch. I liked it. Coming up at

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01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 1: the top of the hour, Kevin Connor, ESPN Sports Center

1617
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: host coming on with us Big Bill's fan. He's gonna

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01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:28,759
Speaker 1: come on shaffs his share with us, his thoughts about

1619
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:31,599
Speaker 1: the upcoming season. Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab Here until three

1620
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 1: o'clock one Bill's Dive Drive One Bills Live, presented by

1621
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:49,640
Speaker 1: Glide of Hell Missus Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back in

1622
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 1: one of Bill's Lives. Steve Tasker and Maddie Glab We've

1623
01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:55,479
Speaker 1: been taking your questions into Friday mail Bag All program.

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01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 1: We also had on the program Stefania Bell, who is

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01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 1: the ESPN injury analysts, and of course Eric would the

1626
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 1: color analysts for the Buffalo Bills radio broadcast of their games.

1627
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:07,760
Speaker 1: You can go back and check out any of those.

1628
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 1: If you didn't catch him live with us, you can

1629
01:28:10,400 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 1: go back and listen to him on a podcast on

1630
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,599
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills app or Buffalo Bills dot com. Uh,

1631
01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 1: Maddie A couple. At this time of year, even in

1632
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:21,920
Speaker 1: these times when everything's different, people are starting to rank

1633
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:26,000
Speaker 1: players and teams and rosters, and the Bills, you know,

1634
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:30,679
Speaker 1: as a roster, rank pretty high. One of the rankings

1635
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: has the Buffalo Bills, as I believe, the sixth most

1636
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:39,840
Speaker 1: complete roster or complete team in the National Football League,

1637
01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:44,480
Speaker 1: and the other ones is a top ten wide receivers

1638
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Steph Diggs got an honorable mention.

1639
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 1: He's not in the top ten, but he got an

1640
01:28:49,479 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: honorable mention, which is now whatever, whatever, whatever I mean,

1641
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 1: we all kind of knew, you know, what are you going?

1642
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:58,240
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on those rankings? I mean, start

1643
01:28:58,240 --> 01:29:01,000
Speaker 1: with start with the Bills row. I mean, it's almost

1644
01:29:02,840 --> 01:29:05,960
Speaker 1: it's kind of neat to be there. Why do I

1645
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:11,479
Speaker 1: feel pressure now? If we got I'm like, oh, all right,

1646
01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:17,960
Speaker 1: So this list of top rosters. Ravens are first, forty

1647
01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:22,960
Speaker 1: nine Ers, second, Chiefs third, which the forty nine ers

1648
01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:25,840
Speaker 1: did lose some key players, by the way, and Rahi

1649
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:30,759
Speaker 1: Moster now wants to trade m Saints are fourth, Bucks

1650
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:36,719
Speaker 1: are fifth, Bills are sixth, Cowboys seventh, Browns eighth, Colts ninth.

1651
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:41,679
Speaker 1: So yeah, a good spot to be in, but yeah,

1652
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:44,880
Speaker 1: they still out to win games now. Now the pressure

1653
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:49,040
Speaker 1: is on them to actually, you know, play good, you know,

1654
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:50,760
Speaker 1: and they and we've all seen it too, You and I.

1655
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: We talk about this all the time, Maddie. If there's

1656
01:29:53,120 --> 01:30:00,360
Speaker 1: one issue the Bills have that gives fans angst, it's

1657
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 1: scoring points. Yep. We got talent. We got a quarterback

1658
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:07,160
Speaker 1: we love. We got a running back we love, an

1659
01:30:07,160 --> 01:30:10,400
Speaker 1: offensive line we're proud of. Got a defense that's awesome.

1660
01:30:11,120 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 1: Got all this stuff going on, you know, Josh is

1661
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:16,519
Speaker 1: fun to watch. They moved the ball pretty good, young

1662
01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:19,120
Speaker 1: tight end, all that stuff. We got a hot, hot

1663
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 1: new wide receiver, all that stuff. But we have struggled

1664
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:24,800
Speaker 1: to score points. We can't get it in the end zone,

1665
01:30:26,240 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 1: and that gives that that is the issue to me

1666
01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:32,960
Speaker 1: where that has Buffalo Bills fans just wringing their hands

1667
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:35,559
Speaker 1: about the upcoming season or they're gonna fix that. Are

1668
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:37,240
Speaker 1: they gonna be better at that? Now? They got better

1669
01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:39,680
Speaker 1: this last year, But even so, that'll let you know

1670
01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:41,439
Speaker 1: what they were two years ago when when they were

1671
01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 1: six and ten. Man, oh man, it's you know, six

1672
01:30:45,120 --> 01:30:48,240
Speaker 1: points trans six I think it was. We were scoring

1673
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:50,880
Speaker 1: minuet was it fourteen points? We were like fifteen points

1674
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 1: two years ago and last year we were almost twenty points, right,

1675
01:30:54,960 --> 01:30:59,400
Speaker 1: nineteen points something something rank So it's like five five

1676
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:03,840
Speaker 1: points difference. That five points was the difference between six

1677
01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:07,880
Speaker 1: and ten and ten to six, and we still felt

1678
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:12,439
Speaker 1: like we gotta score some points, you know, up over

1679
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty one average a game because the field goal.

1680
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:19,680
Speaker 1: The defense can only hold you so much. And if

1681
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:23,639
Speaker 1: you look back at last year's games, they only lost

1682
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:26,960
Speaker 1: one game by more than a touchdown, and that was

1683
01:31:27,040 --> 01:31:30,760
Speaker 1: the Eagles game where the wheels fell off early in

1684
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:33,760
Speaker 1: that game and they did not look like themselves the

1685
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:37,960
Speaker 1: defense and didn't play how they normally play. But they

1686
01:31:38,040 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 1: were right in every single game and right within striking distance.

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01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:43,720
Speaker 1: I mean, when you lose by a touchdown or less,

1688
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:48,200
Speaker 1: you can probably key in on one incomplete play that

1689
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:50,680
Speaker 1: could have set you up for a field goal or

1690
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 1: a touchdown. So they it's really just one or two

1691
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:55,880
Speaker 1: more plays that they need to connect on to be

1692
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 1: able to tie it up or win a game. It's true,

1693
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 1: It's true, But I think I don't know. Do you

1694
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:04,479
Speaker 1: you share my my assessment of the great angst of

1695
01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:07,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fans. It's about scoring points and it has

1696
01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:10,640
Speaker 1: been for three years, yep. Right, and all eyes are

1697
01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:12,479
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen to see what he can do in

1698
01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 1: this third season and to see if he can really

1699
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:17,720
Speaker 1: take that next step forward to where this team is

1700
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:21,760
Speaker 1: a playoff caliber team in the coming seasons with the

1701
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:24,640
Speaker 1: ability to make it to the Super Bowl. All right,

1702
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:26,920
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Maddi glab here till three o'clock. Coming up

1703
01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: right after this break, Kevin Connors, ESPN Sports Center host

1704
01:32:30,080 --> 01:32:32,559
Speaker 1: Big Bills Fans. He's coming on with us here at

1705
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:34,680
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. We are presented Bykalid to Health and

1706
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:46,880
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio for Bret Time. Watcht Tasperus

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01:32:47,840 --> 01:33:07,040
Speaker 1: US Times. Welcome back, to our number three of One

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01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:09,200
Speaker 1: Bill's Lives, Steve Tasker, along with Maddie Glab. We're here

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01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:11,880
Speaker 1: till three o'clock and today we are pleased to be

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01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:15,760
Speaker 1: joined on the line by ESPN Sports Center host. He's

1711
01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:17,720
Speaker 1: been with ESPN since two thousand and age. You can

1712
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:21,639
Speaker 1: follow him and at Kevin Connor's ESPN Kevin Connor, Steve

1713
01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 1: Tasker and Mattie Glab here in Buffalo. Thanks for joining us,

1714
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:25,760
Speaker 1: and we got to ask you the first thing out

1715
01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:27,920
Speaker 1: of the box. I hope you and your family are

1716
01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:31,799
Speaker 1: doing well during the pandemic. Is everybody's safe and sound? Steeple,

1717
01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: we are. Thank you for asking. Yeah, it's you know,

1718
01:33:34,320 --> 01:33:36,160
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time. I say, you know,

1719
01:33:36,280 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 1: we've been inconvenience, which relative to everybody else is nothing.

1720
01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:44,479
Speaker 1: So we're all doing well. I want to say, man,

1721
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:48,040
Speaker 1: do I love hearing Oh, what a great tackle by Tasker?

1722
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:50,280
Speaker 1: I mean, what I wouldn't do to hear that again

1723
01:33:50,760 --> 01:33:53,880
Speaker 1: in a game in twenty twenty? Well, every time I

1724
01:33:54,040 --> 01:33:56,920
Speaker 1: hear that, Kevin, I hurt. So you can keep that

1725
01:33:57,000 --> 01:34:00,160
Speaker 1: to yourself. How did you become a Bills fan? Hi?

1726
01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:02,000
Speaker 1: How where are you is it? Where are you from?

