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Speaker 1: touch down time is go time. Welcome to a hump

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Speaker 1: day edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you on a news breaking Wednesday at One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: As Uh, there are certain players being made available to

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Speaker 1: Not live because one Tradevious White is talking right now,

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Speaker 1: and uh he had a pretty seismic comment that he

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Speaker 1: we will turn around the most important and comments from

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Speaker 1: Tredavious White had to say. But essentially he said he

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Speaker 1: is still undecided on whether he is playing in twenty

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Speaker 1: I mean, Tavious White is a is a lynchpin of

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Speaker 1: they need him to be their best and him decide,

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Speaker 1: you know, holding that over everyone. I don't think Tavius

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Speaker 1: and I could be wrong about it, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think Tredavious is the kind of guy that's gonna leverage

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Speaker 1: I think he's just being I think he's being genuine

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Speaker 1: and if you only hear the soundbites from him about football,

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Speaker 1: to adhere to all the protocols, make sure all the

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Speaker 1: have to shuffle them and move them around the right

429
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Speaker 1: way so we could win week after week after week.

430
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Speaker 1: Just one game, one day at a time, and there's

431
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Speaker 1: so much talk about you guys as divisional favorites and

432
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Speaker 1: things like that. Do you get a sense just being

433
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Speaker 1: around the guys for a few days, is that there's

434
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Speaker 1: a different vibe with this team than you felt in

435
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Speaker 1: the past. Yeah. I mean, so we have a swagger

436
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: about us, but we still have that underdog mentality. We

437
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: honestly don't care about any of that hype and uh,

438
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: we like, we know what we have to do day

439
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,239
Speaker 1: in and day out, and honestly, we all know that

440
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: this will be our hardest year yet because there's a

441
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Speaker 1: giant target on us and it is and what it

442
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Speaker 1: is U at the outside noise church chirp, chirp, But

443
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: we just keep keep our in our heads down here,

444
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Speaker 1: we just keep a pushing. So, Steve, I don't know

445
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Speaker 1: what you think about that. I think coach McDermot would

446
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:16,679
Speaker 1: be very comfortable if he if the team feels confident

447
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 1: going into games. But I think that he doesn't want

448
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 1: them confident to the point of being arrogant, because that's

449
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: when this league humbles you very quickly. Um, yeah, where

450
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: do you stand on that? Yeah, you gotta in that regard.

451
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,239
Speaker 1: It's it's everybody's kind of their own person. You know,

452
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: certainly as a team you can have him mentality and

453
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Speaker 1: that is that is set up by the head coach.

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott sets the mentality for the game and for

455
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Speaker 1: the team. An every guy within that does his own thing,

456
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Speaker 1: gets his own gets his own mind ready, gets his

457
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Speaker 1: own mind, right, But the head coach, and he'll do

458
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Speaker 1: it week by week. You come in and you have

459
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Speaker 1: a theme for that week, for that game, and where

460
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Speaker 1: you are in your season, where you are your preparation,

461
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 1: where what your injury list looks like, what guys are

462
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: going to have to step up and help your team.

463
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 1: It changes. So it's so fluid that the coach, the

464
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Speaker 1: head coaches, and that's why you have his finger on

465
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Speaker 1: the pulse of the team. He knows what that team needs.

466
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Speaker 1: That's the mind and it'll change I think week to week.

467
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Speaker 1: But yeah, as in a general sense right now, a

468
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Speaker 1: million miles away from the season, that may or may

469
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Speaker 1: not happen, right, yeah, you got you gotta get your

470
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Speaker 1: nose down the grindstone and just and start working. Okay,

471
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Speaker 1: fair enough, I do want to ask you more about

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Speaker 1: this because I have to believe there was a time

473
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Speaker 1: when your nineties teams reached a point where you're just like, yeah,

474
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: we're pretty badass. We're gonna kick you all over the

475
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Speaker 1: field this week. And that's a change in mindset obviously too.

476
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Speaker 1: So I want to know when that happened, when your

477
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Speaker 1: team became that, and how you tried to as confident

478
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Speaker 1: as you were, still try to respect the opponent even

479
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: though you felt pretty confidently you're gonna wipe the floor

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Speaker 1: with him. Eight oh three oh five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: That is our Twitter poll four today. What do you

482
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Speaker 1: think the Bills mindset should be entering the twenty twenty season.

483
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: Puff out your chest, embrace being the favorite, hungry and humble,

484
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: stick to being an underdog, or respect the process and

485
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: hope for the best. You can also hit us up

486
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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet presented by Corrigan Moving Systems. That's

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Speaker 1: at one Bills Live, So hit us up there. Chris Brown,

488
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Plenty more to get to, including

489
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Speaker 1: Tredavious White's very interesting comments he is still undecided about

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Speaker 1: playing in twenty twenty. We'll have It's straight from the

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Speaker 1: Horse's mouth coming up here real soon on one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Presented by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One middles Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

494
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Speaker 1: with you as we make our way through a hump

495
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Speaker 1: day edition of One Bills Live. Twitter full question on

496
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Speaker 1: the table what should the Bills mindset be or the

497
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. Should they embrace being the division favored

498
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Speaker 1: in the AFC East. Should they be hungry and humble

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Speaker 1: and stick to the underdog mentality or respect the process

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Speaker 1: and hope for the best. We've had a lot of

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Speaker 1: responses there and we will be getting to the tweet

502
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: sheet in just a moment, but before that, we wanted

503
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Speaker 1: to get to Trudavious White's comments on how he is

504
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: undecided about playing for the twenty twenty season, and time

505
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: is running out for him to make that decision because

506
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: he's going to have to make it in about twenty

507
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: eight hours with the deadline being four pm tomorrow for

508
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Speaker 1: players across the league to decide on whether to play

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty or to opt out. So let's not

510
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Speaker 1: waste any more time. Let's get right to those comments

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Speaker 1: by Trudevius as he addressed whether he will opt out

512
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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty season. I got until tomorrow, but

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Speaker 1: you know, I just wanted to come in and kind

514
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: of see like how it's gonna go, Like how is

515
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: the season was going to go, as far as like

516
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: moving around in the locker room, just how how is

517
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: the day to day operation, and just talking it over

518
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: with Mo later and just seeing what it would be

519
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: the best decision for my kids too, and that playing

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00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: a part, and then just trying to see how them

521
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Speaker 1: being up here and not being able to being able

522
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: to come to the games and move around, and my

523
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: kids being able to go to school, and just being

524
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Speaker 1: away from my family for such a long time without

525
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Speaker 1: being able to do anything. So we just kind of

526
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: just taking it down to the last day and we're

527
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: gonna decide from there. So I'm still kind of undecided, honestly.

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00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: You know, we obviously we have some of the best

529
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: people in around the league, you know, just caring for

530
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: it and really caring for our where of being. So

531
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: obviously they've been doing a great job, but you know,

532
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: just the aspect of you know, guys still testing positive

533
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: and having false false negative false positive tests and coming

534
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: back to testniggas. It's just those things that psychologically. That

535
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: plays a part in my in my thinking each and

536
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Speaker 1: every day, just do I want to come in here

537
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Speaker 1: and hopefully to get my little living month old baby sick,

538
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Speaker 1: you know, just coming home and trying to love on

539
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: him and picking them up? Do I want them rich? That?

540
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Speaker 1: I mean because at the end of the day, like,

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Speaker 1: no matter what, my family's gonna come first, no matter

542
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Speaker 1: what's going on, like how big of a season or

543
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: what's going on, I'm always putting my kids first. So

544
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just still that's wearing on me. And

545
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Speaker 1: then my girl in the back of my mind, she's

546
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Speaker 1: just having to stay at home with the kids all

547
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Speaker 1: day by herself. No family can't go out and do anything.

548
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: So those type of things wagh in on me. And

549
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Speaker 1: then my family can't travel up to spend time with

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Speaker 1: her and see the kids. So those are things that

551
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Speaker 1: I think about each and every day and just trying

552
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Speaker 1: to see if I'm willing to go the distance, go

553
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: spot four or five months doing the same thing and

554
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: just having my kids stuck in the house, Like I

555
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm willing to do that. So I

556
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Speaker 1: don't know, So I'm just going to pray about it.

557
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Speaker 1: And just see how see how it is. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know, man, boy, A lot is clearly weighing on

559
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: Tredavious White's mind. He's got two young kids at home.

560
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: And as he said, Steve and I told you this

561
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: was the we said. We've mentioned this in the last segment.

562
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: This is the second layer to this whole COVID protocol

563
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: that the players are operating under. They've got to be

564
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: disciplined when they go home, but so does their family.

565
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: Their family has I mean, their family can't be going

566
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: out to clubs or yeah, I mean think about this.

567
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: Even the players wives and girlfriends can't get together and

568
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: go out somewhere because now they're putting their their significant

569
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Speaker 1: others at risk of infecting the team. And they can't

570
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: do that either. So you know, it's it's enough of

571
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Speaker 1: a responsibility. And I don't need to tell Steve this

572
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Speaker 1: because you know he has a wife who did this

573
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Speaker 1: when he was a player. You're running the house and

574
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: that's a lot. And then sometimes you know you want

575
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: to low off some steam too. That's not an option

576
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Speaker 1: here either for them. So what what what was your

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Speaker 1: what was your take just listening to him there? I

578
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Speaker 1: mean it's clear there's a ton weighing on him right now. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's interesting because he can you can

580
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: hear him talking himself in and out of it when

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Speaker 1: he's going through it. Uh. The when you think about

582
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Speaker 1: the downside of what could happen to your family, there's

583
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Speaker 1: no decision to be made, But how likely is that

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00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: to happen is something you got to come to grips with.

585
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: And for me, and I'm trying to put myself in

586
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: the in the place of the players these days, I

587
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: think I would have had the mindset of a military

588
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: guy going on deployment. Yeah, I would have just sent

589
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Speaker 1: my family away exactly. I would have said, honey, you

590
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: go down and live with your mom and dad, or

591
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: you live with your family members, or you stay here

592
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: at home wherever these guys live in the off season.

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Speaker 1: You stay here, baby, and I'm gonna go do this

594
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: football thing for for or five months and we'll skype

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00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: every night. I'm going to be sequestered. I can't go

596
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: out anyway. Why did you know? You guys just stay

597
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: here and live your life and we'll stay connected that

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Speaker 1: way as best we can. But for the sake of

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00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: for the sake of the you know, the money, the

600
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: massive amounts of money we're looking at, Andy, and the

601
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: health of the family and the health of the kids.

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00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: You just stay here and I'll see you when this

603
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: is over, and we'll talk every night or talk every morning,

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00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: and we'll stay connected. I think that's you know, I

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Speaker 1: would have opted, I think, to do that rather than

606
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Speaker 1: gone back and forth between my family and the stadium.

607
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: And it's and it's interesting too, Steve that. And I

608
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: don't think Tradavious Whites alone. There are players who wanted

609
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: to report to the team that they play for. First,

610
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: get a lay of the land, see how the daily

611
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: operation is going to be, see how different it is,

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Speaker 1: and then make an assessment too as to whether or

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Speaker 1: not they can do that for four months, maybe longer

614
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: if your team's making a playoff run. So right, there

615
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: are a lot of different parts of this decision that

616
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: have to be pieced together like a puzzle, and it's

617
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: all got to fit right, because this is gonna be

618
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: your life for the next five months. Yeah, and I'll

619
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Speaker 1: tell you We've got Andrew Brant from Villanova's from the Moorhouse,

620
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: Villanova's sports school. I don't know what a sports law

621
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: and the more that's it. I can't remember. Andrew Brant,

622
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: he's the guys. The guy's a real gem in these times. Uh.

623
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: He worked, He ran the Green Bay Packers for a decade.

624
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: He's he's represented high level players. He represented Aaron Rodgers

625
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: h in his first contract negotiation. So he's been on

626
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: the player side, he's been on the ownership side and

627
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: in the in the upper circles of the ownership side.

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00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: He's a smart guy, knows a lot. He said this

629
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Speaker 1: on his Twitter handling and some of the articles he's written.

630
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: The owners have been shocked at the amount of opt

631
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: outs there have been. Well, I think that's been I

632
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: think that's been a surprise for a lot of people.

633
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: And it's like, what fifty guys. And that's why they

634
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: pushed to move the deadline up to try to decrease

635
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: the number of opt outs coming. They're trying to well,

636
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: let's push the deadline up and hopefully, you know, fewer guys.

637
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: I mean, they wanted a hard and fast deadline. That's

638
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: why they finalized all that contract language, because it was

639
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: out there twisting in the wind. Well, they did want

640
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: the deadline, whether where it was now or in a

641
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: week or two. They just wanted to make sure that

642
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Speaker 1: it was as difficult as possible for it to go.

643
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Speaker 1: They can't vacilate once they make the decision. They gotta

644
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: make it. It's a crusher for these clubs to do it. Now.

645
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: The only way out for a player who opts in

646
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: is if something changes, if his medical condition changes, they

647
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: changed circumstance, opt out, right, So that's different, but you

648
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: cannot opt back in. Correct. Yeah, it's a done deal, Lucille,

649
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: once you make the decision. And so yeah, that's why

650
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: it's weighing heavy on Tredevious White. Totally understandable, and I

651
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: hope we're not here to I don't want to influence

652
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: Trey's decision, and I'm sure none of his teammates want

653
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: to either, But man, that would be a cornerstone piece

654
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: from your twenty twenty fortunes that would be sorely missed.

655
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: That and I think not to mention the fact that

656
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: your depth has already been impacted by the opt out

657
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: of E. J. Gaines. Right, But you know what, Brownie,

658
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: more so than that, I know he's he's a great player, yes,

659
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: and it's a huge loss. But I think even compounding

660
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: that huge loss. It becomes even bigger when players on

661
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: the team see Trey Day left a player of that stature, right,

662
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: and he's beloved, I mean, no mistake about it. That's like,

663
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: that's like pulling out that's like pulling out dryl Talley

664
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: from the old nineties teams. Or can't hold hold out

665
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: your two front death that's right, with no killers, that's right,

666
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: that's a crusher. If Tredavious White leaves, I think that

667
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: sends an emotional ripple through the locker room. The guys

668
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: are going to be the guys are gonna be saying, well,

669
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: wait a minute, if he's doing that, yeah, you know.

670
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: And speaking of emotional ripples, Steve, I'm gonna go back

671
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: to another thing that Tradevious referenced, and that was the

672
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: false positive he got. A super high profile player in

673
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: this league have a false positive. In Lyons quarterback Matthew Stafford,

674
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: his wife, and his family were essentially out in public

675
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: with scarlet letters on because it was assumed that they

676
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: too were positive since they lived with him, obviously, and

677
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: so basically, Kelly Stafford's getting accosted at the grocery store.

678
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be out in public. How dare you you

679
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: know that kind of thing, when in essence they were

680
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: it was a false positive for Matthew Stafford. His family

681
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: all tested negative ultimately, but because of the false positive,

682
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: there were assumptions made. And believe me, I get it. Okay,

683
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: I totally get it because you know, yeah, well here's

684
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: the thing. If it's an understandably so yeah, if your

685
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: if your husband does chet test positive, you shouldn't go

686
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: out in public, you know, I mean, let's be real,

687
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: yea and ke and Kelly Stafford was I think unaware

688
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: that when a player tests positive, that the player is

689
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: put on the ir COVID list and that list goes

690
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: to the league, and if it goes to the league's

691
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: you know, daily daily designation wire, it's gonna get out

692
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: pretty fast. So maybe she was unaware of that and

693
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: that it was going to be made public. So whatever

694
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: the case might be, that was a scenario that it

695
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: was clear based on Trey's comments that he doesn't want

696
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: his wife going through so oh sure, nobody wants to

697
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: put their wives through that, and nobody wants to put

698
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: their families through it either. That's that's why they've got

699
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: to make some hard decisions about how this is gonna go.

700
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: But can you imagine too, I mean think about it, Like,

701
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: for instance, I think if Kyle Williams was on this

702
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: team and this happened two years ago, He's got a wife,

703
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: he's got six kids, what's he gonna do? Leave her

704
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: at home alone with six kids. I mean, you've got

705
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: to give her some help, either family members or support

706
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: group or hire some help, you know, to co parent

707
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: those kids while you're playing football for whatever six or

708
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: seven or eight million bucks a year. I mean not

709
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: to me, that's that's the key thing you got to

710
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: get to. You've got to find a way for your

711
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: family to make it work in separation, like you're on

712
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: a deployment for the military. But some of these guys,

713
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: don't you know, aren't of that mindset. And I'll tell

714
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: you this too. I was thinking about this, Brownie. I

715
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: don't know what you think about this, and I'm not

716
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: I'm the old guy here, no question about it. But

717
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a different and rightfully so

718
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: different mindset that the players have now than we didn't

719
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: weren't afforded or weren't exposed to in the nineties or

720
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: the eighties when I came into the league, when I

721
00:39:56,239 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: finished my career. From what standpoint, you can call it millennialism,

722
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: or you can call it a heightened sense of enlightenment

723
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: that having it all maybe. I mean, these guys think listen,

724
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: families are important. Uh back in the day, yeah, they

725
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: were important, but providing for them was your responsibility. And

726
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: if it meant you had to go away for a

727
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: couple of months to play football, you did that. And

728
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: we weren't made. But we hadn't made or weren't making

729
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: life changing money either. Nevertheless, that's I think that's the

730
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: decision that would have predominantly been made, and I think

731
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: it's the probably the decision that's being predominantly made now.

