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Speaker 1: These One Bill's Live, presented by Called Light of Health.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Friday fan mailbag edition of One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, and once again today I'm joined by Chris

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Speaker 1: Trapasso of CBS Sports. Thanks for coming in, man, it's

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Speaker 1: good to have been nice to have you here for

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Speaker 1: this half of the week. And we're gonna continue to

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Speaker 1: talk about NFL free agency and all of that stuff,

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Speaker 1: and as it gets closer and closer, I love the

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Speaker 1: fact that social media is like just this constant conversation

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Speaker 1: about these fan ideas and let's trade this guy, let's

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Speaker 1: get this guy. It never it's it's this endless fountain

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Speaker 1: of conjecture. At this time of year. It's mock drafts,

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Speaker 1: it's free agency, it's trade requests and trade to options.

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Speaker 1: We got obj's gonna work out tonight. We got pro

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Speaker 1: days all over the country all through March. For the offseason.

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Speaker 1: It's still really busy. Yeah, it's not the offseason. There's

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Speaker 1: some friends that I have that actually like the offseason

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Speaker 1: more than the actual season because they can plan out

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Speaker 1: what they would do with their favorite teams. A lot

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Speaker 1: of those it's hard to lose a game in there,

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Speaker 1: exactly and it's it's almost like every morning you can

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Speaker 1: wake up, there's a new report. There's speculation from that report.

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Speaker 1: We heard this morning from Tom Palaceero of NFL Network

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Speaker 1: that Tremaine Edmonds might get fifteen million dollars on the

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Speaker 1: open market, which is a lot lower than people expected.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it all week that he was going

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Speaker 1: to probably top the off ball linebacker contract list at

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Speaker 1: twenty plus million. We'll see where it comes in, but

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Speaker 1: that was interesting that a national NFL network reporter only

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Speaker 1: listed him in about fifteen million per year, which is

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Speaker 1: a lot more reasonable. And then you think, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: we thought Milana was gonna walk and to see this

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Speaker 1: is where social media just goes crazy over this stuff,

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Speaker 1: because it's like Milana, we thought he was gonna get

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Speaker 1: fourteen thirteen, fourteen and gonna be gone, and the Bill

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Speaker 1: signed him to like around ten or eleven twelve, they

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Speaker 1: get him, he stays here for a little less because

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Speaker 1: you know what, he's found his spot now in the

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Speaker 1: system that he's playing in. He's an all pro and

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Speaker 1: he's kind of and he's gonna be midway through the

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Speaker 1: deal that he extended. So he's sitting pretty to hit

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Speaker 1: a home run again. Termaine Edmonds, who is this twenty

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Speaker 1: five year old guy who is in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a top five defense every year he's played on it,

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Speaker 1: and he's we thought, man, he's gonna ro Quan Smith

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Speaker 1: is not as good as you know. He's gonna hit

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Speaker 1: hit the jackpot because he can cover. He's the best

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Speaker 1: coverage linebacker out there because he's cover so much space. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe Tremaine Edmonds doesn't need all that much and maybe

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Speaker 1: he wants to stay in Buffalo. So people are thinking

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Speaker 1: maybe he if he's fifteen million a year and you

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Speaker 1: get it structured correctly, maybe there's he's not out the door. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think what's important with this is that it's

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Speaker 1: not as though before this report this morning, Steve and

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Speaker 1: I thought that Tremaine Edmonds was just out the door

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Speaker 1: the Bills were not going to offer him a deal.

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Speaker 1: I think they certainly want him back in the middle

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Speaker 1: of this defense. He has been the quarterback of the

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Speaker 1: defense since he was drafted in twenty eighteen, as has

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Speaker 1: been mentioned many times, at nineteen years old, It's just

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Speaker 1: that they weren't going to be able to probably top

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, twenty two million per year. If it's fifteen,

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Speaker 1: you bet that Sean McDermott will be really interested and

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Speaker 1: will be in there in the contract talk room and saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: look like, let's try to bring this guy back to

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Speaker 1: keep that pairing with he and Matt Maloney compliment each other, well,

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Speaker 1: keep that group together. There's always surprises in free agency,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it's a player we weren't expecting getting a

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Speaker 1: big deal. But there's also times where a Matt Milano

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Speaker 1: signs for last because of the culture and the fit

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Speaker 1: couple of things. One but the agent knowing what his

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Speaker 1: this money's gonna change my life no matter what. When

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Speaker 1: we've been talking about it all week. His contract is

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Speaker 1: He's gonna make his cap hits thirty nine million this year.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Jones is making more than that. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: And there's something where these guys, somebody gets in the

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Speaker 1: smart enough to listen to it. Because it's just Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Josh Allen, Micah Hyde was co hosting Good

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Speaker 1: Morning Football on NFL Network last couple of days, and

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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting this morning that this ties

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, because Hyde said, we have confidence that we

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Speaker 1: culture and it's about like you mentioned, players don't necessarily

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Speaker 1: suddenly be on a perennial loser. Tremaine Edmunds knows here

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Speaker 1: that factors into a lot of players as well think

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Speaker 1: about this too. Were we talk a lot about it.

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Speaker 1: We talk all the time about the bills and all

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Speaker 1: And that's the way it is. And we talk about

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Speaker 1: there is that desire or not just for Bills fans,

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Speaker 1: And of course I do think Brandon Bean, the Bill's

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Speaker 1: But I still think Brandon Bean probably wakes up in

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Speaker 1: Matt Stafford is available for a trade. Like there's there's

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Speaker 1: kick off the roster, are you gonna be at the

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Speaker 1: top end of the roster with big money that their

428
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Speaker 1: contracts going to run out or whatever. Some them will

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Speaker 1: be at the lower end. But there's always more of

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Speaker 1: those guys, so they add up. So your ability to

431
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Speaker 1: find players that you want to keep grows when you

432
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Speaker 1: start getting becoming a contender like the Bills have over

433
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Speaker 1: the past five years at the same rage as the

434
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Speaker 1: cat and the one thing that threw a wrench into

435
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Speaker 1: it is covid yea. But now it's back on track.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna grow sixteen million dollars a year. Yeah, And

437
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: that's like the the follow to that is kicking the

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Speaker 1: can down the road. There's gonna be deadheads, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be void years. When guys are into their mid to

440
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Speaker 1: late thirties, they're not going to be around. The cap

441
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Speaker 1: is at two hundred and twenty four point eight million

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Speaker 1: this year. In three years, it could be two hundred

443
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Speaker 1: and fifty plus a million, and you're fine as a

444
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Speaker 1: contending team with a good quarterback to pay someone a

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Speaker 1: dead cap head of three or four or five million dollars,

446
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Speaker 1: it could win two sixty and two years. Yeah, in

447
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Speaker 1: three years, there's no doubt it'll be over two sixty.

448
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Speaker 1: So that's where you had to factor that in, and

449
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Speaker 1: certainly the league's not. Yeah, I mean, that's where it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be. That's where it's gonna be. It was up

451
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Speaker 1: sixteen million this year, it's gonna be up sixteen million

452
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Speaker 1: next year, and they're gonna probably put a lid on

453
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Speaker 1: it because of the they'll want it to go up incrementally.

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Speaker 1: Instead of having when the TV deals are up, having

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Speaker 1: those deals balloon right then and then come back down.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to continue to grow steadily so that they

457
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Speaker 1: can have cost certainty. And the players are okay with

458
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Speaker 1: that too, because that means when you get into these

459
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Speaker 1: years where the cap shrink guys are out of work,

460
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Speaker 1: that if you've got the wrong contract, you're done. So

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00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: the players are okay with that as well, because it

462
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Speaker 1: gives them a better chance in those years to see

463
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Speaker 1: that money rather than get cut because of cap concerns

464
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Speaker 1: and what you referenced earlier, I think is very important

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Speaker 1: to bring up about COVID and the impact that it

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Speaker 1: had on the sailory cap. After the COVID year in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, the cap actually went way down because they

468
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Speaker 1: just obviously did not have the ticket revenue. There was

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Speaker 1: a lot of reasons that kind of went into that.

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Speaker 1: Then the league said, instead of just accelerating all that

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Speaker 1: money back onto the twenty twenty one cap, they said,

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Speaker 1: let's spread it out over multiple seasons. So I think

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Speaker 1: by next year the extra money that they've gotten over

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Speaker 1: the last three years from COVID is now being put

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Speaker 1: onto the cap, along with just the normal inflation that's

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Speaker 1: usually around ten million dollars. The new TV deals now

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Speaker 1: they're streaming deals. There's Amazon Prime, We're watching Thursday night games. There, Yahoo, Google,

478
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Speaker 1: Apple TV. They'll all be jockeying to get those NFL rights. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: the cap will continue to rise. They won't want it

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Speaker 1: to balloon too much, as we heard from our guests

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Speaker 1: Mike Ganetti yesterday, but it's certainly not going to go down,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna increase steadily over the next three to

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Speaker 1: five years. So as we get into this, and we

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Speaker 1: welcome you if you have questions, if you want to

485
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Speaker 1: send them into us. It's a Friday fan mail bag

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Speaker 1: asked questions of Chris, ask questions of myself, obviously with

487
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Speaker 1: the kind of I'm terming at the wild West here

488
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Speaker 1: in the last days before free agency begins. All these

489
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Speaker 1: guys are getting restructured. All these guys are getting released,

490
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Speaker 1: great players, former great players, guys who we don't even know.

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Speaker 1: But other guys is like what he's getting released? You know,

492
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Speaker 1: Byron Jones, who the Dolphins signed to a big deal

493
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Speaker 1: as a corner. He can still play. He just got

494
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Speaker 1: released by the Dolphins. That freed up some more cap

495
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Speaker 1: for them. That's why they got fifty six million or

496
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Speaker 1: part of the reason they got fifty six million in

497
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Speaker 1: free cap space this last week. So all of that

498
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Speaker 1: is on the on the docket. Give us a call

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Speaker 1: at eight to three five fifty one eighty eight five

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Speaker 1: Chris Trapasso, Steve Tasker, One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker along with Chris Trapasso. We've got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of tweets from our listeners on this Friday fan mail

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Speaker 1: Bag day. Um it is from first Ones from Nick

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Speaker 1: is Dorsey talking about Ken Dorsey off as a coordinator.

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00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: Is Dorsey capable and I all right, I'm gonna read

509
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Speaker 1: it anyway. Is Dorsey capable of changing this past happy

510
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: offense to a run first attack, whether it's whether it's

511
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: Bijean Robinson in the first round or Derrick Henry via

512
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: trade or either player or either a player we need

513
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: if Singletary is gone, Yes we need another running back,

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00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 1: but one that is a gonna need his carries to

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Speaker 1: get into a groove or on a roll. Yeah, this

516
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Speaker 1: is never gonna be a run first offense. That it's

517
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: a myth. Run better okay, run more efficiently, okay, But

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Speaker 1: they're not going to hand it off more in this offense.