1727
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:04,800
Speaker 1: I mean give us your give us your history. No,

1728
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:07,599
Speaker 1: I mean I'm the outlier. I grew up on Long Island,

1729
01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:10,280
Speaker 1: and I grew up on Long Island in the eighties

1730
01:34:10,320 --> 01:34:14,280
Speaker 1: and early nineties when you know, obviously we were slugging

1731
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:15,840
Speaker 1: it out with the Jets, and then of course in

1732
01:34:16,160 --> 01:34:19,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowl twenty five against the Giants, I'm the Bills

1733
01:34:19,120 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 1: fan in my school. Everyone else is rooting for the Giants.

1734
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:25,439
Speaker 1: So my dad was from Central New York. Is from

1735
01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:28,720
Speaker 1: Central New York. He's from just outside of Utica, and

1736
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:31,240
Speaker 1: he was a Bills fan, of course, dating back to

1737
01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:33,840
Speaker 1: the AFL days. So I inherited that from him. And

1738
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:36,720
Speaker 1: it's been an incredible ride being a Bills fan in

1739
01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:40,240
Speaker 1: New York in Jets and Giants country, and then of

1740
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:44,000
Speaker 1: course now in New England in Patriots country. Well, it's

1741
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:46,200
Speaker 1: difficult to be a pilgrim in an unholy land. So

1742
01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:51,600
Speaker 1: I feel for you. What's your favorite Bills memory and

1743
01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:54,639
Speaker 1: what about your favorite moment from twenty nineteen. This team

1744
01:34:54,720 --> 01:34:57,599
Speaker 1: had a pretty great season, didn't make it too far

1745
01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:00,479
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, but a lot of high hopes for

1746
01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:03,120
Speaker 1: them in twenty twenty. So what's your favorite memory overall?

1747
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:06,840
Speaker 1: And what about a favorite moment from last season. Yeah,

1748
01:35:06,920 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 1: that's a great question, Mattie. I mean, I think, probably,

1749
01:35:09,400 --> 01:35:10,880
Speaker 1: like a lot of Bills fans, it's got to be

1750
01:35:10,960 --> 01:35:14,080
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Day game. You know, we had family in town.

1751
01:35:14,160 --> 01:35:16,720
Speaker 1: My folks were here and my older brother was as well,

1752
01:35:16,760 --> 01:35:19,800
Speaker 1: and so you know, we we get Thanksgiving dinner. I

1753
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:21,200
Speaker 1: don't want to say out of the way, but we

1754
01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:23,559
Speaker 1: have Thanksgiving dinner and then it's gonna let them watch

1755
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,559
Speaker 1: the Bills. And boy, we played so well in that game,

1756
01:35:26,680 --> 01:35:30,479
Speaker 1: and to do it on national TV in Dallas. The

1757
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:33,880
Speaker 1: game that Josh Allen played, of course, was just magnificent.

1758
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:37,479
Speaker 1: So I think that's probably the favorite memory of twenty twenty.

1759
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:42,920
Speaker 1: And yeah, look twenty yeah, twenty nineteen. You know, yeah,

1760
01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:45,400
Speaker 1: the look the playoff game hurts, but Steve, you know what,

1761
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 1: it it didn't sting as much to me, And maybe

1762
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:52,800
Speaker 1: you disagree, maybe listeners disagree it didn't sting as much

1763
01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:54,960
Speaker 1: because we're on the ascent, right. I mean, if this,

1764
01:35:55,120 --> 01:35:56,679
Speaker 1: if I feel like this, if this were our last

1765
01:35:56,720 --> 01:35:58,479
Speaker 1: bite at the Apple, it would really kind of hurt

1766
01:35:58,479 --> 01:36:00,760
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But I feel like, you know,

1767
01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:03,680
Speaker 1: we played well on the road. You learn a lot

1768
01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: from a game like that, and maybe it's maybe we

1769
01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: point back to that game in Houston and say, you

1770
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:10,040
Speaker 1: know what, that was the one that got this team

1771
01:36:10,080 --> 01:36:13,439
Speaker 1: to where we wanted them to be. All along, we're

1772
01:36:13,479 --> 01:36:16,679
Speaker 1: with Kevin Connor's ESPN Sports Center host Big Bills Fan. Also,

1773
01:36:17,280 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 1: do you ever give us an idea? Do you ever

1774
01:36:19,160 --> 01:36:21,720
Speaker 1: attend games in Buffalo? Have you ever or do you

1775
01:36:21,800 --> 01:36:24,120
Speaker 1: do su on a regular basis? What's how's that for you?

1776
01:36:25,120 --> 01:36:29,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy that the first Bills game in

1777
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:32,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo that I've been to was in twenty seventeen. My

1778
01:36:32,720 --> 01:36:35,960
Speaker 1: brother and I said, look, we're going up Rex's coaching.

1779
01:36:36,479 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 1: It's a Thursday night game. We can we can make

1780
01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:40,559
Speaker 1: it work. So we went up. It was the color

1781
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 1: Rush game. I'm all sure we were the red uniforms

1782
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:46,679
Speaker 1: that game, but it's twenty seventeen against the Jets. Obviously

1783
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 1: that that wasn't a great game to be at. But

1784
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:51,920
Speaker 1: you know, growing up on Long Island, I was so

1785
01:36:52,080 --> 01:36:55,679
Speaker 1: far away from Buffalo. Never had the chance in college.

1786
01:36:55,760 --> 01:36:58,920
Speaker 1: I I'm in Ithaca, but it just never worked out.

1787
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:01,240
Speaker 1: And then of course, you know, now as a professional,

1788
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:04,679
Speaker 1: I work most weekends. Now I've been to a ton

1789
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:07,360
Speaker 1: of Bills games on the road, tons of Bills games

1790
01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:09,880
Speaker 1: at the Meadowlands. I went to a Bills Cardinals game

1791
01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:14,240
Speaker 1: in Arizona back in ninety nine. Special memory twenty thirteen.

1792
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:18,200
Speaker 1: My wife and her parents were living in Tampa Bay

1793
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:20,479
Speaker 1: at the time. We went down there to visit them

1794
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 1: and we saw a Bucks game in Tampa Bay. But yeah,

1795
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:27,679
Speaker 1: the one the one game that I've seen in Buffalo

1796
01:37:27,880 --> 01:37:30,280
Speaker 1: was twenty seventeen. But we've got to change that, if

1797
01:37:30,360 --> 01:37:34,599
Speaker 1: not this season, next season. You climbed the ladder all

1798
01:37:34,640 --> 01:37:37,800
Speaker 1: the way up to ESPN. Hosting SportsCenter is something that

1799
01:37:38,360 --> 01:37:41,680
Speaker 1: many people aspire to do in the sports world. Did

1800
01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 1: you ever think that would become a reality in your career, Mattie,

1801
01:37:48,160 --> 01:37:50,680
Speaker 1: It's a great question, I you know. So again, my

1802
01:37:50,800 --> 01:37:53,240
Speaker 1: dad grew up just outside of Utica, and I can

1803
01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:55,320
Speaker 1: remember as a kid, we would go up to the

1804
01:37:55,360 --> 01:37:57,920
Speaker 1: house that he grew up in over the summer, and

1805
01:37:58,080 --> 01:38:03,599
Speaker 1: I can vividly remember this is pre cable for where

1806
01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:05,800
Speaker 1: I grew up on Long Island. It was we didn't

1807
01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:08,760
Speaker 1: have cable yet, but I can remember going up to

1808
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:13,519
Speaker 1: his house in Ilia, New York and there was this

1809
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:18,200
Speaker 1: channel that played only sports, and it had to show

1810
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 1: that ran highlights of every game, and I just thought

1811
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:23,160
Speaker 1: it was mind blowing to me at the time. It

1812
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:26,800
Speaker 1: was probably eighty four eighty five, and I'm thinking, what

1813
01:38:27,080 --> 01:38:30,080
Speaker 1: is this and how do I get it? So ESPN

1814
01:38:30,240 --> 01:38:32,960
Speaker 1: was always on the radar in that sense, but to

1815
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:36,680
Speaker 1: be perfectly honest, it was never one day I'm going

1816
01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:39,280
Speaker 1: to be a sports center anchor. It was more one day,

1817
01:38:39,360 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a sports anchor at a local

1818
01:38:42,560 --> 01:38:46,320
Speaker 1: station like Marv Albert was at WNBC when I was

1819
01:38:46,400 --> 01:38:48,680
Speaker 1: growing up, And I figured, you know what, I'll do

1820
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: the sports on a desk there, and maybe, god willing,

1821
01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:53,640
Speaker 1: I'll get to do some play by play and can

1822
01:38:53,680 --> 01:38:55,720
Speaker 1: you imagine how great it would be to travel with

1823
01:38:55,840 --> 01:38:58,680
Speaker 1: the team to all these games. And then all of

1824
01:38:58,720 --> 01:39:00,600
Speaker 1: a sudden, I worked in New York York City for

1825
01:39:00,680 --> 01:39:03,880
Speaker 1: a while and the ESPN opportunity came up. But it

1826
01:39:04,080 --> 01:39:06,720
Speaker 1: was it was a life changer for me in every way.