732
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Speaker 1: But there are some guys who don't need the money.

733
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: They don't need this season. Davis White might be one

734
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: of them. Josh Allen could probably be one. He made

735
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 1: seven or eight million bucks as a starting quarterback last year.

736
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys aren't worried about where their next

737
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: meal is coming from, But how important is it to

738
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: them to be there between the months where your kid

739
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: goes from two and a half to three. You know,

740
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: you want to be in the in the house at

741
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: that moment, you know. So it's that's the balance of

742
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 1: these guys at t I think it's a different mentality

743
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: or when you're eleventh month old takes their first steps.

744
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: I mean, those are right, those are moments that that's

745
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: understandably these guys don't want to miss, and that weighs

746
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 1: into the decision making also, and you know Andrew Brant,

747
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: we'll talk to him in the two o'clock hour about this,

748
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: But all these opt outs, they're all different because every

749
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: guy's situation is different. So we'll be talking to him

750
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 1: about that for sure when we get to the two

751
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: o'clock hour. We do have to break now, but when

752
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: we come back, we will get to the conversation I

753
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 1: wanted to have with Steve, which relates to our Twitter

754
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: poll and what the Bill's mind shift set should be

755
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty season. I want to ask him

756
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: about the time where their team back in the eighties

757
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: and nineties went from being confident to maybe outright cocky,

758
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 1: like if we're gonna wipe the floor with this team,

759
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: and how healthy that mindset might be, and how you

760
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: try to stay humble and not underestimate an opponent and

761
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: how you navigate all that as a club. We'll talk

762
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: to Steve about that on the other side. Here it's

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. Here on Buffalo

764
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765
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,560
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766
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Speaker 1: news and notes today and all of the Twitter poll

767
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Speaker 1: it's asked the Bill's minds that should be and it's

768
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769
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Speaker 1: Twitter and time back at us as we'll be getting

770
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet in the next hour where we

771
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: have a wide open segment for you to also participate

772
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: if you wish. At eight oh three, five fifty. We're

773
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: also talking about Tredavious White and his comment about saying

774
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: he hasn't decided on whether he will play in the

775
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season. He and the rest of the players

776
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: in the league have until four pm tomorrow to submit

777
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: paperwork if they choose to opt out, and he said

778
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: he's still mulling that over and still has to have

779
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: a long, hard discussion with his wife tonight about what

780
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: the final decision will be for him and the twenty

781
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 1: twenty campaign with the Bills, so some interesting comments from

782
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: him and a lot weighing on his mind, clearly and

783
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: probably a lot of other players across the league. But

784
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: I wanted to get into a conversation with Steve here

785
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: while we had a few minutes about the team in

786
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: the nineties when they became a truly dominant force in

787
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: the AFC. You know, we're talking about how the Bill's

788
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: mindset should be going into this season when they're the

789
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: prohibitive favorite to win the AFC East, and whether they

790
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,720
Speaker 1: should stay humble and hungry or stick to the process,

791
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: or whether they should embrace be in the favorite and say,

792
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: you know what, we are pretty damn good football team. So, Steve,

793
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: when when was the point where you guys, as a team,

794
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: basically we're walking out of the tunnel saying, yeah, we're

795
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: gonna wipe the floor with this team. Like, being confident

796
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: and almost to a point, cocky and arrogant was not

797
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: seen as detrimental in any way, shape or form. Don't.

798
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: I don't think we went in with that kind of

799
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: arrogant mentality. We kind of exited the game maybe a

800
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: little arrogant, but but we had a culture a little

801
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: bit like the one they have here where you're going

802
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: in thinking, listen, we've done everything we can to get

803
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: ready for this. We're we've got a good plan. We're

804
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 1: gonna work the plan, but certainly on our end of it.

805
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, okay, this is we should beat this team.

806
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: I've seen them on film. I know the guys that

807
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: were going against I know our matchups and where they

808
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: should be and where we should crush them. And unless

809
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: they can come up and do something they haven't been

810
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: able to do yet this season, we're gonna manhandle them.

811
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,919
Speaker 1: And then you just sat back and said, Okay, who's

812
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: it going to be? You know? And it's easy to

813
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: be like that, brownie, when you've got five Hall of Famers,

814
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: you know, putting helmet, you know, Bruce, Jim Thurman, Andre

815
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 1: and James, plus a couple of guys who are pretty

816
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: good anyway, Darryl Tallely and Cornelius Bennett to be to

817
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: start with Henry Jones. And we had some guys so

818
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: and you knew it so all the way across the

819
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: line and on both sides of the ball. It was

820
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: just a question of, okay, which one of these guys

821
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: is going to do it first? You know, who's gonna

822
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: make our play to get it started? It might be

823
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: more than one of them. So, even though you guys

824
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: were supremely confident in most games that you entered like

825
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: you were gonna be able to handle whoever you were playing,

826
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: how did you keep it from spilling over into that

827
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: arrogant underestimate the opponent area that you know you and

828
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: your coaches certainly don't want you getting into. Well, our coach,

829
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: you had great leadership, Marv wouldn't let it get to

830
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: that point. They would always say, listen, these guys. You

831
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: know we and we knew enough. We were intelligent enough

832
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: to say, listen, these guys are NFL players too. They're

833
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,919
Speaker 1: going to bring something to the table, even if they're

834
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: having trouble putting it together. If they put it together,

835
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: we're in trouble. Marv was a great and I remember

836
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: never forget Marv saying this one thing that has resonated

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00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: through not only my football career, but through my broadcast

838
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: career and in things that I have related to other

839
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: people trying to help them. He said this, your morale

840
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: is the best when you're the most prepared. When you're

841
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:31,879
Speaker 1: the most prepared, when a you're gonna feel better about

842
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: the game best about the game. And we were a

843
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: very very good practice team, if not a great practice team.

844
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: We practiced hard, fast and mistake free and at a

845
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: high level, and it carried over into games. And we

846
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: were efficient on the field, and we worked hard, and

847
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: we worked focused, and we there was it was a

848
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: business like atmosphere, although it was a blast to be

849
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: out there. We had some laughs. We carried that little

850
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: mantra with us knowing that if we were as prepared

851
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: as we could be, we were gonna win. And as

852
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,919
Speaker 1: confident as you may have been going into those games

853
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: because of that preparation, when your team had been so

854
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: successful that it had developed a reputation of being this

855
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: dominant force in the conference, how was that confidence impacted

856
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: if at all? Going into games knowing other teams are

857
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: going to get up to beat you and you're gonna

858
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: get their best shot every single week, how did that

859
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 1: impact the confidence level if at all? Yeah, they we

860
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: knew that a lot of time. You're right. It's interesting

861
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: because you would see some players some teams play with

862
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 1: an extra added emotion that you didn't see other other times.

863
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: You didn't see them play with other times and when

864
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:51,439
Speaker 1: you when we saw that, we encountered that. I remember saying, listen,

865
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna technique him to death. They may

866
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: have the emotion, but we're gonna be where we're supposed

867
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: to be and doing what we're supposed to be doing.

868
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: They can bring all this, you know, yelling, shouting, screaming,

869
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, or they can, you know, they

870
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: can bring the added emotional content to their you know,

871
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: to their physical play, but we're going to be in

872
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 1: the right spot doing the right thing. So you didn't

873
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: have and especially on you know, you got that a

874
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: lot on the road, brownie, you know what I mean.

875
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: You go in, the crowd wanted you. You know that

876
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: this is a big game for their home crowd. It

877
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 1: was a big game for them. It even if it

878
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: was you know, and particularly if it was meaningful. You

879
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: knew this. You had to think your way through that.

880
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: You had to make sure that you were doing what

881
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: you were supposed to do it the right way, in

882
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: the right way, and the right technique in the right spot.

883
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 1: So you you beat them with technique and you get

884
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: through those moments of emotional high for your opponent and

885
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: the crowd noise and all that stuff. You get through

886
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: it with technique, knowing that if you're in the right

887
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: spot at the right time, it's going to work out

888
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: for you. And that's what you have to do when

889
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: you're on the road in those situations when that other

890
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 1: team is is targeting you and when they've been they've

891
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: circled this game on their calendar, and you you walk

892
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: in there, you know that you're gonna have to mind

893
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: your p's and q's right, you're gonna be in the

894
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: right spot, do the right thing, think your way through

895
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 1: it rather than try and match their emotional content. Well,

896
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: you don't get that anywhere. Thank you for that. I

897
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: was kind of curious, just like, yeah, the mindset and

898
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 1: when it changes when you're really good, and how it's

899
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: impacted by the forces of your opponents and such. So

900
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: I appreciate the insight on that. That was a conversation

901
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 1: certainly worth having. We got to take a break. But

902
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 1: on the other side, in case you missed the comments

903
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: from Tredavious White today in his zoom call with the media,

904
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: he is undecided about playing in twenty twenty. Here just

905
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: what he had to say. If you missed it earlier,

906
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: we will rerack it for you here. Coming up in

907
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: the one o'clock hour. We'll also hear some more from

908
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins, who also had an interview and a press

909
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: conference with the media. He has some interesting comments on

910
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: the old line continuity and the loss of John Feliciano.

911
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: Will cover all of that along with the tweet sheet

912
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,720
Speaker 1: with your comments. That's all next here on One Bills

913
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

914
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 1: Oh a great time. I'll watch Steve Clasper such down,

915
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:31,800
Speaker 1: touch down, tex down, that's not cruising through a Wednesday

916
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

917
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: you as we try to cross our fingers and toes simultaneously.

918
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: Knowing that one Tredavious White is undecided about whether he

919
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: will be playing football in twenty twenty. The opt out

920
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: deadline for NFL players four pm tomorrow to opt out,

921
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: whether in a voluntary basis or as a high risk player,

922
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: and that has to be corrob rated by a medical physician.

923
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: It sounds like Trudevious White would fall into the voluntary category,

924
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: and he said that he still has to discuss things

925
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: with his wife and he's creeping up on twenty four

926
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: hours to make this decision, and he spoke to the

927
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: media just last hour, and if you did not hear

928
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: it in the first hour of the program, we do

929
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: want to get to it again. So here is Trudevious

930
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 1: White on weighing the decision of playing in twenty twenty.

931
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,760
Speaker 1: I got until tomorrow, but you know, I just wanted

932
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: to come in and kind of see like how it

933
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,320
Speaker 1: was going to go, Like how is the season was

934
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: going to go, as far as like moving around in

935
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 1: the locker room, just how is the day to day operation,

936
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,720
Speaker 1: and just talking it over with Molater and just saying

937
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: what it would be the best decision for my kids too,

938
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: and that planning party, and then just trying to see

939
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: how them being up here and not being being able

940
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: to come to the games and move around, and my

941
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: kids being able to go to school and just being

942
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: away from my family for such a long time without

943
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: being able to do anything. So we just kind of

944
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: just taking it down to the last day and we're

945
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 1: gonna decide from there. So I'm still kind of undecided, honestly.

946
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: You know, we obviously we have some of the best

947
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: people in around the league, you know, just caring for

948
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: it and really caring for our where of being. So

949
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: obviously they've been doing a great job, but you know,

950
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: just the aspect of you know, guys still testing positive

951
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:34,399
Speaker 1: and having false false negative false positive tests and coming

952
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: back to test niggas. It's just those things that psychologically

953
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 1: that plays a part in my in my thinking each

954
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: and every day. Just do I want to come in

955
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: here and hopefully to get my little living month old

956
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: baby sick, you know, just coming home and trying to

957
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: love on him and picking them up. Do I want

958
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: to reach that? I mean, because at the end of

959
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: the day, like no matter what, my family's gonna come first,

960
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: no matter what's going on, like how big of a

961
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: season and what's going on, I'm always putting my kids first.

962
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,800
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's just still that's wearing on me.

963
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: And then my girl in the back of my mind,

964
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: she's just having to stay at home with the kids

965
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: all day by herself. No family can't go out and

966
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: do anything. So those type of things weigh in on me.

967
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: And then my family can't travel up to spend time

968
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: with her and see the kids. So those are things

969
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: that I think about each and every day and just

970
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: trying to see if I'm willing to go the distance,

971
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: go spot four or five months doing the same thing

972
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: and just having my kids stuck in the house, Like,

973
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm willing to do that. So

974
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. So I'm just going to pray about

975
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: it and just see how see how it is. So

976
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:39,760
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. So that's where tradevious White stands

977
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: at least as of last hour. He's got some heavy

978
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 1: thinking to do. He said, he's gonna pray on it

979
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: and obviously discuss it with his wife. But that obviously

980
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: has huge implications Steve on Buffalo's fortunes in twenty twenty. Yeah,

981
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: you think about as he said, he my wife and

982
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: kids come up here, they're gonna be stuck in the

983
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: house for five months, which means that's the kind of

984
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: program that the Bills are gonna want their guys to

985
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: be on. They're gonna want them to listen to wife

986
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: and kids can't go out. If they're gonna come up,

987
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: you can spend time with them, but they gotta stay

988
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: in the house. They got to stay sequestered from the

989
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: general population of Buffalo. And then so when you put

990
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 1: it in that regard, Brownie, if you're gonna have your

991
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: wife and kids come up here and be under that

992
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: kind of limitations, at least requested by the club to

993
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: stay in and I go out, will that be a

994
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: better existence for them than staying at home away from

995
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:37,720
Speaker 1: you being in wherever? Now, if Tredavius is in Baton

996
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: Rouge or wherever his home hometown is, I can't remember

997
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: where exactly trade and lives in these but he grew

998
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,320
Speaker 1: up in Shreveport, right, But if they know that he

999
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: lives there now. But if it's any if it's any

1000
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: place else that has a better situation than that where

1001
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: the kids can go out in general population now, some

1002
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: places you know it might change as well. It might

1003
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: be better for them to be in Buffalo in some regard,

1004
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: uh with what the what New York State does with

1005
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: the COVID and how far along they are in this process,

1006
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,800
Speaker 1: rather than say in Arizona, or in Texas, or in

1007
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: Florida or wherever whatever state you want to name. You

1008
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: know the situation is fluid there as well. So even

1009
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: though they may be able to get out of the house,

1010
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: if they're living in the South, that may change during

1011
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: the season. As you know COVID waves, another wave of

1012
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: COVID or a different wave of COVID comes through their area.

1013
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: So how this all balances and what your family's life

1014
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: is gonna look like here in Buffalo with you playing

1015
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: football and not being able to go out or at

1016
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 1: home in your hometown, with the freedoms that they're okay with,

1017
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: you know, or the freedoms that are allowed there, and

1018
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,800
Speaker 1: whether you thought because even if you don't play, you

1019
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: got to live somewhere. I mean, you got to live somewhere.

1020
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna be sequestered anyway, why not be

1021
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: sequestered and play football? Right? And I mean, let's just

1022
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: make this clear to Steve. Let's just say that tradevious

1023
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 1: White does choose to opt out. I am not going

1024
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: to complain about it. I'm not complaining about anybody's situation

1025
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: because I totally get it. We are in unprecedented times.

1026
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: There is a whole lot that we still do not know,

1027
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: and there are risks the gravity of which we still

1028
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: do not know at this point. I mean, right, I

1029
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: saw a news report of a woman who had COVID recovered,

1030
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: but now she has reduced lung capacity. She claims to

1031
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,760
Speaker 1: be having these episodes of what she describes as brain fog,

1032
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of these unique symptoms that we really

1033
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: haven't heard much about for people that recovered from COVID.

1034
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 1: I think people are so focused on the number of

1035
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: cases and the number of people getting sick. There's been

1036
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: less of a focus on the people that have fortunately

1037
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: recovered from the virus but still aren't quite right. And

1038
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: we remember too von Miller who had COVID recovered, but

1039
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: he said it took him about a month before his

1040
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 1: lungs felt right when he was running around, and he

1041
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,879
Speaker 1: was still working on his conditioning even at that point.

1042
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: And he has recently said he's still considering opting out,

1043
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: or at least has given it some extra thought. So,

1044
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: because you don't just get it once, they're right there

1045
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: that have gotten it more than once. Too. There's this

1046
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: huge a question mark about why and who and what

1047
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: different people's reactions are to the virus. How, why do

1048
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: some people get it and don't ever show symptoms. Why

1049
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: do some people get it end up on a ventilator?

1050
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: Why do some people die? What do some people have

1051
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: everlasting ramifications from it or seemingly so? What's the deal?

1052
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: And and how prevalent are all those long term consequences

1053
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: of the general public and everybody who actually has it,

1054
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: and let alone a professional athlete, right, And how many

1055
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:10,240
Speaker 1: people have had it, got got better over it and

1056
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: never knew at all? And I've never knew at all,

1057
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: because that would that would fit some of these NFL

1058
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: players who tested positive when they got there, had no

1059
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 1: symptoms came in, they were tested negative. The only reason

1060
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: they ever knew it wasn't an issue was the test.

1061
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: It wasn't even a bump in the road for them.