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Speaker 1: And Derrick Henry, I mean at this point of his career, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would say probably in a committee backfield with James

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Speaker 1: Cook and Nahem Hines and Derrick Henry. Okay, fine. The

522
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Speaker 1: problem with Derrick Henry, particularly in an offense like the

523
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Speaker 1: one the Bills run, is that when Derrick Henry's on

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Speaker 1: the field, do you always hand it to him, or

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00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: do eighty five percent of the time you hand it

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Speaker 1: to him. That's a problem because if that's the case,

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Speaker 1: eighty five percent of those times, the defense is going

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Speaker 1: to know he's getting it. That's a problem. You're never

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Speaker 1: a run first offense in the NFL really doesn't exist.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Baltimore, even Tennessee wasn't a run first offense with

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Speaker 1: Derek Henry. They threw it more than they ran it.

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Speaker 1: It's just the way the game is, so run it well,

533
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Speaker 1: run it efficiently. Run it when you want to run it, Okay,

534
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,360
Speaker 1: but you're not going to run first. Yeah, And I'll

535
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Speaker 1: be quick here. I don't think the Bills should want

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Speaker 1: to be a run first offense. They have Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: I think for eighteen years the Bills we're looking for

538
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Speaker 1: their quarterback. They get it with Josh Allen. They should

539
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Speaker 1: do everything possible to emphasize and prioritize throwing the ball,

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Speaker 1: play action usage, throwing the ball on first down. The

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Speaker 1: more times that Josh Allen is dropping back to pass,

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Speaker 1: the more efficient the Bills offense will be. Yeah. From

543
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Speaker 1: Scott on the tweet sheet, I used to hear the

544
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Speaker 1: Bills had a cash to cap policy under Ralph Wilson.

545
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Speaker 1: What does that actually mean and how does it differ

546
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Speaker 1: from what the bills are doing now? What it means

547
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: is every year, no matter how it was structured, they

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00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: would spend two hundred like to this year, the cap

549
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: is two hundred and twenty four point eight million. That's

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Speaker 1: the cash they would spend each year. Now, you could

551
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Speaker 1: structure in any way you want, but that's the cash

552
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Speaker 1: they were going to spend. And if they were dead

553
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Speaker 1: cap hits or whatever, you know you were, you were

554
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Speaker 1: done right. So that's that's where I believe the cash

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Speaker 1: to cap and that's what it means. If you got

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Speaker 1: to have a better take on Yeah, it just means.

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Speaker 1: So when there's a signing bonus that we heard yesterday

558
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Speaker 1: from our guest, those signing bonuses or any type of bonus,

559
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: roster bonus, option bonus, they are pro rated or spread

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Speaker 1: out throughout the course of the deal. So if let's

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Speaker 1: just say, just hypothetically, let's say they extend Dai Kwan

562
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Speaker 1: Jones and he signs a twenty million dollar signing bonus,

563
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Speaker 1: cash overcap means because you are actually writing a check

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Speaker 1: for twenty million dollars in handing it to him. That

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Speaker 1: you operate that way, You say, we just spent twenty

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Speaker 1: million dollars on Daikon Jones, even though in our books

567
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Speaker 1: it's spread out over the course of the deal. Some

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Speaker 1: teams utilize that. Ralph Wilson, again, you used to it

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Speaker 1: kind of limits what you can do because you're handing

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Speaker 1: out these checks, but on your books they're going in

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Speaker 1: for a lot cheaper. So when you're cash a cap,

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Speaker 1: you're really only spending what the sailory cap is when

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Speaker 1: bonuses allow you to spend more than that, because you're

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Speaker 1: spreading it out right. Yeah, there was the spreading out

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Speaker 1: of it. It was fine. The Bills did it in

576
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Speaker 1: certain occasions, like when they signed Mario Williams and all that.

577
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Speaker 1: But the problem is the next year you can't spend it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's there's no you can't throw more help onto

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Speaker 1: that that roster because you're limited by what you spent

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Speaker 1: last year. Number three from Justin do you think Rob

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Speaker 1: Gronkowski would be a good addition to Buffalo And why,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I don't think he's gonna play. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna play. He got asked recently on

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Speaker 1: The k Adam Show and said he raved about Josh Allen.

585
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: He's been very vocal since his retirement about how he

586
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Speaker 1: loves Buffalo, he loves coming back here, he loves Wings.

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Speaker 1: All that said, he's done playing football, and if you

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Speaker 1: see him, he's one of those post career players where

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Speaker 1: he looks like a different guy. He's not the two

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five pound monster that he was in

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Speaker 1: New England and even in Tampa. But he's a Buffalo guy,

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Speaker 1: no question. I mean there's a I get the appeal

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Speaker 1: to that, and it's a nice story to have a

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Speaker 1: guy come back and finishes. But yeah, Rob's Rob's done.

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Speaker 1: I think by his decision from Jason, is Cole Beasley

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Speaker 1: going to be a Bill this year? Also? I hope

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Speaker 1: they can keep Edmonds. Yeah, you hope they can keep Edmunds.

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Speaker 1: Is Beasley going to be a Bill this year? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I think he still wants to play, and

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Speaker 1: the Bills brought him back last year as I think

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Speaker 1: a security measure. I think Khalil Shakier at the end

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Speaker 1: was the guy that they were going to and I

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Speaker 1: think in a year where they thought they really had

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Speaker 1: a chance up until you know, up until the Damar

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Speaker 1: Hamlin injury that you know they did have a chance.

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Speaker 1: I think in a year like they had last year,

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Speaker 1: they brought Cole Beasley back as a guy, as a

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Speaker 1: stop capitalisten if if everything happens, if Khalil Shakir goes down,

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Speaker 1: if isamh mckenzy, we gotta have somebody who knows the

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Speaker 1: offense and Josh trusts. And I think that's why Cole

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Speaker 1: Beasy was there. And at the end they gave him

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Speaker 1: some reps and he earned his way on the field

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Speaker 1: and Josh trusted him and all of that stuff. Ken

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Speaker 1: Dorsey trusted him. Scored a touchdown against the Dolphins in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, so he had something to offer. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that he's a better option than what they have

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Speaker 1: on the roster right now with Mackenzie and Shakier. And

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Speaker 1: there's the draft and there's free agency. There's always players

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Speaker 1: out there. What I do think leaves a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a glimmer of hope for this is that in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, how things kind of ended with Cole

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Speaker 1: Beasley and the Bills was not super clean. There was

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Speaker 1: some maybe some animosity between both sides. The Bills bring

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Speaker 1: him back, and then at the end of the season,

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley said, yeah, I would love to come back.

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Speaker 1: So I think the relationship was repaired a little. And

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Speaker 1: it kind of feels like maybe he'll just kind of

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00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: be on the Bills speed dial to use an old term.

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Speaker 1: He'll be on the Bills speed dial at this point

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Speaker 1: in his career to say, hey, look, if we need you,

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Speaker 1: can we call you again in October or November if

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Speaker 1: we need you? And I think Beasley would be more

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Speaker 1: apt to say yes to that now than he was

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Speaker 1: a year and quite are you going to stay in shape?

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Speaker 1: And he'll say, yeah, I think I am going to

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Speaker 1: stay in shape because I really want to get one

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Speaker 1: more year out of this. And they'll say, okay, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna example think about this, though not for nothing. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna say this as a as an it's an

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Speaker 1: exaggerated example. Would you rather have Adam Feeland or Cole Beasley?

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Speaker 1: Adam feel at this right And that's kind of where

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Speaker 1: I'm at two now. He's only two years younger, I

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Speaker 1: mean Beasley. I think he's thirty four and Ceeland's thirty two,

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Speaker 1: so they're both a little long in the tooth, But

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Speaker 1: it just seems to me like Feeland is closer to

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Speaker 1: being that guy. Now Josh doesn't know Adam Feeling from anybody,

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Speaker 1: and that means something, and he has to learn the

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Speaker 1: entire offense, and he might cost more than Cole Beasley.

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Speaker 1: But those are the choices you got to make because

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Speaker 1: it Bills. I mean, it's Adam Feelin, it's Braxton Barrios

651
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Speaker 1: who just got it released by the Jets. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's Jamison Crowder. It's guys like that who you got

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Speaker 1: to decide do you want those one of those guys

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Speaker 1: more than you want Cole Beasley? And taking nothing away

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Speaker 1: from Cole Beasley, he was so good with the Bills.

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Speaker 1: He was integral in the development of Josh Allen, taking

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Speaker 1: that step in twenty nineteen and then the leap in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I'm of the belief now entering year six

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Speaker 1: as a starter, Josh Allen can make a lot of

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Speaker 1: receivers look really, really good. So Adam Feeling, even at

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Speaker 1: thirty two, he can come in here. Suddenly he's catching

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Speaker 1: passes from Josh Allen and not Kirk Cousins or some

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Speaker 1: lesser quarterbacks in Minnesota. He could have a career year

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Speaker 1: at thirty two. So we have to keep that in

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Speaker 1: mind that Josh Allen, not just his presence matters, but

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Speaker 1: really what he can do on the field. He elevated

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Speaker 1: Steph Diggs in terms of his production. He never produced

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Speaker 1: like he has in Buffalo. A lot of these receivers

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Speaker 1: that will come here just to be around Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and realize, hey, look look what we did with Hole

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Speaker 1: Beasley and John Brown and Stefan Diggs. They can come

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Speaker 1: here and be the best version of themselves on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: Also from the tweet sheet. Tweet sheet. Incidentally, the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet is brought brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official equipment moving systems of the Buffalo Bills. This

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Speaker 1: next one from Cole. He says, in both of our opinion,

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Speaker 1: what is the best way for the Bills to take

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Speaker 1: a little pressure off at Josh Allen going into next year?

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00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: More running back touches, add protection or weapons? You want

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Speaker 1: to start first? Yeah, I think we probably have the

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00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,439
Speaker 1: same take on this, but okay, I think offensive line

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Speaker 1: is the obvious answer. I'm of the belief though, that

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Speaker 1: when you have, like Steve talked about yesterday, a lot

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Speaker 1: of weapons at wide receiver. I think your offensive line

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Speaker 1: doesn't need to be amazing. Certainly, every GM is going

686
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: to tell you that we're going to try to get

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Speaker 1: better at every position. Brandon Bean's going to say that

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Speaker 1: throughout free agency and the draft. I always go back

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Speaker 1: to that twenty twenty one draft Jamar Chase or Pennas

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Speaker 1: Will for the Cincinnati Bengals, they said, do we want

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Speaker 1: to protect Joe Burrow better? And they would have gotten

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Speaker 1: a great player with Penney sull or reunite him with

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Speaker 1: the guy that he broke records with in college and

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase. A lot of Bengals fans originally were mad

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Speaker 1: about that. They're like, Joe Burrow gets sacked too much.