1827
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:09,360
Speaker 1: So it was never on my radar, but I'm certainly

1828
01:39:09,400 --> 01:39:12,840
Speaker 1: glad it came on the radar. Kevin, how hard has

1829
01:39:12,880 --> 01:39:19,559
Speaker 1: it been to anchor sports center with no sports Steve,

1830
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: That's the million dollar question, And I will I will

1831
01:39:22,479 --> 01:39:25,320
Speaker 1: take myself out of the equation and say this is

1832
01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:28,920
Speaker 1: speak up on behalf of my colleagues at ESPN. It's

1833
01:39:29,000 --> 01:39:34,280
Speaker 1: remarkable the job that we they do on a daily

1834
01:39:34,400 --> 01:39:37,280
Speaker 1: basis coming up with content because you're right, you know,

1835
01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 1: the show must go on. And the show has gone

1836
01:39:39,560 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 1: on since the day that I was sitting on the

1837
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:45,519
Speaker 1: college basketball desk and and all these college conferences started

1838
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:47,720
Speaker 1: shutting it down, and it was like, hey, guys, this

1839
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:50,479
Speaker 1: is all stopping for a while, you know. And they've

1840
01:39:50,520 --> 01:39:53,280
Speaker 1: done a remarkable job of putting programming on the air.

1841
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:57,760
Speaker 1: I've been back on campus probably about ten twelve times

1842
01:39:57,800 --> 01:40:00,760
Speaker 1: since this has started. It's a ghost town. We've got

1843
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:03,960
Speaker 1: the people who find the video and cut the video

1844
01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:07,160
Speaker 1: working on laptops at home, in their kitchen or in

1845
01:40:07,240 --> 01:40:11,479
Speaker 1: their living room. We have a spartan staff on campus,

1846
01:40:11,720 --> 01:40:15,280
Speaker 1: and yet you probably wouldn't notice it watching it on TV.

1847
01:40:15,880 --> 01:40:18,400
Speaker 1: The thing that the biggest adjustment for me, Steve, is

1848
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:22,280
Speaker 1: doing this. I had never done talk radio as a professional,

1849
01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:24,519
Speaker 1: and of course, with the number of shows that we

1850
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:27,040
Speaker 1: have done being cut down on the TV side, they said, hey,

1851
01:40:27,080 --> 01:40:28,560
Speaker 1: how would you like to try and doing radio? And

1852
01:40:28,600 --> 01:40:31,360
Speaker 1: I said, of course, I'd love it. Talk about challenging,

1853
01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:33,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, TV you can sort of take

1854
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:36,879
Speaker 1: it without about the ten best plays of Jim Kelly's

1855
01:40:36,960 --> 01:40:39,479
Speaker 1: career on a radio that's a little bit tougher, and

1856
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:42,519
Speaker 1: talk radio especially, so you know, you're we got a

1857
01:40:42,600 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 1: ton of mileage out of a Jordan documentary. We've been

1858
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:48,320
Speaker 1: forecasting what sports may look like for a long time,

1859
01:40:48,439 --> 01:40:51,360
Speaker 1: so it's been challenging. But I tell you what, it's

1860
01:40:51,400 --> 01:40:54,160
Speaker 1: times like these where you say, I respect the hell

1861
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:56,639
Speaker 1: out of my teammates because they've done an incredible job

1862
01:40:58,080 --> 01:41:01,160
Speaker 1: here on talk radio at one Live. I mean, we've

1863
01:41:01,320 --> 01:41:05,600
Speaker 1: discussed the Bills in every way possible and dreamt up

1864
01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:07,960
Speaker 1: this twenty twenty season and what it could be in

1865
01:41:08,040 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 1: what we hope it to be with fans in the stands,

1866
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:13,439
Speaker 1: with the talented team who makes it deep into the playoffs.

1867
01:41:13,680 --> 01:41:16,799
Speaker 1: And it's pretty obvious that this Bill's hype has reached

1868
01:41:16,880 --> 01:41:19,760
Speaker 1: outside of the western New York bubble. The Bills are

1869
01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 1: starting to get a lot of attention in a league

1870
01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:26,240
Speaker 1: wide sense and in national media. So what's the Bill's

1871
01:41:26,320 --> 01:41:29,200
Speaker 1: reaction in Bristol? If you could put your finger on it,

1872
01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:33,640
Speaker 1: are the Bills still the favorites in the East, or

1873
01:41:33,720 --> 01:41:36,439
Speaker 1: are they the favorites in the East or are people

1874
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:40,880
Speaker 1: being a little weary of pointing to the Bills as

1875
01:41:41,280 --> 01:41:46,320
Speaker 1: someone who could win that division this season? Mattie, I

1876
01:41:46,400 --> 01:41:50,960
Speaker 1: think until last week it was, yes, the Bills are

1877
01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:54,439
Speaker 1: the team to beat. I don't know that that's fully changed,

1878
01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:56,639
Speaker 1: but I think people are saying, hey, wait a minute,

1879
01:41:57,320 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots signed Cam Newton and here we go. Bill

1880
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:02,920
Speaker 1: Belichick's gonna work his magic on him. I think, for

1881
01:42:03,040 --> 01:42:05,200
Speaker 1: what it's worth, it was a great signing for the Patriots.

1882
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:08,599
Speaker 1: You know, I still think Cam Newton's an effective weapon

1883
01:42:08,680 --> 01:42:10,479
Speaker 1: in the league, and he's got more weapons to throw

1884
01:42:10,560 --> 01:42:13,240
Speaker 1: to now than he ever had in Carolina in my opinion,

1885
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:16,639
Speaker 1: but I still think we're the team to beat. I mean, look,

1886
01:42:17,920 --> 01:42:19,519
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of this and Steve, maybe

1887
01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 1: maybe you guys have a better handle on this. Is

1888
01:42:22,280 --> 01:42:26,320
Speaker 1: there a better wide receiver corps in the league than

1889
01:42:26,680 --> 01:42:31,439
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, Cole Beasley, John Brown right now? In your opinion? Yeah,

1890
01:42:31,520 --> 01:42:33,599
Speaker 1: we've been talking about that as well. They're up. They've

1891
01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:36,880
Speaker 1: got to be in the conversation, no question about it.

1892
01:42:36,920 --> 01:42:39,439
Speaker 1: Their experience and their abilities and all the things that

1893
01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:42,680
Speaker 1: they've shown thus far, they're in the conversation. It's hard

1894
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:45,160
Speaker 1: to say who's going to be better or worse or whatever,

1895
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Speaker 1: And a lot of it still comes down to Josh Allen.

1896
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, they have done everything they can

1897
01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:53,640
Speaker 1: to give Josh as many guys as he has to

1898
01:42:53,800 --> 01:42:56,800
Speaker 1: have to be successful. And now we just hope we

1899
01:42:56,840 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 1: get a chance to see him put it together right

1900
01:43:00,080 --> 01:43:02,880
Speaker 1: and and then and we and look, the line seems

1901
01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:04,360
Speaker 1: to be, you know, as good as it's been in

1902
01:43:04,439 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 1: a long time. You expect Kevin Singletary to make strides.

1903
01:43:08,840 --> 01:43:10,640
Speaker 1: I had a chance to talk with Kyle Whittingham a

1904
01:43:10,720 --> 01:43:14,240
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, head coach at Utah. He was waving

1905
01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:16,960
Speaker 1: about the Zach Moss signing for the Bills, and obviously

1906
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:20,280
Speaker 1: we address things defensively. So the point being, Mattie, to

1907
01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:23,719
Speaker 1: your original question, I think we are the most talented

1908
01:43:23,760 --> 01:43:26,720
Speaker 1: team in the division. I think anything less than being

1909
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:29,680
Speaker 1: a playoff team again this year is a big disappointment.

1910
01:43:30,400 --> 01:43:32,439
Speaker 1: But those are the expectations that you need to have

1911
01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:35,640
Speaker 1: when you have talent like this. So until the Patriots

1912
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:38,559
Speaker 1: are knocked off the perch um, I will believe them

1913
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Speaker 1: to be a tough challenger, but I still think that

1914
01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:43,519
Speaker 1: we're as talented as anybody, if not more so. In

1915
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Speaker 1: the entire afcast. We're speaking with ESPN Sports Center host

1916
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Speaker 1: Kevin Connors. Kevin, I just as I just mentioned it,

1917
01:43:51,600 --> 01:43:53,920
Speaker 1: and you said too that the expectations are through the

1918
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:55,720
Speaker 1: roof for this well, I say through the roof, but

1919
01:43:56,240 --> 01:43:58,960
Speaker 1: highly enhanced this year as as opposed to any other

1920
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:00,840
Speaker 1: year we've seen. So I'm ask you a question, and

1921
01:44:00,960 --> 01:44:04,240
Speaker 1: either or question, who's Josh Allen going to be closer

1922
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:07,200
Speaker 1: to this year? Is he going to have a closer

1923
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:09,519
Speaker 1: to a breakout season like Lamar Jackson? Or is he

1924
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:11,600
Speaker 1: going to be more like a guy like Mitch Trubisky.