1062
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: Uh So, how many people has that happened to? You know,

1063
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: we we and none of these questions have answers at

1064
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: this time. We don't. It's hard to It's hard to

1065
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: sit here and throw stones at these guys who are

1066
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: opting out. I don't know, you know, I don't I

1067
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: have had young children, don't. I don't have young children now.

1068
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:49,439
Speaker 1: And I don't have to play pro football. I don't

1069
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: have to go out in the world and risk it,

1070
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: because it does seem like a risk when you look

1071
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: at the Major League Baseball and all the unknowns with that.

1072
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: How about the Boston how about the Boston Red Sox

1073
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: player who who who developed a heart condition because of COVID.

1074
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: He had to finished playing this season. He had COVID recovered,

1075
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: but he now has some kind of heart condition a

1076
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: Red Sox player, and he's done for the year because

1077
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: of it. It's too great a risk to try to

1078
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: play with whatever he's dealing with right now. I'm sorry

1079
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: I don't have all the specifics on that, but I

1080
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: did see it a couple of days ago. We should

1081
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: move on to the other area of Tredavious White and

1082
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 1: his time with the Bills. That will be of growing

1083
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: interest as days and months pass, and that is about

1084
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: getting him signed to a long term contract as his

1085
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: rookie deal, which was extended with the fifth year option

1086
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: you know, continues to tick now. Brandon Bean was on

1087
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: WGR yesterday and said that we absolutely want him in

1088
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: the full long term. We don't want this guy walking.

1089
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: Hopefully it works for both sides and the contract can

1090
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: get taken care of in the at the right time. Obviously,

1091
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,120
Speaker 1: if Trey White opts out, that would change the complexion

1092
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,439
Speaker 1: of this completely because his contract would toll, which means

1093
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: it would be put on pause and basically this year's

1094
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: contract would be pushed into next year, and the fifth

1095
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: year option would be pushed into the following year, and

1096
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:29,959
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. But here's what Trey White

1097
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 1: had to say on his contract and if he's willing

1098
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 1: to get a new deal done sooner rather than later.

1099
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: Whenever the time is right, whenever you know, when when

1100
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: my agent and the bills they get together, and when

1101
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: whenever the numbers are right, when when I feel comfortable

1102
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: for where is that from, for what I feel that

1103
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: I'm worth, then that's when it's going to be. But

1104
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: I'm not going to rust into anything and go into

1105
01:00:55,360 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: a premature thing because I'm not negotiating out of out

1106
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: of pretty much out of desperation, because I'm good. I mean,

1107
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: I'm good at managing my money and I'm good at

1108
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: doing the things that I need to do and being

1109
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: responsible with my finances. So I'm not hurting for money

1110
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: to jump at the first thing that that's going to

1111
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 1: be out there. So I know what I'm working, I

1112
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 1: know what I feel like I bring to the table

1113
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 1: for the team. And it's a team game. But I

1114
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: know that what I bring to the game, I think

1115
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: I have a worthless out there, and it's a market

1116
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 1: out defence. The defensive back end. It's only going up,

1117
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: So I see what happened. So that's where it stands

1118
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: with Tradevius. You have to believe Steve too that with

1119
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 1: the cap in twenty twenty one anticipated to be one

1120
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five million, I suppose it could move

1121
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: a little bit if the league gets those media right

1122
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: steals done, the new upcoming media rights steals done, and

1123
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:58,919
Speaker 1: knowing there are more games, more playoff games. In terms

1124
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: of the inventory, they're saying that the cost of doing

1125
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: business with the NFL for the networks could go up

1126
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: as much as fifty percent. So that is something that

1127
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: could potentially push the cap up from where it is

1128
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: at one seventy five right now under the new amended

1129
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: agreement based on COVID. But if it's at one seventy five,

1130
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that Trevis White or the Bills are

1131
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 1: going to be in any rush to get a new

1132
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: contract one right. And you know if he opts out,

1133
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: that extends the window a whole year for Tredagas White

1134
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: to get done. But not for nothing, Brownie. It doesn't

1135
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,919
Speaker 1: extend Josh Allen or Tremaine Edmonds. They're all gonna you'd

1136
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: have three guys. Yeah, then and Dion Dawkins too. They

1137
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: all you have three guys or four guys all fallen

1138
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: in the same contract. Dawkins is this year, as is Milano.

1139
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: White got pushed back a year because of the fifty

1140
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 1: year option that was picked up on his contract, so

1141
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 1: he's kind of off with Edmonds and Allen and Away already,

1142
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 1: although you you would anticipate that Edmonds would probably get

1143
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: the fifth year option exercised as well to try to

1144
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: delay having to do that, and then you figure out

1145
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 1: Josh Allen probably sooner rather than later, knowing quarterback contracts

1146
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 1: or skyrocketing. Right, But I think the league will bounce

1147
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: back financially. It's interesting too think about the negotiations of

1148
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:20,560
Speaker 1: the league is going to go through with their television

1149
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:27,440
Speaker 1: partners about rights deals, and it becomes apparent that the

1150
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: league is going to get an enormous amount of benefit

1151
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: by plowing through and having it if they can, which seems,

1152
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to get your mind around if

1153
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 1: they can get sixteen game regular season schedule in, but

1154
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: that will give them some leverage with the with the

1155
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 1: television people saying listen, we've got this product and it's

1156
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: coming and we're going to be able to get this

1157
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: thing on the field. It's going to be something you

1158
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:54,439
Speaker 1: can depend on. So if you want it, it's gonna

1159
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: cost you. It's the it's the juggernaut of all television programming.

1160
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: It is the number one program It's nineteen of the

1161
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: top twenty one programs every rating season for ratings. We're

1162
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna be our product. So if you want it,

1163
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost you, no question, and perhaps from the

1164
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: from the television rights or maybe the league as well,

1165
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: saying listen, or it's saying listen to rough year. If

1166
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: you want these rights, you can have them. But it's

1167
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 1: gonna be a three year television rights deal, a two

1168
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 1: year television rights deal. It's not going to be a

1169
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: fifteen year or ten year like it has been. It's

1170
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 1: gonna be a three year deal. And when we come back,

1171
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back way stronger. All those negotiations could go,

1172
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: you know, around and around like that, but the league

1173
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: is gonna spend this as positive as it can and

1174
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: they can only do that if they get these games in.

1175
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 1: That's right, No, there's no yeah, I do think that

1176
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 1: even if it's a truncated season, though they're still in

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01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: pretty good shape because I think everybody anticipates at some point,

1178
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna get out from under this and

1179
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: life will slowly get back to what we know is

1180
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: the old normal. The new normal will larf dealing with

1181
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 1: now is something that's making it hard to see what

1182
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: the old normal was. But I think everybody believes we

1183
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: will get back there in due time. The final comment

1184
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: that we wanted to share with you from Trey White

1185
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 1: dealt on a far more positive subject than that, was

1186
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 1: the addition of Stefan Diggs and the look of the

1187
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: offense overall. Heading into twenty twenty, Steph and Tredavias have

1188
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 1: kind of gone against each other, albeit in a walk

1189
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: through fashion, the first couple of days of on field

1190
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 1: work at the facility, and I know Trey White is

1191
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: looking forward to going against Diggs in a live, full

1192
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 1: speed practice session because that's how he knows he gets better.

1193
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 1: But let's hear what Trey White's impressions are of the

1194
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: offense now that Stefan Diggs is in the fold. Well, obviously,

1195
01:05:57,440 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: you know he's a he's a great eight talent with

1196
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 1: him self. I mean, whether he has the most deep

1197
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: deep yards or something like that. He's a crazy stat

1198
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: So he's a guy that you know, you can plug

1199
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: and play him no matter what. He's gonna make the

1200
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: team better. So to have a have a transcendent talent

1201
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: like that to add with Smoke and Bees and and

1202
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: the other guys that we have with Josh, and then

1203
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 1: having a little motor too, and then the office line

1204
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: shuffling and we haven't mitching Dion and old guys Spain.

1205
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a on paper it looked great,

1206
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: you know, but we're gonna continue those guys gonna continue

1207
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 1: to have to work each and every day. But I mean,

1208
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: just on paper, we look sexy, we look good man,

1209
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: and I hopefully you know, I know that the offense

1210
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: is gonna get They're gonna they're gonna get it down,

1211
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have some exposed players. It's gonna be

1212
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: fun to watch. And then to have a guy like

1213
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: him to be able to go go up against and

1214
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: practice one of the best in the league. He's gonna

1215
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: do nothing, He's not gonna do anything but make me better.

1216
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna see many more guys on Sunday

1217
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: that's better than him. So Monday, through spotty and practice,

1218
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,200
Speaker 1: that's why I get better at So you know it's

1219
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 1: gonna be It's gonna be good for both of us

1220
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: and both good for the offense and the defense. So

1221
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 1: a guy like that coming coming to offense and plugging in,

1222
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: you could tell that he's he's gonna buy into the

1223
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 1: coaches that were building and uh, hopefully we don't. We

1224
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 1: gonna have another great year. On paper, we look sexy.

1225
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 1: What do you think of that, Steve? It's true we've

1226
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:23,760
Speaker 1: heard that before. Um, I think that Cleveland Browns were

1227
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,480
Speaker 1: thinking that last year as well. But I think this

1228
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: is a different scenario than it was in Cleveland last

1229
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:35,160
Speaker 1: year because of the leadership and the continuity. Everything's. Yeah,

1230
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 1: it's just a better situation than it was a year

1231
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 1: ago in Cleveland. Um, even though I would think, I

1232
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: don't know, I would think that Cleveland's gonna be better.

1233
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: But that's what we heard from Cleveland last year that

1234
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: they looked good on paper. They did, They've got a

1235
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 1: lot of and they still do. But UM, the reason

1236
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: i think I'm optimistic about the Bills rather in a

1237
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 1: different way than I was about Cleveland last year's this

1238
01:07:56,480 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 1: team has remained the same and gotten better, I guess,

1239
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. There's a there's some subtle and

1240
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 1: yet profound changes that happened with Cleveland last year in

1241
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 1: their run up to the season that that with a

1242
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: lot of talent, this team seems to have topped off

1243
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:17,679
Speaker 1: the tank more so to speak, you know what I'm saying.

1244
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: I just think this is a culture and a team

1245
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 1: that is poised to take another step and another step

1246
01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: after a ten win, one and done playoff season, is

1247
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: winning a playoff game or winning the division and getting

1248
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: a home playoff game. Trey White called Stefan Diggs a

1249
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: transcendent talent. Is it too early in Stefan Digg's career

1250
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: to call him that transcendent? Maybe? Yeah, he's certainly an

1251
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: elite player. I think I think he's uh, he's one

1252
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 1: of the top players in his position in the league. Certainly,

1253
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 1: you can pick out some other guys around the league

1254
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: that are really good. But DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, uh,

1255
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 1: Mike Thomas down you know the guy and the guy's

1256
01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: in in Tampa Bays or putting together. There's there's guys

1257
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 1: around Keenan Allen h and you start talking about those guys,

1258
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: it's a it's a short list. Steph Diggs is on it. Yeah,

1259
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:13,759
Speaker 1: and so that's yeah, that's big, and that does change

1260
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 1: whenever you've got to we all talk about the roster

1261
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:21,679
Speaker 1: of the NFL, and you Steph Diggs is on your team. Well,

1262
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 1: you got a depth chart on every team. When you

1263
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: put a guy in and he's at the top of

1264
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,600
Speaker 1: the depth chart, that's a big edition big and it

1265
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: doesn't happen every season for most teams. It happened for

1266
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 1: the Bills this season. After a team that went to

1267
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: the playoffs adds a player to key position at the

1268
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:42,880
Speaker 1: top of the depth chart, that's an enormous that's an

1269
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 1: enormous benefit. All Right, Steve and I have to take

1270
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 1: a break here, but when we come back, we are

1271
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: going to hear from Dion Dawkins, who had comments on

1272
01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:57,440
Speaker 1: the old lines continuity, although it will have one subtraction

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Speaker 1: in the form of John Feliciano. And we'll also get

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Speaker 1: into an interesting piece put together by ESPN's Bill Barnwell,

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Speaker 1: who projected future Hall of Famers for each of the

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Speaker 1: thirty two NFL teams. Who did he pick for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss when Steve and I come back. It's One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you, and we've heard from Trudevious White so far today.

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01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 1: We did hear a little from Dion Dawkins, and both

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Speaker 1: of those players obviously optimistic about the twenty twenty campaign.

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Speaker 1: The biggest news today though, was Trudevious White did admit

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Speaker 1: that he is undecided about playing in twenty twenty. He

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Speaker 1: has until four pm tomorrow, which is the league deadline

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Speaker 1: four players to opt out. In the two o'clock hour,

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking to Andrew Brandt, the SI dot com

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Speaker 1: columnist and an expert on the business of sports, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking with him about opt outs, among other things,

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Speaker 1: including the amended agreement between the league and the union

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01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: amidst this COVID pandemic. But as far as Dion Dawkins

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01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 1: goes Steve, this is a guy that is quickly becoming

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01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:18,280
Speaker 1: one of the primary leaders on that front, along with

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Speaker 1: Mitch Morris, I'd probably say, and he addressed the importance

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01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:29,559
Speaker 1: of continuity here on the offensive line. Maybe this season

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01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: many maybe more than any other season because of the

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01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:37,280
Speaker 1: COVID pandemic and the restrictions it's put on getting reps

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01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:40,080
Speaker 1: on the field, physical reps with your teammates. These guys

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01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:43,719
Speaker 1: essentially all played together last year. So he talks about

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01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: the advantages of having that in their hip pocket going

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01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 1: into it, that that is the biggest relief of it.

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01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:56,759
Speaker 1: Just because we know what to expect. We are step

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01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 1: ahead in the playbook. We are a step ahead and

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01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: getting that bond is field where we don't have to

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01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: rush around and try to play catch up of trying

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01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:11,679
Speaker 1: to get to know exactly the person who was next

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01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 1: to one another. And uh, like, I think that that's

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01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 1: where we're kind of in the plus because Ota is

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01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 1: like you do a lot of team like bonding things,

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01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: and because this is pretty much the same team, we

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01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 1: are just a little bit in the plus four for that,

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01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:37,679
Speaker 1: you know area. So he's right, Steve Um, I can't

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01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:42,680
Speaker 1: imagine where this offensive line would have been if what

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Speaker 1: they had to fit together last year was taking place

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01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,840
Speaker 1: this year with literally no on field practice time. Could

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01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:50,880
Speaker 1: you have imagine what that would have looked like? Right?

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01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: And and they last year they had the added degree

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01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 1: of difficulty of all the injuries that happened down they're

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01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: into your offensive line. I mean at like three get

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01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 1: hurt at the same time for like three weeks. So

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01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 1: they had but it was you know, they had first

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01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:07,800
Speaker 1: was in concussion protocol forever, but they had four preseason

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01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: games to get through, and Spain had an ankle or

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01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:14,960
Speaker 1: an ankle, and somebody else had a hammy. So they

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Speaker 1: had all these guys out, and they were all guys

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01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 1: that they thought were gonna be plugged in and starting,

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Speaker 1: and they couldn't practice together or play together. So because

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Speaker 1: of all of that, you know, they were behind the

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Speaker 1: eight Bowl last year. But think about doing that when

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01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 1: they haven't even sat. They can't even sit next to

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01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:36,639
Speaker 1: each other. That's what the Jets are doing. Oh yeah,

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01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: they totally revamped. They pulled twenty nineteen Bills move on

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01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: the offensive line. They've completely revamped their offensive line this

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01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 1: year and they've got no practice time on the field.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the Bills offensive line

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Speaker 1: last year, they did miss time in training camp, as

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, and even in the spring to a certain extent,

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01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: with one guy out here, one guy out there. By

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Speaker 1: the time they got all their guys lined up and

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01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: playing on a consistent basis. I think you could make

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01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: the argument that they really didn't hit their stride until

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01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: about week six or so. As a unit, like executing

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01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 1: consistently getting a consistent, you know, winning battles consistently at

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01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:19,640
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, that really didn't manifest itself on

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01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:24,759
Speaker 1: a noticeable, consistent basis until about week six. Now picture

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01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: the New York Jets trying to do the same thing

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01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: and fitting all that together with no reps on the

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01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 1: field until next week. I mean, they might not have

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01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 1: that right until they're halfway through the season. Yeah, I

1350
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 1: don't know if I don't care if they ever get

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01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:49,720
Speaker 1: it right. More monumental task, plus the fact they're doing

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01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:53,679
Speaker 1: it completely backwards, I mean this. I mean they should

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01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 1: have done that last year, and they should never have

1354
01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: signed a running back for fourteen million dollars a year.

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01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:02,719
Speaker 1: The only the only good thing they've done is signed C. J. Mosley.

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01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: Now he's there, they signed him to a year ago,

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01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 1: he played two games, one game, and now played one game,

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01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: and now he's opted out for this year. I mean chance,

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01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 1: Not only are they doing dumb stuff, they got bad

1360
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:22,600
Speaker 1: luck to go along with it. It's just so delicious.

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01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know who

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01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 1: theyde a deal with the devil for that franchise, but

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01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:30,640
Speaker 1: they are paying for it now. Oh, guy, dude, didn't it?