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Speaker 1: If you can bring in more weapons that you mentioned

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Speaker 1: that can get open underneath the balls out of Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen's hands faster, he doesn't need to be that superhero

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen as much. I think that would help him

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. Offensive line matters, but I think also

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Speaker 1: receiver in really prioritizing, you know, keeping your fastball at

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Speaker 1: the receiver spot is vital, even for a quarterback that's

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Speaker 1: established like Josh Allen yeah, and don't forget in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: they're coming off a year where Joe Burrow couldn't finish

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Speaker 1: the season because he got whacked and in the pocket.

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Speaker 1: So everybody's like, you gotta protect him, got to protect

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Speaker 1: him because he couldn't even finish the season. All that,

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Speaker 1: and you gotta be smart enough as an organization, you know,

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Speaker 1: some of that stuff that was going on with Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow was Joe Burrow's fault, not his offensive line's fault.

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Speaker 1: So they took an objective look at that and said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Joe's got to be better. That'll help him stay upright. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get him some offensive lineman, we'll draft some

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Speaker 1: some point, but this guy is a difference maker. You

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Speaker 1: gotta get him. And they did the right thing. Jamar

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Speaker 1: Chase is elite and he has been since he stepped

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Speaker 1: on the field. And while it didn't look really like

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Speaker 1: to have too much foresight when they did it, it

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Speaker 1: gets it goes to this point, the best way to

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Speaker 1: take pressure off Josh Allen. Certainly, offensive line's gonna make

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Speaker 1: a difference. But here's here's an obstacle towards that. Let's say,

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Speaker 1: let's just get a dominant offensive line. Okay, when I

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Speaker 1: first came in the league back in nineteen eight. In

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Speaker 1: the mid eighties, the Houston Oilers, the team that drafted me,

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Speaker 1: had taken an offensive lineman in the first round of

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Speaker 1: the draft for five straight years. It was Mike Munchak,

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Speaker 1: Bruce Matthews, Harvey Salem, three is good, Dean Stein Cooler,

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Speaker 1: and there's another one. So they had these guys, those

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Speaker 1: guys lined up as a fivesome for three games. One

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Speaker 1: of them was heard, this guy's got it. You can't

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Speaker 1: get it done. You can't have you kind of stumble

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Speaker 1: onto an offensive line that's dominant, because by the time

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Speaker 1: you get them all lined up, the guys on his

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Speaker 1: fifth year and he's out, you know, he's on a

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Speaker 1: free agent thing or something's happened. You've got to do

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Speaker 1: the best you can with an offensive line because, let's

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Speaker 1: face it, five of the eleven guys on the field

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Speaker 1: or those guys. You're trying to get everybody going, but

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Speaker 1: to get five is hard. You're trying to get three

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Speaker 1: wide receivers. How hard has that been for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to find those guys and they're coming out

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Speaker 1: every year. So you do the best you can with

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Speaker 1: the five offensive lineman up front, you go with a

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Speaker 1: you get a center who's smart and tough. You get

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Speaker 1: an left tackle who's an elite athlete that size. The guards,

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Speaker 1: you kind of get guys who maybe have played tackle

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Speaker 1: as a younger player and then moved down inside. They

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Speaker 1: got those traits and a right tackle. You need somebody

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Speaker 1: with a mean streak in them right, so you kind

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Speaker 1: of line those guys up. But outside you can't hide.

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Speaker 1: You can't hide the fact that you ain't got an

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Speaker 1: athlete or got a playmaker out there. It becomes painfully obvious.

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Speaker 1: And the quarterback can help your protection in your offensive

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00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: coordinator can help your protection and get rid of it.

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Speaker 1: He can do all that stuff. So for me, if

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Speaker 1: you want to take pressure off Josh Allen, give him

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Speaker 1: somebody right now who's open. Yeah. And what's funny about

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Speaker 1: this too, is that Josh Allen. For as much as

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Speaker 1: the offensive line was shaky and Josh Allen was pressured

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Speaker 1: more than probably most Bills fans would have wanted, he's

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Speaker 1: still one of the most difficult quarterbacks in the league

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Speaker 1: to sack. His pressure to sacreate was I believe below

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Speaker 1: twelve percent in this past season, Joe Burrows is up

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Speaker 1: around twenty five percent, So when he gets pressured, there's

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Speaker 1: almost a two times or two times greater likelihood that

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Speaker 1: he is going to go to the ground than Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the Bills are going to prioritize. They don't

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Speaker 1: have Roger Staffold under contract yet. They're going to prioritize

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. But in today's NFL, adding not just one,

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Speaker 1: maybe even two compliment to your elite receiver in Stefan Diggs,

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Speaker 1: whether that is with early round draft picks or lower

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Speaker 1: to mid level free agents, or picking up someone that's

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Speaker 1: on the street like Adam Feeling or Odell Beckham Jr.

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Speaker 1: That matters more in today's NFL twenty twenty three than

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Speaker 1: it ever has before. When the Bills were at their

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Speaker 1: best offensively twenty twenty, the offensive line was good, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't great, but Cole Beasley was still at the tail

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Speaker 1: end of his prime, John Brown was in his prime,

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Speaker 1: and Stefan Diggs was just entering his prime. They had

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Speaker 1: that threesome that was impossible to cover. That's what the

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Speaker 1: Bills need to aim for entering this season. Now, certainly

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Speaker 1: you can't forget about everything else. I mean, you've got

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Speaker 1: to keep you know, if you're if this is a juggling,

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Speaker 1: you got to keep all the balls in the air

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Speaker 1: all the time. And the offensive line you need depth,

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Speaker 1: quality depth. You know, you want starters, starter quality at

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Speaker 1: all five spots. It's gonna be very difficult to do

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Speaker 1: and to keep it going, but no question about it.

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Speaker 1: I think both of us, you gotta give jaw. I

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00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: think the team needs people other than Josh Allen who

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Speaker 1: you're excited to have the ball in their hands. Exactly.

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Speaker 1: It could be Steph Diggs. Okay, we're all, yeah, give

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Speaker 1: the ball to Steff. That's awesome. But you gotta have

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Speaker 1: somebody else you can turn around and hand it to

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Speaker 1: or throw it to who's going to be open and

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Speaker 1: can do something when he's got it. Yeah, and just

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Speaker 1: look around the league. I mean, we talked about the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Eagles. What they did that They drafted

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Speaker 1: DeVante Smith in the first round, who was a good receiver.

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Speaker 1: Then they traded for a j Brown on Draft night

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Speaker 1: last year. You can never have too many weapons. They

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Speaker 1: have Dallas Goddard, A lot of the best teams in Football,

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, Deebo, Samuel, George Kittle. They draft Brandon

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Speaker 1: Ayuk in the first round. You have to load up

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Speaker 1: at receiver, even if that means maybe we're not going

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Speaker 1: to have an elite offensive line. The skill position players

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Speaker 1: matter more now than they ever have. All Right, more

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Speaker 1: of your tweets to come. We got a whole ton

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Speaker 1: of them to read to you and talk about. All

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Speaker 1: your questions can be answered. Give us a call an

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Chris Trapasso Steve Tasker on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live Steve Tasker, Christrapasso.

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Speaker 1: We're talking a little bit about the free agency market,

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Speaker 1: and we're mentioned we're gonna talk a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about this later on about it's that time of year

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Speaker 1: when all the stuff's going on. I wanted to I

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Speaker 1: saw this thing and I'm kind of getting out of

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Speaker 1: order here. But in our rundown today, they're thinking about

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Speaker 1: changing the quarterback rule, the emergency quarterback rule, because you

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Speaker 1: get in there with like San Francisco gets into the

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Speaker 1: championship game and they have no quarterbacks left. I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of against that. You gotta be ready the court. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you've lost three quarterbacks, you think you can't lose a

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Speaker 1: You should know better than anybody that how that happens. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they necessarily need to do it, just

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Speaker 1: based on one incident that was so in the spotlight

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Speaker 1: with the forty nine ers this season, and it's pretty

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Speaker 1: rare to see that. I don't remember a time where

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Speaker 1: it's a fourth string quarterback out there in a key game.

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Speaker 1: Recency bias certainly plays a factor into that. I do

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Speaker 1: think there's some other avenues that the NFL should go

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Speaker 1: down first with rule changes, making pass interference reviewable, maybe

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Speaker 1: roughing the passer reviewable. Do that instead of changing the

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Speaker 1: emergency QB rule. Yeah, I would, I would agree. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm all about rule change of the game involves really quickly,

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Speaker 1: and it has ever since. Every year since I've been

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Speaker 1: involved with it, in thirty years, they changed, they tweaked

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Speaker 1: the rules every year, and I was I had a

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Speaker 1: conversation today, I was doing an interview with a guy

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Speaker 1: who asked me about, you know, the changes in how

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Speaker 1: special teams has changed, and it's it's like a different

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Speaker 1: game now. It started with even in my day, when

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Speaker 1: you know they push you out of bounds, you had

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Speaker 1: to come back. They couldn't push you out of bounds first, well,

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Speaker 1: I guess maybe they don't. You couldn't go out of bounds,

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Speaker 1: and if you went out of bounds, you had to

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Speaker 1: make an attempt to come right back in bounds. They

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00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: couldn't hit you while you were out of bounds. So

851
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: all that stuff came into the league. The clean hands

852
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,919
Speaker 1: rule came into the league at that point. Whereas if

853
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: if you had a penalty before the punt or during

854
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: the punt and the guy caught it, they wouldn't make

855
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: you go back and punt it again. They just take

856
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: the penalty from wherever the guy caught it and wherever

857
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: the end of the play was. That was called the

858
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: clean hands rule. And they had the aligns. You can't

859
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: wedge anymore. You on a kickoff where you used to

860
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: have four big offensive linemen run forward in front of

861
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: the guy, you can't do that anymore. You can't overload

862
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 1: on a punt, rush to one side and get too

863
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: many guys over there for them to protect you. Can't

864
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: do that anymore. You can't you don't have a running

865
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,760
Speaker 1: start on kickoffs anymore. So the game is vastly changed

866
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: and it continues to and while there's always the old

867
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: guy in the back of the room, gone, it's soft. Listen,

868
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: it's better. The game's better now. It's better because the

869
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: stars are healthy enough to play all the time. I

870
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: don't want to go to a Bills game. I don't

871
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: get to see Josh Allen, he's over there in a

872
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: baseball cap. I don't want to go to a game

873
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: like I don't want to go to a game where

874
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,439
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has got an ankle, he's hurt. I don't

875
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,479
Speaker 1: want to go to those games. I want those guys

876
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: to play. That's why the game is great, and this

877
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: gives them a better chance to do that. Yeah, and

878
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: it needs to evolve over time because the players are bigger,

879
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: they're faster. There's more injuries. Now we know more about injuries.