1925
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Speaker 1: Who's he going to be closer to? Please don't say

1926
01:44:15,320 --> 01:44:19,080
Speaker 1: much no, I mean, listen, I think I think we

1927
01:44:19,200 --> 01:44:25,160
Speaker 1: have long passed the Mitchell Trubisky level. Stephen. My opinion

1928
01:44:25,400 --> 01:44:27,880
Speaker 1: hill Lamar is such a tough guy because you know,

1929
01:44:27,960 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: he just became on like Gangbusters, and he's such a

1930
01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:34,840
Speaker 1: unique weapon. Listen, Steve, you know better than anybody. I mean,

1931
01:44:35,960 --> 01:44:37,800
Speaker 1: it used to be a very different ball game. You

1932
01:44:37,800 --> 01:44:40,440
Speaker 1: would draft a quarterback, you would ease them into the situation.

1933
01:44:40,600 --> 01:44:44,360
Speaker 1: Now we're thrusting guys right into the role and demanding

1934
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:48,640
Speaker 1: that they succeed because other guys have We forget that

1935
01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:51,320
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning took a little while to become Peyton Manning.

1936
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:54,240
Speaker 1: Even Peyton Manning took a little while to become Peyton Manning.

1937
01:44:54,560 --> 01:44:58,360
Speaker 1: So listen, I'm pleased with the progress that he's made.

1938
01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that he doesn't still have those moments

1939
01:45:01,320 --> 01:45:04,080
Speaker 1: where you say, God, why would you try that throw?

1940
01:45:04,360 --> 01:45:06,800
Speaker 1: Why not do this? But I think we've got to

1941
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:09,600
Speaker 1: be a little bit patient with the maturation process of

1942
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:11,799
Speaker 1: a guy who didn't play at a Power five school

1943
01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:15,400
Speaker 1: and is still really really young. So I've been pleased

1944
01:45:15,479 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: with the progress that we've seen. Now, does he need

1945
01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:20,840
Speaker 1: to take a giant step given what we just talked

1946
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:23,840
Speaker 1: about the talent that surrounding him, There's no question. But

1947
01:45:23,960 --> 01:45:26,799
Speaker 1: do I think it's attainable. Do I think Josh Allen

1948
01:45:26,920 --> 01:45:30,599
Speaker 1: is going to become Drew Brees this season? No? I don't.

1949
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:33,080
Speaker 1: But do I think Josh Allen is going to thorst

1950
01:45:33,160 --> 01:45:36,240
Speaker 1: or pass what Mitchell Trubisky will be in twenty twenty.

1951
01:45:36,240 --> 01:45:39,360
Speaker 1: I don't think there's even a conversation about that. With

1952
01:45:39,640 --> 01:45:44,680
Speaker 1: how this roster looks, with the division, the departure of

1953
01:45:44,840 --> 01:45:48,759
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, with the questions that there are with this season,

1954
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:52,120
Speaker 1: and the fact that the Bills return so many starters

1955
01:45:52,479 --> 01:45:55,960
Speaker 1: and pretty much their entire coaching staff. What's a hot

1956
01:45:56,080 --> 01:45:59,120
Speaker 1: take for the Bills this season, whether that be a

1957
01:45:59,280 --> 01:46:07,200
Speaker 1: positive or a negative one, Maddie, A hot take is

1958
01:46:09,720 --> 01:46:13,320
Speaker 1: this is a team that has the talent to at

1959
01:46:13,439 --> 01:46:18,200
Speaker 1: least play in the AFC Championship game. It's hard to

1960
01:46:18,360 --> 01:46:22,599
Speaker 1: say this team super Bowl or bust because look, as

1961
01:46:22,640 --> 01:46:24,640
Speaker 1: both of you know, so many things can happen over

1962
01:46:24,720 --> 01:46:27,560
Speaker 1: the course of a season. And listen, how you know

1963
01:46:27,640 --> 01:46:30,320
Speaker 1: how fortunate were we last year with injuries? Right? I

1964
01:46:30,360 --> 01:46:33,320
Speaker 1: mean there's there aren't too many big name players who

1965
01:46:33,360 --> 01:46:35,880
Speaker 1: were injured last season, So that of course is the

1966
01:46:35,960 --> 01:46:40,160
Speaker 1: great equalizer in the NFL. And I'm not a cheerleader

1967
01:46:40,320 --> 01:46:42,680
Speaker 1: to the extent that you know, I joke around each

1968
01:46:42,720 --> 01:46:44,800
Speaker 1: year on social media. I don't see anything other than

1969
01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:47,600
Speaker 1: that nineteen or not. Well, I'm not saying that realistically,

1970
01:46:48,160 --> 01:46:50,720
Speaker 1: but do I think that this team is capable of

1971
01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:54,160
Speaker 1: playing for at least an AFC championship? I do I

1972
01:46:54,280 --> 01:46:56,200
Speaker 1: think if we don't make the playoffs this year, it's

1973
01:46:56,200 --> 01:46:58,639
Speaker 1: a big disappointment. And by the way, again, that's where

1974
01:46:58,680 --> 01:47:00,840
Speaker 1: we should be given the talent level of this team.

1975
01:47:01,720 --> 01:47:05,680
Speaker 1: But I think AFC Championship is within reason, that's as

1976
01:47:05,720 --> 01:47:08,120
Speaker 1: hot as I'm going to go right now. But beyond

1977
01:47:08,240 --> 01:47:12,280
Speaker 1: that I also think is possible. Yeah, I kind of

1978
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:14,040
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Kevin. I think if there's a

1979
01:47:14,160 --> 01:47:18,800
Speaker 1: range between disappointment and you know, over the moon's saying

1980
01:47:18,840 --> 01:47:21,600
Speaker 1: taking that next step. The AFC Championship certainly is the

1981
01:47:21,680 --> 01:47:24,240
Speaker 1: top end of where you can realistically say any team's

1982
01:47:24,240 --> 01:47:26,800
Speaker 1: going to I mean, every all thirty two teams could say, hey,

1983
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:29,639
Speaker 1: we're going to the super Bowl. But you know, saying

1984
01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:32,200
Speaker 1: you get deep into the playoffs is the upper end

1985
01:47:32,280 --> 01:47:34,680
Speaker 1: of the expectation range, and the lower end is you've

1986
01:47:34,680 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 1: got to get in the playoffs. If you don't get

1987
01:47:36,280 --> 01:47:39,439
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, it's a huge disappointment. Where is the

1988
01:47:40,400 --> 01:47:42,599
Speaker 1: line where it says, you know what, that's the that's

1989
01:47:42,640 --> 01:47:44,800
Speaker 1: where I thought we should have gotten. Where what's the

1990
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:48,240
Speaker 1: level of success the Buffalo Bills have to reach for

1991
01:47:48,320 --> 01:47:51,160
Speaker 1: you to say, Okay, we're still going, let's go, you

1992
01:47:51,200 --> 01:47:52,720
Speaker 1: know what, I mean, What's what's the one where you

1993
01:47:52,880 --> 01:47:57,519
Speaker 1: end the season still optimistic, even though maybe disappointed. Yeah again,

1994
01:47:57,600 --> 01:47:59,960
Speaker 1: I think, Steve, I think it's playoffs. I would imagine

1995
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:01,400
Speaker 1: that you would agree. I mean, look, we were a

1996
01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:03,519
Speaker 1: playoff team a year ago and it wasn't you know,

1997
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:06,560
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't backdooring into the playoffs because the

1998
01:48:06,640 --> 01:48:09,800
Speaker 1: Bengals pulled off a miracle to beat the Ravens, you know.

1999
01:48:09,880 --> 01:48:13,160
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a legitimate playoff team all year

2000
01:48:13,240 --> 01:48:16,720
Speaker 1: long and it wasn't a surprise. It was It may

2001
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:19,240
Speaker 1: have been a surprise to some people who who didn't

2002
01:48:19,320 --> 01:48:22,800
Speaker 1: buy into what Brandon Bean uh you know, was putting

2003
01:48:22,840 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 1: together here and what Sean McDermott and Leslie Frasier and

2004
01:48:25,439 --> 01:48:29,960
Speaker 1: company were Brian Dable were coaching up um. But but

2005
01:48:30,120 --> 01:48:32,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't a shocker in my opinion. So,

2006
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:35,640
Speaker 1: you know, look to be leading a playoff game this

2007
01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:39,320
Speaker 1: past season at the half and to essentially bring everyone back,

2008
01:48:39,360 --> 01:48:42,080
Speaker 1: and not only that, add one of the top ten

2009
01:48:42,240 --> 01:48:45,880
Speaker 1: playmakers in the league and draft well again and replenish

2010
01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:51,719
Speaker 1: things defensively. You know, to me again, it's playoffs or bust.