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01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: And I get listen, I'm They've got They had a

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01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:38,879
Speaker 1: guy the nickname whose nickname was the President, Jamal Adams.

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01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:42,320
Speaker 1: He's called the President because he's a not for nothing

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01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 1: but a real president. He's a leader, right, That's why

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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams got that nickname. That guy was the man

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01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: in that locker room and he got there quick. He

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01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 1: is the dude, and he wants out. He can see

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01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: he sees dysfunction. Yeah, he's it at the top. He

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01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: sees it at the head coaching level. They've had switched

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01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:09,760
Speaker 1: general managers on him. He's like, man, I'm out. That

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01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 1: is just unbelievable for that franchise, that that happened. And

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01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,679
Speaker 1: I remember two years ago, Brownie or three years ago,

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01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: they were in the exact position that the Buffalo Bills

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01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 1: were in. These identical both looking for a quarterback. Both

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01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: were going to have lots of cap money to spend,

1379
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 1: and that quarterback second year in his first off season

1380
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 1: and they and wow, one team got it right, seems

1381
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: to have gotten it right, and the other teams is

1382
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 1: flown to total mess. Yeah, so the Bill certainly their

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01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 1: fortunes are enhanced even in this pandemic like season with

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01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: the continuity they have up front. There will be one absence, however,

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01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: and that will be John Feliciano, who unfortunately tore his

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01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:59,639
Speaker 1: pectoral muscle doing uh some final last minute training before

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01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:01,920
Speaker 1: reporting to camp. It literally happened a day or two

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01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: before he reported during some weightlifting routines where he pulled

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01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 1: his pectoral muscle that required surgery. So Dion Dawkins addressed

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Speaker 1: the loss of emotional leader John Feliciano. It's extremely sad

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01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:21,240
Speaker 1: that that John got hurt working out, um, but as

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01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:23,759
Speaker 1: we all know that that is a part of football,

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01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: you know, things happened off of the field and things

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01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: happened on. John was a true piece to out to

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01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: our line. But I think that the GM and coach

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01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:39,640
Speaker 1: McDermott did a great job last year creating depth and

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01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: uh because John like got hurt. It's not like a

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01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 1: it's not like an ultimate panic, you know, like, and

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01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:51,519
Speaker 1: we care, we love him. John is gonna come come

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01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:54,680
Speaker 1: back stronger and better than ever. But it's time to

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01:17:54,720 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: push push forward. Yeah, what else can you do? Right

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01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: That's the only normal thing that's going on right now

1403
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: is the fact that you got to keep going. It's

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01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:11,680
Speaker 1: within your locker room, within your position group, it's the

1405
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 1: next man up mentality, all of that stuff. And he's right,

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01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 1: you don't stop. You know, these guys don't stop loving

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01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 1: John Feliciana because he's not there with him. But the

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01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 1: simple fact of the matter is they need to envelop

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01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:25,120
Speaker 1: and wrap their arms around the next guy that's going

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01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 1: to be taking that right guard spot right now, maybe

1411
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 1: Brian Winters, but nevertheless, that's what has to be done

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01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 1: as the season rolls on. Yeah, now, I want to

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01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: turn the page here because we mentioned this before we

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01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: went to break. But ESPN's Bill Barnwell, who we've had

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01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:44,559
Speaker 1: on the show, and he does a lot of interesting

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01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 1: pieces for ESPN dot com, and most recently, he did

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:54,280
Speaker 1: a projection on future Hall of Famers for each NFL club,

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01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: basically pulling one active player from every NFL roster and saying,

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01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: this guy's got the best odds on this team to

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01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:06,599
Speaker 1: be a future Hall of Fame player. And I guess

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01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: it's somewhat ironic that you know, amidst this news that

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01:19:12,760 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 1: Trudevious White has not yet decided on whether he's definitively

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01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 1: playing here in twenty twenty, that the choice that Bill

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01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: Barnwell made for the Bills was Trudevious White, which I

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01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 1: totally get the choice he puts. He puts Trudevius's odds

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01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:34,599
Speaker 1: at forty to sixty nine percent. I'd really know how

1427
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: he worked the math on this. I'd love to know,

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01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: because talking about a guy who's not even gonna be

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01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 1: eligible for the Hall of Fame for what twelve fifteen years? Yeah,

1430
01:19:44,120 --> 01:19:47,640
Speaker 1: and yet here we are trying to make odds on it.

1431
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:49,799
Speaker 1: I guess this is what you do when training camps

1432
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:52,920
Speaker 1: delayed amidst the pandemic, to try to find unique ways

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01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:56,559
Speaker 1: to talk about current players. So I'll just read this quickly, Steve,

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01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 1: and you tell me how this grabs you. So his

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01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:02,080
Speaker 1: right up for Trudevious White, as follows White guys just

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01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: due last season was named a first team All Pro

1437
01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 1: while tying for the league leading interceptions. The former LSU

1438
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 1: corner was already a star on the field after a

1439
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen campaign campaign, but getting that first not is

1440
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: usually tougher than getting invited back. Of the nine corners

1441
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 1: who have debuted since the NFL AFL merger and made

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01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:21,960
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, just two had been a first

1443
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 1: team All Pro by their third season, which puts White

1444
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 1: in good company alongside Rod Woodson and a guy who

1445
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 1: eventually became a safety, Ronnie Lott, who was corner early

1446
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:35,240
Speaker 1: in his career. So is Rod Woodson for that matter,

1447
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: who went to safety as well. Right, How does how

1448
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 1: does that have you? Having that kind of company? That

1449
01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:43,160
Speaker 1: is how hard it is to be an All Pro

1450
01:20:43,320 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: at corner there's only two of them and the whole league,

1451
01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 1: and to be that guy by their third season, right right?

1452
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 1: And to be even Yeah, no matter what year it is,

1453
01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: So next year the All Pro candidates are gonna be.

1454
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: Is gonna start with step On Gilmore and Tardavious White?

1455
01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:05,719
Speaker 1: Is anybody playing better than they are? It's closed? Maybe, yeah,

1456
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:08,640
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be the question? Is it starts with

1457
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 1: those two? It doesn't. They don't have to bust into

1458
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,639
Speaker 1: the conversation anymore. Tredavious White's gonna have another good year.

1459
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:17,599
Speaker 1: And this is a team that's gonna is gonna play

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01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,240
Speaker 1: in some marquee games against some marquee teams, against some

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01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 1: very elite quarterbacks. If Trdavious White plays well in that scenarios,

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01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:28,919
Speaker 1: that's it. It's a rubber stamp, now. Yeah. In addition

1463
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 1: to naming a player that he felt had the best

1464
01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:33,679
Speaker 1: dots to make the Hall of Fame on the active

1465
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:35,760
Speaker 1: roster of each of the thirty two NFL clubs, he

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01:21:35,840 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 1: also had an honorable mention, I suppose is the best

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01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: way to put it. And the second player he listed

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01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:43,679
Speaker 1: for the Bills was Tremaine Edmonds. And I'm just gonna

1469
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:46,760
Speaker 1: read you an interesting line from this one. So he said,

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Speaker 1: of the seven players eligible for the Hall of Fame

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01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:52,639
Speaker 1: who made it to the Pro Bowl in their age

1472
01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 1: twenty one campaign, six of them are in the Hall

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01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 1: of Fame. Now he mentions this because obviously Tremaine made

1474
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,200
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl last year his age twenty one season.

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01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:04,639
Speaker 1: Five of the six of them, however, are running backs.

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01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:07,759
Speaker 1: Randy Moss is the only non running back in that group.

1477
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 1: And then he makes another valid point here, Barnwell does.

1478
01:22:11,479 --> 01:22:14,599
Speaker 1: He says inside linebackers generally need to become defensive player

1479
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:17,200
Speaker 1: at the year candidates and earn multiple first team All

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01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 1: Pro appearances to get serious consideration for Canton. But Edmonds

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Speaker 1: is off to a great start. Yeah, that's a that's

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01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 1: a hard that's a long hill to climb right there. Yeah,

1483
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:33,640
Speaker 1: that's a long hill to climb. But there's a lot

1484
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 1: of runway in front of Tremaine Edmonds right now. Yeah.

1485
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:37,640
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this too. I think more and

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01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 1: more as as time goes on. Not for nothing, but

1487
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: as time goes on, guys who play for a long

1488
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 1: time get considered because because the players who play with

1489
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:53,280
Speaker 1: them and against them have so much respect for them

1490
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 1: that the voters hear it. A guy who plays seventeen years,

1491
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 1: even if he was just in the top third, top

1492
01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:03,800
Speaker 1: ten of his position and was never dominant for those

1493
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:08,479
Speaker 1: seventeen years, seventeen years is an eternity and that is

1494
01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 1: the most for me. For most NFL players, longevity is

1495
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:19,599
Speaker 1: the most quintessential respect getter of anything about your career.

1496
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:22,200
Speaker 1: Your ability to hang in there for that long is

1497
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:26,920
Speaker 1: an enormous uh, your father in your cap? Yeah, for

1498
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:29,599
Speaker 1: most players. So I think when a player does play

1499
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 1: for a long time, like Tremaine Edmonds could play for

1500
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: a long time. The players he played with and against

1501
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 1: and were in the league in his career will give

1502
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 1: him shout outs to get considered for the Hall of Fame,

1503
01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:46,360
Speaker 1: and a Hall of Fame voters call those guys aggregators

1504
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 1: like Frank Gore is something called by an aggregator by

1505
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,680
Speaker 1: some people because he's in it's been around numbers that right,

1506
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 1: nobody career numbers. Yeah, his career numbers are are staggering

1507
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:01,760
Speaker 1: and in very elite company. But he's played for a

1508
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:04,040
Speaker 1: lot longer than some of those guys did, So that's

1509
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:06,920
Speaker 1: the knock against guys like that. But nevertheless, they are

1510
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 1: in the conversation in a big, big way because of

1511
01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 1: the length of their careers, and that's why it will

1512
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:13,519
Speaker 1: be so compelling to watch the careers of these two

1513
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:18,160
Speaker 1: young Bills cornerstone players, Tradevious White and Tremaine Endmonds. All right,

1514
01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:21,280
Speaker 1: this one's on me. I have grossly neglected the tweet sheet.

1515
01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:23,599
Speaker 1: We will get to it in the next segment because

1516
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:25,560
Speaker 1: we do want to hear what your thoughts are on

1517
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: where the Bills mindset should be for twenty twenty. Should

1518
01:24:29,200 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 1: they stay humble and hungry, should they puff out their

1519
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,720
Speaker 1: chests or should they just stick to the process. We'll

1520
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on that next here on one Bills

1521
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health. Here on Buffalo Bill's Radio,

1522
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 1: Chris ground Steve tasked with you for what we in

1523
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:52,439
Speaker 1: the business like to call a shorty a short segment here,

1524
01:24:52,479 --> 01:24:54,080
Speaker 1: but we did want to get to the tweet sheet

1525
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:56,640
Speaker 1: as you were weighing in on what you think the

1526
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: Bills mindset mindset should be entering the twenty twenty season

1527
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: and puff out your chest, stay hungry and humble, or

1528
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:06,479
Speaker 1: respect the process. And we begin with one of our

1529
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:10,599
Speaker 1: frequent contributors, Tiffany, who says, until you win playoff games,

1530
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: the mindset should be humble and hungry. I can't see

1531
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:15,720
Speaker 1: a team led by coach McDermott being anything but a

1532
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 1: group of professionals putting in the work necessary to achieve

1533
01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:22,880
Speaker 1: their ultimate goal, the twenty twenty Super Bowl champs. You're

1534
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 1: buying that one, yeah, I mean it makes a lot

1535
01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 1: of sense, and on surface it's true. But staying hung

1536
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:33,640
Speaker 1: humble and hungry, it's it's great and it should be

1537
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:38,600
Speaker 1: your mantra always and maybe even in life, right, But

1538
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:42,640
Speaker 1: it's hard to do that when the expectations are so

1539
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:45,160
Speaker 1: high for your team. You know you're a good football team,

1540
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 1: you got to play like it. In fact, in some

1541
01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: ways that there should be some pressure on these guys internally,

1542
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: because now they've got to live up to what they've

1543
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 1: already done and they've got to continue to do it.

1544
01:25:56,120 --> 01:25:59,360
Speaker 1: It's easy enough to answer questions, but it's it's not

1545
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: so easy to set a new bar for excellence. And

1546
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:04,320
Speaker 1: that's what these guys are kind of in the position

1547
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:07,280
Speaker 1: to do. It's it's harder to raise the bar rather

1548
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 1: than just live up to no expectations. Ronnie has been

1549
01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:14,560
Speaker 1: Ronnie has a little bit different view. He says, the

1550
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:18,280
Speaker 1: thing is they aren't the underdog anymore. Time to embrace

1551
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 1: being the hunted and take pride in destroying anything is

1552
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:23,920
Speaker 1: to try to move in on their territory. Someone's kind

1553
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:26,559
Speaker 1: of putting a warlike reference to this thing here. Ronnie

1554
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 1: take a Ronnie might have had an extra cup of

1555
01:26:29,479 --> 01:26:33,479
Speaker 1: coffee today. Yeah, that's and it's there too. No question.

1556
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 1: You gotta know that you're gonna be a team that

1557
01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:38,600
Speaker 1: teams are not gonna just go down the list now

1558
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, that's a W that's a W that's

1559
01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:42,560
Speaker 1: a w Go to Buffalo, Yeah, we'll win there. That

1560
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:45,519
Speaker 1: kind of teams aren't doing that so much anymore. Uh,

1561
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:48,560
Speaker 1: this is a this is a club that you're not

1562
01:26:48,640 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 1: going to be the underdog. Now, certainly you might be

1563
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 1: when you when you go to San Francisco or when

1564
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:55,840
Speaker 1: you take on Seattle, or go to Pittsburgh or Kansas City,

1565
01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:59,120
Speaker 1: Kansas City coming in, you may be underdogs, but uh,

1566
01:26:59,520 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 1: for a lot of times you're gonna it's gonna be

1567
01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:06,000
Speaker 1: at least a pick him game. In some of these games,

1568
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be an underdog. And these are so

1569
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 1: you gotta be ready to, you know, to take what

1570
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: you can get out of where you're at and use

1571
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:18,639
Speaker 1: it for use it for motivation. And you're not gonna

1572
01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 1: have that thing where everybody thinks we stink, because a

1573
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 1: lot nobody thinks you stink anymore. That's that's hard to

1574
01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 1: dredge that up when it doesn't exist. Time for one

1575
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 1: more Nick is a proof is in the pudding kind

1576
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:34,200
Speaker 1: of guy. He's saying, stay humble, We're set up great,

1577
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 1: but none of it will matter if we don't follow

1578
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:38,720
Speaker 1: through on the field. Like Bean says, it's still the

1579
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,479
Speaker 1: Patriots Division until we actually go out there and beat them.

1580
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:45,479
Speaker 1: The Browns were basically crown champions laugh last offseason, and

1581
01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 1: look what happened there. You can't argue with that. Sure,

1582
01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 1: we've talked about it. We've talked about it. It's it's

1583
01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: easy enough to you know, to beat your chest and

1584
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:57,920
Speaker 1: listen to how many good things people say about you

1585
01:27:57,960 --> 01:27:59,680
Speaker 1: in the office season. But you gotta put up now.

1586
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 1: And and I think the Bills are ready to do that.

1587
01:28:01,479 --> 01:28:05,439
Speaker 1: It's been their mantra too. And I don't want to

1588
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: overstate it, but this is a coaching staff that has

1589
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 1: hit on a lot of cylinders to get this team

1590
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 1: to where it is. The job they did two years

1591
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 1: ago with a team that a lot of people people

1592
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:22,880
Speaker 1: accused him of tanking. A week before the season started,

1593
01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:28,640
Speaker 1: they traded away a couple of players. Robert Woods went

1594
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:30,720
Speaker 1: out on free agency. They lost, you know, they lost

1595
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 1: some guys. They traded, uh, Matt Darby, not Matt Darby,

1596
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby's Ron Darby, Sammy Watkins. They did all those

1597
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:42,720
Speaker 1: moves and people said, oh, they're tanking, they stink. Look

1598
01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: at their roster. And yet they go to the playoffs.

1599
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: That's big it's very big and because of that, I

1600
01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:52,839
Speaker 1: got a lot of faith in this coaching staff. They

1601
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:56,839
Speaker 1: won six games in two eighteen with a rookie quarterback

1602
01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:02,160
Speaker 1: from from Wyoming who was trying to They were trying

1603
01:29:02,200 --> 01:29:06,200
Speaker 1: to teach that he couldn't lift the planet by himself, right,

1604
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:08,640
Speaker 1: had a long way to go with a roster that

1605
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 1: was decimated in an offensive line that was a mess.