880
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 1: I think even in your day, probably you played through

881
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: some things with the Bills that if you were playing

882
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:37,959
Speaker 1: on the Bills twenty years later, they were said, no, Steve,

883
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 1: you can't play. You can't play today. So it's better

884
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: for the long term health of the players to keep

885
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: them on the field, and then after they retire that

886
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: they don't have long term ailments. So you have to

887
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: evolve what the protocols are for player injury reasons. And

888
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: just as these guys are making more plays on special teams,

889
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: they're jumping over the center on field goals, you have

890
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: to kind of weeked those things to keep the game

891
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: in its integrity based on what was you know, originally

892
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: planned when this game was created, right, So, Steve Tastra,

893
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: Christra Possle, we're gonna take a break now, get it

894
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: back to the top of the hour. We're gonna come

895
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: back with more of your tweets that we're getting a

896
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: lot of those, a lot of feedback and want to

897
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: save them and try and get through them all at once,

898
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: and we will do that at the top of the hour.

899
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: Your calls and your comments coming up after the break.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasterer, Christra Posso on One Bills Live. This is

901
00:46:25,840 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, the One Bills Live presented by Called

902
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: Light Health. Welcome back to one Bills Live. Steve Tasker,

903
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: Chris Trapasso. We're here with you for the next hour

904
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Speaker 1: in the day for this week, we're gonna wind it up.

905
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get take your calls and your questions on

906
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. We're gonna get started with the one

907
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: from Rick. We've talked about this very topic at the

908
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: top of the show, and Rick wants to know could

909
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: the Bills be interested in reunited Steph Diggs with Adam Feeland,

910
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: who was just released by the Vikings. They might help

911
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: alleviate some receiver needs and give them another option. Yes,

912
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: I'm all about it. I think Theeland's got some gas

913
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: in his tank, had a nice year last year. He

914
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,439
Speaker 1: gets separation, and he earlier in his career was really

915
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: effective with Steph Diggs on the roster and with the

916
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: Vikings played a lot of slot receiver back then, which

917
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: is exactly where the Bills would like to see a

918
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: guy come in and bring in some competition for Khalil

919
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:08,399
Speaker 1: Shakir and give him another good guy that can really play.

920
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: And I'm sure a guy that could earn the trust

921
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: to Josh Allen pretty quickly into camp. He absolutely would.

922
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: I said it at the beginning of the show, but

923
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: it's such an astonishing stat I need to say it again.

924
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: Three drops on his last one hundred and ninety three targets.

925
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: This guy will alleviate any concerns that any Bills fans

926
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: have for that critical drop on a third down. He's

927
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: still pretty quick. He's a very intricate and savvy route runner.

928
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: And beyond just providing competition for Khalil Shakir or a

929
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: rookie draft pick, what a great mentor to teach the

930
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: nuances of running routes and how to create separation. This

931
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,359
Speaker 1: is not a high caliber, freaky athlete. He's been able

932
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: to get open with those subtleties to create separation over

933
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 1: a long, very illustrious career. I think reuniting those two

934
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: would make a lot of sense. Probably wouldn't cost a

935
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: ton of money. Either, would be a short term deal.

936
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: He's probably looking just for one more deal on a

937
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender, maybe in the six to eight million

938
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: dollar range per season for Adam Feeling. As things kind

939
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 1: of materialize with restructures and the Bills get under the cap,

940
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: we'll see if that's a deal that they would ultimately

941
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: be interested in. I bet they're thinking about it right

942
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: now because that would make a lot of sense to

943
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: add that mid level guy to this office. Yeah, Feeland

944
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: was one of those guys that's undrafted when he came

945
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: out and made his way in the NFL in a

946
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: big way. He would also come in and there's a

947
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: little bit of this in a locker room for an

948
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: NFL player. He comes in with some credentials. He would

949
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: come in and guys would want to approach him and say, hey,

950
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Find out who he and what

951
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: makes him tick. They'd be very interested in being mentored

952
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: by a guy like Adam and seeing how he goes

953
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: about his daily grind to become a really good player. Yeah,

954
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: I'm We're all about it, though, I'm no question the

955
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: Bills will kick the tires on Adam Feeland. Whether he's

956
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: in their price range or not remains to be seen

957
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: from Jack on the tweet sheet. Do the Bills purposely

958
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 1: wait until late on a Friday or over the weekend

959
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: to announce their cuts, slash restructures all of that? If they?

960
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: If they do, why do they wait? And also, what

961
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: does Chris Trapasso think of the two Illinois safeties? Now?

962
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: Today today is Illinois the fighting a Lionize pro day

963
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: in Champagne. Where do you think those two safeties for

964
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: Illinois will be drafted. Let's start by why would the

965
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: Bills wait or about the restructures and announce their cuts

966
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 1: and restructures. The only thing that would make sense to

967
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: me is that pretty much what we've talked about this

968
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: entire show, that the Bills want to see who's out

969
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: there they want to see. Do we only restructure Josh

970
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: Allen and Von Miller to get like fifteen or sixteen

971
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: million dollars under the cap, or do the Bills say,

972
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: let's do a day Kwon Jones extension which we talked about,

973
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: restructure someone else to get more space. Because again, before

974
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: this morning or I guess last night when the report

975
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: leaked out, the Bills didn't know that Adam Fieland was

976
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: going to be available. There'll be other players throughout the

977
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: show today, tonight and into the weekend that are suddenly

978
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: of ailable. Robert Woods became available last week. I think

979
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 1: that would be the only thing to me that would

980
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: make sense as to why the Bills would wait to

981
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: see how many moves do they need to make? How

982
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: much money do they really want to free up at

983
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: the start of free agency. Yeah, it could be that. Yeah,

984
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: the one leads to the other. How far can they

985
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: shop before they restructure, and how much do they want

986
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: to restructure that kind of thing. Certainly, it all, it

987
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: all plays hand in hand. I think one of the

988
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: things I've noticed about the bills in Sean McDermott, although

989
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if it early on in the tenure

990
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: here with Brandon Bean and Sean, every deadline they waited

991
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: until the deadline. Yah, they didn't do anything early. Nothing

992
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: happened early because something could always change. So it may

993
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: happen as late. Wednesday of next week is when the

994
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 1: free agency opens when it talks. The talking opens when

995
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: they can pick up the phone and call each other

996
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: and we can hear about the conversations. So probably Tuesday,

997
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: Monday or tuesdays when you'll start hearing about restructures. Now,

998
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean they're not on the phone with free

999
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 1: agents talking about it, even though it's quote finger quotes illegal.

1000
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: Nothing can be agreed to until Wednesday of next week,

1001
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: and nothing can be signed until Friday, so they're gonna

1002
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: I think they wait just because they didn't want something

1003
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 1: gonna change. Because yesterday Adam Thieland wasn't in the equation.

1004
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: Today he is una more. Yes tomorrow DeAndre Hopkins might

1005
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: be in the hunt conversation and the next day te

1006
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: Higgins might be. You know that kind of thing. Te

1007
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: Higgins ain't going anywhere. But you know what I mean,

1008
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: a quality player that you hadn't counted on. Somebody liked

1009
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: better so that they'll wait until the last possible minute. Now,

1010
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: the Illinois safety of fighting a lion I safeties, what

1011
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: do you think of these two guys? Today's their pro day?

1012
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: What do you think of the secondary of the safety? Okay,

1013
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: Sidney Brown is the Marquis safety. He ran really well

1014
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: at the combine, ran under four or five. He's smaller,

1015
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: He's kind of built like a stocky running back five ten,

1016
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: two hundred plus pounds. He's everywhere on film blitzing, stopping

1017
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,760
Speaker 1: plays against the run and kind of that tarn Johnson

1018
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,720
Speaker 1: Nickel cornerback slot defender role. And he actually made plays

1019
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: in coverage down the field to kind of draw a

1020
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 1: comparison to Jordan Poyer being more of a downhill player

1021
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: that can occasionally make that splash play in coverage. I

1022
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: see it with Sidney Brown. Because he tested well, the

1023
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: Bills want to pick him. They'll probably have to pick

1024
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: him in round two. The other safety, Quan Martin entered

1025
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: the Combine as kind of Day three, pick six or

1026
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: seventh rounder. Then he had a forty four inch vertical

1027
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,479
Speaker 1: tested through the roof, ran really fast, actually tested better

1028
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: than Sidney Brown. So for Kwan Martin, he used the

1029
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: Combine as that catapult. Suddenly he could be a third

1030
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: or a fourth round pick. Not quite as many plays

1031
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: in coverage as a blitzer, not as good of a

1032
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: tackler as Sidney Brown, who was again the more marquis

1033
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: safety in that secondary for the align of this season,

1034
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,439
Speaker 1: but someone that I think the Bills can maybe leaned

1035
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: toward because we've said it a bunch. They love the measurements,

1036
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: they love the measurables, they love the big time athleticism

1037
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 1: because they believe in their coaching staff to develop these

1038
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: players once they get here in Orchard Party. Yeah, the

1039
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: Bills draft traits, I've been saying it a ton, and

1040
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: that's not going to change. But when you get down

1041
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: into the mid rounds, those traits change, and the reason

1042
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: they draft guys changes. When you get in a top draft,

1043
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: you're going to invest a real pick and a guy. Yeah,

1044
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 1: it's got to be a guy who measures out Now,

1045
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: they made an exception to that with ed Oliver. Although

1046
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: ed Oliver's athleticism is a trait and his explosion is

1047
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: a trait. That's you know, that's what got him into

1048
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: the first Town top ten, no doubt so. But you

1049
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:53,439
Speaker 1: look at the other guys. It's a Japanessa and Greg

1050
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: Russo Boogie Basham. They all have traits. I mean, Rousseau

1051
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:01,800
Speaker 1: and Epinesza are six five plus and they got those traits.

1052
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: And Epineza could play down inside two as well in college,

1053
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: so he hasn't done that in pros too much, but

1054
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: it was still there. So that's where the Bills are.