2011
01:48:52,080 --> 01:48:54,240
Speaker 1: And people have questions to answer if this isn't a

2012
01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:59,040
Speaker 1: playoff team barring massive injuries in twenty twenty m of

2013
01:48:59,160 --> 01:49:02,360
Speaker 1: course the great on known being COVID nineteen. But you know,

2014
01:49:02,439 --> 01:49:06,080
Speaker 1: if all things are equal, if things go as best possible,

2015
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:08,920
Speaker 1: and this is a season that that goes forward and

2016
01:49:09,120 --> 01:49:11,519
Speaker 1: everyone's healthy, if it's not the playoffs, to me, it's

2017
01:49:11,560 --> 01:49:16,160
Speaker 1: a big disappointment with how this roster looked. Could you

2018
01:49:16,280 --> 01:49:19,800
Speaker 1: point to a certain player as being this year's X

2019
01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:26,000
Speaker 1: factor for the Bills? You know, again, the obvious one,

2020
01:49:26,120 --> 01:49:28,840
Speaker 1: of course is the quarterback, right, But that's true of

2021
01:49:28,920 --> 01:49:30,760
Speaker 1: every team in the league, and you know, you want

2022
01:49:30,880 --> 01:49:35,519
Speaker 1: things to go well. You know, with Stefon Diggs coming in,

2023
01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:38,560
Speaker 1: knowing that he's a guy who's used to being a

2024
01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:41,840
Speaker 1: playmaker and that you listen at that position. Steve knows

2025
01:49:41,840 --> 01:49:43,760
Speaker 1: as well as anybody, you've got to feed a guy

2026
01:49:43,880 --> 01:49:48,000
Speaker 1: like that, You've got to keep him happy. So discounting

2027
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:51,960
Speaker 1: that's the wrong word, not counting those two. To answer

2028
01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:55,280
Speaker 1: your question, Maddie, would probably be Devin Singletary. I mean,

2029
01:49:55,400 --> 01:49:58,320
Speaker 1: it was obviously the second half of the year for him.

2030
01:49:58,439 --> 01:50:00,519
Speaker 1: We went to him on a much more a frequent

2031
01:50:00,600 --> 01:50:04,360
Speaker 1: basis and he became a legitimate weapon. Well, now you know,

2032
01:50:04,520 --> 01:50:07,360
Speaker 1: he starts the year as the guy, and though there

2033
01:50:07,560 --> 01:50:11,080
Speaker 1: is quality at the backup position, we think with Zach

2034
01:50:11,160 --> 01:50:13,599
Speaker 1: Moss coming in as a rookie, you know, Devin's going

2035
01:50:13,640 --> 01:50:15,639
Speaker 1: to be called on to be the guy who carries

2036
01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:17,800
Speaker 1: the load. So to me, he would probably be the

2037
01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:21,439
Speaker 1: X factor offensively and then defensively. You know this is

2038
01:50:21,520 --> 01:50:24,280
Speaker 1: probably I'm not exactly giving a hot take here, but

2039
01:50:24,720 --> 01:50:27,920
Speaker 1: you know, seeing Tremaine and how he continues to mature,

2040
01:50:28,040 --> 01:50:30,920
Speaker 1: I mean we forget sometimes just how young he is,

2041
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:33,880
Speaker 1: how little football he's played, and how you know from

2042
01:50:34,000 --> 01:50:36,640
Speaker 1: from from a birth certificate standpoint, how young he is.

2043
01:50:36,680 --> 01:50:39,360
Speaker 1: And yet what he's already shown as an NFL player

2044
01:50:39,400 --> 01:50:41,880
Speaker 1: has been so encouraging, And you know, is he ready

2045
01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:43,879
Speaker 1: to take the next step to not only be considered

2046
01:50:43,920 --> 01:50:46,799
Speaker 1: among the better players in the AFC at his position,

2047
01:50:46,920 --> 01:50:49,280
Speaker 1: but among the best defensive players in the NFL. So

2048
01:50:49,760 --> 01:50:52,840
Speaker 1: those would be two spots that I would pick. All right, Kevin,

2049
01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:54,439
Speaker 1: I gotta forgive me for not knowing you went to

2050
01:50:54,520 --> 01:51:00,560
Speaker 1: Ithaca College. I did, okay, So earlier the show, I

2051
01:51:00,720 --> 01:51:03,080
Speaker 1: shared one of my most embarrassing moments on a golf

2052
01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:05,280
Speaker 1: course when I threw a golf club and it's stuck

2053
01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:07,519
Speaker 1: in the green and we were playing with the golf

2054
01:51:07,600 --> 01:51:10,240
Speaker 1: pro and it was an ugly affair. But since you

2055
01:51:10,320 --> 01:51:13,320
Speaker 1: went to Ithaca College, you're familiar with the term Cordica.

2056
01:51:14,760 --> 01:51:18,720
Speaker 1: Of course. Okay, is there anything that happened to you

2057
01:51:18,840 --> 01:51:21,760
Speaker 1: during your four years at Ithaca College? When the week

2058
01:51:21,880 --> 01:51:25,559
Speaker 1: long festival with Courtland State that turns into a cross

2059
01:51:25,680 --> 01:51:32,320
Speaker 1: between woodstock and you know, and a riot. So is

2060
01:51:32,360 --> 01:51:34,519
Speaker 1: there anything that you can share with us about the

2061
01:51:34,600 --> 01:51:37,759
Speaker 1: embarrassing happened to you during your four years at Cordica.

2062
01:51:39,680 --> 01:51:42,040
Speaker 1: That is a tremendous question, and I'm not gonna I

2063
01:51:42,120 --> 01:51:43,760
Speaker 1: know it is. I know it is. I can't wait

2064
01:51:43,800 --> 01:51:46,559
Speaker 1: for this. I know because I had kids that were

2065
01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:50,320
Speaker 1: part of Cordica, and I know it's a question that

2066
01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:54,040
Speaker 1: has to be asked. Well. So I came into this

2067
01:51:54,560 --> 01:51:58,040
Speaker 1: interview figuring that we would talk about memories of build

2068
01:51:58,120 --> 01:51:59,560
Speaker 1: games that I've been to, and I was going to

2069
01:51:59,640 --> 01:52:02,439
Speaker 1: say nineteen ninety nine, I went to the Bills Cardinals

2070
01:52:02,520 --> 01:52:05,599
Speaker 1: game in Arizona. If you ask me for specific memories,

2071
01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:07,559
Speaker 1: I'm a little hazy on some of that. Now, as

2072
01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:12,320
Speaker 1: for Cortica, I will tell you that for my junior

2073
01:52:12,400 --> 01:52:15,040
Speaker 1: and senior year. I was doing the games on radio,

2074
01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:19,440
Speaker 1: so that prevented me from partaking in any of the festivities.

2075
01:52:20,160 --> 01:52:24,200
Speaker 1: And my first experience with the Courtica game was my

2076
01:52:24,360 --> 01:52:27,519
Speaker 1: brother went to Courtland, so I was rooting for Courtland

2077
01:52:28,360 --> 01:52:32,080
Speaker 1: at Ithaca before I ever went to Ithaca. So too

2078
01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:35,320
Speaker 1: young to have been drinking when I was in high school.

2079
01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:37,680
Speaker 1: I can tell you that we illegally got into the

2080
01:52:37,760 --> 01:52:40,960
Speaker 1: game that day. I would, but I don't have any

2081
01:52:41,040 --> 01:52:45,120
Speaker 1: great stories of four minute keg stands in the parking

2082
01:52:45,160 --> 01:52:47,120
Speaker 1: lot before the game, just because I was a part

2083
01:52:47,160 --> 01:52:50,679
Speaker 1: of the broadcast so often. But if we're talking about

2084
01:52:51,160 --> 01:52:54,760
Speaker 1: other games, that's probably more of a fertile ground for

2085
01:52:54,840 --> 01:53:00,400
Speaker 1: a longer conversation. Kevin Connor's ESPN Sports Centers, thanks for

2086
01:53:00,439 --> 01:53:03,120
Speaker 1: being with us. You dodge the last question art for

2087
01:53:03,479 --> 01:53:07,240
Speaker 1: and I applaud you for it. Thanks for joining us, Mattie,

2088
01:53:07,280 --> 01:53:08,680
Speaker 1: it was great to talk to you guys. Thanks for

2089
01:53:08,720 --> 01:53:11,760
Speaker 1: having me on and go Bills, Kevin Connor's esp and

2090
01:53:11,760 --> 01:53:14,000
Speaker 1: Sports Center host, has been with ESPN since two thousand

2091
01:53:14,000 --> 01:53:16,639
Speaker 1: and eight. You can follow him on Twitter at Kevin

2092
01:53:16,760 --> 01:53:20,040
Speaker 1: Connor's EESP and fun Stuff. I knew I was going

2093
01:53:20,080 --> 01:53:22,800
Speaker 1: to get him with the Cordica question. We've all got dark,

2094
01:53:23,200 --> 01:53:25,479
Speaker 1: dark shadows in our past from our college days, and

2095
01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:28,240
Speaker 1: I knew Cordica would be the fertile ground for asking

2096
01:53:28,360 --> 01:53:31,519
Speaker 1: him that. At Maddie, did you have any of that zoo?

2097
01:53:31,640 --> 01:53:34,680
Speaker 1: I heard of Cordica ever in my life, So I

2098
01:53:34,840 --> 01:53:37,639
Speaker 1: was trying to think about what that meant with your

2099
01:53:37,720 --> 01:53:42,439
Speaker 1: context clothes there and then another college very close by

2100
01:53:44,360 --> 01:53:48,080
Speaker 1: and you know, playing a football game, week long festivities,

2101
01:53:48,400 --> 01:53:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, an intermingling of student bodies and you know,

2102
01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:55,080
Speaker 1: and and all that that implies, and in college scene,

2103
01:53:55,160 --> 01:53:57,920
Speaker 1: it's yeah, something special for all of us to enjoy.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure all right, coming, we've got what do we learn?