1606
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 1: So they won six games with that group, and they

1607
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 1: didn't get enough credit for that, And then of course

1608
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:17,160
Speaker 1: they did what they did last year. This is a

1609
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:19,400
Speaker 1: coaching staff that gets the most out of its players,

1610
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:21,599
Speaker 1: and I think so I think this our twitter poll,

1611
01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:23,600
Speaker 1: I got a little bit of I've got quite a

1612
01:29:23,640 --> 01:29:25,760
Speaker 1: bit of faith that this coaching staff is going to

1613
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:27,960
Speaker 1: handle this group and their mentality exactly the way that

1614
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,680
Speaker 1: it should be handled. So thanks for contributing on the

1615
01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:33,120
Speaker 1: tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

1616
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:36,040
Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Time for

1617
01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 1: Steve and I to step aside, but when we come back,

1618
01:29:38,479 --> 01:29:41,560
Speaker 1: we will have the SI dot Com Weekly columnists. The

1619
01:29:41,640 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 1: host of the Business of Sports podcast, he knows anything

1620
01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:49,160
Speaker 1: and everything about the world of business in professional sports.

1621
01:29:49,200 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 1: One Andrew Brant will join us talking opt ins, opt outs,

1622
01:29:53,240 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of stuff. And it's this COVID

1623
01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:57,280
Speaker 1: pandemic that the league and the union have had to

1624
01:29:57,360 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 1: iron out. That's all coming up next here on One

1625
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:02,479
Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. Here on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1626
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 1: Oh a good time watch Steve Clasper Goods down down

1627
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 1: to touch down time. Back on One Bill's Live, Steve

1628
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 1: Tasker Chris Brown with you as we began our number

1629
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:35,080
Speaker 1: three of the program and joining us on the line now.

1630
01:30:35,200 --> 01:30:37,680
Speaker 1: As an SI dot com weekly columnist the host of

1631
01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:41,519
Speaker 1: the Business of Sports podcast, He's worked on both sides

1632
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 1: of the NFL business as a team executive and a

1633
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:49,720
Speaker 1: player representative. It's one Andrew Brant who's been on the

1634
01:30:49,760 --> 01:30:51,560
Speaker 1: show quite a few times, but it's always good to

1635
01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:56,679
Speaker 1: have him back. In his latest column Business of Football series,

1636
01:30:56,760 --> 01:31:00,759
Speaker 1: how opt out stipends, work, COVID amendment negotiations and more. Andrew,

1637
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. How you doing doing well? Guys.

1638
01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:07,080
Speaker 1: I'm just back from a vacation at the Greenboro Resort

1639
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:09,760
Speaker 1: in West Virginia. And the reason I bring it up

1640
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:13,400
Speaker 1: is because they had World Team Tennis down there, and

1641
01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:18,160
Speaker 1: the star of this team for the Orlando Storm was

1642
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:25,800
Speaker 1: a woman named Jessica Jesse Pagula. That's right, yeah, always, yeah,

1643
01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 1: she's a really she's a really good player. It's just

1644
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:33,200
Speaker 1: it just speaks. I mean, we've seen highlights of her play. Heck,

1645
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:36,080
Speaker 1: I think both Steve and I have talked to her mom,

1646
01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:39,960
Speaker 1: Kim about her game and how she's doing, because she

1647
01:31:40,080 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 1: was in some major tournaments last summer and was doing

1648
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,479
Speaker 1: pretty well. But man, it just really goes to show

1649
01:31:45,560 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 1: you how hard it is to get into that upper

1650
01:31:48,120 --> 01:31:52,240
Speaker 1: echelon of that sport. It is hard. Yeah, I mean

1651
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:55,920
Speaker 1: it was a nice bonus for my family to have

1652
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:59,280
Speaker 1: that there where they had bubbled and we can talk

1653
01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:03,479
Speaker 1: about NFL bubbling. Yeah, you know somewhat. It wasn't like

1654
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:07,680
Speaker 1: NBA or NHL because they you know, had guests like

1655
01:32:07,880 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: me that people were you were allowed to interact, you

1656
01:32:10,280 --> 01:32:12,360
Speaker 1: just weren't allowed to go off campus. So it was

1657
01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:14,600
Speaker 1: really neat to see that. I'm a tennis fan and

1658
01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:19,320
Speaker 1: Jesse Paula and Kim Cleisters and Coco Vandaway and a

1659
01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:22,880
Speaker 1: lot of great players down there. Yeah, and you know,

1660
01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:25,879
Speaker 1: Steve and I pretty much spent a whole show yesterday

1661
01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:29,719
Speaker 1: talking about whether it's time for the NFL to consider

1662
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:33,280
Speaker 1: bubbling up at least in maybe a thirty two team

1663
01:32:33,479 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: local capacity where you're not letting the players go home

1664
01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 1: and interact with family members or you know, maybe you

1665
01:32:40,439 --> 01:32:43,880
Speaker 1: have a hotel. We know that the Saints are calling

1666
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:48,120
Speaker 1: its sequestering, not truly bubbling up, but they're trying to

1667
01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:51,519
Speaker 1: take an extra step there. I don't know the time

1668
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:53,800
Speaker 1: is on their side to enact something like that at

1669
01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:55,840
Speaker 1: this late stage of the game. Are what are your

1670
01:32:55,880 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 1: thoughts about maybe the NFL shifting course here in the

1671
01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:01,920
Speaker 1: coming weeks, knowing we're only about four and a half

1672
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:05,000
Speaker 1: weeks away from real football. Yeah, I mean these are

1673
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:07,679
Speaker 1: big questions, and you know, we're going to talk about

1674
01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:10,639
Speaker 1: COVID amendments and all these things the NFL and nflp

1675
01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:14,120
Speaker 1: are doing, and they got it done. Now we just

1676
01:33:14,240 --> 01:33:17,479
Speaker 1: have to worry about playing through a pandemic that is

1677
01:33:17,520 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 1: not getting better. And that's the problem. You know, people say, hey, Andrew,

1678
01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:27,960
Speaker 1: you're too pessimistic. I'm realistic. What baseball and football are

1679
01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:30,960
Speaker 1: trying to do here compared to basketball and hockey and

1680
01:33:31,320 --> 01:33:35,479
Speaker 1: MLS which are bubbled, is trying to thread the needle,

1681
01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:40,280
Speaker 1: Like we're really trying to thread a needle on having

1682
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:45,479
Speaker 1: players on kind of the honor system but living their life,

1683
01:33:46,600 --> 01:33:50,320
Speaker 1: and then what do you do about infections? I mean,

1684
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if people are thinking about this, but

1685
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:58,839
Speaker 1: do you understand how if you are an offensive lineman

1686
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:03,920
Speaker 1: and you have a positive test. I mean, I don't

1687
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:08,720
Speaker 1: understand how you cannot quarantine the whole offensive line or

1688
01:34:09,200 --> 01:34:13,639
Speaker 1: end the whole defensive line that you practiced against. If

1689
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:18,479
Speaker 1: that's really what we're looking at. It's really tough for

1690
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:21,320
Speaker 1: me to see how this is going to happen unless

1691
01:34:21,360 --> 01:34:26,080
Speaker 1: you just have these backup teams ready to go. You know,

1692
01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:29,639
Speaker 1: we are talking about something where I've been on Twitter

1693
01:34:29,720 --> 01:34:31,880
Speaker 1: saying players have reached out to me about opt outs

1694
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:35,519
Speaker 1: and they have they have these concerns, and basically a

1695
01:34:35,680 --> 01:34:39,600
Speaker 1: theme from a few players that have heard from is this, like,

1696
01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:43,080
Speaker 1: we got positive tests on our team and we haven't

1697
01:34:43,120 --> 01:34:47,000
Speaker 1: even gathered, you know, we haven't even practiced or played

1698
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:51,920
Speaker 1: or met, So that's only going to multiply, And that's

1699
01:34:51,960 --> 01:34:56,240
Speaker 1: the fear of one has. Does it surprise you the

1700
01:34:56,320 --> 01:34:59,600
Speaker 1: amount of opt outs you have seen one way or

1701
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:03,360
Speaker 1: the other. It does. And this is why I've been

1702
01:35:03,400 --> 01:35:05,679
Speaker 1: told the NFL wanted to move up that date, which

1703
01:35:05,760 --> 01:35:10,080
Speaker 1: is tomorrow, because they don't want the uncertainty keep going

1704
01:35:10,160 --> 01:35:12,240
Speaker 1: on and going and on. Are these guys playing or

1705
01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:17,280
Speaker 1: not playing? They want to get everyone locked in. I

1706
01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:19,880
Speaker 1: think the number will be over sixty where at like

1707
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:24,880
Speaker 1: fifty two now, I believe. And I think we're gonna

1708
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:27,760
Speaker 1: have some issues if the NFL says that's it no

1709
01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:31,960
Speaker 1: more and they've become issues with players or their families

1710
01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:35,360
Speaker 1: or whatever is going on. I just can't see this

1711
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:38,960
Speaker 1: being clean like after August six, no one else wants

1712
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:44,719
Speaker 1: to opt out. Yeah, and we just had Tredavious White

1713
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: on a zoom call with the media earlier today and

1714
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 1: he basically said he's undecided about playing. He's reported to camp,

1715
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:54,160
Speaker 1: he's been in the walkthroughs, he's been in the meetings,

1716
01:35:54,240 --> 01:35:56,479
Speaker 1: and he still says he has to have a long,

1717
01:35:56,560 --> 01:35:59,680
Speaker 1: hard conversation with his wife tonight to come down to

1718
01:35:59,760 --> 01:36:03,880
Speaker 1: a final decision on what he's doing. But but Andrew,

1719
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:07,720
Speaker 1: you mentioned it in your previous answer about offensive and

1720
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:11,400
Speaker 1: defensive linemen. There is a disproportionate number of offensive and

1721
01:36:11,439 --> 01:36:14,360
Speaker 1: defensive linemen that have opted out, and I know you

1722
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:18,680
Speaker 1: even tweeted you know that you can't really stereotype the

1723
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:22,320
Speaker 1: players who are opting out, because everybody's situation is different,

1724
01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:26,920
Speaker 1: but with respect to linemen specifically, these are the guys

1725
01:36:26,960 --> 01:36:29,880
Speaker 1: that are literally breathing on each other before every play,

1726
01:36:30,120 --> 01:36:35,160
Speaker 1: sometimes with heavy inhale and exhale because they're trying to

1727
01:36:35,280 --> 01:36:38,120
Speaker 1: catch their best from the previous play. Do you think

1728
01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:41,280
Speaker 1: that's why we've seen so many offensive and defensive linemen

1729
01:36:41,320 --> 01:36:44,280
Speaker 1: opt out because of the cloaks proximity they play to

1730
01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:48,040
Speaker 1: just about nine other players on every snap. It's hard

1731
01:36:48,080 --> 01:36:50,240
Speaker 1: to say for each player, but I do think part

1732
01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 1: of it is this BMI that we hear about with

1733
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:56,640
Speaker 1: thickness of players, and obviously the thickest players are the

1734
01:36:56,760 --> 01:37:01,400
Speaker 1: linemen that they don't recover well from this that there

1735
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:05,280
Speaker 1: are issues, and this is where, like I say, with

1736
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 1: the stereotype, you know, the stereotype is young, healthy, strong.

1737
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:13,760
Speaker 1: It's like the flu at worst, and we don't know that.

1738
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 1: You know, we've heard about von Miller. People say, well

1739
01:37:16,439 --> 01:37:19,519
Speaker 1: von Miller has asthma. Well, a lot of people have asthma,

1740
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:22,679
Speaker 1: and you know this is going to be an issue

1741
01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 1: where I as a former NFL executive. The question that

1742
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:32,720
Speaker 1: would keep me up at night is not controlling infections,

1743
01:37:33,520 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 1: it's how many negative outcomes can we live with before

1744
01:37:39,320 --> 01:37:43,200
Speaker 1: we shut this thing down? You know what's a negative outcome? Well,

1745
01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:47,599
Speaker 1: a negative outcome is someone who has lingering respiratory issues,

1746
01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:51,920
Speaker 1: or someone has lingering vascular issues, or god forbid worse.

1747
01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:56,920
Speaker 1: And I mean, in March, we shut down a league

1748
01:37:57,320 --> 01:38:01,200
Speaker 1: in sports because of one positive test I take in

1749
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:05,160
Speaker 1: August or September, what will take to shut it down

1750
01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:09,040
Speaker 1: is one negative outcome, like like a really bad outcome.

1751
01:38:09,479 --> 01:38:12,160
Speaker 1: And I don't even want to speculate, but yeah, that's

1752
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:14,840
Speaker 1: what would keep me up at night. Yeah, and I agree?

1753
01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:17,760
Speaker 1: And what how bad an outcome is it going to be?

1754
01:38:17,960 --> 01:38:19,799
Speaker 1: Do you think? Could they have one of the players

1755
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:23,840
Speaker 1: pass succumbed to the disease? Uh? And but the negative

1756
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:26,160
Speaker 1: outcome as well, some of these negative outcomes we won't

1757
01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:29,240
Speaker 1: know until well after the season is over, if they

1758
01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:33,599
Speaker 1: have lingering issues, if they have um long term damage.

1759
01:38:33,640 --> 01:38:36,559
Speaker 1: Some of these outcomes won't be evaluated until after they've

1760
01:38:36,560 --> 01:38:39,400
Speaker 1: already pushed through a season, good or bad, up or down.

1761
01:38:39,720 --> 01:38:43,479
Speaker 1: But you're right, there has to be an enormous gray

1762
01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 1: area of bad consequences that are immediate before to get

1763
01:38:51,960 --> 01:38:54,519
Speaker 1: the league to shut it down, particularly after all the

1764
01:38:54,600 --> 01:38:57,639
Speaker 1: effort that has been has gone into making it happen

1765
01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:00,960
Speaker 1: and all the you know, the momentum there is to

1766
01:39:01,080 --> 01:39:04,080
Speaker 1: make it happen for one one way or another. So

1767
01:39:04,240 --> 01:39:08,879
Speaker 1: I agree with you the out the immediate negative outcome.

1768
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:13,479
Speaker 1: It is a scenario that is an enormously gray area. Yeah,

1769
01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:16,439
Speaker 1: and kudos to the union and the league for getting

1770
01:39:16,479 --> 01:39:19,840
Speaker 1: this done. I said to you guys many times. You know,

1771
01:39:19,920 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 1: they got an eleven year deal done in March, and

1772
01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:24,679
Speaker 1: again I was critical of the deal from the player's side,

1773
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:27,120
Speaker 1: but they probably thought they weren't going to deal with

1774
01:39:27,200 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 1: each other for ten years and here they are five

1775
01:39:29,439 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: months later doing a mini CBA. And like you said,

1776
01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:37,519
Speaker 1: the health and safety stuff is great, and I think

1777
01:39:37,560 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 1: it's going to protect teams from liability if things go

1778
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:44,439
Speaker 1: south and players sue. Teams are going to say, hey,

1779
01:39:44,479 --> 01:39:47,559
Speaker 1: we did certainly what was the standard in the industry,

1780
01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: So we did enough. But this is all goes back

1781
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:59,720
Speaker 1: to playing a highly contact sport in a virus that's

1782
01:40:00,120 --> 01:40:05,800
Speaker 1: we transmissible, and you know that's again I don't want

1783
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:08,920
Speaker 1: to be Debbie Downer. I just think playing through a

1784
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:12,880
Speaker 1: pandemic is like threading a needle in a haystack. It's

1785
01:40:13,439 --> 01:40:16,560
Speaker 1: you've got so many things that could come up, and

1786
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:19,479
Speaker 1: you get one solved and maybe there'll be another you

1787
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:24,800
Speaker 1: can't solve. Last one we have for you, Andrew, because

1788
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,480
Speaker 1: we know your time is short and you've got other commitments.

1789
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:31,599
Speaker 1: But with respect to the twenty twenty one cap, which

1790
01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:35,479
Speaker 1: we know has been set at one seventy five four

1791
01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:39,160
Speaker 1: next year, and I suppose that could be adjusted if

1792
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:41,680
Speaker 1: you know the new media rights deals go through and

1793
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:47,879
Speaker 1: they're another windfall of revenue for the league, how difficult

1794
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: do you think it will be for some teams to

1795
01:40:50,760 --> 01:40:53,240
Speaker 1: navigate that? Obviously, there are a good number of teams

1796
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:57,400
Speaker 1: that have played the rollover game by rolling over unused

1797
01:40:57,439 --> 01:40:59,560
Speaker 1: cap space from this year to next year, and I

1798
01:40:59,640 --> 01:41:02,040
Speaker 1: think more teams will have that with players opting out

1799
01:41:02,479 --> 01:41:05,600
Speaker 1: that have guaranteed money. But how do you kind of

1800
01:41:05,640 --> 01:41:09,680
Speaker 1: see that landscape playing out next year with teams navigating

1801
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:12,680
Speaker 1: the cap and free agency in a year where the

1802
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:16,439
Speaker 1: cap takes an unusual step back. Yeah, I mean, listen,

1803
01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:21,120
Speaker 1: the cap cap information on the mass media is pretty

1804
01:41:22,160 --> 01:41:28,000
Speaker 1: pretty surface. I mean, teams have ability to roll over caps.

1805
01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:30,840
Speaker 1: So the cap for most teams right now is not

1806
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:33,639
Speaker 1: what you read about at one ninety eight million, it's

1807
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:37,000
Speaker 1: a lot more you Teams like the Colts and Browns

1808
01:41:37,040 --> 01:41:41,240
Speaker 1: are two thirty two forty million, So yeah, they have money,

1809
01:41:41,760 --> 01:41:44,439
Speaker 1: and the question is how much are they going to

1810
01:41:44,520 --> 01:41:48,000
Speaker 1: hold their powder dry and anticipating what's going to be

1811
01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:50,120
Speaker 1: a lower cap next year. We just have to see.