1055
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 1: And you get to these guys. You know, he's five

1056
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 1: eleven and Buck ninety four for Jordavious Martin who's a

1057
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: safety out of Illinois, and Brown who's five ten, but

1058
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: you know the athleticisms there. Neither one of those guys

1059
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: are going to be the twenty seventh pick of the

1060
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: draft if the Bills pick. But it's got to be

1061
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: a considerations that as the picks start clicking off, and

1062
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 1: it will depend as well who gets picked on the

1063
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: first fifty three picks as to who the Bill's fifty

1064
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: fourth pick is and who's still on the board when

1065
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: they get down to what is a ninety four I

1066
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: believe I think it is is ninety four their pick

1067
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: hold on, I'll tell you what it is. It is

1068
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:55,879
Speaker 1: ninety one. It's ninety one. And then it's not pick

1069
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: one thirty then pick one thirty seven they got from Arizona.

1070
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: And then the sixth pick of the sixth round pick

1071
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: is a two hundred and fifth pick. So yeah, there's

1072
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: a lot going on, and it'll depend it's fifty nine,

1073
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: not fifty four. I guess two in the second round.

1074
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's that's possibility. But once again, we got

1075
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: to get through Wednesday through Friday to before we know.

1076
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: The one thing I'll say is that I think Sean

1077
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: McDermott believes in his own ability to get the most

1078
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: out of safeties. Said it yesterday, I've said it over

1079
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: the last five years. Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde were

1080
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: really not headliner free agent signings and they both became

1081
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: all pros with Sean McDermott here in Buffalo. So yes,

1082
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: it is a need. You've said it. They have Micah Hyde,

1083
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin, and not much else at the safety spot,

1084
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: and we don't know about Hamlin's football playing future. It

1085
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: feels like it on paper it's a big need for

1086
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,760
Speaker 1: the Bills, But I think Sean mcdermot's tenure, he has

1087
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 1: gotten the most out of a lesser seventh round pick

1088
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: in Jordan Poyer, fifth round pick in Micah. It feels

1089
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: like they they can kind of utilize those picks later

1090
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: in the draft. They can almost hack the draft and

1091
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: say we can pick a safety in round three or

1092
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: round four, and the scheme Sean McDermott coaching up the

1093
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: safety's really well, can still get quality production from that

1094
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: position without having to use a first or a second

1095
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: round pick or a big ticket item in free agency

1096
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: at the safety spot. Let's go back to the tweet

1097
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: sheet from Matt. He asks, now, what do you think

1098
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: about Tardavious White moving to safety? Especially with Jackson and

1099
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: the two rookies pretty well, playing pretty well, and with

1100
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: poor years likely departure, and White's knowledge of the defense,

1101
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: I think there's a better chance that Christian Benford moves

1102
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: to safety rather than Tavius White. Corner is much more

1103
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: difficult athletically to play, and when you get a guy

1104
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: that can play it athletically like a Kierrie Elam and

1105
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: a Turdavious White. That's where they stay, the safety And

1106
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it. I don't want to

1107
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: make a little of it, disrespect the position because it's

1108
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: really important. But safety is where corners go to die. Yeah,

1109
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, They go there to age out.

1110
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: Charles Woodson did that in his career, and I think

1111
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: Rob Woodson did it in his career. You get a

1112
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: great corner who's a great athletic, and then you know

1113
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: he gets into his tenth year, you move him to safety.

1114
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: He can play very well there because he is so

1115
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: savvy about what's going on. Tredevious White isn't there yet.

1116
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 1: He's still an elite cornerback in the NFL. I think

1117
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: it did take him maybe a little longer than other

1118
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 1: players coming back from ACL tears, but everyone's different. And

1119
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: I thought later in the season in that playoff game

1120
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, Trey White was playing like Tredevious White.

1121
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: And to have that elite corner that can be good

1122
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: in man and zone, can match up with the litany

1123
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: of high profile wide receivers in today's NFL, that is

1124
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 1: very valuable to a defense. So it's too early for

1125
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: Trey White twenty seventeen first round pick to move to safety.

1126
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: Benford when they drafted him out of Villanova, because he

1127
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: had so much ball production at corner, wasn't a crazy athlete.

1128
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 1: They figured, let's try m a corner and if not,

1129
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: he can play safe. He played well there, But I

1130
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: think you're right, Christian Benford is the the in house

1131
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 1: player on this roster in the secondary that's more likely

1132
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: to make that transition to beniverse built a little bit

1133
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: better for it. He's a bigger, thicker guy, and he's

1134
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: got a mentality that I you know, I'm he's a

1135
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: serious kid. He's young, and he's got a really mature,

1136
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: old soul kind of feel to him, which is kind

1137
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,959
Speaker 1: of what you need from a guy back there who's

1138
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: gonna have to say, hey, no, you play this technique,

1139
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: not that. When we're gonna do this, so do that.

1140
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: We're doing this over here, you do that. He's got

1141
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: this kind of maturity about him that speaks well and

1142
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: I you know, you can go down this rabbit hole

1143
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: all you want, But a corner is a guy who

1144
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: is a loaner right out there. Safety is a facilitator

1145
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 1: who unites people you know and kind of sees the orchestrates.

1146
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: So um, there's a little bit of personality mixed into

1147
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: that too. That might be me projecting, but still the

1148
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: plumb I think it matters. The point is made from

1149
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: Chuck on the tweet sheet, is Tennessee gonna tank with

1150
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 1: all of their releases and who could they who they

1151
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: could release? There's no question Tennessee probably hasn't set it

1152
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: as an organization, but certainly you've seen it Chuck as

1153
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: well as Chris and I. They're in rebuild mode for sure.

1154
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 1: I think they're in the quarterback market. I think they're

1155
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: in draft pick market. They're trying to get picks. They're

1156
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: trying to shed cap space, They're trying to get their

1157
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: financial feet underneath them, and their rosters suffering because of it.

1158
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: They've got a couple of They're doing a lot of

1159
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: work down there, and some of it is jettisoning some

1160
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: pretty good players. Yeah. I think what can be a

1161
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: fun exercise over the weekend, as we had into free agency,

1162
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: go to spot track and look at the teams that

1163
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: have new general managers. Those are usually the teams that

1164
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: they it's a new face, they want their own individual guys.

1165
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: They realize if they're the new GM, then the past

1166
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: GM wasn't doing very well. They probably were not in

1167
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And in the case of the Tennessee Titans,

1168
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: their new GM ran Carthon, who came over from the

1169
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers. He wants to rebuild it,

1170
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: just like Brandon Bean did when he got here. The

1171
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 1: Bills are coming off a playoff the you know, breaking

1172
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: the drought, the first ever playoff appearance in seventeen seasons,

1173
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: and he's trading Marcel Darius and Sammy Watkins and everyone's like,

1174
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: what's going on. He wanted his own guys here and

1175
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: ultimately worked. Look for those teams and the Tennessee Titans

1176
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: are one of them that will be with the new GM,

1177
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: that will be you know, releasing a lot of these

1178
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: players that are mar Key guys. Denico Autry defensive lineman

1179
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: who's had a couple of good games against the Bills,

1180
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: and we know Brandon being kind of keeps tabs on

1181
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 1: those players. They could save around seven million dollars if

1182
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: Denico Autry has cut. He's an older veteran, good player,

1183
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: but if you're rebuilding, he's not someone that the Titans

1184
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: want to keep long term. Yeah, there's a lot in

1185
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Titans too. Think about this.

1186
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: They were the number two years ago, or they the

1187
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 1: one seat in the playoffs. Now they got out ousted

1188
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: in the first round, but they were the one seat

1189
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,040
Speaker 1: in the playoffs two years ago. They were coming off

1190
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: a stretch where they won four division titles. And last

1191
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: year when they fired their general manager, they were in

1192
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: they were leading the division yea, and they fired their

1193
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 1: general manager. Whatever they're doing down there, it has nothing

1194
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: to do with what was going on in the football field.

1195
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: To me, it has to do with what's going on

1196
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: with the head coach and the owner and the general

1197
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 1: manager and the relationships up high. And maybe there's some

1198
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: financial clues as to what's going on down there. Maybe

1199
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: they were spending too much money, they didn't like to

1200
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: direct whatever. There was nothing in the results that were

1201
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: happening on their field for the Titans that said we

1202
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: need to fire our general manager, particularly given what he

1203
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: had done for them over the past five years. Yeah.

1204
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 1: I think the Bills kind of affect here into this

1205
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 1: as well, because the Ryan Tannehill career resurgence in Tennessee

1206
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,439
Speaker 1: was a great story got to the one seed. They

1207
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: beat the Baltimore Ravens. I think the two playoffs before

1208
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: when the Ravens were the one seed in Baltimore, no

1209
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: one really saw that coming. The Bill's factor in because

1210
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 1: I think ownership in Tennessee finally said, all right, we

1211
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: haven't gotten our young franchise quarterback to be able to

1212
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,920
Speaker 1: beat a Josh Allen or a Patrick Mahomes or Justin Herbert.

1213
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 1: The stop gap role for Ryan Tannehill was very, very good.

1214
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: They just kind of realized, I think we've topped out

1215
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 1: where we can get to the playoffs. We can maybe

1216
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 1: even be the one seed, but we're one of the

1217
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 1: weaker one seeds that's gonna lose a home playoff game too.

1218
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals like they did. At

1219
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: that point, I think the Titans realized, Look, our team

1220
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: is good. We like Mike Vrabel, he's a good head coach.

1221
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: We have Derek hen we we have some good pieces.

1222
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 1: Aj Brown. They trade him. That was kind of a

1223
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: head scratcher to trade a wide receiver in the past

1224
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: happy NFL that we're in, but I think they realized

1225
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: that they just were not good enough offensively to compete

1226
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:01,919
Speaker 1: with the best teams in AFC, including the Buffalo Bills. Yeah,

1227
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: so there's a lot going on down there rebuilding. Yeah,

1228
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: I think they are. I don't think they're gonna tank. Um.

1229
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 1: I don't think Mike Vrabel is a kind of coach

1230
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: that would go for that. Although and you go in

1231
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: there and the owner says, hey, we got to get

1232
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 1: better and then we're gonna have to tear it down,

1233
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: and Bills they're gonna rebuild, and the head coaches if

1234
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 1: he gets those orders from the owner when GM like, okay,

1235
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 1: but you're gonna win as many games as we can.

1236
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: But then when you can't win as many games as

1237
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: they could have with the other roster, he gets fired. Yeah.

1238
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: The coach is never like that, Yeah, which I don't blame.