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Speaker 1: And also NFL True Falls coming up after the break

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and Maddie Glab on Buffalo Bill's Radio and

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Speaker 1: this is One Bills Live. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Steve task along with Maddie Glaber like like to thank

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01:54:17,320 --> 01:54:20,680
Speaker 1: Stefania Bell coming into ESPN Injury Analysts. We also had

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01:54:21,080 --> 01:54:23,840
Speaker 1: Kevin Connors who's an ESPN Sports Center host, and of

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01:54:23,920 --> 01:54:26,720
Speaker 1: course Eric would the Bills radio color analysts. They were

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Speaker 1: all on the show today. If you want to come

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01:54:28,080 --> 01:54:30,320
Speaker 1: back and listen to any of those things. You can

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01:54:30,400 --> 01:54:33,040
Speaker 1: do so on Buffalo Bills dot com or the Buffalo

2115
01:54:33,120 --> 01:54:35,760
Speaker 1: Bills app, Spotify, Google Play, Apple Podcast and all that

2116
01:54:35,880 --> 01:54:38,280
Speaker 1: yikety ac. You can go back and listen to all

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01:54:38,320 --> 01:54:40,880
Speaker 1: the good stuff we've been talking about all day, Mattie.

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01:54:42,360 --> 01:54:45,080
Speaker 1: I put Kevin Connors on the spot with the Cortica

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01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:46,920
Speaker 1: question because he went to Ithaca College. A lot a

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01:54:46,960 --> 01:54:49,560
Speaker 1: lot of people know what that is. Just yeah, but

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01:54:50,960 --> 01:54:53,240
Speaker 1: it took him a minute, but he did gracefully dodged

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01:54:53,280 --> 01:54:55,560
Speaker 1: that question. I think there's more there. Try and get

2123
01:54:55,680 --> 01:54:59,240
Speaker 1: people tell college party stories on one Bills live. Huh,

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01:55:00,240 --> 01:55:02,360
Speaker 1: you know sometimes it's fun stuff, all right, Yeah, Okay,

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01:55:02,680 --> 01:55:08,320
Speaker 1: so let let's I told you my golf story. Okay, Uh,

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01:55:09,040 --> 01:55:12,160
Speaker 1: you're ready to do NFL True false, Maddie, let's do it.

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01:55:12,320 --> 01:55:14,760
Speaker 1: Let's right, here we go NFL true false. Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Yancy's Fancy New York's artisan cheese. Um, here

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01:55:21,160 --> 01:55:24,240
Speaker 1: we go, NFL true false. Number one biggest mistake of

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01:55:24,320 --> 01:55:27,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have made over the last decade was

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01:55:27,400 --> 01:55:31,320
Speaker 1: trading up to draft Sammy Watkins in two thousand fourteen.

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01:55:31,880 --> 01:55:39,840
Speaker 1: True or false. Sammy Watkins didn't really pan out for

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01:55:40,080 --> 01:55:43,040
Speaker 1: the Bills. Now he's doing he's done some okay things

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01:55:43,120 --> 01:55:46,800
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs and had some um pretty gay great

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01:55:46,960 --> 01:55:50,520
Speaker 1: plays this past season with the Chiefs. But I don't

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01:55:50,720 --> 01:55:55,400
Speaker 1: think it was worth the Bills trading up to draft

2137
01:55:55,520 --> 01:55:58,280
Speaker 1: him in twenty fourteen. Now, But was it the biggest

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01:55:58,320 --> 01:56:01,480
Speaker 1: mistake in a decade. That's the question of kind of

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01:56:01,520 --> 01:56:02,960
Speaker 1: you kind of think it might be. That's a lot

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01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:04,360
Speaker 1: of draft picks to give up for a guy. And

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01:56:04,440 --> 01:56:06,360
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Here's the thing, Maddie and I don't

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01:56:06,360 --> 01:56:09,240
Speaker 1: want I don't know anything other than anybody else, but

2143
01:56:09,360 --> 01:56:15,160
Speaker 1: here's the thing. To me, it's backwards. You don't trade

2144
01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:18,400
Speaker 1: for an elite wide receiver to draft an elite wide receiver.

2145
01:56:18,440 --> 01:56:20,760
Speaker 1: And Sammy was purported to be an elite wide receiver.

2146
01:56:20,800 --> 01:56:22,280
Speaker 1: He had all those trades, he had all the checked

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01:56:22,280 --> 01:56:24,160
Speaker 1: all those boxes. Okay, whether he was or honor is

2148
01:56:24,280 --> 01:56:26,040
Speaker 1: or not is beside the point. You think you're going

2149
01:56:26,080 --> 01:56:27,880
Speaker 1: to get one of those guys, you don't do that

2150
01:56:28,000 --> 01:56:29,440
Speaker 1: before you have a guy that's going to throw them

2151
01:56:29,480 --> 01:56:32,840
Speaker 1: the ball. And the Bills did not have a guy

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01:56:32,960 --> 01:56:36,200
Speaker 1: like that in their stable. So what are you gonna.

2153
01:56:36,240 --> 01:56:38,800
Speaker 1: It's like getting a Ferrari and you don't have a

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01:56:38,880 --> 01:56:41,200
Speaker 1: driver's license. You know, you can't take it out of

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01:56:41,200 --> 01:56:44,960
Speaker 1: the garage. That's that's what it's like. And until you

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01:56:45,040 --> 01:56:46,880
Speaker 1: get the guy pulling the trigger, you don't even know

2157
01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:49,760
Speaker 1: what type of wide receiver would work best with him.

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01:56:50,640 --> 01:56:52,680
Speaker 1: So I thought it was a I think it is

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01:56:52,720 --> 01:56:55,760
Speaker 1: a mistake. It's a massive mistake. Now there's some other

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01:56:55,800 --> 01:56:58,400
Speaker 1: guys too. I mean, you could say, but they fired

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01:56:58,760 --> 01:57:02,560
Speaker 1: Greg Roman in week two of twenty sixteen. Now look

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01:57:02,600 --> 01:57:05,000
Speaker 1: at what he's doing, and they trade it up to

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01:57:05,080 --> 01:57:09,280
Speaker 1: get EJ. Manuel. So you know, there's other things that

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01:57:09,320 --> 01:57:11,400
Speaker 1: they've done that you can raise your eyebrows out and say,

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01:57:11,440 --> 01:57:13,440
Speaker 1: you know, I'm glad that we got the guys we

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01:57:13,520 --> 01:57:16,120
Speaker 1: got now pulling trigger on these trades and draft picks.

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01:57:16,200 --> 01:57:18,680
Speaker 1: But so there's been some mistakes that you can compare

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Speaker 1: it to. But I think it's probably because of the

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01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:22,600
Speaker 1: price they paid for Sammy. I think it's got to be,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, the biggest mistake of the decade. I'll

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01:57:25,400 --> 01:57:28,040
Speaker 1: say true. I'm gonna say true to that too. And

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01:57:28,160 --> 01:57:31,240
Speaker 1: if you look at a couple of players in the

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01:57:31,520 --> 01:57:36,760
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen draft number one, Jadeveon Clowney to Greg Robinson three,

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Speaker 1: Blake Bortles four, Sammy Watkins five, Khalil Mack, Ben, Jake Matthews,

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01:57:41,520 --> 01:57:45,280
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, Justin Gilbert, Anthony barr Odell is all the

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01:57:45,320 --> 01:57:48,280
Speaker 1: way at twelve, Aaron Donald is thirteen. So there were

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01:57:48,360 --> 01:57:52,840
Speaker 1: some pretty talented players in the top fifteen there. Yeah,

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01:57:53,360 --> 01:57:55,680
Speaker 1: you say it like that, Khalil Mack. I mean you're

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01:57:55,680 --> 01:57:57,800
Speaker 1: sitting there. It makes you and Khalil Mack played it,

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01:57:57,880 --> 01:58:01,680
Speaker 1: you bet, I know. I mean it makes you sit there,

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01:58:02,600 --> 01:58:05,240
Speaker 1: put your head in your hand and just shake your head.

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01:58:05,480 --> 01:58:08,960
Speaker 1: Just oh, Kleil Mac. It was a local and whatever.

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01:58:09,440 --> 01:58:12,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's a massive mistake. And there

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01:58:12,880 --> 01:58:15,400
Speaker 1: you have it. So I'm gonna go true with that, right,

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01:58:15,520 --> 01:58:19,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you're good with that? Yes, all right, here

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01:58:19,320 --> 01:58:23,680
Speaker 1: we go. NFL true false. Number two. Fewer players in

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01:58:23,800 --> 01:58:27,120
Speaker 1: training camp is the right approach for this season in

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01:58:27,200 --> 01:58:29,400
Speaker 1: the NFL the league. In the NFL, they're trying to

2189
01:58:29,400 --> 01:58:31,320
Speaker 1: figure out the right number of players each team can

2190
01:58:31,440 --> 01:58:34,880
Speaker 1: bring in appears to be between seventy five and eighty one.

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01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:37,640
Speaker 1: Plan being further discussed is splitting the roster into like

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01:58:37,720 --> 01:58:41,000
Speaker 1: two groups and having each practice at a different time

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01:58:41,040 --> 01:58:43,320
Speaker 1: so they can keep social distancing no matter how many

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01:58:43,360 --> 01:58:45,600
Speaker 1: players are allowed to report to camp. They should split

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01:58:45,680 --> 01:58:48,600
Speaker 1: the team down the middle and have two different teams practicing.