1812
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to be the arm

1813
01:41:52,560 --> 01:41:54,800
Speaker 1: of getting that people talk about. I think the real

1814
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:58,519
Speaker 1: issue is what are we going to have in terms

1815
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:01,880
Speaker 1: of fans. If we have zero fans, I've talked about

1816
01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:06,200
Speaker 1: a twenty percent reduction in the fifteen billion dollar industry,

1817
01:42:06,320 --> 01:42:09,720
Speaker 1: which is about three billion less. If we have some

1818
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:12,800
Speaker 1: kind of fans, maybe it'll be fifteen percent or ten

1819
01:42:12,880 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 1: percent reduction, and then we're looking at a new economics

1820
01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:20,720
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one. It's unfortunate players while they kept

1821
01:42:20,760 --> 01:42:23,640
Speaker 1: the cap this year, they're losing seventeen million a year

1822
01:42:23,680 --> 01:42:28,440
Speaker 1: in benefits, things like the Player Assistants Fund, the Player

1823
01:42:29,040 --> 01:42:33,040
Speaker 1: Performance Benefit, Pro Bowl pay unless they play the Pro Bowl,

1824
01:42:34,920 --> 01:42:38,120
Speaker 1: those kind of things. So players are taking a haircut

1825
01:42:38,200 --> 01:42:40,960
Speaker 1: through this and I said it with baseball and I'm

1826
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:45,280
Speaker 1: saying it now. The owners are not altruistic here. I

1827
01:42:45,360 --> 01:42:48,880
Speaker 1: mean they are making the players feel their pain and

1828
01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:52,559
Speaker 1: they got it done and we'll see where it goes.

1829
01:42:52,760 --> 01:42:58,080
Speaker 1: But right now, you know, no one's coming out of this. Rosie, Andrew,

1830
01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:00,880
Speaker 1: thanks so much, appreciate it's great talking to you. Oh

1831
01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:04,120
Speaker 1: he's a pleasure guy. All right. That's Andrew Brand SI

1832
01:43:04,200 --> 01:43:09,519
Speaker 1: dot com columnist, also the Business of Sports podcast host,

1833
01:43:10,120 --> 01:43:13,360
Speaker 1: and as we know, he's a professor of sports law

1834
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:16,080
Speaker 1: at Villanova. I mean, the guy does a bunch of

1835
01:43:16,080 --> 01:43:17,960
Speaker 1: stuff because he's been on both sides of it. He

1836
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:20,240
Speaker 1: was a team executive for the Packers, he's been a

1837
01:43:20,280 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 1: player agent representative, so you want to get all perspectives.

1838
01:43:24,360 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 1: This is one guy that can do and that's why

1839
01:43:26,080 --> 01:43:27,560
Speaker 1: we like having him on the show to kind of

1840
01:43:28,080 --> 01:43:30,920
Speaker 1: spell out some of these things for the layman. Yeah,

1841
01:43:30,960 --> 01:43:33,439
Speaker 1: he's a great resource for not just us, but also

1842
01:43:33,640 --> 01:43:35,720
Speaker 1: for well for all his listeners a students probably at

1843
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:37,640
Speaker 1: Morehouse as well. I mean, the guy has been on

1844
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:42,080
Speaker 1: both sides of the table of the major sports league

1845
01:43:42,240 --> 01:43:45,880
Speaker 1: in the United States, so his insight is invaluable. Sometimes

1846
01:43:45,920 --> 01:43:48,400
Speaker 1: when we get into these situations, So Steve, I wanted

1847
01:43:48,439 --> 01:43:53,080
Speaker 1: to flesh out this question that I asked Andrew Brandt,

1848
01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:55,200
Speaker 1: and he didn't really want to come down on one

1849
01:43:55,240 --> 01:43:56,880
Speaker 1: side of the fence or the other. But there has

1850
01:43:56,920 --> 01:44:00,639
Speaker 1: been a disproportionate number of offensive and defense of linemen

1851
01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:03,599
Speaker 1: in this opt out pool of players. You got upwards

1852
01:44:03,640 --> 01:44:05,960
Speaker 1: of fifty some odd players that have opted out now,

1853
01:44:06,439 --> 01:44:08,880
Speaker 1: and the vast majority of them have been offensive and

1854
01:44:08,960 --> 01:44:14,599
Speaker 1: defensive linemen. I'm wondering if it's because, and I'm sure

1855
01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:17,280
Speaker 1: every case is different, but if there is an underlying cause.

1856
01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:20,120
Speaker 1: Knowing when I line up and put my hand on

1857
01:44:20,200 --> 01:44:25,800
Speaker 1: the ground, I am within, for lack of a better term,

1858
01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:30,759
Speaker 1: spitting distance from about eight other guys on every single play.

1859
01:44:31,400 --> 01:44:34,080
Speaker 1: And while four of those guys are on my team

1860
01:44:34,280 --> 01:44:36,280
Speaker 1: and I know they wouldn't be taking the field unless

1861
01:44:36,320 --> 01:44:39,720
Speaker 1: they were negative, I'm not so sure about those other five,

1862
01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:41,559
Speaker 1: you know, four or five guys on the other side

1863
01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:44,800
Speaker 1: of the line. So I wonder if that adds to

1864
01:44:44,880 --> 01:44:48,400
Speaker 1: the level of uncertainty for alignment as opposed to maybe

1865
01:44:48,439 --> 01:44:51,000
Speaker 1: another player that plays much further away from the ball,

1866
01:44:51,080 --> 01:44:54,200
Speaker 1: like a safety you know, may not be in supreme

1867
01:44:54,439 --> 01:44:59,240
Speaker 1: nearly as close contact as often as the lineman are. Yeah,

1868
01:44:59,280 --> 01:45:03,120
Speaker 1: I think I think this as well, Brownie. Most of

1869
01:45:03,160 --> 01:45:06,400
Speaker 1: the guys you see taking taking a breather or opting

1870
01:45:06,439 --> 01:45:10,240
Speaker 1: out are guys that need a breather, Guys that are

1871
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:13,320
Speaker 1: veteran guys who have been banging it around for a

1872
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:15,720
Speaker 1: few years and have enough to get through the next

1873
01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 1: twelve months without worrying too much about it. I don't

1874
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:23,320
Speaker 1: think that you can minimize the physical toll the game takes,

1875
01:45:23,479 --> 01:45:26,800
Speaker 1: and that these guys would love to have three off

1876
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:28,720
Speaker 1: seasons in a row before they have to take the

1877
01:45:28,800 --> 01:45:30,800
Speaker 1: field again. You know, you have your regular offseason, you

1878
01:45:30,840 --> 01:45:33,639
Speaker 1: have the season, which is also as long as an offseason,

1879
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:36,760
Speaker 1: and then another offseason before they ever have to take

1880
01:45:36,800 --> 01:45:39,840
Speaker 1: the field again. I think some of these guys in

1881
01:45:39,920 --> 01:45:41,760
Speaker 1: their current situation are ready to say, you know what,

1882
01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:43,760
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let this thing play out. I don't

1883
01:45:43,800 --> 01:45:46,920
Speaker 1: want to deal with not only the COVID virus and

1884
01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:49,400
Speaker 1: all the protocols and how difficult it's going to be

1885
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:52,200
Speaker 1: to do my job. That is a difficult job anyway,

1886
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:56,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to deal with that along

1887
01:45:56,240 --> 01:45:59,599
Speaker 1: with getting my bain, getting my brains beat in every

1888
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:01,759
Speaker 1: Sunday or trying to beat the brains out of somebody

1889
01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:03,760
Speaker 1: else every Sunday. You know what, I'm just gonna take

1890
01:46:03,760 --> 01:46:06,519
Speaker 1: a break and let this thing play out and come

1891
01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:08,920
Speaker 1: back and see if I can resume this without too

1892
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:12,320
Speaker 1: much of a of a hiccup in my career. Those

1893
01:46:12,439 --> 01:46:16,639
Speaker 1: guys down inside and A their high risk because their BMI,

1894
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:20,000
Speaker 1: their body mass index makes them that way, and be

1895
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:22,639
Speaker 1: they play a game that is different than the game

1896
01:46:22,680 --> 01:46:25,479
Speaker 1: I played. My game was a collision sporting I covered

1897
01:46:25,560 --> 01:46:28,320
Speaker 1: kicks and I hit, but they were banging and pushing

1898
01:46:28,760 --> 01:46:33,640
Speaker 1: guys against their will every single play. It's it's a

1899
01:46:33,800 --> 01:46:38,640
Speaker 1: grind mentally and no doubt physically, And I think these

1900
01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:40,000
Speaker 1: guys are just tray to say, you know, I'll just

1901
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:42,320
Speaker 1: give me a few hundred grand I'll wait until till

1902
01:46:42,360 --> 01:46:45,120
Speaker 1: everything's back to normal. I think it's I think it's

1903
01:46:45,160 --> 01:46:49,240
Speaker 1: more about the mental and physical grind that those guys

1904
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:52,280
Speaker 1: go through that's different and plus their plus their higher risk,

1905
01:46:52,720 --> 01:46:55,000
Speaker 1: and I think it's an easy opt out for them. Yeah,

1906
01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:57,559
Speaker 1: I just know that We've talked several times about how

1907
01:46:57,680 --> 01:47:02,599
Speaker 1: football is essentially the opposite of social distancing, as at

1908
01:47:02,640 --> 01:47:06,880
Speaker 1: its core and nowhere on the field is that more

1909
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:09,639
Speaker 1: readily apparent than right on the line of scrimmage when

1910
01:47:09,680 --> 01:47:13,280
Speaker 1: you got upwards of ten people engaging in hand to

1911
01:47:13,400 --> 01:47:19,519
Speaker 1: hand combat where you know they're exchanging bodily fluids, shall

1912
01:47:19,560 --> 01:47:23,000
Speaker 1: we say, whether it's sweats, spit, tears, whatever it is

1913
01:47:23,800 --> 01:47:29,120
Speaker 1: in some rare cases blood. So yeah, it's just that's

1914
01:47:29,160 --> 01:47:32,080
Speaker 1: the essence of it right there in terms of risk

1915
01:47:33,360 --> 01:47:35,519
Speaker 1: as I see it anyway. So that's they made me

1916
01:47:35,640 --> 01:47:38,080
Speaker 1: wonder is that why offensive and defensive linemen are so

1917
01:47:38,200 --> 01:47:40,640
Speaker 1: prevalent in the list of opt out players? Could be

1918
01:47:40,880 --> 01:47:43,040
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a different situation for some of these guys.

1919
01:47:44,320 --> 01:47:46,840
Speaker 1: We do want to get back to the Twitter poll.

1920
01:47:47,240 --> 01:47:49,400
Speaker 1: What do you think the Bill's mindset should be entering

1921
01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:52,639
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season. Puff out your chest, embrace being

1922
01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:55,800
Speaker 1: the favorite in the division, Stay hungry and humble, stick

1923
01:47:55,840 --> 01:48:00,280
Speaker 1: to the underdog mentality, or respect the process and hope

1924
01:48:00,320 --> 01:48:03,720
Speaker 1: for the best. The runaway leader right now is stay

1925
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:06,800
Speaker 1: hungry and humble and stick to the underdog mentality. That's

1926
01:48:06,840 --> 01:48:10,800
Speaker 1: getting sixty three percent of the vote. Gaining on it though,

1927
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:14,479
Speaker 1: is respect the process, hope for the best. It's got

1928
01:48:14,520 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 1: almost twenty five percent of the vote at this point

1929
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:18,559
Speaker 1: and pulling up the rear is puff out your chest.

1930
01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:23,200
Speaker 1: I never really got the sense, Steve, that Buffalo fans,

1931
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:25,560
Speaker 1: in light of what we've had to endure for the

1932
01:48:25,640 --> 01:48:29,200
Speaker 1: better part of this century, are in puffing out your

1933
01:48:29,280 --> 01:48:32,080
Speaker 1: chest mode like they were when your team was playing

1934
01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:35,320
Speaker 1: was playing, there were a lot of Bills fans puffing

1935
01:48:35,320 --> 01:48:38,519
Speaker 1: out their chests. That hasn't been the case. Maybe we

1936
01:48:38,640 --> 01:48:41,599
Speaker 1: get there soon, if this team can make a run

1937
01:48:41,680 --> 01:48:44,200
Speaker 1: at it here this year and next year. But right

1938
01:48:44,280 --> 01:48:46,280
Speaker 1: now it seems like they're playing it a little closer

1939
01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:48,599
Speaker 1: to the best. Yeah. I said this earlier in the show.

1940
01:48:48,720 --> 01:48:51,400
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of the hungry and humble. Stick

1941
01:48:51,439 --> 01:48:54,719
Speaker 1: to the underdog mentality. The underdog mentality is for underdogs.

1942
01:48:54,800 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 1: The Bills are not Do what you do, stick to

1943
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:01,679
Speaker 1: the process, do your thing, play your football. You're gonna

1944
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:03,400
Speaker 1: win the games you're supposed to win, and maybe something

1945
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:05,479
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to win because of the some of

1946
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:08,160
Speaker 1: your parts. But that's where you are, that's who you are.

1947
01:49:08,240 --> 01:49:10,760
Speaker 1: Don't lie to yourself. Nobody ever got any place in

1948
01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:13,720
Speaker 1: life lying to themselves about how bad the world is

1949
01:49:13,760 --> 01:49:18,720
Speaker 1: around them. Yeah, that's for people who live in a

1950
01:49:18,800 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 1: different world. Be honest with yourself, know what you're looking at,

1951
01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:25,200
Speaker 1: and take steps toward being successful. And that's what the

1952
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:27,280
Speaker 1: Bills need to do. So don't sit there and say, yeah,

1953
01:49:27,320 --> 01:49:29,639
Speaker 1: we're the underdog. Nobody likes us, nobody thinks we're gonna

1954
01:49:29,640 --> 01:49:34,200
Speaker 1: win win. Half the national media in the that covers

1955
01:49:34,240 --> 01:49:36,840
Speaker 1: the league thinks you're gonna win the division. Anyway, don't

1956
01:49:37,240 --> 01:49:39,479
Speaker 1: sit there and look at yourself in the mirror and say, yeah,

1957
01:49:39,520 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 1: they all think we stink, because nobody does. One more

1958
01:49:43,120 --> 01:49:46,759
Speaker 1: check of the tweet sheet, this one from JW. Socks.

1959
01:49:47,520 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 1: We only have to look back at the Cleveland Browns

1960
01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:52,799
Speaker 1: last year for a team that believed all the sports

1961
01:49:52,960 --> 01:49:55,719
Speaker 1: articles written about them. The Bills have a tough schedule

1962
01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:57,720
Speaker 1: and hopefully they can win a few of those and

1963
01:49:57,840 --> 01:50:00,839
Speaker 1: take care of business in the division. But my answer

1964
01:50:01,560 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 1: is being stay humble and hungry. Yeah, we've got one

1965
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:09,800
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. Also about Tardavious White, who's self

1966
01:50:09,880 --> 01:50:12,400
Speaker 1: professed undecided about whether to play this year. He's gonna

1967
01:50:12,439 --> 01:50:14,360
Speaker 1: make the decision in the next twenty four hours or so.

1968
01:50:14,560 --> 01:50:16,760
Speaker 1: Tradevious White says, Trey White, you know how important you

1969
01:50:16,840 --> 01:50:19,880
Speaker 1: are to the team and the Bills Mafia drafted, adopted,

1970
01:50:20,160 --> 01:50:23,839
Speaker 1: and loved, homegrown number one talent. You're in the Bill's

1971
01:50:23,920 --> 01:50:26,040
Speaker 1: family at the head of the table. But your family's

1972
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:29,240
Speaker 1: most important always will be do what you feel as best.

1973
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:32,080
Speaker 1: We have your back. That from Timmy, that's a great

1974
01:50:32,720 --> 01:50:34,719
Speaker 1: that's a great That's a great tweet from a Bill's

1975
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 1: Mafia member, somebody who you know who loves the team

1976
01:50:38,439 --> 01:50:40,439
Speaker 1: and stuff. But you're right that your family is And

1977
01:50:40,520 --> 01:50:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure Tredavious White has weighed that. And even though

1978
01:50:43,040 --> 01:50:45,679
Speaker 1: he said in the SoundBite we played that he still

1979
01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:47,160
Speaker 1: has to have that heart to heart with his wife,

1980
01:50:47,200 --> 01:50:50,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've had multiple conversations and he went and

1981
01:50:50,880 --> 01:50:53,439
Speaker 1: he's leaning towards playing. Otherwise he wouldn't even be in town.

1982
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:58,439
Speaker 1: So we'll see. But certainly, like a lot of players, Brownie,

1983
01:50:58,920 --> 01:51:00,840
Speaker 1: Tredavius White wanted to get the lay of the land,

1984
01:51:01,160 --> 01:51:03,160
Speaker 1: see how things were going, see what it felt like,

1985
01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:05,519
Speaker 1: see how he really did feel about being away from

1986
01:51:05,560 --> 01:51:07,160
Speaker 1: his family and what the risks were going to be.