1239
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: And it's gonna go on hit. He's the guy that

1240
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: takes the win loss and and gets his job taken

1241
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 1: away from him because the owner or the GM wanted

1242
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: to tear it down when they were actually leading the

1243
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 1: division before they fired the guy. So, yeah, there's a

1244
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:48,439
Speaker 1: lot going on in Tennessee. Not all of it makes

1245
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 1: sense unless you know which I don't The politics and

1246
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 1: the and the reasons behind it. They want four division

1247
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:59,240
Speaker 1: titles down there. At that GM he hired Mike Vrabel,

1248
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: they were, they were leading the division the week they

1249
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 1: fired the guy. So I'm thinking it was something other

1250
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: than that it could have been, but it has led

1251
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: to this offseason now. Now, maybe they knew this was

1252
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: coming and they didn't want to give the old GM

1253
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: a chance to rebuild the way he did the first time,

1254
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,400
Speaker 1: like he couldn't do it again. I guess this is

1255
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: what their thought is, But that seems to me what happened.

1256
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 1: How about on draft night, and I mentioned it earlier

1257
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 1: about AJ Brown getting traded, the viral reaction of Mike

1258
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 1: Vrabel when they made that trade that Rabel was mad,

1259
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: he stepped away from like the draft table when he

1260
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 1: saw that trade go down, and certainly the offense kind

1261
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:44,280
Speaker 1: of centered around Derrick Henry. I think that's putting it lightly,

1262
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 1: but Mike Vrabel had no interest in trading AJ Brown.

1263
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: They got draft picks, and I'm all about getting more

1264
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: draft picks, but when you have someone a second round

1265
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 1: selection in a J Brown, you prioritize paying that wide receiver.

1266
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 1: He makes everyone better on that team. So there's some

1267
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: of those polots picks that you're talking about front office

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Speaker 1: head coach GM trying to wheel and deal when you

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Speaker 1: had the good player at receiver. Gms and head coaches

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Speaker 1: always disagree. I mean, it's part of the healthy relationship

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Speaker 1: because they have different opinions. And he sees a guy

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Speaker 1: this way, you see him another way. That always goes on.

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Speaker 1: So that in and of itself probably wasn't the reason,

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Speaker 1: but it certainly was part of it. For it was

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know that it was the straw

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Speaker 1: that broke the camel's back, but it was certainly a

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Speaker 1: brick in the on the camping right. So yeah, so

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Speaker 1: there is stuff going on in Tennessee. It's it's gonna

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Speaker 1: bear watching. But like I said, they weren't stinking it

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Speaker 1: up when they fired the guy. So there they are.

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Speaker 1: From daniel let's go and move on. More from the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Danielle. Is there a possible way to

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Speaker 1: move up from pick twenty seven without causing tremendous amount

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Speaker 1: of damage? If we could move up to say fifteen,

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Speaker 1: or if is that even possible. Anything's possible, and you

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Speaker 1: can do it for a number of ways. I think

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Speaker 1: the the way that's the least amount of damage is

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Speaker 1: if you do it by trading players. Yeah, because if

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Speaker 1: you count draft picks as damage, that's damage. That where

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Speaker 1: you can get a fourth round and all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden turns into Steph Diggs, that's damage. If you let

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Speaker 1: that go players, you kind of know what you're you're

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Speaker 1: releasing and saying goodbye to. And if you're if you're

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Speaker 1: full of great players at a certain position, then you

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Speaker 1: can afford to do that. Although that can come back

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Speaker 1: to bite you two all of you know, you know

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Speaker 1: things that have happened in the past where you trade

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Speaker 1: away a player and all of a sudden he turns

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Speaker 1: into an all pro. So that kind of stuff happens.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you can get up. Yes, the Bills could

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Speaker 1: definitely move up from twenty seven to fifteen for who?

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Speaker 1: For who? And what's it gonna cost. That's what you

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Speaker 1: don't know now. The fifteenth pick of the draft, as

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Speaker 1: we get that, I don't know who it is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: go go look for that real quick. The fifteenth pick

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Speaker 1: of the draft, say, for instance, just for argument's sake,

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Speaker 1: is Green Bay Packers. There you go or somewhere around there.

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Speaker 1: You can put that back, put that graphic back up.

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Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers, where you could move up to

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Speaker 1: the Texans have the third pick and the twelfth pick.

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Speaker 1: The Jets have the thirteenth pick. They're not touching you.

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Speaker 1: If you're the Buffalo Bills. The Patriots have the fourteenth pick.

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Speaker 1: But if you go up to the Commanders, the Packers,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth, maybe those teams

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Speaker 1: are willing to talk to you. Detroit Lions at eighteen,

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Speaker 1: Okay maybe, but that's a that's a big jump in

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Speaker 1: the first round of an NFL draft, and it's going

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Speaker 1: to cost you something. Yeah. Brandon Bean certainly has a

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Speaker 1: history of being really aggressive making trades in the draft.

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Speaker 1: At the trade deadline, with Calvin Benjamin and Hem Hines,

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Speaker 1: I am the biggest advocate of not trading up. I

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Speaker 1: think at this point we've we've talked all week about

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Speaker 1: restructuring deals and the amount of high prices good players

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Speaker 1: that the Bills have on the roster. The best way

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Speaker 1: to supplement you're Josh Allen's and your Stefon Diggs and

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Speaker 1: von Miller's. Steve said it a bunch bring in the

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Speaker 1: cheap labor and hope that one of your third or

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Speaker 1: your fourth or your fifth round picks become a Gabriel

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Speaker 1: Davis or a Matt Milano who was a fifth round pick,

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Speaker 1: or tarn Johnson who is a fourth round pick. That's

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Speaker 1: what you ultimately have to do at this stage of

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Speaker 1: the team building process. Get as many draft picks as

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Speaker 1: possible and say, look, we're not going to ask you

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Speaker 1: to come in and be the guy right away. We

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Speaker 1: have those guys with Stefon Diggs and Von Miller and

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Speaker 1: others on this team. It's can you be that role

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Speaker 1: player early in your career. So I think if there's

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Speaker 1: a player that the Bills absolutely love and they're astonished

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Speaker 1: that he's there at fifteen, I could see that. But

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Speaker 1: more so I think trading back to get those second

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Speaker 1: and third rounders, get as many roles at the table

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Speaker 1: as you can to increase the chances of actually hitting

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Speaker 1: on one of them and becoming a important kind of

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01:09:58,920 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 1: niche player this Bills team. And as we said, you

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Speaker 1: know that cheap labor is one thing. There's gonna be

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01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: some quality free agents on the on the market today.

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Speaker 1: It looks like the Rams are going to release Leonard

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Speaker 1: Floyd today the outside linebacker, there's been a really good player.

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Speaker 1: The Titans center Ben Jones is being released. We talked

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Speaker 1: about that a little earlier. All this stuff going on

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Speaker 1: around the league, the question is can you can you

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01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: get these guys to say yes to your offer? And

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Speaker 1: can your offer be made to work financially? The Bills

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Speaker 1: certainly have some work. Did you make free up cap space?

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Speaker 1: But veterans like that are going to be out there

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01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:40,120
Speaker 1: and that's when that's when you really you really have

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Speaker 1: to try and make it work, because those guys are

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Speaker 1: worth it. Yeah. One other thing that I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about kind of looking back at the history

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Speaker 1: of Brandon Bean when it comes to measurables and trades

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Speaker 1: in the draft, making trades. Something else the Bills have

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Speaker 1: been really good with is waiting out free agency. I

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Speaker 1: think we're all excited for a free agency to start

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Speaker 1: Monday into Tuesday and Wednesday. There'll be those big ticket

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Speaker 1: items that will fly off the board right away the

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Speaker 1: free agent board. Brandon Bean's done a good job waiting

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Speaker 1: out second, third, even fourth wave of free agency. However,

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Speaker 1: you want to kind of define that to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: look maybe into early April, Robert Woods is still there

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Speaker 1: and his every day that goes by with these free agents,

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Speaker 1: his price drop, his price drops. So don't necessarily think

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Speaker 1: that the Bills are not being aggressive or they're not

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Speaker 1: trying if they don't make those big splash signings right

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Speaker 1: away when free agency starts. There will be other guys

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Speaker 1: that will be cut after free agency when teams say, hey,

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Speaker 1: look we got our wide receiver. We're gonna let you

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Speaker 1: go now. Then suddenly near the end of March, the

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Speaker 1: Bills are able to sign him for a lot cheaper

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Speaker 1: of a deal than originally expected. Still have some more

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Speaker 1: tweets to get to on the tweet sheet, Christoposso, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker here, We're gonna come back after the break and

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Speaker 1: get to more of your responses here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live Steeve test for Christrapasso

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Speaker 1: here till the top of the hour, and we've been

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Speaker 1: talking to our fans and hearing from the fans about

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Speaker 1: what's going on with free agency, their thoughts about what

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Speaker 1: the Bills could do to tinker with their rosters, sign

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Speaker 1: free agents restructure, which guys are interesting. We've got a

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Speaker 1: call on the line as well. We're gonna take that

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Speaker 1: right now, and it is Kevin go ahead taking my call.

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Speaker 1: You bet go ahead, um, Ben Jones the sentator was

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Speaker 1: at leased by Tennessee and all that I want to

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Speaker 1: find out. I like Mitch Morris, but it seems like

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Speaker 1: he's had the last couple of years a little bit

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Speaker 1: too many not only injured but concussion problems. And you know,

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Speaker 1: centers out of the quarterback in the offensive line, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of hard to depending on him if he's getting

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Speaker 1: his bell runs and he's had some concussion problems. Had

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Speaker 1: the center from Tennessee had too many concussion problems in

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Speaker 1: the last two or three years as successively. If he's not,

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Speaker 1: maybe we should think about seeing Mitch. Your concussions are

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Speaker 1: scary in us too much? Or maybe Mitch Morris has

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Speaker 1: a cap hit of eleven three. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: Ben Jones would cost that much. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: Ben Jones is as good a center as Mitch Morrise,

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Speaker 1: but certainly Ben Jones is a really good player. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know his injury history. I know he struggled

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01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,759
Speaker 1: a little like most guys do with some nagging stuff,

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Speaker 1: but he has missed. I think he doesn't miss place.

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Speaker 1: Ben Jones had doesn't miss snaps. That's his thing. It

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Speaker 1: was that way with Tennessee and it would probably that

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Speaker 1: way going forward, at least for the near future. His

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Speaker 1: reputation is a very durable player. Yeah, he played just

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Speaker 1: under seven hundred snaps this past season. Did miss a

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Speaker 1: little at the time, but again getting on the wrong

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Speaker 1: side of thirty. That's going to happen when you're playing

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Speaker 1: as much as Ben Jones has the season before, played

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Speaker 1: over eleven hundred snaps. He is a warrior on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not quite as mobile as Mitch Morse, or he

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Speaker 1: certainly isn't and I think Morris's mobility Aaron Kromer likes

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Speaker 1: that in the center, to be able to get out

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Speaker 1: to the second level on screens, just finding those linebackers

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01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 1: to help pave lanes for the run game. We just

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Speaker 1: don't know about Mitch Morse. He has had that concussion history.