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01:58:49,640 --> 01:58:52,720
Speaker 1: And they're also looking for more other like expanding practice

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01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:55,880
Speaker 1: squads we've talked about and doing the splitting down the

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01:58:55,920 --> 01:58:59,000
Speaker 1: middle thing. Obviously social distancing and all that stuff. But

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01:58:59,720 --> 01:59:03,040
Speaker 1: bring seventy between seventy five and eighty players is the

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01:59:03,200 --> 01:59:07,480
Speaker 1: right approach for this season? True or false? I'm gonna

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01:59:07,520 --> 01:59:11,800
Speaker 1: say true, because even if you split it up into

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Speaker 1: two groups, you still have to account for ninety plus

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01:59:16,600 --> 01:59:21,360
Speaker 1: players and what they're doing and how they're following protocols

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01:59:21,600 --> 01:59:24,520
Speaker 1: and if they're being safe outside of the team facility.

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01:59:24,640 --> 01:59:27,520
Speaker 1: I think if you have less, it's easier to keep

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01:59:27,640 --> 01:59:33,640
Speaker 1: tabs on guys. And usually the bigger the number gets.

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01:59:34,720 --> 01:59:37,520
Speaker 1: Those players are the young players, the players who just

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01:59:37,760 --> 01:59:41,160
Speaker 1: came out of college football, and I would say some

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01:59:41,360 --> 01:59:44,640
Speaker 1: of those are less mature than your veterans who have

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01:59:44,720 --> 01:59:48,520
Speaker 1: been in the league for ten plus years. I'm gonna

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01:59:48,560 --> 01:59:51,879
Speaker 1: say false. In fact, I'm gonna say just the opposite.

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01:59:51,960 --> 01:59:55,520
Speaker 1: They should expand the rosters to one hundred players and

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01:59:55,680 --> 01:59:58,520
Speaker 1: then split down the middle so that they can have

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01:59:58,720 --> 02:00:01,280
Speaker 1: enough guys to practice twice. I have guys ready to

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02:00:02,520 --> 02:00:05,240
Speaker 1: play on an active roster, and they and I don't

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02:00:05,280 --> 02:00:07,840
Speaker 1: think they should cut anybody. They're gonna need all the

2217
02:00:07,920 --> 02:00:10,720
Speaker 1: bodies they can get to have guys ready and able

2218
02:00:10,800 --> 02:00:13,120
Speaker 1: to come in and play on a given and on

2219
02:00:13,200 --> 02:00:16,640
Speaker 1: any given weekend, when three guys go down with the virus,

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02:00:17,560 --> 02:00:20,560
Speaker 1: or ten guys go down with the virus, or fifteen

2221
02:00:20,600 --> 02:00:23,040
Speaker 1: guys go down with a virus, you've got to have

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Speaker 1: guys like bodies available who are in your system, in

2223
02:00:26,400 --> 02:00:30,320
Speaker 1: your verbiage, in your language, in your technique, in your game,

2224
02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:33,200
Speaker 1: in your meetings and all of that stuff. You got

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02:00:33,280 --> 02:00:36,280
Speaker 1: to have more bodies, not less. So. And I don't

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02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:38,240
Speaker 1: think you make the bubbles smaller, You may as well

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02:00:38,320 --> 02:00:41,120
Speaker 1: make it bigger. You're you're on this plan, you've got

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Speaker 1: You've got these plans laid out. And then, like you said,

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02:00:44,720 --> 02:00:48,200
Speaker 1: and you're right, older guys get it better than the

2230
02:00:48,240 --> 02:00:51,440
Speaker 1: younger guys. Older guys have a support system that they

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02:00:51,480 --> 02:00:53,880
Speaker 1: can count on, you know, like you can tell you

2232
02:00:54,120 --> 02:00:55,840
Speaker 1: you can help your wife and your kids. If you're

2233
02:00:55,880 --> 02:00:57,160
Speaker 1: living there at home, you can need to bring in

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02:00:57,960 --> 02:01:00,680
Speaker 1: a nanny or a helper, or your mother in law

2235
02:01:00,920 --> 02:01:02,880
Speaker 1: or your mom to come in and help with the

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02:01:02,960 --> 02:01:05,880
Speaker 1: kids at home so that they don't leave, so that

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02:01:06,000 --> 02:01:08,640
Speaker 1: you can go home, you can be together as a family,

2238
02:01:08,880 --> 02:01:12,000
Speaker 1: but they can still stay stay isolated and not expose

2239
02:01:12,120 --> 02:01:15,400
Speaker 1: you to the virus, and in turn, you won't expose

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Speaker 1: them because all your teammates are doing the exact same thing.

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02:01:18,400 --> 02:01:23,200
Speaker 1: You can do that with veteran players. Young players for

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02:01:23,320 --> 02:01:24,880
Speaker 1: the first time in their lives. They've got a ton

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02:01:24,960 --> 02:01:27,440
Speaker 1: of money, and they're gonna have a ton of free time,

2244
02:01:28,160 --> 02:01:30,160
Speaker 1: and they're all of a sudden a little bit famous.

2245
02:01:31,560 --> 02:01:34,360
Speaker 1: That's hard not to exploit those freedoms and those things

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02:01:34,400 --> 02:01:36,600
Speaker 1: and there it's hard for him. It's hard to be

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02:01:36,720 --> 02:01:39,000
Speaker 1: disciplined the first time out of the box your first year.

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02:01:39,120 --> 02:01:41,440
Speaker 1: You know, it's like, you know when you go to

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02:01:41,560 --> 02:01:46,320
Speaker 1: college and you know, all of a sudden, you've got

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02:01:46,400 --> 02:01:48,520
Speaker 1: your independent living away from home for the first time.

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02:01:48,600 --> 02:01:51,200
Speaker 1: We've all seen kids just like not handle that first

2252
02:01:51,200 --> 02:01:53,200
Speaker 1: semester all that well, you know, that's what it's like

2253
02:01:53,320 --> 02:01:56,520
Speaker 1: being in the pro, in the pro football, except it's worse.

2254
02:01:57,640 --> 02:02:01,600
Speaker 1: It's way worse. So I think they're gonna need more bodies,

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Speaker 1: not fewer. So I'm gonna say false, seventy five eighty guys.

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02:02:05,640 --> 02:02:07,200
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like enough to me. I think you

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02:02:07,320 --> 02:02:09,880
Speaker 1: need like ninety so you can have forty five guys

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02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:13,800
Speaker 1: in two different groups going full game day mode, practicing

2259
02:02:13,800 --> 02:02:18,640
Speaker 1: against each other, and you know, lifting together, working together,

2260
02:02:19,080 --> 02:02:22,440
Speaker 1: getting better together, and all in the same system, so

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02:02:22,600 --> 02:02:24,560
Speaker 1: that you can cross pollin eight. If you got guys

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02:02:24,600 --> 02:02:27,600
Speaker 1: on the number one crew who go down with a virus,

2263
02:02:27,680 --> 02:02:30,080
Speaker 1: you got somebody can come in and that number one

2264
02:02:30,160 --> 02:02:32,280
Speaker 1: crew that's got a play on Sunday doesn't miss a beat.

2265
02:02:32,600 --> 02:02:34,960
Speaker 1: That's my opinion. So I think it's false they need

2266
02:02:35,080 --> 02:02:39,040
Speaker 1: more guys, not fewer. I would say they can probably.

2267
02:02:39,160 --> 02:02:41,560
Speaker 1: I think they could do it with eighty. I think

2268
02:02:41,640 --> 02:02:45,440
Speaker 1: you keep eighty, But I mean, who knows. If these

2269
02:02:45,560 --> 02:02:49,600
Speaker 1: players start to get COVID more than people think they would,

2270
02:02:49,680 --> 02:02:52,080
Speaker 1: then maybe you do need ninety to one hundred people

2271
02:02:52,160 --> 02:02:55,160
Speaker 1: on a roster. And you have a couple in quarantine,

2272
02:02:55,240 --> 02:02:58,080
Speaker 1: like quarantine quarterback. Well, here's the thing, how are you

2273
02:02:58,160 --> 02:03:01,120
Speaker 1: going to get them in? You've got fifty guy or whatever,

2274
02:03:01,720 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 1: and then the guys you bring in say, hey, listen,

2275
02:03:03,800 --> 02:03:06,280
Speaker 1: we need three more guys to play, Well, they can't.

2276
02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:08,920
Speaker 1: You gotta have them in quarantine for two weeks, and

2277
02:03:08,960 --> 02:03:10,680
Speaker 1: they got to have two negative tests and all that,

2278
02:03:10,880 --> 02:03:13,920
Speaker 1: yigkeity yikety. They gotta it's a two week process. Just

2279
02:03:14,040 --> 02:03:16,520
Speaker 1: get them. They can walk in the locker room, so

2280
02:03:17,880 --> 02:03:21,600
Speaker 1: you gotta have bodies right. And I just think, I

2281
02:03:21,640 --> 02:03:23,840
Speaker 1: think it's crazy talk to think that's not gonna happen.