1987
01:51:07,280 --> 01:51:11,360
Speaker 1: And now he's going to spend the next day evaluating it. Right,

1988
01:51:11,800 --> 01:51:14,559
Speaker 1: And you know, kudos to the fan base for being

1989
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:16,599
Speaker 1: as understanding as they are. We know there are other

1990
01:51:17,080 --> 01:51:21,080
Speaker 1: NFL franchises with fans who are just completely unreasonable and

1991
01:51:21,200 --> 01:51:24,080
Speaker 1: off their rocker and would be going after a player

1992
01:51:24,160 --> 01:51:27,879
Speaker 1: that's making a decision like this, or weighing a decision

1993
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:30,840
Speaker 1: like this, I should say. So it's nice to know

1994
01:51:30,920 --> 01:51:32,840
Speaker 1: that there are Bills fans out there who are open

1995
01:51:32,920 --> 01:51:36,840
Speaker 1: minded to the gravity of this decision, because it's not

1996
01:51:36,960 --> 01:51:39,960
Speaker 1: an easy one in any way, shape or form. Steve

1997
01:51:40,040 --> 01:51:45,599
Speaker 1: has already talked extensively about how players are wired at

1998
01:51:45,640 --> 01:51:51,040
Speaker 1: this level and the commitment that they almost unconsciously make

1999
01:51:51,520 --> 01:51:54,799
Speaker 1: to their profession, to their teammates, and to their coaches,

2000
01:51:55,400 --> 01:51:58,600
Speaker 1: and this completely throws a wrench in all of that,

2001
01:51:58,800 --> 01:52:04,680
Speaker 1: this pandemic because it brings to light the other priorities

2002
01:52:04,720 --> 01:52:07,679
Speaker 1: in their lives, chiefly chiefly of which is their family.

2003
01:52:08,200 --> 01:52:11,360
Speaker 1: So that's why this is not an easy decision for

2004
01:52:11,479 --> 01:52:15,160
Speaker 1: so many people. It's easy enough, Brownie to when you're

2005
01:52:15,240 --> 01:52:17,880
Speaker 1: young and you're load of mid twenties or in your

2006
01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:21,400
Speaker 1: twenties and you're single, you're single and you're in or

2007
01:52:21,479 --> 01:52:24,160
Speaker 1: even if you're not single, and you're you know, you're

2008
01:52:24,360 --> 01:52:26,680
Speaker 1: a world class athlete at the top of your game,

2009
01:52:26,760 --> 01:52:28,840
Speaker 1: and you feel great, you've been training well, you got

2010
01:52:29,040 --> 01:52:30,960
Speaker 1: you're on a great team like the Bills that you've

2011
01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:33,400
Speaker 1: got a great high expectations for your team coming into

2012
01:52:33,439 --> 01:52:37,200
Speaker 1: the season. You're focused on everything. Uh, it's and it's

2013
01:52:37,240 --> 01:52:39,400
Speaker 1: fine when you think, okay, this The NFL is a

2014
01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:41,920
Speaker 1: risky game to begin with. It's a it's got a

2015
01:52:42,040 --> 01:52:45,240
Speaker 1: high level of physical risk, and it takes a lot

2016
01:52:45,280 --> 01:52:49,559
Speaker 1: of sacrifice. I eat playing uncomfortable, when you're hurting, when

2017
01:52:49,600 --> 01:52:51,639
Speaker 1: you don't feel your best, You're still expected to play

2018
01:52:51,680 --> 01:52:53,639
Speaker 1: on Sunday. All of that stuff goes into the mix.

2019
01:52:53,680 --> 01:52:56,639
Speaker 1: It's easy and well and good enough for guys to say,

2020
01:52:56,640 --> 01:52:57,960
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna do it because that's what

2021
01:52:58,080 --> 01:53:00,760
Speaker 1: I do. I'm a guy, I'm a i'm I've got

2022
01:53:00,800 --> 01:53:03,160
Speaker 1: that warrior mentality. I'm gonna overcome. I'm gonna do all that.

2023
01:53:03,320 --> 01:53:06,599
Speaker 1: But then by doing so, all of a sudden, you're

2024
01:53:06,600 --> 01:53:09,559
Speaker 1: eleven month old babies put at risks. Then that makes

2025
01:53:09,600 --> 01:53:13,519
Speaker 1: you slaps the brakes pretty quick. And when it says, well,

2026
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:16,680
Speaker 1: my wife may be vulnerable and my family may be

2027
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:19,000
Speaker 1: vulnerable by me doing that, even though it may not

2028
01:53:20,040 --> 01:53:23,040
Speaker 1: I may never show symptoms at all. My wife and

2029
01:53:23,240 --> 01:53:27,200
Speaker 1: kid may do more than just show symptoms. That's when

2030
01:53:27,479 --> 01:53:30,040
Speaker 1: you get slapped in the face with reality and maybe

2031
01:53:30,080 --> 01:53:31,559
Speaker 1: you've got to put it in reverse a little bit

2032
01:53:31,560 --> 01:53:33,439
Speaker 1: and think about things. And I don't have a problem

2033
01:53:33,479 --> 01:53:36,800
Speaker 1: with guys doing that at all. So Bill's fans, we

2034
01:53:36,920 --> 01:53:40,760
Speaker 1: will wait, and the deadline is tomorrow four pm for

2035
01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:44,439
Speaker 1: all players across the league to choose whether or not

2036
01:53:44,520 --> 01:53:47,520
Speaker 1: they are playing in twenty twenty or opting out tradevious

2037
01:53:47,600 --> 01:53:51,400
Speaker 1: White has firmly put himself in that group, and that

2038
01:53:51,479 --> 01:53:53,639
Speaker 1: will be a decision that will be weighing on him

2039
01:53:54,040 --> 01:53:56,080
Speaker 1: for the better part of the next twenty hours. There's

2040
01:53:56,120 --> 01:53:59,800
Speaker 1: twenty four hours or so as he makes a very

2041
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:03,320
Speaker 1: difficult decision that clearly is weighing him down just hearing

2042
01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:05,960
Speaker 1: him talk today. So we'll see where it goes. And

2043
01:54:06,080 --> 01:54:09,479
Speaker 1: no more tomorrow, Steve and I take a step aside here.

2044
01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:12,920
Speaker 1: But when we come back, a little NFL true false,

2045
01:54:13,479 --> 01:54:16,760
Speaker 1: And it won't just be the NFL, Steve, It's gonna

2046
01:54:16,840 --> 01:54:21,160
Speaker 1: involve some Major League Baseball and maybe even the XFL

2047
01:54:21,479 --> 01:54:24,799
Speaker 1: as well. Stay tuned for that. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

2048
01:54:24,880 --> 01:54:27,400
Speaker 1: with you here on one Bills Live presented by Kalidah Health.

2049
01:54:27,479 --> 01:54:39,400
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, Steve Tasking with Chris Brown.

2050
01:54:40,800 --> 01:54:43,919
Speaker 1: You're on one Bills Live, final half hour of the program.

2051
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:48,280
Speaker 1: We do want to remind you that Stefan Diggs, as

2052
01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:51,320
Speaker 1: a zoom called the Media, is going to be here

2053
01:54:51,400 --> 01:54:55,120
Speaker 1: and live. You're on WTR at VPM. They'll be sure

2054
01:54:55,160 --> 01:54:56,920
Speaker 1: to stay tuned for that. After Steve and I are

2055
01:54:57,000 --> 01:54:59,480
Speaker 1: done for the day, they will have it on these

2056
01:54:59,520 --> 01:55:02,760
Speaker 1: airwaves at three o'clock as Stefan Dix makes his first

2057
01:55:02,920 --> 01:55:06,560
Speaker 1: public comments as a member of the Buffalo Bills. He

2058
01:55:06,680 --> 01:55:10,000
Speaker 1: has not spoken to the media or publicly in any

2059
01:55:10,080 --> 01:55:16,520
Speaker 1: capacity since the trade, so this is a heavily anticipated

2060
01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:19,480
Speaker 1: press conference. From what we understand, he's going to go

2061
01:55:19,520 --> 01:55:22,800
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes, so we're looking forward to that for sure.

2062
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:27,880
Speaker 1: But we do want to get to some NFL True Falls,

2063
01:55:28,800 --> 01:55:31,440
Speaker 1: which has always is brought to you by Yancey's Fancy

2064
01:55:32,240 --> 01:55:36,840
Speaker 1: Yancey's Fancy New York's Artisan Cheese. And even though this

2065
01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:39,160
Speaker 1: is called NFL True Fall, Steve, we are going to

2066
01:55:39,240 --> 01:55:42,800
Speaker 1: begin with Major League Baseball, as we know that there

2067
01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:45,840
Speaker 1: have been a couple of outbreaks, the Marlins first, followed

2068
01:55:45,920 --> 01:55:48,800
Speaker 1: up by the Cardinals It's canceled upwards of twenty percent

2069
01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:53,960
Speaker 1: of the games that were scheduled last week, and the

2070
01:55:54,240 --> 01:55:57,200
Speaker 1: four game series between the Cardinals and Tigers was postponed

2071
01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:01,240
Speaker 1: along with a host of other games. So the question here,

2072
01:56:01,320 --> 01:56:05,880
Speaker 1: Steve NFL true false? Major League Baseball players will be

2073
01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:13,240
Speaker 1: more disciplined following these recent outbreaks true or false falls Yeah,

2074
01:56:13,240 --> 01:56:15,080
Speaker 1: I know you're not a fan of baseball to begin with,

2075
01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:19,000
Speaker 1: or your players. I think it's going to get worse,

2076
01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:21,960
Speaker 1: not better, I think. But you don't think they're going

2077
01:56:22,040 --> 01:56:25,720
Speaker 1: to police themselves any better now, No, it's not in

2078
01:56:25,760 --> 01:56:29,120
Speaker 1: their nature. The game cultivates a selfish attitude towards their

2079
01:56:29,120 --> 01:56:31,640
Speaker 1: own statistics in their own career. It's a team, it's

2080
01:56:31,680 --> 01:56:35,200
Speaker 1: an individual sport wrapped in a team atmosphere that doesn't

2081
01:56:35,240 --> 01:56:40,560
Speaker 1: make sense. And it's a it's a sport that cultivates

2082
01:56:41,200 --> 01:56:45,920
Speaker 1: that kind of me first attitude. So no, they're not

2083
01:56:46,000 --> 01:56:48,280
Speaker 1: going to get better. They're going to retreat into what

2084
01:56:48,440 --> 01:56:51,760
Speaker 1: the game cultivates them to be. Yeah, going to do

2085
01:56:51,880 --> 01:56:56,760
Speaker 1: their own thing. I should mention that Commissioner of Baseball

2086
01:56:56,880 --> 01:57:01,160
Speaker 1: Rob Manfred did call the players Associated Asian Executive Director

2087
01:57:01,280 --> 01:57:04,960
Speaker 1: Tony Clark late last week, and he basically told him

2088
01:57:05,880 --> 01:57:09,160
Speaker 1: that they're going to have to suspend the season if

2089
01:57:09,240 --> 01:57:12,320
Speaker 1: players are not more diligent about following the health and

2090
01:57:12,480 --> 01:57:18,080
Speaker 1: safety protocols to curb the spread of the virus. So

2091
01:57:19,000 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 1: that's out there. Whether that makes an impact on the

2092
01:57:23,160 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 1: players of the thirty Major League Baseball teams, I guess

2093
01:57:26,080 --> 01:57:28,640
Speaker 1: remains to be seen. There are still games being played.

2094
01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:33,560
Speaker 1: I guess in due time. You know, these Marlins and

2095
01:57:33,640 --> 01:57:39,600
Speaker 1: Cardinals players will hopefully recover clear their next round of

2096
01:57:39,680 --> 01:57:44,040
Speaker 1: testing to be eligible to return to play, and they'll

2097
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:47,320
Speaker 1: be hoping against hope that there isn't another COVID outbreak.

2098
01:57:47,400 --> 01:57:50,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, I agree with you, though I don't have

2099
01:57:50,800 --> 01:57:53,080
Speaker 1: as much faith in Major League Baseball players as I

2100
01:57:53,160 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 1: do in NFL players. I don't know if it's because

2101
01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:58,600
Speaker 1: of the way the sport is devised to cater to

2102
01:57:58,720 --> 01:58:04,400
Speaker 1: individual statistics, but I just I think there's there's always

2103
01:58:04,440 --> 01:58:08,280
Speaker 1: one Steve in any group, and in Major League Baseball,

2104
01:58:08,280 --> 01:58:10,320
Speaker 1: I think there's more than one. So unfortunately, I do

2105
01:58:10,440 --> 01:58:13,040
Speaker 1: think there are going to be some other outbreaks here

2106
01:58:13,200 --> 01:58:17,080
Speaker 1: going forward. So I will say false as well true

2107
01:58:17,160 --> 01:58:20,960
Speaker 1: false number two. Steve, Okay, what are you laughing? Thanks?

2108
01:58:21,000 --> 01:58:25,000
Speaker 1: For just whitewashing over my total trashing of baseball in general.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I don't want to. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to deal with my I don't want to deal with

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01:58:28,280 --> 01:58:31,520
Speaker 1: my timeline after that little, that little under my breath

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Speaker 1: false that I said, false as well. But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I feel quite as strongly as

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01:58:38,840 --> 01:58:42,280
Speaker 1: you that the baseball fans would absolutely chew me up

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01:58:42,320 --> 01:58:47,280
Speaker 1: and spit me out of it. Yeah, okay, So NFL

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01:58:47,360 --> 01:58:50,880
Speaker 1: true false number two. I'm sure you saw that the

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01:58:51,120 --> 01:58:55,440
Speaker 1: XFL was headed to an auction after they declared bankruptcy

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01:58:55,720 --> 01:59:01,240
Speaker 1: due primarily to the pandemic. And right before the auction

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01:59:01,320 --> 01:59:05,560
Speaker 1: bell rang to open the auction on the XFL. Uh

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01:59:06,480 --> 01:59:09,680
Speaker 1: to Wayne the Rock Johnson along with I believe it

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01:59:09,800 --> 01:59:15,320
Speaker 1: was Redbird Capital. I think was the uh financial Uh. Yes,

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01:59:15,480 --> 01:59:21,360
Speaker 1: that's right, Redbird Capital. They teamed up and h bought

2123
01:59:21,680 --> 01:59:26,080
Speaker 1: the XFL for fifteen million dollars before it right before

2124
01:59:26,160 --> 01:59:29,720
Speaker 1: it went to auction, and their bid was accepted. So

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01:59:31,360 --> 01:59:34,000
Speaker 1: there are there are a lot of creditors still looking

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01:59:34,080 --> 01:59:36,880
Speaker 1: for money from from this outfit. Steve, So the the

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01:59:37,040 --> 01:59:41,400
Speaker 1: NFL true false question posed to you, The Rock will

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01:59:41,520 --> 01:59:48,000
Speaker 1: revive the XFL. True or false. Uh, it'll be revived.

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01:59:48,200 --> 01:59:50,920
Speaker 1: But it's it's on. It's gonna be on. It'll never

2130
01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:53,839
Speaker 1: get off the respirator. It's it's done for it's a vegetable.

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01:59:54,440 --> 01:59:59,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's not support. Now that it's done, it'll

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01:59:59,600 --> 02:00:02,080
Speaker 1: come back. I mean, there's always there has yet to

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02:00:02,160 --> 02:00:06,440
Speaker 1: be an alternative league to the NFL that is sustainable

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02:00:06,520 --> 02:00:11,320
Speaker 1: long term. And the fact that this came back and

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02:00:11,400 --> 02:00:13,920
Speaker 1: they had some great rule changes, some stuff that made

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02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:16,960
Speaker 1: it really neat um. But the fact of the matter

2137
02:00:17,120 --> 02:00:20,040
Speaker 1: is you have to do this on such a wide scale.

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02:00:20,560 --> 02:00:23,800
Speaker 1: I think the key to the XFL if they now

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02:00:23,920 --> 02:00:27,680
Speaker 1: I'm saying this, like I know my key. My thing

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02:00:27,800 --> 02:00:30,000
Speaker 1: is the XFL came back that had eight teams, you know,

2141
02:00:30,040 --> 02:00:32,320
Speaker 1: and it was a smaller. They need to get even smaller.

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02:00:32,760 --> 02:00:35,320
Speaker 1: It needs to be a six six team league or

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02:00:35,320 --> 02:00:39,520
Speaker 1: a four team league and that's it. And those four

2144
02:00:39,680 --> 02:00:45,760
Speaker 1: teams play round robin twice and that's that's the league.