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Speaker 1: He has not said, hey, look I'm going to retire

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Speaker 1: or even hinted at that. Certainly, that could be one

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Speaker 1: of those fluid situations where suddenly, if it happens like

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Speaker 1: with Richie Incognito and Eric Wood three or four years ago.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly the bills could be in the center market. And

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Speaker 1: in that case, like Steve said, not quite as good,

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Speaker 1: but he's not going to cost as much as mister Morris.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, Kevin, you're right, and it's it's

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Speaker 1: not that and Mitch Morris with the concussions, seriously is

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Speaker 1: what they usually tell you. And I haven't been corrected

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Speaker 1: on this, so I keep saying it because it's what

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Speaker 1: was told to me way back in the day. Once

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Speaker 1: you heal up from a concussion, it's like any other wound.

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Speaker 1: It's like you're not going to be more susceptible to

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Speaker 1: having it happened again unless you come back too quickly,

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01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: and then it can it can escalate in a way

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Speaker 1: that other injuries do not. It can be easier and

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01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: easier and easier to get successive concussions if you're not

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent healed from the first concussion you got.

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01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: So there is that for Mitch Morris. But he knowing

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Speaker 1: what we know about Mitchum and the time that he's missed,

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Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent when he comes back from those,

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Speaker 1: and and he's been a really good player. Let's go

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Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet and from Bill's news consolidated

1450
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 1: this comes to he asks and says, the window to

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Speaker 1: develop players in Buffalo has shortened because of the talent

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Speaker 1: on our team. Do you foresee us drafting players with

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Speaker 1: more experience and or coming from more highly ranked programs, um,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the window is shortened to develop players

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01:15:57,840 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 1: because if a guy's developing, they're not going to get

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Speaker 1: rid of him. If they see a high end to

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Speaker 1: his potential, they're not going to get rid of that.

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Speaker 1: Windows the same as it's always been. I get it

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Speaker 1: it's harder to be on the field when your team's

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Speaker 1: really talented at a lot of positions, But if you're developing,

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Speaker 1: it's all about you know, it's all about hanging onto

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Speaker 1: you and getting you to the point where you can

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Speaker 1: get on the field. And plus, I think the Bills

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Speaker 1: are reticent to start rookies and to play them a lot.

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Speaker 1: So even if the guy can really go mentally and

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Speaker 1: emotionally and all the other things that go into being

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Speaker 1: a good pro, they take it very easy off the field.

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Speaker 1: With all the stuff that kids got to young guys

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Speaker 1: got to go through to put them on the field

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Speaker 1: and add contributing as a starter to that plate. So

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Speaker 1: the Bills give rookies more time than most teams do

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Speaker 1: to get acclimated, and I think they can do that

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Speaker 1: because they have the stars in place. I think to

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Speaker 1: his question was the thought of, Hey, if you're rebuilding,

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Speaker 1: you're going to draft a lot of twenty one year olds,

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Speaker 1: redshirt sophomores, juniors. Let them have three, four or five

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01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:04,799
Speaker 1: years to become the player that is good in the NFL.

1478
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 1: The Bills maybe don't have nearly as many spots on

1479
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 1: the roster for young players to have that much of

1480
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:14,960
Speaker 1: an opportunity because of the established stars that they have.

1481
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say to that, though, is,

1482
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:19,720
Speaker 1: although it's not a guarantee, we do know that the

1483
01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 1: Bills like to lean in the Senior Bowl direction. Forty

1484
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 1: three percent of their picks and the Sean McDermott era

1485
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: have been from the Senior Bowl. I think they like

1486
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:28,559
Speaker 1: guys that are a little bit more ready. But right

1487
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 1: when I was almost thinking that I need to only

1488
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,519
Speaker 1: look at Senior Bowl guys for the Bills, they draft

1489
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:37,559
Speaker 1: Gregory Rousseau, who was twenty one, was one year in

1490
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 1: college football with the fifteen sacks at Miami and then

1491
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 1: he entered the NFL way earlier than people expected. So

1492
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: it's not like they're set in stone to pick the

1493
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 1: players who are, you know, fifty year seniors or sixty

1494
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:52,719
Speaker 1: year seniors coming off of COVID. So it's really hard

1495
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:55,519
Speaker 1: to kind of pinpoint the exact type that they like.

1496
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 1: But they are not going to ask these rookies to

1497
01:17:57,320 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 1: come in and be the guy right away because Digs

1498
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: and von Miller. Every team has a draft philosophy, but

1499
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 1: when it comes down to the actual guys they pick,

1500
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 1: it's about the actual guys they pick. It doesn't matter.

1501
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if he's from Alabama or Alcorn State,

1502
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,360
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if he's gonna If this guy is gonna

1503
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: be a better pro than that guy, they're gonna take

1504
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:23,679
Speaker 1: this guy. So while I get what you're saying about

1505
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:27,439
Speaker 1: having guys with who are more fully formed when the

1506
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: Bills draft them, I think it comes down to each guy. Um,

1507
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think the philosophy goes

1508
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:38,640
Speaker 1: deeper into saying, now, this guy may be better, but

1509
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 1: this guy's from this guy's from you know, USC, and

1510
01:18:42,040 --> 01:18:46,040
Speaker 1: not you know Miamis, Ohio. Yeah, you don't scout the helmets.

1511
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 1: I meant the players, that's right. And Taran Johnson I

1512
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:51,840
Speaker 1: think is the best slot corner in football. And he

1513
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 1: went to Weber State and he was kind of off

1514
01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: the radar, goes to the Senior Bowl. Awesome there, and

1515
01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 1: he's become such a versatile player on this defense. If

1516
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: you're thinking the Bills are we going to draft from

1517
01:19:00,760 --> 01:19:04,160
Speaker 1: the SEC and the ACC and the big ten, Tarren

1518
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:06,040
Speaker 1: Johnson kind of sticks out like a sore thumb and

1519
01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: is an integral part of this defense. They just picked

1520
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:11,960
Speaker 1: Christian Benford from VILLANOVACF School and they really like his

1521
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 1: potential when he's healthy to be that versatile outside corner

1522
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 1: and maybe safety entering this season. And this is from

1523
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 1: Andrew from the tweet sheet. With Buffalo going to need

1524
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 1: a linebacker with Edmonds most likely departing, who would you

1525
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,800
Speaker 1: think is the most affordable linebacker in free agency that

1526
01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:30,880
Speaker 1: the Bills could offer a reasonable deal too. Do you

1527
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 1: think they draft a linebacker in this year's draft when

1528
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:37,759
Speaker 1: they draft him one last year last year in Balan

1529
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:43,240
Speaker 1: Specter and also in Bernard. I don't know if they

1530
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:45,599
Speaker 1: drafted another guy that they think can start. Certainly if

1531
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 1: a guy falls to them, If one of these guys

1532
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: like the Iowa kid or the Arkansas kid falls to them,

1533
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if they'd take him at twenty seven

1534
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:54,960
Speaker 1: because they depending on where the roster is atter free agency,

1535
01:19:55,479 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: if they're still needing interior offensive line, or if they

1536
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:04,679
Speaker 1: want to bring in more competition, you know, for Spencer

1537
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:07,840
Speaker 1: Brown at right tackle, maybe they don't, or maybe if

1538
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 1: they're worried or something about their interior defensive line they

1539
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 1: take a defensive tackle instead. But if it gets to

1540
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 1: that point, you know, yeah, they could draft a guy

1541
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 1: if they think he can start, you know, on Day two.

1542
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:28,720
Speaker 1: Probably not on Day one, though, no, probably not. I

1543
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: do believe that Sean McDermott loves himself. Some off ball

1544
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 1: linebackers they've really gone into free agency draft undrafted free

1545
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: agent ranks. With Tyrell Dodson, they've really made him a

1546
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 1: core special teamer. He's like the primary backup t J.

1547
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: Edwards Layton vander Ashoy talked about yesterday. Those to me

1548
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:51,880
Speaker 1: are the two established classic middle linebackers that have that

1549
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 1: size that Matt Milano doesn't. That's the only thing that

1550
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 1: Matt Milano doesn't have his size, and I don't think

1551
01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:00,360
Speaker 1: that the Bills, for a team that runs as much

1552
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:03,320
Speaker 1: nickel defense as they do, that Tarren Johnson is essentially

1553
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:06,599
Speaker 1: their third linebacker, that they necessarily want to get another

1554
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:09,720
Speaker 1: light linebacker out there because then it's a lot more

1555
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: difficult to stop the opposition's run game. TJ. Edwards, Layton

1556
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: vander Ashe. I don't think you're going to break the bank.

1557
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: Maybe Edwards does because he was on the team that

1558
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 1: was in the Super Bowl. But with those two they

1559
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:22,759
Speaker 1: seem a little bit more reasonably priced for the Bills

1560
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:25,120
Speaker 1: if they lose Tremaine Edmunds in freedency and it may

1561
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 1: change with Leslie Frasier no longer called plays on defense,

1562
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:30,840
Speaker 1: but Tarren Johnson and we have Greg cosell on a

1563
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 1: lot of people love Grey and I love Greg. He's great.