2282
02:03:23,920 --> 02:03:26,560
Speaker 1: Of course it's gonna happen. And if they're not ready

2283
02:03:26,640 --> 02:03:28,800
Speaker 1: for it. With guys they can actually plug into play,

2284
02:03:29,560 --> 02:03:33,960
Speaker 1: the whole thing comes apart quick. So I'm thinking that's

2285
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:41,880
Speaker 1: the way to go. I'm Steve with us. He might

2286
02:03:41,960 --> 02:03:46,840
Speaker 1: have just dropped out in the middle of his argument. Well,

2287
02:03:47,120 --> 02:03:50,640
Speaker 1: Steve always having problems with his WiFi, and it just

2288
02:03:50,760 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 1: says that he's left the call. So I will continue

2289
02:03:56,360 --> 02:04:00,360
Speaker 1: on with our last true false before we go to

2290
02:04:00,440 --> 02:04:02,640
Speaker 1: break and maybe Steve will join us here, all right.

2291
02:04:02,760 --> 02:04:09,160
Speaker 1: Number three, So, the NFL released this article about who

2292
02:04:09,440 --> 02:04:12,960
Speaker 1: is under pressure the most and they listed several players

2293
02:04:13,040 --> 02:04:16,120
Speaker 1: who they believe are under allot of pressure to perform

2294
02:04:16,240 --> 02:04:20,200
Speaker 1: this season. Number one on the list was Kim Newton.

2295
02:04:21,040 --> 02:04:24,880
Speaker 1: Number two was Khalil Mack so the question is or

2296
02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:29,320
Speaker 1: true false? Is true false? Khalil Mack is the player

2297
02:04:29,400 --> 02:04:34,240
Speaker 1: who is under the most pressure in twenty twenty. I

2298
02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:38,320
Speaker 1: don't know about that one. And Steve had about twenty

2299
02:04:38,440 --> 02:04:42,040
Speaker 1: names that he thought were under more pressure than Khalil

2300
02:04:42,120 --> 02:04:45,120
Speaker 1: Mack and he was about to go off. So I'm

2301
02:04:45,160 --> 02:04:48,040
Speaker 1: kind of bummed that he decided to drop off when

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02:04:48,080 --> 02:04:51,920
Speaker 1: we can have a pretty great discussion and debate. Me

2303
02:04:52,240 --> 02:04:57,760
Speaker 1: growing up in Chicago watching the Bears, I think there's

2304
02:04:57,880 --> 02:05:01,560
Speaker 1: some pressure on Khalil Mac. I think there's a lot

2305
02:05:01,640 --> 02:05:05,640
Speaker 1: of pressure on Mitchell t Risky, and I think, unfortunately,

2306
02:05:06,640 --> 02:05:10,600
Speaker 1: a lot of what Mitchell Tubrisky didn't do last season

2307
02:05:11,160 --> 02:05:14,600
Speaker 1: was on Khalil Mackin part. Here comes Steve Tasker again

2308
02:05:14,680 --> 02:05:17,080
Speaker 1: into the conversation. I was so passionate about I was

2309
02:05:17,120 --> 02:05:20,400
Speaker 1: so passionate about my last false thing about the players.

2310
02:05:20,440 --> 02:05:24,040
Speaker 1: I hit the wrong button. So it's my bad. Dang it,

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Speaker 1: Did you go on without me? I went on? So

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Speaker 1: I'm just discussing it. So what is it Khalil Mack

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Speaker 1: and the players in the most pressure? What do you say?

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm That's what I'm saying. I don't think

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna agree with the article, and I think

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Speaker 1: Kim Newton is under the most pressure because, yes, he

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Speaker 1: is on a one year deal. I know you think

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Speaker 1: that he's on a one year deal and he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a lot to prove, But I think he has

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Speaker 1: a lot to prove in regards of the rest of

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Speaker 1: his career. I think this is a make or break

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Speaker 1: season for him. I think he needs to perform in

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Speaker 1: the opportunities that he gets to solidify himself as a

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the remainder of his career. I think

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Speaker 1: if he flops this season, I think he's a backup

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Speaker 1: quarterback for the rest of his career. I think this

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Speaker 1: is do or die here for Cam Newton. Unfortunately, a

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Speaker 1: lot of this has been put on the fact that

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Speaker 1: he's been injured on and off for the last couple

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Speaker 1: of seasons. I think Cam Newton is a great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I am very interested to see how he's going to

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Speaker 1: do this season. I wish he was not in the

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Speaker 1: AFC East because I would be rooting for him because

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Speaker 1: I would love to see him bounce back and have

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Speaker 1: a great season. But the fact that he's on the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just I can't cheer for him because hey,

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Speaker 1: we cover the bills and we cheer for the bills,

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Speaker 1: So that's all great dandy, But I think he does

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Speaker 1: have a lot of pressure on him to succeed. Now,

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see where the opportunity lies with

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Speaker 1: him and Jared Stidham. How much of a chance is

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Speaker 1: he really gonna get to be the starting quarterback when

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Speaker 1: we've heard them just rave about how much they love

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Speaker 1: Jared Sidham. But you think a lot of other players

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Speaker 1: are under pressure than Cam Newton. So tell me, when

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Speaker 1: you talk about these guys under pressure, you think, Okay,

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Speaker 1: who's you gotta go down the list of the guys

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Speaker 1: who are under pressure as well? Khalil Mac maybe one

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Speaker 1: of them. He's making a ton of money and defensively,

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Speaker 1: But defensively isn't where Chicago's problems seem to be to me.

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Speaker 1: It's it starts a quarterback for them. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna put it on a pass rusher to

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Speaker 1: lift the entire organization. Although you know he's a good player,

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Speaker 1: think about think about some of these other guys I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about who are under some pressure. This you

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Speaker 1: have about Tom Brady, for one. How about Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: moving from from LA to Indianapolis for one last go round? Uh,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, who's stunk in the in the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and you know they needed him in the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: he was not there, Ryan Tannehill. Can they He's got

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Speaker 1: to duplicate the last half of last season seventy percent?

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Speaker 1: And how about this guy Baker may feel josh Adam

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Speaker 1: has been in the playoffs twice? How many times Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield been in the playoffs? No time? Right, there's some

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Speaker 1: pressure for you, so I think, yeah, Cam Newton is

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Speaker 1: under some pressure, and so is Khalil Mack. But man,

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Speaker 1: those are guys I mentioned they they're under real pressure

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Speaker 1: for me. All right, Mattie, all right, we gotta go

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Speaker 1: to a break. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I took a

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Speaker 1: break there. This is my bad. Users. We're coming back

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Speaker 1: with what have we learned? Right after the break one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Khalid to Health. I'm Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: What have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the

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Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We

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Speaker 1: had Stefania Bell, the ESPN injury expert on to talk

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Speaker 1: to us about the medical follow ups required if players

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Speaker 1: start contracting COVID nineteen. What's you gotta do before he

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Speaker 1: returns to play. Here's what Stefania said. In order return

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Speaker 1: to place, it's not just being cleared from the virus,

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Speaker 1: but you have to go through a cardio screen to

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Speaker 1: be eligible to be cleared to practice. And that's because

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Speaker 1: there have been some noted cardiac symptoms I should say

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Speaker 1: associated with the disease, and so one of the things

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Speaker 1: which requires is the player has to go through a

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Speaker 1: full cardiac screen consultation with a cardiologist before they can

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Speaker 1: be cleared to return to place. That I think something

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Speaker 1: like that just reflects the seriousness with which everyone who's

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Speaker 1: involved in putting this together is taking this disease. That

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Speaker 1: was Stefania Bell. We also had Eric wood Bill flow

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Speaker 1: Bill's radio color analysts on the program. He talked about

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Speaker 1: having no fans in the stands of what that might

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Speaker 1: mean for Bills games. It would definitely hurt the Bills

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Speaker 1: because the crowd noise is so loud and Buffalo They're

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Speaker 1: so rowdy that it affects the other team's offense. You

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Speaker 1: build momentum from that, you know, I think you got

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Speaker 1: to figure out some way of calculating what you either

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Speaker 1: go by overall league decibels, like with the limited sound decibels,

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Speaker 1: with the limited fans, what does that heeple out to? Okay,

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Speaker 1: teams that don't have fans, you can you can use

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Speaker 1: crowd noise up to this level. I think that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: I've heard of people trying to make apps where you

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Speaker 1: have seventy something thousand people at home that can make

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Speaker 1: noise into their cell phone, and that seems like you're

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Speaker 1: relying on a lot of technology that could get real

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Speaker 1: finicky or Thanks Eric Wood for coming on this show,

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Speaker 1: and thanks to you. And also before I go anywhere,

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Speaker 1: I've got to reach out and wish my good friend

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Speaker 1: Darryl Tallely a happy sixtieth birthday. One of the all

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Speaker 1: time great Buffalo Bills, one of the all time great teammates,

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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine. I love him to death.

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Speaker 1: Him and his wife Janine, Happy birthday, DT. We love you.

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Speaker 1: It's been awesome, Mattie, great week of shows. It was

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Speaker 1: a fun time to be on. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely this has been one Bill's live Thanks Jay Bird,

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Speaker 1: great week of work. Thanks JJ Turrito, and everybody affiliated

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Speaker 1: with Buffalo Bill's radio. This has been one Bills Live