2145
02:00:45,960 --> 02:00:49,000
Speaker 1: And you can do what you want with the NFL

2146
02:00:49,040 --> 02:00:52,760
Speaker 1: and relationships or whatever. That's a division. Yeah, exactly, it's

2147
02:00:52,800 --> 02:00:54,960
Speaker 1: got to be so because here's the thing, Brownie. The

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Speaker 1: only other alternative is it's it hemorrhages so much money

2149
02:00:59,240 --> 02:01:02,960
Speaker 1: that the bigger it comes, it becomes the bigger you

2150
02:01:03,080 --> 02:01:06,200
Speaker 1: started with. Like even with eight teams, Brownie it hemorrhaged

2151
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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions. Yeah, well you can go all the

2152
02:01:09,280 --> 02:01:11,520
Speaker 1: way back to the AFL and they were an eighteam

2153
02:01:11,600 --> 02:01:14,600
Speaker 1: league and Ralph Wilson at alone Al Davis money to

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02:01:14,720 --> 02:01:18,360
Speaker 1: keep the Raiders afloat and the Patriots afloat. He did

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02:01:18,360 --> 02:01:21,040
Speaker 1: all three. He kept all three franchises from going under.

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02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:23,640
Speaker 1: In fact, when the Patriots were going out to when

2157
02:01:23,680 --> 02:01:26,160
Speaker 1: the when the Patriots were going out to play the

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02:01:26,240 --> 02:01:29,480
Speaker 1: Broncos and the Bills were going to the Raiders, the

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02:01:29,600 --> 02:01:32,840
Speaker 1: Patriots flew from Boston to Buffalo, picked up the Buffalo team,

2160
02:01:33,160 --> 02:01:36,120
Speaker 1: flew to Denver, dropped the buff dropped the Patriots off,

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02:01:36,160 --> 02:01:38,200
Speaker 1: and flew the Buffalo team in first. So it was

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02:01:38,240 --> 02:01:40,960
Speaker 1: one charter flight. So the league they had both teams

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02:01:41,080 --> 02:01:47,240
Speaker 1: traveling together. So yeah, it was it was it's tough.

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02:01:47,840 --> 02:01:50,760
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna cough up a lot of cash to

2165
02:01:50,920 --> 02:01:53,040
Speaker 1: make that thing fly, and it's gotta and you gotta

2166
02:01:53,040 --> 02:01:56,760
Speaker 1: get through like multiple seasons to get a fan base

2167
02:01:56,880 --> 02:02:00,480
Speaker 1: and a Niche carved out and forget about the brownie.

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02:02:00,560 --> 02:02:03,560
Speaker 1: It's about carving out a niche in the media as

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02:02:03,720 --> 02:02:06,640
Speaker 1: much as it is carving out a fan base in

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02:02:06,760 --> 02:02:09,080
Speaker 1: the towns where you play. And you've got to have

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02:02:09,200 --> 02:02:11,880
Speaker 1: a presence on the landscape of the electronic media in

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02:02:11,920 --> 02:02:14,720
Speaker 1: this country, or you're not going to get enough attention

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02:02:15,480 --> 02:02:17,920
Speaker 1: to get revenues to come in the door. And allow

2174
02:02:17,960 --> 02:02:20,680
Speaker 1: me to throw another log on the fire. The XFL

2175
02:02:20,800 --> 02:02:24,320
Speaker 1: still has creditors coming after them looking for the money

2176
02:02:24,400 --> 02:02:28,480
Speaker 1: that they were owed. Whether it was sponsors that didn't

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02:02:28,520 --> 02:02:31,960
Speaker 1: get make goods on their exposure because the season got

2178
02:02:32,080 --> 02:02:38,280
Speaker 1: canceled due to the pandemic, whether it was investors that

2179
02:02:38,440 --> 02:02:41,400
Speaker 1: didn't get a return on that investment under the language

2180
02:02:41,440 --> 02:02:43,800
Speaker 1: of whatever their contract might have been with the XFL.

2181
02:02:44,400 --> 02:02:47,080
Speaker 1: There are people coming to the XFL with their hands

2182
02:02:47,120 --> 02:02:50,960
Speaker 1: out and that's something that they now inherit and we'll

2183
02:02:51,000 --> 02:02:54,280
Speaker 1: have to figure out. And you notice in this NFL

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02:02:54,360 --> 02:02:56,520
Speaker 1: true false, we did not say the Rock will revive

2185
02:02:56,600 --> 02:03:00,600
Speaker 1: the XFL in twenty twenty one, because it was flash

2186
02:03:01,160 --> 02:03:03,480
Speaker 1: We're probably going to be still dealing with this pandemic

2187
02:03:03,560 --> 02:03:07,120
Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form next calendar year. And

2188
02:03:07,280 --> 02:03:10,320
Speaker 1: this was supposed to be a spring league. I don't

2189
02:03:10,320 --> 02:03:14,560
Speaker 1: know if that's the time in a pandemic world to

2190
02:03:14,680 --> 02:03:18,960
Speaker 1: try to revive a fledgling league like the XFL despite

2191
02:03:19,000 --> 02:03:23,440
Speaker 1: your best efforts. So maybe it happens in twenty twenty two,

2192
02:03:24,480 --> 02:03:26,800
Speaker 1: because I tell you, if it was me and I

2193
02:03:26,920 --> 02:03:30,120
Speaker 1: took this thing on, I'd spend the next calendar year

2194
02:03:31,040 --> 02:03:34,320
Speaker 1: trying to plan properly to make it work and stay afloat,

2195
02:03:34,760 --> 02:03:37,360
Speaker 1: and I'd certain job number one is steering clear of

2196
02:03:37,440 --> 02:03:39,960
Speaker 1: this pandemic, So I'd wait until this thing is dead

2197
02:03:40,000 --> 02:03:42,720
Speaker 1: and gone and no longer an issue. Clearly, they assume

2198
02:03:42,800 --> 02:03:45,080
Speaker 1: the debt that goes with the league, I would guess,

2199
02:03:45,280 --> 02:03:47,840
Speaker 1: and if they don't, then that's a huge plus for them.

2200
02:03:47,920 --> 02:03:50,920
Speaker 1: But they've still got to have operating capital to get

2201
02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:55,040
Speaker 1: this thing up and off the ground. Coaching staffs, equipment staffs.

2202
02:03:55,320 --> 02:03:58,200
Speaker 1: They get the rights, and they get the rights to

2203
02:03:58,320 --> 02:04:03,400
Speaker 1: all the logos, the team names, the cities, the contracts

2204
02:04:03,440 --> 02:04:06,200
Speaker 1: that are signed and either whether fulfilled or unfulfilled. They

2205
02:04:06,240 --> 02:04:10,080
Speaker 1: get all that stuff, but it is a mountain of

2206
02:04:10,240 --> 02:04:15,520
Speaker 1: work before they can even declare themselves, Yeah, we're a

2207
02:04:15,600 --> 02:04:18,120
Speaker 1: league again. Yeah, I mean they It's not like just

2208
02:04:18,240 --> 02:04:20,480
Speaker 1: flipping this light switch on the office building, you guys,

2209
02:04:20,560 --> 02:04:22,720
Speaker 1: and we're all back to work. It's, oh my goodness,

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02:04:23,320 --> 02:04:27,480
Speaker 1: it's it's a huge account, huge, huge undertaking. So I'm

2211
02:04:27,760 --> 02:04:31,360
Speaker 1: thinking it's it's a great idea. It sounds great when

2212
02:04:31,440 --> 02:04:34,280
Speaker 1: you hear somebody like the Rock bought the league. It's

2213
02:04:34,320 --> 02:04:38,000
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. But I'm telling you what, not too

2214
02:04:38,040 --> 02:04:41,280
Speaker 1: many people know how much cash it takes to make

2215
02:04:41,360 --> 02:04:45,840
Speaker 1: something like that work. And I'm talking big money. Yeah,

2216
02:04:46,080 --> 02:04:49,920
Speaker 1: it's a heavy money. It's a heavy lift. Yeah, all right.

2217
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:52,080
Speaker 1: Third true false for you, Steve, and this one actually

2218
02:04:52,200 --> 02:04:56,240
Speaker 1: is an NFL true false. Alex Smith has a realistic

2219
02:04:56,360 --> 02:05:02,400
Speaker 1: shot at winning Washington's starting quarter back job. Well, he's

2220
02:05:02,440 --> 02:05:07,720
Speaker 1: been he's been all football activities, so he's been medically

2221
02:05:07,760 --> 02:05:11,000
Speaker 1: cleared to give it a shot. And he's competiast Dwayne

2222
02:05:11,040 --> 02:05:15,840
Speaker 1: Haskins and Kyle Allen. So I'm thinking, you know what, Yeah,

2223
02:05:16,600 --> 02:05:18,760
Speaker 1: if they're willing to give him a shot, I would say, yeah,

2224
02:05:18,880 --> 02:05:21,160
Speaker 1: he's got more than a shot. And I think it's

2225
02:05:21,240 --> 02:05:23,360
Speaker 1: part part of it, part of the thing gives him

2226
02:05:23,400 --> 02:05:26,760
Speaker 1: the advantage, not only that he's got experience and some

2227
02:05:26,920 --> 02:05:28,600
Speaker 1: production and a and a career that you can look

2228
02:05:28,600 --> 02:05:30,360
Speaker 1: back on and say, yeah, there has been times where

2229
02:05:30,440 --> 02:05:32,920
Speaker 1: this guy was really good and he's probably was their

2230
02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:37,080
Speaker 1: guy beforehand before he got injured. Uh. The second part

2231
02:05:37,240 --> 02:05:40,360
Speaker 1: is it's a great story for a team who needs

2232
02:05:40,400 --> 02:05:44,200
Speaker 1: something to root for, and it's it's and it's an

2233
02:05:44,240 --> 02:05:46,960
Speaker 1: owner who's not who's willing to do just about anything

2234
02:05:47,680 --> 02:05:53,680
Speaker 1: to not look like the bad guy right and have him.

2235
02:05:53,760 --> 02:05:55,600
Speaker 1: He might just make the pick up the phone the

2236
02:05:55,840 --> 02:05:58,680
Speaker 1: best thing Alex Miscott going for him as an owner

2237
02:05:58,720 --> 02:06:00,280
Speaker 1: who just might pick up the phone and tell Ron

2238
02:06:00,360 --> 02:06:03,400
Speaker 1: River to start him anyway. I don't care. So yeah,

2239
02:06:03,440 --> 02:06:05,600
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, he does have a good chance to return.

2240
02:06:05,880 --> 02:06:07,600
Speaker 1: I know as much as all right, so you're gonna

2241
02:06:07,600 --> 02:06:11,360
Speaker 1: say true there as much as I want to feel

2242
02:06:11,440 --> 02:06:17,120
Speaker 1: good about the Alex Smith story, man, I tough sell.

2243
02:06:17,480 --> 02:06:20,320
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about this guy, man, because all he's got

2244
02:06:20,440 --> 02:06:22,720
Speaker 1: to take is one wrong hint on that leg and

2245
02:06:23,600 --> 02:06:25,760
Speaker 1: let's not forget this is an offensive line that just

2246
02:06:25,880 --> 02:06:31,600
Speaker 1: traded away Trent Williams. I just I'm concerned about the

2247
02:06:31,680 --> 02:06:35,320
Speaker 1: guy's long term health quite frankly, and if you're Daniel Snyder,

2248
02:06:35,360 --> 02:06:37,760
Speaker 1: you should be more concerned about how what the optics

2249
02:06:37,800 --> 02:06:39,600
Speaker 1: are going to look like if God forbid, he has

2250
02:06:39,640 --> 02:06:42,080
Speaker 1: an injury and loses his leg. I mean, he was

2251
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:44,200
Speaker 1: pretty fortunate that he didn't lose it the first time.

2252
02:06:44,560 --> 02:06:47,080
Speaker 1: And I know that's the assumed risk that Alex Smith

2253
02:06:47,160 --> 02:06:50,240
Speaker 1: takes by stepping onto the field, but that's not what

2254
02:06:50,360 --> 02:06:53,400
Speaker 1: the public blowback's going to be. If God forbid he

2255
02:06:53,480 --> 02:06:56,640
Speaker 1: has an injury and really messes that leg up forever.

2256
02:06:57,480 --> 02:07:00,720
Speaker 1: I think it's realistic you'll come back and play. I'd

2257
02:07:00,760 --> 02:07:03,960
Speaker 1: be a great story, a phenomenal story. Good and kudos

2258
02:07:04,040 --> 02:07:07,040
Speaker 1: to him. Congratulations to him for Alex Smith for the

2259
02:07:07,280 --> 02:07:08,920
Speaker 1: for a long road back that it was. And I

2260
02:07:09,040 --> 02:07:11,000
Speaker 1: hope he does get back on the field. I would

2261
02:07:11,000 --> 02:07:12,840
Speaker 1: be even if it's just for one snap. I think

2262
02:07:12,880 --> 02:07:16,320
Speaker 1: it's just awesome, all right. So that's that's NFL True Falls,

2263
02:07:16,360 --> 02:07:19,200
Speaker 1: presented by Yancy's Fancy New York's artistan Chee, Steve and

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Speaker 1: I With one more segment to go, as we find

2265
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Speaker 1: out what we have learned here on Wednesday's edition of

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02:07:26,080 --> 02:07:28,760
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. Here on Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio time for what have We Learned? Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skyworks The official construction equipment rental company of

2269
02:07:43,240 --> 02:07:45,720
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Joining us on the show earlier this

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02:07:45,840 --> 02:07:50,360
Speaker 1: hour was SI dot Com calumnist Andrew Brandt on how

2271
02:07:50,600 --> 02:07:58,480
Speaker 1: teams may react to these COVID cases. I mean, I

2272
02:07:58,560 --> 02:08:01,240
Speaker 1: don't know if people are thinking about, but do you

2273
02:08:01,360 --> 02:08:08,240
Speaker 1: understand how if you are an offensive lineman and you

2274
02:08:08,400 --> 02:08:12,720
Speaker 1: have a positive test. I mean, I don't understand how

2275
02:08:12,760 --> 02:08:17,800
Speaker 1: you cannot quarantine the whole offensive line or end the

2276
02:08:17,920 --> 02:08:22,400
Speaker 1: whole defensive lines that you practiced against. If that's really

2277
02:08:22,480 --> 02:08:26,840
Speaker 1: what we're looking at. It's really tough for me to

2278
02:08:26,920 --> 02:08:29,640
Speaker 1: see how this is going to happen unless you just

2279
02:08:29,800 --> 02:08:35,200
Speaker 1: have these backup teams ready to go. You know, we

2280
02:08:35,320 --> 02:08:38,040
Speaker 1: are talking about something where I've been on Twitter saying

2281
02:08:38,120 --> 02:08:41,240
Speaker 1: players have reached out to me about opt outs, and

2282
02:08:41,400 --> 02:08:44,040
Speaker 1: they have they have these concerns, and basically a theme

2283
02:08:44,200 --> 02:08:47,720
Speaker 1: from a few players that have heard from is this like,

2284
02:08:48,040 --> 02:08:51,200
Speaker 1: we got positive tests on our team and we haven't

2285
02:08:51,240 --> 02:08:55,080
Speaker 1: even gathered, you know, we haven't even practiced or played

2286
02:08:55,160 --> 02:08:59,920
Speaker 1: or met. So that's only going to multiply, and that's

2287
02:09:00,000 --> 02:09:04,200
Speaker 1: what the fear everyone has. So that was Andrew brand

2288
02:09:04,240 --> 02:09:08,640
Speaker 1: who joined us Business of Sports reporter and you know,

2289
02:09:08,920 --> 02:09:10,760
Speaker 1: he had a lot of good points to make, and

2290
02:09:11,440 --> 02:09:12,840
Speaker 1: I just think it's going to be a wait and

2291
02:09:12,960 --> 02:09:15,320
Speaker 1: see to a large degree. And I think also to

2292
02:09:15,440 --> 02:09:17,360
Speaker 1: a large degree, Steve, there's the fear of the unknown.

2293
02:09:17,440 --> 02:09:20,680
Speaker 1: That's really what everybody's dealing with her absolutely, and you're

2294
02:09:20,720 --> 02:09:24,520
Speaker 1: hanging the hanging. You're hanging your hopes on young twentysomething

2295
02:09:24,600 --> 02:09:26,800
Speaker 1: guys who when they get outside the building and go

2296
02:09:26,920 --> 02:09:29,480
Speaker 1: back to their homes, don't do anything stupid and their

2297
02:09:29,520 --> 02:09:33,240
Speaker 1: family members don't do anything stupid and bring that virus

2298
02:09:33,360 --> 02:09:37,080
Speaker 1: back to the building. And you're relying on your protocols

2299
02:09:37,120 --> 02:09:39,480
Speaker 1: inside the building to keep you safe and while you're

2300
02:09:39,480 --> 02:09:41,600
Speaker 1: at working, which I think is possible to do. We've

2301
02:09:41,640 --> 02:09:44,040
Speaker 1: seen it work in the bubble. But that bubble that

2302
02:09:44,120 --> 02:09:47,920
Speaker 1: the NFL is thinking about is pretty tenuous. And that's

2303
02:09:47,960 --> 02:09:50,520
Speaker 1: the hope that it's hanging on. And Tradevious White has

2304
02:09:50,560 --> 02:09:53,320
Speaker 1: that very decision to make. By four o'clock tomorrow, he

2305
02:09:53,360 --> 02:09:55,880
Speaker 1: said he's still undecided. Maybe we'll have more clarity on

2306
02:09:55,920 --> 02:09:58,320
Speaker 1: it tomorrow for Steve Tasker. I'm Chris Brown. This has

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Speaker 1: been one Bill's Live Present by Khalid to Health. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow here on Buffalo Bill's radioh