1564
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: He scours the film and has very objective views about

1565
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:39,679
Speaker 1: what the players do and what they're good at. It's

1566
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: his contention and has been for quite some time, that

1567
01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 1: Tarren Johnson is above and beyond the reason the Bills

1568
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:50,720
Speaker 1: can play so much nickel defense. His competitive nature, his fastiness,

1569
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:53,920
Speaker 1: his ability to and we heard it as well this

1570
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 1: last year. What teams do is they structure their run

1571
01:21:57,600 --> 01:22:00,559
Speaker 1: offense as to get an offensive lineman pull around and

1572
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 1: getting one on one with Tarn Johnson so that they

1573
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:06,720
Speaker 1: can power overpower the Bills defense. And hasn't worked. He's

1574
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 1: still Tarn Johnson because Tarn Johnson's two feisty for him, right,

1575
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:12,959
Speaker 1: so he can stand up to those kind of tactics

1576
01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 1: and get it done. And the Bills can call defenses

1577
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:17,639
Speaker 1: to help him in that regard as well. So all

1578
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:21,719
Speaker 1: of that stuff goes into the mix. And so drafting

1579
01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 1: the linebacker when you've got Tarn Johnson and Matt Malano

1580
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: under contract, what is the what's the difference is it

1581
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: gonna be? Is it gonna be a huge difference from

1582
01:22:31,960 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds down to player X or y? Probably some,

1583
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:38,679
Speaker 1: But is it gonna be enough to risk a top

1584
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:42,479
Speaker 1: number one draft pick over He was a number one

1585
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: draft pick, but he was the second number one draft

1586
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 1: pick in that draft. The Bills had Josh and then Tremaine,

1587
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 1: and those guys have been on the field together ever since,

1588
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:53,720
Speaker 1: and Tremaine has done everything he possibly can to be

1589
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:55,680
Speaker 1: that player that the Bills wanted him to be and

1590
01:22:55,720 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 1: for that reason, I think they'll make every effort to

1591
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:01,520
Speaker 1: sign him. But man oh man, it's up to Tremaine

1592
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: to stay in Buffalo. I don't need it. Ain't question

1593
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: he's gonna take. Have to discount them because they're not

1594
01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: in a position now they've paid Josh, they're in a position,

1595
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: not in a position to give him twenty million dollars

1596
01:23:14,320 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 1: a year. So we'll see, yeah, and I think it

1597
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: will really come down to this will all crystallize after

1598
01:23:21,520 --> 01:23:24,080
Speaker 1: free agency and being a draft analyst, I'm doing mock

1599
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:27,839
Speaker 1: drafts every week. You plug certain positions to certain teams

1600
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:30,919
Speaker 1: to fill needs. Right after the Super Bowl through the Combine,

1601
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, then free agency hits, and you get

1602
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,839
Speaker 1: a much more clear picture as to a team's intentions,

1603
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: maybe even in the first round. If the Bills sign

1604
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling and they sign Odell Beckham junior, they're probably

1605
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 1: not going to go receiver in the first round, right

1606
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: If they sign Layton vander ash they're probably not going

1607
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:48,640
Speaker 1: to pick a linebacker in the first round. So in

1608
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:51,040
Speaker 1: a week when Brownie's back, you guys will be able

1609
01:23:51,040 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 1: to understand more of where the Bills will go with

1610
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: those first couples. That doesn't even mean that it's all

1611
01:23:56,479 --> 01:23:58,600
Speaker 1: mapped out already. Say listen, we're not gonna We're not

1612
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 1: gonna look at Adam Ellen or DeAndre Hopkins or OBJ

1613
01:24:03,280 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 1: because we're gonna we're gonna draft one of those kids,

1614
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, and let's go see in the free agent

1615
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 1: marketency what we can do with lineman. It's none of that.

1616
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:11,800
Speaker 1: They're looking for the best players they can who they

1617
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:13,960
Speaker 1: can afford, and if they can get all of those

1618
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:15,720
Speaker 1: guys that we just mentioned on both sides of the ball,

1619
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: they're going to do that. But I think the idea

1620
01:24:20,360 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: for a GM it's just like it is in free agent,

1621
01:24:23,439 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 1: like it is in free agency and in the offseason,

1622
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 1: just like it is in the draft overall. When your

1623
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:32,800
Speaker 1: pick comes, you want to get the best guy out

1624
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: there at whatever position he is, because you want to

1625
01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:40,280
Speaker 1: get stronger at every position. You're not deficient where you

1626
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:44,519
Speaker 1: gotta pick a corner, you gotta pick a safety, you

1627
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 1: gotta pick a defensive lineman, because you've got enough guys

1628
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:51,080
Speaker 1: that you know, we're not bad at that spot. Certainly

1629
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: are not dominant, but we're not deficient. So let's take

1630
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:56,439
Speaker 1: the best pro and that's where they want to get

1631
01:24:56,479 --> 01:24:58,559
Speaker 1: not only in free agency, but also in the draft. Yeah,

1632
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:00,559
Speaker 1: and I think that they have to attack agency with

1633
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 1: that mindset because the Bills, they're scouts. Brandon Bean's been

1634
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:07,280
Speaker 1: going to college or went to college games during the

1635
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:10,080
Speaker 1: football season to scout these players. You don't know who's

1636
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:11,519
Speaker 1: going to be there when you're on the clock. You

1637
01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:16,120
Speaker 1: can love Quentin Johnston from TCU and have dreams about

1638
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 1: him playing nextus to Fondis, He's probably not going to

1639
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:19,880
Speaker 1: be there, and he gets picked at twenty six. He

1640
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 1: gets picked at twenty six. So you have to understand

1641
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:26,559
Speaker 1: that teams attack free agency with it being before the

1642
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: draft with as much aggression as possible, because you can

1643
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:32,520
Speaker 1: fall in love with certain positions, the depth at those positions,

1644
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 1: or certain players and say, hey, maybe Jack Campbell, the

1645
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:38,160
Speaker 1: linebacker from Iowa is going to be there in round two,

1646
01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:40,160
Speaker 1: and maybe he gets two picks before you, and then

1647
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:42,800
Speaker 1: he's selected. Suddenly you don't have a linebacker because you

1648
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:45,760
Speaker 1: didn't address that spot in free agency. So I think

1649
01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: that's why the Bills and a lot of the better

1650
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:51,800
Speaker 1: teams in football aren't trying to leave holes for the draft.

1651
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:53,879
Speaker 1: They want to go in with the best player available

1652
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:57,640
Speaker 1: approach for the draft after the free agent squeeze. From

1653
01:25:57,640 --> 01:25:59,439
Speaker 1: the tweets she this will do it for us right

1654
01:25:59,439 --> 01:26:01,759
Speaker 1: here from he says this, is it possible to restructure

1655
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:04,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's contract and extend it another year or two?

1656
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 1: Or can you only push the money into the future

1657
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:09,559
Speaker 1: on a current contract. Well, they can do anything they want.

1658
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:13,720
Speaker 1: It's interesting. Yeah, we've talked that they're gonna restructure Josh

1659
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:16,719
Speaker 1: Allen's contract. But here's here's the thing too. I don't

1660
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:20,640
Speaker 1: think that they will get into those conversations. They may

1661
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:23,000
Speaker 1: restructure it, meaning they'll give him some of the money

1662
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:24,760
Speaker 1: that's in this contract, they'll give it to him now

1663
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:29,679
Speaker 1: and so that it will spread it out. I don't

1664
01:26:29,760 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 1: think the Josh is gonna be up for extending that

1665
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:37,479
Speaker 1: contract any further unless they're talking about brand new money

1666
01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:40,880
Speaker 1: and putting a big price tag on it. Because for Josh,

1667
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 1: this we talked about it. Josh's contract right now is

1668
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: a gem for the Buffalo Bills. Now Josh is getting

1669
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: rich too. I mean, don't get don't get me wrong,

1670
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:50,719
Speaker 1: but it's a gem for the Buffalo Bills. And certainly

1671
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 1: they can restructure within the context of it now. But

1672
01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:59,559
Speaker 1: to extend it, that's a big ask for Josh, I think,

1673
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,559
Speaker 1: because right now that that contract is doing nothing but

1674
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: getting better and better and better for the bills, which

1675
01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:07,800
Speaker 1: means it's not as good as it could possibly be

1676
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 1: if he caught, it's not as good as it could

1677
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:13,480
Speaker 1: possibly be for Josh. And then let's not forget STEFANDEG

1678
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 1: signs a deal in Buffalo in twenty twenty. He just

1679
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:17,800
Speaker 1: got a new deal last year in twenty twenty two.

1680
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:20,920
Speaker 1: So as they become steals, the players understand this. They're

1681
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: may be watching the show and here and Steve Tasker say, hey,

1682
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:25,280
Speaker 1: this is a bargain. Maybe down the road two three

1683
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: years from now, Josh Allen could say, I don't want

1684
01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: you to keep pushing the money down the road. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk new money. Well, here's the thing too, he's got

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Speaker 1: some guarantees in his contract, so he's getting a ton

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01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 1: of money anyway. But I'm not gonna don't extend it.

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01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 1: If you want to extend it, let's tear it up

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01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:40,680
Speaker 1: and give me a new deal and get the big

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01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:42,640
Speaker 1: signing bonus and all that and start and keep me

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Speaker 1: up with it, and the bills will. There's no doubt

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01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. The Bill is going to do that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's never gonna see the end of this contract because

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01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 1: it's gonna be laughable. It kind of is now when

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01:27:53,479 --> 01:27:57,080
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones making more new Yeah, that's where they're at.

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01:27:57,160 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: So they'll make it worth it to him this year

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01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: and then push the money down the road, and then

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01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:05,680
Speaker 1: as the salary cap grows, they'll just keep giving him

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01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:08,639
Speaker 1: a great, you know, big chunk, a big chunk of money,

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01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:11,639
Speaker 1: and the contract as signing bonus and they'll keep moving

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01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: it on. So all that's gonna happen. But yeah, they

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01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 1: don't have to they don't have to adhere to this

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01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:19,040
Speaker 1: contract at all. Either part, either side can say hey,

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01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:21,640
Speaker 1: let's redo it, and then they'd start talking about it.

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01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: So Steve Task or Christo Pots, we're gonna break and

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Speaker 1: come back and finish things up right here. One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live on Buffalo Bill's Radio. As always, we're presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health. We'll see you right after this. Many thanks

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01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:46,639
Speaker 1: to christ Passo spending the week here with us. Chris,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming in. We really appreciate it. I hope

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Speaker 1: it was fun for you. We'll do it again. It

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01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: was really fun. I got signed to a three day contract.

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01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't get caught before the end of

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01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: the three day deal. No, you've made it to the

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01:28:56,280 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: end of it. Also, one guy that didn't make it

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01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 1: to the end of his deals third round pick for

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01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:03,360
Speaker 1: the Vikings a couple of years ago, Cam Dance or

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01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: the cornerback. He started twenty six games for them. They

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Speaker 1: released him today, got about two point seven four million

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01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 1: in cap relief. Also Wednesday night before the Texas Pro Day,

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01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:16,160
Speaker 1: Bijan Robinson and Roshawn Johnson, the two Texas running backs,

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01:29:16,160 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 1: went to dinner with the Buffalo Bills, So that's going on.

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01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:22,479
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to watch those guys. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: a lot of the Are the Bills gonna pick b

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01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 1: Jen Robinson in the first round, so giddy up. That'll

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Speaker 1: do it for us this week. Maddi glab who is

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01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:33,280
Speaker 1: gonna be on Monday, We're gonna do it, go over

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Speaker 1: the mock draft stuff. She'll walk through us and she'll

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Speaker 1: co host. Christo Passo thanks for being here and thanks

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Speaker 1: for all of you for listening. We'll see him Monday.